“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] The creative self is playful and spontaneous. [...]

In lovemaking, when you forget yourselves to some extent, spontaneity is also aroused, and the healing processes brought into play through the touch of hand and caresses. [...]

[...] He played the harmonica as a sailor. [...]

[...] Seth’s material had reminded Jane that several times in the past she’d had the experience of hearing music when none was to be heard—that is, no radios were playing within range, etc. [...] And usually she would realize that it had been “playing” for some time as she went about her duties before she became aware of it consciously. [...]

[...] Perhaps I shall play tricks on it. Perhaps I shall play tricks on you.

[...] Let it be done in a playful manner, however.

[...] Dreams are mental work and play combined, psychic and emotional rich creative dramas. They also involve you in the most productive of enterprises as you begin to play with versions of events that are being considered for physical actualization, as on a personal level you “view” the probable events which your family, tribe, organization, community and country will actualize.

In your terms, there is a great pleasure to be found in both work and play, in excitement and calm, in exertion and rest (long pause), yet the word “pleasure” itself has often fallen into disrepute, and is frowned at by the virtuous.

The cataloging of separate races simply involves you in organizations of variances played upon a common theme—variances that you have used for various purposes. [...]

[...] But man is no robot, and each so-called genetic defect has an internal part to play in the entire picture of genetic reality. [...]

Over the centuries, in our terms, there have been numerous religious and secular (or worldly or nonreligious) consciousnesses at work and play in the Middle East. [...]

As I explained earlier, the lives or the plays are happening at once. [...]

[...] I do not expect you to play tricks with it, but I do hope you will realize that you can use it as a flashlight—that you can turn it in different directions. [...]

Earlier, when this latest group of sessions began, he could not have played badminton, much less taken that trip. [...]

(The balance of the session was material Seth delivered to be played for Pat’s high-school class of exceptional students, and is, we think, excellent. [...]

([Claire:] “Will Bill Macdonnel be playing any part in my life?”)

[...] He is playing a part in bringing the message to the people initially in several aspects, in as undistorted a fashion as possible.

(9:25.) Each of you are playing parts that you accepted. [...]

[...] The whole construction is like an educational play in which you are the producers as well as the actors. There is a play within a play within a play. [...]

The belief that a given problem cannot be solved can cause much difficulty, unless you freely and consciously give it up; particularly when inner organs are affected, this point plays a strong part. [...]

[...] At this point you will understand the fact that the play, while seeming quite real, is to a certain extent hallucinatory. If you prefer, you can clear the stage at once by saying, “I do not like this play, and so I will create it no longer.” You may then find yourself facing an empty stage, become momentarily disoriented at the sudden lack of activity, and promptly begin to form another dream play more to your liking.

[...] I don’t think those events directly led Seth into beginning his new material, but in retrospect Jane and I agree that they certainly played some considerable part in establishing a foundation, or impetus, for such a development.

[...] You can observe the play, take a role in it, or move in and out of its acts as you prefer. [...]

(To Theodore.) It was your own exuberant energy and not my own, your group energy, that played the tricks with the fire. [...]

(To Theodore.) Now, I simply came to let you know that I was in on your conversation, and because I did not want to have you think that I played your little trick and rob you of the pleasure of realizing that you did it for yourselves. [...]

And now after our new friends see what a playful personality I am with a sermon like that, I will let you take your break. [...]

There are many later-appended references in the Bible, such as the fig tree story, in which nature is played down. [...]

[...] The exquisite play of your own inner nature in general — and that identification leads you into the deeper knowledge of your own part in nature’s source.

[...] Many illnesses are cured, then, through quite natural methods that not only involve physical healings, but bring into play other events — events that have great bearing on the psychological elements that may be involved behind the scenes. [...]

[...] No cat says “I must hold my backside in such and such a fashion or I must play with catnip.” [...] Let there be play. [...]

[...] But then people who spook out the universe usually find secret and hidden corners where they can play and work to their heart’s content.

[...] All of this is done playfully, and yet emerges with the greatest display of order and design.

[...] He played the harmonica as a sailor. [...]

[...] We’d seen raccoons playing in the tree a few times, and Floyd, who lives on a farm, sees them often. [...]

There are decisions in which each individual plays a part that are made in fields of activity that you usually do not even realize exist. [...]