12 Archetypal Spiritual Styles, 4 Yogas, 9 . Multiple Intelligences Rough Concordances
The following table provides a general overview of how these three types of personal learning and spiritual styles might overlap with each other. It is provided primarily for discussion purposes, not as a claim of precise concordance between these three types profiles, because their respective underlying theoretical presuppositions and purposes are distinctive.
12 SPIRITUAL STYLES (Bastian) |
4 YOGAS (Hinduism) |
9 INTELLIGENCES (Gardner) |
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1 | Arts | Bhakti Yoga (1) | Musical-rhythmic & Harmonic (1) Visual- spatial (2) |
2 | Body | Raja Yoga (4) | Bodily -Kinesthetic (5) |
3 | Devotion | Bhakti Yoga (1) | |
4 | Imagination | Raja Yoga (4) | Musical-rhythmic & Harmonic (1) Visual -Spatial (2) |
5 | Love & Compassion | Bhakti Yoga (1) | Interpersonal (6) |
6 | Meditation/Contemplation | Raja Yoga (4) | Intrapersonal (7) Existential (9) |
7 | Mystic | Raja Yoga (4) | Existential (9) |
8 | Nature | All Four Yogas | Naturalistic (8) |
9 | Prayer | Bhakti Yoga (1) | Intrapersonal (7), Naturalistic (8) |
10 | Reason | Jnana Yoga (3) | Logical, mathematical (4) |
11 | Relationships | Karma Yoga (2) | Interpersonal (6) |
12 | Wisdom | Raja Yoga (4) | Intrapersonal (7), Existential (9) |