“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Now that you know something about the nature of matter, you will see that all matter is objectified mental action, and that basically such action happens simultaneously in the spacious present, formed by individualized energy through the formation of mental enclosures.

These simultaneous actions, happening at once, appear in multitudinous fields of activity. And it would seem from within those fields that time as you know it is involved. You know however that time is not involved. The appearance of this time is caused by the apparent changes or transformations of the action as it enters any given camouflage field.

The action is only apparent or visible in a particular field when it adopts the camouflage coloration of the field in question. Basically the action has not changed. The camouflage distortion is like the effect that water reflections have upon the image that falls across the water.

This would happen as follows. The action, the mental action, constantly attempts to recreate itself. It recreates itself in the moment of its birth, with multitudinous slight variations and differentiations; and in so doing automatically plunges into, or projects itself into, those fields which attract the particular range of those differentials.

Time is merely the effect caused within a given system by the system itself, operating upon a mental action as the action enters within its framework.

Now. In much the same manner as these atoms behaved, so also do other units behave, including large ones such as various field universes. Remember, no systems are really closed, but only appear so. There is however a resistance about or around such units, large or small; and it is this resistance through which a mental action must appear, and within which the characteristics or camouflages of the units operate.

For all systems, so-called time is measured with the entrance or projection of any given mental action through this resistance barrier. The mental action projected must continue to project. When it passes completely through a system, then within the system it appears that the mental action has ceased to be, and again time is marked.