Advanced Intervention: Humanistic-Existential Weekend Intensive Seminar: Phenomenology. Spirituality, and the Paranormal   [Archived Catalog]
2011-2012 Academic Catalog and Student Handbook with Addendum
   

PY 4993 - Advanced Intervention: Humanistic-Existential Weekend Intensive Seminar: Phenomenology. Spirituality, and the Paranormal


This course is a weekend intensive, one-hour credit course that entails an overnight experience investigating paranormal phenomena.  The experience will provide students with an experiential education of researching what the existential psychiatrist, Karl Jasper, called "boundary situations," address afterlife issues related to death, dying, and trauma, and exploring how one moves through situations of potential fear, stress, and facing the unknown - experiences that are shared by others seen in therapeutic encounters faced with their own boundary situations.  We will also explore the comportment of "critical openness" to such boundary situations, and critically explore our positions on long-standing traditions regarding the existence of, and consultation with, the spirit world of surviving entities among various religious and cultural traditions.  Throughout our discussions, we will explore the relationship of the paranormal to transpersonal psychology, psychology and spirituality, trauma, loss, and mourning, and existential-phenomenological psychology. (1 credit)