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[...] That, plus your pendulum work, prevents fears from going underground again. [...]

The creative artist can be afraid of letting himself go completely in his life, for fear that he will become so involved that he will forget to stand apart, to look or to listen. [...]

[...] The idea being that she may fear something like invasion, in exaggerated form and so has set up a rigid system of physical, symbolic protection. [...]

[...] None of that spoke of any great emotional exhibitionism, yet both of you feared it. [...]

You are largely over that kind of reaction — yet it is still apt to return now and then when you fear that you have not done as well as you should have, or when you have momentarily caught yourself behaving in old ways. [...]

[...] It obviously expressed my conscious fears about our situation, and in it I ended up lost amid old factory buildings, with the car gone. [...]

[...] (Long pause.) Massage and warm water is of benefit—but of greatest benefit of course is the trust in the body’s processes, for then many healing procedures can continue, while fear of course slows down their effects. [...]

[...] You are so frightened of death, in your terms, that you dare not turn your consciousness off for one second for you fear that if you turn it off, indeed, who will be there to turn it back on again? [...]

Until you are honest with yourself and know yourself and become consciously aware of yourself you cannot honestly relate with others for you project upon them your own fears and your own prejudice, and you cannot afford to help them because you have too many insecurities within yourself. [...]

[...] They also imply the feelings of love and acceptance that are buried beneath your own fears, and those that you are terrified of expressing in physical reality. [...]

[...] There was the fear, then and afterward, of falling back into that “mindless” chasm.

[...] (Emphatic.) He feared it even in his fascination, because he was bound to recognize that it would sweep him and his enemy into insanity or death.

[...] The fear of robbers attracts robbers. [...]

To pretend to ignore your age, to act young because you fear your age, is no answer. [...]

[...] He has projected upon the present event the picture of his fears, rather than the picture of his original intent. [...]

[...] If you understand that, then in a large manner many of your fears will jointly vanish.

Following the accident at TMI, and aside from the great fears “generated” by it, a host of problems began accumulating for the nuclear power industry—involving everything from poor plant design (as Seth commented in the 914th session for Chapter 7 of Dreams), to enormous cost overruns and the fear of default on bond issues, shoddy construction and quality control, human and mechanical error, the disposal of radioactive waste, conflicts with antinuclear and environmental groups, arguments over evacuation plans at various nuclear-plant sites, a greatly expanded list of steps (numbering in the thousands) that the NRC is compiling for utilities to take in order to increase the safety of their plants, and even governmental concern over the possible manipulation and falsification of plant safety records. [...]

[...] Usually such people were joined by common interests, a sense of honor, and there was no retaliation to be feared in this century.

Cults, however, deal primarily with fear, using it as a stimulus. [...]

[...] But Ruburt may as well now continue with this heroic endeavor, although I fear that it will cost us this session. [...]

[...] In fact, they often take actions that inadvertently bring about the feared results, whatever the circumstances in the given case.

Often, however, in their private worlds people have their own versions of the feared probabilities, which they then run through the screens of their minds for good measure, so that they can take steps to avoid whatever catastrophe or near-catastrophe is involved.

[...] (Pause.) A tendency then to run from problems, and a fear of settling in one place.

There is on the one hand a fear of demanding, and on the other hand a tendency to demand too much in personal relationships in which the other sex is involved. [...]

[...] They had to do with my religious upbringing, my joy and appreciation of my creative abilities, and my fear of using them at the same time, lest they lead me astray—or lead my followers astray. [...]

[...] I feared I’d lost all inspiration—that 20 years of answers weren’t enough. [...]

[...] His slowed down simply out of fear. [...]

He was terrified of anyone in such a condition, and he could not allow himself to be compassionate out of fear. [...]

[...] As stated this creed grew out of the last, 584th session for May 3, 1971, Seth Speaks, pages 321 and 322, where Seth discussed the ego’s fear of being swamped by strong creative abilities, etc. I had felt for some time now that Jane entertained fears of this kind, and that they must be resolved.

[...] The ego that is overly fearful for survival will allow little potential to show itself unless that potential is directly connected with physical survival. Actually what happens here is that the ego sells the personality short, out of fear, and denies those very abilities that are needed, and in practical terms.

[...] There was no fear or panic. [...]

[...] Therefore it became much more feasible to approach earthmen during their dream state, when their natural fear reactions were somewhat minimized, and where the danger to the visitors was far less.

[...] The visitor could appear and disappear then without fear of pursuit. [...]

[...] The idea of prevention is always based upon fear — for you do not want to prevent something that is joyful. [...] Not only does the idea [of prevention] continually promote the entire system of fear, but specific steps taken to prevent a disease in a body not already stricken, again, often set up reactions that bring about side effects that would occur if the disease had in fact been suffered.

So the Christmas season carries a man’s hopes in your society, and the flu season mirrors his fears and shows the gulf between the two.