“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] During this entire period, I developed a way of retreating from the world — habits of thought and action. [...]

[...] If you feel threatened by certain situations, and lacking protection, then you will take certain steps that might not be taken otherwise, so your actions are vastly different according to whether or not you realize that you are indeed being protected.

[...] He did learn through trial and error various ways of best translating those thoughts into physical action. [...]

[...] We’ve often speculated that just knowing Jane cared enough to send out an emissary like Helper was (and is) of psychological benefit to at least some of those in need, helping them generate positive actions on their own.

[...] Her implications to Tam were clear enough—we hope: that for the first time she was thinking of alternate courses of action to being published by Prentice-Hall, perhaps trying other publishers, Eleanor Friede among them. [...] They did the same thing with Adventures; in this case, that action wiped the board clean for the hardcover Adventures, and even showed a small profit from the paperback sales. [...]

[...] Jane finally agrees that we must take certain actions now in our professional lives, and we don’t know what will happen. [...]

[...] One disease may actually protect you from a stronger one, or from a detrimental course of action that you might otherwise follow. [...]

[...] It has mental reasons for its actions, then, as the mind has physical ones. [...]

That is, you increase the feeling and intent of power by considering it in such action, whether or not in your world you pursue that particular issue—and I do not mean to consider the issue hypothetically either, but as a quite possible desirable course of action that you may or may not pursue. [...]

[...] The action of each one of the most minute of these particles affects each other one. The slight motion of one grain of sand causes a corresponding alteration in the distribution of the stars and in all matter’s fabric, from an atom in a man’s skull down to the slightest variation in a microbe’s action.

Action is idea in motion. [...]

[...] And with his focused memory at his command, man’s ego was born, which could follow its own identity through the maze of blazing impulses that beset him, could recognize itself through the pattern of continuing constructions and could separate itself from its action in the physical world. [...]

[...] Not only are they released but they form a propelling action that allows energy to flow in the opposite direction. As chemical reactions allow the body to utilize energy and form physical materializations, so the excess built up then becomes a propelling force, allowing action to flow in what you would term subjective directions.

[...] She recalled a couple of cigarettes and a sip or two of wine, but these actions were “removed” from her.

[...] Its actions, as they are, are clearly self-defeating. [...]

(I said that I was quite aware that Seth had recently said that all actions are eventually redeemed—but what about in the meantime? [...]

The desire to go places and do things, or buy things, or see people—all of these things are good because they imply physical action. You sidestep many of the blocks to action when the stimulus is a good one. [...]

[...] It is a field of concentrated action when you consider it in this light — a powerhouse of probabilities or probable actions, seeking to be expressed; a grouping of nonphysical consciousnesses that nevertheless knows itself as an identity. [...]

[...] I tried writing it down so that I could read it to Jane: “Why did the personality adopt a course of action—being out of condition, say—that eventually came to assume such proportions in life that the focus upon it equaled, or even surpassed, the hours spent in the creative actions of writing that the personality said it wanted to do each day above everything else?”

[...] Although she obviously played a vital part in keeping herself alive, I believe that that action came after her own natural, chosen time of death had been subverted. [...]

[...] I wanted to know what her sinful self thought about what it was doing to her body, if it cared, if it even understood that it’s protective actions threatened its own existence. [...]

[...] The accomplishments, wars, difficulties and institutions are all “after the event” — that is, they are outward actions of an inward existence. [...]

[...] Thought is incipient action. [...]

1. Seth tells us that all actions are initially mental in nature. Very simply, probable realities flow from the multitudinous actions — or events — we may envision, but choose not to actualize physically. [...]

[...] I told Jane now that I understood the course of action each of us had chosen to make physical, or “real” in our terms. [...]

[...] Precognitively you are unconsciously quite aware — again in your terms — of the results of any given action or cause. [...]

[...] The inflexibility of dogma conscientiously applied to daily action was experienced, and within it Ruburt tried to apply himself and to focus his deeply mystical nature.*

You cannot escape action. The ego attempts to so order events as to direct action along its own lines.

[...] The ego is of course a part of action. There are endless levels of action however, which the ego does not perceive. [...]

[...] Thought is incipient action. [...]

[...] Hence he was supersensitive when he thought you had lost interest in his writing and when he interpreted some of your actions as general neglect or lack of real affection.

Your own positive action with the pendulum and in your personal life with Ruburt has been most beneficial, and resulted in the kind of support he needed at this time.

[...] There is nothing wrong with asking “Are you afraid of thus and so?” of the pendulum, for example—particularly when specific events are involved, and where action is possible. [...]

[...] Relaxation makes action possible. [...]

[...] In a manner of speaking, repetitious actions intimately involve beliefs at the “magical” level. [...] While it is easy then to understand the nature of exterior actions of repetitive quality, it is far more difficult to see many physical symptoms in the same light — but here also whole groups of recurring reactions to certain stimuli are involved. [...]

Dictation: There is a definite correlation between what is called conditioning, and compulsive action.