{"id":37,"date":"2013-03-18T06:41:33","date_gmt":"2013-03-18T10:41:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.northernway.org\/ordainedminister\/?p=37"},"modified":"2013-03-18T06:48:35","modified_gmt":"2013-03-18T10:48:35","slug":"phd-metaphysics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/ordainedminister\/phd-metaphysics\/","title":{"rendered":"PhD in Metaphysics vs Doctor of Divinity Religious degrees"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Esoteric Interfaith Church, Inc. and its earlier branch the unincorporated Metaphysical Interfaith Church have been ordaining ministers since 1987<\/a>. But two years later the church also established a seminary to further train our ministers and alternative clergy and has been granting religious degrees<\/a>\u00a0ever since.<\/p>\n

Today one of our degree candidates — who will also become an ordained minister at no extra cost — asked about the Ph.D. versus the Doctor of Divinity degree. She has studied the Barbara Brennan \u00a0healing system and is already working in the field as a spiritual healer. Of course she wants ordination as a minister in order to protect herself legally and be able to set and accept suggested donations for \"PhD<\/a>her pastoral counseling and spiritual healing practice. But she also wants a religious doctorate degree to reassure those in her circle and give her parishioners \/ members added peace of mind. The word “Doctor” in front of a spiritual healing minister’s name isn’t about prestige but about reassurance and confidence in the one who is serving humanity. She asked:<\/p>\n

QUESTION: My intention is to teach\u00a0workshops at bookstores, healing centers and workshop centers as well as\u00a0\u00a0having my own “clients” in my spiritual ministry.\u00a0 I also wish to reach Hospice Centers and Rehab Centers\u00a0that are connected to the Hospitals. \u00a0Do you still think the Ph.D. in\u00a0Metaphysics<\/a> is more beneficial than the Doctor of Divinity<\/a> degree? \u00a0Which religious degree is more ‘beneficial, accepted and known’ in\u00a0mainstream hospitals and healing centers?<\/p>\n

ANSWER: \u00a0Both degrees allow you to attach Dr. to the front<\/em> of your name, but the PhD in Metaphysics also allows you to attach PhD to the end<\/em> of your name. The PhD is known all over the world and is the most widely recognized and highest ranking doctorate degree compared to the Doctor of Divinity. \u00a0Some mainstream hospitals and healing centers might not understand what “Metaphysics” is, but they also won’t necessarily know what a doctorate in “Divinity” is.\u00a0 If you were in the U.K., I’d tell you to go with the Doctor of Divinity because that degree is the highest pinnacle of education for the U.K. and Europe. But the Doctor of Divinity doesn’t mean healing to them, rather academic achievement. In your case, I keep leaning toward the PhD in Metaphysics for you because it is for religious philosophers, but also has to do with spiritual healing. The PhD in Metaphysics<\/a> is the most common degree of choice for spiritual healers and actually allows the holder to call themselves a “metaphysician” and<\/em> a “doctor”. Many like the term meta-physician meaning “beyond a physician”, or a different kind of healing, not “mere” physical healing.\u00a0Some do hypnotherapy, Reiki, EFT and even NLP.<\/p>\n

Of course our metaphysicians do not practice medicine without a license, we are only talking about spiritual healing here. \u00a0 Even so, the words have power and are applied to all healers, all practitioners of body, mind and spirit healing modalities.\u00a0We have conferred the PhD in Metaphysics on dozens of graduates over the years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Esoteric Interfaith Church, Inc. and its earlier branch the unincorporated Metaphysical Interfaith Church have been ordaining ministers since 1987. But two years later the church also established a seminary to further train our ministers and alternative clergy and has been granting religious degrees\u00a0ever since. Today one of our degree candidates — who will also […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,9],"tags":[10,13,19,4,12,14,16,3,11,20,15,18,17],"class_list":["post-37","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-become-ordained","category-religious-doctorate-degrees","tag-barbara-brennan","tag-doctor-of-divinity","tag-healing-center","tag-how-to-become-ordained","tag-metaphysician","tag-online-degrees","tag-online-seminary","tag-ordained-minister","tag-phd-metaphysics","tag-reiki-practice","tag-seminary-degrees","tag-spiritual-counseling-practice","tag-spiritual-healing-practice"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/ordainedminister\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/ordainedminister\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/ordainedminister\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/ordainedminister\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/ordainedminister\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/ordainedminister\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/ordainedminister\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions\/41"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/ordainedminister\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/ordainedminister\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/ordainedminister\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}