“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Now give us a moment here. (Pause.)

There are in other words many other kinds of time systems that are constructed, beside the one you know dealing with continuity of moments. The probable systems could be called time systems, only their experience is highly organized in a different fashion, and continual moments do not exist in your terms.

Now to some extent, to some large extent, time as you know it with its continual moments is a highly specialized illusion, even within your physical system.

(Our cat, Willy, was curled up sleeping in a chair that happened to be in back of the rocker Jane sat in as she spoke for Seth. At this moment Willy suddenly vaulted from the chair, instantly alert it seemed in a second. I could not see what had bothered him; Jane could not see him but certainly she heard him. Willy prowled about the legs of the chair briefly, then jumped back up in it and once again curled up.

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.

Be reminded here that they are not concerned with moments in your terms. Each experience is highly intense, however. The organism responds to an acute degree. This applies to both birds and rocks, though there is a large scale of difference between the extremes.