Roster Of Our Teachers & Writers

Visit this page if you would like to meet our writers and teachers who put the courses together for University of Metaphysical Sciences. Our writers and teachers are what makes University of Metaphysical Sciences so wonderful. Many minds have come together to create the curriculum of University of Metaphysical Sciences. Our teachers are varied in background and training, each bringing their area of expertise to the courses they write. They have gathered much knowledge in their own studies and training, and have also collectively gathered vast amounts of real world experience as practicing counselors, teachers, and healers in their communities. Click here to visit our Research Team, Writers & Teachers

Research Team

The following is a roster of some of the writers involved in creating the curriculum for the university. All come from various walks of life. Not all teachers and writers are listed here as there are too many contributing writers to list and some are a little shy... There are new writers coming aboard all the time, though, for UMS is always adding new electives to its curriculum offerings.
Our metaphysical writers and teachers are what makes UMS so wonderful. Many minds have come together to create the curriculum of UMS. Our teachers are varied in background and training, each bringing their area of expertise to the courses they write. They have gathered much knowledge in their own studies and training, and have also collectively gathered vast amounts of real world experience as practicing counselors, teachers, and healers in their communities.

Christine Breese, D.D., Ph.D.
An author, lecturer and workshop facilitator, Christine Breese has taught many classes on metaphysical subjects. She holds workshops and retreats, offers meditation journeys on tape and CD, and is the founder of University of Metaphysical Sciences. She earned her A.A. Degree in Audio Engineering, and another A.A. in Film and Video Production. She worked in the entertainment industry on commercials, TV shows, music videos and independent films. She then earned her Doctor of Divinity Degree in Metaphysical Sciences, and her Ph.D. in Metaphysical Counseling.
Devon Love, M.F.T.
Devon Love is dedicated to the process of self awakening and assisting others on this journey. Devon practices what she calls "spiritual medicine," in which she offers sessions in multi-dimensional intuitive healing, witnessing spiritual awakening, conflict resolution, and compassionate communication. She also works full time as an Admissions Advisor and research writer at UMS.
Margaret Branch
Margaret Branch has completed graduate coursework in psychology, and has developed dream-work classes and workshops from a Jungian perspective. As a visionary artist and writer, she integrates imagination and the superconscious with practical tools for uncovering the authentic self. Margaret Branch facilitates professional dream consultations and workshops in Arcata, CA.
John Yamas O.M.D, L.A.C.
John Yamas received a degree in mechanical engineering from the Oregon State University in 1970, and a master's degree in counseling/guidance from the University of Hawaii in 1980. After meeting a variety of people healed from traditional Chinese medicine that Western medicine could not help, he decided to study traditional Chinese medicine. He attended The American College Of Traditional Chinese Medicine and received his state license in 1986. He also studied at The SAMRA University of Oriental Medicine and received a degree of Doctor Of Oriental Medicine in 1988. He also studied abroad in China where he completed advanced training in acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicine at the Quangdong Provincial Hospital Of Traditional Chinese medicine. In 1988 he and his wife, Elisabeth Pahara M.S.CM. who is also trained in traditional Chinese medicine, opened The Center For Natural Medicine in Arcata, California.

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Ministerial Ordination

Upon completion of the Master’s Degree, the student becomes a registered reverend or minister. The student is ordained with all the rights, powers and privileges of an ordained reverend or minister through the parent non-profit organization of the university, Wisdom of The Heart Church 501(c)3.

Many churches supplying ministerial status for only a few dollars are unstable and they are not a genuine 501(c)3 organization listed with the proper federal agencies. You could find yourself in legal trouble for practicing counseling without proper credentials. Someone may challenge you about your ministerial status, especially when you get into counseling or assuming tax advantages that are available as a minister. You will need to be backed by a church that has staying power and will not have disappeared when you need proof of your status as a minister or reverend. Wisdom of The Heart Church is a bonafide church listed with the proper federal agencies, and will be there if you should ever need proof of your ministerial legitimacy.
Ministerial ordination is part of University of Metaphysical Science's Master's curriculum. Upon completion of the Master's degree, you will receive ministerial certification. UMS offers online certification and can answer any minister ordination question you might have. Become a reverend by taking courses at UMS. The Minister and Reverend Handbook is offered as part of the curriculum so that you will be able to conduct ceremonies in a traditional sense and also learn how to construct your own. A certificate as a minister or reverend can be yours.

