| Tuesday, October 19, 2004 |
| HOW SPIRITUAL ARE YOU |
(To find out, take this test, which is adapted from a personality inventory devised by Washington University psychiatrist Robert Cloniger, author of Feeling Good: The Science of Well Being.)
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1.. I often feel so connected to the people around me that it is like there is no separation between us.
(___ True / ___ False)
2.. I often do things to help protect animals and plants from extinction.
(___ True / ___ False)
3.. I am fascinated by the many things in life that cannot be scientifically explained.
(___ True / ___ False)
4.. Often I have unexpected flashes of insight or understanding while relaxing.
(___ True / ___ False)
5.. I sometimes feel so connected to nature that everything seems to be part of one living organism.
(___ True / ___ False)
6.. I seem to have a "sixth sense" that sometimes allows me to know what is going to happen.
(___ True / ___ False)
7.. Sometimes I have felt like I was part of something with no limits or boundaries in time and space.
(___ True / ___ False)
8.. I am often called "Absent Minded" because I get so wrapped up in what I am doing that I lose track of everything else.
(___ True / ___ False)
9.. I often feel a strong sense of unity with all the things around me.
(___ True / ___ False)
10. Even after thinking about something a long time, I have learned to trust my feelings more than my logical reasons.
(___ True / ___ False)
11. I often feel a strong sense of unity with all the things around me.
(___ True / ___ False)
12. Often when I am concentrating on something, I lose awareness of the passage of time.
(___ True / ___ False)
13. I have made real personal sacrifices in order to make the world a better place, like trying to prevent war, poverty and injustice.
(___ True / ___ False)
14. I have had experiences that made my role in life so clear to me that I felt very happy and excited.
(___ True / ___ False)
15. I believe that I have experienced extrasensory perception.
(___ True / ___ False)
16. I have had moments of great joy in which I suddenly had a clear, deep feeling of oneness with all that exists.
(___ True / ___ False)
17. Often when I look at an ordinary thing, something wonderful happens. I get the feeling that I am seeing it fresh for the first time.
(___ True / ___ False)
18. I love the blooming of flowers in the spring as much as seeing an old friend again.
(___ True / ___ False)
19. It often seems to other people like I am in another world because I am so competely unaware of things going on around me.
(___ True / ___ False)
20. I believe that miracles happen.
(___ True / ___ False)
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SCORING:Give yourself one point for each TRUE answer and 0 Points for each FALSE answer.
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14 & above ..... highly spiritual, a real mystic
12 - 13 ........ spiritually aware, easily lost in the moment
8 - 11 ......... spiritually average, could develop more spiritual life if desired
6 - 7 .......... a practical empiricist, lacking self transcendence
1 - 5 .......... highly skeptical, resistanct to developing spiritual awareness
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| posted by infraternam meam @ 5:10 AM |
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| About Me |
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Name: infraternam meam
Home: Chicago, United States
About Me: I am now at the prime of my life
and have been married for the past 25 years.
Sickly at times, but wants to see the elixir vita,
so that I will be able to see my grandchildren from my two boys.
See my complete profile
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