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3.00 Credits
In light of worldwide economic uncertainties and expanding globalization in the current exchange economy, it can be challenging to determine how we can participate in ways that are in alignment with our personal values while also supporting ourselves. How can we revision money as a tool for spiritual development Are there ways to augment our income while benefiting society How do the religious/spiritual communities with which we are involved approach issues around spirituality and money How can we come from a place of abundance instead of scarcity in our day-to-day lives In this seminar course, we will explore our attitudes about money and spirituality, and look at established as well as emerging economic systems that might address these questions. We will investigate alternative economies such as "barter bucks," "voluntary simplicity,"LETSystems," "sustainable communities," "the gift economy," "micro-lending," etc. Students may choose to explore several systemgenerally or a particular system.
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3.00 Credits
This course reviews a broad range of topics relating to personal, interpersonal, societal, and global aspects of aging. The goal of this multidisciplinary course is to foster the development of the conceptual and philosophical foundation necessary to engage in an intentional exploration of the existential, as well as pragmatic, concerns that each of us face as we age. Students will engage both in self-inquiry as midlife and older adults and in cooperative inquiry that examines the challenges and opportunities presented by aging populations.
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3.00 Credits
Thesis/Dissertation Proposal Writing Completion
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2.00 - 3.00 Credits
Recent studies in cognitive science, including MRI comparisons, as well as decades of research in psychology, have demonstrated that most female brains tend to register and process information in a more gestalt, associative, relational mode than do most male brains. A few women writers have focused on the challenge of expressing female consciousness (cognitive patterns) as authentic female voice on the page. We will study feminist literary analyses, as well as fiction by three pioneers (Dorothy Richardson, Virginia Woolf, and Katherine Mansfield), and works by several contemporary authors of short stories, novels, spiritual writing, and poetry.
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3.00 Credits
Human society has to undergo a transformation, one that brings about democracy, cosmopolitanism, egalitarianism, and harmony with nature. There are various entities that can assist humanity to transform. This course is an inquiry into whether cinema could be a vehicle for such transformation. Together, as co-learners, we will take a transdisciplinary approach to find the connecting elements within cinema and ways in which complexity shapes and evolves cinema. Moreover, we will investigate an alternative pedagogical terrain in teaching cinema for social change. Although anchored in critical theory, in transdisciplinary fashion, the course will engage various other theories (e.g., the works of Morin, Montuori, Williams, Habermas, Hall, Bergson, Gebser, Aurobindo, Giroux) to generate a creative discourse on cinema as a vehicle for social transformation. A number of specific films will be examined as case studies, and many more films will inevitably be discussed in relation to the theories considered. As co-learners we will identify cinema of "good faith," which can help us gain an understanding and an appreciationof our differences and our similarities. Additionally, we will examine whether a critical pedagogy of cinema can teach against cinema of "bad faith" and help to bring people toward multiculturalism. Cinema is a teaching machine and, with its universal language, can help us respect our differences while sharing common values, goals, and aspirations. Ultimately, humanity must move away from using the logic of the marketplace as logic of common sense, embrace planetary thinking, and understand complexity to build a global society with vitality and cultural richness. In this class, with an integral vision, we posit cinema an agent to usher in such transformation.
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3.00 Credits
This course will deal with the psychology developed by Carl Gustav Jung and its relevance for all of us. Jung was a truly original thinker whose ideas are still largely unknown or misunderstood. His view of reality was so different from the prevailing worldview that it has often been difficult for fellow psychologists and scientists to grasp what he actually meant. In this course, we will study the key central ideas of Jungian psychology: symbol, archetype, complex, psychological types, shadow, anima/animus, self, individuation, and more. The purpose is not simply to present new information but to help each of you explore how these ideas can expand your own life.
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3.00 Credits
Richard Grossinger, a seminal writer on dreams, wrote: "In a certain sense, dreams are realer than life. That is, they are closer to the roots of our being than daily waking events. If we exist in some ultimate terms, it is beyond the senses and beyond consciousness." In this course, we are going to explore how to work with dreams, sometimes to interpret them, but always to honor them. When we do so, we open a gateway to a source of information and support deeper than consciousness. Everyone taking this course will need to keep a dream journal and be prepared to share some of his or her own dreams with the class.
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3.00 Credits
In this course, we will examine the major cultural patterns that are in transition today. We will take up questions such as the following: how cultures change and the patterns of resistance to change; the historical origins of the cultural conflicts alive in the United states today; which kinds of values are most resistant to change; and the link between personal and political cultural attitudes.
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1.00 - 3.00 Credits
This course surveys the modern rebirth of psychedelic drugs in Western society. Looking at such material as the seminal discoveries of Gordon Wasson and Albert Hofmann, the psychological theories of Stanislav Grof, and the social-political activism of Timothy Leary, this course explores the impact and future of psychedelic drugs for scholars, scientists, and mystics.
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1.00 - 3.00 Credits
In this course, we will explore the relationship between activism, the effort to create positive change in the world, and Buddhist practice, the cultivation of mindfulness toward wisdom, compassion, and enlightenment. Questions we will explore include the following: What distinguishes Buddhist activism from secular activism Is there an inherent conflict between the Buddhist concept of "radical acceptance" and the activepursuit of social, political, or ecological justice What is the dynamic relationship between the process of inner change and any larger shift in social arrangements
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