Your

Spirituality
Score

Daniel Keeran, MSW
COLLEGE OF MENTAL HEALTH COUNSELING
1












Date of publication
October 22, 2014
2

Your Spirituality Score
by Daniel Keeran, MSW
Victoria, Canada
www.ctihalifax.com

Spirituality provides values and beliefs for making healthy
choices, a foundation of hope and meaning for direction and
optimism, and support and encouragement to face major life
difficulties.
Strengthening your spiritual growth and awareness can set
you on a path to find inner peace, physical and mental
healing, and personal fulfillment.
Your Spirituality Score is based on how many questions of the
total for which you can provide a confident answer.
Responses can be written, verbal, or mental, but written may
be beneficial for most people.
1. What is your age, gender, and ethnic/race origin?
2. What were the spiritual/religious views of your father? Your
mother?
3. How has your spirituality changed from your childhood until
now?
4. Is there anything more than the material universe? Explain.
5. Do you believe intelligence and creativity exist in the
universe? Explain.
6. Do you believe in the existence of a transcendent
intelligence or superior reasoning power? Explain why or why
not.
7. Do you see evidence of creative intelligence in the design
and complexity of the universe or do you lean toward a
material natural explanation?
3

8. Do you believe all human beings have equal worth and
value? Explain why or why not? What are the implications?
9. Do you believe the human species has greater or superior
value or greater importance or more responsibility compared
to other life forms? Why or why not? What are the
implications?
10. What is the meaning or purpose of human existence?
11. How do you know what is right and wrong?
12. What is the most important thing you can do with your life?
13. Is hope important? Explain.
14. What happens after you die? Does your individual identity
or consciousness continue to exist? What are the
implications?
15. Is the idea of the meaning of human life essential to the
idea of hope? Explain.
16. Is the idea of right and wrong essential to the idea of
meaning? Explain.
17. What have been some of the most important influences on
you for what you value and believe?
18. What spiritual practices do you have? Prayer, centering
prayer, meditation, scripture reading, worship, singing, other.
19. Does moral accountability only happen within the legal
systems of nations? Is there ultimate accountability in a venue
after death? What are the implications?
20. If people are reborn into new lives, what if anything
determines the nature or quality of their existence? What are
the implications?
21. Comment on this statement: Many people think only
tangible things are real, yet the same people admit intangible
4

things are most important: love, compassion, empathy,
justice, morality, consciousness, wisdom, human value,
meaning of life, and eternity... for without these, life is void
and vain, and aspirations mere illusions.
22. Have you ever experienced what you believe to be a sign
or communication from God or other spiritual being?
23. What is your view of this statement? Humans are spiritual
beings existing in physical bodies.
24. Do you believe you have convincing evidence of spiritual
reality?
25. What is your idea of an ideal society? World? Life?
26. When does an individual human life begin?
27. What is the essence of the self?
28. Do you believe angels and demons exist?
29. Do you believe everyone after death goes to heaven or to
hell?
30. Do you believe the superior reasoning power has ever
communicated with humanity?
31. How open are you to exploring different aspects of
spirituality?
32. If you saw someone raise the dead, what would you think
or do?
33. If you saw a person die and then you saw him alive again
a few days later, what would you think or do?
34. Comment on the statement: Humans are a parasite
infestation of the earth.
35. How can you prove to anyone else that you are aware of
yourself, your own consciousness?
5

36. Describe a healthy relationship.
37. How important is your spirituality to your life? And do you
want your spirituality to increase or decrease?
38. If we are made in the image of God, what qualities do we
share with God?
39. Read Isaiah, chapter 53, written about 700 BC. Who is
being described? See other amazing examples of future-
telling here.
40. Do you now belong to or have you thought of joining a
spiritual community to strengthen values and beliefs for
making healthy choices, to acquire a foundation of hope and
meaning for direction and optimism, and to receive support
and encouragement to face major life difficulties?
41. How has this questionnaire affected your awareness of
your spirituality?
Final instructions: Count the number of questions for which
you struggled to give a sincere answer, and then subtract the
number from the number 41. The answer is your Spirituality
Score.
How to use this assessment: Whatever your score, you may
want to give further consideration to questions you are unsure
about or for which you have difficulty giving a response.







6

Calculating Your Spirituality Score
1. Make a mark indicating any question for which you feel
unable to give a satisfactory answer or that you find especially
challenging.
2. Add the number of marks in #1 and subtract this number
from 41.
3. The answer to #2 is your Spirituality Score.
NOTE: This score and your answers to questions are to
be used only by you and anyone to whom you grant
permission.
Total number of questions 41
Number of difficult questions
Your Spirituality Score

To arrange an interview in person or through
skype, email collegemhc@gmail.com