IDs | RELG 2660 - "Spiritual But Not Religious": Spirituality in America, Quizzes of World Religions

Download IDs | RELG 2660 - "Spiritual But Not Religious": Spirituality in America and more Quizzes World Religions in PDF only on Docsity! TERM 1 Max Ehrmann DEFINITION 1 (1872-1945) "Desiderata" - 1927 - provides survival guide for life was a midwestern youth from a small church-affiliated college who had headed to Harvard as a graduate student to study philosophy. "A Prayer" wisdom about spiritual peace, calm, and fortitude a poet of consolation and self-composure held to a spiritual perspective on the world through a mysticism of natural beauty, deep feeling, lonely repose, and resurrected enchantment spiritual seeking led him not only into solitude and silence, but also into an abiding sense of connectedness to place diehard progressive whose passion for metaphysics was always balanced by critical engagement in political life represented cosmopolitan spirituality and modern liberalism TERM 2 humanistic psychology DEFINITION 2 1950's and 1960's Maslow - principle of positive motivation towards a healthy realization of human potential spiritual values have naturalistic meaning effort to unite science and the metaphysics of being branch of psychology even more to look at full person Psychology provided the 'scientific' legitimation for translating the religious world into a concern for individual health and maturity - Selling Spirituality to change consciousness and lifestyle and provide happiness amidst economic boom individualism TERM 3 peak experience DEFINITION 3 see the universal in and through the particular and eternal in and through the temporal and the momentary thought was critical to becoming self-actualized time of incredible boom and expansion - a lot more people were able to worry less about meeting basic needs and able to do more spiritual seeking intense moments when we suddenly feel a sense of ecstasy, empathy and awe - following our bliss TERM 4 Abraham Maslow DEFINITION 4 (1908-70) founding father of humanistic psychology peak experiences - intense moments when we suddenly feel a sense of ecstasy, empathy and awe - following our bliss propagated individualized understanding of religion hierarchy of needs - spirituality could be seperated from the basic needs of finding food, shelter and water (physiological), safety, love/belonging, esteem, self-actualization spirituality has a naturalistic meaning - do not need supernatural concepts Esalen Institute TERM 5 Esalen Institute DEFINITION 5 Big Sur, California 1961 ground zero for a revolution in consciousness - following our bliss about workshops seeking your true self experiential birthplace of human potential movement - based upon belief that our human consciousness and capabilities are evolving in the broader culture and in ourselves Michael Murphy and Richard (Dick) Price - cofounders laboratory for exploring called themselves seminarians TERM 6 Dick Price DEFINITION 6 son David Price died when giant crystal came down upon him whilst meditating, killing him instantly attended Stanford University and earned an undergraduate degree in psychology in 1952 then headed back to Harvard for graduate studies had no interest in business world like his father not taken by academia signed up for classes at the Academy of Asian Studies drawn to Eastern mysticism and emerging Beat scene mental hospitals - with time got vision that there must be another road to mental health for those struggling with emotional and spiritual turmoil Price and Murphy meet and establish Esalen Institute TERM 7 Michael Murphy DEFINITION 7 (1930-) graduated from Stanford in 1952 with psychology degree came from successful, hardworking American family Murphy went to India and studied Aurobindo's ashram - whose ideas planted a seed in soul that will later blossom into Esalen Institute and the human potential movement. "Man lives mostly in his surface mind, life, and body, but there is an inner being within him, with greater possibilities to which he has to awake -- to greater beauty, harmony, power, and knowledge. reclaims family property at Big Sur and play out version of Grandpa Murphy's dream spirituality remains a work in progress TERM 8 hierarchy of needs DEFINITION 8 Abraham Maslow physiological, safety, love/belonging, esteem, self- actualization TERM 9 Aldous Huxley DEFINITION 9 master anthologizer in The Perennial Philosophy (1944 - on mysticism), was closely associate with a Vedantist community in souther California novelist and influential author of The Doors of Perception (1953) psychedelic drugs can give us a glimpse of heaven or a trip straight to hell mysticism visiting lecturer at MIT LSD experience during death TERM 10 LSD DEFINITION 10 (lysergic acid diethylamide) (1943-1966): from lab to chapel to street Dr. Albert Hofmann, Sando Laboratories in Basel, Switzerland - medical research and produced and saw effects of LSD Used for research and use in clinical psychiatry used in respectable labs and research places CIA and MK-ULTRA- interested because thought could be used for interviews etc. - decided wasn't very useful in end outlawed 1966 Aldous Huxley - LSD experience during death TERM 21 D.T. Suzuki DEFINITION 21 (1870-1966) Translator, worked in US 1897-1908 Returned to US in 1950's Focus on satori Buddhist scholar emergent ambassador of Zen Buddhism to the West TERM 22 transcendental meditation DEFINITION 22 Maharishi Mahesh Yogi (1917-2008) cultivation of blissful altered states of consciousness cosmic consciousness form of mantra meditation a system of theoretical principle to underlie technique TERM 23 George Harrison DEFINITION 23 "spiritual Beatle" embraced Indian culture and Hinduism helped expand Western awareness of sitar music and of the Hare Krishna movement TERM 24 Jesus People DEFINITION 24 1967 : "The Living Room" and "House of Acts" appeal to hippies from rescue mission to mass evangelism consequences TERM 25 Thich Naht Hahn DEFINITION 25 (1926-) Not birth name - assumed it basically means monk mindfulness - what he really taught in the west "Engaged Buddhism" - effort to bring meditative mindfulness to ones life 1966 met with King and said he needs to speak about the Vietnam war and said that it was a global issue King denounced war in 1967 and recognized Hahn for what he did The Miracle of Mindfulness (1975) Living Buddha, Living Christ (1995) Vietnamese Zen TERM 26 Thomas Merton DEFINITION 26 (1915-1968) Monk, Activist, Writer The Seven Story Mountain (1948) - spiritual autobiography that is a national bestseller Story of bohemian young adulthood and the decision towards Roman Catholicism and becoming a monk Parents died when fairly young Went to Columbia Never met his son intellectual details what he felt emptiness of path led to religion wrote books on Christian contemplative life electrocuted made solitary life an object of meditation and desire his spiritual cachet always depended on the way his decision to lead a hermit's life resonated with the desires of American romantics, bohemians, and seekers for the psychic spaces, artistic possibilities, and inward depths of solitude call to contemplation brought national consciousness Buddhist ideas about nonattachment and the illusory nature of the material world