Chapter 6

Question 1

spirituality

Answer 1

sense or belief that there is something greater than myself, something more to being human than sensory experience and that the greater whole of which we are part is cosmic or divine in nature

sense of transcendence

Question 2

Religion

Answer 2

institutionalized pattern of values, beliefs, symbols, behaviors, and experiences that involve:
spirituality, community of adherents, transmission of traditions over time

Question 3

what is in common of spirituality and religion?

Answer 3

belief
comfort
reflection
ethics
awe

Question 4

3 factors understanding religious conflict

Answer 4

modernism (science vs …)
multiculturalism- challenges the sacred canopy
modern technologies of warfare- intertwined with religious issues

Question 5

Fowler’s stages of Faith development

Answer 5

broader than “faith” creed or belief (not baout god or higher power) -> universal aspect
gives
links
grounds
enables

Question 6

How many stages and their names of flower’s stages of faith

Answer 6

Pres-stage: primal faith
stage 1: intuitive/projective
stage 2: Mythic/literal
stage 3: synthetic/conventioncal
stage 4: individuation/reflective
stage 5: conjunctive
stage 6: Universalizing

Question 7

Pre-stage: primal faith

Answer 7

developing snese of security and trust
being taken care of by ultimate environment or the divine (infancy)

Question 8

stage 1- intuitive/projective

Answer 8

magical, inutitive, symbolic, beginning sense of “other” (~2)

Question 9

stage 2- mythic/literal

Answer 9

understand concept of belonging, concrete, stories are meaningful, age of reason (6 and up)

Question 10

stage 3- synthetic/conventional

Answer 10

acceptance of what been taught, intergrating that sense of belonging, identifying with it, develo[ing compassion (adolescenece and beyond)

Question 11

Stage 4- individuation/refelction

Answer 11

analysis of previous held beliefs in order to make more sense out of the ulitmate environment and personal meaning (young adulthood and beyond)

Question 12

stage 5- conjunctive

Answer 12

reaches to ‘deeper self’, awareness of community of ‘all living things’ self is part of larger whole cosmos (midlife and beyond)

Question 13

stage 6- universalizing

Answer 13

understands that threat to any living thing or individual is threat to whole, actively involved in remediating injustice

Question 14

First force, psychodynamic perspective

Answer 14

behavior determined by unconsciousness, instinctual needs to seek pleasure and avoid pain

Question 15

second force, behavioral perspective

Answer 15

behavior determined by environmental forces

Question 16

third force, existential/humanistic/experiential perspective

Answer 16

behavior determined by need for self-actualization, fulfilling human potential to love, create, etc.

Question 17

fourth force, based on transpersonal theories

Answer 17

specifically targeting the spiritual dimension

Question 18

transpersonal theory

Answer 18

based on the premise that some states of human consciousness and potential ‘go beyond’ our traditional views of health and normality; to ‘go beyond’ the self toward higher levels of consciousness

Question 19

wilber’s integral theory of consciousness

Answer 19

6 levels of consciousness at the prepersonal and persona phases are conventional

Question 20

4 transpersonal levels

Answer 20

level 7 psychic or nature mysticism
level 8 subtle of deity mysticism
level 9 casusal or formless mysticism
level 10 non-dual

Question 21

level 7

Answer 21

continued evolution of consciousness due to the observing self gaining more depth… natural deepening of compassion for all living things, including nature itself

Question 22

level 8

Answer 22

awareness of more subtle processess than commonly experienced in normal life

Question 23

level 9

Answer 23

transcends all distinctions between the subject and object; pure consciousness and awareness…enlightenment or nirvana

Question 24

level 10

Answer 24

disidentification with the witness

Question 25

Fowler and wilber compared

Answer 25

both built theoreis of human development and human behavior and go beyond the traditional biopsychosocial framework

Question 26

Fowler and wilbert differences

Answer 26

fowler-more specification about content and process of spirtual development
wilber- moresubstance and specification, descriptuion and evolution of what look like

fowler more descriptive
wilber more prescriptive

Question 27

5 broad historical phases

Answer 27

indigenous pre-colonial period
sectarian origins
professionalization and secularization
resurgence of interest in spirituality
transcending boundaries