Bryan Interviews Dr. Charles Tart Upcoming New Book

Dr. Charles T. Tart has been involved with research and theory in the fields of Hypnosis, Psychology, Transpersonal Psychology, Parapsychology, Consciousness and Mindfulness since 1963. He has authored over a dozen books, two of which became widely-used textbooks; 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, and provides regular public speaking appearances.

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 and other psychological and spiritual growth disciplines. (See Bio.) Visit his semi-regular journal (blog) for current commentary.

Charles T. 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.

Charles 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 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).

We shall talk about his new book coming out, which should be in a month or so.

I'd like to address the following: the dynamic interaction amongst being, experiencing, impressing and observing with respect to how we integrate these processes as general consciousness.

I'd like to also address practical consciousness,  which is what he may refer to as mindful living.  I'd also like to discuss disciplines of spiritual growth as a part of overall development in human potential individually and collectively.

Dr. Charles Tart joins the Visionary Series Workstation via interview for our premiere launch, a program based on the Visionary Series Podcasts, but also including articles, excerpts, more interviews, and virtual panel discussion amongst guests featured per issue, covering cutting edge topics but with central themes for sharing experiences and exchanging concise ideas with greater depth and brevity.

Our Premiere-First Issue will be launched and released from this site by end of October 2008, bearing this theme: What the Bleep Revisited -- Embracing and Celebrating Practical Spiritual Technology, featuring Will Arntz including the following: Rupert Sheldrake, Lynne McTaggart, William Tiller, Bruce Lipton, John Hagelin, Candace Pert, Fred Alan Wolf, Tim Freke, Charles Tart, Paul Von Ward, Byron Katie, Joe Dispenza, C. Norm Shealy, Pavel Mikoloski, John Raatz, Gary Renard, Stanley Krippner, and special guest, Neale Donald Walsch of The Secret.


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