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Meditation: Some Kind of
(Self-)Hypnosis? A Deeper Look
Charles T. Tart
Professor Emeritus, Psychology
University of California at Davis
and
Professor, Core Faculty
Institute of Transpersonal Psychology, Palo Alto
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Presented at the 109th Annual Convention of the American Psycho-
logical Association at San Francisco, California, on Sunday, August 26,
2001, 1:00 pm, Room 306, Moscone Center - South Building, in con-
junction with Dr. Tart receiving a Distinguished Scientific Contribu-
tions Award from APA Division 30, Psychological Hypnosis
Copyright 2001 Charles T. Tart
Tart: Meditation: Some Kind of Self-Hypnosis? APA, SF, 2001 2
Meditation: Some Kind of
(Self-)Hypnosis? A Deeper Look
Charles T. Tart
Institute of Transpersonal Psychology, Palo Alto
and
University of California at Davis
I am really honored and delighted today to be receiving this Distinguished Scien-
tific Contributions award from Division 30! I'm also somewhat embarrassed by
this honor and attention, because I'm actually a shy person. I'e to realize
that no one actually believes that I'm shy, but it's true. Nevertheless, here we are.
But shy or not, I'm also a very practical type of person. As you can see from this
first figure that I've been using to focus the projector, exotic things like medita-
tion are all very nice, but, if we don't get enlightened, can we get our Pontiac
dealership back,? Can we keep on plishing things in the real world? So, if
the opportunity to talk to you provided by this award gives me a chance to help us
understand meditation and hypnosis a little better, or lets me make some meth-
odological points that will make for better research and application, it's fine with
me.
Hypnosis was one of my first major research interests, and before broadening my
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