“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] The last time I heard voices they chattered away at a great rate, like a tape played too fast.

(Tonight Willy merely wanted to play. [...]

There must be a vast amount of pertinent dream information ready for the tapping, however, and maybe with Seth’s help Jane and I can eventually learn more about the undoubtedly therapeutic roles our joint and individual dreams have played as we contended with the challenges posed by her physical difficulties. [...]

[...] Our fear of failure undoubtedly plays a strong part here. [...]

Now: Actors playing parts are obviously alive, as actors, but in a fictional play, for example, the characters portrayed by the actors are not alive, in your terms, in the same fashion that the actors are. [...]

[...] The amphitheatre stands both for the world, and for the dramatic action of your lives, in which your ideals and aspirations are actualized or played out to whatever extent. [...]

[...] So tell Ruburt not to judge himself too harshly, and (whispering) in all of this have him try to remember his sense of play, and to read often that July session on the creative state. [...]

[...] At the same time, I do not want to play down the unfortunate aspects of the beliefs connected with the Sinful Self. [...]

[...] You can also see where it is lacking: it has displayed little sense of playfulness, for example, or of expansion. [...]

[...] We had the Weissenbuehlers visit last night; this afternoon Eve Longwell and daughter Jeanie visited, and we played on the VTR quite a bit of footage from the tapes we’ve made. [...]

If you are highly talented in any way, play the talent down or be extremely humble in its performance or expression, because other people will envy you, or be afraid of you, or try to drag you down “to their own level.”

[...] At the same time, poetry was and is creative play, and it sprang from the depths of his being. [...]

Of course you played a part. [...]

[...] Now the visitors that have been here until this evening had a part to play in that experiment. [...]

[...] (Pause.) There was a conspiracy in which Judas played a role, an attempt to make a martyr out of Christ. [...]

[...] You are learning, studying, playing; you are anything but asleep (smile) as you think of the term. [...]

[...] On the other hand, within these other systems there is a strong innovative group consciousness developing, in which identity is retained but greater inner play allowed between individuals, a large creative interchange of symbol-pools, a drawing upon mental and psychic symbols with greater facility. [...]

[...] In your terms, then, other civilizations considered art as a fine science, and used it in such a way that it painted a very clear-cut picture of the nature of reality — a picture in which human emotion and motivation played a grand role.

[...] Part of this processing occurs in the dream state, and creativity plays a large part in the preliminary process.

[...] In the medical profession, the overall suggestion that operates is one that emphasizes and exaggerates the body’s vulnerability, and plays down its natural healing abilities. [...]

[...] But the comparison is highly superficial, for here too continuity reigns, even though associations are given greater play.

[...] We played the tape of suggestions we’d made. [...]

[...] vague ideas that when I was around five an older man died in the neighboring house where I’d played on the porch and that someone took me to see the body—my first such experience…. [...]

[...] Jane had responded beautifully to my suggestion when she began dictating Seth’s The Nature of the Psyche: I’d playfully told her at suppertime that she was going to start a new Seth book in the session which was due that evening—and three hours later [...]

Occasionally Jane will record a Sumari song when I’m out of the house; I may hear her play it later, but I don’t “bug” her about sharing it with me. [...]