Daily Spiritual Experience and Religious Believe

Spiritual experience is often realized as a personal reality that is different from the doctrine of religious beliefs, but whether spiritual experience and religious beliefs are two constructs that are not related to each other is still a subject of debate on this secular oriented world. This study aims to explain the relationship between daily spiritual experience and religious beliefs. The subjects in this study were 69 early adults. The method of data collection in this study was carried out using the Daily Spiritual Experience Scale-Short Form and Religious Belief and Values Scale-Short Form. The results of the research data were analyzed using Pearson product moment correlation technique. The result show a positive relationship between daily spiritual experiences and religious beliefs. Religious beliefs and values can encourage someone to find feelings of love, peace and happiness in their daily spiritual experiences.

The existence of spirituality is very old and may be as old as human life itself.
Spiritual practices have actually merged with people's lives, for example the celebration of birth (and ceremony of death) in Javanese culture, the practice of meditation and prayer. In everyday life, actually spirituality practice is ingrained and we often do it. Humans as cultural agents influence and are influenced by their culture, including by the spirituality that exists in society. The meaning and formation of one's self-concept are also influenced by spirituality found in the culture of the community in which he lives.
Daily spiritual experience is one's perception of the transcendent and one's perception of interaction or involvement with the transcendent in everyday life (Underwood and Teresi, 2002). The center of religious and spiritual experience is a sense of the sacred which makes research on Religiosity and Spirituality distinguishable from research from other areas (Hill et al., 2000).
Holiness is a universal feature of all religious and spiritual experiences.
Understanding of the sacred is a perception that is influenced socially about the  (Hill et al., 2000). Daily spiritual experience consists of feelings that describe religious experience everyday life. The main purpose of developing this construct is to explain how spiritual feelings can form an integral part of one's daily life (Underwood, 2003).
Beliefs and Values are cognitive domains in religiosity that hold a central role . Content of beliefs can describe objects of belief as true or false and evaluate them as good or bad (Rokeach, 1986). Belief is used to identify members of religious groups as "believers" . A strict distinction is often made between "people who believe" with "people who do not believe", between "us" with "them" and often taken actions based on this distinction (Rokeach, 1986).
Among members of the same religious group can have disagreements about how their beliefs should be and there can be varying levels of confidence .
Religious Beliefs and Values are used to evaluate objects of belief and determine how one should and should not behave, or determine whether an end goal is worthy of being achieved.
The case of a dying man who was previously an atheist turned religious by searching for religious leaders at the last moment of his life can be found (Backer, et al., 1982). The level of religiosity in elderly people suddenly rises significantly compared to middle adulthood (Wink and Scott, 2005). Wink and Scott (2005) argue that death anxiety arises when someone believes in the existence of a happy life after death but not in accordance with the practices and religious beliefs they have. Inconsistency in religious practice risks increasing doubts about a happy life after death and raises the idea of punishment after death.
It seems, people try to believe in religious beliefs to get certain spiritual experiences to be free from mental bondage, such as death anxiety. The question arises whether spiritual experience and religious beliefs are two constructs that are not related to each other or actually have a relationship between the two.

Method
Daily Spiritual Experience score was obtained from the Daily Spiritual Experiences-Short Form/DSES (Underwood, 2003). Scores show the frequency of involvement and interaction with the transcendent. The higher the score obtained, the lower the quality of the relationship with the transcendent felt by the subject. Samples were taken using convenience sampling techniques. The selection of samples is based on subject availability and the willingness of the subjects to be the subject of research. This method is the most common sampling method used in behavioral scientific studies (Frederick, 2009). In this study, the population is active students at the Faculty of Psychology, Sanata Dharma University. Data collection began in March 2010 with a total sample of 69 subjects.
Subjects were asked to respond to existing statements by determining a choice of responses from 6 choices of responses provided according to experience. Each statement is responded to based on the experience of everyday life. A note that allows the subject to replace the word "God" with terms that are more appropriate to the subject's comfort added to the scale filling procedure. The total value is obtained from the sum of all scores on each item statement, so that the range of scores is 6 to 36. The higher the total value, the lower the integration of daily spiritual experiences in the daily life of the subject.

Conclusion
Spiritual experience is often realized as a personal reality that is different from the doctrine of religious beliefs, but separating the two as opposing entities is not a wise decision. In fact, it is understandable if there are people who are trying to find a more intense spiritual experience by re-exploring the value of religiosity, which provides a framework for meaningful spiritual experience.