SQ: Connecting With Our Spiritual Intelligence - Hardcover

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 end of the 20th 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

"A most thoughtful and accessible book that earns the reader's gratitude and respect-- a book that will help many parents and teachers think in new ways about "intelligence," its possibilities and its various forms of expression."-Dr. Robert Coles, Harvard University
"SQ: Connecting With Our Spiritual Intelligence is a book whose time has come. At last now there is language for the yearnings that people everywhere are feeling. Danah Zohar is able to bring into concert theories and theologies that have for so long been in competition - a beautiful example of the very intelligence she writes about. It is especially critical for educators to be aware of these concepts as we try to teach the whole child. It is this "curriculum of being" that is the most critical and lacking element of today's schooling experience."--Beverly Johnson of the National Education Association 's Teaching and Learning HQ in Washington D.C.
"Danah Zohar's work has been a source of inspiration to me for years. It bridges the world of mainstream science to the realm of consciousness and spirit. "SQ" adds new and important perspectives to what intelligence really is and how we can use spiritual intelligence to redesign our organizations--learning to identify the whole before the parts and how to move boundaries."--Mats Lederhausen, Vice President, Strategy McDonalds Corporation