Practitioner Year 1 Study Questions Flashcards
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1:1:2 Principle-Centered Living
Explain the differences between Centering, Meditation and Contemplation. What are the objectives of each?
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a. Centering: consciously moving awareness to the core of self, where God is felt
b. Meditation: to produce a state of free open attention and expanded awareness of all.
c. Contemplation: deeper comprehension / breakthrough of understanding of given subject.
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1:1:2 Principle-Centered Living
What is the purpose of an Invocation and how does it differ from a Benediction?
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a. Invocation sets the tone of love, harmony, wisdom, and clarity for the event.
b. Benediction seals and blesses the event: offers thanks for what transpired and blesses participants before leaving.
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1:1:2 Principle-Centered Living
Is a treatment the same as in Invocation and a Benediction? If not, how do they differ?
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a. They are not the same. All prayer treatments are for the purpose of changing the thought. Treatment is for a specific reason and demonstration through conscious use of the law.
b. Invocations and benedictions are general, for gatherings.
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1:1:2 Principle-Centered Living
According to Ernest Holmes, a Professional Practitioner’s success is dependent upon what?
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According to Ernest Holmes, a Professional Practitioner’s success is dependent upon the Practitioner’s State of Consciousness.
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1:1:2 Principle-Centered Living
10 things a Practitioner should know according to the Ernest Holmes essay in the Student Resource Material:
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a. Never lay hands on a patient
b. Never talk about a patient
c. Never take personal responsibility for a patient
d. Money is not the objective of practitioner work.
e. Be frank, open, and honest.
f. Be willing to give 100%
g. Be honest with yourself and others.
h. Never try to convert anyone
i. Be spontaneous and joyful
j. Demonstration is the point of prayer.
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1:1:3 Exploring Individual Creation
What are two distinct methods of treatment? What is the difference between them?
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a. Argumentative reasoning: denying the experience. Confronts /addresses a problem.
b. Realization: declaring the Spiritual Truth, the perfect state of the client.
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1:1:3 Exploring Individual Creation
Define each: Belief, Value, Attitude. How does one give birth to another?
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a. Belief: mental acceptance or conviction of something.
b. Value: a personal standard or prinicple.
c. Attitude: state of mind and feeling.
d. Beliefs shape values. Together they create attitude
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1:1:3 Exploring Individual Creation
What purpose does “Critical Thinking” serve in the Science of Mind and Spirit?
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It allows us to constructively challenge beliefs, values, and attitudes.
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1:1:3 Exploring Individual Creation
Why is it important to use critical thinking on the definitions of the words we habitually use?
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Words reflect and create reality
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1:1:3 Exploring Individual Creation
What is the purpose of treatment?
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Demonstration: a new awareness and experience of life.
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1:1:4 Exploring mental Cause and the Law of Mind
What is Mental Cause?
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Mental Cause refers to the thoughts and beliefs which create our reality.
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1:1:4 Exploring mental Cause and the Law of Mind
How do beliefs, feelings, and the Law interact to create reality? Why?
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The Law reflects beliefs and feelings to create reality.
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1:1:4 Exploring mental Cause and the Law of Mind
What are some of the things that need to be healed in one’s life or in the world? What is healing?
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Nothing needs to be healed; only Truth needs to be revealed.
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1:1:4 Exploring mental Cause and the Law of Mind
Define Emotions and Feelings and their value in treatment.
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a. Emotions: outward expression of inner response
b. Feelings: inner response to external events and experiences as filtered through consciousness.
c. It is our thoughts and beliefs that create our reality, but only to the degree of feeling behind them. In treatment, the degree of feeling creates the demonstration.
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1:1:4 Exploring mental Cause and the Law of Mind
Using the Science of Mind and Spirit teaching symbol, describe the creative process.
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a. The circle is Infinity, the thing itself, God is all there is
b. Top section = Spirit / Universal Mind
c. Middle = Law / Creative Medium
d. Bottom = Form / Conditions / Demonstration
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1:1:5 Exploring Beginning Influences
How do childhood experiences contribute to your beliefs?
