“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] In such cases you have two cross-purposes operating — the desire to express oneself, and the fear of doing so.

Like the alcoholic’s wife mentioned earlier, such a person might suddenly feel struck by a sense of panic, rather than relief, thus experiencing for the first time the fear of motion that underlay the problem.

Yet why should motion be feared? [...]

[...] To me it sounded obviously symbolic of his fear of death and his battle against surrendering to it. [...]

[...] He fears that you fear this.

He fears that you will feel forced to give him more love than you want to. [...]

[...] Also however he had shut down so many spontaneous feelings toward you, because he feared them, that it was difficult to be spontaneous when he wanted to be.

[...] He suddenly began to withdraw his energy in fear, and created what you could think of as an implosive hole that had begun to drain your existences.

[...] The execution, which you feared, was a symbol for the death of many hopes, both financial hopes and artistic ones. For you would have to get further work, you feared, to help your parents. [...]

[...] I followed, holding my breath, and felt no shock or fear especially. [...]

[...] I thought of Jane but did not see her, and still felt this sadness and concern much more than any fear. [...]

[...] You are not but you fear that your family situation, your parent situation, could put you in a like condition.

[...] In other areas he feared that the spontaneous self could lead to childbirth. In the psychic area he was afraid it could lead to falsehood, much more for example than he feared anything like schizophrenia. [...]

[...] Any fear is not of the session. [...]

When you were ill and did not have sexual relations often, he feared that his desires then could even lead him to physical unfaithfulness, and so on all counts the habit of repression and of physical repression also built up. [...]

(“When The Seth Material was published and we went on tour: did this revive or intensify his fears about leading people astray?”)

(I’d also like to note that it’s all very well for “it” to proclaim that we have nothing to fear. Actually, I agree with that statement, while also being quite aware of my own humanness and the numerous pitfalls, real and imagined, that could stand between my performance and feeling as an individual and that greater state where there isn’t anything to fear. [...]

There is, however, nothing to fear, and knowing this also gives you great salvation and refreshment. [...]

(Before the session I explained that I didn’t think feelings of hopelessness had much to do with it, since if the background fears were dispensed with the body would automatically right itself, and those feelings would vanish. [...] I said I needed reinforcement myself over my fears about her condition, and she answered that she might have to initiate a program of walking with the table, soon, if she didn’t spontaneously start doing more walking.

This does not mean of course that you must helter-skelter have a burst of interviews of visitors—but after three or four encounters with people of any supposed authority, Ruburt is then in a position to make new decisions on such matters, based on current knowledge and his own preferences: and he will no longer avoid such adventures out of fear.

[...] His fears would have prevented it. [...]

[...] In spite of the very reasonable tone of the material in it, to me it seemed to fly in the face of all of the accumulated fears that had been bugging me, and Jane also, I thought. [...]

[...] It is, however, the result of psychological manipulation of fear; and fear is not a basic psychological structure.

The individual then constructs fear and hatred into physical construction, giving fear and hatred definite physical form. [...]

[...] The physical construction is then perceived by the outer senses as threatening and fearful, and influences through the outer senses the inner individual, so that he begins a vicious circle in an attempt to form further, more threatening physical constructions to combat the earlier ones. And the greater the number of such destructive physical constructions, the greater his expectation of further fear.

Inadequate perception, manipulation, or construction in the psychological structure of consciousness survival leads to the psychological creation of fear and hatred.

I remind the reader that after break ended at 11:35 in the last session (the 804th in Chapter 1), Seth had this to say: “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.”

[...] A generalized fear and suspicion is generated, and life too often becomes stripped of any heroic qualities. [...]

[...] Here the generalized fears fostered by religious, scientific, and cultural beliefs are often given as blueprints of diseases in which a person can find a specific focus — the individual can say: “Of course, I feel listless, or panicky, or unsafe since I have such-and-such a disease.”

Your current ideas of preventative medicine, therefore, generate the very kind of fear that causes disease. [...]

[...] My Dean, the spontaneous self that you so fear is the self that speaks to Bega. Then it is not a self that you have to fear. [...] And you do not fear the coming of the seasons. [...]

[...] To the extent that you fear, you create a fearful reality. [...]

[...] If the unconscious is no longer feared, then the races that symbolized it are no longer to be feared either.

[...] The unconscious, the color black, and death all have strongly negative connotations in which the inner self is feared; the dream state is mistrusted and often suggests thoughts of both death and/or evil. [...] The fear of self-annihilation, symbolically thought of as death, can then no longer apply as it did before.

[...] You do not have energy dammed up through repressions, for example, and emotions and their expression are not feared.

In your present system of beliefs, and with the dubious light in which the unconscious is considered, a fear of the emotions is often generated. [...]

