The Rhine Research Center: Bridging Science & Spirituality

This 5-session seminar course will follow the text An Artist’s Thought Book: Intriguing thoughts about the artistic process. Through an examination of five main topics (To be an artist, singing and music, painting, poetry, and the nature of creativity) students will explore their own artistic reactions to 80 maxims – one or two sentence observations – presented in the text and discussed in the context of an interactive class.
This course will integrate discussions of the dream process and how dreams can inspire or assist in the creative process. Does psi emerge through dreams or can it be expressed in artistic projects or works?
This is a seminar course with limited enrollment to accommodate live discussion, but students may also participate asynchronously in the online discussion forums to expand their exploration or attend classes they've missed. Attendance in live classes is strongly encouraged to get the most out of this course.

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When: Live broadcasts once a week or watch class recordings at your convenience.
Where: This is an ONLINE COURSE with participation through an internet connection.

In this eight-week academic course, students will examine two of the most carefully studied phenomena connected to the question of survival after death: Near-Death Experiences (NDEs) and Cases of the Reincarnation Type (CORT). The first four weeks focus on NDEs—their characteristic features, the methods researchers use to investigate them, the range of physiological, psychological, and survival-oriented explanations, and what the strongest evidence currently reveals about consciousness near the point of death. The second four weeks turn to Cases of the Reincarnation Type, exploring the classic research approaches developed in this field, the hallmarks of the most evidential cases, possible explanations, and the implications these reports hold for personal identity and the possibility of life after death.
The course emphasizes what science can—and cannot—currently tell us about the afterlife while remaining grounded in the evidence. For both phenomena, students will learn the factual findings from decades of systematic investigation, how to evaluate competing interpretations with clarity and balance, and how these spontaneous experiences are studied outside the laboratory.

PEG meetings (first Tuesday of the month) are dedicated to the discussion of personal experiences involving psi (psychic) and consciousness. We maintain a policy of honesty, privacy, and sharing without judgment. Shared experiences touch on telepathy, healing, precognition, extended senses, psychokinesis, remote viewing, dreams, haunting, reincarnation, near-death experiences, out-of-body experiences, and other anomalous experiences.

As personal stories flow, ideas and inspiration begin to flow for developing our extended psi and for finding creative ways to be of greater service in the larger community.

This 4-week course will explore some of the important people who helped to build the field of parapsychology and who made major breakthroughs that revolutionized the sciences. This course focuses on the people, their lives, and their contributions, to give depth to our understanding of the evolution of parapsychology from the 19th century through modern times.
This course will include some of the original psychical researchers, the early years of parapsychology in academic environments, major contributors through the mid to late 20th century, and some more recent researchers who have made their marks on the field.
The focus of this course will be the people of parapsychology, e.g. who they are, what they know, and what inspires them.

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When: Live broadcasts once a week & class recordings at your convenience. NO class Nov 10.
Where: This is an ONLINE COURSE; participate through an internet connection. Link provided upon registration.
Tuition: $115 ($100 for Rhine members)

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