“None of us are ever equipped, for general purposes, to perceive reality in all of its forms. The pyramid gestalts can do this, and we help the pyramid gestalts perform this feat. But as a rule we must pick and choose. There is too much for any consciousness to digest except those so highly developed that even I know little of them.”

—  Jane Roberts

Session 297, Page 138
The Early Sessions: Sessions 1-42, 1997, The Early Sessions: Book 7

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