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(She began dictation on time in a normal voice, and at a much faster rate than she has been using lately. Her pacing was also faster. Again her glasses were off, her eyes dark.)

This is merely due to the additional time that he has added to his schedule, and he will quickly acclimate himself to the new conditions.

Ruburt has added more time to his writing day, and is now also doing more painting. The same kind of energy is being used. It will take a very short period however for him to catch up, and soon he will have more energy by far, than he expected.

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.

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.

It is the effect of the camouflage which is responsible for the experience of time as you think of it.

(Break at 9:53. Jane was dissociated as usual. Note the unusual, early break time. She still felt tired. She said that Seth would have ended the session by 10 o’clock, but that she decided to continue.

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.

There is something else here also, concerning the appearance of time, that I could not have undertaken with you earlier, since you would not have understood it. It is an important point, and it will be the last main point that we will cover this evening.

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.

(The following data are from Jane’s psy-time notebook:

(Jane is now trying psychological time for half an hour daily.)

(From my psy-time notebook: