“Telepathy accounts for the usefulness of spoken language. Without telepathy no language would be intelligible.”

—  Jane Roberts

Session 57, Page 119
The Early Sessions: Sessions 1-42, 1997, The Early Sessions: Book 2

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American Writer 1929–1984

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