“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

I wanted to give you this material because it is basic for any comprehension of mental acts as they occur in the dream universe and the universe of matter. There will also be additional information concerning the concept of time, as the experience of time is strongly connected with the motion of mental acts, as they are projected outward from their center into the fields of various camouflage systems.

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.

If you recall, when we spoke of the development of conscious individualized energy within your field, we spoke of units collecting material about themselves, and at various points becoming more or less closed systems, accumulating within themselves a more or less stable reserve.

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.

The apparent lapse between the entry and departure points of this motion appears then as a convenient measurement within the system, that is referred to within your system as time.