“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] I still want to know what role the sinful self—to use the appellation Seth gave us—plays in all of this, for I’m more convinced than ever that it is still the dominant force behind all of it. [...]

[...] Any issues with you also involved work and creativity, along with the expectations that you had of each other—not just in your married roles but as partners and colleagues in your artistic endeavors. [...]

The energy of this inner self is used by it to form from itself—from inner experience—a material counterpart in which the outer ego then can act out its role. [...]

[...] You would not take your art to the marketplace after you left commercial work, because then, in a manner of speaking now, understand, you considered that the act of a prostitute, for your “feminine feelings” that you felt produced the painting would then be sold for the sake of “the male’s role as provider and bringer of power.”

[...] 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. [...]

It participates in the construction of some dreams having a more or less important role according to some circumstances. [...]

[...] Others more capable have taken over the same role with his mother. [...]

[...] 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. [...]

[...] You would not take your art to the marketplace after you left commercial work, because then, in a manner of speaking, now, understand, you considered that the act of a prostitute — for your “feminine feelings” that you felt produced the paintings would then be sold for the sake of “the male’s role as provider and bringer of power.”

[...] That person will also serve a somewhat similar role in the waking state, as a member of a family. [...]

(As I told Jane last night, I didn’t realize that I was so tight, so bound up with tensions and stresses, that I was ready to fall ill because of those basic conflicts with self-disapproval, the male-provider role, money, taxes, and all the rest of the daily paraphernalia of living. [...]

[...] to serve or perform some other role...

([Theodore:] “We should desire good health because it makes it possible for us to do something else—to serve or perform some other role—”)

[...] Each taking the roles that you can do best, and developing your own potential in so doing.

(“In the light of the recent information, do you want to say something about the role of the conscientious self?”)

[...] It takes on more roles, you see, and the psychological structure becomes more complicated as the inner self becomes sure enough of itself to admit ever more stimuli, while still retaining its own core.

[...] In both waking life and the recurring dream, games such as Jungle Gyms played a leading role.

The label often helps the individual adopt the position or role of a “sick person”, in quotes, rather than of a well person momentarily indisposed. [...]

[...] They also probably answer some of my questions about the role her sinful self may be playing these days.

[...] Not a word from Seth about why she’s been so miserable for the past five days, or why her decubiti are worse, or my suggestion that she go back into the hospital, or the role the sinful self plays in all of this. [...]

Give us a moment… Before we discuss man’s and woman’s private roles in the nature of mass events — no matter what they are — we must first look into the medium in which events appear concrete and real. [...]