“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] Oftentimes four or five individuals will set themselves a given challenge, and assign to the various members different parts to play. [...]

This does not mean that every one in your present acquaintanceship has been known to you, and it certainly does not imply a boring record played over and over again, for each encounter is a new one in its own way. [...]

You are willing counterparts (see the 721st session) of each other, and have been in your terms before — each playing out “opposite” aspects of each other, yet merging for common purposes and goals.

5. In Volume 1 Seth described the role a nonphysical Stella Butts played in Jane’s and my house-hunting activities in Sayre, Pennsylvania, last April: See the 693rd session, with notes.

(Another approach we want to try is to play the tape a friend had sent us several months ago — a reading by someone whom he considers gifted psychically. [...]

[...] Creation, then, continues constantly and each consciousness has its part to play. [...]

[...] A connection with a young man who played football. [...]

(Pause at 10:01.) During that period, many elements come into play and are meant to make the process attractive to the individuals involved, and to their tribes, societies, or civilizations. [...]

[...] Love, sexuality, and play, curiosity and explorative characteristics, merge in the child in a natural manner. [...]

[...] He played with a large ball, and the actual incident was so simple and uncomplicated that under ordinary circumstances it would have resulted in no such results.

[...] He went out to the kitchen, where the ball after he played with it finally rolled. [...]

[...] It was Tam who saw in Ruburt’s original manuscript the importance of his work, and the way in which Ruburt was trying to hide it by playing down his relationship with me.

[...] At least then they could say they had an occult personality who played the new part. [...]

It is as if, now, the mental atmosphere was clearer—and you would find ideas flowing into your mind in those hours also, particularly with that playfully, now, in mind. [...]

[...] During the evening we played some tapes also, and among these was one of the recordings Jane made of G. K. Chesterton’s poem Lepanto; Jane was in a trance state while reading this, apparently in a close approximation of the voice of her now dead friend, Father Trainor. [...]

[...] You realize that knowledge alone is not enough, that practice and ability play a considerable part. [...]

I played with the light to help you out. [...]

[...] Perhaps we’ll discover that they play as strong a role in Jane’s dilemma presently, as my wife’s Sinful-Self material. [...]

In the exercises both will, faith and assertion, come into play in coordinated effort that is met by performance, and by achievement. [...]

[...] You could not live in your present world of time if your consciousness was as playful, curious, and creative as it was, for [then] time was also experienced far differently.

Then I bid you a fond good evening—and again, my congratulations on “Unknown”—the book—and all of them do indeed have a part to play in the new era that is approaching. [...]

[...] He played with the idea of checking some notes, and then taking his chapter (on James) to the living room table, and darkening his room. [...]

[...] Again, obviously, suggestion plays an important part.

The session had been an impromptu one, and developed on our last night in Marathon because we’d been worrying about our goals in life, and how significant a part the Seth material might play in our affairs. [...]

[...] There’s no way of knowing, though, what part negative suggestion might have played in their diseased conditions to begin with.

My main point is that I also feel, without having asked Seth, that the farther one travels ahead in time the greater the play of probable realities and probable lives he or she encounters. [...]

I think it quite humorous (and ironic) that whether or not they realize it, those who engage in past-life regressions play with the notion of future selves all of the time—for from the standpoint of any “past” lives they reach their present lives obviously represent future existences. [...]

[...] And, as in Seth’s case and Jane’s case, probabilities and choices come much more prominently into play.

All of this reminds me that lately the media have carried a number of stories detailing how medical science is not only trying hard to approach cures for scourges like cancer (in cancer’s case, possibly through the exploration and understanding of the role played in the cell nucleus by altered normal cells called oncogenes), but is already claiming to have narrowed down its search to specific genes that affect imponderables like behavior—depression, for example. [...]