“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] If you had a snapshot of a month ago to compare his present performance with, you would see the difference. [...]

[...] I am not going to run around in circles, perform tricks, move rings, throw rocks and so forth. This material is legitimate, speaks for itself, and I will not embellish an otherwise sensible and excellent performance with circus tactics to impress those who will not be impressed under any circumstances.

[...] However on a few occasions I have been involved, to my utter horror, on the other end of such performances. [...]

[...] You enjoyed doing comics with outdoor scenes: animals in motion, the body performing. As an audience watches a sportsman perform, so those who read the comics watched your characters perform in action across the page. [...]

The conscious mind can direct bodily activity (long pause), but the body consciousness alone can perform those activites that bring forth life and motion.

[...] On the one hand there was the Seth material itself, and Seth’s performance in his books.

[...] Life does not perform on demand.

A suggestion like: “If you go swimming too soon after lunch, you will drown,” is extremely dangerous, for it predicts behavior of a disastrous nature that would follow almost automatically after the first act is performed. [...]

There is much I will say at a later date, having to do with Ruburt’s truly idiotic performance in visiting the supposed medium in your town.

[...] I was not pleased with that performance.

Nevertheless, I did not do so, and I feel duty bound to mention the fact that Ruburt’s performance was dishonest, and there was no good reason for it. [...]

[...] They were enunciated in Seth’s own peculiarly accented tones; accompanied by gestures in a living performance that I hope the reader will keep in mind.

[...] And yet I feel that only a portion of his consciousness is here during sessions — the part expressed through me — so that whatever the nature of Seth’s native experience, his performance in our world only hints of a psychological complexity quite beyond our present understanding.

There is hardly any danger of that possibility, however, since it would be nearly impossible to perform such a task even with the most developed of technologies — and indeed, the very attempt to do so might well immediately trigger a response on the part of the whole genetic system, so that new divergences appeared with even greater frequency, as compensation.

[...] Yet now it seemed that even beneath that scattered performance Jane’s psyche had felt stronger ties of some kind — at least with Del, if not with her mother — than either of us had suspected; that at least some part of her had sensed a sort of biological or creature loss upon the death of a blood relative. [...]

[...] (Long pause.) With the latest developments in medical technology, there are all kinds of heart operations that can be performed, even the use of heart transplants. [...]

[...] I was amazed and delighted at the smooth, effortless way my body was performing as I ran, especially for one my age. [...]

I expect (to Sue and Ned) some greater performance from you two now. [...]

[...] This forces overstimulations during the night, increasing the body’s work, making it perform continuously over an extended time physical purifications that ideally would be taken care of in briefer periods of rest. [...]

[...] She spoke while looking casually ahead for the most part, and performed such ordinary chores as putting out her cigarette, sipping from a glass of wine, sometimes rocking back and forth, etc.)

These cannot be recounted, again, in one evening; nor would such a performance serve any purpose at this time; listed, so to speak. [...]

[...] Though I certainly appreciate your interpretation, Joseph, as far as my comment on the lively arts is concerned, nevertheless though I enjoyed Jane’s little performance that is not what I was referring to. [...]

[...] The transference of my data is automatic and instantaneous on Ruburt’s part and is performed through the inner workings of the mind, the inner senses and the brain.

In this way you charge your present personalities with subconscious material that will insure your good performance. [...]

It hurt him of course to perform the up and down motions particularly, and he interpreted this to mean that you wanted him to torture and humiliate his body further by forcing it to feel the pain, and that in doing so he was punishing it further. [...]

[...] To use this energy in private sessions was all right because it was a joint performance, a private one, and you both directly benefited.

[...] But their performances show you what the body is capable of.

[...] Under such conditions the body can perform tasks and often maneuver with an amazing sense of balance. [...]

It is equipped, as an animal is, to perform beautifully in its environment. [...]

[...] Some of you might be able to do the exercise while performing a more or less automatic series of actions — but do not try to carry it out while driving your car, for example.

The performance of a great athlete gives evidence of abilities inherent in the human form that are little used. [...]