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LONG TERM COURSES


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Esoteric Psychology

A two-year course in the processes of Soul Infusion

Esoteric Psychology is the study and use of the Techniques of Soul Integration and Soul Infusion. Practically speaking that means to engage the processes of deep spiritual growth and change. This two-year course is designed to enhance the Consciousness in the life through accessing the specific divine qualities within oneself.

The Esoteric Psychology program is about the fullness of who we really are, the Psyche, the Soul. Each incarnation the personality (or persona) develops, gaining facility in its environment, strengths, and abilities of independence. But as the personality grows it also realizes its incompleteness. With all that we have achieved, or own, or can do, are we satisfied in life? We might not be able to articulate why we are unfulfilled, we just know that we are, that there must be more to life, must be more to relationships, to profession, to happiness. We find ourselves saying with Hamlet, "Can these dry bones live?"

"There is nothing that I have studied or been exposed to previously that helped me as much to know and accept myself. (This course) not only motivated me to want to be a more spiritual person, but also gave insight as to how to accomplish this." - Grace from Milwaukee, Wisconsin

"I cannot tell you just how valuable I found this course. To me this course is about self discovery in a whole new light. The facilitators were fantastic. The material was so mind-expanding. I feel like this course put me on a faster track in my evolutionary process." - Stephanie, Etobicoke, Ontario

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Spiritual Path

The Spiritual Path is a one-year study in the evolution of Consciousness.

This course is a wide and comprehensive look at the various religions, spiritual teachings, philosophical presentations, and scientific discoveries that have helped humanity grow in consciousness.

It is also a program of Self-discovery. The Self in this case is the Inner Self, the Higher Self, the Soul. The Spiritual Path provides the student with meditations, esoteric knowledge, and the crucible of group study.

"Only truths which are wrought out individually in the crucible of experience really penetrate into the living consciousness and bear fruit."
- Alice A. Bailey, Discipleship in the New Age Vol I, p. 11.

The Spiritual Path Gathers Together:

  • The study of consciousness - from the atom to the Solar System, from the individual human being to the consciousness of the Human Kingdom.
  • The study of the Path as described and experienced through the major religions, as well as some of the less known lighted spiritual practices of the world. The Path, the Way, the Circle of Life has been walked and lived by people for millennia. The Scriptures of the World are the written testimony of the Path. The experiences of the saints, sages, magi, yogis, rishis, and gurus throughout history are the experiences that are lived by all who tread a Spiritual Path. The paths are many. The result is One.
  • The study of some of the primary philosophic presentations of truth and reality given in the last 2500 years. Humanity lives the life enhancing, mind empowering results of these truths. This comprehensive philosophic study illumines the grand design which humankind is ever discovering.
  • The study of the stages of Aspiration, Discipleship, and Initiation. There are common experiences, common interests, and criteria that are very specific to being at a certain point on The Path. Defining that criteria and looking into one's life helps us all to pinpoint, in the silence of one's heart and mind, where is one on the Path? what is the most productive use of one's energy? what is one's life purpose?

Other Core Areas of Study:

  • The Religions of the World
  • Philosophy
  • Scientific Contributions to the Growth of Consciousness
  • Stages of Aspirants and Discipleship

Some Esoteric Materials Studied:

  • The Science of Meditation
  • The Science of the Seven Rays
  • The Energetic System - the chakras and the subtle bodies

About the Course:

This one year program emphasizes individual development and group work. The process is both academic and experiential. It consists of:

  • We meet for 5 intensives over the course of the one year
  • First and last get together - 3 days each
  • The other 3 intensives are weekends only
  • A regular meditative practice designed to enhance one's consciousness

Monthly class work comprised of:

  • weekly reading assignments
  • written response to text specific questions
  • monthly meditation reports

Required Texts:

  • The World's Religions by Huston Smith
  • The Consciousness of the Atom by Alice A. Bailey
  • The Labours of Hercules by Alice A. Bailey
  • The Tao te Ching by Lao Tsu
  • Everyone Is Right by Roland Peterson
  • Dancing Wu Li Masters by Gary Zukav

An audio taped commentary is provided on all student reports.

"The learning, the deepening of understanding of truths, like right speech, rhythm, and group process as a result of this course was tremendous." - Tamara Daly, Massachusetts

"I feel much more assurance and confidence about who I am as a self/Soul and somehow I feel deeper, lighter, wider, more expansive and yet somehow solid and taller, with more clarity and sense of the REAL. Also I am definitely Happier."
- Susan Richardson, Massachusetts

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Clarification of Consciousness

"When students have made progress in soul contact, they have taken one of the first important steps towards the comprehension of light and its uses (This) light is soul light, illuminating the mind and bringing about revelation of the world of forms."
- Alice A. Bailey, Glamour: a World Problem, p. 194.

This is a three-year commitment to the study of, and living the processes of the Soul. It is, therefore, a study in White Magic, and in dispelling the Glamour and Illusion in oneself and then, through group service, out in the world.

Clarification of Consciousness means just that. In the Eastern philosophical and religious traditions there are Seven States of Consciousness; through the Judeo-Christian ethic we have the Seven Heavens. These are the same. Students are trained to see for themselves the state or states of consciousness with which they are already familiar, which one(s) is the stretch, and which are the least refined or muddied hence constitute, for that individual, his/her world of illusion. This process is one of defining, describing, experiencing, and learning to sustain a point of conscious attention.

White Magic is the work of the Soul, the True Self in the world.White Magic is selfless, harmless, thus its power is the power that alchemically redeems and changes the individual and all the matter in which that individual moves. White Magic is worked consciously for reasons of Consciousness and its liberation from all forms that bind. This includes the forms that are part of our self-image, self-enhancement, or self-negation. All these stream from the little ego and not from the True Self, the Soul.

This three-year course teaches and works with the yoga system of Raja Yoga. Raja means "king"; in this regards it means the Soul - the king. Raja yoga trains the mind to be the reflector and correct receiver of the Light of Soul's knowledge, the emotions to become the responsive conduit for the Love of the Soul, and the etheric/chakric system to become the mechanism for re-patterning according to Soul's design. Raja yoga is not a physical yoga. It was created before the Buddha walked on the Earth, and its practices can be recognized throughout all great religious traditions.

"The Path of Evolution is in fact the path of recognitions, leading to revelation."
- Alice A. Bailey, Glamour: A World Problem, p. 205.

Glamour, Illusion, and Maya are the natural results of living unaware of one's totality. They exist in the world as well as affect each individual. This course delves deep into the sources of these imprisoning factors, and provides meditative and thought-provoking practices through which the Soul reveals the Whole, thus the parts - our thoughts, emotions, desires, and habits of behavior - are clarified.

"Everything depends on the pupil's ability to grasp the inner meaning of all events. His entire progress upon the Path rests upon his attitude in making the teaching his own. It is only as we transmute the lessons on the inner planes into practical knowledge that they become part of our own experience and are no longer theoretical. Expansion of consciousness should be an ever increasing practical experience."
- Alice A. Bailey, Treatise on White Magic, p. 348

The Clarification of Consciousness program is designed to bring the earnest student into realized, increased, and lasting relation with the Inner Self, the Soul. It is a class in self-empowerment not indoctrination. It is a course that cultivates independence of mind. It empowers the student to lift the consciousness into clearer states of awareness, defining one's illusions, one's energies, and one's ability to serve to increase the light in the world.

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