More possibilities could exist. Guides could take on the roles of those not present, etc.

Just mentioning it as there are other possibilities to explain those things.

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Interesting take on the question. I always thought the question was, why does time matter in the physical dimension?

Of course, the confusing part is going back and forth between the two and have to translate the experience.

Emanuel Swedenborg documented his discussions with "angels" (whom he described as human beings who had passed on).  He said that they had no understanding of the passage of earthly time, and that the notion of marking things off with a clock or orbits around a sun, (etc.) didn't make any more sense to them.

Swedenborg said that those in spirit know nothing of time, but they do still have a change of state.  So they are aware that they were in this "state of mind," but then changed to a different one.  How long it takes to do that measured by earthly measures has no meaning. 

As Vicky said, when you have intention, you enter a state of mind.  There is thus an ever evolving state of being.  Those in the afterlife are very much aware of changing form one state of being to another.

The entire notion of time in the physical world may be illusory - just something we program ourselves into accepting - like a belief system unto itself.  If you think about it, we only really live in the ever-present. 
We mark off states we call the past and the future which really were states in which we were living in the present or will be.  We string these innumerable ever present states together and call it past, present and future, yet the present is the only reality.   By harnessing this realization, we may be able to change both our future, and in some ways, our past. 

I know this sounds complicated, but it doesn't have to be.  Let us say we were wronged by someone close to us.  They hurt us beyond measure.  We carry that wound inside our soul.  If we forgive them, if we can recognize the wrong done, but release ourselves and the offending party from continuing to cause harm, we can change our future relationship with that offending party.  We certainly redefine our present relationship.  And, in my view, we may even change our past, in that the karmic link of ill will and harm was broken, and the healing in the now, may bleed over into other ever present states to ease some of the pain in the past - almost as if the healing intention, or release of pain inthe present, can make itself known in the past and foreshadow the healing before it actually happened. 

So the timelessness of the dimension of mind is really just saying that we are aware of changing from one state of thought or being to another, but don't mark time the same way.

M

Not sure how this relates to BArdo's original question, but I heard Terry Gross's interview with David Eagleman in which he discusses some of his experiments with how people experience time and further explores his idea that time is an active construction of the brain. That part starts at about 9 minutes:

http://www.npr.org/2012/08/24/159922899/incognito-whats-hiding-in-the-unconsciou...

go to "Listen to the Story"

Time section lasts about 10 minutes but the rest is interesting too.

ps He has a fictional work called Sum that looks like it is about afterlives but it is just fiction. it is hard to not speculate, though, what interesting things he might write if he had an NDE such as that of the new director of research at TMI, Eben Alexander.

If you really get down to it, "time" as an abstract does not exist for us during what is referred to as physical life either.

Only events exist. One thought after another thought at a most basic level, or commonly perceivable things like solar circles.

If you remove yourself from clocks, you will start to see what I mean and if you remove yourself from the night and day circle, even more so.

For me, its only logical to believe if beings exist who experience events in a different way, say mainly as we define mental "being" at the moment, our concept of time that is based on physical events would have no meaning,

I've thought for some time now that time is a purely consensual concept measured by a set of events more than one awareness has access to at a time. It is necessary to, say, catch the bus. It's like law. If you lived alone, you would not need it per se, unless by habit.

It is your subjective experience that distinguishes them at all or not. And some events are tied to occurrences that are accessible by many subjective onlookers if they so choose. Even so, five minutes will be experienced quite diffeerently by two seperate consciousnesses. Even though the alarm clock will go off after a certain number of the events determined by its mechanism (e.g. The clicking of steel springs), I would say that time has indeed had a different meaning for the two people experiencing the five minutes. But they are able to "meet" again due to the "outside" measuring we invented.