Book Review: Blink by Malcolm Gladwell

First impressions, snap judgments, and intuition are the subject of Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking. I found this to be a fascinating book. Anecdotes fill the pages as Gladwell relates story after story of the unconscious mind's ability to influence us without our conscious mind even knowing.

Especially powerful are his discussions concerning snap judgment in regards to race and gender. For a taste of the power of the unconscious mind try a computerized Implicit Association Test (IAT).

Particularly intriguing, especially from a Christian warfare worldview is this statement:

The results from these experiments are, obviously, quite disturbing. They suggest that what we think of as free will is largely an illusion: much of the time, we are simply operating on automatic pilot, and the way we think and act -- and how well we think and act on the spur of the moment -- are a lot more susceptible to outside influences than we realize.

I find this quote so intriguing from a warfare worldview because it begs the question of just how much unconscious influence over our daily actions the demonic and angelic realms have on us. What are your thoughts?