“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

There are deeply hidden areas of human behavior far below the surface of actions, and these cause the actions. [...]

[...] To refrain from argument while simultaneously and deliberately forcing thoughts or pictures of peace, represents a positive action. [...]

[...] Your impulses, intuitions, and creative abilities have always innately provided open channels of communication through which man was guided toward those probable actions most beneficial to his private reality—and those actions would automatically, again, add to the best probable reality for the species as well. [...]

(Pause.) What you think of usually as order is an aspect of the spontaneous order that is within and behind the “mechanics” of all physical actions. [...]

[...] I am not speaking here of discipline as punishment, but of discipline accepted by a person or a civilization in order to direct action along certain lines. [...]

(The article led me to wonder why we behaved as we did, as a species, with seemingly little change throughout recorded history; I wondered what purposes, what real sense, lay behind our attitudes and actions, etc; Jane and I had a little discussion about it.

[...] In other more advanced systems, thoughts and emotions are automatically and immediately translated into action, into camouflage, into whatever approximation of matter there exists. [...]

You are dealing with the transformation of emotional energy into action and form. [...]

[...] But the dreams are not meaningless, and the actions within them are highly significant. [...]

[...] If someone watching a gory midnight special suddenly screams or shouts or leaps up from the chair, how comical this seems, because the action is appropriate not to the “real” situation, but geared instead to a pseudodrama. [...] The appropriate action would be to turn the station off.

[...] When you become caught in frightening physical events, however, it is equally foolhardy to yell or shout or stamp your feet, because that is not where the action is (smiling). Again, you have only to change your station. [...]

In this case you are yourself the programmer, and the true action is not where it appears to be — in the exterior events — but instead in the psyche, where you are writing and performing the drama. [...]

[...] No psychic action is invalid. Every psychic action exists, has an effect and has durability in terms of value fulfillment. Every psychic action, and a psychic action is any psychic happening such as a dream, or thought, that may have no existence in terms of space and time, every psychic action then contains within it the potentialities of value fulfillment, transference, and even energy transformation.

No psychic action is static. [...]

Now again, no psychic action is static. [...]

[...] There is, then, no clear line for action to follow. [...] Instead of clear impulses toward action that intersect directly with consciousness, you have bursts of impulses that emerge as orders to act, coming from another source, or from other sources. [...] In this way the individual need not take responsibility for such actions. [...]

[...] The idea behind this is: “If you cannot find me, then I cannot be held accountable for my actions—actions which are bound in one way or another to betray me.”

[...] And in larger terms, if Jane is at all correct in her expression of the Seth material, then each action we’ve taken in connection with her symptoms has been valid and creative, just as each action we have yet to take will be.

[...] That whole area in the Middle East, then, is a stew of emotions, actions, and consciousnesses.

[...] Your impulses are part of the great multi-action of being. (Pause.) At deeper levels, the impulsive portion of the personality is aware of all actions upon the earth’s surface. You are involved in a cooperative venture, in which your slightest impulse has a greater meaning, and is intimately connected with all other actions. [...]

[...] You must take small practical steps, often when you would prefer to take giant ones — but you must move (underlined) in the direction of your ideals through action. [...]

[...] You will discover your own basic good intent, and see that it has always been behind all of your actions — even in those least fitted to the pursuit of your private ideals (with gentle irony).

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

[...] Love and hate, for example, are action. They are action and they both imply action in physical bodies …

[...] The mental enzymes within the enclosure are the elements that set off the action, and — listen to this — they are also the action itself.

In other words, the mental enzymes not only produce action in the material world, but they become the action. [...]

[...] By this I wanted to show Jane that I wasn’t trying to tell her how to run things—but seemingly this remark instead rearroused Jane’s fears that she couldn’t insist upon action from Eleanor so quickly. Jane wants action.

[...] It allowed for some unconscious translation of such feelings outward into action. [...]

The same mechanism that causes a disturbed woman, say, to perform repetitive action such as a constant washing and rewashing of hands, also causes a particular kind of apparition to return time and time again to one place. In such cases the behavior is often composed of repetitive action.

[...] Only your interpretation of their actions can cause difficulties. [...]

[...] It is very important to understand the nature of your own inner self and symbolism behind action. For when you understand the symbolism behind your own actions, then you begin to understand yourselves and you know the reasons behind your actions. [...] 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. [...]

