“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

In the same way, however, your consciousness fluctuates—it is here and then it is not here—but the physical self focuses upon only those moments when consciousness is focused in physical reality so your conscious self only has memory of the physical moments that it has known. [...]

And if there is any redemption, my good, holy friend, (to Joel) it takes place in each moment of time now in each day, not back so many centuries ago. [...]

[...] Now you can predict some events and they occur, but you create the future in every moment in your frame of reference, and time in your terms is plastic. [...]

[...] In our sessions I have explained something that I have not mentioned in class and it is this— for every moment of time that you seem to exist in this universe, you do not exist in it. [...]

Give us a moment … Physicists know that waves can appear as particles upon certain conditions, and that particles can behave like waves.³ So moments as you understand them are like waves experienced as “particles” — as small bubbles, for example, each one breaking and another forming. [...]

(Quietly:) I told you to take a moment while you were within a particular dream, and to use it to try to discover what had been happening within the dream before you experienced it.¹

[...] Even in the dream state, any present expands into its own version of past and future; so in those terms the dream possesses its own background, its own kind (underlined) of historic past, the moment you construct it.

Give us a moment … In the dream state, the freedom of events from time as you understand it can be more apparent. [...]

Give us a moment, and give yourself a moment.

Now: Dictation (whispering, eyes closed). Give us a moment …

(Long pause.) Give us a moment … (Another long pause.)

Give us a moment … Those events then arise into significance³ because of the peculiar kind of organization chosen. [...]

Your physicists know that time does not exist, basically, as a series of moments, one following the other. Therefore my earlier remark that physical reality was not dependent upon time as a series of moments should be obvious. [...]

[...] And physical reality, believe it or not, is not dependent upon the theory of time as a series of moments.

Your institutions, both cultural and educational, may be dependent upon time as a series of moments, but physical reality itself is not.

(See the 149th-152nd sessions for the material on moment points and time. [...]

Any such moment is therefore a gateway into all of your existence. The events that you recognize as happening now are simply specific and objective, but the most minute element in any given moment’s experience is also symbolic of other events and other times.

(10:44.) Now: in certain terms, past, present, and future are all compressed in any given moment of your experience.

Each moment is then like a mosaic, only in your current life history you follow only one color or pattern, and ignore the others. [...]

(11:05.) Give us a moment.... [...]

We are going to hedge about for a moment, until Ruburt’s state is such that he is completely unconcerned.

Now give us a moment. [...]

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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 give us a moment here. [...]

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.

[...] At this moment Willy suddenly vaulted from the chair, instantly alert it seemed in a second. [...]

Association or no, physically you will remember events in time, with present moments neatly following past ones. [...]

(11:39.) Give us a moment… That is just enough to let Ruburt know we are on our next chapter.

[...] Theoretically, the most fleeting moment of your day can be prolonged endlessly. This would not be a static elongation, however, but a vivid delving into that moment, from which all time as you think of it, past and future and all its probabilities, might emerge.

[...] If for a moment you try to imagine that you were able to carry your own time with you on such a journey, all packaged neatly in a wristwatch, then you would be quite amazed at what would happen.

[...] If time ran backward very slowly, and according to the conditions, you might not be aware of the difference, because it would take so much “time” to get from the present moment to the one “before” it that you might be struck, instead, simply with the feeling that something was familiar, as if it had happened before.

Give us a moment.... [...] He will be reading fairly well, then perhaps look up at the television set, following motion of the screen, and then it will take time again—a few moments, perhaps before he reads well again. [...]

[...] Ruburt has had some excellent moments of such faith, however, and those moments add up. [...]

[...] It happened again a few moments later. [...]

Now, give us a moment.... [...]

[...] Now give us a moment.

[...] The halt, above, refers to Jane’s laying aside the book for Doubleday for the moment, and her decision to begin work on a book on the Seth material itself.)

Give us a moment. [...]

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[...] Give me a moment here. [...]

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[...] The physical senses can only perceive reality a little bit at a time, and so it seems to you that one moment exists, and is gone forever, and the next moment comes, and like the one before it disappears. [...]

I have been biding my time, seeking for the most auspicious moment in which to speak to you, and to announce my presence—for I am here in these classes, as indeed Ruburt knows that I am. [...]

[...] Give us a moment here. [...]

Now give me a moment, Joseph. [...]

[...] Not having children, you do not have that constant steady interrelationship with others in which you are brought back always to the immediacy of the moment. [...]

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Give us a moment here. [...]

[...] But that particular moment, any particular moment, that you think of as the past, existed before your egotistical perception of it, and is constantly being changed by you, even when you no longer consciously perceive it.

Some systems experience time exclusively in terms of probabilities, in which the self experiences a particular moment most thoroughly, where continuity is achieved not through a continuity of moments but a continuity of self, as it experiences all the various events that exist as probabilities for it in any given instant.

[...] But do not regard this hopping from moment to moment, as from stone to stone, as the approximation of time as it actually exists. [...]

[...] The past moment is never completed. [...]

[...] It offers comfort, creativity, and inspiration that you only impede if you allow secondary experience to supersede your daily moment-to-moment encounter with the physical earth.

[...] Let us call primary experience that which exists immediately in sense terms in your moment of time — the contact of body with environment. [...]

[...] Your mind then forces your body to be in a state of constant alert — but more unfortunately, you train yourself to ignore your direct, sensual feedback in the present moment.

Because of man’s great gift of imagination, however, the alarm signals not only invade a safe present moment, but go jangling into the next one and the one following, and are endlessly projected into the future. [...]

[...] It needed the existence of a sophisticated memory system in which new situations and experiences could be judged against recalled ones, and evaluations made in an in-between moment of reflection.

[...] Any violation against nature would bring about a feeling of guilt so that when a like situation was encountered in the future, man would, in that moment of reflection, not repeat the same action.

I have used the phrase “moment of reflection” several times because it is another attribute peculiar to the conscious mind and, again in your terms, is largely denied to the rest of creaturehood. [...]

(Most intently:) When this happens, the species by default must fall back upon vestiges of old instincts — that were not geared to operate in conjunction with a conscious reasoning mind, and do not comprehend your experience; that finds your “moment of reflection” an impertinent denial of impulse. [...]

As there are insides to apples, so think of the ordinary moment as an apple. [...] Using this analogy, however, the apple itself (as the moment) would contain infinite variations of itself within itself. [...]

It is vital that you understand this inward and outward thrust of “time,” however, and realize that from this flows the consecutive appearance of the moment. [...] Again, you live on the surface of the moments, with no understanding of the unrecognized and unofficial realities that lie beneath. [...]

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(11:05.) Give us a moment, and rest your hand.

Give us a moment.... [...]

Now: Give us a moment … We are speaking quietly to keep Ruburt in a particular state — but (humorously, leaning forward), we will not whisper.

[...] Give us a moment … We will have more to say very shortly about our dream-art scientist (see the last session); yet there are also other important ways that could be used to study the nature of reality. [...]

Give us a moment … While connected with your own civilization, the man Einstein¹ came closest perhaps in this regard, for he was able to quite naturally identify himself with various “functions” of the universe. [...]

[...] Think of that moment of conscious awareness as a path. [...]