These classes are for personal spiritual growth and give credit toward practitioner training and licensing. We offer Spanish classes, too.
The following are the classes that Founder’s offers as prerequisites for a person going into practitioner I:
- Foundations of Science of Mind 10 weeks $230
- The Essential Ernest Holmes 10 weeks $230
- Exploring the Roots of Science of Mind 10 weeks $230
- Building a Consciousness of Healing 8 weeks $190
or
Treatment and Meditation 10 weeks $230
- The Creative Process and the Individual 8 weeks $190
Or
Power of Your Word 8 weeks $190
- Emerson’s Essays 8 weeks $190
The prices listed include the registration fee that goes to the headquarters of Centers for Spiritual Living in Golden, Colorado and the cost of the syllabus for the class. Books are extra.
Call the church office for dates and more information; dates and times may be adjusted for the needs of the students or facilitators. 213-388- 9733, ext. 118
SCOPE OF COURSES: Courses listed below comprise the certificated education courses offered by the United Centers for Spiritual Living. The student who completes the Foundations Course and other Spiritual Development Courses will have a comprehensive understanding of the Core Concepts of Science of Mind. She or he will be able to do Spiritual Mind Treatment for self and others, will know where the principles come from, and will have explored healing and consciousness.
Certificated Courses are divided into five branches of learning:
- Required Courses
- Foundational Level course (pre-requisite for all other certificated courses) Foundations OR Beyond Limits
- Treatment & Meditation: Spiritual Practices for Daily Living OR Power of Your Word
- The Essential Ernest Holmes
- History/Philosophy Courses – one course required
Roots 2003
Thomas Troward: Edinburgh Lectures
Bible Wisdom
- Consciousness Courses – one course required
Practical Mysticism
The Mind/Body Connection
Meditation is More Thank You Think
- Practical Application – one course required
Self Mastery
Financial Freedom
Principles of Successful Living
Visioning
5 Gifts for an Abundant Life
REQUIRED COURSES
New Foundations of the Science of Mind
New Foundations of the Science of Mind
By Rev. Dr. Christian Sorensen
This is a revision and widely updated new version of the Foundational Course. It presents new spiritual principle each week and a spiritual practice to support that principle. The Creative Process is introduced at the beginning of the class and then flows through each week, so that the student has the opportunity to see and use the Creative Process at work in each spiritual principle. Each week also features the writing of one of our elders as well as one of our contemporaries on the subject at hand. This includes Dr. William Hornaday, Dr. Frank Richilieu, Terry Cole Whittaker, Dr. Jesse Jennings, Dr. Kathy Hearn, Dr. Linda McNamar and many more. Released in 2007.
Length of Course |
10 weeks |
Certification Hours |
30 |
Textbooks |
Refer to course curriculum materials |
Beyond Limits
Beyond Limits
By Rev. Dr. Roger W. Teel and Ministers of Mile Hi Church
This course is the dynamic new course that has been successful at Mile Hi Church. It takes the foundational principles and offers them in a new format for beginning students and those unfamiliar with Science of Mind. Topics include Oneness, spiritual mind treatment, the reciprocal universe, the creative process, hidden beliefs, and other essential principles. It also offers new wording and ideas for presenting our basic ideas in new ways. This course includes a beautiful PowerPoint presentation that the instructor can use to guide the students through each class presentation. Released in 2007.
Length of Course |
10 weeks |
Certification Hours |
30 |
Textbooks |
Refer to course curriculum materials |
Treatment and Meditation: Spiritual Practices for Daily Living
Treatment and Meditation: Spiritual Practices for Daily Living
This course focuses on the student developing lifetime habits of meditation and Spiritual Mind Treatment. Spiritual Mind Treatment for oneself is reviewed and strengthened, and then students advance to treating for other people.
Length of Course |
10 weeks |
Certification Hours |
30 |
Textbooks |
Journey of Awakening |
Ram Daas |
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Can We Talk To God? |
Ernest Holmes |
Power of Your Word
Power of Your Word
By Rev. Pat Hightower
This is an amazing course on the power of Spiritual Mind Treatment. Each week is a thoughtful approach to the deeper understandings of prayer: How does the nature of God and man create prayer, the impact of creative law and beliefs, what to pray for, affirmative treatment, and the state of continuous prayer. Each week has experiential exercises to give these ideas a reality for the student. Released in 2007.
