FOUNDATIONS OF SCIENCE OF MIND
Learn spiritual principles and tools that will change your life for the better forever! Are you ready to discover your emerging direction and purpose, and how to make it happen? Would you like to enhance your spiritual connection to a Higher Power? Sign up for 10 weeks of amazing self-discovery and revelation within an experiential format of discussion, sharing and process. Get to know other like-minded friends too. 10 weeks with required Saturday afternoon workshop. (This is a pre-requisite for most SOM classes.)
10 weeks, 30 credit hours.
PRACTICAL MYSTICISM
Living in the presence of the divine.
This class provides an opportunity to get in touch with your own inner “mystic.” Inspired by the world’s great mystical traditions and teachers, you will gain a deeper experience and understanding of your own personal way of living a mystical life. By reframing what a mystic is and how to practice mysticism in every day situations, you will be invited to step into a new identity as a person who is committed to discovering Spirit in every action, person, and situation.
10 weeks: 30 credit hours
Pre-requisite: Foundations or Beyond Limits
BEYOND LIMITS
Dynamic new course that takes the foundational principles and offers them in a new format for beginning students and those unfamiliar with Science of Mind. Topics include Oneness, spiritual mind treatment, the reciprocal universe, the creative process, hidden beliefs, and other essential principles and processes.
10 weeks: 30 credit hours
Pre-requisite for most SOM classes, or alternative Foundations.
TREATMENT & MEDITATION
Spiritual Practices for Daily Living
In this class, you can learn how to anchor a personal spiritual practice into your life through the exploration of many types of meditation and also learn more about Spiritual Mind Treatment.
10 weeks: 30 credit hours
Pre-requisite: Foundations or Beyond Limits
POWER OF YOUR WORD
As you deepen in your spiritual practice, you will begin to realize how important prayer is in living a spiritual life. In this class you learn specifically what contributes to clear, powerful, focused prayer. Not only will you learn how to write affirmations and prayers to address personal circumstances for yourself and for others, you will also be coached in identifying and describing personal limiting beliefs that interrupt your progress. You will be invited to live a life based on prayer.
8 weeks: 24 credit hours
Pre-requisite: Foundations or Beyond Limits
FINANCIAL FREEDOM
Develop a greater awareness of Spirit as the source of financial, as well as personal freedom. Explore unchanging Spiritual Principles, as well as our own current beliefs and attitudes about money. Create a spiritual practice that will duplicate the nature of Spirit in our financial affairs.
8 weeks: 24 credit hours
Pre-requisite: None
SELF MASTERY
A deeper inward journey opening the door to reveal the wholeness of self and deepening the experience of Oneness in Spirit. Explore feelings, ego, relationships and the process of change, while discovering new ways to deepen human love, trust, forgiveness and gratitude.
8 weeks: 24 credit hours
Pre-requisite: Foundations or Beyond Limits
PRINCIPLES OF SUCCESSFUL LIVING
Designed to give the student greater understanding of his or her place in the Spiritual System, and the part that consciousness plays in demonstrating greater good. On a very practical basis, this course offers the opportunity to set an intention for concrete demonstration of good, and to study the tools for achieving this demonstration. Emphasis is given to use of the Law of Mental Equivalents, Spiritual Mind Treatment, and the qualities of living a spiritual life.
8 weeks: 24 credit hours
Pre-requisite: Foundations or Beyond Limits
MIND BODY CONNECTION
Designed to give the student a greater understanding of the mind/body connection, and the important role consciousness plays in the healing process. A clear, step-by-step process that begins with Principle, deals with the emotional issues surrounding the body, gives emphasis to effective prayer, unlearning old concepts of duality and disease. Ideal for the beginner or the advanced student who desires a deeper understanding of physical healing.
8 weeks: 24 credit hours
Pre-requisite: None
MEDITATION: MORE THAN YOU THINK
An introductory meditation course that begins with the beginner and moves step by step through the powerful tool of meditation in many different modalities. Topics include meditation with light, mantras, sound, movement, breathing, and more. Each week is very experiential with various forms of meditation that the student can then take with them for a richer practice at home.
8 weeks: 24 credit hours
Pre-requisite: None
5 GIFTS FOR AN ABUNDANT LIFE
Through teaching, sharing, experiential exercises and prayer, these classes ignite the individual's realization that God is the Infinite Source of the life we are created to live – one of abundance of health, wealth, creative self-expression and fulfilling relationships. Through the active practice of giving the GIFTS of Gratitude, Intentions, Forgiveness, Tithing and Surrender in our everyday lives, our goal is to fully realize that we are the Abundant Love of God.
8 weeks: 24 credit hours
Pre-requisite: Foundations or Beyond Limits
EXPLORING ROOTS
The roots of Science of Mind run deep and wide through the religions, philosophies, literature and science of human-kind. This course provides the student with an understanding of the historical roots in America of Ernest Holmes’ philosophy. Specific emphasis will be given to the works of Thomas Troward, Emma Curtis Hopkins, and Ralph Waldo Emerson.
10 weeks: 30 credit hours
Pre-requisite: Foundations or Beyond Limits
EDINBURGH LECTURES
Expanded knowledge of spiritual principles as presented by Judge Thomas Troward (one of the most influential people to Ernest Holmes). Students & teachers create questions for the class to make discussions lively & relevant. A class designed to provide an in-depth walk with our life-changing philosophy.
8 weeks: 24 credit hours
VISIONING
Tuning in to Spirit’s activity in your life
Visioning is the practice of catching Spirit’s ideas as they unfold in your life. As you become more aware of Spirit working in your life, you readily turn to Spirit first before taking any action. Knowing how to ‘listen’ to Spirit’s ideas and how to differentiate between all the other messages that pass through our awareness becomes an important skill in living a spiritual life. Visioning is about the personal transformation that occurs when you let Spirit inform everything you do! In this class, you learn how to vision and experience the power of visioning with others.
8 weeks: 24 credit hours
Pre-requisite: Foundations or Beyond Limits
IGNITE YOUR LIFE WITH BIBLE WISDOM
Students are introduced to ways of interpreting stories (parables) from the Hebrew Bible as a foundation for understanding the teachings of Jesus. Involves reading, discussion, role-playing, problem-solving and creative arts.
10 weeks: 30 credit hours
Pre-requisite: Foundations or Beyond Limits
Practitioner Training Course Requirements
I. FOUNDATION LEVEL COURSEWORK
Choose One:
Beyond Limits
Change Your Thinking Change Your Life
Foundations of the Science of Mind
Spiritual Principles and Practices
II. ERNEST HOLMES PHILOSOPHY
The Essential Ernest Holmes
III. HISTORY/PHILOSOPHY COURSEWORK
Choose One:
Exploring Roots
From Whence We Came
IV. CONSCIOUSNESS
Choose Three
[Optional: Choose two and then one from the Electives category]
Building a Healing Consciousness (SOM 103)
Creative Process in the Individual
Meditation is More Than You Think
Mental Equivalents
Power of Your Word
Practical Mysticism
Revealing Wholeness (Spirit, Mind, Body)
Self-Mastery: The Emergence of the True Self
The Art and Science of Spiritual Mind Treatment
The Edinburgh Lectures (SOM 207)
Treatment and Meditation: Spiritual Practices for Daily Living
V. ELECTIVES
[May choose one in place of a Consciousness class]
5 Gifts for an Abundant Life
Ignite Your Life with Bible Wisdom
Journey of the Soul
Power of Decision
Principles of Successful Living
Prosperity Plus I ,II, III
Spiritual Economics
The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success
This Thing Called You
Treat Yourself to Life
Visioning