“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Groupings of actions of any kind merge into other groupings, both within the physical field and outside of it. All apparent units are merely formed by functions, the functions of action. In this context the ego is also a function of action. There are of course also functions within functions, which should be obvious.

The ego itself attempts as its function to be the director and center of other functions. The ego, while considering itself apart from action, is obviously not apart from it. As dreams allow the inner self great freedom, and as in dreams great perspectives of time are available, and great freedom in space, though no space as you know it is involved, so it is possible for the ego itself to achieve the experience of freedom from time and space, if it would only allow itself for a short while to relax the intensity of its objective focus.

Again, it must be remembered that no real boundaries exist, only diversity of function.

You are not aware of how the body performs its many involuntary functions. The conscious mind could not handle all that data, but those functions perfectly mirror your consciously held ideas and beliefs.

That is one of the body’s primary functions. A sick body is performing that function then, in its way, as well as a healthy one. [...]

(9:29.) A man believing he has heart trouble will finally, through his own anxiety, affect the functioning of his “involuntary” system until his heart is definitely harmed if the belief goes unchecked. [...]

Within the basic framework of the body chosen before physical birth (for reasons that will be discussed later), the individual has full freedom to create a perfectly healthy functioning form. [...]

Here the equation (voice pitched higher) seeks to turn inside out, but the functions and values of the integers return it to stability. The functions at times are completely reversed, but the overall integrity of the equation stands. [...]

Here the great army of the integers vanishes into the mouths of the quadrants, and the destruction of the previous functions of the integers is accomplished. But the previous functions, dissolving, do so only to re-emerge in a new fashion, and up rise the values of the 12th powers, now under the triumphant banners of the psi factor, minus 7 over an unfolded pi. [...]

The ground rules are different, even pi, magnified to unknown degrees, having a function aside from the main one. [...]

[...] (Fast pace.) The unrelated functions bear strong relation (Jane asked me to read this phrase back), to the underlying principles upon which the basic theories of malfunction are formed. [...]

[...] or that my over-care of them has turned them into functional serviceable tools.... implements for nourishment rather than the elegant more artistic connections of sterling silver—which is itself beautiful while also serving a function.... [...]

[...] Muscles being released are, as he has noticed, at first sore, then he realizes a new freedom or function regained.

[...] The new function appears, yet is not steady for a while. [...]

[...] They can increase or diminish your hearing, or any sense function.

[...] You will begin to use the faculty less and less, unconsciously transfer your attention to the other senses to compensate, and rely less and less upon your ears until the functions themselves do atrophy. [...]

Functions in this particular regard are habits. [...]

[...] It is however a fact that even mankind, in his blundering manner, will discover that he himself creates his own physical universe, and that the mechanisms of the physical body have more functions and varieties than he knows. Nor in the sleeping state are these functions stilled. [...]

Of course two lives would be sufficient to give you the three roles, but in some cases a personality does not function into adulthood, and therefore does not experience motherhood or fatherhood. [...]

[...] If these functions seem so automatic as to be performed by someone completely divorced from himself, it is because he has done the divorcing. [...]

As breathing is carried on in a manner that seems automatic to the conscious mind, so this important function of transforming the vitality of the universe into pattern units also seems to be carried on automatically. [...]

The response of relaxation after the first session in fact helped set the stage for the better functioning that Ruburt noticed in various areas of the body this evening. While these may appear together or separately, the relaxation and the functioning continue. [...]

[...] You can generally expect two kinds of response—one dealing with relaxation, and the other with better functioning or performance.

[...] He may symbolically pick out an organ or a function, and he will misinterpret many body events in the same way that another may misinterpret mass events. [...]

Peter will interpret such body events in a negative fashion, and as threatening, so that some quite normal sensations will serve the same functions as a fear of policemen, for example. [...]

(11:10.) There should be considerable improved functioning noticeable in Ruburt’s body—some considerable lack of habitual restraint in motion occurring, say, as affairs now stand, anywhere from now to a week or ten days.

Your conscious beliefs direct the functioning of your body. [...]

[...] The body will not function properly, or the overall emotional environment will suffer. [...]

[...] Since it is the function of the conscious mind to assess physical experience, it [the inner self] hasn’t been able to do its job properly. [...]

[...] When you refuse to allow it this function it becomes cluttered.

“It is a gift, a boon, an exquisite pleasure, to become physically alive on your functioning planet, couched securely within your dusk and dawn, your existence supported by the seasons and by an overall operation of spontaneous order.”

Reasoning, as you are familiar with it, is the result of mental or psychic processes functioning in a space-time context, and in a particular fashion. [...]

[...] Free will must then of course function in accordance with genetic integrity. [...]

[...] An actor throwing himself or herself into a role, even momentarily lost in the part, is still alive and functioning as himself or herself in a context that is larger than the play. [...]

1. These excerpts from the session for April 9 (which we hadn’t requested, by the way) indicate Seth’s response to discussions Jane and I had been having about our personal functions as artists, as well as the use of art generally in our chosen probable reality. [...]

[...] It deals with utility, function, need, and the “righting of wrongs.” [...]

[...] Your hand and your foot have different functions. If you wanted to focus upon the differences in their behavior, you could build an entire culture based upon their diverse capabilities, functions and characteristics. [...]

[...] Otherwise, however, no specific psychological characteristics of any kind are attached to that biological functioning. [...]

[...] The body is now conditioning itself as it returns to normal—normal health and function. [...]

[...] You sense the overall shape of the book, often clearly, but because of the workings of functional consciousness, when you must focus upon a particular passage, that focus necessarily precludes the overall vision at the same time.

[...] Again, it is function. [...]

[...] The few times the craft shoots off at right angles, it has managed to retain functions ordinary to it in its particular habitat.

[...] A plane is an isolation of elements where each one is given the most possible space in which to function.

[...] The physical brains alone, the unused portions, have it within their ability, for example, to hear color, to smell sound; in other words, these portions contain among other things functions, unused mainly, that would allow you to perceive physical reality in various other fashions. [...]

The ego to some large extent, you see, has extended its functions and performance. [...]

In other words, portions of the inner self have joined the strictly egotistical functions. [...]

This does not mean that it ignores its earlier functions. [...]