“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(Seth’s malignant diagnosis in this session represents the most drastic to date, and left Jane and me wondering about the best course of action to take in such cases. [...]

[...] She gave no sign that she was aware of my action, other than a slight movement of her legs, but she picked up the envelope almost at once. [...]

[...] As a matter of fact, the students took such regrettable actions not because they gave into impulsive behavior, but because the road to true impulsive expression had been blocked so long that such actions became one of the few possible ways of giving vent to certain expressions. [...]

[...] The personality has felt as if it were held in bounds, tied, lacking the opportunity for action.

[...] The actions that he has taken he has not approved of. [...]

[...] Such actions distort data from both within and without.

[...] But inside these bounds are infinite varieties of actions and unlimited resources.

Throughout these essays I’ve been unable to go very far into most of the subjects Jane and I wanted to discuss, to do much more than approximate in words a welter of feelings and actions. [...]

[...] Different modes of behavior don’t fit our chosen courses of action in physical life “this time.” [...]

In that sense Jane’s whole self or entity accepts her actions completely, as part of the learning processes available to “it” through her individuality—nor do I mean it does so in any passive or remote sense at all, but in the most intimate, sensitive terms possible, and also, probably, in ways we cannot appreciate now. [...]

I expect then a concentrated effort to spontaneously accept impulses toward action and immediate performance of the act. [...]

(Then she said her legs clamored for action exercises, so I massaged her left leg particularly. [...]

[...] You see, a very cruel interpretation and a very literal interpretation of his action in a past life, this coming through in an entirely different situation in this life. [...] Through his actions in this life he is trying to make an honest statement about actions in the past. [...]

[...] I sense you yelling to yourself when you see a male in strong action or performance, I sense you yelling to yourself—I can do that better than you can for I have done it before—again this is reflected in the way you drive your car.

[...] As a rule you experience only one time version of any given action. Certainly it is easy to see how a birthday or anniversary, or particular symbol or object, might serve as an associative connection, rousing within you memories of issues or actions that might have happened under similar circumstances in other times.

“Again as with master events, we’re dealing with a different framework of action entirely, where the Mona Lisa is ‘more real’ than the physical properties that compose it. [...] I don’t have to ‘make the material work,’ or prove through my actions that it does, because it proves itself in the way that creativity does, by being beyond levels of true-false references. [...]

[...] Eleanor’s protests at the action had done no good. [...]

[...] Even if you were aware of reincarnational existences, your present psychological behavior would not be threatened but retain its prominence—for only within certain space and time intersections can physical actions occur. [...]

[...] To put it another way, time has no meaning without the necessity to counteract against other actions. [...]

[...] … The action and counteraction is the time trigger. [...]

[...] Present actions can change future events that would otherwise occur. [...]

I will have more to say along these lines, for we shall shortly be considering the psychological structures in terms of action, and in their relationship to time. [...]

[...] Therefore, actions that you make now can help a so-called past personality. And a so-called future personality will step in and help you along your weary way, but also, your actions now can also affect the future personality as well as the past one. [...]

[...] This is one of those instances where the mere mention of what you have been doing makes the action glaringly obvious.)

Now when Ruburt tried to apply these laws in the past, he often did so erroneously out of a fear of action. [...]

(Jane had engaged in her spontaneous actions re 458 in response to Seth’s suggestions in the last session—that she imagine others complementing her on how well she was doing, and so forth. [...]

[...] In other words it can accept larger portions of action, and adapt itself in ways not possible when it was connected with the physical organism.

[...] I massaged them, and she said that action felt great but at the same time almost unendurable, so I soon stopped. [...]

It is somewhat natural, now that he has determined to get better, that he become aware of his own evasive actions, as he has. [...]

[...] With every moment you change, and every action changes every other action. [...]

All of this is interwound with the idea that personality is composed of action. [...]

[...] The whole self as it exists at any given time can be glimpsed through studying the actions of the physically-oriented ego, as seen in physical manipulation, and in studying the activities of the inner ego as seen in dream experiences. [...]

Our material on the nature of action will be helpful here. [...]

[...] And each of your actions, however inconsequential, becomes connected in one way or another—in one way or another—to each other reality and each other world (all with much emphasis).

[...] In such ways, the world’s actions are worked out in mass dream communications that are at the same time public and private.