“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

It is only because civilized man has somewhat overspecialized in the use of one kind of knowledge over another that people fear the unconscious, spontaneous portions of the self. The fear alone causes them to block out still more and more unconscious knowledge. [...]

Many people, however, fear spontaneity: it evokes extravagance, excesses, and dangerous freedoms. [...]

[...] Therefore, they hide those yearnings, and the destructive impulses actually serve to protect them from the expression of love that they have somehow learned to fear.

Now: (Long pause.) Personal fears never exist as a result of personal experience alone. [...]

[...] Fears should not he inhibited, but encountered, and yet behind all of them, in your time at least, lies the feeling that the individual is powerless against the conditions of his body or the events of the world.

[...] The ideas, for example, in Personal Reality are exactly those that will resolve his doubts and remove his fears, and the techniques given do work.

Your immediate situation and all past ones, regardless of personal fears, which should not be discounted, result from Ruburt’s until-now determined decision to stand critically apart from his intuitional knowledge. [...]

The effort made in any creative change would be nothing compared to the constant feeling of unease that could result simply from a fear of change. In a fear of change there is only tumult, and no peace. [...]

[...] In addition, my pendulum told me today that my hand symptoms stemmed from my fear of failure as a fine artist—nothing else.

He also often voices some of your own fears. [...]

With all of his repressions, love-making became the most loaded time, for in a moment of weakness he feared he might spill out his feelings about your job and all the other material that has come to light.

Fears and deep worries were not given physical expression. [...]

Do not let the fear he told you of this evening go below the surface again.

(At the supper table Jane expressed a fear that, although both of us are well aware of it, she seldom mentions: that she won’t be able to recover, that the symptoms have gone too far, have been around too long for full recovery, etc. [...]

[...] The fear can make him do this, so he seems even far worse physically that he is. [...]

In this value system the black races are feared, as, basically, the aged are feared. [...]

[...] There was always a great fear that the blacks as a race would escape their bounds — given an inch they would take a yard — simply because the whites so greatly feared the nature of the inner self, and recognized the power that they tried so desperately to strangle within themselves.

[...] With the current concepts held by your society, men and women fear old age from the time of youth. [...]

[...] They fear that their very age, or existence in time, has betrayed them. [...]

The impetus behind the compulsive activity was fear, and the fear was directed against the mother. [...]

[...] He was constantly told to slow down, to use discipline, and this reinforced the fear that what he was, was fearful, powerful, evil, and best hidden.

[...] The old fear of spontaneity returned, and the methodical attempt to deny subconscious impulses; the old feeling of unworthiness was also activated, and the body duly denied. [...]

[...] And in all such identifications, there is the feeling that by becoming that which one fears, there is safety. [...]

[...] We have fear and rage on the part of the girl, for despite the children she is yet a girl, and a very nice one. [...]

She feels threatened by serious conversations, Philip, for she fears the unknown. [...]

Your anger is interpreted simply as violence, and she fears it. [...]

She fears, for one thing, that you could run the house more efficiently than she can, and basically that you do not need her. [...]

[...] I tried to put the situation in perspective: “You’re trying to excise your fears of your mother, which in turn led to your being afraid of the world and your own fears of death, ‘cause you carried your idea of protection from the world so far …”

(“Right now,” Jane said, “the fear seems to be that despite myself I’m going to die.”

[...] “It’s just another fear. [...]

[...] You do not have to fear the spontaneous. You do not need to fear that if you allow yourselves freedom you will travel into evil ways. [...] But the inner selves, knowing their position within All That Is, do not fear denial. [...]

[...] The dreams that you have will come to pass but beware of the fears—for fears also come to pass—rip them out. [...]

[...] He feared the same fate. [...] To the child the father simply vanished from the face of the earth, an equally fearful fate.

[...] The main reason that he does not see her is not because he fears her, but because he fears the violence in himself that he has never dared direct toward her.

I am trying to explain this rather thoroughly, for once he realizes these connections he will not need to fear this quite human and natural aggressiveness. It only turns into violence, and into a fear of violence, when it is so meticulously denied.

[...] You were quite right in saying that Ruburt fears violence. [...]

Ruburt’s student Venice must have her weight, or she fears destruction. Ruburt must have his failure, and relative poverty, or he fears destruction.

[...] One portion fears success is coming regardless of all its attempts to hold it back. The other fears that it is being restrained despite all efforts to escape. [...]

