Action and Time

Seth's Early Sessions, Vol 5, Session 215

Let us continue our discussion. I did not say that action was not motion. I want this clear. Action is motion, but not necessarily motion that is perceived in physical terms.

(See page 110.)

Your conception of time is dependent upon your perception of action, and that portion of action which you can perceive and appreciate. There is no doubt here that the intuitions can at times perceive action far more completely than can the intellect. And time, therefore, physical clock time, is much more alien to the intuitive self than it is to the intellectual self.

Logic builds its monuments step by step, one thought before the other in a series where each thought or deduction is dependent upon the thought before. The intuitions are of a more spontaneous nature, and less dependent upon such step-by-step movements.

… The ego attempts to break down action into smaller and smaller units. The intuitions try to perceive action as a whole. The ego breaks down for purposes of examination, the intuitions construct. Both the ego and the intuitions, in performing their functions, obviously create action. The self may of course be considered as a gestalt of action, perceived in a different manner by various levels

of itself.

On one hand, basically, the self is limitless, both electromagnetically and

because of the nature of action, which affects all other action. The self does not however proceed along straight lines, from a birth to a death. This is only the self that the ego perceives. Action cannot remain inactive or motionless, though the motion may not always be apparent.

Ego's concept of itself as a rock of unchanging identity is highly ludicrous, since its perceptions constantly change it from what it was. It is not a thing proceeding, by any means. This is not to deny the human aspects of the ego, for the ego is also somewhat like a light carried in front of the inner self, a light that gives meaning to the physical universe and to its objects. It enables the inner self to manipulate within physical reality. It translates outer data to the inner personality.