“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

There are obviously ways in which you can mold your own conditions, protect yourself from your own negative suggestions and those given to you by others. [...]

For our guest: you should tell yourself frequently, “I will only react to constructive suggestions,” for this gives you some protection against your own negative thoughts and those of others. [...]

[...] He does not need to protect himself physically from any experience, nor hold up the arms to ward off the blows of fate. [...]

[...] You felt Ruburt’s psychic abilities, particularly in the beginning, so extraordinary, once you accepted them, that you each felt they must be protected—not only from himself, until you understood the abilities, but particularly from anyone who might scoff, ridicule, or attack. You felt in any case to some extent that those with any creative abilities had to so protect themselves.

Your daily conversation over the years has carried a steady stream of suggestion, in which your time must be protected almost at any cost. [...]

[...] Ruburt carries his protection and safety wherever he goes. [...] Its protection and validity are always honored. [...]

[...] You see a species of consciousness, a species that must remain unexplained in any normal explanations of evolution, and these hint at the communications that exist at all levels (intently), protecting not only the genetic references necessary to your own kind, but the combinations [...]

[...] But as the walls of your house are experienced by your outer senses, and serve to protect you against other camouflage materializations, even those of wind and rain and cold, so do the walls of past, present and future, erected by you as a different kind of camouflage pattern, protect you from inner forces and realities with which you are not as yet equipped to deal.

[...] Jane said she thought Seth would say something to the effect that on this plane we use ideas for protection from a true reality that might be too much for us to handle. [...]

[...] In the following deep protected areas of sleep, the higher centers of the inner self are allowed to function and come to the aid of the three-dimensionally oriented portion of the personality. [...]

[...] In the most important dream work, done in the deep protected sleep periods, the symbols are powerful enough and yet condensed enough so that they can be broken down, used in a series of seemingly unrelated dreams as connectives, retain their original strength and still appear in different guises, becoming in each succeeding dream layer more and more specific.

[...] Instead, according to him, Jane adopted her physical immobility as a form of protection against going too far, too fast, with her unique abilities. [...]

[...] Did he stand protectively just behind my chair, ready to help me in my maneuvers into bed, or was he in the kitchen, rooms away? [...]

[...] Perhaps, I thought, that portion was creating a physical disability that allowed Jane to publish forbidden material while protectively isolating herself—and me—from rejection by the physical world. [...]

[...] So if in the pursuit of such goals I overdid my cautions and overreacted, it certainly was not out of malice, but in a well-meaning attempt to protect the creative self—to keep a hand of caution on its course lest the centuries of man’s belief in sin carried a true weight that I shared but could not comprehend.

“Infinite intelligence guides and protects me in my activities.” [...] It will automatically allow the inner portion of his personality to protect him from such probable harm.

It is quite true, however, that in the wild many animals protect and provide for wounded or disabled members, and that the wisdom that comes with age is indeed appreciated even in the animal kingdom. [...]

[...] Therefore to protect yourself, to protect your subjectivity from drifting, you erect various psychological barriers at what you suppose to be the danger points. [...]

[...] On the other hand, we haven’t forgotten Seth’s recent material about our being protected—and I for one really think that’s true. [...]

You are protected. [...]

The overconscientious self is protecting the whole personality against what it considered evil. [...]

[...] It needs to be lovingly protected; but lovingly, not hindered nor fought nor held down.

[...] And then of course you want to know why it does not know when to stop in overly protective devices. [...]

[...] It was a give-and-take situation; protection being used where it was felt it was needed.

[...] I accept everything in the book—his opinions on medicine, etc.—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. [...]

In actuality, people in those circumstances are often so frightened of the use of power that the idea of being under constant surveillance actually lends them a sense of protection.

[...] (Long pause.) With training and experience a neutralizing element will be developed that protects Ruburt against the full emotional charge that he experienced the other evening. The organism itself forms this as a self-protective mechanism.

As a result there are bursts of communication, followed by an urge for secrecy, as if he could lose himself through these communications to others; as if with each word energy escaped from him so that he would want to hold it back in protection.

[...] You would need to protect the time necessary to get it done.

[...] Your understanding of the subject matter would help you deal with those involved in psychic phenomena, and your humor would protect you from them.

[...] Actually, what I can only call an invisible shield protects him from the flames, so that his feet and ankles are surrounded by an aura that repels the fire actively. [...]

[...] The belief triggers body chemicals in a certain fashion, though the process itself involves an interaction between the air and the chemicals of the body, which form together a protective shield that repels the action of the fire.

He (Ruburt) was bound and determined to explore the nature of reality.¹ … He wanted to protect himself until he had enough knowledge to know what he was doing. [...]

[...] You have been taught not to trust that energy, however, and in one way or another your social programs and your governments themselves are based upon the proposition that man must be protected from his own nature —a nature seen as unsavory at best.

[...] Determined to use his abilities, while also determined to protect himself, and from (pause) any danger that those abilities themselves might carry with them.