“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] I wanted to know what her sinful self thought about what it was doing to her body, if it cared, if it even understood that it’s protective actions threatened its own existence. [...]

[...] He could not accept a new psychic framework while within it there were questions concerning your joint ideas of business, and divided loyalties about writing and painting; your personal fears, jointly, about spontaneity in general, and the need to protect your talents both from your own sexual natures and the distractions of others.

You began to feel, years later, as Ruburt did: that creativity was in its way dangerous, that it would lead you outside of accepted social structures, and definitely must be protected against normal family life.

In the meantime, Jane’s making good progress in handling her personal challenges; now her work consists mainly of dissolving the set of protective, symbolic body beliefs that she placed about the use of her great energy.

[...] The Sinful Self is convinced of its own evil, and the evil intent of others, and so it is driven to protect itself ahead of time. [...]

[...] The book itself, oddly enough, provides a certain protection for it informs others of his basic strength. [...]

[...] I don’t know whether I’m correct in this interpretation or not, but Pete said Fred was evidently trying to protect himself. [...]

[...] Your beliefs often tell you that life is hard, however, that living is difficult, that the universe, again, is unsafe, and that you must use all of your resources—not to meet [life] with anything like joyful abandon, of course, but to protect yourself against its implied threats; threats that you have been taught to expect.

[...] He was afraid, too, of his own spontaneity, as I have so often said—when of course his spontaneity is the best insurance of protection, for the mind and body know when there is danger and when there is not. [...]

You know that panic is behind such repression, and a misguided idea of self protection. [...]

[...] This would arouse all kinds of panic feelings, since she wouldn’t dare speak out—and so she, and “it”, would feel that she had to furnish strong guidelines for her own protection—keep her writing rather than take jobs, etc. [...]

[...] you had a body consciousness of a protective nature, but this was only one portion of an entire personality who has yet to appear. [...]

[...] He would also for continue his protective devices for your own physical body. [...]

Killing except for self-protection will be paid for. [...]

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In a deep trance there is always a certain lack of protection involved. [...]

[...] The trouble here is that the personality has little protection, and is open to fragments that may enter if the educator on my plane does not scrupulously keep guard. [...]

[...] And this was to protect you. You felt that the feminine qualities within the male forespoke of a gentle nature, that would protect you from the overall male violence of which you were afraid and which you exaggerated, because of early impressions. [...]

([Rob:] “Yes, but when it gets personal, anyone would put up protective devices. [...]

[...] If you ask, “What is my individuality in all of this?” or, “Which ‘I’ am I?” then you are automatically thinking of yourself as a psychological entity with definite boundaries that must be protected at all costs. [...]

[...] Your individual and joint feelings about threat have to one extent or another made Ruburt believe that he needed that protection.

[...] And you built up about your physical image a fortress of flesh to protect you. [...]

[...] This is the most protected area of sleep. [...]

I said (in Session 846) that you have religious and scientific cults, and the male-oriented scientific community uses its power in the same way that the male Jehovah used his power in a different arena, to protect his friends and destroy his enemies. [...]

The best way to protect yourselves from an enemy, for example, is to exaggerate your enemy’s power and evil qualities, and this is somehow supposed to bring about peace. [...]

[...] All That Is protects Itself, therefore, and all that It has and is and will create.

[...] Each consciousness is, therefore, cherished and individually protected. [...]

[...] And it would be most unjust, and needlessly cruel, not to give the ego this necessary reassurance; and also the inner self should manage to communicate to the ego its gratitude for the ego’s protective concern.

[...] I shall make it a point to look out for him in a protective manner during his experiments for a while, and we shall keep a check upon his excellent progress, which should continue. [...]