“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Ruburt has always taken it for granted that his organs functioned well, the living organs upon which survival is dependent. [...]

[...] Not in such a manner that illness would result therein, or, say, diseased organs, but only so far as function was concerned.

[...] When for example the ego is allowed to apply too tightly and too rigorously its inhibitory functions, then this freedom of action within the personality is seriously divided and impeded.

It can however be taught a very valuable function here. [...]

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

[...] This part receives inner data, is in contact with the entity, to some greater degree than you are in contact with your dreams, and actually directs all the important functions that you think are either automatically controlled, or unconsciously controlled.

When such abilities as telepathy occur, this telepathic function is carried on continually by this other self-conscious part of you, but as a rule you act upon such data without the knowledge of the conscious self with which you are familiar. [...]

Your very physical existence itself is dependent upon the smooth functioning of many spontaneous processes. [...]

Your living spaces should be divided as to function. [...]

The inner senses, though I have in the past described them by separating their functions and characteristics, basically operate together in such a way that in your terms it would be highly difficult to separate one from the others. They function with a perfect spontaneous order, aware of all synchronicities. [...]

[...] It does not exist, then—the genetic structure—like some highly complicated mechanism already programmed, started and functioning “blindly,” so that once it is set into operation there is no chance for modification.

[...] (Jean Baptiste de Monet de Lamarck [1744–1829] was a French naturalist who advocated that certain modifications of an organism’s structure and function could develop in response to environmental factors, and that these “acquired characters” could be inherited. [...]

[...] He did not believe that strongly in the creative function of his own being, and in the natural abundance of life itself. [...]

[...] Nevertheless his creative functions continued. [...]

[...] The specialized development of animal life led to and brought about specialization of function. [...]

[...] If it is poor, the sleep is poor, and the inner intuitions denied their therapeutic functions.

The official line does have its role, of course — but once again, by itself it must remain isolated from the deep, creative, healing functions of body consciousness. [...]

[...] It’s ultimately the only way I can function creatively on a day-by-day basis. [...]

[...] I know you are waiting to hear more about your own particular function, but remember we are still condemned to the use of words, and Ruburt can only say so much at a time.

[...] He has an inner sense of order which may not be apparent, and a strong feeling for what he considers sacred or private functions.

[...] However he will get along fine if the main room is released from so many various functions.

[...] In Ruburt’s case, we are still dealing with functioning—impaired functioning—rather than genetic results. [...]

[...] These unconscious portions of your being operate amazingly well, frequently despite the greatest misunderstanding on your part of their nature and function, and in the face of strong interference from you because of your beliefs.

[...] If you believe that the inner self works against you rather than for you, then you hamper its functioning — or rather, you force it to behave in a certain way because of your beliefs.

Birth and death then have their function, intensifying and focusing your attention. [...]

(Note: I certainly do want to function as an artist into advanced old age....)

[...] All other portions of the self were pared down so that the writer, he thought, could function better.

[...] All of us certainly were more than happy with some of his contributions—simply those revolving around camping, for example—while misunderstanding or missing out upon many other facets of his life, and our own individual lives as they functioned within the family framework. [...]

[...] But the spacious mind operates through your creaturehood; in your terms it represents latent abilities of consciousness that can be more or less normal functions.

[...] To utilize future probable events, the physical brain would be forced to enlarge its function while keeping the individual in clear relationship with the present moment of power, or corporeal effectiveness. [...]