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Ghostwritten

One of the great lessons I learned when I wrote and published my first book was the importance of having just the right title.

With that in mind, I must confess that I had a great deal of trepidation about giving a corporate book a title that included the word “spiritual.” Almost all the corporate consultants I talked to about writing this book advised me to stay away from using such words, even in the main body of the book, let alone in the title!

 And yet, I am sure you will agree that, while the word “spiritual” implies being not of this world, the term “spiritual intelligence” has an altogether more worldly and practical ring to it, following logically as it does from the other two accepted forms of intelligence¾intellectual and emotional.

Both intellectual and emotional intelligence are now part of the normal vocabulary of both the science and the practice of modern management, so it is surely not pushing the envelope too far to suggest that there might be come benefit in looking more closely at this other down-to-earth attribute that all human beings possess¾spiritual intelligence¾and seeing how it might be used to good advantage.

 In 1997, I wrote and published the book, “Radical Forgiveness: Making Room for the Miracle,” that proposed a form of forgiveness which was totally different from the traditional version of forgiveness that most people understood then to be the only kind. Radical forgiveness turned out to be, in stark contrast to traditional forgiveness, easy to do, simple to effect and almost instantaneous in its result. I have been doing workshops around the world using this particular technology since then, and it has changed the lives of many thousands of people.

 Radical Forgiveness was so successful because it did not rely on, or even reference, the traditional psychological therapeutic approach to forgiveness. Neither did it identify with the other-worldly spiritual approach to forgiveness with its meditations, guided visualizations and other “special techniques that don’t work. No, it was amazingly successful despite its apparent simplicity because it called upon and utilized the person’s innate spiritual intelligence.

I say innate, because I believe that it is something we all have¾and in roughly equal proportions. It’s just that we have tended to ignore spiritual intelligence and have downplayed its importance in favor of intellectual intelligence. Not that it is in competition with intellectual or even emotional intelligence. All three are complementary.

 Having proved that Radical Forgiveness works, I am now using a similar version of the technology as a form of conflict resolution and prevention within organizations. This version not only has the same case and simplicity to it, but the same dramatically high level of success. It is called the Quantum Energy Management System (QEMS). The book you now have in your hands sets out the rationale for this system.