B.J’s INNATE & I
The following paragraph describes B.J. Palmer’s relationship to the concept of Innate Intelligence (all emphasis original):
IT WAS HERE IN THIS ONE ROOM, the Great Teacher and Master of ALL people of ALL times, was Innate. IT WAS HERE with these retired personalities, with their every-day personal products, I learned the basic truths of Chiropractic and how to become a Chiropractor. Up till THIS period of MY life, I was INVOLVING MY thoughts, words, and acts much like so many have done and were doing. The “I” was egotistic as well as egoistic. After THIS period, WE began EVOLVING like few people do or have done. From then on, WE thought, spoke, and acted. From then on, “I” was humble in the presence of Innate within as WE lived together. IT WAS THERE, plus time, IN THIS ONE ROOM, I found MYself. WE found OURselves—INNATE AND I—until EACH lost his or her singular and single identity and became a plural duality, to eventually walk down the byways and highways together the rest of OUR lives. (1961, p. 163).