Metaphysical Degree Programs

• The Bachelor in Metaphysical Science degree program takes an average of six months to complete.
• You have the option to be an active or non-active minister with the IMM.
• Once active, you have the legal authority to perform all the rites of the church as long as you are in good standing with the IMM.
• An annual Affiliation fee of $60.00 is required to maintain good standing.
• If you decide not be to be an active Minister, the annual Affiliation fee is required if you use your degree credentials in any capacity.

Admission Requirements

• Minimum age 18
• A minimum of a high school diploma or the equivalent.
• No felony convictions
• A genuine interest in metaphysics and a sincere desire to help others.

Bachelor’s Degree Course Material

• Bonus Meditation Dynamics Course
• Bachelor’s /Ministers Lessons: Volume 1
• Bachelor’s/Ministers Lessons: Volume 2
• Bachelor’s/Ministers Lessons: Volume 3
• Bachelor’s/Ministers Lessons: Volume 4
• Bachelor’s/Ministers Exams
• Rites of the Metaphysical Ministry
• Recommended Reading List
• Study Guide

Bachelor’s Degree Curriculum Modules

• Attracting and Maintaining Prosperity
• Conscious Spiritual Self-realization for Success
• How to Put Action Behind Your Meditations for Success & Happiness
• Mastering Your Weaknesses Through Your Inner God-power
• Establishing and Maintaining a Positive Transcendent Attitude
• Metaphysical Principles of Winning the Game of Life
• Establishing Mystical Self-direction
• Spiritual Mind Magnetism
• Channeling God-power Into Your Daily Activities
• Eliminating the Negative and Strengthening the Positive
• Spiritual Mind Treatment
• How to Handle Problems as They Arise
• Establishing Positive New Patterns in Your Life
• Activity Visualization
• Psychic Mechanics of Success
• The Power of Meditation Practices
• Reversing Negative Trends Into Positive Ones
• Complete Daily Mental Rebirth Treatment
• Metaphysical Laws of Success
• How to Give Metaphysical Treatment
• How to Use Intuitive Esp for Success and Happiness
• The Role of Diet and Sex in Metaphysics
• Metaphysical Philosophy of New Consciousness for Successful Living
• Transformation
• How to Have All Channels Open for Success
• Understanding and Using Cosmic Mind Telepathy for Success and Happiness
• How to Practice the Power of Transcendent Awareness
• Metaphysical Sensitivity Training
• Convincing Yourself You Can
• Reaction Control or How to Have Positive Control Over Your Life
• Motivation
• Positive Conditioned Reflex Living
• Metaphysical Principles of Overcoming
• Metaphysical Principles of Materializing
• Metaphysical Principles of Self-belief
• Metaphysical Principles for Achieving Happiness
• How to Live the Metaphysical Life Daily
• Metaphysical Principles of Prosperity
• Projecting the Real You to Others
• Controlling Psychic Vibrations in Your Immediate Environment
• Establishing and Maintaining Control Over Your Life
• Moderation
• Creative Thinking—or Finding the Intuitive Ideas That Can Bring Success in Life
• Creating a New Self-image for Successful Living
• Metaphysical Principles of Achieving Success
• Psychic-mystical Secrets of Getting Prayer Answered
• Developing a Prosperity Mentality
• Establishing and Accomplishing Your Goals

Upon successful completion, you are awarded a Bachelor’s degree in Metaphysical Science, B.Msc. Diploma, a Metaphysical Practitioner Diploma, and an Ordained Metaphysical Minister Certificate.

You have the option to continue with the Master’s and Doctoral degree programs.

The founder Dr. Paul Leon Masters based content of this material on his over five decades of full-time metaphysical practice and extensive contact with other professional metaphysicians during that time.

The Master’s degree program consists of 48 study modules with open book examination questions for each module, and it also requires the submission of a thesis with a minimum 6,000 words. The thesis topic must relate to at least one of the curriculum subjects covered in either the Bachelor’s or Master’s study modules.

When writing the thesis, students have access to and guidance from the Master’s Thesis Handbook and approved thesis samples posted on the Online Student Center, as well as a Thesis Advisor.

