SQ: Connecting With Our Spiritual Intelligence

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA, Jan 15, 2000 - Psychology - 324 pages

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 man as "a rational animal" developed into an obsession with IQ. In the mid 1990's, Daniel Goleman popularized research into emotional intelligence, EQ. Now, in the twenty-first century, there is growing evidence that a third "Q" exists-"SQ," or Spiritual Intelligence.

SQ is our most fundamental intelligence. It is what we use to develop our capacity for meaning, vision and value. It allows us to dream and to strive. It underlies the things we believe in and the role our beliefs and values play in the actions that we take. Spiritual Intelligence explores how accessing our SQ helps us to live up to our potential for better, more satisfying lives.

 

Contents

Introducing SQ
3
The Crisis of Meaning
18
Three Kinds of Thinking
39
More about 40Hz Neural Oscillations
67
The God Spot in the Brain
91
A Brief History of Humanity
115
How We Become Spiritually Stunted
165
Healing Ourselves with SQ
184
What Personality Type Am I?
216
Six Paths Towards Greater Spiritual Intelligence
225
Assessing My SQ
276
Being Spiritually Intelligent in
282
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Danah Zohar teaches in the Oxford Strategic Leadership Program at Oxford University. Dr. Ian Marshall is a psychiatrist and psychotherapist. They are the authors of The Quantum Self, Quantum Society, and Who's Afraid of Schrodinger's Cat? They live in Oxford, England.

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