L9: The Spiritual Perspective of the Self

Question 1

Most intimate, inner subjective part of the self.
* This is quite difficult to discover as it is impossible for
every human being to know the real will of God (Supreme
Being).
* Seeking the meaning of life is the journey that the spiritual
self is on.

Answer 1

SPIRITUAL SELF

Question 2

• Spiritual is defined as relating to a connection to
  something bigger than ourselves (meaning of life).
• A spiritual person places little importance on beliefs and
  traditions and is more concerned with growing and
  experiencing the Divine.
• Common themes: Love, Peace, Death, Wisdom and Truth

Answer 2

SPIRITUALITY

Question 3

Practices for Spirituality

Answer 3

• Meditation -* Prayer -* Yoga -* Journaling

Question 4

– mental exercises (focusing on one’s breathing or repeating a mantra) to reach a heightened
level of spiritual awareness.

Answer 4

• Meditation -

Question 5

a spiritual communion with God (or an object of worship) as in thanksgiving, adoration, or confession.

Answer 5

• Prayer -

Question 6

it teaches the suppression of all mind and body
activity so that the self may realize its distinction from the
material world and attain liberation.

Answer 6

• Yoga -

Question 7

• helps you become more aware of your inner
  life and feel more connected to your experience and the
  world around you

Answer 7

• Journaling

Question 8

• “the belief in and worship of a superhuman controlling
  power, especially a personal God or gods”.
• It is also a “particular system of faith and worship” - 16

Answer 8

RELIGION

Question 9

Dimension of Religion

Answer 9

Belief, Ritual, Spiritual experience, Unique social forms of community –

Question 10

– a generalized system of ideas and values that shape how members of a religious group come to understand the world around them.

Answer 10

Belief

Question 11

repeated physical gestures or activities, such as
prayers and mantras.

Answer 11

Ritual–

Question 12

feeling of immediate connection with a higher power; it is promised by various religions.

Answer 12

Spiritual experience–

Question 13

religious beliefs and
practices unite in one single community called a Church,
and all those who adhere to them (Durkheim, n.d.).

Answer 13

Unique social forms of community –

Question 14

Immaterial aspect or essence of a human being.
* Synonymous with the mind or the self.
* Part of the individual who partakes of divinity, survives
after death.

Answer 14

SOUL

Question 15

is a life force, energy, as well as an ethereal entity,
a spirit with a will of its own that resides in the human
body and provides the essence of life – similar to the
Western concept of “soul”.

Answer 15

Dungan

Question 16

religion vs. spirituality

Answer 16

practices should follow - find meaning

Question 17

• A ritual is a ceremony or action performed customarily

Answer 17

RITUAL and CEREMONIES

Question 18

may be prescribed by the traditions of a
community, including a religious community.
* include worship rites and sacraments, rites of
passage, atonement and purification rites, oaths of
allegiance, dedication ceremonies, coronations,
presidential inaugurations, marriages, and funerals -
perhaps all kinds of human activity.

Answer 18

Rituals

Question 19

CHARACTERISTICS OF RITUAL

Answer 19

1. A feeling of emotion of respect,
   awe, fascination, or dreading
   relation to the sacred.
2. Dependence upon a belief system
   that is usually expressed in the
   language of myth.
3. Symbolic in relation to its reference.

Question 20

is a social group defined by its
unusual religious, spiritual, and
philosophical beliefs commonly
unified by a charismatic personality or object. The concept is to gain trust by making them feel loved and accepted essentially disguising any sign of manipulation to be able to influence them

Answer 20

CULT

Question 21

is a practice of what
the practitioner (witch) believes to be magical skills and abilities such as spells, incantations, and rituals.
* Anthropologists have applied the
English term “.” to similar
beliefs in occult practices in many
different cultures, and societies

Answer 21

WITCHCRAFT

Question 22

who propose Logotherapy, Holocaust survivor, and a psychiatrist

Answer 22

Victor Frankl –

Question 23

“Man’s primary motivational force is search for meaning.” Logotherapy aids individuals in finding personal meaning in life, whatever life situation they may be.

Answer 23

Logotherapy

Question 24

Concept of Logotherapy

Answer 24

1. Life has meaning under
   all circumstances.
2. The main motivation
   for living is our will to
   find meaning in life.
3. Freedom to find
   meaning..0

Question 25

Assumptions of Logotherapy

Answer 25

1. The human being is an entity consisting of body, mind, and spirit 2. Life has meaning under all circumstances, even the most miserable. 3. People have a will to meaning 4. People have freedom under all circumstances to activate the will to find meaning. 5. Life has demand quality to which people must respond if decisions are to be meaningful demands 6. The individual is unique.

Question 26

Sources of Meaning

Answer 26

1. Purposeful Work – The meaning of life starts with holding a future goal. 2. Courage in the Face of Difficulty - meaningful life is a life with suffering 3. Love - “Love is the only way to grasp another human being in the innermost core of his personality”

Question 27

keri pa buh

Answer 27

haha