Deck 5: The Spirit: Health of the Human Spirit

Question 1

What one (1) word best describes the concept of human spirituality?

A) Faith
B) Essence
C) Odyssey
D) Meaningfulness
E) No single word can

Answer 1

E

Question 2

Religions are based on:

A) Wisdom
B) Dogma
C) Faith.
D) Spirituality
E) Dogma & Faith.

Answer 2

E

Question 3

What language does the textbook suggest is best at defining spirituality?

A) The language of symbols
B) The language of Latin
C) The language of Metaphor
D) The language of Maori
E) The language of Essenes

Answer 3

C

Question 4

Which of the following are considered to be two partners in the "dance of life"?

A) Spirituality and ego
B) Spirituality and wholeness
C) Spirituality and stress
D) Spirituality and empowerment

Question 5

The term spiritual hunger can best be defined as:

A) the yearning to know all of life's answers.
B) the spiritually rebellious attitude.
C) the calling to be a priest, nun, or monk.
D) the search for truth.
E) the spiritually arrogant

Question 6

Conceptually speaking, spiritual hunger is said to lead to:

A) atheism.
B) adopting a new religion.
C) frustration.
D) the yearning to know all of life's answers.

Question 7

Who said "God is a sphere whose center is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere"?

A) Carlos Castenada
B) Buckminster Fuller
C) Rene Descartes
D) Hermes Trismegistus
E) M. Gandhi

Question 8

What number is considered significant within the power of the circle?

A) 2
B) 4
C) 6
D) 8

Question 9

If you ever forget your wholeness, it is suggested that you look where first?

A) Your religion of birth
B) The four corners of the earth
C) A trusted shaman
D) In the iris of each eye

Question 10

Which of the following are thought to be the four components of human spirituality?

A) Religion, family, god, and community
B) Relationships, values, purpose in life, and the divine mystery
C) Meditation, fasting, sacrifice, and love
D) Nature, compassion, faith, and the divine mystery

Question 11

Which "pillar of human spirituality" represents the questions who am I and why am I here?

A) The first
B) The Fourth
C) The Faith
D) The Invisable
E) None of these

Question 12

Which shape best symbolizes the premise of human spirituality?

A) A circle
B) A square
C) A triangle
D) A hexagon
E) A tetrahedron

Question 13

When Rip Van Winkle pulled off the road (the spiritual path) for a drink, how many years did he sleep?

A) 1
B) 5
C) 10
D) 15
E) 20

Question 14

What is the fourth aspect to human spiritually called?

A) The odd mystery
B) The muscle of the soul
C) The divine mystery
D) Peak experiences
E) Faces of the soul

Question 15

What percentage of reality did Buckminster Fuller say could NOT be observed through the five senses?

A) 10 percent
B) 20 percent
C) 80 percent
D) 90 percent

Question 16

The correct sequence of the seasons of the soul is:

A) connecting, grounding, centering and emptying.
B) grounding, centering, emptying, and connecting.
C) centering, emptying, grounding, and connecting.
D) emptying, grounding, centering, and connecting.

Question 17

This aspect best serves as the bodyguard for the soul:

A) the id.
B) the ego.
C) the alter.
D) the conscience.

Question 18

Which of the following is considered to be the most painful or stressful of the four steps in the soul growth process?

A) The centering process
B) The emptying process
C) The grounding process
D) The connecting process

Question 19

In which process are insight and/or a revelation most likely to occur?

A) The emptying process
B) The connecting process
C) The grounding process
D) The centering process

Question 20

Which season of the soul is also known as the "winter of discontent"?

A) The connecting process
B) The grounding process
C) The centering process
D) The emptying process

Question 21

Which season of the soul is also known as the "the dark night of the soul"?

A) The centering process
B) The emptying process
C) The connecting process
D) The grounding process

Question 22

A "self-actualized" person is known as what?

A) An individual who deals with life's changes
B) An individual who is unable to deal with life's changes
C) An individual who is able to rise above stressors of everyday life
D) An individual who is unable to rise above the stressors of everyday life

Question 23

A hardy personality is explained as a personality that is:

A) an individual who is able to rise above stressors of everyday life.
B) an individual who is unable to rise above the stressors of everyday life.
C) an individual who deals with life's changes in the workforce.
D) an individual who is unable to deal with life's changes.

Question 24

From a perspective of human spirituality, faith, optimism, humor, and compassion are called:

A) coping skills.
B) inner resources.
C) muscles of the soul.
D) the life force of the human spirit.
E) gifts for a chosen few.

Question 25

Faith is one part optimism and one part:

A) hope.
B) imagination.
C) love.
D) intuition.
E) patience.

Question 26

What "trait" is called upon when we are reminded to serve others first?

A) Faith
B) Integrity
C) Persistence
D) Humbleness

Question 27

What trait is known as "honesty over time"?

A) Faith
B) Compassion
C) Persistence
D) Integrity
E) Resiliency

Question 28

Metaphorically speaking, what can be considered as another word for "stressor," according to Joseph Campbell?

A) The departure
B) The "call to adventure"
C) The obstacles
D) The initiation
E) The "threshold"

Question 29

What stage of the hero's journey includes "spiritual aids"?

A) The initiation stage
B) The call to adventure
C) The departure stage
D) The return home

Question 30

What is the fourth stage of the hero's journey?

A) The payoff
B) The final outcome
C) Recuperation
D) None of these

Question 31

This is the essential path of the hero's journey according to Joseph Campbell.

A) Departure, struggle, and conquer
B) Decoding the mythology of life
C) Following one's bliss
D) Departure, initiation, and return home

Question 32

Human spirituality can be summed up in one word: breath.

Question 33

Spirituality and stress are mutually exclusive.

Question 34

An equilateral triangle is the classic symbolic shape of human spirituality.

Question 35

The term mitakuye oyasin means "all my relations."

Question 36

Roadblocks and distractions on the spiritual path are the same thing.

Question 37

To be a good mystic means you do not appreciate the mystery of life.

Question 38

The centering process is where enlightenment takes place.

Question 39

By and large, spirituality and religion are basically the same thing.

Question 40

Please define the following terms or concepts in no more than two sentences and give an example to support each definition.
A. Centering process
B. Connecting process
C. Distractions on the spiritual path
D. Divine mystery
E. Emptying process

Question 41

Explain the relationship between stress and human spirituality. Include the aspects of the four pillars of human spirituality, the metaphor of the spiritual path, seasons and muscles of the soul, and the work of Joseph Campbell to illustrate your answer.