“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] 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. [...]

[...] Both of you constantly question the world, and both of you in different ways protected yourselves, so that you would not be tempted by the world’s usual ways.

(9:43.) You simply overdid your ideas of security and protection. [...]

[...] It kept Ruburt in strong protection under its wing, and if it was overly stubborn, it was so because it always recognized Ruburt’s intuitive abilities, and the full strength of Ruburt’s sense of commitment, once given.

[...] When it was assured that this was the mission for which the personality had waited, and only when it was positive, did it free its protective hold and give its blessings.

It is still protective, but now it realizes that it has nothing to fear.

[...] You will be protected all the way. [...]

[...] If for example our tree bark grew fearful of the stormy weather and began to harden itself against the elements, in a well-meaning but distorted protective spirit, then the tree would die. [...] The sap could not move upward for the trunk would solidify through and through, trying all the while to protect, and killing the tree with its obsessive kindness.

[...] This is merely because you have not trusted your ego’s ability to offer adequate protection. You have forced it into anxiety so that it overcompensates trying to protect you, and ends up half choking you to death.

[...] The purpose of the ego is protective. [...]

[...] We have instead a flexible bark, changing with the elements, protecting the inner tree or the inner self, but flexible, opening up or closing in rhythmic motion. [...]

[...] Note here I maintain more awareness than most mediums I believe—therefore necessity of learning how to protect myself, in such involvement. [...]

[...] The rich and poor alike are provided with fire protection and police protection. [...]

Though you paid little taxes, the fire and police protection were not withdrawn, and all of the services continued. [...]

[...] The question arises: Would such experiences bring their own discipline and protection? [...]

(I don’t believe the performance would have taken place either if I didn’t feel basically protected—with Rob of course; and also knowing I would trust the Gallaghers implicitly. [...]

[...] Obviously I will have to protect myself and set up further barriers as this sort of thing could not be allowed to take over whenever the circumstances were favorable.

[...] I think that night it was the charged emotional climate; Barb’s; and that perhaps it is simply certain individuals that I must protect myself against: I will not for example discuss ESP with Barb now. [...]

His nature is protective. The basic ideas and beliefs that have been personified into his being, that became his being, were formed to protect Augustus One from the destructive ideas given to him in his childhood, to combat the beliefs in powerlessness and futility. [...]

[...] (Pause.) To protect the integrity of the physical structure, Augustus’s conscious mind neatly divided itself up. [...]

[...] And looking briefly away: “Perhaps I do not need my friend to protect me after all.” [...]

[...] Its very danger keeps him on his toes, and forces him to protect his life. [...] It is therefore a mental device meant to protect his life. [...]

He must protect himself from threats from without. [...] He was taught not to express himself, so he only uses those abilities to protect his life, which justifies them. [...]

[...] As I cleaned up the dozens of pieces of glass and put them in a heavy carton we talked about why she might have been protected, and decided to ask Seth to comment.

[...] Your dream brought your fears to the surface of your mind, and when those fears became conscious both of you determined to show yourselves that Ruburt was indeed safe and protected. [...]

[...] In the most protected areas of sleep, the apparent barriers between many layers of reality vanish. [...]

Somewhere during this time he will go into a deeply protected area of sleep, where he is at the threshold to other layers of reality and probabilities. [...]

(10:35.) In the most protected areas of sleep you are dealing with experience that is pure feeling or knowing, and disconnected from both words or images. [...]

[...] But it must be protected. Certain drugs can protect it.

[...] These are of a protective nature. [...]

[...] Deeper, however, is the fact that the belief in an unsafe universe sets up certain habits of resistance, and more practically, of self-protection. The resistance is protective. [...]

[...] The entire context of the unsafe universe protects itself by comments such as “It is too good to be true,” where any good is immediately suspect, while bad effects are considered quite natural.

[...] Beside this the dis-ease serves to protect you from the frightening “fear” that if everything goes well something must be wrong, because in an unsafe universe that is a belief. [...]

[...] My purpose is to protect and direct your energies specifically in the areas of writing and painting. [...]

[...] I relied on you to see that Ruburt’s creativity was channeled and used, protected, but most of all not frittered away.

[...] I am protective because I know that this is so. [...]

[...] I see now that they would not be, that instead all your time would be spent concentrating upon the condition that was meant as a protection, until no work was done—hence my dismay. [...]

(Long pause.) Now he wanted to hold such beliefs because he felt he needed that quite painful facade to protect himself from his own spontaneity, and then to protect himself against the world because he felt he was too spontaneous. [...]

(Pause.) Sometimes to protect themselves because of their beliefs, people then form distorted portraits of themselves, and project these outward “to take life’s arrows,” so to speak. [...]

[...] They throw off a barrage of “foul viruses”—that is, they actually collect and mobilize from within their own bodies viruses that are potentially harmful, biologically trigger these, or activate them, and send them out into the environment in self-protection, to ward off the enemy (more vigorously).

[...] [Because of that, and for other personal reasons], he could find no release for the intense energy he felt, so he got rid of it, protected himself, and threw out his threatening biological posture: the viruses.

[...] Certain “diseases” are protections against other diseases, and the body on its own is its own excellent regulator.

[...] He often feels that he needs protection against that same world, for while he shares so much with his fellows. [...]

[...] He was bound to publish his work—any kind—but equally determined to protect his private nature. [...]

[...] True trust, however, is your greatest protection, and you cannot be betrayed, for you will not attract deceivers. [...]

[...] I’d need protection, some distance from the world.... [...]

[...] Protection from the world must be had at all costs, even while she, with my help, persisted in using her abilities to some extent at least through the books. [...] No wonder we sought privacy more and more: any public exposure came to be avoided automatically, as part of the protective coloration.

[...] It was, simply, that we were wrong to blame imagined excesses of the spontaneous self for her problems—that really the trouble lay in her discovery that with the psychic abilities she was destined to find herself outside conventional creative authority: a person who learned that she would have to protect her very integrity as a person against charges of fraud. [...]

[...] Many gifted children do, and he used various kinds of protective coloring. [...]

The moisture is protection (as we surmised). [...]

Living each day at a time, you respond to the present, and you need not in one day protect yourself from a lifetime of projected distractions or threats to your time that must, in your day, be imaginary, since they are probable events from the future.

[...] He believed that life was a life-and-death struggle, and having finally found what he wanted to do, his mode of survival, he brought out all of his artillery to protect himself while he did his thing.