Spiritual Awakening Quiz: Are You Awakened?
Written by Kirsti Formoso, MSc. Transpersonal Psychology, BSc. Psychology
How do you know if you are spiritually awakened or even if you're heading in the right direction? Or whether your spiritual experience is normal, known, and charted within spiritual disciplines.
This free, research-backed spiritual awakening test will help you understand your spiritual journey, determine which awakening stage you're at, and offer guidance for healthy, balanced spiritual growth based on your results.
The spiritual awakening journey is full of mystery. From ethereal concepts about energy, chakras, spiritual guides, and enlightenment to spiritual experiences such as synchronicity, trance, meditative states, and other EHEs. It can be confusing, so if you haven’t already read my spiritual awakening page, take a look; it should give you a much broader perspective than what you’ll find here.
Because this spiritual awakening test is about you! It’s about understanding where exactly you are on the spiritual awakening journey. So, if you’ve ever wondered, “Am I having a spiritual awakening?”, you can hit the button now and start reflecting on your journey straight away; there’s no email gate, and you’ll get your results instantly with guidance for navigating your spiritual awakening stage. Doing a self-reflection quiz like this can help you explore your inner world, expand your awareness, and connect with your inner guidance. It will also keep you grounded and give you focus as you walk the spiritual path.
Come back after you’ve finished the spiritual awakening quiz to learn how this quiz was designed and created based on scientific research and theory, scriptures, teachings, observations of my own 30-year awakening journey, and client observations from my practice.
THE SPIRITUAL AWAKENING TEST
This free test has been developed from a combination of research, theory, spiritual teachings and personal experience. While it should yield meaningful results for your current phase, keep in mind that you are always evolving and that it's a tool with limitations. The spiritual world can be difficult to put into words and categories.
With that said, are you ready to find out what your spiritual level is? If you're ready to find out more about where you are on your spiritual journey, click the orange button below. The test is free, and you'll get your results instantly.
DOUBT ON THE SPIRITUAL JOURNEY
The spiritual awakening journey is a lifelong journey. It's not easy, and it's not straightforward. I had been on my journey for over twenty years before I had significant breakthroughs. In those 20 years, I flip-flopped between psychological work and spiritual practices. I worked on myself while I searched for something greater, what exactly, at the time, I couldn't articulate.
But the whole while, I wondered whether I was spiritually awakened.
There were also many times I wondered if I was barking up the wrong tree and wasting time. After a period of focusing on psychological work, I would feel like I'd wasted my time and turn to more spiritual practices. Along the journey, at ashrams, I was told the goal was enlightenment, but you'll never reach it. Was it all a waste of time? While it all felt a bit futile, something deeper in me wouldn't let me stop the search.
What I'm trying to say is that there was a lot of doubt over those 20 years, and I had no way of telling whether my efforts were in vain or whether I was actually having a spiritual awakening. I guess about 10 years in, having frequented many ashrams, silent retreats, psychic and mediumship retreats and poured out my heart over many journals, workshops and spiritual circles, I started to have small breakthroughs, what I called mini revelations.
It came to me that spiritual awakening happens through insight, many little revelations that slowly shift your perspective on life and your behaviour. But even so, transformation was slow. Until seven years ago, when I had a moment of spiritual height and six months later a profound breakthrough. I found what I was looking for.
But I still had questions. And I was not finding the answers in books, scriptures, or online. So, I turned to the most unexpected of places, academia.
THE PSYCHOLOGY OF AWAKENING
I started with a Bachelor of Science degree in Psychology, where I studied developmental psychology, the psychology of the extraordinary, and survey-based methodology. Next, I did a Master of Science in Consciousness, Spirituality and Transpersonal Psychology and learnt about spiritual development and spiritual awakening.
Through my six years of study, I conducted several research projects on spiritual awakening. Both my dissertations were on spiritual awakening and were questionnaire-based. For my MSc, I created a new scale to measure mystical experiences, the scientific term for a specific type of spiritual awakening. It has since been published in a peer-reviewed journal (you can read it here). I designed this questionnaire, the Spiritual Awakening Test, based on transpersonal research and theory in spiritual development.
Related reading: Psychologist’s Guide to Spiritual Awakening
Related reading: Which Mystical Experience Questionnaire Is Best for You? Get Your Score Now
THE CHALLENGES OF MEASURING SPIRITUALITY
There are many spiritual awakening tests online, but they seem to have little basis in scientific research or real lived experience, and scoring seems rudimentary at best. These pop-psychology spiritual assessments include questions about intuition, spiritual beliefs, personal growth, and self-reflection. But they fall far short of discerning people's actual stage of awakening.
