California Institute for Human Science: Comparative Religion & Philosophy Program

Academic Process	Masters Program
Current Course Schedule	Doctorate Program

Comparative Religion & Philosophy Program

The Institute offers a unique course of study in its Comparative Religion and Philosophy programs, based upon the life work of Dr. Hiroshi Motoyama. In brief, Dr. Motoyama holds that spiritual experience is an ontologically valid (i.e., real) dimension of human life which operates with but cannot be reduced to either the biological realm or the psychological realm (i.e., cannot be biologized or psychologized away, out of existence). This is the basis for the tridimensional model (body-mind-spirit) upon which Dr. Motoyama founded the Institute in 1992, after decades of research in “subtle energy" Ephenomena and personal meditation. Spiritual experience indicates a realm beyond organic mechanisms and everyday (that is, ordinary or conventional) psychological operations which can nonetheless yield on the scientific level to measurement and research and on the personal level to expert instruction and dedicated practice. The Institute’s programs in Comparative Religion and Philosophy provide the educational opportunity to study the scientific, social, and personal implications of an intellectual commitment to the spiritual realm as a real and ineliminable dimension of human existence. Such a course of study inevitably entails profound revisions in everyday Western commitments concerning reality, science, and human existence.