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 we have added three new Doctoral degree specialties to the University of Sedona:
Doctor of Philosophy, Ph.D., specializing in Bible Interpretation
Doctor of Philosophy, Ph.D., specializing in Metaphysical Science
Doctor of Philosophy, Ph.D., specializing in Spiritual Healing
Metaphysical science explores reality beyond what physics currently acknowledges and uses the knowledge gained to benefit life on earth, both individually and collectively. By its very nature, metaphysical science covers a wide range of subjects, such as yoga, astrology, polarity, karma, spiritual healing, tarot, graphoanalysis, quantum field, vibrational energy, and more. Although the range is wide, the basic denominator is the search for truth, purpose, and meaning in life, which cannot be isolated from basic spiritual questions. There are numerous career opportunities in this all-encompassing field of metaphysics, including teaching, spiritual counseling, life coaching, healing, ministry, and 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.
Theocentric Psychology, as developed by Dr. Masters, founder of the IMM University System, focuses on awakening to the innate potentials for benefiting a person’s life by focusing on Universal Presence or God at the center or nucleus of consciousness within oneself. It is not a practice of, nor seeks to replace, behavioral, clinical psychology or psychiatry dealing with mental illness or acute dysfunction. Instead, Theocentric Psychology seeks to greatly enhance or add to the lives of those who are relatively well adjusted but intuitively know they have a greater potential within themselves to bring forth and live more fulfilling lives. This could be in occupational or career pursuits, creativity and the arts, athletics, love within one’s life, as well as the God Presence Benefits of inner peace and happiness that is lasting. A Theocentric Psychology doctoral degree best serves those whose focus is on the value of attaining enlightenment and/or the application of the KNOWINGNESS that ENLIGHTENMENT brings to all major areas of one’s life. View the curriculum here.
Course material includes 15 lecture videos, 30 instructional daily “Improve Your Life” audios, and 121 lesson modules. For additional information, a sample lecture, degree requirements, tuition, and enrollment, visit: https://internationalmetaphysicalministry.com/theocentric-psychology-faqs/
New Students Enrolling for Theocentric Psychology Track Program
- New students can enroll in the Theocentric Psychology track and earn a bachelor’s degree in metaphysical science, ordained minister certificate, practitioner diploma, master’s degree, and the Doctor of Theocentric Psychology, PsyThD. To begin the enrollment process, click the blue button above.
Current Students Enrolling for an Additional Doctorate – Theocentric Psychology
- Current students can add the Doctor of Theocentric Psychology degree to their existing doctoral program. By doing so, they can earn two doctorates and may work on either one first. To begin the enrollment process, click the purple button above.
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, or prana, from its spiritual source to someone requesting it is called spiritual healing. The healing energy comes through the healer from a higher source––Universal Consciousness, Infinite Universal Energy Source, or God––and not directly from the healer. Methods of healing can include spiritual mind healing, absent healing, passing over of the hands, and more. Note: metaphysical treatments can complement medical treatment, which may help prepare the body for healing, while metaphysical treatments direct Universal Consciousness to do the actual healing.
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. 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. An MP3 or MP4 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.
Ph.D. Specializing in Ancestral Healing:
his degree addresses the vital issue of remediating deeply embedded ancestral trauma, whether it be societal, for one’s immediate family, or individual clients. Practitioners with this degree help identify and heal wounds passed on from generation to generation and prevent the creation of these debilitating, stagnant energy imprints for future generations. The deep emotional scars of one’s ancestors, as well as generational patterns of negative or misguided thinking, can prevent individuals, families, and entire cultural groups from receiving and enjoying the prosperity, peace, mental clarity, joy, intuition, and creative gifts that are their birthright. Through one-on-one counseling, lectures, workshops, and books, a practitioner with this degree can help clients uncover generational patterns and hidden belief systems that hold them back and utilize meta-physical modalities to transcend them and move forward.
