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Dr. Tart was a participant in
Closer to Truth:
Show 109, "Can
ESP Affect Our Lives?"
Show 113, "Can
Science Seek the Soul?"
Show 212, "What
is Parapsychology?"
Dr. Charles T. Tart Charles
Tart, Ph.D., a Core Faculty member of the Institute
of Transpersonal Psychology in Palo Alto, is internationally
known for his psychological work on the nature of
consciousness (particularly altered states of
consciousness), as one of the founders of the field of
transpersonal psychology, and for his research in scientific
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. Dr.
Tart is also the editor for The Archives of Scientists'
Transcendent Experiences.
Dr. Tart was born in 1937 and
grew up in Trenton, New Jersey. He was active in amateur
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 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
before electing to become a psychologist. He received his
doctoral degree in psychology from the University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1963, and then received
postdoctoral training in hypnosis research with Professor
Ernest R. Hilgard at Stanford University. He is
currently a professor 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 most recent book, (12) Body
Mind Spirit: Exploring the Parapsychology of Spirituality
(1997), examines the relationship between parapsychological
abilities and our spiritual nature, and was the March 1998
best metaphysical book selection of Amazon.Com, the world's
largest online book retailer. 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 (in which he holds a black
belt), of meditation, of Gurdjieff's work, of 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:
http://www.paradigm-sys.com/cttart/
The Archives of Scientists' Transcendent Experiences site
may be found at:
http://www.issc-taste.org
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