“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

It seems to you that reality is composed of those actions that you choose to take. Those that you choose to deny are ignored. The road not taken then seems to be a non-act, yet every thought is actualized and every possibility explored. Physical reality is constructed from what seems to be a series of physical acts. Since this is the usual criterion of reality for you, then nonphysical acts usually escape your notice, discretion, and judgment.

All actions are initially mental acts. This is the nature of reality. That sentence cannot be emphasized too thoroughly. All mental acts therefore are valid. They exist and cannot be negated.

The soul can be described for that matter, as a multidimensional, infinite act, each minute probability being brought somewhere into actuality and existence; an infinite creative act that creates for itself infinite dimensions in which fulfillment is possible.

(10:19.) Each probable system of reality of course then creates other such systems, and any one act, realized, brings forth an infinite number of “unrealized” acts that will also find their actualization. Now all systems of reality are open. The divisions between them are arbitrarily decided upon as a matter of convenience, but all exist simultaneously, and each one supports and adds to the other. So what you do is also reflected to some degree in the experience of your probable selves, and vice versa.

According to conditions, such a person could be a member of a small cult or the head of a nation, a criminal or a national hero, who claims to act with the authority of God. Again, the desire and motivation to act is so strong within each person that it will not be denied, and when it is denied then it can be expressed in a perverted form. Man must not only act, but he must act constructively, and he must feel that he acts for good ends.

[...] Each person is fired by the desire to act, and to act beneficially, altruistically (intently), to practically put his stamp, or her stamp, upon the world. [...]

(Pause.) They help the individual impress the world — that is, to act upon it and within it effectively. [...]

[...] Followers had been taught to act against their natural impulses with members of their families. [...]

(11:01.) It seems almost a sacrilege to say that man is good, when everywhere you meet contradictions, for too often man certainly appears to act as if his motives were instead those of a born killer. [...] You cannot expect yourselves to act rationally or altruistically in any consistent manner if you believe that you are automatically degraded, or that your nature is so flawed that such performance is uncharacteristic.

[...] Yet in Acts, Luke postulates the 40-day interval between the two events. (Originally Luke composed his Gospel and Acts as one treatise; the two were separated early in the second century.) Out of such contradictions as those implied in Luke’s case, however, confusion and opposing opinions reign when one studies the Gospels and related material. [...]

[...] The idea was the result of a spectacular act of the imagination that then leapt upon the historical landscape, highlighting all of the events of the time, so that they became illuminated indeed with a blessed and unearthly light.

[...] You act in certain ways. [...]

[...] It acts as a natural stimulus.

[...] Then, you are not allowing it to act in the present. [...]

[...] It finds in the present no justification in fact for such interpretations, while your thoughts act as if those situations were presently before you, to be confronted. [...]

[...] The distortions that occur as a mental act appears in another field in no way changes the mental act.

I wanted to give you this material because it is basic for any comprehension of mental acts as they occur in the dream universe and the universe of matter. There will also be additional information concerning the concept of time, as the experience of time is strongly connected with the motion of mental acts, as they are projected outward from their center into the fields of various camouflage systems.

They are expressed yet they are repressed from, or they are kept from, active complete physical construction by the very act of artistic creation. [...]

A tree reflected in the water is still the same tree, and unchanged as the mental act is unchanged. [...]

[...] Acts which fit in with the good-intended universe, in which basically each life and detail, seeking its good, also works for the good of all others, bring forth what you call good acts—simple enough acts which are not well-intentioned in that light, toward the self or others “do not work right.” [...] They bring pain, sorrow, or illness to the self or to others, and they are often called evil acts. [...]

In the dream you make a decision never to partake of such a feast again, and the decision simply represents the multitudinous like decisions that are made by individual people, when they finally recognize the fact that a given act, considered acceptable in the past, does not fit in with the overall intent of life at large. [...]

In your system of reality, the other creatures cannot help but act with good intent—even if their intent is to kill their prey. [...]

Acts not well-intentioned clash with the basic structures that form experience, and hence they do indeed appear in grotesque, fragmented or distorted form—often all the more reprehensible in contrast to their stated intent.

[...] Then in one way or another, according to your own individual situation, make one physical gesture or act that is in line with your belief or desire. [...] The act can be a very simple one. [...] If you are poor, it can involve such a simple thing as buying an item you want that costs two cents more than the one you would usually buy — acting on the faith, even that feebly, that the two cents will somehow be given you or come into your experience; but acting as if you had more than you do.

(A note: My own hunch is that there’s a good connection between Seth’s reincarnational points of power, cellular memory, and the coordinate points he discusses in Chapter Five of Seth Speaks: “These coordinate points act as channels through which energy flows, and as warps or invisible paths from one reality to another. They also act as transformers, and provide much of the generating energy that makes creation continuous in your terms…. [...]

[...] On the other hand, the sooner you begin to act upon new ones the better. [...]

As foolish as it may sound, you should give some money away, or in whatever manner that suits you act as if you did have more money than you physically have. [...]

As long as he acted with relative abandon, as in the early years, relatively unreasoning, then there was no point of conflict. When he tried on the other hand to act in a more reasoning and disciplined manner, when he became convinced of the necessity for discipline and this was in Florida, then he attempted to stifle all spontaneity.

[...] Often what passed as spontaneity and emotionalism were often unrelated acts of instinctive nature. What seemed to be freedom or free acts were instead the result of unreasoning propulsion.

[...] For some time he confused true spontaneity with acts caused by blind propulsion, so he could not trust his spontaneous nature. [...] Ruburt therefore thought she was spontaneous; for a while he did not see the blind panic behind the words or acts.