Ph.D. Specializing in Bible Interpretation
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. To earn this degree, the student will study word definition, usage, context, historical background, logic, precedent, and inference relating to biblical interpretations. This degree is more philosophical and academic in nature than the Doctor of Divinity in Bible Interpretation, which targets ministry
Ph.D. Specializing in Conscious-Centered Living
This degree focuses on bringing Higher Consciousness, or God’s Inner Presence, into every aspect and every moment of one’s life and helping others do the same through spiritual counseling or by example. Through metaphysical practices and God-centered mindful awareness, individuals learn to identify the limiting behaviors, emotional reactions, and judgments of the ego, so they can choose words, thoughts, and actions based on mindful living and the loving influence of the all-powerful, ever-present Universal Mind. Conscious-centered living goes beyond asking, “What does God want me to do?” to actually 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. Recipients of this degree frequently offer mindfulness classes or retreats, write books on conscious cognizance or Cosmic Consciousness, or use the knowledge and techniques gained as an adjunct to their current jobs, such as teachers helping students focus, remain calm, and improve their emotional disposition and grades through mindfulness and heart-centered awareness.
Ph.D. Specializing in 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, prosperity, and longevity. When companies practice mindful awareness, they do what is best for the whole by considering the impact of each choice on their staff, customers, suppliers, the environment, and the community. Leading by example, these mindful leaders ensure a strong foundation of intention, integrity, support, goodwill, and ethical behavior, which flourishes and establishes a business standard going forward. An individual with this degree would have the knowledge and skills to integrate these components into a company’s culture, mission, and day-to-day operations.
Ph.D. Specializing in 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 and metaphysics. It is an ideal specialization for students wishing to research, teach, and write about the comparison of various religious teachings to the basic teachings of the IMM––where metaphysics has evolved into a dogma-free religious faith among many people. Anyone considering opening their own spiritual center or working at a nondenominal place of worship would do well with this degree, as such a person would engage with peoples of many faiths. Individuals with this degree might also write books or blogs, or speak on the original teachings of the world’s greatest religions and philosophies, which often spoke the same messages of love, truth, oneness, humankind’s innate abilities and power, and our personal relationship with our Creator. This awareness brings peace and harmony into the world.
Ph.D. Specializing in Holistic Life Coaching
This type of coaching is based on a whole-person concept of working with the body, mind, and spirit to help clients reach specific goals. This is usually a one-on-one approach. A holistic life coach discusses what is happening in the client’s environment and the experiences of the client to help identify underlying and limiting beliefs to develop a metaphysical practice that works to meet the client’s objectives. Generally speaking, a coach works with someone on a specific goal and establishes the best route to achieve that goal, with emphasis on Universal Consciousness, or God’s Inner Presence for achievement.
Ph.D. Specializing in Holistic Life Counseling
This means of counseling is based on working with the whole person––body, mind, and spirit. One-on-one counseling approaches and metaphysical techniques are used to help clients uncover past experiences and hidden belief systems currently impacting their lives and preventing them from enjoying the fruit of a successful life. This form of guidance involves the spiritual release of past negativity and harmonizing their physical, mental, and spiritual energies. This enables individuals to realize the inner transforming power of Universal Consciousness, or God Presence.
Ph.D. Specializing in Metaphysical Counseling
Metaphysical counselors help clients discover the root cause of their limiting beliefs and develop strategies to change them, leading to increased prosperity, peace, love, wisdom, and health. Primarily done one-on-one, this holistic approach uses metaphysical tools for facilitating healing, such as dream interpretation, spirituality assessment and awareness, meditation, prayer, affirmative thinking, and other similar methods. Metaphysical counselors also facilitate spiritual awakening and connection to God, Source, All that Is, the Divine, Higher Power, or whatever one chooses to call one’s innate spiritual connection.
Ph.D. Specializing in 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. Metaphysical parapsychology uses psychic mystical research as a means to greater spiritual truth and discoveries. Someone interested in this degree might delve into reincarnation, psychometry, telepathy, divination, channeling spirit, precognition, spirit guides, dream interpretation, lucid dreaming, astral projection clairaudience, clairvoyance, clairsentience, claircognizant, or clairolfaction for their dissertation. Graduates with this degree might use their expertise to help others or themselves interpret dreams for spiritual growth; receive intuitive messages or guidance from spirit; channel inspiration for sermons, books, and other creative endeavors; connect with transitioned souls to bring peace or lessen grief; or understand reincarnation, near-death experiences, and karma.
