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SQ ADVANCED APTITUDE ASSESSMENT

As you take the SQ Advanced Aptitude Assessment, it will reflect the ways that your unique connection to the multifaceted mind of Christ is manifested in your life. The results will help you discern your sensitivity to spiritual information, as well as assess the frequency and relevance of the spiritual information you receive.

Note that this assessment is not intended to anchor you permanently to a certain level or in a specific category of spiritual intelligence. The goal is to launch you into potentially new ways of developing the “spirit of your mind” (see chapter 1 of the Spiritual Intelligence book).

The goal of the assessment is to discover your current SQ level, and gain insight into the primary ways you currently hear from God.

There are 96 questions, so we recommend allowing yourself about 20-30 minutes to go through the assessment. You’ll want to complete it in one sitting, because your answers will not be saved after you log out. Also, we encourage you to take the assessment on a laptop or desktop.

Let's get started! Enter your name and email address below and we'll email you a copy of your results.

SQ ADVANCED APTITUDE ASSESSMENT
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1. I see God and truth in nature.
2. I have an active imagination.
3. My night dreams provide an accurate source of information.
4. Song lyrics often speak to me.
5. I hear ideas in my head.
6. I seem to hear sounds from an unseen source that other people don't hear.
7. I feel inspired and rejuvenated by creation.
8. I internally process my feelings.
9. I have physically felt someone else's emotional pain, sickness or physical injury.
10. I seem to know details about people that no one has ever told me.
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11. I internally know when someone is telling the truth or lying.
12. When I don't know what to do, the answer will often just come to me.
13. I receive revelation, answers, or ideas while watching movies.
14. I see in my imagination what people are describing when they tell a story.
15. My night dreams come true.
16. I get inspired when I hear someone speaking.
17. I have heard other people's thoughts in my own mind.
18. I can physically hear people's past experiences, trauma or internal cries of pain.
19. As someone tells a story I feel as if it is happening to me.
20. I have a “gut feeling” before something good or bad happens.
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21. I experience flavors or fragrances while people speak.
22. I know what people are thinking from just observing them.
23. I hear myself say things that I know I have never heard or learned before.
24. I get information or strategies for things I know nothing about.
25. I easily see how a person could improve their external appearance.
26. I see blueprints, formulas, or strategies in my head.
27. I physically see spiritual things that other people do not see.
28. I prefer audio books to reading.
29. A voice in my head tells me whether people are telling the truth or not.
30. I audibly hear music that no one else hears.
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31. I'm prone to cry, be easily startled, or emotionally inspired while watching a movie.
32. I feel strong compassion even for people I just met or hardly know.
33. Certain musical notes, numbers, or letters seem to possess a distinct flavor or fragrance.
34. I know what is going to happen in a movie or book at least half way through.
35. I know what will happen, whether good or bad, before it happens.
36. I know information from my attention to details that others do not pick up on.
37. I involuntarily see how furniture can be arranged to affect an atmosphere.
38. I imagine what animals people remind me of.
39. I see things like colors, radiance, words or numbers physically appearing on or over people.
40. The sounds of creation or nature speak to me.
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41. I hear the inner Voice of the Spirit instructing, leading or guiding me to positive outcomes.
42. I hear a Voice in creation from unexpected sources like rocks, trees, or animals.
43. I learn much better when I am excited about the subject.
44. I don't have a good feeling about some people or situations.
45. I feel a lightness or heaviness that guides my decision making process.
46. I'm pretty perceptive.
47. I perceive what people are thinking or questions they have before they ask.
48. I know things before they happen.
49. I involuntarily see when someone is out of place or position in their career or job assignment.
50. I write or read things in my imagination.
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51. I have had angelic visitations, and/or I have physically seen demonic manifestations.
52. I seek out counsel from friends and advisors and hear God's wisdom in their voice.
53. I have audio “déjà vu” where it seems like I have heard a conversation before it happens.
54. I have received accurate instruction or direction from an invisible voice.
55. I perform better on jobs that I feel good about.
56. My internal feelings have led to good or right decisions.
57. I have felt someone touch me when no person was visibly present.
58. I know if something good or bad is going on with someone when I first meet them.
59. I often know what people are going to say before they finish speaking.
60. When I watch a movie or hear music I get ideas not related to what I am seeing or hearing.
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61. I involuntarily see how things could be done better.
62. I imagine colors or pictures when I hear certain types of sounds or music.
63. I readily imagine alternate realities with my mind.
64. I am most inspired by the dialogue in a movie.
65. My inner voice is an accurate source of information.
66. I have heard the audible voice of God providing helpful instruction or direction.
67. I get a feeling about whether I can trust someone when I first meet them.
68. I feel and carry the weight of other people’s problems or burdens in my body or spirit.
69. My hands, feet, heart, or head get unexplainably hot or cold.
70. I’m not easily moved or influenced by what I see, hear, or feel.
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71. When I hear an idea, I immediately know how to advance it or who should be connected to it.
72. I know true facts or figures that I have never memorized.
73. I learn better when someone uses visual aids.
74. I often daydream while someone is speaking.
75. I have open visions that I see with my eyes.
76. I can hear it in someone's voice when they are lying.
77. I dialogue internally with myself in decision making.
78. I prefer not to move or act until God clearly speaks to me.
79. Some people and places just creep me out.
80. I won't move when something doesn't sit right with me.
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81. I strongly feel whatever entity is in the spiritual atmosphere.
82. When presented with multiple plans or ideas, it is easy for me to know which is best.
83. I can't tell you how I know which decision is the right one, I just know.
84. I make decisions based on knowledge from an unseen Source.
85. I process truth by seeing it visually, either written out or through pictures or diagrams.
86. I process truth by imagining potential outcomes.
87. I process truth by interpreting and applying visions or night dreams.
88. I process truth by talking about it out loud.
89. I process truth by listening to my thoughts.
90. I process truth by listening to an invisible voice.
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91. I process truth by how it will make myself or others feel.
92. I process truth by trusting my gut.
93. I process truth when it tastes, smells, or feels right.
94. I process truth by first knowing all the facts.
95. I process truth by internally knowing what is right.
96. I process truth by revelation or inspiration.
Thanks for taking the SQ Advanced Aptitude Assessment! Click through the 3 tabs below where you will get in-depth information about your overall SQ level, the various ways you hear God, and the primary way in which you receive spiritual information.

