Spiritual Intelligence Free Course for Students

The Essential Experience

When you activate a higher dimension of intelligence beyond the ego, you gain access to the qualities and capabilities of your true self. You can use the method taught in the 3Q Essentials online course to shift from ego to soul and activate your spiritual intelligence. This enables you to live your best life – to think better, feel better, relate better, and perform better.

Liberating Experience

The experience of spiritual intelligence is liberating because after activating your spiritual intelligence, your sense of self is no longer based on your thoughts, emotions, and reactions. Instead your sense of self is based on your presence, with its spacious and open-hearted feeling, free from the limits of the conditioned thought process, and free from the survival fear of the ego.

Secular Methodology

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.

Why This Course?

Spiritual intelligence is a practice and a philosophy that enriches your life, improves academic performance, enhances a wide range of life skills and work skills, builds better organisations, and ultimately creates a more just and caring world. You have probably read about other courses that offer benefits similar to the benefits described above. So why should you choose this course? The reason is that this course offers the fastest and most effective method to achieve these results using a secular science-based approach. This course is based on findings in psychology and neuroscience, corroborated by the discoveries of spiritual traditions. One of the reasons this approach is so powerful is that it identifies the human operating system.

Human Operating System

The twin poles of attention represent the human operating system, with the ego at the object-pole, and the true self, the soul, or consciousness itself, at the subject-pole. Shifting from the object-pole to the subject-pole creates a corresponding shift from ego to soul, which activates the spiritual dimension of intelligence.

The Difference between Mindfulness and Spiritual Intelligence

Mindfulness and spiritual intelligence have much in common, but there are also significant differences. Mindfulness is the practice of simply observing your experience without judgement, which results in a sense of calm and composure. By contrast, spiritual intelligence is the practice of shifting from ego to the higher self in the context of all experience. This difference results in three main distinctions between Mindfulness and spiritual intelligence, which can be summarised under the headings of Ethics, Meaning and Purpose, and Existential Issues.

1. Ethics

Unlike spiritual intelligence, Mindfulness has no ethical dimension. Mindfulness simply instructs us to pay attention to what we are aware of without judgement. While abiding by this instruction, you can mindfully lie, cheat, and steal. There are no ethical implications of simply being aware of experience without judgement. In the original Buddhist context in which Mindfulness was taught it was accompanied by an admonition to live a right life, made up of right understanding, right intention, and right action, which involves inherently ethical demands. But in the western context in which Mindfulness is taught as a standalone discipline, the demand to live a right life is absent. By contrast, spiritual intelligence is inherently ethical because the experience of SQ is grounded in love and compassion, which are the foundation and guarantee of ethical conduct.

2. Meaning and Purpose

If you already have clarity on the meaning and purpose of your life, then Mindfulness can serve to remind you. But unlike spiritual intelligence, the practice of Mindfulness does not discover deeper meaning and purpose. Whereas spiritual intelligence discovers deeper meaning and purpose by virtue of shifting from the ego to the higher self.

3. Existential Issues

Unlike spiritual intelligence, Mindfulness does not address existential issues, such as the vitally important question of “Who am I?” This is because Mindfulness merely attends to the objects of consciousness, whereas spiritual intelligence attends to consciousness itself. In fact, spiritual intelligence is about being consciousness itself, regardless of the objects of consciousness. This focus on being consciousness itself reveals all the answers to existential questions. A deeper sense of meaning and purpose actually depends on answers to such existential questions.

For the above reasons, spiritual intelligence is more comprehensive than Mindfulness, because SQ includes and exceeds the benefits of Mindfulness.

Why is Spiritual Awakening Regarded as Difficult?

Now we know that spiritual awakening is easy, but historically spiritual awakening was regarded as difficult. That’s because until recently people didn’t know about the human operating system (hOS) and they didn’t know how to navigate the hOS with ease and precision. But now we do know! Recent advances in psychology and neuroscience have identified the basic operating system of human awareness, and discovered a simple way to unlock the spiritual dimension of intelligence for instant spiritual realisation.

Course Content

The 3Q Essentials online course consists of pre-recorded videos, as described below. There are six pre-recorded videos of about an hour each. You receive one video per week for the duration of the course. The Essential Experience also includes the 3Q Mentoring program, which is designed to help you get the most out of the course material.

Course Outline

Course Creator

Richard Griffiths is a psychologist, researcher, author, and trainer, whose mission is to provide education and training in secular spirituality, for the benefit of individuals, organisations and the community, and in preparation and support for the emerging next stage of collective consciousness. He is the founder of the 3Q Institute for Education and Training in Secular Spirituality, and former National Chairman of the Transpersonal Psychology Section of the Australian Psychological Society. Drawing on his decades of research, he is the author of a new framework that unites ancient wisdom with modern knowledge about psychology and spirituality. His work offers a new understanding of the human operating system, and a new method of experiencing spiritual intelligence that works instantly, among other significant innovations. His groundbreaking research on secular spiritual intelligence passed academic peer review, and helped to establish secular spirituality as a legitimate field of scientific investigation. He received a global Award for Outstanding Leadership in Education, and has given presentations on secular spiritual intelligence at international conferences, like the Conference on Advanced Research in Education and the Global Conference on Education and Teaching.

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