“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] You can help him to relax in the moment as you did last evening by simple reminders and by play.

[...] Then in alpha, easily and naturally, let images play into his mind of health and happiness. [...]

Actors visit casting agencies so that they know what plays need their services. [...] You are aware of the various plays being considered for physical production. [...] If enough interest is shown, if enough actors apply, if enough resources are accumulated, the play will go on. [...]

They also make choices as to which plays they will take part in. [...] To the actors, of course, their roles become strong parts of their personal experiences, while those who observe the plays take part largely as observers.

[...] Our hypothetical director will know which actors are free, which actors prefer character roles, which ones are heroes or heroines, and which smiling Don Juan always gets the girl — and in general who plays the good guys and the bad guys.

[...] The whole construction however 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, mazes of understanding. [...]

You are playing games now, acting in plays that you call present times and you take your roles very seriously, but there are other dramas going on at the same time. [...]

Why don’t you play it through? [...]

[...] In it the actors and actresses will take the parts of beliefs — of fleshed beliefs — and the morality play, so to speak, will deal with the nature of beliefs and how they are enacted through the centuries as well as through the hours. [...]

[...] So, instead, we will form a free city to which those travelers can come, and where those who enter can read books about Buddhism if they prefer, or play at being Catholic. [...]

[...] When you are tired of playing a Catholic priest, for example, you will fall into your own trap — in which your beliefs [as such a one] are suddenly worked out to their logical perfection, and you see what they mean.

[...] Playful creators always help. Creation is playful and full of joy but do not in your own heart set up any kind of social barrier. [...]

[...] Jane may or may not look into your playing cards. [...] You can perceive those playing cards as clearly as I can, and if you will not believe me, you will not believe yourself. [...]

See yourself as a playful creator. [...]

[...] I would like to suggest an experiment and I am suggesting it to you to see your reaction, like I couldn’t. I was really undecided whether to suggest it to Jane or to you, but you see like I’m kind of at an impasse because, like, there are a lot of words and a lot of concepts and philosophies bandied about, but when you make a claim you know such as that in as specific and nonconfusable terms such as that it would be very simple to demonstrate, and what I was wondering is, either now or at some time when Jane would agree to it, for instance, I brought some playing cards with me, ten cards...”)

[...] Jane and I wondered what role Billy’s illness might play in our affair with David—surely a way of thinking that would have been quite alien to us before the advent of the Seth material.

We’d also noticed that as soon as Billy lost his appetite his littermate, Mitzi, became “just a little busybody,” as Jane put it, playing and running about the house and out on the porches, as if in her own way she was trying to compensate for Billy’s unaccustomed lack of activity.

[...] I thought her own physical difficulties must play a strong role here, although she didn’t say so. [...]

And even as the session ended, I heard Mitzi out in the kitchen, playing with the wadded-up paper ball I’d made for her. [...]

In other words, subjective play is the basis for all creativity, of course—but far more, it is responsible for the great inner play of subjective and objective reality.

[...] When Ruburt forgot to worry because “he wasn’t working,” his natural playful creativity bubbled to the surface, and today he wrote poetry. [...]

[...] (Pause.) In a fashion, creative play is your human version of far greater characteristics from which your universe itself was formed. [...]

You may do what you wish yourselves (about taking the tests), of course, but our main purpose is to drive beyond psychology’s boundaries, and not play pussyfoot among the current psychological lilies of the field.

Tomorrow for example let him without guilt let the day be used to putter in the bedroom, play with poetry, do what comes naturally without a sense of guilt.

[...] If you will both remember to playfully change your beliefs, then this will not be the case. [...]

[...] The playful abilities find themselves in straightjackets. [...]

[...] Ruburt must reinstate a playful attitude mentally and psychically.

If during that time nothing in particular comes, then let him sketch, for the sketching reinforces playful creativity. [...]

[...] He can use your loving, playful encouragement. [...]

There are those who appear within these plays fully aware. [...] These personalities from other levels of existence oversee the play, so to speak, and appear among the actors. [...]

[...] He uses these inner senses constantly, though the actor part of himself is so intent upon the play that this escapes him. [...]

You can, however, using your inner senses, perceive reality as it exists apart from the play and your role in it. [...]

(10:29.) The idea is for him to play with Seven, to let his mind freely play with ideas, and to follow his impulses. [...] So the library idea that you had is an excellent one, but it should be done playfully. [...]

[...] Remember the use of the playful creative abilities, because again they can lead you to further ideas that would trigger unanticipated positive results in Ruburt’s condition, as per your chair idea, the table in the kitchen, and so forth.

Many people who use drugs socially are playing a kind of psychological Russian roulette. [...]

This feeling of abandoning oneself to the power and force of one’s own life does not lead to a mental segregation, but instead allows the self to sense the part that it plays in the creative drama of a universe. [...]

[...] Along the way they have forgotten the cooperative, playful ventures of childhood, and the expression of love itself becomes most difficult.

[...] Dreams provide consciousness with its own creative play, therefore, when it need not be so practical or so “mundane,” allowing it to use its innate characteristics more freely.

[...] They hint at the true dimensions of consciousness that are usually unavailable to you, for you actually form your own historical world in the same manner, in that above all other experiences that one world is predominant, and played on the screen of your brain.

[...] Playfully imagine how that event is interpreted by the cells of your body. [...]

[...] Again, do this playfully, and take your time. [...]

[...] They are more effectively used when playfully executed, and when no contradictions are involved. [...]

When you use suggestions, together they should largely be playful, or relaxing, or authoritative. [...]

There are publishing games also, and you do not play these. If you play those games and do poorly, you at least have a right to shout “foul” now and then—and I will tell you something: Prentice looks out for your interests in the person of John (Nelson) far more than you give him credit for. [...]

[...] You avoid “the wild psychic world” of cults, semicults, and so forth, and above all you are individualists who do not play according to game rules.

[...] You do not, however, through your attitudes play the kind of game that is necessary.

[...] You do not play up whatever “important” contacts you have made. [...]

[...] Play a waiting game. [...]

[...] There seem to be four men playing chess, symbolically speaking. [...]

[...] In other words I would suggest that you play it cagey for now. [...]

[...] Neither Jane nor I play chess or know the moves. [...]

[...] The session resulted after the stage had been set earlier in the evening, through Jane’s playing the tape recently received from the Murtough family in Chula Vista, CA; and, afterward, her playing part of the tape made some time ago for Dr. Instream.

[...] Creativity is above all high play.

If you trust yourselves, and approve of yourselves, all of your problems literally dissolve, and playful creativity bursts into its full flower.

[...] But you have not been serious enough about using it, nor have you been playful enough to use it without serious note. [...] You may play with it and use it marvelously... [...] And in your own daily activities, in your playful moments, serious moments, you can almost achieve the freedom that the inner self knows. [...]

[...] You (JB and SW) used your energy like a ball that a child plays with, both you and Ruburt. [...]

[...] The bump, for this has been a very active evening, was from your playful poltergeist AA. [...]