
Relaying a question from Rene raised at the retreat, Frederic asks whether people who come to the Wonders share a specific gene that makes them seekers.
The Wonders answer that within the human race there are genes that nourish and foster curiosity of the mind, and additional genes that enhance the ability to see beyond the practical and pragmatic - what they hesitantly call a 'psychic' gene.
Most individuals who actively seek them out have both.
They tell Frederic he has the second gene too, it is simply undeveloped, and that it is developed by guessing: the more one guesses at the unknown, the more the gene develops.