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Dear CIHS Community Members,
CIHS' June newsletter has several articles detailing our exciting summer events. First, there is announcement from our Dean, Dr. Hope Umansky, about the Summer course schedule. Registration week is June 17 to 21. CIHS students must register during this week to receive the discounted rate per unit. After this week, tuition is at the regular rate.
We are also excited to introduce a new course taught by Dr. Sharon Mijares, being offered this Summer quarter. Her article details her new course, "Ecopsychology/Ecofeminism,"as well as its objectives and the nature of the subject. Dr. Mijares is a prolific author of about 10 books, and she is very well known in this field speaking all over the world. Dr. Mijares has been very important to the school's academic programs, and she has been teaching regularly with CIHS for seven years. She is also a licensed clinical psychologist. We are thrilled to offer this new course, and it should offer a new perspective on Ecopsychology/Ecofeminism. We are fortunate to have her as core faculty, and we hope you will take advantage of this new course, open to all programs.
The third announcement is about a workshop facilitated by CIHS alum and former administrator, Dr. Richard Jelusich, and his colleague, Miguel Angel Vergara Calleros, entitled "Return to the Sacredness of Maya Oneness."This workshop will be offered at CIHS in July and in Calgary, Canada in July. If you are interested in this workshop, please see the article below and check their flyer and website for more information.
Lastly, registration for our annual conference, "Uniting Science & Spirit: The Quest for a Sustainable Integrated Worldview" is still going on and space is limited so please register as soon as possible. The early registration rate expires June 30. This year, the preeminence of our speakers, who are all forefront pioneers in subtle energy studies/science, is unparalleled. Also, the abstracts of the conference speakers are posted on our Facebook page. Please check our page. http://www.facebook.com/cihs.edu
I hope you enjoy our newsletter. If you have any questions or comments, please feel free to contact me at Hideki_Baba@cihs.edu
Sincerely,
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Message from the Dean:
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Dear CIHS community, Happy June! The Summer conference is rapidly approaching and we are getting very excited. We will be welcoming 14 new students to the CIHS community in July. All of them have diverse experiences and expertise, and we are very happy to have them join us. The speakers are all amazing in the subtle energy science/research field, and as a new keynote, along with previous favorites, Dr. Tiller, Dr. Rubik, and Dr. Swanson, we are welcoming Dr. Gary Schwartz. In particular, he is very well known for his work with the University of Arizona's Laboratory for Advances in Consciousness and Health and for designing groundbreaking double blind studies on mediumship. All of the speakers are distinguished pioneers in the field, and the topics are cutting-edge. We are honored to feature such speakers as Tiffany Barsotti, M.Th., Drs. Paul Mills, Shamini Jain, Robert Alcorn, Shin Lin, Kamyar Hedayat, and Thomas Brophy. I hope you will be join us for a fabulous weekend of innovative research, inspiration, and community. The weekend is designed to be an immersion type conference into our community, and all the meals are catered. Please come to see what it is like to be amidst like-minds, whether you are a student or just interested in the content. It's that time again: Summer registration begins June 17-21. Courses begin July 8. Please email or call me if you have any questions about what courses you should be taking. To register, go to the home page and click on the left hand-side tab that says, Registration. Ultimately, your course decisions are up to you. I can only guide you. However, I am here to help support you, so please utilize me. If you want to attend the conference and earn academic credit, students must register for it as an academic class - 2 units. It is under my direction, and there will be a paper assignment issued. If you want to bring like-minded friends, they are welcome: The more, the merrier. However, they have to register as an outside guest, since they will not be taking it for academic credit. This is a great opportunity to become connected with your student and larger community. If you are a current student seeking academic advisement, please let me know if you would like to come and meet with me in person or set up a telephone appointment. You can also email me, and I am happy to get back to you that way, too. If you are a prospective student, I am happy to set up a time to meet with you and discuss whether our unique programs can support your growth toward your goals. I am really looking forward to connecting with the students and the entire CIHS community in July at the conference. I can always be reached at Hope_Umansky@cihs.edu See you in July! Sincerely,
Hope The Summer courses are the following: Subtle Energy Devices, Dr. Chevalier, lab component, & Dr. Hope Umansky, academic online component). The lab component will be meeting Tuesday, July 16, Wednesday, July 17, and Thursday, July 18 from 1-6 pm on campus. Dr. Gaetan Chevalier will be teaching the lab component and I will be doing the assignment component. This course is open to all Integral Health students. If you are in another program and want to take this course, please email me and we will discuss whether you have room for this as an elective. Psychopathology/Psychopathogenesis, Dr. Roger Cavnaugh, online/hybrid. Clinical Psychology, licensure track. Integral Psychology and Integral Health students may take it, too. Human Sexuality (b): Advanced Concepts in Healing and Consciousness-(no prerequisite). Dr. Michelle Dexter. Open to all Integral Health, Integral Psychology, Clinical Psychology students. Online/Hybrid class. Ecopsychology/Ecofeminism. Dr. Sharon Mijares, online. This is open to all Integral Psychology, Clinical Psychology (as an elective), Integral Health, and Comparative Religion and Philosophy classes. This is a newly revised course, and for more information on it, please see the article in the newsletter. Judaism. Dr. David Forman-Barzilai. Online. Comparative Religion and Philosophy. Paradigms of Health and Disease, Dr. Mali Burgess, online. Integral Health core. Open to all Integral Psychology, Clinical Psychology students. Quantum Concepts in Biology and Consciousness. Dr. Thomas Brophy, on campus. Open to all Integral Health and Integral Psychology Topic of Special Interest. Uniting Science & Spirit: the Quest for a Sustainable Integrated Worldview, 2 (2.5) units. Dr. Hope Umansky. On Campus July 19 (campus opens at 3 on Friday with subtle energy device exhibit) Lectures/Dinner start at 5:30) Through Sunday July 21, 5:30 pm finish. Dissertation sequence, Topic, Methodology, Dissertation 1, and Dissertation II. Dr. Thomas Brophy or Dr. Hope Umansky and your committee members. Hope Umansky, PhD Hope_Umansky@cihs.edu |
Ecopsychology/Ecofeminism
The Psychology of Gender and Nature
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by Sharon G. Mijares, Ph.D.
