What's Your Spirituality IQ?

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What makes us spiritual beings? Are we taught to want a spiritual dimension in our lives, or are we "wired for spirituality" in our brains? Today we hear from Danah Zohar and Ian Marshall, a couple who mix psychology, physics, philosophy and religion and who have coined the phrase "spiritual intelligence". And Roger Walsh, a professor of psychiatry and anthropology, speaks to us about his views on SQ.

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In the early part of the 20th century, IQ became a big issue, the measuring of our 'intelligence quotient'.

In the mid-90s, Daniel Goleman took the research of neuroscientists and psychologists and popularised the notion of another quotient - EQ, emotional intelligence.

Now, a third wave of scientific research suggesting we may be 'hard wired', neurologically, for spirituality has prompted the creation of SQ , the spirituality quotient.

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What makes us spiritual beings? Are we taught to want a spiritual dimension in our lives, or are we ‘wired for spirituality’ inside the brain?

Hello, and welcome to What’s your Spirituality IQ on The Spirit of Things. I’m Rachael Kohn.

In a moment we’ll hear from Danah Zohar and Ian Marshall, a couple who have spent their lives mixing psychology, physics, philosophy and religion. They’ve just jointly written a book called SQ, Spiritual Intelligence, the Ultimate Intelligence.

It’s a book that is as polyglot as the people who wrote it; on every page, bits of neurology, sociology, poetry, psychology and religious teachings, not to mention personality tests, combine in an avalanche of argument that we are spiritual beings because we are born that way.

But the trouble is, we’re not living up to our spiritual potential, and our world is in a mess because of it.

Also on the program is Roger Walsh, an Australian who lives and teaches in California, and who’s just written the book Essential Spirituality.