Berkeley Psychic Institute
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The Berkeley Psychic Institute (BPI) is a school for spiritual development, founded in 1973 by Lewis S. Bostwick in Berkeley, California
and is also the workshop of the seminary of the Church of the Divine Man. After Lewis' death in 1995, his wife, Vr. Rt. Rev Dr. Susan Hull Bostwick, assumed leadership of the institute and the church. The institute has taught thousands of people to read auras and study channeling, one of the most popular classes being The Clairvoyant Training Program. The institute has contributed progressive ideas to the interfaith movement
and has also contributed to a growth in number of enlightenment schools and metaphysical institutions.
There are four Berkeley Psychic Institutes in Northern California
, as well as several other groups throughout the world begun by former students. It has also spawned the Déjà Vu Publishing Company, responsible for the production of the Psychic Reader Magazine, as well as special events, psychic entertainment and spiritual tours.
Berkeley, California
Berkeley is a city on the east shore of the San Francisco Bay in Northern California, United States. Its neighbors to the south are the cities of Oakland and Emeryville. To the north is the city of Albany and the unincorporated community of Kensington...
and is also the workshop of the seminary of the Church of the Divine Man. After Lewis' death in 1995, his wife, Vr. Rt. Rev Dr. Susan Hull Bostwick, assumed leadership of the institute and the church. The institute has taught thousands of people to read auras and study channeling, one of the most popular classes being The Clairvoyant Training Program. The institute has contributed progressive ideas to the interfaith movement
Interfaith dialog
The term interfaith dialogue refers to cooperative, constructive and positive interaction between people of different religious traditions and/or spiritual or humanistic beliefs, at both the individual and institutional levels...
and has also contributed to a growth in number of enlightenment schools and metaphysical institutions.
There are four Berkeley Psychic Institutes in Northern California
Northern California
Northern California is the northern portion of the U.S. state of California. The San Francisco Bay Area , and Sacramento as well as its metropolitan area are the main population centers...
, as well as several other groups throughout the world begun by former students. It has also spawned the Déjà Vu Publishing Company, responsible for the production of the Psychic Reader Magazine, as well as special events, psychic entertainment and spiritual tours.
Offshoot schools
The Institute has influenced other organizations, many which were founded by Berkeley Psychic Institute graduates. Among these are:- The Midwest Psychic Institute, Chicago IL, founded by Kenneth Jones.
- Aesclepion Institute, San Rafael, CA
- Psychic Horizons, San Francisco, CA
- Southern California Psychic Institute, Anaheim and Santa Monica, CA
- Church of Divine Man Psychic Institute, Everett, WA
- The Center for Inner Truth, Santa Fe, NM, founded by Juli Somers
- Psychic Horizons, Boulder, CO, founded by Mary Bell Nyman and co-directed with Hope Hewetson
- Inner Connection Institute, Denver and Wheat Ridge, CO, founded by Lauren Skye
- Horizon Center for Intuitive Awareness, Atlanta, GA, directed by JoAnn Wilson
- Be Psychic Network, Singapore, founded and directed by Erich Horn
Notable members
- Helen Palmer, author of Enneagram of PersonalityEnneagram of PersonalityThe Enneagram of Personality is a model of human personality which is principally used as a typology. Principally developed by Oscar Ichazo and Claudio Naranjo, it is also partly based on earlier teachings of G. I. Gurdjieff...
-related books - Angelika Whitecliff, co-founder of the Exopolitics Institute (UFOUnidentified flying objectA term originally coined by the military, an unidentified flying object is an unusual apparent anomaly in the sky that is not readily identifiable to the observer as any known object...
s) - Jose Stevens, author of The Michael TeachingsThe Michael TeachingsThe Michael Teachings is a body of channeled New Age spiritual doctrine as articulated in Messages from Michael, published in 1979 by novelist Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, which was the first in a series of four books chronicling the three-decade-long conversation between a group of friends and a...
-related books - Barbara Dewey, author of The Creating Cosmos, Consciousness and Quantum Behavior, and As You Believe
- Debra Lynne Katz, author and founder/director of the International School of Clairvoyance
- William Duby, founder of the Spiritual Rights Foundation church and the Academy for Psychic Studies in Berkeley, California.
- Michael J Tamura, Former Bishop, Spiritual Teacher, Clairvoyant, Healer, Visionary and author of You Are the Answer
- Robert J. Watson, founder of Psychic Works Spiritual Awareness Center, Spiritual Teacher, Clairvoyant, Metaphysician