PUBLIC PROGRAMS

Peace Theological Seminary provides spiritual education classes to the general public to enhance an awareness of Spirit. In these classes, students have the opportunity to gain a greater understanding, acceptance, and loving of themselves and others. We invite you to join with us in expanding your consciousness, embracing your joy, and allowing grace to lead the way in your life. These courses are offered in classroom and chatroom/electronic mail formats.

AWAKENING TO SPIRIT

One-Day or Five-Week Class

This course focuses on fundamental techniques and keys students can use to awaken to Spirit in a greater way. In the five-week version, students are also given opportunities to experience active meditation and spiritual exercises as taught in MSIA.

DETACHMENT/FREEDOM

One-Evening Workshop

Students explore how attachment to a point of view, old habit, or behavior can lock them into something that is no longer serving their highest good. They then learn to detach from those things that have been limiting them and to open themselves to experience the true freedom upon which Spirit rides.

EXPLORING SPIRIT IN EVERYDAY LIFE

One-Evening Workshop

This workshop presents seven tools for spiritual living that are directly applicable to our everyday lives. Students learn more about letting go and letting God direct their lives for our highest good and chanting the names of God to attune themselves to the Spirit within and raise their consciousnesses on a daily basis. Prayer becomes a dynamic and participatory activity. Listening to the Spirit within, forgiving ourselves and others, and unconditional loving can lift us and head us in God's direction.

FORGIVENESS

One-Evening Workshop or Five-Week Class or E-mail Class

In this class, students experience the value of forgiveness as a daily exercise in creating more loving in their lives. Forgiveness gives the opportunity to participate in life as a statement of caring, sharing and nurturing. By practicing forgiveness, students take authority over themselves and realize that there is never a good reason to withdraw loving.

GRATITUDE

One-Evening Workshop

In this class, students find something to be grateful for, explore how gratitude moves energy, and how negativity dissolves in the presence of gratitude. Students have the opportunity to experience how gratitude opens the heart and reveals loving.

INTRODUCTION TO THE CHRIST WITHIN

One-Evening Workshop

This workshop is designed to offer an experience of the student's own divine nature and of his oneness with God. It does not matter what religious background he might be. It does not even matter if he really believes in God or not, because this workshop does not deal with beliefs. It deals with a reality that students can experience directly with the willingness to be open to that experience.

INTRODUCTION TO THE MASTER OF SPIRITUAL SCIENCE PROGRAM

One-Evening Introduction to the Masters Program

See page 6 for a description of the PTS Masters Program.

INTRODUCTION TO THE THREE SELVES

One-Evening Workshop

The three selves work together through channels of communication to help us awaken to our Soul: The High Self, the keeper of the life plan, will send information about the life blueprint down to the Basic Self, and the Basic Self will filter it up to the Conscious Self through the unconscious and subconscious. Students learn an introduction to the benefits of keeping these channels of communication open between the three selves.

LIVING IN LIGHT

One-Evening Workshop

This workshop is for students who want to learn how to work with the Light to deepen their experience of Spirit.

LIVING WITH SPIRIT

(One-Day Workshop)

What is Spirit? Students explore the expressions that contribute to a greater experience of Spirit and the many ways that Spirit manifests in their daily lives. In this process of discovery, they can find keys to working with Spirit to create more peace and joy.

LOVING RELATIONSHIPS

One-Evening Workshop

In this introductory workshop, we look at our relationship with ourselves as a way to start enhancing our relationships with others and indeed with God. Students learn more about themselves as a loving partner to their own consciousness, to significant others in their lives, and to God.

MEDITATIONS FOR INNER AWARENESS

One Evening Workshop or 5-Week Class

Often looked upon as a passive and sometimes boring pursuit, meditation is presented in this introductory workshop as the vital, active, and exciting process it can be. The material in this workshop and class transforms the ancient practices of meditation into valuable and practical resources for coping with modern life and is a vehicle for gaining personal experience in traveling the inner worlds of consciousness.

MOMENTUM

5-Week Class

This is an introductory course on practical spirituality. Participants will have the opportunity to immerse themselves in a loving and supportive environment in which they will explore how they can experience more success and fulfillment in their relationships, career, or job, finances and health.

