In part, the human journey consists in the continual expansion, refinement, and heightening of consciousness in response to the challenges and opportunities of daily life. Over a series of many lifetimes, the ordinary human rises, step by step, from the limitations of narrow self-centeredness to the exalted heights of universal love and compassion.
"We can only speculate on the potential of the expansion of consciousness. We are told that there are great beings who contain within their consciousness entire solar systems, and even galaxies and beyond. In some distant future, we have may have such vast reaches of awareness ourselves. The contemplation of the starry sky gives some sense of the potential vastness of consciousness." [Extracted from Bridge to Superconsciousness]
Also see, Books On Consciousness, Sites On Consciousness, or our home page, spiritual-paths.com
The California Institute of Integral Studies is an accredited institution of higher learning that strives to embody spirit, intellect, and wisdom in service to individuals, communities, and the earth. The Institute advocates a critical, unbiased, and comparative approach to all concepts, encouraging an interdisciplinary approach that includes the integration of personal growth, scholarly work, and professional skills.
Programs include comparative and cross-cultural studies in philosophy, religion, psychology, counseling, cultural anthropology, drama therapy, expressive arts therapy, somatics, organizational studies, socially responsible business, health studies, and women's spirituality. M.A. and Ph.D. programs in these areas seek to ground the student in the traditional academic disciplines while also encouraging the investigation and integration of the less traditional esoteric and philosophical approaches. The goal is to articulate an integral form of knowledge drawing from multi-cultural perspectives. Undergraduate studies in the form of a B.A. Completion program are now available.
The Project Mind Foundation is an international, non-profit, humanitarian organization based on the 1993 book, PROJECT MIND, by T.Kun and has founding members in Australia, Canada, Colombia, Ecuador, France, Holland, India, Israel, Kenya, Malaysia, Mexico, Pakistan, Portugal, S. Korea, the U.K., and the U.S.A. Our preliminary statement of purpose is: "to free the human spirit from the crushing illusion of materialism by using the transformative genius latent in all humans, to eliminate real and addictive lack."
We are in the process of forming a radically creative "mind tank" to systematically generate holistic scientific breakthroughs. This is the first concrete proposal for reconciling outer and inner paradigms ("science and spirit") in a balanced, high-energy synthesis that preserves the essentials of both.
The purpose of the Intuition Network is to help create a world in which all people feel encouraged to cultivate and use their inner, intuitive resources. The Intuition Network offers opportunities for networking among individuals who are interested in cultivating and applying intuition. This networking takes place via phone and fax, newsletters, journals and magazines, radio and television, small group gatherings, conferences in "cyberspace," conferences in hotels, and international travel and spiritual retreats.
MSIA, the Movement of Spiritual Inner Awareness, offers an approach to living that focuses on how to incorporate spirituality into your everyday life, not as a theory, but as a practical reality. We call it "practical spirituality." MSIA provides a variety of workable keys and techniques to assist people, regardless of their background, in their quest for greater understanding of who they are and their relationship with God.
One of the basic concepts of MSIA is that each person walks his or her own path home to God. However, there are techniques and signposts that can assist all of us to make our journey easier, simpler, and certainly more filled with happiness and joy.
For 25 years, the Institute of Noetic Sciences has been at the forefront of research and education in consciousness and human potential. From the beginning we have pursued this inquiry through rigorous science.
We honor open-minded approaches and strive to bring discernment to our work. We are not a spiritual sect, political-action group, or single cause institute.
We are a nonprofit membership organization that both conducts and sponsors research into the workings and powers of the mind, including perceptions, beliefs, attention, intention, and intuition. We are bold enough to inquire about phenomena that don't fit into the conventional scientific model. We educate the public about the latest findings through our publications, conferences and website; and we support community building by providing ways for members and colleagues to share their experiences and ideas with one another through community groups, online discussion groups, our Pathfinding project, and other networking opportunities.
The Institute for Transpersonal Psychology is a private, accredited, non-sectarian graduate school offering residential and distance-learning degree programs for professional, educational, and personal growth. Its unique curriculum focuses on six core areas of inquiry: the intellectual, emotional, spiritual, physical, social and creative.
The Jung Page was founded in 1995 to encourage new psychological ideas and conversations about what it means to be human in our time and place. Any worthwhile psychological theory will change with the changing conditions of life.
Currently, the Jung Page has three areas of primary focus:
Introduction to C.G. Jung: To provide an introduction to Jung's work and to make Jungian resources--scheduled events, web sites, articles, etc.--more available
Jungian Analysis: To build a library of quality articles in Jungian psychology and psychoanalysis and to gather resources for people with a professional interest in Jungian work
Psychology and Culture: To cultivate psychological reflection on subjects that we feel deserve much more attention, such as technology, climate, environmental change, popular culture, etc.
http://www.sangha.net/partners.htm
This site is devoted to the idea of World Brotherhood achieved through advancement of three Cosmic Principles: Love, Knowledge and Beauty.
Maitreya Sangha, a New Era Internet Center, serves as an information clearinghouse on various resources related to World Brotherhood, especially of spiritual and philosophical dimension.
Focusing is a kind of inward bodily attention that a few people have naturally, but which most people don't yet know. It isn't being in touch with emotions or feelings and it isn't guessing or figuring things out in your head about yourself. It is a way of getting a body sense -- we call it a FELT SENSE -- of how you are in a particular life situation. This is unclear and vague at first, but if you pay attention it will open up into words or images that often will lead to small steps of change, action and new thought. It usually takes a few days of instruction to learn it. General descriptions do not convey focusing.
The book Focusing describes six steps of focusing in a way most people can easily follow. You can try these six steps right now by following the instructions given in one of the following web pages. This home page, and the description of these steps, have been translated into Dutch and Deutsch and seven other languages: French, Spanish, Danish, Finnish, Japanese, Swedish and Hungarian.
The Focusing Institute was founded in 1986 as a not-for-profit organization whose purpose is to help make focusing available to the public and to the international scholarly community through teaching, research and written materials. The Institute has trained Focusing teachers around the world who do workshops and give individual teaching sessions.