Thinking with Your Soul: Spiritual Intelligence and Why It Matters

by Richard N. Wolman

Book Overview

"Spiritual intelligence is the human capacity to ask ultimate questions about the meaning of life and to experience simultaneously the seamless connection between each of us and the world in which we live." - Dr. Richard Wolman The quest for more meaning in everyday life arises in all of us at one time or another. In fact, spirituality can be the touchstone of our lives - a single reliable constant that sustains us through life's most trying moments...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0609605488
• ISBN13: 9780609605486
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: Harmony
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.99 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.8" x 8.6"

Customer Reviews

Finally, An Intelligent Book about Spirituality

Thinking With Your Soul: Spiritual Intelligence and Why It Matters is a masterful blend of science, clinical experience and spirituality. Tackling the difficult, and controversial problem of spirituality, Wolman makes a convincing case for the existence of a new intelligence inherent in the human condition. I approached this book skeptically, but was soon engaged in the range of topics and fields examined and synthesized. From evolutionary psychology, philosophy, and cognitive neuroscience, Wolman makes accessible the most difficult and complex of issues. He then shows how his new methodology for studying spirituality evolved, not from his preconceptions, but from the minds and hearts of thousands of individuals. This new procedure has wide applications in daily life and also in the consulting room. The book is written in elegant prose - almost poetic at times - and reveals the compassion and sensitivity Wolman shows to his patients, his students and his colleagues. This is an important book. You will read it more than one time.

Spirituality in everyday life

I love "Thinking with Your Soul"; it is a wonderful book for anyone interested in expanding one's own spiritual awareness through the acts of living. Dr. Wolman invites the reader to open the door that leads to discovery of the relevance of spirituality for each of us not only within the context of the community we live, but also in relationship to larger questions about the meaning of life. His empirically based investigation unites everyday personal experience with the scientific approach to spirituality. Through PsychoMatrix Spirituality Inventory, Dr. Wolman found a way to measure spiritual intelligence not in the terms of numerical value, but as a developmental dimension which increases and deepens with life experiences. For an interested reader, the book is a pleasure to read. "Thinking with Your Soul" turns examining of one's own spirituality to a highly attractive endeavor. I highly recommend it.

BELONGS IN EVERY SPIRITUAL COLLECTION

This book is expertly crafted, beginning with explanation of the categories of intelligence as postulated by leading psychologists, continuing with his contention that there is a spiritual intelligence, an explanation of how his test was developed, and then the test itself along with evaluations of the results. The reader learns more of himself, and where he is in the seven aspects of spiritual intelligence, how to increase his awareness in some aspects if desired...

Book of the Year!

A Must-Read! Wolman's insights into the spiritual self that resides in all of us are mind-expanding. The included spirituality inventory yields profound results, and enables you to learn something about yourself that you've always wanted to know. Wolman's writing is clear, fluid, and bold. As a college professor, I have read many books, in many fields of interest. This book has my unconditional support, and I suggest it to anyone who is in the mood to learn.