Emerson Online Studies

New Thought based in Ancient Wisdom. . .

Study Timeless Teachings Anywhere in the World

Dr. Susanne Freeborn, Director

Practicum in Spiritual Transformation

5:30 - 7:30 Pacific Time

Twelve Sessions, Two Credits

Tuition: $200.00

E-Text: $12.50

We all have times when certain difficult and unrelenting conditions seem to get the better of us. We feel a kind of powerlessness when this happens. What are we to do?

Dr. Tom Sannar has written a powerful and effective text, and Dr. Susanne knows just the way to teach these practices and how to support students in the kind of persistent, regular practice that makes a difference. We all know that New Thought teaches us to change our thinking and change our life. Here is a way to do it in a supportive group, sharing the powerful ideas and practices of New Thought compassionately and effectively. While this course focuses on the physical transformation and healing of the body, you can bring any persistent condition that you have left outside of the experience of wholeness for healing using these principles. The following is from the text itself...

Based on a writing by Dr. Thomas Charles Sannar

THE COURSE - TEXTBOOK OF SPIRITUAL TRANSFORMATION

WHAT IS THE COURSE?

The Course is a complete system that offers instruction in matters of spirit, mind and body. Here, I concentrate on physical wholeness including weight. Weight refers to what is weighing you down mentally and emotionally as well as physically. I will teach you how to remove blocks and pressures in all areas of life so that you may achieve balance and harmony. When that occurs all physical symptom will disappear.

The Course is a program designed to manifest health in every aspect of your being. You are not only a physical being. You are an emotional, mental and spiritual being. Any physical disability is merely a symptom of underlying emotional, mental or spiritual causes. Therefore, in this program we will be working not only with the symptoms that show up in your physical body, but the emotional, mental and spiritual causes behind those symptoms.

In order to receive the full benefit of this course there are certain things I will ask you to believe. First, I ask you to believe that you are not simply a material physical being but that you are an unlimited spiritual being. Your physical body is a reflection of an underlying causal body. Your causal body is made up of energy. This energy manifests in three different centers. The first center is called mental or head center. Here, energy takes the form of thought. The second center is called emotional or heart center. Here, the energy takes the form of feeling. The third center is called physical or action center. Here, the energy takes the form of movement. All three centers of energy interrelate to outpicture a physical body. To be whole and healthy you must pay attention to all three centers of your being. In short, to be healthy you must be an open, thinking, feeling and action oriented person.

Hunger is a manifestation of a deep underlying desire for unity, unity with yourself, with others, with our planet, with God and the universe. We spiritually hunger after God. We mentally hunger after wisdom. We emotionally hunger after love. And we physically hunger after food. All of these hungers are necessary in order for us to be fulfilled.

If you become frustrated in your hunger after God, after wisdom or after love, you try to compensate these frustrations with food. The physical act of eating and tasting temporarily satisfies your deep spiritual, mental and emotional hungers. But the result is that you become out of balance and out of harmony with your true self. You feed your body because you are frustrated in trying to feed your soul. The physical manifestation of excess weight is simply the result of this imbalance. As you learn to satisfy your emotional hunger, your mental hunger and your spiritual hunger, you will come back into balance, your physical appetite will become natural and you will begin to eat foods that keep you in balance.

You can lose weight on many different kinds of diets but if you fail to deal with the underlying causes of excess weight, the weight will return. It must return, because according to the laws of the universe you will outpicture in your life the ideas you hold in your mind. Most of us are out of balance in one or more areas of our life.

I will be giving you specific tools that you can use to bring balance and harmony back into your life. Although you may see dramatic results during this initial period, a total transformation cannot take place in one month or even six months. I am inviting you to participate in a lifelong practice that will establish a deep love for yourself and others and a profound wisdom for the way the universe works and your place in it. At the same time I will be showing you ways to reduce your physical weight in a very healthy and wholesome manner.

All of your energy systems are interconnected. As you begin to reduce your physical weight, you will develop a greater sense of self-esteem and self worth. This attitude will help you to create commitment and discipline to the physical regimen that you have selected.

