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This document discusses topics related to spirituality and religion, including beliefs, rituals, ceremonies, magic, witchcraft, souls, and finding meaning in life. It provides statistics on the world's largest religions and explores concepts like religiousness, spirituality, and spiritual identity.

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Spiritual Self

This document discusses topics related to spirituality and religion, including beliefs, rituals, ceremonies, magic, witchcraft, souls, and finding meaning in life. It provides statistics on the world's largest religions and explores concepts like religiousness, spirituality, and spiritual identity.

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Part 4:

THE SPIRITUAL SELF


“We are not human beings having a spiritual experience.
We are spiritual beings having a human experience.”

― Pierre Teilhard de Chardin


Your Spiritual Self recognizes and intuits all needs and questions.
She helps direct each Self to the best solutions. She is the quiet,
invisible force in the background that holds the whole party
together.

Your Spiritual Self has been there, in the background of your


experience your entire life. Science and many individuals have
denied her existence since patriarchal societies began to
dominate the planet many centuries ago. She never dominates
your life, but insists on working with the other aspects for an
integrated self. Only your Spiritual Self can facilitate this. She is
clearly connected to your ultimate source of information and
light.
THIS LESSON FOCUSES ON BELIEFS AND INCLUDES THE

THE SPIRITUAL FUNCTIONS OF RITUALS AND CEREMONIES. THE TOPICS WILL


HELP STUDENTS GAIN A BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF THE

SELF ALLURE OF MAGIC AND WITCHCRAFT AND HOW THEY ARE


PORTRAYED IN THE FILIPINO SETTING. IT ENCOURAGES ONE
TO TAKE A DEEPER LOOK INTO THIS ASPECT OF THE SELF THAT
INFLUENCES HOW PEOPLE GIVE MEANING TO THEIR LIVES.
The practice of religion: Belief in supernatural being and
powers.
Belief in God; supernatural being is one of the basic
characteristics of religion. The supernatural includes all that
exists that cannot be explained by laws of nature.
Religious issues are important to many adolescence.
Religiousness were measured by frequency of prayer,
frequency of discussing religious teachings, frequency of
deciding moral actions for religious reasons and the overall
importance of religion in everyday life.
The Concept of “Dungan” (Spirit or Soul)
The term animism is one of the oldest beliefs which is
taken from the latin word anima meaning breath or soul.
Animism is the belief that everything in nature; trees,
plants, rocks, streams etc. have their own spirit or
divinity.
The soul according to indigenous filipino is known as
kaluluwa or kararuwa. It is taken from the root word
“duwa” which means two.
For the Ibanags, the soul is the principle of life in man. Body is the matter
and soul is the form.As long as body and soul are one unit, man is alive.
Death is the separation of the soul from the body.

For the Ilonggos, they call the soul Dungan, which cannot be seen by the
human eye. Sometimes the Dungan may show itselfin the form of a
butterfly, insects,or lizard.

For the Bisayans, the Dungan may leave its body voluntarily while the
person is asleep. The Dungan is weak at birth, that is why babies are
susceptible to “usog”
Rituals and Ceremonies.
A ritual is a religious or solemn ceremony consisting of a series of
actions performed according to a prescribed order.
Rites refer to the “spoken word” used in a ritual to convey meaning
and value.
Ceremony refers to movements or gestures expressing feelings or
beliefs beyond the limitations of speech.
Magic and Witchcraft.

Magic is the power of apparently influencing the course of events


by using mysterious or supernatural forces. A magician performs
the magic like casting spells and summoning spirits.
Sorcerer is translated from the Greek word “pharmakos” and
carries with it the idea of medicine, magic potions, and poison.
Wizard is one who is thought to be acquainted with the secrets of
the nonmaterial or unseen world.
Necromancer is one who initiates contact with departed spirits.
Barang is the filipino term for a sorcerer. Mambabarang is a
person who practices this type of sorcery. Binarang is the target
of the sorcery or withcraft.
Kulam is the tagalog word for ‘voodoo or witchcraft’, a
mangkukulam is a person who uses black magic or spells on a
victim.
Albularyo /mananambal is a filipino practitioner of traditional
medicine who is also capable of performing sorcery.
Filipinos are not only superstitious but also believe in folklore.
Folklores begin when a person experienced an encounter with any
of these, and relate the experience to his family,relatives,
neighbors until the story is spread widely to the rest of the
community. Each community relate the same story differently,
making it more interesting thus perpetuating it into a folklore.
Religion, Spirituality and Identity

Religion – is an organized set of beliefs, practices, rituals and


symbols that increases an individuals connection to a sacred
other (God, higher power, ultimate truth) – Santrock,2014

Religion – are personal feelings, acts and experiences of


individual men in their solitude, so far as they apprehend
themselves to stand in relation to whatever they may consider
divine. – William James (1902-1958)
Top 10 religions in the world by population
1. Christianity – 2.1 billion followers
2. Islam – 1.5 billion followers
3. Hinduism – 900 million followers
4. Buddhism – 376 million followers
5. Sikhism – 23 million followers
6. Judaism – 14 million followers
7. Bahaism – 7 million followers
8. Confucianism – 6.3 million followers
9. Jainism – 4.2 million followers
10. Shintoism – 4 million followers.
Religiousness is the degree by which one is affiliated with an
organized religion in terms of the person’s participation in the
prescribed rituals and practices, connection with its beliefs and
involvement with its community of believers – Santrock, 2014.

Spirituality on the other hand involves experiencing something


beyond oneself in a transcendent manner and living in a way that
benefits others and society.

Spiritual identity is the persistent sense of self that addresses


ultimate questions about the nature, purpose and meaning of life.
Finding and Creating Meaning in Life
Logotherapy is coined by Victor Frankl (1905-1997) ‘Logos’ is a
Greek word which stands for meaning. Logotherapy aims to help
the person search for the meaning of his existence, the meaning of
his life.
Three basic principles on discovering meaning in life.
1. Meaning in life
2. Will to meaning
3. Freedom to will.

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