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Dear CIHS Community Members,
It was rainy and cold the first week of February in Southern California. I hope everyone in our community is doing well, despite the crazy weather we had. We hosted our New Year's Gathering on January 22 with about 60 people. It was fun and a great party. There were many students, old, new, and alumni, and it was a great combination for all of our students so that they can meet and exchange information.
Dr. Hope Umansky announces some important CIHS updates, in particular about our Summer Faculty Research Symposium July 9 and 10, 2016. Additionally, Dr. Timothy Laporte, Program Director for Comparative Religion and Philosophy department, greets the community with some updates on his program and current practice, after his six months in India. Our program focuses on integration of academics and spirituality derived from Dr. Hiroshi Motoyama's visions, which Dr. Laporte called a "Scholar-Practitioner" model. Our annual yoga workshop is a great opportunity to experience this integration. Dr. Laporte and I are attending this workshop, so I hope you are joining us to experience one aspect of CIHS. It is being held April 23 & 24. Also, there are some CIHS event announcements including Advanced Integrative Therapy mid March and the Advanced Thinker's Consortium group that is held on campus. Please see the details of those events in the articles below. If you are interested in CIHS or have questions about any of our programs, please visit our website ( www.cihs.edu) or directly contact Dr. Hope Umansky (hope_umansky@cihs.edu) for any assistance. If you would like to visit our campus and discuss our exciting and unique graduate programs and research opportunities in person, we will be happy to schedule a time. We welcome all like-minded inquires for graduate school, research, and/or workshop opportunities. Have a wonderful February.
Sincerely,
Hideki Baba, Ph.D.
Hideki_Baba@cihs.edu
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Message from the Dean
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Dear CIHS,
Happy Winter! My article will be brief in this respite of Winter quarter and with Dr. Laporte's article. We will be announcing the Spring quarter courses in March. Spring quarter begins April 4. Summer quarter begins July 4, and the CIHS Summer Faculty Research Symposium will be held on campus July 9-10. This is open to students and non-students, although the model will be a student-practitioner model for all attending the conference (Thank you, Dr. Laporte). This means that if you are a nonstudent, a certificate will be provided for your attendance and participation. Students will be able to receive either two or four units depending on the level of inquiry they choose to follow.
Please save the date to join us for this intimate and dynamic look into the personal research lives of CIHS faculty. I am sure you may have had classes with some or all of the faculty presenting, but you may be totally unaware of their personal pioneering research in the field of consciousness studies, integral health, and integral psychology. More on the conference is below and will be forthcoming in the next month or two. Please save the date July 9 and 10, 2016 on campus. I look forward to seeing all of our students there and many of our community members.
If you have questions about your program or CIHS' academic graduate degrees (BIS completion, too), please do not hesitate to email or call me. I am always happy to discuss your path and how it may intersect with CIHS' innovative degree programs.
Sincerely,
Hope Umansky, PhD
CIHS Faculty Research Symposium
July 9 & 10, 2016
Please join the outstanding faculty of the California Institute for Human Science for a weekend research symposium that will feature the contributions of CIHS faculty to issues and research directed at the cutting edge of integral consciousness and subtle energy research.
Many CIHS faculty are actively engaged in independent, pioneering research at the forefront of these fields, and we are excited to devote this summer's conference to their projects and contributions. The conference will be held Saturday, July 9, and Sunday, July 10, in the main lecture hall on our beautiful Encinitas campus. Students are encouraged to attend and really take the opportunity to see the dynamic research lives of your faculty that falls outside of coursework parameters. There will be an option for students to earn 2 or 4 credit units in association with the event. Community members may attend and will earn a Certificate of Completion from CIHS, which can be used for CEU's, or simply another certificate demonstrating advanced training. CIHS' Faculty Summer Research Symposium will be another outstanding event in our ongoing series of subtle energy conferences, and we hope you will join our community for this engaging weekend that will broaden your mind, nourish your spirit, and stimulate your intellect as we continue to push the boundaries in the great 21st century work of integrating science and spirituality. We hope to see you July 9 and 10, 2016. More information will be available soon and on our website.
