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Dear CIHS Community Members,
We just started Spring quarter. I hope everyone is doing well.
CIHS' April newsletter has a few brief but important announcements including the annual Yoga Workshop on April 23 & 24, as well as Summer Faculty Research Symposium, July 9 &10. Additionally, we have wonderful news from CIHS faculty, Dr. Ji Hyang Padma, regarding a new publication of her research in an upcoming book. Please see the article below for her abstract. Congratulations, Dr. Padma! We are so fortunate to have you as CIHS faculty and our students appreciate your unique blend of knowledge and compassion.
CIHS' very popular annual Yoga Workshop, Sahasrara Chakra Awakening Workshop, is scheduled for April 23 & 24. If you are interested in joining us and attending the workshop, please register online 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!
In addition, the CIHS Summer Faculty Research Symposium announcement is below. It will be held on campus, Saturday, July 9, and Sunday, July 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 and come see what are behind the veil of our faculty's research lives.
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.
Sincerely,
Hideki Baba, Ph.D.
Hideki_Baba@cihs.edu
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Dr. Padma's Research
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Congratulations to CIHS Faculty, Dr. Ji Hyang Padma whose research as a scholar-practitioner will be published in an upcoming book, Dialogues on Meditation & Healing ed. by Pierce Salguero & Kang Yeonseok. The abstract is below and we will share the article with you once it is published. Congratulations, Dr. Padma! We are so fortunate to have you as faculty to draw upon your knowledge, compassion, and expertise!
As Pierce and Yeonseok describe it,
This book is conceived as a series of conversations between proponents of different approaches to Asian meditation and healing traditions. Divided into "dialogues," each section of the book contains brief articles that explore the tensions between academic research on the one hand and practice on the other. While proponents of these different perspectives tend to speak past one another, the aim of this book is to provide a space for dialogue and mutual reflection on both sides.
Dr. Padma's abstract:
Meditation, Resiliency
and a Global Ethics of Compassion
Secure attachment (the establishment of healthy emotional connection between a child and its primary caregiver) plays a key role in the development of both psychosocial integration and physical health. Attachment security can be understood to be the foundation of that state of integration that is a requisite for both psychosocial and physical health.
Meditation has been shown to play a key role in achievement of adult secure attachment, as evidenced through the capacity for healthy intimacy in all significant relationships. Meditation also supports the capacity to tell a coherent, meaningful story of one's life.
The author proposes that the shared human drive towards integration serves as the basis for a secular ethics of wholeness, and that meditation serves as a practical means towards the achievement of that wholeness.
Ji Hyang Padma, Ph.D.
http://www.natural-wisdom.org
http://www.naturalwisdom.blogspot.com
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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.
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.
This Symposium is open to public
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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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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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