What is Spiritual intelligence (SQ)?

Spiritual Intelligence is not religious or even dependent upon religion as its foundation?

"SQ is a transformative intelligence that allows you to break old paradigms and to invent new ones, to reframe problems and situations, and to dissolve old patterns and old ways of thinking. SQ also represents our access to, and need for deep meaning, fundamental values and a sense of purpose, and the extent to which these influence our decisions and actions. It has the force to address lower motivations and to shift us towards higher motivations."
Danah Zohar

Unlike IQ, which computers have, and EQ, which exists in higher mammals, SQ is uniquely human and, some argue, the most fundamental of the three.

Key Characteristics of Spiritual Intelligence, according to Zohar, are:

1. Self-Awareness - you know who you really are and you know that you are connected with the whole universe.
2. Vision & Values Led – or Idealism. Children naturally want to serve, and so do we. Vision and values led is definitive of our humanity.
3. The Capacity to Face and USE Adversity - 0wning our mistakes and adversity and using pain and tragedy to learn
4. To be Holistic - seeing the connections between things. Being open to and interested in EVERYTHING.
5. Diversity - thriving in and celebrating diversity. I look at you and see what is different in you and I say "Thank God for that!"
6. Field Independence (Courage) - a term from psychology that means the courage not to adapt, to be independent.
7. The Tendency to Ask WHY? Questions are infinite. In Quantum Physics questions CREATE reality.
8. The Ability to Re-Frame - put things into a larger context of meaning.
9. Spontaneity. This is NOT acting on a whim - it comes from the same Latin roots as RESPONSE and RESPONSIBILITY. It is not conditioned by fear. It is appropriately "responsive to" the world.