“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Psychic identity does not need to set up barriers in order to recognize selfhoods. One personality can therefore be a portion of more than one entity, and still retain its own identity, its own individuality. Various groupings of experience exist. It is your concept of time that highly limits your idea of individuality.

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.

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.

You must understand that in any way your situation, and any that you know of physical reality, is highly artificial. It is the mass creation formed by your inner ideas. The time concept is but one example, and it is responsible for many of your most cherished misconceptions. You must form ideas into physical materialization in order to recognize the force behind the ideas you are learning to use and understand. However such materializations are only necessary at certain levels. The time scheme appears valid only within that framework.

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.

An entity does not “remember” when a portion of it existed within your system. In its time that portion simply is. The time concept leads then to a limited idea, for you cannot conceive of an identity without memory of the past in your (underlined) terms.