Ruth L. Miller is best described as a synthesist of all things relevant to consciousness, human potential, and culture. She works with individuals, nonprofits, churches, academic institutions, and small businesses to guide them through the confusion of today's world and into the new culture that is unfolding in and around the world, today.
Dr. Miller has taught dozens of classes and led countless workshops on new paradigms, systems thinking, and futures research, serving as director of the Cybernetic Systems Program at San Jose State University, as well as adjunct faculty at Antioch University-Seattle, Marylhurst University, and Portland State University. She has also taught courses on world religions, science & religion, adult education, metaphysics, and the business of ministry at the Living Enrichment Institute and New West Seminary—receiving the highest evaluations for her classes at all of these institutions. She currently offers classes and workshops on consciousness and applied metaphysics throughout the Pacific Northwest, along with a series of presentations on current trends and potential futures for humanity, including an online course about the culture that must be emerging for humanity's well-being at Gaia Living Systems Institute (www.gaialivingsystems.org)
She earned the doctorate in Systems Science from Portland State University integrating intuition and analysis in impact assessment and decision-making. She earned the M.S. in Cybernetic Systems from San Jose State University with a thesis integrating intuitive methods in systems development and policy planning. Before that she earned the Certificate in environmental studies from Long Beach State University with a teaching-guide on radiation, biology, and society, and a B.A. in Anthropology with minors in American literature and museum studies at the University of New Mexico.
Dr. Miller has published papers in several professional journals and was twice honored by publication in The General Systems Yearbook, in addition to numerous research reports, ranging from the future of energy to the potential for electronics funds transfer, and program plans for small businesses and nonprofit organizations. Her most recent book in that field, Developing Third Generation Dual Bottom-Line Learning Organizations, co-authored with Kazimierz Gozdz, was published by Cambridge Scholars Press in May, 2023. Some of her manuals and books, among them 150 Years of Healing (recently released in a 3rd edition as Healing By Words Alone), and Unveiling Your Hidden Power, have become standard texts for New Thought students.
Dr. Miller has taught dozens of classes and led countless workshops on new paradigms, systems thinking, and futures research, serving as director of the Cybernetic Systems Program at San Jose State University, as well as adjunct faculty at Antioch University-Seattle, Marylhurst University, and Portland State University. She has also taught courses on world religions, science & religion, adult education, metaphysics, and the business of ministry at the Living Enrichment Institute and New West Seminary—receiving the highest evaluations for her classes at all of these institutions. She currently offers classes and workshops on consciousness and applied metaphysics throughout the Pacific Northwest, along with a series of presentations on current trends and potential futures for humanity, including an online course about the culture that must be emerging for humanity's well-being at Gaia Living Systems Institute (www.gaialivingsystems.org)
She earned the doctorate in Systems Science from Portland State University integrating intuition and analysis in impact assessment and decision-making. She earned the M.S. in Cybernetic Systems from San Jose State University with a thesis integrating intuitive methods in systems development and policy planning. Before that she earned the Certificate in environmental studies from Long Beach State University with a teaching-guide on radiation, biology, and society, and a B.A. in Anthropology with minors in American literature and museum studies at the University of New Mexico.
Dr. Miller has published papers in several professional journals and was twice honored by publication in The General Systems Yearbook, in addition to numerous research reports, ranging from the future of energy to the potential for electronics funds transfer, and program plans for small businesses and nonprofit organizations. Her most recent book in that field, Developing Third Generation Dual Bottom-Line Learning Organizations, co-authored with Kazimierz Gozdz, was published by Cambridge Scholars Press in May, 2023. Some of her manuals and books, among them 150 Years of Healing (recently released in a 3rd edition as Healing By Words Alone), and Unveiling Your Hidden Power, have become standard texts for New Thought students.
In addition to the Ph.D., Miller has earned the Doctor of Divinity (D.D.) degree at Emerson Institute. As a minister ordained in the New Thought tradition, she offers an interfaith approach to spiritual development, facilitating transformative processes, and helping to grow congregations in the Unity, Science of Mind, and Unitarian Universalist traditions.
Some of her more recent Sunday talks may be found at the Unity of Beaverton website, the Portland CSL YouTube Channel, and the Florence Unitarian Universalist Youtube channel, as well as on the Welcome page of this website.
Dr. Miller integrates her scientific, cultural, and spiritual studies in books like Earth Can Still be Home, Making the World Go Away, and Madonna, Magdalene, and Beyond – feminine power hidden in empire culture; explaining how understanding ancient cultures, prophecies, and modern scientific forecasts can help us understand the present global transition. Her books Calm Healing – mind-body medicine methods, and the 2nd edition: Empowered Care (co-authored with Robert Bruce Newman), integrates Tibetan meditation methods with shamanic and scientific models of the mind and body. The books Language of Life and To Restore Earth's Balance (co-authored with Milt Markewitz) explore how ancient Hebrew and other indigenous languages have a creative power that we need today. Her 7-volume Library of Hidden Knowledge, including Natural Abundance – Ralph Waldo Emerson’s guide to prosperity, and As We Think, So We Are - James Allen's guide to transforming our lives and world, in which she ‘translates’ and modernizes the works of 19th century metaphysical philosophers to make them more accessible for contemporary readers. (See more of her books by clicking HERE.) Her most recent release, a set of books she's calling "Ruth Miller's Spiritual Development Series" includes modern-language interpretations of works by Emma Curtis Hopkins, Emilie Cady, Lillian DeWaters, and A Course in Miracles.
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Her recent articles on futures research have been published in the prestigious Journal of Future Studies. Her articles on consciousness and metaphysics are a regular feature in the online magazine, Divine CEO.
She is an active member of the Affliliated New Thought Network (ANTN), and an occasional presenter at the International New Thought Alliance. Her latest project (outside of teaching, Sunday talks, writing, supporting various businesses and nonprofits, and working on her current rehab project) is a radio show, "Noetic Moments" (www.noeticmoments.org), launched on KXCR FM (kxcr.net) in January, 2022 and streamed on SoundCloud. |