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Basic Curriculum & Content

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(Adapted from the Empathic Studies Degree Program offered by the University of Alternative Studies.)

Introduction to Parapsychology, Origins of Parapsychological Research, The Phenomenology of Extrasensory Perception, Experimental Research on Extrasensory Perception, Extrasensory Perception and Time, Psychokinesis, Special Topics in PK Research, Theories of Psi, The Survival Hypothesis, Poltergeist Experiences, Near-Death Experiences, Out-of-Body Experiences, Apparitional Experiences, Reincarnation Experiences, Belief in the Paranormal, Matters of Relevance, Evaluation of Parapsychology as a Scientific Enterprise, Psychical Concepts, The Biological System of Communication, Potentially Fatal Psychical Misconceptions, Negative Catalysts for Psychical Enhancement, Children and Psychical Phenomena, PsiTricity, Psychical Phenomena Scientifically Justified, Psychokinesis, Empathy.

1. Book - An Introduction to Parapsychology

• An Introduction to Parapsychology - by Harvey J. Irwin and Caroline A. Watt

Book Description
Irwin (psychology, Univ. of New England in Australia) wrote this book as a textbook, and it shows. Each chapter ends with a list of terms and study questions, and though coverage is similar to many other surveys in the field, the extremely academic style makes it much less readable. Further, the bibliography consists largely of articles in periodicals, many dating from before 1980 and probably unavailable except in universities with a parapsychology department of long years' standing. Surprisingly, many notables are not listed in the Index of Names, including James, Hyslop, Ducasse, Piper, Bro, Garrett, and Cayce. All in all, not of value to public libraries in this country.

2. Book - An Introduction to Extrasensory and Psychokinetic Phenomena

• Quantum Psychics - Scientifically Understand, Control and Enhance Your Psychic Ability - by Dr. Theresa M. Kelly

Book Description
This groundbreaking book written by Metaphysicst and Bestselling Author Dr. Theresa M. Kelly, utilizes an extensive list of scientific studies and laws to reveal how the laws of physics do not have to be rewritten to explain how psychic abilities work. The author exposes that psychic abilities are possible due to wirelessly transmitted data and commands weakly emitted through the mind and bodies own natural electromagnetic radiation. She also exposes that psychokinesis is possible by means of coupling and critically tuned frequencies operating in the electromagnetic near-field. The book includes several exercises and techniques enabling the reader to learn how to control and enhance their psychic or psychokinetic abilities including using scientific means of performance and measurement and artificial, but safe, means of enhancement. The author lists and corrects many misconceptions and myths associated with psychokinetic and psychic abilities that have developed in the mainstream media. The book also includes personality qualities common for individual possessing psychokinetic sub-forms discovered through years of experience working exclusively with individuals possessing psychokinetic ability. With over fourteen years of hands on experience in her field, Dr. Theresa M. Kelly bridges the gap between physics and metaphysics in a manner easily comprehendible to the layperson and easily appreciated by professionals.

General Curriculum & Content

General Course Material is to be studied secondary to Basic Course Material.

1. Book - An Introduction to Psychology

• Psychology (6th Edition) - by Gleitman, Henry, Alan J. Fridlund, and Daniel Reisberg

Book Description
sychology presents a cohesive overview of the discipline that emphasizes connections to both the natural sciences and the humanities. For the Sixth Edition, Henry Gleitman and co-authors have undertaken a comprehensive revision, reorganizing and tightening the overall chapter structure and emphasizing contemporary theories and research throughout, particularly new findings in neuroscience and culture studies.

2. Book - An Introduction to Psychology of Emotions

• Psychology of Emotions: Interpersonal, Experiential and Cognitive Approaches - by Paula Niedenthal

Book Description
This textbook discusses fundamental issues in the definition and measurement of emotion, including: conscious and unconscious processes; the ways in which emotions arise in, and are constrained by, social situations and social processes; the regulation and sharing of emotion and their effects of mental health; and the manner in which culture (including subculture) shapes or moderates some of these processes. The book also focuses on the component processes of emotion, their functions, and the ways in which these interact with the social environment. Rather than deny either that emotions are biologically determined or that they are culturally created or shaped, both biology and social situation are treated as important forces in the elicitation and the experience of emotion. Each section of the book is structured around specific approaches or models, and the precise questions that they were constructed to address. The theories and models are also placed in their in historical context. Discussion of the different approaches is elaborated by summaries of the extant scientific evidence, as well as examples of specific experiments or studies that were designed to evaluate the question. Timely, engaging real-world examples are used from a variety of international contexts. The pedagogic features, including concise introductions and summaries, discussion questions, and suggested readings, have been incorporated into the volume, making this an ideal text for a course of Emotion, which can be found as an option within many social psychology and cognitive psychology courses.

