Questioning Assumption, Exploring the Soul
If you created ants, would you let them dream?
Why or why not?
What do you know or believe about your own dreams?
Has that always been the case?
When, if at all, did how you feel about your dreams change?
What triggered the change?
What was the best dream you ever had?
Why is that?
When do you dream?
How is your dream life different than your waking life?
Why do you think that is?
When do you feel peace?
What does it mean to feel peace?
What other feelings are associated with peace?
What triggers feelings of peace?
Is peace a feeling you associate more with being alone or being with others?
Why do you think that is?
How and when do you help others feel peace?
How do you know?
Are you now, or have you ever, been in love?
What is love? (For example, is love a feeling, a behavior, an action, an attitude, etc.)
How do you know?
What does love feel like?
How did you learn that feeling is love?
What feelings do you confuse with love?
In what ways, if any, are you different for having known love?
How, if at all, have your perceptions of love changed?
How has your experience of love changed, if at all, over time?
What are other words for love?
Would everyone have the same list?
When have you been made wrong for loving? How has that influenced you?
From where does love originate?
Who or what is responsible for love?
What does it mean to be responsible for love?
Can love end? Why or why not?
What is the color of love?
When was the last time you were inspired?
How did you know you were inspired?
What did it feel like?
From where did the inspiration arise?
Did you share it? If so, what reaction did you get? How did that feel?
What did the inspiration do for you or mean for you?
Did it change you in any way?
How typical is that of when you’ve been inspired?
In what ways, if any, does your perception of your exterior world change?
What do you remember, if anything, of the first time you experienced inspiration?
For you, what purpose does inspiration serve?
How important or not is it for you to inspire others? Why is that?
What do you know or believe about God?
What difference in your life does that knowing or belief make?
Has that always been so?
When, if at all, did what you believe about God change?
How did the change come about?
In what way do you image God? (For example: is God a being, a state of being, a process, a place, a state of mind or something other altogether?)
How does your image of God influence your attitude toward God?
If you believe in God, how does your image of God influence your relationship (or lack of relationship) with God?
Before just now, with these questions, when was the last time you thought about God?
What feelings come to mind when you think about God?
Where do you feel those feelings?
From where do those feelings originate? What leads you to feel reactive in that way?
What do you know or believe about transhumanism?
Do you consider yourself a transhumanist?
Why is that? What does that mean for you?
Has that always been the case?
What do you think it says about you?
How do you think transhumanism alters the notion of self, if at all?
How integral or tangential is transhumanism to your everyday?
Why do you think that is?
What comes to mind when you think of transhumanism?
What feelings are triggered?
With whom do you associate transhumanism?
What characteristics do you attribute to those you associate with transhumanism?
What is the relationship between humanity and transhumanism?
In what ways, if any, does transhumanism change what it means to be human?
What becomes available, if anything, with transhumanism?
What is lost, if anything, with transhumanism?
What technologies come to mind?
What do those technologies mean, if anything, relative your understanding of yourself?
What do those technologies mean, if anything, relative to your purpose?
How would, or how have, those technologies changed your life?
What does it mean to be alive?
How often do you think about being alive?
What comes to mind when you think about the experience of life?
What in life is essential?
If you were to awake tomorrow with amnesia, what is the one thing about your life to date that you would want to still remember? Why? What does that mean to you?
What would you be glad to have forgotten? Why? What would being free of that mean for you or do for you?
In what ways does being alive matter? To whom does it matter?
Does it matter in the same way for all life or does it differ?
What is the opposite of life?
What would it mean if you could live indefinitely?
Who would benefit?
How would life be different if it didn’t end?
What behaviors would you change?
How would your perceptions change?
What in your life would have more value?
What in your life would have less value?
What would be the role of grief if death did not exist? What, if anything, would you grieve?
What questions, if any, were helpful to you?
What questions would you add?