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3.00 Credits
Informed by the insights of Jungian, archetypal, and transpersonal psychology, this course uses lecture presentations and works of music, film, and literature to explore and understand the meanings of the planetary archetypes in natal charts and transits. In turn, the archetypal astrological perspective is used to illuminate and more deeply understand the deeper dimensions of major works of art and cultural epochs, from Beethoven's symphonies and the French Revolution to Fellini, the Rolling Stones, and the 1960s. Because the arts affect the heart and body as well as the mind and spirit, permitting a more multidimensional experience of the archetypes than would expository lectures and readings alone, this course will involve listening to various works of music, watching films, and reading fiction and memoirs.
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2.00 - 3.00 Credits
This course is designed to give advanced students a sense of what science is, how science operates, and how to interpret the results of scientific research. The course will draw from diverse thinkers such as Jean Gebser, the ancient Greeks, Popper, Kuhn, and Alfred North Whitehead, among others. We will also explore the inception of an integral/aperspectival science in the emerging fields of parapsychology and the study of subtle worlds.
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1.00 - 3.00 Credits
In the wake of quantum physics and complexity studies, Western philosophy is ripe for a rethinking inspired by the biological, ecological, and cosmological awakening. This course analyzes both the problem (the West's long "dogmatic slumber" in a trance of disembodied, disembeddedmechanistic assumptions) and the emergent corrections and creative possibilities. Students will study pioneering philosophers of an embodied, embedded orientation; discuss relevant findings derived from recent holistic discoveries in science; discuss new options; and contribute via their paper to the emergence of post-mechanistic, embodied, embedded ecosocial philosophy by reframing and reconsidering a key issue or area in Western philosophy.
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3.00 Credits
Both Sri Aurobindo and Alfred North Whitehead made significant contributions to cosmological thought. Between them, they developed an integral cosmology in which consciousness, soul, and spirit are seen as intrinsic to the universe rather than as epiphenomenal. Taken together, their work outlines a story of evolution in which we can make sense of the current planetary crisis, including its economic and technological dimensions.
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3.00 Credits
This course explores the relation of psyche to "spirit"-that is, to religion, spirituality, and spiritual philosophies and worldviews-throughconsideration of the development that leads from classic representatives of the psychology of religion to the principal paradigms of contemporary transpersonal theory. Readings include primary texts, set in their appropriate contexts, by William James, C. G. Jung, Stanislav Grof, and Ken Wilber.
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3.00 Credits
An introduction to the person and teaching of J. Krishnamurti, this course examines his approach to thought, conditioning, religion, education, meditation, and personal transformation. The class will explore the process of dialogue and will attempt to experience his teaching in personal awareness. The course is also an inquiry: Does Krishnamurti's teaching constitute an integral approach to personal and societal transformation
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3.00 Credits
This course retrieves and highlights the philosophical wisdom and spiritual insight of women in many cultures, including ancient Egypt, Classical Greece; Sophia/Wisdom writings of the Hellenistic era; early and medieval Jewish, Christian, and Islamic eras; and modern and postmodern voices of women spiritual teachers, philosophers, thealogians, and theologians. Spiritual and philosophical teachers may include Makeda, Queen of Sheba, the author of Thunder Perfect Mind, Lysistrata, Diotima, Mary Magdelene, Hypatia, Rubia, Hildegard of Bingen, Sor Juana, Simone Weil, and contemporary authors such as Amma, Marcia Falk, Judith Plaskow, Karen Baker-Fletcher, Rita Nakashima Brock, Charlene Spretnak, Carol P. Christ, Starhawk, Paula Gunn Allen, and Dhyani Ywahoo, among others.
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3.00 Credits
This seminar provides an opportunity for PCC master's students to create a portfolio documenting their course of study as it comes to a conclusion. All students will synthesize the various threads of their research as expressed in papers of enduring significance in a new essay to be presented to the class, and, after appropriate refinement, to an assembly of PCC faculty and students. In this seminar, students will address each other directly while the instructor provides crucial but minimal direction and instruction.
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3.00 Credits
This course explores the nature and history of alchemy. Western alchemy is traced from its origins in the Hellenistic period, through its development in Islam, to its flowering in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Chinese and Indian alchemy are also discussed. Particular attention is paid to the connections between alchemy and esoteric religious traditions, and to C. G. Jung's modern discovery of the psychological and spiritual implications of alchemical symbolism.
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0.00 - 3.00 Credits
The advanced student's researching and writing of a thesis or dissertation progresses with the mentorship of, and in close consultation with, one's Thesis or Dissertation Chair and Committee. Prerequisites: PARP 6900; advancement to candidacy.
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