Are their mixed messages about the level of importance taking action has when we are consciously intending a new experience? Maybe not. Maybe there are just many unique people walking their own path in an infinite number of ways, via the platform of their own inspiration.
In "Autobiography of a Yogi", by Paramhansa Yogananda, miracles occur - which could very well obliterate any believer's attachment to the idea that anything more than cursory action [i.e., simply being aware of intention] is required in order to consciously manifest anything. For someone who has committed to the experience of creating miracles at will long, drawn out practices or stepped mental exercises might be child's play, a waste of time even, if wasting time was actually possible.
It also seems evident that not all consistent, conscious manifesters are yogis or full time renunciates. Some people have made use of stepping stones to get to this place in their awareness and abilities and others just seem to be lucky - all the time lucky.
This suggests that the answer to whether or not action is important is:
it depends...
perhaps on [including but never limited to]:
choices, beliefs, experience & the relationship with one's awareness of being - before that being-ness is qualified by any external qualities that could be named or identified.
Stumble It!