CATALOG. All of our courses are based on the teachings of MSIA i.e. Soul Transcendence, knowing yourself as a soul.

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1 CATALOG The following is a list and description of courses, workshops, retreats and other events offered by & College of Philosophy. All of our courses are based on the teachings of MSIA i.e. Soul Transcendence, knowing yourself as a soul. We offer what we call Undergraduate courses in a number of formats, which will be explained in this introduction to PTS courses. In addition, we have two graduate programs, a Masters & Doctorate In Spiritual Science, and a number of different workshops and retreats. For a listing of courses/programs currently scheduled, check out the calendar of events on the MSIA web site. If you have any questions, please contact PTS staff via phone: or us at: registrar@pts.org ATTUNE TO YOUR SPIRIT Undergraduate PTS courses are created in a unique way, by demand in different communities. There are basically two types of undergraduate courses available. One category is Public. These have no prerequisites to attend other than being at least 18 years of age. The other category is for Discourse subscribers. And there are a few courses within this category that have additional prerequisites to participate. There are a number of PTS offerings also available in Spanish. Sp will follow the format in which the course has Spanish available. Quite often, undergraduate classes are held in private homes with a local facilitator. The duration of these classes range from one evening to ten weeks, meeting one night a week.

2 We have a growing number of classes in both categories that are available in Spanish. In order to create a class in your community, contact PTS to find out how to get you in touch with the local Representative in your area. PTS HOME STUDY COURSES Home Study or Distance Learning Courses are ideal for students who live in remote areas where there are no live PTS courses currently taking place, as well as for busy professionals, parents, and individuals who are unable to attend live group courses. PTS offers different formats for individual study to accommodate personal preferences and time availability. They are designed to support students in having a direct experience of loving and Spirit, and their potential for healing and upliftment. Correspondence Courses The first of these formats is Correspondence courses, which are conducted by regular mail (sometimes ing homework) with a specific tuition charged for each course. Correspondence courses span a 10-week period and may require from 3 to 5 or more hours of study-related activities per week. Students are assigned a reader/facilitator with whom they correspond weekly according to the directions outlined in the course instructions booklet. Courses classes use lecturettes, group sharing, journal writing, guided meditations and one-on-one processes on computer. classes are offered free of charge. Archived 1-Evening online Web Classes All PTS classes and Q & A s presented as 1-evening/afternoon Web Casts have been archived. Click on this link Web Casts for more information.

3 The following courses are available for individual study, through correspondence, classes or archived web classes. Several of them cover PTS introductory material where there are no requirements and all are welcome to participate. Other courses listed are available to MSIA Discourse subscribers only and/or MSIA Ministers only. Full description of each course is in the main list of Undergraduate courses. COURSES FORMAT 1000 Ways to Happiness Web Blessings ; Web Finding Peace in Today s World Web Introduction to Peace Sp Forgiveness ; Web Gratitude Web Introduction to the Christ Within Web Introduction to the Three Selves Web Letting Go, Letting God Web Living Love Web Loving Relationships Web Manifesting the Christed Consciousness* , Correspondence Ministry of Service* Sp Correspondence Renewing Your MSIA Ministry*+ ; Correspondence Spiritual Exercises* ; Correspondence Spirit of MSIA Ministry* The Power Within You Web The Spiritual Principles of Abundance ; Correspondence; Web and Prosperity The Spiritual Warrior Sp ; Web The Traveler In Your Dreams* Correspondence Travelers Through the Ages*Sp Correspondence What Is Grace? Web (*open to MSIA Discourse subscribers only.) (+ open to MSIA Ministers only.) PUBLIC EVENTS The classes/workshops in this category have no prerequisites other than participants being 18 years of age or older.

4 Note: For all 5-week public classes, a free book is included with the tuition fee WAYS TO HAPPINESS Archived 1-evening onlineweb class Description: This class offers techniques and keys students can use to awaken to Spirit in a greater way. AWAKENING TO SPIRIT - 1-day format - Sp Tuition: $35 5-week format - Sp Required reading from the book, Journey of a Soul, by John-Roger, DSS Tuition includes a free copy of the book. Description: This class offers techniques and keys students can use to awaken to Spirit in a greater way. In the 5-week version, students are also given opportunities to experience active meditations. BLESSINGS (A DAY OF BLESSINGS; AN EVENING OF BLESSINGS) format day format - Sp Tuition: $35 --

