Spiritual intelligence is a capacity, not a creed: the ability to draw on meaning, connection, awareness, and inner stillness to live and cope well. This test is built on David King's Spiritual Intelligence model and the SISRI-24 (critical existential thinking, personal meaning production, transcendental awareness, conscious state expansion), alongside research on felt connectedness and present-moment awareness. It measures how you relate to the big questions and the wider whole — inclusive of any faith or none.
Your result is broken down across 4 distinct dimensions rather than collapsing everything into a single number. Each dimension is scored from its own set of items, so you can see which specific pattern is driving your overall result.
Scores fall into one of 5 interpretive bands. Here is what each one means, what tends to sit underneath it, and what usually helps.
Materially Anchored
You live firmly in the world you can measure, test, and touch, and you trust what holds up to evidence. The bigger, unanswerable questions tend to strike you as distractions from the real work of living well. That grounded pragmatism is a genuine strength, and there is nothing broken here to fix.
What it suggests
A material anchor keeps you clear-eyed and hard to fool, but it can quietly wall off experiences — awe, deep stillness, a felt sense of connection — that many people find steadying in hard times. Skepticism protects you from empty answers; it can also keep you from sitting with a good question. The inner terrain isn't absent, only unvisited.
What helps
You don't need to believe anything to try this: once this week, step outside at night and look up for two full minutes without reaching for your phone, and just notice what, if anything, moves in you. Treat one open question — why is there something rather than nothing — as interesting rather than useless, for ten minutes. Small, low-stakes experiments, on your own terms.
Quietly Curious
Something in you leans toward the deeper questions, even if you'd rarely say so out loud. You notice the occasional moment of awe or stillness, then usually let it slip past unexamined. There's a door here, slightly ajar, that you haven't quite decided to walk through.
What it suggests
Curiosity without a practice tends to stay a flicker — real, but easy to lose in the noise of a busy life. The good news is that spiritual intelligence behaves like a skill, not a fixed trait: attention given to these moments tends to grow them. You have the raw sensitivity; what's missing is the habit of turning toward it.
What helps
Keep a two-line note whenever something briefly stops you — a sunset, a piece of music, a stranger's kindness — so those moments stop evaporating. Try five minutes of sitting quietly each day for a week, doing nothing but following your breath. Let curiosity, not obligation, set the pace.
Opening Up
You've begun to take the inner life seriously, and it's starting to pay you back. You can find meaning in difficulty, feel genuine connection to others, and touch stillness more often than most — though it doesn't yet feel fully reliable. You're in the middle of a real opening, and it shows.
What it suggests
This is often the most alive and the most uneven stage: some days the connection and calm are right there, other days they vanish and you wonder if you imagined them. That fluctuation is normal, not failure — a capacity being built rarely arrives smoothly. What steadies it is consistency, not intensity.
What helps
Anchor one small practice to a fixed point in your day — a few slow breaths before your first coffee, a minute of silence before bed — so it survives the busy weeks. Once this month, put yourself in front of something genuinely awe-inspiring: a wide landscape, a great cathedral or forest, deep water. When hardship comes, ask what it's teaching before you rush to resolve it.
Inwardly Attuned
You move through life with a well-developed inner compass. Meaning, connection, awareness, and stillness are familiar territory — you can reach for them deliberately, and you often do. This is a rich and hard-won form of intelligence, and it clearly shapes how you meet the world.
What it suggests
At this level the risk is rarely too little depth and more often subtle imbalance — leaning on stillness while neglecting connection, or vice versa. Attunement can also drift inward, becoming a private refuge rather than something that reaches other people. The growing edge tends to be integration: bringing this capacity into your relationships and your hardest days, not just your quiet ones.
What helps
Notice which of the four capacities — awareness, meaning, connection, presence — you lean on least, and give it deliberate attention for a season. Let your inner steadiness show up in service: sit with someone who is struggling and simply be fully present, asking nothing. Deepen through commitment to one practice rather than sampling many.
Deeply Connected
You carry a rare, integrated depth: the capacity to hold life's biggest questions with equanimity, to make meaning from almost anything, to feel genuine oneness with others and the world, and to rest in stillness at will. These aren't peak experiences you chase — they're a way of being you've grown into. It is a genuinely uncommon result.
What it suggests
The gift and the risk of this depth are the same: it can become a place to dwell rather than a source that flows outward. Real spiritual maturity tends to be measured less by the height of your inner states and more by how patiently and kindly you show up for ordinary people on ordinary days. The frontier is embodiment — living it in traffic, in conflict, in grief — not transcending the world but meeting it more fully.
What helps
Turn depth into contribution: mentor, listen, or serve in a way that puts your steadiness at someone else's disposal. Guard against spiritual bypassing by staying honest about your own reactivity and blind spots — depth is not immunity. Keep one grounding practice sacred and non-negotiable, so the wellspring never quietly runs dry.
Spiritual Intelligence contains 24 items and takes about 5 minutes. Responses are combined using a sum method across the dimensions listed above, then mapped to the interpretive bands above. Your percentile is an interim estimate that sharpens as more people take the test, and is labelled as provisional in your result.
This is an educational, self-reflective assessment — not a diagnosis. A questionnaire can describe a pattern and point you toward language for it, but it cannot account for your history, context, or circumstances, and it is not a substitute for evaluation by a qualified professional. If a result concerns you, treat it as a reason to talk to someone rather than as a verdict.
Your answers are scored on your device. Taking this test requires no account, no email address, and no payment, and your full result — every band, every dimension — is shown to you immediately and in full.