The answer is not consciousness
Name 3 characteristics that accurately describe New Spirituality’s view of reality?
a. Reality is eternal.
b. Reality is not personal.
c. Reality is divine.
Name the ancient Hindu text that chronicles the conversations between Arjuna and Krishna.
Bhagavad Gita
Name 4 major contributors to the New Spirituality worldview
a. Eastern religion
b. Pop psychology
c. Self-help teaching
d. Meditation
T/F
According to New Spirituality, the physical world we perceive is all that there is.
False: merely an illusion
____________ was a movement from the early 1800s that believed in the inherent goodness of people and the immanence of the divine within nature.
Transcendentalism
Create 2 statements that summarize and agree with the “law of attraction?”
a. Good thoughts produce good energy.
b. Negative thoughts produce negative energy.
T/F
According to New Spirituality, yoga is energy that we can connect to, harness, and use.
False - consciousness is energy...
__________ is the process by which the body passes away but the soul continues its quest for enlightenment in another form.
Reincarnation
T/F
According to New Spirituality, the better we understand consciousness, the clearer our morality becomes.
False - divinity
_________ is the belief that good is returned to those who do good, and evil is returned to those who do evil.
Karma
_________ is the transcendental state of peace that comes through the release of suffering, self, and karmic bondage.
Nirvana
What are 3 goals of reincarnation?
a. To be cleansed of our karmic debt
b. To reconnect with consciousness
c. To rid ourselves of individualism
T/F
New Spiritualists believe that quantum physics contradicts their worldview.
False - supports their worldview
New Spiritualists believe that we can be temporarily free from the illusion of self through practicing what?
a. Yoga
b. Meditation
What is the political philosophy that links the oppression of women and the exploitation of the environment?
Ecofeminism
____________ is the belief that everything is god.
Pantheism
What is the environmental philosophy that contends that all living creatures should have legal rights?
Deep Ecology
T/F
The god of New Spirituality is an impersonal force.
True
T/F
According to New Spirituality, the primary source of special revelation is found within the Bible.
False - revelation is eternal and without a beginning
The _____________ is the theory that all living organisms form a collective self-regulating living entity.
Gaia hypothesis
T/F
Those who practice New Spirituality believe that we are imprisoned in the limitations of our physical existence by subservience to a higher consciousness.
False: can transcend the ; connecting with
Name 4 practices or studies that are associated with New Spirituality?
a. Astrology
b. Firewalking
c. Aura readings
d. Crystal therapy
T/F
According to New Spirituality, the universe began with the Big Bang.
False - with consciousness
T/F
Karma encourages New Spiritualists to be indifferent toward those who are suffering.
True
According to the __________ , all religions basically tell the same story.
monomyth