“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(Jane began at a rather slow pace; eyes open, pauses as usual, etc.)

It is important that you understand that time puts limitations and barriers in the way of perception. This does not mean that each individual at such a stage is isolated, nor that he dwells in some universe of his own, for interactions always exist. (Long pause.)

Now give us a moment here. (Pause.)

This simply means that you did not spark creative impetus of any kind within each other. (Pause.)

Now. (Pause; emphatic:) you did not bring forth response from one another. This perhaps is more important. You did not challenge one another. You may have gotten along quite well with each other. Do you see?

In your theory of time however you believe yourselves bound to the road, do not realize that you have made it, and are unable to perceive other realities. You have chosen to do this however. Since you are learning and can only handle so many perceptions, you have forgotten that you have created the road. Multidimensional personalities do not need to forget. They are also aware of different such devices formed by others. (One minute pause; eyes closed.)

Time therefore is formed out of and from nontime. (Long pause.) Non-time is psychological experience, psychological reality, and time is always at its service. (Long pause.) Entities then form the time in which they seem to dwell. (Long pause.) Experience itself is always plastic, and again, form is not dependent upon mass. Mass belongs to your camouflage system. Form does not.

The game however is for a purpose. (Long pause.)

(Humorously:) How you do in the game will affect your score elsewhere, in other words. Time then is superimposed upon nontime, as mass within your system is superimposed upon form. (Long pause.)

This does not mean that they are not advanced enough to understand the reality of your time. They do not share the illusion. Almost all animals, plants, birds, insects, rocks and trees perceive according to intensities. (Long pause.) The intensity of an experience is their present; but in many ways that I will not explain to you at this point, their present is of wider duration than yours. This does not necessarily mean that they perceive more of the past and future within their present than you do, for they do not in those (underlined) terms. But in terms of quality and value fulfillment there is greater duration and the “moment,” in quotes, is more intensely perceived.