“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(Jane and I had a discussion concerning the questions I have compiled to ask Seth, via our new system, before sessions, hence our getting started late. We wondered about how much time to allot to getting answers, etc., versus keeping up with the current theoretical data. )

Now. Give us a moment. (Pause.) Do you want an explanation concerning the sepia episode, or do you want, now, some material concerning the entity and time?

Now. As I have told you, there is duration of a kind. What would correspond, in any case, to your idea of duration within the spacious present; it is a matter of intensities however. Now the entity is in itself composed of such intensities. Simply for the sake of analogy, imagine the image, a humanoid one, of an entity giant-sized, spread out anywhere in your physical universe. And if the image were projected against a midnight sky, within its apparent boundaries then you would see a multitude of planets and stars. Let these represent moment points. On one hand they are a part of the entity, as your cells are a portion of your body. On the other hand the entity’s consciousness can travel through these. They are doorways within his own psychological makeup, into experiences.

It is as if you could consciously come to terms with each of your own cells and become aware, in your terms, of their future and their past. This traveling-through obviously changes the nature of the moment points. It is, again, action working within itself. The time element, as you understand it, hardly exists.

The entity and its time are not separate. They are one. Basically time is simply psychological experience, regardless of the lapses between perception or the manner of perception. The entity is its own experience.

Time could be thought of as the tissues of the entity. These would be ever-changing. In our analogy, the projected image would seem to float, including ever-different stars and planets within its boundaries. Your own time structure would be very minute in this picture.

Any personality may become an entity on its own. This involves a highly developed knowledge of the use of energy and its intensities. As atoms have a mobility, so do psychological structures in their own way. They move through the value climate of psychological reality as freely as atoms move through your time.

Value fulfillment corresponds to your time in that area.

Now. What I am trying to tell you is that a thought or a feeling, with all its varieties of intensities, is more like time, like the true nature of time, than all of your minutes or hours.

There is some slight analogy here in your associative processes, where you might think of a person as you have known him in different periods of time, and hold that idea in your present; but that does little to give you the concept’s complexity. This session, for that matter, will have to develop into others, for I have concentrated some material about which you will have many questions when you read it.

You must simply and practically try to divest yourself of all ideas of time as you know it, for this discussion. Basically, what you call time does not exist. I am trying to tell you what does exist instead. The question of time and entities then, you see, cannot be truly answered in the manner in which you asked it.

(See page 5, the 422nd session of July 10, 1968. My original question, which Seth has been discussing ever since, was: “What does the new personality, the larger Seth, think of our time system? He must have experienced many different ones.”)

Now you cannot hold too many thoughts in your head, in quotes “at the same time,” and many of your own thoughts escape you consciously. Entities are aware of all of their personalities, and keep track of them far better than you keep track of your own thoughts.

These personalities themselves are constantly developing and changing, as one thought can change into another, or bring forth another. The subjective experience of these personalities, the psychological existence of these personalities (long pause), is composed of (pause, frown) dimensions of value fulfillment, as considering your time, hours are composed of moments.

As a sort of shock treatment, we must almost forcibly rip out your stereotyped ideas of time before we can carry this particular subject matter further.

I was not annoyed. I did not want however to become involved with the matter at that time, since you have no idea where it would lead us.

There are times when various circumstances are correct, and when these occur messages from your artist friend (Van Elver) come in very strongly, and often suddenly. On occasion the connection is far less than perfect, and there is a strain on his part and mine. So as a rule we automatically wait until our signals are clear.

You must remember that the word, time, is itself distorted. It projects limitations upon other systems of reality that do not exist. We must use it for our explanations, but nontime comes far closest to the reality.

(Humorously.) No time is my time... Now, I wish you a hearty good evening, and my fondest wishes to you both.