“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

We had a fascinating session one night, lasting several hours. Not until it was over did I realize what he’d been up to—now that’s a good psychologist! Gene had questioned Seth in what I guess you could call “professional philosophical jargon,” making frequent references to esoteric Eastern theories with which I was totally unfamiliar. Gene has his Ph.D. from the University of Leeds, England, in experimental psychology, and taught at Cambridge. He also had an excellent knowledge of Eastern philosophy and religion. Yet Seth not only took him on, but in some way I still don’t understand, he used Gene’s own terminology and jargon to beat him at his own game—and with humor and grace.

“The probing is necessary. Some games are necessary and always relevant.”

“Isn’t the object to play the game … not to create or probe?”

“You are yourself the game, in those terms.”

“But these distortions are part of the game that Shiva plays.”

“You are playing a game,” Seth admonished.

“Of course. So are you. We say that Shiva is playing a game, and who is Shiva besides yourself?”

“You are indeed playing a game with yourself, but it is not relevant, and it may be irrelevant. But you had better play it reverently.”

“There is a holy irreverence and a flighty irreverence. You are playing a game. They are both one. But you had better be certain that you know this thoroughly.”