“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(Looking at me.) You act as a transmitter, Joseph. [...]

In your life as a minister (in Boston, early last century) you were a receiver in the terms that Ruburt is now, and your congregation acted as a transmitting agency.

[...] The doctor represents newer beliefs, and the spontaneous nature of the self, which can act so much more effectively with those new beliefs.

[...] The reflection will automatically set up a gap of time in which he is not acting automatically in response to the negative suggestion.

[...] This, in line with the probabilities now acting.

If you tried to hold all of those subconscious memories uppermost in your mind all of the time, then you would literally be unable to think or act in the present moment at all. [...]

[...] Once again she was smoking as the session began; this meant her eyes had to open at least narrowly to find the ashtray, but she was looking down in the act and I could not actually tell whether or not they did open. [...]

At Ruburt’s stage of development however, he reacts as a result of emotional impetus, which is picked up rather directly, and which acts as additional energy in transmission. [...]

[...] Whenever the advice was acted upon it worked out very well, whether the difficulty discussed was physical or psychological.

[...] In at least some of these, as in this instance, the man’s wife acted as a relay station.

The personality itself therefore, as a mental action, is responsible for the point or midplane, for without the personality or mental act, this particular reference point or midplane would have no meaning.

The psychic organism is much better equipped to handle such transformations and translations than is the physical organism, and there are also influences, quite natural, from surrounding psychic environments within your system that can act as resistances.

[...] Because of the reasons given earlier in this session, he retreats and hypnotizes his muscles into believing they cannot act such and such a way. He tries quite honestly to perform an act while believing he cannot, so that the muscles do fight themselves, and hurt quite painfully.

He wanted to shout your decision (to leave Artistic) to the skies of course, and thought he was quite reasonable by saying nothing for a while, at your request; yet secretly he thought that your attitude of silence meant that you were not proud of the decision, did not want it known, that you were acting ashamed of it and wanted it kept quiet, rather than as a triumph.

If you act upon a belief in freedom and exert it, then it will automatically show you by contrast that the prior belief in lack of freedom was not in basic terms realistic. [...] But at the same time you must make efforts to act according to the new one that you want.

The dancing then each time is a positive issue, and acts to weaken the other beliefs, and stands as a contrast. [...]

[...] Some of you would rather stand up in this class and say, “I killed an animal in hatred” or “I knocked a man’s guts out” or “I shot my neighbor” almost, rather than express a simple statement of love or acceptance to another person in the class wholeheartedly and act, that was not an act, when you are not a star performing. [...]

[...] Unconsciously, however, there were reasons why you acted in such a manner, and you knew while you were doing this that the return was not of the kind that you would expect or wanted. [...]

Some, finished with reincarnation, may choose to reenter the cycle acting as teachers, and in such cases some recognition of higher identity is always present. [...]

[...] By now, you should realize that they have an electromagnetic reality also and that the mental enzymes act as sparks, setting off inner reactions. [...] This is the result of the lowering of egotistical guards, for the ego sets up controls that act as resistances to various inner channels [during the waking state]. [...]

[...] In this session, he explained exactly how such a dream acted upon the physical system.

[...] In other words, I found myself in the act of trying to censor the dream. [...]

[...] The conscious self may not even recognize it has been given a solution, and yet it may act upon it. [...]

[...] It is possible however for the energy being used to act as a trigger that momentarily recreates sensual data under some conditions.

[...] You act out many possibilities within dream reality, and within dreams you try out alternatives, and not necessarily short term ones.

[...] She’s laughing as if she’s got a good joke… (Jane too was acting out the hilarious dialogue, in a manner that was not ordinarily her own.) She says I’m dead. [...] She says she’s here… And she wants him to get up and act like a man.

(Jerry said that emotionally Jane acted much like Billie, that there was good contact here, and that in the fight scene she thought that Jane was Billie. [...]

[...] If you are alert and curious while dreaming (and you can learn to be), then you can catch yourself in the act of creating a dream’s past and future at once.

[...] Subatomic particles also behave like waves sometimes; in fact, it is usually only when they act like particles that they are perceived at all.

[...] “Each mental act opens up a new dimension of actuality. [...]

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 now being carried on to study dreams. The acts of the investigators are changing the conditions in such a way it is easy to find that which you are looking for.

[...] The belief in these highly contrasting elements of personality keep him in a state of turmoil, however, so that he feels powerless to act in any concerted fashion.

(10:03.) With most people (long pause), there is a kind of psychological paved road upon which impulses travel before they meet (pause) an intersection with the conscious mind, which then determines whether or not the impulse will be followed or acted upon. [...]

[...] Instead of clear impulses toward action that intersect directly with consciousness, you have bursts of impulses that emerge as orders to act, coming from another source, or from other sources. [...]

The language is an excellent example of the coded messages I mentioned earlier (as I’d thought). It is supposed to remain secret, you see, yet becomes the symbol of the all-powerful knowledge of the exaggerated superior self, while making the knowledge impossible to act upon. [...]

[...] (One minute pause, eyes closed.) The girl’s emotional condition the other evening acted indeed like a psychological bridge, over which Ruburt could pass. [...]

[...] At the same time the withheld emotional energy acts as a propellant, you see.

[...] The survival of the species is far more dependent upon your subjective activities than your physical ones—for it is your subjective behavior that is responsible for your physical acts. Science of course looks at it the other way around, as if your physical acts are the result of a robot’s mechanical, formalized behavior—a robot miraculously programmed by the blind elements of an accidental universe formed by chance. [...]

[...] Given the genetic makeup that you now have, your conscious intents and purposes act as the triggers that activate whatever genetic or reincarnational aspects that you need.

You should by now realize that they have an electric, magnetic reality also, and that the mental enzymes act as sparks, setting off these inner reactions.

[...] This is the result of a lowering of egotistic guards, for the ego sets up controls that act as resistance to various channels, so that many connections are closed. [...]

[...] This will not work to our disadvantage however, for his cautiousness in these matters acts as a strong balancing mechanism, so that he learns to deal with inner perceptions stage by stage. [...]