Development of Spiritual Intelligence: 4C Mantra

    

 From the works of the researchers and theorists on spiritual intelligence given in the references, the following 4C mantra has been culled out. 

4C Manta of development of spiritual intelligence 

C1: Concern for development of the inner life of mind with noble thoughts and spiritual reality along their relationship to one’s purpose of being in the world 

C2: Combination of higher consciousness levels and adaptive mental capacities based on non-physical and transcendental aspects of existential reality 

C3: Critical Existential Thinking (CET) is strived for through daily self-reflection, contemplation on the nature of existence, cosmic reality in terms of space and time from an existential perspective 

C4: Conscious State Expansion (CSE) is deliberating created attending to the development of self-awareness and cosmic awareness leading to self-realisation and oneness of the two

References.

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2.     Edwards, A. C. (2003). Response to the spiritual intelligence debate: Are some conceptual distinctions needed here? The International Journal for the Psychology of Religion, 13(1), 49-52.

3.     Emmons, R. A. (1999). The psychology of ultimate concern: Motivation and spirituality in personality. New York: Guilford Press.

4.     Emmons, R. A. (2000). Is spirituality an intelligence? Motivation, cognition and the psychology of ultimate concern. The International Journal for the Psychology of Religion, 10(1), 3-26.

5.     Emmons, R. A. (2000). Spirituality and intelligence: Problems and prospects. The International Journal for the Psychology of Religion, 10(1), 57-64.

6.       Fry, L. W. (2003). Toward a theory of spiritual leadership. The Leadership Quarterly, 14(6), 693-77

7.       Gardner, H. (2000). Intelligence reframed: Multiple intelligence for the 21st century. New York: Basic Books.

8.       Glazer, S. (1994). The heart of learning: Spirituality in education. New York: Jeremy P. Tarcher

9.       Zohar, D. (2005). Spiritually intelligent leadership. Leader to Leader, 38, 45-51.

10.   Zohar, D., & Marshall, I. (2004). Spiritual capital. Wealth we can live by. San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler