SPIRITUAL SELF

LET’S SHARE THE LIGHT!

• Share a significant spiritual experience or transformative

learning experience
• Explain how that experience affect and expressed in your life

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What is Spirituality?
 Spirituality means…..

• It is a system that stresses the idea that a person does not need
formal religion to live a life of faith.

Spirituality- connection to God

Religion - is a specific set of organised beliefs and practices,
usually shared by a community or group.
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 2 Aspects of Self- Differentiation

Religion wants obedience. Spirituality wants experimentation.

Religion speaks of sin and hell. Spirituality speaks of karma.
Religion wants to comfort you. Spirituality wants to liberate you.
Religion is external. Spirituality is internal.
Religion is the form. Spirituality is the essence.
Religion wants to convert you. Spirituality wants to inspire you.
Religion is an institution. Spirituality is a journey.
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 Religion Vs Spirituality

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 Spirituality means…..

2. It is a personal and individual journey

3. It is broad concept with room for many perspectives
4. It includes a sense of connection to something bigger
than ourselves and it typically involves a search for
meaning in life.
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 Spirituality means…..

5. It is the belief in invisible things

• Testimony – reports of sightings, miraculous events
supposedly caused by such beings, and so on
• Subjective sense of Presence – “just know” feeling that
a dead person is in the same place with you, or “extra”
spirit sense of guardian angel around
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 RELIGION

It is the set of beliefs , feelings, dogmas, and practices

that define the relations between human being and
sacred divinity

Iyanla Vanzant – it is the rules, regulations, ceremonies,

and rituals developed by man to create conformity and
uniformity
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 RELIGION

Spirituality – is the call of God in your soul

Supernatural Order- is the original and fundamental
source of all that exists
Supernatural – commonly conceived of as being better,
higher, or purer than the mundane, natural world around
us.
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 Orientation of Religion

1. Extrinsic Religion
Which uses religion for security and support

2. Intrinsic Religion
- Which views religion as an ultimate truth.

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 MAGIC

Bronislaw Malinowski
Magic is a ritual language as possessing a high “coefficient of
weirdness “ (archaic and out of ordinary) need actions including
speech

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 MAGIC

Henrik Bogdan,
magic has often dismissed as either primitive and irrational and
therefore alien to modern society

Describe as non-mainstream beliefs and practices – non –

Christians, heretics , non-Westerners, indigenous , ancient or
primitive, evil , deviant and exotic
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 TWO TYPES OF MAGIC

1. Sympathetic magic
• Based on the principle that “like produces like”- whatever happens to
an image of someone will also happen to them
• Also referred as imitative magic

2. Contagious Magic
• Based on the principle that things or persons once in contact can
afterward influence each other.

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