“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] Such an action requires enormous energy alone, for it is the stoppage of a process which is in itself action.

The lag is partially the result of cues to action. [...]

[...] Physically speaking in your terms, they will be largely, and I mean largely, minimized as these actions of yours break up the cues. [...]

[...] Both imply great action and vitality, and an aggressive thrust that has nothing to do with violence. Yet many people have physical symptoms or suffer unpleasant situations because they are afraid to utilize their own power of action, and equate power with aggression — meaning violence. [...]

[...] The need to act and be in control of action is paramount in conscious beings. [...]

[...] (Pause.) If you accept the basic idea that evil is more powerful than good, then your beneficial acts will bear little fruit because of your own framework; you assign such small power of action to them.

(10:46.) Your beliefs then are highly important in the way in which you handle the power of personal action.

All That Is is now, yet within All That Is, are all potentials for development even now, simultaneously, being expressed and each action causes another action, in your terms now, without end. [...]

[...] Such a feeling, recognized, can also serve—as it did serve the woman’s mother—as a critical point of recognition that the desire to die was triggered not so much (long pause) by the feeling of life’s completion as by the fact that the individual had set up too many restrictions in life itself—restrictions that were severely cutting back its own possibilities of value fulfillment, or future effective action. [...] The person recognizes the restrictions and changes his or her ways accordingly, opening the doorway not into death but to further life and action in this space and time. [...]

Their definitions in fact squeeze human motivation into an impossibly small tube of action. [...]

Such a desire may come in cycles, just as the desire for action and excitement may come in cycles. [...]

I am able to change them as action while retaining the knowledge that I am that which changes, and find my stability in change. You must hold the action back for perceptive purposes. [...]

[...] (Pause; smile.) Seth’s material on action will help you here.

[...] Only impeding actions block it up. [...]

[...] The individual within your system—and this is quite simplified—an individual finds himself with a choice of three actions. [...] The other two actions are experienced however, but not within the physical system. The results of the other two actions are perceived by the inner ego.

[...] The probable actions were definitely perceived and experienced however, and these experiences make up the existence of this other portion of the self, as indeed dream actions make up the experience and existence of the dream self, or of the I as it exists within the dream state.

The results are then checked by the inner ego against the action that was chosen for actuality within the physical system. [...]

[...] Both of us thought this a clear reference to the action of my stretching arms in the envelope photo.

[...] I added that no one knew how they managed to sit in a chair—all the thousands of motions, impulses, cellular actions, etc. [...] I said that such a simple action must be governed by other portions of the unconscious mind that are conscious in their own rights. [...]

[...] I put my hands on her left ankle and could feel the action of the bones and muscles and tendons therein as she rotated it, up in the air, with a good amount of freedom.

(Pause at 9:34.) The actions that arise out of the chanting—as the circle arrangement of students—these are all deeply buried psychically and psychologically pertinent actions that have been a part of your race from its earliest times. The chanting and the action are physical keys or symbols that open up the doors to a nonphysical state of existence before those of your race entered history. [...]

The individual can change past action within however the limitations earlier mentioned in our last session. Therefore his future actions are not dependent upon a concrete and unchanging past, for such a past never existed.

[...] Every action changes every other action. [...]

[...] Nevertheless no actions thus far have occurred to drastically change any of the predicted events, and unless actions are so initiated events will occur as given.

[...] Now basically it is not true to say that an individual’s decisions must be based upon concrete events within his own past, nor that he is largely imprisoned by his past, nor that his future actions are predetermined by his past experience. [...]

Now: Again, master events are those that most significantly affect your system of reality, even though the original action was not physical but took place in the inner dimension. Most events appear both in time and out of it, their action distributed between an inner and outer field of expression. [...]

When they do, you might question: Could it be possible that you really were perceiving an action ahead of time? [...]

[...] With more than a little wry humor over what I considered to be a failure of belief on my part, I took action: Late in July I had a contractor, who is a friend of ours and well acquainted with Jane’s situation, install a heavy outside door in a bedroom wall, and construct the necessary step to the ground. [...]

[...] Soon automatically the system becomes adjusted to normal action, and the process becomes automatic again. It is also important to react when you feel an annoyance, rather than postpone action, whenever this is possible. [...]

