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Hamlet Meeting and Social Time

When:
Sunday, December 22, 2019, 2:00 PM until 4:00 PM
Where:
Carol's house
Thousand Oaks Hamlet Neighborhood
Berkeley, CA  
Additional Info:
Event Contact(s):
Carol Takaki
510-527-1926 (p)
Category:
Neighborhood Group
Registration is recommended
Payment In Full In Advance Only
No Fee


RSVP:  Not required

When: Fourth Sunday (usually)

Where: Carol's house

Open to: Members and volunteers

Accessibility: Not accessible - nine steps with handrail up to front door

Hamlet Meeting and Social Time

Excellent food, good company and close to home.  Munchies will be pot luck, so bring something if you feel inspired.

This month Ashby Village member Charley Tart will give an informal talk on parapsychology, one of his research fields, weaving some personal stories and laboratory research together and relating it to -  but not forcing any answers - questions like:

  • Is there anything to a real spiritual aspect to our existence?  Yes, religion, like any human institution, has done good things and terrible things while claiming inspiration from a “Higher Source” of some sort, like any human institution.  But before biological urges and social power games took over religions, they tend to get started by a founder having very deep experiences apparently revealing higher truths.
  • Is there any factual foundation to such experiences before any reality gets buried in the social stuff?  Charley will give us an overview, starting from the powerful experiences that sometimes move people because they think they couldn’t just be coincidences, up through rigorous laboratory studies that create powerful evidence that sometimes the human mind can find out things about distant or future events that are not accessible to deduction and sometimes affects the operation of the physical world, even down at an atomic level.
  • Does Charley know the “Truth” or want to change anyone’s views?  No, but there’s lots of interesting facts out there to share.

Charley is a retired Professor from UC Davis and best known in the general scientific community for his Altered States of Consciousness book (1969), which helped open the study of unusual mental states to psychology and for his Transpersonal Psychologies (1975) book, which helped create a new branch of psychology which studied unusual experiences as they were and what they could do, rather than simply dismissing them as impossible to begin with.

 







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