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SQ: Connecting With Our Spiritual Intelligence

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Reading the New Golden Bough was one of the most significant experiences of my youth. That book showed the remarkable similarities in the cultural stories and myths across cultures. From reading these perspectives, one arrives at a more fundamental understanding of the relationship between humanity and nature, people and community, and people with themselves. Reading SQ Connecting with our Spiritual Intelligence left me with a similar feeling. I thought that the opening quotes for the chapters were especially well designed to draw one into the points the authors wanted to make. I got a new sense of how nothingness can provide meaning (such as the hole in the middle of the wheel that allows it to be connected to the source of power). As someone with a very modest knowledge of psychology, I enjoyed the sections that integrated psychological and religious thinking about the meaning of life. There is a part of the book where you can take personality tests and help focus on the questions that will allow you to make your spiritual journey. As someone who has been a meditator for some time, I was fascinated by the reports of research on how vibrations provide wholeness in the brain. Certainly, that's what it feels like when I am meditating. I especially like books that provide a new perspective on something that I have been thinking about a lot. I found the questions for spiritual progress to be quite interesting. They certainly caused me to shift my attention in new ways that will undoubtedly lead to new learning. I recommend this book to anyone who is interested in more self-awareness, particularly aimed at getting in touch with one's real nature. If you work in a business, you might also enjoy Rewiring the Corporate Brain, also by Danah Zohar.

Spiritual Intelligence is a concept whose time has come. It will soon be bursting upon our present scene making a powerful impact. This cutting edge Book by Zohar and Marshall will change the way of our thinking of psychology and education, to family values and personal identification.

This Book brings together four specific streams of research speaking to the discovery of the God Spot, the relationship between IQ. EQ and SQ, the new MEG (magneto-encephalographic) technology and the evolution of symbolic imagination.

Spiritual Intelligence can be used to wrestle with problems of good and evil, life and death, the deepest origins of human suffering and often despair. It is universal with no cultural, ethnic or religious ties. Spiritual Intelligence is not a program, or a technique or a psychology. It is rather a life style. The good news is, it comes from the bottom and moves up. We do not have to wait for some program to come down from above. It is already here waiting to be discovered, used and shared by everyone and with everyone.

As the Author of "The Spirituyal Intelligence Handbook" I found this approach different but confirming. SQ research is the pioneer concept for this century. Zohar and Marshall's "Spiritual Intelligence" with be a foundation book for our time.

It gave me some answers to questions I have had for a long time. The use of Jung, Holland and other personality theories from the Greeks and the Tao to explain the spiritual path we choose as human beings is excellent.. The book allowed me to integrate all these theories in a different but stimulating way...

It depends on what you are looking for ... I was looking forward to ways of developing my SQ to make my life more meaningful. This book, however, was more to do with: what is SQ, arguments supporting its existence, the IQ-EQ-SQ concentric circles model, personality types. Contents related to personal enhancement that can be used by me is about 1/10 of the book (later part), and are quite generic materials about self awareness.

Compared with the AQ and EQ books I read previously, this book was not easy to understand. The authors were more keen to establish their authoritative position in this SQ concept - instead of communicating and helping the readers. The book applied substantial materials from various people's experiments, quotations, religious and philosophical ideas. Some people may like the wealth of sources it drew; but it was hard-to-read, dry and fragmented for readers who didn't have all those background knowledge and diverse interests.

The authors have attempted to extend the well understood and well debated concepts of IQ and EQ to a more universal concept, which they call SQ or the Spiritual Quotient. Their approach is extremely laudable as are the sections on what makes genuine spirituality, as opposed to traditional piety. The book provides clear guidelines as to how we have abnegated our true heritage as human beings and become 'spiritually stunted' in the process. Having been written some months before Sep. 11, 2001, the book is almost prophetic in its insight on where our present learning systems have gone wrong.

The book begins with a fascinating discussion on the biology of 'spirituality' but this topic has been touched on only as an appetizer. Later on, the authors talk of Hollands' Personality types and compare each different personality type with a corresponding chakra from Hindu Mysticism. Not just that, with each personality tag, is also included a particular planet, its motivation and religious emphasis. The latter analysis, however, seems a bit far fetched.

