“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

3. In one way or another, once a day have him do something to act upon the new beliefs. [...]

4. As mentioned, go out together to public places, and begin acting in that regard.

These acts are not only interpreted differently, they also of course have effects which are caused not only by the initial action but also by the distortive appearance of the action in a given system. The reaction to such a mental act is made not only to the act itself; but the reaction is made to the appearance of an initial act, as it is projected into the second system.

Its very appearance or projection into a second system, therefore, causes an apparent change in the act itself. [...]

Early man, for example, spontaneously played at acting out the part of other animals. [...] Acting became a teaching method — a way of passing on information. [...]

[...] These are the materialization in your time of man’s natural acting ability — a characteristic highly important in the behavior of the species.

People like Ruburt translated inner knowledge in many ways — through acting it out, through singing or dancing, through drawing images on cave walls. [...]

[...] Early man did act in a more spontaneous manner, more automatically, in your terms, but not mindlessly. [...]

Most criminals act out of a sense of despair. Many have high ideals, but ideals that have never been trusted or acted upon. [...]

[...] When does the law act as a practical idealist? [...]

[...] You will purposefully keep your ideals generalized, thus saving yourself from the necessity of acting upon them in the one way open to you: by trusting yourself and your impulses, and impressing those that you meet in daily life with the full validity that is your own.

[...] From infinite probable acts, comma, only one can be physically experienced as a rule, period.

The dream world operates as a creative situation in which probable acts are instantly materialized, laid out in actual or symbolic form. [...]

[...] You create the props, the settings, the themes; in fact you write, produce, and act in the entire production — you and every other individual who takes part.

[...] You also create these plays and act in them. [...]

[...] The words that you speak, the acts that you perform, appear to take place in time, as a chair or table appears to take up space. [...]

[...] The multidimensional self cannot act within three-dimensional reality until it materializes a portion of itself within it. [...]

You may have two children, one of whom, generally speaking, behaves like Augustus One, and one who acts like Augustus Two. [...] In such cases what you usually have is a situation in which one child is acting out unfaced aggressive behavior for the whole family. [...]

Any previous acts that had aroused feelings of natural guilt were to be avoided in the future. [...]

[...] Man would not be able to recall past acts, judge them against the present situation, or imagine the future sense of guilt that might result.

The act of creation occurs, itself, not at the peak of the wave of tension, but as the wave dissolves into the fulfillment of itself. [...] The sensation is usually mistakenly applied as if it accompanied the creation itself, but the creation is the final act, so to speak, of a given tension.

In a like manner for example, the act of dreaming itself changes both the dreamer and the dream. The act of doing anything at all automatically changes the doer. [...]

To some extent it also acts like a director of experience and action. [...]

The creative dilemma, the creative distortion, is of course itself an action that is resolved in further acts. [...]

This is an abdication of the severest kind, involving both your spirituality and your biological nature; you feel trapped far more than an animal in a dire situation, and you deny yourself the ability to act. [...] If she could not make decisions this other person could, through long-distance hypnosis, force her to act whether she wanted to or not.

[...] This is not to be construed, however, as a statement that all creative acts result from individual problems or neuroses. [...]

[...] Dineen believed that other people acted oddly toward her because they had all been hypnotized into doing so. [...]

[...] Within Dineen’s belief system she was acting quite rationally — and in your belief system you are doing the same.

[...] I speak here again of power as the ability to act creatively and with some effectiveness. [...] A man who believes his actions have no value seeks out situations in which he uses his power to act, yet often without worrying about whether the action will have a constructive or negative effect.

You cannot act positively if you cannot act.

[...] In this case Ruburt and Joseph acted in direct contradiction to authoritative radio statements, and held their own despite the fact that others in the immediate environment rushed off to the medical centers. [...]

I said before that no man acts out of the desire to be evil, but has always justified to himself his actions precisely by his own “good” intent. [...]

[...] There is the physical act itself, implementing that intent. [...]

[...] Now when you act, as when at various times you encountered Prentice with definite complaints, or requests, there you were making a positive response to a specific condition, with good results.

[...] Ambiguity everywhere surrounds you, so that it can seem that few issues are clear-cut, or can be directly acted upon, and in those areas your experience of course confirms those beliefs. [...]

It is possible to be opinionated at times, closed-minded, and pedantic, in good normal behavior—but when certain characteristics group together, then you have the formation of an overly-conscientious self, which acts in a repetitive manner, always showing these fairly rigid characteristics. [...]