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Childhood experiences shape your conscious and unconscious beliefs.
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1:1:5 Exploring Beginning Influences
What is a Spiritual Truth?
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Spiritual Truth is the Truth of our Divine nature; a truth that goes deeper than individual experiences or beliefs. (Think of the God qualities)
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1:1:5 Exploring Beginning Influences
Is it necessary to go back through your childhood memories to change your present? Why or why not?
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It is not necessary to go back through childhood memories to change your present; you can address and change present beliefs without referencing their origin.
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1:1:5 Exploring Beginning Influences
Why are childhood memories such great clues to the present?
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Memories reflect beliefs and thoughts that shape experience and become reality.
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1:1:5 Exploring Beginning Influences
How would the use of treatment change the effects of negative childhood memories?
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Treatment can realign mental cause with Spiritual Truths
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1:1:6 Exploring Subjective Influences
What is a Subjective Consensus? What are other terms that mean the same?
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a. Subjective Consensus is Race Thought: a belief held by a group, race, or culture
b. The consciousness / accumulated experience of the human race.
c. The collective field of thought and belief that inhabits everyone’s subconscious.
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1:1:6 Exploring Subjective Influences
What are some ways to recognize Race Thought?
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Race Thoughts tend towards blanket statements: all / always / never / every.
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1:1:6 Exploring Subjective Influences
What part can choice play in our embodiment of Race Thought?
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a. We can choose to release beliefs that are not true and do not serve us.
b. We can choose to recognize Spiritual Truth instead.
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1:1:6 Exploring Subjective Influences
Is Race Thought predominantly positive or negative?
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Race Thought is not predominantly positive or negative, but contains both positive and negative because it is the sum total of all human experience, encompassing both positive and negative.
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1:1:7 Exploring Sexual Influences
Why is it important for Practitioners to understand their beliefs, values and attitudes?
To come to an understanding of truth for yourself and more easily see it for others. You treat at the level of your own beliefs.
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1:1:7 Exploring Sexual Influences
What are the differences between Envy and Jealousy?
a. Envy is desire for what another has.
| b. Jealousy is fear that another will take what we have.
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1:1:7 Exploring Sexual Influences
What is meant by Thomas Moore’s statement, “…there is nothing neutral about the soul?”
Soul has a natural urge for creativity. Either we respond to the desires of the soul and find fulfillment, or we neglect them and suffer.
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1:1:7 Exploring Sexual Influences
On your spiritual path, what is the value of human intimacy and community?
The soul yearns for attachment, for intimacy, and particularity (diversity).
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1:1:8 Exploring Addictions and Their Influences
In cases of Addictive / Compulsive behavior, what is the role of the Practitioner?
To know the spiritual truth of the client as separate from their behavior. To reveal the divine nature of the client.
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1:1:8 Exploring Addictions and Their Influences
At what point should a Practitioner give up on an alcoholic?
Never
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1:1:8 Exploring Addictions and Their Influences
How does Ernest Holmes define “the libido” in his treatise on alcoholism?
Libido is the field of emotion, emotional response, life urge, craving to be emotionally fulfilled.
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1:1:8 Exploring Addictions and Their Influences
What is meant by “Spiritual re-education of the mind?”
Training the mind to see true nature as unified with God. Understanding, recognizing and knowing the Spiritual Truth of oneself.
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1:1:8 Exploring Addictions and Their Influences
In the article by Jim Munson, “From Denial to Surrender,” he speaks of and describes “Community Heart.” Which part of his description is appropriate for a Practitioner, and which is not? Explain your answer.
a. In the strength of the Community Hearth the mystical presence of God, the Power greater than we are, is felt.
b. The practitioner does not need to share his own story.
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1:1:9 Exploring the Mind and its Influences
What is the difference between the individual human mind and the Universal Mind?
a. Individual human mind is the unique consciousness that makes us seem individual (the parts of a whole)
b. Universal Mind is the gestalt of all aspects of the One (the sum of the parts).