Please note: A copy of your results will be sent to the email address that you entered on the beginning screen; please allow up to 10 minutes for the email to arrive in your inbox. You can also use the print button at the bottom of the page to print your results.


Your SQ Total Score is: (out of 100)

Read below for an analysis of your score level to discover some unique things about your level, your potential growth opportunities, and specific action steps you can take to help develop and deepen your spiritual intelligence. Remember that your SQ level can change through practice and by taking the recommended action steps to increase your sensitivity and reception.

Your score of may indicate that you have never had spiritual gifts “AirDropped” to you (see more about spiritual “AirDrops” in chapter 16.) This score may also indicate that you have many gifts, but have relegated your experience to this world's natural laws and to the realms of IQ/EQ only, so are therefore accustomed to “lower” levels of thinking.

Action Step: You have great things ahead as you discover your potential to have the mind of Christ. You can forge new neural pathways and get on the SQ High-way of divine wisdom so you can think in new ways (see more about the science behind how we think in chapter 2). Do this by connecting with a community of people who demonstrate spiritual intelligence. This will position you to receive spiritual AirDrops from them that will enable you to have experiences in God that transcend the laws of nature.
Your score of may indicate that you have an aptitude for spiritual intelligence, but need more experience and/or practice in applying it. Incorporating higher levels of thinking as a way of life, while receiving great feedback from others, will strengthen your connection to the mind of Christ (see chapter 1). It will also build confidence in the gifts God has given you. Stewarding your God-given gifts will enable you to experience different dimensions of spiritual intelligence and supernatural power (see chapter 16's brief overview of several gifts).

Action Step: You have great potential to begin using the gifts you have been given in new ways. When you put your gifts into practice more frequently, it will create space for you to raise your SQ and exercise it on a regular basis. Grow yourself in what you have been given, and gain feedback from those around you who function at a higher level of SQ. Notice the progress you are making, and stay aware of your receptivity to the voice of God.
Your score of may indicate that you are spiritually intelligent and gain accurate information, but may have skewed results because you lack wisdom on the timing of what you share or with whom you share it (see the “Anachronistic Living” section in chapter 14).

Action Step: God is not only revealing truth to you; He is also imparting the “Spirit of revelation” in you so that you become a co-revealer of truth (see chapter 7). You have much to offer already, but there is still room to grow in applying your SQ to the everyday world you live in. Connect with a mentor who is willing to challenge you with wisdom and authority to help you mature spiritually in the revelatory gifts.
Your score of may indicate that you are both mature and spiritually intelligent. Your high SQ level is exhibited in your daily relationships and throughout your activities in your community. You are likely motivated by the betterment of mankind, and you demonstrate the powerful gifts you have in a positive and encouraging way. You may identify as one of God's “solutionaries,” people who are Christ's answer to the world's problems (see chapter 7).

