Masters Degree for Distant Learners

The University of Philosophical Research
Linking Modern Scholarship with Ancient Philosophy

Our Story

UPR was founded upon the core principle of the continuing significance of ancient philosophy. The University is the fulfillment of Manly P. Hall's dream of creating a modern wisdom school.

Manly P. Hall was a philosopher who honored the wisdom of all cultures. He founded the Philosophical Research Society in 1933. And, he authored over 200 books.

Assembling one of the finest existing libraries of idealist philosophy, Manly Hall collected over 30,000 volumes that today reside at the UPR in Los Angeles.

The UPR mission is to cross the conceptual bridge between science and spirituality.

In a world where students yearn for new syntheses of ancient wisdom with modern knowledge, where students seek understanding that reflects their own sense of inner wholeness, and where most graduate programs ignore the deep realities of soul and psyche -- UPR is a distant learning program with a world-class faculty, offering masters degrees in consciousness studies and in transformational psychology.

Our faculty includes medical doctors, philosophers, physicists, psychologists, and business consultants.

We attract students who are successful professionals, business people, leaders in their fields, and people who are simply young and brilliant.

Our faculty includes such reknowned thinkers as Jeffrey Mishlove, Ph.D., teaching Psi Research; Raymond Moody, Ph.D., M.D., Exploring Near Death Experience and Paranormal Phenomenon; and Amit Goswami, Ph.D., offering physics of the Soul plus Science and Spirituality.

Our faculty covers such bold ideas as transformation and healing through creative communication with Judith Simon Prager, Ph.D., and Harry Youtt, J.D.; attention mechanics with Steven Droullard; mind in the cosmos: the evolution of consciousness with Christian de Quincey, Ph.D.; science, consciousness and cultural transformation with Brian O'Leary, Ph.D.; essentials of mind-body medicine with Martin Rossman, M.D.; consciousness and creative communication with David Bresler, Ph.D.; self-regulation: the foundation of human potential with Judith Green, Ph.D., and Robert Shellenberger, Ph.D.; alchemy and psychotherapy with Michele Papen Daniel, Ph.D.; intuition in business with Marcia Emery, Ph.D.; and transformational psychology with Jeffrey Mishlove, Ph.D.

Our faculty offer the wisdom of the ages in courses such as Buddhist psychology and methods of healing with Vesna Wallace, Ph.D.; Upanishads and Bhagavat Gita with Debasheesh Bannarji, Ph.D.; the wisdom lovers: spiritual origins of western thought with Raymond Moody, Ph.D., M.D.; wisdom of classical philosophy with Pierre Grimes, Ph.D.; understanding the bible with Culver Nelson, D.Div.; wisdom of the kabbalah with Daniel Matt, Ph.D.; Buddhism in the modern world with B. Alan Wallace, Ph.D., and Vesna Wallace, Ph.D.; and world religions with Robert Ellwood, Ph.D.

Our faculty provide tools for changing the world and changing the individual in courses such as stages of spiritual growth with Obadiah Harris, Ph.D.; inner and outer creativity with Janelle Barlow, Ph.D.; a new myth of god: religious function of the psyche with Lionel Corbett, M.D.; dreams and the quest for meaning with Kelly Bulkeley, Ph.D.; mythic stories in depth psychology with Jonathan Young, Ph.D.; spiritual psychology with Robert Frager, Ph.D.; Yijing: models of transformation working with changes with Stephen Karcher, Ph.D.

Come join us for a transformative, intellectual journey. The University of Philosophical Research.