“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] If you fully comprehend your power in the present, you will realize that action at that point also alters the past, its beliefs and your reactions.

[...] If so, you are already prepared to change your current beliefs and mode of action, and simply use the occurrences or habits of the past as a stimulus or motivation. [...]

[...] These questions are to be answered in the “now,” as you understand it, through the realization that your power of action is in the present and not in the past. [...]

[...] But the belief in the present, reinforced for five minutes, plus such a physical action, will sometimes bring literally awesome results.

[...] An action of the present in your terms cannot be based or caused by an action in the past, and neither action can be the cause of a future action in a basic reality where neither past nor future exist.

[...] The very self-suggestions that will enable you to recall your dreams may also change their nature, to some extent, for any action changes any other action.

Particular notice should also be taken of characters and settings, and the approximate period of history in which the dream action occurs. [...]

Unknown characters within the dream action, persons unknown to you in everyday life, should be given careful attention also, and the roles which they play within the dream drama. [...]

[...] Your dream newscasts come down to the question of what actions are taken by individuals (underlined)—and individual actions, again, are as influenced by the knowledge received in dreams as they are from exterior activity.

In your times the individual problems of masses of people are bound up with such issues, and as they work toward their own solutions, then in their own ways they help solve problems at the level of world action. [...]

For all of his and your complaining, you understand in rather good measure the decisions and actions that motivate your lives, so that Ruburt is more than usually aware of the manipulations that psychologically and physically lie just beneath the material usually carried by what is ordinarily called the conscious mind. [...]

[...] He found a mixed world—one hardly black or white, one with some considerable give-and-take, in which under even the most regrettable of circumstances there was (underlined) room for some action, for some improvement, for some decision, for some creative response. [...]

[...] I don’t know whether I regret my actions or not. [...]

[...] These probabilities include webworks and probable action and reaction, involving not only yourself but others.

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

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

If you are lethargic, resolve to take the first small steps toward action, however small they might be. Remind yourself that life implies action and motion, and even the activity of the most despondent thought flows in great bursts of rhythm.

[...] Through all of this, I use the word I, yet these things were happening and “I” was a part of the action so a part, that it was difficult to separate me from it. [...]

[...] The merging of self with action in the expansion episode was dismaying at first; just so alien; because I felt the expansion in general; not just specifically in my own body, for example. [...]

(After watching the televised events from all over the world, Tuesday night I dreamed that in the future all households would be connected to interconnecting computers, keeping track of all inhabitants, actions, goods, and so forth. [...]

[...] This is an electromagnetic sequence or action that will eventually help provide the impetus for projection of the whole self into another field of actuality, as the rate of acceleration increases and becomes more unified.

The personality itself therefore, as a mental action, is responsible for the point or midplane, for without the personality or mental act, this particular reference point or midplane would have no meaning.

[...] When it abdicates it closes up the possibility of this repairing type of molecular action.

In actuality this retention is mental, a mental attraction to other mental actions or personalities; but this attraction, while mental, still projects in certain fashions into the physical field. [...]

[...] You follow a one-line pattern of history, pursuing certain actions as reality and identifying with these so completely that they are all you perceive. Other probable actions are always occurring, however, and are quite as valid as the ones which you happen to choose and thus experience.

[...] Your beliefs and actions in your present alter “their” experiences, as each of them, in their presents, change yours. [...]

(At the same time, Jane also liked my concluding material in the notes, regarding the integration of each portion of the personality into one whole, and so thus attaining the freedom to follow any chosen course of action in the world.

[...] When you are concentrating upon responsibility, however, then each lapse becomes a lapse from responsible action, and complicates the inner spontaneous rhythm that to a large degree is automatically maintained. [...]

[...] Desire flows freely into action. [...]

[...] In that regard, every person paints his or her own portrait in living color — a portrait that does not simply sit in a tranquil pose at a table, but one that has the full capacity for action. [...]

At the minute levels — microscopic levels — there are always some biological experiments being carried out, in a creative effort to give the species as much leeway as possible for effective action. [...]

[...] (Pause.) The dreams of the species are highly important to its survival — not just because dreaming is a biological necessity, but because in dreams the species is immersed in deeper levels of creativity, so that those actions, inventions, ideas that will be needed in the future will appear in their proper times and places. [...]

[...] You, yourselves, through your own mental actions, create realities of which you are unaware, and you give birth to more than physical children.

[...] I am telling you that your own thoughts and mental actions appear to the inhabitants of other systems like the stars and planets within your own; and those inhabitants do not perceive what lies within and behind the stars in their own heavens. [...]

2. Free will is the philosophical doctrine that the individual has the freedom to choose, without coercion, some actions consistent with his or her particular morals and ideals. Determinism is the opposing doctrine that everything, even the individual’s course of action, is determined by conditions outside one’s will.

[...] Genetic structure makes possible physical organisms through which life is to be experienced, and to a large extent that structure must determine the kind of action possible in the world, and the way or ways in which volition can be effectively expressed.

[...] Opposing determinism is the idea that man has always fought for his personal responsibility—that instead of being controlled entirely by his heritage, he’s capable of forming new syntheses of thought and action based upon the complicated patterns of his own history.

(I said I was willing to face whatever developed because of this action—that if I had to get a job on part-time basis, okay. [...] I don’t see her symptoms lessening, so feel that action must be taken.

[...] I thought that by now we’d have a good financial backlog built up, and freedom of action. [...]

To him it was a direct action taken against something that annoyed him—the dust—an act of independence since he did it, and a symbolic clearing away of inner debris. [...]

You took direct action. [...]

[...] When you use so-called positive suggestions you must implement them through action, but gently. [...]

[...] For this seeking itself is a creative activity, and the core of all action.

[...] That which knows itself, which experiences itself within many forms and yet knows itself as something apart from the total of its sums, that left-over, unexplainable remnant you see, can be thought of as original action, original consciousness, prime mover, or consciousness as distinct from its own creations, of which it is also part.

[...] … 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 suggestion.

[...] You may not have thought of the question consciously, but each of us has an opinion and we guide our daily actions by it whether we realize it or not. [...]

“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.

“The objective world is the end result of inner action. [...]

[...] She then tied this in with an unpleasant episode in the past where there was trouble with another sister-in-law, and this brother-in-law, and thought that the money would now make this sister-in-law sit up and wonder about her own actions in the past.)