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[...] Meditation must be followed by action — and true meditation is action (underlined). Such people are afraid of making decisions, because they are afraid of their own impulses — and some of them can use meditation to dull their impulses, and actually prevent constructive action.

Dictation: Now let us return again to our discussion of impulses, in connection with probable actions.

[...] Luckily, the child usually walks before it is old enough to be taught that impulses are wrong, and luckily the child’s natural impulses toward exploration, growth, fulfillment, action and power are strong enough to give it the necessary springboard before your belief systems begin to erode its confidence. [...]

Catch yourself in a simple thought and try to experience the beginnings of that action. You will be led into action indeed in a completely new way. Then try to experience this simple action as it affects others, not only emotionally and physically in terms of the changes it elicits from their complicated structures, but also the new actions it requires of them.

Actions, even historic actions, within your system, have their reality you see in other systems also, though they will be perceived in quite a different manner. [...] You see, in some dimension Napoleon conquered Europe completely, and the actions resulting from that probability continue in that dimension.

You must remember the material I gave you concerning moment points, and the nature of action. [...] Again, you merely perceive a small portion of any given action, and when you cease to perceive it then it seems to you that the action itself ceases, and so an artificial boundary is erected.

Therefore, traveling through such distance would involve travel through the electrical intensities that go into the existence of any given action as it electrically occurs. This idea of action within action, of distance and movement within action, is a fairly new one in our sessions.

No action basically is ever completed. [...] All possibilities are open to an action, an electrical action. [...]

[...] You will recall that I spoke of distances in terms of action, and that these distances occurred not in a perceivable framework of the sort with which you are familiar, but that I spoke of distance that had its reality in terms of the varying intensities within any given electrical actuality.

[...] Your actions were not appropriate—Ruburt’s in particular. You did not know where the action was, so your idea about reality kept you in a state of fighting dragons. [...]

I will have more to say about appropriate action. [...] While you had no such problem, the difficulty stands for a fear of spontaneous action in an unsafe world.

[...] When you understand this then your actions are truly appropriate.

[...] That is, they do not require direct action but serve as anticipators of action, reminders to the brain to initiate certain actions in its future.

[...] For while dreams do not necessitate action on the part of the whole body, and while the brain does not register the entire dream, the dream does serve to activate biological action — by releasing hormones, for example.

In dreaming, however, the full sense-picture usually projected by the brain, and reinforced by bodily action, is not necessary. [...]

[...] This electric charge can propel the thought, as an electrical action, through the apparent dimensions of your physical time in such a manner that it can exist simultaneously within your past and your present. Because a thought, as electric action, may exist both within your past and your present, this is not to say that it becomes two electric actions, one existing in the past and one existing in the future. Rather the one electric action or thought is simultaneously projected, through a peculiarity of its axis, so that it appears within your field, not in two places at once, but in two times at once.

Now again: regardless of current scientific thought, there are at least three different kinds of electric force which your scientists have not yet discovered, and one of these has much to do with the intensity of thoughts as they are formed in the intangible mind, and translated to the physical brain and then into action, as the case may be.

Emotions are also, then, actualities within the overall electric system, existing not as representations of feeling, but as definite charged action. [...]

[...] We have also discussed the ego, and our friend would do well to read the sessions dealing with the ego, and the ego’s relationship to action. For one of the basic reasons for the difficulty lies in the fact that the ego of the present personality does strongly attempt to stand apart from action. It attempts to force action, and to fight action which it does not initiate.

In other words the apparent intensity of the egotistical reactions is a sham on the part of the ego, to hide the fact that it refuses to become involved with action as a whole, because it fears for its permanence. When the ego understands, and it will, that it is a portion of the whole self, and itself a part of action, then indeed it will not fear for its own permanence, for it will realize that being a part of action, its very nature is dependent upon change, and vitality, and value fulfillment.

[...] The personality, the present ego, will not acquiesce to action, will not go along with it as part of it, but attempts to force it along its own directions. This will become clearer when passages concerning action and the ego are read.

[...] You would not spend time wondering what your purpose was, for it would make itself known to you, as you perceived the direction in which your natural impulses led, and felt yourself exert power in the world through such actions. Again, impulses are doorways to action, satisfaction, the exertion of natural mental and physical power, the avenue for your private expression — the avenue where your private expression intersects the physical world and impresses it.

[...] In the case of the Jonestown tragedy, for example, all doors toward probable effective action seemed closed. [...] The desire for suicide is often the last recourse left to frightened people whose natural impulses toward action have been damned up — intensified on the one hand, and yet denied any practical expression.

[...] When such natural impulses toward action are constantly denied over a period of time, when they are distrusted, when an individual feels in battle with his or her own impulses and shuts down the doors toward probable actions, then that intensity can explode into whatever avenue of escape is still left open.

