What happens in religious ecstasy? Is it a fluttering of the pulse, a sudden injection of adrenal fluid, or an inexplicable, ineffable gift? This book begins the quest by translating mystical traditions - from Zen Buddhism to Surfism to Western magic into the language of science.

Transpersonal Psychologies

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Charles T. Tart

Psychology & Counseling

Harper Row Publishers

Contents: 1. Science, States of Consciousness, and Spiritual Experiences: The Need for State Specific Sciences by Charles T. Tart; 2. Some Assumptions of Orthodox, Western Psychology by Charles T. Tart; 3. The Physical Universe, The Spiritual Universe, amd the Paranormal by Charles T. Tart; 4. Zen Buddhism by Claire Myers Owens; 5. The Buddha on Meditation and states of Consciousness by Daniel Goleman; 6. Yoga Psychology by Haridas Chaudhuri; 7. Gurdjieff by Kathleen Riordian; 8. The Africa Training by John C. Lilly and Joseph E. Hart; 9. Contemporary Sufism by Robert E. Ornstein; 10. Psychology and the Christian Mystical Tradition by William McNamara; 11. Pattern of Western Magic by William G. Gray.

Harper&Row

Learning to use extrasensory perception

Religion & Spirituality

Occult & Paranormal

University of Chicago Press

States of Consciousness

States of Consciousness, a classic by world authority Charles T. Tart, is a basic understanding of how the mind is a dynamic, culturally biased, semi-arbitrary construction and system. A systematic exploration of how and why altered states can come about and their possibilities. As a student of his remarked, For the first weeks of class I didnt understand what those diagrams were about, but Ive realized the book is all about the way my own mind works! Useful in understanding some of the important ways your mind works before you start altering it.

Literature & Fiction

Plume

PSI: Scientific Studies of the Psychic Realm (A Dutton Paperback Original)

E.P.Dutton

Transpersonal psychologies

Routledge and Kegan Paul

Addressing the split between practitioners of science and those of spirituality, Charles Tart presents the considerations of well-known researchers and authors such as William Roll, Ramakrishna Rao, Michael Grosso, and Jeffrey Mishlove on such subjects as God, life after death, channeling, and other dimensions. A ground-breaking work that may surprise many readers.

Body Mind Spirit: Exploring the Parapsychology of Spirituality

New Age & Spirituality

Hampton Roads Publishing

Waking Up: Overcoming the Obstacles to Human Potential

Element Books Ltd.

Said to help occasion direct spiritual experience, entheogens include such psychoactives as ayahausca, the peyote used by the Native American Church, and psilocybin mushrooms. What place might psychoactive sacramentals have in contemporary spiritual practices? Can the careful use of entheogens aid in spiritual development? What cautions ought to be considered? 25 new essays from leaders in religion, mental health, and allied fields address these questions.

Psychoactive Sacramentals: Essays on Entheogens and Religion (The CSP Entheogen Project Series, 3)

STANISLAV GROF

Huston Smith

Alexander T. Shulgin

Mike Young

Roger N. Walsh

Frances Vaughan

Albert Hofmann

Religious Studies

Council on Spiritual Practices

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