Length of Course |
8 weeks |
Certification Hours |
24 |
Textbooks |
Refer to course curriculum materials |
The Essential Ernest Holmes
The Essential Ernest Holmes
By Dr. Jesse Jennings
This course is a loving tribute to Dr. Ernest Holmes and all of the wisdom he brought to our world. The course is based upon What We Believe and each week the student has the opportunity to examine these ideas and uncover ways to make the power of this teaching come alive in her/his life. Each week has a meditation on light that takes the student progressively deeper and deeper into the light to find inner truth. Released in 2007.
Length of Course |
10 weeks |
Certification Hours |
30 |
Textbooks |
Refer to course curriculum materials |
HISTORY/PHILOSOPHY COURSES
Exploring Roots
Exploring Roots
This course provides the student with an understanding of the historical roots in America of Ernest Holmes’ philosophy. Specific emphasis will be given to the works of Thomas Troward, Emma Curtis Hopkins, and Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Length of Course |
10 weeks |
Certification Hours |
30 |
Textbooks |
The Science of Mind |
Ernest Holmes |
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Emerson’s Essays |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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Edinburgh Lectures on Mental Science |
Thomas Troward |
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Scientific Christian Mental Practice |
Emma Curtis Hopkins |
Thomas Troward: Edinburgh Lectures
Thomas Troward: Edinburgh Lectures
This course is designed to give students understanding and knowledge of the principles presented in the Edinburgh Lectures by Thomas Troward. Each week is devoted to a different chapter with the Core Principles from the Foundational Courses outlined. Students and teachers are asked to create questions for the course to make the discussions lively and relevant. In course exercises, expand the experience and understanding of the wisdom of Troward.
Length of Course |
8 weeks |
Certification Hours |
24 |
Textbooks |
“The Edinburgh Lectures” |
Thomas Troward |
Ignite Your Life with Bible Wisdom
Ignite Your Life with Bible Wisdom
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, students are introduced to ways to interpret stories from the Hebrew Bible, as a foundation for understanding the teachings of Jesus. Students become familiar with the power of the parable stories as inspiration for transforming the soul. 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. Students may be beginners in exploring the arts as tools for contemplation and meditation. NOTE: Please use this curriculum as a 10 week course. It is given 30 certificated hours.
Length of Course |
10 weeks |
Certification Hours |
30 |
Textbooks |
Learn to Live |
Ervin Seale |
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Holy Bible |
George Lamsa or other |
Optional Text |
Metaphysical Dictionary |
Charles Fillmore |
CONSCIOUSNESS COURSES
Practical Mysticism
Practical Mysticism
This course is an exploration of mysticism, what it is and what it is not. It provides the framework for the student to live a more mystical life in present time. Each student sets a personal intention for his or her life. Emphasis is given to the practice of meditation and the practice of witnessing consciousness. This course is ideal for anyone seeking to deepen his or her own awareness of the Divine reality in daily living. (Updated December 2008)
Length of Course |
10 weeks |
Certification Hours |
30 |
Textbooks |
The Foundations of Mysticism |
Joel Goldsmith |
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Entering the Castle: Finding the Inner Path to God and Your Soul’s Purpose |
Caroline Myss |
Mind Body Connection
Mind Body Connection
This course is designed to give the student a greater understanding of the mind/body connection, and the important role consciousness plays in the healing process. This course is a clear, step by step process that begins with Principle, deals with the emotional issues surrounding the body, gives emphasis to effective prayer, unlearning old concepts of duality and disease, and even practical considerations such as locating health professionals who support your belief system. This course is ideal for the beginner or the advanced student who desires a deeper understanding of physical healing.
Length of Course |
8 weeks |
Certification Hours |
24 |
Textbooks |
The Science of Mind |
Ernest Holmes |
Meditation is More Than You Think
Meditation is More Than You Think
By Rev. Donald Graves
This is an introductory meditation course that begins with the beginner and moves step by step through the powerful tool of meditation in many different modalities. Topics include meditation with light, mantras, sound, movement, breathing, and more. Each week is very experiential with various forms of meditation that the student can then take with them for a richer practice at home. Released in 2007.
