Fall 2013 - Subtle Energy Systems I

The subtle body is a dynamic system unique to each individual yet universal in nature. This course focuses on selected approaches to the dynamics of the subtle body system. The course explores the etheric, astral, mental, and causal bodies, the subtle senses, the soul and the supersensible, the essential role the subtle body plays in health and healing, and the complex yet fundamental way subtle systems illuminate the forms and functions of life.

Fall 2013 - Counseling and Communication Skills

Conducting beneficial counseling requires specialized attitudes and abilities on the part of the therapist. This course emphasizes the fundamental aptitude for active empathic listening and responding by the counselor. This course addresses the skills associated with the task of grasping the point and meaning of communication and perceiving difficulties on an intuitive and/or subtle level. These skills are relevant in any discipline and professional path in which a student will work with people.

Fall 2013 - Psychotherapy:Approaches & Strategies


Many presentations of psychotherapy are based on the major theoretical orientations of the three main categories of therapy: psychodynamic, mainly derived from psychoanalytic thought; experiential relational which stresses subjective feelings; and cognitive and behavioral approaches that emphasize the role of thinking and being. These general models have many commonalities and areas of overlap. The course will discuss the underlying assumptions and strategies of these and other approaches to therapy.

Fall 2013 - Spiritual Coaching

This course is designed to educate students in a life coaching process that assists clients in integrating their spiritual nature into every aspect of their life. Professionals working from this perspective bring authenticity to their work by integrating their own spiritual nature into their daily personal and professional life. Therefore, this course will not only be informative, but necessarily experiential as well.

Fall 2013 - Science of the Cosmos

This course surveys fundamental concepts, and forefront issues, regarding the large scale structure and evolution of the physical universe, and its fundamental microstructure. Also forefront issues in philosophy of scientific paradigms are explored. Those two themes are considered in an integrative manner, in search of perspectives that will encompass leading edge views on the nature of Reality. This will be a hybrid, on campus + online course. Approximately half the meetings will be on campus with remote attendance available via Skype group videoconferencing.

Fall 2013 - Quantitative Statistics


The course provides an overview of descriptive and inferential statistical techniques including: central tendency, frequency, variability, correlation, linear regression, dependent and non-dependent t-test application, and analysis of variance. The appropriate application of the techniques to various research designs and use of computer programs are included to prepare students to analyze quantitative data in the psychological field.

Fall 2013 - Toward A Superconsciousness

There are many steps in spiritual evolution. The course will provide the moral training of Yama and Niyama as a preparatory step. The next step is balancing Ki energy and pranayama practice to experience the life-force energy (prana) pervading the Universe. Through meditation, practitioners can attain energy balance, and through the state of no thought and imagery (shunya), practitioners may be able to trust God in all aspects of life and death. At this point, one is lifted to a higher dimension. Astral projection or karana projection may occur, and one can awaken to the spiritual dimension and experience Samadhi or unification with the astral or karana spirit(s).