Spirituality and freedom in the minds of teenagers and high school students

Abstract

Spirituality and freedom are significant categories of the science of consciousness, which make it possible to reveal the fullness of conscious spiritual self-liberation of a person. The work is aimed at studying the manifestations of freedom in the spiritual layer of consciousness in adolescents of two age groups based on the concept of layers of consciousness by V.P. Zinchenko. The author’s methodology «Spirituality and Freedom», consisting of two parts, was used in the study. The first part included an assessment of the importance of various spiritual values, the second one - the solution of ten difficult life situations. The results show that freedom in the spiritual layer of consciousness in subjects of different age groups manifests itself in different ways. Significant correlations of assessments of all spiritual values (love, knowledge, will, life, faith, goodness, mercy, labor) with their manifestations in actions were revealed in adolescents. Among high school students, spiritual values do not have significant correlations with actions, which indicates the choice of not only spiritual, but also other values when solving life difficulties, greater realism and awareness in assessing the role of spiritual values than in adolescents. At the same time, the mechanism of spiritual determination of real behavior is not fully understood and requires additional research.