Length of Course |
8 weeks |
Certification Hours |
24 |
Textbooks |
Refer to course curriculum materials. |
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PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS COURSES
5 Gifts for an Abundant Life
5 Gifts for an Abundant Life
By Rev. Diane Harmony
This is a new course (2009) that is designed to empower the participants by teaching them how to BE a Consciousness of Wealth. This course is presented as an opening to a rich, rewarding transformative experience. NOTE: Certificated credit for this course can only be given to students who completed the course beginning in the Fall 2009.
Length of Course |
8 weeks |
Certification Hours |
24 |
Textbooks |
5 Gifts for an Abundant Life |
Diane Harmony |
Self-Mastery: The Emergence of the True Self
Self-Mastery: The Emergence of the True Self
The Self Mastery Course 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 conscious, intentional beings.
Length of Course |
8 weeks |
Certification Hours |
24 |
Textbooks |
Living the Science of Mind |
Ernest Holmes |
Visioning
Visioning
By Rev. Joan Steadman
This course is a walk through the powerful tool of Visioning. It includes the history of how visioning began in our movement with the inspiration of Dr. Michael Beckwith, offers weekly opportunities for visioning at different levels from the individual to the community to the global and explains the role of visioning in our Global Heart Model. Released in 2007.
Length of Course |
8 weeks |
Certification Hours |
24 |
Textbooks |
Refer to course curriculum materials |
Financial Freedom
Financial Freedom
This popular course contains in-depth material that allows the student to examine his or her belief systems, and to gain a new perspective of how this system of beliefs is at work in their lives. Interplay of thought, emotions, desire, action, spirit, and all facets of being work together to create a new level of well-being and abundance in the individual’s life. A comprehensive workbook and creative exercises are included.
Length of Course |
8 weeks |
Certification Hours |
24 |
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Principles of Successful Living
Principles of Successful Living
This course is designed to give the student a greater understanding of his or her place in the Spiritual System, and the part that consciousness plays in demonstrating greater good. On a very practical basis, this course offers the opportunity to set an intention for concrete demonstration of good, and to study the tools for achieving this demonstration. Emphasis is given to use of the Law of Mental Equivalents, Spiritual Mind Treatment, and the qualities of living a spiritual life. Worksheets and a fun “Oneness Game” make the course interactive and personally relevant.
Length of Course |
8 weeks |
Certification Hours |
24 |
Textbooks |
The Science of Mind |
Ernest Holmes |
United Centers for Spiritual Living offers Certificated Courses online. These courses are only taught in situations where there is no immediate access to local spiritual communities. Currently, all Certificated Courses and the Professional Practitioner I and II Courses are available. For additional information and enrollment qualifications, visit csl.org/onlineclasses/ or contact Rev. Christina Tillotson at Christina@enhancing.com.
Curriculum in Spanish – Available through Department of Education of UCSL International Headquarters
Russian Translations—Contact Rev. Ron Rude at ron@rude.udm.ru for the following courses:
- Foundational Course
- Spiritual Practices for Daily Living: Treatment & Meditation
- Self Mastery
- Mind Body Connection
- Thomas Troward: Edinburgh Lectures
- Principles of Successful Living
- The Professional Practitioner Studies Teacher Guide and Student Workbook
Requirements for Entering Practitioner Courses of Study
The student enrolls in a Certificated Course at a member spiritual community and takes the required courses as listed below. The Foundations course must be completed before taking other courses and the courses may not be taken concurrently.
During the period from November 2007 to September 2009, your community can choose to offer curriculum from any of our certificated courses for credit toward practitioner study.
After September 2009, the new course curriculum will go into effect. It is expected that anyone who is a beginning student and enrolls at the Foundational level in the fall of 2009 will be taking a minimum of two full years of study before entering practitioner study. Please note that in the fall of 2009, new requirements will be The Essential Ernest Holmes and two additional courses.
