Introduction

For many years I have been interested in the study of consciousness and how the clarity and non-clarity of human beings affects every dimension of life on earth. This process has drawn me into an exploration of humanistic and transpersonal psychology, self-actualization and deeper human potential, consciousness in the business and working world, and the spiritual dimension of our inner journey. I have come to the conclusion that there is no focus that is more important than this – especially at this point in the evolution of the earth: that we develop the aspect of our humanity which we call consciousness, to the highest possible degree. I feel that it is the key to all the issues we face. It is this process which is at the core of The New England Institute for Transforming Consciousness.

Over the years I have been part of creating two graduate degree programs. As Co-founder of the Associates for Human Resources, Concord, MA. I developed a degree in Humanistic Psychology and Organizational Development. It was affiliated with several accredited colleges.

In the second program I helped give form to both a masters and doctoral program at what is now called the Osho Multiversity, Pune, India. I was the Vice Chancellor, overseeing program development and administration.

Recently I have been joined by Molly Scott, Roshani Shay, Anne Black and Ram Ballen in developing a new degree program in Transforming Consciousness where the depth and breadth of what is known about consciousness can be brought together, experienced and shared with others. We are a core faculty who are personally and professionally devoted to this process.

We look forward to joining with participants who would like to be part of this exploration with us.

As ever,

Karuna Kress Ed.D.
President and Director

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The Core of the NEITC Diploma in Consciousness

The only thing you have to offer another being is your own state of consciousness.
Ram Dass, The Only Dance There Is

We are devoted to –

Providing the environment, experiences and resources to promote the personal transformation of consciousness to our true, natural, clear, vital, essential and creative selves.
Assisting participants in finding their unique way of living and working which is based in their deeper awareness, abilities and interests.
Emphasizing the best of what is known about teaching and learning, reflection and conceptualizing, collaboration, problem-solving and creativity.
Creating a learning environment which is fun, contemporary, adventurous, practical, uplifting, challenging, multidimensional (body, mind and spirit), interesting, in the moment, thought-provoking, relevant and built on life experience.
Encouraging and supporting participant-centered and lifelong learning.

Consciousness should be a flow from within outwards.
The organic necessity of the human being should flow into spontaneous action
and spontaneous awareness, consciousness. But the moment man became aware
of himself he made a picture of himself, and began to live from that picture: that is,
from without inwards. This is truly the reversal of life.

D.H. Lawrence

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What is Consciousness?

From dictionaries:

Alert and awake
Aware of one’s surroundings and of oneself
Deliberate or intentional
Capable of thought, will and perception
Subjectively known or felt
Inwardly attentive or sensible; mindful
A sense of one’s personal or collective identity, especially the complex of attitudes, beliefs, sensitivities held by or considered characteristic of an individual or group.

From other sources:

The functions of consciousness include perceiving, desiring, willing and acting. The structures of consciousness, some facets of which can be unconscious, including body, mind, soul and spirit. The states of consciousness include normal (e.g., waking, dreaming, sleeping) and altered (e.g., non-ordinary, meditative). The modes of consciousness include aesthetic, moral, and scientific. The development of consciousness spans an entire spectrum from prepersonal to personal to transpersonal, subconscious to self-conscious to super conscious, id to ego to Spirit.

Ken Wilber, Integral Psychology

The mind and consciousness are not two things but two states, two phases of the same phenomenon. Consciousness is liquid, flowing; mind is rocklike, like ice.…Consciousness is like water, mind is like ice – it is the same thing. The same water becomes ice, and the ice can be melted again – through love, through warmth…. And the third state is when water evaporates and becomes invisible and disappears – that is nirvana, cessation.

Osho, The Tantra Vision, Vol. 1

All save consciousness is unreal, though in a world of appearances one acts
as if appearances were real.

Christmas Humphreys, Buddhism

This kind of consciousness is quite different from simply being aware. In fact, you can’t gain complete consciousness until you step out of ego.

Chogyam Trungpa, Transcending Madness

Problems cannot be solved at the same level of consciousness that created them.

Albert Einstein

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Is the NEITC Experience for you?

We are looking for people who are seeking to develop their own consciousness, clarity, awareness, creativity, inner intelligence and a higher quality of relating, work and life.

The program is for people who know the relevance of inner exploration in all aspects of their lives and who want to be their true, natural, vital, clear, essential, centered selves – with the help of peers, mentors and resource faculty.

It is for people interested in developing their competencies in relating, working with others, teaching, management, business, healing and helping professions, science and the arts; and for those interested in developing abilities such as heightened objectivity and creative problem-solving, authentic communication, responsiveness, flexibility, and shared leadership.

An applicant needs to be someone who can develop his/her own learning goals with support and consultation, and is capable of independent study with the assistance of mentors and resource faculty.

This is a program for people who want to venture into new dimensions, who are risk takers, and fun loving. It is for people who ask what life is really about.

Finally, the NEITC Experience is for people who would like to make a difference in their families, businesses, health, education, the helping professions, the arts, ecology and science.

Participants from anywhere in the world are welcome if they can attend two 4-day residencies a year in the USA. When there are clusters of interested people in other locations, we will travel for residencies.

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Man is an experiment - an experiment to reach to the heights of
Consciousness and to reach to the depths of the very source of life.

Osho

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