[...] Each action creates other possibilities of itself, or other actions from the infinite energy of the universe, which itself is never still. [...]

[...] Only within your particular frame of reference does there seem to be a contradiction between action that is simultaneous and yet unending. [...]

[...] (Long pause.) All That Is is a source of infinite and unending simultaneous action. [...]

[...] Through such therapy actions would be allowed greater spontaneity, and channels would not be clogged by impeding actions to any great degree. [...]

[...] The desired but feared actions would not then gather up toward an explosion. The habitual, overly-aggressive or overly-dependent tendencies would not result in habitual aggressive or dependent behavior, for each individual action would be harmlessly expressed.

Again, we are not attempting to substitute dream action for physical action, generally speaking. [...]

Man is himself a particular system or unit of action within other systems of action, and he is himself composed of other units of action. This unity and interdependence is in itself responsible for that interplay of mental and psychic action which results in the individual consciousness, that is, with the ego.

[...] The systems or units are basically simultaneous actions. As participants within one system of action, you are to a large extent limited by the very participation that gives you reality within the action system.

I have told you that for various reasons all inner energy cannot be objectified within any given action. [...]

Every action changes every other action. We return to our ABC’s. Therefore every action in the present affects those actions which you call the past. [...]

[...] At times in fact the past can become more real than the present, and in such cases past actions are reacted to in the present. You take it for granted that present action can alter the future, but present actions can also alter the past.

I made the statement that action in the present could alter the past, and now we shall set about explaining the statement.

[...] I have told you that all action is psychic action, but the terms used make little difference. All action does have an electromagnetic reality, which is usually not perceived by the physical senses.

[...] They are actions which are aware of themselves as identities, whether or not such distinctions are made by the ego. They are sensitive to other realities which fall within their particular range, and they repel actions which do not.

[...] It merely becomes part of a new action, giving no evidence of its source.

[...] Action never ceases its exploration of itself. All That Is can never know itself completely, since action must always act and each action creates a new unknown. Action must travel through itself from every conceivable point, and yet the journey, being itself action, will create new paths.

I have told you that the ego is self-conscious action that attempts to set itself apart from action and to consider action as an object. Now this altered ego retains its highly specialized self-consciousness, and yet it can now experience itself as an identity within and as a part of action.

You may not be able to make sense from what appears to be a chaotic jungle of disconnected images and actions. [...] Here they are combined into whole integrated patterns of action.

If an action seems to be capable of motion, you say the action is alive. When your outer senses no longer perceive motion you call the action a dead one. In all cases however, action continues.

[...] They represent mediums in which action can occur. Material objects are indeed actions, literally without specific beginning or end, the action being continuous.

It is you who change the apparent form of the action, and give the form a name. It is you who arbitrarily recognize a portion of an action as any particular material object. There are many actions which you do not recognize because you do not perceive them.

[...] Due to the nature of action creation cannot be anything but simultaneous. [...]

[...] Consciousness, in forming an image, or creating it, then responds to it creatively, setting up frameworks for further creative actions. [...]

[...] Obviously words and action follow.

“Unifying principles are groups of actions about which the personality forms itself at any given time. These usually change in a relatively smooth fashion when action is allowed to flow unimpeded. [...] Illness is a portion of the action of which personality is composed and therefore it is purposeful, and cannot be considered as an alien force that invades personality from without. [...]

“All illness is almost always the result of another action that cannot be followed through. When the lines to the original action are released and the channels opened, the illness will vanish. However, the thwarted action may be one with disastrous consequences which the illness may prevent. [...]

[...] Action does not differentiate between pleasant, painful, or joyful stimuli. These distinctions come much later, and on another level [here Seth is considering personality as composed of energy or action].

Every action affects every other action. [...] You know that all action is basically mental action, as fields replenish each other. As no action is meaningless, so the dream universe and the physical universe constantly replenish each other, and mental actions are performed in both universes, being camouflage acting symbols for inner action.

The actions in the various fields affect each other. These actions burn almost like twin fires in different worlds, but they illuminate vastly different landscapes. [...]

Energy or action is composed of an infinity of itself, and yet, forever acting upon itself, it forms forever new portions of itself. Each action causes another. 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.

Action acts spontaneously. [...] Imagine then action or energy which is conscious, exploding into bloom like some gigantic cosmic flower, spontaneously, instantaneously, and intuitively.

[...] Think in terms of energy being action.

So, while each action of your life is taken in context with all other actions of your life until your death, this does not mean that your death is predestined to occur at any given time. [...]

[...] Actions are not yet fully fleshed out. [...]

[...] Any one action in your life is taken in context with all of the other events from your birth to your death. [...]