“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

The knot, or the main concentration of focus, in ego concern, prevents true refreshment, either through the inner self or from the outer world. The knot of energies is indeed caused by fear, and it can be dissolved. The knotted energies amount to a frozen immobility, where nothing is lost, but neither is anything gained.

We find in the present personality knots, whereby action is not allowed freedom, particularly in terms of expansion. There is strong concentrated energy turned inward, but it is not turned inward far enough to be effective.

It is turned inward mainly in terms of the ego. There is awareness here of the inner self, but the main energy is knotted in tensions and exhaustions. At the same time the personality does not refresh its energies. If the energies of the personality were turned further inward, or on the other hand turned further outward toward the outside world, there would be an improvement in terms of additional, recharged energy.

The situation here can be eased, and it is within the ability of the present personality to do so. There is an inner generosity and a psychic, if you will forgive the word, sensitivity, that will be of great benefit to the personality. There is also, and I believe always has been, the desire on the part of the personality to untie or dissolve this knot of immobilized energy.

[...] The left arm for some time was considerably “tied in knots” from the elbow down. [...] They are knotted into masses, loose and disintegrating, but presently aggravated by strain as Ruburt’s weight on the walking table “bruises” those ligaments and muscles.

[...] They seem to be muscular knots. [...]

[...] And certain deposits and knots in the muscles are literally being melted and flushed away. [...]

[...] Various kinds of kinks or knots were being straightened out, while at the same time the body’s entire circulation system must be taken into account. [...]

[...] My stomach has been knotting up because I’m stewing over the reactions of those in charge at Prentice-Hall to Seth’s material in Mass Events about medical matters.

In the arms this causes knots, as if you knot up a cord it becomes shorter and pulls, so that the arms are pulled upwards. [...]

[...] To some degree he was tied up in knots, although his condition is far superior to what it would have been under the same circumstances at any time in the past. [...]

[...] You often tie yourself in knots, considering alternatives, none of which are ever taken. [...]

[...] They literally tie you up in knots. [...]

As long as you believe that either good events or bad ones are meted out by a personified God as the reward or punishment for your actions, or on the other hand that events are largely meaningless, chaotic, subjective knots in the tangled web of an accidental Darwinian world, then you cannot consciously understand your own creativity, or play the role in the universe that you are capable of playing as individuals or as a species. [...]

[...] He was tied in knots, hence the swollen joints. [...]

[...] If, however, you try to hide them from yourself, then they become like knots that bind you. [...]

The unused energy ties him up in knots, you see. [...]

[...] Oftentimes information such as he has been receiving, is received but not correctly interpreted or understood, with the result that the physical and psychic organism is bound in nervous knots of apprehension, for which there seems to be no cause.

[...] Her face was often screwed up into a knot. [...]

[...] Her features had a different cast also, especially around the mouth; the lips were compressed and stiff, the chin knotted, the brow furrowed. [...]

[...] Simply knotted muscles caused by strain. [...]

I do feel there is definitely increased important mobility in my wrists, and in the elbows, and again this is achieved somehow, and knots become unwound. [...]

[...] Then in the bathroom it came to me as we prepared to retire: the feeling in the groin was like a knot—and my realization had been triggered by Seth’s remark about tension I had created in that area. [...]

[...] For a short period of time, Ruburt turned his creative energy, as he knows, I believe, inward rather than outward, knotted it up, misdirected it, did not focus it properly, and turned it into destructive energy.