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[... 9 paragraphs ...]
The only way to avoid facing the problem you see was to limit the amount of free energy allotted to the individual, and available en masse. Also safeguards were automatically built into the physical structure so that accumulations of energy could not be repressed—so no buildup could then emerge with violent overtones. Those in this system take further steps very slowly, and it will be more difficult for them to learn to handle large amounts of energy constructively. Those in your own system are more venturesome, more daring. Consciousness is far too varied. No one system could contain it or satisfy it. Generally speaking then, individual entities choose the system which suits their personalities and general leanings. Your system presents a rather abrupt, explosive entrance into largely organized consciousness, but on an individual basis.
[... 12 paragraphs ...]
Now you must understand that this continues throughout the entire system—animal and plant life. Change is gradual. In many ways it is a sleeping system, change taking place so slowly and nonviolently that the danger is in a constant status quo. The mental associative patterns are completely different from your own. Even abruptness of thought, you see, carries implications of violence, of abrupt change—the breaking of one pattern for another.
[... 17 paragraphs ...]
(10:55. This was the end of the session, rather abruptly. I was tired from writing at such a constant rapid pace, or would have continued the session though it was getting late. Jane was well-out, etc.; indeed after the session she said she was “still getting stuff.”)