“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] The medium could telepathically receive this information—then subconsciously act it out, of course; this has to be admitted as a possible explanation.)

Many people assign great power to a hypnotist, yet whenever you have the undivided attention of another, you act as a hypnotist to a large degree.

Whenever you have your own undivided attention you act as hypnotist and subject simultaneously. [...]

[...] Jane said she felt that Seth stood between her and the new personality to act as a translator in both directions. [...]

[...] You, Joseph, amplify and act as a conductor.

[...] A clearing, he tells me, has taken place, and you are better able to act together as (eyes open) one, almost, in these circumstances. [...]

The body cannot act tomorrow, today. [...] This resulting feeling of powerlessness to act leads to a state of hopelessness of varying degrees — and that mood does not tie itself to specific details, but pervades emotional life if it is allowed to. [...]

[...] But no man truly acts out of the pure intent to do wrong, or to be vicious. [...]

[...] To whatever extent, and in whatever fashion, each individual is therefore robbed of his or her belief in the personal ability to act meaningfully or with purpose in the present.

[...] But if you allow those experiences to overcloud your present, valid intersection with reality, then you speak and act from a position not your own, and deny the world whatever benefits your own present version of reality might allow you to give.

You see, then, that while the personality can act in a more or less normal manner while in the dream state, he can also act in ways that are denied him in periods of so-called normal consciousness. [...]

He acts, speaks, walks, talks, makes certain deductions. [...]

[...] The dream drama will enable the personality to act out various possibilities which are experienced as reality. [...]

Such suggestions will serve to protect the integrity of the physical organism, for these suggestions also have an electrical reality and a chemical reality, as your fear of cats has a chemical and an electrical reality that forces you to act within that framework.

The energy of this inner self is used by it to form from itself—from inner experience—a material counterpart in which the outer ego then can act out its role. The outer ego then acts out a play that the inner self has written. [...]

[...] Physical matter, therefore, acts as a feedback. [...]

[...] Forces entering these fields, by the very act of entry, become transformed into the sort of data that can be accepted by the given field. [...]

[...] They are more readily apparent, with more force behind them acting directly upon the electric environment, without any intermediary steps; that is, they, emotions and feelings and thoughts, exist immediately within the environment as electrical forces within that system. [...]

[...] The durability of the thought as an electrical act is determined by its initial electric charge. [...]

[...] You are accountable for acts committed during projections, of course, and these alter the personality as any acts do. [...]

The very act of projecting will alter these probabilities. [...]

[...] In the entire act of perception, however, there is a oneness and a unity between the seemingly objectively perceived event and the perceiver. [...]

The entire act has its own electromagnetic reality, and the event is actually electromagnetic motion. [...]

[...] You transmit also, or rather you act as a transmitter whether you are at a session or not. [...]

As you sit reading this book in your present moment of time, you are positioned in the center of a cosmic web of probabilities that is affected by your slightest mental or emotional act.

You originate ideas then and receive them, but you are not forced to actualize unrealized probable acts that come to you from other probable selves. [...]

[...] I am not telling you to run off and buy one, but you could however act on the impulse as far as is reasonably possible — renting a violin, simply acquainting yourself with violin concerti, etc.

[...] I said the dream was a very good one, and once more set the stage for the act of walking. [...]

[...] In fact, the main personality is able to express many different kinds of probable action, but the entire personality is prevented from acting with its full energy or power. [...]

When you are taught not to trust your impulses you begin to lose your powers of decision, and to whatever extent involved in the circumstances, you begin to lose your sense of power because you are afraid to act.

[...] (Pause.) Such a person is afraid to trust any one impulse enough to act upon it. [...]

Energy or action is composed of an infinity of itself, and yet, forever acting upon itself, it forms forever new portions of itself. [...] Now until we have done more talking you will simply have to take my word, for the sake of our discussion—our one-way discussion—that any action or energy possesses consciousness seeking to know itself, therefore; and acting within itself it forms new consciousnesses that are individual and independent, and yet connected to every other consciousness.

[...] It must act and move. [...]

Action acts spontaneously. [...]

The psyche’s basic experience, then, deals with a kind of activity that you cannot directly perceive, yet that existence is responsible for the events that you do perceive, and therefore acts as the medium in which your dreaming and waking events occur.

[...] But in the dream state, then as now, all such issues were contemporary, acting as models from which the species then chose the practical events that formed its physical experience.

Those that do are chosen with great discrimination, dreams serving as one of the methods by which you ascertain the desirability of any given probable act. [...]

[...] To some extent or another, many of the ideals he held and advocated had long been accepted in world communities, though they had not been acted upon with such dispatch. [...] The Jews, for various reasons — and again, this is not the full story — the Jews acted as all of the victims of the world, both the Germans and the Jews basically agreeing upon “man’s nefarious nature.” [...]

[...] In that regard, America’s good was not Japan’s, and an act taken to “save life” was also designed to take individual lives.

[...] Pain often acts as a teacher, saying “This direction is not for you” as it reflects painful thoughts. [...]

(Seth talked about teeth tonight because of my visit to the dentist today, in an effort—apparently successful—to save a front capped tooth which had suddenly begun to act up. [...]

(9:38.) The conditions connected with an act of suicide are also important, and the inner reality and realization of the individual. [...] However, if a person kills himself, believing that the act will annihilate his consciousness forever, then this false idea may severely impede his progress, for it will be further intensified by guilt.

[...] Only later is the individual informed of the act, when he is better able to face it and understand it.

[...] It goes without saying that an obsession with earthly concerns also acts in the same manner. [...]

You are playing games now, acting in plays that you call present times and you take your roles very seriously, but there are other dramas going on at the same time. [...] And let us see some of those acted out and released and the energy that is hidden there used constructively. [...]

The physical act of writing itself takes time. Basically, however, creative acts, the acts of insight, intuition, of revelation, do not take time in the same fashion. [...]

Many men look forward to having sons, while at the same time they revere marriage as a necessary part of respectable family life, and also feel that marriage is somehow degrading — particularly to a male — and that the sex act itself is only justified if it brings him an heir.

[...] In a strange fashion, he may even feel that it is wrong to have sex with his own wife, believing that the sex act so degrades the both of them. [...]