“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

You are playing games with yourselves. You are using your mind, but you are not using it correctly. You are using it to mask the true questions. You are setting up a game of checkers—one part of you is playing one game and another is playing another game. And I will have more to say to you.

You operate in accordance with these truths whether you realize it or not. It is not enough to listen—you must look within yourself. It is not enough to play games. It is not enough to squint at yourself—to look at one motivation—to accept partially.

Now I come to you often with playful characteristics—like a benign bishop who comes for a cup of tea and discusses realities with you. I come complete with characteristics that you can understand. I come complete with human characteristics to which you can relate and you can smile usually when I am here and smile when I am gone. But you must understand that they are the characteristics that I show you—there are other realities of personality and identity that are mine—just as there are other realities within your own personalities and you cannot laugh these away. You are but symbols of yourselves. I can tell you how to meet your own identities, and I have told you, but no one can make you look into yourselves. I can look within you and beyond you into the selves that you really are. I can see your potentials and your abilities and your promise—and you could see your own potentials and promise if you would open your inner eyes, if you would look within yourselves.

Now you (Florence) have your kindergarten class. Your children play with wooden blocks and they make houses. You play with mental blocks and you make worlds. You encourage your children in their creativity, and when they make errors and when you see that their houses will not stand, you do not kick the blocks aside in ire. You try, instead, to explain how the blocks must be placed one upon the other, or you smile at their childish efforts.

We have been playing games for you, using pretty colors. The pretty colors that we have used have been good, they have caught your attention—as my personality captures your attention. But reality is far more than the children’s blocks and the houses that they build in kindergarten.

Think of all the techniques that you use when you are teaching—the visual aids, the play principles. And then try to understand what I have been doing in this class. For we are taking, now, some steps forward. And you must take steps forward.