Remote viewing" is the process whereby individuals, with no previous training or experience, are able to successfully describe randomly chosen targets at remote locations. Russell Targ, a laser physicist, is one of America's foremost parapsychology researchers. He discusses the history of remote-...

The underlying cause of most social and personal problems is lack of mindfulness. Psychologist Charles Tart, Ph.D., author of States of Consciousness and Waking Up, discusses how difficult it is to translate meditative awareness to the problems of daily life. He describes the training methods of ...

Western science and traditional spiritual practice are both dedicated to the search for truth. Charles Tart, Ph.D., professor of psychology at the University of California at Davis and author of Transpersonal Psychologies, suggests that in the future we may be able to specify which types of indiv...

Countless factors can mitigate against self-observation in Western society. Charles Tart, Ph.D., noted psychologist and author of Waking Up, suggests we begin by learning to focus on seemingly trivial details such as bodily sensations. Through repeated and diligent practice, he says, the process ...

One of America's foremost parapsychology researchers, Charles Tart, Ph.D., discusses his own research as he examines factors that facilitate ESP scoring in the laboratory. These range from feedback learning strategies to methods for shielding the human body from random electromagnetic and geomagn...

Our normal waking state of consciousness can be likened to being "asleep" in comparison to other states of awareness we might attain. In this intriguing discussion, psychologist Charles Tart, Ph.D., author of Altered States of Consciousness and Waking Up, suggests that we can begin to "wake up" b...

A founder of the movement for leaderless dream work groups, Jeremy Taylor points out that dreams are held in disrepute by mainstream institutions because they challenge closed systems of thought. He suggests that techniques such as lucid dreaming can be used for purposes of healing and overcoming...

Stan Tenen is the director of the Meru Foundation. Here he suggests that the ancient alphabets embody a system of knowledge that is self-referential and not inconsistent with modern thinking in theoretical physics and general systems theory. He claims to have discovered the sacred spiral shape th...

Regardless of the physical reality of UFO's, says Jacques Vallee, Ph.D., the fact that people believe they have experienced contact with alien entities is an appropriate subject for scientific scrutiny. Vallee is a computer scientist, UFO researcher and author whose books include Challenge to Sci...

We can train our own intuitive faculty by learning to quiet the mind and listen to internal signals. Frances Vaughan, Ph.D., says intuition involves a direct knowing without mediation by human senses or logic. She points to several types of intuition--spiritual, emotional, intellectual and physic...

Frances Vaughan, Ph.D., is a transpersonal psychotherapist and president of the Association for Humanistic Psychology. She is author of Awakening Intuition and The Inward Arc.

The late Alan Vaughan, one of America's best-known and most thoroughly tested psychic intuitives, was the author of Patterns of Prophecy, Incredible Coincidences, Dream Telepathy and The Edge of Tomorrow. In this exciting program he first describes the chanelling process. Then, as Vaughan goes in...

The shaman is more interested in treating the spiritual causes of an illness than the symptoms. Alberto Villoldo, Ph.D., director of The Four Winds Foundation, is co-author of Realms of Healing and Healing States. Here he describes the path of shamanism as one of facing one's fears, particularly ...

We cannot live authentic lives without feeling touched by the major problems of the planet. Roger Walsh, M.D., is a professor of psychiatry at the University of California, Irvine, and author of Staying Alive: The Psychology of Human Survival. In this moving interview he urges that by becoming aw...

Shamans who have healed themselves then function at a higher than normal level. Roger Walsh, M.D., is professor of psychiatry, philosophy and anthropology at the University of California at Irvine. He discusses shamanism in the light of modern science and scholarship, questioning claims that sham...

A Course in Miracles is a home study system to enable us to unlearn the attitudes that separate us from our potential for spiritual unity. Judith Skutch Whitson is president of the Foundation for Inner Peace, the organization which publishes and distributes the now classic Course. Mrs. Whitson di...

A Course in Miracles is a home study system to enable us to unlearn the attitudes that separate us from our potential for spiritual unity. Judith Skutch Whitson is president of the Foundation for Inner Peace, the organization which publishes and distributes the now classic Course. Mrs. Whitson di...

Witty and profound, physicist Dr. Wolf's far-ranging thinking extends our understanding of quantum physics as it applies to the human body and mind, suggesting that we are inextricably connected with all that exists in the physical universe.

Fred Alan Wolf, Ph.D., received the American Book Awa...

Free will and purpose are not inconsistent with a universe subject to law. In fact, says Arthur Young, free will would be ineffective without a determinate world to act upon. Young, philosopher and inventor of the Bell helicopter, discusses the difference between determinism--the belief that ever...

Philosopher Arthur M. Young, author of The Reflexive Universe, describes three different types of evolution: physical evolution of the form of the body, evolution of the "group soul" of a species, and personal evolution, i.e., the spiritual evolution of the individual. This program contains excer...

Numbers are more than abstract representations of quantity, but also have a qualitative dimension. Philosopher and inventor Arthur M. Young, author of The Geometry of Meaning and The Reflexive Universe has developed a "theory of process" which integrates science with ancient teachings. He discuss...

How can there be separate things in a universe that is interconnected? How can we be separate beings in a universe created by God? Arthur M. Young, inventor of the Bell helicopter, was the founder of the Institute for the Study of Consciousness. Young suggests that the ancient dieties act in our ...

Consciousness, rather than being a property which "emerges" at higher orders of complexity, is a basic principle intrinsic to every level of creation, according to this stimulating program with philosopher Arthur M. Young. Inventor of the Bell Helicopter and founder of the Institute for the Study...

Meditation practices can lead to permanent changes in awareness of the self and the transcendence of the ego. Shinzen Young is an ordained Buddhist Monk and scholar of Buddhism. After about a year of meditative practice, he says, one establishes open access to a realm of altered states of awarene...