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Dear CIHS Community Members,
CIHS' first quarter of the year ends in the next few weeks, and Spring quarter will start April 4. Please note that registration week for Spring quarter begins March 21 and runs through March 25.
In CIHS' March newsletter, Dr. Hope Umansky announces our Spring course schedule. Along with many other courses, this Spring quarter we are offering "Psychology of Chakras," by Dr. Michelle Dexter, and "Diagnosis in Clinical Psychology," by Dr. Roger Cavnaugh. (Please see below for their articles). If you are interested in CIHS or have questions about any of our courses or programs, please visit our website (www.cihs.edu) or directly contact Dr. Hope Umansky (hope_umansky@cihs.edu) for any assistance.
Additionally, Dr. Thomas Brophy introduces his new role at CIHS.
Also the CIHS Summer Faculty Research Symposium is announced. It will be held on campus July 9-10, 2016.This is open to students and non-students, although the model will be a student-practitioner model for all attending the conference. We are very excited about this event; please mark this event in your calendar.
CIHS' very popular annual yoga workshop, Sahasrara Chakra Awakening Workshop, is scheduled for April 23 & 24, and the deadline for early registration is April 1. It is on CIHS' campus. If you are interested in joining us and attending the workshop, please register online (https://www.cihs.edu/index.php/events/) or feel free to contact me (hideki_baba@cihs.edu) if you have any questions. Space is limited so please contact us soon. We hope to see you there!
Sincerely,
Hideki Baba, Ph.D.
Hideki_Baba@cihs.edu
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Faculty Research Symposium:
Subtle Energy & the Integral Sciences
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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.
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Message from the Dean
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Dear CIHS Community,
Happy El Nino!
CIHS is happy to welcome Dr. Thomas Brophy into his new role as Executive Dean. He will have a more active role in supporting all aspects of student advisement, curriculum development, and developing the Integral Health program, as well as all the other school programs, developments, and business matters. Congratulations, Dr. Brophy. This is yet another positive adaption to have a more cohesive and broad-reaching academic structure to support you, the student who is always our first priority, as we move through the accreditation process Phase I.
Spring Quarter registration is March 21-25. The Spring quarter beings April 4. Your prompt registration is appreciated so faculty and administration can prepare materials, course assignment planning, content, etc.
Pranic Healing I, II, and III, Dr. Mary Clark, on campus. *Fulfills spiritual education requirement.
Sahasrara Chakra Awakening, Paul Grilley and Mr. Takeshima, on campus. *Fulfills 2 units spiritual education requirement
Counseling and Communication Skills, Dr. Aganov, *CIHS core requirement.
Spiritual Coaching, Dr. Tamara Goldsby *may be taken in lieu of Counseling and Communication skills for Integral Health and Comparative Religion and Philosophy students.
Diagnosis in Clinical Psychology/Psychodiagnosis and its Treatment
, Dr. Cavnaugh. *Highly recommended for all Clinical Psychology licensure students.
Advanced Quantitative Research Methods, Dr. Ron Strader. *Required for PhD students, except CRP or in some special cases were another research class is more compatible with your program. Approval from the Dean is necessary to opt out of this class at the PhD level.
Psychoacoustics, Dr. Ji Hyang Padma, elective open to all programs. This is a very important class if you are an Integral Health student or on an Integral Psychology track.
Topic of Special Interest: Forefront Concepts of the Mind-Body Problem, Dr. Thomas Brophy, open to all programs and all levels.
Paradigms of Health and Disease. Dr. Mali Burgess. Requirement for IH, PhD level. May be taken as spiritual education requirement for Clinical Psych PhD with program director's approval. Open as an elective to all other degree programs.
Psychology of the Chakras, Dr. Michelle Dexter. *Elective open to all programs.
Karma, Reincarnation and the Survival of Consciousness, TBD. *Fulfills spiritual education requirement.
Sociocultural Interventions & Strategies, Dr. Sharon Mijares. *Highly recommended for all Clinical Psychology students for licensure. Open to all other programs as an elective.
Faculty Research Symposium, July 9 and 10, 2016, collaborative faculty. 2 or 4 unit option. In this symposium-course, CIHS faculty will present in dialectical seminar style, their research within the general theme of "applications and directions at the leading edge of consciousness and subtle energies research". This can be taken as either A: a 2 quarter unit course, consisting of full attendance plus a reflection paper, as per degree standards for your program; or B: a 4 unit course consisting of the requirements for (A) plus a substantive research paper including peer reviewed literature, further investigating at least three of the faculty presentations, in an integrated approach.
Ultimately, ensuring that you have the right classes for your program is the student's responsibility. Additionally, Dr. Brophy and I are always here to help advise you on what may best suit your needs and passions, while also fulfilling degree requirements. Please do not hesitate to contact either of us with a question or advisement need. We are here to support and guide you.
