“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] These are residue, acting on habit patterns, and they must be eventually erased.

[...] This has to do with the difficulty in buying groceries, the fish being an act of denial, you see.

Again do not ignore them, but do not let your comments act as a negative suggestion that already might reinforce those that he has inadvertently given himself. [...]

[...] One large difference between your environment and mine is that you must physically materialize mental acts as physical matter. We understand the reality of mental acts and recognize their brilliant validity. [...]

[...] In subjective experience you leave behind physical existence and act, at times, with strong purpose and creative validity within dreams that you forget the instant you awaken.

[...] Instead you form them and they are quite literally extensions of yourself; materialized mental acts that extend outward from your consciousness.

Again, it is natural to express love through sexual acts — natural and good. It is not natural to express love only through sexual acts, however. [...]

[...] [As a result], it then becomes easier for a boy to act in a given manner biologically than in another.

[...] People so labeled often feel propelled out of sheer confusion to express their love only through sexual acts. [...]

It is not enough to meditate, or to imagine in your mind some desired goal being accomplished, if you are afraid to act upon the very impulses to which your meditations and imaginings give rise. [...]

[...] I simply want to help you practice your idealism in the acts of your daily life.

[...] If you learn that lesson, then your good intent will allow you to act effectively and creatively in your private experience, and in your relationships with others. [...]

[...] When you have an impulse to act, it is your own impulse, yet it is also a part of the world’s action. [...]

[...] Automatically condemned, you must do good works, or be baptized, or believe in Christ, or perform other acts in order to be saved or redeemed.

[...] You were born with a desire to fulfill your abilities, to move and act in the world. [...]

[...] You act in accordance with your own beliefs. [...]

[...] Ruburt is acting out your situation as a family and as a unit. [...]

[...] Ruburt feels that the mother acts as a center from which you will not move, but feels guilty of this feeling. [...]

[...] You simply became afraid to act in the physical universe. [...]

[...] The facts are that dreams involve high acts of creativity. [...] These creative acts are then fitted together through associative processes that come together most precisely to form the dream events.

[...] The child crawls and walks in dreams before those acts are physically executed — the dreams serving as impetus for muscular coordination and development.

[...] Too large a serving, of course, could simply waken you, but small amounts taken if you are already drowsy allow you to take your conscious mind into the dream state more readily, where it can act as an observer.

This is an excellent example of the way in which natural hypnotism can act to affect your system adversely. [...]

Many become ill only after taking out such “insurance” — and for those, the act itself symbolically represents an acceptance of disease. [...]

[...] The literature and announcements act as strong negative suggestions, following the nature of natural hypnosis — as a conditioning process, you see, where you are looking for specific symptoms, and examining your body under the impetus of fear.

[...] This acts as a deepening of hypnotic suggestion. [...]

[...] It acts and reacts. [...]

(Long pause at 4:16.) All creatures are basically of good intent; even when they commit the most dubious of acts, these are usually caused by a misdirected good intent. [...]

[...] Now any act of perception changes the perceiver, and so the soul, considered as a perceiver, must also change. [...] This may seem strange, but all acts are mental, or if you prefer, psychic acts. [...]

[...] It is a portion of the self that acts, you might say, as a messenger between the soul and the present personality. [...]

A suggestion like: “If you go swimming too soon after lunch, you will drown,” is extremely dangerous, for it predicts behavior of a disastrous nature that would follow almost automatically after the first act is performed. [...]

[...] You end up with structured beliefs unexamined, that are then automatically acted upon.

Trapeze performers may have several acts a day, for example. [...] No matter how often certain trapeze acts may be repeated, for example, there is always the threat of instant disaster — of missed footing, a final plunge. [...]

[...] Children also know that the present is the point of power, and that precept is a biological truth, for the physical body in your terms cannot act in the future or in the past, but only in its contact with the present moment.

[...] Your intent to put these ideas to work builds an inner psychological support, and the more you act upon the beliefs the more that support grows.

[...] People will (underlined) to live, to act or not to act. [...]

He was afraid that it acted according to its own reasons which might not be his own — or so he thought. [...]

In this way the force field itself acts as a medium, and these are the best conditions for complete levitation of an object. [...] In a definite projection of energy however, a survival personality may, again, directly act upon the table.

[...] In this method the impetus comes from survival personalities, acting directly through the physical mechanism of the most sensitive person at the table.

[...] For you embrace the world through, say, inner devotions rather than exterior acts. [...]

It was created and interpreted according to your own individuality, but it will also remind others that within themselves they possess, each of them, the wisdom, compassion and understanding that exists, whether or not it is expressed in usual terms through physical acts.

[...] To act contrary to your own wishes or inclinations is considered a virtue. [...]

[...] It is important that he and Eve not feel martyred, taking in the father, but I believe they both understand their positions there, and recognize they are forming their own realities and considering an act of kindness for its own sake.

[...] (Jane’s first in many many months.) The impulse automatically led him to perform physical acts that before he simply would not have done, so desire and impulse mobilize the body.

[...] If pure personal survival were all that mattered to the so-called subconscious, such acts would be impossible—and in fact, they would be inconceivable on man’s part. [...]

[...] Great acts of heroism have also resulted, however, and men, it seems, have spent themselves in following an ideal that they hoped to actualize for the rest of mankind. [...]

[...] They act like gentle “shock treatments.”

(Long pause at 8:53.) When it seems that left alone Ruburt’s condition will only worsen, you are following those old patterns of conditioned thought, projecting negative situations into the future, imagining the unfortunate outcome or outcomes, and acting as if you operated within a closed system. [...]

[...] In a fashion their knowledge is immediately acted upon. [...]

Even these, however, act as automatic learning devices, and left alone they themselves trigger the necessary creative procedures that would begin corrective measures. [...]

[...] You can kick a dog, and if you disapprove of your act that is a justified disapproval of an act (intently). [...]

[...] That which you are will naturally produce acts or works of whatever kind. [...]

I have given, I would say, five or six sessions at a minimum on the importance of touch or lovemaking, its importance as natural expression, as a creative act—and this apart from its physical benefits, release of tensions, and spiritual enrichment.

For this he is to blame, and not you, since he knows intuitively what I will say; and out of fear and doubt he has refused to act upon the knowledge. You could have been persuaded, but again for all his yacking, he did not have the courage of his inner convictions, and really made no attempt to act upon them.

[...] The act of faith, the act of expectation involved in what I suggest will make the difference between work that is not selling now, and work that will sell, and no magic will give the same result.

He would have been acting out of expectancy, in league with subconscious as well as conscious need, and the impetus of wanting money would have given it to him, if he closed off the other means. [...]

[...] The expectations, and the acts of expectation that will generate the necessary emotional and psychic energy must come from you, and wholeheartedly. [...]