Angel Studies

INTRODUCTION TO ANGELS (AN-100/3.0 Credit Hours Revised): Angels have been in this Universe for as long as the Universe has existed. The Angelic realm affects all life. As humans, we have been aware of their existence throughout our known time, but we see certain times where our interest in Angels has flourished. Currently we are in a time of great Angelic activity because we are embarking on a dimensional transition of evolutionary growth in consciousness. This 12-lesson course explores what we, as human beings, know about Angels. Included: Introduction to Angels; Hierarchy of Angels; Angelic Choirs and Orders; Archangels by Name; Past history of Angels; Angelic history of the 20th Century; 20th Century Angelophanies; Attributes of Angels; Angels in our Daily Lives; Angels influencing Planets, Astrological Signs, Seasons, Months, Days and Hours; Angels co-creating in other areas. Glossary of Angels.

MEETING FIVE ARCHANGELS (AN-101/1.0 Credit Hour): Archangels are considered by many to be one step above all other Angels in the hierarchy. The powerful Beings of Light hold places of honor in a vast variety of religions in both Eastern and Western traditions. In this 7-lesson course, you will learn about the various theories and hierarchies of the archangels according to different global viewpoints. You will discover the realms of the Archangels and the physical spheres they govern - those of astrology, the seasons, months, days, hours and the colors that are attributed to each. Through this exploration and study, you will learn who they are, what they represent, and how to contact them and access their knowledge and power to aid you in your daily life. Included: Introduction to the Five Archangels; Archangels Governing Planets, Astrological Signs, Seasons, Months, Days and Hours; Archangel Michael; Archangel Gabriel; Archangel Raphael; Archangel Uriel; Archangel Chamuel.

CO-CREATING WITH THE ANGELS IN OUR DAILY LIVES (AN-102/1.0 Credit Hour): Communicating with Angels begins with us. Angels are always ready to answer our call to co-create with them and to help bring "heaven on Earth". All of us are capable to receive guidance from the Angelic, we merely have not used these subtle senses in this way before. This 5-lesson course will instruct you in ways to co-create with the Angels in five different areas of our daily lives. Included: angels of the Plant Realm and Gardens; Angels of our Homes, Cars and Machinery; Angels and the Animals, Pets and Insects; Angels of Work and Money; and Angels and Minerals, Stones and Gems.

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Astrological Studies

INTRODUCTION TO ASTROLOGY (AS-100 Revised - 1.0 Credit Hours): Since ancient times we looked to the heavens believing the movements of the sun and planets affected much of what takes place on earth. If these movements could be read properly the future could be understood and provided for. This 7-lesson course is designed to let you know what your birth sign and planetary influence may mean to you. Often you may want to check those findings for yourself. That can be done, through a study of this basic course. Includes: Introduction To Astrology; Types of Astrology; an Astrological Glossary; Casting the Horoscope and the Houses; Aspects and the Signs; The Planets, Asteroids and Other Sensitive Points; Creating the Astrological Chart; Conclusion and New Age Astrology. Appendix 1 has a blank Natal Chart.

THE SYMBOLISM, HISTORY AND FUNDAMENTALS OF ASTROLOGY (AS-101/6.0 Credit Hours): This 32 lesson course covers all aspects of this fascinating subject from its origins in ancient Sumer to our technological era, The Age of Aquarius. It describes astrology's evolution, its all-pervasive influence around the world and on a more practical level, how to cast a horoscope and how the Zodiac determines personal characteristics. Includes: Introduction; Symbolic Language Of Astrology; Development of the Zodiac; Development Of The Horoscope; A History Of Astrology; Mesopotamia; Greece; Egypt and Rome; Chinese Tradition; India, Mexico and Other Places; Dark Ages; Renaissance in Italy, France, England; Decline and Return Of Astrology; 20th Century; Symbolism Of The 12 Signs Of The Zodiac; Fundamentals Of Astrology.

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Bible Studies

A HISTORICAL AND ANTHROPOLOGICAL APPROACH TO THE OLD TESTAMENT (BI-102/5.0 Credit Hours): During this 27 lesson course we examine the Old Testament through the eyes of the anthropologist, archaeologist, historian and the biblical scholar. We will sift through the sands of time and in our mind's eye we will rebuild the ancient cities and reconstruct history. We will probe into ancient religion and watch humanity as it searched for God, the meaning of life and the different pathways leading to "the top of the mountain." We will hear the cries of the prophets, the thunder of the falling walls of Jericho and listen with confusion to the Tower of Babel. We will discover the evolution of man in his search for God. And at the end of the journey we will come away with a better understanding of who we are and the Old Testament will come to life as a rich and varied treasure of humanity with all its struggles, strength and weaknesses along with a deeper understanding of the phrase "In the beginning." Included in this course is: The Old Testament - A Library of Religion; Transmission of the Old Testament; The Jewish Torah; The Prophets; The Sacred Writings; Biblical Interpretation of all 39 books of the Old Testament including naming, authorship, date of writing, key word, key verse and key chapter, plus a concise survey of each book.

INTERPRETING THE OLD TESTAMENT THROUGH METAPHYSICS (BI-100/2.0 Credit Hours): This 15 lesson course explores the process and meaning of metaphysical interpretation as applied to major areas of the Old Testament. Emphasis is given to the practical application of these meanings to the spiritual growth of the individual and to the use of these meanings in the ministry. Included: Introduction To Metaphysical Bible Interpretation; Allegories Of Genesis; Abraham; Joseph; Jacob; Moses; Joshua; Judges; David; Elijah and Elisha; The Prophets; Job.

A HISTORICAL AND ANTHROPOLOGICAL APPROACH TO THE NEW TESTAMENT (BI-103): This new course will be released in the near future. During this course we examine the New Testament through the eyes of the anthropologist, archaeologist, historian and biblical scholar.

INTERPRETING THE NEW TESTAMENT THROUGH METAPHYSICS (BI-101/3.0 Credit Hours): This 27 lesson course explores the process and meaning of metaphysical interpretation as applied to major areas of the New Testament. Emphasis is given to the practical application of these meanings to the spiritual growth of the individual and to the use of these meanings in the ministry. Included: Introduction To A Metaphysical Bible Interpretation; Metaphysical Interpretation Of The Gospels; Metaphysical Interpretation Of Book Of Revelation.

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Business Studies

SMALL BUSINESS START-UP MINI-GUIDE (BU-100/1.0 CH): Congratulations! You decided to leave the corporate rat race to start your own business. The first thing to remember is that there is no surefire formula for starting a business. What works well for some may not be the best choice for you. In the same token, the enterprise that you can turn into a financial success may not augur well for others. This easy to read 8-lesson course includes: Know the Rules; Set-Up Your Office; Build Your Brand; Marketing; Making the Sale; Managing Your Finances; Taking Care of the Details; Managing Your Employees.

EVALUATING YOUR SMALL BUSINESS IDEA (BU-101/0.5 CH): Becoming a successful business owner requires more than just a great idea & the investment required to get you started. Examine your business idea & determine your potential for success before you spend time & money developing a business plan. Honest answers to the questions contained in this easy-to-read course will identify areas of strength & concern & provide insight into your market, competitors, start-up costs, sales & financing to help you make an educated decision about moving forward. The 17-questions & 2 Appendices in this course will help you & your business advisor examine your business idea & determine your potential for success before you spend time & money developing a business plan. Your responses will provide insight into your market, competitors, start-up costs, sales, expenses, & financing needs. Your honest answers will help identify areas of strength & concern. They will also help determine if you are ready to take the next step or need to reevaluate your business idea. This is only a beginning & should not be considered as the final word when determining the feasibility of a new business venture. 

COMPREHENSIVE SMALL-BUSINESS START-UP GUIDE (BU-102/10.0 CH): After a careful analysis of your skills & know-how, you are convinced that you want to be your own boss & have what it takes to succeed. But do you know where & what to start? There are certain qualities behind every entrepreneur. Ask yourself – is owning a business the best path for you? Are you truly ready to become a small business owner.  Growing a business in today's world isn't just about turning leads into sales anymore... it's about doing the right research first, using online techniques for promotions, connecting with customers on their own turf & terms, validating your potential customers, & moving faster than the competition. This course can help you maximize your time & money at any stage of your sales process. Do You Have What It Takes? Learn the characteristics & habits of creative, successful entrepreneurs. Many successful entrepreneurs have similar traits & characteristics.  Learn what these are & what you can do to improve on your own. In this comprehensive small-business start-up guide you will find one of the most complete collections of business information ever compiled in one volume. It contains 456 pages of up-to-date information that will give you a comprehensive step-by-step guide to successfully start & manage a small business. It includes: Plan Your Business; Start-Up Procedures & General Financing; Borrowing & Fair Credit; Financial Programs; Buying a Business or Franchise; Naming Business & Copyrights; Leadership; Management Style & Ethics; Decision Making; Marketing & Pricing; Marketing & Customer Service; Advertising; Taxes & EIN; Independent Contractors & Employees; Insurance & Legal Affairs; Strategic Thinking & Technology; Planning & Protecting Your Interests; Liquidation & Bankruptcy along with 22 Appendices  on all aspects of the business world & your place in it.

