1 result for (book:ecs1 AND heading:"januari 14 1969 tuesday convers between rachel and ruburt" AND stemmed:present)
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Rachel
wheat
unfriendly
group
leave
[... 7 paragraphs ...]
“In that time, you did not leave the group and you should have. Now you have the opportunity to go back and leave the group. It is as if in your terms, you see, you could go back to a period of this life where you should have acted in a different way and didn’t. Well you have the opportunity now to go back into that existence and make it different in the present. Because you can change—now this is in our physical terms—you can change what we would think of as the past through actions in our present. Do you understand me?
“The past in our terms doesn’t cause present behavior, because you can go back now into that past and change it in our present. You will have the opportunity to do it because of your intuitive understanding, and this is something that most people haven’t developed enough to do. Now actually that circle and those people are as real as this room seems to the rest of you. Right now this room doesn’t seem very real to me. Now you can if you want to—and without any kind of coercion—look up and see Seth’s face. And in the face you’ll find confidence to leave the group at that time. The confidence you find then will serve you now and help you in the daily life that you think you are leading now.”
[... 15 paragraphs ...]
(Conversation back and forth between Rachel, Ruburt and others about leaving and not leaving past group and present group.
(Continuing chatter about going from present to past—changing past and its affect upon the present.
[... 8 paragraphs ...]
