“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Now to return to our discussion. The matter of time is highly important if you have any hopes of understanding the self in its entirety, or other personalities that do not operate within your system. The psychological frameworks are so different. The apparent cause and effect sequence is absent, and identity knows itself as itself through other means than continuity, in your terms.

As we have to some extent mentioned earlier, here we have travel through probable actions, where each conceivable action is experienced. The self allows itself to change while retaining knowledge that it is the self who changes. It develops through the changes. Time can only be measured through experience. It is obvious that other gestalt personalities experience more in an equivalent amount of your time, but this is not the point.

There is in all of this an order. It is an order that the inner self is to learn. It is intuitively known, but it must be realized. There are personalities far more developed than my own; there are personalities that operate in a context that even I would find extremely alien, but no particle of individuality is ever lost, and no experience.

The self that stabbed you in the back was the self negatively (underlined)developed in this life’s early existence. It tried to stab you in the back, and did so, but you were able to retaliate and to slay your would-be assassin.

Notice however that the knife used could have been a more dangerous, lethal one, for that self did not really want to kill you. It was simply a portion of you, formed by negative inferences, that became an unwitting enemy of the self you had become. When it was slain it gained freedom, for the negative elements were released from their compulsions, and the ritualized behavior that was symbolized by the formal clothing of your dream.

The idleness, if prolonged, is not idleness. Concentration upon physical data takes the conscious mind off for a trip, and it gives the inner self greater freedom to initiate new developments and intuitional creations. These, incidentally, can help you understand the true nature of time. Now take your break.