In truth, they tend to measure people’s spiritual identity, how spiritual you think you are. Not actual trait-level spirituality or embodied spirituality.
Take measuring intuition as an example. It is not that there is anything inherently wrong with recognising intuition. Intuitive knowing can be deeply valuable. The difficulty is that the mind is subtle and easily self-deceiving. Psychologists know that what feels like intuition can just as easily be fear, projection, conditioning, or desire. And transpersonal psychologists know that this is not a proxy for spiritual awakening.
For this reason, asking people how much they rely on intuition and using that as a measure of spiritual awakening is unlikely to provide a reliable assessment and could do more harm than good.
The other problem with most online spirituality quizzes is that, as spiritual people, we love spiritual language. We naturally gravitate towards and identify with concepts of love, empathy, compassion, inner guidance, gratitude and surrender. We tend to tick what we’d like to be rather than what we actually are, so the spiritual quiz measures our beliefs and desires around these concepts, not our ability to embody these concepts. In reality, many online spiritual awakening quizzes are personality tests dressed up in spiritual language.
DEVELOPING THE SPIRITUAL AWAKENING TEST
In developing this free spiritual awakening test, as a transpersonal psychologist, I have tried to ensure that it actually does measure spiritual development. Because there's a world of difference between someone who likes having a spiritual identity and someone who is committed to real transformation and truth. Most tests don't distinguish between the two.
Unlike generic "stages" quizzes, this short quiz focuses on cumulative depth and current trait-level awakeness because spiritual awakening evolves in cycles, at ever-deeper levels. It's a non-linear, cyclical unfolding where glimpses of deeper reality intensify, profound experiences can last months or years, and everyday awareness shifts toward unity, presence, and boundless compassion.
This free spiritual awakening test is rooted in transpersonal research and theory in spiritual development and self-transcendence. The design is rigorous. The scoring is set up to ensure that you get a good and reliable answer to your question: Am I spiritually awakened?
THIS SPIRITUAL AWAKENING TEST IS EVOLVING
This is the first publicly available version of this spiritual awakening test. I've already stress-tested it for all sorts of paths, experiences, highlights, and pitfalls along the spiritual path. It’s already been revised once, and more revisions based on feedback are planned. This is the only way to ensure the test does what it sets out to do. It’s not enough to be rooted in research alone; it has to resonate with real spiritual seekers.
Each of our paths is so totally unique; to try to capture all those unique variables in a meaningful way is challenging. As a result, it may be possible to answer in such a way that the test can not accurately place you yet. I’m working on capturing more nuances and delivering results that are even more tailored to you. It’s a big project. But one that I’m excited about.
Even so, I still think that this spiritual awakening test has the foundations to be the most accurate spiritual awakening test online! Not because I'm biased, but because I set out, with integrity, to design it that way. I wanted to offer people a spiritual awakening quiz that really does help them reflect on their journey, understand their spiritual development, validate the stage they're at, and offer practical solutions for daily life to move them forward on their spiritual path.
I'd love to hear your feedback, so please do let me know in the comments below if you felt it was accurate and resonated with where you're at. This spiritual awakening test is evolving, and your feedback will help me refine it so that it's even better for people coming after you.
THE SCIENCE & THEORY BEHIND THE TEST
SPIRITUAL AWAKENING AS A PSYCHOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTAL PATH
In psychology, it is widely accepted that human development can continue throughout adulthood. From this perspective, growth does not stop once we reach a certain age. It unfolds across our lifespan. In transpersonal psychology, spiritual awakening is therefore not treated as an unattainable ideal or a vague and fluffy ethereal destination. It is understood as a developmental path.
In this light, the spiritual awakening journey is not about becoming something special. It is about returning to a more fundamental and enduring aspect of ourselves, with greater clarity and psychological integration. It involves a shift from seeking and temporary states of insight or unity to more stable traits of awareness, transcendence, and embodiment. Rather than chasing peak experiences, the focus becomes the gradual stabilisation of insight in everyday life.
Seen this way, awakening is not a single event but an ongoing process. It is a lifelong unfolding that requires persistence, humility, and patience.
