“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

A cat playfully killing a mouse and eating it is not evil. [...]

[...] She played with it in the grass; with conflicting feelings I watched Mitzi, of whom I was very fond, block off each attempt of the terrified mouse to escape — until finally, having had her sport, she ate it….

[...] Speaking simply, some of us are able to hold intact the nature of our own identities while following patterns of probable realities in which we also play a part.

[...] Such role-playing could be studied as an attribute of certain families of consciousness.

[...] At unconscious levels the results were known, and the seeming accident was a planned event—a play ready to happen when all parties involved found the circumstances apt.

[...] They begin to play new notes of consciousness that change reality to whatever degree from the inside out.

[...] You are playing with your intellect. [...]

[...] We shall watch it play: and you are proud of it. [...]

[...] Jane is too concerned with bodily improvements, as Seth suggests, and we are still lax in playing badminton daily.)

[...] At times it has seemed at best Pollyanna, even to you, in the face of Ruburt’s daily situation, and your intimate experience with it, to pretend playfully that it did not exist.

[...] She wanted to record it and play it for the college class.

Then Seth addressed the members of the college class for whom the recording would be played. [...]

[...] My student played the tape during her next college class, and since it ran longer than the allotted time, the psychology professor and some of the students went to her house later to hear the whole tape and discuss it.

[...] So tell Ruburt not to judge himself too harshly, and in all of this have him try to remember his sense of play….”

[...] It is play in the highest sense of the term, and it is always alive with motion. [...]

[...] As I typed his material I was reminded of the notes I wrote and played with the other day:

[...] There was more than a little irony in the situation, for I was the one who’d told her flat out, back in July 1975, that she was going to start Psyche, just so that she’d have a Seth book to play with. [...]

So when you do become discouraged, a playful diversion should give you refreshing release. [...]

(Pause at 11:23.) Quite deliberately you use your conscious mind playfully, creating a game as children do, in which for a time you completely ignore what seems to be in physical terms and “pretend” that what you really want is real.

[...] If you are ill, imagine playfully that you are cured. [...]

[...] The highly personal involvement, the work and play involved in helping the idea “out,” all make the poem mine.

[...] Seth may be a dramatization playing a very real role — explaining his greater reality in the only terms we can understand. [...]

“This may be the kind of play in which the ‘gods’ indulge, from which creations grow, sprawling out in all directions. [...]

(In short, Jane, the right leg is evidently to play a central role in your recovery — not only a physical one, but a vital one concerning changes in belief about the whole thing. [...]

[...] Certainly people experienced disease long before those conflicting beliefs began — but again, that is because of the part that disease states play in the overall health of individuals and of the world.

[...] (Pause.) The heavy hydrogen molecules had a large part to play in the birth of that system. [...]

[...] They play the part of the blessed inner self that actually cannot operate within physical reality uncloaked by flesh. [...]

[...] Such a period might include a training period, for example, where piano lessons might have to be taken before a concerto can be played. [...]

Even then, however, the enjoyment of the act—in that case playing the piano—is paramount. [...]

I will, then, begin with a short treatise concerning the importance of expectation, not only in the construction of physical objects from inner data, but also in the importance played by expectation in the actual sifting of inner data that is received, and in the importance of expectation in the interpretation of inner data after the sifting process has been carried about.

This is extremely valuable information, particularly concerning the part played by expectation in the sifting of available data. [...]

[...] I see you playing in the church, mimicking the priest and playing with the vestments. [...]

[...] We ate, played cards, and periodically checked the water level. [...]

[...] A child has been told not to play with a doll. [...]

[...] The events may be used in any way the individual chooses; altered, played back the way they happened for contrast; the way, perhaps, an actor would play an old movie in which he appeared over again in order to study it. [...]