THE NEW AGE ENTREPRENEUR (BU-103/3.0 CH): (Formerly ME-110) What is spirituality in the workplace?  There’s a wide range of important perspectives.  Some would say that it’s simply embodying their personal values of honesty, integrity, & good quality work. Others would say it’s treating their co-workers & employees in a responsible, caring way.  For others, it’s participating in spiritual study groups or using prayer, meditation, or intuitive guidance at work. & for some, it’s making their business socially responsible in how it impacts the environment, serves the community or helps create a better world.  Many in our secular society actively pursue a personal spiritual journey without being associated with any formal religion. Thus, while one may derive a sense of spirituality from religious practices, such practice is not requisite to the spiritual experience. We invite you to examine the material in this 8-lesson course without spiritual or religious bias – understand that what is spiritual for one may be religious for another. The course includes: Spiritual Diversity; Spirituality in Business; Is Spirituality in Business Viable or Not?; Being Spiritual; What do we Mean by Spirituality; Spiritual Leadership; Business Ethics & Integrity; Personal Spiritual Practices; Applying Your Spiritual Values; Starting a Business Checklist.

Starting & Managing a Home Based Business (BU-104/2.5 CH): Before investing your time & your hard-earned money working out of your own home for a company, any company, do some sleuth work to make sure that the opportunity is a good one. One of the best ways to do this is by talking to people who have already spent some time in the business. Check with the state attorney general's office to see if there is a history of complaints or legal proceedings against the firm. & while you're at it, find out if the Better Business Bureau has registered any complaints against them. If your business opportunity passes all of these tests & meets your own personal goals for lifestyle & profitability, chances are you've found a good one. Best wishes! If you're still tempted by the possibility of working out of your house it is time to roll up your sleeves & get started. This course contains everything you need to open your Home Based business. Each of the 11-lessons has been written in language that you will understand along with plenty of space to keep your notes. It can also help you maximize your time & money at any stage of your business. Included: Preface; Is Your Business Idea Right for You?; Is There A Would-Be Business Owner in There?; City, State & Federal Obligations; Specialized Professional Assistance; Keeping Records for a Home-Based Business; Marketing; A “New” Model of Management & Communications; The Business Plan; Computer Based Home Business; Computer Technology; Closing Your Business. You have a lot to look forward to – starting a business is an exciting time. In this course you’ll find the wherewithal you need to get your new business up & running. There’s lots of work to get done, but we’ll help make startup simple. Let’s get started!

Creating a Nonprofit CORPORATION (BU-105/10.0 CH): A Nonprofit Corporation is an organization formed for the purpose of serving a purpose of public or mutual benefit other than the pursuit or accumulation of profits. Nonprofits are recognized & authorized by Congress (as well as state legislatures), which determined that certain types of enterprises should be free from the burden of having to pay income taxes. It also decreed that society should support & foster many such organizations. In order to accomplish these goals, it established a class of entity now known as a tax exempt corporation, or nonprofit corporations. In giving these corporations tax exempt status, however, Congress imposed specific requirements & limitations on their activities. Failure to "play by the rules" can result in the corporation losing its tax exempt status. These limitations on nonprofit corporation activities & operations are what give them unique needs that often are not well met by service providers to for-profit businesses. However, a nonprofit corporation is not prohibited from making a profit, but there are limitations on what it can do with its "profits." There also are limitations on how it can make money. In this 39-lesson course you will learn many of the values & principles of spirituality in today’s business world. It includes: What is a Nonprofit; The Basics: Creating a Nonprofit Organization; Innovative Models of Business; The Purpose (The Mission); The Mission Statement; Forming A Nonprofit Organization Checklist; Recruiting Your Organization’s First Board; Recruiting A Great Board; Tax Exempt Status; Key Roles & Legal Responsibilities of the Board of Directors; Frequently Asked Questions about Boards of Directors; Questions Board Members Should Ask; The Board Manual: An Orientation & Resource Tool; Job Descriptions for Nonprofit Boards of Directors; Articles, Bylaws & Resolutions; Conducting Effective Board Meetings; Board & Staff Responsibilities, Policies & Procedures; Confidentiality & Conflict of Interest; Advisory Boards; Accountability & Ethics; Basics of Bookkeeping, Accounting & Financial Management; Bookkeeping; Federal & State Regulations for U.S. Nonprofit Organizations; Financial Controls Including Leasing; Managing Operating Budgets; Financial Statements & Analysis; Interpreting Financial Statements; Financial Reporting’s; Annual Reports; Audits; Founder’s Syndrome – During Tenure of the Founder; Transitioning to a New Chief Executive; Procedure for Transitioning to a New Chief Executive; A “New” Model of Management & Communications; Love, Meaning & the Whole Person in Business; People & the Environment; Spirituality & Ethics in Business; Corporate Responsibility & Ethical Management; Ethical Decision-Making; A New Paradigm – A New Hope for the Workplace.

FROM CORPORATE AMERICA TO NEW AGE (BU-106/6.5 CH): (Formerly ME-113) Do you want to start a New Age or Metaphysical business? Many people feel and know that they need to work in the field of their own choice to achieve their goals; yet are plagued with uncertainty as to what kind of business to start.  Where can you find a business idea that will really pay off? One that will make you rich (as quickly as possible)? Or what business will make you powerful & famous?  What are the best ventures to pursue today in this Aquarian Age? In starting a business, one of the most difficult decisions will be to select a business that is right for you. You can develop a line of natural foods, do New Age wedding planning, give metaphysical lessons, create intricate crafts, or develop a metaphysical book-store. You can also sell what you know, by developing a syndicated newspaper column, write a book, or conduct seminars or workshops in your area of expertise.  This 25-lesson course covers ground not covered before. It investigates the change needed in individuals who desire to open their own New Age business or change their careers to a New Age field  It includes: Questions to Help you Find Your Life’s Purpose; Life Values – Life Satisfaction Quiz; What is Your Purpose In Life; Navigating Career Transition or Job Change; So, You Want to Start Your Own Business; Common Mistakes In Choosing a Business; Starting Your Career Transition or Job Change; Procrastination; Personal Development; Making the Case for the New Age Movement (NAM); Choosing Metaphysics As a Career; How Can I Be Metaphysical In a Material World; Money & Resources for Living Your Purpose; 12 Steps to Abundance & Prosperity; Achieving Success; Living Your Purpose In a New Age; Starting a Business Checklist; Business Plan Outline; Computer Based Home Business.

METAPHYSICAL AND SPIRITUAL APPROACH TO BUSINESS SUCCESS (BU-107 – Formerly ME-102/2.0 CH) This 9 lesson course on self prosperity showing how business success is related to spiritual growth and awareness. Includes: Natural and Universal Law; Success On The Material Plane; Perseverance and Faith; Concentration; Meditation; The Spirit and Soul; Self Faith; Memory/Subconscious Mind; Power Of Mind; Initiative, Ideals and Practical Methods; Faith In Self; Proper Advertising; Intuition; Master Person; Successful Salesmanship; Constant Opportunity; The Spiritual Approach To Money; Money Consciousness; Metaphysical and Spiritual Use Of Wealth.

SPIRITUALITY IN BUSINESS (BU-108 – Formerly ME-120/4.0 CH) Today we are on alert for terrorist threats & we read daily about more business corruption. It seems we have more scandals & worries in our world than ever before. People are willing to risk nuclear war for land, power & riches. Refusing to live in peace, there are many who so easily see humanities differences & fail to see that the similarities between people are really much greater.  How can people believe that it is ok to deceive, steal, & cheat others in order to enhance their own personal wealth? The entire activity revolving around business is a web of relationships. It is the feeling of being treated well & experiencing a good service transaction. Tomorrow’s organizations can be spiritual, learning organizations.  In this 18-lesson course you will learn many of the values & principles of spirituality in today’s business world. It includes:  Spirituality Enhances Business Life; Freeing Business from the Abuses of Today’s System; Spirituality & Business: The Next Movement; Spirituality in Business can Increase Fun, Productivity, & Resiliency; Components of a Model for Workplace Spirituality; Spirituality & Ethics in Business; Corporate Responsibility & Ethical Management; Ethical Decision Making; Innovative Models of Business; Balancing Business & Spirituality; Spirituality & Profitability; A “New” Model of Management & Communication; Growing the Garden of Business; The “Feminine Spirit” in the Global Marketplace; Employee Rights; Love & Spirituality in the Workplace; Love, Meaning & the Whole Person in Business; People & the Environment; A New Paradigm – A New Hope for the Workplace.

