Yet the oldest branch of leaders, the desert kings of the Bible, boasted about carrying snakes on their shoulders. If you could carry wisdom so lightly, they believed, then you were powerful beyond belief. By working with your unconscious, by accepting it and using its materials and its tools, you can see farther, you can hear more clearly, and you can act more boldly.
Maybe players in biotechnology will be more creative, more open to chaotic ways of knowing than their wonky, high-tech forebears have been. Maybe they will be the first leaders in a long time who will allow the dark forces of the unconscious to prompt a new enlightenment. When that happens, when psychology assumes its rightful place among technology and among economics, the change in business will be monumental: bigger than the steam engine, bigger than junk bonds, bigger than the microchip.
Harriet Rubin (Hrubin@aol.com) is the author of The Princessa: Machiavelli for Women (Doubleday, 1997) and Soloing: Realizing Your Life's Ambition (Harpercollins, 1999). Contact Nathan Schwartz-Salant by email: NSalant@aol.com
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