“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] There are indeed psychological frameworks that operate in communications such as ours, and I shall attempt to explain their function and composition.

What seemed to be a time of most uncomfortable and unhappy circumstance was indeed a re-evaluation and adjustment, most necessary if the personality were to continue to function as a strongly creative effective individual.

[...] (With emphasis:) Very natural functions of the conscious mind, therefore, were assigned to the “underground” and cut off from normal use.

Now: You also drew upon some knowledge, Joseph, from past experience in our demonstration, when in your final illness motor function was impaired. [...]

[...] The chemical, biological, electrical and psychic functions of the self are directly connected to the physical universe as a whole. [...]

[...] All this time I felt completely weightless, unable to function in the physical world. [...]

[...] Ruburt has been trying too hard lately with psychological time, and trying to make his subconscious function and focus, in the same manner that the conscious mind does.

My first example concerns the development of biofeedback machines in the 1960’s. With one of these devices the individual was to learn to control, when necessary, his or her own blood pressure, or any of certain other involuntary body functions. [...]

[...] Otherwise the ego is left behind, unable to perform, as a rule now, its primary functions. [...]

[...] “It” may not be entirely satisfactory either, but Jane and I didn’t question Seth about it: We prefer that designation because it encompasses any kind of sexual orientation and/or function within All That Is. [...]

[...] He will adopt the female role, which is more natural to his personality, and be more at ease with creative functions at the spontaneous level. [...]

[...] We say that a certain gene contains the instructions for the manufacture of a certain protein the body uses in the construction or function of an eye, for instance, and that in expressing that code the gene passes on characteristics inherited from physical ancestors—but is that endowment influenced or directed in any fashion by reincarnational attributes as well? [...]

In the first essay I described how Dr. Mandali had told Jane that her thyroid gland had “simply ceased functioning,” and how the doctor had started to cautiously rejuvenate my wife’s endocrine system with 50 micrograms daily of a synthetic thyroid hormone. [...]

[...] Poetry and painting were both functional in ways that I will describe in our next book (humorously, elaborately casual), and “esthetic,” but poetry and painting have always involved primarily man’s attempt to understand himself and his world. The original functions of art—meaning poetry and painting here specifically—have been largely forgotten. [...]

Mental enzymes belong to the mind rather than the brain, although they function through both and use chemical properties of the physical body in their operation.

[...] You are kept alive as you listen to me and yet you do not understand what keeps your body alive and functioning. [...]

[...] I hope to illustrate the function of consciousness and personality through writing this book and enlarging your concepts.

[...] For next I wonder how the human creature, whose bodily components each possess such a ceaseless, rational integrity, can often function so irrationally as a whole, through the creation of war, poverty, pollution, disease, and so forth. [...]

Philip should not stray from the medical field, although for various reasons he would not function well as a physician. [...]

[...] Now we wonder how we managed to function effectively without all the knowledge about ourselves that we’ve received from Seth through the years.

The trouble is that the instruments will be designed to catch certain camouflages, and they will perform their function. [...]