Mythology & Occultism
MODULE: Mythology & Occultism
Program delivered by distance learning higher education up to a maximum of 27 credits. This module may be combined or completed with other online university courses from this faculty.
DESCRIPTION:
This program covers mythologies, customs, occult wisdom, belief and rituals worldwide from ancient Sumeria to the Greeks and Romans to the Vikings, Inuits, Aztecs, and Aborigines. The great myths of the world and the occult knowledge behind them give meaning to the fundamental events of human existence: birth, death, conflict, loss, reconciliation, and the cycle of the seasons. Developed with this comprehensive view in mind, this program is an authoritative exploration of the most important mythological traditions and esoteric knowledge.
Courses list (each subject accounts for 3 credits):
1 BIU Earned Credit = 1 USA Semester Credit (15 hours of learning) = 2 ECTS Credit (30 hours of study).
World Myths & Beliefs
Religion Mythology Occultism Esoteric Traditions Philosophy of Religion Extrasensory Deceits Parapsychology Metaphysics
Academic Supervisor: Sibylle Kisro-Volker
More information about this supervisor and online university course instructors at BIU Human Network.
This module is applicable to Specialist, Expert, Bachelor's, Master's and Ph.D. (Doctor) Programs. This distance learning degree program is designed at the postgraduate level – Master’s or Doctoral. This module may be easily adapted to complete the Specialist, Expert or Bachelor’s adult degree program requirements. A further option is the enrollment into the online university courses listed in this module.
* University Course (3 credits): Select 1 subject from this module.
* Specialist Diploma (15 credits): First 5 subjects or select 5 subjects from this module.
* Expert Diploma (21 credits): First 7 subjects or select 7 subjects from this module.
* Bachelor's Degree (130 credits): The Admission certificate issued after submission of the application for admission will show the amount of credit transferred and validated from previous education and experience, and the amount of credits required to complete this undergraduate program's major. Additional courses from other modules of this faculty will be assigned in case that the credits displayed on this module are not enough to complete the bachelor's required credits.
* Master's Degree (35 credits): Select from 3 to 9 subjects from this module depending on the amount of credits transferred from previous education and experience. Add 13 credits corresponding to a final project to the selected subjects.
* Ph.D. (Doctor) (45 credits): Select from 3 to 9 subjects from this module depending on the amount of credits transferred from previous education and experience. Add 18 credits corresponding to a final thesis to the selected subjects.
BIU issues an admission certificate after receiving your complete application for admission. This document will show the amount of credits transferred and validated from previous education and experience, and the amount of credits required to complete the degree program's major. BIU can not perform this evaluation without the complete application for admission.
Courses Description (each subject accounts for 3 credits):
World Myths & Beliefs
This course provides an analysis of religion as a universal aspect of human culture expressed as belief and ritual concerned with supernatural beings, powers and forces. It focuses on the characteristics of major indigenous beliefs and mythologies. It emphasizes the psychological, religious, and cultural meanings of myth.
Instructor: Joseph Kariuki Njino
Religion
This course is based on the academic study of religion, putting special attention to: common dimensions of religious experience, the interaction of religion and culture, theoretical accounts for religious belief and experience, the religious responses to archetypal problems of human experience, and the religious expression in myth, ritual, symbol, and social organization.
Instructor: Richard Kaplan
Mythology
This course covers mythologies, customs, belief and rituals worldwide from ancient Sumeria to the Greeks and Romans to the Vikings, Inuits, Aztecs, and Aborigines. It includes cultural information on the peoples, their region and origins. The great myths of the world give meaning to the fundamental events of human existence: birth, death, conflict, loss, reconciliation, and the cycle of the seasons.
Instructor: Richard Kaplan
Occultism
This course describes the study of occult practices including magic, alchemy, extra-sensory perception, astrology, spiritualism, and divination. Occultism has its basis in a religious way of thinking, the roots of which stretch back into antiquity and which may be described as the Western esoteric tradition. Its principal ingredients are Gnosticism, the Hermetic treatises on alchemy and magic, Neo-Platonism, and the Kabbalah. Occultism is conceived of as the study of the inner (occult) nature of things, as opposed to the outer characteristics that are studied by science.
Instructor: Richard Kaplan
Esoteric Traditions
This course investigates esoteric traditions and especially how they addressed diverse philosophical concerns. It examines the relation of many thinkers and philosophers to the myths and spiritual beliefs of their times, and their mutual influence in the evolution of esoteric knowledge, philosophic thought and beliefs.
Instructor: Richard Kaplan
Philosophy of Religion
This course provides a philosophical analysis of major religious concepts, such as God, the relationship between faith and reason, human nature, freedom of will, immortality, and the problem of evil.
Instructor: Richard Kaplan
Extrasensory Deceits
This course examines why scientists, philosophers, and theologians have held parapsychology in disdain. It also investigates the tricks and deceits used to simulate several parapsychological phenomena and the means used for the rigorous study and assessment of parapsychological experiments.
Instructor: Ruben Von Stopeck
Parapsychology
This course articulates philosophical and empirical examinations that allows the parapsychological evidence to be taken seriously. It identifies four types of repeatable phenomena that suggest the reality of extrasensory perception and psychokinesis. It also examines five types of evidence for the reality of life after death: messages from mediums; apparitions; cases of the possession type; cases of the reincarnation type; and out-of-body experiences.
Instructor: Ruben Von Stopeck
Metaphysics
This course examines problems such as the concepts of existence, essence, god, universals and particulars, the nature of change, possibility, causation, space and time. Also, many traditional philosophical issues such as free will, the mind/body problem, the soul, consciousness, and the existence of abstract entities (e.g. numbers), fall in the domain of metaphysics.
Instructor: Richard Kaplan
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