MONEY—THE GREAT MIRROR OF CONSCIOUSNESS

(Five-Week Class)

This course focuses on money as a tool of awareness. By becoming aware of how money affects us on many different levels, and how belief systems, such as parental and religious influences, have layered themselves into our consciousness, we can become more aware of ourselves and what runs us. Our willingness to look coupled with the practical steps offered in the course gives us the opportunity to step into greater freedom. Our relationship with money impacts our lives whether we like it or not, thus it becomes a "Great Mirror of Consciousness." This course is about using that mirror to lift us higher.

OPENING TO GRACE

One-Day Workshop

In this class, students look at how they perceive themselves. They explore how they can have clarity of purpose so that, regardless of outer circumstances, they can experience God as their partner, and grace can be extended to them in greater ways.

THE POWER WITHIN YOU (Five-Week Class)

"The very fact that you are here—alive, breathing and circulating blood through your veins, indicates that you are able to create your life successfully. Remember that you have been creating your life all along. You don't have to make any radical changes in order to begin to take conscious responsibility for your life. Explore new approaches that might work even better for you than those you are using now."

—From The Power Within You by John-Roger

This class explores new methods to achieve both inner and outer success. Students learn techniques to create their outer lives in such a way as to reflect their inner majesty and, through that, to experience the true spiritual blessings. This class is open to the public. Tuition includes a free copy of the book "The Power within You" by John-Roger.

SACRED TONES WORKSHOP

One-Evening Workshop

(Open to Discourse subscribers and the public)

This uplifting evening introduces a series of popular, simple meditative techniques, as shared by John-Roger in his book "Inner Worlds of Meditation." The techniques presented are an active process of chanting that can assist in calming and healing the emotional, physical, and mental levels of stress that can be experienced in today's busy world and business environments.

SPIRITUAL PRINCIPLES OF ABUNDANCE AND PROSPERITY

One-Evening Workshop or Five-Week Class or E-Mail class or Three-Week E-Mail Class

Drawing upon Bible passages and the many seminars that John-Roger has done over the years, students learn the deeper spiritual meaning of wealth, abundance, prosperity, and riches. As they explore their own concepts about abundance and the results they have produced, students are given the opportunity to bring more Spirit into that aspect of their lives. The spiritual principles of seeding and tithing are presented as ways to bring a greater awareness of how God can be their "partner" in life. Students often experience a greater level of abundance and prosperity as they test the principles of seeding and tithing and focus on gratitude for the many ways that they are blessed..

THE SPIRITUAL WARRIOR

One-Evening Workshop or Five-Week Class or E-Mail class

(Open to Discourse subscribers and the public)

This course, originally offered only in retreat and workshop formats, is now available as a weekly class. In this class, students have the opportunity to become "spiritual warriors," focusing their intention toward God. As they explore the spiritual qualities in themselves and in the people whom they admire, they attune to the strength that is already inside of them to stand up as spiritual beings. Through a profound process, students forge the armor of the spiritual warrior--health, wealth, happiness, prosperity, abundance, riches, loving, caring, sharing, and touching. When the class is completed, students have a much deeper sense of their personal spiritual strength and responsibility.

WHAT IS GRACE?

One-Evening Workshop

What is Grace? When we make space in our consciousness to recognize the blessings of Spirit, Spirit moves us above the cares and woes of the lower worlds into the levels of consciousness where we transcend our karma--where we can recognize that we are one with God.

WHAT IS LOVING?

One-Evening Workshop

MSIA teaches that people are capable of loving all things—that is called unconditional love, living love, or acceptance of what is. Love can be looked at as the essence that brings or holds things together like the cells of a body are held together. Cells are "in love" with each other. In this introductory workshop, students will have the opportunity to explore and experience living love.

WHAT IS MSIA?

One-Evening Workshop or Four-Week Class

This class explores the basic spiritual teachings of MSIA in four informative and experiential sessions. Students learn about Soul Transcendence as explained by John-Roger in MSIA Soul Awareness Discourses, doing spiritual exercises, awakening to the Mystical Traveler Consciousness, experiencing inner levels of consciousness, and much more.