“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] Poetry and painting were both functional in ways that I will describe in our next book (humorously, elaborately casual), and “esthetic.” [...] The original functions of art—meaning poetry and painting here specifically—have been largely forgotten. [...]

At more mundane levels the same kind of problem arises when art is considered according to its utility, function, or social value—as opposed to the idea of art for its own sake. [...]

[...] Ruburt was involved in a process when he initiated the symptoms, in which certain highly specific areas were directly affected, and their function impaired. [...]

[...] Certain alternate muscular cooperations were set up that served to keep overall muscular functions going, and kept the body walking under impaired conditions. [...]

[...] There are still some, however, newly activated, that are not yet functioning properly. [...]

The functions of hormones and chemicals, and of adrenal processes in particular, would function with far greater effectiveness with these alternating periods of activities as I have mentioned. [...]

[...] The seeming great division between the waking and the sleeping self is largely a result of the division in function, the two being largely separated — a block of time being allotted to the one, and a larger block of time to the other. [...]

[...] So while the body is well equipped to heal itself, and to maintain its own equilibrium, it is also highly responsive to other issues that are of a different nature and beyond the realm of its own functions.

[...] Functionally, as the muscles release, balance in the legs must still be maintained. [...]

[...] The object seems to have a purpose or function connected with a desk. [...]

[...] An enlightened position would be somewhat different, for a reasonably free individual will automatically want to aid his fellow man, and you will have a society of individuals fully functioning, and that would mean you would have fully functioning social organizations.

[...] As early man functioned on his own, without writing or any of the other modern conveniences of communication that we have, so does Jane function through Seth. [...]

[...] In a fashion, again, Helper represents the true capacity of the mind’s functioning, the kind of instant comprehension that is behind both the intuitions and the intellect’s activities. [...]

[...] They do not trust the natural functioning of their bodies, or accept this functioning as a gift of life. [...]

[...] Creative function is related to the dream state. [...]

[...] This portion is aware of the complicated workings of the nervous system and all bodily functions. [...]

[...] It functions constantly, and yet it is always in a state of becoming. [...]

[...] Your subconscious controls all the vital processes and functions of your body. [...]

The activity can result, again, in unevenness of function at times, and it is precisely here where his trust is important. [...]

(11:15.) There is nothing wrong, even with the muscles or the joints, organically, but a functional disturbance. [...]

[...] When you eat a piece of bread, your subconscious transmutes it into tissue, muscle, bone and blood Your subconscious controls all the vital processes and functions of your body. [...]

Those activities are also tied up with the workings of the eye muscles, and also with the functioning of the sinuses. [...]

He functions in a nightly dream world in the same fashion, and only when or if you begin to distrust dreams do you hesitate or falter, or feel afraid to move, and also feel as if you are caught in a nightmare. [...]

[...] Once again, I was amazed that she could function in such a capacity under present conditions. [...]

Now: Your documentary rather neatly shows two portions of the world’s mind operating at odds, rather than in complementary ways—almost as if they were surgically separated, or somehow functionally impaired, as in many ways they have been through misunderstandings throughout the years. [...]

Both portions of this world mind, or world brain, therefore, operate in exaggerated fashions, so that their own characteristics are almost caricatured, untempered as it were by other portions, as if perhaps in an individual the left and right portions of the brain were artificially functionally separated. [...]

I’ve rejected all that kind of hash projected onto Seth’s books by others or myself—the assumptions that Seth must prove himself as a problem solver— or the importance of functionalism over art. [...]

They have a purpose — that function they provide within the organism as a whole. [...]