Spiritual Self

Take this quiz and see how your Spiritual Self rates:

1. I have spent the majority of my life as a seeker.
2. I have amassed a great deal of knowledge about all things spiritual and am always drawn to workshops and seminars about mind/body/spirit.
3. I have read all the leading spiritual books and find great truth and comfort in them.
4. We must surrender to our experience as humans and trust that it is our karmic destiny to follow the path that unfolds before us.
5. I am shocked and unsettled by violence and cruelty to fellow man, animals and this planet. It makes me want to fight for justice and to punish the perpetrators.
6. We are all one at the core of our existence and that means we all must love one another, greet each other respectfully, always remain calm and loving in our interactions with others no matter how upset we are with them.
7. I believe that disciplined adherence to daily meditation, the precepts of my guru and obedience to his/her teachings will bring me enlightenment.
8. I am inspired to go to India and be instructed by a spiritual holyman so that I may learn the ways of personal denial of earthly possessions as a path to enlightenment.
9. Rich people, people who smoke and who do drugs are not spiritual people.
10. I have been given a special gift to heal others and to make a difference in the world because of my access to my intuitive powers.

These beliefs and behaviors underscore the SPIRITUAL SELF. This aspect of some of us is fully in control of everything we do and can in the extreme cause us to deny our very humanity. The SPIRITUAL SELF has distinct ideas about what is spiritual and what is not and has a judgmental perspective about ego, materialism and possessions. When we blend this Primary Self with the repressed or disowned aspects that constitute more engagement with humanity, we are afforded the joy and pleasures that are part of our human experience. The adage that ‘we are spiritual beings having a human experience’ then becomes possible to fully engage.