Charles Tart (1937- ) Charles T. Tart, Ph.D. is internationally known for his psychological work on the nature of consciousness (particularly The phrase altered state of consciousness was coined in the 1970s and describes induced changes in ones mental state, almost always temporary. ...altered states of consciousness), as one of the founders of the field of Transpersonal psychology is a school of psychology, considered by proponents to be the 4th force in the field (after the first three: Psychoanalysis, Behaviorism, and Humanistic). ...transpersonal psychology, and for his research in scientific Parapsychology is the study of the evidence involving phenomena where a person seems to affect or gain information about something through a means not currently explainable within the framework of mainstream, conventional science. ...parapsychology. His two classic books, Altered States of Consciousness (1969) and Transpersonal Psychologies (1975), became widely used texts that were instrumental in allowing these areas to become part of modern psychology.

Charles Tart was born in 1937 and grew up in Trenton is the name of several places in Canada and the United States. ...Trenton, State nickname: The Garden State Other U.S. States Capital Trenton Largest city Newark Governor Richard Codey Official languages None defined Area 22,608 km² (47th)  - Land 19,231 km²  - Water 3,378 km² (14. ...New Jersey. He was active in amateur Radio transmission diagram and electromagnetic waves Radio is a technology that allows the transmission of signals by modulation of electromagnetic waves with frequencies below those of light. ...radio and worked as a radio engineer (with a First Class Radiotelephone License from the Federal Communications Commission) while a teenager. Tart studied Electrical engineering is an engineering discipline that deals with the study and application of electricity and electromagnetism. ...electrical engineering at the MIT redirects here. ...Massachusetts Institute of Technology before electing to become a psychologist. He received his doctoral degree in psychology from the The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, located in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, is the eleventh-oldest institution of higher education and the oldest public university in the United States. ...University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1963, and then received postdoctoral training in hypnosis research with Professor Ernest R. Hilgard at (The wind of freedom blows. ...Stanford University. He is currently a Core Faculty Member at the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology (Palo Alto, California) and a Senior Research Fellow of the Institute of Noetic Sciences (Sausalito, California), as well as Professor Emeritus of Psychology at the Davis campus of the University of California, where he served for 28 years. He was the first holder of the Bigelow Chair of Consciousness Studies at the University of Nevada in Las Vegas and has served as a Visiting Professor in East-West Psychology at the California Institute of Integral Studies, as an Instructor in Psychiatry at the School of Medicine of the University of Virginia, and a consultant on government funded parapsychological research at the Stanford Research Institute (now known as SRI International).

Tart's books, in addition to (1) Altered States of Consciousness (1969) and (2) Transpersonal Psychologies (1975), are (3) On Being Stoned: A Psychological Study of Marijuana Intoxication (1971), (4) States of Consciousness (1975), (5) Symposium on Consciousness (1975, with P. Lee, R. Ornstein, D. Galin & A. Deikman), (6) Learning to Use Extrasensory Perception (1976), (7) Psi: Scientific Studies of the Psychic Realm (1977), (8) Mind at Large: Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers Symposia on the Nature of Extrasensory Perception (1979, with H. Puthoff & R. Targ), (9) Waking Up: Overcoming the Obstacles to Human Potential (1986), (10) Open Mind, Discriminating Mind: Reflections on Human Possibilities (1989), and (11) Living the Mindful Life (1994). His book (12) Body Mind Spirit: Exploring the Parapsychology of Spirituality (1997), examines the relationship between parapsychological abilities and our See: Spirituality Spiritual music The Age of Spiritual Machines Spiritual possession The Four Spiritual Laws This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ...spiritual nature, and was the March 1998 best metaphysical book selection of Amazon. ...Amazon.Com, the world's largest online book retailer. His most recent book is (13) Mind Science: Meditation Training for Practical People (2001). He has had more than 250 articles published in professional journals and books, including lead articles in such prestigious scientific journals as Science and Nature.

As well as a laboratory researcher, Professor Tart has been a student of the Japanese martial art of Aikido (合気道 Aikidō, also 合氣道 using an older style of kanji), literally meaning harmony energy way, or with some poetic license, way of the harmonious spirit) is a gendai budo — a modern Japanese martial art. ...Aikido (in which he holds a black belt), of Meditation usually refers to a state of extreme relaxation and concentration, in which the body is generally at rest and the mind quieted of surface thoughts. ...meditation, of George Ivanovich Gurdjieff George Ivanovich Gurdjieff (January 13 / January 14, 1866? - October 29, 1949), the Greek-Armenian mystic and teacher of dancing born in Alexandropol, Armenia (then of the Russian Empire, now Gumri, Armenia), traveled to many parts of the world (i. ...Gurdjieff's work, of Statues of Buddha such as this, the Tian Tan Buddha statue in Hong Kong, remind followers to practice right living. ...Buddhism, and of other psychological and spiritual growth disciplines. His primary goal is to build bridges between the scientific and spiritual communities and to help bring about a refinement and integration of Western and Eastern approaches for knowing the world and for personal and social growth.

Further biographical information, as well as the text of many of Professor Tart’s publications, can be obtained via the world wide web at [1] (http://www.paradigm-sys.com/cttart/).