HOW SPIRITUAL ARE YOU?

To find out, take this test, which is adapted from a personality inventory devised by Washington University Psychiatrist Robert Cloninger,Author of Feeling Good: The Science of Well –Being.

S/No QUESTIONS TRUE/FALSE
1 I often feel so connected to the people around me that it is like there is no separation between us.TRUE/FALSE

2 I often do things to help protect animals and plants from extinction. TRUE/FALSE

3 I am fascinated by the many things in life that cannot be scientifically explained.TRUE/FALSE

4 Often I have unexpected flashes of insight or understanding while relaxing TRUE/FALSE

5 I sometimes feel so connected to nature that everything seems to e part of one living organism.TRUE/FALSE

6 I seem to have a ‘sixth sense’ that sometimes allows me to know what is going to happen.TRUE/FALSE

7 Sometimes I have felt like I was part of something with no limits or boundaries in time and space.TRUE/FALSE

8 I am often called ‘absent-minded’ because I get so wrapped up in what I am doing that I lose track of everything else.TRUE/FALSE

9 I often feel a strong sense of unity with all the things around me.TRUE/FALSE

10 Even after thinking about something a long time, I have learned to trust my feelings more than my logical reasons. TRUE/FALSE

11 I often feel a strong spiritual or emotional connection with all the people around me.TRUE/FALSE

12 Often when I am concentrating on something, I lose awareness of the passage of time.TRUE/FALSE

13 I have made real personal sacrifices in order to make the world a better place, like trying to prevent war, poverty and injustice.TRUE/FALSE

14 I have had experiences that made my role in life so clear to me that I felt very happy and excited. TRUE/FALSE

15 I believe that I have experienced extrasensory perception.TRUE/FALSE

16 I have had moments of great joy in which I suddenly had a clear, deep feeling of oneness with all that exists.TRUE/FALSE

17 Often when I look at an ordinary thing, something wonderful happens. I get the feeling that I am seeing it fresh for the time first time.TRUE/FALSE

18 I love the blooming of flowers in the spring as much as seeing an old friend again. TRUE/FALSE

19 It often seems to other people like I am in another world because I am so completely unaware of things going on around me.TRUE/FALSE

20 I believe that miracles happen.TRUE/FALSE


SCORING
Give yourself one point for each TRUE answer and 0 for each FALSE answer.
14 and above=Highly Spiritual, a real mystic;
12-13=Spiritually aware, easily lost in the moment;
8-11=Spiritually average; could develop more spiritual life if desired;
6-7=A practical empiricist lacking self-transcendence;
1-5=Highly skeptical: Resistant to developing spiritual awareness.

Culled From Time Magazine of November, 29, 2004.