“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] You do learn the consequences of your thoughts and actions, and you face them. [...] You learn the consequence of your action and you face the consequence of your action. [...]

There was a civilization, and I am writing this in my book and some of you know of it—a civilization, in your terms, in your dim past, in which a group of human beings tried to form a physical body that could not act violently and when violence was threatened the body automatically closed off from action. [...]

([Arnold]“Do the animals that we know have a creativity in their actions as we do?”)

And (to Theodore) I expect some action at the Great Hall. [...]

But if we are of good intent, how can we sometimes end up involved in the most reprehensible of actions? [...]

Since we are all involved with world events, it is highly important that we also understand how we fit into those global actions, and see how our negative beliefs about ourselves and the species can result in situations far less than ideal, and quite different from our stated goals. [...]

When Seth began this manuscript, I was personally working with the idea of “heroic impulses” (those separate from our usual ones) that would operate as inner impetuses toward constructive action. [...]

[...] Seth says this spontaneous creation happens all of the time through the actions of consciousness. [...]

[...] In Framework 2, for example, Marie, pregnant with Jane, could have decided with her daughter-to-be upon certain sequences of action to be pursued during their lives. [...]

Whatever the initial course of action agreed to in just this probable reality by everyone involved, from whatever point in the “past,” in Framework 1 the participants have subjected it to an almost infinite variety of choices and modifications through the years: but always—always—within nature’s great structure, and accompanied by the utter freedom of each person concerned to accept, reject, abort, or change the whole affair from their individual perspective at any moment….

[...] (We also have deep reservations about the theory of evolution and its “survival of the fittest” dogmas, but this isn’t the place to go into those subjects.) Far more basic and satisfactory to us are the intuitive comprehensions that this “nature” we’ve helped create is a living manifestation of All That Is, and that someplace, somewhere within its grand panorama, each action has meaning and is truly redeemed. [...]

[...] As far as you are concerned the present is your point of action, focus, and power, and from that point of volition you form both your future and past. [...]

[...] (Pause.) In your terms, this action is in the process of automatically changing the nature of rational consciousness — which is, as you think of it, in a state of evolution.

[...] Through that kind of action it helps form your cultural environment, the civilization of which you are justly proud.

[...] (Pause.) Your own relationship, your private beliefs about the sort of persons you wanted individually for mates, brought about incalculable actions that led finally to your meeting — yet it all happened “quite naturally,” of course. [...]

[...] Instead the identity is what they are, with full freedom to express all probable actions and developments, both in this reality and in others that you do not know.

[...] Now you are also the receiver of other such signals coming from other probabilities that are connected with your own, but you choose which of those probable actions you want to make real or physical in your system, as others also have the freedom of choice in their systems.

[...] You would not be able to observe the pivot points about which actions occurred. [...]

[...] In the next stage it is active as it takes part through action — the concepts given it are then vividly perceived through participation and examples. [...]

[...] That framework of course, again in terms of an analogy, exists another step away from your own Framework 2.³ I do not want to get into a higher-or-lower hierarchy here, but the frameworks represent spheres of action. [...]

[...] Yet of course you are also participators in an immense drama in which the main actions occur outside of your world, in those realms from which your world originated — and you are, foremost, natives of those other realms, as each individual is; as each being is.

[...] Ruburt has made progress, but both of you still believe that worrying will somehow lead to positive action, that fear will be an impetus.

[...] I might add that I don’t think I for one believe any longer that worrying is the answer to very much, as Seth says Jane and I still believe, nor do I think that fear is going to act as a stimulus to positive action. [...]

To a large extent, a highly involved series of symbolic actions are carried out long before any battle takes place, if it does finally. [...]

Birth is an aggressive action — the thrust outward with great impetus of a self from within a body into a new environment. [...]

[...] Aggressiveness leads to action, to creativity and to life. [...]

[...] Physical materializations are built up by bringing about this condition of excessive chemical action.

[...] Your own actions continue to produce additional energy. [...]

[...] We may say however that dream images have a density which is formed of electrical intensities, that are partially the result of chemical actions.

The car with the siren might disappear, yet the alarmed person’s attitude and actions may very well instantly cause his or her companion to realize that something was clearly amiss. [...]

[...] He is afraid that such action would put you in a poor mood, but you must both understand that it is therapeutic, and also activates the body in beneficial ways. [...]

[...] Why such a course of action, such a surrender, as I saw it? [...]

[...] To my mind at the moment, that course of action would be the “something to be done” if we failed to get enough help from these late sessions.

What you want is not a perfection which is rigid, but the ever-balancing action of spontaneous motion, a balance precariously maintained for a moment through ever-approaching and receding imbalances that result in objects.

[...] The technique that is yours and is excellent should be the point of departure that sends the spontaneous action into new reality, and not a rigid mold to contain it.

“All action is creative and ever-occurring—the only way I can get these ideas across to you. [...] When you look at atoms and stars you are looking at simultaneous action. [...]

[...] Oftentimes much of the material did not need to become conscious: It was “unconsciously” acted upon, turned directly into action. [...]

[...] The intuitions themselves, while seemingly mental, are action, and as such they produce changes in the physical organism, both chemical and electromagnetic.

The reality of such intuitive thoughts as electromagnetic actions has not been understood, and is quite vital to any comprehension of the human system. [...]

The suggestion itself, you see, being action, has its own electromagnetic reality, and since the suggestion would be a constructive one, it would already begin to set certain healing processes into motion, and spark the formation of others. [...]

[...] Since they believe so strongly in the power of others, and in their own relative powerlessness, they feel forced into aggressive actions almost as preventative measures against greater violence that will be done against them.

If you had read more of the material and if you had studied the information more carefully on action and identity, then you would know what I mean. [...]