Sacred Stream

These workshops mimic individual counseling in that they seek to help students lend meaning to their every day experience. The Transpersonal Studies workshops follow the transitions in the human life cycle and seek to demonstrate the way in which these transitions are important pathways to deeper spiritual understanding. 

Anyone interested in expanding their consciousness and understanding themselves at a deeper level, particularly those interested in the human psyche and the nature of reality.

Students are helped to understand their life experience from the perspectives that can be gained by viewing the events and relationships in their lives as preparatory to the major human initiatory processes recognized by most spiritual traditions: those of birth and death. By examining the intermediate initiations contained in everyday experience, and by viewing that experience as preparation for death and birth, the student’s understanding of life is transformed.

The understandings regarding the development and preservation of personal power through the understanding of initiatory processes are drawn from earth-based shamanic traditions. The effort to understand humankind’s relationship with Gaia, the spirit of the Earth, is at the heart of much of the material in these workshops. However, Buddhist understandings regarding the evolution of consciousness also inform the program material, particularly in the area of interpersonal relationships.

In many ways, the Transpersonal Studies workshops touch on material that has been the purview of mystery school traditions for millennia. The workshops apply these understandings to modern experience in a way which deepens students’ connection with the roots of any spiritual tradition they practice.

Students have the opportunity to explore the nature of creativity and its tremendous capacity to transform experience. They also gain an understanding of the importance of maintaining personal power in relationship to others. They learn how important it is to undertake the task of holding onto personal responsibility in order to chart the kind of life they envision for themselves. They also develop the capacity to explore generally taboo subjects such as the nature of personal death.

Education and healing professionals have found that the broader perspectives provided by the Transpersonal Studies course work lend greater meaning to their path of service. Professionals in other fields have found that their interactions in the work place take on a meaning they had not understood before. All forms of interpersonal and personal engagement take on larger import as students begin to realize the potentials their personal experience opens to understanding some of life’s mysteries.