“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

One portion of the personality will carry on conscious behavior — go to work, shop, or whatever, while the other portion of the personality will not remember performing those acts at all.

[...] I am speaking of any small, seemingly insignificant action that you perform during an ordinary day, and here we are coming close.

So, comparing the ball to an action, you perceive but the smallest portion of any given action, even one performed by yourself. [...]

[...] You are expecting the outer senses to do something they are not capable of doing, of receiving or performing in a way that is alien to them. [...]

The very fact that you breathe and dream and perform countless other activities without any aid from the conscious ego should of itself convince even the most stubborn scientific skull that more is involved than science is willing to admit. [...]

[...] The mind, having its existence within the scope of the physical field but independent of it, is a much more fruitful subject for study; and not of course study through means of physical instruments or of operations performed. [...]

[...] The ego felt threatened in direct proportion to the strength of the newly felt abilities, and performed a huge trick.

[...] The more that is asked of it the better it will perform, and the greater its own development will become. [...]

It was hardly an accidental performance, however. [...]

[...] to serve or perform some other role...

([Theodore:] “We should desire good health because it makes it possible for us to do something else—to serve or perform some other role—”)

[...] I assume her eyes were at least slitted open for her to perform these tasks, but if so I could not tell. [...]

If man paid more attention to his own subjective behavior, to those feelings of identification with nature that persistently arise, then half of the dictates of both the evolutionists and the creationists would automatically fall away, for they would appear nonsensical.⁴ It is not a matter of outlining a whole new series of methods that will allow you to increase your psychic abilities, or to remember your dreams, or to perform out-of-body gymnastics. [...]

At any given time, then, he may not feel it right to relax, because he has thus-and-thus a chore to perform, or because of the hour, or for any other reasons that will all serve to hide the fact that he is afraid of relaxing. [...]

[...] He felt guilty at turning down the yoga classes, yet he felt that to match your performance he was expected to work five afternoons. [...]

[...] And yet I will tell you, that as a frivolous female who loved to play with a ball in the bright afternoon and had no chores to perform, seemingly an idle life and seemingly a quite useless personality .... [...]

These were interruptions, and because of your attitudes you thought of them as troublesome interruptions: surely you would have sailed through your work otherwise, or performed chores that you wanted to accomplish; and so because you still do not really understand the effectiveness of Framework 2, those visits added to your sense of concern and hassles with time. [...]

[...] And yet I will tell you, that as a frivolous female who loved to play with a ball in the bright afternoon and had no chores to perform, seemingly an idle life and seemingly a quite useless personality—I was not burdened with intellect—and yet in that one particular life I learned more about the nature of spontaneity and joy than in many of my ponderous intellectual existences. [...]

Your body can now perform better—that should be used as a morning and evening suggestion, and anything you can say will be of help in that regard. [...]

[...] All of these help break the negative projections, and are already proof physically of inside willingness that is then physically materialized for him to see—in terms of physical performance that he can judge.

[...] The spider has no intellect or outer ego, and his manipulations are the direct result of activities performed by pure and spontaneous use of the inner senses. [...]

(Now Jane, as Seth, began a most entertaining performance. [...]

[...] In some of the dreams he is surprised that he can perform so well. [...]