Dylan Woodley, Logan Stempniak, Beatriz Flexen, Feliciti Karavolos, Adam Valdez
10/24/24
Martin Rodriguez
MIN108
Collaborative Study Guide
Chapter 5
1. Q:What are some of the ways Liebert describes intuition coming to people?
A:Liebert says that intuition may come in the form of images, bodily sensations, feelings,
or thoughts. Liebert also adds that intuition arrives suddenly, and do arrive on command
2. Q: What does it say about Salk’s example about how intuition is shown in culture?
A: Intuition may grasp significant data from our senses of our daily lives; it must be
complemented by discursive reasoning through scientific research, philosophical or
theological reflection.
3. Q: What does the Clearness Committee help many people discover?
A: Helps you to uncover “that of God”- God working through your own intuitive
wisdom- already present within you with respect to your discernment issue.
4. Q: How can you approach discernment through intuition?
A: Remind yourself that God can speak through your intuition, become quiet, inside and
outside, and wait in openness.
5. Q: When you completed the tasks of approaching discernment through intuition intuition
and doing the clearness committee strategies, what are some of the things you find God is
revealing through your intuition to you about?
A: God has intricately crafted our intuition to speak to us in everything around us, each aspect of
our achieving discernment through intuition is aiding us in revealing God call in our lives, which
can be supported by biblical truth.
Chapter 6
1. Q:What are some examples that Liebert provides on how scripture speaks of the body?
A: Liebert shows how the body is discussed in Genesis, Exodus, Songs, and Gospels.
2. Q: What was one of the traditions Liebert presents when trying to understand a deeper
freedom of spirituality.
A: Fasting helps prepare an unencumbered space for attending to God and connect us
viscerally with those who don't have sufficient food.
3. Q: What are three exercises that Liebert explains will help us learn how to listen more to
our bodies, explore our relationship with our bodies and look at scriptural perspectives on
embodiment?
A: Approaching Discernment through the Body, provides the basic discernment practice;
Knowing Whose You Are links bodiliness to Scripture; and Focusing teaches how to
access deeper wisdom from your body.
4. Q: How can you yourself practice focusing better?
A: register what is present in your body, experience the felt sense, resonate, compare, and
refine, ask questions of the felt-sense, receive the wisdom that comes through the felt
sense
5. Q: Lierbert titled one of the sections in the 6th chapter as “The Body as a Source of
Revelation”, in what ways have you discovered discernment after completing the
Scorsese of having a ‘conversation about your body’?
A: That God has created human beings with the complexities human emotion, mentality,
physicality and spirituality to be experienced through our bodies and assessing the
excessive allowed the revelation of being more aware of habits that affect in everyday life.
Chapter 7
1. Q: How does Liebert describe the significance of imagination within the way of
discernment?
A: It can form images of what is not immediately present, and thereby create
visions of new possibilities
2. Q:How does Liebert describe the significance of images?
A:Liebert says that images help us clarify and reveal in the discernment process.
They can also help us choose between alternatives, she states
3. Q: What experiments should you do if you have this judgment that you “have no
imagination” explained by Liebert?
A: - Mentally select the clothes you will wear tomorrow. With those clothes, what
shoes will you wear?
- You smell frying bacon (or some other smell with happy associations).
Where does your imagination take you?
- Where does your mind go when you are doing some repetitious task like
mowing the lawn or washing the dishes?
- If you had a favorite place as a child, go there now in your imagination.
- Say or think, “When I was a kid, we…,” and tell a story that comes to
mind.
- Beginning with “It was dark and stormy night” (or “once upon a time long
ago”), create a story.
4. Q: Why does Liebert say imagination is so crucial to spiritual life?
A: The language of God is primarily the language of imagination.
5. Q: Using your imagination, what are some ways you can prayerfully utilize it to
grow in your relationship with God?
A: I can spend time in prayer asking God using the exercises Lierbert provided to ground my
imagination to reality but allowing my faith to give insight to growing closer to God by spending
time in prayer and scripture.
