Core Beliefs About Mind, Body, Spirit, and Reality Survey
Joseph McNair (1998)
Read each statement thoughtfully, and register the strength of your feeling about each item as it pertains to your beliefs about Mind, Body, Spirit, and Reality. If you don't know what some of the words mean, look them up. Make sure you understand what you are agree or disagreeing with. This survey is for discussion purposes only.
Several ideas/statements adapted from Ageless Body, Timeless Mind by Deepak Chopra M.D. 1993 p. 4-6. Copyright © 1996 Joseph D. McNair.
| Name | Ethnicity |
| Gender: Male Female | Nationality |
| Age: 20 and under 20-3030-40 Over 40 | Occupation |
Check the appropriate box for each statement that corresponds to your attitude toward that particular statement.
SA-Strongly Agree, A-Agree, U-Uncertain, D-Disagree, SD-Strongly Disagree
1. In their essential state, our bodies are composed of energy and information, not solid matter.
SA A U D SD
2. As individuals, we human beings are disconnected, self-contained entities.
SA A U D SD
3. Human beings are not victims of aging, sickness, and death. We are at the core of ourselves immune to any form of change.
SA A U D SD
4. The body is composed of clumps of matter separated from one another in time and space.
SA A U D SD
5. Reality is both certain and uncertain, complete and unfinished, fixed and changing.
SA A U D SD
6. The purpose of the mind is to reorganize and reconstruct experience in a world of space and time.
SA A U D SD
7. Human beings are connected to patterns of intelligence that govern the whole cosmos.
SA A U D SD
8. The human mind and human awareness can be completely explained as the accidental product of biochemistry.
SA A U D SD
9. The human being is the sum total of impulses of energy, information and the patterning intelligence that orders and organizes them. By changing these patterns, the human being can change herself/himself.
SA A U D SD
10. Mind and body are separate and independent of each other.
SA A U D SD
11. Mind is superior to body.
SA A U D SD
12. Perception is a learned phenomenon.
SA A U D SD
13. Human nature is the same for all human beings. Human nature is constant; it does not change.
SA A U D SD
14. Since human nature is the same for all human beings, human virtue (the perfection of natural human power) is the same for all human beings.
SA A U D SD
15. The biochemistry of the body is a product of mind and awareness.
SA A U D SD
16. There is within us, more interior than the cellular, molecular, atomic, subatomic and quantum levels, at the innermost core of being, a field of non-change that creates personality, ego, and body. This being is our essential state; it is who we really are.
SA A U D SD
17. Reality is what you have learned to perceive it to be.
SA A U D SD
18. Beliefs, thoughts, and feelings create the chemical reactions that sustain life in every cell.
SA A U D SD
19. Perception is an innate ability that presents the world and its meaning as it truly is.
SA A U D SD
20. Time does not exist as an absolute, but only eternity. Time is quantified eternity, timelessness chopped up into bits and pieces (seconds, hours, days, years) by us.
SA A U D SD
21. The nature of reality is mind (spirit) and intelligence is its major attribute.
SA A U D SD
22. Each of us inhabits an interior reality lying beyond all change.
SA A U D SD
23. Reality is a constant process wherein things come into existence and pass away, moving from potential to actual.
SA A U D SD
24. If you change your perception, you change your reality.
SA A U D SD
25. The human being is a physical machine who has by accident developed the capacity to think.
SA A U D SD
26. Mind (awareness, consciousness and intelligence) is primary, materialism is secondary.
SA A U D SD
27. The nature of reality is matter and the invisible forces (laws; essences) that brought it into being, control, and/or transform it. These forces can be known by objectively observing matter.
SA A U D SD
28. The human being is an integral part of nature and creation and cannot be known apart from his/her relationships with all things therein.
SA A U D SD
29. The physical world, including our bodies, is a response (creation) of the observer.
SA A U D SD
30. Time is objective and outside of ourselves. Seconds, minutes, hours, days, months and years are real and not creations of our perceptions.
SA A U D SD
31. The human mind is an individualized portion of the larger intelligence that patterns, organizes and holds together the infinite fields of energy and information that span the universe.
SA A U D SD
32. Time exists as an absolute, and we are captives of that absolute. Nothing or no one escapes the ravages of time.
SA A U D SD
33. We human beings create our bodies as we create the experience of our world.
SA A U D SD
34. Death is merely a transition to another form or level of existence.
SA A U D SD
35. There is an objective world independent of the observer made up of real entities and real phenomena.
SA A U D SD
36. Impulses of energy and intelligence ordered and organized by our awareness create our bodies in new forms every second.
SA A U D SD
37. Our true nature is totally defined by the body, ego, and personality. Our nature like our mind and awareness is an accident of biochemistry.
SA A U D SD
38. What we call linear time is a reflection of how we perceive change.
SA A U D SD
39. The human being is an outcropping (an individualized portion) of infinite fields of energy and information spanning the universe.
SA A U D SD
40. Suffering is necessary it is part of reality. We are inevitable victims of sickness, aging, and death.
SA A U D SD
41. At the core of ourselves the human being is spirit, the expression of eternal being.
SA A U D SD
42. The spirit, mind and body are inseparably one.
SA A U D SD
43. Materialism is primary, awareness/consciousness/intelligence is secondary.
SA A U D SD
44. The physical world as we perceive it through our senses exists whether we perceive it or not and is the only true reality.
SA A U D SD
45. The body is subordinate to the mind; must be controlled by the mind.
SA A U D SD
46. Our perception of the world gives us an accurate picture of how things really are.
SA A U D SD
47. Mind and Spirit are the same.
SA A U D SD
48. The mind is subordinate to Spirit; must be controlled by the Spirit.
SA A U D SD
49. Death is the end of human life.
SA A U D SD
50. The human being is separate and distinct from nature and creation, can be known as such and has dominion over them all.
SA A U D SD