1. Charles T Tart was an American psychologist and parapsychologist known for his psychological work on the nature of consciousness, as one of the founders of the field of transpersonal psychology, and for his research in parapsychology.
21 Facts About Charles Tart
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Charles Tart was born on April 29,1937, in Morrisville, Pennsylvania, and grew up in Trenton, New Jersey.
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Charles Tart was active in amateur radio and worked as a radio engineer while a teenager.
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Charles Tart received his PhD in psychology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1963, and then completed postdoctoral research in hypnosis under Ernest R Hilgard at Stanford University.
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Charles Tart was a professor of psychology at University of California, Davis for 28 years.
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Charles Tart was integral in the theorizing and construction of the automatic ESP testing device called the ESPATESTER machine that was built at the University of Virginia.
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Charles Tart supported Joseph McMoneagle's claim of having remote viewed into the past, present, and future, and having predicted future events.
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Charles Tart believes that the evidence of the paranormal is bringing science and spirit together.
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Charles Tart discussed how each of us is from birth inducted to the trance of the society around us.
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Charles Tart noted both similarities and differences between hypnotic trance induction and consensus trance induction.
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Charles Tart emphasized the enormous and pervasive power of parents, teachers, religious leaders, political figures, and others to compel induction.
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Charles Tart died at home on March 5,2025, at the age of 87.
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In 1968, Charles Tart conducted an Out-of-body experience experiment with a subject known as Miss Z for four nights in his sleep laboratory.
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Charles Tart did not claim to see the number on the first three nights but on the fourth gave the number correctly.
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Charles Tart wrote this was because Miss Z moved from the area where the laboratory was located.
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Charles Tart drew criticism from the scientific community for his comments on a failed psychokinesis experiment.
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Charles Tart responded by claiming the nonrandomness was due to a PK effect.
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Terence Hines has written that a procedural flaw in the experiment itself was used by Charles Tart as evidence for psi and that this is an example of the use of a nonfalsifiable hypothesis in parapsychology.
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In 1980, Charles Tart claimed that a rejudging of the transcripts from one of Russell Targ and Harold Puthoff's remote viewing experiments revealed an above-chance result.
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Charles Tart has been criticized by the skeptic Robert Todd Carroll for ignoring Occam's razor and for ignoring the known laws of physics.
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Richard Land wrote that Charles Tart's data was unconvincing but concluded "the book will be enjoyed by believers in ESP, and sceptics will regard it as a curiosity".