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1:1:9 Exploring the Mind and its Influences
Define “intuition.” To whom is intuition available?
Intuition is the inner knowing, beyond the 5 senses, the still small voice inside. It is available to anyone connected to Spirit.
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1:1:9 Exploring the Mind and its Influences
How do you differentiate between acting on impulse and acting on intuition?
a. Impulse has an absence of thought (reacting without consideration or forethought)
b. Intuition is responding to a calm knowledge from within, not a reaction.
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1:1:9 Exploring the Mind and its Influences
What does intuition draw on for knowledge?
Intuition draws on all that has gone before; the experience of the self and the collective consciousness as well as Universal Mind.
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1:1:9 Exploring the Mind and its Influences
According to the Science of Mind textbook, what is memory? Why is it important?
a. Memory is an unconscious operation of what was once a conscious thought. Through memory we come to reality.
b. Memory is the recall of a conscious thought. In the memory we create a reality, which can be changed.
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1:2:11 Overview of Term 2; the Creative Process & the Power of Choice
According to Ernest Holmes, what realization comes of knowing that all thing in the visible world are effects?
Back of all effects are ideas, which are the real cause of these effects. (SOM p.131.1)
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1:2:11 Overview of Term 2; the Creative Process & the Power of Choice
In Living the Science of Mind, what does Ernest Holmes say is “The starting point for creating a better future…?”
Starting at the center of our own being leads to the discovery of the Presence in all people, events, and nature. (SOM 194 last sentence)
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1:2:11 Overview of Term 2; the Creative Process & the Power of Choice
In Living the Science of Mind, when and where does Holmes say we are to make changes?
Since today is the only day in which we live, the change that we need to make within ourselves must start today. (LSOM 190.5)
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1:2:11 Overview of Term 2; the Creative Process & the Power of Choice
Our choices are always limited by socially accepted mores and morals. True or false? Why?
False: we are only limited by our own thinking and beliefs.
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1:2:11 Overview of Term 2; the Creative Process & the Power of Choice
What is one of the first steps to a more positive future?
Stop dwelling on thoughts of a negative past.
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1:2:12 Consciously Using the Creative Process
Explain Core Concept 2 without the use of jargon.
God is threefold / triune in nature: having spirit, soul, and body.
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1:2:12 Consciously Using the Creative Process
Discuss your understanding of the difference between blame and personal responsibility.
a. Blame = external, creates negative energy
| b. Personal responsibility = gets rid of negative energy, can be used as an
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1:2:12 Consciously Using the Creative Process
In the Science of Mind and Spirit do we deny a circumstance to know the truth?
No, we try to discover what’s wrong and why so we can handle through treatment. We look deeper than circumstances to Spiritual Truth.
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1:2:12 Consciously Using the Creative Process
If God is all there is, how does Science of Mind and Spirit explain cancer, child abuse, disease?
Everything is life expressing. Everything is an effect of the Law manifesting. If we say these things are not God, we are saying there is something other than God, and that’s not true.
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1:2:13 Consciously choosing Spiritual Principles
What spiritual principles would you use with a client to bring resolution to the fear of death?
God is everlasting Life and we are one with God. The truth of our being is Spirit, which is eternal.
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1:2:13 Consciously choosing Spiritual Principles
What spiritual principles would you use with a client to bring resolution to the conditions of being always in debt?
The abundance of the Universe is available to us. There is a Law of Prosperity and Abundance. (“Debt” is a personal consciousness of lack.)
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1:2:13 Consciously choosing Spiritual Principles
What spiritual principles would you use with a client to bring resolution to drug addiction?
No substance is greater than God. God is the source of perfect health, whole, perfect, and complete.
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1:2:13 Consciously choosing Spiritual Principles
What spiritual principles would you use with a client to bring resolution to the loss of a job?
Life is evolutionary. Divine activity puts you on the perfect path. God is the source of all things.
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1:2:13 Consciously choosing Spiritual Principles
What spiritual principles would you use with a client to bring resolution to the ending of a long-term relationship?
