Quiz To Determine How Sincere You Are About Knowing Reality Directions: Read each statement carefully. Decide whether you Strongly Agree (SA), Agree (A), Strongly Disagree (SD), or Disagree (D).
Score 4 for the maximally desired answer, which will always be either SA or SD. Score 2 for the desired answer, which will always be A or D. Score 0 for the undesired answer, Score -1 for the maximally undesirable answer. Perfect score = 100. There are 25 questions. I understand more or less how I came to my present view of reality. I can't conceive of understanding or experiencing reality in any other way than I do. When I sense some challenge to my view of reality (or any given issue) I harden and hunker down; it doesn't matter at that point whether I am right or wrong; I must preserve the sense of my own sense of integrity: I must defend myself. I have had the experience of realizing I was wrong about something, and have enjoyed surrendering to a different truth than I started out believing. I feel I am a pretty good judge of the sincerity or insincerity of someone who takes a point of view opposed to my own. I believe it is possible to be a good person and yet have a view of reality or even any important issue which is opposed to my own point of view. I would like to have a greater awareness of all the reality that there is to know. I am living a life that is not ignoring the fact that I know I must die someday. I wish I could be in an actual state of grace all the time, supposing this were possible. I am willing to brave my fears and my own conditioning in order to get a connection with reality which will ask some form of sacrifice of my familiar way of seeing things, and my own vanity. I am interested in having an experience of my own essential innocence and sincerity--at least this is a desideratum I seek. I consider a clear conscience to be a good thing. It is something I wish to possess in my own life. When I am in the presence of an intuition of a greater or higher reality I tend to contract rather than expand. I have done my best to find the purpose of life, even the purpose of my own life. I like learning new things about myself; I am in the quest of greater self-knowledge all the time. I feel motivated in some sense to seek the truth even if that truth is inconvenient to me, to my assumed beliefs and predilections. I think I am a pretty good judge of the character of other human beings. I feel that my life has been governed by a fate which did not take into account my own desire or free will. I feel I am not essentially responsible for where I have ended up in my life. I am willing to have a change of heart about someone should they indicate some willingness to reach out to me. My enemies, they are fixed for all-time for me. I don't see reconciliation or negotiation. I will fight to the end, never giving any quarter--no matter what. I would rather be who I am than to be any other person who has ever lived. I am willing to see the truth of when irony is directed towards me. I feel I want what is the most real experience that any human being can have in the universe. I feel the truth about something always has a better potential for being useful to me than some falsification of that same truth. I am living a life so as to deserve to be happy when I die.