5 5-week format - Sp Tuition: $55 Description: In this class, participants have an opportunity to experience a greater awareness of the blessings that already exist in their lives. The class gives spiritual keys for opening up to even more blessings. The class is based on the book, The Blessings Already Are, by John Morton, DSS. DETACHEMNT/FREEDOM Description: Students explore how attachment to a point of view, old habit, or behavior can lock them into something no longer serving their purpose in life. Participants learn how to experience the true freedom that resides within them. EXPLORING SPIRIT IN EVERDAY LIFE Archived 1-evening online Web class format - Sp - - Description: This workshop presents seven tools for spiritual living that are directly applicable to the everyday life. Students learn more about letting go and letting God direct their lives and how prayer can be a dynamic and participatory activity. FINDING PEACE IN TODAY S WORLD - Archived 1-evening online Web class format - Sp - format- 3-weeks

6 - Description: In this workshop, participants will look at what peace is and what disturbs the innate sense of peace. Students will learn about practical principles for bringing more peace into their every day lives. They will have an awareness and experience how this quality is a state of being that can be chosen regardless of external circumstances. FORGIVENESS No required or listening 5-week format - Sp Required reading from the book, Forgiveness: The Key to the Kingdom, by John-Roger, DSS. Tuition: $55 Tuition includes a free copy of the book. -- format 3-weeks -- Archived 1-evening online Web class format - Sp - Description: In this class, students experience the value of forgiveness as a daily practice to create more loving and peace in their lives. By practicing forgiveness, students take authority over themselves and realize that there is never a good reason to withdraw loving. FREE-FORM WRITING -- Description: Free-form writing is an essential, simple and very effective technique taught by John-Roger, DSS to help clear the subconscious and

7 unconscious levels. The practice of free-form writing has assisted many people attain a greater state of openness, freedom, and inner peace. GRACE AND THE BELOVED 1-day format - Sp Tuition: $35 Description: GRATITUDE - Archived 1-evening online Web class format - Sp - Description: In this class, students find the power of gratitude to open the doors to greater abundance on all levels (physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually). Students will explore how gratitude moves energy, and how negativity dissolves in the presence of this quality. INNER WORLDS OF MEDITATION - Archived 1-evening onlineweb class format - Sp - Description: Often looked upon as a passive and sometimes boring pursuit, meditation is presented in this introductory class as a vital and active process. Ancient practices of meditation transform into valuable and practical resources for coping with modern life. INTRODUCTION TO THE CHRIST WITHIN - Archived 1-evening online Web class format - Sp

8 - Description: This class is designed for students to experience their own divine nature and their oneness with God. It does not matter what religious background they might have or if they believe in God, because this class deals with the wholeness of all parts of the Self. INTRODUCTION TO THE THREE SELVES - Archived 1-evening online Web class format - Sp - Description: In this class, students explore three levels of consciousness or Selves that, when aligned, can help us awaken to the Soul. These are high self, basic self and conscious self. Through practical exercises, students learn the benefits of keeping the channels of communication open between these levels. LETTING GO, LETTING GOD Archived 1-evening online Web class format - Sp - Description: Students explore how attachment to a point of view, old habit(s), or behavior can lock them into something no longer serving their purpose in life. Participants learn how to experience the true freedom that resides within them, by letting go and letting God. LIVING LOVE Archived 1-evening online Web class format - Sp - Description: In the book Living Love, John-Roger, DSS says: all love is within you. One way that we awaken to our loving within is by reflection, by experiencing situations, people, things that evoke our living love.

9 LIVING WITH SPIRIT anish only - 1-day format Tuition: $35 - Description: What is Spirit? Students explore the expressions that contribute to a greater experience of the Soul 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 -- Archived 1-evening online Web class format - Sp -- Description: Through practical exercises, participants may realize that relationships with others are simply a reflection of the relationship with themselves. Thus by improving the primary relationship themselves, they will enhance current relationships with others and/or attract the type of relationships they are looking for. MASTER OF SPIRITUAL SCIENCE INTRODUCTORY EVENING - An introductory evening explaining the basic tenets and tools of study through MSIA while demonstrating the concepts explored in the Master of Spiritual Science Program. MEDITATIONS FOR INNER AWARENESS 5-week format - Sp Required reading from the book, Inner Worlds of Meditation, by John- Roger, DSS. Tuition: $55