God is love. We are love, loved, and loveable. I am whole and complete within myself. (know a deeper truth of love, release, forgiveness)
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1:2:13 Consciously choosing Spiritual Principles
Relative to Love and Law how do you understand your Oneness with God and the universe?
a. I am a link in the chain of manifestation, impressing myself upon the Law. When I consciously set the pattern of my thinking in a new direction, the Law has no alternative but to produce that choice. I am a recipient of God’s love to the degree that I accept it.
b. God as Love points the way; God as Law makes the way possible.
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1:2:13 Consciously choosing Spiritual Principles
According to Ernest Holmes, how does one neutralize the thinking behind an undesirable condition?
Meet the appearance or thought with an absolute Spiritual Principle or Truth.
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1:2:13 Consciously choosing Spiritual Principles
Explain Core Concept Three without the use of jargon.
Spirit is the great Causative Power of the Universe. The process of creation is that all begins and ends in God. A thought or word automatically makes an impression on the “stuff” of creation, and that “stuff” takes form as the effect of thought. Our thoughts create our reality.
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1:2:13 Consciously choosing Spiritual Principles
In The Science of Mind, Ernest Holmes said, “Man must become more if he wishes to draw a greater good into his life.” What is meant by the statement and how does this work?
Man must align with Spirit, expand consciousness, become more aware of the creative process and how it works.
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1:2:14 Creative Mind & Success
What does it mean to know and accept the Law of Mind?
We are each one with God and the creative process and only the individual can own his own success.
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1:2:14 Creative Mind & Success
What do prayer and meditation accomplish? Why is it important?
They assist in changing our minds by keeping our spiritual channels open.
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1:2:14 Creative Mind & Success
Does every thought you have manifest? If not, why not? Which ones do?
“As a man thinketh in his heart, so it is.” The feeling behind the thought is important.
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1:2:14 Creative Mind & Success
What does release and forgiveness have to do with happiness? With manifesting credit in your life?
If you feel ill towards self or others, you cannot feel happy. You cannot feel true love if you are withholding it from others. Everything starts with self.
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1:2:15 Consciously Choosing Power Values
What is a value?
A value measures the relative worth of something (e.g. telling the truth is a value unless it can be damaging).
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1:2:15 Consciously Choosing Power Values
What are good and evil?
Good and evil are human constructs
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1:2:15 Consciously Choosing Power Values
How do your intentions make a difference in your life?
Our intentions set the directions of our lives
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1:2:15 Consciously Choosing Power Values
What value, if any, does perceived evil have in our lives?
Many people have learned great lessons from perceived evil. It reminds us who we want to be, and the choices we make to get there. “Evil” is not a thing in itself; it is a misuse of Law and power.
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1: 2:16 Consciously Using the Power of Prayer
| 1. Is there a difference between “prayer” and “treatment”? Explain.
**answer needed. See workbook**
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1: 2:16 Consciously Using the Power of Prayer
| 2. When we “speak our word” in affirmative prayer, who are we talking to?
**answer needed. See workbook**
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| 3. For what purposes do we use Prayer?
**answer needed. See workbook**
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1: 2:16 Consciously Using the Power of Prayer
| 4. What would be the purpose of “cultivating” a prayerful and meditative life?
**answer needed. See workbook**
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1: 2:16 Consciously Using the Power of Prayer
| 5. What is the benefit of verbal prayer?
**answer needed. See workbook**
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1:2:17 Consciously Using the Power of Faith
What is the difference between faith “in” God and Faith “of” God?
a. Faith IN God is faith placed outside of ourselves, without conviction.
b. Faith OF God is conviction that under Divine Law all things are possible.
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1:2:17 Consciously Using the Power of Faith
What is meant by the quote,”...Faith without works is dead?” (James 2:17)
Faith empowers us to act, to transform and create. Without works, Faith is inadequate, Pure faith is spiritual conviction, the embodiment of an idea, the acceptance of a concept.
