“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] (Quietly:) A fear of retaining the symptoms could result in maintaining them longer. [...] Anything that is done to minimize that fear is highly important, beneficial, and significant.

[...] He does not need to fear he will be carried away through spontaneity. [...]

[...] Your own illness did literally terrify him, and he feared that if he faced his true doubts concerning my existence, that he would hurt you.

[...] He fears overindulgence. [...]

You fear overinfluencing him, but since your influence is considerable in any case, this is a good time to use it. [...]

[...] There’s no need to go into all the complicated details here; it’s enough to say that the photos Bantam used in Seth Speaks were involved, especially the cover shot of Jane; as well as bids for Oversoul Seven between Pocket Books and Bantam; Jane’s fears that she’d end up committed for two more Seven books she hasn’t written yet; and various misunderstandings concerning ethics, expired option, and an offer to Jane to go to work for Simon & Schuster-Pocket Books, and to take Tam with her.

[...] You hide good fortune for fear it will be taken away. [...]

[...] It shows itself in fears that seem perfectly realistic, and indeed highly practical—the feeling itself is not let go of easily, for you and others rely upon it. [...]

[...] Beside this the dis-ease serves to protect you from the frightening “fear” that if everything goes well something must be wrong, because in an unsafe universe that is a belief. [...]

Attention can be shifted from any physical moment to any probable moment by a sideways parallel imaginative thrust, a sideling off of focus, if the mind can get over its fear of dying to itself.

[...] They will never have to fear it again. [...]

In this case, however, you both sensed your lives at a period of crisis, and projected your fears outward into the formation of the images.

[...] They contained, therefore, all of your fears, for you foresaw that in this system you could become such people — not that this was inevitable, but definitely probable and more than possible.

The feelings involve the fear of being abandoned and alone, outcast. [...] When Ruburt feels that kind of panic it is indeed the small child’s fear of abandonment for being bad (emphatically), and feelings of powerlessness because of the child’s relative lack of power in reference to the adult world. [...]

(Long pause.) Its fears of such feelings, rather than the feelings themselves, cause difficulties, for the repression keeps the Sinful Self forever locked in the past, uneducated, panicky. [...]

[...] It will lead to more confidence, and of itself wipes out the fear that causes most negative conditions. In the exercise you see the house can simply represent fear, for a basic therapeutic method, and the new house confidence.

[...] You will know the plane is a dream image but be able to retain it for your convenience, so that you do not fear falling.

[...] Our friend Ruburt feels triumph in this life to have lived as many years as he has, and to find himself strong and hearty—for he feared that adulthood would destroy him. And (to Sue) that is also your own fear. [...]

[...] You have nothing to fear but me. [...]

[...] Your fears force you to insist upon improvements as fast as possible. [...] On the other hand, the fear also generates anxiety, and sometimes more discomfort, as you interpret it, as a result.

[...] Your fears, generated by the beliefs of your society, of course, add extra anxiety when Ruburt’s eyes look poorly, and he has trouble with his vision.

[...] Your feeling is based upon the fear that you will not find another position. [...] It is the fear that is behind your lack of movement. [...]

[...] If you would have good health, 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.”

[...] It is hardly to be feared. [...]

[...] And all of this without his realizing his basic concept of himself, and without recognizing that he projects his feared weaknesses outward unto others.

[...] The main thing is to remember the body’s good intent, and its ability to follow through because fear of course increases tension on the muscles.

Seth also discussed Jane’s persistent psychological abuse and mistreatment by her mother, Marie, over the years, and the young girl’s resultant deep fear of abandonment. Jane never lost that fear, and needed frequent reassurances that she was a worthy person. [...]

“Outside of that context, none of those fears make any sense at all. In a large regard the church through the centuries ruled through the use of fear far more than the use of love. [...]

As he progressed with the series, Seth delved into Jane’s sinful self from a number of viewpoints: its birth and growth during her intense relationship with the Roman Catholic Church throughout her early years; the development of her very stubborn core beliefs; her creative dilemmas after she left the church in her late teens; the conflicts she began to experience after our marriage, involving on the one hand her sinful self and the religion she thought she’d left behind, and on the other hand science, art, writing, and the unconventional direction she discovered her natural, mystical abilities were taking via the Seth material; her growing fears of leading others astray; and the very real necessity for her—and for each individual—to achieve value fulfillment.

[...] Again and again we scrutinized all of those elements that we thought were bound up in her symptoms: choice, fear of abandonment and the need for self-protection, penance, and the controversial nature of her gifts. [...]

In other words the apparent intensity of the egotistical reactions is a sham on the part of the ego, to hide the fact that it refuses to become involved with action as a whole, because it fears for its permanence. When the ego understands, and it will, that it is a portion of the whole self, and itself a part of action, then indeed it will not fear for its own permanence, for it will realize that being a part of action, its very nature is dependent upon change, and vitality, and value fulfillment.

[...] The personality does not basically recognize or trust the ability of the inner self, and this results in an intense inhibited fear.

[...] The ego is therefore in its present circumstances because it fears itself so solitary, since it has to a large degree cut itself off from its inner self; yet not entirely, for the intuitive still speaks.

It begins to travel down safe paths, and out of fear it continually enlarges the scope of limitations. [...]

[...] A man who fears for his own worth, however, is furious under such conditions. [...]

[...] If you are convinced that feelings are dangerous, then again that belief itself will generate a fear of all of them, and you may become almost panic-stricken if you display anything but the most “reasonable” calm behavior.

[...] It is instead a passive surrender to emotion which is not understood or evaluated, only feared, and at the same time sought.

The fear of your own emotions can do far more damage than their expression, because the apprehension builds up a charge that intensifies the energy behind them.

[...] That fear is precisely what keeps Ruburt from saving the teeth so far. [...] The fears behind the fears are groundless. [...]

[...] The fears and anxieties of course do not help. [...]

[...] They may not be pleasant, but they are expressions, often enough of valid-enough questions and fears that were overlooked or pooh-poohed as insignificant or foolish in the light of this superself image, who was expected to have no doubts, no fears, only flawless performance. [...]

(Long pause at 10:18.) Ruburt felt that fears were beneath him—or should be beneath him. [...]

[...] You fear abandonment for that reason, since you are meant to develop individually while also interacting with others, that interaction giving you the peculiar quality of established civilizations. [...]

In any case the “troublesome” material remained (long pause), relatively inactive more or less—unless and until certain situations arose, unless and until his curiosity and ability led him to actively challenge those ideas while also in a situation where the natural fear of abandonment might be implied or suggested. [...]

[...] In such a way the old fears do not go underground and are not concentrated upon either—but they are taken into consideration and acknowledged, let out into the open daylight, so to speak, where they can also benefit from the personality’s newer knowledge. [...]

[...] When you are not used to trusting the body, then those activities may seem to be causes for alarm—and such fears should be expressed—as long as the other definite feelings of comfort, ease, quickness, or flexibility are also expressed.

[...] They are not creatures to be feared, run from. [...]

[...] Also you tossed fears between you like a ball, so that when one was optimistic the other one was down. [...]

[...] However conscious fears cause the ego to tighten its grasp and some effects of this nature were starting up again. [...] The fact that the fearful ego was beginning to tighten explains your reaction to the exercises. [...] Even the prickles in your neck are like tiny picks chipping away at icy fears.

[...] If for example our tree bark grew fearful of the stormy weather and began to harden itself against the elements, in a well-meaning but distorted protective spirit, then the tree would die. [...]

[...] Nor does it solidify, stopping the flow of sap to the treetop for fear the dumb tree, not knowing what it was up to, would bump its head against the sky.

[...] Fear always contracts.