SQ: Connecting with Our Spiritual Intelligence

by Danah Zohar and Ian Marshall

Book Overview

A radical new exploration of the human need for meaning and values. At the beginning of the 20th century, as psychologists discovered ways and means to measure intelligence, Aristotle's definition of... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1582341311
• ISBN13: 9781582341316
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: Bloomsbury USA
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

Great Spiritual Reference

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.

SQ is the master intelligence.

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.

A Pyschological/Spiritual/Physiological New Golden Bough

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.

one small but essential step for mankind

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.

My thoughts about the book

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...