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1:2:17 Consciously Using the Power of Faith
What is faith?
Faith is the belief in a Higher Truth
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1:2:17 Consciously Using the Power of Faith
Can faith be misused / misguided? Explain.
Faith can be misguided. E.g. fear is misguided faith.
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1:2:17 Consciously Using the Power of Faith
How can you change your use of faith in areas of your life?
By understanding, knowing, and accepting that God is all there is.
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1:2:18 Consciously Using the Healing Power of Love
How does the power of Love contribute to Living a Life of Choice? Give your answer in 50 words or less.
Love opens us up and allows the essence of God to flow through us. It is only when there is a block and the flow of love seems cut off that we don’t have that choice.
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1:2:18 Consciously Using the Healing Power of Love
How does forgiveness open the way for Living a Life of Choice?
Forgiveness frees you from being tied to the reactivity of anger or guilt and restores you to harmony.
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1:2:18 Consciously Using the Healing Power of Love
Describe what love is in 50 words or less.
Love is energy, a synonym for God. “Love is the Self-givingness of Spirit” (Ernest Holmes).
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1:2:18 Consciously Using the Healing Power of Love
If there is an area of your life where love seems limited, how can that be changed?
Look at what is feared or unforgiven (where’s the block?). There is no fear that love can’t heal. We are in harmony.
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1:2:18 Consciously Using the Healing Power of Love
What is the difference between Love as we speak of it in a Universal sense and love as an individual emotion?
a. Universal Love is a state of being.
| b. Individual love is that which is based on feeling/emotion.
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1:2:19 One Song At-one-ment
Write an explanation of a Practitioner.
a. A living example of what we know and of our faith
b. A revealer of truth in whose consciousness the healing occurs
c. A living example of the successful application of the Science of Mind and Spirit
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1:2:19 One Song At-one-ment
True or False: the soul of humankind is knowing and self-winning.
False: Humankind is a direct aspect of the Universal Soul, which has no will of its own, but responds only to what we put into it. (creative medium; middle section of teaching symbol)
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1:2:19 One Song At-one-ment
True or False: a human being re-enacts the Universal Creative Process.
True: Humans are co-creative with God.
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1:2:19 One Song At-one-ment
True or False: there can be permanent healing of the body with or without a corresponding poise in the mental and emotional life.
False: There can be no permanent healing without the mental equivalent. If the underlying belief (Mental Cause) does not change, the same manifestation will continue in one form or another.
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1:3:21 Living in Unity with Religious Diversity
Name the five major religions of the world
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Christianity
Judaism
Islam
Hinduism
Buddhism
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1:3:21 Living in Unity with Religious Diversity
How can one show respect for another’s religion?
a. With love, respect, and understanding. See the God in all.
b. Allow them space to worship their way; protect and defend that worship
c. Learn about them; do not compare or judge
d. Acknowledge their God as our God.
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1:3:21 Living in Unity with Religious Diversity
What is one of the most common threads of almost all religions?
The Golden Rule – do unto others as you would have done unto you.
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1:3:21 Living in Unity with Religious Diversity
How is basic world view reflected as a fundamental features of Religious Science?
What we believe to be true about our reality is manifest as our reality. As we believe, so it is done.
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1:3:21 Living in Unity with Religious Diversity
How is God / Ultimate Reality reflected as a fundamental features of Religious Science?
God is the Ultimate Reality. God is all cause and all effect. There is nothing separate from or other than God.
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1:3:21 Living in Unity with Religious Diversity
How is the origin of humans reflected as a fundamental features of Religious Science?
Humans are created by God in its own image and likeness.
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1:3:21 Living in Unity with Religious Diversity
How is the destiny of humans reflected as a fundamental features of Religious Science?
Humans are immortal, the god-essence of humankind never dies, but is limitless and infinite.
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1:3:21 Living in Unity with Religious Diversity
Describe where Religious Science came from.
Religious Science originated with the writings of Ernest Holmes, who synthesized the best of the major religions into a single philosophy, and who believed that there were inimitable laws governing the Universe to be used by everyone.