Course Material

• Master’s Degree Level Lessons: Volume 1
• Master’s Degree Level Lessons: Volume 2
• Master’s Degree Level Exams
• Master’s Thesis Handbook

Master’s Degree Curriculum Modules

• The Metaphysical Psychology of Consciousness
• The Collective Unconscious
• Yoga and the Mind
• Psychic-Mystical Aspects of Metaphysics
• Life After Death
• Reincarnation
• Pastoral Psychology
• Transference and Counter-transference
• The Practitioner’s Metaphysical Healing Practice
• Professionalism: Your Doctoral Image and Dealings With the Public
• Dream Interpretation: Its Role in Metaphysics
• Meditation and Its Significance in Metaphysical Practice
• Self-hypnosis and Its Relation to Metaphysical Practice
• The Bible and Metaphysics
• Yoga: It’s Adaption to Western Thinking
• Metaphysical Semantics and Doctoral Communication
• Your Choice of Metaphysical Operation: Teaching, Counseling Center, or Church

Doctoral Degrees Awarded by the
University of Metaphysics

There are numerous career opportunities in the all-encompassing field of metaphysics such as teaching, counseling, life-coaching, healing, ministry, astrology, professional speaking, to name a few. This program is designed for students wishing to write books, teach, or minister in any metaphysical capacity in which they are called.

Metaphysical counseling offers insights to explain those aspects of a person which exist beyond the senses’ ability to perceive, such as influences of culture, family, friends, the media, and religion. With a spiritual understanding of the world in which you live, you can begin to make adjustments in your life, for greater fulfillment and more freedom. Metaphysical counselors facilitate spiritual awakening and connection to “God, Source, All that Is, the Divine, Higher Power,” or whatever you choose to call the spiritual connection.

The Doctor of Divinity degree is usually chosen by someone who has already established a ministry or church or is planning to do so. A degree in divinity can be directed toward a particular religion or be metaphysical in nature. Those interested in direct research or writing about a particular aspect of ministry, such as New Testament and early Christian studies, ethics, religion, gender, and culture from a metaphysical perspective would do well with this degree.

Pastoral Counseling

Pastoral counseling is a branch of counseling in which ordained ministers, rabbis, priests and other non-ordained lay persons provide counseling services. Pastoral counselors integrate modern psychological and metaphysical thought and method with traditional religious training. Therefore, counselors are able to address psycho-spiritual issues in addition to offering the traditional spectrum of counseling services. Pastoral counselors can work from within a particular religious denomination or across several religious denominations. The focus of the counseling relationship is God or Spirit centered.

Spiritual Healing

The channeling of healing energy from its spiritual source to someone who needs it is called spiritual healing. The healing energy comes through the healer from a higher source and not directly from the healer.

New Thought Ministry

This ministry emphasizes the practical implementation of the power of thought and feeling in helping spiritual enlightenment, wholeness, health, and prosperity to emerge. This degree is usually chosen by someone already working in a ministry or church open to metaphysics, or someone planning to start a New Thought ministry of their own.

Holistic Counseling Ministry

A holistic counseling ministry involves working with the body, mind, and spirit in a spiritual or religious setting. This degree is usually chosen by someone who is already working in a religious setting or someone planning to start a ministry.

Pastoral Counseling

Pastoral counseling is a branch of counseling in which ordained ministers, rabbis, priests and other non-ordained lay persons provide counseling services. Counselors integrate modern psychological thought and method with traditional religious training. Therefore, counselors are able to address psychospiritual issues in addition to offering the traditional spectrum of counseling services. Pastoral counselors can work from within a particular religious denomination or across several religious denominations. The focus of the counseling relationship is God or Spirit centered. This degree is usually chosen by someone who is already working in a religious ministry.

Holistic Ministry

Holistic ministry serves the whole person, seeing everyone through God’s eyes. This church ministry involves every dimension of human need. This degree is usually chosen by someone who is already working in a religious ministry, or would like to start one.

Doctoral Degrees Awarded by the
University of Sedona

We are delighted to share all the wonderful metaphysical doctoral degree specialties we offer as well as the various study tools and resources to help our students write their research papers.

If you are searching for a degree program to help turn your passion or spiritual interest into a career, expand your consciousness, enhance your metaphysical knowledge and give you a recognized education with practical tools and resources to help yourself and others, our program will help you take a step in the right direction

What Can I Do With My Metaphysical Degree?: Graduates in Action (Worldwide) for examples of the various and diverse services our participating graduates are providing with the credentials they have earned through our university system.

