Spiritual Intelligence: The Philosophy of East and West

Abstract

This paper reviewed the articles, journals and book on spiritual intelligence, Eastern and Western philosophies related to spiritual intelligence, and humanistic views of spiritual intelligence. Spirituality is religion for some people and for others, they are spiritually aware but they are not religious. But spiritual intelligence is not just confined in terms of relation with God and faith, it has many perspectives and point of views, beliefs, and philosophy. Generally, it is vast in nature. The eastern belief and the western belief and philosophies has some similarities in terms of spiritual intelligence which is discussed by some eminent humanistic psychologists like Jung and Rogers. These similarities between the principles of spiritual intelligence by western philosophers and modern theorists and eastern concepts and hermetic tradition are reviewed here.