Conscious Evolution
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An In-Depth Exploration of New Paradigms

Conscious Evolution is a 36-credit Masters of Arts degree program that provides the full scope of exploration in consciousness studies from science to spirituality.  The transdisciplinary curriculum includes quantum physics, complexity and chaos theories, AQAL integral theory, neuropsychology, holographic mind theory, the philosophy of consciousness, Akashic field theory, morphic resonance theory, transformative education, art and expression, transpersonal and depth psychology, postformal ego development theory, the paradigm of Nonduality and Oneness, and spiritual systems including shamanism, esotericism, and Eastern alchemy.  

The Conscious Evolution program takes a hard look at the problems besetting the world -- from climate change to unsustainable living to poverty -- and asks where a source for solutions can be found. Recalling Einstein’s dictum, “No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it,” a major focus of the Conscious Evolution program is the study and experience of the evolution of consciousness. The program studies the principles of evolution, in which it is noted that crisis invariably leads to a bifurcation point of breakdown or breakthrough, thus resulting in a higher evolutionary stage. 
 
Up until now, evolution has proceeded automatically based on the laws of nature. However, nature often ‘kicks it up a notch’ – from atoms to molecules, from molecules to instinctual life, and from instinctual life to conscious life. We now know that we know, and can co-create with nature to influence the evolution of consciousness and culture through inner development and outer action. Thus the next phase of evolution will occur consciously.
 
The Transformation of Self and Society
  
The Conscious Evolution program explores a new story of the universe. It transcends the mechanistic paradigm of an “accidental universe” known as materialism and recognizes the need to create a new story of the living universe -- a universe that has meaning and purpose. Through conscious inner development and personal growth that leads to an evolution of consciousness, we can become co-creators with Universal Intelligence in shaping a new tomorrow. Part of the Conscious Evolution curriculum involves identifying one’s soul mission in this time of historic paradigmatic transition.
 
Through the study of ecology, participants examine the methods that have propelled nature’s evolutionary journey, in which the universe continues to reveal greater complexity, freedom, and consciousness. To accomplish this, learners engage in the inner work of personal and group transformational practices, which fosters greater self awareness and contributes to the potential for an integral or unitive consciousness.
 
We apply these insights in the construction of a new worldview through a Commencing Project of your choice.  Through inner development and co-creative partnership with Universal Intelligence, a change agent (you!) finds his or her soul mission to create change. Using evolutionary tools, we seek the leverage point to create change in an organization, thus becoming part of the breakthrough rather than the breakdown. 
 
 
Transformative Education
 
The Conscious Evolution program provides a cohort style learning community that enriches the mind and spirit in a communion of collective intellectual and intuitional growth. Intellectual and epistemological development is facilitated and observed through the transformative practices of journaling, meditation, and Bohmian dialogue. Colleagues have frequently described their experience in the program as key to their ongoing transformation. 

Unique Faculty

Our faculty members are dedicated scholars in the emerging field of Conscious Evolution. Colleagues engage with faculty – who are often the authors of the books and texts that we study – through dialogue, seminars and experiential practices.
 
Program Highlights
  • Study of consciousness, the evolution of consciousness, and conscious evolution
     
  • Exploration of inner development leading to the conscious evolution of self and society
     
  • Application of principles in conscious evolution through action research to affect personal and global transformation
     

 

     
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