" And if it is true that we acquired our knowledge before our birth, and lost it at the moment of birth, but afterward, by the exercise of our senses upon sensible objects, recover the knowledge which we had once before, I suppose that what we call learning will be the recovery of our own knowledge . . . PLATO* "

― Edward F. Edinger , Ego and Archetype: Individuation and the Religious Function of the Psyche