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

Tart, Charles T.

Psychology & Counseling

Harper and Row

Open Mind, Discriminating Mind: Reflections on Human Possibilities

This wide-ranging book presents explorations in areas Charles Tart, international authority on consciousness and parapsychology, believes are at the cutting edge of research, presented in a way that is scientifically sound, but easily readable and personally relevant. The book is intended to expand our horizons of what our possibilities are, as we spend too much of our time living in culturally- and self-imposed limitations that cramp our true being and produce useless suffering. Topics include meditation, lucid dreaming, how to use a psychic reading, possible postmodern survival, dream yoga, altered states of consciousness and enlightenment.

Harper&Row

Alternative Medicine

Harpercollins

Solid copy with some shelf wear and/or markings scattered throughout.

Learning to Use Extrasensory Perception

Religion & Spirituality

Occult & Paranormal

Univ of Chicago Pr

This is the first book-length report of the thinking and studies of one of America’s foremost investigators of the psychic realm. Tart, an international authority on human consciousness, has studied such aspects of psi as telepathy, out-of-the-body experiences, and the human aura. Here he goes beyond the usual arguments for or against the existence of psi and instead discusses what we know about it and its implications for understanding our human and spiritual nature.

Literature & Fiction

Dutton

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.

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

E.P.Dutton

All attempts to test people's ESP abilities overlook the fact that ESP is an undeveloped function, so we have to learn how to use it to begin with, not just see how much ESP we can show.Psychologist Charles T. Tart applied basic principles of learning to this task to show how training under conditions of immediate feedback could enhance ESP ability. This highly readable book, originally published by the University of Chicago Press, is the theory and a comprehensive study suggesting the principles can work.

New Age & Spirituality

iUniverse

Reprint. Originally published: New York: Dutton, 1977.

Psi: Scientific Studies of the Psychic Realm

This book, by Charles T. Tart, world famous authority on altered states of consciousness, describes the results of a landmark study of 150 experienced marijuana users. What do they actually feel vs. propaganda about marijuana? Effects on vision, hearing, touch, social interaction, sexual sensations, space and time perception, thinking processes, spiritual experiences and ESP are among the many discussed. This is what can happen in the natural settings people use marijuana in, not the artificial conditions of the laboratory. This book will become the standard work on the subjective effects of marijuana.John Kaplan

On being stoned;: A psychological study of marijuana intoxication,

Science and Behavior Books

Based on Gurdjieff's notion that most people are automatons controlled by mechanical habits of thought, perception and behavior.

Waking Up

Shambhala

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Transpersonal Psychologies

Open Mind, Discriminating Mind: Reflections on Human Possibilities

Open Mind, Discriminating Mind: Reflections on Human Possibilities

Learning to Use Extrasensory Perception

PSI

States of Consciousness

Learning to Use Extrasensory Perception

Psi: Scientific Studies of the Psychic Realm

On being stoned;: A psychological study of marijuana intoxication,

Waking Up