10 - Tuition includes a free copy of the book. Description: Often looked upon as a passive and sometimes boring pursuit, meditation is presented in this introductory class as a vital and active process. Ancient practices of meditation transform into practical resources for the coping with modern life. MOMENTUM:LETTING LOVE LEAD 1-evening format - Weekend format or 5-week class Tuition: $65 class format Description: 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. This class gives participants a practical experience of the techniques described in the book, Momentum: Letting Love Lead, by John- Roger, DSS and Paul Kaye, DSS. MONEY, THE GREAT MIRROR OF CONSCIOUSNESS 1-weekend format - Sp 5-week format - Sp Required reading from the book, Wealth & Higher Consciousness, by John- Roger, DSS. Tuition includes a free copy of the book. Description: This course focuses on money as a tool for inner awakening. By becoming aware of limiting beliefs, we can break free of those perceptions that no longer support us in having more abundance. The

11 practical steps offered in this course, give us the opportunity to step into greater freedom, improve our relationship with money and use it as a Great Mirror of Consciousness. OPENING TO GRACE 1-day format - Sp Tuition: $35 Description: 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. REST AND REJUVENATE IN THE BELOVED WITHIN - Archived 1-evening online Web class format - Sp - Description: Based on the book The Rest of Your Life by John-Roger, DSS with Paul Kaye, DSS, this workshop offers techniques and keys that participants can use to awaken to their Beloved Within in a greater way. SACRED TONES WORKSHOP - Description: This uplifting evening workshop introduces a series of simple meditative techniques, as shared by John-Roger, DSS in his book, Inner Worlds of Meditation. These techniques can assist in calming and healing the emotional, physical, and mental levels from the stress experienced in today s busy world. SPIRIT-LED PARENTING Archived 1-evening online Web class format - Sp

12 - 5-week format Description: Come discover new approaches to parenting that result in greater honoring of both ourselves and our children. Together we will bring new awareness and fulfillment to our role as parents by opening to inner guidance on the choices we make. We ll also explore practical keys for handling day-to-day challenges. THE POWER WITHIN YOU Archived 1-evening online Web class format - Sp - 1-weekend format - Sp 5-week format - Sp Required reading from the book, The Power Within You, by John-Roger, DSS Tuition includes a free copy of the book. Description: 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. THE SPIRITUAL PRINCIPLES OF ABUNDANCE AND PROSPERITY - 5-week format - Sp Required listening: CD/MP3 Meditation on Wealth to be purchased by student. Required reading from the book God is Your Partner, by John-Roger, DSS.

13 Tuition includes a free copy of the book. format 3-weeks -- Correspondence Format Tuition: Archived 3-week online Web class format - Sp - Description: Students learn the deeper spiritual meaning of wealth, abundance, prosperity, and riches. As they explore their own perceptions of these concepts, students are given the opportunity to bring more Spirit into these areas of their lives. The spiritual principles of seeding and tithing are presented as ways to bring a greater awareness of God as our partner in life. THE SPIRITUAL WARRIOR - 5-week format - Sp Required reading from the book Spiritual Warrior: The Art of Spiritual Living. Tuition: $65 Tuition includes a free copy of the book. format 3-weeks Tuition: Fee Archived 1-evening online Web class format - Sp - Description: In this class, students explore the spiritual qualities in themselves and attune to the strength that is already present inside of them to

14 stand up as spiritual beings. Students forge the armor of the spiritual warrior with essential qualities like: health, wealth, happiness, prosperity, abundance, riches, loving, caring, sharing and touching. WHAT IS GRACE? - Archived 1-evening online Web class format - Sp - Description: When we make space in our consciousness to recognize the blessings of God in our lives, we can move above the cares and woes of this world. When we move into the levels of consciousness where we transcend karma, we recognize we are one with God. WHAT IS LOVING? - Description: MSIA teaches that people are capable of loving all things - that is called unconditional loving, living love or acceptance of what is. This workshop offers tools to experience love as the essence that brings things and people together regardless of the circumstances. WHAT IS MSIA? - Description: This class explores the basic teachings of MSIA. Students learn about Soul Transcendence, as explained by John-Roger, DSS in MSIA Soul Awareness Discourses, doing spiritual exercises, awakening to the Mystical Traveler Consciousness and experiencing inner levels of consciousness.