[...] You fear moods more than he does, because of the constant emotional gyrations in which your mother is constantly involved. You fear Ruburt’s moods also, for this reason, fearing that you might be swept away by them. For as a child you feared you would be swept away by the raw emotions of your parents, and you feel insecure at such demonstrations. [...]

Again, you Joseph feared aggression in the past so strongly that you would not allow yourself to even recall such dreams a year ago. [...] He fears violence. [...]

[...] He is more than you afraid to face natural aggression, and both of you are fearful here.

[...] It was a statement of fear, and fear’s resolution. [...]

[...] Jane feared the book, which she regards as the beginning of Oversoul Seven, would be lost in a tiny printing. [...]

By then, however, Ruburt began to fear that he was headed for trouble—that he was too impetuous, headstrong and impulsive. [...]

[...] So many old fears were based upon misconceptions on the part of the personality that in younger years found itself to be quite different than its contemporaries, and gradually began to set up defenses against them.

[...] As I’ve mentioned recently before, the fear itself could have by now—must have—acquired a life of its own, after all of those years, and it would as an entity resist being dispensed with, or transformed. If only Jane could understand that she had nothing to fear by way of abandonment from me, I thought. [...]

[...] Then she said she thought her fright was connected to her fear of abandonment as a child—and that she would finally make life so miserable for me that I’d leave her. [...]

(I replied that if I was involved in that fashion, then I had to be a late link in a long chain of such fears. [...]

[...] A primary one was why Jane’s personality would continue behavior that could bring on the threat of abandonment, as she saw it—the symptoms—if she had such a fear of that possibility. [...]

nor need we fear the directions in which

I do not fear that the earth will lead

and we fear neither parent or children

[...] “Panic and fear—fright—is the closest I can come to it all,” she said. “Nothing evil, but certainly a fear of letting go, of expression, maybe abandonment.” [...]

[...] Those feelings were the ones that he experienced this morning—the fear that the self’s very expression was somehow wrong, since the self itself was intrinsically flawed. [...] It is not that they are so fearful in themselves, but the effort to repress them gives them additional charge. [...]

[...] It was hard for her to verbalize her feelings, to even tell me about them, but she felt waves of panic and fear sweep through her—not hidden or covered up now, but faced and admitted, although with much difficulty. [...]

[...] When you fear that man will most certainly destroy himself through his misuse of technologies, then you are expressing the same feeling in different form expressed by the religious attitude—only religion’s devils are turned into technological devices. [...]

[...] He shies away from this, fearing that it is negative, or that it will upset you and make him feel worse. Fearing you see the noise, the undisciplined—to him—release.

When you made the remark about tour, Ruburt repressed the fear invoked, wanting to show you that he no longer was so sensitive. [...]

[...] This implies the fear that they will not appear, not the faith that they will. [...]

It involves the fear of criticism, that he will be criticized for being discouraged. [...]

The fear then colored his other attitudes and reactions. His fear of the tooth pain was a physical interpretation of his fear of facing the dilemma, the pain of bringing it out into the open. [...]

He had to realize his fear and his terrible dilemma in regard to Eleanor because it showed in concentrated form his own fear about his being able to succeed on his own, hence his dependence, that made him resent Eleanor. [...]

[...] She is writing down her fears, angers, good points, etc., each day. [...]

[...] The charge built up, for him (underlined) about time and work, is masking of course his fear of not achieving as he wants to. [...]

[...] (To Sue again.) For if your own fears for the individual become involved, then it is more difficult for you to perceive the reality. [...] If the fears happen to be fears that you have yourself encountered, you will be drawn to them. [...]

It was not projection alone, but your own fears can act to attract the fears of others and then you bear twice the burden. Now only your fears, but those that you are perceiving, so therefore, let your own go first. [...]

[...] It will help all of you if you imagine it as a platform and see yourselves throwing all your fears off one by one, and it would help if you do this before you begin working on anyone else. Otherwise your own fears can hamper you. [...]

[...] He feared them, adopting instead now the opposite tendency.

The symptoms occurring much less frequently now in the middle of the night refer back to preadolescent fears of immobility because of the parent. [...]

If he had awakened you, or if he would, the comfort of your presence would largely dissipate the symptoms, for it is the fear of being alone and immobile, you see, that is to him at such times, because of the parent, terrifying. [...]

[...] This oversubmissiveness was caused by fear, and masqueraded as a quite legitimate loyalty. [...]

(Long pause.) These can often serve as springboards, however, leading to greater understanding, and the feelings themselves do indeed help rid you of fears and doubts that are expressed through such a medium. [...]

[...] It worked out okay, yet it reflected my state of mind often these days — my fears, probably on a lot of subjects.

(I do think Seth offered an excellent insight when he said that the blue periods on both our parts were ways of expressing fears. [...]