We placed the Summer Faculty Research Symposium in this course schedule, July 9 and July 10, as it may require some planning and travel arrangements on your part. It will be on the Summer course schedule too for additional registration. Your participation in this great event where you get a glimpse behind the curtain of CIHS faculty and, additionally, are able to interface dynamically in a symposium setting is a fantastic opportunity. It will help model how research is conducted in the "real world," presentation methods, and you will have the chance to really question and probe deeply into their research methodology. We also made a 2 or 4 unit option depending on the level of depth the student desires. It is going to be a really fun, interactive event where the community will come together in strength and pride of all of CIHS' faculty accomplishments. I look forward to seeing many of you there.
If you have any questions about how CIHS can support your professional, academic, and/or spiritual interests, please do not hesitate to call me. I am available to you via phone, email, or by making an appointment to come in and see me. I can be reached at Hope_Umansky@cihs.edu
Sincerely,
Hope
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Thomas Brophy Self-Introduces
his New Role at CIHS
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Hello CIHS Community. This article is to re-introduce myself and my new role. I will recap some highlights of my interactions with CIHS founder Dr. Hiroshi Motoyama, and weave that together with my development as a researcher-scholar-educator.
Early in 1995, I read an interview of Dr. Motoyama in an esoteric spiritual magazine, wherein he was describing his research integrating the spiritual and scientific worldviews. That resonated deeply with the approach I was taking in a book I was drafting at the time (later published as The Mechanism Demands a Mysticism: An Exploration of Spirit, Matter and Physics). I immediately wrote Dr. Motoyama a letter to that effect. He very kindly replied, suggesting I could visit him in Tokyo, to discuss the matter.
Three to five years previous, I had been working in Tokyo as a NSF-JSPS special international exchange research fellow at the University of Tokyo (Department of Earth and Planetary Physics - Chikkyu Butsuri Gakubu for the Japanese speakers), and so fortuitously it happened I had reason to be again in Tokyo and visit Dr. Motoyama. I was escorted into a conference room by a very austere man of Samurai ancestry, who tape recorded everything. The meeting with Motoyama Sensei was charming, wonderful and profound. Along with scientific-philosophical issues, I asked him about a problem I was having from long term meditation practices, of being over-energized in certain ways. He gave me excellent advice, that later resolved the issue. Not long thereafter, he invited me back to a month long extended stay at the institute in Tokyo on a program he called the Motoyama-Bentov fellowship, named after his friend Itzhak Bentov, physicist and author of the book Stalking the Wild Pendulum: On the Mechanics of Consciousness. (Which fellowship was associated with Mankind Research Unlimited, as well as Motoyama's IARP institute.) The austere Samurai fellow turned out to be the founding financial officer of CIHS and still current (though outgoing) CFO and vice president, and my friend Dr. Masatsune Sato (I wonder if the tapes of that 1995 meeting still exist).
Back to how I came to be doing planetary physics at the University of Tokyo, that followed upon work with NASA spacecraft projects in the US and my doctoral work in planetary science. And the opportunity to be in Tokyo allowed me to deepen Zen practice at temples in the area. The research interests that connected me and Dr. Motoyama in that meeting were fundamentally the physics of how things happen, and whether that can be related to psychospiritual growth and the subtle energetics of human beings. That interest motivated his invention of the AMI device Apparatus for Meridian Identification, and that shared fundamental interest (generalized as the mind-body problem, or consciousness-matter problem) remained a connection over the many years I had the pleasure of interacting with Dr. Motoyama. It is also central to the mission and principles on which CIHS was founded. And it even informs my later research in an area that might seem separate - archaeoastronomy, which I call "integral archaeoastronomy" because my approach allows for the possibility (perhaps by mechanisms yet unknown) that the physical cosmos might interact with the mechanisms beneath the psychospiritual development of humankind.
Following after the Motoyama-Bentov Fellowship, which involved regular morning meditations with Motoyama Sensei at the Tamamitsu Jinja shrine, along with science research, he invited me to consult on research and academic activities at the young institute CIHS, then invited me here as Dean. I transitioned from my job at the time in the telecommunications industry in Denver, moved to Encinitas and was Dean from 1997-2000. During that time, the first building 701 Gardenview was completed and the second building 741 Gardenview was constructed. And CIHS started to martial its first effort toward WASC accreditation, but it was a sort of wild-west era for the nascent institute and really not feasible at the time. In 2000 I moved over to an adjunct professor and consultant role, remaining regularly connected to the institute and Dr. Motoyama, but also focusing more on my own research, eventually publishing three more books and academic articles on archaeoastronomy, and also Integral Theory. About five years ago, Dr. Hope Umansky asked me to be involved on a more regular basis, which I have been doing as Integral Sciences Consultant. And this month I am starting a new role as Executive Dean and Integral Health and Sciences Director. This role involves more active student advisement, curriculum and faculty development, research oversight, and integrated strategic planning, as well as helping with the current WASC effort, which is making exciting progress about which Dr. Umansky will probably be discussing soon.
Finally, in the wake of Dr. Motoyama's passing, I note that he saw the duty of CIHS to be advancing his evolutionary vision for humanity, to continue to spread to the hearts and minds of men and women, by operating according to the principles and mission on which he founded CIHS, engraved on the plaque at the front of the institute, as a whole integral paradigm for understanding and evolving humankind's existence in Reality.
Most importantly, I encourage all students to meet or communicate with me whenever you would like.
