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“Transpersonal Psychologies” ed. by Charles TartHarper & Row, Publishers | 1977 | ISBN: 0060904860 9780060904869 | 504 pagesTranspersonal psychologies is a compilation of various psychologies. Chapters are written by different authors all very knowledgeable about their disciplines.CONTENTSIntroduction Charles T. Tart1. Science, States of Consciousness, and Spiritual Experiences: The Need for State-Specific Sciences – Charles T. Tart2. Some Assumptions of Orthodox, Western Psychology – Charles T. Tart3. The Physical Universe, the Spiritual Universe, and the Paranormal – Charles T. Tart4. Zen Buddhism – Claire Myers Owens5. The Buddha on Meditation and States of Consciousness – Daniel Goleman6. Yoga Psychology – Haridas Chaudhuri7. Gurdjieff – Kathleen Riordan8. The Arica Training – John C. Lilly and Joseph E. Hart9. Contemporary Sufism – Robert E. Ornstein10. Psychology and the Christian Mystical Tradition – William McNamara11. Patterns of Western Magic – William G. GrayReferences and Bibliography Charles TartFaculty Spotlight, January 2008    Ph.D., Psychology, University of North Carolina, 1963    M.A., Psychology, University of North Carolina, 1962    B.A., Psychology, University of North Carolina, 1961    Professor Emeritus, Psychology, University of California, Davis.Charles T. Tart,  Ph.D., 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 parapsychology.  His two classic books, Altered States of Consciousness (1969) and Transpersonal Psychologies (1975), were widely used texts that were instrumental in allowing these areas to become part of modern psychology.  His latest (2009) book, The End of Materialism: How Evidence of the Paranormal is Bringing Science and Spirit Together, is basic foundational material for Transpersonal Psychology, looking at the largely unknown but high quality scientific evidence that shows people have a lot of the kind of qualities we would expect a spiritual being to have, so spirituality is not, as scientistic materialism claims, nothing but fantasy.Dr. Tart was born in 1937 and grew up in Trenton, New Jersey.  He was active in ham radio (call sign K2CFP), worked as a radio engineer (First Class Radiotelephone License) at local radio stations while still a teenager, and studied electrical engineering at MIT before deciding to become a psychologist.  He received his Ph.D. in psychology, with research on influencing nighttime dreams by posthypnotic suggestions, from the Universi­ty of North Carolina in 1963, and then received postdoctoral training in hypnosis research at Stanford. In terms of “finding” Transpersonal Psychology, there was no such field to find in the early part of his career, so he helped found our field, drawing on our scattered knowledge about altered states, spirituality, meditation, drug effects, hypnosis, dreams and parapsychology.Partly retired now after more than 50 active years, he is a part-time Executive Faculty Member at the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology (Palo Alto, California)(a unique Ph.D. granting institution that believes you should educate a person’s body, spirit and emotions as well as their talking mind!) and Professor Emeritus of Psychology at the Davis campus of the University of California.  He consulted on the original remote viewing research at Stanford Research Institute, where some of his work was important in influencing government policy makers against the deployment of the multi-billion dollar MX missile system.In addition to Altered States of Consciousness (1969) and Transpersonal Psychologies (1975), Dr. Tart’s other books are On Being Stoned: A Psychological Study of Marijuana Intoxication (1971),  States of Consciousness (1975),  Symposium on Consciousness (1975, with co-authors),  Learning to Use Extrasensory Perception (1976),  Psi: Scientific Studies of the Psychic Realm (1977),  Mind at Large: Institute of Electrical and Elec­tronic Engineers Symposia on the Nature of Extrasensory Perception (1979, with H. Puthoff & R. Targ),  Waking Up: Overcoming the Obstacles to Human Potential (1986),  Open Mind, Discrim­inating Mind: Reflections on Human Possibilities (1989), Living the Mindful Life (1994) and Body Mind Spirit: Exploring the Parapsychology of Spirituality (1997), which looks at the implications of hard scientific data on psychic abilities as a foundation for believing we have a real  spiritual nature.  A recent book, Mind Science:  Meditation Training for Practical People (2001) presents mindfulness training in a way that makes sense for science professionals. Charles has published more than 250 articles published in professional journals, and many books including: Living the Mindful Life; Open Mind, Discriminating Mind: Reflections on Human Possibilities; Waking Up: Overcoming Obstacles to Human Potential; and Altered States of Consciousness, and his latest book, The End of Materialism: How Evidence of the Paranormal is Bringing Science and Spirit Together (2009).Not just a laboratory researcher, Charles Tart has been a student of Aikido (in which he holds a black belt), of meditation, of Gurdjieff’s Fourth Way work, and of Buddhism.  His primary goal is to build bridges between the scientific and spiritual communities and to help bring about a refinement and integration of Western and Eastern approaches for knowing the world and for personal and social growth.