“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] Defenses are set up.

(“Well” I said, somewhat defensively, “I’ve always enjoyed having the sessions at night, working after supper, and so forth.”)

[...] In contrast, good is seen as weak, powerless, passive, and in great need of defense.

[...] Even now, local civil defense officials monitor the air several times daily with radiological survey meters — equipment similar to Geiger counters. [...]

[...] On March 31, children and pregnant women were advised to evacuate an area within five miles of the plant, and today city and county civil defense directors in eastern Pennsylvania were given plans for a precautionary evacuation of everyone within a 25-mile radius of Three Mile Island. [...]

[...] The hapless householder was on the defensive. [...]

[...] So many old fears were based upon misconceptions on the part of the personality that in younger years found itself to be quite different than its contemporaries, and gradually began to set up defenses against them.

[...] This attitude is a defense mechanism, most understandable, since your plane or field of actuality is so involved in its relationship with material construction. [...]

[...] The fear of death itself can cause such a psychological panic that out of a sense of self-preservation and defense you lower your consciousness so that you are in a state of coma, and you may take some time to recover.

[...] To that extent they activate, say, the entire body defense mechanism, and this is much more likely to happen than it would be if we addressed ourselves to each isolated symptom or individual problem. [...]

[...] (Persantine.) The more dangerous ones, for God’s sake, turned down the body’s own defense mechanisms and immunity, an effect that really seemed absolutely senseless to me. [...]

[...] Because of his background with his mother he had built up in defense a strong dislike, not merely for illness, for this (Jane, eyes open wide, pointed at me for emphasis), is beneficial, but a strong dislike (pause) that amounted almost (underlined) to hatred, for anyone who was sick, particularly crippled in any way, or hampered in motion.

[...] [When I remarked that I’d like to see her up her trips to four times a day, she at once became defensive, so I cooled it.] I followed her advice and sprayed the linoleum-covered chair seat with furniture polish to make it more slippery, so that she can more easily slide sideways from the chair onto the couch or john. [...]

You have told him that life is far more generous, that there are built-in mechanisms of defense. [...]

It is not simply that a cell suddenly “relaxes its defenses” against disease. [...]

[...] Certainly the drinks must have lowered my defenses, though I wasn’t tight. [...]

The actual words you use, again, no matter how spontaneously chosen, have meanings on many levels, and speak of your own intent, Joseph, as much as Ruburt’s. Before, you see, when I brought up such issues, you would become defensive, thinking “Must I watch every word I speak?” or “How can suggestion be that important?” Ruburt would react the same.

[...] Your art is indeed an excellent defense, used in this manner, for it is an anthem of individuality, and a statement of uniqueness.

He then reverted to the alternate pattern of behavior he learned early (in childhood) as a defense mechanism, withholding his feelings from his own conscious knowledge as well as hiding them from you. [...]

Now, before I let my friends very sweetly and nicely rush to my defense, let me mention that Ruburt also when classes began, made an effort, as our friend over here remembers, to give spontaneous readings which worked very well. [...]