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Fifteen schools of metaphysics have been founded in the Midwest alone since the first of its kind was founded in Missouri in 1973. This includes Urbana’s very own School of Metaphysics, located on 1009 E. Main St. Director Dr. Pam Blosser said that regardless of their background, people come to the SOM tied together by a common desire.

“Those who come to the school are searching for something more,” Blosser said. “They know that there is more to life than what they are doing, and the school offers that more. It really is a spiritual quest.”

SOM offers a self-paced, guided, four-lesson cycle that aids people in learning how to live a more fulfilled and creative life. It begins, Blosser said, by mastering stillness. “Not many people are aware of how they are using their minds — how thinking certain thoughts produce the world we live in,” she said. “In the first stage, we teach students how to still your subconscious.”

Through exercises that utilize meditation and dream interpretations that develop skills in listening, memory, imagination and reasoning, students gradually grow a deeper sense of self-awareness and compassion. At the completion of each stage, students earn a degree. In order, the degrees are Respondere, Quidosetdiscit, Doctorate of Divinity and Doctorate of Metaphysics.

“I really wanted to master my thoughts,” said Jeff Lehmann, a SOM student currently in his second cycle, “so I can create the realities I want in my life.”

Though considered as more of a study of the art and science of the mind, SOM studies texts from different holy works. “The universal truths are held in the holy works,” Blosser said. “Like the Law of Attraction — that’s getting a lot of attention — and the Law of Prosperity. I don’t want to name them all because I want students to learn them as they go.”

Right now, the School of Metaphysics is getting ready for the Parliament of the World’s Religions in September. “It’s where people from all different religions come together,” Blosser said. Started at the 1893 World Columbian Exposition in Chicago, the Parliament of the World’s Religions met for its 100-year reunion in 1993 and has been meeting every few years since then.

Blosser said she first got interested in metaphysics because she was around peaceful people in her Oklahoma hometown and has always been interested in learning new things. “I’m still learning,” she said. “I think as long as you are a physical being, you’ll always be learning.”