“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] This he transmits to B. But B can’t receive the thought in its present condition, for the act of receiving a thought also changes it. [...]

Action can never be considered apart from that which is seemingly acted upon, for action becomes a part of structure. [...]

[...] Action is as valid whether the act is conscious and voluntary, or whether it occurs within a dream or within a thought. [...]

[...] One given act does not necessarily then lead to act B and C, and hence to a concluding action. [...]

The nature of any given probable action does not lead to any particular inevitable concluding act.

[...] Every act you perform is creative. [...]

[...] This allows the body to act in an ever-more coordinated fashion, reactivating the muscles’ memories of normal activity. [...]

You are quite right: the legs do want, now, to act in coordination with the motion of the arms. [...]

[...] Finally I decided that I’d just have to go along with the mass belief that the events were happening now and act as if they were, even if I knew better....

[...] She now acted as though immune to the traffic noise, and I realized that at times I too had forgotten about it as I wrote along.)

[...] The break occurs first, and it is for this reason that what you call negative suggestions therefore are acted upon.

What you call a negative suggestion is never acted upon unless the inner block of energies has already occurred. [...]

[...] It cannot so impede action directly, for the very act of forming such impediments involves action. [...]

[...] And when you act you do not deceive yourselves, you know quite clearly I am acting for thus and thus reasons. [...] You think you are acting for a particular reason but the action is for an entirely different reason, and therefore, you must learn why you act as you do. [...]

There was a civilization, and I am writing this in my book and some of you know of it—a civilization, in your terms, in your dim past, in which a group of human beings tried to form a physical body that could not act violently and when violence was threatened the body automatically closed off from action. It could not, literally, act. [...]

[...] Now what kind of protection would that fish have had against my violent acts?”)

They lived upon the physical planet with its wind and rain and storms and violence and animal [sic] but they would not show violence, they could not commit a violent act. [...]

[...] The tooth was meant to get his attention, to make him realize the importance of acting now. [...]

[...] Tam knew the purposes of Adventures from the beginning—as did Ruburt, but neither of them could act on that knowledge consciously, for it did not serve as yet their conscious purposes.

[...] Ruburt acted out his ideas of a conventional medium for Tam, who in a dream state perceived Ruburt’s dramatization.

Now you two are in the clear, with the basic dilemma out, being acted upon, worked through and faced; but the habits must also be combated by Ruburt writing out those thoughts and feelings daily. [...]

It has been acted out imaginatively and physically, with some changes and variations. [...]

[...] Acting as if he were perfectly healthy, such imagined humiliation would not be automatically projected. [...]

[...] In this area, and in taking on greater rent, you act on the trust that more is available, and so it has been and will be.

[...] Ruburt acted as an oracle, and you consulted her at one time.

[...] Suggestions may come therefore from the physical world, to act upon the personality. Suggestions may also come from within the personality to act upon the physical environment.

[...] It is indeed in the nature of an impetus, an inner impetus that belongs to action, and is not some force separated from action, and acting upon it. [...]

[...] But when it acts as a unit it does not use such information.

[...] That is one thing; but if an individual believes that it is literally impossible for him to travel from one end of the continent to another, or to change his job, or perform any act, then the act becomes practically impossible. [...]

[...] The problems act as stimuli in that regard. [...]

[...] It became his version of the soul, and there seemed to be a duality—a self who acted in the physical universe, and a separate spiritlike soul that acted in an immaterial world.

[...] In his life [each] man is embarked upon a cooperative venture with his own species, and with the other species, and dying he also in that regard acts in a cooperative manner, returning his physical substance to the earth. [...]

[...] That focus inclines him to a quite literal insistence that his creative material should in its way act like some supernatural doctor’s prescription that can be at once taken like a pill to solve each and every problem of each and every correspondent, and of course to solve his own problems as well.

[...] Look at your questions as if you were asking them of a person, so that in one session do not act as if an answer given before has not been given. [...]

[...] Once the pendulum shows you that the subconscious does understand, however, it is all right to check now and then,but those statements can act as negative suggestions otherwise. [...]

[...] But while you believe that there is, then you must act accordingly. [...]

([Ron:] “Are there instances in which a spirit from another reality would intervene in this reality, and we would call that a destructive act, but the spirit would say it was creative?”)

(Ron:] “But in the terms that we are all spirits acting out our own inner drama, the term spirit has some meaning?”)

[...] As one dream is like a stone thrown into the pool of dream consciousness, so any act appears in this pool also in its own guise. Alternate focus allows you to perceive the many manifestations of any given act, the true multidimensional reality of a given thought. [...]

Your future thoughts and acts are as real in these dimensions as if they had already occurred, and as much a part of your development. [...]

Each person or act has his or its “proper stance,” or platform of intention from which to operate. [...]

[...] Actually of course the whole thing has to do with the nature of beliefs, not the nature of the muscles, for they will act as you believe they will.

[...] Joseph was right when he spoke of entities creating stages upon which to act out their problems. The point of course being that once the play begins the actors are so completely immersed in their roles that they forget that they themselves wrote the play, constructed the sets, or are even acting. [...]

(A few days ago, while doing some painting, the idea had popped into my conscious mind unbidden that the very act of painting a picture involved the construction of a plane. [...]

The act of artistic creation is therefore one to study, since it involves the intricate workings of the dual self-consciousnesses of one personality, inner data being transformed through the subconscious and greater individuality being made possible because of this.

Art creation is a most basic creation then, not even a mimicking act but a genuine creation of another plane, done self-consciously from the perspective of an imprisoning camouflage pattern. [...]

[...] There is an overall picture you cannot see, in which you form your lives together, so that at one time you act, for example, as a unit, and on other occasions or times one acts out certain of your joint beliefs, while the other acts out another one.

[...] The energy to act. [...]