Seth on "What determines the time between reincarnations?"

The Early Sessions

 

Book 9 of The Seth Material

 

Session 473..... ESP Class Notes May 20, 1969

 

 

"([Jim Crosson:] "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 his 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."

 

"It is always up to the individual. There is no predestination and there is no one who tells you what you must do. The answers are within yourself then as the answers are within yourself now."

 

"([Jim Crosson:]) "How do you discover those answers for yourself?

 

"Now, there are many ways... but only one real way. And the way is to begin the journey, as Ruburt told you, into the nature of your own consciousness for the answers are within you and not out from you... and no one can tell you the answers. Now in one way, each individual will find his own answer... and yet all answers, in another way, are one."

 

"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?"