“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Affirmation means accepting your soul as it appears in your creaturehood. I said this earlier (in chapters Seven, Nine, etc.), but you cannot deny your creaturehood without denying your soul, and you cannot deny your soul without denying your creaturehood.

(Pause.) That affirmation means that you declare your individuality. Affirmation means that you embrace the life that is yours and flows through you. Your affirmation of yourself is one of your greatest strengths. You can at times quite properly deny certain portions of experience, while still confirming your own vitality. You do not have to say “yes” to people, issues, or to events with which you are deeply disturbed. Affirmation does not mean a bland wishy-washy acceptance of anything that comes your way, regardless of your feelings about it. Biologically, affirmation means health. You go along with your life, understanding that you form your experience, emphasizing your ability to do so.

Individuality grants you the right of making decisions. In your terms this means saying “yes” or “no.” By implication, to always acquiesce may very well mean that you are denying your own personhood.

A man or woman who knows hate also understands the difference between that emotion and love. The ambiguities, the contrasts, the similarities, the affirmation of the creature self, allows for the free flow of emotion. (Pause.) Many disavow the experience of feelings they consider negative. They try to “affirm” what they think of as positive emotions. They do not permit themselves the dimensions of their creaturehood, and by pretending not to feel what they feel, they deny the integrity of their own experience.

Such ideas, practically speaking anyhow, deny you the use of creative energy and vitality you think you had then, that you think you do not have now—the unbridled free energy and exuberance you have equated with youth. By equating it with youth in your mind you deny it to yourself in your present, and therefore deny yourself energy that is (underlined three times) available to be used.

This also denies you in subterranean ways from utilizing certain ideas and concepts. [...]

It may seem that (underlined) impulsive actions run rampant in society, in cultish behavior, for example, or in the behavior of criminals, or on the part of youth, but such activities show instead the power of impulses denied their natural expression, intensified and focused on the one hand into highly ritualized patterns of behavior, and in other areas denied expression.

[...] Again, the desire and motivation to act is so strong within each person that it will not be denied, and when it is denied then it can be expressed in a perverted form. [...]

[...] The desire for suicide is often the last recourse left to frightened people whose natural impulses toward action have been damned up — intensified on the one hand, and yet denied any practical expression.

[...] When such natural impulses toward action are constantly denied over a period of time, when they are distrusted, when an individual feels in battle with his or her own impulses and shuts down the doors toward probable actions, then that intensity can explode into whatever avenue of escape is still left open.

[...] Within your reality it is as foolish to deny the existence of certain thoughts as it would be, say, to pretend that deserts do not exist. In following such a course you deny dimensions of experience and diminish your reality. [...]

[...] The denied mental events did not disappear, however. [...]

In his normal condition Augustus thought of his own powerlessness — for he had denied himself normal aggressive action — and felt this weak. [...]

He became afraid that the body would go out of control and commit violent action, because he was of course aware of the strength of the denied thoughts and feelings. [...]

(Long pause at 9:56.) So controls were needed lest the conscious mind, denied full use of the animals’ innate taboos, run away with itself. [...]

I have used the phrase “moment of reflection” several times because it is another attribute peculiar to the conscious mind and, again in your terms, is largely denied to the rest of creaturehood. [...]

When you do not embrace this conscious knowledge, but refuse it, you are not using one of the finest “tools” ever created by your species, and you are to a large extent denying your birthright and heritage.

[...] So man loses full use of the animals’ regulated, graceful instinct, and yet denies the conscious and emotional discrimination given him instead.

[...] Any serious difficulty here can automatically set forth old time bombs, that have, in the past, been denied energy, you see. [...]

[...] If it is poor, the sleep is poor, and the inner intuitions denied their therapeutic functions.

[...] The symptoms are denied energy and cannot survive.

[...] His energy will then attempt to explode in other fashions, and denied this will feed on its origins and result in physical symptoms.

[...] This denied, his normal spontaneity exploded when it was allowed opportunity, sometimes in unfortunate circumstances. [...] With Zeh, again, Ruburt denied the spontaneous self in normal daily interaction with him; with Zeh. And this denied spontaneous self exploded when and where it could.

It provides for the deepest spontaneous expression of the subconscious, gives the ego a directive and sense of purpose, and develops the overall abilities of the personality, which in the past were completely denied, for lack of training and out of fear. [...]

[...] Ruburt, you cannot deny motion simply because motion can sometimes be used to flee from problems. [...]

[...] If he had written instead, he thought, then he would have been denying the body impulses. The “error” was simply a result of a series of such denied impulses, that he then let loose at once. It is far better, however, to do that and learn than to deny the impulses altogether.

[...] The old fear of spontaneity returned, and the methodical attempt to deny subconscious impulses; the old feeling of unworthiness was also activated, and the body duly denied. [...]

[...] You cannot afford to deny them token recognition. [...]

