California Institute for Human Science: Academic Programs: Overview

CRP 504 Spiritual Education

The seminal work of Dr. Motoyama as scientist, scholar and spiritual teacher contributes to his pioneering work on the integral nature of human beings, built both on meditation and the mystical experience and the integration of religion and science. This spiritual education course will address both theoretical foundations as well as provide instruction in yogic techniques that can be used to progressively awaken the different charkas. In addition, instruction will be offered to help practitioners avoid possible pitfalls and dangers that may occur in the process of awakening, and teachings will be provided to avoid their occurrence. Described below are the modules and units included in this spiritual education course:

1) Meridian Exercises (How to activate Chi energy and obtain a healthy body and mind) (2 units)

2) Basic Spiritual Training (2 units)

3) Awakening Chakras and Enlightenment (How to awaken the Chakras and attain the spiritual evolution) (2 units)

4) Difference Between Hallucination and True Spiritual Experience (2 units)

5) Stages of Evolution and Superconsciousness (2 units)

6) Advanced Spiritual Evolution and Its Stages (2 units)

7) Karma and Reincarnation (2 units)

8) Transcendental Action and Love (2 units)

9) The Science of How to Verify the Existence of Spirits and Chakras using the AMI (4 units)

10) What is Religion? (2 units)

11) Five Paradigms Concerning our Relationship with Nature (2 units)

12) Seemorg Matrix Basics: Energy Healing (4 units)

13) Pranic Healing (4 units)

Introduction to the Modules

The “Spiritual Centered Education Course” is required for all students in every program. CIHS teaches students that human beings consist of body, mind, and spirit. Spirit is perpetually the most essential aspect to be cultivated. The body and mind connection ceases to exist after death. However, the spirit (soul) endures to exist beyond material time and space until the spirit (soul) transcends the individual ego to reach a Superconsciousness. This is the unification of the individual with the sacred, and ultimately with God.

Spirit (superconsciousness) has extrasensory perception and intuitive understanding (i.e., God’s wisdom) of the essence of matter and phenomena, as well as creativity. Both intuition and wisdom are supported by love which fosters everything. Persons who awaken to spirit as well as those who do not awaken, yet live according to their own spirit in self (true self) are able to live in harmony with others and nature. To inspire students who understand this and live according to this principle is the main purpose of CIHS.

(1) Meridian Exercises

Each physical cell begins to be bound together by the connective tissues around the cells from the time of the germination (embryonic) layers, which before differentiation forms into organs and tissues.

It is this connective tissue in which the meridians exist and Ki flows. Meridians and Ki are the most important system for the physical body. Meridians are the channels of Ki energy through which the Ki energy is delivered to cells. Chinese acupuncture and Indian Yoga traditions have ascertained the existence of 13 to 32 meridians or nadhis from their clinical experience.

The meridian exercises release the stagnation of Ki flow in the meridian systems and prevents disease by letting Ki flow and activating (energizing) the cells of the physical body. These exercises are very effective not only for keeping healthy body balance but also for experiencing deep meditation, which is attained only after perfect balance of Ki energy in the body.

(2) Basic spiritual training

This course provides the students with practice of the meridian exercises in order to balance the Ki energy. Students are taught to sit with siddhasana (the half lotus pose) or padmasana (the lotus pose) and other sitting positions. In addition students are taught the pranayama, which is designed to take prana (spiritual energy) into the body by breathing with intention.

This course teaches the technique of concentrating on the chakras, to achieve activation through gathering the Ki into the charkas. Utilizing this technique will open the student to view and intuit the spiritual worlds as a reality instead of an illusion.

(3) How to awaken the charkas and attain the spiritual evolution

The course “Basic spiritual training” is prerequisite for this course. This course teaches how to awaken the chakra activated with Ki energy into the spiritual realm and how to integrate the shakti (physical energy) and prana (spiritual energy) at each chakra.

