“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Now. Experience is not built up layer upon layer, along the lines of continual moments. Basically, experience has nothing to do with time as you know it. Experience is felt in terms of intensities and value fulfillment. As you should know, an experience lasting only a few moments can outweigh in significance a much more lasting one. The dream experience is rather independent of physical time, and its experience, or rather its intensity—my error—is felt more directly while you are in the dream situation.

Nor do such projections involve necessarily journeys through space as you know it. There are systems, extremely vivid in intensity, that have no existence in physical reality. It is now thought, I believe, that time and space are basically one, but they are both a part of something else. They are merely the camouflage patterns by which you perceive reality. Space, as you experience it in the dream state, comes much closer to reality.

Now, each brush stroke of a painting represents concentrated experience, and compressed perceptions. In a good painting these almost explode when perceived by the lively consciousness of another. The observer is washed over by intensities. Again, experience that has nothing to do with physical time. The same can be said for a successful poem, though here I speak of Ruburt’s knowledge of poetry, rather than of any of my own.

True motion has absolutely nothing to do with space. The only real motion is that of the traveling consciousness. (Long pause, eyes closed; one minute.) Spatially, a painting is flat. Its reality leaps out from its physical dimensions, and completely escapes them. (Long pause.) The depths within the painting do not physically exist, yet they are perceived.

(Jane said Seth had been trying to get through concepts that were difficult. She had an image of spirals, for instance, all interlocked without being regular, that concerned the material on paintings and time, but she couldn’t get it clearly nor even describe it adequately. There were images within this concept that were something like an accordion, Jane said, having to do with time opening and closing, etc.