ESQ Life Spot

Emotional and spiritual Quotient (ESQ) is one of progressive toughts introduced by Ari Ginanjar Agustian, a contemporary Muslim free-thinker. He combined two big theories of transpersonal psychology of spiritual quotient written by Danah Zohar & Ian Mashal (2000) and emotional quotient by Daniel Goleman (1998). In his book entitled ESQ with Five and Six Pillar of Islam, he described brilliantly of how the sphere of human consciousness hung toward ultimate values. The end of human consciousness, according to Agustian, means zero mind process. Hence in his second book entitled ESQ Power, he also emphasizes the important of religious spirituality for sustaining all efforts of humankind.

Recently, Agustian expanded his idea on larger works of creative spiritual training that involved many people around Indonesia. Through it he made the second wave of spiritual enlightenment after the large efforts conducted by Aa Gymnatsiar at Darut Tauhid.

There are at least 3 million people of Indonesia have ever attended the ESQ Leadership Training. Although they have to pay for the training, almost every people who participate said that they feel happy because their religious consciousness beyonds the highest and deepest level of spirituality. It is hard to them for not to drop their tears in the time of three days training involvement. "God as if presented before us," said my friend who participated in training six months ago.

Similar to what have ever occurred to the participants of ESQ Leadership Training, I also have ever felt such spiritual hollow and beauty when I participated in the training one year ago. In the time of training, I found myself as the real "I" and "me" and tried to express what actually emerged in my heart in a series of poems that was written spontaneously. (see the poem at Puisi ESQ 1 and 2)***