What is spiritual intelligence?

Different religions have taken the term ‘Spiritual Intelligence’ and have created their own versions based on their respective faith and Philosophy. Some of the more famous ones are

1. Spiritual intelligence; A HINDU PERSPECTIVE ON SPIRITUALITY AND MANAGEMENT (Hinduism)
2. Spiritual Intelligence: What Is It?(Christian)
3. Measuring Islamic Spiritual Intelligence (Islam)
4. The Components of Spiritual Intelligence(Buddhist )

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But it was originally Danah Zohar who coined the term "spiritual intelligence" and introduced the idea in 1997 in her book ReWiring the Corporate Brain. It was different from all the versions mentioned above.
Spiritual intelligence is a term used by some philosophers, psychologists, and developmental theorists to indicate spiritual parallels with IQ (Intelligence Quotient) and EQ (Emotional Quotient).

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• Spirituality exists in the hearts and minds of men and women everywhere, within religious traditions and independently of tradition. Definitions of spiritual intelligence rely on the concept of spirituality as being distinct from religiosity.
• Spiritual intelligence is defined as "the capacity of an individual to possess a socially relevant purpose in life by understanding 'self' and having a high degree of conscience, compassion and commitment to human values” (Definition by Vineeth V. Kumar and Manju Mehta who researched the concept, extensively. Operationalizing the construct)

Danah Zohar defined 12 principles underlying spiritual intelligence:

• Self-awareness: Knowing what I believe in and value, and what deeply motivates me.
• Spontaneity: Living in and being responsive to the moment.
• Being vision- and value-led: Acting from principles and deep beliefs, and living accordingly.
• Holism: Seeing larger patterns, relationships, and connections; having a sense of belonging.
• Compassion: Having the quality of "feeling-with" and deep empathy.
• Celebration of diversity: Valuing other people for their differences, not despite them.
• Field independence: Standing against the crowd and having one's own convictions.
• Humility: Having the sense of being a player in a larger drama, of one's true place in the world.
• Tendency to ask fundamental "Why?" questions: Needing to understand things and get to the bottom of them.
• Ability to reframe: Standing back from a situation or problem and seeing the bigger picture or wider context.
• Positive use of adversity: Learning and growing from mistakes, setbacks, and suffering.
• Sense of vocation: Feeling called upon to serve, to give something back.

Robert Emmons defines spiritual intelligence as "the adaptive use of spiritual information to facilitate everyday problem solving and goal attainment."
He originally proposed 5 components of spiritual intelligence:

1. The capacity to transcend the physical and material.
2. The ability to experience heightened states of consciousness.
3. The ability to sanctify everyday experience.
4. The ability to utilize spiritual resources to solve problems.
5. The capacity to be virtuous.

The fifth capacity was later removed due to its focus on human behavior rather than ability, thereby not meeting previously established scientific criteria for intelligence.
Frances Vaughan offers the following description: "Spiritual intelligence is concerned with the inner life of mind and spirit and its relationship to being in the world."
Cindy Wigglesworth defines spiritual intelligence as "the ability to act with wisdom and compassion, while maintaining inner and outer peace, regardless of the circumstances."
She breaks down the competencies that comprise SQ into 21 skills, arranged into a four quadrant model similar to Daniel Goleman's widely used model of emotional intelligence or EQ. The four quadrants of spiritual intelligence are defined as:

1. Higher Self / Ego self Awareness
2. Universal Awareness
3. Higher Self / Ego self Mastery
4. Spiritual Presence / Social Mastery[11]

David B. King has undertaken research on spiritual intelligence at Trent University in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada. King defines spiritual intelligence as a set of adaptive mental capacities based on non-material and transcendent aspects of reality, specifically those that:

"...contribute to the awareness, integration, and adaptive application of the nonmaterial and transcendent aspects of one's existence, leading to such outcomes as deep existential reflection, enhancement of meaning, recognition of a transcendent self, and mastery of spiritual states."

King further proposes four core abilities or capacities of spiritual intelligence:

1. Critical Existential Thinking: The capacity to critically contemplate the nature of existence, reality, the universe, space, time, and other existential/metaphysical issues; also the capacity to contemplate non-existential issues in relation to one's existence (i.e., from an existential perspective).
2. Personal Meaning Production: The ability to derive personal meaning and purpose from all physical and mental experiences, including the capacity to create and master a life purpose.
3. Transcendental Awareness: The capacity to identify transcendent dimensions/patterns of the self (i.e., a transpersonal or transcendent self), of others, and of the physical world (e.g., nonmaterialism) during normal states of consciousness, accompanied by the capacity to identify their relationship to one's self and to the physical.
4. Conscious State Expansion: The ability to enter and exit higher states of consciousness (e.g. pure consciousness, cosmic consciousness, unity, oneness) and other states of trance at one's own discretion (as in deep contemplation, meditation, prayer, etc.).[13]

https://youtu.be/W37TyJVEUfgSpiritual intelligence - Wikipedia
http://www.davidbking.net/spiritualintelligence/sisri-24.pdf (questionnaire for Spiritual intelligence)