This course is being offered in the Summer quarter for Integral Psychology, Integral Health, Comparative Religion and Philosophy students (Clinical Psychology program students as well might want to take this course as an elective). The quarter begins July 8, 2013.
Nature is a teacher! Ancient and modern Shamans live in a relationship with the natural world. In fact, ancient and indigenous peoples have been far more attuned to nature than are the modern inhabitants controlling much of what takes place on this planet. Indigenous peoples sensed subtle changes in the environment because of this attunement. They have been able to live in harmony with the elements and forms within nature. Indigenous people also recognized the dangers of ignoring our responsibilities for living in harmony with all of nature. There is a Cree prophesy saying that,
When all the trees have been cut down,
when all the animals have been hunted,
when all the waters are polluted,
when all the air is unsafe to breathe,
only then will you discover you cannot eat money.
A healthy future is dependent upon a human reconnection with nature. Yet, despite this knowledge--for there is plenty of evidence supporting its importance--the majority of our thoughts, behaviors, technologies, and even meditations, continue to disconnect us from nature. The effects of this imbalance are around and within us.
The religious historian Geoffrey Parrinder wrote about a time when ancient Greek mythologies spoke about a splitting of heaven and earth. He noted how "the marriage of Sky and Earth secured fertility...[but] cosmologies tell of the forcing apart of Sky and Earth, who [were] regarded as united in sexual union..." (1971, pp. 147-155). Parrinder was speaking about the beginning of the human emphasis on rationalization and what would become a growing disregard for the power and beauty of what was around us in our natural environment. It also represented the beginning of a patriarchal ideology that separated gender-relegating the female to be subordinate to the male. Cognition became more important than our senses and feeling through the body. The masculine took a dominant stance over the feminine. We lost the connection with the natural world.
As we lost the capacity for walking in harmony with the earth-we misplaced much of our capacity for guidance through nature. Given the increasing numbers of dying species, diminishing forests and health problems, it is obvious that we need more positive ways of living-ways that contribute to and sustain life.
This course is also about discovering ways to first attune to and be guided by a connection with nature, and then to let that guidance lead us to find a healthy balance in our lives. It allows for engagement in positive political change and renewing ideas about what it means to be a citizen in this world. Ecofeminism emphasizes the necessity of engaging in green politics and gender equality in that it emphasizes the relationship of feminine and nature. In order to reconnect with the feminine, we also need to learn how to listen to our bodies and form a more sensitive relationship to the consciousness of Mother Earth.
Ecofeminism emphasizes choices that do not exploit and/or destroy life, and that contribute to sustainability. This also means returning to a felt relationship with the life cycles, similar to our ancient past while refining technological choices. This field unites environmentalists with feminism. The movement toward sustainable communities is a movement toward a more peaceful world. A healthy psychology that includes the body, nature and a sustainable environment are equally emphasized in order to protect and recreate a healthy world for all life.
Integral Psychology, Integral Health, Comparative Religion and Philosophy along with Clinical Psychology students are invited to participate in this new course.
