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Summary: Boring...An uninspiring look at the latest research...
Review: A spiritual mshmash of all the research out there regarding our inherent spiritual proclivities. A poor attempt to reconcile science and religion.
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Summary: Spiritual format for the 21st century.
Review: 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.
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Summary: Another Source of Frustration
Review: I don't know what it is about writers on the subject of spirituality that leads them to believe that they are privy to information about the world that none of the rest of us are; but this is just another example of that. It is groundless personal opinion. Same as always, for the past three thousand years.I will keep looking for a reputable treatment of something that is so important.
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Summary: one small but essential step for mankind
Review: 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.
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Summary: Great Spiritual Reference
Review: 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.
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Summary: More Like An Academic Research Paper Than A Popular Reading
Review: 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.
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Summary: More Like An Academic Research Paper Than A Popular Reading
Review: 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.
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Summary: My thoughts about the book
Review: 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...
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Summary: A Pyschological/Spiritual/Physiological New Golden Bough
Review: 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.
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Summary: A Pyschological/Spiritual/Physiological New Golden Bough
Review: 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.
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