Forty-five Years Ago I Woke Up
One of the things I am doing with this blog is putting in early drafts and beginnings of material which will be in one of my next books. One of those book will be about looking for the Spirit in...
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One aspect of psychotherapy has always interested me. Most (all?) spiritual systems say we humans are in a bad condition. We are “fallen” (Christian) or “asleep” (Gurdjieff) or in “samsara”...
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Dr. Charles Tart Mindfulness Dr. Charles T. Tart, Mindfulness, Institute of Transpersonal Psychology, Lecture 4, Part 13 of 18 parts. To start class from beginning, click here. Student: I was thinking...
View ArticleConsciousness Dynamics, Vipassana Meditation Begins to Straighten Out Our...
Dr. Charles Tart Mindfulness Dr. Charles T. Tart, Mindfulness, Institute of Transpersonal Psychology, Lecture 5, Part 3 of 18 parts. To start class from beginning, click here. That takes us over to the...
View ArticleSmall Song of Small Realization?
I wrote the following (do they still call it blank verse, or has poetry changed since I was in high school a zillion years ago?) while on a 10-day retreat last week with Sogyal Rinpoche, the Tibetan...
View ArticleInviting Spirit by Reducing the Noise
Dr. Charles Tart Mindfulness Dr. Charles T. Tart, Mindfulness, Institute of Transpersonal Psychology, Lecture 5, Part 5 of 18 parts. To start class from beginning, click here. CTT: Now once in a while,...
View ArticleExperiences of Peace – or Was It Resting in the Nature of Mind?
Background: Notes on an event in a 50+ year attempt to learn and benefit from spiritual practices…. For some years now, I have been trying various meditation techniques from many world traditions,...
View ArticleWhat Is It Like To Be Present?
What Is It Like To Be Present? Charles T. Tart © 2014 Charles T. Tart While listening to a recording of some teachings by lama Tsoknyi Rinpoche recently, he asked his students what it was like to be...
View ArticleGrappling with the Angel/Devil of “Non-Duality”
Grappling with the Angel/Devil of “Non-Duality” As one outcome of my posting an essay on the origins of my proposal to create the state specific sciences, in the previous post, my friend and colleague,...
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