Spiritual Intelligence
The Ultimate Intelligence
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Publisher Description
At the beginning of the twentieth century psychologists discovered ways and means to measure intelligence that developed into an obsession with IQ. In the mid 1990's, Daniel Goleman popularised research into emotional intelligence, EQ, pointing out that EQ is a basic requirement for the appropriate use of IQ. In this century, there is enough collective evidence from psychology, neurology, anthropology and cognitive science to show us that there is a third 'Q', 'SQ' or Spiritual Intelligence. SQ is uniquely human and, the authors argue, the most fundamental intelligence. SQ is what we use to develop our longing and 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 and the way we shape our lives.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Science may still be a long way from measuring the quality of human consciousness, but it can already detect its presence in the brain's electric frequencies. Drawing on the research of neuroscientist Rodolfo Llinas, which connects consciousness with the presence of 40 HZ neural oscillations in the human brain, the authors of The Quantum Self attempt to conceptualize the spiritual state of "higher consciousness" within the realm of quantum physics. Going one step further than Llinas, Zohar and Marshall propose that these frequencies are evidence of spiritual intelligence, or the "intelligence of the soul." They define SQ as "unitive" thinking and describe it in physical terms as the high frequency oscillatory activity that binds the proto-consciousness in all single-cell life into a unified, meaningful whole within certain special structures, such as the human brain. Of the neural cells involved in conscious experience, they write: "They behave as many individual voices that have become one voice in a choir. No known phenomenon can generate this kind of coherence, but it is the rule in quantum processes." The unity of all living things that is at the core of Buddhist philosophy serves as a natural segue from quantum physics to metaphysics. Unsurprisingly, Buddhist, Hindu and Hebrew texts provide the foundation for the authors' prescriptions for increasing spiritual intelligence in the latter half of this engrossing and inevitably controversial book. Illus. not seen by PW. Foreign rights sold in Germany, Japan, the Netherlands, Sweden, Brazil and the U.K.
