“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(Jane and I were both tired by session time. Jane had no idea of what Seth might discuss in the session. She began speaking in an average voice, with pauses and with her eyes closed, while sitting down.)

Three: Permanence is not a matter of time. Existence has value in terms of intensities. (Long pause.)

Five: Stability in time-sequence is not a prerequisite requirement for an object, except as a root assumption within the physical universe.

Elements from past, present and future may be indiscriminately available to you. There is the tendency to judge such inner experience in terms of reliable physical assumptions, this being an error. You may conclude that a given experience is the result merely of subconscious fabrications, simply because the time elements are obviously intermixed, or physical coherence or sequence is not maintained.

Yet you may be straddling time in such an instance, perceiving, say, the room as it existed in the 1700’s, and the street as it exists in your present. These elements may appear side by side. The car may disappear before your eyes, to be replaced by an animal, or the whole street may suddenly turn into a field. This is how dreams work, you may think. This cannot be a legitimate projection anywhere. Yet you may be suddenly perceiving the street, and the field that existed before it, and the images may be transposed one upon the other.

Now. If another individual under the same circumstances comes across the same potential object, he can also perceive it as you did. He may however, because of his own makeup, perceive and translate another portion of allied pattern. He may see the form of the man who originated the thought of the building. (Pause.) To a large extent your habit of perceiving time as a sequence forms the type of experience, and also limits the experience that you will have in physical reality.

It also unites experience. The unifying and the limiting aspects of consecutive moments are absent in inner reality. Time cannot be counted upon to unify action. The series you see does not exist basically. The unifying elements will be those of your own understanding, your own abilities. You are not forced to perceive action as a series of moments within inner reality, therefore.

(End at 10:31. Jane was out as usual, and her eyes had been closed most of the time. She now looked and felt better than she had before the session began.