“Just as I have feelings that will not emerge under public or clinical scrutiny, I so, too, have skills and abilities that will not perform on command or under the rubric of testing. There are aspects of ourselves that are, for better or worse, temperamentally peculiar such that they resent or resist examination or even being distinguished. They are, as it were, shy. And many of the most astonishing and powerful features of our relational and transentient intelligence are thus. They will not emerge for demonstration or sale. They will not emerge for evaluation. They are for purposes that match their nature. Purposes such as rescue, revolution, adoration, and mutual empowerment. Truly noble aspects of ourselves require noble contexts in which to emerge. Or desperate, perhaps. But not clinical. Just as we resist examination or interrogation by hostiles, so, too, our most sacred abilities will not emerge to demonstrate themselves to fools — or sages, for that matter.”

— an anonymous informant