Wisdom University

Wisdom University was established in 2005. It grew out of the University of Creation Spirituality, which was founded by Dominican theologian Matthew Fox beginning in 1977 with his Institute of Culture and Creation Spirituality in Mundelein College in Chicago, and developed into the University of Creation Spirituality in 1996 in Oakland. In 2005, Ji... m Garrison succeeded Fox as president and with Carman Melendrez as co-founder and CFO and Caroline Myss on the Board reshaped the University of Creation Spirituality into Wisdom University. For further details, please see our Prospectus. At the heart of Wisdom University is the pursuit of wisdom. If you think about how you know what you know, two epistemologies likely come to mind. One is based on revealed truth, the basis of the Abrahamic religions. Whether Moses receiving Torah, or Christ crucified and resurrected, or Mohammed reciting the Koran, truth in western religious terms is something that comes from God and is to be believed and obeyed. The other way of knowing is the scientific method, based on the aggregation of data, testing hypotheses, and developing increasingly accurate theories. Science is the path of rationality and intellectual logic that seeks the certainties of verifiable knowledge. The ancient Greeks offered a third way of knowing. Socrates honored divine revelation and scientific investigation, but he believed that the greatest commitment around which to orient one's life is the exploration of ultimate questions. For the Socratic quest, the most profound way of discerning ultimate verities is through truth pursued not truth revealed or knowledge aggregated. Religions seek answers and are thus based on dogmatic belief. Science seeks knowledge and is thus based on certifiable facts. The pursuit of wisdom is to live in the questions and thus to be open to personal transformation. This means that wisdom is really a way of life, rather than being an arid intellectual enterprise. The pursuit of wisdom leads to an ever-deepening alchemical ...Read More