“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] Bill has been acting as custodian of the second carbon of the Seth material. [...]

[...] He cannot understand his own cruelty toward him, or the acts which he is impelled to perform. [...]

—he knows this, and he knows that by enduring the small acts of cruelty he gains two ends.

[...] Such and such happened to me at the age of five or six, and ever after have I acted thus and so. [...]

[...] I have seen to it that our friend Ruburt acts in such a way that this will not happen. [...]

[...] When you realize this and act upon it, there is no reason for you to come back here again unless you want to. [...]

[...] You must first change your image in your imagination and act upon it immediately. [...]

[...] By not acting, I may even be excusing myself from failure: “Had I really tried, I would have succeeded. [...]

[...] He died once simply as a result of acting without thought, forethought, on the impulse of the moment.

He was murdered for an act of pure thoughtlessness, of impulse. [...]

[...] Before, the presence of his mother and those surroundings acted as both restraints on over-spontaneity, and as aids for the growth of creativity. [...]

[...] You would no longer act in that role. [...]

[...] You mix times and places, and the dream itself is a kind of completed act. [...] The creative act involves you in a process whereby you bring from a mental dimension new events into the world that were not there before.

[...] In the psychedelic experience the ego can be trained to act in the same manner. [...]

[...] It has a binding action on consciousness and acts as a cohesive.

[...] Except that as an act of faith you see he should begin to carry out some of those points now.

Now this shows him that he can act resolutely in the physical world, that he can express himself through his body, that he can be physically assertive. [...]

[...] He thought, for example, of his own pajamas that he wears now instead of the jeans he wore before, and it seemed to him that in all his strivings he had in one way or another also acted like your friend whose jeans kept turning into the Turkish towel: he had been trying to protect an important way of relating to the world, or to protect a way of life. [...]

[...] Yet still, because of misunderstandings and old beliefs, he still felt a responsibility to act otherwise, a social pressure to do so. [...]

[...] I explained to Jane that I’d reached the point in the last year where I just couldn’t let anything interfere with the act of painting itself—and that I thought she needed an attitude like that in regard to her own work very badly. [...]

[...] The act of crossing will be reflected in a million other worlds, but these reflections will be themselves alive and the act of perceiving itself will create still another vortex of actualization.

And warping outward from each act are a million openings, roads traveled and experienced by the soul, naturally and spontaneously following its attributes.

[...] Cough, smile, sneeze — in some other actuality your actions are non-actions and your non-acts are realized.

[...] A dream act is actualized by a waking you, as a waking you is actualized by a dreaming self.

[...] These coordinate points also 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. [...]

The body is amazingly quick to act upon environmental cues of a physical nature, but your world also involves cultural activity and “dangers” that are not immediately biologically perceivable. [...]

[...] For now I am concerned with Ruburt’s specific problem, and I ask you, lovingly, to help him become aware of his impulses and to act upon them. [...]

[...] You act not only for yourselves, but also for other kinds of consciousness that you have purposefully forgotten. [...]

[...] Individually, and as tribes or nations, you follow certain “progressions” — and yet in so doing you act also on the part of the whole of nature. [...]

It acts upon itself, being action. [...]

[...] You, any human being, represent a capability, an attraction, an electrical field of great intensity that is capable of efficiently acting as a unit within the physical field.

[...] They change into other selves, and yet are still themselves, for each new self is also the previous self which changed through acting upon itself. [...]

(At the same time, I couldn’t help wondering just what human beings were, why they acted as they did, etc., and why the organism didn’t seem able to take better care of itself at least intuitively. [...]

[...] The conscious mind is fascinated and the inner self free then to act constructively. [...]

However, when care is taken to relieve the inhibiting nature of conscious thoughts, the body organism sends up energetic emotions that act as physical impetus. [...]

[...] Often when Ruburt is alone the weight of these unexpressed fears is strongly upon him, then acting like a cloud that holds him down.

I have said often that any action changes that which acts and that which is acted upon; and so in the sort of experiments that are currently being carried on to study dreams, the acts of the investigators are changing the conditions in such a way that it is easy for them to find what they are looking for. [...]

Then there are the endless varieties of actions within the dream which is, in itself, a continuing act. The images within a dream also act. [...]

[...] You will learn that it is possible, through no physical act (and underline that, through no physical act), to relinquish the physical body, expand the self, using atoms and molecules as stepping stones to a given destination, and reforming the physical body at the other end.

The outer senses, because they have been so dependently and almost absolutely relied upon, act as blinders, limiting the fields of perception that are possible, and therefore hampering both imagination and intellect in the formation of new concepts.

[...] After entry into your plane, the self or identity, the consciousness, without any physical act, can leave the physical body, expand, travel through the medium of atoms and molecules, and completely reassemble.

[...] It was somewhat of a handicap in writing; the hand, having a different feeling as it held the pen, made me concentrate more on the simple physical act of putting the words down. [...]

(When I act this way it affects Jane deeply, frightening her. [...]

[...] You will act loved. [...]

[...] This simply means that the other-dimensional information will often appear in ordinary guise, through an intuitive hunch, a sudden idea, or some solution that has already occurred to you but has not been acted upon.

[...] Such work with the imagination acts as a trigger, however, drawing information to you from other levels of your greater reality, and concentrating it on the specific problem at hand. [...]

[...] Without identities action would be meaningless, for there would be nothing upon which action could act. [...]

Once more, action is not a force outside that acts upon matter. [...]

In line with the statement that action necessarily changes that which it acts upon (in parentheses: which is basically itself), then it follows that the action involved in these sessions changes the nature of the sessions.

(Long pause.) He acted toward her according to his own understanding the best that he could. [...] This does not mean he could not have acted better in any particular instance, perhaps, for that can be said about almost anyone. [...]

His poetry acted in some regards as a stimulator. [...]

[...] The doctors had always acted doubtful, and professed pity, and the child recognized their feelings of hopelessness. [...]

[...] That mental vitality led him to trust his body once again, and to act in direct contradiction to those previous beliefs of the doctors, family, friends, and society that had so bound him.