“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

All That Is simultaneously and unendingly creates itself. Only within your particular frame of reference does there seem to be a contradiction between action that is simultaneous and yet unending. This has to do mainly with the necessary distortions arising from your time concept and the idea of duration; for duration to you presupposes existence continued within a time framework — predisposing to beginnings and endings.

Experience existing outside of that reference is not dependent upon duration in your terms. There is no “perfect ending,” no completed perfection beyond which further experience is impossible or meaningless. (Long pause.) All That Is is a source of infinite and unending simultaneous action. Everything happens at once, and yet there is no beginning and end to it in your terms, so it is not completed in your terms at any given point.

[...] Now as your dreams seem to involve you in duration that is independent of your clock time, and I have much more to say here, so can you achieve the actual experience of duration as far as your inner visions are concerned.

I wanted to say a little more about duration, as far as communication from the inner senses are concerned. As I said, duration can be experienced in relation to psychological time and within its framework. [...]

[...] You have trouble now with the duration of your inner visions because you are trying to transpose them according to physical camouflage time, and this is going about it in the wrong way to begin with. [...]

[...] Many times I am sure, in so-called daydreaming, you have lost track of physical time, and before you know it the experience of inner duration has entered in. [...]

If the dream world and the mind and the inner universe do exist, and if they do not exist in space, and if they do not exist basically in time, though they may be glimpsed through time, then your question will be: in what medium or in what manner do they exist; and without time how can they be said to exist in duration?

[...] The spacious present, while existing spontaneously, while happening simultaneously, still contains within it qualities of duration.

[...] Nor does the duration involved in the spacious present in any way involve a suspension in terms of, for example, growth forbidden to achieve maturity.

[...] These make duration within the spacious present not only possible but necessary.

[...] It will not be of much duration. [...]

(I had good duration with feeling of enlargement in the backs of both hands. [...]

[...] This feeling was also definite, with duration.

[...] The neutrality is protective, a duration within the spacious present, where nevertheless there is a certain acceleration in terms of value fulfillment.

[...] The term itself merely applies to a reference point duration that has meaning only in so far as it is related to a specific personality that is in a transitional frame between dimensional actualities.

[...] The attractions weaken, but during their duration, when certain conditions are met, communication can take place.

[...] This was a definite pull, with several minutes’ duration. [...]

In the electrical field it is the intensity of any given actuality that determines this sort of duration, and the intensity can project such an actuality into many dimensions at once. [...] Within the electrical system, intensity is also responsible for the potentiality, duration and electrical mass, which is a mass of a different sort; a mass that takes up no space, and is not made of matter as you know it, but mass whose thickness is one of varying electrical intensities which form a definite shape, a separate field more or less, an electrical coded counterpart for physical matter.

[...] There is also here a duration that is closely connected with intensity, but not with continuity in terms of time, as it is usually understood in the physical field.

Even the duration of an event or object in space or time is determined by the intensity of the thoughts or emotions that gave it birth. Duration in space is not the same as duration in time, however, though it may seem that this is the case. [...] An event or object that exists briefly in space may have a much greater duration in time. [...]

[...] 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. [...]

[...] The cold’s duration was far briefer, through very intense, but his overall condition was better then.

[...] This time the body’s overall condition, using the method adopted, required a longer period of such stress-transformation, and so the cold condition has been of longer duration.

[...] It adds duration to your normal time. [...]

[...] Now, as dreams seem to involve you in duration that is independent of clock time, so can you achieve the actual experience of duration as far as your inner visions are concerned.

[...] You have trouble now with the duration of your inner visions because you are trying to transpose them according to physical time — and this is going about it in the wrong way. [...]

[...] Many times, in so-called daydreaming, you have lost track of clock time, and this experience of inner duration has entered in.

[...] Ruburt has indeed done well this week, the symptom storms becoming less and less frequent, and much briefer in duration as well as weaker in overall intensity. [...]

You recall I have told you that the intensity of an experience, rather than its duration in time, determines its effect. [...]

[...] (Long pause.) They contain a kind of depth, having nothing to do with space, an existence dependent upon, again, intensity rather than duration. [...]

[...] Now basically the original intensity of the charge determines its duration in your time structure. [...]

This would imply short-term memory you see, but this is not the case, for it is intensity and not duration that makes the difference. [...]

When you maintain that identity is dependent upon the duration of the physical body, you are taking it for granted that the physical body is one complete thing, more or less rigid in form, and permanent within a certain perspective. [...]

[...] Energy is self-renewing, and indefinite duration of pattern would lead to dead ends. [...]

[...] The sensation had good duration and was unmistakable. [...]

[...] Most of the sightings and sounds are now hard to recall, frustratingly enough, but they were very vivid at the time, and I did achieve partial duration in memory.

(Monday night, November 23, 12 PM: Upon retiring I experienced with good duration many sightings of painted trees, brush, etc. [...]

[...] (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. [...] But in terms of quality and value fulfillment there is greater duration and the “moment,” in quotes, is more intensely perceived.

(While this sensation attained some duration, I began to experience my feeling of existing upon two levels again. [...] Good duration for both effects.)

[...] In these terms, what you call death is simply the insertion of a longer duration of that pulsation of which you are not aware, a long pause in that other dimension, so to speak.

[...] The pulses mentioned earlier are so short in duration that your consciousness skips over them merrily, yet your physical perception cannot seem to bridge the gap when the longer rhythm of pulsation occurs. [...]

Any momentary slippages (laugh) will be of much less duration than any slippages from his past high plateaus, you see.