[...] You may instead, however, commit an error so that you are suddenly brought up short as you say, “Why did I do this thing which is so unlike myself?” In that case, the error or the action is the same thing as a symptom for it makes you question your own motives and look into your own spirit. [...]

Now, the inner self knows the answers and often- times the inner self brings you to this error, this action, or this symptom, so that you will look inward. [...]

[...] Since consciousness or action can never fully materialize itself, there are literally infinities of such nonexistent areas from which new dimensions can spring.

Consciousness or action forms all realities. [...]

All of this talk about consciousness and action does not mean that consciousness is without identity.

[...] You deal with the psychological components of actions which you will, awake, form into the consecutive corporal “language” that results in the action of your days.

[...] In that regard, in your framework of action you choose to “speak” one event rather than another. [...]

Egotistically you make arbitrary designations of necessity, perceiving only portions of any given action; again, the ego attempting to separate itself from overall action, and to see itself as an entirely independent structure.

Any physical perception is actually an action response at a psychic level to thoughts and emotions, and these exist independently of their physical counterparts. [...]

[...] Further actions are recognized and interpreted. [...]

[...] Your body is aware of the fact of its death at birth, and of its birth at its death, for all of its possibilities for action take place in the area between. Death is therefore as creative as birth, and as necessary for action and consciousness, in your terms.

Your actions take place with such seeming smoothness that you do not realize the order involved. [...]

(Long pause at 10:51.) You become aware of probabilities, as actions sometimes that seem to have no connection with your own, but which are still related to them in that greater scheme of interaction that ordinarily you do not comprehend.

However, the sleeping portion of the species represents the brain’s unconscious activities in the body — particularly when you think of the motion of all of the species’ actions en masse in a given day. [...] If you think of mass daily action as performed by one gigantic being, then all of those conscious actions have unconscious counterparts, and a great intercommunication of an inner nervous system must take place.

Such a practice leads to feelings of helplessness and hopelessness, in which effective action seems impossible. [...]

As long as you believe that either good events or bad ones are meted out by a personified God as the reward or punishment for your actions, or on the other hand that events are largely meaningless, chaotic, subjective knots in the tangled web of an accidental Darwinian world, then you cannot consciously understand your own creativity, or play the role in the universe that you are capable of playing as individuals or as a species. [...]

[...] Now, however, it is highly important that you realize your position, and accomplish the manipulation of consciousness that will allow you to take true conscious responsibility for your actions and your experience.

[...] In those areas of life where you are satisfied, give yourselves credit, and in those areas where you are not, remind yourselves that you are involved in a learning process; you are daring enough to accept the responsibility for your actions.

(His delivery just above, about accepting the responsibility for one’s actions, reminded us of the personal challenges that have accompanied the roles we’ve chosen in our own physical lives. [...]

[...] Therefore, being actions, they affect all other actions, and if I repeat this in session after session, I do so, so that it will never be forgotten. Therefore these secondary conditions are strengthened through the very act, or misact, of thinking that they are primary rather than secondary elements in action.

[...] And the action, or actions involved in this belief will therefore act upon the physical cells of his body with vengeful force, because he has himself directed them to do so.

[...] Let us return to our discussion on action, and tie this in with action as it is seen within dreams. Your own dreams greatly affect the actions that you take within the physical situation, and as you know telepathy operates within dreams.

Our tests must be considered in the light of action, for this is what they are. They involve a more immediate and basic action than physical mobility, and therefore we are concerned with manipulations that are not physical. [...]

[...] His physical action, his refusal, was based upon a telepathic communication with you, in the dream state, on those evenings when you had the dreams which I interpreted for you.

The telepathic message picked up in dreams under such circumstances will of course be interpreted by the dreaming self in its own way, symbolically, so that the dream actions may not appear to be the same. [...]

[...] Bodily physical action, then, to that extent, loses its immaculate precision in time. [...] (Intently:) Again, to that extent instant physical action in time is not the same kind of life-and-death factor that it was when a man was faced with an enraged animal, or enemy, in close combat.

[...] That animal — the past one — existed as surely as the one presently perceived, yet in man’s context, physical action had to be directed to a highly specific area, for physical survival depended upon it.

[...] The necessity for immediate conscious exterior action at a “definite” point of intersection with events was left to the emerging ego consciousness.

[...] In that way cellular comprehension is allowed its free flow; but the selectivity mentioned (in sessions 682–3) bypasses such information, so that it does not conflict with present sense data requiring physical action in time.