MARKETING IN THE NEW AGE (BU-109 – Formerly ME-121/3.0 CH) Marketing is not sales. Sales is an element of marketing. But if your marketing is done right, you should never need to make another sales call. No more scrambling for work. No more wondering how the bills for next month will be paid. Marketing is the process of putting bait in the water to attract leads, & then putting your leads into a sifting & sorting system that will allow you to identify your most likely customers. This is how you transform yourself from being an annoying pest into a welcome guest in your prospect’s home. That’s marketing, not sales. Sales are the end result of your marketing. Be a marketer, not a salesperson. Study marketing. Live & breathe marketing. & your life will be so much more pleasant & lucrative. Marketing is your strategy, your roadmap. The customers & clients that will line up at your door & swamp your business are the result of careful planning & execution of your overall marketing strategy. This 11-lesson course will show you how to develop a very powerful marketing strategy that will work for any business, whether it’s a one-man or one-woman operation … or a large corporation. The course includes: Marketing – The true mission of all business; The Importance of Marketing; The Five Stages of Your Marketing Strategy;  “Niche” Marketing; Creating Marketing & Advertising that Attracts Customers; Promote like Crazy; The Power of Your Intentions & Goals; Why People Buy or Don’t Buy; Avoid the Price-Cutting Trap; Testimonials & Referrals; Generating Leads Other Than With Referrals; Using the Internet as a Home Based Business; Affiliate Marketing; Don’t Procrastinate – Start Now; Computer Based Home Business; Affiliate or Associate Program Marketing.

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Church Management and Administration Studies

MANAGING THE METAPHYSICAL SPIRITUAL CENTER (CM-100/4.0 Credit Hours): Ministers are faced with the question: What has been the toughest part of ministry? The answers are varied, but you can count on these: coming to terms with my ministry role; time management: choosing and accomplishing the important tasks; recruiting willing workers; enlisting the best qualified people for responsible positions. Certainly questions of faith, theology, spirit and metaphysics accompany these interests, but questions of leadership and management always come to the fore. No minister wants to just do the job; he or she wants to do it competently, responsibly, effectively. Included: The Minister as Manager, Leader, Administrator; Structure and Organization; Staying People Centered and Purpose Driven; Starting of a Successful Ministry; Overseeing Finances; Buildings and Grounds; Communicating With the Public; Training Potential Leaders; Overseeing Staff; Stewardship Development; Finding and Cultivating New Members; Fund Raising; Dealing with Volunteers. Also included in this inclusive course is: Job Descriptions, Media Plan, News Release, Public Service Announcements; The Budget and Audit Process; Attracting Newcomers; Membership Records and many more vital ingredients for a successful metaphysical/spiritual ministry.

USHERING AND GREETING IN THE SPIRITUAL CENTER (CM-101/0.5 CH - Mini-Course) (Formerly SA-105: How can ushers and greeters do their jobs more effectively? This important question confronts ministers each week. This 4 lesson mini-course will help ministers to develop and enhance their centers and congregations. It is written for both laypersons and clergy. It focuses on the skill of ushering and greeting and is meant to provide practical advice that will improve the services and fellowship in local spiritual centers. Included: A Warm, Friendly Feeling; The Visitor's First Impression; After the Service; Some Do's and Don'ts.

Critical Thinking Studies

A PRACTICAL APPROACH TO EXPANDING THE MIND (CT-100/5.0 CH) – Formerly SE-100: A 10 lesson course to help you to give your mind the environment it needs to grow more powerful. Core of this course is 5 lessons of exercises. Each lesson concentrates on a key area of mental skills: Flexibility, Memory, Analysis, Decision-making and Creativity. Each lesson consists of a psych-up to prepare you for the exercises, several exercises that can be performed and a mind-play section outlining mental games you can play based on the skills you have developed. Following each lesson, other exercises are listed, giving you alternative activities. Included is a training progress report for your continued information.

A METAPHYSICAL AND SPIRITUAL APPROACH TO THE POWER OF THOUGHT (CT-101/3.0 CH): This 18-lesson course covers many methods for the culture and nurture of thought-power. It also presents us with many useful suggestions that enable us to reach a region beyond the scope of thought and its power, a realm of transcendental experience and God-consciousness. This course will appeal to you as practical psychology, as metaphysics in the world of the phenomena of thought, as parapsychology, as esoteric wisdom, and help you build your future, gain your success in life, and acquire the power to manipulate thought and extract from it the extraordinary powers it holds. The course will also help you to attain refinement and culture by thought-discipline, use your capacity for releasing wholesome, constructive and inspiring thought-vibrations, obtain peace and happiness by accomplishing something great and grand and gain God-realization which is the meaning, aim, and ultimate destiny of human life. The course includes The physics and philosophy of thought-power; The laws and dynamics of thought-power; The uses and values of thought-power; The functions of thought-power; The development of thought-power; The varieties of thought; Positive methods for thought-control; Thought-culture patterns; From thoughts to thought-transcendence; The metaphysics of thought-power; God realization through thought-power; Thought-power for the new age.

JOURNALING FOR SPIRITUAL AND PHYSICAL HEALTH (CT-102/2.0 CH): The goal of journaling is to provide people with opportunities to explain their thinking about many ideas and then to re-examine their thoughts by reviewing their writing. Your journal can be viewed as a "working draft" that is always ready to be reviewed, refined and edited. Correct spelling and punctuation are secondary issues. When you write in your journal, you can reach in deep within yourself and be candid about your inner-thoughts and feelings. A journal can see you through difficult times. It is a treasure chest of creative ideas, personal-growth-insights, and history. Writing a journal can become a wonderful ritual that can add texture and meaning to your life. This course includes: Journaling: A tool for the spirit; Journaling methods; Journaling for health; Dialoguing; Lists and stream of consciousness; Clustering, captured moments and steppingstones; Time capsules and topics du jour; Unsent letters, perspectives, dreams and imagery; Journaling for the student; Graphic organizers; Brainstorming.

A NEW CONSCIOUSNESS FOR A NEW AGE (CT-103/2.5 CH): A new consciousness is upon us. We may call it a religious awakening, the New Age, collective enlightenment, the triumph of humanism, a paradigm shift, or the end of the world. Regardless of the name we give it, a new consciousness has arrived and is being felt everywhere, in countless different forms. To many people this change is deeply threatening, because it challenges beliefs which are at the core of their under standing of how life is. To others, however, the change is a long-awaited step in the evolution of humankind - An event which has been foreseen by visionaries for thousands of years. This ranges from comments on personal transformation and expanded perception, to speculations on spiritual matters and possibilities in the New Age. It touches psychic phenomena, healing, modern physics, meditation, and enlightenment. This 15-lesson course makes the basic assumption that we live in a congenial, sensible universe, where our birthright is one of freedom, love, and joy … if we will but awaken to these potentials. Course includes: Becoming Conscious; Plausible New Age Thoughts; Perceptions of the New Age; Science in the New Age; On the Horizons; New Age Imaginings.

THE METAPHYSICS OF SUCCESSFUL THINKING - VOLUME I (CT-104/ 2.0 CH): Success is determined not by the size of one's brain as it is by the size of one's thinking. The size of bank accounts, the size of happiness accounts, and the size of one's general satisfaction account is dependent on the size of one's thinking. All of us are products of the thinking around us. All around us is an environment that is trying to tug us, try-ing to pull us down Second Class Street. We are told almost daily that there is a surplus of chiefs, so be content to be a little guy. The simple steps we have set down in this two volume course are not untested theories. They are not one person's guesses and opinions. They are proven approaches to life's situations, and they are universally applicable steps that work and work like magic. This 14-lesson course includes Believing is succeeding; Do not make excuses; Building confidence and destroying fear; The size of your thinking determines success; Thinking and dreaming creatively; You are exactly what you think you are; Your environment help to build a better mind.

THE METAPHYSICS OF SUCCESSFUL THINKING - VOLUME II (CT-105/ 2.0 CH): The basic principles supporting this course come from the highest sources. Minds like the prophet David who wrote, "As one thinketh in his heart, so is he"; minds such as Emerson who said "Great men are those who see that thoughts rule the world"; minds like Milton who in Paradise Lost wrote, "The mind is its own place and in itself can make a heaven of hell or a hell of heaven." Perceptive minds like Shakespeare who observed "There is nothing either good or bad except that thinking makes it so". But how do we know the master thinkers were right? The proof comes from the lives of the select people around us who, through winning success, achievement, and happiness, prove that thinking success works magic. The techniques in this two volume course are not untested theories. They are proven approaches to life's situations, and they are universally applicable steps that work and work like magic. Included in this 13-lesson course: Your attitude should work for you; Success depends on the support of others; Use your thoughts to get results; Turning defeat into victory; Set your goals for success; Start thinking like a leader.