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Subtle Energy Conference
July19-21, 2013
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CIHS' Annual Conference,
Uniting Science & Spirit: the Quest for a Sustainable Integrated Worldview of Consciousness and Matter
CIHS is pleased to announce our annual Conference, Uniting Science & Spirit: the Quest for a Sustainable Integrated Worldview of Consciousness and Matter, July 19-21
, on CIHS' beautiful Encinitas campus. We will be welcoming back many, such as Drs. Bill Tiller, Claude Swanson, Beverly Rubik, and Shin Lin, as well as welcoming new speakers into our community such as Drs. Gary Schwartz, Thomas Brophy, Shamini Jain, Robert Alcorn, MD, and Kamyar Hedayat, MD, to name a few. In honor of Dr. Motoyama's life work dedicated to the integration of science and spirituality, we will be a decidedly maverick and academically rigorous group; we promise the conference will invigorate your thoughts, research, and practice, as CIHS continues to push the frontiers of science and spirituality. CIHS' annual conference is a wonderful way to experience the CIHS community - students, faculty, administration, staff, and people from the larger science, spirit and subtle energy communities -- at one of CIHS' most dynamic and lively events. In addition to the lectures and community fellowship, CIHS will be hosting a Welcome to the Conference Dinner, continental breakfast both days, and a catered lunch on Saturday. CIHS will also provide healthy snacks throughout the weekend. We hope you will join us for the lectures, food, fun, and subtle energy community fellowship.
Academic credit will be available to students for attending this conference (Please speak to Dr. Hope Umansky.)
Registration costs include all events, plus Friday evening dinner, continental breakfast Saturday and Sunday, Saturday Paella lunch, and healthy snacks.
* There will be a preconference Experiential Exhibit and Meet-and-Greet Friday afternoon, July 19.
If you are interested in participating in this as an exhibit, please contact Tamiko at admin@cihs.edu
Displays can stay active throughout the weekend.
Registration costs include all events, plus Friday evening dinner, continental breakfast Saturday and Sunday, Saturday Paella lunch, and healthy snacks.
Pre-registration event $325 through 6/25/2013
Regular rate $365 after 6/25/2013
At-the-door without reservation, $395
Academic credit available to students. Please speak to Hope.
CIHS alumni and student discount available.
Friday, July 19
3-5:30 Registration, Meet-and-Greet, & Preconference Experiential Exhibit
6-7 Dinner hosted by CIHS
7:00-7:15 Hope Umansky, PhD, Welcome
7:15-8:15/30 Tiffany Barsotti, M.Th. Conference Launch, What exactly is the Subconscious Mind and Why do we need Self Integration before Group Integration?
Saturday, July 20
8:30 continental breakfast hosted by CIHS
9am -12 pm Bill Tiller, PhD, introduced by Nisha Manek, MD
Global Intention Broadcasting, Information Medicine and the Maitreya Buddha Relics Experiments
12-1 Paella lunch hosted by CIHS
1:15-2:15 Paul Mills, PhD. Desperately seeking solutions: The promises and failures of biomedical research
2:30-3:30 Shamini Jain, PhD., Biofield therapies in whole-person healing:surveying the sceintific landscape.
3:45-4:45 Robert Alcorn, MD., Removing spirit attachment: a psychiatrist looks at hidden causes for mental health problems.
5 pm- 6 pm Beverly Rubik, PhD
Toward an Integrative Science of Life. I would like to focus on elements of an extended life science that we are working toward, which would embrace more aspects of life and the full human potential for health, healing, and evolution, and also address the necessity of such a science as a foundation of integrative medicine.
Sunday, July 21
9 am-10:30 am Gary Schwartz, PhD.,The Greatest Transformation: How the Science of Immortality Changes Everything
10:45-1145 Claude Swanson, PhD., Recent Advances in Torsion Science and Its Connection to Energy Medicine
11:45-1:30 pm Lunch off campus
1:45-2:45 Shin Lin, PhD., Mechanism of the Benefits of Tai Chi/Qigong on Mind-Body Health and Relationship to the Actions of Traditional Chinese Medical Therapies
3 pm - 4pm Kamyar Hedayat, MD., Endobiogeny: A new approach to biology, physiology and the human experience
4:15-5:15 Thomas Brophy, PhD., Critical Realist Theory of Science
5:15-5:30 Goodbyes Hope Umansky, PhD., Goodbye 'til Next Year!
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Step Into The Light
"Return to the Sacredness of Maya Oneness"
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We are being called - the time is now.
with Miguel Angel Vergara Calleros & Dr. Richard Jelusich
at CIHS
July 11th - 14th, 2013
We find ourselves in an extremely imbalanced world - a world we created unconsciously. This is the point in time the Mayan Calendars predicted. Upon completing a huge cycle of evolution we are now standing together at a precipice. Because we are connected in oneness, we all affect and are being affected by the energies of our universe. It is the time of the Sacred Feminine and the time to balance with the Sacred Masculine.
Now is the time to confront our destiny and accept that we are participants in creating the world we live in. As co-creators our thoughts and actions are deciding what the future will be.
To be conscious is to be present at the quality of the moment. The purpose of this Workshop is the activation of our consciousness to bring forth a world community of balance, beauty, light, love, and harmony. Working with the Ancient Wisdom of the Maya, Miguel Angel Vergara will help us raise our consciousness through teachings, ceremonies, meditations, and specific practices, including how to use the energies of the Tzolkin and Haab Calendars.
The Mayan Calendars and Prophecies have important messages and information for us as we enter the Golden Age and pass through this time of great transformation. Join us for this special event!
For more information, please visit Dr. Jelusich's Site from here or view the flyer (about instructors, schedule, fees and registration).
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