REAL-WORLD SPIRITUAL AWAKENING EXPERIENCES
In developing this test, I have drawn on my own understanding, having walked the spiritual path for many years and supported many of my clients through their unique journeys. From helping people cope with heightened sensitivities, like empathy, to helping them navigate paradoxical truths and dark nights, I’ve witnessed the egoic trickery that confuses us on our path and leads us astray. Hint: your ego will defo be showing up with you to find out how spiritual it is ;)
I’ve tried to safeguard against that. During my own extended mystical experience that lasted over a year, I was able to watch the ego at play, observe the juxtaposition of the absolute and the relative, and navigate the challenges of integration.
I combine what I’ve learnt from my own and my clients’ journeys with my learning from scriptures, other spiritual teachers and a broad spectrum of research and theory.
AN EVIDENCE-BASED SPIRITUAL AWAKENING TEST
This spiritual awakening test isn’t a fluffy spiritual identity test. It’s based on real science and psychometric understanding. I’ve drawn on a broad spectrum of theory and research from across disciplines as far and wide as transpersonal psychology, contemplative science, developmental psychology, and mystical experience research.
Here are just a few areas that I’ve drawn from:
Exceptional Human Experiences frameworks (Rhea White & Suzanne Brown).
Integral Theory and Stage Progression Theory: Waking up, growing up, and non-dual realisation (Ken Wilber).
Maslow's expanded hierarchy of self-transcendence as the peak (Koltko-Rivera, 2006).
Jack Engler’s work on psychological development and spiritual practice.
John Welwood’s work on spiritual bypassing.
Pamela Reed's work on self-transcendence (Khait, Sabo, & Shellman, 2020).
Mystical experiences research (Formoso, 2023; Griffiths et al., 2008).
Related reading: What Are Exceptional Human Experiences (EHEs)?
Related reading: What Is Self-Transcendence? The Key to Spiritual Development and Awakening
AM I HAVING A SPIRITUAL AWAKENING
Is this awakening or something else? If you were not consciously on your spiritual path but found yourself there or even found yourself somewhere, wondering what on earth is going on, am I going crazy, am I losing the plot, or is there something wrong with me? You’re not alone. Many people start their journey like this.
Or perhaps you’ve been a spiritual wanderer for many years, wondering how deeply "awake" you truly are or whether you’re just wasting time, this free Spiritual Awakening Depth Test (25 thoughtful questions, ~5–8 minutes) helps you explore exactly what’s going on through a spiritual lens. Drawing from transpersonal psychology and real-world research, it explores:
Orientation: Growing questioning of our conditioned beliefs and life as we know it. Curiosity of a world beyond the physical and ways to connect.
Exploration: Searching for something more meaningful and real. Early realisations of conditioned life and the "illusion" of separation (piercing Maya). Growing engagement with practices and intensifying exceptional human experiences (EHEs like synchronicities, intuition, empathy).
Transformation: Moments of ego witnessing, dissolution, non-dual and mystical awakenings. Physical and psychological changes, integration, and continued inner work.
Embodiment: Stable, trait-level integration; enduring self-transcendence, awe in the mundane, innate well-being and higher values.
At the end of the test, you’ll instantly get your results with insights about your current phase, guidance for navigating your ongoing experiences and how to progress on your path without getting distracted or wasting time.
HOW DO I KNOW IF I AM SPIRITUALLY AWAKENED?
Knowing what stage of spiritual awakening you're at can be really powerful. If we're just starting out, this quiz will help you know that you're not going mad or having some kind of mental breakdown. When we've been on the path for a while, it gives us validation for all the hard work we've put in. If we're feeling lost or at a plateau, we can re-find our path and inspiration. And if it's all gone a bit downhill, or chaotic, we can be reassured, knowing that sometimes the path is challenging and can even look like we've fallen off it.
Wherever you find yourself on the spiritual path, this spiritual awakening reflection tool should provide insight, resonance, and clarity about your current phase.
TAKE THE TEST NOW TO FIND OUT WHAT YOUR SPIRITUAL LEVEL IS
Ready to discover your current depth? Answer honestly, there are no right or wrong answers. Your results will tell you what stage of awakening you are at and give you a short description with personalised insights, gentle next steps and free resources.
It's free to take the quiz, just click the orange button below, and your results will be shown instantly.
I would absolutely love to hear your thoughts on the quiz. It's been a labour of love. I'm sure it's not perfect, but I stress-tested it extensively, and I felt happy enough to publish it. What I'd like to know is how it was for you? What do you think having taken the test? Did it resonate for you? Please share your comments below.
And remember, you can revisit this spiritual assessment multiple times to track your growth and changes over time. It's always good to know you're on the right track!
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