Transformational Psychology (MTP) Curriculum Overview
The curriculum for the Master of Arts in the Transformational Psychology program seeks to integrate trans-egoic and transformational perspectives in modern western psychology with the understanding and practices of personal human transformation as described in the world's great spiritual and mystical traditions. The faculty for Transformational Psychology represents internationally renowned teachers and experts in the theory and practice of ancient and modern transformational disciplines. These teachers bring an integral, cross-disciplinary and cross-cultural perspective to the teaching of their disciplines.
1st QUARTER - WINTER: PSY 506 Essentials of Mind-Body Medicine; PSY 508 Intuition in Business; PSY 514 Dreams & the Quest for Meaning; PSY 524 The Yoga of Integral Transformation; (+1 elective course from PHI or REL: PHI 513 Wisdom of the Kabbalah; or REL 521 The Language of the Gods; or PHI 503 To be announced; or REL 503 To be announced)
2nd QUARTER - SPRING: PSY 501 Transformational Psychology; PSY 502 Consciousness & Creative Communication; PSY 512 Alchemy & Psychotherapy; (+2 elective courses from PHI or REL: PHI 511 Science & Spirituality; or PHI 521 Political Theory in a Multicultural Perspective; or REL 501 World Religions; or REL 502 A New Myth of God)
3rd QUARTER - SUMMER: PSY 503 Self-Regulation: Foundation of Human Potential; PSY 521 Spiritual Psychology; PSY 522 Yijing: Models of Transformation; PSY 523 Buddhist Psychology & Methods of Healing; (+1 elective course from PHI or REL: PHI 512 Physics of the Soul; or REL 511 Understanding the Bible; or REL 512 The Wisdom of Islam; or REL 523 Buddhism in the Modern World)
4th QUARTER - FALL: PSY 505 Outer & Inner Creativity; PSY 507 Attention Mechanics; PSY 513 Mythic Stories in Depth Psychology; PSY 531 Psi Research (+1 elective course from PHI or REL: PHI 501 Wisdom of Classical Philosophy; or PHI 513 Mind in the Cosmos; or REL 522 Upanishads & Bhagavad Gita)
MCS/MTP 701 - Thesis Course: Student Comprehensive.
PROGRAM OBJECTIVES for Transformational Psychology:
• The student will be able to describe the depth psychological approach to religious experience;
• The student will be able to list and discuss the models of human personality and cosmology as found in Eastern and Western spiritual traditions;
• The student will be able to describe and discuss several traditional approaches and current research on techniques and methods of ego-transcendence;
• The student will be able to describe the principles and theories of archetypal symbolism as found in alchemical practice, wisdom tales and mythological traditions;
• The student will be able to describe in writing “The Classic of Change” (Yijing/I Ching) as it relates to psychological transformation;
• The student will be able to interpret their dream experiences, and the role of dreaming in their personal lives and in the broader community.
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.
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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