15 YOU ARE THE BLESSINGS - Archived 1-evening online Web class format - Sp - Description: Based on the book You are the Blessings, by John Morton, DSS, participants have an opportunity to recognize, claim and receive the blessings that are in their lives no matter what is happening. UNDERGRADUATE EVENTS WITH PREREQUISITES DISCOURSE SUBSCRIBER EVENTS The classes and workshops in this category require that all participants have an active subscription to MSIA Soul Awareness Discourses and be 18 years of age or older. Note: All Discourse subscriber classes require a one-time $25 application fee for first-time students. Note: Correspondence Classes are conducted by mostly by and sometimes by regular mail. They span a 10-week period and may require from 3 to 5 or more hours of study-related activities per week. Students are assigned a reader/facilitator with whom they correspond weekly according to the directions outlined in the course instructions booklet. All required reading and listening materials are included in the price of the class. FACILITATOR WORKSHOP 1-day format - Sp - Description: The purpose of this 1-day workshop is to provide an opportunity for PTS facilitators to continuously improve their level of excellence.

16 INTEGRATING THE SPIRITUAL WITH THE PHYSICAL 5-week format - Sp Required reading: The Power within You, by John-Roger, DSS. Description: This course addresses the sense of separation students sometimes feel between the world of daily physical responsibilities (work, family, finances) and their spiritual focus. Students learn to integrate their spiritual devotion with their daily activities and to create wholeness and unity in their lives. INTEGRATING THE THREE SELVES 10-week format - Sp Tuition: $70 Description: This course focuses on developing a strong connection among the various levels of the human consciousness - the High Self, the Conscious Self, and the Basic Self - in order to align the whole being toward greater spiritual awareness. This course can be considered the sequel to the class listed next - Levels of Consciousness: Vehicles of the Soul. LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS-VEHICLES OF THE SOUL 7-week plus 1 daylong format - Sp Required listening: The Three Selves seminar by John-Roger, DSS. Required reading: Spiritual Family by John-Roger, DSS. Other tapes and books may be recommended in the class. Tuition: $70 - Description: This course explores the various levels within the human consciousness. Students experiment with techniques that access these different levels so they can learn how each level can assist them in their greater spiritual awakening. MANIFESTING THE CHRISTED CONSCIOUSNESS 1-day format - Sp Required reading: The Christ Within & The Disciples of Christ with the Cosmic Christ Calendar, by John-Roger, DSS.

17 Tuition: $35 1-weekend format - Sp Required reading: The Christ Within & The Disciples of Christ with the Cosmic Christ Calendar, by John-Roger, DSS. - 5-week format - Sp Required listening: Meditation of the Christ by John-Roger, DSS, #1329 CD. Required reading: The Bible and The Christ Within & The Disciples of Christ with the Cosmic Christ Calendar, by John-Roger, DSS. 10-week format - Sp Required listening: Meditation of the Christ by John-Roger, DSS, #1329 CD. Required reading: Aquarian Gospel, by Levi, and The Christ Within & The Disciples of Christ with the Cosmic Christ Calendar, by John-Roger, DSS. Tuition: $70 format - Correspondence format - Sp Required listening: Meditation of the Christ by John-Roger, DSS, #1329 CD. Required reading: Aquarian Gospel, by Levi, and The Christ Within & The Disciples of Christ with the Cosmic Christ Calendar, by John-Roger, DSS. Tuition: $60 Description: The Christ resides in each person s heart as unconditional loving. In this course, students learn to create and expand their relationship to the Christ within and to express from the loving in their hearts. MANIFESTING THE TRAVELER S JOY 1-day format - Sp

18 Tuition: $35 1-weekend or 5-week formats - Sp Description: This course assists students to awaken more deeply to the joy of knowing themselves as spiritual beings. Exercises and meditations are designed to work with one s basic self to align with one s spiritual intentions in a playful and fun way. MINISTRY OF SERVICE 7-week format Tuition: $70 Correspondence format Tuition: $70 Description: This course is a laboratory- style class where students have the opportunity to participate in activities of a ministerial nature in their community. NEW TO DISCOURSE SUBSCRIBERS SUPPORT WORKSHOP 4-hour format Tuition: $30 Description: Soul Awareness Discourses are the foundation of the spiritual teachings offered in MSIA. This workshop is useful for all students, as it focuses on how the teachings in the Discourses are working in their lives and how to experience the teachings even more deeply. PAT IV--THE MINISTRY OF PEACE Weekend format - Sp

