“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(I was greatly surprised Friday to have Bill Ward tell me that Wendell Crowley’s 10-year-old daughter died of a heart attack while playing softball. [...]

The dream objects are not randomly chosen, but only those are chosen which will be significant to the many layers of the self, according to the need or according to that part of the subconscious area which is to be instructed; that is, the portion which is directly a participant in the dream activities, and which plays out the dream drama while other parts of the self observe.

For a while, many of you will play with the concepts while avoiding all direct encounters with any other experience, save that already acceptable. [...]

[...] In some, the inner self is aware of having more than one ego, of playing more than one role at a time. [...]

[...] This move was not dictated wholly by the Seth material, but certainly this played its part. [...]

[...] Jane and I have often speculated on what part telepathy plays in the envelope experiments, since I usually am consciously aware of the object in detail. [...]

[...] Seth’s abilities remind me of material I’ve written recently on how certain portions of the personality or psyche must very shrewdly and carefully construct dreams in advance, so that when the dreams are played back they render just the right message to the parts of the psyche that need it. [...]

[...] I experienced nothing that I could recall, but Jane received snatches of tinny music, as though it was being played on an old rickety piano.

[...] “And reincarnation is a terrific theory to play around with. [...]

[...] He will ignore a contented child playing on one side of the street and notice, instead, a dirty ragged child, even though he be further away. [...]

Ruburt, you can stop playing ring around the rosy. [...]

[...] The band was playing a twist, and we didn’t know the dance. [...]

All in all, the intellect plays some part, but the intuitional qualities are most important. [...]

[...] Jane and I wondered what part probabilities might have played in any of the above dates.

(Pause.) I must be, as Seth, true or false, fiction or nonfiction, personality essence—spirit, if you prefer—or Ruburt’s own psyche in definitions usually accepted, playing at best a dubious role. [...]

[...] The other room was my play-it-safe-be-like-everybody-else-mood-curtains and conventional paraphernalia.”

[...] Ruburt picked up on James’s world view, however, as in your terms at least it “existed” perhaps 10 years ago.⁶ Then, in his mind, James playfully thought of a book that he would write were he “living,” called The Varieties of Religious States — an altered version of a book he wrote in life.

[...] The effect was remarkably like that of a tape recording played too fast: Her voice went way up the scale, issuing from stiffly held lips. [...]

[...] These inner roads or strands of consciousness bring elements into play so that it becomes possible to realize that the content of a given objectified universe may actually be perceived quite differently. [...]

[...] Earlier that day I’d made a wadded-up paper ball for Mitzi to play with. [...]