The vast selection of ELECTIVE courses are intended to both support the aspiring Practitioner as well as support the enhancement of the understanding of metaphysical principles and 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.

If only 2 courses from the IV CONSCIOUSNESS category are taken, students can include 1 course from V. ELECTIVES.

This class examines the history and the many misconceptions of the most published book of all time, with special attention to the fallacies of fundamentalist interpretation. The course looks at the most recent advances in Bible scholarship, including the discovery of the Nag Hammadi text [Gnostic in origin] and the Dead Sea Scrolls. The class is an excellent background course for the New Thought student who wants to know more about the Bible.

Length of Course: 8 Weeks

Text: Rescuing the Bible from Fundamentalism by John Shelby Spong

Tuition: $295.00

Ralph Waldo Emerson has been the most quoted, most inspirational writer in America for over a hundred years. The American voice in Self-Reliance and The Oversoul has influenced the New Thought movement profoundly. Emerson is quoted by all the great metaphysical writers, and he was the first to break through traditional Christianity in such a way as to inspire multitudes to higher thought. Background information on Emerson’s times and his fellow members of the Transcendentalist circle is covered. They include Bronson Alcott, Margaret Fuller, Henry David Thoreau, and Walt Whitman.

Length of Course: 8 Weeks

Text: Emerson’s Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Tuition: $295.00

Emma Curtis Hopkins’ course is designed to move the committed student from “zero to healer” in twelve lessons. Unveiling Your Hidden Power: THE WORKBOOK and THE TEXT include a “translated” text of her 12 lessons into modern language, along with daily practices.

Length of Course: 8 Weeks

Text: See course materials

Tuition: $295.00

The Principles of Financial Freedom is a recently updated course of metaphysical instruction that utilizes money as a tool for engaging in a program of deep inner healing. It incorporates leading edge technologies in ‘whole brain’ and ‘whole body’ learning that make these highly effective materials very user friendly. The course specifically teaches students to duplicate the nature of Spirit in their ‘financial affairs’ by developing new attitudes and beliefs about money that are in alignment with Principles of Spiritual Truth. At the same time, weekly healing segments assist the students in developing the awareness necessary to release self-defeating patterns of behavior based on old ‘error beliefs’ about their money and their lives.

Length of Course: 8 Weeks

Text: See course materials

Tuition: $295.00

Jesus used short stories called parables to convey profound spiritual truths. The parables charge our spiritual journey with energy and our soul with light. During this course, students are introduced to ways to interpret
stories from the Hebrew Bible, as a foundation for understanding the teachings of Jesus. Students become familiar with the power of the parable stories as inspiration for transforming the soul. Students bring the ancient parables to life, and relate them to the challenges of today’s world as they engage in discussions, role-playing, and problem-solving exercises, as well as creative arts expressions. Students may be beginners in exploring the
arts as tools for contemplation and meditation.

Length of Course: 10 Weeks

Text: Learn to Live by Ervin Seale, Holy Bible by George Lamsa
Optional Text: Metaphysical Dictionary by Charles Fillmore

Tuition: $345.00

In his book, It’s All God, Walter Starcke has managed to take one of metaphysics greatest truths and put it into a form and flow of words, which is easy to grasp. Starcke has done a masterful job of clarifying the necessity of finding a realistic balance between living in the Absolute and the Relative world: It’s not a matter of “one or the other”, but rather, discovering the key to doing both at the same time. His concept of the Double Thread is the key element.

Length of Course: 8 Weeks

Text: It’s All God by Walter Starcke

Tuition: $295.00

Combining the integrative principles and techniques from spiritual psychology with the power of the Science of Mind teaching, Magic of the Soul offers a dynamic training opportunity for students. It answers questions like, “Why haven’t I completely healed, even though I have been using spiritual mind treatment for years? How do we deal with fear that comes up before and after treatments? How can we embrace our shadow while affirming our divinity?” Magic of the Soul asks students to affirm and experience their inner divinity and at the same time honor their humanness and appreciate the beauty of who they are in the here and now, on their path to higher and higher expressions of divine nature. The most common theme throughout the text is to look for the magic, the opportunity for growth, and the sacredness in every situation in life, especially the challenging ones.

Length of Course: 8 Weeks

Text: Magic of the Soul by Patrick J. Harbula

Tuition: $295.00

This class provides a look at the Bible as story and Bible as myth. Drawing from sources as diverse as Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Aesop, Joseph Campbell, and Jelaluddin Rumi, this course looks at the many life stories in the Bible where we play every character. Students will learn powerful and effective tools for translation and interpretation of these stories.

Length of Course: 8 Weeks

Text: Revised English Bible

Tuition: $295.00

Many students of New Thought are familiar with Rocco Errico and his translations of the Bible. This course looks at the metaphysical meanings of the parables and familiar stories you remember from childhood.

