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The following courses are offered for credit, and are part of the required curriculum for Religious Science Practitioner study. Most accredited classes are open to anyone, including those who are not pursuing Practitioners study.

New Foundations
Meditation is More Than You Think
The Power of Your Word
Visioning
The Essential Ernest Holmes
Roots of Science of Mind
Bible Wisdom Class
Self-Mastery
Mind, Body, Spirit Connection
Financial Freedom
Practitioner Training

New Foundations
Foundations Class is a ten-week class of self-discovery and revelation within an experiential format of lecture, discussion, sharing and process. In this all-new Foundations class, learn the nine spiritual principles and practices that will change your life for the better forever. This class provides a container for the discovery of your emerging direction and purpose and how to make it happen. It is an adventure with other like-minded individuals in a safe, supportive environment. You can learn to make your dreams a Reality!

Meditation is More Than You Think
This course offers information about meditation: some of the effects most often realized, some pitfalls to avoid, some quotations, and most importantly, some examples of meditation styles. Each participant will metaphorically smell the air, enjoy the scenery and experience different kinds of meditation so as to choose one (or more) to use as a regular spiritual practice.

The Power of Your Word
This eight-week experiential course teaches the fundamentals of prayer. You’ll learn why life-affirming prayer is answered and how it is answered. You’ll learn how to pray effectively and become aware of how you limit and interrupt your own prayers. When you complete this class, you’ll have new prayer tools to work with. Prerequisite: Foundations course

Visioning
Purpose and Objectives:

• To awaken to the transformational nature of Visioning;
  
• To learn the Visioning process:
  
  • Personal
    
  • Group or Community
    
  • Planetary
    
• To understand the organic nature of manifestation, and
  
• To be aware of its implementation in our spiritual community.

The Essential Ernest Holmes
This course delves into all of Ernest Holmes’ writings—his devotional works as well as his impassioned teachings to future leaders. His love of people and facility for seeing past their problems into the heart of their eternal being anticipates modern psychology, while relating the human condition to a limitless ability to choose what to think and how to feel. Ideal for everyone, from the inquisitive newcomer to the future Practitioner, this class is a joyous experience in personal unfoldment.

Roots of Science of Mind
The two-fold purpose of this course is to first bring into sharper focus our grasp of SOM fundamentals by exploring the soil in which Holmes’ ideas took root; and second, to savor with pure enjoyment the richness of  the rational, philosophical, and mystical concepts of these three great writers: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Thomas Troward and Emma Curtis Hopkins.

Bible Wisdom Class
Jesus used short stories called parables to convey profound spiritual truths. The parables charge our spiritual journey with energy and our soul with light. During this course, there is an introduction to ways to interpret stories from the Hebrew Bible, as a foundation for understanding the teachings of Jesus. Students bring the ancient parables to life, and relate them to the challenges of today’s world as they engage in discussions, role-playing, and problem-solving exercises, as well as creative arts expressions.

Self-Mastery
The Self-Mastery class focuses on healing the perceived separation between personality and Spirit. Through an active exploration of the creative nature of thoughts and feelings, beliefs and emotions, the students have an opportunity to gain mastery in the art of living as a conscious, intentional being.

Principles for Successful Living

Mind, Body, Spirit Connection
Learn to have a greater understanding of how the mind and body are connected and the importance that consciousness plays in the healing process. This class begins with Spiritual Principle and explores emotional issues surrounding the body. It emphasizes effective prayer and the importance of releasing old concepts of duality and disease. Mind, body, Spirit Connection is for individuals who desire a deeper understanding of the process in healing.

Financial Freedom
This popular class contains in-depth material that allows the participant to examine their personal belief systems and to gain a new perspective of how these choices impact their financial affairs.  The interplay of thought, emotion, desire, action, and spiritual understanding all work together to create a new level of well-being and abundance in your life.

Practitioner Training: Year One — "Living the Principles"
The first year of the Professional Practitioner Studies is devoted to advancing spiritual awareness, enhancing the student's understanding of his/her relation to the universe, and expanding the student's consciousness of Oneness. This course prepares the student to live life more fully in Spiritual integrity using Spiritual principles to demonstrate Truth.

The year is divided into three 10-week terms:

1. "How Life Gets to Be the Way It Is," based on the Law of Cause and Effect
2. "Living the Life of Choice," based on the Creative Process in the Individual
3. "Living Life Fully," devoted entirely to the expansion of consciousness

Class work includes reading, written assignments, experiential activities, journaling, and expanded spiritual practices. Term papers, a class project, and examinations are required.

Practitioner Training: Year Two — "The Life of the Professional Practitioner"
The second year of Professional Practitioner Studies is about “The Life of the Professional Practitioner,” and focuses on the consciousness, the skills, and responsibilities of the Professional Practitioner, as well as the relationship of the Professional Practitioner to the principles we teach, to the client, to the process in healing, to the spiritual center, the community and the world.”
 
The second year is divided into 3 terms:

1. “Professional Skills & Responsibilities”
2. ”Spiritual healing”
3. ”Dedication, Commitment & Service”

This is a year of continuing to grow in consciousness, while at the same time developing the art and skill of being of service to others. Practitioner Students will be well qualified and prepared to take their ministry out into the world, to teach the Truth & to heal humanity & our beloved planet. Enjoy the Journey
 
Prerequisite: Practitioner I Studies