“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(10:21.) To one extent or another you both believe your world is hostile. You (pointing to me) do not believe that nature is hostile, nor does Ruburt, but you both accept the concept that there are hostile elements against which you must protect yourselves, and that the artist or writer, or any sensitive wise person is at a great disadvantage against a system in which he is born, and that he is to some extent at its mercy.

(11:09.) You can decide that you like to work alone—that you do not want to do tours—not because the world is hostile, but simply because that is your way. When the phone rings it is the hostile world out there, so it seems. That was what your father (to me) thought when his phone rang.

Do not project hostility upon your neighbors. Humanity is lively, curious and capricious, creative and exuberant. So neighbors can be curious without any hostile intent.

Therefore defenses are required in direct proportion to the “hostility.”

[...] The mother however also overstressed the importance of a formal education as a quite bloodthirsty method of surviving in a hostile world. [...]

[...] The abilities were put to the purpose of protecting him from the hostile world, serving as economic sustenance. [...]

The environment, man, and the animals were all characterized as ferocious, hostile to each other, each one determined to attain survival at the expense of the other. [...]

Science has promoted the idea that hostility is a constant attribute of nature and all of its parts, while it sees the cooperating characteristics of nature as rather infrequent or extraordinary — but certainly outside of the norm (wryly amused).

[...] In fact, his lecture tour of the United States turned out to be a failure because of the hostile press reaction.

[...] Wars are basically examples of mass suicide — embarked upon, however, with all of the battle’s paraphernalia, carried out through mass suggestion, and through the nation’s greatest resources, by men who are convinced that the universe is unsafe, that the self cannot be trusted, and that strangers are always hostile. [...]

[...] In fact, his lecture tour of the United States turned out to be a failure because of the hostile press reaction.”

Any anger or hostility should also be expressed, however, while not being overly concentrated upon.

Entering, the man bristled with belligerence and hostility. [...]

[...] I’d felt badly about his visit, since we certainly accorded him a hostile reception, and evidently had accomplished little. [...]

[...] It is not all right to imagine that their kind speaks for the hostile world, or that they represent the views of many people. [...]

Then, however, perhaps with no warning, he may suddenly refuse to make love with his wife, become hostile with his children, stop off for a few drinks after work, before supper, or even begin seeing a prostitute, or begin an affair — often with a woman he considers beneath his own station.

[...] He told us his review for Richard Bach wouldn’t “be hostile;” he didn’t particularly like the book. [...]

[...] “My feelings toward the Sinful Self aren’t very friendly,” I said, “but I don’t want to be too hostile or I might create other problems....” [...]

[...] You can, however, collect information and statistics applying to any one group, and keep collecting it until you find that you do live in a reality in which all men certainly seem to be fools, or murderers, or hostile to creative people.

[...] Jane and I were therefore pleasantly surprised to learn that Bill and Ida had read some of the material; and while not hostile to it, they still expressed a healthy skepticism—an attitude Jane and I much prefer to any gullible, overenthusiastic belief blindly undertaken.

Those purposes involve each of you and your work, and those methods that you think are necessary to direct your energies “properly,” husband your energy, and protect you from what you think of as a hostile world. [...]