“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

This does not mean that you do not exist however in the apparent interval. Our discussion concerning the nature of matter is important here, for I explained the pulsations that occur in atoms. Your perception of time causes many difficulties when you try to examine reality as it exists independent of matter. The limitations of verbal communications make some explanations difficult. (See Volumes 1 and 2, for example.)

I have told you that pulsations occur as energy enters into an atom and then departs from it. There is an interval in which the chair simply does not exist, but you do not perceive it. A mechanism something like an afterimage allows you to see matter as continuous.

Now the length of this interval would seem unbelievably brief from some perspectives or systems, and centuries long, you see, if viewed from different systems. You yourselves do not perceive it at all. Consciously you do not perceive the intervals (smile, eyes wide open) during which you yourselves simply do not exist as material organisms.

We have, again, almost a mental afterimage that gives you the illusion that one moment leads smoothly to the next. You do exist during these intervals, but you do not exist in any physical terms. It is not a matter—if you will excuse my pun—it is not a matter of the consciousness escaping from the body. It is a matter concerning the fact that no physical body exists from which to escape.

The consciousness exists however. The consciousness as it reasserts itself within physical reality has no memory of the interval in which it did not physically exist. The inner self however retains all memory. Dreams allow consciousness to disentangle itself from physical reality. For various reasons the intervals here, you see, are to some extent recalled.

There is an ebb and tide. Your consciousness is not fully focused within physical reality, even during those intervals when you exist within it. The focus varies considerably, and in certain rhythm.

The amount of focus and the intensity varies according to the individual, but consciousness is never entirely focused within physical reality. Now when conscious projections occur you are taking advantage of these intervals between materializations. You may call these nonintervals, actually.

Your idea of time does not exist within such intervals. You do not even take it with you. Now these nonintervals are indeed openings into other realities, and you can theoretically explore them. They exist as actually as physical reality. You are doing the same thing when you realize you are dreaming, and decide to explore, say, a distant landscape that appears within the dream.

For this is a noninterval to the inner self. This material is extremely important. One portion of you leaves the inner self to explore in depth a particular noninterval. To the inner self no time passes. You experience of course physical time. This noninterval however creates its own interval points that you also explore, in your dreams and waking projections that escape your ordinary consciousness.