“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(As I mentioned doing at the close of last Saturday night’s deleted session, today I paid our NY State and Federal income taxes a few days ahead of time, hoping the action would contribute to my sense of freedom, and perhaps Jane’s too. [...]

[...] It is an excellent idea to look at old sessions with a view toward picking up suggestions that I have given for constructive action, and following them.

[...] They mix and merge with your other beliefs and ideas, and color your actions. [...]

I must remind you once more that all time happens simultaneously, so the confused belief about punishment now, in retaliation for past action would actually be meaningless, since in simultaneous time all actions would be occurring at once.

You tell yourself you have little control over his actions, or that your feelings make little difference in the face of his actions, but that is the other side of the same coin. [...]

[...] All actions are valid—and I do not want to hurt anyone’s feelings—but some dream actions are far more intelligent than some waking ones; and I will close Ruburt’s eyes so that no one knows to whom I am speaking. [...]

[...] These men, incidentally, were no worse, particularly, in their actions than the rest of the populace. [...]

[...] In that life I learned to understand the interplay between men and their ambitions, the gulf that often exists between ideals and practical action.

[...] Such actions simply bring to a sense level your inner intentions, and serve to reinforce them through the physical actions involved.

[...] As long as you understand the reason behind these actions, you see, you will not overestimate them.

The urge between the child’s desire to do so, the basically kind nature, and the inability to carry out any such actions in any case, led to an overguarding ego. [...]

Actually, you consider action which seems to be at least partially self-directive as living matter. Action that seems to be of a static nature, you refer to as inert matter. It should go without saying that all action is indeed self-directed action to some degree, and therefore should be termed as living matter.

Generally speaking however, no physical object can be constructed, and no action can occur, without what you are pleased to call suggestion. No action and no material object can be perceived without inner consent and willingness. Behind every action and every construction there is indeed what you are pleased to call suggestion.

[...] In our last session, I mentioned that you considered live matter to be action in motion.

Suggestion is no more and no less than an inner willingness and consent, to allow a particular action to occur; and this consent is the trigger which sets off the subconscious mechanisms that allow you to construct inner data into physical reality.

[...] It would be quite improbable for you, Joseph (as Seth calls me), to suddenly turn into a tailor, for example, for none of your choices with probabilities have led toward such an action.

Any of the probable actions that a person considers are a part of that person’s conscious thought. [...]

[...] Each action seeks all of its own possible fulfillments. [...]

[...] The particular string of probable actions that you call your official experience does not just dangle, then, out in space and time — it interweaves with other such strands that you do not recognize. [...]

[...] The rich tapestry of probable actions from which you choose your official life becomes just as invisible. [...]

4. Seth discussed the basic unpredictability from which significances arise in sessions 681–82, in Section 1. After break at 11:47 in the 681st session, he incorporated this line in his material: “From the ‘chaotic’ bed of your dreams springs your ordered daily organized action.”

Such issues, however, while obviously of concern, do not touch upon the greater events behind dream activity, or begin to touch upon the mysterious psychological actions that are behind the perception of any event. [...]

[...] The nature of creativity itself is involved, and the characteristics of energy, without which no action is possible.

[...] Your smallest action affects their reality, as theirs does yours. [...]

Now there is a difference between the normal action of such stress hormones in healthy periods as opposed to times of abnormal exaggerated stress. [...]

[...] Scientists do not suspect the altered quality that such adrenaline action gives, though they recognize the negative effects of overproduction. [...]

[...] Worry does not lead to action. In fact, it inhibits the intuitional insights that allow constructive action to occur.

[...] She made a note on a chart and left, very pleasant — but no action was taken during the day. [...]

[...] The results can be turning points toward action and motion. [...]

(Pause at 10:16.) Despair may seem passive only because it feels that exterior action is hopeless — but its fires rage inwardly, and that kind of contagion can leap from bed to bed and from heart to heart. It touches those, however, who are in the same state only, and to some extent it brings about an acceleration in which something can indeed be done in terms of group action.

[...] Often such outbreaks take place after ineffective political or social action — that is, after some unified mass social protest — has failed, or is considered hopeless. [...]

New paragraph: Despite all “realistic” pragmatic tales to the contrary, the natural state of life itself is one of joy, acquiescence with itself — a state in which action is effective, and the power to act is a natural right. [...]

[...] These trigger your physical actions. [...]

1. Energy and action are basically the same, although neither must necessarily apply to physical action.

2. All objects have their origin basically in mental action. Mental action is directed psychic energy.

[...] Time, in other words, cannot be counted upon to unify action. [...] You are not forced to perceive action as a series of moments within inner reality, therefore.

[...] Dream actions are no longer taken for granted. [...]

[...] Spontaneously, with the process just mentioned, millions of pictures are being taken also of the probable actions that will — or may — be needed, in your terms, in the moment immediately following, from microscopic action to the motion of a muscle, the driving of a car, the reading of a book, or whatever.

[...] They serve other functions, they have other purposes, they take part in life through a different cast of action. [...]

(Pause.) With Ruburt: The new orientation is bringing results, and the results do appear effortlessly.² The affair with Mitzi (one of our cats) did involve action at other levels — a magical orientation. [...]

[...] Each species seeks for the development of its abilities and capacities in a framework in which safety is a medium for action. [...]

[...] He must deal with beliefs and feelings often so ambiguous that no clear line of action seems possible. [...]

[...] That belief generates certain actions or events, so that practically speaking, while he sees the flames, and perhaps smells the smoke, the heat of the fire will have no effect—because for him its character is changed. [...]

[...] The belief triggers body chemicals in a certain fashion, though the process itself involves an interaction between the air and the chemicals of the body, which form together a protective shield that repels the action of the fire.

[...] You form your reality through various mental and physical cues to action that you recognize, through the significances that you habitually accept. [...]

[...] Calculations impossible to describe occur, so that from this basic unpredictability you experience what seem to be predictable actions. This is only because you focus upon those actions that “make sense” in your reality, and ignore all others. [...]

Science likes to think that it deals with predictable action. [...]

[...] (Jane held up her favorite ashtray, the abalone shell we’d found in Baja California in 1958, and tapped some ashes into it from her cigarette.) The predictability of that gesture rests upon the basis of an unpredictability, in which multitudinous other actions could have occurred, and in other realities do occur.

Now: Your beliefs and intents cause you to pick, from an unpredictable group of actions, those that you want to happen. [...]

Here, as in normal life, your emotions and actions follow your beliefs. [...]

[...] The vast reservoir of energy and potential within you is called into action under the leadership of your conscious mind.