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Summary: S Q Connecting with our Spiritual Intelligence
Review: 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.
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Summary: S Q Connecting with our Spiritual Intelligence
Review: 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.
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Summary: An attempt to explain the inexplicable
Review: 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.
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Summary: a profound book
Review: 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!
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Summary: Winning the inner popularity contest
Review: There is a point, late in this book, when "a spiritually dumb culture" is exemplified by an American businessman who has "absorbed goals that make no sense just because he learned them at Harvard." This seems to assume that great minds have always been gluttons for things that make no sense. Part of getting a great education was being exposed to some variety, though that ideal tends to overstate the amount by which any American has ever shown any sign of benefiting from any kind of education, however in tune the assigned reading may have been with being "set for a coronary at fifty-five" so he can "die feeling that he never achieved his goals." (p. 283). On a personal level, I would just like to add that part of the fun of observing the operation of a great enterprise like Harvard was in suspecting that such things were genuinely dubious, and a real individual would derive more pleasure in being able to say that having a mind that has been criticized at Harvard for having perverse reasons for being there (inappropriate laughter being worse there than anywhere) is not as pleasing as receiving a rejection letter from their alumni rag (Harvard Magazine) written by an editor who clearly felt that an article examining the question, "Is MY VIETNAM WAR JOKE BOOK an ascetic ideal?" would be puzzling for most of the readers of that magazine. People who think that Harvard can't have it both ways on a question like that don't know Harvard.
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Summary: SQ is the master intelligence.
Review: 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.
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