Arthur Hastings
- Ph.D., School of Communication, Northwestern University, 1962
- M.A., Public Address, Northwestern University, 1958
- B.A., Speech and Drama, Tulane University, 1957, Phi Beta Kappa
Arthur is a Professor and the Research Director of the Institute and a former faculty Chair for the Residential programs, former Dean and President of the Institute, and a Past President of the Association for Transpersonal Psychology. He is also Director of the William James Center for Consciousness Studies. His areas of specialization are transpersonal theory, research methods, altered states of consciousness, and parapsychology.
Prior to his arrival at the Institute in 1975, Arthur taught at Stanford University, the University of Nevada, and the University of California at Santa Barbara. He has conducted research on remote viewing, hypnosis, dreams, stress, and bereavement. Arthur and a student team have developed and are currently researching a psychomanteum mirror gazing process for bereavement feelings, creativity, and self awareness.
Arthur is the author of With the Tongues of Men and Angels: A Study of Channeling, co-author of Argumentation and Advocacy, Changing Images of Man, and senior editor of Health for the Whole Person, an award winning book on holistic medicine. He is the book review editor of the Journal of Transpersonal Psychology. Arthur's recent publications include articles on transpersonal theory, scientists' resistance to belief, and a diversity bibliography. He also published an article on the evocation of non-drug altered states through hypnosis (An extended nondrug MDMA-like experience evoked through posthypnotic suggestion. Journal of Psychoactive Drugs, 38(3), 273-283 2006). Arthur's most recent article discusses William James and rapid, radical personal transformation, published in the Journal of Consciousness Studies, 2010, 10(11-12). 116-120.
