“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] Here we have a legitimate occasion, in which Ruburt projected to your room, and I acted as his guide. [...]

(Those circumstances might have acted as a leavening factor in the early years, perhaps to a mild degree helping determine the direction of some of Jane’s psychic explorations, with and without Seth. [...]

Like this imaginary multidimensional television, the psyche contains within it other programs than the one in which you are acting — other plots, environments, and world situations. [...]

[...] Everyone acting in that scene would view the hat and the table, and react accordingly with their own individual characteristics.

[...] That physical program is the one you are acting in, alive in, and it is the one shown on the screen. [...]

The child had no problems of his own to work out in this existence, but because of love and past relationships he came to act as a light to you both. [...]

[...] Dave told us he had been good in math until the ninth grade, when he left it for other interests—singing, communications work, acting, etc.

[...] (Pause.) You should not be involved now or in the near future in any communications endeavor that involves a taking on of other roles in any sort of acting. [...]

[...] The act itself was symbolic, and the dog picked up all of your attitudes through its own sense of communication.

[...] These fears were then symbolically acted out by the body. [...]

[...] You act this out subconsciously then, hampering the free motion of the joints, which then become stiffened through the inactivity. [...]

People are propelled to act in highly individual ways: what makes one man go forward can make another go backward. [...]

(10:28.) He is proud of that translation of private creative experience into the artistic public act of publication. [...]

[...] You are also quite correct, in that the ape also acted as an animal medicine man-woman (as in Personal Reality), symbolically acting out a part that once very well could have been performed in fact. [...]

Because of the beliefs of religion, the child expected God to show his power through some disastrous act by which sinners would be punished. [...]

[...] Myths are generally considered to be distorted facts, interpreted by primitive minds, or the result of creative acts of the imagination. [...]

To him it was a direct action taken against something that annoyed him—the dust—an act of independence since he did it, and a symbolic clearing away of inner debris. [...]

Strangely enough, in encouraging his spontaneity you are encouraging your own, because often he acts for both of you. [...]

[...] Any intense mental act — thought or emotion — will not only be constructed in some physical or pseudophysical manner, but will also bear to some extent the imprint of the personality who originally conceived it.

[...] This intense desire would then act something like a core of energy projected outward from your own mind, given a form, your form. [...]

[...] Often you can even catch yourself in the act of purposely dropping the memory of a dream. [...]

(Pause at 10:43.) Now often the ego acts as a dam, to hold back other perceptions — not because it was meant to, or because it is in the nature of an ego to behave in such a fashion, or even because it is a main function of an ego, but simply because you have been taught that the purpose of an ego is restrictive rather than expanding. [...]

Fear taken into the various stages of consciousness acts as a distorting lens, hiding the natural dimensions of all symbols, acting as a barrier and as an impediment to free flow. [...]

[...] They may be intelligent or stupid, gifted or mundane, but they are frightened of experiencing themselves as themselves, or of acting according to their own wishes. [...] They expect their leader to act for them. [...]

Any one of these various layers of consciousness can be used as the normal acting consciousness, reality being viewed from that specific standpoint.

The greatest majority of destructive acts are committed in line with that belief. [...]

[...] These psychological structures through value fulfillment, ever enlarge their abilities to form new realities and to act within them. [...]

[...] They are simply able to use and express and act within a larger framework of it.

[...] The ego will act as a translator of inner experience for you. [...]

[...] It is geared to act in your protection. [...]

[...] The plots may be stereotyped or the acting horrendous, but in the most conventional terms the “good” man wins.

(11:30.) Such programs do indeed pick up the generalized fears of the nation, but they also represent folk dramas — disdained by the intelligentsia — in which the common man can portray heroic capabilities, act concisely toward a desired end, and triumph.

[...] I want to pay the taxes by Friday to get free of them, and to see if this act helps set me free. [...]

[...] If there are chemical imbalances they are often corrected quite automatically in the dream state, as you act out situations calling up the production of hormones, say, that would be summoned in a like waking situation. [...]

[...] In that chapter Seth voices one of my favorite quotes: “Each mental act opens up a new dimension of actuality. [...]

[...] They begin to act out the drama in a script written by others — to which, however, they have acquiesced.

[...] Individuals — or races — did not have to take certain specific roles, acting out various portions of humanity’s characteristics; each person was allowed to be unique, with all that that implies.

[...] Therefore, it does not seem he must be held accountable for acts that he considers debasing, or cruel. [...]

[...] I am not speaking of evil possibilities, but that man must realize that he is responsible for his acts, whether they are called good or evil.