Alternatively to the Introduction to Psychology, one can listen the following MIT audio lectures offered below.

MIT Audio Lectures - Introduction to Psychology
From MIT OPENCOURSEWARE

Your use of the MIT course materials is subject to their Creative Commons License and other terms of use.

1	The Brain: Between the Ears, Behind the Eyes (PDF)	(MP3 ‑ 18.2MB)	(RM - 16K)
2	Motivation and Emotion: "Reason Alone Cannot Move Us To Do Anything" (PDF)	(MP3 - 17.9MB)	(RM - 16K)
3	Learning: The Power of Association (PDF)	(MP3 - 18.1MB)	(RM - 16K)
4	Sensing: Gathering the Information (PDF)	(MP3 - 17.9MB)	(RM - 16K)
5	Attending: Limiting the Information (PDF) Lecture Slide Collection (PDF)	(MP3 - 18.8MB)	(RM - 16K)
6	Perceiving: Interpreting the Information (PDF) Lecture Slide Collection (PDF)	(MP3 - 18.3MB)	(RM - 16K)
7	Memory: What Do You Remember? (PDF)	(MP3 - 18.5MB)	(RM - 16K)
8	Cognition: How Do You Think? (PDF)	(MP3 - 18.3MB)	(RM - 16K)
9	Cognitive Development: How Do Children Think? (PDF)	(MP3 - 17.6MB)	(RM - 16K)
10	Language: What Do You Say? (PDF)
11	Language Development: What Do Children Say? (PDF)	(MP3 - 16.9MB)	(RM - 16K)
12	Intelligence: How Do We Know You Are Smart? (PDF)	(MP3 - 19.1MB)	(RM - 16K)
13	The Battle of the Sexes: Love and Evolution (PDF)	(MP3 - 18.4MB)	(RM - 16K)
14	Social Exchange: Romantic Economics (PDF)	(MP3 - 16.7MB)	(RM - 16K)
15	Attitudes and Behaviors: How Can We Be Controlled? (PDF)	(MP3 - 18.7MB)	(RM - 16K)
16	Who Are you? The Psychology of the Self (PDF)	(MP3 - 18.7MB)	(RM - 16K)
17	From Dissociation To Repression (PDF)	(MP3 - 18.7MB)	(RM - 16K)
18	Freud and Fairy Tales (PDF)	(MP3 - 18.2MB)	(RM - 16K)
19	Sleep and Dreams (PDF)	(MP3 - 18.3MB)	(RM - 16K)
20	Defining Mental Illness: Are Suicide Bombers Insane? (PDF)	(MP3 - 19.2MB)	(RM - 16K)
21	Causing Mental Illness: What Can Make You "Lose" Your Mind? (PDF)	(MP3 - 17.5MB)	(RM - 16K)
22	Successful Disasters: Eating Disorders (PDF)	(MP3 - 18.2MB)	(RM - 16K)
23	Successful Disasters: Date Rape (PDF)	(MP3 - 11.9MB)	(RM - 16K)

Advanced Curriculum & Content

Advanced Course Material is to be studied secondary to General Course Material.

1. Book - An Advanced Introduction to Psychology of Emotions - Advanced

• Handbook of Emotions, Third Edition - by Michael Lewis Phd

Book Description
Widely regarded as the standard reference in the field, the Handbook of Emotions comprehensively examines all aspects of emotion and its role in human behavior. This thoroughly revised and expanded third edition now brings readers fully up to date on major theories, findings, methods, and applications. The field's foremost researchers explore how emotion intersects with biology, developmental processes, social behavior, personality, cognition, and physical and mental health. Also presented are state-of-the-science perspectives on specific emotions, such as fear, anger, shame, disgust, positive emotions, and sadness. New topics include emotion regulation, neuroimaging approaches, emotions in psychotherapy, the social functions of emotion, emotional complexity, emotion across the lifespan, transdiagnostic emotional disturbances in psychopathology, and much more.

