The Spiritually Intelligent Leader
© Josie Gregory: The most important thing to say about spiritual intelligence is that we humans have it in abundance. The challenge is for us to use it effectively. Why it is a challenge is based on man’s need to control his own destiny from his personality which has increasingly honoured the human mind but not the human spirit. The human spirit is the seat of its own intelligence. Leadership is a quality belonging to all people. Leadership describes an energetic force a person has to forge ahead, to lean into the future, co-constructing reality as we meet it. There is a `tipping point’ which connects a person in his immediate and emerging reality. This quality allows a person to live between two worlds; the physical world and the metaphysical (imaginal) world. There is no doubt that we are capable of moving between these two worlds (Corbin, 1972, Heron, 1992). The capacity of the soul to inhabit both these domains is part of the physiology (or dynamic functioning) of the soul and is an essential part of our spiritual nature. Spiritual intelligence is experienced within its own universe, where that universe holds our cognitive and emotional intelligence as well as many other forms of intelligences. How to access our spiritual intelligence can be described under many strategies and spiritual practices, the most significant one being intentionality, by which I mean our Will. Intentionality is a philosophical concept attempting to describe the psychical direction the soul takes. In this respect, intentionality has the characteristic of psychical phenomenon, the phenomenon being the soul’s natural tendency to reach out, to connect with its own form reflected in the environment. Intentionality does not mean focusing on an object but rather a reaching out, to create the uncreated; manifest the un-manifest, and all for the greater good. Spiritual presence is a quality and property of the spiritual universe. It is the inhabiting of the psyche in the imaginal realm. This form of consciousness can only be experienced if we move through the personal self to the spiritual self that is part of the Divine Ground
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Soul in this context means the containment of the energy fields sometimes called astral, causal and subtle energy fields- or put more simply, our Essence or Higher Self).
