“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] Later he felt that she would either commit suicide or kill them both while he slept, and he feared the night. (Pause.) In times of stress the old stay-awake-at-night fearful pattern reoccurs. [...]

Basically however you see he has lived through the night; the feared death was powerless against him. [...]

[...] I said I felt that her fears were behind much of her hip discomfort, and she had admitted to feelings of fear several times lately—including today when she did her notes. [...]

A note: Ruburt’s discomfort is indeed aggravated by fears. [...]

He tried too hard at times, however, so that again he concentrates upon the problem in an attempt to solve it, which aggravates the fears. [...]

[...] Your fears, brought to the forefront by the Gallagher episode the week earlier, again surfaced with the event of the chair and Frank’s return. [...]

That fear led you to make, during your short drive, a quick and quite a desperate entreaty into Framework 2. Wanda had several errands, the bank merely one, and it was her lunch hour. [...]

[...] Your fear was definite, and your uncertainty was next. [...]

[...] Ruburt feared that spontaneity had to be tempered, because spontaneity meant unbridled, rampant, uncontrolled impulse. [...]

[...] The only private fears he had were also old ones, having to do with the whole false-prophet syndrome, the fear of leading people down the garden path, and so forth. [...] (Long pause.) He was worried that his natural expression and search, publicly expressed at that point in history, was dangerous because it put him in the gaze of a growing band of fanatics on the one hand, and also roused old fears of a private nature, having to do with the overall validity of revelatory information. [...]

At the same time he feared that the spontaneous self could get him into difficulties (long pause), because he had no way of knowing where his own search might lead him—and particularly he feared that it might lead him into conflict with the rest of the world. [...]

[...] Jane’s fear of being out in the center of the rug, away from a table she could lean on for support, could also represent her fears of abandonment, the casting away of old beliefs and fears. [...]

[...] If, as Seth has repeatedly said lately, Jane was clearing her psyche, then I feared that she’d begun her task too late, mentally and physically. [...] That leaves but one alternative, and my thought and fear is that if Jane goes into the hospital again, the sessions are over—for good. [...]

[...] She didn’t react, as I’d feared she would, merely asking that I wait a bit. [...]

[...] Ida was afraid to see the psychologist again, for fear that therapy would throw up evidence of this feared evil thing, and Dick is afraid of writing poetry again lest the intuitions upset his life. [...]

[...] It lacks what I call good taste, as I’d feared it would, and is too cold and creepy. [...]

The artist’s standard of excellence is often the necessity of keeping his job, and he has to keep his job because he fears he is not after all a true artist, or he would be painting a great painting. [...]

You may be afraid that a beloved child or mate will die suddenly, yet you may never want to admit such a fear. [...] Your own fear, admitted, would lead you to other feelings behind it, and to a greater understanding of yourself.

Unencountered in waking life, however, the fear might cast its dim shadow, so that you dream of your child’s death, or of the death of another close to you. [...]

[...] Instead, the whole portent of the dream event would be an educational one, bringing your fear into clear focus. [...]

[...] Many young people believe such nonsense, and therefore they set themselves up to meet the very conditions they so fear.

[...] There is even an acceleration of thought and inspiration, much like that experienced in the adolescent years, that suddenly brings a new understanding to the aged individual, and provides an impetus that should help the person to achieve greater comprehension — a comprehension that should quell all fears of death.

[...] I laughed, but out of incredulity, not humor, for the other day she’d feared she was getting pneumonia. Once more, I wondered when that cycle of fearful response would end. [...]

[...] It is your fear that you could not survive that made you cling to the relationship. And it is still that fear that would make you want to continue it. [...]

[...] You are well equipped to handle yourself financially and in the business world, but your fear that you cannot do so is making you try too hard for something that should and can come easily. [...]

Consciously you knew this was a rich country in your present life, but unconsciously you held to these old feelings of fear. [...]

But you will find that it is easy for you to support yourself, to find in other words a position and to hold it well, when you realize that these fears are projections from another time that have no relationship to the environment in which you now find yourself. [...]

[...] For while you were adventurous, you also to some extent feared the spontaneous nature that was so a part of your wife, in those terms. [...]

He was afraid that as once he felt he dragged you all over the country, you would fear that he was now dragging you all over the inner universe. [...]

You gave him quite a lecture, but it was nothing like the lecture he gave himself, and it rearoused old fears of giving in spontaneously to impressions or psychic data. [...]

[...] Your illness was then used by Ruburt to bring to the surface of his mind deeply-rooted fears that had been festering beneath. [...]

[...] If you would have good health, if you would have good health for the child, then you must imagine this as vividly as, in fear, you imagine the opposite.

[...] Negative, distrustful, fearful, or degrading attitudes toward anyone work against the self and against the individuals involved. [...]

[...] The inner self is hardly to be feared. [...]

[...] Suggestions given then, good ones, to a mind already distracted by fear or worry, will do little good.

[...] In the same way, if he could count on you in the exercises for a while, this would relieve him of the fear that the project, begun unsuccessfully in the past, and not continued, would follow the same pattern. [...]

In almost all such instances, discipline is taught to believers through the inducement of fear. [...]

Beneath these ideas is the fear of the mind itself, the belief that its abilities are fine and dependable up to a point — but if it goes too far then it is in trouble.

[...] Where his writing is not concerned, and when he relates himself to the world at large, he is timid, fearful, and without the confidence that his inner knowledge of his own worth should certainly give him.

[...] His rather hilarious performance in an unaccustomed social gathering is caused by this fear, and the spectacular aggressive behavior represents an attempt to strike before he is struck.

[...] It goes without saying that a good deal of your resistance in this area is caused by fear. [...]

Discipline is necessary for him, but fear could lay the discipline on with too strong a hand.

[...] This does not mean that a series of crying jags, explosive ones, need be in order, as Ruburt fears, and fears that you fear.

I want to get around your basic fears that emotional freedom is automatically the feeling of negative emotions, though you may initially begin there. [...]

[...] They were driven by such a fear of violence that they dared not allow the physical system freedom even to express it.

[...] They had protected themselves against violence but not against fear.

They were, therefore, subject to all of the ordinary human fears which were then exaggerated, since physically they could not respond even to nature with violence. [...]

[...] The fear of natural forces was, therefore, initially extremely strong in them for the reasons given, and brought about a feeling of separation between man and those natural forces that nurtured him. [...]

[...] Fears are understandable. They are natural, but it is not natural to be ruled by fears.

(Jane’s Tuesday paper on her feelings is evidently a very important one, representing some excellent insights on her part about her repressed impulses, her fears about my reactions to various events, her private nature and public appearances, and related topics. [...]

[...] He has the capabilities that allow him to hold his own very well, blocked only by fears and hesitations. [...]

The poem was the resolution of the fear however, and a good sign. He does not need to fear the sudden release of the spontaneous self. [...] But he has been afraid of releasing it suddenly, for fear it would engulf him. [...]

[...] Now, he has not been aware of his fear of being suddenly released completely. [...]

Your discussion at break was beneficial—for both of you expressed feelings, and fears. Fears should not be concentrated upon, or anger, but they should be expressed. [...]

(10:51 PM—At break we’d also expressed our fears about Jane’s progress, beside talking about the book idea. Jane was especially concerned that every time she improved so far she’d regress because she’d touch upon certain hidden fears that she’d adopted as protection against the world. [...]

[...] Personally, I’d not try it for fear of prying, nor do I think Jane would.