Read the profiles below. Click on the profile that best describes you today.
Your selection will help you understand an important concept about the Level Praying Field later on.
You are very spiritually aware and see yourself on a spiritual path. To you, your spirit is the most real part of you. Having to adjust to life on earth is the hard part! You have a deep reverence for the connectedness of all things and yearn to live in a world that resonates with the harmony you know exists in spirit. If only everyone else would catch up with you!
Your greatest sense of meaning and belonging comes from your membership in a group of like-minded individuals. The bond created by you and your fellow group members strengthens the attainments and supports the aspirations of all. Yours is a case where the total truly is greater than the sum of its parts.
You have a strong moral compass and a deep commitment to family and community. Your reverence for holy principles and scriptures guides your life, where prayer to God and service in God’s name are central. You feel that God’s laws—expressed in nature, scripture and, at best, society and politics—are self-evident. Violations of God’s laws are baffling to you. In fact, they’re one of the greatest sources of your concern for the world today.
You know that the world depends on role models and rules to keep it safe and functional. You are a leader and enforcer, called to the discipline, spotlight and self-sacrifice required to sustain social regulations. Placing your convictions on the line, you hold firm and accountable even if doing so makes you unpopular and puts you at risk, benefiting people who may never know who you are.
You have strong ties to family and community, but within your world, you’re the one famous (sometimes infamous) for venturing out and breaking new ground. Your exploration can take many forms: geographical, physical, intellectual, social, spiritual, artistic, etc. The people you leave behind may shake their heads watching you go, but it’s with both concern and envy. Those who understand you, know you must be true to yourself.
Your life is fueled and guided by a clear vision for betterment that you hold for yourself and/or others. Your heart is so ignited that you knowingly put things on the line for this vision. Others may be upset by you, arrest you, maybe even attack you, but that’s okay. Some causes are important enough to demand great sacrifice.
You have had at least one profound glimpse of that transcendent peace beyond duality, and it has changed you. (Psst… drug-induced mystical experiences don’t count.) You know directly that all the “doing” and “busy-ness” that occupy the world are not really what it’s all about. Sometimes it’s hard to be in this world after having had such a powerful glimpse of the real spiritual world beyond it. You strive to apply your learning from that experience to everything you do.
You’re at the top of your game, and you’ve worked hard to get there. In your chosen field, your words, decisions and actions are broadly influential, possibly helping many people in powerful ways. Contemporaries look up to you, throng to you, ask for your advice. Your biggest challenge is finding enough time to rest, relax and carve out personal time. But you love your work. It is deeply rewarding.
The needs of others come first in your life. By choice or by demand, you are in a care taking or service role upon which others depend, which limits your personal options. On occasion you wish that society at large provided more recognition for the important work you do; you can feel strangely isolated and invisible. But you derive satisfaction knowing how important–even crucial–is the support you provide to others.
You’ve been surprised by life’s twists and turns. If anyone had told you years ago that your life would wind up as it has, you wouldn’t have believed it! Despite the punches you’ve taken, you’re proud that you’ve learned to roll with them and have even let them shape you into a better person. Your values and priorities are different, now—perhaps by necessity. But you’re still getting by; you still count your blessings and remind yourself every day what’s important.
You are painfully aware that society has a structure. Some elements fit, function, and hold power; some elements don’t fit, don’t function, and hold no power at all. Other people in society seem scared of you, because you surely don’t fit. Either actively or by neglect, you are oppressed by a world that holds all the cards and either wants to wipe you off the map or would rather pretend that you simply don’t exist.
You’ve seen a lot in all your years. Experience has softened you, made you wise. All the things that used to trouble you, and that trouble others—they’re just not so important any more. You focus on the big things – like kindness, gratitude, keeping your word – and don’t sweat the small stuff.
You indulged in hopes and dreams once, but now you know better. Life is no fairy tale, and happy endings only happen in Hollywood. The saying “Life sucks and then you die” is harsh but true.
To you, religion and God are fantasies of people too terrified to face the truth: there’s no afterlife; the here and now is all there is. You dislike all the suffering and violence inflicted through history in the name of religion. You’d love to see people give up their notions of God entirely, be kind and enjoy life while they can.
You live in a reality that is physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually unified. ALL is God and you know this, you live it, you Are it. You think not about causes or “doing”, but live in the Now, in Being, in peace.
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