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January/2016

Dear CIHS Community Members,

 
Happy New Year. I hope all of you had a wonderful holiday and New Year.
 
The first issue of 2016 has several announcements. The first is about our Holiday Gathering/Open House on Friday, January 22 from 5:30.pm-7: 30 pm. It is a great opportunity for prospective students and anyone who is curious about experiencing the CIHS community. Everyone is welcome to attend, but it is a potluck so please RSVP to Tamiko at [email protected] 
 
In the second article, Dr. Hope Umansky announces a couple new events in 2016 including the CIHS annual 2016 Integral Sciences & Biofield Research Symposium with CIHS faculty. Please save the date for this event: July 8, July 9, and July 10. 
 
The third article details CIHS' annual yoga workshop, facilitated by Mr. Takeshima and Paul & Suzee Grilley. It will be held on campus the weekend of April 23 & 24, 2016. The fee schedule is finalized, so please see the announcement below or visit our website. The workshop outline is below for review. You can register for academic credit for this workshop (it fulfills half of your spiritual education requirement), and it is open to all community members as well. It is now open to online registration, so please go to our website. The yoga workshop fills up quickly so be sure to register promptly.
 
CIHS' Winter quarter began last week. CIHS offers unique courses and graduate programs of study (BA completion, too). Please contact our program director, Dr. Hope Umansky ([email protected]), if you have any questions or are interested in applying for Spring or Summer quarter. All like minds are welcome.
 
 
Sincerely,
 
 
Hideki Baba, Ph.D. 
 [email protected]
 
CIHS Annual Holiday Gathering/Open House
You are invited!

The California Institute for Human Science would like to invite you, your family, and friends to the CIHS Annual Holiday Gathering. This year we are going to have a potluck party! Let's have a wonderful time by meeting faculty, classmates, friends, and neighbors. Feel free to bring someone you know who may be interested in our unique graduate school and research center, or you may pass the invitation along to them. Everyone is welcome to our community event. We kindly ask you to RSVP to Tamiko at [email protected] by Friday, January 15, at 8 am.
 
Date:       Friday, January 22
Time:       5.30 pm. ~ 7.30 pm
Location:    California Institute for Human Science
             701 Garden View Ct.    Encinitas, CA 92024
RSVP:       By Monday, January 15
760.634.1771x101 or [email protected]
 
Please bring food accordance with the chart below if it's feasible.
 
Your Last Name
begins with
Food Category
A~D
Appetizers
E~I
Salads and/or fruit
J~O
Vegetarian entrees
P~U
Dinner entrees
V~Z
Dessert
 
Please let Tamiko know what you plan on bringing and how many guests will be attending with you.
 
We look forward to seeing you there! Happy New Year!
 
Sincerely,
CIHS Staff
 

 
Integral Sciences & Biofield  Research
Summer Symposium 2016
Save the Date:
July 8 5 pm- 8pm, July 9 & 10, 2016, 9am-6pm
Details to Follow in February



 
Message from the Dean


Happy New Year, CIHS Community.
 
I hope everyone's 2016 and Winter quarter is off to a good start. We are in Week 2 of Winter quarter and time moves quickly. If you have interest in our wonderful innovative programs, please come to the Holiday Gathering/Open House Friday, January 22. It is a fantastic opportunity to meet the community, students, alumni, and faculty in a casual, no pressure setting (there is no pressure anywhere at CIHS is there? Maybe for papers.) :) I would love to see you there. If you are a prospective student, please come and introduce yourself to me. It will be a great chance to experience what the community has to offer.
 
The Invitation:
 
The California Institute for Human Science would like to invite you, your family, and friends to the CIHS Annual Holiday Gathering. This year we are going to have a potluck party! Let's have a wonderful time by meeting faculty, classmates, friends, and neighbors. Feel free to bring someone you know who may be interested in our unique graduate school and research center, or you may pass the invitation along to them. Everyone is welcome to our community event. We kindly ask you to RSVP to Tamiko at [email protected] by Friday, January 15, at 8 am.
 
Date: Friday, January 22
Time: 5.30 pm. ~ 7.30 pm
Location:California Institute for Human Science
701 Garden View Ct.      
Encinitas, CA 92024
RSVP:  By Monday, January 15
               760.634.1771x101 or [email protected]
 
Please bring food accordance with the chart below if it's feasible.
 