19 Description: The original PAT IV was a month-long advanced Peace Awareness Training (PAT) held in the Holy Land. This course is a similar journey for inner peace. The class experience is designed to assist students to develop a fuller expression of the positive quality exemplified by each Disciple and to bring forward a greater manifestation of the Christ within. RENEWING MY MSIA MINISTRY Open to MSIA ministers only 6-weeks and 1 daylong class format - Sp Required reading: Blessings of Light by John-Roger, DSS. Tuition: $70 format 3-weeks - Correspondence format Required reading: Blessings of Light by John-Roger, DSS. Tuition: $80 - Description: This course comprehensively covers the MSIA Ministerial Handbook, assisting students in learning about the inner and outer forms of the MSIA ministry. SPIRIT OF THE MSIAMINISTRY 5-week format - Sp Suggested listening: The Anointed One, CD packet #3906CD, by John- Roger, DSS. format 3-weeks - Description: What do MSIA ministers do? How does ordination work? What is the nature of service and ministering? How does one become an MSIA minister? This course explains and provides experiential learning in the many facets of the MSIA ministry and is an excellent course for anyone wishing to apply for ordination in the church of MSIA.

20 SPIRITUAL EXERCISES ½-day format Tuition: $30 1-day format Tuition: $35 2-day or 2 ½ day format - Sp 5-week format - Sp Required listening: Spiritual Exercises Innerphasing, from CD packet #3810CD. Required reading: From the book Walking with the Lord, by John-Roger, DSS. 10-week format - Sp Required listening: Spiritual Exercises Innerphasing, from CD packet #3810CD. Required reading: From the book Walking with the Lord, by John-Roger, DSS. Tuition: $70 format 3-weeks - Correspondence format - Sp Required listening: Spiritual Exercises Innerphasing, from CD packet #3810CD. Required reading: From the book Walking with the Lord, by John-Roger, DSS. Tuition: $100 Description: Spiritual Exercises are the primary form of spiritual practice in MSIA. They are vital to students seeking to expand their awareness of Spirit

21 and their Soul. This is a fundamental course of the Seminary. Students work on creating the loving attitude and time to spend with Spirit each day. THE BLESSING OF YOUR MINISTRY Open to MSIA ministers only Weekend format - Sp Tuition: $50 Description: In a loving and methodical way, the Blessing of Your Ministry offers ministers the opportunity to more clearly understand the power of the MSIA ministry and experience the profound depth of attunement with, and appreciation for, their individual ministerial blessing. As a result, participants can attain greater awareness of how to apply their ministerial blessings more effectively as they go forward into the world, ministering to all. THE TAO OF THE TRAVELERS Weekend-format 5-week format Required reading: From the book, Tao of Spirit, by John-Roger, DSS. Tuition: $50 Description: Throughout time, Travelers have come forward to show how humankind can positively change behavior by focusing on the eternally present Spirit that is within each person. This course is not about Chinese philosophy as a whole. It is about the teachings of an ancient Traveler, Lao- Tzu, and two modern Travelers, John-Roger, DSS and John Morton, DSS, and how these teachings can be used to create an uplifting harmonious, Spirit-filled life. THE TRAVELER IN YOUR DREAMS 5-week format - Sp Required reading: From the book, Dream Voyages, revised edition, by John- Roger, DSS. 10-week format

22 Required reading: From the book, Dream Voyages, revised edition, by John- Roger, DSS. Tuition: $70 Correspondence format - Sp Required reading: From the book, Dream Voyages, revised edition, by John- Roger, DSS. Tuition: $80 Description: The Mystical Traveler Consciousness works with MSIA students 24 hours a day. During the nighttime while the body is quiet and the conscious mind is asleep, the dream state can bring forward valuable information. This course offers practical techniques from dream recalling through the guidance of the Mystical Traveler Consciousness. THE TRAVELER THROUGH OBSERVATION 1-weekend format - Sp Description: This course explores observation as a means of assisting the student in finding out where he puts his/her awareness. It is based on a comment the Traveler made about delivering ourselves from eons of karma (even if we do not get much done on the physical level) by just observing and paying attention to where we direct our mind, body, and emotions. TRAVELERS THROUGH THE AGES 10-week format - Sp Class size is limited to 12 participants Required reading: Path to Mastership by John-Roger, DSS, and the Student Information Supplement provided in class. Tuition: $70 8-weeks + 1 daylong class format Required reading: Path to Mastership by John-Roger, DSS, and the Student Information Supplement provided in class. Tuition: $80

