Worldviews according to Sire

Crossword puzzle based on James Sire's book The Universe Next Door

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Clues

When the answer is two words, leave a blank box for the space between words. Some answers will be used more than once.

ACROSS
3 Nothing has any meaning, value, significance, dignity or worth.
5 The invisible universe is accessible only through altered states of consciousness. It denies the existence of a transcendent god. Actress Shirley McClaine is a proponent.
6 Many -- if not all -- roads lead to the One. When we do "realize" our being, we enter the undifferentiated One, absorbed into the Infinite-Impersonal One like a drop of water into a river.
8 The cosmos is all that is or ever was or ever will be. God doesn't exist.
9 God created the world, but now is uninvolved. While God may be an architect, He is not a lover or a judge.
10 The worldview to which the dialectical materialism and secular humanism of Marx is most closely related. The goal of history is a perfect or ideal human society.
 
DOWN
1 Knowledge is considered subjective. There are no absolute moral values. Truth is often seen as paradoxical. The Bible is probably historically untrustworthy.
2 Human beings were created good, but through the Fall the image of God became defaced. Death is either the gate to life with God or else it is the gate to eternal separation from Him.
4 A personal god does not exist; there is only a mysterious Force to be tapped. The core experience is cosmic consciousness. Some proponents advocated using drugs.
7 This worldview attracts believers in God who want a faith that does not demand too much belief in the supernatural or in the accuracy of the Bible. There is also an atheistic version of this worldview.

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