Living Religion

5. Full awareness of invisible Reality.
6. design Theory that scientific discoveries prove the existence of an all-encompassing Designer, since they reveal complexities that seem to be beyond chance or evolutionary process.
9. Belief that if there is anything beyond this life it is impossible for humans to know it.
10. Insistence on what is perceived as the historical form of one’s religion.
12. Doctrines proclaimed as absolutely true by religious institutions.
14. Taking a flexible, nondogmatic approach.
16. Belief that all life was created by God.

1. Magnetic attraction, a quality often ascribed to spiritual leaders.
2. Wisdom that is thought to come from direct experience of Ultimate Reality.
3. Physical embodiment of the divine.
4. Belief that one’s own tradition is the only true religion and that others are invalid.
7. religion A discipline that attempts to compare and understand patterns found in different religious traditions.
8. Intuitive knowledge of spiritual realities.
9. Believing in one’s received traditions as completely and exclusively true.
11. Belief that there is no deity.
13. Narrative using symbols to convey abstract ideas.
15. Present in the visible world.