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Unit 07 · Move 01 · Meet
07.1 / AUTHORITY-AND-SPIRIT FIELDWORK

Meet a spiritual seeker

Which experiences, teachers, practices, and hopes shape this person’s spirituality?

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Meet · Person first

Discover the person’s spiritual vocabulary.

Someone may use New Age practices while rejecting the label, mixing them with another religion, or treating them as wellness tools rather than worship.

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Identity

Would you describe yourself as spiritual, religious, both, or neither?

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Authority

How do you decide whether a spiritual impression or teaching is true?

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Practice

Which practices—meditation, astrology, energy work, cards, manifestation, or something else—matter to you?

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Reality

What do words like universe, source, energy, consciousness, or divine mean to you?

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Jesus

Who is Jesus within your spiritual understanding?

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Permission

Would you be willing to compare how we test spiritual experiences?

Field notebook · New Age & Mysticism · Move 01

Write four questions that identify a seeker’s actual beliefs and practices without assuming a fixed creed.

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New Age spirituality is a fluid network, not one church or creed; begin with the person’s actual beliefs.