“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

That insidious mistrust of creative abilities is alarmingly dangerous to the society, and frightening to the individual. The person is taught to mistrust the most the abilities he or she instinctively trusts the most. This is bound to lead to division. Creative people are not self-destructive, but if they sometimes appear so in the western world, it is because of that division, that artificial barrier.

That vision means that such a person is taught to mistrust the very abilities that could most help bring about creative solutions. When you leave that framework of belief, such self-protecting defensive mechanisms are no longer necessary. Ruburt is beginning to get that through his head.

[...] The danger is in concentrating upon the lacks, the “sore spots,” building up greater concentrations of mistrust. [...]

Later, with certain issues that arose between you, fairly well understood now, I think, he felt his womanly qualities a threat to you both, and the habit of mistrust became manifested in a suspension of monthly periods. [...]

The mistrust of mobility, or fear that it could be taken away, was built up also, with other reasons given in the sessions, simply through the suggestion over the years of living with someone who was not mobile. [...]

[...] And it was mistrust of that world, coupled with a mistrust of physical theories and alternatives, that partially caused his difficulties. [...]

[...] On the other hand he still was not completely (underlined) committed, and therefore mistrusted.

Ruburt does not mistrust himself because he plunges headlong, literally, into the poetic experience. [...]

[...] This, with other problems mentioned earlier, led him to a deep mistrust of the intuitional self. [...]

Before, he used his intuitional abilities but always intellectually mistrusted them to some degree. [...]

[...] Many such Eastern schools also stress — as do numerous spiritualistic schools — the importance of the “unconscious levels of the self,” and teach you to mistrust the conscious mind.

(11:43.) However, these philosophies can lead you to a deep mistrust of both your body and mind. [...]

[...] Unfortunately, science as it has developed in your time has resulted in a mistrust of the individual, and saddled him or her with a sense of powerlessness, subjectively, even while it has added a seeming sense of objective power. [...]

[...] It wasn’t that I mistrusted the Seth personality, but I felt it was a personification of something else — and that ‘something else’ wasn’t a person in our terms … Yet in an odd way I felt that he was more than that, or represented more; and that his psychological reality straddled worlds … I sensed a multidimensionality of personality that I couldn’t define.”

It will help considerably if Ruburt discusses his mistrust of the body with you — thus expressing those feelings within the framework of your relationship.

(10:42.) A seeming duality is the result and a mistrust on one part of the self toward the other. [...]

[...] That is, the suffering person, to whatever degree, already mistrusts or distrusts the nature of his own abilities, but usually can and will accept such a loving attention from another family member, or even from a friend. [...]

[...] You distrust the spontaneous nature, you see, that is at the base of all existence, but you only mistrust it at one level, which is fortunate. [...]

[...] I guess the realization that the basic mistrust of one’s own nature could have such dire results was what triggered our conscious realization that we could do something about the whole business of symptoms, etc. [...]

[...] 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. [...]

[...] “What’s the matter,” I asked her after supper tonight, “do you feel guilty because you think you deserted your mother?” I explained that I felt self-punishment, a feeling of unworthiness, self-doubt and mistrust must lie at the root of her symptoms—that she felt she must pay a price for each success, like the publishing of a book. [...]

[...] We’re to discuss her mistrust of her physical body, and related subjects. [...]

[...] Why man so often mistrusts the dream reality would escape me, if I did not know the nature of the ego.

[...] In the future the ego and the intellect will expand sufficiently so that they can contain and use and appreciate all the other functions and portions of the self which they now mistrust. [...]

[...] He mistrusted the most reliable portion of his present personality. [...]

He mistrusted your permissiveness then. [...]

[...] It mistrusts all spontaneity. [...]