EXPANDING YOUR MIND POWER THROUGH MENTAL EXERCISE (CT-106/1.5 CH): Ancient cultures have concentrated on the study of the mind. The computer, the automobile, and all other great achievements started as an idea in somebody's mind. Unfortunately, most human misery also has their root in the mind. The wisdom of some of the brightest minds is concentrated into this 8-lesson crash course in mind power. The techniques described herein work like a charm. They are designed to put you in control of that 90% region of the mind that was off limits to most people. This course will give you a different attitude. It will turn you into the person that seems to "have all the luck." Only you know that luck has nothing to do with it. You're just using your brain (and all of it, too). Included The subconscious mind; The power of your mind; The body/mind connection; Getting rid of fear and worry; Taming your untamed mind; Developing your intuition; Training your intuition; Learn to relax; Ad-vanced déjà vu; Touching into your subconscious; Seeing yourself in a new light; Telepathy; Becoming one with the elements; Building up your defenses; The ethical use of mindpower.

IMPROVING YOUR STUDY SKILLS (CT-107/4.0 CH): Your success at CMS will be determined by the interaction of several factors. These factors include your aptitude, your motivation, and your study and test taking skills. The first factor, aptitude, should be of little concern. If you have made it this far in school, CMS should not present any major barrier unless the remaining two factors, motivation and study skills, are lacking in development. Your motivation to successfully complete your studies is something that you and you alone must develop and maintain. Your ability to perform the aforementioned tasks will improve with the time you spend with CMS but there is no reason to learn these skills "the hard way." This 6-lesson course will assist you to find some excellent guidelines to help you develop your study and test taking skills. You may not require assistance in all of the study skills areas but it can be to your benefit to spend a little time and read the entire course. Remember that you consciously choose the level of success you achieve in school and all other aspects of life. This course includes: Introduction to improving your study skills; Time management strategies for improving academic performance; Seven strategies for improving test performance; Increasing text book reading comprehension by using SQ3R; Strategies for improving concentration and memory; Study Skills Inventory; 23 detailed attachments to assist you in improving your study skills.

A METAPHYSICAL HANDBOOK FOR ENLIGHTENMENT THROUGH SELF-PROCESSING (CT-108/12.0 CH): This course is a tool kit for the seekers after truth, it is dedicated to making the techniques of Self-Processing available to everyone, it is a do-it-yourself workbook that can be studied and used by anybody at home, not only towards clearing themselves of abnormalities but also towards the development of advanced spiritual abilities. Through processing, you can rid yourself of your reactive mind, (that portion of a person’s mind which works on a totally stimulus-response basis, which is not under his or her volitional control or power of making a conscious decision and which exerts force and the power of command over his or her awareness, purposes, thoughts, body and actions) and the limitations it imposes. Our full potential can be realized. The potential is far higher than earlier practices and religions thought possible. The hardest road is the road that you walk alone. But the bridge that you build with your own hands is the most satisfying to walk upon. Here is a guidebook for those who would find their own way out of the trap. This is an introductory course in the sense that it will not assume that you have already engaged upon any particular course of study, but it is not really a beginner’s course. It will demand much of the reader and will pull no punches as far as introducing powerful and advanced concepts.  This course includes a great deal of mental exercises and techniques. The theories will be intertwined with practical actions to clear yourself of mental barriers and irregularities and to regain abilities, awareness, and recall of your past existence. It goes far beyond anything that is available today and it requires nothing but hard work on your part. Since it is a teaching tool, you yourself will be an expert in the field once you have finished it. This complete 49-lesson course includes: Rudiments and Self-Processing of the Ordinary Games of Existence; Introduction and Purpose; Beginning Steps; Reach and Withdraw; Thoughts, Emotions, and Attitudes; Subjective Processes; Study; Confronting the Past; Willingness and Accessibility; Communication Barriers;  More on Communications;  The Duplication Factor;  Exteriorization;  Help;  Change and No Change;  Protest;  Problems;  Must Have and Can’t Have;  Must Avoid and Can’t Get Rid Of;  Cause;  Overts, Motivators, and Withholds;  A Step Further Out;  Affinity, Reality, and Communication;  More on Upsets;  Trickery and False Data;  Suppression;  Justifications and Responsibility;  Repression;  Keeping Yourself Moving;  Incident Running;  Handling Loss;  Locations;  Advanced Incident Running;  Increasing Perception and Orientation;  Sources and Other Advanced Mechanics;  Entry Points;  Entry Into This Universe;  Universes;  Entities and Spiritual Fragments;  Energy;  Machinery;  Bodies;  Objects and Infinity;  Advanced Concepts;  Ethics, Morality, and the Dynamics;  Aesthetics;  The Upper Dynamics;  Postulates;  Next Steps.

RELIGION – THE CULTURAL BASIS FOR STUPIDITY (CT-109/1.0 CH): Culture is a means of behavioral organization by which some of the more advanced species learn to interact with their environments. As a cultural constant, in the case of humanity, stupidity is routinely transmitted from one generation to the next by the time-honored mechanism of the vicious cycle. Poorly adjusted children mature into maladjusted adults, and then using the same techniques their parents used on them to raise yet another generation of misinformed conformists or malcontented sociopaths. Whenever people hear the title of this course, the reaction is – a delayed smile and a nervous laugh – confirmation that we are dealing with a taboo topic. But, it seems that almost overnight stupidity has switched from taboo to fad. Some credit for this phenomenon is, in part, due to Forrest Gump and Beevis and Butthead. The focus of this 6-lesson course is not on the individual elements discussed – Religion, Ideology, Communication, Politics, Economics, Society, Technology, Art, etc – but on the way they work to produce a dysfunctional whole. Included: What do we mean by stupidity?; What do we mean by culture?; The “Church”; Educating the masses; Cultural systems; The human condition; Conclusions.

ESOTERIC TEACHINGS OF A CHRISTINE MASTER (EP-100 Revised/10.0 Credit Hours): A 42 lesson course that studies the meaning of the teachings the master metaphysician, Jesus The Christ shared with us & follows His edict to understand & live the Spirit of the Law rather than just obey the letter of it. An appreciation of Christine Philosophy enhances the quality of your own spiritual experience, whether you are a Christian, Jew, Hindu, Moslem, Buddhist or Metaphysician. This course is divided into 42 lessons. Following each series of lessons you will find Inner Focus Exercises each designed to assist you in understanding the Christine Philosophy. Course contains: Introduction to Metaphysics & the Christine Philosophy – Parts One & Two; Thought Power – Parts One & Two; Thought Power & the Beatitudes; Karma & the Three Selves – Parts One & Two; Levels of Consciousness & Thought Forms – Parts One & Two; The Etheric Plane – Parts One, Two & Three; The Astral Plane – Parts One, Two & Three; An Introduction to Spirit Phenomena – Parts One, Two & Three; Death & Dying – Parts One, Two & Three; The Law of Rebirth – Parts One, Two & Three; The Nature of Health & Disease – Parts One, Two & Three; Prayer – Parts One, Two & Three; The Metaphysics of Sleep & Dreams – Parts One, Two & Three; Esoteric Astrology & The Seven Rays – Parts One, Two & Three; The Seven Rays & Initiation – Parts One, Two & Three; The Cosmic Physical Plane & Masters of Wisdom – Parts One, Two & Three; Tables of Correspondences – The Seven Esoteric Rays.

INTRODUCTION TO THEOSOPHY (Mini-Course) (EP-105/0.5 CH): Theosophy covers all the great religions & philosophies of humanity. It is the light that shines through the many-colored lamp of religion. Its truths are based on the testimony of countless generations of initiated seers – handed down from generation to generation – affirming the possibility of direct knowledge of “things divine & eternal.” Included Birth of Theosophy; Cycles of Creation; human Destiny; Hidden Masters; Subtle Bodies; Theosophy today.

