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They will begin to follow a road of denial and repression, and grow more and more afraid of expressing their own talents or abilities. Parents often promote such ideas by teaching children that they live in an unsafe world, filled with enemies. Such children at an early age become frightened of their own impetus toward expression. They are afraid, again, of freedom, for to them freedom implies danger and even mortal peril.

This repression does not only show itself in the physical world of behavior, but also acts within the interior world of the body itself, repressing those organs that lead to physical motion. Young people may even repress their own thought processes, since they fear their own inclinations, and are afraid to act upon their thoughts. To escape the conflict between thought and action, such young people may only allow their thoughts to stray in conventionalized standard directions.

At the present time they may only represent distant ideals, against which mankind measures itself, yet many of them can indeed be realized in the world as it is, if only people become more aware of their expressive capabilities so that the main direction of their lives are expressive rather than repressive.

(I didn’t have time to go into it today, but Seth’s material reminded me anew that I know my own mother had managed to make me afraid of certain areas of life—that as I grew up, then left home and had to manipulate in the world, I became quite aware that I’d acquired certain fears or inhibitions. It’s a long story and I don’t intend to go into it here; I just wanted to insert this note as a reminder.