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True individuals can do much through social action, and the species is a social one, but people who are afraid of their individuality will never find it in a group, but only a caricature of their own powerlessness.

I quite realize that many of my statements will contradict the beliefs of those of you who accept the idea that the conscious mind is relatively powerless, and that the answers to problems lie hidden beneath.

[...] In reminding him of this you can also be of help, for he was afraid that his will was powerless in that regard.

[...] When Ruburt feels that kind of panic it is indeed the small child’s fear of abandonment for being bad (emphatically), and feelings of powerlessness because of the child’s relative lack of power in reference to the adult world. [...]

[...] They represent the power of your conscious intent to change, and the recognition of that power and its use automatically displaces feelings of powerlessness.

[...] The villains consisted of the following ideas: that the world is unsafe, and growing deadly; that the species itself is tainted by a deadly intent; that the individual has no power over his or her reality; that society or social conditions exist as things in themselves, and that their purposes run directly counter to the fulfillment of the individual; and lastly, that the end justifies the means, and that the action of any kind of god is powerless in the world.

[...] You do this by discarding ideas of unworthiness and powerlessness, no matter what their sources. [...]

Most of the declared instances of telepathy or clairvoyance that happen in schizophrenic situations are instead the individual’s attempts to prove to himself or herself that the idealized qualities of omnipotence or power are indeed within grasp—this, of course, to compensate for the basic feeling of powerlessness in more ordinary endeavors. [...]

[...] In his material after 11:23 especially, Seth discusses the doctor-patient relationship, and the feelings of powerlessness that can beset the individual during times of illness.

[...] 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. [...]

[...] Many of them felt tiny, alone and powerless. [...]

[...] So at his worst he feels powerless before it, and there are energy blockages here particularly.

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(8:54.) Ruburt always wanted to help his mother, and felt largely powerless to do so. [...]

[...] When you do not understand the nature of the soul, and do not realize that your thoughts and feelings form physical reality, then you feel powerless to change it. [...]

[...] Many of them felt tiny, alone, and powerless. [...]

If you believe firmly that your consciousness is locked up somewhere inside your skull and is powerless to escape it, if you feel that your consciousness ends at the boundary of your body, then you sell yourself short, and you will think that I am a delusion. [...]

(Pause.) The concentration upon self-righteousness and evidence of corruption leads to its own fulfillment, and in that dark light the expression of the good appears powerless.

[...] Until you realize that you have this ability, you are powerless. [...]