[...] You are aware of the fact that a great painting can still be great despite depicting, say, acts of violence that are “bad.” [...]

[...] He can see people more when he is better, but you must indeed act at least mentally as if.

[...] I might add that I don’t think I for one believe any longer that worrying is the answer to very much, as Seth says Jane and I still believe, nor do I think that fear is going to act as a stimulus to positive action. [...]

The individual may act purposefully, with power, energy, and strength, for varying lengths of time. Then sometimes without warning the frightened, inactive portion of the personality will take over the normal abilities of consciousness — acting depressed, taciturn, and communicating very poorly with others.

Instead of developing physical complications, in usual terms, sometimes one portion of the personality actually does act with assurance, power, and energy, while another equally valid portion refuses to use energy or power in any way whatsoever. [...]

One portion of the personality will carry on conscious behavior — go to work, shop, or whatever, while the other portion of the personality will not remember performing those acts at all.

Because of its own nature it must act, yet no action can ever complete itself. The sphere would act in as many ways as were open to it, and every action changes that which is acted upon. [...]

[...] Action is that from which it is, therefore it moves, it acts outward. [...]

[...] You choose which probable acts you want to actualize in your system. You follow other probable acts through in the dream state. [...]

[...] Then there is an undifferentiated level between wakefulness and sleep where you act as a receiver — passive but open, in which telepathic and clairvoyant messages come to you quite easily.

[...] Almost the same kinds of fluctuations and stages occur even when you are waking, however, though you are even less aware of them because then the egotistical self acts quite purposefully to blanket out these other areas of experience.

[...] For one thing, men who perform seemingly evil acts but who believe those acts to be right and justified, can be carried along in relative safety for some time before their errors catch up with them, because the power of their own self-approval is so strong.

Beneath all of the other issues and reasons at any given time, and perhaps the answer to your earlier voiced question, is the act that, more important than you realize, that for some time in vital areas you have not approved of yourselves. [...]

[...] I didn’t make the question clear enough, so Seth answered it in more immediate terms—which is also valuable information, of course, that we can act upon. [...]

[...] They allow a period of disengagement in which the benefits from Framework 2 have time to act. [...]

[...] In such circumstances an individual might then construct an artificial devil or demon who annoys him constantly, and even orders acts of a highly destructive nature.

The individual, like Donald, has also given up the responsibility for his own choices, and feels that he or she cannot be held responsible for any destructive acts that might be committed.

[...] Among the agencies chosen, of course, are the FBI, the CIA, the Russian Secret Police, the Ku Klux Klan, or any controversial group given to acts of violence for whatever purposes.

[...] When you are most yourself, you have the clearest channels to the fountainhead of your being, for you are acting according to the nature, the unique nature, of yourself—and also stressing the great infinity of being from which your own uniqueness emerges. [...]

I am not saying that man is being manipulated, but that in a larger framework, even his seemingly evil acts have constructive meaning. [...]

[...] Again, in the terms of this discussion, many murderers are overwhelmed by a sense of guilt, and the murderous act pinpoints the reason for the guilt—so the victim pays the murderer by giving a clear-cut, unassailable reason for a monstrous guilt that was before formless, and even more frightening, since it seemed to have no particular base, but an overwhelming vitality.

If you should not feel like acting immediately, neither should you take it for granted that there is not a definite need to act. [...]

Frank Watts was closer, and acted as an unconscious relay station on the one hand, while on the other hand his unconscious gave consent. [...]

[...] I am not really suggesting that you act on blind faith, but such a session is a symptom of something in the wind that should be watched, even if Ruburt blocks the full details.

[...] The interval during which Ruburt could not scream represented the frozen interval of indecision, in which he could not act.

[...] Yesterday in particular, however, provides an excellent example of the way approval and self-disapproval work, and of the ways in which the habit of disapproval can cause you to misinterpret events, and then of course act accordingly.

[...] When Ruburt could not reach O’Neill’s, and pleased by his reactions during the day, you acted on impulse—a good sign, and suggested you both go for a ride. [...]

[...] You interpreted his situation precisely as he did, and for the same reasons, so of course there was no answer for this manufactured crisis, except that he ignore these bodily messages and act in spite of them.

Such self-disapproval can color your interpretation of events, then, forcing you to act accordingly.