In a word, the history of science reflects that paradigm shifts are resisted like the plague. People are territorial and resistant to change. The greater the change the more it’s resisted—and folks, the discovery of the deeper intelligence is a paradigm shift of unbelievable magnitude. Imagine breaking through to that infamously unused “90%” of our mind.
It is important to understand that the two main gatekeepers in the case of the breakthrough in psychology have ignored it. First, the professionals—the psychiatrists and psychologists—have done so because it would mean having to be retrained, having to give up some prestige and admit that there’s significant new knowledge to be absorbed and utilized. (Upon hearing of the deeper intelligence discovery, several professionals simply dismissed it with a cursory, “I already know that, nothing new to me.”)
Jonathan Swift once said, “When a great genius comes upon the scene, all the dunces gather in conspiracy against him.” Few times in history has this observation been truer than at present when the greatest genius the field of psychology/psychoanalysis has ever produced, Robert Langs, has presented his work.
The second major gatekeeper is the media. Having been exposed first person to several prominent people in the national media, I am all too aware of how they have missed the story after hearing about it. A story that should have been shouted from the rooftops has gone essentially untold for virtually the same reason the professionals in psychology have overlooked it. Both the media and the psychologists specialize in interviewing people, in evaluating motives, in trying to understand human behavior. The current breakthrough to the language of the “blink mind” with the new voice of the deeper intelligence vividly reveals their limitations. What we’re really looking at again is a success problem on the part of both gatekeepers—a basic refusal to expose the public to vital new information which would help millions people in millions of ways: they’d make better decisions as parents, as marriage partners, and in evaluating leaders whom they elect.
Now, however, we have a new gatekeeper that’s stepped forward namely the Internet. Even there, we will encounter enormous resistance from a significant portion of the public which I’ve already seen as I presented a new way of forensic profiling using the “blink mind.” But I also know that there are many people who are seers and want to see better—see themselves, their spouses, their kids, their leaders, and eventually their Creator in a new and brighter light. I remain indebted to Malcolm Gladwell and his two significant works—both The Tipping Point and particularly Blink—for helping to point the way to the deeper intelligence hidden in the “blink mind.”
At the same time we can see this is the typical way new truth makes its journey into our collective consciousness. We must be exposed to it gradually. Blink was an entertaining book which focused mostly on psychology experiments and didn’t present much of a threat to most people—although there are still those incredibly resistant souls who want nothing to do with the unconscious mind, to another level of thinking in their mind. (I know those folks all too well and how they’re terribly controlled by fear—another story for later.)
On the other hand, the deeper intelligence, with its ability to give us instantaneous in-depth feedback about ourselves and others from the depths of our souls, is another matter altogether. We then discover our inner brilliance, a superior intelligence we never dreamed we possessed, and simultaneously we see our greatest shortcomings, our deepest fears. But we are who we are and ultimately to move away from our deeper intelligence is to deny ourselves the benefit of the hidden “90%” of our minds.