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Spring Course Announcemnet
"Discovering the Secrets of the Chakras"
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Michelle Dexter, Psy.D., NLPCC
It's no secret that we live in a world plagued with many challenges-pollution, political corruption, mental illness, drug abuse and addiction--just to name a few. As the adage "as above, so below, so within, so without" teaches us, what affects us globally also affects us locally, so our global problems impact our own private struggles. Anodea Judith, a renowned spiritual teacher, and expert on chakras, teaches that humanity is at a rite of passage. Chakras, or subtle energy centers, are manifestations of consciousness. Humanity has climbed from the first/root chakra of the energy of survival of the species, through the second/sacral chakra of energy of sexuality, and is now focused on power and control, which helps to explain how we got into this global bind in the first place. Therefore, as humanity is climbing from a nexus of power, being stuck in our collective third/solar plexus chakra, where we love power rather than expressing the power of love, our global task at this time is to move into the fourth/heart chakra where we can embrace love, claim our tools, and co-create a new reality.
What will this transformation look like? In her book Waking the Global Heart, Judith says that we are losing our innocence; we cannot be children any more. We are awakening to the reality that we may be facing collective collapse. For so long, we believed that our parents (in the form of government and other power structures) would take care of us and that we didn't have to worry. We believed that if we just elected the right president we'd be okay. But then we have been disappointed when things didn't work out the way that we had hoped. We are waking up the truth, which is that we are growing up. We are maturing. We can face the truth that we must take the reins, because our parents haven't been doing a good job. We have tools now! We can take the power into our own hands. We must co-create our new reality. We must move from more power to power of love. We must wake up, be adults, and create something good in place of chaos and violence and economic destruction.
This journey is not easy or understood as yet, but again, "as above, so below, so within, so without," so this collective journey we are on is reflected in our inner journey to climb the ladder of our own personal chakra development.
In the journey to understand ourselves, and dare I say, develop ourselves to our highest potentials, we must confront the archetypal stories that lay within our chakras. Along the way, we must slay dragons (our inner rejected parts), fight with foes (our inner wounded parts), and claim ourselves as victors.
The stories of our experiences are held in our chakras. They tell the stories of our traumas and hurts, and play them out in character archetypes. For example, the child who has an overly controlling parent, and is not allowed to express his/her natural autonomy, grows up to take on the archetype of the Endurer. To illustrate, Sam's mother couldn't abide her son disobeying her in any way. As a child, he received harsh physical punishments, and as an adult, stony silence, such as when he dropped out of college and she didn't speak to him for two years. Such a story translates in the chakras. Notably, the Endurer will have deficient energy in the second/sacral chakra, the fourth/heart chakra, and the fifth/throat chakra. This second/sacral chakra deficiency will manifest as a feeling that he/she is inadequate sexually and emotionally. His/her fourth/heart chakra will also be deficiency will reveal itself as a fear to reaching out, as this would risk autonomy, the very thing that he/she craves but dares not risk. Not surprisingly, the coping strategy employed here is self-imposed isolation. The deficiency in the fifth chakra shows up in shyness or difficulty putting feelings into words. As we can see, the endurer needs to reclaim his/her natural will in order to fill up the deficient chakras with needed energy.
In contrast to the Endurer, the Lover archetype is the character that the undernourished child takes on. This child is neglected emotionally, and sometimes physically, and is left to his/her own devises. For example, growing up, Dana's parents were only available if there was a crisis. As a result, she had to make all of her own decisions about dating, birth control, and relationships with no guidance at all. The Lover archetype has deficient first/root chakra, third/solar plexus, and seventh/crown chakra. The deficient first/root chakra manifests in feelings of emptiness and abandonment. Of course, this makes perfect sense given the lack of love this person experiences. The third/solar plexus chakra deficiency shows itself in debasing oneself in relationships, while ironically still holding a belief that love will solve everything. Mixed with the seventh/crown chakra deficiency that demands that a lover should take care of him/her, we can see how such a person might have difficulties with romance.
If learning about how your life circumstances have shaped and impacted your chakras and the archetypal stories they carry, or you care about global consciousness affairs, please consider taking Psychology of the Chakras this upcoming Spring Quarter. The course will address the psychology of chakras from many perspectives. The psychology of global chakra archetypes-including stories of governments and citizens-will be addressed. Individual archetype stories, including those of trauma and triumph, and sickness and healing, will also be included. There will also be a large focus on healing chakras through balancing their subtle energies. This will be discussed in the context of bioenergetics, energy medicine methods, and energy psychology methods.
Students in psychology and related disciplines will find the course to be useful in clinical applications, organizational consulting applications, as well as in applications for personal development. Tools for healing chakras and evoking their highest potential will be given special weight in the course. Specifically, students will learn how to identify and remove energetic damage patterns in chakras.
The course is open to all CIHS students for course credit, and to the public as an audited course.
Dr. Michelle Dexter is a sexologist and integrative psychologist, as well as core faculty at CIHS. In her private practice, she specializes in solving sex and love problems using energy psychology, which includes healing chakras. At this time, she is accepting new clients. |
CIHS Annual Yoga Workshop 2016
with
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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