“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

This actual gathering up of prime vitality for the purpose of physical construction is not however truly automatic, and it is not truly performed unconsciously. [...]

[...] In periods of great physical stress it draws upon the powers of the body and inner self to perform remarkable feats of heroism — that leave it wondering afterward at the power and energy of the self in crisis.

[...] The increase followed the positive results of a blood test the doctor had ordered a few days previously: A hospital technician had come to our hill house to draw blood from Jane—performing a “phlebotomy service.” [...]

[...] My thought at the moment is that more expression on Jane’s part will free the conscientious-self to perform its own balanced role, and to actually retreat in doing so. [...]

[...] He studies it, worries about keeping up what he sometimes thinks of his fine performance, and could end up by ruining mine.

They do achieve value fulfillment, however, and within the limits set by their own abilities they also perform the duties of construction. [...]

The ego to some large extent, you see, has extended its functions and performance. [...]

[...] The instruments will be designed to catch certain camouflages and since they are expertly thought out they will perform their function.

[...] For a beginner it was quite a performance. [...]

You may have taken the word down wrong but your performance has certainly been excellent irregardless. [...]

[...] The “inner” body can perform in ways that the physical body cannot, and you can use that as a challenge. [...]

[...] But it never fails, as “they” say: The members of each “pressure group,” whatever its orientation, want to see things their way — very human performances, I’m afraid. [...]

[...] Being so ignorant, how does it perform so well?

If it were scientifically inclined, the body would know that such spontaneous performance was impossible, for science cannot explain the reality of life itself in its present form, much less its origins. [...]

He attended an affair with an upstanding audience, an audience who stood up to applaud at the end of the performance. [...]

[...] This capacity, being a part of the generalized consciousness, or what you would call the subconsciousness, therefore performs its function without egotistical awareness or comprehension.

(There were clear-cut connections between her creative performance today and her reception of the outline for The Way Toward Health last March; see the notes at 10:45, as well as Note 8, for Session 713; and in Volume 1, see Appendix 7. But there was even more creative expression to come through Jane this evening, not only in the session itself of course, but after it, as I try to explain in the concluding notes.

(As stated earlier, the sounding out was quite subtle as performed by Mr. McKeown and the other official, the tall thin man. [...]

[...] But as I wrote in introducing Volume 1, whatever comments I make along the way will explain Jane’s trance performances from my view, as best I can offer them — her behavior while she’s “under,” the varied, powerful or muted use of her voice as she speaks for Seth, her stamina and humor in sessions, the speed or slowness of her delivery. [...]

(I might add here that this is the first time I remember that while in the state I attempted to deliberately perform a physical act. [...]

[...] It is only because you think they are that you find this sort of performance so strange. [...]

[...] He works best on a job when he is more or less left alone, in charge of given functions to perform, as when he acted as salesman. [...]