The correspondence courses of the Continuing Education Program offer students the opportunity to do independent study, working at their own pace. This program is available to assist students by providing optional learning experiences that will help them develop their personal journey path through life.
We are on a continuous journey, and it’s important to expand through learning, to figure out who and what we are. It’s not just self-exploration, but incorporating others’ ideas and concepts. It’s about community, the growing together through the exchange of those ideas and concepts. Because of the importance of this work, mentorship is a vital part of this program. We welcome everybody who wants to make this journey with us!
CLASSES
PSCE 1200A Vibrational Studies Independent Study
CE Units: 4
Description: Course requirements and materials will be determined in consultation with Student and Faculty
PSCE 1201 Discovering Inner and Outer Space Through the Labyrinth
CE Units: 3
Book: Walking a Sacred Path by Lauren Artress
Description: This course shows the potential of the Labyrinth to inspire change and renewal and serves as guide to help develop the higher level of human awareness needed to survive in the 21st century. It will enliven the intuitive part of your nature and stir within your heart the remembrance of your purpose for living. It will give you the gift of being able to see the infinite in the context of the finite. This class was created and facilitated by Rev. Dr. Melissa Higginbotham.
PSCE 1202 Harnessing Intention For Healing
CE Units: 3
Book: The Power of Eight by Lynne McTaggart
Description: This course introduces the author’s remarkable findings from 10 years of experiments designed to discover how group intention can heal our lives and change the world for the better. You will learn to harness the collective energies of the Power of Eight and unleash the power you hold inside to heal your own life…and the world around you.
PSCE 1204 Healing Power of Sound and Consciousness
CE Units: 4
Book: Voicing the Sound Eternal: Transformational Power of Sound and Consciousness by Melissa Higginbotham
Description: Learn to ride the waves of sound and consciousness and expand the awareness of you as Divine Source. Spark spiritual healing and self-transformation on all levels by combining a focus on consciousness with toning and sound tools, including crystal bowls, percussion instruments, and color. Be shown the healing power of words and encryption and how to bring invocation into a session. Finally, learn how to facilitate a sound healing session aligned with Spiritual Mind Treatment.
PSCE 1206 Water, Vibration, and Consciousness
CE Units: 3
Book: “The Hidden Messages in Water” (2001) by Masaru Emoto
Description: This course introduces you to water’s ability to copy, memorize, and transport information. It will help you explore a different way of looking at the world, and peer through a window into another dimension to discover how the cosmos works. And you will learn more about the power of words, and the positive effect that the vibration of good words has on our world.
PSCE 1300A Wisdom Studies Independent Study
CE Units: 4
Description: Course requirements and materials will be determined in consultation with Student and Faculty
PSCE 1301A Restoring Your Natural Divine Radiance
CE Units: 4
Book: “The Bowl of Light” by Hank Wesselman, PhD.
Description: You’ll gain an enhanced perspective into the sacred knowledge of ancient Hawai’i. This class will help you discover the soul’s true heritage through beautiful and powerful teachings, inspiring and guiding you to help you remember your spiritual gifts while providing you with enhanced ways of being.
PSCE 1301B Feng Shui for the Transformative Holistic Home
CE Units: 4
Book: “The Holistic Home“ by Laura Benko
Description: This class will assist you in creating a dynamic, healthy, and thoughtful space within yourself and your home by combining three planes of action: mind, body, and spirit. The result is profound change on all levels.
PSCE 1303A Ancient Wisdom of the Bee Masters
CE Units: 3
Book: “The Shamanic Way of the Bee” by Simon Buxton
Description: This class calls you to witness and delve into the mysteries and power of a European form of shamanism. While shamanic in covering aspects of ritual and belief, the wisdoms contained are ancient beyond time and applicable to all traditions.
PSCE 1304A If Women Had Been the Storytellers
CE Units: 3
Book: “Cassandra Speaks” by Elizabeth Lesser
Description: In this course you’ll find the power and value of storytelling in the journey to build a truly equitable society. You’ll be shown how change in a culture starts with inner change. Finally, you’re offered a vision that transcends the either/or ideologies on both sides of the gender debate and provides inner tools to help all people be both gentle and powerful, caring and courageous.