Ph.D. Specializing in Metaphysical Science
Metaphysical science explores reality beyond what physics currently acknowledges and uses the knowledge gained to benefit life on earth, both individually and collectively. By its very nature, metaphysical science covers a wide range of subjects, such as yoga, astrology, polarity, karma, spiritual healing, tarot, graphoanalysis, quantum field, vibrational energy, and more. Although the range is wide, the basic denominator is the search for truth, purpose, and meaning in life, which cannot be isolated from basic spiritual questions. There are numerous career opportunities in this all-encompassing field of metaphysics, including teaching, spiritual counseling, life coaching, healing, ministry, and 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.
Ph.D. Specializing in Mystical Research
This degree is appropriate for someone who wants to specialize in experimentation and research into mystical, transcendent consciousness as a means to higher spiritual truth and union with God, or Universal Consciousness. Research in this field usually centers on a practice or practices intended to nurture those experiences or awareness, such as mystical meditation or yoga. Mystical research can encompass such topics as Kabala, Sufism, Vedanta, Hinduism, Christian mysticism, Shamanism, and others. A dissertation written for this degree demonstrates how certain metaphysical practices enabled mystics of various faiths and philosophies to reach states of Universal Consciousness, awakening in them mystical abilities and knowingness. Individuals dedicated to mysticism naturally desire to help others through spiritual healing, teaching others about mystical union through seminars or books, or advocating for love, peace, and oneness. A guided, mystically oriented meditation MP3 or MP4 file must be submitted with the dissertation to earn this degree.
Ph.D. Specializing in Pastoral Counseling Psychology
In choosing this degree, the student will discuss the work of caring for, understanding, and exploring how human beings function as individuals, in families, in small groups, and in the greater community, and how employing metaphysical practices and spiritual principles can help alleviate social and familial disfunction, as well as restore relationships with family, coworkers, and society. The student will explore what psychological, behavioral, and social science research have to say regarding pastoral concerns. Graduates with this degree bring the transforming power of God, Universal Consciousness, Divine Creator, or whatever one prefers to call it into the lives of those seeking help for addiction, PTSD, marital or familial challenges, grief, emotional issues, financial hardship, and more. 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.
Ph.D. Specializing in Spiritual Healing
The channeling of healing energy, or prana, from its spiritual source to someone requesting it is called spiritual healing. The healing energy comes through the healer from a higher source––Universal Consciousness, Infinite Universal Energy Source, or God––and not directly from the healer. Methods of healing can include spiritual mind healing, absent healing, passing over of the hands, and more. Note: metaphysical treatments are not in conflict with medical treatment, which can help prepare the body for healing while metaphysical treatments direct Universal Consciousness to do the actual healing.
Ph.D. Specializing in Transpersonal Counseling
Transpersonal counseling is concerned with the study of humanity’s highest potential, attempting to describe and to integrate spiritual experience within modern psychological theory. Transpersonal counselors use metaphysical techniques, such as archetype identification, shadow work, tapping into the collective unconscious, transpersonal symbols, and so forth, to help individuals transcend to a higher personal and spiritual level. This is generally done on a one-on-one basis. Studies should include analytical psychology based on Carl Jung’s work, archetypal psychology of James Hillman, spiritual psychology of Robert Sardello, psycho-synthesis founded by Roberto Assagioli, and/or the theories of Abraham Maslow, Stanislav Grof, and others. The focus of trans-personal counseling is the transpersonal, self-transcendent, or spiritual aspects of the human experience.
Ph.D. Specializing in Transpersonal Ecology
From a metaphysical perspective, transpersonal ecology is concerned with the fundamental energetic and spiritual connection of all organisms to each other and the environment. Not one of God’s creations has more value than another or has more rights to the fruits of this Earth than another. Humankind must learn to live in harmony with respect and concern for the symbiotic relationship of all living things and Mother Earth, which so graciously supports them. To realize this spiritual truth of ultimate oneness, one must transcend the boundaries of the egoic self and live centered in love for all of creation. This nurtures a positive, energetic bond between themselves and the environment, opening wavelengths of unspoken communications, resulting in a healthier Earth and more joyful, peaceful, and prosperous life for all who inhabit it. This degree is ideal for advocates for spirituality and the environment who want to raise awareness of this vital matter, speak on or write books on the subject, and improve life as most currently know it.
