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The University Of Metaphysics is a private, post secondary, distance learning, theological school operating under the auspices of the International Metaphysical Ministry. IMM is a non-profit, religious exempt organization as designated by the Internal Revenue Service of the United States. The curriculum is strictly non-secular and theological in nature. Students are prepared for Ministerial and other related careers in the holistic, New Thought branch of Metaphysical Theology.
New Thought, as a theological movement, began in the nineteenth century. This movement was thrust forward by a number of spiritual thinkers and philosophers such as Phineas Parkhurst Quimby, Myrtle Fillmore, Charles Fillmore, William Walker Atkinson and Ernest Holmes. From its inception, independence of thought, teachings, and belief has been an important, deeply rooted characteristic of the New Thought Movement. This makes it difficult for academia to categorize New Thought Churches, Ministries, and Organizations into set denominations with explicit boundaries of belief - as they do with other religious movements. Nevertheless, a number of New Thought Denominations, such as Unity Church and Religious Science, have become easily recognizable by main stream society.
The University Of Metaphysics is totally focused on a New Thought Theological Curriculum and legally exists beyond the scope of the (U.S.) Higher Education Act of 1965. The University has been influenced for over fifty years by the deeply rooted tradition of independence of the New Thought Movement. The University has chosen independence rather than joining with a secular type association, organization or agency for accreditation. There is no official accrediting agency governing metaphysical education.
Therefore, the IMM voluntarily maintains extensive oversight, quality control, and critical evaluation of the University’s activities, and religious curriculum. Academic standards that are at least equal to that of most secular, accredited, post secondary educational institutions within the United States are strictly maintained. This is accomplished through both exam and Thesis/Dissertation review.
The University Of Metaphysics can trace its history as a teaching institution, with its own unique philosophy over the last fifty years. This would include various educational and research facilities. The actual University Of Metaphysics, an independent entity as it exists today, was founded in 1976 by Dr. Paul Leon Masters. The University of Metaphysics applied for, and was granted, full legal right to award non-secular degrees up to Doctoral or Ph.D. level in the various ministerial specialties.
The International Metaphysical Ministry, which operates the University Of Metaphysics, is a worldwide New Thought Metaphysical Ministry having exposure in the domestic United States along with over 120 countries internationally. IMM has over fifty years of service in the private, post secondary religious field.
Mission – Vision – Purpose
We offer affordable Metaphysical education to those in search of Higher Consciousness truths, fostering the individual, Metaphysical perspectives of students, whether in traditional ministry or in numerous practices such as writing, life coaching, counseling, or spiritual energy healing.
The University of Metaphysics is the world’s largest Metaphysical degree-awarding school, with students and graduates in over 120 countries. Operating for over five decades as the most prominent and respected Metaphysical degree-awarding university system, our curriculum is based on the decades of consciousness research that Dr. Masters conducted with thousands of student research participants. This research revealed to him the same original Higher Consciousness truths upon which many of the world’s great religious traditions were founded. He brought those Truths and the practical effects those years of research revealed to him into his curriculum.
Our students and graduates represent a wide variety of Metaphysical beliefs. We recognize that there are many paths to Truth, spiritual reality, and God. Whatever your path(s) in this lifetime, our curriculum gives you a strong foundation for a greater likelihood for success.
Whether you are seeking to specialize in teaching, counseling, life coaching, wellness, ministry, or something else within the vast realm of Metaphysics, you will find that the guidance of our caring and exceptional administrative staff will assist you in making your journey with us a wonderful experience, both during your studies and after, as one of our graduates.
Your spiritual journey is important to us, and this catalog will provide you with a comprehensive overview of our programs, career potential, and opportunities for Continuing Education. We are here to serve the best in you so you may serve the best in others.
Dr. Masters conceptualized the following specific ideas back in the early 1990s:
- To offer spirituality to a world in need of Higher Spiritual Truth beyond that found in conventional, traditional, fundamentalist, or dogmatic religions.
- To create a diversity of new approaches to ministry so that Higher Spirituality may reach the public through various means not confined to traditional church congregations.
- To provide education up to a doctoral degree in advanced Holistic, New Thought, Transpersonal, and Metaphysical forms of Spirituality so that those affiliated professionally with the IMM and its University Division are well prepared to teach, counsel, coach, practice spiritual healing or whatever their chosen ministerial communication.
- To conduct research into the nature and source of consciousness to discover the spiritual mysteries of life and how such knowledge may be practically applied to the improving of human life, both individually and collectively.
- To explore the possibilities of the legitimacy of various forms and practices of spiritual healing and health maintenance that can be complementary to the practice of traditional, allopathic medicine.
- To focus on meditation and other contemplative practices that can lead to the exploration of consciousness for the purpose of proving the existence of a Supreme Creative Intelligence or God and/or the continuation of life beyond the physical.
- To encourage a movement toward the synthesis of science, psychology, transcendentalism, and mysticism so that eventually Absolute Spiritual Truth and Absolute Scientific and Psychological Truth complement and explain each other as one Reality.
