Graduate Degrees in Ecstatic Mysticism
Ubiquity University is partnering with AWE to offer graduate degrees in Ecstatic Mysticism, as well as a Masters of Arts (MA) in Integrative Psychedelic Therapy, and a PhD in Psychedelic Studies
We are faced with a range of challenges on both individual and collective levels
Life passages like birth, death and spiritual awakening unfold alongside war, ecological crisis, and global inequity. To meet these challenges, we are called into both personal healing and deep connection to Mystery.
This comprehensive three year graduate program in Ecstatic Mysticism is rooted in Western therapeutic practice and ancestral wisdom traditions. Formerly known as our Psychedelic Training, this program weaves together:
Western philosophies and therapeutic practices
Indigenous knowledge systems and ceremonial wisdom
Mystical and spiritual traditions from across cultures
Integrative psychotherapy
Psychedelic medicine and research
Deep ecology and systemic theory
Dying, death, and end-of-life transitions
Ancestral wisdom and knowledge
Sexuality, embodiment, and erotic wisdom
The intersection of madness, mysticism and liminality
We recommend that your journey begins with Ubiquity’s Creative Journey to Dissertation course and continue through AWE’s immersive certification program, culminating in your graduate thesis and credential awarded by Ubiquity.
If you have already completed your coursework with AWE, you can enroll with Ubiquity here:
Ecstatic Mysticism Program
Half of the Ecstatic Mysticism program is dedicated to online immersions that weave academic depth with lived experience, revealing insights and pathways to healing and transformation.
The other half of the program is devoted to in-depth experiential work through in-person retreats and pilgrimages. These sacred intensives invite students into embodied inner work, therapeutic group processing, and direct learning from the diverse traditions, rituals, and cosmovisions of indigenous communities around the world, including:
The A’i people within an A’i-Cofan reservation in the Ecuadorian Amazon
A Massango/Babongo village in Gabon, Africa
The Wixaritari (Huichol) at Wirikuta, the ancestral peyote pilgrimage site in Mexico
The Yawanawa and Huni Kuin within their sacred territories in Brazil
Through these immersive encounters, students not only study mystical and therapeutic traditions but also live them in practice, deepening their connection to self, community, and the living Earth.
About the Program
This program is for seekers and leaders from diverse walks of life who express a heart-led calling for personal transformation and a deep desire for meaningful service. Students from a wide range of professional and academic backgrounds are eligible, as well as those with unique orientations to engaging with psychedelics, psychotherapies, and spiritual practices.
The course is also available as an online-only course for people who are not able to attend in-person retreats and pilgrimages.
For a full breakdown of AWE’s Ecstatic Mysticism program, including costs, please click here
During this program, you will:
Discover the shamanistic traditions of the Wixaritari, A’i, Mitsogo, Babongo, Yawanawa and Huni Kuin communities.
Learn and experience traditions, rituals, and cosmovisions with indigenous communities.
Become grounded in the lineages of Humanistic, Gestalt and Transpersonal psychology.
Gain inspiration from the traditions of Taoism, Advaita Vedanta, and Radical Dzogchen Buddhism.
Experience transformative personal healing and self-development.
Gain the knowledge and experience to be of profound service to your families, communities, and to a new way of life.
Create your own valuable contribution to this field in the form of a thesis or dissertation.
Whether enrolled in the full program or the online-only option, students pursuing a graduate degree with Ubiquity University will need to take three pathways in total.
Those interested in a Masters of Arts (MA) in Integrative Psychedelic Therapy and/or a PhD in Psychedelic Studies must take the combination of Psychedelic Medicine, Indigenous Wisdom & Modern Entheogenic Practices and Integrative Psychotherapy as their three core pathways.
Any other combination of three-pathways will also allow students to pursue a Masters, PhD or DMin in Ecstatic Mysticism.
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If you have already completed your coursework with AWE, you can enroll with Ubiquity here:
“The level of personal growth discovered through the retreats and pilgrimages was truly life changing. The Awe team works with the highest level of integrity when bringing us to these communities, honoring their traditions while helping create further infrastructure for their communities.”