Need help selecting your degree?
Selecting Your Right-Fit Metaphysical Degree is an incredibly, informative session that takes you through an eight-step process for choosing your ideal degree. Detailed descriptions are given for each degree offered by the University to help you make your choice. As an added bonus, you will learn how you can use your degree and see how University graduates are using theirs.
Go to webinar here.
Another tool you may find useful is the Degree Specialty Assessment Questionnaire. Please watch the webinar before submitting the questionnaire.
To enroll in the Doctoral program which includes the Bachelor’s, Master’s and Doctoral Degree:
For enrolled students interested in getting an additional doctorate, the fee for these degrees is $490 on a payment plan or $430 if paid in full upfront. The requirement is a submission of a dissertation with a minimum count of at least ten thousand words.
Students may request to change their doctoral degree specialty after enrollment. This request must be in writing and is easily completed by filling out the form. Please click the button below.
Continue learning and growing in the metaphysical field through the University of Sedona’s Continuing Education opportunities.
Get to know Dr. Masters on a more personal level as you enjoy 50 of his audio lectures that blend practical and spiritual inspiration with a touch of humor. For additional information, a sample lecture, degree requirements, tuition and enrollment, visit: https://universityofsedona.com/relationship-dynamics. (Offered through the University of Sedona).
A Theocentric Psychology doctoral degree best serves those whose focus is on the value of attaining enlightenment and/or the application of the KNOWINGNESS that enlightenment brings to all major areas of one’s life.
Course material includes 15 lecture videos, 30 instructional daily “Improve Your Life” audios, and 121 lesson modules. For additional information, a sample lecture, degree requirements, tuition and enrollment, visit: https://theocentricpsychology.com. (Offered through the University of Sedona).
You may complete and earn your Doctor of Theocentric Psychology and Ph.D. in Relationship Dynamics only after you’ve earned your regular master’s degree.
Students have easy access to incredible resources that make obtaining their ideal metaphysical doctoral degree easier and more enjoyable than ever.
For starters, the Selecting Your Right-Fit Metaphysical Degree webinar takes you through a step-by-step process for choosing the degree that best meets your needs and goals. Plus, you will learn about the careers our graduates launched using their doctoral degrees from our Universities. We highly recommend you watch the webinar before making your degree choice. Another tool you may find useful is the Degree Specialty Assessment Questionnaire. Please watch the webinar before submitting the questionnaire.
We are always striving to make our metaphysical studies program a more informative and enjoyable experience whenever possible, so tools are frequently added to our Online Student Center to help students write their research paper. They include:
- Thesis/dissertation and presentations webinars that cover the entire process of writing a research paper including:
- Presentation: Writing Your Thesis or Dissertation Can Change Your Life
- Presentation: Thesis and Dissertation Topics: Help for Choosing
- Thesis/Dissertation Webinars I and II
- Presentation: The Easy Way to Ace Your Thesis or Dissertation with Outlining
- Plagiarism: Avoiding it is Easy!
- Preformatted thesis and dissertation templates.
- Thesis and dissertation templates that format your paper for you.
- IMM’s private and closed Facebook group, offering support from students, graduates, and staff.
- Thesis and dissertation handbooks with complete guidelines for writing your paper.
- Sample theses and dissertations.
- Extensive recommended reading list.
- IMM Virtual Writing Assistant, offering tips on: writing a statement of purpose, easy ways to paraphrase and write in-text citations, avoiding accidental plagiarism, proofreading methods, jumpstarting creativity, how to access free books, and much more.
Faculty and administrative staff members are available by email, telephone, and website chat.
You will also have access to your own Thesis/Dissertation Advisor to help you navigate writing and researching your metaphysical research paper.