“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] There was an over-protectiveness involved in all of your relationships, an exclusiveness. [...]

[...] The symbols of the words stand for your own or someone else’s experience, while protecting you or them from it at the same time.

[...] He is (underlined) safe, secure, and protected. [...]

It begins with the sense of unworthiness mentioned often, but it led to a pattern of behavior where he began to hold his breath, so to speak, tense the muscles in self-protection. [...]

Social injustices can cause circumstances in which people will give up reason, logic, and personal responsibility to follow a leader who offers them protection from an unsafe universe. [...]

Now, the strong ego structure has been adopted as a necessary guard and protection to hold the abilities in check until the present personality learned to develop its abilities to a sufficient level. [...]

[...] He would be protected.

[...] He stressed that he wanted Jane to have good legal protection, and a say in quality control. [...]

[...] Those ideas are vigorously protected, and indeed must be understood and given honor even while attempts are made to expand them. [...]

[...] You protect your ideas of selfhood at all costs — even against the evidence of nature, which shows you that all are related.

[...] He is safe, supported and protected—that is, of course, the message that he is trying to get through his head at this time. You can be of help to him by reminding him of that support and protection. [...]

[...] In the second one he stressed that although Jane was still afraid of spontaneous bodily relaxation, “[Ruburt] is safe, supported and protected—that is, of course, the message that he is trying to get through his head at this time.” [...]

[...] No protection against that kind of accident has ever been required by the NRC. [...]

[...] It may seem to you that you are quite justified in protecting yourself and your family from disaster. [...]

[...] The ideals of which you speak are your protection, built-in survival mechanisms that warn of danger, invisible fences like psychic signs saying beware.

[...] One disease may actually protect you from a stronger one, or from a detrimental course of action that you might otherwise follow. [...]

[...] These groups originated back in their own nearly forgotten past as wandering tribes came together, and joined for their own support and protection.

“I accept everything in the book, but I think I felt that if I was going to tell it like it was—and I was, was determined to—then I also needed more protection from the world, and began cutting down mobility again. [...] The idea [of protection] also came back after reading a book on William James that a friend gave us for Christmas. [...]

[...] Again and again we scrutinized all of those elements that we thought were bound up in her symptoms: choice, fear of abandonment and the need for self-protection, penance, and the controversial nature of her gifts. [...]

[...] You therefore protect yourselves from many quite natural upthrusts that would on their own give you experience with your own reincarnational existences, and you are often denied psychological comfort in times of stress that you might otherwise receive.

[...] But in some newish way I seemed to understand how much seemingly mental work is dependent upon physical vigor, flexibility and so forth; and then rather strongly—emotionally it came to me that I’d thought it my duty to clamp down physically, to cut down mobility in order to … have mobility as a writer; that is, to sit down, cut down on impulses, distractions, to make sure I’d ‘do my work,’ pursue my goal undeviatingly; that new [book] contracts instantly led me to that kind of behavior and that I really see that such behavior carried to its extremes would end up smothering my writing, defeating the purposes it (seemingly) meant to protect. [...]

It was invented by the ego to protect the ego, because of the mistaken conception of dual existence; that is, because man felt that a predictable, conscious self did the thinking and manipulating, and an unpredictable self did the breathing and dreaming. He set up boundaries to protect the ‘predictable’ self from the ‘unpredictable’ self and ended up by cutting the whole self in half.

When you talk about people being insane, and point out the negative aspects of the race, Ruburt becomes highly uncomfortable because to him this means he has to protect himself against them, and justifies his behavior. On the other hand he becomes angry and frightened because it is precisely to protect himself against such “people, activities, and events” that he has tried to isolate himself.

[...] In answer to my question about material in the last session, she said that yes, she still felt to some degree that she had to protect her work from me and my feelings about Prentice-Hall. [...]

[...] To protect himself from this, he developed the symptoms before leaving, thus giving himself a legitimate excuse to ask for, or accept, a ride.

He was also convinced — as you were — that you both needed protection from the world. [...]