The book is extremely readable. The writing style is bracing, there is a lot of info, not enough to bore the reader however, just enough to whet the appetite. The author does not evade self analysis, and commands deep empathy and respect when she mentions her own experiences. All in all, a great book, and a pioneering attempt at formulating a physiological basis of spirituality.

As the world becomes more educated and more scientific in it's view and annalysis of life around it, people are moving away from all types formalized religion but at the same time are desperately searching for a more spiritual as opposed to a ritualized belief system to replace it. If you find yourself in this position, then SQ privides many answers to our inherent spirituality and forms part of the jigsaw puzzle that we are trying to put together. The authors provide a framework which is intelligent and easily understandable. For anyone searching for a spiritual path and spiritual understanding, this title will provide a sold foundation from which to work towards such self evolution.

I have been searching for a path towards personal growth and the need not to feel so unfulfilled. I heard Ms. Zohar on a talk show one night and sent for book. Boy, did God keep me awake that night for a purpose. While I struggled to completely understand the first few chapters which were somewhat technical, I couldn't put the book down. One has to come away with a sense of being able to progress towards a SQ. When Ms Zohar and Dr. Marshall write about the holiness of the everyday and how to look at tying my shoe laces or cooking a meal or attending a community festival from this deep perspective, I knew this was the book for me. I don't like to turn down the corners of pages but I intend to reread the book and to refer to these pages often. The book have given me not only the perception of what is not working for me but also what will work for me.

I have to admit that I had to read this book more than once and study it in order to gain a full appreciation, however, it was worthwhile. Spiritual Intelligence demonstrates through psychology, anatomy, and physics how we all have innate spiritual intelligence and that it may be dormant within us. And that we can take steps to awaken our spiritual intelligence and the first step is through self-awareness and coming from your deepest truth. I thought it was great how the author presented ideas to show the presence of spiritual intelligence, cultural difference on the perspectives of spiritual intelligence and how to begin a path of a spiritually intelligent life. I highly recommend this book as a study guide for a deeper understanding of our spiritual capability and manifestation.

This is a profound book that reviews intelligence on so many different levels. It also studies what makes us uniquely human, and that is Spiritual Intelligence. In the words of the author, animals have emotional intelligence, computers have IQ, but only humans have SQ or Spiritual Intelligence.

The author's theme is well supported by creative and insightful diagram such as the Lotus of the Self.

Within this book, you will learn a lot about yourself, others, and humankind. You will also be inspired to reach higher level of spiritual levels than you ever thought possible.

This book also integrates different systems into one coherent whole. Different psychological scales like Myer Briggs, the Enneagram, and others, all get integrated into one meta awareness system.

This is a book to treasure, read, and reread.

the central thesis of the book;that spiritual intelligence constitutes a holising agency uniting each individual self in the in 'ground of being'(-that from which our existence derives),is thoughtfully proposed in various contexts of understanding.zohar is very lucid when divulging the scientific revelations of quantum physics and its relation to models of the self,these insights get related to the brain and the nature of consciousness in liberating ways,ways which further the arguments proposed in the quantum self and the quantum society in light of new evidence.she speaks of this era being particularly spiritually dumb and appeals to a need to see each individual in the context of the cosmos itself.this book is essentially about shifting our viewpoint from our individual selfs to the eternal identity of everything itself.she speaks very efectively about the nature of suffering;my one worry is that the book appear to the buyer as just another 'self help' book promising this result and that.sq is nothing of the sort.its theme demands that one let go of the confines of the ego,and thereby its selfish wants for personal happiness.it isn't offering a cure for suffering,it is offering a way of accepting suffering, of learning to grow from it.in fact the very uniting with the larger identity of the cosmos demands a certain letting go of the little self and an accepting of what IS,rather than what could have been.her exploration of spiritual intelligence in relation to different personality types is again very insightful,but viewed in the wrong way could lead the intelligent reader into thinking danah is offering just another 'improvement fad'.i strongly recommend that one reads the quantum self first,because this makes sq all the more richer and allows the reader to become aqainted with danahs motives and imperatives,ensuring that the reader doesn't dismiss her claims without due consideration.a fabulous book!