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1:3:22 Living by Embracing the Sacred Life
What can happen when we understand surrender and acceptance?
Surrender and acceptance come from letting go of our attachment to the outcome. We realize everything is as it should be.
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1:3:22 Living by Embracing the Sacred Life
What is the value of living authentically?
By living authentically, we can express God as us. Choices come from the true self.
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1:3:22 Living by Embracing the Sacred Life
As defined by Marsha Sinetar in “Elegant Choices, Healing Choices,” what are elegant choices, and what is the benefit of choosing them?
Elegant choices: tending towards truth, beauty, honor, courage (any of the God qualities). They are Life-supporting in motive and quality.
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1:3:22 Living by Embracing the Sacred Life
What are the two parts to being in the sacred garden?
a. Receptivity through Grace
| b. Conscious intention
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1:3:22 Living by Embracing the Sacred Life
What does Holmes mean when he says, “Now we can forget all about the Law and know there is nothing but the Word?”
Word is the power that creates everything. The Law works automatically.
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1:3:23 Living in the Light
What practical benefits do we gain from “Living in the Light?”
Connection with Spirit / Truth. “We can shine the light of Spirit/Principle on our darkest problem and find enlightenment and wisdom.
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1:3:23 Living in the Light
Why does Ernest Holmes advise us not to try to visualize this mystical light or make it appear?
a. No form of concentration leads to mystical sense.
b. The kingdom of God comes from within, not from observation.
c. Subjective phenomena brought from visualization may be confused with spiritual reality and may or may not be spiritual.
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1:3:23 Living in the Light
What is the difference between a mystic and a psychic?
a. Mystic: Senses the Divine Presence, does not sense human thought, but taps directly into Divine Thought. (Senses Spirit as internal, integrated Presence)
b. Psychic: Deals only with human thoughts, collective consciousness subjective pictures and tendencies. (Senses spirits as subjective, external presences)
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1:3:23 Living in the Light
What do you imagine Ernest Holmes meant when he wrote, “we need to break out of our shell of monotony and discover within the light that lights a person’s life?”
We strive to transcend, see above and beyond our own situation. We choose to be enlightened by spiritual connection, rather than trapped by perceptions.
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1:3:24 Living in Freedom through Wisdom
What is the key to our freedom?
The power of choice is the key to our freedom. As God is the life within us, we have all the attributes of God. On our path of self-discovery, we are free to choose from any of them. We are ll free to call forth any of the God qualities at any time. Or not.
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What are responsible choices?
Those that take into account the consequences of each choice.
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1:3:24 Living in Freedom through Wisdom
How is it that we are one hundred percent responsible for our choices?
Nothing and no one can influence us unless we allow it.
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1:3:24 Living in Freedom through Wisdom
How is freedom tied up with unity?
We are all tied to an indivisible unity. Freedom cannot destroy liberty of any part.
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1:3:24 Living in Freedom through Wisdom
Explain how there is diversity and multiplicity within the one.
Life expresses as many, and the many are all part of the one.
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1:3:25 Living through Change (part 1)
According to William Bridges, what are the three stages of transition?
1. Endings: change requires a letting go
2. Neutral Zone: space to view endings, make sense, and renew the self.
3. New Beginnings: the Law bringing forth a new opportunity. An idea, fantasy, impression, or insight in some way replaces what has ended, and turns us away from our loss and into the future.
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1:3:25 Living through Change (part 1)
What could be some of the benefits of the second stage of transition, the Neutral Zone?
The Neutral Zone allows time for breakthrough to a new understanding. Space between death and rebirth. Space for new beginnings. The source of renewal between disintegration and reintegration.
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1:3:25 Living through Change (part 1)
From a Science of Mind and Spirit perspective, explain, "Be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind."
Change your thinking, change your life. We create our reality with out thoughts and beliefs, through the Law. We define the Truth from within, and from that Truth we are transformed.
