Dr. JonRichard Turner sent me a copy of his paper How Prenatal Psychic Trauma and Communication Works in Whole-Self Prebirth Psychology in which he maintains that:
The "I" of "me" was never inside my mother’s body.
"Whole-Self Prebirth Psychology has shown that while mother is growing my new body in her womb for me to use after my birth, my consciousness for this life is not inside mother’s body but is in energetic synthesis & symbiosis with Mother’s bio-energetic field of consciousness; that it is in her consciousness; in her mind and her emotions; in her bio-energetic field animating her physical body; being educated with her basic life patterns. During my gestation, my consciousness is in my Mother’s biofield; my future body is part of her body."
And he asks: How can there be changes in the development and evolution of humanity when I explore my Whole-Self Prebirth Analysis Matrix?
"When I, as a part of humanity, through my Whole-Self Prebirth Analysis Matrix discover the source of my non-conscious patterns, bringing them to my conscious mind in an appropriate way, I am able to understand and transform and release them. I am no longer reactive to those patterns with others in my life, my family or society. When I can see my emotional, reactively charged behaviors, I can recognize which of my prebirth patterns where later reflected or mirrored to me through people I am in contact with, by my parents, by my partners, by my children or by my culture or society. My symbiosis to my clan can be released. That means, my patterns no longer resonate or stimulate the same patterns in other people to serve me perfectly in our mutual evolutions. When that happens, a deeper understanding, a compassionate patience, a dynamic bonding and mutual respect are discovered! That is evolution in action!"
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In light of what you say about evolution, JR, I believe that you will be interested in the psychological theories and suggestions Dr. John Bargh makes in his recent book, BEFORE YOU KNOW IT, which I have cited below with some reader responses as well. He demonstrates how our conscious mind’s experience of the continuum of past, present, and future, is a recent overlay over a much older unconscious mind carrying the consequences of our evolutionary experiences and longterm needs for such things as safety and procreation, etc.
Here is a quote from this fascinating book for you:
"The nature of our bonds with our parents, when we were infants, echoes our evolutionary past. This is where nature and nurture meet, where our species’ evolved predispositions and assumptions about our world that have evolved over eons are tested in the fires of actual experience, being validated or not, based on our own personal reality. Can we trust people or can we not?”
He points out that "the unconscious aspects of our minds are primary in our lives; first, the compelling motivations that we are born with, and second, the earliest knowledge about people that we form from our experiences as infants and toddlers. Strikingly, after the age of five or so, we do not retain any explicit conscious memories or awareness of having formed these important impressions. Both of these foundations of our future thoughts and actions, created by our hidden past, operate for the rest of our lives in the background, unconsciously, driving much of our daily behavior and shaping much of what we think, what we say, and what we do. Sometimes for the better, but other times for the worse."
Financial Times: One of the Best Books of 2017
Business Insider: One of the Best Science Books of 2017
Dr. John Bargh, the world’s leading expert on the unconscious mind, presents a groundbreaking book, twenty years in the making, which gives us an entirely new understanding of the hidden mental processes that secretly govern every aspect of our behavior.
For more than three decades, Dr. John Bargh has been responsible for the revolutionary research into the unconscious mind, research that informed bestsellers like Blink and Thinking Fast and Slow. Now, in what Dr. John Gottman said “will be the most important and exciting book in psychology that has been written in the past twenty years,” Dr. Bargh takes us on an entertaining and enlightening tour of the forces that affect everyday behavior while transforming our understanding of ourselves in profound ways.
Telling personal anecdotes with infectious enthusiasm and disclosing startling and delightful discoveries, Dr. Bargh takes the reader into his labs at New York University and Yale where he and his colleagues have discovered how the unconscious guides our behavior, goals, and motivations in areas like race relations, parenting, business, consumer behavior, and addiction. He reveals what science now knows about the pervasive influence of the unconscious mind in who we choose to date or vote for, what we buy, where we live, how we perform on tests and in job interviews, and much more. Because the unconscious works in ways we are completely unaware of, Before You Know It is full of surprising and entertaining revelations as well as tricks to help you remember to-do items, shop smarter, and sleep better.
Destined to be a bestseller, Before You Know It is an intimate introduction to a fabulous world only recently discovered, the world that exists below the surface of your awareness and yet is the key to knowing yourself and unlocking new ways of thinking, feeling, and behaving.
Business Insider: One of the Best Science Books of 2017
Dr. John Bargh, the world’s leading expert on the unconscious mind, presents a groundbreaking book, twenty years in the making, which gives us an entirely new understanding of the hidden mental processes that secretly govern every aspect of our behavior.
For more than three decades, Dr. John Bargh has been responsible for the revolutionary research into the unconscious mind, research that informed bestsellers like Blink and Thinking Fast and Slow. Now, in what Dr. John Gottman said “will be the most important and exciting book in psychology that has been written in the past twenty years,” Dr. Bargh takes us on an entertaining and enlightening tour of the forces that affect everyday behavior while transforming our understanding of ourselves in profound ways.
Telling personal anecdotes with infectious enthusiasm and disclosing startling and delightful discoveries, Dr. Bargh takes the reader into his labs at New York University and Yale where he and his colleagues have discovered how the unconscious guides our behavior, goals, and motivations in areas like race relations, parenting, business, consumer behavior, and addiction. He reveals what science now knows about the pervasive influence of the unconscious mind in who we choose to date or vote for, what we buy, where we live, how we perform on tests and in job interviews, and much more. Because the unconscious works in ways we are completely unaware of, Before You Know It is full of surprising and entertaining revelations as well as tricks to help you remember to-do items, shop smarter, and sleep better.