PSCE 1305A Seeking the Sacred Through 12 Celtic Traditions
CE Units:
Book: “The Soul’s Slow Ripening” by Christine Valters Paintner
Description: Seeking the Sacred through 12 Celtic Practices: Celtic spirituality is an embodied spirituality, a path of poetry, creativity, and intuition. This course invites us to walk in and through 12 heart-expanding practices to become more aligned with creativity and wholeness.
PSCE 1311A Understanding the Spiritual Value and Gifts of the Second Half of Life
CE Units: 4
Book: “Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life” by Richard Rohr
Description: In this course, we are invited to see the value of our own experience of aging as the way God is moving us from doing to being, from achieving to appreciating, from planning and plotting to trusting the strange process in which as we diminish, we strangely expand and grow in all sorts of ways we cannot and do not need to explain to anyone including ourselves. It calls forth the promise within us, and frees us to follow it into wider dimensions of our spiritual authenticity.
PSCE 1400A Circle of Consciousness Independent Study
CE Units: 4
Description: Course requirements and materials will be determined in consultation with Student and Faculty.
PSCE 1402A The Marvelous Introvert
CE Units: 3
Book: “Quiet Power” by Susan Cain
Description: Being quiet isn’t a weakness, it’s a superpower. Introverts throughout history have accomplished incredible feats because of their quiet personalities, not in spite of them. Learn how to use the marvelous qualities and skills you already have to empower yourself to step outside your comfort zone and follow your passions, connect with your highest potential, and empower others.
PSCE 1402B You are Not Your Mistakes
CE Units: 2
Book: “The Art of Getting It Wrong” by Stephen Miller
Description: This class offers timeless truths to show you how to see the good at work in your life, even when you mess up (or think you mess up). It allows you to embrace the truth and believe in who you were created to be while discovering the power of grace–for others and for yourself.
PSCE 1406A Exploring Sky Elder Teachings
CE Units: 4
Book: “Star Ancestors” by Nancy Red Star
Description: To find the power and value of oral history and remembering in the journey to save our future. And you’re offered a vision that transcends the either/or ideologies on all sides of the origin debate. Finally, it encourages all people to be both gentle and powerful, caring, courageous, and kind.
PSCE 1408A Working in Harmony with Nature Spirits
CE Units: 2
Book: “Encounters with Nature Spirits” by R. Ogilvie Crombie
Description: Discover a world of nature spirits, as you follow the author’s initiation into a conscious discovery of the realm of the elementals. We are led to realize the benefits of working in harmony with nature, as we are shown that the elemental realm is vastly more powerful than our human kingdom and possesses an ability to create far beyond our human means.
PSCE 1409A The Courage to Be Creative
CE Units: 3
Book: “Big Magic” by Elizabeth Gilbert
Description: This course shows you the magic behind creating through lightness and joy versus pain and angst. The lines blur between heavy and light, God and earth, and you start to understand that when we play, the Divine steps in to help you share your inner gifts with the world.
PSCE 1410A You are the Formula
CE Units: 3
Book: “Risk Forward: Embrace the Unknown and Unlock your Hidden Genius” by Victoria Labalme
Description: This course helps you to realize there is no formula outside of you; no other vision outside of yours; no other path except your own. Find how to walk the path in a new way and trust the Inner Current a little more.
PSCE 1412A Through the Eyes of the Immortal Soul
CE Units: 4
Book: “Journey of Souls” and “Destiny of Souls” by Michael Newton, Ph.D.
Description: This course helps to answer the age-old questions of who are we, why are we here, and where are we going? It will also perhaps validate deep-seated feelings about your soul living on after physical death and your purpose of returning to earth. And finally, expand your understanding of the incredible sense of order and planning which exists for the benefit of human beings.
PSCE 1500A Circle of Transcendence Independent Study
CE Units: 4
Description: Course requirements and materials will be determined in consultation with Student and Faculty
PSCE 1501A Be Love
CE Units: 2
Book: All necessary course materials are attached as an Appendix to the curriculum.
Description: Explore the area and frequency of love, and its many aspects such as compassion, appreciation, kindness, and nurturing. Surrender to Divine Love, and start to embrace and radiate love through Self as the Divine.