Action Step: In addition to bringing heaven's solutions to earth's challenges, you can also begin to step into a mentoring or discipling role. Start by equipping those around you who are growing their SQ, especially the next generation, in their giftings and callings. Walk alongside others intentionally and pull out the potential you see in them continually so that they can fulfill the purpose of God in their lives.

Next, let's take a look at your receptivity results.

Receptivity Analysis

This next part of your results in this assessment will help you determine how you primarily receive insight and information from God.

Jesus lived fully connected with His Father and fully aligned to God's way of thinking. He was what we call “intelligently in tune” with all the extraordinary ways God communicates spiritually with people. Let's focus on four of the primary ways of spiritual communication that Jesus demonstrated for us.

Take a look at the graph below so that you can visually compare your spiritual receptivities. Hover over the bar graph to see the receptivity labels (See, Hear, Feel, Know).



These four “receptivity” categories are important indicators of spiritual intelligence, so let's explore each one a little further.

Your score for the See Category is: (out of 72)

OVERVIEW
The SQ receptivity of seeing is visual and imaginative. Ephesians 1:17-21 refers to the spiritual sight as the “eyes of your heart” being opened so that you may “know what is the hope of His calling, what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints, and what is the surpassing greatness of His power toward us who believe.”

I gave a personal example in chapter 3 that exemplifies the receptivity of a seer. In my imagination, I saw a sword in a woman's stomach. That invisible sword signified a condition that was causing intense pain in the woman's abdomen, and when I pulled out the sword, she was instantly healed!

BIBLICAL EXAMPLE OF JESUS THE SEER
Jesus placed value on the spiritual intelligence of seeing when He said, “Truly, truly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of Himself, unless it is something He sees the Father doing” (John 5:19). This example was personified in Jesus when He had a vision of Nathaniel under a fig tree (see John 1:43-51).

Other biblical examples of this receptivity are when Isaiah had a vision of the Lord sitting on His throne, Cornelius had a vision of an angel, and John, exiled on the island of Patmos, had a vision of Jesus (see Isaiah 6; Acts 10:1-8; Revelation 1:9-20).

ARE YOU A SEER?
The primary way of being intelligently in tune with the mind of Christ as a seer is when the Holy Spirit brings clarity, insight or instruction to you visually. A seer will often receive divine knowledge through some form of vision, dream or sanctified imagination, which then may be followed by additional spiritual intel that comes through supernaturally knowing, feeling or hearing (the other three receptivities).

ACTION STEPS
Ask the Holy Spirit to open the “eyes of your heart.” Take notice of your dream life and/or of any new ways that your imagination may engage as God speaks to you. He may give you information such as showing you the angelic realm assigned to your life, or to the lives of other people.

Your score for the Hear Category is: (out of 72)


OVERVIEW
The SQ receptivity of hearing most likely means that you are highly sensitive to sound, words and the inner voice of the Holy Spirit. This type of hearing leads to insight and spiritual understanding outside your natural ability to know things.

I experienced this hearing sensitivity when the Lord gave me specific instructions on how to fix a broken fleet truck that was baffling even the smartest technicians (you can read that story again in chapter 1).

BIBLICAL EXAMPLE OF JESUS THE HEARER
Jesus placed value on the spiritual intelligence of hearing when He said, “He who has ears to hear, let him hear” (Matthew 11:15). Other biblical examples include the boy Samuel hearing God's call in the night, Elijah hearing God's instruction in a still, small voice, and Saul the persecutor hearing the voice of God and being converted (see 1 Samuel 3:1-14; 1 Kings 19:9-18; Acts 9:1-19).

ARE YOU A HEARER?
The primary way of being intelligently in tune with the mind of Christ as a hearer is when the Holy Spirit speaks through the inner voice and brings clarity, insight or instruction. A hearer will typically receive divine knowledge through some form of internal or external sound, which then may be followed by additional spiritual intel that comes through supernaturally knowing, feeling or seeing (the other three receptivities).

ACTION STEP
Ask the Holy Spirit to give you “ears to hear” His thoughts. Calm your inner world and listen intently for the voice of the Lord in your life. Take time out on a regular basis just to capture the quiet insights of the Holy Spirit.

Your score for the Feel Category is: (out of 72)


OVERVIEW
The SQ receptivity of feeling is multisensory, compassionate and highly intuitive. This type of feeling leads to a supernatural ability in someone to connect to the internal or external environment of another person, or to sense any demonic or angelic entity that may be affecting the surrounding atmosphere.