23 Correspondence Format Tuition: $80 Description: This class focuses on becoming more aware of the Consciousness that exists throughout time known as the Mystical Traveler. In studying those who have held this Consciousness, students attune to the Traveler within, while learning how the Traveler s ministries affected the course of world history. DISCOURSE SUBSCRIBER WEEKEND COURSES WITH SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS These three Discourse subscriber courses have special parameters that apply specifically to each. Tuition will vary depending on the parameters of the venue. Please contact the PTS office to get more information on how you can bring these courses to your area. Note: All Discourse subscriber classes require a one-time $25 application fee for first-time students. THE BLESSING OF YOUR MINISTRY Prerequisites: Active MSIA Discourse subscription (or SATs if completed Discourse 144) and being a MSIA minister in good standing. Description: In a loving and methodical way, the Blessing of Your Ministry offers ministers the opportunity to more clearly understand the power of the MSIA ministry and experience the profound depth of attunement with, and appreciation for, their individual ministerial blessing. As a result, participants can attain greater awareness of how to apply their ministerial blessings more effectively as they go forward into the world, ministering to all. THE TAO OF THE TRAVELERS Prerequisites: Active MSIA Discourse subscription (or SATs if completed Discourse 144). Description: Throughout time, Travelers have come forward to show how humankind can positively change behavior by focusing on the eternally

24 present Spirit that is within each person. This course is not about Chinese philosophy as a whole. It is about the teachings of an ancient Traveler, Lao- Tsu, and two modern Travelers, John-Roger, DSS and John Morton, DSS, and how these teachings can be used to create an uplifting harmonious, Spirit-filled life. THE INITIATES RETREAT TO THE KINGDOM OF GOD Prerequisites: Active MSIA Discourse subscription (or SATs if completed Discourse 144) and MSIA Causal Initiation. Description: Initiates in MSIA have a special relationship with the Mystical Traveler. In this course, students learn more about this relationship, including the Traveler s commitment to initiates and the initiate s responsibilities. Students also explore the many aspects of being an initiate and the qualities of various levels of initiation. LARGE REGIONAL WEEKEND EVENTS AVAILABLE FOR DISCOURSE SUBSCRIBERS All participants must have an active subscription to MSIA Soul Awareness Discourses or SATs if completed Discourse 144. Tuition will vary depending on the parameters of the venue. COMING HOME Weekend format Description: This workshop offers tools for the Prodigal Son in each of us to find our way home to Spirit. INNER WORLDS OF MEDITATION Weekend format Description: This workshop steps participants through the techniques described in the book by the same name. LOVING EACH DAY Weekend format Description: This workshop gives participants a wealth of techniques for opening up to a new attitude as described in the book by the same name.

25 MEETING THE CHALLENGES WITH SPIRIT Weekend format Description: This workshop gives participants a wealth of techniques for surmounting the challenges of living a Spirit-filled life. PASSOVER TO RESURRECTION Weekend format Description: We can each benefit from taking time in fellowship and worship to consider the passing of the Christ from the flesh into the Spirit. The way is prepared. He is risen. (Matthew 28:6) - John Morton, DSS. Passover to Resurrection Workshop participants will receive a copy of the Hagaddah (a book about the story of Passover), and may wish to have their own Seder. A Seder is not part of this workshop. PEACE AWARENESS TRAINING (PATs) PAT 1, 2 & 3 5-days in retreat format (Spanish Translation available) Prerequisites: PAT 1 for PAT 2; PAT 2 for PAT 3 Description: Awaken levels of awareness that come from deep within your consciousness. Discover and more fully experience you True Self, your Soul. Held in retreat, these trainings typically provide a gentle, natural setting, without the physical distractions of a city. Take this opportunity to experience a powerful, sustaining change in your consciousness that shows up as greater inner peace, clarity, and connection with Spirit both during the trainings and well after. LIVING IN GRACE 7-days in retreat format (Spanish translation available) Prerequisites: PAT 1, 2 & 3 and Aura Balances 1, 2 & 3 Description: This retreat grew out of an inspiration that choosing grace is a process that takes practice: practicing forgiving ourselves and others, and developing at attitude of gratitude. This can also be called loving. The choice to love or not love is made in each moment. As students learn to choose more moments of loving in their lives, they can find themselves living more in God s grace and walking through life with the Lord. This retreat is a powerful step for the student in the eternal process of expanding inner peace.

