“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] We thought her between-worlds experience a very good sign, in that the new personality was already beginning to fulfill functions, to add new dimensions to the sessions. [...]

[...] The sufferer focuses upon the illness, therefore avoiding his task of functioning upon the problem.

[...] A nervous reaction of functional nature.

[...] You are functioning within an environment. [...]

[...] The use of psychological time, to some large degree, also performs this function. [...]

[...] It appears that the church I am serving will no longer have any appreciable function.”)

[...] Since the attributes of egotistical consciousness have been so misinterpreted, you usually consider it only in its analytical breaking-down functions. [...]

[...] It is not an esthetic but a functional object. [...]

[...] He put off bodily functions as long as he could, for what he thought of as mental creativity—and all of this is highly related to the ideas of time as I explained them.

[...] There are literally uncountable psychological states mixing and interchanging constantly, with the overall psychological stance being one of biological integrity (colon): The organism holds together, maintains its functions, and so forth.

[...] The gist of the impressions seemed to be that she ought to ease off walking while the body recovered —a very strange state of affairs, it seems to me, and a situation that has bothered me often before: Why should the body give up certain functions if it’s in the process of recovering? [...]

[...] And in an unwary, emotionally upset personality, particularly if under stress, such a suggestion could cause a harmless and protective nodule to be changed by the strong powers of adverse expectation, or rather expectation poorly used, into the form of what is feared; as a slight but harmless irregularity of heartbeat, with the unthinking suggestion of a doctor, can become through the patient’s fears an actual functional disorder, so could suggestion turn a relatively harmless formation like Ruburt’s into an arthritic condition.

[...] Indeed, often the more concerned you become with your body the less smoothly it functions. [...]

[...] You are unaware of these buried selves, these buried abilities, these buried creative functions and combinations, and yet in other layers of reality these come to the forefront and you allow these their play and the characteristics that you think of now so securely as your own, these are buried. [...]

[...] Your emotional intent and your belief will direct the functioning of your cells and (emphatically) bring out in them those properties and inherent abilities that will ensure such a condition. [...]

[...] Often they serve temporary functions, leading the personality from other more severe areas of difficulty. [...]

To a lesser degree, you function along these lines in varying roles when you exist simultaneously as a member of a family, a community and a nation and as an artist or writer. [...]

[...] When such abilities as telepathy are used, this function is carried on continually by this other self-conscious part of you. [...]

[...] [In the first essay I wrote that according to her doctor Jane’s thyroid gland has ceased functioning, and that she has to take a substitute hormone daily for the rest of her life. [...]

One small way in which I wanted to begin that quest was for me to teach Jane to write—print, actually—with her left hand, which functions much better now than her right one does. [...]

[...] Daily behavior and chemical functioning smoothly follow according to the belief.

He is extremely strong, open, and giving and spontaneous when he is functioning well. [...]