Chapter 1 & 2: Voyage of Discovery Flashcards
Spiritual Perfection
Only comes in the afterlife, or in this life is impossible without a divine being. Spiritual potential becomes most perfect
Human Condidtion
Is there more to life than a physical being? Why do we suffer? What is our essential nature?
Cosmology
Understanding of the nature of the universe
Ultimate reality
Monotheism- believing in one God
Pantheism- there is a divine being in everything
Polytheism- many gods
Seven dimensions of religion
Doctrinal Ethical Experience Mythic Material Ritual Social
Many traditions have stories about their origin, they are called:
Myth
What category of religious experiences are characterized by uniting with the divine for inward contemplations?
Mysticism
The complete fulfillment of potential, religions usually teach that such fulfillment can meet Jesus in his after life or at least as spiritually mature as possible.
Spiritual perfection
The journey of Black Elk describes his _____.
Shamanic initiation (Shamanism’s initiation)
Black Elk is a _____.
From the _____ tribe.
Medicine man from the Lakota
What is a smudging ceremony? What herbs are used?
Purifying self using smoke; sweet grass, sage, cedar.
Experiential
receiving a vision or a guardian spirit during a vision quest
Mythic
Aboriginal Ancestors and the Dreaming, trickster figures
Inwardly connecting with the divine
Doctrinal
Totemism: belief in which each human has a spiritual connection or kinship with another physical being
Ethical
Moral lessons learned from the errors of the Inktomi (Lakota trickster figure)
