Works by
Dr. Charles T. Tart, Ph.D.
(Writer)

Non-fiction

• Altered States of Consciousness (1969)

• On Being Stoned: A Psychological Study of Marijuana Intoxication (1971)
  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.

• States of Consciousness (1975)
  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 didn't understand what those diagrams were about, but I've 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.

• Learning to Use Extrasensory Perception (1976)
  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 applies basic principles of learning to this task to show how training under conditions of immediate feedback can 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.

• PSI: Scientific Studies of the Psychic Realm 1977)
  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.

• Symposium on Consciousness (1977) by Arthur Deikman, Charles T. Tart, David Galin, Philip R. Lee, and Robert E. Ornstein,
  Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, February 1974

• Mind at Large: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Symposia on the Nature of Extrasensory Perception (1979), Charles T. Tart, Harold E. Puthoff, and Russell Targ, eds.

• Waking Up: Overcoming the Obstacles to Human Potential (1986)

• Open Mind, Discriminating Mind : Reflections on Human Possibilities (1989)
  This wide-ranging book presents explorations in areas Charles Tart, international authority on consciousness and parapsychology, believes are at teh 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 postmoder survival, dream yoga, altered states of consciousness and enlightenment.

• Transpersonal Psychologies: Perspectives on the Mind from Seven Great Spiritual Traditions (1992)

• Living the Mindful Life (1994)
  Being awake. Why is something that sounds so simple the primary goal of so many of the world's great wisdom traditions? In this workshop-in-a-book, Charles T. Tart shows why: the seeming simplicity of the awakened state belies its transformative effect on the lives of those who strive for it. His easy-to-use exercises put within everyone's reach the elusive art of "waking up" to life in the glorious present moment.

• Body Mind Spirit: Exploring the Parapsychology of Spirituality (1997)

• Mind Science: Meditation Training for Practical People  (2000)
  Rich with lucid instructions and practical insights, Mind Science dispels the metaphysical haze that all too often surrounds the subject of meditation. Based on a lively workshop with fellow scientists, Charles Tart shows how the pragmatic and scientifically-inclined among us can bring mindfulness into everyday life without religious baggage -- while clearly explaining its many spiritual and health benefits.
  
  These highly interactive and often witty sessions in front of a skeptical audience anticipate the questions that any practical person might have about meditative mindfulness. If you’ve been looking for a clear teaching on how and why to meditate that is free of sectarian involvement, this is the book for you.
  
  Mind Science is based on a workshop at the country’s leading scientific conference on the study of consciousness, held bi-annually at the University of Arizona at Tucson. Tart’s jovial and wide-ranging style makes Mind Science suitable reading for intelligent lay people with a practical and scientific inclination, as well as the academically- and scientifically-trained students of consciousness and related fields. Mind Science is, in fact, the only current book on meditation by an author who is also a well-respected scientist.

• The Application of Learning Theory to ESP Performance  (2002)

DVDs/Videos

• VHS Videos (1989)

  • Cultivating Mindfulness

  • Science and Spiritual Traditions

  • Self Observation

  • Understanding Extrasensory Perception

  • Waking Up

• Transpersonal Conversations (2005)
  6 DVDs. 
  Transpersonal Conversations is a 6-part series of in-depth, cinema-quality documentary interviews with the founders and leaders of Transpersonal Psychology, the field of modern science that focuses on Human consciousness and spirituality. Interviews include: Stanislav Grof, M. D., early psychedelic researcher and co-founder of the transpersonal field; Charles, T. Tart, Ph. D., major theorist in transpersonal, consciousness research and scientific parapsychology; Frances Vaughan, Ph. D., author of the classic: "The Inward Arc" and former president of both the Transpersonal and Humanistic Psychology Associations; Ralph Metzner, Ph. D., one of the classic figures in Western consciousness research, along with Harvard professors Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert (AKA: Ram Dass) he wrote: "The Psychedelic Experience." And others. Purchase the set for a savings of over $20 off the list price. This set includes: - Frances Vaughan, Ph. D. TRANSPERSONAL CONVERSATIONS - James Fadiman, Ph. D. TRANSPERSONAL CONVERSATIONS - Charles T. Tart, Ph. D. TRANSPERSONAL CONVERSATIONS - Ralph Metzner, Ph. D. TRANSPERSONAL CONVERSATIONS - Stanislav Grof, M. D., Ph. D. TRANSPERSONAL CONVERSATIONS - Christina Grof, TRANSPERSONAL CONVERSATIONS
  See also Transpersonal Conversations Video