PSCE 1501B Operating As Love Consciousness
CE Units: 4
Book: “The Book of Love and Creation” by Paul Selig
Description: Learn to anchor and manifest the Divine Self incarnated as you. As such, you start to operate from your Divinity with an awareness of your unification with Source. You begin to become a walking and talking demonstration of love.
PSCE 1502A Be Grace
CE Units: 2
Book: All necessary course materials are attached as an Appendix to the curriculum.
Description: Learn to bring yourself in alignment to Grace, as you start to witness the Presence of the Divine within and upon all things. In this agreement to Grace, you move into an alignment to a new potential of blessing and being blessed in return.
PSCE 1503A Be Truth
CE Units: 2
Book: All necessary course materials are attached as an Appendix to the curriculum.
Description: In this course you will explore Truth as a vibration, a God frequency. You will ponder the difference between telling a truth and being Truth, and in the process start to operate as Truth. Finally, you will come to understand that at your core you are Divine . . . and that is the Truth.
PSCE 1504A Be Impeccability
CE Units: 2
Book: All necessary course materials are attached as an Appendix to the curriculum.
Description: You will explore the concept that you are the Divine incarnated, and therefore flawless and unblemished at your core. You will ponder clarity and commitment, your current Soul journey, and look at reclaiming and knowing your original Divine perfection.
PSCE 1505A Be Trust
CE Units: 2
Book: All necessary course materials are attached as an Appendix to the curriculum.
Description: Explore the area and frequency of trust. Learn to transform yourself from a fear-based way of living to one of surrender, where you start to embrace trust of the Self and the Divine.
PSCE 1506A Be Reverence
CE Units: 2
Book: All necessary course materials are attached as an Appendix to the curriculum.
Description: You will learn to settle into your heart space and look at all life through the eyes of the heart. By taking steps to look at creation and self through the eyes of the Divine, you learn to respect all life. And you start to create through awe, wonder, and Divine Right Order.
PSCE 1507A Be Freedom
CE Units: 2
Book: All necessary course materials are attached as an Appendix to the curriculum.
Description: In accepting the Divine Light of Transformation and step towards true freedom, you learn to release everything keeping you from aligning and merging with your Highest Divine Potential. This will lead you to issues of letting go, the allowing and acceptance of Divine Order, resolution of disorder, and eventual evolution into transformation.
PSCE 1508A Be Authenticity
CE Units: 2
Book: All necessary course materials are attached as an Appendix to the curriculum.
Description: To be authentic, you must learn to be true to your True Self versus your persona. This will allow you to see clearly how you carry around frames and labels that define and keep you stuck. Alignment with Divine Order will lead you to delve into ways to live from the I AM or Christ Consciousness Self in order to operate as the True or Authentic Self.
PSCE 1509A Be Integrity
CE Units: 2
Book: All necessary course materials are attached as an Appendix to the curriculum.
Description: Learn to stay true to the core of who you are, your Divine Self. Within Integrity, you are accountable for your thoughts and actions, seeking each moment to respond from a core of Truth, aligned with and in agreement with your True Self. That’s true responsibility; and that is when you become a person of Integrity.
PSCE 1509B The Quest for Purpose and Healing
CE Units: 4
Book: “The Way of Integrity” by Martha Beck
Description: You are taught to read the internal signals that are always leading toward your true path, and how to recognize what you actually yearn for. You learn to recognize integrity in all your thoughts and actions through a spiritual adventure that changes the direction of your life and brings you to a place of genuine happiness and clarity of purpose.
PSCE 1510A Be Enlightenment
CE Units: 2
Book: All necessary course materials are attached as an Appendix to the curriculum.
Description: Journey the path to Enlightenment, learning it as a process, not a destination. Here you will start to understand yourself as both the inbreath and outbreath of the Divine. As you stand at the still point of Creation you will come to understand what it means to claim, “Let there be Light!”
PSCE 1511A Be Harmony
CE Units: 2
Book: All necessary course materials are attached as an Appendix to the curriculum.
Description: Learn how everyone fits into the whole and how we relate to one another. Within harmony you’ll find mindfulness, wisdom, and joy. These all lead to Divine Right Order, Divine Right Timing, and Divine Right Action.
