Stage 1: Magic All Powerful God
Is your world full of spirits and demons?
Are fairy tales you favorite kind of literature?
Do you think God makes everything happen, for good and bad?
Stage 2: Reality Cause and Effect God
Do you spend a lot of time trying to determine what’s real and what’s
not?
Are scriptures true in a concrete and literal sense, rather than being
stories and maxims that may or may not be real
Do you feel you can influence God’s actions by being good?
Stage 3: Dependence Parent God
Do you have a very important peer group or leader who is primarily
responsible for shaping your faith?
Is it important to you to understand and follow religious doctrine and
moral rules?
Is you main image of God that of a perfect parent?
Stage 4: Independence Distant God (or atheism)
Is your spiritual life unique and personal?
Do you often find yourself wanting to demystify scripture?
Do you think of God or Ultimate Reality primarily as an impersonal force
or spirit (or as nonexistent)?
Stage 5: Interdependence Paradoxical God
Do you find a spiritual community important to you at the same time that
you maintain your own distinctive faith?
Do you experience spiritual power in religious symbols and myths that you
can also analyze objectively?
Do you conceive of God or Ultimate Reality both as a person and as an
impersonal force?
Stage 6: Unity All-pervasive God
Do you sense yourself in community with religiously committed people of
any and all traditions?
Is your consciousness ego-free and beyond paradox and ambiguity?
Do you often feel that God or divine spirit is in everything and that
everything exists in God or divine spirit?
