Shared Vision of the Neohumanist College and Film

The Neohuamanist College of Asheville (NHCA), an affiliate of Ananda Marga Gurukul (AMGK) and the documentary film Neohumanism: Path of Awakening and Benevolence, a project of P. R. Sarkar Institute are both making efforts to disseminate Neohumanist philosophy, education and programs to an audience of global citizens, students and educators.  These efforts creatively coincide and collaborate in a mutually supportive way, weaving a broader access to the ideas each stands by.  Their mutual goals usher in a new era of holistic education and programs that produce leaders and citizens who yearn for social equality and an ecologically favorable distribution of all available resources.  

The NHCA, in its sixth year, has applied for accreditation from the Accrediting Council for Continuing Education and Training (ACCET) which is approved by the US Department of Education.   It has qualified for accreditation based on its record of having created, in cooperation with the Neohumanist Education Accrediation Council, a vocational (employment qualified) Neohumanist Education program and avocational programs (continuing education) that include Liberating Arts and Humanities, Yoga and Intuitional Science, Transformative Social Sciences, Wellness and Psychology.  This entire Neohumanist curriculum is based on a love of all creation, animate and inanimate.   The process of meeting the standards of the accreditation has strengthened the NHCA by creating policies and procedures that support its goals of financial viability and a quality education whose core values are planetary stewardship, serving the greater good, growth, critical thinking and ethics.

The documentary film, Neohumanism: Path of Awakening and Benevolence was initiated in 2022 by the director of the NHCA and a film team that includes an award-winning cinematographer with a National Geographic filming career.  This intent of the film’s team is to share with a global audience the Neohumanist philosophy being practiced in educational institutions and service projects around the world.  The film is being shot in the US, Europe, India, Thailand and Bali with plans to finish filming in Africa and South America. These educational and service projects have the same core values as NHCA of serving the greater good through educational programs and projects that provide food, housing, medical services, disaster relief, animal shelters and ecological preservation.  The NHCA and the documentary film both promote the story of a path for humanity that encourages us to become the highest version of ourselves that serves others and achieves self-realization. 

The film brings to life the true purposes of the college’s Neohumanist education.  It makes tangible the essence of its intention, which is to prepare lifelong learners for ownership of global citizenship as stewards of the planet. 

Sid Jordan

Provost, NHCA