PSCE 1512A Attitudes of Beingness Through the Transcendent I AM
CE Units: 3
Book: Included and attached as an Appendix to the curriculum.
Description: You will learn to focus on transcendent levels of consciousness, in order to start understanding existence beyond the physical level. This class will serve to show that true transcendence isn’t static, but constantly moving and evolving, a circle that expands to hold more of Itself.
PSCE 1512B, Journeying Through the Wheel of Transcendence
CE Units: 3
Book: All necessary course materials are attached as an Appendix to the curriculum.
Description: You will start to ascend in consciousness by focusing on transcendent levels of consciousness. In journeying around this Wheel, you will focus on what could be considered aspects of mastery or states of consciousness along with the resultant effects of holding these states of consciousness. Thus, you learn to constantly move and evolve, expanding to hold more of your own Divine Self.
PSCE 1512C Be Transcendence
CE Units: 2
Book: All necessary course materials are attached as an Appendix to the curriculum.
Description: Time begins to expand, we understand more about the Now Moment, and what it means to be “open at the top.” We truly start to understand existence beyond the physical level and the Oneness of All That Is, as we find that in order to ascend and transcend, we must help each other, because we are each other.
PSCE 1600A Circle of Alchemy Independent Study
CE Units: 4
Description: Course requirements and materials will be determined in consultation with Student and Faculty
PSCE 1601A, Finding Your Way to the Yes
CE Units: 4
Book: “Everything is Spiritual” by Rob Bell
Description: This course gives you a radical new take on how it all fits together, how it works, how it’s all connected. Through the author’s story, you learn how to take ancient teachings and modern science and blend them together into wisdom that might perhaps make sense, offer healing, and show how in this world you still have a sacred place.
PSCE 1601B Finding Illumination Through the Down Cycles
CE Units: 3
Book: “Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times” by Katherine May
Description: This course invites you to relate differently to your own fallow times, when you feel you’re wandering in the wilderness. You are encouraged to see life as cyclical, understand the value of the power of rest and retreat, and embrace the resultant opportunities for transformation.
PSCE 1604A Claiming Your Own Knowing and Worth
CE Units: 4
Book: “The Book of Knowing and Worth” by Paul Selig
Description: Learn to realize who you are and what you know, so that how you may be expressed to the world will be in wonder. As you wonder, you open to a new possibility in order to change what you have known. This is the awakening.
PSCE 1605A Freedom and the Spirit of Flight
CE Units: 2
Book: “Jonathan Livingston Seagull (The Complete Edition)” by Richard Bach
Description: Somewhere there’s a higher way of living than scuffing the tracks of others. This class is for those who yearn to fly and understand that the path to follow is already written within.
PSCE 1606A Food of Spirit, Food of Body
CE Units: 3
Book: “Becoming Bread” by Gunilla Norris
Description: This course invites you to reflect on the processes of transformation, of alchemy within your own life through the use of power poems and prayers designed around the place, process, and seasons of making and eating bread. Through the transformative process of love’s alchemy, we become the bread and the love transformed.
PSCE 1610A How Everything Changes
CE Units: 2
Book: “The Little Prince” by Antoine De Saint-Exupéry (Translation by Richard Howard)
Description: When life’s events are too difficult to understand, it is time to succumb to their mysteries. In the process, you learn the secret of what’s really important in life.
PSCE 5000A Nutritional and Wellness Studies Independent Study
CE Units: 4
Description: Course requirements and materials will be determined in consultation with Student and Faculty
PSCE 5004B Rites of Rejuvenation
CE Units: 3
Book: “The Eye of Revelation” by Peter Kelder; Edited by J.W. Watt
Description: In this course, you will learn about, practice, and prove to yourself the efficacy of the five Ancient Tibetan Rites of rejuvenation. Practiced consistently, these exercises are reported to lead to better health and higher energy levels.
