Do you have spiritual intelligence?

Spiritual intelligence is not about religion--it is a way of experiencing that is close to the earth. As the creator of the Journey Oracle, a set of divination wisdom cards, I have often wondered why some people have an ability to access a larger, deeper wisdom--a spiritual intelligence.   Here are several qualities that I think characterize spiritual intelligence, illustrated by images from the oceans and mountains of the Olympic National Park.

Spiritual intelligence is a special seeing 

into patterns and connections.

For example, do you notice an immediate response from nature to a mental question or puzzlement?    If you were thinking about making time to meditate, does the Buddha appear?

Spiritual intelligence reveals a power beyond the self 

which will speak to you. 

Do you feel the presence of elder wisdom in its many guises?  Do you trust the answers that come from this "silent talking?"

Spiritual intelligence is attention to experience that is 

beyond the ordinary, 

yet within the ordinary. 

Does a moment of silent contact feel charged with kinship?

Spiritual intelligence is characterized by humility.

Do you recognize that you have earned a gift, rather than possessed a power, when a moment of shared connection happens?

Spiritual intelligence is revealed by feeling your own truth, 

and not by proving or measuring that truth 

according to what others do or say. 

Spiritual intelligence creates a radical questioning 

of one's world view.  

It is no longer possible to hold on to assumptions 

of common practice. 

There is deep value in this vulnerability, 

in giving up control

and walking on the edge between the worlds.