>RICHARD PISACRETA wrote:
>
> > Some of us are starting to list boring subjects for students. Lets stick
>to
> > the important stuff like
> >
> > out of body experiences
> > ESP
> > ghosts
> > reincarnation
> > alien abductions
> > psychic connections
> > bigfoot
>
> Then we can recommend our students to graduate schools like the
>"California
>Institute of Integral Studies", whose poster I have here in front of me:
>==========================
>"Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness
>- A unique course of study designed for students who wish to engage the
>intellectual challenge [sic?], in our postmodern age, of exploring and
>formulating new understandings of the cosmos, society, and the human being.
>- Areas of inquiry include cosmology, depth psychology, evolutionary
>science,
>cultural history, religious studies, ecology, epistemology, and
>metaphysics, as
>well as history of ideas, evolution of consciousness, archetypal studies,
>esoteric thought, transpersonal theory, new paradigm studies, literature,
>feminism, and the changing relationship between science and spirituality".
>
>Faculty include the authors of:
>"The Universe is a Green Dragon"
>"The Hidden Heart of the Cosmos"
>"Lost Goddesses of Early Greece"
>"Individuation and the Absolute: Hegel, Jung, and the Path Toward
>Wholeness"
>"The Cosmic Game"
>===========================
> I guess we need to add a departmental outcome in "Using fancy terms to
>hide
>the fact that you're not willing to challenge your own thinking"...
>
>Paul Smith
>Alverno College
>
All that training just to have a career selling insurance, or running an
herbal tea store. When I was an undergraduate, there was a course called
"Applied Metaphysics"
Rip Pisacreta
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