“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Children’s play is extremely important to a child’s development—and when they play children use those exquisite powers of imagination, confidence, and expectation that provide the wellspring for growth and fulfillment. [...]

Parents may become particularly aware of that lost sense of joyfulness as they watch their own youngsters in their natural play. [...]

(Also on Saturday evening Jane and I attended a set of Japanese Noh plays at Elmira College, at the invitation of Bill Macdonnel, who had a part in one of them. [...] After the play, at a party for the cast and friends, Bill was seized by severe chest and back pain; he left for home with his parents.

The play is the thing, and so it was. The play in which your friend performed represented the springboard for the inner portrayal, unfortunately, of sacrifice. [...]

He dared not fall sick until the final night of the play’s run, although the attack almost occurred just before the first night of the play. [...]

[...] The two together promote play and creativity—and indeed, playfulness is one of the marks of a healthy, functioning body. Through play children develop their muscles and overall body tone, and this is because children possess a keen expectancy and a desire to perform to the best of their abilities. [...]

[...] There may be those who need the old framework, and someone, if not you, to play the part you played before. [...]

[...] When you abruptly change your beliefs, then in the group you no longer have the same position — you are not playing that game any longer.

If you are having a dream as yourself from your own perspective, another reincarnational self may be having the same dream from its perspective—in which, of course, you play a minor role. In your dream, that reincarnational self may appear as a minor character, quite on the periphery of your attention, and if the dream were to include an idea, say, for a play or an invention, then that play or invention might appear as a physical event in both historic times, to whatever degree it would be possible for the two individuals living in time to interpret that information. [...]

A hearty good evening—and tell our friend (Jane) to be more playful—work at it, I said (with much humor).

[...] Now I suggest that you playfully encourage him to increased motion. [...] He knows this, but with your encouragement, active but playful, you can accomplish very much here. [...]

[...] The thing is to encourage playful and spontaneous motion while making sure there is no concentration (underlined), upon motions that are still somewhat hampered. [...]

The relaxation exercises that he spoke of are good, if they are done in a playful manner. [...]

[...] Here I want to emphasize the importance that telepathy can play, and the vital role of suggestion.

(My remarks came about in response to Jane’s wondering comments about what, if any, part beliefs could play in one getting so ill at such a young age. [...]

[...] They can accept roles in somewhat the same way that children play at being sick, and in extreme cases some children find the game becomes only too real.

[...] Still, playing the game will sharpen your perceptions and give you certain qualities that will allow you to understand reality once you cease playing the game.

[...] In your system one of the rules is that you forget you are playing a game in order to concentrate better on the affairs at hand.

Your own race is the only one who plays with any facility. [...]

As much as possible, playfully (underlined twice) imagine your worries floating away. [...] Again, this should be playfully done. [...]

Now: Artificial guilt is still highly creative in its way, an offshoot made in man’s image as his conscious mind began to consider and play upon the natural innocent guilt that originally implied no punishment.

[...] The latter are also the result of the aware mind’s capacity to play upon, mix and merge, and rearrange perception and experience.

[...] On the other hand it is a creative interpretation, as the conscious mind plays with reality as it understands it. [...]

[...] In your terms the conscious mind is growing toward a realization of the part it has to play in such multidimensional reality. [...]

[...] It is as if an infinite number of orchestras were playing simultaneously (long pause), and each note sounded was also played in all of its probable positions with each other note possible, and in combination with all of the probable versions of the entire piece being played.

[...] [Perhaps], then, you will let your imaginations play upon the usual events of your world, and glimpse at least in part that greater brilliance that illuminates them, so that it leads you intuitively to a feeling for the source of events and the source of your world. [...]

Now this is a necessity: the Psycho-Cybernetics for at least fifteen minutes, no more than a half hour, in which time he allows his imagination full imaginative play, positive play, where he is writing well, enjoying his body, where his pursuits are succeeding. [...]

[...] He sent out the thoughts with full confidence, but in almost a playful manner, thinking merely of extra money.

[...] He thought instead briefly, effectively and playfully, “When Tam comes my teeth will be cleaned. [...]

In your enthusiasm (meaning table-play) you issue a blanket invitation to all. [...]

I should emphasize that it would be better for you not to play with tables at all, except here or in the company of others who are already familiar with such work.

[...] In concepts, I want you to play with them, go along with them, see where they lead you. [...] Now see what you can do, play with what you can do. [...]

“You are indeed playing a game with yourself, but it is not relevant, and it may be irrelevant. But you had better play it reverently.”

“Isn’t the object to play the game … not to create or probe?”

“But these distortions are part of the game that Shiva plays.”

“You are playing a game,” Seth admonished.

[...] These are all playing at the same time. [...]

[...] All of the other characters in all of the other plays are also aware of our grocer. [...]

When our Wilford dramatically cries out to his mistress: “I am afraid my wife will learn of our affair,” then the symphony playing on another station becomes melodramatic, and the sports program shows that a hero fumbles the football. [...]

[...] The separate programs existing at once each have their own schedules, and from your reality you could not play them all at once. [...]

(On July 3 and July 5th, I held long pendulum sessions, trying to learn what subconscious role I have been playing in Jane’s symptoms. [...]

[...] In the overall however while you were delighted on the one hand to have the sessions, you were jealous of the part Ruburt played.

[...] You were also pleased with the sessions on quite another level, and on this level honestly accepted Ruburt’s part in them, although you still wished this part were played by yourself.

[...] Now his own background, with its self-denial and early religious esthetic training, also played its part, you see.

[...] You cannot content the aged entirely with hobbies any more than you can the young, but meaningful work means work that also has the exuberance of play, and it is that playful quality that contains within itself great propensities of a healing and creative nature.

In that picture consciousness has little part to play. [...]

In a fashion, now, your eyes improved their capacities, practically speaking, in a playful manner. [...]

[...] Now, I would play a Santa Claus for you when I am not playing a Scrooge because I want you to work harder. [...]

[...] Now, you are familiar with morality plays so in our story we take the term deceit and we give it a name and we make a person out of deceit and we call it, for example, Judas. [...]

And someone (to Joanne) over here will play a greater part, not looking at anyone in particular, than you have in the past, particularly in later years. [...]

[...] I can be brutal in my honesty but at least I am honest and I do not play with words.” And this is a personality that you have set up for yourself because behind it all in the French court you glorified in the use of words, in the high play of intellect in what now to you would seem to be surface, artificial qualities of stereotyped verbal behavior. [...]

(To everyone.) Now in one way you are all playing childhood games with yourselves, and if you will forgive me, I will use an analogy and remember it is an analogy. [...] You are all children in one way playing beneath the maple trees, dreaming in the long twilights of your adult state even as your adult selves now seemingly so independent would not know what to say to your childhood selves if you met them; but within you the childhood self must also grow, and allow it its growth. [...]

[...] An inner morality play if you want to use the term. [...]

[...] Now you are squirreling around in your own head playing with words and concepts and not listening to what I have said. [...]