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From Caterpillar to Butterfly

Think about the caterpillar morphing into the butterfly, a beautiful analogy for change in the spiritual sense. We all feel like a caterpillar at times, an ugly, undeveloped self (I personally don’t think caterpillars are ugly, I think they’re kinda cute in their pudgy way!). We all want to be the butterfly, the gorgeous finished product, flying about in grace and beauty, experiencing bliss everywhere we go. We all want to be seen as beautiful, respectable, and lovely. How do we get to that? It isn’t so easy, some would say.
We see people who have become the finished product, a successful, beautiful, powerful human being who has it all together. We all see people who we respect, admire and wish we were like, right? However, those people did not come into it without a lot of work on themselves spiritually, emotionally, mentally and physically.
We all want to be the butterfly, but do we really want to go through the process that it takes to become that? There is a molting period, a liquification of self that is part of that process of going from the form of caterpillar to butterfly. It doesn’t necessarily look like a pleasant process, morphing into another form. Literally there has to be a breakdown of the first form, a dissecting or dissolution process, and then there is room in reality for the new form to be born.
It is a death and birth process, and both of those processes tend to be messy, dramatic, and difficult in their own respects. When you do both together, it gets even messier and more difficult! Death and rebirth at the same time are a superb event indeed.
Think about what you see in yourself as the caterpillar, the undeveloped and “first form” type of self. You might be all caterpillar in your opinion, or some percentage of caterpillar versus a percentage of butterfly. Perhaps you’ve been working on yourself for quite a while and you already transformed some parts of yourself that were “ugly” or undeveloped before now. Perhaps you feel like you might even be getting close to being a butterfly. Just examine where you think you are in the morphing process of the death of the old self and the birth of the new self.
Truly, the new self was always there, just as the butterfly was always there in the caterpillar. It isn’t visible before the transformation, but the blueprint and the potential was always there and present. I think of the new self as the eternal, deeper self, the You that was always present, even as the idea of yourself as a human seemed to take precedence for a while in the first part of your life.
The eternal self that you are is the butterfly, and it was always there. It isn’t born or created, it is only the idea of being a human version of self as the sole identity, the caterpillar, that needed to be liquefied and disintegrated. Then the already present butterfly underneath the illusion can emerge from the cocoon of change.
What is your version of the cocoon? What is your version of the cauldron or catalyst for change? How is it that you are disintegrating the idea that you are just a human, mortal self with a specific name and identity? How are you molting into the new form, seeing yourself as immortal and eternal self? How are you becoming aware that you are consciousness dreaming itself to be a specific human with a certain collection of experiences? Your cocoon of change is unique to you, and you are inside it, searching, seeking, and spiritually growing.
I would encourage you to simply stop and be the butterfly that you already are. Stop all the figuring, strategizing, fixing of yourself, and all the searching. You are already what you want to become. All you have to do is literally “drop” the old form, the old ideas of self and step out of who you think you are for just a moment. It is only a matter of readjusting your perceptions of who you think you are in the journey between caterpillar to butterfly.
It doesn’t actually take work or effort on your part to become the new self. The caterpillar does not “work” to become the butterfly. It doesn’t “do” anything! It simply waits for the old form to drop away, being patient while the discomfort of dissolution happens, if it is uncomfortable at all. Maybe it’s not.
Maybe it is us who makes the morphing process so difficult. We are so mind focused as a species and it might well be ourselves who are interfering with how easy the process of letting go of the old form. We can simply let it fall away, but in our own minds we find that hard to be at ease with. We have to make it hard and uncomfortable, for some reason.
Discomfort and difficulty might not be the nature of the process of transformation at all. Perhaps the period of transition from caterpillar to butterfly is not that difficult. Perhaps it is a state of bliss and relaxation for the caterpillar as it becomes the butterfly.
I encourage you to look at how you might be interfering with your own process of transformation from the old self to the new self. Perhaps it would be so much easier if you just rest your mind, don’t try to fix anything, and simply be present in the moment in a relaxed state of mind, patient with the process of the old falling away and the new showing up. It doesn’t have to happen overnight, and perhaps that is where much of your dissatisfaction with the process is coming from. You want the butterfly to be in full flight already, but there is a period of dissolution and resolution still happening. You can’t rush that process.
Be patient. The butterfly-you is present and already perfect, already formed. All you have to do is relax, drop the old stories and identities, and simply let your eternal nature emerge. It is actually very simple. Sure, some of your old caterpillar ways might reappear and assert themselves now and then, but you can always redirect your awareness back into the butterfly-you at any and all times.
You could think of the human condition as the caterpillar, and the eternal self that you are as the butterfly. Both exist, both have form in the same lifetime, and you are able to switch back and forth between both of those forms. The goal is to rest in the butterfly version of self more often than you might now, but that comes. It is a lifelong goal, a lifelong period of readjustment.
Be at peace. You do not have to fix everything in your personality. That all becomes “fixed” automatically when you shift your point of view into that of the eternal self rather than that of the struggling human. You do not have to find anything that you don’t know about already, it is all there inside you. It is innate knowing within you. All you must do is relax and let the butterfly come forth. It is already here, present and completely whole. Simply drop the old forms and ideas, the old ways of being, and the new you is already here, fully functional and present.

