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From Origins of the Spiritual Intelligence Paradigm
Thanks, I’ve been looking for info about this subject for ages, and yours is the best I have discovered till now. But what about the bottom line? Are you sure about the source?
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Yes, I’m sure about the source of this information. The articles on this site are based on decades of research. As a psychologist and spiritual practitioner I thoroughly researched and tested all this information. My conclusions are supported by findings in four independent branches of scientific research. Please see the article entitled The Psychology of Spiritual Intelligence for details of the research supporting the findings on this website.
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This article is incredibly dull. Everyday living continues.
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Maybe you don’t recognise the relevance of spiritual intelligence to you. It’s natural to hope that the ego will bring happiness. We all started off hoping that. But sooner or later life teaches us otherwise. So maybe you haven’t suffered enough yet to value this information. When the lessons of life have made their mark, it will be obvious to you that the ego inevitably brings suffering. Only then will your soul will be important to you. The peace of the soul is the alternative to the inevitable pain of the ego. But even so, everyday living continues, as you say. But when you live from your soul, not from your ego, you will experience and create a different world, as an expression of the wisdom, compassion, integrity, joy, love, creativity, and peace of spiritual intelligence.
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From The Neuroscience of Spiritual Intelligence
Some may possibly consider SQ is accessible to everybody. But anyone who has experienced it will know there is far more depth to it than some might have imagined.
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SQ is accessible to everyone in principle, because we all have two poles of attention. However, not everyone is ready to use this knowledge to activate their spiritual intelligence. You are right that SQ has great depth, but that’s not the reason why some people are not ready to use it. It’s simply that some people have not suffered enough yet to understand that the ego inevitably brings pain. Therefore they are not motivated to look for an alternative to the ego. The pain of the ego eventually creates the depth of awareness necessary to recognise and exercise SQ. Therefore by the time people are interested in SQ because they have had enough pain, they are already equipped with the depth of awareness necessary to use it. Consequently the fact that SQ has great depth turns out not to be an impediment to those who are ready to experience their spiritual intelligence.
Nevertheless, developing and deepening spiritual intelligence is a gradual process that relies on the neuroplasticity of the brain. This takes time. But not a lot of time. Experiments in neuroscience find that a meditation practice of only 20 minutes a day causes measurable improvements in brain function in a matter of only three weeks. The results include enlargement in brain regions that govern intuition, comprehension, and decision-making. Longer term brain changes caused by meditation are associated with hemispheric synchronisation and whole brain activation, and result in enlarged brain regions that govern the qualities and capabilities of spiritual intelligence, in the form of wisdom, compassion, integrity, joy, love, creativity, and peace.
Meditation and spiritual intelligence share the same space of awareness. The three steps of the SQ portal shift from being the ego at the object-pole to being the soul at the subject-pole. Being the soul means being feeling-awareness itself (or consciousness itself), which is the space of meditation. Consequently, all the benefits of meditation as summarised above from studies in neuropsychology also belong to each moment of spiritual intelligence.
3Q Training
As a powerful combination of three principal dimensions of intelligence, 3Q represents IQ and EQ in association with SQ. Studies in neuroscience reveal that the experience of spiritual intelligence is correlated with hemispheric synchronisation and whole brain activation. The resulting whole-brain coherence optimises brain function and replaces the ego (the false self) with the soul (consciousness itself, the true self) by shifting from the object-pole of attention to the subject-pole of attention, which results in greater fulfilment, increased creativity, sharpened intuition, more empathy and compassion, and improved performance on a wide range of work skills and life skills. If you want to learn more, there is a Course on 3Q Training here.
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The SQ paradigm is based on a synthesis combining the wisdom of ancient spiritual traditions with the findings of modern science, as summarised in this article here.
How to Experience Spiritual Intelligence [Video]
Spiritual intelligence is easy to experience. We all experience SQ spontaneously at times. But spontaneous moments of SQ are rare and unpredictable. Therefore it’s important to know how to experience SQ intentionally. When you can engage your spiritual intelligence voluntarily, at any time of your own choosing, SQ becomes your most powerful personal resource. This video provides step-by-step instructions on how to activate SQ intentionally. Watch the video here.
3Q Practitioner Training Course
Do you want to accelerate your own personal and spiritual growth, and teach others to do the same? The 3Q Practitioner Training Course trains and certifies Spiritual Intelligence Practitioners.
Spiritual Intelligence is a higher dimension of intelligence beyond the ego that has access to the advanced capabilities of the true self. This Course is based on secular spirituality not on religious beliefs. Consequently, the methodology used to activate spiritual intelligence is not founded on articles of faith but on experience and knowledge, backed by evidence from related fields of scientific research. Certified Practitioners are provided with the training materials to coach their clients in spiritual intelligence, and conduct workshops in spiritual intelligence for leaders and organisations, and for the general public.
As the intelligence of the true self beyond the ego, spiritual intelligence (SQ) has many benefits that exceed the scope of intellectual intelligence (IQ) and emotional intelligence (EQ). Spiritual intelligence relieves anxiety and depression and the extreme pain of meaninglessness and despair that is often associated with ego states of awareness. Freedom from ego, as experienced with SQ, grants wisdom and clarity of vision, combined with more empathy and compassion, which increases creativity and intuition, and results in greater personal fulfilment and better performance on important life skills and work skills. Spiritual intelligence therefore represents the most powerful resource for personal and professional growth and fulfilment.
Widespread adoption of spiritual intelligence as a personal code of conduct raises the standard of accountability in collective governance, in response to public demand. When standards in governments and corporations are based on spiritual intelligence, the energy of love will turn into a social and political force, as never before in history. Public training in spiritual intelligence therefore heralds a new era of human rights and social justice, which form the foundation for global cooperative community, shared prosperity, and world peace.
As a 3Q Practitioner you will be equipped to introduce spiritual intelligence in the context of contemporary secular culture, and contribute to the next stage in the evolution of collective consciousness. When a tipping point is reached, the emerging next stage of collective consciousness will result in global transformation, founded not on beliefs of any sort, or on government control, or on mass media narratives enforced by censorship of contrary views, but founded instead on the inherent qualities of consciousness itself, such as love, wisdom, and peace, which everyone can experience by activating their spiritual intelligence.
For more information about the 3Q Practitioner Training Course, click here.
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