26 What is the work that you re here to do? The most immediate thing in front of you. It s called two choices, either live under the law of karma or live under God s grace of loving. And you can have your choice. -John-Roger, DSS SANCTUARY WORKSHOP Weekend format Description: Students create an inner sanctuary through the process of creative visualization to bring forward from Spirit that which can be made manifest in this world. TURNING POINTS TO PERSONAL LIBERATION Weekend format Description: In this workshop students discover what we do that separates ourselves from other people and or from God - and provides some keys of how t identify a personal turning point that can turn us back towards God. The end result is an experience of greater personal freedom and liberation. WALKING IN THE LIGHT Weekend format Description: In this workshop, students are taught techniques, exercises, and processes to keep prayer alive for ourselves and others, to help clear our consciousness and our bodies, and to precipitate from Spirit that which can be manifest in this world. Each exercise is a magnificent gift in itself, and together they help us develop a richer and more joyful relationship with God.

27 GRADUATE PROGRAMS Prerequisites: Active subscription to MSIA Soul Awareness Discourses for at least one year prior to beginning of program (12 complete) and Active subscription to Soul Awareness Tapes (SAT s). MASTER OF SPIRITUAL SCIENCE PROGRAM The 's Master s degree program provides students with an ongoing, in-depth program to study, experience, and integrate the teachings of Soul Transcendence. The course work is designed to encourage students to apply the teachings as a conscious daily commitment. As they observe their progress, they can gain greater clarity of the presence of Spirit in their everyday lives. Their awareness of themselves as a Soul is increased, thus allowing them to live the essence of practical spirituality, which helps make the path of Soul Transcendence an active, alive, and joyful process. This is a two-year program, with students meeting one weekend a month for nine months for intensive course work. Homework between the weekend classes allows students ample opportunity to practice and integrate the tools and keys they learn in class. The course work is designed to encourage students to do the following: Gain a greater awareness of themselves as divine beings. Rededicate themselves to Spirit in all aspects of their lives. Apply the Traveler s teachings as a conscious, daily commitment. Create life experiences in alignment with their Soul s purpose on this planet. Enhance their awareness of God as their partner.

28 YEAR ONE CREATING THROUGH GRACE During year one, Creating Through Grace, students gain greater awareness of how they live their lives physically, emotionally, and mentally and of how they can bring these levels into greater alignment and cooperation with their spiritual intention. In doing this, students can increase their singleness 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. YEAR TWO FULFILLING THE SPIRITUAL PROMISE During year two, Fulfilling the Spiritual Promise, students focus on aligning more with the Christ and awakening more to the promise that they were Born the Lord. Exercises are designed to give students greater freedom in letting go of the past and rediscovering the innocence of living in the present. As the course develops, students move more fully into the Beloved, Where the Soul replaces the personality as the center of consciousness and energy. The spiritual promise is then experienced as an ongoing, living reality that one chooses into each day. MSS POST-GRADUATE CLASS YEAR THREE LIVING FROM THE INSIDE OUT A 9-month optional course for graduates of the PTS Master of Spiritual Science Program. Requirement: MSS Graduate During year three, Living From the Inside Out, the weekend class sessions provide the context for each individual to build on their current state of awareness and reveal to themselves areas that could use greater acceptance, understanding, cooperation, forgiveness, and responsibility. All of the information from the two years of the Master s Program is used in the course and made available to the student. By referencing all of the Master s

29 Program, the student can put into practice those things that are the most impactful for them in the moment to initiate significant, profound and effective growth. The student has the opportunity to take the teachings to deeper levels of awareness, where simple changes can become valuable lessons for living an ordinary life. You see, life is lived internally. You just participate externally. That approach is the quality we want to go for, because it will alter the outside even if you don t do anything with it, because you ll always be seeing the wow of what s going on. -John-Roger, DSS DOCTOR OF SPIRITUAL SCIENCE Prerequisites: MSS graduate, MSIA Initiate and MSIA Minister in good standing, active subscription to MSIA Soul Awareness discourses and Soul Awareness Tapes, regular tither to MSIA, and official acceptance by PTS administration. Through the Doctor of Spiritual Science Program (DSS), students move to new levels of expansiveness and awareness. The DSS provides a supportive format for expanding spiritual awareness and for the consistent and disciplined practice of the Traveler s Teachings. Experience has shown that this program requires a daily, conscious, continual focus. The DSS Program is a three-year program, with students meeting one weekend a month for nine months each year. The students are given support materials and assignments to work with and do between the weekend classes that are designed to integrate the tools and keys they learn during the class weekends.