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We Are The Angels: Angels In The Flesh

We are the angels we have been looking for. We are the source of love on this planet. We are the helpers of others who are here. We are the ones who answer each other’s prayers, really. The angels aren’t outside of ourselves. We are the incarnation of angels who have come here to dream the life of a human.
We are not fallen angels, we are not punished angels, and we are not “messed up” angels. We came here by choice because we are interested in the human experiment, this attempt to build a vehicle that can hold God’s consciousness, which each of us are. The human form will someday hold far more consciousness than it does now. In the meantime, we can know that we are God, we are angels, and we are Oneself immersed in its imaginings.
Those of us who want to help the world, help the people awaken and change things for the better, we are starting to dream lucidly, living a lucid life. Many angels are still asleep. Many don’t know who they really are. It doesn’t change the fact that they too are God incarnate, angels in human bodies. All that is different for some over others is that they have begun to question reality and explore consciousness itself.
So what do we do here as angels? First we must stop taking it all so seriously, even as challenges and unpleasant things come and go. After all, it is but a passing dream in the mind of God, and it lasts for the blink of an eye compared to the eternity that we really live in.
Second we must do the work that burns in our hearts. Whatever it is, the world will be better for it if we can help others, no matter how few or how many, doesn’t matter. If you are here, you are an angel in the flesh with the ability to change reality. You are incarnate as a human, but your true identity is that you are everlasting consciousness living in the eternal now moment and no moment can harm you. You are here to do a certain thing in the world that no one else can do, and what it is only you can find out.
Get in touch with the angel inside you and live your life as an angel would. We are all angels with a special talent or gift that will make it possible for us to make the world a better place. Maybe your gift is being the best possible parent, an inventor, or perhaps an artist or gardener. You don’t have to be famous and powerful to make a difference in the world. Start just by affecting those around you for the better as an angel in their midst, in disguise as a human. You are no mere mortal. You are eternal Godself in the flesh. It takes some getting used to when you realize this, but then your whole life changes for the better when you realize yourself as an angel in the flesh.

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What is Abundance Really? And How Do You Get Abundance?

A lot of people think they know what abundance is: having a lot of money, material possessions, fame, or some sort of power. However, I am not sure that is what abundance is. I have had a little of each of those things, but I can’t say I felt abundant in those moments. In fact, those were stress inducers and some situations were actually nightmaric! So then, what is abundance…really?

I have come to believe that abundance is actually in your heart, in the richness of life, in the love you are able to share with others. My idea of an abundant life is one that has lots of laughter in it, excitement, adventure, and amazing people who intrigue me and keep me entertained. What is exceptionally abundant to me is those moments when I witness someone “awakening” and lighting up in consciousness to true awareness of who they really are. When they become able to now live in the now moment as divine being rather than just another struggling human, that is the most precious thing to me.

Abundance is not money. Money can create a lot of headaches for you. I’m not saying that we shouldn’t have enough money to take care of ourselves and be comfortable, but masses of wealth is not abundance. In fact, hoarding wealth is a statement about how much you believe in scarcity, saving it for a rainy day when you think the universe will stop flowing and sending you what you need. It’s also a burden, for then you don’t know who just likes you because you have money, or wants some of your money, or hopes to sell you something to get your money. Someone might even marry you for your money with the full intention of divorcing you! There are lots of ways having masses of wealth can become a nightmare. Abundance is not a lot of material possessions either, which you will have to insure, worry about theft or damage, and so on. Neither is fame or power a form of abundance. Just look at all the craziness that goes with that!

My question to a lot of people who are seeking abundance is to ask them to identify what abundance really means to them. You might think you want money, possessions, or fame, but maybe that’s not what you really want at all. Maybe you want fulfillment of your true potential, peace, joy, stability, love, use of your talents and skills in the world, a family, a lover to share life with… What is it that you really want? Don’t think of the object you want, but rather the essence of what you want. That is where your true abundance is formed.

Mind Powers and Mind Tricks, Elementary Dear Watson!

            I have attained a lot of abundance on the material plane in some people’s opinion. I have founded and created University Of Metaphysical Sciences which is a successful online school with thousands of students all over the world, Wisdom Of The Heart Church which is the parent company of several spiritual businesses, and I am now creating Starlight Mountain Farm in Grass Valley, California. I have plans for making spiritually focused feature films and am already in production for a TV series called Spirit Talk TV. The proof is in the pudding that what I am about to tell you about manifesting abundance really works, so check it out with an open mind, ok?

