“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] The Sinful Self’s material is too long and complicated to describe here, except to say that it contains the Sinful Self’s own view of reality and its relationship to Jane’s background and work, it’s regrets, its defensive attitudes, its questions, and its genuine puzzlement that man has for so long —perhaps for most of history, indeed—persisted in the creation of and reliance upon such entities as the Sinful Self. [...]

[...] It is difficult to verbalize, but your question “Why doesn’t the subconscious know when to stop, if its defenses actually become too dangerous?” is asked in too limited a framework, though I understand your concern and what you mean. [...]

[...] Fred, he said, was on the defensive. [...]

[...] The symptoms have been a defense against the sort of self-enlightenment that I am now giving in the sessions. [...]

[...] A sense of identification particularly with the natural world lessens any feelings that you would need defenses against it.

(In our defenses here, I’ll digress a bit to note that although we may do that on occasion, Jane and I certainly do not blame others anything like we used to, or the way we still see others do. [...]

[...] Such a recourse, again, is only a desperate final one, but with his stubbornness it would be very final, and a means of self-defense.

[...] For both felt equally guilty for the physical predicament, and were acting self-defensively. [...]

[...] You react by setting up defenses….”)

[...] In panic, the ego then tripled its defenses. [...]

The medical profession unwittingly promotes the idea of illness above health, and in its devotion to uncovering disease it often completely forgets the entire concept of the body’s natural defenses and vitality. [...]

This will automatically build up Ruburt’s resources and inner psychic defenses against negative influences. [...]

[...] Your father’s hay fever was a defense also against farm work, you see.

Hay fever was for your father also a defense against the world, for it allowed him some isolation. [...]

THE NATURAL BODY AND ITS DEFENSES

[...] It may at the same time produce antibodies also, for example, to other “similar” diseases, and so overextend its defenses that the individual later comes down with another disease.

(Then a moment later:) Chapter 1: “The Natural Body and Its Defenses.”

[...] The loss of weight was partially a defense mechanism, for his mother grew stout. [...]

[...] Certain diseases can actually strengthen the body from a prior weaker state, by calling upon the body’s full defenses. [...]

[...] Dr. S. also described a couple of drugs—penicillin being one—that was used to reduce the clotting ability of the blood—and also reduced the body’s natural defenses.

[...] The question cannot be answered simply in one evening, but each consciousness has its own defense system and its own vitality; you should trust your own.

[...] They do not require then the full artillery of your defenses—a great waste of your time and effort that could, of course, be devoted to your work.

[...] I mentioned that the question had probably touched upon hidden defenses, fears that the “protection” furnished by the eye condition would be taken away, and she agreed.