“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Our other friend is playing with his crutches...tossing them in the air a bit...practicing a two-step without them. [...]

[...] And yet I will tell you, that as a frivolous female who loved to play with a ball in the bright afternoon and had no chores to perform, seemingly an idle life and seemingly a quite useless personality .... [...]

[...] You do need a faith in the existence of that reality, however, therefore I suggest that your program once again includes your helping Ruburt change his working space, and that this time you both try it with a kind of loving play, if that is possible. [...]

(Long pause at 9:20.) New sentence: if you cannot put your disillusionment aside, then you can at least use the idea of such a program as a creative exercise, a creative game that you play with one portion of your consciousness —a game that might just possibly have some creative benefits whose effects might just possibly crop up in the middle of your more practical considerations. [...]

Our other friend (Brad) is playing with his crutches—tossing them in the air a bit—practicing a two-step without them. [...]

[...] And yet I will tell you, that as a frivolous female who loved to play with a ball in the bright afternoon and had no chores to perform, seemingly an idle life and seemingly a quite useless personality—I was not burdened with intellect—and yet in that one particular life I learned more about the nature of spontaneity and joy than in many of my ponderous intellectual existences. [...]

[...] Was that Seth, or Jane-playing-Seth? [...]

It wasn’t safe to play around with Ruburt in such a manner, ever. [...]

[...] This part of you is certainly as legitimate and necessary to you as a whole unit is, as the part who plays bridge or Scrabble. [...]

[...] Imagination and emotion will then automatically come into play to reinforce the new beliefs.

I mentioned (in the 619th session) a game in which you playfully adopt an idea that you want to materialize, then imagine it happening in your mind. [...]

[...] Your conscious direction will automatically bring them into play. [...]

[...] In a manner of speaking those sensations had been played down, muffled. [...]

[...] Some of last night’s dream material dealt with the ideas, again, of creativity—sometimes seen as harmless enough for children, as in the play Ruburt remembered taking part in his Catholic public school. [...]

[...] You do have a large role to play, however, and I will go into that more clearly along with the way that you might have sometimes misread some of your own attitudes. [...]

[...] On top of that, however, the whole idea of responsibility has played an overheavy hand, and it is this idea of responsibility—overplayed—that is to a large degree responsible for the idealized image of the public person with which Ruburt has unsuccessfully tried to compete. [...]

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

[...] (Long pause.) Other elements also come into play. [...]

[...] (Long pause.) We want to emphasize the sense of ease and playfulness. [...]

[...] Imagine yourself playing at your painting with the spontaneous feeling a child has. [...]

[...] As Ruburt would say, play it cool. [...]

[...] Actors wearing different masks, but in a play that you have both created. [...]

[...] When children play ring-around-the-rosy, they form living circles in the air. [...] The atoms and molecules that make up a chair play a different kind of ring-around-the-rosy, and are involved in constant motion, forming a certain pattern that you perceive as a chair.

[...] The solid matter of your world is the result of the play of your senses upon an inner dimension of activity that exists as legitimately, and yet as tantalizingly hidden, as an idea or a dream location.

[...] He felt that his obvious femininity was almost a threat to both of your works, that he had no right to look sexy and tempt you both when spontaneous love play, for example, would not occur. [...]

Ruburt is learning to understand the nature of the mind in a way he could not understand it second-handed, playing games, and in condensed form you are learning about the human condition. [...]

[...] At other levels it enjoys playing with such concepts and perceiving great unity from events that occur outside of a time context — mixing, for example, events from various centuries, finding harmony and points of contact by examining both historical and private environments, plucking them out of the time framework.

It plays hopscotch in and out of reality. [...]

[...] Love finds expression through the arts, religion, play, and helpful actions toward others. [...]

[...] Many of the traditions do come from the Greeks, from the great Greek play-writers, who quite beautifully and tragically presented the quality of the psyche as it showed itself in the light of Grecian traditions.

[...] (Pause.) The cell’s stability, and its reliability in the bodily environment, is dependent upon its innate properties of instant communication and instant decision, for each cell is in communication with all others and is united with all others through fields of consciousness,³ in which each entity of whatever degree plays a part.

[...] (See Chapter Eighteen.) In somewhat the same way, you have a part to play individually in the creation of the dream landscape. [...]

[...] You think of shit, unfortunately, as the antithesis of good; and when you play around it or with it, you think you are being childish at the best, and wicked at the worst.

[...] We played the tape back, then made some adjustments in our recording setup. [...]

[...] In larger terms, of course, each has belonged to other races in other times and places; or to be more accurate, in simultaneous existences one plays out the other’s role.

[...] This provided the necessary stabilizing properties upon which your consciousness could play, and through which it could effectively and creatively operate. [...]

[...] There is always some conscious recognition, however, though the individual may play tricks with himself and pretend it is not there. [...]

[...] There is a great difference between keeping the people always in mind, and playing to the crowd for whatever reasons, but there would be a tendency for purposes to be altered.

[...] That is, the books will have a strong active part to play over the period of your lifetimes, rather than for example selling in the millions in a year or two, then vanishing from the scene.