Kids!

Children and Psychical Phenomena

"I have always strongly advised in the utmost discretion when it comes to child experients of extrasensory or psychokinetic phenomena. If a parent suspects their child is experiencing genuine psychical phenomena, it is best to educated them primarily in the established sciences associated with the specific phenomena. Parents can make learning enjoyable by creating games to maintain psychical stability. Parents should be mindful of terminology and descriptions in relation to psychical phenomena used around the child. Using terms like “psychic” or “gifted” can result in the child using these terms in conversations outside of the home. If the child uses these terms in conversations with skeptical teachers, friends or family members the result could have a negative sociological and whereby a negative psychological impact on the child. Discretion is strongly advised until adolescence." - Dr. Theresa M. Kelly

1. Book - An Introduction to Emotions and Feelings

• The Way I Feel - by Janan Cain

From Publishers Weekly
First-time author and artist Cain treads familiar ground here with a picture book that pales in comparison to Jamie Lee Curtis's subtler and snappier Today I Feel Silly. From scared to shy, bored to jealous, Cain covers the emotional waterfront in a series of rhymes paired with pastel pencil drawings featuring elflike children. The opening spread, "silly" ("Silly is the way I feel when I make a funny face/ and wear a goofy, poofy hat that takes up lots of space"), casts a child in a rainbow-colored clown outfit against a sunny yellow backdrop and heralds the book's main artistic conceitAa palette picked to suit each mood. "Bored," for instance, is played out on a background of drab tans and browns, while "angry" steams with fiery reds and purples. Though energetic and bright, the cartoonlike illustrations skate close to being strident, while the verses are pedestrian ("Sometimes I feel so very sad and really don't know why./ Instead of playing and having fun, I cry and cry and cry"). Ages 4-8. (Nov.) Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.

2. Digital Paper - (Optional) Parental Understanding - For Parents

• Children and Psychical Phenomena - by Dr. Theresa M. Kelly

Description
In this paper, metaphysicist and bestselling author Dr. Theresa M. Kelly addresses the importance and dangers associated with child experients of psychical phenomena.

Certificate of Course Completion

Upon the completion of this course you can download and print your course completion certificate for free. This certificate will state that you have been awarded an honorary “Alumnus of Empathy Studies” or “Alumnus of Empathic Studies of Mammals” by QPsychics.com for the completion of our Empathy Course of Instruction at the certification level you have chosen (Basic, General, Advanced). These certificates include an area to print, sign or type your name and the date you completed the course. The certificate is signed by Dr. Theresa M. Kelly and J. A. Lewis who is one of our Board Members. Again, this certificate is honorary and is not a degree of any kind. This certificate is not accredited by any accrediting association and is purely for your own recognition and record of course completion and a job very well done.

• (Basic Certification) "Alumnus of Empathic Studies" Certificate
• (General Certification) "Alumnus of Empathic Studies" Certificate
• (Advanced Certification) "Alumnus of Empathic Studies" Certificate
• (General Certification) "Alumnus of Empathic Studies of Animals" Certificate
• (Kids!) "Well-Read on the Subject of Emotions and Feelings" Certificate

A Degree Through The University of Alternative Studies

Our Empathic Studies Degree Programs involve the analysis of multiple perspectives in regards to metal and physiological states associated with a wide variety of feelings, thoughts, and behavior. Empathology is an alternative psychology profession. With direct and comparative scientific comprehension of the dynamics of and methodology to practice Empathy, applied with natural skillfulness, an Empathologist can improve the intensity and precision of their performance for various alternative, medical, and scientific practical applications in conjunction with their unique suggestive form of super-normal communication. Our degree programs are not designed for non-experients of empathic phenomena in search for development. Our programs are designed to educate experients of empathic phenomena on the metaphysical and scientific mechanisms of their performance as a means of development.

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