“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] In such a way buried issues were forced into the light, feared weaknesses and inadequacies were actively played out where they could be properly addressed, assorted, and assessed. [...]

[...] And as he spoke of the beginnings of the world, I began to play with the idea of quietly ending my own private sphere of existence. [...]

And to me this was no play but the main challenge—to discover while within one life all life’s meaning; to acquire in one life’s vulnerable swiftness evidence of eternity’s breadth and depth, to sniff out its extended unknown dimensions. [...]

[...] He would keep it safely inside a “play” structure — not play necessarily in basic terms, but a structure in which he would work with models, cleverly, never applying his creative abilities in certain ways to a practical reality. [...]

Your mother felt, then, that each played a fitting part in the marriage, in that your father had in her eyes great prospects, and she had given him two sons. [...]

[...] It was still light out; classical music played on the radio. [...]

[...] She also turned off the radio, which had been playing since the session began.)

(9:10.) Behind the actors in the dramas, there are more powerful entities who are quite beyond role-playing. The plays themselves, then, the religions that sweep across the ages — these are merely shadows, though helpful ones. [...]

[...] It was indeed a dreamlike world, but a highly charming and vital one, in which dreaming imaginations played rambunctiously with all the probabilities entailed in this new venture: imagining the various forms of language and communication possible, spinning great dream tales of future civilizations replete with their own built-in histories—building, because they were now allied with time, mental edifices that automatically created pasts as well as futures.

[...] Do not play around with the concepts. [...]

(I would suppose the statement played a part in bringing this session about, since it posed questions dealt with in the session. [...]

(A small incident to illustrate: Yesterday morning at 8 AM, the tenant in the efficiency next door played the radio very loud outside our window for over an hour. [...]

[...] (Seth-Jane gestures indicating Tam’s end of the imaginary bridge.) So with your Adam you must either take him and form the rest of your bridge, with the joy of adventure, not always knowing who may be at the other end, forming their own structure; or play around with the Adam version in which case you will get no further than you are. [...]

[...] She needs a part to play: something in which you can participate, and develop yourself (directly to Eve). [...]

[...] These people are kind, humorous, playful, filled with a lively compassion, but too wise for the “perverted” kind of compassion that breeds on other individuals’ weaknesses.

[...] They deal primarily in the great play of exchange and interchange of ideas, products, social and political concepts. [...]

[...] There was much playfulness there, however, that could have tempered some of your great mutual seriousness at the time. [...]

[...] It may be a potential form like any potential object—a played-over-and-over-again record of a form.

[...] Now they began playing noisily about the room.)

(Long pause.) It is as if bits and pieces of any and all probable events exist in a jigsaw-like fashion throughout the minds of men, throughout the consciousnesses of plants and all natural things, wanting to be put together—and each individual consciousness has its part to play in directing which of those events occur or do not occur—but the processes involved in the formation of those events are hidden from the conscious mind. [...]

[...] It is extremely difficult for me, however, to make you understand quite clearly the role that your own attitudes play—for when issues hit close to home you have both the old tendency to blame the other party or parties for what is involved. [...]

(Jane pointed out to Sally that she was playing it too safe, that she should take some risks. [...]

[...] If he imagines himself easily and playfully, now, mounting the stairs or going down, this will help. [...]

You, as teacher in this love relationship now, can count oddly enough on the passivity of his nature, and play on this, for then assured, reassured, the super-conscientious self can allow the spontaneous self to emerge in the sex relationship.

Now we have done several things this evening and as always our Lady of Florence had a good part to play. [...]

[...] There never was any real division, but only a seeming one in which you played various roles, developed different abilities, learned to create in new and diverse ways. [...]

[...] It is true that in the dream state and in some other levels of existence close to your own, there is strong individual play in the creation of images, and a magnificent use of symbolism, but all of this takes place, again, in an “objective” definite environment, an environment whose characteristics make such phenomena possible — a field of activity, then, with its own rules. [...]

[...] Again: Existences are like notes played along certain frequencies. [...]