The University is always striving to be proactive in meeting the future needs of our students and graduates and is happy to announce have added two new Doctoral degree specialties to the University of Sedona:
Doctor of Philosophy, Ph.D., specializing in Conscious Business Ethics
Doctor of Philosophy, Ph.D., specializing in Conscious Centered Living

There are numerous career opportunities in the all-encompassing field of metaphysics, including teaching, counseling, life-coaching, healing, ministry, astrology, professional speaking, to name a few. This program is designed for students wishing to write books, teach, or minister in any metaphysical capacity in which they are called.

Metaphysical counseling offers insights to explain those aspects of a person which exist beyond the senses’ ability to perceive, such as influences of culture, family, friends, the media, and religion. With a spiritual understanding of the world in which you live, you can begin to make adjustments in your life, for greater fulfillment. Metaphysical counselors also facilitate spiritual awakening and connection to “God, Source, All that Is, the Divine, Higher Power,” or whatever you choose to call the spiritual connection.

The Doctor of Divinity degree is usually chosen by someone who already has already established a ministry or church or is planning to do so. A degree in divinity can be directed toward a particular religion or be metaphysical in nature. Those interested in direct research or writing about a particular aspect of ministry, such as New Testament and early Christian studies, ethics, religion, gender and culture from a metaphysical perspective would do well with this degree.

Bible Interpretation

The study of the Bible is the soul of theology. If this degree is chosen, the student will be looking at word definition, usage, context, historical background, logic, precedent, and inference relating to biblical interpretations. This degree is chosen by those wishing to specialize in researching, teaching, and writing about biblical symbolism to uncover spiritual truths for spiritual reawakening and life improvement from a metaphysical or mystical perspective.

Spiritual Healing

The channeling of healing energy from its spiritual source to someone who needs it is called spiritual healing. The healing energy comes through the healer from a higher source and not directly from the healer.

The Doctor of Theology degree is usually chosen by someone who already has an established ministry or church or plans to do so. The minister or future minister will be doing a theological study within a particular religious tradition such as the Hebrew Bible, New or Old Testament, from a metaphysical perspective.

Metaphysical hypnosis is a natural, yet spiritual, form of suggestive therapy. The serious potential and application of hypnosis is only now being fully considered, as we begin to know more about the brain and the functions of the mind. If this specialty is chosen, teaching self-hypnotic techniques as a means of reprogramming positive spiritual truth and a method of release into higher meditation consciousness will be the goal. A CD of hypnotic induction for self-hypnotic conditioning must be submitted with the Doctoral Dissertation.

Important Note: The awarding of this degree does not give one the legal right to practice hypnotherapy. This degree offers ministerial ordination that specializes in doing pastoral educational counseling or teaching in the spiritual uses of self-hypnotic practices.

Metaphysical psychology means the particular way that an individual interprets reality by integrating intuitive, God-directed awareness into their physical life. This degree is chosen by someone wishing to specialize in educational counseling, life-coaching, teaching, writing, and ministry by applying higher metaphysical spiritual truth to improve life, love, success, and happiness.

Important Note: The awarding of this degree does not give one the right to practice as a psychologist. This degree signifies a person with ministerial standing having studied the psychology of metaphysically oriented pastoral counseling. See Pastoral Counseling offered through the University of Metaphysics.

Good for anyone who wishes to have a more holistic-oriented ministry emphasizing the whole person and health-based on a blending of body, mind, and spirit.

The Doctor of Philosophy degree is designed to equip students for creative scholarship, independent research and effective teaching and philosophical ministry. The program prepares students for teaching, for specialized church ministry, scholarly writing, lectures, courses, and seminars probing life’s realities to better understand how to improve human life.

Conscious Business Ethics

This degree is ideal for those who manage an organization, those who plan to or already are coaching others on best business practices and policies, those who operate their own healing or counseling center, and those who simply wish to improve the quality of their own work environment. Establishments with managers and employees who operate based on Higher Consciousness decision-making and actions, rather than ego-based behaviors, experience higher levels of success, a more satisfied workforce, growth and longevity. When companies practice mindful awareness, they do what is best for the whole by considering the impact on their staff, customers, the environment, and their community for each choice made. Leading by example, these mindful intentions when implemented, ensure a strong foundation of integrity, support, good-will and ethical behavior that flourishes and sets a business standard going forward. An individual with this degree would have the knowledge and skills to help integrate these components into a companies’ culture, mission and day-to- day operations.