The ultimate purpose of this program is transformation. You will understand for the first time that you are an unlimited spiritual being with unlimited potential to manifest the fulfilled life here on earth. The added benefits of this program are a slim, trim and healthy body, a relationship with yourself and others based upon love and respect and a deeper relationship with God.

This program is divided into three parts.

PART ONE: FINDING YOUR POWER

The purpose of this part is to synthesize the ancient truth teachings into a simple and practical map that can be clearly understood. I will introduce you to a clear psycho-spiritual system based on these teachings. You must start where you are or rather where you think you are because your thoughts and your beliefs about yourself create your reality. So the first part of this course is to convince you of your true nature. You are a spiritual being having a human experience.

There is something inside of you, a force, an energy, a love that tells you that in reality you are not separate and alone, but that you are part of one greater reality. You are growing in a purposeful way within this reality. Somehow you know that your body, your emotions and your mind have emerged from the same universe that moves the sun, the moon and the planets and binds all life together.

I offer you a system that answers the eternal questions of humanity. You will learn who you are, your true purpose in life and how you may achieve liberation. It will not be enough to understand or even believe these ideas. Your challenge is to embody this system and then act on that embodiment. You must be convinced of the teaching with your mind. You must accept the teaching with your heart. And you must act on the teaching from the depths of your soul.

This is not a system to flirt with or to superficially study. It demands discipline, focus, and commitment. But if you are willing to fully explore with an open mind, if your are willing to work with these principles in your everyday life, the rewards are many. Here are some of the promises I can confidently make to you if you are willing to put forth the effort.

1. You will experience true spiritual dominion. You will come into the conscious realization that you can create your own destiny by the control of your thinking.

2. You will experience deep and profound love. You will learn to commune with and experience the love of God. You will learn to receive this love and give it to others and most of all you will learn to truly love yourself.

3. You will develop a sense of personal empowerment. This empowerment will manifest in terms of more fulfilling relationships, greater prosperity, a deeper sense of purpose and a total feeling of harmony and oneness in your life.

You will learn how you can use universal laws to take personal dominion in your life. You will learn about the power of thought and how you can balance and harmonize your conscious and subconscious mind. As you begin to take complete responsibility for your life you will realize your true nature as a spiritual being.

PART TWO — FEELING YOUR FEELINGS

You have been subconsciously blocking your true potential by the misidentification of your nature. You have identified with your personality rather than your essence. This misidentification has led to a sense of separation and alienation. The natural consequence is fear. Fear is the great immoblizer and is the root cause of all disease, pain and suffering in the world. I will give you clear tools to discover and unblock your fear. You will transcend your lower personality that has kept you separated from your spiritual source. Once you have clearly mastered the ideas presented, you will find a deeper and more rewarding power in creating your future.

You will explore the unique and special aspects of your personality. You will uncover your basic personality type and your strengths and weaknesses. The goal of this part is to uncover the blocks that have, up to this time, hidden your real identity as a spiritual being and have prevented you from fully demonstrating your life purpose. You will experience personal transformation.

PART THREE — FORMING YOUR BODY

Here you will learn about diets, nutrition and exercise, the three keys to a healthy body. As you commit to a system of exercise and a healthy life style change you will notice that you have more energy. You have probably noticed that there are great disputes about the different types of diets and what is the best diet for you. Based upon my own unique experience I have found that a low carbohydrate diet is the best and most permanent way to release weight when it is used in combination with a good nutritional plan and lots of exercise. But I certainly do not advocate a low carb diet for everyone. If you find a plan that works for you, go for it. My suggestion is to adopt a plan that you can stick with in combination with regular exercise and nutritional supplements.

As a result of the embodiment and application of these three parts you'll begin to have spiritual experiences that will open you to the realm of the transcendent. Once your energy centers begin to come into harmony and balance you will experience what has been called "transparency". This will allow you to receive the "gift of the Holy Spirit". You will become a clear channel of Spirit. And so, let us begin.