From: [s--ev--c] at [margins.isis.org] (Steve Crabtree)
Newsgroups: alt.paranet.psi,alt.paranormal,alt.hypnosis,alt.consciousness,sci.psychology
Subject: Charles Tart reprints - update
Date: Mon, 27 Mar 1995 21:41:00 EST

 
     - - - UPDATE # 3 - March 27, 1995 - Please pass on - - -
 
	 Scientific articles available via anonymous FTP on - 
 
     ALTERED STATES OF CONSCIOUSNESS - PARAPSYCHOLOGY - HYPNOSIS
       TRANSPERSONAL PSYCHOLOGY - HUMAN POTENTIAL - MEDITATION
 
As an aid to education and communication, Charles T. Tart, Professor 
Emeritus of Psychology at the Davis campus of the University of California, 
internationally known for pioneering scientific work in the above
and related areas, is gradually making reprints of his published 
journal articles and miscellaneous papers available, via anonymous 
ftp, to whoever is interested.  These are mostly from scientific journals,
but are generally readable and jargon-free.
 
As of March 27, 1995, about 30 articles have been posted.  The following
are examples of the kinds of topics:
     - experiences in altered states of consciousness as fundamental 
       sources of value in Western civilization, underlying religion
      -investigating altered states of consciousness by the development 
       of state-specific sciences
     - ESP functioning could be trained to become reliable by using 
       basic psychological principles of learning
     - precognition, while real, works an order of magnitude less well 
       than real-time ESP under laboratory conditions
     -psychics' own fears of psychic abilities
     -psychological ways of dealing with fear of psi
     -perniciousness of bias in apparently objective science
     -marijuana intoxication and psi functioning
 
Recent additions include:
     -"compassion-science-survival", surveying survival of death research
      from an altered states perspective
     -"causality-and-synchronicity", a clarification of Jung's concept
      of synchronicity and distinguishing it from normal ESP and PK
     -"grad-school-transpersonal-parapsychology", educational and career
      advice for those wanting to study and work in these fields
     -"pure-clairvoyance", an experimental study on whether clairvoyance
      (direct extrasensory perception of matter) can function after
     telepathy and precognition have been eliminated as alternatives
 
Another 50+ articles will be posted over the next year as they are
scanned in and formatted as ASCII files.  The file "currentcontents"
in the ftp server is regularly updated to reflect additions.
 
Computer users with access to the Internet can access the archive 
as follows:
 
	Connect to ftp server, "ftp.ucdavis.edu".                          
	Log in as username "anonymous".  Send your e-mail address          
	  as the ident/password string.                                    
	cd to /pub/fztart.                                                 
	A "dir" command will show you what is available.                   
	A "get" command will retrieve documents.                           
	The file "current-contents" will be updated regularly, showing      
	  what papers are available, often with an abstract of each.     
 
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     Please forward the above announcement to whatever networks and 
     individuals you think would be interested.  Thanks!
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