My first advice to you is to FORGET EVERYTHING YOU HAVE LEARNED about manifesting abundance right now! Throw out all your new age books that teach you how to do affirmations, visualizations, and all the material that just teaches mind power stuff. Yes, those techniques work on beginner levels, but they will never produce the big results you are looking for. Those methods are elementary, dear Watson.

I don’t do any affirmations, visualizations, or strategies to make physical reality obey my every command. I do not use mind powers or mind tricks to manifest an abundant reality. I use them a little for health of my body if I get sick, but that’s all I find them useful for nowadays. It might make you feel empowered if it works, but it doesn’t really serve the divine will if it simply serves you and an egoic desire you have.

There are workshop leaders making millions of dollars and thousands of people go to them in droves in order to learn these mind powers. However, what they are being taught is not true manifesting power, but beginner level mind powers that won’t take you all the way. Only in service to the divine within you will you go all the way.

This is the biggest problem with the teachings about the Law of Attraction. The Law of Attraction is a core spiritual concept, but now it has been turned into another way to be greedy, another way for “me to get more.” The good thing about this misuse of the Law of Attraction is that people who never thought about spirituality before are now getting into this exploration of consciousness because they are greedy or needy. However, isn’t that why we all started the spiritual path, really? We all wanted more of something… more happiness, more love, more self worth, more money, more something, right? It’s ok if that is what got us going on the spiritual path, but it is important to move beyond that first egoic desire that got us on the path and receive the deeper messages. Now is your chance.

Surrendering To The Divine

So you want to create abundance? Here’s how. Surrender yourself to whatever the universe wants to do with you, whatever “God” has planned for your life, and let go of all your own desires, no matter how practical they are. You must technically let go of your own life and give it to a higher power to use. Your life is over and now it belongs to “God,” whatever that means to you. That is the most potent form of manifesting abundance and I promise that it works. It has for me.

This is a radical invitation, and also a radical move on your part if you take it. Not very many people are able to do this, but it is the shortest route to everything you have ever wanted. If you wanted to be rich, let that die. If you wanted to be famous and powerful, let that die. If you want a certain house, lifestyle or image, let that die. Surrender to whatever is to be done with you by a higher power, even if it means not having anything you wanted. Allow yourself to be used by spirit however it sees fit. Whatever your life will look like from now on, let that be ok with you even if it means being not-rich, not-famous, not-powerful. Maybe you will live a really simple, humble life.

What if you never get anything you want, but you live a life of integrity in service to the divine? Will that be an acceptable alternative to all your present egoic desires? If so, you are ready to serve as a channel for the divine energies to flow onto the Earth. Surrendering to being used for divine purposes doesn’t mean you won’t be happy or get a lot of what you want and more. In fact, it is the shortcut to getting what you want. However, getting yourself out of the way is what is most important here.

The first year I lived like this, not a whole lot happened. I simply stayed focused on staying present in the moment and not moving into the past or future, a challenge indeed for someone like me. I always valued my thinking powers and my strategizing mind, so to let this go was a leap of faith for me. Then, after a testing period of my commitment to spirit, the divine flow started happening faster than I could even keep up with. Suddenly I was in full swing with my new life direction, following on a daily basis the directions from within my heart. It was literally a new reality, one driven by divine purpose rather than egoic desires. I thought I was divinely driven before but it was only partly so, mixed in with the desires I had for myself along with it. Now it is solely coming from the divine, for I consider my human life over and now I am just here to do the work of Godself. I am not in it for anything for myself. I could pay myself a huge amount of money because of the success of this new reality, but I don’t. I would rather keep it in service to humanity’s awakening. I plan on dying penniless, and all the money that moves through me in this lifetime is going to be used for making the world a better place, however that manifests.

I knew there would be something good for me because the divine doesn’t want any of us to suffer, so I knew I wouldn’t hate it. I am not suffering, although I’m not accepting riches in the form of money. I accept riches in my heart. However, many of the desires I had before are happening anyway because they are in alignment with who I am and the work I do. I have much more now than I thought I would have, things I hadn’t even imagined. Everything is bigger than I thought it would be. Literally, letting spirit create your life for you instead of directing the project yourself produces better results than you can!

So how does one end the human life and live then as the divine being incarnate on Earth, doing the work of the Oneself, the Godself, instead of trying to “get more for me?” How does one live as an eternal consciousness in a body instead of a human that thinks it will die someday? This takes a lot of changes in how you think, feel and act. That is why there seemed to be a year of no man’s land with this radical new way of being and thinking that I adopted. There is a testing period, and the test is being created by you yourself. There is also a relearning period in order to change your thinking habits, egoic desire habits, and more. If you can make it through that part, the rest of your life will be lived as an angelic being doing the work of Godself, and experiencing things in an abundant way. I am so happy to be living this way, and it is soooo much easier and fulfilling!

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