Qualitative Research Methods - Course Description
8 week course
Instructor: John G. Kruth, MS
This 8 week course from the Rhine Education Center may be taken as an adult education course or it may be applied towards a certificate program from the Rhine. It will consist of weekly class broadcasts on Tuesday from 2:00pm - 4:00pm Eastern US Time, along with an interactive discussion forum where students can discuss class topics and intgeract with the course instructor.
If you cannot attend the live class broadcasts, you can watch the recordings of the classes when it is most convenient for you. Many successful students have attended courses by watching the class recordings.
Course Description
How do researchers study reports of psi experiences or learn more about experiences that aren't easily reproduced in the laboratory?
There are many events that cannot be easily studied in the laboratory. Psi phenomena typically occur in spontaneous situations or in environments that do not transfer to a controlled laboratory environment. Qualitative research methods provide a way to explore this type of event in a controlled scientific manner.
Qualitative research methods typically gather information through interviews, questionnaires, observation, or a review of literature and art. Analysis methods vary for qualitative research, but there are extremely well-defined processes that will help the researcher to learn more about the event or phenomena being studied.
This course will describe some common methods of qualitative research and analysis techniques to gather information about psi phenomena outside of the laboratory environment. Through the review of articles and psi reports, the students will learn how qualitative research is performed and reported for paranormal and psi phenomena.
This academic course is designed for the serious student and qualifies for many certificate programs.
It is strongly recommended that students have taken the Research Methods course or have previous experience with research methodology.
When: Live broadcasts once a week or watch the class recordings at your convenience.
Where: This is an ONLINE COURSE, so you can participate anywhere you have an internet connection.
Tuition: $225 ($199 for Rhine members or students enrolled in a degree program.)
Halloween Fantasy - Paranormal Reality
with Loyd Auerbach
This 4 week course is presented as an ungraded continuing education course from the Rhine Education Center. It will consist of weekly class broadcasts, along with an interactive discussion forum where students can discuss class topics and intgeract with the course instructor.
If you cannot attend the live class broadcasts, you can watch the recordings of the classes when it is most convenient for you. Many successful students have attended courses by watching the class recordings.
Syllabus coming soon
Course Description
Halloween Fantasy - Paranormal Reality
This fun four week course will explore all things Halloween, focusing on the connection in the general public and Media’s consciousness between Halloween, psychic phenomena, and parapsychology. Learn about the origin and history of the holiday and how the perceptions of Halloween have changed through the years. The course will address how the Halloween holiday has caused coverage of parapsychology, the paranormal, and psychic practitioners that is often purposely spooky.
Finally, we’ll look at how we, as folks in and around parapsychology, can take advantage of increased interest in the subject around Halloween to deliver better information and clear up misconceptions.
If you are looking for a fun course taught by a professional parapsychologist, this course is for you.
When: Live broadcasts once a week or watch the class recordings at your convenience.
Where: This is an ONLINE COURSE, so you can participate anywhere you have an internet connection.
Tuition: $69 ($59 for Rhine members or students enrolled in program at HCH or a degree program)
Lucid Dreaming: Discover the Power of Self-Awareness in Your Dreams
with Ryan Hurd
This 4 week course is presented as an ungraded continuing education course from the Rhine Education Center. It will consist of weekly class broadcasts on Thursday evenings (May 11 - June 1) from 7:30pm - 9:00pm Eastern US Time, along with an interactive discussion forum where students can discuss class topics and interact with the course instructor.
If you cannot attend the live class broadcasts, you can watch the recordings of the classes when it is most convenient for you. Many successful students have attended courses by watching the class recordings.
View the Syllabus for the Course
Course Description
This course provides the catalyst for more lucid dreams, opening up new vistas of insight, creativity and healing. You’ll wake up to your waking life too as you unlock old energy patterns, igniting confidence, creativity, and vitality.
What exactly is a lucid dream?
A lucid dream is when you know you are dreaming while still in the confines of sleep. Beginner and advanced dreamers alike will benefit from this course as we address the major roadblocks to greater lucidity. You’ll be part of a nurturing community as you focus on your motivations for developing a sustainable lucid dreaming practice.
Why Lucid Dream?