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Message from the Director
of Comparative Religion and Philosophy Program
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Reflections on the Scholar-Practitioner Ideal
Greetings CIHS Community, I am happy to return to Encinitas and CIHS after spending the fall quarter deepening my study and practice of Yoga in India. For the last three years, I was fortunate to have the opportunity to take one quarter off per year to deepen my practice and study of yoga. For me, the two to three months that I take out of my annual schedule for yoga study are a sacred time. It is there that I remember that the key to holistic education lies less in the accumulation of knowledge than it does in the application of what has been learned. In India, my days start early-sometimes as early as 2am-and are followed by several hours of yoga asana, meditation, and chanting. After continuing this regimen for 60 to 90 days, I feel my powers of concentration, focus, inner calm and creativity growing stronger, while the distractions of external world begin to fade. It is then that promise of integral education becomes most apparent: philosophy and practice become one, and intellect is married with action. Those of us who have been associated with CIHS for some time are still mourning the recent passing of Dr. Motoyama. I think it is always a useful exercise in our work at CIHS-whether we are students, faculty, or administration-to step back for a moment and to consider Dr. Motoyama's vision for establishing this Institute. The mission of CIHS is expressed above all in the Institute's 8 Principles, but I would submit that there is an underlying ideal associated with the principles that can be encapsulated in the phrase, "scholar-practitioner." The "scholar-practitioner" ideal emphasizes that those of us who teach and work and study at CIHS are called to integrate both academics and spirituality. Dr. Motoyama embodied this ideal in his own life through his work as both a priest and a philosopher, as a yogi and as a scientist. One of the goals of CIHS is that those of us who study and teach here will become effective "scholar-practitioners" in our right. Embracing the scholar-practitioner ideal ensures that our efforts are devoted in equal parts to intellectual refinement and spiritual/personal development. In this way, theory never runs too far ahead of experience, nor does spirituality take off without any intellectual checks and balances. As we work toward this balance, we become more inwardly integrated, psychologically stable, and better able to make a positive contribution to the world around us. In this spirit, I encourage you in this New Year to make an effort toward embodying the scholar-practitioner ideal. Study hard, yes, but also strive to deepen your spirituality, hone your craft, and further your personal growth. As we work in this direction, I am sure that CIHS students and faculty will continue to provide much needed healing and inspiration for our culture and society at large. Best wishes to all, Tim Laporte, PhD |
CIHS Annual Yoga Workshop 2016
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Takeshima, Paul & Suzee Grilley
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Sahasrara Chakra Workshop Description
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.
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Advanced Integrative Therapy Workshop, March 18, 19, & 20, on campus
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open to CIHS graduate students and community members in the nursing or psychotherapeutic fields.
Advanced Integrative Therapy (AIT) combines depth psychology, trauma treatment, cognitive therapy, and energy psychology into one elegantly woven system for the healing of mind, body and spirit, while honoring the sacredness of lifešs journey.
The three day Basics course introduces, explains and trains participants in the foundations of Advanced Integrative Therapy theory and methodology. This is achieved through lecture, demonstration and small group participation. Step-by-step ready-made protocols are learned and applied in a supervised practice setting.
By the end of three days participants will be able to treat originating traumas, and resulting lifelong repetitive painful emotions and behaviors. They will be able to convert negative core beliefs and desires into healthy beliefs, instill and develop positive qualities and develop effective strategies for compassionate self-care.
This course is open to licensed psychotherapists (MD, LCSW, MFT, MHP, LPC, and Clinical Psychologists) as well as graduate students studying to become psychotherapists.
Learn how to:
- Implement AIT into your practice immediately with ready-to-use, step-by-step protocols.
- Heal old wounds with new tools.
- Achieve faster healing at deeper levels.
- Move your clients from surviving to thriving, quickly and effectively.
- Convert self-sabotage into compassionate self-care.
- Re-awaken your dream of psychotherapy as a healing art.
The course presenters (Mary Clark, Ph.D., Victoria Danzig, LCSW, and Enid Singer, Ph.D.) are certified instructors and master practitioners in Advanced Integrative Therapy. They have been teaching AIT at CIHS since 2005.
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Dr. Motoyama's New Publication
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"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.
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Advanced Thinker's Consortium
March 31, 2016
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