Your Last Name
begins with
Food Category
A~D
Appetizers
E~I
Salads and/or fruit
J~O
Vegetarian entrees
P~U
Dinner entrees
V~Z
Dessert
 
Please let Tamiko know what you plan on bringing and how many guests will be attending with you. You can email her at [email protected]
 
Secondly, we are busy preparing for our annual subtle energy conference, July 8, 9, and 10, 2016. It will be structured in a new innovative way. We will be announcing details soon, but it will involve more audience/student participation, and it will be structured more as a Symposium. It will be a special day, and I hope you the save the date to join us. It will be about the CIHS community research that our faculty is actively engaged in, and deep interaction will be encouraged.
 
If you have any questions about how CIHS' programs can support your spiritual, academic, and professional evolution, please do not hesitate to contact me at [email protected]
 
Meeting with prospective students is one of the best parts of my position, regardless of what path you may end up taking. CIHS is proudly a non-profit school and feel we can best serve our students by helping them find the right path for them. I hope to hear from you.
 

Sincerely,

Hope


 
 
CIHS Annual Yoga Workshop 2016
with
Takeshima, Paul & Suzee Grilley

Sahasrara Chakra Workshop Description

 
  Takeshima_Paul

The Sahasrara Chakra is located in the top of the head and is said to correspond to the cerebral cortex in the physical dimension. In acupuncture theory, this chakra corresponds to Hyakue point (GV 20). When this chakra is activated, you feel several types of sensations such as tingling, stinging, tearing, piercing, or sticking out.
 
This chakra is also called the "Brahman gate." When it is purified and begins to be awakened, our mind will be freed from our body and we will transcend our existence as a human being. As a result, we will be liberated from our karma and we will be able to encounter and communicate with higher spiritual beings or gods. In order for us to attain this state of being, we need to detach from ourselves by learning to view ourselves objectively from the outside. This requires that we reflect upon ourselves ceaselessly. Otherwise, it is extremely difficult to open the Brahman gate in the higher dimensions.
 
When our soul is free from the physical dimension, "we" will enter a state where everything is in us and we are in everything, which is called, nyuga ganyu (入我我入"[the Buddha] is entering into me and I am entering into [the Buddha]" )

Please visit the website for fee schedule, workshop schedule, etc.
 
 


 

 Dr. Motoyama's New Publication 
 "The World of Religious Experiences"   
 

 

We are pleased to announce Dr. Motoyama's new publication.  

 

Dr. Motoyama had his eighty-eighth birthday celebration on December 2013 in Japan, and as one of the commemoration projects of his birthday, we published The World of Religious Experiences in English.  

 

The World of Religious Experiences is a collection of articles written by Dr. Hiroshi Motoyama from about 1955 until the beginning of 1960. The articles were first brought together for the purposes of his doctoral dissertation, and for which he received his Doctor of Literature degree (philosophy, electrophysiology) in March 1962. In 1963, the articles were published together as a book under the title, The World of Religious Experiences, which was Dr. Motoyama's first book length publication.

 

 

Through these articles, Dr. Motoyama has tried to research into the existence the characteristics of religious experiences with metaphysical-ontological elucidation and statistical analysis of electrophysiological experiments based upon his own religious experiences. This collection of research articles is the foundation of the "Motoyama Philosophy." The articles clarify that the world of religious experiences are a true world, which sincerely relates to the basis of human existence. This insight comes from the integration of his deepened religious practices and physiological-physical-experimental studies.

 

We believe that it is very meaningful to have this publication, the foundation of "Motoyama Philosophy," available to the world in time for his eighty-eighth birthday.

 

This book is now available in the CIHS online bookstore.
https://www.cihs.edu/index.php/shop/

 

 

Advanced Thinker's Consortium  
January 29th, 2016


 


Call for Paper

 
From Dr. Sharon Mijares, an academic call for papers for a conference. We hope you will consider submitting or getting involved with this association that supports consciousness studies:
 
I love this group and have been a member for years. Stanley Krippner is also a regular presenter.
 
Call for Papers
Theme: Wisdom sits in places: Place, Space,
and Consciousness
Society for the Anthropology of Consciousness
 
36th Annual Conference - March 31 - April 2, 2016
at University Place hotel and Conference Center
310 SW Lincoln Street, Portland, OR 97201
 
The Society for the Anthropology of Consciousness (SAC) is an interdisciplinary academic organization dedicated to the study of consciousness phenomena in cultures around the world. A section of the American Anthropological Association (AAA), SAC members utilize cross-cultural, experimental, experiential, and theoretical approaches to study consciousness.
 
For more information for submitting proposals: http://www.sacaaa.org/sacannual.html