Summer 2013 - Quantum Concepts for Biology and Consciousness

This course explores the following questions. What are the fundamental ontological paradoxes arising in quantum theory? The meaning of Bell’s Theorem, especially, will be focused on. How is quantum physics fundamentally different from classical physics? What are the leading theories/models as to how quantum physics might be related to biology and/or consciousness?What lines of actual evidence support those theories/models?What are the primary arguments to the effect that quantum physics cannot be [or can be] related to biology/consciousness? Do the paradoxes in quantum reality imply a need to adjust the fundamental philosophy of science? How should the answers to these questions affect the theory and practice of psychology/counseling/spiritual practice [or ordinary life]?

Summer 2013 - Human Sexuality II: Advanced Concepts in Healing and Consciousness

This course will explore various forms of sexual expression, psychosexual wounding, healthy sexuality, conscious sexuality development and evolution, and the relationship between spirituality and sexuality.Students will engage in exercises designed to explore their sexuality, sexual psyche, and sexual development.The course will also include various sexual philosophies, models of sexual expression, conscious sexual development, and psychosexual/psychospiritual healing.

Summer 2013 - Paradigms of Health and Disease

In this course, Paradigms of health and disease are comparatively explored, from the origins of medical traditions and lineages to complementary and alternative approaches to healing. Approaches considered include ancient Greek and Egyptian traditions, ethnomedicine, the foundations of Eastern medical approaches based on Ayurvedic, Taoist, Tibetan, and Chinese medicine, and holistic approaches to healing including subtle, vibrational, and energy medicine.

Summer 2013 - Psychopathology & Psychopathogenesis

The course entails clinical investigations and reflections concerning the sources, development and persistence of psychopathology from a psychosocial and psychodynamic framework of thought. The emphasis as a whole is on the process whereby traumatic external sources of influence become incorporated into the development of dysfunctional coping patterns that form self-perpetuating traits.

Summer 2013 - Ecopsychology/Ecofeminism

Ecopsychology is the study of a psychology that includes nature and natural relationships. It focuses on healing alienation from nature as this has impaired both psychological and spiritual development. Ecofeminism is the study of the relationship between nature and the feminine. This course examines ways to create a sustainable world, one in which women, nature and her resources are seen as nurturing, relevant forces. This includes the need for gender-balanced cultures as the suppression of the feminine was simultaneous with the depletion of our natural resources and the rise of war. During the course we will explore the religious, cultural and corporate ideologies and related behaviors that have created numerous imbalances separating heaven and earth, male and female. Students will learn about global movements, creative and sustainable leadership and many new ways for living life in the contemporary world in ways that are in harmony with nature

Summer 2013 - Judaism

This course is intended to shed historical light on the beginnings of Judaism, with special attention to its geographical traits and relationship of the Jewish people with other races. Points to be covered include: The reason for praying to Yahweh, formerly the god of the storm, as the only God and the Creator; the reason for the absolute distinction between God and humans; and the reason for the development of the dogma concerning the creation of the universe and eschatology. Doctrines of Judaism and its characteristics as a community religion, explanations on Mosiac law, the Kabala (Judaic mysticism), and the role and meaning of their prophets will be discussed.