“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.

Later you may not recall it, but you have a more direct connection with reality in the dream state, and the intensity of the dream experience is more completely perceived. I am speaking now in terms of basic reality. It is less camouflaged in the dream state. For this reason, in any projections you may be startled, for here you also enter a less strictly camouflaged situation.

There is a constant translation of inner reality into objects in the waking state, and a constant translation of ideas into pseudoobjects in the dreaming state. Within a certain portion of dream reality, ideas or thoughts can be translated into pseudoobjects, and transported. This can only happen within certain ranges of intensities. This is what happens when you adopt a pseudoform in projections, though I am simplifying this considerably.

When you travel, so to speak, beyond a certain range of intensities, even pseudoobjects must vanish. They exist in a cluster about, and connected to, your own system. The lack of even pseudoobjects obviously means that you have gone beyond your camouflage system. If it were possible for you, you would then travel through a range of intensities in which no camouflage existed. Then you would encounter the pseudocamouflage, you see, of the next system. This would or would not be physical matter, according to the system.

The thoughts would not be perceived if they were present, you see. If a certain intensity is reached here however, a peak of intensity, then you could perceive the spacious present as it exists within your native system. You could, from this peak, theoretically look into the other system, but you would not understand what you perceived. You would not have the proper root assumptions, you see.

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.

The excellent work of art recreates for the observer inner experience of his own also, of which he has perhaps never been aware. As you know, paintings have motion, yet the painting itself does not move. This idea perhaps will help you to understand experience in terms of intensity, and projections, or the movement of consciousness, without necessarily any involvement with space.