—Océane McCord
A Selection of Your Facilitators
Jonathan Dickinson
Ben Malcolm
Anja Loizaga-Velder
Kylea Taylor
Application & Admissions
Program Completion Requirements
MA
Ecstatic Mysticism Coursework
Creative Journey to Dissertation
MA Thesis
PhD & DMin
Ecstatic Mysticism Coursework
Creative Journey to Dissertation
Chartres Academy
Great Books
Doctoral Dissertation
Combined MA/PhD
Ecstatic Mysticism Coursework (Not Included)
Creative Journey to Dissertation
Chartres Academy
Great Books
Doctoral Dissertation
Electives (8 credits)
Please note that the cost of Ecstatic Mysticism’s Certificate Coursework is not included in the price of the degree program.
Degree Pricing
MA/MSc
$5,000
PhD
$15,000
MA/MSc/PhD
$16,600
Save up to
$830
by paying full
Ubiquity offers a 5% discount for students that are able to make the full payment up front. That means you save $250 on a Masters/MSc, $750 on a PhD and $830 on MA/MSc/PhD.
Note that these prices do not include the cost of partner coursework, Chartres in-person costs or costs of additional elective courses.
Student Academic Journey
The duration of your student journey will vary depending on your degree pathway.
Ubiquity offers instalment plans for all degree students over an 18 month period.
About AWE
AWE is a non-profit dedicated to integrative psychedelic education and the preservation of mystical traditions within indigenous communities in Latin America and Africa.
Their mission and calling is to investigate, recover and defend the mystical experience.
AWE sees this as an essential element to transcend our core collective challenges, such as conflict, war and the ecological crisis, and to give focus to the natural rites-of-passages of birth, death, and spiritual emergence, in order to move towards peace, sustainability, and the development of consciousness.
For them, one of the ways that transformation gradually occurs is through a mystical experience. Within their initiatory practices with sacred substances they include ancestral, medicinal plants used by different traditional communities around the world, such as Ayahuasca, Peyote, and Iboga.
If you have already completed your coursework with AWE, you can enroll with Ubiquity here:
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What You Gain
A Recognized postgraduate degree
A major research project in your field
Academic supervision
A global network of peers & faculty
A bridge between practice and scholarship
Why Ubiquity?
For almost 20 years, Ubiquity has nurtured learners to lead with wisdom and heart. Our programs foster the skills, mindsets, and inner capacities needed to meet today’s urgent global challenges with clarity, compassion and impact.
At Ubiquity, education is more than knowledge—it is a path of self-discovery, deep inquiry, and meaningful action. We weave the timeless insights of ancient traditions with the latest discoveries in science, consciousness, and human transformation.
Together, through collaborative learning and global community, Ubiquity is building a thriving, regenerative future.
The Ubiquity Graduate Degree
The Ubiquity Graduate Program combines the US and European designs of graduate programs with a blend of taught learning with research and writing. The thesis or dissertation must demonstrate excellence at every level. It must show awareness of the history of the literature in your particular area; demonstrate careful analysis and understanding of the field in question; and, most importantly, show how your insight can be applied to the real world. The dissertation must be scholarly and utilize extensive bibliographical data and footnotes. It should, in other words, be an impeccable work of research.
About Our Required Courses
This 1-week intensive designed by our Dean of Graduate Studies Dr. Gyorgyi Szabo. The course is a critical part of the dissertation writing process and is a requirement for all MA/PhD candidates.
Faculty: Gyorgyi Szabo
Great Books
Faculty: Gyorgyi Szabo PhD, Jim Garrison PhD
The Great Books course at Ubiquity University delves into literature that has shaped human thought. Students discuss, analyze, and connect historical themes to contemporary global challenges, deepening their understanding of enduring literary works.
Chartres Academy
Our Chartres Academy is intended as a gathering point for a contemporary wisdom community to come together through the very same learning system that Fulbert and Plato used — the seven Liberal Arts.
Support during your Graduate Program
During your graduate dissertation writing you will be supported by a Major Advisor of your own choosing, as well as optional writing courses and writing mentorship.