[...] He denied it full satisfaction in your personal relationship. [...]

[...] Later that evening the torture discussion, you see—this frightened him because his withheld anger and aggression found the talk most satisfying, and Ruburt then and there fought desperately to deny this. [...]

(Pause.) In your hospitals however you take your patients out of their natural environment, and often deny them the comforts of creaturehood. [...] For they intuitively recognize the need to be free, and they sense the lack of the mystic communion with the earth that has been denied them. [...]

This is an abdication of the severest kind, involving both your spirituality and your biological nature; you feel trapped far more than an animal in a dire situation, and you deny yourself the ability to act. [...]

[...] For some time, with her children grown, she had felt alone, unnecessary, denied the structure of vital action in which she had to care for her family earlier. [...]

Dineen, denied the support of the framework she had chosen, would have to face the questions that she had projected there. [...]

[...] To deny creativity is to deny All That Is, is to deny the vitality that was born itself out of its own desire. To deny individuality or to speak in terms of nirvana is to deny the vitality from which all originally came, in your terms. [...]

[...] And in denying it, again, you deny the reality of experience. [...]

[...] But here you were denying your intellectual abilities and projecting outward upon others, a dislike that was of your own making. [...]

[...] Youth is denied its wisdom and old age is denied its joy.

[...] If you assign greater force to the past, then you will feel ineffective and deny yourself your own energy.

If you were sixty, you would be able to use the physical strength you imagined was denied you now, but available then. [...]

[...] You are also denying your own point of action within the present.

[...] To deny the existence of hate then is to deny love. [...]

[...] All natural aggressive elements were denied in their natures, and any evidence of momentary hatred was considered evil and wrong. [...]

[...] The “luxury” of expressing emotion even in exaggerated form was suddenly denied them, and the sense of powerlessness grew by contrast.

[...] You may love a parent, and if the parent does not seem to return the love and denies your expectations, then you may “hate” the same parent because of the love that leads you to expect more. [...]

[...] The ego deals with cause and effect, and often denies particular reactions because it decides that they are not effective. [...]

[...] Yet all characteristic reactions, whether denied by the ego or not, are kept for use as alternative actions. [...]

[...] This sort of grouping together of rejected impulses will occur mainly when the ego’s restrictions are too severe, so hampering that very deep and basic needs of the whole personality are being denied expression. [...]

[...] You felt some self-punishment, denying yourself the trip to make up for what you felt you might have done for her in the past.

[...] At the same time you stay where you are so you can work, while denying yourselves the sense of ease that you could otherwise enjoy.

You have never allowed yourselves creative decorating freedom here, for example, and thus denied yourselves considerable satisfaction. [...]

[...] You cannot deny the reality of the psyche, or those natural feelings that you experience in the flesh. When you begin to alter your perception, then, and your habitual picture of reality drops away, you may well find yourself encountering in distorted fashion elements of your own reality that you have up to then studiously denied or ignored.

[...] It is not necessarily a matter of trying to ignore the contents of the world, or to deny your physical perception. [...]

[...] When you move away, however, you may meet events in time but not in space, and reality that you have tried to deny may then appear vividly. [...]

[...] If you firmly believe, again, that sex is wrong, then your home station may involve you in a life “programming” in which you constantly try to deny the vitality of the flesh. [...]

In the first place you must understand that in your own uniqueness it is futile to compare yourself to others, for in so doing you try to emulate qualities that are theirs, and to that extent deny your own miraculous being and vision. [...]

[...] They may need to be restructured rather than denied.

[...] The same person, years older, may find that the identical belief has been held too long, so that it denies very important emotional give-and-take with contemporaries, or becomes restrictive in other ways.

[...] Women, now trying to assert their rights, often fall into the same trap, but backwards — trying to deny what they think of as inferior intuitive elements for what they think of as superior logical ones.

It means that all options except sexual freedom have been denied. [...] It is being denied expression through meaningful personal relationships, and forced into a narrow expression through a sexuality that then will indeed become meaningless.

In certain circles now it is fashionable to deny the intellectual capacities in favor of feeling, sentiment, or intuitive actions. [...]

[...] The child is also coerced into ignoring or denying those portions of the personality that correspond with the sex it is being taught it cannot identify with. [...]

When you turned from the habit, and would have turned to food for comfort, you denied yourself this out of fear of gaining weight. [...]

The body is trying to tell you that you have a problem, and because you did not cope with it, and denied it mentally, it is physically materialized in symbolic body language. [...]

[...] You feared,and do,that changing your job would deny your family.

[...] In the long run your present situation would deny them far more. [...]

[...] Those that you choose to deny are ignored. [...]

Now these facts do not deny the validity of the soul, but instead add to it immeasurably.

Such an experiment will not carry you too far, however, and the probable self who has chosen the action that you denied, is in important respects quite different from the self that you know. [...]