When each chakra is awakened in the astral dimension, spiritual light and color appear, and spiritual sound is heard. Then the practitioner perceives a yantra and obtains extra- sensory perception (ESP). During this phase the practitioner gradually recognizes that what he or she intuits with his/her ESP is closely related with the facts in the physical world. The practitioner can also influence material phenomena with spiritual energy. A healthy physical condition is kept by controlling the organ functions with spiritual energy. In addition others’ minds and hearts can be understood with compassion.

It is the aim of this course to encourage students to experience these phenomena.

(4) Difference between hypnotic hallucination and true spiritual experience

During the stage of concentration and meditation, the various complexes that have accumulated in the unconscious will gradually be purged. The contents of the unconscious rises to the surface of the consciousness, because the power of normal consciousness has been weakened as a result of the act of concentration. Most of the contents are made up of instinctive, impulsive desires and emotion and these appear one after another without any order. These contents have no relation to reality and they are subjective hallucinations.

Practitioners usually experience tentative unstable mind conditions and tend to suffer from neurosis.If the practitioner observes them calmly as an onlooker, the contents loses its power and calms down. This calm state is called shunya. If the practitioner successfully focuses his/her empty (shunya) mind to God, the sublimination (aufheben) from God will happen. Then, the practitioner awakens to the spiritual realm. The things seen and experienced in the spiritual dimension are always related to phenomena in the material world and have concrete connections. This is the essence of Jung’s synchronicity.

(5) Stages of Evolution and Superconsciousness

There are many steps in spiritual evolution. In this course students will study the moral training of Yama and Niyama as an important preparatory step. The next step is to balance the Ki energy in the body and practice pranayama which aims to experience God’s life-force energy (prana), found pervasively in the Universe. Through refined concentration and meditation the practitioner can attain energy balance in the body. Through the state of no thought and imagination in mind (syunya), a practitioner may be able to trust God on every aspect of life and death. At that point then God uplifts one to a higher dimension. Astral projection or rarely karana projection may occur during this stage. The practitioner can awake to the spiritual dimension and experience Samadhi being unified with the spirit(s) of astral or karana.

In this course, practitioners will learn to achieve ESP or PK which enable practitioners to gain control over the material phenomena with their psychic power. Teachings will be given about the subtle ego possession of these states to avoid becoming egocentric, and learn how to attain unification with the state of karana and become egoless. This is a function of superconsciousness where it is possible to love others with compassion and help society. Its creative power can be used to improve both the spiritual and material world. In karana spirit a superconsciousness awakens as a true self.

(6) Advanced spiritual evolution and its stages

This course explains in detail, based on Motoyama’s own spiritual experience, what is karana superconsciousness accompanied with compassion, altruistic, love, freedom, wisdom and creativity, and how this egoless state of being is different from egoistic astral spirits. The course teaches concrete techniques to attain superconsciousness by showing the criteria for each stage and the way to overcome the fear of demonic or shadow aspects in each stage.

(7) Karma and Reincarnation

Most religions in Asia, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Taoism teach reincarnation with explicit examples. Karma refers to a cause-effect relationship, which means every action is a cause that produces an effect, which in turn causes some action, yielding a subsequent effect. The theory of karma is established on the premise that reincarnation aims to encourage spiritual growth. Within this context, the theory of karma cannot be explained in the Christian, Islamic and Jewish religions which emphasize God’s omniscience and omnipotence.

However, Christianity and Judaism teach reincarnation. There are inferences in the esoteric Christian traditions such as those found in the Gnostics as well as in the Gospel of Matthew.

Freewill of human beings and actions based on will should be acknowledged as an aspect of our human potential. Human beings can experience the unification with God through the action based on will. There is a separation between human beings and God but this gap can be overcome. Human beings and God are the same in the sense that both have their origin in the absolute. Buddhism calls this bussho, or Buddha nature. Dr. Motoyama intuits clearly the examples of reincarnation with his superconsciousness and verifies the reincarnation into physical condition and character with the AMI.

(8) Transcendental action and love

Religious cultivation of such practices as meditation, transcendental action (chosaku) and love are the most skillful ways to break the shell of ego identity. One becomes free to perform creative and altruistic activities for others through expanded transcendental consciousness. And experience God’s love and wisdom.