THE GODDESS – VIRGIN, MOTHER AND CRONE (EP-114/3.0 CH): This course is devoted to the discovery of God in the feminine form – the Goddess; the Divine Mother. Also included in this course are pages that explore many of the more common forms of the Goddess. The Divine Mother abides in the heart of every being. Where there is love, compassion & mercy, we see Her direct presence. Her abode is always the present moment. Both the creation stories in Genesis & in the Hindu Rig Veda begin with the idea of the formless, the void & the absolute. Then creation arose (or is continually arising) out of this. The Rig Veda describes this "arising" as a divine whim or play of the Supreme. The creation that occurs is Mother (Maya), the divine whim (Shakti or power) is also Mother & the absolute formless ground of being is, again, Mother. We can grab hold of Her skirt at any point along this timeless expression of the Divine &, if we hold on tightly, She will dispel our illusions and deliver us to the blissful and peaceful realization of Divine Truth. We invite you to examine the fascinating material in this 5-lesson course. Included: Maya; Goddess Forms are Many & Beautiful; Introduction to the Goddess; The Goddess, Virgin, Mother & Crone; The Cult of Magna Mater; Elements of Goddess Worship; Glossary of 432 Goddesses, Elementals & Feminine Mythological Figures.

ASTRAL & ETHERIC PROJECTION & OUT-OF-BODY EXPERIENCES (EP-115/6.5 CH): Astral projection is a type of out-of-body experience (OBE) in which the astral body leaves its other bodies & journeys to anywhere in the universe. In an ordinary OBE, such as remote viewing or the out-of-body near-death experience, there is a separation of a person's consciousness from his or her body. In the near-death out-of-body experience, there may be the experience of hovering above & perceiving one's body & environs, & hearing conversations of surgeons or rescue workers tinkering with one's body. Astral projection (or etheric projection) is the ability to separate one's consciousness from the confines of the physical body, enabling one to travel vast distances through time & space & then return safely. Every-time we sleep our astral-selves rise slightly out of line from the physical body the moment we lose consciousness & stays in this position until we awake. The purpose of this is to regain the energy lost during our waking hours & is a form of recharging. This comprehensive & easy to read 28-lesson course includes: Introduction & How to Use this Course; Astral Projection, Etheric Projection & Out-Of-Body Experiences; What is & Isn't astral projection; Questions & Answers on OBE’s; Sight During the OBE; Fundamental Truths of Astral Projection; A Beginner’s Guide to Astral Projection; Reality & the Mind; Your Subconscious Limiting Beliefs; The Mind During OBE’s; Mental Projection, Thought Control & Memory; Psychic Experiences; Sleep & Vibrations; Lucid Dreaming; The Seven Subtle Energy Planes of Existence; Astral Travel; How to Have an Out-Of-Body Experience; Top Astral Projection Mistakes; Additional Techniques; Miscellaneous Information; A Final Word; Glossary of OBE Words & Phrases; Additional OBE Exercises. The "exercise" sections throughout this course are designed to present exercises & pointers to readers who are interested in learning to have out-of-body experiences. The exercises will be simple in the early lessons & get more complicated in later lessons. You will also find additional exercises in Appendix 2.

Holistic Healing Arts Studies

HISTORY OF METAPHYSICAL AND SPIRITUAL HEALING (HA-100/3.0 Credit Hours - Revised): A 12 lesson course making available a wide variety of the historical evidence of Metaphysical & Spiritual Healing, and to point out certain broad and invariable principles that bear upon the healing practitioner of today. Includes: Introduction to Metaphysical & Spiritual Healing: The Beginning Of Metaphysical Healing; American Indian Medicine Man; Greek Healing Cults Of Aesculapius and Hippocrates; Healing And The Rise Of The Christian Church; Modern Healing Cults; Healing in the Aquarian Age.

THE SCIENCE OF COMPLIMENTARY HEALING (HA-102/5.0 Credit Hours Revised): We are placing in your hands the operation of a mighty force of Nature, you must do the rest. We point out the way; you must take the steps yourself. We open the door, but you must walk through it yourself. We ask you to acquaint yourself with each & every one of the several methods of healing discussed in this course, before you determine which you prefer to use. The wisest will take a little from each, rather than to tie himself down to any particular method or system. All are good, but some will be better for you than others. This 21-lesson course contains detailed explanations, methods, techniques and treatments needed by today's healing practitioner. Included in this 21-lesson course are:  Introduction to Complementary Healing; Natural Laws Pertaining to the Healing Arts; Pre-Requisites for Health; Metaphysical & Spiritual Healing; The Principles of Magnetic or Energy Healing; Developing Clearsight Skills; The Practice of Magnetic or Energy Healing; Healing Hands & Positions Explained & Illustrated; Rhythmic Breathing; Magnetic or Energy Healing Treatments; The Chakra system; Color & Chakra Healing; The Human Aura; Practice & Treatment of Color Healing; Thought-Force Healing; Suggestive Healing; Suggestive Treatments; Mental Healing; Healing With Psychic Energy; The Proper Use of Prayer; Scientific Prayer or Treatment; Glossary of Metaphysical, Spiritual and Complementary Healing Terms & Practicalities; The Principles & Laws of Complementary Healing.

A HOLISTIC APPROACH TO HEALTH THROUGH NUTRITION (HA-103/2.0 Credit Hours): Food and nutrition is a part of man's mineral, plant and animal surroundings, his geographical and biological environment. Nutrition is the way of harmoniously adapting ourselves to this environment as a part of these surroundings. This 10 lesson course contains Outer Ecology; Inner Ecology in the form of Diet and Health, Holistic Medicine and Aging; A Healthy Mind In A Healthy Body; What Causes Disease; Survival Through Nutrition; Toxins and Detoxification, Nutritional Weight Loss Through Food Combining; Supplementing Your Nutrition; Exercise and Play.

THE PRINCIPLES OF BIOFIELD HEALING (HA-104/14.0 Credit Hours): Often called energy healing or the laying on of hands, biofield therapeutics is an ancient healing practices. The technique of biofield healing has proved effective in treating various disorders, strengthening and quickening the body's own healing resources, and giving comfort to those with strongly resistant illness. The practitioner scans the patient's energy flow, replenishing it where necessary, and uses mental energy in the form of affirmation, prayer, and energy techniques to remove any negative thoughts concerning the illness thereby instilling positive energy vibrations to generally restore order and balance in the mind/body/spirit connection. This 360 page course of study has been compiled as a definitive text for healing practitioners for use as a formal curriculum, for both in-residence and distance-learning students. In this course you will learn how to recognize healing energy and how to use it for healing yourself as well as those around you. Included is Introduction to Bodyworks; Guided Imagery and Meditation; Holistic Healing; The Human and Universal Energy Fields; Developing Clearsight Skills; Developing Auric Sight; The Human Aura; The Chakra System; Individual Chakras in Depth; Healing Hands; Conducting the Healing Session and hundreds of exercises and healing treatments. (NOTE: This course includes large amounts of material from CMS courses IA-102, IA-106, HA-102 as well as a vast amount of additional information - please write for a complete course syllabus.)

SPIRITUAL MIND TREATMENT (HA-105/3.0CH) – Formerly SA-106: Spiritual mind treatment is a powerful tool that is used to improve the quality of life and enhance one’s spiritual development. Treatment is more than positive thinking. It is conscious use of spiritual power to transform the mind. Become aware of your unity with Infinite Divine Life, Love, Joy, Peace, Creativity, Intelligence and Abundance. This unity with Perfection already exists; it is really returning your consciousness to its natural spiritual state. Know with calm confidence that the specific good you seek is now unfolding from Divine Reality through the Law of Mind into experience. This 18-lesson course contains, in detail, the steps necessary for treatment work. They are simple, easy to understand and give definite suggestions on methods of treatment. Anyone willing to experiment with the material outlined herein, and willing to devote fifteen minutes a day to its practice will change themselves for the better. Students will find the Truth of themselves as they work with the ideas in this course. The Infinite Mind within will reveal to you the joy of correct mental work based upon Principles which never fail, for they are not of humanity, they are of God by means of humanity. Included: Introduction; Humanity’s Divine Nature; The Realization and Analytical Methods of Treatment; Affirmative Prayer; Treatment for Specific Conditions; Practical Aids; The Healing Consciousness; Treatment Worksheets and 60 sample Spiritual-Mind-Treatments for all occasions.

HEALING THROUGH INNER PEACE AND CONTENTMENT (HA-106/1.5 CH): It is to the quiet mind that healing can take place - you will see your weaknesses and the reasons for your distress and find the means whereby to rise to new spiritual heights, helping you to live up to your highest ideals. If you are ready, the light will shine in your life, removing all of the darkness, showing you the path to peace, health, and happiness. You can be anyone you want to be. All that is required of you is that you believe with all your heart that you are truly "one with God" and new doors will open all around you. This 9-lesson course includes: Introduction to mental and spiritual healing; Guided imagery and meditation; Elements of mental and spiritual healing and Achieving the necessary peace and contentment.

