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[...] Joint action seems the only course, but a joint action in which each individual must actually be forced to act, driven by frenzy, or fear or hatred, incensed and provoked, for otherwise the fanatic fears that no action at all will be taken toward “the ideal.”

[...] Their “tendencies” are those that each of you fears you possess. [...]

[...] The first one came early this morning after I’d shoveled but a few scoops of snow in the driveway—no work involved at all, really, but I had to quit for fear of having an “attack” of some kind. [...]

[...] Ruburt has made progress, but both of you still believe that worrying will somehow lead to positive action, that fear will be an impetus.

[...] I might add that I don’t think I for one believe any longer that worrying is the answer to very much, as Seth says Jane and I still believe, nor do I think that fear is going to act as a stimulus to positive action. [...]

[...] She’s been having a lot of spasms, and fears the catheter was loosened enough yesterday that she’ll have to have it changed tonight. [...]

People with so-called secondary personalities also fear their own energy. [...]

Worry, fear, and doubt are detrimental to good health, of course, and these are very often caused by the officially held beliefs of society.

(5:09.) When people become ill, worried or fearful, one of the first symptoms of trouble is a lack of pleasure, a gradual discontinuance of playful action, and an over-concentration upon personal problems. [...]

[...] He was still left, however, with the beliefs in the Sinful Self, and carried within him many deep fears that told him that self-expression itself and spontaneity were highly dangerous. [...]

In the meantime, since he was older, and in the light of our sessions, it seemed to him that he must have outgrown many of the beliefs of early childhood, and that he must have enough perspective so that those earlier feelings and fears no longer applied. [...]

[...] I only know, meanwhile, that what we have been doing so far has led to results that we fear. [...]

[...] A fear of expression is. [...]

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. [...]

[...] His mother taught him to be extremely fearful of his subconscious, and the rigid ego became a protection from it and her. [...]

[...] The ego fears any weakening, for it feels the pressure of the subconscious demand for expression. [...]

[...] It was a fear hidden in my deepest aspects….”

[...] The main barrier is the ego’s fear of being subjugated, even as it fears subjugation imagined in death. [...]

[...] If we can, and we can, overcome his quite natural fears and inhibitions, we can all use this ability with most beneficial results. [...] Actually he early recognized his ability to draw upon added energy, and somewhat feared it.

[...] I see the office of your precious Psychic Society, and your director, but Ruburt fears to make a mistake, and he blocks me.

In all probability there will be some failures, but there will be many successes, and the fear of failure will be our worst inhibiting factor. [...]

The latest of course is the fear of cloning, but our young man does better than any fear-mongers, for he has the personal cloning people in their eerie vans with antennae, chasing him through the streets. [...]

[...] He suffered from the attacks of “magicians” who were stealing his energy: “Plates” of energy were being stripped away from his chest in layers, until he feared his inner self would be exposed. [...]

[...] He told me that within the last five hours something had happened that he’d feared all his life: he’d lost the last of his energy. [...]

You have nothing to fear in terms of physical illness. [...]

[...] While you had no such problem, the difficulty stands for a fear of spontaneous action in an unsafe world.

[...] (Long pause.) There is no doubt that for many reasons given he feared the dependability of your love (long pause, eyes closed), if his actions did not please you. That fear had its roots in his childhood, and of course in the male-oriented culture. [...] He became frightened in particular when he feared that his relationship with Prentice might make you ill.

The search for truth and the fear of leading people astray are the primary points here. [...]

[...] This adds fuel to the fear that he is indeed leading them astray.

[...] At another level he feared that his relationship with me was the result of unconscious fraud, and trickery, that he had indeed become the false prophet, and conned you and everyone else, including himself.

[...] The fear of reincarnation is again a shield for another fear that you have not faced that has nothing to do with reincarnation but has charged the word reincarnation to you. The fear is not connected with reincarnation per se, but as long as you believe, unconsciously, that this is so, you will react in that manner. [...]

[...] There will shortly be no reason for your overconcern and resulting symptoms, for the prognosis will be so certain that your own fear also will disappear.

[...] I haven’t told Jane much about my fears. [...] My fears have been aggravated by the delay in getting our medical records to the insurance company, the length of time it seems to take to get anything resolved—the whole bit. [...]

Creativity cannot exist in the midst of fears that are prohibitive. Fears are restrictive and they hold you back. [...]

[...] He used his own fears to cause the hallucination. [...]

[...] If you perceive them, then they are the materializations of your own fears. [...]

Action at this level is conscious of itself, but the “I” differentiation is not definite enough to fear destruction or painful stimuli. [...] And knowing itself, it knows its basic indestructibility, knows its own oneness, and has no fear of destruction, for it is also part of destruction itself, from which further action will evolve.

Without any acceptance of painful stimuli the structure could never maintain itself, for the atoms and molecules within the structure constantly accept painful stimuli, and suffer even joyfully, their own destruction; being aware of their own separateness within action, and aware of their reality within all action, and not having complicated “I” structures to maintain, there is no reason for them to fear destruction.

[...] It seeks other outlets, and these outlets are caused by fear.

Energy was feared, expression suspicious unless it was directed and tempered in conventional fashions. [...]

[...] He has tried expressing those abilities while feeling he needed all kinds of safeguards, both because he partially shared the belief that energy was dangerous, and because he also feared that other people would react to him in that fashion.

(We discussed Seth’s reference on page 85 to Jane fearing that others might actually look upon her as dangerous because of her abilities. [...]

[...] He is beginning to release that desire, after being afraid of doing so for fear that his full attempts would not work. In your present circumstances, it was more or less inevitable, generally speaking, that when he began to release that desire, the fears that had earlier impeded its release would also come to the fore.

[...] Ruburt fears at times he cannot impress Framework 2 properly, and becomes impatient with himself. [...]

(Seth’s reference, above, to Jane’s fear of going too fast is a reference to an excerpt from the deleted session for January 28, 1981. [...] That one concerns Jane’s fear of the spontaneous self, and how she regarded her immobility as a form of protection.

[...] In such a way buried issues were forced into the light, feared weaknesses or inadequacies were actively played out where they could be properly addressed, assorted and assessed. [...]