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The will to live can be compromised by doubts, fears, and rationalizations.

(4:27.) If the same kind of event occurs with any frequency, their fear of the world and of daily events may grow until it becomes quite unreasonable. [...]

(“I didn’t want to interrupt while you were reading,” Jane said, “but I began to get what he’s going to say about a whole lot of things … He’s going to get into epilepsy, and say that it’s a result of your fear of your own power, and short-circuits it. [...]

[...] There is no need for either of you to fear that the body is suddenly going to relax into a helpless mass. That is hardly any real danger, and represents simply old fears about the nature of relaxation. [...]

[...] That is exactly what Ruburt has feared, relaxing, so such ideas seem to confirm such needless worries to some degree.

[...] The inner senses led him into a reality he could not manipulate as easily as he could physical camouflage, and he feared what he thought of as a loss of mastery.

[...] Like many others, you feared the inner world so strongly, even though you were somewhat acquainted with it through your art, that nothing but panic would force you to try that invisible knob. [...]

[...] … It was a defect on the receiving end that caused fear on your part. [...]

[...] One point, however: conscious fear is usually the main hindrance as far as inner data is concerned. [...]

[...] (Smile.) The desire for creative accomplishment brings forth the opposite fear of accomplishment. [...] At the point of highest accomplishment, often, you fear that nothing has been accomplished.

[...] These rise up, you see however, in direct proportion to the degree of his independent accomplishments, so that he then fears the accumulated results, social results, of what he has done. [...]

[...] There is not need to be fearful. [...]

[...] It is not immediate, but it is inevitable with the publication of the book, and he fears having money, even though he wants it.

In that system of belief many creative people have felt that safeguards were necessary, for they had been taught to fear their own abilities. [...]

[...] In the old system, you must almost fear personal improvement, lest you become self-deluded—another irony in that old system. [...]

[...] Since she hasn’t been walking much since we embarked on Seth’s new program on June 3, I wondered if her attempts to let go had resulted in some fear on her part. [...]

[...] Because you are so used to the belief in exerting such effort, in the beginning, as I mentioned, some fear can be involved as you begin to let the effort go, while watching to see that you aren’t backsliding instead, or being irresponsible. [...]

Ruburt did experience some fear, but overall has handled it well. [...]

(We also discussed Jane’s fears that she’d done all she could in this life, and thus was ready to bow out of physical existence. [...]

(But so fearful and reluctant are we to face or to grasp ideas about death that run counter to what we’ve been taught, that we’ll literally do almost anything to ourselves in order to prevent nature’s plan from working in its own natural and creative way. [...]

[...] Ruburt did fall prey, in your terms, (underlined twice), to a flu-like condition — but the additional fear added immeasurably, prolonging the situation.

The second layer, still of the personal subconscious, contains those elements most deeply feared for personal psychological reasons, those which somewhat frequently arise as in an earthquake, to shatter the seemingly solid surface of the ego.

[...] As earthquakes cause lava to boil up seemingly from the center of the earth, so do some secondary personalities in their explosive emersion bring with them debris from other levels of the subconscious, often personifying themselves in the guise of those buried and frightening fears that have, until then, found no vehicle for expression.

It is also possible that these secondary personalities, emerging, give access to buried abilities and benign constructive abilities which had been buried beneath heavier fears that weighed them down. [...]

This phenomena is more common however than you would suppose, though unfortunately in many cases the secondary personality gives personification to buried fears and fantasies that are unhealthy to the dominant personality. [...]

[...] A definite, biologically pertinent fear alerts the body, and allows it to react completely and naturally. [...] Though consciously you were not afraid, there was a biologically pertinent fear that was acted upon.

[...] Left alone, the body can defend itself against any disease, but it cannot defend itself appropriately against an exaggerated general fear of disease on the individual’s part. [...] Usually, now, your entire medical systems literally generate as much disease as is cured — for you are everywhere hounded by the symptoms of various diseases, and filled with the fear of disease, overwhelmed by what seems to be the body’s propensity toward illness — and nowhere is the body’s vitality or natural defense system stressed.

