Your Spirituality Score
Daniel Keeran, MSW COLLEGE OF MENTAL HEALTH COUNSELING
Date of publication
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Your Spirituality Score by Daniel Keeran, MSW Victoria, Canada www.ctihalifax.com
Spirituality provides values and beliefs for making healthy choices, a foundation of hope and meaning for direction and optimism, and support and encouragement to face major life difficulties. Strengthening your spiritual growth and awareness can set you on a path to find inner peace, physical and mental healing, and personal fulfillment. Your Spirituality Score is based on how many questions of the total for which you can provide a confident answer. Responses can be written, verbal, or mental, but written may be beneficial for most people. 1. What is your age, gender, and ethnic/race origin? 2. What were the spiritual/religious views of your father? Your mother? 3. How has your spirituality changed from your childhood until now? 4. Is there anything more than the material universe? Explain. 5. Do you believe intelligence and creativity exist in the universe? Explain. 6. Do you believe in the existence of a transcendent intelligence or superior reasoning power? Explain why or why not. 7. Do you see evidence of creative intelligence in the design and complexity of the universe or do you lean toward a material natural explanation? 2
8. Do you believe all human beings have equal worth and value? Explain why or why not? What are the implications? 9. Do you believe the human species has greater or superior value or greater importance or more responsibility compared to other life forms? Why or why not? What are the implications? 10. What is the meaning or purpose of human existence? 11. How do you know what is right and wrong? 12. What is the most important thing you can do with your life? 13. Is hope important? Explain. 14. What happens after you die? Does your individual identity or consciousness continue to exist? What are the implications? 15. Is the idea of the meaning of human life essential to the idea of hope? Explain. 16. Is the idea of right and wrong essential to the idea of meaning? Explain. 17. What have been some of the most important influences on you for what you value and believe? 18. What spiritual practices do you have? Prayer, centering prayer, meditation, scripture reading, worship, singing, other. 19. Does moral accountability only happen within the legal systems of nations? Is there ultimate accountability in a venue after death? What are the implications? 20. If people are reborn into new lives, what if anything determines the nature or quality of their existence? What are the implications? 21. Comment on this statement: “Many people think only tangible things are real, yet the same people admit intangible 3
things are most important: love, compassion, empathy, justice, morality, consciousness, wisdom, human value, meaning of life, and eternity... for without these, life is void and vain, and aspirations mere illusions.” 22. Have you ever experienced what you believe to be a sign or communication from God or other spiritual being? 23. What is your view of this statement? “Humans are spiritual beings existing in physical bodies.” 24. Do you believe you have convincing evidence of spiritual reality? 25. What is your idea of an ideal society? World? Life? 26. When does an individual human life begin? 27. What is the essence of the self? 28. Do you believe angels and demons exist? 29. Do you believe everyone after death goes to heaven or to hell? 30. Do you believe the superior reasoning power has ever communicated with humanity? 31. How open are you to exploring different aspects of spirituality? 32. If you saw someone raise the dead, what would you think or do? 33. If you saw a person die and then you saw him alive again a few days later, what would you think or do? 34. Comment on the statement: “Humans are a parasite infestation of the earth.” 35. How can you prove to anyone else that you are aware of yourself, your own consciousness? 4
36. Describe a healthy relationship. 37. How important is your spirituality to your life? And do you want your spirituality to increase or decrease? 38. If we are made in the image of God, what qualities do we share with God? 39. Read Isaiah, chapter 53, written about 700 BC. Who is being described? See other amazing examples of futuretelling here. 40. Do you now belong to or have you thought of joining a spiritual community to strengthen values and beliefs for making healthy choices, to acquire a foundation of hope and meaning for direction and optimism, and to receive support and encouragement to face major life difficulties? 41. How has this questionnaire affected your awareness of your spirituality? Final instructions: Count the number of questions for which you struggled to give a sincere answer, and then subtract the number from the number 41. The answer is your Spirituality Score. How to use this assessment: Whatever your score, you may want to give further consideration to questions you are unsure about or for which you have difficulty giving a response.
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Calculating Your Spirituality Score 1. Make a mark indicating any question for which you feel unable to give a satisfactory answer or that you find especially challenging. 2. Add the number of marks in #1 and subtract this number from 41. 3. The answer to #2 is your Spirituality Score. NOTE: This score and your answers to questions are to be used only by you and anyone to whom you grant permission.
Total number of questions
41
Number of difficult questions Your Spirituality Score
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