ARE YOU MYTH-GUIDED?
ARE YOU LIVING IN A CONSENSUS TRANCE? DO YOU
ACCEPT THE MYTHS ABOUT MANY HISTORICAL EVENTS THAT
THE AVERAGE PERSON ACCEPTS WITHOUT THINKING? THIS,
“ARE YOU MYTH-GUIDED?” WEBSITE HOPES TO AWAKEN YOU
FROM THAT TRANCE BY PROVIDING YOU WITH INFORMATION
WHENEVER YOU FIND THAT YOU ARE ON THE SIDE OF THE
MAJORITY, IT IS TIME TO PAUSE AND REFLECT.
TO MAKE WILL INTRODUCE YOU TO SOME OF THE MYTHS
WE WILL BE COUNTERING.
"Charley Tart on Consensus Trance: <SLAP> <SLAP> Wake up!"
The relationship between the use of language and the induction of trance
states might be one of the keys to understanding life in the last years of
the technology millennium. What if we're all in a trance, and have been
given hypnotic suggestions to ignore the evidence that we are in a
trance? As we stumble around, bedazzled, enormous machines eat the
earth. How would we treat people who try to tell us that we need to wake
up? Ask Charley Tart, Ph.D. As Professor of Psychology at the
University of California, Davis, where he has taught, conducted research,
and written books for the past 26 years, Charles Tart, Ph.D., qualifies as
a tweed coat and even a white coat. He is a member in good standing
of the science cult, and his down to earth, low-key presentation lends an
unexpected insider punch to his statements about the science cult's blind
spots -- and every human's blind spots. He thinks of himself as a scientist,
not a guru, working in a field that is under populated despite its
importance. It is under populated because research into consciousness
is dangerous to an experimental psychologist's career, and because it
isn't easy to do the kind of research that can get the attention of the
orthodoxy. Tart's most recent book is Waking Up: Overcoming the
Obstacles to Human Potential. [...] You can contact Dr. Tart via
States of consciousness, from altered states to the state earthlings
call "normal waking consciousness," have been Charley Tart's specialty
for two decades. Surprisingly, Dr. Tart no longer calls it "normal
consciousness," and has substituted what he feels to be a more
consciousness" is the kind of convenient fiction illustrated by the famous
folktale of "the emperor's new clothes." Together, human groups agree
on which of their perceptions should be admitted to awareness
(hence, consensus), then they train each other to see the world in that
way and only in that way (hence trance).
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