30 YEAR ONE THE MULTIDIMENSIONAL HUMAN PART I The first year is devoted to intensive course work with the focus of the students being primarily on themselves and the discovery of their Individual Study, part of the final paper required for graduation in the DSS. There are two key ways to know if you re really following in God consciousness or not: How you re not following is shown by the limitations and restrictions and constrictions that you put out. You often can feel them in your body. And they usually lead to physical illness, emotional sickness and mental disturbance. The way that you know you are in God s work is by how much you are expanding and by how much more you are effectively doing it. You see, God created us and He didn t use any junk to do it. Sometimes you want to take who you are as a creative being and make junk, thinking that s going to be acceptable. At the level we are working in this PTS doctoral program, I want to be clear with you that it s not. The thing we re on the planet to learn is discipline towards God s direction. That discipline is not a punishment. It s joy. And it s a real thankful thing to have. - John-Roger, DSS YEAR TWO THE MULTIDIMENSIONAL HUMAN PART II During Year Two, students focus on expanding their awareness of themselves as divine beings. They refine their attention, intentions, purposes and goals, and explore deeper levels of commitment to their spiritual awakening. The Individual Study area in which each student engages is a vehicle for the discovery and exploration of their spiritual nature. What s the main reason for the DSS class? It could be answered two ways: the negative way is, what stops you from seeing God? The other way is, what helps you get to God? If you find out what s stopping you,

31 that doesn t mean you cracked it, but you are getting to God, that means you re already on course-correction, and you are just on a timeline of fulfillment. And each person may have a slightly different variation. John-Roger, DSS YEAR THREE THE MULTIDIMENSIONAL HUMAN PART III The third year is a year of practical application. Students continue to attend monthly classes, during which they confer with their peers and advisors in developing and applying their Individual Study as a repeatable and usable methodology. Graduation Requirement: Successful completion of years one, two and three, and all the program requirements, including the completion and approval of the Practical Treatise, qualify the student to receive a PTS Doctor of Spiritual Science Degree. The Practical Treatise is a unique and original study, coming out of the students behavior, documenting the student s research, discoveries and conclusions. The Practical Treatise can be regarded as a how to manual that other people can read and practice in order to achieve predictable, measurable, repeatable results. What it comes down to, always and forever, is the commitment to yourself. And that starts when, ten billion times a day, ten billion percent, you commit to the upliftment and the unfoldment that is your spiritual nature. -John-Roger, DSS YEAR FOUR ADVANCED MINISTERIAL STUDIES Part 1 Prerequisites: DSS graduate or successful completion of the PTS DSS Program Year Three, active subscription to MSIA Soul

32 Awareness Discourses and Soul Awareness Tapes, active MSIA initiate and MSIA minister in good standing, regular tither to MSIA, three Reader approvals for Individual Study direction, and official acceptance by PTS administration. Optional course work for students who have successfully completed DSS years one, two, and three and meet the course prerequisites. The primary emphasis of this course is in-depth development of the ministerial skills that the student has worked with in the course of the three years of the DSS program. In addition, the course covers information on the legal and ethical issues pertinent to Ministers who are actively serving their communities. Throughout the program, students develop and apply a model or protocol using their Individual Study topic as their specialty. In addition, there is a focus throughout the program on self-healing. When a student receives their DSS degree they qualify for a certificate in Advanced Ministerial Studies. YEAR FIVE ADVANCED MINISTERIAL STUDIES Part 2 Prerequisites: Successful completion of the PTS DSS Program Year Four, active subscription to MSIA Soul Awareness Discourses and Soul Awareness Tapes, active MSIA initiate and MSIA minister in good standing, regular tither to MSIA, and official acceptance by PTS administration. Optional DSS course work for students who have successfully completed DSS Year Four and meet the course prerequisites. In Year Five, the students continue developing their ministerial skills. In addition, each student designs and implements a yearlong ministerial project.