Conscious-Centered Living

This degree focuses on bringing Higher Consciousness, or God’s Inner Presence, in to every aspect and every moment of one’s life and helping others do the same through spiritual counseling or by example. Through spiritual practices and God-centered mindful awareness, one learns to identify the limiting behaviors, emotional reactions, and judgments of the ego and, instead, choose one’s own actions based on mindful living and the loving influence of the all-powerful, ever- present Universal Mind. Conscious-Centered Living goes beyond asking, “What would God do?” to eventually knowing the highest spiritual path for every situation, every decision, and every deed––and characteristically acting accordingly. This degree specialty takes Holistic Life Coaching and Counseling to a higher level of spiritual evolution.

Comparative Religion

Comparative religion is a field of religious studies that analyzes the similarities and differences of themes, myths, rituals, and concepts among the world’s religions. It is an ideal specialization for students wishing to specialize in researching, teaching, and writing about the comparison of various religious teachings to the basic teachings of the IMM – where metaphysics has evolved into a religious faith among many people.

Holistic Life Coaching

Holistic life coaching is based on a whole person concept of working with the body, mind, and spirit, or God. This is usually a one-on-one process. A holistic life coach will discuss what is happening in the environment and the experience of clients, underlying and limiting beliefs, and develop a spiritual practice that works for the client – within their own religion or faith. Generally speaking, a coach will work with someone on a subject or topic related goal, establishing the best route to the achievement of that goal. Another scenario is in helping the client clarify or establish clear goals with emphasis on God’s Inner Presence for achievement.

Holistic Life Counseling

Holistic life counseling is based on working with the whole person; body, mind, and spirit. Counseling approaches and techniques are used to help clients uncover what past experiences are currently impacting their lives. This includes the spiritual release of past negativity and the inner transforming power of universal God Presence.

Metaphysical Counseling

Metaphysical counselors help clients to discover the root cause of their beliefs and to develop strategies to change those beliefs. Metaphysical counseling is a holistic approach using metaphysical tools for healing such as dream interpretation, spirituality assessment and awareness, meditation, prayer, affirmative thinking, and other similar methods.

Metaphysical Parapsychology

Metaphysical parapsychology is a discipline that seeks to investigate the existence and causes of psychic abilities, near death experiences, life after death, and other similar studies using scientific methods. Metaphysical parapsychology uses psychic mystical research as a means to greater spiritual truth and discoveries.

Mystical Research

Mystical research pursues communion with, identity with, or conscious awareness of an ultimate reality, divinity, spiritual truth, or God through direct experience, mystical intuition, instinct, or insight. Research in this field usually centers on a practice or practices intended to nurture those experiences or awareness. Mystical research can encompass such topics as Kabala, Sufism, Vedanta, Hinduism, Christian mysticism, Gnosticism, and others. A guided, mystically oriented meditation CD must be submitted with the dissertation.

Pastoral Counseling Psychology

In choosing the pastoral counseling psychology degree, the student will be discussing the work of caring for, understanding, and exploring how human beings function as individuals, in families, in small groups, and in the greater community. The student will be exploring what psychological, behavioral, social science research have to say regarding pastoral concerns (local, institutional, societal, political, international, and so on).

Important Note: The awarding of this degree does not give one the right to practice as a psychologist. This degree signifies a person with ministerial standing having studied the psychology of pastoral counseling.

Transpersonal Counseling

Transpersonal counselors use various depth psychologies and techniques to help clients such as analytical psychology based on Carl Jung’s work, archetypal psychology of James Hillman, spiritual psychology of Robert Sardello; psychosynthesis founded by Roberto Assigoli, and the theories of Abraham Maslow, Stanislav Grof, and others. Transpersonal counseling is an eclectic field that studies the transpersonal, self-transcendent or spiritual aspects of human experience. Transpersonal counseling is concerned with the study of humanity’s highest potential, attempting to describe and to integrate spiritual experience within modern psychological theory.