In the fall of 2009 and 2010, we will be accepting the same requirement of course preparation that has been in effect for the last 10 years. You may choose to substitute the new curriculum for the older courses or to offer additional courses at your community. All the courses on this list are certificated for credit. Students entering Practitioner Studies in 2011 will take their courses from the following list:
REQUIREMENT FOR PRACTITIONER STUDY BEGINNING SEPTEMBER 2009
(6 courses, minimum 156 hours – *Indicates New Curriculum)
FOUNDATIONAL LEVEL WORK – required – 1 COURSE (30 hours each)
Choose between *New Foundations, *Beyond Limits
SPIRITUAL PRACTICES COURSE – required – 1 COURSE
Choose between Treatment & Meditation (30 hrs), *Power of Your Word (24 hrs)
*The Essential Ernest Holmes (30 hrs) – required
HISTORY/PHILOSOPHY COURSE – required – 1 COURSE
Choose from Roots (30 hrs), The Edinburgh Lectures (24 hrs), Bible Wisdom (30 hrs)
CONSCIOUSNESS COURSE –required – 1 COURSE
Choose from *Meditation is More Than You Think (24 hrs), Mind-Body Connection (24 hrs), Practical Mysticism (30 hrs)
PRACTICAL APPLICATION—required—1 COURSE
Choose from *Visioning (24 hrs), Principles of Successful Living (24 hrs), Financial Freedom (24 hrs), Self Mastery (24 hrs), 5 Gifts for an Abundant Life (24 hrs)
Professional Practitioner Studies
Professional Practitioner Studies
This two-year course prepares the student for a career as a Professional Religious Science Practitioner. License approval is only granted to candidates who have successfully passed all examinations, completed all certificated and professional course work, and met all other requirements listed in the Practitioner Code and this Education Code.
Practitioner Studies Year I “Living the Principles”
Practitioner Studies Year I “Living the Principles”
The first year of the Professional Practitioner Studies is devoted to advancing spiritual awareness and expanding the student’s understanding of his/her relation to the universe. It is designed to be whole and complete within itself, preparing the student to live life more fully, whether or not she/he chooses to continue with Practitioner II Studies, and to be licensed as a Professional Practitioner.
The year is divided into three terms of 10 weeks each:
Term 1: “How Life Gets to Be the Way It Is,” based on the Law of Cause and Effect
Term 2: “Living the Life of Choice,” based on the Creative Process in the individual
Term 3: “Living Life Fully,” devoted entirely to expansion of consciousness
Course work includes reading, written assignments, experiential activities, journaling, and expanded spiritual practices. Term papers are required in Terms 1 and 2, and a class project at the end of Term 3.
Length of Course |
30 weeks |
Certification Hours |
90 |
Prerequisite |
Series of Certificated Courses (listed in this Code) |
Textbooks |
The Science of Mind |
Ernest Holmes |
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Living the Science of Mind |
Ernest Holmes |
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Creative Mind and Success |
Ernest Holmes |
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This Thing Called You |
Ernest Holmes |
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Practicing the Presence |
Joel Goldsmith |
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Principles of Healing |
H.B. Jeffries |
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Care of the Soul |
Thomas Moore |
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Elegant Choices, Healing Choices |
Marsha Sinetar |
Practitioner Studies Year II “The Life of the Professional Practitioner”
Practitioner Studies Year II “The Life of the Professional Practitioner”
The second year of Professional Studies 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 of healing, to the spiritual community, the community and the world.
The year is divided into three terms:
Term 1: 10 weeks “Professional Skills and Responsibilities,” deals almost entirely with the Practitioner/Client session.
Term 2: 13 weeks “Spiritual Healing” is devoted to the process in healing, working specifically with challenges related to money, creative self-expression, emotional health, physical health, death/dying, grief/loss, and relationships.
Term 3: 7 weeks “Dedication, Commitment and Service” empowers the intention of each student to develop his/her Practitioner practice within the spiritual community and in the world.
Course work includes reading, written assignments, experiential activities, journaling and spiritual practices. There is a term paper for Terms 1 and 2, and a course project at the end of Term 3.
Length of Course |
30 weeks |
Certification Hours |
90 |
Prerequisite |
Practitioner I |
Textbooks |
The Science of Mind |
Ernest Holmes |
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How to Use the Science of Mind |
Ernest Holmes |
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The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success |
Deepak Chopra |
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Creative Mind and Success |
Ernest Holmes |
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Spiritual Economics |
Eric Butterworth |
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Real Moments |
Barbara DeAngelis |
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Creating Health |
Deepak Chopra |
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Who Dies |
Stephen Levine |
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UCSL Practitioner Code |
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