Contemporary Perspectives of Wholeness/Spiritual Intelligence

This chapter presents the contemporary perspectives of spiritual intelligence emerging from recent research in spirituality, psychology, education, health care, leadership, and management points of view of wholeness, well-being, and fulfillment. In this view, spiritual intelligence holds an expanded perspective of human potential capable of deeper awareness, higher consciousness, existential meaning, and self-transcendence, recognizing the interconnectedness of reality. Specifically, this section focuses on contemporary research concerning personal wholeness, leadership wholeness, workplace wholeness, organizational wholeness, and environmental wholeness as various perspectives of spiritual intelligence in the context of contemporary leadership and management.