If, however, you dwell mentally in a generalized environment of fear, the body is given no clear line of action, allowed no appropriate response. [...]

Because now you fear that the situation may become a way of life, you are finally both willing to take more direct action. [...]

[...] The rich emotional contact and encounters that are possible between you became clogged by inhibition and fears. [...]

Aggression or fear may rise up. [...]

Now Ruburt inhibited the negative emotions, so-called, first of all because of his own background—the fear of arguments, of hurting someone, as explained clearly in other sessions. [...]

Fear of the self, itself, can lead people to the horrendous experiences mentioned in tonight’s session, so you are working with some revolutionary ideas, and trying to apply them to daily living.

We consider fear an extremely primitive use of energy, as you might consider fire primitive in comparison to nuclear activity. Fear we understand, however, as a barrier thrown up in panic; and it is of tremendous force (pause), it’s intensity having nothing to do... [...]

[...] There must be openings through storms of fear, doubts or angers. [...]

[...] Because of Mark’s background, subconsciously he fears Negroes; and the fear is so great, unfortunately, that it becomes a fascination. [...]

[...] However he felt quite guilty over this, for the man is a Negro, and he feared that his dislike would be taken as discrimination. [...]

[...] At this time, not having practiced self-hypnosis consciously, Jane had a great fear of dentists. [...]

[...] He feared most strongly that he would have to visit Colucci, and went to the doctor rather than see the dentist—although Colucci was out in the yard, and Ruburt saw him, as he will now remember.

(And no matter what Seth says, I’d still like some material on the extremes of Jane’s behavior to her fears of ridicule, guilt, being attacked — the whole bit. I guess I was thinking that it’s even okay to have fears, even strong ones, without going all the way with them so that they end up rendering one helpless. [...]

[...] The relatives at first refused to help, seemingly out of fear of Miss Callahan herself. [...]

You want to help but fear to move. [...]

They also share other beliefs, for example: That the inner self is a repository for repressed fears, terrors, and uncivilized savagery; that the inner self must be forced to get rid of such material before it is possible for it to express its power, energy and strength in creative, positive terms; and that, therefore, the self must first encounter and deal with all those terrors of its past before it can be free of the fears of the present.

[...] He felt that some good had been done, yet he also feared that some unnecessary and dangerous tampering might also be accomplished.

[...] It knows it was born out of the death of its predecessor, and for all its feelings of transcendent joy, natural enough at its birth, it fears that annihilation from which it sprang.

[...] He fears authority. This fear of authority is one of the reasons for his admirable independence of mind and spirit.

He can’t crack a smile without fearing that this will be taken as a sign of apple polishing, because apple polishing of course implies a feeling of inferiority on the part of the apple polisher. [...]

[...] They hide the inner extravagance which he fears, gives in to in partially accepted ways. [...]

This contest between you had much to do with Ruburt’s fear in obtaining reincarnational material that could perhaps be checked. [...]

He has been afraid of directing either outward for fear of hurting others. [...]

You felt oils murky, representing the subconscious hidden fears and desires of which you were frightened. [...]

[...] You were afraid of letting go with oils, for fear of facing the subconscious forces they represented. [...]

When you fear the worst will happen, you often are showing quite real faith in a backwards fashion, for with no direct evidence before your eyes of disaster, you heartily believe it will occur—you have faith in it (with emphasis and irony). [...]

[...] Ruburt does not have to fear that he must give up some creativity for physical freedom, for the two go hand in hand.

[...] Before, Ruburt’s fear prevented him from even acknowledging many such impulses to act. [...]

Since you did not clearly state your intents for, say, normal walking and flexibility, and had little faith in it, then you feared that improvements could not be trusted, for in your experience they went so far and no further. [...]

[...] To pretend such situations do not exist, out of fear of them, will only bring the feared reality closer. [...]

(10:10.) Personal grudges would not build up, so that men or women so fear further hurts that they attempt to hide from life or relationships, or shy away from contact with others. [...]