The courses in the CONSCIOUSNESS COURSES category are designed to guide the student into a deeper consciousness, a more profound appreciation of spiritual technologies and principles, and to cultivate and nurture a powerful spiritual practice. Our focus in teaching classes is to create a student- centered teaching and learning environment which is attractive, warm, joyful, spiritually inspiring, honoring diversity, intellectually challenging and practically useful.
Those seeking entrance to Practitioner Studies should choose two (2) OR three (3) from the following list of courses. If only 2 courses from the IV. CONSCIOUSNESS category are taken, students can include 1 course from V. ELECTIVES.
In Building a Healing Consciousness, students deepen their understanding of effective spiritual mind treatment, and develop a greater understanding of the nature of the creative process in the individual. The student will begin building a healing consciousness through their affirmative prayer work. This course covers pages 111-128 and 163-186 in The Science of Mind™. This course uses The Science of Mind to deepen the student’s basic understanding of this teaching.
Length of Course: 8 Weeks
Text: The Science of Mind by Ernest Holmes
Tuition: $295.00
This class is based on the book of the same name which explains the nature of creative action, beginning with the formation of the universe and ending with a vista of infinite possibilities attainable by the individual.
Troward argues from basic principles we all understand, and shows how these principles may be carried into the future. He relies on the maxim that “Principle is not bound by precedent,” and by the premise that we are not only able, but also required, by the law of our own being, to take a more active part in our personal evolution than has ever occurred in the past.
Length of Course: 8 Weeks
Text: Creative Process in the Individual by Thomas Troward
Tuition: $295.00
Based on the classic lecture series, The Edinburgh Lectures have inspired nearly every other early New Thought writer. Judge, Thomas Troward delivered these lectures in Scotland in 1904, and they have served as the touchstone for metaphysical thinking to this day. Troward’s mind is logical, brilliant, and extremely precise. This class is excellent for the serious student of New Thought.
Length of Course: 8 Weeks
Text: The Edinburgh Lectures by Thomas Troward
Tuition: $295.00
This is an introductory meditation course that begins with the beginner and moves step by step through the powerful tool of meditation in many different modalities. Topics include meditation with light, mantras, sound, movement, breathing, and more. Each week is very experiential with various forms of meditation that the student can then take with them for a richer practice at home. Released in 2007
Length of Course: 8 Weeks
Text: An Easy Guide to Meditation by Roy Eugene Davis – CSA Press, 1978,
Choose One: How to Meditate by Lawrence LeShan – Bantam, 1975 OR
Journey of Awakening by Ram Dass – Bantam, 1978
Tuition: $295.00
This course is an exploration of mysticism, what it is and what it is not. It provides the framework for the student to live a more mystical life in present time. Each student sets a personal intention for his or her life. Emphasis is given to the practice of meditation and the practice of witnessing consciousness. This course is ideal for anyone seeking to deepen his or her own awareness of the Divine reality in daily living. Updated December 2008.
Length of Course: 10 Weeks
Text: The Foundations of Mysticism by Joel Goldsmith Entering the Castle: Finding the Inner Path to God and Your Soul’s Purpose by Caroline Myss
Tuition: $345.00
This is an amazing course on the power of Spiritual Mind Treatment. Each week is a thoughtful approach to the deeper understandings of prayer: How does the nature of God and man create prayer, the impact of creative law and beliefs, what to pray for, affirmative treatment, and the state of continuous prayer. Each week has experiential exercises to give these ideas a reality for the student. Released in 2007
Length of Course: 8 Weeks
Text: Refer to course curriculum materials.
Tuition: $295.00
The Self Mastery Course focuses on healing the perceived separation between personality and Spirit. Through an active exploration of the creative nature of thoughts and feelings, beliefs and emotions, the students have an opportunity to gain mastery in the art of living as conscious, intentional beings.
Length of Course: 8 Weeks
Text: Living the Science of Mind by Ernest Holmes
Tuition: $295.00
This course focuses on the student developing lifetime habits of meditation and Spiritual Mind Treatment. Spiritual Mind Treatment for oneself is reviewed and strengthened, and then students advance to treating for other people.
Length of Course: 10 Weeks
Text: Journey of Awakening by Ram Dass, Can We Talk To God? by Ernest Holmes
Tuition: $345.00