“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] If I can get Ruburt over his sometimes cussed hardheadedness, his belligerent egotistical blunderings, then he can perform feats that will more than show the validity of my statements. [...]

In this case, I think that Rob projected to the studio, and hallucinated the rest of the events or performed them in the astral body. [...]

(“Can it be performed at will by a medium?”)

Much later, there will be other suggestions for you in which you will direct your sleeping self to perform certain activities, visit certain locations and bring back information. [...]

[...] What do you think of my performance last night?”)

[...] In the dream state your joys and fears talk back to you, perform, and act out the role in which you have cast them.

[...] Seth’s impressions were fairly obvious here: “Connection with a monstrosity, as of a monstrous building … A disturbance … a determination and a disadvantage … an inadequate performance.”

(The outward signs of Jane’s trance performances as Seth are very interesting in themselves, and I don’t intend to minimize them: indeed, I describe them every so often. [...]

[...] I sense you yelling to yourself when you see a male in strong action or performance, I sense you yelling to yourself—I can do that better than you can for I have done it before—again this is reflected in the way you drive your car.

[...] Their spokesman told me that their dead leader had promised them that on his return he would perform one particular feat for which he was known to prove his identity. [...]

[...] (A simile I often think of here compares Eastern and Western life and thought with the right and left hemispheres of the brain; they’re separate, yet united; each half performs functions that complement and to some extent overlap those of the other, and together they operate as a whole.) But we dislike the idea of nirvana in Buddhism and Hinduism, which calls for the extinction or blowing out of individual consciousness, and its absorption into a supreme spirit, usually after a series of lives. [...]

[...] Our appreciation of life has expanded greatly — and if the Seth material did nothing but help us grow in that respect, it would perform a very valuable service. [...]

[...] Its transference is instantaneous on Ruburt’s part, and is performed through the workings of the mind, the inner senses,⁶ and the brain.

(With much good humor:) For all of those who have in their deepest, most sacred thoughts, imagined that to be quiet was good and to be dignified was pious, then such a performance as mine should certainly make them think!

[...] They question not only Valerie’s sincerity and performance but my own, as well. [...]

[...] During those times, however, I was extremely sorry to note that Jane’s physical symptoms—her difficulties “walking” and performing other routine tasks—were obviously becoming much worse.

You perform far more actions in a day than you recall. [...]

[...] I gave up doing so partly because I hesitated to add to her pressure to perform, whether or not the material might be recorded, and partly because, except on rare occasions, she didn’t offer to sing—or to have a session—as she used to spontaneously do in our downtown apartments.

[...] I said it was essential to communicate to her sinful self [so named by Seth for convenience’s sake only] that its performance has been very destructive to Jane, and that it must release its hold. [...]

[...] Betts’s father, Leonard Meeker, who was a Methodist minister, performed the ceremony. [...]