“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

His fears prevent him from happily using the knowledge. [...]

[...] He feels guilty when you are working if he is not, for fear you will think his success is coming too easily. [...]

[...] Those values on Ruburt’s part in particular have been contaminated, so to speak, by the fears and issues we have earlier spoken of. [...] You can still leave open your decision about medical help, or make it, or whatever, but you will not use fear as an impetus. [...]

[...] The ultimate fear had manifested itself, then: Jane was no longer able to maneuver in the bathroom. [...]

[...] My own fears left me seeing visions of a drastically changed relationship between us, and a different life-style, one probably considerably less private if she needed nursing care, say, “What are you trying to do to me?” I demanded, and so forth. [...]

[...] Because of Ruburt’s background (long pause), he feared abandonment often. [...]

[...] You did indeed see your father (as my pendulum told me) not as a man who failed in several important areas, but as a failure in all areas: as a husband, breadwinner, father. (Pause.) You identified with him however out of fear of your mother’s emotionalism. [...]

He fears that you will interpret this as a threat of castration. [...]

[...] To be fearful for time is to neglect its full use.

[...] While Ruburt had no money there was no fear of this.

Such a consideration, however, immediately shakes old beliefs and fears in a kind of clamor. [...]

[...] (Pause.) Now in many ways you and other people close your eyes to such probabilities when they do present themselves, so that fears overall predominate, while any desirable characteristics or benefits of whatever quality largely remain unexplored and inactive. [...]

[...] Ruburt received another letter today (which I have yet to read), from someone experimenting with the kundalini version of energy, in which the final results were poor, leading to a fear of energy itself. [...]

[...] and I did fear that the extra work couldn’t but help cut into painting time, or typing time, or whatever. [...]

[...] Your dream brought your fears to the surface of your mind, and when those fears became conscious both of you determined to show yourselves that Ruburt was indeed safe and protected. [...]

[...] His creative abilities have not deserted him, but it is that fear that they will if they are not consciously, persistently exerted that bothers him. [...]

In this life Ruburt feared a laxness within himself because of his mother’s remarks about his father. [...] He feared he did not have the wisdom to use them wisely. [...]

In dealing with these records he was suspicious of creativity, for he feared it could lead to original alterations where instead a literal interpretation was important. [...]

[...] He feared that his students would not have the same kind of integrity. [...]

[...] 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 is Ruburt of course whose moods are more noticeable, but he still should feel free to discuss his fears with you when he is in a poor mood. For even if you are not filled with faith at such times, you can usually recognize that his fears are exaggerated rather than realistic, even in those terms.

You have both been afraid that Ruburt would not return to normal flexibility, to have faith in that situation, for fear your hopes would be aroused then dashed. [...] Again, because your fears did not allow you to express or release that desire.

[...] You were not driven by fear, but desire, not by doubts but by hope and faith. [...]

[...] (A great line.) The fear of the situation does not help, of course, for any such tension holds back the relaxing process—and the eyes are relaxing, and the neck and tendons, for example, letting go. [...]

(To Florence.) And there is no reason for you to fear the session you have in mind. [...] There is no need to worry about my knowing your fears. The worry is that you do not know your own fears. [...]

[...] Later you can wipe them off, but do not discard the entire experience because you fear these specks of dust. [...] You will not lose him in a nether land or some forsaken place where you cannot reach him, so do not fear that. [...]

(To Florence.) And do not allow fears to limit you. [...]

[...] You cannot be hounded from one level of reality to another by a fear that you do not understand. You cannot be threatened in this life by fears from your early childhood, or by so-called past existences, unless you so thoroughly believe in the nature of fear that you allow yourselves to be conquered by it. [...]

[...] You are not, therefore, at the mercy of any neurosis from a past life, nor are there any fears from your present lives that you cannot conquer. [...]

[...] An earlier particular fear felt during the day involving, say, a loss of a job may then be translated when you close your eyes into a series of seemingly unrelated symbols, all however connected to that one fear.

