“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Now. The difficulty is this, and I say this to all of you. You have forgotten how to play! You have forgotten how to be spontaneous! You have become lost in intellectual mazes!

You would do much better if your attitude followed thusly: I am in such a position that my seriousness has given me no benefits. My imagination has brought me fear. And I seem to be in a prison. All my hard work has brought me nowhere, and therefore I shall change my tactics and I shall play. I do not care, for I am playing, which game I try first. So today I shall call up and make an appointment immediately as a teacher and I shall pretend with all my might that I am an excellent teacher. And today I shall be a teacher as no teacher ever was! And I will think of all those students that I do not know yet and how I can help them and what fun it shall be! And so I shall call up and make this appointment. And it does not make any great difference whether I get this particular job or not—for if I do not get it, tomorrow I shall be an artist. And I shall call up and make an appointment as an artist—but I shall be free in whatever I do—and spontaneous.

Now our friend here has been playing as a banker for years, and he knows it is a fine game. But his identity is not dependent upon it, and neither should your identity be dependent, you see.

Indeed in joy, for I play at being Seth, in joy, for I am many others as you are many others. And as I have said often, the portion of me that you know in this room is a certain portion of my personality from those personality banks that are mine. It is my present currency with you all; the picture that I now portray.