[...] He is deeply afraid of finishing his book for fear it will sell. [...]

He fears destruction in the terms of being a complete cripple. [...]

[...] The eye condition did result from fears, and in a way “compensated” for other improvements, but not in any specific manner. Ruburt’s general uncertainty and fears with the progress of his improvements led him to over-compensate, in muscular terms, causing lacks of balances otherwise unnecessary as the large areas of the neck and jaws began to relax and release.

What you have then was Ruburt’s desire to have his teeth fixed, when it was obvious that he must, and his fear that he could not perform adequately at this time. [...]

[...] That feeling dissolved Ruburt’s fear of Paul as a dentist. [...]

The fear that the eye difficulty might be a serious disease caused further tension, of course. [...]

[...] That is, if an editor changed your copy you would be annoyed, but reproduction, you fear, can change the copy of a photograph or a painting if it is not done properly. [...]

[...] She did not like to have her picture taken on the one hand because she feared disclosure, and on the other hand, because her sense of perfection was affected—particularly in later years by an imperfect image.

[...] But my reluctance was based, I thought, on my resentment at Prentice-Hall over their handling of art work; I really didn’t want to let the photos in question out of the house, for fear they’d be lost, etc. [...]

Again, the bulk of the body’s difficulties have been caused by tension and fear. The reasons for the tensions and fears have largely been dispensed with. [...]

Every once in a while the fear rises that he will, after all, not leave this room or walk again. [...]

The fears arise when he concentrates upon impediments, wondering how he will do this or that. [...]

[...] Basically, ego fears both the past and the present. It fears the past because it has already lost control of the past. It fears the future because it is not yet in control of it. [...]

It is the ego which fears death so strongly. [...]

Ego also fears spontaneity, for it cannot control action; being a part of action, most of its efforts of necessity are thwarted. [...]

The ego fears death, yet in the space of your own physical lifetime portions of the self have undergone like transformations endless times, of which the ego is unaware.

When I say economy however I am not simply speaking of economics in financial terms—rather in the larger meaning of economy in sparing down, cutting out nonessentials, fearing to waste not simply money, but energy or time. All of these ideas are based upon the fear that an individual possesses only so much energy that must be hoarded, directed—not easily, but with fantastic force. [...]

[...] He was afraid, however, of such jobs—prestigious ones—for fear the need for money would lead him to neglect his work. [...]

[...] Abilities must be ultimately tied in with your greatest inner aspirations—not tied down by your fears.

[...] Rather than avail yourselves of its great refreshment, you thought of the time taken from your work, each of you; beside this Ruburt feared pregnancy, seeing a child not as any kind of fulfillment, but as an artistic and economic disaster.

[...] They are in the back of your mind and what you said earlier this evening was a rationalization, for you have hidden your own fears from yourself. I say this now, not in a critical fashion, but so that you understand you are projecting outward that which you fear in yourself and others. [...]

[...] The aggression that he feared was not so great and big and powerful and black and hairy and threatening as he thought. [...] It was not this giant that you feared, and it was easy to rid yourself of this. [...]

They were so on the outlook for violence that their entire system of communication was built upon fear, for they could not protect themselves, they could only run. [...] Learn what energy and life is, and then you will use it creatively and you will not fear it. [...]

[...] However, the dream taught him that the violence within himself was not big and threatening and did not need to be feared. [...]

[...] And this was believed by all, and this was not feared by the elders. [...]

[...] This in itself aggravated those old fears concerning sex and the body—that it would lead him astray. [...]

You still do not encourage, now, lovingly (underlined) Ruburt to discuss his fears. [...]

[...] A separate point, returning now to a discussion of fears. [...]

[...] When Ruburt had fears about his physical abilities during the trip before the trip, they were not thoroughly discussed, barely mentioned. [...]

He feels more pressure to hold sessions now regularly because of our doctor, and more pressure not to hold sessions when he feels the urge to, because of your own fears; that is, your fears and his fears. [...]

Our sessions in general, the matter of spontaneity and discipline, your own fears, rather natural enough, concerning any subconscious effect I might have on Ruburt.

For upon his shoulders rests the burden of what he owns, and he fears with a steady, nearly unending panic that he will not be able to keep this, through ill health. [...]

[...] He feared he was being taken care of as his mother was; and that you must resent it symbolically, as he resented it, taking care of her, and therefore the bed difficulty.