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[...] However his own doubts changed the action within the dream, and he reacted to his doubts and ignored the earlier portion of the dream entirely.

The basic action of the first dream involved his reception, his clear perception, of several voices within his head. [...]

[...] Some people take portions of themselves, again, as hostages, restraining such portions with the idea of punishing them for imagined wrongs, or for actions not understood. [...]

[...] The conscious mind is quite willing to let go in that regard, for art not only provides it with enjoyment but fulfills its own framework of action. [...]

[...] It delights in forming correspondences between events that seem quite separate to the intellectually-tuned consciousness alone, and reveals undercurrents of usually-concealed actions that we quite ignore when we’re most concerned about thinking rationally. [...]

[...] Many people ask, for example: “What is the purpose of my life?” Meaning: “What am I meant to do?” but the purpose of your life, and each life, is in its being (intently). That being may include certain actions, but the acts themselves are only important in that they spring out of the essence of your life, which simply by being is bound to fulfill its purposes.

Now, I would sincerely like to see some action on your part, and I will give you instructions in the sleep state when you are ready for them, so you have a standing invitation out, and I will promise you it will not be a pompous [sic] week. [...]

(As usual, listening to Seth’s long list of negative items, I couldn’t help wondering why Jane didn’t appreciate the import of such actions at least intuitively, and do something about them.)

[...] They are the motive force of action (pause), the means by which all interior events are exteriorized. [...]

Their action is inhibiting at your end. [...]

[...] She wanted action, was full of nervous energy. [...]

[...] There is always and oftentimes a justifiable tendency to feel unappreciated, and therefore to look for chances to prove this lack of appreciation, so that it is often mistakenly projected on remarks or actions of others. Oftentimes such remarks and actions are the result of the other person’s own ignorance, and actually not directed at you personally.

When Ruburt has such dreams, his muscles and joints react in sleep, mimicking normal actions—and he well might be sorer than usual upon awakening, because in sleep, at such times, now, without the weight of his body, standing and so forth, the muscles and joints will make motions of a releasing nature quite painlessly in the dream state. [...]

[...] You have only tuned into a portion of it physically, though; that past event continues to exist with its own “future,” which you may or may not perceive, according to which probable action you pull into your next experiences of actuality.

[...] Even this outer ego, however, acts all unknowingly often on the basis of such information, which it will not admit it has received; and often such action saves it from dire circumstances.

[...] It is impossible for you to perceive in the same direct fashion the majestic, almost unimaginable field of creative action in which any of those events occur, however, in which each act, however seemingly destructive, has vital creative purposes that may or may not appear within the limited references of your conventional dimensions. [...]

Expression itself was considered highly suspect if it traveled outside of the accepted precepts, and particularly of course if it led others to take action against those precepts. [...]

(Here followed a discussion of Jane’s masculine actions and gruff voice when Seth comes through.)

[...] Indeed, however, Jane and I think that in ordinary terms, and for many reasons, our species long ago began creating a great deal of negative thinking and action—so much so that those qualities came to range throughout all facets of our world culture. [...]

You will know God’s actions, however, through the manifestations of the universe. [...]

[...] The dream actually reviews the whole of Jane’s and my life together, our motives and actions, fears and beliefs, etc.)