“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

“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?

(Conversation back and forth between Rachel, Ruburt and others about leaving and not leaving past group and present group.

(Seth:)You quote me. If you remember that you have no problem, then that is the answer. You will not leave this group. If you want to, you will leave the other group—and with confidence. In one probability you have already done so.

([Rachel:] “I can’t leave until I can see where I am going.”)

(The objects for the 57th envelope experiment were two leaves taken from our poinsettia plant. [...] We see it every day of course but I was sure Jane wasn’t aware of these two specific leaves separately. [...] I taped the leaves to one of the two pieces of Bristol used in these experiments, sandwiched it against the other piece, then sealed the two in the usual double envelopes. [...]

[...] With the object held in this position, it can be seen that the smaller of the two poinsettia leaves would be in the lower right hand corner or the lower left hand corner, depending on whether the piece of Bristol to which the leaves were taped had the leaves facing toward Jane or away from her.

[...] She saw, she said, the rectangular shape of the Bristol to which I had taped the two leaves. [...] Upon seeing the object, Jane realized the dark areas of the leaves matched the dark areas she had seen mentally, yet the image hadn’t been sharp enough to see as leaves; it came through in a generalized picture interpretation instead.

(Jane always sits quietly for a few moments after leaving trance until she is fully oriented. [...] The two leaves were sandwiched between the Bristols. [...]

[...] Leaves take in sun, which helps the plant itself grow (through photosynthesis). The development of the leaves, then, is very important to the plant’s own existence. The cells of the plant are kept in contact with the environment through the leaves’ experiences, and future probabilities are always taken into consideration. [...] The life of the plant and its leaves cannot be separated.

Selves (spelled) have far greater freedom than leaves, but they can also root themselves if they choose — and they do. Reincarnational selves are like leaves that have left the plant, choosing a new medium of existence. In this analogy, the dropped leaves of the physical plant have fulfilled their own purposes to themselves as leaves, and to the plant. [...]

All of the leaves now growing on this plant could be thought of as counterparts of each other, each alive and individual in one time, each contributing yet facing in different directions. As one leaf falls another takes its place, until next year the whole plant, still living, will have a completely new set of leaves — future reincarnational selves of this batch.

[...] They have a common root, as next year’s leaves have a common root with the leaves now of this plant (pointing again to the begonia).

This occurred precisely when you had strong doubts as to whether or not you should stay on the job, and strongly considered it would be best to leave. When you think of leaving you come face to face with the same conflict, for she wanted you to succeed as a commercial artist.

It also serves by giving you another message—that you do want to leave, and that your desire to do so has been affecting your work. [...]

[...] The resentment, carried far enough, could affect your work to such a degree that it forced you to leave, which is exactly what one portion of you wants—and that portion does not care how this is done, though it does not want your painting affected.

Other portions are afraid to leave because of the feelings concerning your mother, mentioned earlier. [...]

(11:28.) I had told her a few days before the suicide attempt that I was leaving. [...] He got in his car as fast as he could and drove away, leaving mother raging on the bedside. [...]

It must have taken something for me, at 21, to leave her that summer. [...]

[...] For that matter, I was somewhat frightened of Walt, who threatened to leave me when he got angry in a new town we happened to be in, but we made it to the west coast. [...]

[...] She was great for reading tea leaves now and then, and I used to think how strange it was that she could do that yet couldn’t walk. [...]

[...] As you leave your usual orientation, however, altering the focus of your consciousness, you may very well structure your new experience just as you do your physical one. [...] When you leave your home station, those objects and events no longer present themselves in the same fashion.

When you begin to leave your home station and alter your focus, however, you leave behind you the particular familiar receptors for your projections. [...]

If you are normally capable of dealing with physical reality, you will encounter no difficulties in alterations of consciousness, or leaving your home station. [...] The same applies when you leave your home station. [...]

Now when you leave your home station and alter your consciousness, you are always a tourist if you take your own baggage of ideas along with you, and interpret your experiences through your own personal, cultural beliefs. [...]

[...] As our friend over here began to experience what happens when Ruburt leaves trance, so your thoughts leave their own pattern, and your emotions impress the physical reality that you know with all kinds of effects of which you are unaware. [...]