HEALING THROUGH EMOTIONAL AND MENTAL BALANCE (HA-107/1.0 CH): Any perfectly balanced machine runs more smoothly, uses less energy, and lasts longer than one which is out of balance. Our bodies are subject to the same principle. They wear out rapidly under friction, developing weaknesses which they would avoid if they were brought under the control of balanced emotions. This 5-lesson course is intended to point out those elements that make up the balanced personality so the individual can enjoy harmonious relations with others and with him/herself. This balanced harmony places us in a mental and emotional position where something larger, deeper, and more permanent can move into action, reproducing within us that which is forever in balance, thereby healing the illnesses caused by the friction of our former imbalance. We have seen this occur so often that we are convinced that there is a very definite Law of Healing. Anyone can use it. Included: Optimism; Balanced emotions; Imagination; Faith; The quiet mind.

THE SPIRITUAL APPROACH TO SELF-HEALING (HA-108/ 3.0 CH): There is a spirit within us, latent usually, but which may be quickened and made positive and dominant in our lives. Each of us is a co-creator, a child of God(dess). Everyone can learn to direct our natural Universal Healing Energy. It is simple, effortless and an automatic part of our being. Once we learn it we can teach others the simple techniques and basics. How skilled we choose to become is up to each of us. This 12-lesson course is a practical description of how to be consciously in charge of your health and wealth, both spiritually and physically. It includes: Love is the magical word; Scientific prayer; Self-healing; Healing others; The law of "Swings" or Rhythmic Growth; The realization of abundance; Healing your financial challenges; Understanding God(dess)'s will within each of us; Virtue and ethics; Walk your talk; Evolution and regeneration.

AN ESOTERIC APPROACH TO ENERGY AND THE HUMAN MIND (HA-109/1.5 CH): In this age of over specialization, with emphasis on chemistry, bacteriology, mechanical and surgical research, we have lost sight of the over-all picture of humanity as a living being. In this Aquarian energy field, ancient and modern science can meet. The present can be enriched by the experiences and understanding of the past. This 9-lesson course describes a rational therapy, with a wider range and a finer perspective of the actual energies operating in the body. The attention is directed to the finer energies in the body that constitute its breath of life, by which the soul functions in and through the body. The energy fields of the sensory and motor expressions, which are rivers of Life, must be used constructively in order to enter the One Life Center or Sun principle, out of which they flow and manifest as mind streams in order to relate consciousness to the world of matter. The object of this course is to establish an understanding of these underlying factors in the treatment of disease, from a finer energy standpoint, which embraces all branches of the healing arts. Included: Energy and the healing arts; Just what is energy?; The psychosomatic relationship of humanity with the universe; The mind and its origin; Prana; Principles of psychological practices and their effects on energy; Polarity in general; Mental and emotional therapy; Motor pain control technique.

INTRODUCTION TO POLARITY ENERGY BALANCING (HA-110/3.0 CH): This 17-lesson fully illustrated course is an introduction to polarity energy balancing. The polarity system is vast – like an unexplored continent or even a new branch of science. The purpose of this text is to introduce you to the polarity system, explore your healing potential, and to expand the boundaries within which we experience ourselves. This course is directly oriented for the layperson and the healing practitioner. It lays out and explains in simple language and illustrations the vital skills of the holistic natural health care system. Lessons 1 through 9 describes a rational therapy, with a wider range and a finer perspective of the actual energies operating in the body. Lessons 10 through 17 are devoted to the qualities necessary in a healing practitioner and how to conduct a healing session. The course includes: Introduction to polarity; One-to-one polarity; Polarity positions; Specific moves; The polarity circle; Natural healing with life-force; Positive qualities of a healing practitioner; Interaction between practitioner and client; Conducting the polarity energy balancing session; Ending the polarity energy balancing session; Nutrition; In conclusion.

CAN THE MIND REALLY HEAL? (HA-111/3.0 CH): One of life's constants is that change is inevitable. The universe reminds us to expand our vision beyond ourselves to see the bigger picture, so we can better appreciate that every circumstance, whether it's positive or negative, serves as an opportunity to strengthen our Spirit. As we approach this new day in treatment, have you done any reflecting & house cleaning of your mind or your body? Within each one of us is the capacity to create our own healing sanctuary. We all have the ability to use our minds help heal our physical, emotional, mental, & spiritual illnesses. This course touches into the work of such healing luminaries as: Swiss Nobel Laureate Dr. Walter R. Hess, Dr. Herbert Benson, David E. Bresler, Ph.D., Dr. C. Normal Shealy, Dr. Gerald Jampolsky, Dr. Bernard S. Siegel, Kenneth R. Pelletier, Ph.D., Harry Krop, Ph.D., E;lizabeth Daubert, R.N., Wendy Beall and many others. This 15-lesson investigative study of the mind/body connection in healing includes: Letting Go Of the Old; Psycho-Neuroimmunology; Overcoming Pain with Imagery; Attitudinal Healing; Self-Induced Healing; The Will to Live; Changing Our Minds for Healthier bodies; Helping Others to Heal Themselves.

THE SCIENTIFIC BASIS OF ENERGY HEALING (HA-112/3.0 CH): We live in a sea of energy. Radios, televisions, cellular phones, and wireless computer networks operate on unseen energy waves. Our bodies also operate within a human energy field. In an era when science is excelling in taking apart the cell, even to the genetic level, many are drawn to expand a way from the smallest parts to embrace a holistic approach to healing. People are discovering that they are capable of moving the energy within and around their bodies. They do this because they feel better, think better, and it improves their health. The fundamental rule in treating the body energetically is in treating the whole individual, taking into account experiences and environment. Every identifiable system in the body must be kept in balance, internally and externally to promote proper health and functionality. This 19-lesson course includes: Introduction to energy healing; Common elements of healing techniques; Scientific support for energy healing; The psysio-emotional link; Energy exercises; The energy healing session; 21 energy healings techniques: Energy; Hands of Light: Hands-on; Healing in the way of God; Healing Touch; Hucha Mikhuy; Jin Shin Jyutsu; Joy’s Way; Ju|’hoansi healing dance; Kahuna; Native American; Pranic; QiGong; Quantum Touch; Reiki; SHEN; Therapeutic Touch, Australian Aboriginal healing; Quantum consciousness and energy balancing; Auric or magnetic healing; Thoughts and the human energy field; The non-physical bodies.

ENERGY AND ALTERNATIVE HEALING FOR ANIMALS (HA-113/1.5 CH): Every day wherever Western ideologies are in place, little babies, disabled children, delinquents, old people, sick people, and animals are being treated with dominance reduction and behaviorism. We still give and withhold privileges to helpless individuals and animals. Through a change in consciousness, those who wish to heal can learn to change their reality and become a “healer”. If you have an animal whose behavior or temperament needs improving, if you are caring for an older animal that's in pain, if you want injuries and surgery to heal more quickly, then you can use this course in energy and alternative healing for Animals. The simple techniques used in this 9-lesson course can calm animals, alleviate their pains fears, and tensions and deepen the bond between you and your companion animal. The course includes: The Harmony Program; Attention seeking behavior; Therapeutic Touch; Healing with love; Healing with intention; Positive thinking and prayer; Animal EFT; Communicating with your animals; Spiritual significance of non-human wisdom; Bach Flower Essence for animals.

THE SCIENTIFIC AND RELIGIOUS BASIS OF SPIRITUAL HEALING (HA-114/4.0 CH): Scientific studies demonstrate that individuals who participate in organized religion are healthier and live longer. Religion promotes health through social mechanisms and something called spiritual healing. Spiritual healing contributes to a sense of well-being through a mysterious force called life-force energy. The aim is to help the person to get in closer touch with the infinite wisdom of their body/mind and to make best use of the resources available for healing from within. The question is, what is it and why does it work? Today there is a growing interest in, awareness of, and knowledge about spiritual healing. Physicists and other scientists are beginning to put together a body of information showing the validity of what the spiritual teachers have taught all along. This 20-lesson course, investigates the scientific and religious basis for spiritual healing and the many modalities used by the worlds religions and belief systems. Perhaps the life-force energy referred to by medical and spiritual traditions throughout history represents the answer. Is it the energy referred to as prana in India and Tibet, mana by the Polynesians, Yesad in the Jewish Kabalistic tradition, qi in oriental medicine, the Christian Holy Spirit or the cosmic unity of the Shaman? Included: Has science found God; The science of prayer and healing; Psychology and spiritual healing; Psychotherapy; Spiritual healing and Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Shamanism, Hinduism, Buddhism (including Ayurveda healing, Pranic healing and Yoga).

