Part 12
29 June 1997
Getting More Intelligence Online
The oldest, most universally agreed-upon natural law of
behavior, like gravity is a pretty universally-agreed natural law of
physics, is: "that you get more of what you reinforce." Also known in
psychology as "The Law of Effect," this law also has a number of
agreed-upon corollaries, among them the descriptive statement that the
more immediate the feedback or reinforcement, other things equal, the more
that such reinforcement shapes traits and behaviors.
Also widely observed and agreed: our EXternal senses
(sight, sound, touch, etc.) are much more immediate and focussed than our
equally important INternal senses (feelings, images, pre-verbal thoughts
and understandings, sense of nuance, etc.). That is why, for most people,
games and sports have a greater attraction than the intellectual and
aesthetic activities which can be of such far greater value, but which are
in large part a learned taste. Putting these two widely-agreed sets of
observation together:
If the functions of widely separate, hitherto unrelated
regions of the brain are EXPRESSED TOGETHER in a combination EXternal
activity, THE IMMEDIACY OF EXTERNAL SENSORY FEEDBACK FROM that external
activity builds a more and more immediate relationship between those
formerly unrelated brain regions. This then causes those brain regions to
become more and more accessible to each other, and the INTELLIGENCE of
each part of the brain to become more and more immediately available to
the other part(s).
If one of these hitherto less-related or unrelated regions
of the brain is the left temporal lobe and verbally focussed conscious
mind, as is the case when we describe a perception: if the perception is a
subtle or nuance-involved one originating therefore in a region or in
regions of the brain not immediately related to our verbally-focussed
consciousness, TO DESCRIBE such perceptions brings such
remote-from-consciousness regions of the brain more immediately on line
with consciousness, making their resources and intelligence more
immediately available to our focussed verbal consciousness. This will
manifest with improving "I.Q." scores and other positive changes relating
to "intelligence" and intellect.
Indeed this prediction is borne out in a series of
independently conducted state university studies, which since 1989 have
been measuring the effects of perhaps the purest form of such
externalizing-through-describing such awareness, the process called
"Image-Streaming." On average, as little as
25 hours of easy, entertaining practice of Image-Streaming results in
meaningful increase in "I.Q." points, together with apparently even greater gains in the
more numinous aspects of intelligence, creativity and experience.
(Department of physics and Chemistry, Southwest State University in
Marshall, Minnesota.)
Does this mean that intelligence can be earned or built?
Apparently yes. Operationally, at least, there seems little difference
between TRANSFER of intelligence withIN the brain, as seems the case here,
and an absolute increase in intelligence such as can also be obtained
through improving physical circulation to the physical brain to improve
its health and operating condition (Project Renaissance will send you free
on request, in return for 4 oz. postage, an article on "breathtaking
awareness" full of instructions how to produce that effect); nutritionally
at least for short-term effects--longer run effects depend upon the uses
put to brain functions during those immediate intervals of nutritional
advantage; through re-working the sub-routines of the brain to better
support its higher functions [many sensori-motor ways of doing so are
provided in Win Wenger's older book HOW TO INCREASE YOUR INTELLIGENCE];
and through training of physical visual response patterns as has been
performed since the 1920s by developmental optometrists.)
For whom can this be accomplished? Astonishingly,
apparently EVERYone. Of thousands trained, either directly by Project
Renaissance or at the university in Minnesota, not one person has yet been
found who was unable to learn and practice the procedure for
Image-Streaming, and so to begin harvesting its benefits. Besides the main
procedures for Image Streaming, Project Renaissance has developed more
than 20 back-up procedures to assure that absolutely everyone becomes able
to perform Image Streaming. All educational levels, all ages from infancy
to nursing home, all "I.Q." levels, appear to benefit.
This picking-up on, sensitizing to, and describing-aloud
of, internal awarenesses and imagery, which we call Image-Streaming, also
has enormous practical usefulness as well. It is the main basis of
arguably the most powerful and accurate solution-finding creative
problem-solving system of methods now in professional use anywhere on
Earth. (That modern form of Einsteinian Discovery Method is set forth
mainly in two books by Win Wenger: the problem-solving one titled A METHOD
FOR PERSONAL GROWTH & DEVELOPMENT, and the currently new book on
discovering and inventing: TECHNIQUES OF ORIGINAL, INSPIRED SCIENTIFIC
DISCOVERY, TECHNICAL INVENTION AND INNOVATION. It is the main basis of six
diverse systems of method for profoundly improving and accelerating
learning (six of the eight systems set forth in Wenger's BEYOND TEACHING
AND LEARNING). One form of use of Image-Streaming directly improves
reading comprehension nine-fold; another set of uses of Image-Streaming is
associated with the even greater reading gains of Paul Scheele's
PhotoReading system. Many more practical uses for Image Streaming have
been found in a great variety of other contexts.
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