See also:

• How to Use Your Psychic Talents (1989)
  Audio Cassette

• Choose Once Again: Selections from a Course in Miracles (1992)
  Audio Cassette
  In the 1980's and 1990's, A Course in Miracles became a venerated, self-directed, spiritual psychotherapy program with a loyal following. This audio program is a selection of meditations from the course. It differs from other inspirational programs in that it's intended for meditation and, thus, isn't suitable for listening during other activities, such as driving. Charles Tart, a psychology professor, reads quietly with a fine, amorphous voice suitable for creating meditative ambiance. Delicate, new age music separates and complements the passages. D.W.K. (c)AudioFile, Portland, Maine

• Paths beyond Ego: The Transpersonal Vision (1993), Frances Vaughan and Roger Walsh, eds.
  Aldous Huxley, Bill Devall, Charles Tart, Christina Groff, the Dalai Lama, Daniel Goleman, Fritjof Capra, Georg Feuerstein, Huston Smith, Jack Kornfield, Jayne Gackenbach, John Welwood, Ken Wilber, Kenneth Ring, Michael Murphy, Ram Dass, Sri Aurobindo, Stanislav Grof, Stephen LaBerge, William James and many, many more.

• The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying (1998) by Sogyal Rinpoche
  Audio Cassette narrated by Charles Tart
   

In Addition:

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• The Archives of Scientists' Transcendent Experiences  (TASTE)
  http://psychology.ucdavis.edu/tart/taste/ or http:www.issc-taste.org

  A Note From Charles T. Tart Over the years many scientists, once they've realized I'm a safe person to talk to, have told me about unusual and transcendent experiences they've had.  Too often I'm the first and only person they've ever spoken to about their experiences, for fear of ridicule from their colleagues and adverse, prejudicial effects on their careers.  Such fears have, unfortunately, too much of a basis in fact.  It's not that there are a lot of scientists with nasty intentions deliberately trying to suppress their colleagues; it's just the social conditioning of our times. I want to change that, and I ask your help in doing so. Scientists today often occupy a social role of "high priests," telling laypeople and each other what is and isn't "real," and, consequently, what is and isn't valuable and sane.  Unfortunately, the dominant materialistic and reductionistic psychosocial climate of contemporary science (what sociologists long ago named scientism, an attitude different from the essential process of science), rejects and suppresses a priori both having and sharing transcendent, transpersonal and altered states (or "spiritual" and "psychic," to use common words, in spite of their too vague connotations) experiences. From my perspective as a psychologist, though, this prejudicial suppression and rejection psychologically harms and distorts the transcendent (and other) potentials of both scientists and non-scientists, and also inhibits the development of a genuine scientific understanding of the full potentials of consciousness. Denial of any aspects of our nature, whatever their ultimate ontological status, is never psychologically or socially healthy. The Archives of Scientists' Transcendent Experiences (TASTE) site that I have opened is intended to help change this restricted and pathological climate through the operation of a World Wide Web site in journal form that allows scientists from all fields - from anthropology through botany through mathematics through physics through psychology through zoology, to name just a few - to share their personal, transcendent experiences in a safe, anonymous, but quality controlled space that many people have ready access to. TASTE: Allows individual psychological growth in the contributing scientists by providing a safe means of expression of vital experiences; Leads toward a more receptive climate to the full range of our humanity in the scientific professions, which, in turn, will benefit our world culture at large; Provides research data on transcendent experiences in a highly articulate and conscientious population, scientists; Facilitates the development of a full spectrum science of consciousness by providing both data and psychological support for the study of transcendent experiences. Helps bridge the unfortunate gaps between science and the rest of culture by illustrating the humanity of scientists. Please take a look at TASTE: the URL is http://psychology.ucdavis.edu/tart/taste or http:/www.issc-taste.org.  If you find it valuable, please pass this information on to friends and colleagues.  I have no budget for advertising, so must depend on word of mouth to get this information around. If you have a web site of your own and can add a link to TASTE, thank you!  Feel free to copy one of the TASTE experiences as an example on your web site, if you like. In terms of conventional, slower publicity, if you can recommend any journals I should send notices to, please let me know.  If you are the editor of any publication, you have my permission (and thanks!) to print this notice in your publication. Thank you! Charles T. Tart, Ph.D., Editor Professor Emeritus, Psychology, University of California at Davis Professor, Core Faculty, Institute of Transpersonal Psychology, Palo Alto, CA cttart@ucdavis.edu