a new kind of graduate program

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Applications are now being accepted for Fall admission to the graduate

program in Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness at the California

Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco. The California

Institute of Integral Studies is a fully accredited graduate school

committed to the integration of mind, body, and spirit, offering M.A.

and Ph.D. degrees.

A growing consensus of scientists, scholars, and visionaries now

recognizes that the Earth Community is facing a challenge unparalleled

in the past sixty-five million years. Ecological destruction and other

crises of modernity call for a fundamental reinvention of our

civilization, including a transformation of both the structures of our

institutions and the orientations of our own consciousness.

The Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness (PCC) Program has been

designed to shape the intellectual, moral, and spiritual leadership

necessary for meeting this unprecedented challenge. Drawing upon some

of the most powerful ideas and impulses of our philosophical,

scientific, and religious traditions, the PCC faculty have constructed

an intensive multidisciplinary course of study that will accelerate

the journey into your particular leadership role within this great

work.

The PCC Program supports those called to this great work in three

distinct but related areas:

(1) by offering new perspectives and paradigms, including the emerging

new cosmology as well as cultural, psychospiritual, and eco-social

accounts of who we are, where we've come from, and where we might be

heading:

(2) by training students to think and see in terms of world views, and

to assess their relative merits through a deeper grasp of cultural

history and contemporary critiques;

(3) by modeling a new way of thinking and being that resists the

paradigm of fragmentation and reductionism that continues to reign

within the dominant culture.

Specific fields of inquiry include interdisciplinary cosmology, depth

psychology, evolutionary science, cultural history, religious studies,

metaphysics, history of ideas, evolution of consciousness, archetypal

studies, esoteric thought, mythology, transpersonal theory, new

paradigm studies, ecology, feminism, and the changing relationship

between science and spirituality.

Another way forward is possible. Transformation of the entire human

project is possible. The PCC Program is dedicated to this crucial

evolutionary task.

Faculty include Stanislav Grof, , , Joanna

Macy, McDermott, Charlene Spretnak, Swimme,

Tarnas, and Ulansey.

For further information visit the Philosophy, Cosmology, and

Consciousness web site at:

http://pcc.ciis.edu

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