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[...] In some cases they have chosen these roles, attracting aggressions that others cannot handle. [...]

[...] Each of these were highly gifted psychically, knew of their role, and accepted it willingly.

As a rule each entity is born so that he experiences at least three roles, that of mother, father and child. I make three roles rather than two because a complete childhood, for example at least once, is usually necessary so that a personality can experience the knowledge of human growth.

Of course two lives would be sufficient to give you the three roles, but in some cases a personality does not function into adulthood, and therefore does not experience motherhood or fatherhood. [...] Beside the three necessary roles there is another quality, different in dimension, which is also necessary for the personality, and this involves the fullest use of potential.

Lack of this last factor can cause a personality to be reborn more times on your plane than would be necessary if only the role requirement operated. [...]

[...] Had he performed the role possible, he could have been of benefit to Paul. [...]

[...] He was far less aware consciously of his role for this reason. [...]

[...] They imagine tragic roles with as much creative abandon as they imagine roles of which adults might approve. [...]

[...] (Pause.) The inner self can play more than one role at once, consciously in other words. [...] You would be aware of yourself in each of these three roles, and find qualities being developed in each of the separate lives.

[...] A land in which things must be judged thus-and-so, a land in which people disappear as much as possible into established family and social roles, where the lines are clearly marked. [...]

[...] She expected a clearly defined role. [...]

[...] “I know that in those earlier sessions Seth said I equated the left side with the unconscious portions of the personality and the masculine role in society [see the deleted sessions for April 4 and 16, 1979], but—”

[...] You would no longer act in that role. Moreover, Ruburt did not feel it proper to project that role upon you any longer.

Since he had temporarily put you in the role of a controlling factor, this was also in the back of his mind. [...]

[...] (Long pause.) Pretend that you are a fine actor, playing in a multidimensional theater, so that each role you take attains a vitality far surpassing the creative powers of any ordinary play.

You say: “I must maintain my individuality after death,” as if after the play the actor playing Hamlet stayed in that role, refused to study other parts or go on in his career, and said: “I am Hamlet, forever bound to follow the dilemmas and the challenges of my way. [...]

[...] If you are a parent, imagine that you are your mate, and in that role imaginatively consider your children.

[...] All of this is done somewhat in the way that a child plays, through the formation of creative dream dramas in which the individual is free to play a million different roles and to examine the nature of probable events from the standpoint of “a game.”

[...] Youth and old age both have their place, and within the framework of your race each play important roles.

[...] Each one is made up of areas, or lobes, which have specific roles. [...]

The energy of this inner self is directed and used by it to richly form from itself, from components and inner experience, a material counterpart in which the outer ego then can act out its role. The outer ego is most in the role, acting out a play that the inner self has written. [...]

The analogy is perhaps an old one, but the fragment is like an actor playing a character role, partially lost within it, perhaps disliking the character he plays, and yet through the part learning lessons that he will use in his own private life with its greater dimensions. [...]

You are being of strong practical help now, though it may not appear so, by refusing to accept at this point the role that your mother wants you to take. [...]

[...] And remind him once again of the material I gave him concerning the roles of the conscious and unconscious minds. [...]

[...] Again, remind Ruburt of the roles of the conscious and subconscious minds—and once more, remember that you are being tuned up as well. [...]

[...] To some extent or another each of you has played this role for the other at various times, in this life and in others. [...]

[...] You of course do give tacit consent, and give up whatever role of leadership you possess in that area, which is far more considerable than you allow yourself to admit. [...]

[...] If he succeeded as a writer, it seemed he was less the loyal wife, and sometimes in the past—the distant past—you felt the same when you tried to be “the male provider,” and take a job to satisfy that narrow role. [...]

[...] Try to realize that even in your terms there have been multitudinous cultures upon the face of the earth, each one defining for all time, with great moral rectitude, the roles of men and women. [...]

[...] A sonnet by Shakespeare that she’d read in high school had also given her the idea that her role in life was to bear children, and forget everything else. [...]

[...] I replied that we’d better forget that and try to focus on the future — yet such guilt feelings could be playing a significant role in her daily life, and we should find out if this is so.

2. The “officially accepted life” mentioned here reminded me that in the last (694th) session Seth used the phrase “your officially recognized idea of physical reality” in discussing the role probable events played in our world history. [...]