[...] You might, instead, translate the fear into a frightening physical sensation, and suddenly feel that you are falling, or that something unpleasant touched you.

[...] If you let yourself drift off into sleep here, you would most probably manufacture two or three dreams that symbolized the fear, dreams in which you consider and try out possible solutions within the dream context. [...]

[...] through your most intimate desires and thoughts and fears. You change the exterior circumstances by changing your thoughts and your desires and by forgetting your fears. [...]

[...] I am plagued by fears whenever I consider any particular direction—perhaps even the fear that I will not be able to measure up to my expectations. [...]

[...] For no matter what I tell you, you still seem to fear as if you are limited and as if your self is something within your head bounded by your bony skull, and enclosed within your physical body. [...]

[...] For instead, you form physical pictures that are replicas of your fears. [...]

[...] First of all, there were some elements of fear combined with fear having to do with underlying fears that you are having difficulty—in the physical universe, and you acted this out with the hand. [...]

Now, once again, while our Lady of Florence voices her doubts and fears, these are also doubts and fears that have lurked in the back of your own minds so bring them out into the open. [...]

I said earlier that two things were involved and one was fear. I did not say the fear was justified. [...]

[...] It was a feared image of himself, wrapped too tightly in the bedding, which represented the restraints of old beliefs. [...]

[...] The earlier portions of the dream did, however, represent fears that Ruburt was, say, dying of suffocation—not physical suffocation, but from being bound too tightly.

[...] Ordinarily the last life before this would have adequately compensated for the Denmark experience, but the mother situation in this life reawakened the fear of giving in to impulse, and tended to overstrengthen the desire for discipline, which was based on fear.

[...] Your psychic state of nervousness, fear, lack of confidence and lack of focus as far as utilizing your artistic abilities were concerned, began to build up like many encircling walls. [...]

[...] However when the ego becomes involved with fears to a greater or lesser extent, it ceases to be an effective tool and becomes instead a hammer hitting you incessantly over the head.

[...] For a certain amount of time, according to your condition, they automatically create the patterns of fear that belong to the ego.

[...] She became especially aware of her own impulses and fears of what would happen if she gave in to those impulses. They all added up to a steady barrage of self-criticism and fear of not writing, of perhaps doing the dishes instead, or cleaning the house, of making more work for me, of time spent answering the mail—whatever it might be. [...]

If possible, you should make an effort to conquer the fear involved with levitations, for the fear prevents you from recalling such experiences. [...]

Ruburt, on one occasion, created a window thought-form on the blank wall through which he actually flew, simply because he held fears and could not imagine going through a solid wall. [...]

It is his fingers that want to grasp firmly, and he out of fear, fearful habit, has blocked the impulse. [...]

[...] This is important, for to him running is a happy, spontaneous activity, and he has blocked the impulse at times rather consciously because he feared he could not do it, that it would hurt or that he would look silly.

Now: fears should be discussed, but not dwelt upon, for unrealistic fears disappear in the light of realistic discussion.

Fanatics cannot allow such experiences, because they do not want their fears tempered.

[...] You must find within yourselves the willingness, the energy, and the intent—the willingness to take a chance, and not to so fear failure.

If you doubted yourselves and feared for the basic goodness of your beings, Ruburt far more than you, then this doubt was still relative and not absolute. [...]

[...] With the continuation of the physical restraints other problems grew, and Ruburt would become frightened that his body could not indeed heal itself, and you feared the same. [...]

[...] And if that happened, he feared that you might retaliate, either by becoming ill, or by becoming eventually cool to him.

[...] He is somewhat afraid of mentioning any improvements, for fear either that you will not approve of them, or that you will, and then be disappointed on the following day. [...]

[...] He is able however, now, to face realities, allow himself motion, and not fear that motion will automatically mean cowardly flight.

[...] (Long pause.) She fears the presence of her husband’s other self, but does not know this consciously.

This also has something to do with Ruburt’s fears if he is not financially contributing to your establishment. [...]

[...] Then any old fears become present, and are subject to solutions that the adult finds.