In Memoriam Charles Theodore Tart (1937–2025)

The Hummingbird Takes Off

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https://doi.org/10.31156/jaex.27781

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anomalous experience, anomalous cognition, parapsychology, altered states of consciousness, transpersonal psychology

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Etzel Cardeña, Lund University

Etzel Cardeña  holds the endowed Thorsen Chair in psychology at Lund University, Sweden, where he leads the Center for Research on Consciousness and Anomalous Psychology (CERCAP). His areas of research include alterations of consciousness and anomalous experiences (including psi), dissociative processes and posttraumatic reactions, the neurophenomenology of hypnosis and transcendent experiences, and the stream of consciousness during waking and altered states.

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2025-05-23

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Cardeña, E. (2025). In Memoriam Charles Theodore Tart (1937–2025): The Hummingbird Takes Off. Journal of Anomalous Experience and Cognition, 5(1), 5–9. https://doi.org/10.31156/jaex.27781

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Vol. 5 No. 1 (2025)

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Invited papers

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