Length of Course: 8 Weeks

Text: The Bible (King James Version)
Metaphysical Bible Dictionary by Charles Fillmore
Ten Words That Will Change Your Life by Ervin Seale
Learn to Live by Ervin Seale

Supplemental: The Science of Mind (1938) by Ernest Holmes

Tuition: $295.00

This course is designed to give the student a greater understanding of the mind/body connection, and the important role consciousness plays in the healing process. This course is a clear, step by step process that begins with Principle, deals with the emotional issues surrounding the body, gives emphasis to effective prayer, unlearning old concepts of duality and disease, and even addresses practical considerations of the student in locating health professionals who support his/her belief system. This course is ideal for the beginner or the advanced student who desires a deeper understanding of physical healing.

Length of Course: 8 Weeks

Text: The Science of Mind by Ernest Holmes

Tuition: $295.00

Joseph Campbell was perhaps the greatest thinker of the 20th Century. His writings cover a vast range of spirituality, culture, and human mythology. His presence, which most people only experience through the wonderful Power of Myth video series, was transcendent. This course takes an overview of Campbell’s work, helping the novice and scholar alike make sense of his or her own personal myth.

Length of Course: 8 Weeks

Text: Reflections on the Art of Living (Joseph Campbell Companion) by Diane K. Osbon

Supplemental:
The Science of Mind (1938) by Ernest Holmes
The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell
Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth with Bill Moyers
An Open Life: Joseph Campbell in Conversation with Michael Toms edited by John Mather and Dennie Briggs
The Portable Jung edited by Joseph Campbell
The Voice Celestial by Ernest and Fenwicke Holmes

A Fire in the Mind by Stephen and Robin Larsen

Tuition: $295.00

This class is designed to empower students to reach independent decisions, which enhance the quality of their lives. Based on the powerful metaphysical classic, this course is valuable for both the new and experienced student.

Length of Course: 8 Weeks

Text: The Power of Decision by Raymond Charles Barker

Tuition: $295.00

Focusing on prosperity issues, the student of this class will gain a greater understanding of the basic metaphysical principles which govern our financial well-being. Participants will learn how to use these principles effectively in everyday life. This is a sensible, solution-oriented class and is appropriate for the new or advanced student.

Length of Course: 8 Weeks

Text: Spiritual Economics by Eric Butterworth

Tuition: $295.00

Spiritual fitness is a lifestyle and an attitude that can help you rediscover the real meaning and sacredness of your life. Like physical fitness, it is not a one-time experience; it needs your ongoing commitment. To stay spiritually fit means living in truth and trust, i.e., being yourself at the deepest level in everything you do and bringing all of you to your life experiences. It also means trusting that there is a greater power constantly guiding you and inviting you, through your life experiences, to live more openly and lovingly. When we trust, we start to make our choices and decisions from a place of love and courage instead of from fear. This in turn gives us clarity and strength.

Length of Course: 8 Weeks

Text: Spiritual Fitness by Caroline Reynolds

Tuition: $295.00

This is a practical class which empowers the student to develop positive thinking skills. This classic text provides lucid explanations of exactly how spiritual laws operate in our lives. These laws are utterly reliable, and this class shows the student how to use this knowledge to benefit every area of living.

Length of Course: 8 Weeks

Text: Working with the Law by Raymond Holliwell

Tuition: $295.00

This course is designed to present the key concepts of The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success by Deepak Chopra. MD, and to provide tools to assist in understanding our true nature in relationship to these laws. Each class in the course curriculum begins with viewing a section of The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success video showing Dr. Chopra presenting these laws to a live audience.

Length of Course: 8 Weeks

Text: The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success by Deepak Chopra, MD

Tuition: $295.00

This class was created to deepen the student’s understanding that he or she is an individualized expression of God. Topics of exploration include: co-creation, the power of belief, your inner authority, and how to increase your faith. This is excellent for new students and as a refresher course for more experienced student.

Length of Course: 8 Weeks

Text: This Thing Called You by Ernest Holmes

Tuition: $295.00

“Treat Yourself to Life” is a powerful eight-week class based on the book by the same title by Raymond Charles Barker Students experience the joy of harnessing the Power for Good in the Universe by learning to use affirmative prayer effectively and with purpose. Positive, practical tools are given to change unwanted patterns and bring greater good into the basic areas of living: Health, Prosperity, Relationships, and Creative Expression.

Length of Course: 8 Weeks

Text: Treat Yourself to Life by Raymond Charles Barker

Tuition: $295.00

This course is a walk through the powerful tool of Visioning. It includes the history of how visioning began in our movement with the inspiration of Dr. Michael Beckwith, offers weekly opportunities for visioning at different levels from the individual to the community to the global and explains the role of visioning in our Global Heart Model. Released in 2007

Length of Course: 8 Weeks

Text: None

Tuition: $295.00

The primary focus of this class is on deepening the student’s actual experience of the timeless and eternal nature of Spirit, using the writings of Ernest Holmes throughout Part IV of his classic book.

Length of Course: 8 Weeks

Text: The Science of Mind by Ernest Holmes

Tuition: $295.00

5 Gifts for an Abundant Life
This course is designed to empower the participants by teaching them how to BE a Consciousness of Wealth. This course is presented as an opening to a rich, rewarding transformative experience. Released in 2009

Length of Course: 8 Weeks

Text: 5 Gifts for an Abundant Life by Diane Harmony

Tuition: $295.00