“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

([Jack Cross:] “What determines the time between reincarnations?”)

You. If you are very tired, then you rest. If you are wise, you take time to digest your knowledge and to plan your next life even, you see, as a writer plans a next book. If you have too many ties with this reality and if you are too impatient, and if you have not learned sufficiently, then you may return too quickly.

You must try to forget for a period of time each day the self that you think of as yourself the adult pretensions, the adult bignesses. You must remember the childhood spontaneity. You must think of the freedom that is within a flower. Now, it seems to you that a flower cannot move, and therefore has no freedom. And yet I tell you, you must think about the freedom of a flower.

You must dissociate yourself from the person that you know. Close your eyes. Imagine anything that you like that is pleasant to you. It makes no difference what it is. Then imagine yourself stepping apart from yourself in whatever way you choose. And then imagine that all about you there is another dimension and you need only take one step at a time—and you will find your answers. You have only to begin. There is an adventure and it is within you. And there are answers, and they are within you—and you can find them. Now. You have more questions?

Now. I have some questions. It is more difficult for me to form questions than for me to answer them. My question is this—and you do not need to answer it now. You do not need to answer it at any time, to me. It is a question for yourself:

I do, indeed. Not the church—but any church. Do not your ideas already leap over the fences and the fields? And do you not already feel hampered within the environment in which you have spent so much time? And are you not only now—and even reluctantly—taking small steps where you would take giant steps? You do not need to answer.