“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Your main point of contention is brought about by the emotional barriers that are caused by the difference in terms. [...]

[...] I want you to open up those barriers that you have erected within yourselves; this voice is only used as a symbol of the energy and the strength that is available to each of you, as you utilize those abilities that are your heritage.

I have said that acts of creativity best approach the workings of Framework 2, for [those] acts always involve leaps of faith and inspiration, and the breaking of barriers.

[...] It throws aside barriers. [...]

[...] Often, you use sound as a barrier. Also, you use monologs, and set up a barrier of sound to protect yourself from other people. [...] You erect barriers like walls—so that someone wanting to communicate with you cannot get through, cannot find a “hole” in your conversation to reach you. And the more nervous you are, the more frantically you erect this barrier of sound. You use sound as a barrier, therefore, and when you become doubly threatened, then you do not hear the sounds that come from without, but retreat from them. [...]

[...] Therefore to protect yourself, to protect your subjectivity from drifting, you erect various psychological barriers at what you suppose to be the danger points. [...]

[...] If there is any point where your own consciousness seems to elude you or escape you, or if there is any point where your consciousness seems to end, then these are the points where you have yourselves set up psychological and psychic barriers, and these are precisely those areas that you should explore. [...]

[...] But do not question yourself out of feeling or emotion and do not build up a barrier in your own mind for there are no barriers here. [...]

[...] The normal individual felt that he had best leave such areas alone, so in cutting off these portions of the self, barriers were also set up against the joy of the inner spontaneous self. [...]

You must first recognize the existence of such barriers — you must see them or you will not even realize that you are not free, simply because you will not see beyond the fences. [...]

There is one belief, however, that destroys artificial barriers to perception, an expanding belief that automatically pierces false and inhibiting ideas.

[...] In other terms, this can help you see the potentials of your species and break down the barriers of limiting thoughts. [...]

[...] When Jane finished with certain challenges, Seth remarked, “… there will be a ‘birth’ of seemingly new concepts, simply because his [Jane’s] old mental barriers kept him from making certain important connections, and an increasing system of communication between waking and dreaming states.”

[...] There are barriers, but they are mental or psychic barriers. [...]

[...] If you would forget such ideas as selling your paintings and simply do them, you could clear some barriers.

[...] Some long time ago your own belief that good work could not be financially relied upon put up enough of a barrier so that Ruburt became frightened about his own work (a fact I have long suspected, and recently discussed with Jane), and set up a physical situation that would force him to stay home, literally, work, and prevent him from trying any longer those other avenues that you were still adopting. [...]

There are invisible barriers in your understanding that you are moving through yourselves, so that what I am saying will become far clearer when you see the results that are already taking place.

[...] I knew all the while that much more was possible than I was able to accomplish — that just beyond my abilities of the moment lay wonderful possibilities if I could just break that… barrier. [...]

[...] There are no boundaries to the self, and no barriers put upon its development. [...]

[...] I will make it clearer later in the book.² But your limited ideas of time cause conceptual barriers that operate even when you consider the structure of physical biological life.

[...] The very sensations of one kind of life then automatically set up barriers against other such “world-schemes” (hyphen) that do not correlate with their own.

[...] In any case, barriers will drop on both sides. [...]

[...] You cannot put a leash on them and walk them around the block, yet trees form a protective barrier about, say, a home or a neighborhood. [...]

[...] You cannot affirm one emotion and deny another without setting up barriers. [...]

The barriers are yours. The barriers are camouflage. [...] Therefore the barrier disappears. [...]

[...] Creative people are not self-destructive, but if they sometimes appear so in the western world, it is because of that division, that artificial barrier. [...]

(When Jane called last night she said her temperature had dropped to 99.7 — breaking the 100-degree barrier. [...]

[...] The ego feels threatened by the extended “leave of absence” it must take, becomes wary of sleep, and sets up barriers against the dream state. [...]

Your concept of consciousness is fearful and limiting, and depends for its existence upon ignorance and barriers, barriers that divide parts of the self from others, from other parts of the self, and from other selves, and from experiences of the selves.

Dating back, Ruburt’s barriers about the work area were also barriers against you. [...]