(Am on the phone, so please excuse wacky typos)
If you were making a (general) list of questions to take a self-inventory of your religious and spiritual beliefs what would they be?
for example....my list goes something like this:
1) What is the basic nature of divinity? (Is it one (monotheistic), many separate and distinctly unique literal entities (hard polytheism), the universe in its entirety (pantheism), male and female dvine forces (duotheism),! etc?)
2) How is divinity expressed in the universe? (do the gods act directly? is there no action by gods? is there a "force" of some sort? etc...)
3) What is the role of mythos in our lives? (is it literal? figurative? inspirational? etc)
4) What is the underlying nature of existence? (is everything alive? does everything have a spirit? a soul? why or why not? which things? )
5) What happens when we die?. What is the religious/spiritual importance of death or after-death?
6) Is there a paricular set of spiritual myths or a particular culture's beliefs and practices that "speak" to you?
7) What is the role of nature in your spiritual and religious beliefs? Of science?
8) What is the role of history in your spiritual and religious beliefs?
9) Is ancestry important (how, why)?
10) What is the goal of a religious or spiritual practice(s) and how should they be achieved/attained?
What else would be useful?' would something like this be useful (of would it have been useful at some oping) in your path (if no to the former but yes to the latter, when)?
(In the interest of full disclosure, I'm working on a blog post)
If you were making a (general) list of questions to take a self-inventory of your religious and spiritual beliefs what would they be?
for example....my list goes something like this:
1) What is the basic nature of divinity? (Is it one (monotheistic), many separate and distinctly unique literal entities (hard polytheism), the universe in its entirety (pantheism), male and female dvine forces (duotheism),! etc?)
2) How is divinity expressed in the universe? (do the gods act directly? is there no action by gods? is there a "force" of some sort? etc...)
3) What is the role of mythos in our lives? (is it literal? figurative? inspirational? etc)
4) What is the underlying nature of existence? (is everything alive? does everything have a spirit? a soul? why or why not? which things? )
5) What happens when we die?. What is the religious/spiritual importance of death or after-death?
6) Is there a paricular set of spiritual myths or a particular culture's beliefs and practices that "speak" to you?
7) What is the role of nature in your spiritual and religious beliefs? Of science?
8) What is the role of history in your spiritual and religious beliefs?
9) Is ancestry important (how, why)?
10) What is the goal of a religious or spiritual practice(s) and how should they be achieved/attained?
What else would be useful?' would something like this be useful (of would it have been useful at some oping) in your path (if no to the former but yes to the latter, when)?
(In the interest of full disclosure, I'm working on a blog post)
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