CIHS is an accredited, nonprofit graduate university and research center that dares to ask the big questions.
At CIHS, we investigate defining issues of the 21st century. Our programs inhabit the frontier of science, consciousness, technology, and human development, and we strive to give students a deep understanding of the nature of reality and the skills to contribute meaningfully to our global society.
California Institute for Human Science
Why Choose CIHS?
CIHS combines institutional accreditation, nonprofit affordability, innovative fields of study, and an accessible online format for students drawn to our research-informed programs in Psychology, Integral Health, Integral Noetic Sciences, and Artificial General Intelligence.
CIHS is accredited by the WASC Senior College and University Commission, reflecting high standards of academic quality and institutional integrity.
CIHS offers affordable graduate education with transparent tuition and a nonprofit mission, helping students pursue advanced study without the high cost associated with many private universities.
CIHS programs are led and taught by recognized scholars, researchers, practitioners, and pioneers in frontier fields of consciousness, health, technology, and human development.
CIHS programs are offered online with live, faculty-led class sessions that support connection, dialogue, and community while allowing students to pursue their degree from home.
Choose from our innovative graduate offerings below.
Explore clinical, integral, transpersonal, positive, and consciousness-oriented approaches to psychology.
Study health through the interrelationship of body, mind, spirit, culture, science, and contemplative practice.
Investigate consciousness, subtle energy, anomalous experience, esoteric traditions, wisdom design, and expanded models of reality.
Explore AI, cognition, consciousness, ethics, AGI safety, and responsible innovation in the first accredited graduate program dedicated specifically to artificial general intelligence.
Concentration Spotlight
Selected concentrations highlight CIHS’s unique strengths while keeping the individual degree-program pathways easy to find and explore.
An interdisciplinary concentration exploring psychedelic studies, consciousness, healing, transformation, and integrative approaches to human development.
A focused concentration for students drawn to anomalous experience, consciousness studies, psychical research, and expanded models of mind.
A specialized path for students interested in Yoga Therapy, mind-body health, contemplative traditions, and integrative approaches to wellness.
Connect with admissions to explore the degree program or concentration that best matches your interests and goals.
CIHS in Action
Explore CIHS conference stories featuring world-class thinkers at the leading edge of consciousness, quantum science, artificial intelligence, and the future of human knowledge.
At CIHS’s 2023 hybrid conference, Sir Roger Penrose, whose 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics recognized his landmark work on black holes, joined remotely from Oxford to explore consciousness, time, retrocausation, and consciously controlled action.
Hartmut Neven, founder of Google’s Quantum AI Lab, delivered the in-person keynote at CIHS on whether quantum operations may be necessary and sufficient to create sentience.
At the California Institute for Human Science, we are inspired by the principles and philosophy of our founder and first President, Dr. Hiroshi Motoyama. Dr. Motoyama’s life was directed toward laying the foundations for the emergence of a new integrative worldview wherein the insights derived from religion, spirituality, and science could be harmonized and unified. Specifically, Dr. Motoyama held that the materialistic universe disclosed by twentieth century science is but one aspect of a broader and deeper cosmos that includes spiritual dimensions. He taught that the human being consists of body, mind, soul, and spirit, and that humanity’s deepest essence is love and wisdom. All human beings have an inherent capability to achieve oneness with God and to realize the underlying emptiness of the Absolute.
The CIHS’ Center for Anomalous and Noetic Studies (CANS), Worldwide Initiative for Super Experiencer Research (WISER) has launched its next major global research survey.
This WISER research project aims to bring a new level of academic rigor and methodological sophistication to the study of anomalous, extraordinary, and noetic experiences that people have (often on a much more regular basis than is acknowledged!).
The current survey is the next phase of a global research effort to better understand individuals who have had multiple types of anomalous or noetic experiences. These may include: Expanded self, Mystical, Near-death experiences (NDEs), Noetic dreams, Nonhuman intelligence (NHI) / Nonphysical human (NPH) encounters, Out-of-body experiences (OBEs), Paranormal, Permeable self, Psychic, Unidentified Flying Object (UFO) / Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) encounters, and related experiences.
“CIHS is the best graduate school. I love the emphasis on scientific rigor and spirituality, and the integration of personal growth in each class. The professors are amazing and the administration is committed to the success and growth of each student. CIHS is an integral school that encourages multiple perspectives. If you want to grow not just academically but personally and spiritually, as well, come check out CIHS.”
“Receiving higher education from an institute such as CIHS was the most transformative journey of my life. Academic rigor paired with spiritual awakening, psychological healing, and professional development put me through the wringer. I had never felt more complete, whole, and connected to the higher truths that I had never known I already knew. At the same time, my entire worldview was shaken and flipped upside down. I have come to see life, existence, and the perception of the physical world in an entirely new way. I have come to understand, witness and meet the force of nature that underlies human consciousness, that is to the extent of my own pscyho-spiritual evolution.”
“CIHS has provided me with opportunities to understand psychology in a grounded scientific way, simultaneously exploring life, healing, and consciousness. CIHS is an ideal setting for those who are motivated to contribute to the evolution and progression of academic engagement, experiential learning, and research, and an equally supportive environment for healing practitioners seeking to deepen their skills and add to their credentials, where a multitude of perspectives are accepted and integrated, from wisdom traditions, to clinical understandings, to transpersonal awareness and beyond.”
“CIHS has been an incredible experience so far, both academically and personally. I have found a “home” here where I can study consciousness and subtle energy in ways I couldn’t at previous graduate institutions. The students, faculty, and administration are amazing and have such diverse backgrounds and interests. I can’t wait to see how the school continues to evolve and grow!.”
“I am so pleased with my recent PhD from CIHS. Nowhere else could I have achieved such a blended education of psychology, spirituality, and consciousness. The instructors were all well qualified and knowledgeable and assignments were reasonable. CIHS gave me the confidence I needed to expand my private practice. I also have now begun running international retreats. I feel well prepared to present myself as an expert in the field.”
Transform yourself and your world through a variety of online and in-person continuing education seminars and events dedicated to exploring topics central to CIHS’s mission.
