Again, it’s pretty even. Not knowing you very well meant a lot of 3’s down the page. Also, on the rare occasion when I felt I did have a definite answer, it went to the extreme (1 or 5). It seems there’s rarely any uncertainty in the minds of other when they think they know something about a person.
I agree with gib for the post part, Wendy. I had about the same experience which he did. The way some of the questions were shaped made it rather difficult to give an honest answer. I clicked in “3” kind of often myself because as humans we are, at least I am not completely this or that. Some things are simply not so black and white.
These things are not an exact science - and I think that it is true that some will sometimes be lured in to click in a response that shows their selves in a better light though I may be wrong here.
I don’t consider myself to be a spiritualist or a leader - I don’t want to lead or follow. I can kind of understand where the “educator” part came from though I don’t like that term either with reference to myself.
The low score for educator is a little surprising, otherwise the spread is pretty unobjectionable. I wouldn’t say I’m a super spiritualist, but I found those questions skewed toward a conventional understanding of what it means to be spiritual.
I wasn’t so much speaking of my surroundings, Wendy, as much as I was speaking of how we think, how we allow certain quick impressions and biases to rule our perspectives and our beliefs. We are not always aware of what more there is to be seen and reflected on.
We tend to forget or do not want to see what is below what can be seen of the iceberg. We want our answers quickly and the solutions to our problems resolved “yesterday”. We think too quickly without leaning on the side of caution and skepticism.
One has to dig a lot deeper to find what “soul” could be. So even after that very deep digging, one will not be sure, but one will be more satisfied than before that very deep digging, So, one has to dig even deeper and deeper.
So then what are human beings looking for when they say soul?
The one which supposedly leaves the body after brain death and ascends into the heavens and awaits their turn of becoming another incarnated human…
Or the one which is a part of the human self and defines each individual separately as a result of his or her Earthly journey and experiences, the one which continues to grow and to change making the human a new and different person?