The 'Invention' of time

“The emergence of action within a time scheme is actually one of the most important developments connected with the beginning of your world. …

“This time reference is perhaps the most important within earth experience, and the one that most influences all creatures. In experience or existence outside of time, there is no necessity to make certain kinds of judgments.  In an out-of-time reference, theoretically speaking now, an infinite number of directions can be followed at once. Earth’s time reference, however, brought to experience a new brilliant focus – and in the press of time, again, certain activities would be relatively more necessary than others, relatively more pleasant or unpleasant than others.  Among a larger variety of possible actions, man was suddenly faced with a need to make choices, that within that context had not been made “before”.”

(Dreams, “Evolution” and Value Fulfillment, Session 904)