“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

As a child, you would surprise your elders by performing chores when they were unexpected of you, when they were not demanded. [...]

[...] The idea of performing in such a manner, giving in such a manner or on demand, as if it’s expected of you—this is the difficulty.

But when these qualities are demanded of you, in your mind, or when you believe you must perform them, you become frozen. [...]

[...] You must stop thinking in terms of performance. [...]

[...] His performance is better there. [...] It will show signs, then, more and more of that nature—a sudden, far-better-than-usual performance. [...]

[...] There will be, however—my next forecast (humorously)—sudden excellent performances, usually of an isolated nature, of one portion of the body or another, with a less noticeable but definite continuation of overall improvement.

[...] “I know a magician can duplicate almost any physical manifestation that a psychic can perform. [...]

“That’s why we don’t bother with effects that can be duplicated,” Seth suddenly said, “but with this performance and our books, which cannot be duplicated. [...]

I expect then a concentrated effort to spontaneously accept impulses toward action and immediate performance of the act. [...]

[...] It reassures muscular memory, and again, he can no longer accept himself as someone who cannot perform a certain motion.

[...] There have been people throughout history who mentally performed mathematical feats that appear most astounding, and almost in a matter of moments. [...]

[...] Others have been able, while performing various tasks, to keep a precise count of the moments from any given point in time. [...]

[...] Scientists like to say that animals operate through simple instinctive behavior, without will or volition: It is no accomplishment for a spider to make its web, a beaver its dam, a bird its nest, because according to such reasoning, such creatures cannot perform otherwise. [...]

[...] It should be noted that during this period he did not fall considerably below his usual performance with me in our sessions.

[...] You think it more realistic to expect a continuation of past performance, because you believe that man alone, of all nature, is basically ignorant and unknowing.

[...] No one was trying to run away, and in a way the murderer was performing a service. Any violence or hatred serves a purpose beyond itself, so that man in a way often performs services of which he is not consciously aware.

[...] He asked me to vacuum his room, nonchalantly as if it were taken for granted that I perform the chore. [...]

[...] This is not always an even performance, however. [...] Performance may be uneven in the meantime, however—until finally the most auspicious improvements do indeed become the normal, natural state of affairs. [...]

[...] You are obsessed with sexual behavior when you put tight, unrealistic bans upon its expression, and also when you set up just as unrealistic standards of active performance to which the normal person is expected to comply.

I am not saying here that any given sexual performance is “wrong,” or meaningless, or debased, if it is not accompanied by the sentiments of love and devotion. [...]

[...] He has felt like performing some physical activities—getting the meal today. (Jane’s first in many many months.) The impulse automatically led him to perform physical acts that before he simply would not have done, so desire and impulse mobilize the body.

[...] The answer is that as beneficial, as desirable, as good health is, and the performance of an excellent body, man’s pursuit of other kinds of accomplishment, his equally strong desire for knowledge, and his insatiable curiosity, his pursuit of the ideal, often lead him into pathways that result in the body’s difficulties.

[...] Here the rigid assumptions of normal waking consciousness often fade, and you can find yourself performing those physically rejected activities, never realizing that you have peered into a probable existence of your own.

[...] Before he realizes what is happening, he might actually feel himself leave his home and embark upon those probable actions that physically he has chosen not to perform.

[...] Protestant work ethics do not produce great art, and they can finally undo the good that they have done, by turning all work into a meaningless performance in which the product itself becomes a means to an end, and loses any esthetic value.

[...] A certain amount of time spent assembling a certain product, performing the same motions over and over on an assembly line, will at the end of a certain period give you a certain number of assembled items. [...]

[...] I want him to allow for greater physical spontaneity, to perform a physical act when he feels like it, and for greater psychic and creative spontaneity, both in his working hours and outside them; to concentrate on creativity, not time; for then you use time and it does not use you.

[...] He need not take a walk every day for example, but on faith perform some kind of physical activity that he would if he were physically satisfactory. [...]

[...] However, you must admit that I have put on an excellent performance, and you can expect an even better performance for Ruburt’s publisher when he arrives.

[...] Philip on the other hand is performing no such compensations, except for the one instance of choosing a good-looking wife and therefore permitting himself to treat her kindly.

[...] Your performance is actually very near excellent.

[...] The words that you speak, the acts that you perform, appear to take place in time, as a chair or table appears to take up space. [...]

You may smile and think to yourself that it is quite difficult to imagine a Roman senator addressing the multitudes through a microphone, for example; his children, watching his performance on television. [...]

(11:08.) To the extent, therefore, that you allow the intuitions and knowledge of the multidimensional self to flow through the conscious self, to that extent not only do you perform your role in the play more effectively, but also you add new energy, insights, and creativity to the entire dimension.

[...] The performance didn’t last long, but she seemed to expend a lot of effort in the motions. [...]

Ruburt’s physical performance today should convince you that the doors to normal physical motion are being unlocked. [...]

[...] His illness made performance more difficult, and yet in periods of rest he would start out again expecting to make the same leaps, and so often he did.

[...] Your cells have great expectations on their own, and rejoice to use their abilities and perform their functions.

[...] Nor at this time, given the minimum premise that Jane’s speaking for Seth constitutes any indication of “paranormal” activity, do we think that her performance could be identified as such per se on the graphs of her brain waves. [...]

[...] Here, in a highly creative, disciplined, and yet spontaneous performance, a situation is set up in which knowledge is obtained from the known frequencies, combined so that consciousness can use itself more fully, reaching into many areas closed to one range of consciousness alone. [...]