[...] It is only when you overload the nervous system by such repressed action that it then begins a cycle of overreaction to what seems to be one event.

[...] Yet your more educated beliefs lead you to an even more pessimistic picture, in which even the violent action of men and women who are driven to the extreme serves no purpose. The individual must feel that his actions count. He is driven to violent action only as a last resort — and illness often is that last resort.

[...] In that context no action is heroic, and man is everywhere the victim of an alien universe. [...] Individual action counts. [...]

[...] In your culture, at least, the educated in the literary arts provide you with novels featuring antiheroes, and often portray an individual existence [as being] without meaning, in which no action is sufficient to mitigate the private puzzlement or anguish.

[...] You have denied many impulses, or programmed others so that they are allowed expression in only certain forms of action. [...]

[...] Nevertheless, such actions speak only too loudly of your mass beliefs involving the vulnerability of the self and its flesh.

[...] They meet and merge, and form platforms for action.

[...] This has something to do with your lack of action. [...]

It upsets Ruburt when you talk of moving, but make no actions to do so, because subconsciously it reminds him of the deep uncertainty and insecurity he felt when he was in the orphanage. [...]

[...] I have often puzzled over our lack of action in seeking larger quarters, etc. [...]

[...] He felt that when he had initiated action in the past that it had not worked, and he was then afraid of initiating new action, so he kept waiting for you to do so. [...]

Your loving encouragement therefore helps ease the transition into action, again, quite practically, regardless of the reasons for the self-hypnosis—

[...] The situation is not nearly as hopeless as it appears, and I tell you, Joseph, that your joint feelings of hopelessness are as hypnotizing as what I just explained to you of Ruburt’s actions.

[...] Then it means that you do not waste time and energy in apathy, or in crying over the past, but that you see yourself at last beginning upon a course of action that is highly important. [...]

[...] You have the action of which you also spoke. First you have the action of the lines, form and content and so forth, caught and solidified, then as an observer looks at a painting feeling is again motion moving out from the painting into the beholder’s perception.

[...] Action is solidified, or should I say transfixed, in a painting and yet even in a painting action is never really solidified or transfixed, but continually fluid.

[...] Psychic actions take place which lead the individual beyond the senses. [...]

On your plane no action is really simultaneous and so time instantly enters in. [...]

“Any perception is action and it changes that upon which it acts, and in so doing, it is itself changed. The slightest perception alters every atom within your body. This, in turn, sends out its ripples, so that as you know, the most minute action is felt everywhere.”

[...] Suppose, as Seth maintains, that past, present, and future are also artificial devices, divisions superimposed over a spacious moment in which all action is simultaneous.

[...] While Seth is not “blatantly” male, in his actions and speech he is more a man’s man than the woman’s man type. [...]

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

Suggestion not only impels toward action, but causes you to interpret action in a given manner. [...]

[...] The soul or any remnant of it vanished, so that all of the action had to occur in an arena where competition ruled. [...]

[...] They operated as suggestion that directed the actions of millions of people, and provided a framework through which they experienced their reality. [...]

The work of the jaws necessitates the actions occurring, and if the new jaws end up with new teeth (humorously), that must not be considered a failure or a tragedy. [...]

In its natural state, hatred has a powerful rousing characteristic that initiates change and action. [...]

[...] Hatred brings a sense of power and initiates communication and action. [...]

Now: Love is also a great inciter to action, and utilizes dynamos of energy.

[...] Yet the soul is above all a fountain of energy, creativity, and action that shows its characteristics in life precisely through the ever-changing emotions.

[...] Instead of any of those things, the imagined dialogue — if there is any — may suddenly change from the dialogue that you remember; or the entire scene and action may quickly alter. Any of these occurrences can be hints that you are beginning to glimpse the probable variations of the particular scene or action. [...]

[...] Imagination may bring you a clear picture, for example, that may then become fuzzy, and in that case the blurred quality would be your hint of probable action.

[...] Instead it must recognize its power as the director of probable action, and no longer inhibit its own greater capacities.

[...] The true implications of physical action are not as yet apparent to you.