Spirituality as Life Integration

Question 1

The experience of conscious involvement in the project of life- integration through self transcendence toward the ultimate
value one perceives.

Answer 1

Spirituality

Question 2

“Spirituality refers to the logic,
or character, or consistent quality of a person’s or a group’s pattern of living insofar as it is measured before some kind of ultimate reality.”

Answer 2

Roger Haight

Question 3

All spirituality is directing the human life toward some manner of
________ / _______.

Answer 3

ultimate value / reality

Question 4

It is a pattern of living that one commits himself or herself to, which indicates a kind of fidelity to a particular manner of being in the world — ________________.

Answer 4

a consistent quality of being

Question 5

who determines what that ultimate value or reality might be?

Answer 5

task of religion

Question 6

What is Religion according to Robert Haight?

Answer 6

“a set of beliefs, values, and practices that together identify what ultimate reality is and help
establish the relationship that obtains between this ultimate reality and the practitioners.”

Question 7

The Ultimate Reality

Answer 7

God

Question 8

Can a person practice spirituality without religion?

Answer 8

Yes. There are people who claim that they have spirituality
even outside of religious institutions.

However, in theory this is incredibly difficult to do.

Question 9

• They find ultimate value on their own terms, by their own capacity
• Derivative in nature
• Its practitioners actually borrow
  patterns of living from already existing religion and utilize it in their distinctly secular practice

Answer 9

Secular Spirituality

Question 10

“ Spirituality is the experience of conscious involvement in the project of life-integration through self-transcendence toward the ultimate value one perceives.”

Answer 10

Sandra Schneiders

Question 11

Spirituality can provide ___________ & ____________ for a generation of youth seeking answers to their existential questions.

Answer 11

foundation (life-integration) & direction (self- transcendence)

Question 12

This spirituality’s foundation of
life-integration and direction of self-transcendence finds its ground in the person of Jesus Christ.

Answer 12

Christian Spirituality

Question 13

Christian Spirituality in simple explanation:

Answer 13

“the lived experience of Christian faith “

Question 14

4 Deconstruction of Schneider’s Understanding About Spirituality

Answer 14

1. Spirituality denotes experience
2. Spirituality is an experience of conscious involvement
3. Spirituality is a project of life- integration which means that it is holistic
4. Spirituality is the project of life-integration is pursued by consistent self-transcendence toward ultimate value

Question 15

” Spirituality is not an abstract idea, a theory, an ideology, or a movement of some kind. It is personal lived reality which has both active and passive dimensions.”

Answer 15

Spirituality denotes experience

Question 16

Spirituality is a personal lived reality which has both __________ and __________ dimensions

Answer 16

Active and Passive Dimensions

Question 17

Which means that it is neither an
accidental experience

Answer 17

Spirituality is an experience of conscious involvement

Question 18

What is the misunderstanding of youth towards spirituality?

Answer 18

Spirituality is reliant on random
spontaneous occurrences of closeness to transcendence

Question 19

What is the project of spirituality?

Answer 19

“It is an ongoing and coherent approach to life as a consciously pursued and ongoing enterprise.”

Question 20

” Spirituality is Involving body and spirit, emotions and thought, activity and passivity, social and individual aspects of life. It is an effort to bring all of life together in an integrated synthesis of ongoing growth and development. Spirituality, then, involves one’s whole life in relation to reality as a whole.”

Answer 20

Spirituality is a project of life- integration which means that it is holistic

Question 21

“This implies that spirituality is essentially positive in its direction. A life of narcissistic egoism, self-destructive addiction, or social violence even though it may involve the totality of the person’s being, is not a spirituality.

The focus of self-transcendence is value that the person perceives as ultimate not only in relation to oneself but in some objective sense. One might perceive life itself, personal or social well-being, the good of the earth, justice for all people, or union with God as ultimate value. “

Answer 21

Spirituality is the project of life-integration is pursued by consistent self-transcendence toward ultimate value

Question 22

misguided practice of spirituality

Answer 22

Cultic Activity

Question 23

Example of a cultic activity

Answer 23

The tragic mass suicides of the Heaven’s Gate cult