"...from this constellation we see that the power immanent in us - the soul - and the power which resides in things - the numinosum - resolve and balance each other as complements at the same time that they engender a kind of mutual insight in a sense that reveals to us, indeed renders transparent, the basic structure and providence of the world.
     The role of consciousness in this process is evident: consciousness makes it possible to retract the projection that once took place. In more exact terms, the reintegration of the projection is itself an act of the awakening consciousness. Thus consciousness always has a reintegrative capability because it can reveal a lesser dimensioned structure whose events can be realized in us only through the directive ability gained from an additional dimension. Consciousness is therefore a function which reacts to the visible course of events in reality. These events are able to manifest themselves within the world of dimensions which correspond to the particular consciousness structure and are thus accessible to our perception."

- Jean Gebser, The Ever-Present Origin, tr. Barstad & Mickunas