Degree Programs:
Consciousness Studies

Consciousness Studies (MCS) Curriculum Overview

Consciousness Studies course descriptions

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.

MCS/MTP 501 - A New Myth of God: Religious Function of the Psyche; MCS 502 - Consciousness & Creative Communication; MCS 503 - Science & Spirituality; MCS 504 - World Religions; MCS/MTP 506 - Alchemy & Psychotherapy

MCS/MTP 551 - Spiritual Psychology; MCS/MTP 552 - Self-Regulation: Foundation of Human Potential; MCS/MTP 553 - Physics of the Soul; MCS 554 - The Wisdom of Islam; MCS 555 - Understanding the Bible

MCS 601 - Upanishads & Bhagavad Gita; MCS 602 - Buddhism in the Modern World; MCS 603 - Wisdom of Classical Philosophy; MCS/MTP 604 - Outer & Inner Creativity; MCS/MTP 605 - Mythic Stories in Depth Psychology

MCS/MTP 651 - Psi Research; MCS/MTP 652 - Buddhist Psychology & Methods of Healing; MCS 653 - Essentials of Mind-Body Medicine; MCS/MTP 654 - Intuition in Business; MCS 655/MTP 602 - Mind in the Cosmos: The Evolution of Consciousness.

MCS/MTP 701 - Thesis Course: Student Comprehensive.

Course with the notation "MCS/MTP" are "Foundation Course" common to both programs.

PROGRAM OBJECTIVES for Consciousness Studies:

• 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 comprehend and discuss the notion of quantum non-locality and its implications for consciousness;

• The student will be able to describe the principles and theories of archetypal symbolism as found in wisdom tales and traditions;

• The student will have 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 describe how everyday activities serve as spiritual opportunities.

• The student will be able to discuss in writing the breadth of mind/body connections in physical health care and psychological well-being.

• 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.

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