You will read a story in chapter 8 of Spiritual ntelligence where I got into a car with a friend who was driving and suddenly had this overwhelming feeling that I wanted to kill myself. The feeling I was experiencing actually belonged to my friend, who (unbeknownst to me) was dealing with a spirit of suicide. I prayed for the spirit to leave, and my friend was instantly set free!

BIBLICAL EXAMPLE OF JESUS THE FEELER
Scripture places value on the spiritual intelligence of feeling when it describes Jesus as being “touched with the feeling of our infirmities” (see Hebrews 4:15 KJV). Whenever Jesus was moved with compassion in a deep internal sense, He stepped out with solutions of wisdom, healing and power. Other biblical examples of this receptivity are when Jesus was moved with compassion and healed the blind men's eyes (see Matthew 20:29-34), and when, again filled with compassion, He cleansed a leper (Mark 1:40-45).

ARE YOU A FEELER?
The primary way of being intelligently in tune with the mind of Christ as a feeler is when the Holy Spirit brings clarity, insight or instruction through your emotions, or through the ability to feel physically what is present spiritually. A feeler will receive divine knowledge through a deep internal (and sometimes emotional) sense, which then may be followed by additional spiritual intel that comes through supernaturally knowing, seeing or hearing (the other three receptivities).

ACTION STEP
Ask the Holy Spirit to help you become self-aware so that you have insight into your own emotional condition. This will help you differentiate between the intuitive feelings the Holy Spirit gives you and those which are common to your natural humanity.

Your score for the Know Category is: (out of 72)


OVERVIEW
The SQ receptivity of knowing makes a person highly perceptive and is predicated by a deep sense of conviction. Spiritual knowing is God's way of giving you supernatural information that is not inspired by any natural cause, communication or insight.

I experienced this knowing sensitivity when I met a businessman and told him that God was going to give him the secret of magnetic power (see chapter 12). He had not told me that he owned a magnetic invention and innovation company, but I instinctively knew that he carried the keys to magnetic innovation.

BIBLICAL EXAMPLE OF JESUS THE KNOWER
Jesus demonstrated a value for the spiritual intelligence of knowing when He perceived the thoughts, actions and motives of those around Him. For example, He knew when the religious leaders were trying to trap Him (see Matthew 22:15-22). He knew that power had gone out from Him when the woman in the crowd touched His cloak (see Mark 5:21-34). He also knew the intent of the crowd to try to make Him king by force (see John 6:15).

Other biblical examples of this receptivity were when Jesus knew the solution to feeding the multitude, and when He knew where to tell the disciples to cast their nets for a huge catch of fish (see John 6:1-14; Luke 5:1-11). There are also biblical examples of others having this receptivity, for example when Peter knew Ananias and Sapphira were lying about the amount of money they had received for selling some property (see Acts 5:1-11).

ARE YOU A KNOWER?
The primary way of being intelligently in tune with the mind of Christ as a knower occurs when the Holy Spirit brings clarity, insight or instruction about facts, circumstances or situations to your spirit. This may be followed by additional spiritual intel that comes through supernaturally feeling, seeing or hearing (the other three receptivities).

ACTION STEP
The gift of knowing is an opportunity for others to encounter through you the God of the universe, who understands them intimately and cares for them. Your knowing gift will instinctively connect them to the Father of creation, who has numbered the hairs of their head and the days of their life. It is important for knowers to have a high value for information that is instinctive, disconnected from cognitive education or intellectual exploration. Confidence in your gift will grow as the accuracy of your spiritual knowledge is tested. Often, the wisest way to assess the accuracy of your insights is to ask questions of people, rather than make statements about your perceptions (see chapter 4).

Next, let's take a look at your sensitivity results.

Sensitivity Analysis

The next and final part of your results in this assessment will help you discover how you are naturally wired to receive spiritual information from God.

YOU ARE EXTERNALLY SENSITIVE
Externally sensitive people respond well spiritually to the natural world. This is true of many tribal people, scientists, detectives, and naturalists. The world around you speaks to the kingdom of God within you.

YOU ARE INTERNALLY SENSITIVE
Internally sensitive people respond well spiritually to internal imaginations and impressions. This is true of many leaders, counselors, entrepreneurs, and judges. The kingdom of God is within you and will accelerate as you abide and trust in His leading.

YOU ARE MYSTICALLY SENSITIVE
Mystically sensitive people respond well spiritually to direct contact with the spirit realm. This is true of many futurists, solutionaries, and mystics. The kingdom of God is upon you; you have the spiritual tools to transform the world around you.

MORE ON YOUR SENSITIVITY
Considering your primary receptivity and your sensitivity, you are most likely , which means you may often

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