“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(I said this because I feared the sepia explanation might be a lengthy one. See page 35 for material and notes concerning the present status of this question of sepia and Van Elver.)

Now. As I have told you, there is duration of a kind. What would correspond, in any case, to your idea of duration within the spacious present; it is a matter of intensities however. Now the entity is in itself composed of such intensities. Simply for the sake of analogy, imagine the image, a humanoid one, of an entity giant-sized, spread out anywhere in your physical universe. And if the image were projected against a midnight sky, within its apparent boundaries then you would see a multitude of planets and stars. Let these represent moment points. On one hand they are a part of the entity, as your cells are a portion of your body. On the other hand the entity’s consciousness can travel through these. They are doorways within his own psychological makeup, into experiences.

The entity and its time are not separate. They are one. Basically time is simply psychological experience, regardless of the lapses between perception or the manner of perception. The entity is its own experience.

Now. Some personalities can be a part of more than one entity. This is something I do not believe we have discussed before.

(See page 5, the 422nd session of July 10, 1968. My original question, which Seth has been discussing ever since, was: “What does the new personality, the larger Seth, think of our time system? He must have experienced many different ones.”)

These personalities themselves are constantly developing and changing, as one thought can change into another, or bring forth another. The subjective experience of these personalities, the psychological existence of these personalities (long pause), is composed of (pause, frown) dimensions of value fulfillment, as considering your time, hours are composed of moments.

Now behind that simple explanation, you see, there are many subjects that we have not as yet embarked upon. I did not mean to put off an answer. I was simply not ready to give you a full one.