PSCE 6000A Stewardship Studies Independent Study
CE Units: 4
Description: Course requirements and materials will be determined in consultation with Student and Faculty
PSCE 6000B Discovering Earth’s Slimiest Creatures
CE Units: 2
Book: “Believe It or Snot” by Nick Caruso and Dani Rabaiotti
Description: In this course, you’ll learn about the slimy secrets of 80 organisms that ooze, drip, dribble, and splatter. Not quite a solid but firmer than a liquid, slime is used by plants and animals for defense, respiration, movement, feeding, communication, and even reproduction. Perhaps slime is the glue that holds our world together! May you find it interesting to take this tour and find which creature is crowned earth’s slimiest, and in the process gain a greater understanding of the marvelous world of Creation.
PSCE 6000C The Science on Animal Flatulence
CE Units: 2
Book: “Does It Fart?” by Nick Caruso and Dani Rabaiotti (A Pulitzer Prize winner)
Description: In this humorous and interesting tour of the flatulent habits of animals, you’ll learn about the smelly secrets and habits of 80 creatures that do or don’t expel gas from an end opposite to its mouth. Not all farts are created equal, and the smell and frequency of flatus can vary based on an organism’s diet, health, and gut flora. In learning detail you never knew you needed, you’ll gain a greater understanding of the marvelous world of Creation.
PSCE 6000D Filthy Animal Facts and Falsehoods Revealed
CE Units: 2
Book: “True or Poo?” by Nick Caruso and Dani Rabaiotti
Description: In this illustrated guide to the wonders of the natural world, you’ll separate bizarre myths about the animal kingdom from some absolutely unbelievable facts—the more disgusting the better! In learning detail unlike any other, you’ll gain a greater understanding of the marvelous world of Creation and try to guess what’s True . . . or just a bunch of Poo.
PSCE 6003A Healing the Earth with Acupuncture
CE Units: 3
Book: “Earth Acupuncture: Healing the Living Landscape” by Gail Reichstein Rex, L.Ac.
Description: In this course, you’ll learn about the efforts to bring healing to a stretch of the Hudson River using the language and structures of Chinese medicine. You’ll discover how ways were found to treat the landscape through treating the landscape as a living being, and then by taking its pulses and treating the points of stagnant energy and pollution with acupuncture.
PSCE 6005A Discoveries from the Secret World of Trees
CE Units: 2
Book: “The Hidden Life of Trees” by Peter Wohlleben
Description: In this interesting tour of the secrets of trees and their habitats, you’ll learn about how social they are, how they care for each other, and how they communicate via the “wood wide web.” You’ll enter a wonderland of enchantment and greater understanding of the marvelous world of Creation.
PSCE 6006A, Observing the Giants of the Deep
CE Units: 3
Book: “The Breath of a Whale” by Leigh Calvez
Description: In this course, you’ll learn all about a different consciousness within the animal kingdom. May you find it rewarding to take this pictorial and video tour of the cetaceans to deepen your connection with the natural world.
PSCE 6006B The Spirited Octopus
CE Units: 2
Book: “The Soul of an Octopus” by Sy Montgomery
Description: Deeply poetic yet scientifically illuminating, explore the emotional and physical world of the octopus, the remarkable connections it makes with people, and the vibrant community that arises around this complex, intelligent, and spirited creature.
PSCE 6007A Wonders of Avian Intelligence
CE Units: 3
Book: “The Genius of Birds” by Jennifer Ackerman
Description: This class covers a revolution in our understanding of bird cognition where you start to unravel the mysteries of the avian brain, while appreciating the beauty and adaptability of birds. You’ll enter a wonderland of wonder, awe, and greater respect for the condition of life, affirming the astonishing complexity of our world.
PSCE 6008A, Discovering Marsupials
CE Units: 2
Book: “Marsupials” by Nic Bishop
Description: In this course, you’ll learn all about a different consciousness within the animal kingdom. May you find it interesting to take this pictorial and video tour of the marsupials and gain some understanding of humanity’s role in this area of stewardship.
PSCE 6008B, Wisdom Through a Dog’s Eyes
CE Units: 2
Book: “My Dog, My Guru” by Gilles Moutounet
Description: In this course, you’ll share in some wise lessons learned from observing the dog Skottï, including living in the now, expressing gratitude for what we have, and being patient with the processes of life. Letting go and let dog might be the enlightenment and inspiration you need today!
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