Reflections on Meditation, by Charles T. Tart

I took two courses with Charles Tart (“call me Charlie”) when I was a student at the California Institute of Integral Studies. I really appreciated his humility, humor, and no-frills approach to studying the practical applications of mindfulness in everyday life. This nine-part video is vintage Charlie — I mean “Dr. Tart.”:

Psychologist Charles T. Tart of the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology reflects on the nature of meditation, what it does, how to make it more effective, how to understand it. Tart is a pioneer in the study of consciousness, having published such classic books as his “Altered States of Consciousness” and “Transpersonal Psychologies.”