“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

He wants to help others. On the positive side this leads into new frontiers, and it expands and develops his abilities. It is a basis for his ethical and intuitive achievements. On the negative side he can go overboard, fearing to cause another the slightest hurt, and hurting himself instead.

I explained earlier his exaggerated notion of aggression and also the reasons behind it. The smallest aggressive jerking of his mother’s bed could cause her pain, you see. Tremendous self-control was exerted. Do you follow me?

So there was an exaggerated idea of the effect of normally expressed aggression. A normal child at times can slap its parent back, and the parent is obviously immune. The child’s strength is nothing against the parent's. In Ruburt’s case such normal reactions were out of the question.

This caused him to withhold his strength under such circumstances. Those who felt it were obviously hurt out of all proportion. Now he did not realize this completely earlier, and this should help. It is more important than I can say.

(“I have often wondered: why do such childhood experiences have such lasting effects through an adult life, that may be many years longer?”)

The effect is also positive. Again, it leads to Ruburt’s desire to help others, and to look for a way to do so.