According to Vaughan[1] (2003), spiritual intelligence opens the heart, illuminates the mind, and inspires the soul, connecting the individual human psyche to the underlying ground of 'being'. He proposes that spiritual intelligence can be developed with practice and can help a person discriminate actuality from illusion through self-reflection to answer the questions of life and existence.
Zohar & Marshall[2] (2000), calling the spiritual Intelligence as the ultimate intelligence, maintain that while EQ exists in higher mammals, SQ is uniquely human which is linked to humanity's need for meaning, vision and value of life through striving to realize the existential truth and seeking quest for wholeness of existence by integrating the sociological, psychological, neurological and metaphysical aspects of human life. In other words, spiritual intelligence is an human ability to access higher meanings, values, abiding purposes, and unconscious aspects for living a richer and more creative life for its own worth.
The quality of teachers and their wisdom determine the quality of a school and its students. "Teachers do influence the character of students. Their emotional, logical, social and spiritual realms have profound influence on the development of children. Only teachers who are spiritually intelligent can encourage the development of students," say Agrawal and Khan[3] .
Further, Zohar[4] (2000) has identified some principles underlying spiritual intelligence, which have been classified in the a Venn diagram with 3 classes by this blogger as follows.
References [1] Vaugan, F. (2003). What is Spiritual intelligence? Journal of humanistic psychology 42, (2)
[2] Zohar, D. & Marshall, I. (2000). Spiritual Intelligence: The Ultimate Intelligence. London: Bloomsbury Publishing
[3] Agrawal, N & Khan, M. S. , of Education on Spiritual Intelligence between Science and Arts Undergraduate Students, Rerieved from http://ijip.in/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/B00359V2I42015.pdf
[4] Zohar, D., (2000) SQ: Connecting with Our Spiritual Intelligence, London: Bloomsbury
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