“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

You can know what happened in the past and have histories, because according to the rules of the game that you accepted, you believe that the past, but not the future, can be perceived. You could have histories of the future in the present, if the rules of the game were different. [...]

(Long pause at 11:11.) In other levels of reality, the rules of the game change. [...]

[...] I suggest a game. [...]

[...] Come on, it’s only a game, see what you can do.” [...]

There are publishing games also, and you do not play these. If you play those games and do poorly, you at least have a right to shout “foul” now and then—and I will tell you something: Prentice looks out for your interests in the person of John (Nelson) far more than you give him credit for. [...]

[...] You avoid “the wild psychic world” of cults, semicults, and so forth, and above all you are individualists who do not play according to game rules.

[...] You do not, however, through your attitudes play the kind of game that is necessary.

[...] The whole thing should be done with a mental lightness, more as if it were a children’s game, and he must remember this for it is the whole point of the procedure.

[...] Indulge in a spontaneous childlike game. [...]

[...] It knows more than you about the game. [...]

[...] When you abruptly change your beliefs, then in the group you no longer have the same position — you are not playing that game any longer.

[...] I told you (in the 619th session) to imagine a game in which you see yourself acting in line with the new desired belief. [...]

[...] Children often frighten themselves on purpose through games, knowing the game’s framework all the time. [...]

The rules of physics are no more than gentlemen’s rules of the game but the firewalker plays a different game, with different rules, and they work also.

[...] I would like to make one point here, however — that often psychoanalysis is simply a game of hide-and-seek, in which you continue to relinquish responsibility for your actions and reality and assign the basic cause to some area of the psyche, hidden in a dark forest of the past. [...] So you play that game.

[...] Games and playgrounds figure prominently in chapter five of Jane’s dream book; the envelope object is the first page from chapter five. [...] In both waking life and the recurring dream, games such as Jungle Gyms played a leading role.

[...] Perhaps a game connection.” [...]

(In the previous session, the 257th, the four dreams and their originators are discussed under the impression on page 150, “Connection with four people…” “Perhaps a game connection.” [...]

(The second game of the World Series started at 8:30 — I think — tonight, although I hardly glanced at it on television as we made ready for the session; the set went off after the first [scoreless] inning anyhow. [...]

A dear and cozy good evening to you in your sweet house — with (amused) the baseball game ahead of you, and all of the loving paraphernalia that is so specific in your space and time.

Familiar images become imprinted, as your television games can be imprinted upon your TV screen.

[...] (Jane pointed to John for emphasis.) Now this is your game. You will be changing the rules, but you had better be sure that you play the game for all that it is worth, and use your best abilities, for it is your vehicle for self-expression and creativity.

There will be a game of checkers and you will jump a spot if you care to do so. [...]

[...] You might surprise yourself, and find yourself as delighted as a child with a new game.

[...] Instead you display whatever mask you feel is required, which is after all another part of the social game that you always play. [...]

[...] On the one hand he knows that he is involved in a façade, playing a game, pretending to be mad. On the other hand, the game itself is becoming too real, getting out of hand, and it has prevented him from learning ordinary skills, say, which seem to be mundane and too ordinary and beneath him. [...]

[...] I’d be sitting in my chair and taking a nap during part of the game anyhow.)

You are playing games now, acting in plays that you call present times and you take your roles very seriously, but there are other dramas going on at the same time. [...]

[...] Do we really have to play complicated games, and if so, why?”)

You do not have to play complicated games. [...]

Make up certain games in your lovemaking. [...]

He is quite able to follow in these games, even to initiate them. [...]

[...] That is, not here (Jane held the envelope up, shaking it, her eyes still closed) but connected with what is here; as a children’s game. [...]

[...] as a children’s game,” is quite interesting to us, and we believe a good example of the way associative memory can work while also being accurate. [...]