Transcendental action occurs when we forget our small concerns and with strong concentration and prayers for the others help them without expecting any positive outcome for ourselves. We therefore awaken to a sense of true-self, freedom, love, compassion, and creativity. There is a Christian expression that suggests this: “if we learn to give of ourselves, to forgive others, and to live with thanksgiving, we need not seek happiness – ‘it will find us.’” This way of living is transcendental action.

9) The science to verify the existence of spirit and charkas by the AMI

There are two ways to verify objectively the existence of spirit. One is to see in the state of Samadhi the truths kept in the soul, which cause his/her reincarnation. Those factors appear in the superconsciousness as a figure in a past life, a place where the person lived in the past life, etc. If one can verify those facts by investigating the place where actual temples and shrines were built, the name of persons and parents in the past life in ancient writings, etc. then it is clear that the soul transmigrates from past life to after death and continues to incarnate in the present life. However, only psychics and saints can see the soul with intuition or ESP so this is indirect proof for the person who does not have the ability to see the essence of the soul.

The second way is through a scientific experience. In an experiment by Dr. Motoyama, he sees which spiritual energy center is activating in a person with his psychic perception. He sends the spiritual energy to the awakened chakra in the person and utilizes the AMI to measure how Ki energy increases in the meridian in the related chakra. This experiment proves several things; the existence of chakras, how with ESP one can see a chakra, and the chakra as a center to transform spiritual energy to Ki energy. It also proves the close correlation between one specific chakra and the meridians.

10) What is Religion?

Human beings have been pursuing material-rich and spiritual-based life since human being was born about 4,000,000 years ago. In this era, it may be the first time some human beings experience such a material-rich life. On the other hand, the pursuit of spiritual growth seems to have declined in the last few decades in the west because of infatuation with material life and misunderstandings of religious views. However, people have been thinking again about what religion is after the terrorist attack of September 11^th, 2001.

Behind terrorism there are conflicts among the religions due to cultural differences. As seen in the Crusades, and other ‘holy wars’, religious war is deeply rooted and difficult to solve. This course teaches how the differences among the religions are formed and how the doctrine found in each religion is not absolute but relative. The one sided faith in absoluteness in doctrine and lack of relative understanding towards other religions are the main cause of the conflicts.

It is the purpose of this course to explore what a religion is and ask the questions: Can a religion integrate all doctrines thus transcending religious conflicts? And, what is the absolute and the relative in religion?

11) Five Paradigms Concerning our Relationship with Nature

This course explores our relationship with nature as a foundation of all that we honor, learn and research at CIHS. We will inquire into 5 worldviews that span a continuum of possibilities of our relationship with nature: our own true nature and the rest of nature. The five stations along the spectrum are:

Ø Control, expansionism and exploitation of nature~ (our Industrial Growth Society).

Ø Stewardship, utilitarianism and the use of nature

Ø Home, intrinsic value and the love of nature

Ø Nature as Self

Ø No relationship between human and nature is possible: (no subject/object)

From our study, there may arise a natural commitment to use what is learned for the benefit of all sentient life. This is an opportunity to acknowledge ‘our place in the family of things.’ and cultivate our ecological selves.

12) Seemorg Matrix Basics: Energy Healing:

An opportunity to transform traumatic residues and negative character structures into positive ones, provide individuals with lasting relief from a range of intractable psychological disorders, physical diseases, allergenic symptoms and spiritual impasses. This is accomplished through learning how to access unconscious material through ideomotor cueing (muscle testing) and moving energy through the body’s major charkas to eliminate symptoms, their cause and effects. This course will provide healing through lecture, demonstration and small group participation using step by step ready made protocols applied in a supervised practice setting.

13) Pranic Healing

Pranic Healing is a comprehensive integrated energy based healing system that utilizes prana to facilitate the body’s innate ability to heal. Developed by Master Choa Kok Sui, it is a synthesis of the world’s most effective healing systems. It utilizes a no-touch step-by-step methodology to cleanse, energize and balance the energy field to enhance physical and psychological well-being. This course provides both theory and practice, preparing the participant to interact confidently with subtle energy to promote health and well-being.