Lucid dreaming has become a holy grail for many dreamers, and for good reason. . . when lucid, you have the ability to step into your power and actively participate in the mythic landscape of your imagination. You can take the path less traveled, or manifest a soulful intention out of thin air. You can fly, transform your dream body, and even directly ask the dream for guidance about your waking life.
You will learn how to focus your lucidity for rekindling creativity: for accessing luminous geometric mandalas, spontaneous poetry, musical soundscapes and mythic art. Or you can open up to healing imagery; as well as enter into deeply soulful conversation with ancestors and other powerful figures. We will also discuss the power of facing nightmares, and reclaiming safe places so you can be free from repetitive fears and start living a new story.
When: Live broadcasts once a week or watch the class recordings at your convenience.
Where: This is an ONLINE COURSE, so you can participate anywhere you have an internet connection.
Tuition: $79 ($69 for Rhine members or students enrolled in program at HCH or a degree program)
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Psi in Movies, TV, and Comics: What's Real?
with Loyd Auerbach, M.S.
This 4 week course is presented as an ungraded continuing education course from the Rhine Education Center. It will consist of weekly class broadcasts on Monday evenings (October 7th - October 28th) from 8:00pm - 9:30pm Eastern US Time, along with an interactive discussion forum where students can discuss class topics and interact with the course instructor.
If you cannot attend the live class broadcasts, you can watch the recordings of the classes when it is most convenient for you. Many successful students have attended courses by watching the class recordings.
Course Description
This is a Seminar course that will involve live student interaction and discussion. Limited Enrollment.
Is the truth really out there?
Movies and TV shows like the Exorcist, Ghost, Stranger Things, The OA, and the X-Files all represent psychic phenomena and the paranormal with great insight and often engaging stories. Of course, many of the events in these shows are completely fictional, but some of the stories actually reflect real events or results that have been observed by parapsychologists! On the other hand, paranormal reality shows claim to present events and phenomena truthfully, but actually reflect a “reality” created by uninformed television producers.
This fun course will explore movies, TV (fictional and reality), and literature and separate the truth from fiction. It will explore how popular culture is influenced by psi experiences, beliefs, and misconceptions about the phenomena. More importantly, it will explore how media representations of psi influence the public's beliefs in and about psi, even to the point of affecting how people experience psi events when they happen.
When: Live broadcasts once a week or watch the class recordings at your convenience.
Where: This is an ONLINE COURSE, so you can participate anywhere you have an internet connection.
Tuition: $109 ($89 for Rhine Members)
Energy Healing and Psychokinesis
with John G. Kruth
This 8 week course from the Rhine Education Center may be taken as an adult education course or it may be applied towards a certificate program from the Rhine. It will consist of weekly class broadcasts on Tuesday afternoons from Feb 6th - March 26th, 2pm - 4:00pm, along with an interactive discussion forum where students can discuss class topics and interact with the course instructor.
If you cannot attend the live class broadcasts, you can watch the recordings of the classes when it is most convenient for you. Many successful students have attended courses by watching the class recordings.
Course Description
This eight week academic course explores the phenomena and scientific evidence for energy healing and psychokinesis. Some theories present these as different expressions of the same phenomena. This proposal will be explored in this course.
Energy healing encompasses many techniques including laying on hands, reiki, qigong, healing touch, esoteric healing, and many, many more. Research on healing includes an observation of the phenomena and measurements of the effectiveness of these techniques on people, animals, plants and other organic matter. What does the scientific evidence indicate related to energy healing?
Psychokinesis, PK, or Mind-Matter-Interaction all describe the same phenomena. Can people affect physical objects with only their thoughts or intentions? This course will explore examples of macro and micro psychokinesis and discuss the scientific research that has been done to understand how these phenomena might work and what psychological factors might cause people to demonstrate PK.
This course will commit 4 weeks to each topic and explore the research and theories that discuss the nature of and evidence for energy healing and PK. Weekly class broadcasts will be supplemented with on online discussion forum where students can chat about the topics, their own experiences, and the research studies discussed in the classes.
When: Live broadcasts once a week or watch the class recordings at your convenience.
Where: This is an ONLINE COURSE, so you can participate anywhere you have an internet connection.
Tuition: $225 ($200 for Rhine members or students enrolled in a degree program.)
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