“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] He must allow himself greater freedom creatively, in a playful manner, forgetting all thoughts “at the time” of time.

The library takes little time, but he should turn his focus more toward his timeless encounters, and toward the playfulness of his creative and psychic abilities.

[...] He loves the pursuit of truth for its own sake, and the pursuit of truth is basically a playful creative endeavor, in which children indulge all the time.

When you mentioned his ink sketches, he instantly wanted to play at painting again, but felt, guiltily, that he should not. [...]

Seven was available, for Ruburt did realize that Seven represented legitimate playful, spontaneous and creative elements that he often inhibited. [...]

1. Picture a stack of cards comparable in size, let us say, to playing cards and stacked two or three feet high. [...]

[...] It is an attempt to play down his presence, to be the absent leader—and in this, again, you heartily concurred. You also played down your own leadership role, while of course maintaining it, and the two of you operate as a team now as you did then.

[...] Women had no part to play. [...]

[...] He also played down physical abilities, for toward the end of that life he became hungry for knowledge, and wondered at his own unbridled use of power.

[...] If play acting was involved, Jane said later, it was on a completely subconscious level where she would possess no egotistical knowledge that such was transpiring.

[...] After the session we wondered what part Jane’s knowledge of the circumstances of Blanche’s final days might have played here.

Now all of you, in your own way and even you (Nadine), have begun to be familiar enough with concepts so that in your dream states and in some of your conscious states you are beginning to play around with them, and so we are in a new playground. [...]

[...] And your reaction is a surface one, and you are playing with it, and you know it well. [...]

Now if you take any number of layers of consciousness and layer them in this manner, you should realize that each of them has adjacent levels of consciousness on either side, so to speak, so that it is not simply a matter of going up and down as if you were playing with scales. [...]

[...] I want him, again, to try and sense the natural rhythms within him, of work and play, to continue his notes, to write for now four hours a day, with one hour for poetry, to think of the ideas of his book instead of thinking about the contracts, or of a book as a book, or as work as work; and tune into the library. [...]

[...] With some sense of freedom and play, both of you can combine high qualities of intuitional and intellectual abilities so that they sometimes merge into a higher mind.

[...] When you think of Framework 2, do so playfully. [...]

“That is for you to play with!” Seth replied. “To play with as you spook out the universe that spooks you out in return. [...]

[...] It is a unit of consciousness ever itself and inviolate while still free to form other organizations, enter other combinations in which all other units also decide to play a part. [...]

[...] So there are different organizations of identity in which you play a part.

(Seth’s reference to the members of ESP class concerned the part many of them have begun playing in helping us answer the mail. [...]

[...] Afterward we played the tape of the psychic reading a friend had sent us last September. [...]

[...] I told Jane part of that value lay in the fact that we waited until now to play it, when she has decided to try to uncover her own causes and effects. [...]

[...] When they are not fun, creative play, joyful wonder, then they will no longer serve their purpose. [...]

Tell him immediately about my suggestion, for he has played around with the idea but not initiated it—the schedule is what I am speaking about here.

[...] (Pause.) Now you played an instrument in which these fingers were valuable, and you were no longer able to play the instrument after the accident. Therefore you took on a helper, who played for you while you sang.

[...] The warning points in particular to young people, showing in capsule form and in exaggerated horror the ultimate ends of such fanaticism when it is allowed to play itself out.

[...] Be more playful in your lives.

Give us a moment, then… Imagination also plays an important part in your subjective life, as it gives mobility to your beliefs. [...]

(According to him, tonight’s session after 9:52 isn’t book material either, but Jane and I are presenting it here because in it Seth returns to questions I’d asked earlier in Mass Events: What about the roles played in human affairs by viruses like smallpox? [...]

Many adults, sensing their own abilities in one field or another, deliberately play down those abilities because they are afraid of standing out from “the masses” — or they are afraid they will be attacked by their peers. [...]

[...] The “parasite,” or virus, plays its part in setting up such a psychologically-desired position. [...]

[...] Playfully now, for the relaxation and joy of doing it, let yourselves imagine the things you want to do, as a creative game, because of the intrinsic pleasure involved but without Ruburt expecting, or rather demanding, instantaneous results.

[...] And have a more playful attitude, both of you. [...]

[...] Each of my readers plays a game in which the egotistical conscious self pretends not to know what the whole self definitely does know. [...]

Now: Remember in your portrait the sense of play, and a light hand. [...]

[...] We played part of the 170th session, which was recorded and directed by Seth to Dr. Instream. [...]

[...] The Taylor’s cat began playing with our cat, Willy, and we had no trouble steering the conversation into safer channels. [...]