Testimonials

. "It has been my experience that many students are confused and disappointed, torn by the desire to pursue truth yet too often forced to endure indoctrination in the latest ideological fashion. During my undergraduate years the reigning fashion was (and still is in many places) analytic philosophy, which is generally hostile to religion, Eastern philosophy, and the Platonic tradition. Another closely related influential group of philosophers, the logical positivists, would have us believe that metaphysics, ethics, values and anything that is not a so-called empirical fact are all nonsense. Ironically, their fundamental postulate that only empirical facts are permissible is itself a metaphysical belief that is not scientifically verifiable. They have also ignored the fact that many of the greatest physicists have been deeply influenced by their religious and metaphysical beliefs..."

John H. Spencer

UPR Graduate, MA Consciousness Studies

Ph.D. Candidate, University of Liverpool

. "A friend of mine once said to me that one cannot read books on consciousness without it eventually takings its toll. It has been a bit over a year now since I started my studies at the University of Philosophical Research, and it surely has taken its toll: Towers have crumbled. Constructs have collapsed. Perceptions have been shaken.

"I have always been an advocate of change, but I did not understand the power of transformation. When I began my Masters in Transformational Psychology, I was in the midst of several life changes. The very first book I opened for my studies, in cunning synchronicity, gave me answers to several of them. Since, I have found more and more..."

Philip H. Horvath

UPR Student, Transformational Psychology