[...] Simply watch the experience that you have and try not to transpose old concepts upon it, but leave yourselves open for the fresh experience of what is now. [...] Your thoughts, all of your thoughts at this moment, to you seem to come and go without a trace and yet they leave traces that you do not see, nor perceive, nor even sense, and yet if you quietly examine your experience, if you listen to the universe, you can begin to perceive some of these realities and that is what I want you to do. [...]

[...] Now I will end the session and leave it to our friend to end the class, but listen this week. [...]

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[...] Am leaving room for correct information. [...]

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[...] Leaving room here.)

[...] Now, give us a moment—he much preferred leaving his body when he did. [...] He determined that in this life he would leave at the height of his powers and so he did. [...]

[...] The rest will follow as you are ready for it and if you rush up in rage against me then I will leave Ruburt to face it. [...]

[...] Its consciousness was ready to leave and adapt another form. [...]

[...] Now, the animal went on as a youngster leaves the house and grows up. [...]

[...] I left at 1:20, after leaving a note on his desk at the office.

(7:20 — Leave.)

You were afraid, however, that those who tried to leave would be forced to return, that they would seek you out and bring you back and that your fellows would greatly resent any knowledge you had achieved. Also, that to gain knowledge, you had to leave the place. To leave meant to go outward into a journey of discovery. [...]

[...] The people within the environment appeared happy because they did not think and everything was done for them and life was, indeed, like an institution and they could not leave. [...]

[...] Now you are considering, to some extent, leaving the framework while pretending still to be inside it. [...]

[...] It is the feeling that the fugitive will always be hunted down and that there is safety in numbers and that if you leave the numbers, or the institution, you will be hunted down. [...]

[...] This mainly involved the idea of leaving your job, particularly as money accumulated in the bank.

[...] As soon as I realized that she was rebelling against a way of life that we had fallen into, probably mainly at my unwitting behest, I tried to make amends by leaving the job, etc. [...]

[...] He felt also, in the past, that if he told you to leave the job, and it did not work out as you wanted, that you would blame him, as he thought (underlined) you blamed him for the move from Sayre.

He wanted to shout your decision (to leave Artistic) to the skies of course, and thought he was quite reasonable by saying nothing for a while, at your request; yet secretly he thought that your attitude of silence meant that you were not proud of the decision, did not want it known, that you were acting ashamed of it and wanted it kept quiet, rather than as a triumph.

[...] Our friend leaves the monastery without leave. [...]

You must be free enough to explore the nature and experience of every living thing within your own system knowing that it is yourself and then leave your system. [...]

([Gene]: “But I can’t leave the system because I am in all systems simultaneously.”)

Characteristically, when he leaves his body he does the same thing, hardly pausing at the threshold of alpha but taking off from there.

[...] Jane said she seemed to use the alpha state as the base for a projection into the past and into this tree: she found herself, briefly, amid a cluster of its leaves, peering out….

[...] In such periods, certain symbols can be lost to all intents and purposes, dropping out of an individual’s experience, leaving gaps of inertia.

[...] In so doing you leave your physical body in good hands.

[...] And with that jolly little message, I will leave you all. I hope peacefully for this evening—I go reluctantly, but I do not leave quietly. [...]

[...] Before this brings to your mind hilarious images of tipsy spirits, if you will excuse the pun, I will leave you to the rest and quiet in which I found you, perhaps. [...]

[...] I could not let you leave, you see, with heavy hearts and disappointed faces. [...]

[...] You leave him in the woods, and then begin the ascent.

It means that you have no more association with it, that you leave it in the woods from which you both emerge for the ascent.

When consciousness leaves the body, it identifies itself with one of these portions, and travels in its form. [...]

Now when you leave one form for the other, it of course is in the trance state. [...]

[...] But the projecting fragments themselves, you see, do not come and leave unaffected, but grow and mature and develop, really, other portions of the self in continuing extensions. [...]

[...] They come and take what they are capable of taking, and then they will leave. [...]

[...] You will be leaving all thoughts of continuity of time behind you in such a case.

Some simply find the physical system not to their liking, and in such a way take leave of it. [...]

(Jane could still hurry things up when she wanted to — hence the early session because I was leaving later. [...]

[...] Jane seemed more concerned about when I’d leave for the dentist than anything else. [...]

(I did finally express some anger as the time approached for me to leave. [...]