Time is the pattern of perception

Seth Early Sessions, Vol 9, Session 424

Time Is The Pattern Of Perception

Now.  Time is the pattern of perception.  It is highly personal, and has no meaning without personal experience.  To you, then, time is the result of your perceiving mechanisms.  You know the senses force you to perceive experience in certain pattern.  Because I have also followed this particular reality, it is meaningful, for me, and I can understand it.

There are personalities however to whom it is highly alien.  It must be interpreted.  Using concepts, I can relate my understanding of your time pattern to others clairvoyantly.  Other portions of my entity are aware of it, by a process of mental osmosis, so to speak.

Those portions of my entity that have not had physical experience, however, do not operate within that time system, at any time, if you will excuse the pun.  It is not beyond them.  They simply have not chosen the particular experience, nor delved into that moment point.

Now words belong to your particular time system.  Without it, they are not needed.  Therefore communication is dependent upon your time system.  The inner self is not so limited, as you know, and inner communications continue always beneath words.  Word structures and language itself bears a unique mathematical precision.  The placement of emphasis, the vowels and consonants, the length of time to utter them, all of these issues are intimately connected with your own nervous systems, and with the intervals inherent within your time system, between thought and action.

There are unities, barely contemplated, then, between language, exterior communication, the physical nervous system, and time or your idea of it.  These merge so beautifully that they all serve to form a seemingly perfect picture of physical reality.  The camouflage would not be effective were it less perfect.

You are beginning to perceive the holes in the camouflage, for I have pointed them out to you.  They are doorways into inner realities, and other realities, as are these sessions.  Those who have survived physical death in your terms, must use words in their communications, for you do not understand wordless communications.  They themselves are far freer, however.

We should perhaps differentiate between thought words and speech, or spoken words.  Thought words are used by many for some interval.  I am speaking of those who have survived death in your terms.  They do not need the spoken word.  Even thought communication however need not necessarily follow the form of words.  There can be thought without words, in other words.

For simplicity’s sake, let us say that there is a process of change.  Those alive in your terms rely at least outwardly on the spoken word.  Those who have left and survive, use thought words but do not need to speak, though they may.  As proficiency grows and as the inner senses are more fully used, the necessity for even thought words vanishes.

Several other methods of communication occur.  They do not spring from nowhere.  You use them beneath conscious level to some degree now.  They grow into prominence.  Images are widely used, but these images would be fourth-dimensional to your way of thinking.  They are far from flat.  They have a reality, and these are, what you have read, referred to as thoughtforms.

Feelings become far more vivid, pulsating and alive, also.  You experience these more directly, and yet conversely enough you do not identify with them falsely, as is often the case in your present situation.  You can experience feelings more vividly and powerfully because you realize that they are not you, and your identity cannot be swept aside by them.

You have no fear of them.  All of this is a progression, I will say for simplicity’s sake.  Now in such an environment, time as you know it does not exist.  This is one of the reasons why some projections are so confusing, particularly when the ego is taken along for the ride.  It is used to past, present and future, kept nicely apart.

I am giving you this as preliminary material, for you have asked how my big brother experiences time.