Go Deep to Go Far
Graduate Degrees
in Ecstatic Mysticism
Ubiquity University is partnering with AWE to offer a Master’s, PhD, DMin or combination MA/PhD in Ecstatic Mysticism, as well as a Masters of Arts (MA) in Integrative Psychedelic Therapy, a PhD in Psychedelic Studies.
We are faced with a range of challenges on both individual and collective levels
Life passages such as birth, death and spiritual emergence co-exist with war, our ecological crisis, extreme poverty and more. The transcendence of these challenges requires a deep connection to both Mystery and personal healing.
Ubiquity University, in partnership with AWE, is delighted to offer this graduate program in Ecstatic Mysticism. This three-year training program (formerly Psychedelic Training) offers a unique synthesis of Western philosophies and therapeutic practices with indigenous knowledge and mystical traditions. On completion, you will have enough experience and knowledge of these practices and traditions to develop your own unique and well-researched contribution to this field in the form of a higher education degree.
We recommend that your program begins with Ubiquity’s Creative Journey to Dissertation course, which will give you the tools to shape, and eventually write, your thesis or dissertation. You will then continue your studies in the Ecstatic Mysticism program with AWE, and return again to Ubiquity for the higher education credential.
If you have already completed your coursework with AWE, you can begin the process of enrolling with Ubiquity by clicking on each of the 3 buttons below:
Apply in three simple steps!
Half of Ecstatic Mysticism is dedicated to online immersions led by leaders and pioneers in the fields of transpersonal and integrative psychotherapy, psychedelic medicine and research, deep ecology and systemic theory, dying and death, indigenous wisdom, sexuality and eroticism, and the intersection of madness and mysticism.
The other half is committed to in-depth experiential work during in-person retreats and pilgrimages. These intensives are centered on embodied inner work and therapeutic group processing, along with learning from the diverse traditions, rituals, and cosmovisions of various indigenous communities, including: The A’i, within an A’i-Cofan reservation in the Ecuadorian Amazon; a Massango/Babongo village in Gabon, Africa; the Wixaritari at Wirikuta, the peyote pilgrimage site in Mexico, and the Yawanawa and Huni Kuin sacred territories in Brazil.
About the program
This program is for seekers and leaders from diverse walks of life who express a heart-led calling for personal transformation on their path and meaningful service to their community. Students from a wide range of professional backgrounds and academic specialities will be considered, as will people 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 interested in, or do not have, the means 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.
- Spend time amongst indigenous communities learning and experiencing their traditions, rituals, and cosmovisions.
- Become grounded in the lineages of Humanistic, Gestalt and Transpersonal psychology.
- Gain inspiration from the traditions of Taoism, Advaita Vedanta, and Radical Dzogchen Buddhism.
- Have an opportunity to experience transformative personal healing and self-development.
- Gain the knowledge and experience that will empower you 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.
If students wish to continue on with a Masters and/or Phd/DMin with Ubiquity University, they will need to take three pathways in total – both in the full-program and online only options.
For those interested in a Masters of Arts (MA) in Integrative Psychedelic Therapy and/or a PhD in Psychedelic Studies with Ubiquity, students will be required to take the combination of Psychedelic Medicine, Indigenous Wisdom & Modern Entheogenic Practices and Integrative Psychotherapy as their three core pathways in the Ecstatic Mysticism program.
Any other combination of three-pathways will also allow students to embark on a Masters, PhD or DMin in Ecstatic Mysticism with Ubiquity.
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“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
Program Requirements
MA Degree in Ecstatic Mysticism
Ecstatic Mysticism Coursework
Creative Journey to Dissertation
PhD or DMin in Ecstatic Mysticism
Ecstatic Mysticism Coursework
Creative Journey to Dissertation
Annual pilgrimage to Chartres/ Teotihuacan
Great Books
MA/PhD in Ecstatic Mysticism
Ecstatic Mysticism Coursework
Creative Journey to Dissertation
Annual pilgrimage to Chartres/ Teotihuacan
Great Books
Elective Courses (8 Credits)
For each of the degree options available, students have the options of breaking their payments into parts. Please see the table below for this breakdown. Please note that the costs do not include the core program with AWE.
MA Degree
$5000
PhD Degree
$15000
MA/PhD Degree
$16600
$2000
$1500
$1500
$5000
$5000
$5000
$5000
$5000
$6600
Save up to
$750
paying full
Ubiquity offers a discount for students that are able to make the full payment up front. That means you save $250 on a Masters, $500 on a PhD and $750 on MA/PhD.
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.
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.
The Creative Journey to Dissertation -
Finding Your Voice, Making your Mark
The “Creative Journey to Dissertation” is a 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: Dr. Gyorgyi Szabo
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.
