Degree Programs:
Consciousness Studies

Consciousness Studies (MCS) Curriculum Overview

The courses in the Master of Arts in Consciousness Studies provide students with a solid foundational knowledge in the area of consciousness. The Consciousness Studies faculty represents internationally renowned teachers and experts in the theory and practice of ancient and contemporary wisdom disciplines. Each of these brings an integral, cross-disciplinary and cross-cultural perspective to the teaching of their subjects.

1st QUARTER - WINTER: REL 513 Wisdom of the Kabbalah; REL 521 The Language of the Gods; PHI 503 To be announced; REL 503 To be annouced; (+1 elective course from PSY: PSY 506 Essentials of Mind-Body Medicine; or PSY 508 Intuition in Business; or PSY 514 Dreams & the Quest for Meaning; PSY 524 The Yoga of Integral Transformation)

2nd QUARTER - SPRING: REL 501 World Religions; REL 502 A New Myth of God: Religious Function of the Psyche; PHI 511 Science & Spirituality; PHI 521 Political Theory in a Multicultural Perspective; (+1 elective course from PSY: PSY 501 Transformational Psychology; or PSY 502 Consciousness & Creative Communication; or PSY 512 Alchemy & Psychotherapy)

3rd QUARTER - SUMMER: PHI 512 Physics of the Soul; REL 511 Understanding the Bible; REL 512 The Wisdom of Islam; REL 523 Buddhism in the Modern World; (+1 elective course from PSY: PSY 503 Self-Regulation; or PSY 521 Spiritual Psychology; or PSY 522 Yijing; or PSY 523 Buddhist Psychology & Methods of Healing)

4th QUARTER - FALL: PHI 501 The Wisdom of Classical Philosophy; PHI 513 Mind in the Cosmos: The Evolution of Consciousness; REL 522 Upanishads and Bhagavad Gita; (+2 elective courses from PSY: PSY 505 Outer & Inner Creativity; or PSY 507 Attention Mechanics; or PSY 513 Mythic Stories in Depth Psychology; or PSY 531 Psi Research)

MCS/MTP 701 - Thesis Course: Student Comprehensive.

PROGRAM OBJECTIVES for Consciousness Studies:

• The student will be able to list and discuss the models of cosmology as found in Eastern and Western spiritual traditions;

• The student will be able to recognize and analyze the numinous experience and religious ideas in philosophical terms;

• The student will be able to comprehend and discuss the notion of quantum non-locality and its implications for consciousness;

• The student will gain a comprehensive ability to reference the Bible, the Upanishads and Bhagavad Gita, Buddhism, and classical philosophy and draw from each principles related to the nature of human consciousness;

• The student will be able to describe the universality of convergent ideas in world religions;

• The student will be able to trace the Western philosophical, scientific and academic tradition to its historical origin in spiritual experiences;

• The student will be able to describe the formative role of the notion of “life after death” in Western thought;

• The student will be able to approach everyday human problems from the perspective of wisdom traditions and be better able to devise creative written solutions to problems consistent with universal wisdom principles.