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Degree Programs: Curriculum

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. We have chosen a faculty expert in science and spirituality as it relates to human consciousness to help the student walk the conceptual bridge between science and wisdom principles.

Classical Philosophy | PHI 501 - The Wisdom of Classical Philosophy;

Cosmology and Philosophy of Science | PHI 511 - Science and Spirituality; PHI 512 - Physics of the Soul; PHI 513 - Mind in the Cosmos;

Social and Cultural Philosophy | PHI 521 - Political Theory in a Multicultural Perspective;

Spiritual Philosophy | PHI 532 - Conceptions and Experiences of the Afterlife

Comparative Religion and Mythology | REL 501- World Religions; REL 502 - A New Myth of God: The Religious Function of the Psyche; REL 503 - Stories That Tell Us Who We Are: Myth and Meaning for Today;

Abrahamic Religions | REL 511 - Understanding the Bible; REL 512 - The Wisdom of Islam; REL 513 - Wisdom of the Kabbalah;

Eastern Religions |REL 521 - The Language of the Gods; REL 522 - Upanishads and Bhagavad Gita; REL 523 - Buddhism in the Modern World

MCS/MTP 701 - Thesis Course: Student Comprehensive.

 

 

Transformational Psychology (MTP) Curriculum Overview

The courses in the master of Arts in transformational Psychology program seek to integrate western psychology and the deep understanding of the nature of personal human transformation as described in the world’s great wisdom traditions. They provide the student with the basic principles necessary to develop an integral worldview in which personal insights and experiences are explored in a context of traditional and current self awareness disciplines.

Applied Psychology and Communication | PSY 501 - Transformational Psychology: An Overview; PSY 502 - Cosnciousness and reative Communication; PSY 503 - Self-Regulation: The Foundation of Human Potential; PSY 505 - Outer and Inner Creativity; PSY 506 - Essentials of Mind-Body Medicine; PSY 507 - Attention Mechanics; PSY 508 - Intuition in Business;

Archetype Studies | PSY 511 - Alchemy and Psychotherapy; REL 512 - Mythic Stories in Depth Psychology; PSY 513 - Dreams and the Quest for Meaning;

Spiritual Psychology | PSY 521 - Spiritual Psychology; PSY 522 - Yijing: Models of Transformation; PSY 523 - Buddhist Psychology and Methods of Healing; PSY 524 - The Yoga of Integral Transformation;

Parapsychology | PSY 531 - Psi Research

MTP 701 - Thesis Course: Student Comprehensive.


The Spinal column is the "rod of Brahma", and it is this which is symbolized by the bamboo rod carried by ascetics and the seven knotted wand of the Yogi. The spinal column and nervous system of man is a manifestation of the "world tree" of universal life referenced in a great many wisdom traditions and sharing the principles and archetypes of all creation.

Academics

For Information Call:

323.663.2167

1.800.548.4062

Fax: 323.663.9443

admin@uprs.edu

President:
Obadiah S. Harris, Ph.D.

Dean of Academic Affairs:
Debashish Banerji, Ph.D.

Program Dean Consciousness Studies:
Christian de Quincey, Ph.D.

Program Dean Transformational Psychology:
Jeffrey Mishlove, Ph.D.

 

"Wherever we go, whatever we do, self is the sole subject we study and learn."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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