Case file · Remote viewing & psi research
Charles Tart
American psychologist (1937–2025), a founder of transpersonal psychology and a long-time parapsychology researcher at UC Davis.
1969 CE · 38.54, -121.76 · status: disputed
The account
Tart's edited volume 'Altered States of Consciousness' (1969) helped bring the topic into mainstream psychology; he taught at UC Davis for 28 years. In 1968 he reported that a subject, 'Miss Z', read a hidden five-digit number during an apparent out-of-body experience, and he consulted on the SRI remote-viewing research.
The sceptical view
Martin Gardner and James Alcock argued the Miss Z test had weak controls; David Marks and Christopher Scott found sensory cues in the SRI trials.