Spiritual Intelligence by Fraser Watts The apparently simple little adjective, “spiritual”, is more complicated than it looks, and there are significant issues about what it means. It is currently being used in a variety of contexts. I will focus mainly here on spiritual intelligence, but also briefly note parallel discussions about spiritual healing, and the spiritual turn. There is talk of “spiritual healing”, but what is “spiritual” about such healing? Some years ago Sarah Coakley and I jointly led a consultation on spiritual healing. In subsequent publications we have both grappled with how to conceptualise spiritual healing. In her recent book, Spiritual Healing: Science, Meaning and Disenchantment, Coakley makes a distinction between healing that is not strictly physical and healing that is framed in terms of God. In