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1:3:25 Living through Change (part 1)
The Law is Infinite and Perfect, but in order to make a demonstration, why must we have a mental equivalent?
The mental equivalent is our belief, that creates what we see and experience. To change our reality, we must create a new belief. In changing the belief, we create a new reality through the Law. We don't see things the way they are; we see them as we are.
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1:3:25 Living through Change (part 1)
How do you explain that change is the natural sequence of events?
Change is the creative process in action. Nature demands change so that we may advance. Lack of change = stagnation = extinction.
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1:3:26 Living through Change (part 2)
What are the two types of information that would be part of a eulogy?
1. Statistics of life (dates of birth and death; surviving family; occupations; accomplishments, etc.)
2. Personal information (favorite activities, places, phrases, music, holidays, etc.)
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1:3:26 Living through Change (part 2)
Describe the two different ways that eulogies can be done.
1. By officiant.
| 2. By multiple people, covering different areas of life.
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No matter what type of eulogy the family chooses it is the obligation of the officiant to point out the meaning of the individual's life. What are some ways to gather the information necessary to do that?
Gather information from friends and family through interviews, use personal knowledge.
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1:3:26 Living through Change (part 2)
Without jargon, explain what Religious Science teaches about immortality.
The spirit is without beginning or end; it transcends the human existence and moves onward even after physical death occurs. (Core Concept 9)
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1:3:26 Living through Change (part 2)
What does Religious Science teach about rebirth and punishment after death?
Nothing. We rejoin God: whole perfect and complete, in joy not suffering. God neither punishes nor rewards. We are our own reward and our own punishment (SOM 383.2) (Suffering is an optional component of human existence.)
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1:3:27 Living a Life of Trust
How can we rid ourselves of fear and live a life of trust?
By cultivating faith. Faith will always triumph over fear.
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1:3:27 Living a Life of Trust
What are three ways in which trust can be known and shown?
1. Trust is relaxing into God's will. "Thy will be done."
2. Trust is opening to the knowledge that the blessing of Spirit is in everything; everything unfolds for our highest good.
3. Trust is allowing faith to take over from worry or fear.
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Why is it important to guard our thoughts?
Thoughts create our reality; negative thoughts create a negative reality.
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1:3:27 Living a Life of Trust
How dies Spirit come to Self-fulfillment in everything?
When we turn from every objective but to the Divine, we're turning from conditions to causes, to that realm of absolute being which is God.
There's a creative possibility that seeks expression through us. if we turn our attention to First Cause (God)
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1:3:28 Living in Heaven on Earth: Spiritual Being and Human Experience.
What was the overall point of Barbara De Angelis' article "Everyday Spirituality: Connecting Moment by Moment?"
To make us aware of the beauty and value of the present moment, and the importance of seeing the sacredness and spirituality in everything.
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1:3:28 Living in Heaven on Earth: Spiritual Being and Human Experience.
What is a spiritual prototype?
The Divine idea of anything. It is already there; it already exists in the Divine mind. We create nothing; we become aware of it.
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According to Ernest Holmes, do we create?
No, we *demonstrate* what already exists.
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What is spiritual conviction?
Absolute trust and faith in who and what we are: God in expression and action.
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How would you explain the term the "Presence of Perfection?"
It is the Divine idea, the Spiritual prototype that exists, ready for us to demonstrate.
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What two things form the core of the Practitioner's work?
1. Active listening
| 2. Spiritual Mind Treatment
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What enhances effectiveness of a group?
The effectiveness of an y group is enhanced by the willingness of the leader to be flexible and to tolerate ambiguity.
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According to the SOM text, what is Universal Subjective Mind?
Universal Subjective Mind is Mind in its subjective state - doer, not self-conscious knower. It cannot act until it is set in motion by mind in a conscious state. It is an abstract and formless state, potential energy and latent power, unformed but always ready to take form. (SOM 392.2-3_
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What three things are central to crystallizing the commitment of the individual members to a common purpose?
1. Participation
2. Acceptance
3. Confidentiality
