“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] Ruburt knew the earlier test was poor, and he set up defenses.

I came to the defense of Ned and the poor fish and of Ned, the poor fish. [...]

[...] Each person has his own built in defense mechanism against your ill will. [...]

[...] Her body defenses were lowered. [...]

[...] Each of us has our own defenses against negative suggestions, and we should trust in our own immunity. [...]

When I’m reacting emotionally and Rob gives me a reasonable reply, it always puts me on the defensive. [...]

[...] Thoughts can kill, these people think — as if the individual against whom such an impulse was directed had no protective life-giving energies of his or her own, and no natural defense.

[...] You set up defenses, privately and jointly, providing justifications, so that you could do your own thing, and “hold your head up” in the world of those beliefs. [...]

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

[...] People do have a natural defense. [...]

[...] It focused so defensively on its own material that it was hampering its flow of creativity, while the “unacceptable” aspects of Ruburt merrily went on creating other books, not even including my own.

Ruburt then is now realizing there is no authority to fear, no need for the defense, and no one he need hide from. [...]

Therefore defenses are required in direct proportion to the “hostility.”

(Long pause.) Because you believe that physical self-defense is the only way to counter such a situation then you will say, “If I am attacked by another person, are you telling me that I cannot aggressively counter his obvious intent to destroy me?”

—you are defensive, because you realize too well now the effect of your negative thoughts in this direction. [...]

His ego would have been in great danger of becoming a rigid prison for his intuitive self, because of the necessary defensive mechanisms it had to adopt against the most difficult and threatening aspects of his mother’s personality.

[...] Not one to be on the angry defensive about, but merely alert. [...]

[...] The situation was simply the point at which the cat, in self-defense, threw back the destructive energy which it had received, and I must say in fury and full measure, and in the only way it knew.

[...] A necessary defense mechanism, which is part of each personality.

[...] They are initial defenses, and oftentimes they are highly negative. [...]

More difficult to achieve is an experience in which the ego becomes more alert in self defense. [...]