M8_Material and Spiritual Self

• Spiritual Self - According to William James this is the inner most workings of the person's mind, behavior, beliefs, and morals that involves every aspect of the human as a person
• Person's Will - Refers to one's wishes or the things we want to see and achieve
• Intelligence and Abilities

  • Things that a person has a confidence of doing
  • Things that a person believes to have a certain level of master
  • Things a person has a knowledge of
• Morals

  • A definition of what is right or wrong
  • Things that are acceptable to a person and society
  • Determining the effects of one's action to his self and other people
• Values - A person's ability to distinguish what is important or not and the ability to prioritize things that should be done immediately and those that can be delayed
• Religion - Refers to beliefs and behaviors related to supernatural beings and powers
• Worldview - It is broader than religion which refers to the collective body of ideas that members of a culture generally share.
• Spirituality - A concern with the sacred in an individual manner.
• Religion - an organized system of ideas about spiritual reality
• Spirituality

  • Concerned with the sacred as distinguished from material matters.
  • Often individual rather than collective and does not require a distinctive format
• Myth

  • A sacred narrative that explains the fundamentals of human existence
  • Where we and everything in our world came from, why we are here and where we are going.
  • Are stories intended to provide explanations for things people do not understand
• Rituals - culturally prescribed symbolic act or procedure designed to guide members of a community in an orderly way through personal and collective transitions.
• Calendric - Type of ritual that which is performed occasionally
• Crisis - type of rituals which is performed in time of crisis
• Supernatural

  • is around you all the time, especially in non- industrialized societies.
  • In a lot of cultures, health, wealth and daily things are related to this.
• Cognitive Function - Function of Religion that enables humans to explain the unexplainable phenomena
• Emotional Function - Function of Religion helping individuals to cope up with anxieties that often accompany illness, accidents, death, and other misfortunes
• Social Function - Function of Religion that is social control conflict resolution and building group solidarity
• duwa - dungan in Ilonggos came from the root word
• Two - duwa means in tagalog
• Dungan - Bisaya believes that it leaves the body when the person is asleep and when the soul is reunited with the body, the person will be awake
• Willpower - The stronger the "_" of a person, the stronger his dungan is
• Harang Ritual - An offering ritual in Visayan fishing villages where

  a local shaman invokes sea-spirits.
• Tuob - stages of the ritual means Purification of Place
• Pagtawag - stages of the ritual means Invocation of Spirit
• Pangamuyo - stages of the ritual means Explanation of motivation of request
• Bayad - stages of the ritual means Offering coomunion
• Kan-on - stages of the ritual means Feast
• William James

  • Father of American Psychology.
  • According to him, material self is also known as the economical self
• Spiritual Self - Person's Will, Morals, Values, Intelligence and Abilities