Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #209481 in Books
• Published on: 2001-01-22
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 336 pages

Amazon.co.uk Review
The standard IQ test measures rational intelligence--the skills we use to solve logical or strategic problems. For a long time, IQ results were considered the best measurement of a person's smarts and potential for success. But in the early 1990s Daniel Goleman pointed out that success is also dependent on emotional intelligence--the thinking that gives us empathy, compassion and the ability to respond appropriately to pain or pleasure. Now, at the beginning of the 21st century, authors Danah Zohar and Dr Ian Mitchell claim that there is another important Q to consider--the SQ, otherwise known as Spiritual Intelligence. In fact, the authors assert that "SQ is the necessary foundation for both the IQ and the EQ. It is our ultimate intelligence". They have an excellent point. After all, computers have high IQ, animals often have high EQ, but only humans have SQ--the ability to be creative, change the rules, alter situations and question why we are here. Because the authors are well researched and highly articulate, the entire book makes for intellectually, emotionally and spiritually compelling reading. Chapters include "The God Spot in the Brain", "How We Become Spiritually Stunted", "Six Paths Toward Greater Spiritual Intelligence" and "Assessing My SQ". --Gail Hudson

Amazon.co.uk Review
The standard IQ test measures rational intelligence--the skills we use to solve logical or strategic problems. For a long time, IQ results were considered the best measurement of a person's smarts and potential for success. But in the early 1990s Daniel Goleman pointed out that success is also dependent on emotional intelligence--the thinking that gives us empathy, compassion and the ability to respond appropriately to pain or pleasure. Now, at the beginning of the 21st century, authors Danah Zohar and Dr. Ian Mitchell claim that there is another important Q to consider--the SQ, otherwise known as Spiritual Intelligence. In fact, the authors assert that "SQ is the necessary foundation for both the IQ and the EQ. It is our ultimate intelligence." They have an excellent point. After all, computers have high IQ, animals often have high EQ, but only humans have SQ--the ability to be creative, change the rules, alter situations and question why we are here. Because the authors are well-researched and highly articulate, the entire book makes for intellectually, emotionally and spiritually compelling reading. Chapters include "The God Spot in the Brain", "How We Become Spiritually Stunted", "Six Paths Toward Greater Spiritual Intelligence" and "Assessing My SQ." --Gail Hudson

Irish Times
'It's never too late to raise your SQ and this book is full of ways to help you'

Customer Reviews

Would not recommend it
Is pseudo-scientific, gives superficial hope to the non-knowledgeable critics of intelligence testing and mixes up constructs and concepts that do not bear the relation that this book suggests. Criticism on IQ testing (e.g. Liungman, Howe, White) based on facts and evidence is one thing; uninformed, new age, hypothetical ideas about intelligence are another.

Using your brain and your mind
This book, which I came upon quite by chance has proved to be perhaps one of the most illuminating guides to the working of oursekves as whole beings that I could have wished to find. If your in need of definition, of direction, of understanding at a deeper level then reading this is certainly a worthwhile step to take. Because of its content it requires the reader to be completely open to the concept of us at the heart of the universe, but ready and willing to take responsability for the actions which we take that are grounded in our personality types.The author uses quotes taken from through the ages and intersperses them with 21st century quantum thinking to come up with a great guide to increasing your spiritual quotient.

A refreshingly new perspective on human intelligence.
In a fragmented global society where intelligence is measured in terms of logical reasoning rather than intuition and insight, and where our mechanistic Newtonian perspective allows us to view matter as a collection of individual building blocks, and people as separate entities, it is not surprising that many of us behave accordingly, with predictable consequences for humanity and the environment.

To connect with each other, we need first to discover the centre of our own being, which is the common ground of all humanity and, according to the revelations of quantum physics, of the whole of manifest reality. This book provides a route map to that centre, integrating key theories of modern physics, psychology and Eastern mysicism to provide a suitable path for each of us, whatever our dominant personality type.

At the very least, this book acknowledges the need for all individuals to seek a higher meaning to life and allows us to look more closely at ourselves and the way we view the world. At best it encourages us to integrate all the different aspects of our personalities, to ground ourselves in a deeper level of reality and to learn to live together in co-operation and harmony.

A brilliant book which will be deeply appreciated by all those who are spiritually intelligent enough to read it.