THE METAPHYSICS OF SPIRITUAL HEALING (HA-115/2.5 CH): Spiritual awakening is actually experiencing the unlimited source of love, peace and abundance. But most people do not know how to achieve this or they are convinced these realities are beyond their abilities. The only difference between those who are spiritually enlightened and those who are not is the decision to think outside the normal realm. Open your mind to the fact that there may be forces at work in this universe that may or may not be beyond our human comprehension. By embracing our own divinity, we can regain our power and lose the feeling of separation. The simple fact is, behind it all is ONE underlying truth, ONE principle, ONE energy. Our greatest individuating human characteristic, the gift of free will or choice. Do you choose to experience fear or love? It is a choice that only YOU can make. If this resonates with you, next comes the big question. Now what? When you experience these truths, you own them. The next step is to incorporate these experiences into your life. That is when YOUR reality will change. Included in this 14-lesson course: Spirituality and Spiritual Healing; Metaphysics or Metaphysical Healing; Religious and Spiritual Confusion; Who are We?; Form follows Thought; The Over-self; Spiritual Science and Psychics; Healing yourself and others; The Laws of Nature; We Live in a Material World; Never Say Die; Metaphysical Healing – Supplemental Thoughts.

HUNA – THE INTEGRATION OF MIND, BODY AND SPIRIT (HA-130/3.5 CH): Huna is a Hawaiian word meaning “the secret science behind the miracles” that was being practiced in the islands by the Kahuna’s. Spirits walked. Healings were being done. Weather was being controlled. There were practitioners who could call fish to the shore. Telepathic messages were being sent and received. Huna is primarily an experience rather than an intellectual pursuit though all aspects of self and reality are honored and harmonized the mind the body and the spirit are given equal weight and harmonizing the three selves is of major importance in Huna. It is a powerful and transforming system of practices, teachings, philosophy, energy work, magic and more. Huna is not a religion; it is a remarkably freeing experience that expresses itself in every moment and action of life with great joy. The psychological insights alone are among the most complete, effective and profound existing on this planet today .Practicing Huna can lead to a great joy and emotional strength and an awareness of the nurturing nature of the Earth. Huna practice can lead to an amazing experience of wholeness and connection that becomes your most natural state of mind and awareness. As humanity evolves in the dramatic beginnings of the "New Age" we will all become able to connect with the spiritual realities and formerly hidden information at will. If you have found your way here you are meant to be here. Included in this fascinating material 17-lesson course. What is Huna; The Kahuna Code; The Fundamentals of Huna; The Seven Vital Elements; The Three Selves; Mana and Our AKA Bodies; Complexes, Guilt and Stress; Clearing the Path through Prayer; Kahuna Healing Techniques; Huna Prayer and Meditation Forms; The Aloha Spirit; In Conclusion; Glossary of Hawaiian Words and Phrases.

Reiki – The Usui Shiki Ryoho Energy Healing System (HA-131/7.0 CH): NOTE: The successful completion of this course will give the student seven (7) semester credit hours but will, in no way, indicate ReikI certification by The College of Metaphysical Studies or The New Awareness Ministries, International. If you open any newspaper or magazine with an “alternative health” section, you will find an advertisement for a Reiki practitioner or Master. Reiki is a form of spiritual practice developed by Mikao Usui in early 20th century Japan where he received the ability of 'healing without energy depletion' after three weeks of fasting & meditating. It is only recently that Western practitioners have had the opportunity to learn about Reiki's origins & techniques. The way that Reiki has been presented & taught in the West is very different from what Reiki was supposed to have been. The word Reiki is made of two Japanese words – Rei, which means “God's Wisdom or the Higher Power” & Ki, which is “life force energy”. So Reiki is actually “spiritually guided life force energy”. Reiki treats the whole person including body, emotions, mind & spirit & creates many beneficial effects including relaxation & feelings of peace, security & well-being. The basis of the original Usui method is to combine three activities that work together to produce startling abilities: daily energy exercises, intuitive techniques & regular spiritual empowerments. Students practice an intuitive technique called “Reiji Ho” which allows the Reiki energy to guide their hands into unique combinations of hand positions – different for each person treated. Only when the student had developed the ability to potentially diagnose disease based on their intuition, or the sensitivity in their hands, would they be allowed to progress beyond the beginner's level. This 34-lesson course is a comprehensive study of the Usui Shiki Ryoho Energy Healing System. It presents Reiki in a way that is unique & contradicts much of what we know of as mainstream, Western Reiki. If you would like a practical, non-complicated Reiki system that can work for anyone & contains more accurate information than those following the “mass-dose” watered down, quick-fix Reiki, this course is for you. It contains: Reiki – The Usui Shiki Ryoho Energy Healing System; The Spiritual Medicine of Many Illnesses; Reiki Level I – First Degree Reiki Practitioner; Reiki Level II – Second Degree Reiki Practitioner; Reiki Level III – Third Degree Reiki Master Practitioner; Reiki Ryoho – Shoden – Level One; Reiki Ryoho – Okuden (2nd Teaching) – Level Two; Reiki Ryoho – Shinpiden (2nd Teaching) – Level Three; Additional Practices in Using Reiki; Usui Tibetan Reiki – Level IIIA; Usui Tibetan Reiki – Level IIIB; Karuna Ki – The Way of Compassion; Closing Comments. Attachments: Reiki Words & Terms; Levels I, II & III Training Exercises.

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Natural Healing Arts Studies

Note: Nothing in these courses should be construed as diagnosing, prescribing or treating disease. They are presented for education only. We must legally warn you that if you are ill, have any disease, are pregnant or nursing; you should consult your medical doctor before attempting any natural or herbal program.

INTRODUCTION TO NATURAL HEALING (HA-116/2.5 CH): Even though chemical drugs that relieve symptoms appear to be a cure, the underlying cause of illness is not addressed. Patients are not asked to change the faults in their lifestyle that created their condition. Since the cause of the disease is not dealt with, the condition continues to grow and flourish within them, often unnoticed. But eventually it resurfaces with a vengeance. Drugs chemically alter cells, tissues, organs, and the normal function of your body, making it appear to function normally, when it is actually still sick. While this deception is going on you appear to be healthy while all the time your condition worsens, grows, and eventually kills you. Our bodies are composed of around one hundred trillion cells. Each cell has a blueprint for the whole organism; the form and function that each new cell will have. This is determined by a field of spirit or intelligence that is working backstage behind the physical cells. This is called innate intelligence. Innate intelligence (or Higher Power) is the real "doctor." Only our bodies can heal, and they do it continually. No human can do what the body does on an ongoing basis. This is "natural healing." Included in this 13 lesson course: Frequently asked questions; Why use Natural Healing therapies; 155 Natural and Alternative healing modalities; The Ideology of Natural Healing; 6 lessons of Natural Health and Wellness; 3 lessons of The Human Body and symptoms of dis-ease. The course also contains a glossary of over 1,500 Natural and Alternative healing words and phrases.

NATURAL HEALING - BODY, MIND AND SPIRIT (HA-117/3.5 CH): The natural healing arts have been with us for ages, and can often be very powerful - the natural approach is the opposite of ordinary medicine. Ordinary medicine is invasive. It treats the body as a mechanical system with parts which can be poisoned, removed, or replaced if they malfunction. Natural approaches restore vitality so that the body can heal itself through its own healing resources. It is a non-medical, non-invasive approach to healing. The cause of healing is always due to a personal strengthening and normalizing caused by changing the internal environment, physically, energetically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually - an increase in life forces. The natural approach starts there. When the whole person is restored to balance health challenges disappear because their cause is removed. The human mind, body and soul are designed to be self healing. The natural, holistic approach teaches us how to cooperate with that process, and gives us powerful, positive, and natural ways to take care of our health. This 18-lesson course includes: Make health your priority; Alternative health; Holistic Medicine; Working with the mind; Miracles or madness; Healing techniques for the mind; Attention deficit disorder and hyperactivity; Thirty-two keys to good health; Pranic Healing; Healing the Soul; The Search for the Holy Grail; Quantum Healing.

A GUIDE TO NATURAL HEALING - VOLUME I (HA-118/3.0 CH): This is volume I of a three volume series of courses. This series was created to introduce a common-sense guide to how anyone can easily achieve wellness and improve their personal health with prevention and healthy lifestyles through the natural therapy of Natural Healing. The three courses in this series are an information resource for attaining and maintaining a healthy lifestyle. They are about promoting wellness and personal health through the natural therapies of eating a healthy diet, taking nutritional supplements, reaping the benefits of exercise, and having a healthy attitude and resilience in your life. This 9-lesson course investigates the following natural healing modalities: Acupuncture, Aromatherapy, Ayurveda, Biofeedback, Bodywork - Massage and Healing Touch, Chelation, Chinese Medicine, Chiropractic, and Detoxification.

