The Meaning of Religion and Spirituality-Part 3

Religion and Responsibility

In part 3 of the Religion and Spirituality series we discuss the Seven Spiritual Hungers by Howard Clinebell. They are:

1. Experience the healing and empowerment of love—from others, self, and an ultimate source.
2. Experience renewing times of transcendence—expansive moments beyond the immediate sensory spheres.
3. Have vital beliefs that lend meaning and hope in the midst of losses, tragedies, and failures.
4. Have values, priorities, and life commitments centered in issues of justice, integrity, and love to provide guidance in personally and socially responsible living.
5. Discover and develop inner wisdom, creativity, and love of self.
6. Develop a deepening awareness of oneness with other people, the natural world, and all living things.
7. Have spiritual resources to help heal grief, guilt, resentment, unforgiveness, self-rejection, and shame and deepen experiences of trust, self-esteem, hope, joy and love of life.

Spiritual Experience and Responsibility
As we progress spiritually we have a responsibility to express what we have learned in our behavior.

The Effects of Our Thoughts
Masaru Emoto was a Japanese author, researcher and entrepreneur, who researched the effects that human consciousness has on the molecular structure of water.