“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

It seems to you that any personality worth its salt must have a series of memories, of events that existed in the past and progressed to a present and a future. Since time does not exist in such a manner, then you must not project your ideas of time upon basic reality.

In the experience of personalities outside of your system, events are not recalled nor held in such a manner. A personality outside of your system does not therefore recall events from so-called previous lives in any serial form. The events are held simultaneously.

It follows then that I am aware of the other Seth personality, and he of me. Because of your time misconceptions you make serious errors whenever you attempt any predictions into life after death, or life within other systems than your own. It is most difficult for you to conceive of an ego who experiences events not in serial form. When any contact is attempted in so-called mediumistic situations, then it is expected that the survival personality will “remember,” in quotes, events as you do; but events no longer exist in that way.

The associative processes determine not only which events have meaning, but also the “order,” in quotes. An event happening say in 1948, of great importance to the sitter, may no longer have any meaning to the survival personality.

Now. If such is the case with personalities so closely allied with your own, then you can perhaps understand how alien your idea of time is to personalities that have never existed within your physical system. They are used to experiencing events not in any time sequence. Instead moment points are experienced fully, developments opening simultaneously, and “events” are recognized as psychic and psychological happenings not necessarily connected with any exterior circumstance.

When idea no longer needs physical materialization, then the time concept is useless. Intensity of experience and value fulfillment takes time’s place. Developments open, in your terms, at once. Organization of inner events is managed according to the inner interests of the various personalities and the intensities with which any given event is experienced.

In your terms then, a future event would exist before a past event. Do you follow me?

The apple is time. It is an event. It is the so-many-odd days or months that have gone into its production in your terms, or years that have gone into production of the tree. It is as much an event of time as it is an event of space.