A GUIDE TO NATURAL HEALING - VOLUME II (HA-119/3.0 CH): This is volume II of a three volume series of courses. Natural Healing is an eclectic self-care system of natural therapies that builds and restores health by working with the natural recuperative powers of the human body. The purpose of this and the other two courses in this series is to promote personal health and fitness. Get started today with the healing therapies of Natural Healing. Encouraging wellness and healthy living through instruction, is what this series of courses is all about. These courses will guide you to good personal health and fitness through the natural therapies of a healthy diet, nutritional supplements, the benefits of exercise, and having a healthy attitude and resilience in your life. This 7-lesson course investigates the following natural healing modalities: Expressive Art Therapies, Fasting, Flower Essence, Guided Imagery, Iridology, Meditation, Affirmation and Visualization, and Mind/Body Medicine.

A GUIDE TO NATURAL HEALING - VOLUME III (HA-120/3.0 CH): This is volume III of a three volume series of courses. The many modalities of Natural Healing will present a refreshing realistic perspective on what you need to do to promote wellness and improve your own personal health. Evidence-based health information is presented on how to achieve wellness and improve personal health. In short, these courses contain all the information anyone needs to achieve wellness and improve their personal health through the practice of prevention and healthy lifestyles. Natural Healing has nothing to do with magic or mysticism. Its historical development closely parallels that of Western medicine up until the last couple of hundred years. It has a strong scientific basis, just like any other natural philosophy has by definition. This 6-lesson course investigates the following natural healing modalities: Music and Wellness, Osteopathy, Prayer and Visualization, QiGong and Taiji, Rebirthing, and Yoga.

NATURAL HEALING - AROMATHERAPY (HA-121/5.0 CH): Aromatherapy is an ancient form of healing. The uniqueness of Aromatherapy is attributed to pure essential oils derived from plants, flowers, trees, herbs and resins used to balance the body, mind and spirit in massage, inhalations and other methods. Aromatherapy is a way of allowing the person to assume more responsibility for his/her own body, health and well-being. This 23-lesson course provides a comprehensive, up-to-date overview of the aromatherapy field, and covers its scientific basis using a holistic framework. It is designed for holistic health practitioners who wish to incorporate aromatherapy into their practice and students who wish to investigate this wonderful modality. Aromatherapy can treat emotional and physical conditions and there are recipes for blending oils and treating many everyday conditions included in the course. Once you have learned the simple techniques, and the soothing properties of the oils and fragrances you will be able to benefit from what they have to offer. The course includes: Aromatherapy potpourri - The basics of Aromatherapy; A History of fragrance; Application techniques; The Chakra system and Astrology; Essential Oils; Carrier and Macerated Oils; Warnings and cautions; Therapeutic properties; Aromatherapy for women, romance and stress; Aromatherapy uses and blends - bath - beauty - massage; Color and other Aromatherapy uses and blends; Aromatherapy for women (other uses); Aromatherapy for men and sports buffs; Aromatherapy for children; Aromatherapy for senior citizens; Aromatherapy for general ailments; Aromatherapy for the body's system; Aromatic Oils and Incense. The course also includes an Aromatherapy Materia Medica and a complete glossary of words and phrases used in Aromatherapy.

NATURAL HEALING - HERBAL MEDICINE (HA-122/15.0 CH): The world of herbal medicine offers a wide range of applications and treatments on several different levels, ranging from everyday over-the-counter remedies for more symptomatic relief of minor ailments, to individualized prescriptions prepared specifically for patients after in depth consultation with a qualified medical herbalist. Certainly herbs have their place as self-help for minor infections, coughs, colds, catarrh, stomach upsets, indigestion, constipation and so on. The wealth of information that abounds today about herbs is enabling people to make increasingly informed decisions about the specific remedies they choose to self-administer. Those who are attracted to trying herbal medicine in one form or another are often people with a respect for the miraculous world of nature, or they may simply be referred to a remedy or a practitioner by personal recommendation. It is interesting that as gardening continues to be one of the most popular leisure pursuits in this country, even if as a city dweller one only has a patio, balcony or window box, people are increasingly growing herbs. Fascinated not only by their attractive shapes and colors, delicious tastes and often wonderful scents, there is something that people find about growing or being among herbs in the garden that has a subtle healing effect of its own. Just try gazing at a rose and see what happens! This 13-lesson course includes: Part I: Is Herbal Medicine Safe?; Using Herbs Simply and Safely; The History of Herbal Medicine; Herbal Tinctures; Guidelines for Using Essential Oils with Herbs; Growing up on Chemicals - Our Children's Toxic environment; Herbal Medicine for Children; Herbal Dentistry and Periodontal Care; Administering Herbal Treatment, Part II contains 36 specific health problems and Herbal Treatments. Part III contains a comprehensive Herbal Materia Medica and a glossary of words and phrases used in Herbal Medicine.

NATURAL HEALING - HOMEOPATHY (HA-123/8.0 CH): Homeopathy is a system of medicine that views symptoms as the body's attempt to fight infection and/or adapt to stress. Symptoms are viewed as the "language" of disease, rather than seen as separate entities to be suppressed. Homeopaths work WITH these symptoms rather than against them by seeking a remedy which imitates the body's symptoms, thereby stimulating the natural immune response. Homeopathy is based on the Law of Similars, or the principle that "like cures like." That is to say, a substance that in large amounts causes certain symptoms in a healthy individual can be used in small amounts to cure those symptoms in a sick individual. Homeopathic medicines are made from plant, mineral, and some animal substances and they ARE NOT the same as herbal remedies. Homeopathic remedies must undergo a prescribed series of dilutions and succusions (agitations) to arrive at a certain potency. The potency used in any disease picture depends on many factors, including duration and severity of symptoms, the level of disease and the patient's energy level or life force. Homeopathic remedies are approved for over the counter sales and are available at most health food stores in low potencies. This 10-lesson course is divided into three parts. Part one consists of Introduction to Homeopathy; Modern Homeopathic Medicine; Understanding Homeopathy; Homeopathic Antidoting; Homeopathic Treatment; Common Homeopathic Medicines; Common Homeopathic Remedies. Part two contains 29 Specific Health programs from A.I.D.S. to woman's health challenges. In part three we have included a detailed Homeopathy Materia Medica and a glossary of Homeopathic words and terms.

NATURAL HEALING - HOMEOPATHY FOR CHILDREN (HA-124/5.5 CH): Homeopathy is becoming very popular for treating a wide range of children's illnesses. Parents are frequently finding conventional medicine failing to treat their child's illness. Homeopathy should be considered as a gentle and safe system of healing that encourages the body to heal itself without causing addiction or toxicity. A homeopathic remedy contains a high energized but dilute substance that stimulates the body's own healing centre, activating defense systems to drive out the illness. It redresses balance to the body boosting the immune system and a person's general well being too. Emotional disorders such as autism, hyperactivity, grief, anxiety and depression can also be successfully treated with homeopathy as well as behavioral problems such as temper tantrums, bullying and physical behavior. One of the main advantages of choosing homeopathy is that it boosts the child's immune system reducing the risk of future illnesses. This then decreases the requirement for further antibiotics, which also affects the immune system. Part I of this 9-Lesson course includes: Questions and answers concerning Homeopathy for Children; Homeopathy - A Natural for Children; Why Homeopathy for Kids?; Homeopathic Medicine in General; Antidoting; Homeopathy for Childhood Illnesses; The Role of the Parent or Caregiver. Part II consists of 25 specific health problems for children and Part III is a Homeopathic Homeopathy Materia Medica and a glossary of Homeopathic words and terms.

NATURAL HEALING - NATUROPATHY (HA-125/13.0 CH): In different times, every civilization has used naturopathy to cure ailments, disorders and diseases. All forms of alternate systems of medicine derived their growth from naturopathy. It has developed into a regular science and now many thousands of people in many countries are being benefited by it. Naturopathy is a system of therapy and treatment that relies exclusively on natural remedies, such as sunlight, air, water, supplemented with diet and therapies like massage. It is based on the belief that the body will repair itself and recover from illness if it is in a healthy environment. Naturopaths have many remedies and recommendations for creating a healthy environment so the body can heal itself. Moreover, allopathy medicines have their harmful after effects so it is wiser to try other methods, which do not harm the patient. A person suffering from a disease wants to be rid of the malady. The desire to fight disease is at the root of all systems of medicine, which promise cures. But people use drugs and medicine indiscriminately without regard to their harmful effects at the cost of permanent injury. Naturopaths are not discouraged if the process of healing is prolonged because they know that the healing aggravation would intercede and quicken the pace of healing. They never interfere with the aggravation through the medium of drugs. Part I of this 9-Lesson course includes: Nature's Healing Power; The History of Natural Medicine; Naturopathy - Yoga and Exercise; Finding a qualified Naturopathic Practitioner; Politics and Naturopathic Medicine. Part II consists of 51 Naturopathic Remedies from Addiction to Weight Loss and Part III contains a Naturopathic-Homeopathic Materia Medica and