“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

People generally have been taught to play down their own heroism, and to concentrate upon man’s weaknesses, and so your newspapers contain categorized fact upon fact, emphasizing man’s errors and stupidities. [...]

[...] You do not take chances, creatively or any other way, unless you allow your curiosity and exuberance some free play.

(Joan Grant is evidently a well-known English medium, and her husband, Denys Kelsey, a practicing psychiatrist who tells of some remarkable successes in treating patients, while keeping in mind the role reincarnation can play in present “living” personality patterns.

(One thing I would like to explore in these sessions is what effect past-life memories can play in present personality patterns, and my attempt to get Jane to regress a couple of years was a first halting step in this direction, that was not successful. [...]

[...] We thought his comment about the sinful self might have come about through my reading to her earlier today my question to him of last October about what part the sinful self might be playing in her challenges.

The natural person uses creative abilities spontaneously, and those abilities, as I have said often, will show themselves both in the area of Prentice and in the area of Ruburt’s physical condition when you allow them play and leeway. [...]

[...] Patty played two flute solos for us in 330. [...]

[...] I see now that given the lifetime challenges she’s chosen, such thoughts will continue to play a prominent role in the reality Jane is creating for herself:)

[...] As you both suppose, incidentally, the music you played this evening was highly beneficial from several standpoints. [...] As negative suggestions play their part, so do positive suggestions, and both in terms of symbols.

[...] Your mother basically did not share (smile) your father’s love of the out-of-doors, and you played both ends against the middle. [...]

There is no doubt, however, that the bedsores with their problems will dissolve, and almost go unnoticed as they do, if you play down their prominence. [...]

Dictation: There are too many aspects of what you think of as health and illness to discuss even in a book that is directed to personal reality, in which the body plays such an important role.

[...] Overall, however, in the animals illness and disease play a life-giving role, keeping balance both within a species and between them, therefore insuring the future existence of all involved.

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

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

(Jane played a tape of the Sumari session she and Rob had during the week. [...]

[...] While the cat is away the mice will play and the Sumari are the trap. [...]

[...] The Speakers are gifted according to their own characters, some having far more abilities than others, but all playing roles in the communication of inner data. [...]

[...] In some civilizations, as mentioned earlier in this book, they played a much stronger part, practically speaking. [...]

[...] Sometimes we play rock ‘n’ roll music, for instance, while I read a poem—and this I would consider prayer.

[...] Another interesting point: a few years earlier the editor had written two plays—one featuring a monk who lived on the seacoast near Bordeaux, and the other also set in France in the thirteenth century. [...]

[...] There are other dimensions of existence in which we have an even greater part to play in the maintenance of life and consciousness. [...]

[...] This helps to add to our material on the subject, of course, but yet in the entire fabric of the sessions, reincarnation plays a comparatively minor part, as only one aspect of our reality.

[...] On the other hand, it was also triggered by Ruburt’s suggestions, when he playfully (musically almost) imagined himself telling you of significant improvements, without wondering what they would be. [...]

(“How much of a part is Jane’s past-life misuse of her psychic abilities playing in this life?”)

[...] On June 5 I held a two-hour pendulum session of my own, concerning Jane’s symptoms, and received some revealing answers about the role I have played in them. [...]

[...] You did not like the radio station that he played, particularly because it was so unrestrained and noisy and blatant, and this he interpreted as a further restraint. [...]

([Arnold:) “The thought of not being able to do anything violent, as these people were, lead me to think of the opossum, that play opossum when violence appears.” [...]

If you will forgive me for the analogy, imagine that your present self is like a suit of clothing that you have put on, and when you are looking for the nature of reality, imagine that you take this suit of clothing off in the same way that a child discards its clothing before playing in the water in the springtime. [...]

[...] We played badminton today also. [...]

[...] It is a game you play with yourself. [...]

[...] You have been playing around but you have done a very good job of it, and you are on the outskirts, and you all know it, but that is all right. [...]

[...] It is like playing around with the letter ‘A’ without making words of it. [...]

(“A connection with music” can result from the fact that Bill played jazz on a phonograph at his gallery during the exhibition in which I participated last winter; he plays music also at each exhibition he presents.