“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

If a practitioner who believed that Augustus was possessed then convinced Augustus of the “fact,” their joint charged beliefs might possibly work for a while. Convincing Augustus that he was under the domination of an evil entity would be step one. Step two, getting rid of the intruder, could at least follow. The trouble is that working within that framework, the self-structure is further weakened, for the normally repressed characteristics of Augustus Two are forever denied. Augustus must then always be “good,” and yet he would always feel vulnerable to another such invasion of evil. The same results as those given could be possible: the growth of suicidal tendencies or other self-destructive behavior.

When people using such methods are told that their writing comes through from a demon or the devil, or an evil spirit, then those invisible beliefs are shoved farther away. Any search into the mind becomes frightening and dangerous, since it might lead to further such “invasion.”

Now such invasion is usually the sudden appearance of previously unacceptable beliefs, quite conscious but invisible, tucked away. Then they suddenly appear as alien. In most instances the possession concept makes it all the more upsetting. Easier to face, often, is the idea that the responsibility for such ideas must belong to another entity or being. In all cases of this nature involving Augustus-type episodes, the problem is one of unassimilated beliefs. Instead of such comparatively drastic behavior, however, such beliefs can be expressed through various parts of the body. Unfortunately, a system of medicine that largely deals with symptoms only encourages a patient to project such beliefs on new organs, for instance, after already sacrificing others in operations.

[...] You have no need to even wonder about the possibility of any sort of invasion, that would be detrimental. And any invasion would be detrimental.

There is no invasion of Ruburt’s mind or subconscious on my part. [...]

[...] Therefore, we have no invasion of Ruburt’s personality on my part, as I have said. [...]

An invasion in the place to the south mentioned earlier. [...]

[...] It is only your ego which leads you to believe that such an expansion would result in a lessening of consciousness on the one hand, or an invasion of other selves on the other.

[...] The voice was all around her, she said, yet she had no sense of invasion. [...]

[...] The old ideas of voodooism recognized some of these concepts, but complicated and distorted them with fears of evil, psychic invasion, psychic killing, and so forth. [...]

There was an army from another country, an invasion. [...]

[...] Nor do I here, despite Ruburt, apologize for what may be considered a slight invasion of family affairs. [...]

[...] An invasion from another country. [...]

[...] This involves a high degree of cooperation from the other person who does not exist in your physical terms, an opening of his reality to the medium rather than an invasion of the medium.

[...] It does not diminish individuality, and it does not imply psychic invasion. [...]

There is no invasion involved in these sessions, as I have told you often. [...]

Ruburt has changed since then, and so have I. And yet we are bound together, and no invasion occurs because in one way of speaking our psychic territory is the same. [...]

[...] This, I am sure, seems an invasion of privacy to you, and yet I assure you that even now none of your thoughts are hidden, but are known quite clearly to your family and friends — and I may add, unfortunately, to those you consider enemies as well. [...]

[...] The generally explosive predicament in Iran, for example, has been considerably aggravated by Russia’s invasion of Afghanistan over the recent Christmas season: Now the unbending revolutionary government of Iran, following its own fanatical interpretation of the Moslem religion, must contend with at least an implied threat on its eastern border as the godless Russians occupy Afghanistan. [...]

[...] An invasion in the place to the south mentioned earlier. [...]

[...] There is a reciprocal agreement here, and a give and take that is unlike your friend’s idea of invasion.

[...] If our communications involved, or if any such communications involved invasion, there would be no distortion because the individual so invaded would be blotted out. [...]

[...] Jane is against the whole thing on esthetic and invasion-of-privacy grounds, not monetary ones so much, and I guess my feelings about it all are too ambiguous. [...]

There will never be on my part any attempt at any sort of invasion. [...]

[...] 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. [...]

[...] (Pause.) You came before an invasion. [...]

Had I attempted myself to contact Ruburt then, the contact would have amounted to a sort of psychic invasion, which I would find most unethical on my part.

[...] This hardly seems of ordinary interest at all, yet preplans for battles, for example, have been received in sleep states, in which an enemy in a far country planned an invasion and the signals were received through the world’s internal network of communication.