Destined to be a bestseller, Before You Know It is an intimate introduction to a fabulous world only recently discovered, the world that exists below the surface of your awareness and yet is the key to knowing yourself and unlocking new ways of thinking, feeling, and behaving.
Is psychology facing a replication crisis? Yes. But not all findings are in crisis, and as a social psychologist who is familiar with the literature, I know that Bargh's findings have been replicated hundreds of times.
Literally. Hundreds. Here are just a few of his groundbreaking findings that are totally uncontroversial: (1) people unintentionally and unconsciously mimic others' behavior (Chartrand & Bargh, 1999); (2) people unintentionally and unconsciously evaluate stimuli in their environment as good or bad (Bargh, Chaiken, Raymond, & Hymes, 1996); and (3) people unconsciously and unintentionally move toward positive things and away from negative things (Chen & Bargh, 1999). Each of these findings has fundamentally shaped our understanding of the human unconscious, all of them have been replicated many times, and none of them have been called into question.
And these are just three of the over 170 publications that Bargh has produced over his career!
Now lets consider the two findings (which account for less than 2% of Bargh's research output) that have been questioned: (1) incidental exposure to words can alter behavior (the prime-to-behavior effect) and (2) experiencing physical warmth can alter our perception of social warmth (the embodiment effect). Well, lets just put the skepticism about prime-to-behavior effects to rest: a meta-analysis conducted by an independent lab, which looked at over 300 priming studies, found that prime-to-behavior effects are reliable and robust (Weingarten, Chen, McAdams, Hepler, & Albarracin, 2016). And a high-powered replication recently found overwhelmingly positive support for the prime-to-behavior effect (Payne, Brown-Iannuzzi, & Loersch, 2016). Yes, some papers have reported failures to replicate. But failures to replicate can caused by mundane things like poor methods, sampling error, experimenter bias, and so forth. To judge the reproducibility of an effect, one needs to look at the entire body of evidence, and in this case, looking at the entire body of evidence reveals that the prime-to-behavior effect replicates.
And finally, there is the embodiment effect. This is a young finding, and like all young findings, it will take many more replication attempts (and meta-analyses of those replication attempts) before we can be confident about it one way or the other. However, the research that has come out over the past 5 years has been quite positive. Besides the one publication reporting a failure, the finding has been replicated at least 3 times (see Inagaki & Eisenberger, 2013; Inagaki, Erwin, & Eisenberger, 2015; Fetterman, Bair, Werth, Landkammer, & Robinson, 2016).
Literally. Hundreds. Here are just a few of his groundbreaking findings that are totally uncontroversial: (1) people unintentionally and unconsciously mimic others' behavior (Chartrand & Bargh, 1999); (2) people unintentionally and unconsciously evaluate stimuli in their environment as good or bad (Bargh, Chaiken, Raymond, & Hymes, 1996); and (3) people unconsciously and unintentionally move toward positive things and away from negative things (Chen & Bargh, 1999). Each of these findings has fundamentally shaped our understanding of the human unconscious, all of them have been replicated many times, and none of them have been called into question.
And these are just three of the over 170 publications that Bargh has produced over his career!
Now lets consider the two findings (which account for less than 2% of Bargh's research output) that have been questioned: (1) incidental exposure to words can alter behavior (the prime-to-behavior effect) and (2) experiencing physical warmth can alter our perception of social warmth (the embodiment effect). Well, lets just put the skepticism about prime-to-behavior effects to rest: a meta-analysis conducted by an independent lab, which looked at over 300 priming studies, found that prime-to-behavior effects are reliable and robust (Weingarten, Chen, McAdams, Hepler, & Albarracin, 2016). And a high-powered replication recently found overwhelmingly positive support for the prime-to-behavior effect (Payne, Brown-Iannuzzi, & Loersch, 2016). Yes, some papers have reported failures to replicate. But failures to replicate can caused by mundane things like poor methods, sampling error, experimenter bias, and so forth. To judge the reproducibility of an effect, one needs to look at the entire body of evidence, and in this case, looking at the entire body of evidence reveals that the prime-to-behavior effect replicates.
And finally, there is the embodiment effect. This is a young finding, and like all young findings, it will take many more replication attempts (and meta-analyses of those replication attempts) before we can be confident about it one way or the other. However, the research that has come out over the past 5 years has been quite positive. Besides the one publication reporting a failure, the finding has been replicated at least 3 times (see Inagaki & Eisenberger, 2013; Inagaki, Erwin, & Eisenberger, 2015; Fetterman, Bair, Werth, Landkammer, & Robinson, 2016).
Bargh's research has been some of the most important and groundbreaking in all of psychology for the past 100 years. And you should read this book if you are even remotely interested in the real, replicable truth of the human unconscious.
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This book uses studies of human behavior to illustrate how “the way the mind operates is hidden to us, and that it shapes our experience and behavior in ways that we’re not the least bet aware of.” It is written clearly and kept the attention of my aging mind (which has a tendency to wander.) It covered many facets of human behavior, and tied them together in ways. His writings about the tribal instincts of man being close to the surface is interesting to anyone who has been following politics for the past couple of years.
As a physician specializing in child and adolescent psychiatry for approximately 30 years, I found the new research data into the unconscious fascinating and practical. As a student and practitioner of the martial arts also for approximately 30 years, I found it fascinating to have further understanding into how meditation (to “quiet” conscious thought processes) allows one to more efficiently use practiced drills to achieve advanced levels of practice.
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