The Spiritual Self - Group 7 UTS

Spiritual Self

It is the real, true, or authentic you, without any stereotypes, influences, or assumptions. It is not related to our race, religion, gender, and not even our physical appearance.

Spiritual Person

They have genuine interest in connecting with the Divine, and they seek personal spiritual experiences.

Religious Person

They only follow dogmatic rules, and only has a concern in their religion.

David James Lee

He is a Taoist monk and the cofounder of Wu Wei Wisdom. He described our spiritual self as:

• The intangible and invisible self, the gut feeling and inspiration inside us

• The “higher” self

• Through our spiritual self that we can connect with the Divine

Inspirare

Latin, “to breathe into”.

Spiritus

Latin, "breath”.

Bob Mangroo

He is a spiritual teacher that created a blog called the “Your Spiritual Self”, wherein he stated that the spiritual self as:

• The eternal self, intangible self, non-physical, invisible part of our existence

• He also calls it the Soul

• The soul has been in existence even before our physical existence, and will continue to exist even after we are gone.

Either Heaven or Hxll

In Christianity, when we die, our soul goes to:

Either Jannah or Jahannam

In Islam, when we die, our soul goes to:

Samsara (rebirth/reincarnation)

In Hinduism, when we die, our soul goes to:

Spirituality

It is associated with our own existence, a search for purpose and meaning, an universal human experience, and is sacred and transcendent; or something that is beyond any other ordinary experience. It is connected to some larger questions about life and identity. IT IS NOT INNATE IN US, and is developed and acquired THROUGH PERSONAL, EXPERIMENTAL, AND SOCIAL EXPERIENCES.

Christina Puchalski (2014)

SPIRITUALITY: The aspect of humanity that refers to the way individuals seek and express meaning and purpose of the way they experience their connectedness to the moment, the self, the others, to nature, and to the significant or sacred.

Beauregard and O’Leary (2007)

SPIRITUALITY: Any experience that is thought to bring the experiences into contact with the Divine; an experience that is beyond the ordinary, one that puts some meaning into one’s life.

Murray and Zentner (2015)

SPIRITUALITY: The dimension that is in harmony with the universe and strives for answers about the infinite that comes into focus when a person faces emotional stress.

Religiosity

Sherkat (2015): It is a characteristic that shows people’s beliefs and behaviors connected to the supernatural or Higher Being (Sherkat, 2015); adherence of belief system and practices associated with a tradition in there is agreement about what is believed and practiced (Macayan et. al., 2018)