All Time is Now

SESSION 430: Thursday, August 22, 1968 (early 9)

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.

In the experience of personalities outside of your system, events are not recalled nor held in such a manner. A personality outside of your system does not therefore recall events from so-called previous lives in any serial form. The events are held simultaneously.

The various ego structures therefore exist simultaneously. They are entirely outside of any such framework. They are aware of your perception of time, but it means nothing to them. The various egos of any personality do not think of themselves as having existed one before the other.

Even in reincarnation for example, an ego who experienced a Civil War life is now aware of another ego who may have experienced life in the year three thousand. Within the earthly cycle, such knowledge is not transmitted to the physical brain, but it is always known.

It follows then that I am aware of the other Seth personality, and he of me. Because of your time misconceptions you make serious errors whenever you attempt any predictions into life after death, or life within other systems than your own. It is most difficult for you to conceive of an ego who experiences events not in serial form. When any contact is attempted in so-called mediumistic situations, then it is expected that the survival personality will “remember,” in quotes, events as you do; but events no longer exist in that way.

The associative processes determine not only which events have meaning, but also the “order,” in quotes. An event happening say in 1948, of great importance to the sitter, may no longer have any meaning to the survival personality.

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.

In some systems therefore exterior camouflage is not needed.

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. In your terms then, a future event would exist before a past event. Do you follow me?

(“Yes.”)

Therefore you are hampered in your attempt to understand personalities who do not exist within your system, for identity is not therefore structured in any kind of a time sequence, and what you call memory flies out the window.

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 terms.

This is also responsible for the fact that it is difficult to understand how one personality, while retaining its individuality, can be a portion of more than one entity, and we will have more to say on that subject as we continue with the time concept.

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Reality is not organized how we think it is.

There is no past behind us and an unknown future ahead of us.

Instead experience is simultaneous.

This is indeed baffling.

This goes back to the difference between a blade of grass and the seed from which it sprung. The seed is required as entry point for consciousness but the grass flowing in the summer breeze is no longer the seed from which is came. Yet they are related.

Intuitively I would say everything in our lives works this way, even inanimate objects such as books and chairs.

But it certainly looks like there is only the past and the future is in front of us.

Again, this is indeed baffling.

We have one tool in our arsenal to get around our incorrect understanding of time and it is our mind. It is not limited by our conceptions of past/present/future. It can go anywhere it wants and often flows into past events and imagined future events within a single heartbeat.

They are all the same to it.

And so this is how the Entity functions.

It does not care about our limited concept of "past lives" and "future lives" because it knows that they all exist now.

And so I return to writing... again...

There are no limits to writing (beside the craft of putting it down on paper). Writing is the cleanest and fastest way to express the mind's vaster experience.

In my current novel I have sent my consciousness to the far reaches of the beginning and the end of time and by doing so I've opened up windows into each of those moments and transcribed events to the best of my ability as some strange all-powerful cosmic reporter. These events exist simultaneously and not only affect the characters within those "moment points" but also the characters who observe them AND the readers who digest the words upon the page.

I am not ashamed to say that some scenes were so powerful that they literally brought me to tears trying to convert them into words. Now, this is a rare occurrence, but when it happens it gives me a glimpse of the emotional intensity that Seth and his peers likely experience on a "daily" basis as they explore ideas that naturally seek value fulfillment.

It reminds me of this passage from Seth Speaks:

We communicate telepathically, but then again, telepathy is the basis for your languages, without which their symbolism would be meaningless.

Because we do communicate in this manner, this does not necessarily mean that we use mental words, for we do not. We communicate instead through what I can only call thermal and electromagnetic images that are capable of supporting much more meaning in one “sequence.” The intensity of the communication is dependent upon the emotional intensity behind it, although the phrase “emotional intensity” may be misleading.

We do feel an equivalent of what you call emotions, though these are not the love or hate or anger that you know. Your feelings can best be described as the three-dimensional materializations of far greater psychological events and experiences that are related to the “inner senses.”