[...] In Florida he saw his father as the epitome of unreason and uncontrolled spontaneity, which had actually become a hodgepodge of unrelated emotional acts, and he felt you then deserting him symbolically.

This intensity of conscious concentration cuts down barriers and allows the messages to go directly to the unconscious, where they are acted upon. The hypnotist, however, is important in that he acts as a direct representative of authority.

[...] The person acts in line with this belief in all ways; but also a variety of subsidiary beliefs grow up about the main one.

(9:38.) This inner communication acts like the constant repetition of a hypnotist. [...]

[...] If he tells you that there is a pink elephant in front of you, then you will see it and believe it is there, and act according to the suggestions given. [...]

(11:30.) With animals, there are varying degrees of division between the self who acts and the action involved. With the birth of the conscious mind in man, however, the self who acts needed a way to judge its actions. [...]

To create a harmonious inner existence is a positive act with far-reaching effects, and not an act of isolation. [...]

[...] Battles like other physical acts exist first in the mental realm. [...]

[...] The seemingly small episode of last evening presented in miniature the basic attitudes that are behind aggressive acts.

You will often condone quite reprehensible acts if you think they were committed for the sake of a greater good. [...] Evil does not exist in those terms, and that is why so many seemingly idealistic people can be partners in quite reprehensible actions, while telling themselves that such acts are justified, since they are methods toward a good end.

[...] Each act that is not in keeping with that ideal begins to unravel the ideal at its very core. As I have stated [several times], if you feel unworthy, or powerless to act, and if you are idealistic, you may begin to feel that the ideal exists so far in the future that it is necessary to take steps you might not otherwise take to achieve it. [...]

(Pause.) Very few people really act, again, from an evil intent. [...]

[...] The growth of each (underlined) seed requires a separate act of creation. There is no mass creative act, for all portions of consciousness have their part to play in creativity. [...]

[...] Each act of creation brings forth another, and opens up further dimensions of activity. [...]

[...] But the unit selves retain their identity, as in a nation the citizens retain theirs, even though the nation at times may act as a unit, and share particular mass characteristic drives and desires, and work toward various goals.

[...] Every dream is a creative act, that could be initiated in no other way, highly individual.

In terms of probabilities, therefore, you choose certain acts, unconsciously transform these into physical events or objects, and then perceive them. [...] They only explore the characteristics of an atom as it acts or shows itself within your system. [...]

[...] There are always inner pathways, however, leading between probable events; since all of them are manifestations of an act in its becoming, then the dimensions between these are illusions.

[...] These multiple presents can be altered at any of an actual number of infinite points; infinity not existing in terms of one indefinite line, but in terms of numberless probabilities and possible combinations growing out of each act of consciousness.

The impulses will automatically lead to Ruburt’s greater understanding of himself, and each one in its way will be a signal to act or not to act from Framework 2—all in line with a greater pattern that seeks Ruburt’s full physical recovery and the fulfillment of his abilities.

[...] Impulses should be acknowledged, and according to their nature acted upon—or not—but expressed.

Your ideas (about seeing people), mentioned earlier, should definitely be acted upon—that is, you do both need some personal communication with others. [...]

[...] The need to act and be in control of action is paramount in conscious beings. [...] As long as power is equated with violence, then you will feel it necessary to regulate normal aggression in your behavior; and considering power as violent, you will be afraid to act to some extent. [...]

[...] If you agree that violence is power then you will punish the criminal with great vindictiveness, for you will see life as a power struggle, and will concentrate upon the acts of violence about which you read. [...] (Pause.) If you accept the basic idea that evil is more powerful than good, then your beneficial acts will bear little fruit because of your own framework; you assign such small power of action to them.

[...] Because his basic concept held aggressiveness and power as one, however, then the strength to act automatically meant the strength to be aggressive. [...]

Unknowingly, the sick often give up their power to act in a healthy manner to the physicians. [...]

[...] Even the stuff of the physical body however continues to act. Action divides itself into various selves, and then explores the moment points of experience, for each new self is indeed a new action, an original act.

[...] It is not the end of acts. [...]

[...] Physical offspring are originally projections, but these originate new acts despite the original idea behind them. [...]

He does not trust his own self-structure, or his ability to act effectively. Joint action seems the only course, but a joint action in which each individual must actually be forced to act, driven by frenzy, or fear or hatred, incensed and provoked, for otherwise the fanatic fears that no action at all will be taken toward “the ideal.”

Through such methods, and through such group hysteria, the responsibility for separate acts is divorced from the individual, and rests instead upon the group, where it becomes generalized and dispersed. [...]

[...] To some extent capital punishment is the act of a fanatical society: The taking of the murderer’s life does not bring back the victim’s, and it does not prevent other men from [committing] such crimes. [...]

Criminals act out those beliefs to perfection. [...]

[...] The painting was an act of defiance against your mother, an act of independence. [...]

To paint paintings for joy was an act of defiance against your mother, and so you have punished yourself in several ways; by being overly concerned with their quality, insisting upon perfection, and by not making strong efforts to sell them or to work for recognition in that field.

Not allowing yourself to make money through paintings also allowed you to punish yourself for what you considered this act of defiance. [...]

[...] Beside other considerations you feel, subconsciously again, that you still serve your mother’s purposes: art for money, and that therefore your initial act of defiance and independence is not complete.

[...] They act like infinite pathways, and have a definite construction, though you do not perceive this.

Tell Ruburt to do relaxation exercises again for a while each day, and also to allow himself to act in a more impulsive manner, in strong bursts of activity, and particularly to imagine himself moving swiftly and lightly.

He is receiving larger doses of energy due to the season, and his own natural reactions to it, but he is not acting or reacting with the spontaneity that is natural to him in early springtime. [...]