Chapter 6: New Spirituality

Question 1

A pantheistic worldview that teaches everything and everyone are connected through divine consciousness

Answer 1

New Spirituality

Question 2

Ancient Hindu text that chronicles the conversations between Arjuna and Kirishna

Answer 2

Bhagavad Gita

Question 3

American movement from the 1800’s that believed in the inherent goodness of people and the immanence of the divine within nature

Answer 3

Transcendentalim

Question 4

The divine interconnected essence of reality

Answer 4

Conciseness

Question 5

The belief that everything is God

Answer 5

Pantheism

Question 6

Since everything in energy, human “energy” (thoughts) have the ability to manifest (attract) outcomes

Answer 6

Law of attraction

Question 7

The process by which the body passes away but the soul continues its quest for enlightenment in another form

Answer 7

Reincarnation

Question 8

The belief that good is returned to those who do good, and evil is returned to those who do evil

Answer 8

Karma

Question 9

The transcendental state of peace that comes through the release of suffering, self, and karmic bondage

Answer 9

Nirvana

Question 10

Theory that all living organisms form a collective, self-regulating living entity

Answer 10

Gaia Hypothesis

Question 11

A political philosophy that links the oppression of women and the exploitation of the environment to male domination

Answer 11

Ecofeminism

Question 12

Idea that all living things, not just human beings should have legal rights

Answer 12

Deep Ecology

Question 13

The art of focusing one’s mind to induce a higher state of consciousness

Answer 13

Meditation

Question 14

The practice of communicating with disembodied spirits through a medium

Answer 14

Channeling