Immersion Test:
How Deep Have You Gone?
Either print the test, or write your answers on a piece of paper.
There are 38 questions.
| 1. Rate your contentment with society and the world from 1 to 10, where one is extremely contented and 10 is extremely discontented. | |
| 2. How many hours per week do you spend in a creative activity (music-making, painting, writing, gardening, carpentry, etc.)? | |
| 3. How many hours per week do you spend in a church, temple, mosque, synagogue, etc.? | |
| 4. How many hours per week do you spend in a car? | |
| 5. How many hours per week do you spend at a computer? | |
| 6. If you smoked only one joint last week, write zero; if you smoked several, then give yourself 2 points here for each joint more than one. | |
| 7. How many hours did you spend visiting an art museum last month? | |
| 8. How many times per week do you laugh heartily and happily? | |
| 9. How many hours did you spend nurturing animals or plants last week? | |
| 10. How many hours did you spend nurturing another person (child-rearing, caring for the sick, teaching. etc.) last week? | |
| 11. Each week, how many nights do you NOT remember any dreams on awakening? | |
| 12. Divide the amount of money in dollars you gave anonymously to charity last year by 100 and write the number: | |
| 13. How many hours do you watch TV each weekend day? | |
| 14. How many dreams do you write down on the average morning? | |
| 15. How much caffeine do you consume daily (1 point for each cup of coffee or tea, 1 point for each soft drink with caffeine)? | |
| 16. How many hours per week do you spend shopping for items other than food? | |
| 17. How many out-of-body experiences have you had? | |
| 18. How many poems did you read in the last week? | |
| 19. On a scale of 0 to 10, where 0 is blissful, 10 is despondent, rate your average emotional state. If your emotional state varies widely, write 10. | |
| 20. How many hours did you listen to talk radio last week? | |
| 21. How many Prozacs, Valium, Viagra, or other mood-altering or psychoactive pills did you take last week? | |
| 22. How many times did you get angry last week? | |
| 23. How often in the last six months have you taken LSD, psylocybin, mushrooms, peyote, etc.. | |
| 24. How many shots/glasses/cans of any drink containing alcohol more than one a day did you have last week? | |
| 25.Give yourself 1 point for each hug you gave or received in the last week. | |
| 26. Give yourself 10 points for each hour you spent listening to Rush Limbaugh last week. | |
| 27. How many near-death experiences, encounters with ghosts, or UFO experiences have you had in your life? | |
| 28. How many hours per week do you spend in some form of mass transit? | |
| 29. Rate your contentment with your position in society and the world from 0 to 10, where 0 is extremely discontented and 10 is extremely contented. | |
| 30. Each week, how many days do you spend NO time either sitting or walking outdoors? | |
| 31. How many hours per week do you spend listening to any kind of music written before 1900? | |
| 32. How many children, other than your own, did you hug last week? | |
| 33. How many packs of cigarettes did you smoke last week? | |
| 34. How many servings of meat did you eat last week? (One meal with a meat dish = one serving.) | |
| 35. Approximately how many spoons or packets of sugar or sweetener do you consume each day? | |
| 36. How many gallons of gas did you put in your car last week? | |
| 37. How many times did you feel depressed last week? | |
| 38. How many times have you struck a child in your life? |