“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] They cause a physical situation in which the body is placed in a state of defensive aggression. [...]

[...] When you realize this emotionally then there is no need for defenses against portions of yourself, or against the world. [...]

Each of you built up your own set of defenses, because you did not believe that the universe was safe for creativity. [...]

Your need for defense exists in direct proportion to your feelings about the world, and your feelings about your own strength or power. [...]

Whenever you reinforce the ideas of threat, defense must be built up. [...]

[...] Oftentimes also those in attendance, the doctors or other healers are themselves tired, prone to the patient’s emotional fears, and automatically in self-defense respond by giving voice to the patient’s subconscious dread, picking it up telepathically but feeling it is directed at themselves, on a subconscious level of course.

[...] The body’s defenses, with oftentimes insufficient energy at their command, attempt to hold the fort and make repairs, until the needed energy is again available.

Privately, then, you will to some extent or another have to take up defenses against that reality. [...]

Collecting such distorted data about inner or outer worlds can only make an individual build up defenses, or want to. [...]

[...] I felt defensive and guilty; he was trying emotional blackmail, and I didn’t want to see him. [...]

[...] If you would but once give up the defenses that you have set between what you think of as your intellect and what you think of as the rest of the self. [...]

[...] A large variety of “manufactured” drugs offer an unfamiliarity to the body’s innate structure, which can lead to strong defense mechanisms. [...]

Your ideas about foreign countries, allies and enemies, also have a vital role to play in how you handle your own bodily defenses. [...]

[...] To a large degree its own defense mechanisms protect it from the mind’s negative beliefs — at least to a large extent. [...]

[...] It seemed that once again the body’s natural defense mechanisms were being interfered with, according to Seth — but then, why were we here to begin with? [...]

[...] The cold to some extent restored the gums, by activating defensive mechanisms in the mouth and head regions.

Ruburt’s symptoms were largely protective in nature, providing a defense he felt he needed to protect himself against an unsafe universe from without, and against a suspicious self within.

[...] On some occasions therefore his fears, and defense of you, would prevent excellent material, and at other times his fierce defense of himself would prevent it.

[...] It became a defense mechanism. [...]

Individually, each “victim” was to one extent or another a “victim” of apathy, despair, or hopelessness, which automatically lowered bodily defenses.

Not only do such states of mind lower the defenses, however, but they activate and change the body’s chemistries, alter its balances, and initiate disease conditions. [...]

If you believe, however, that such a fever is very detrimental, and you are afraid of it, believing furthermore that only an aspirin or other drug will help relieve you, then it becomes necessary to take advantage of such a medicine—because you do not believe enough in the body’s own defense system. [...]

You have built defenses so strongly that you have not heard the voice of the inner self. [...]

[...] They overreact, or overmobilize, using a disproportionate amount of energy and time for defense, and taking energies away from other projects. [...]

[...] Her tears put you on the defensive, he felt. [...]