“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] It has its own defenses and abilities, and each portion of it strives for a quality of existence that will bring to the smallest parts of it the spiritual and biological fulfillment of its own nature.

[...] Part of this was probably defensive. [...]

[...] A world may be tumbling down upon you, for example, yet there is no adequate physical defense or retaliation possible.

Are we biologically unable to perceive any of these events, or do we have psychological blind spots as defense mechanisms to prevent our being overwhelmed by reality as it actually is? [...]

I will never either suggest or condone a wholesale letting go of outer personality defenses. [...]

[...] Indeed, you would automatically put up a defense, because you considered not hearing to be important to your survival. [...]

[...] I do not tell you this to make you feel badly, only to show you once again that you should trust your impulses, because in your particular case your ego has overbuilt its defenses.

[...] She reminded me also that even the title of Mass Events, when Seth had given it, had alarmed her, or at least aroused some sort of defensive mechanism in her—something I’d forgotten. [...]

The self becomes operationally scattered or divided, so that if one portion of it is attacked, the other portions can rise up in defense. [...]

[...] It seemed that that self had been at last goaded into rising to its own defense; for five days she wrote in periods of excited strain as it gave forth its contentions and defenses through 36 handwritten pages. [...]

[...] At the seminar Peggy was surprised to hear the name of Secretary of Defense McNamara brought up rather strongly in connection with Sargent Shriver and the poverty program. [...]

[...] Seth told us a number of times that Jane did not have arthritis, like her mother Marie did, but had instead started to develop deep self-protective defense mechanisms at an early age as a result of her chaotic and fatherless upbringing.