“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] And that had been a mistake on her part, a serious one, born, I said, out of her desire for protection and love.

He is to realize that if he has any duty or purpose in life, it is indeed to express those very abilities (all very emphatically), since those abilities are so natural in his makeup, they also possess their own protective mechanisms. [...]

[...] It seems to me that no matter what role in any life the individual decides upon before birth (to incorporate Seth’s ideas here), that individual will carry consciousness’s innate drive toward personal expression — but still within the protection furnished by social organization. This applies even to my Roman selves in their restrictive military environments (which are also protective), and even if their chosen courses of action result in demands or challenges they cannot surmount….

As best I can interpret the objective information at hand, the physical locale of my subjective experience is a precarious one, since outside the eastern and southern boundaries of Jerusalem the terrain quickly drops away into valleys close and steep enough to protect the city from large-scale attack — with hardly enough room there for the “hordes” of Roman soldiers I saw on the “flat ground.” [...]

10. I note with some amusement that my rather vehement statement may simply reflect the natural, protective attitude of my currently focused consciousness: Even though I find them fascinating, I may be quite reluctant to embrace other equally valid portions of what I conveniently call my whole self. [...]

[...] The whole tone of the news story about the Feinberg law and the Education Law of New York State concerns the protection of civil rights, and protection by the Constitution; but without using the constitution as a hiding place for subversives, etc. [...]

[...] The Constitution was meant to preserve our gov’t., not to serve as a protecting screen for those who would seek to destroy it…”

[...] Castaneda told his own story, but it was still secondhand, because his own opaqueness added the necessary distance that protected the reader.

[...] They have not taken advantage of you as a “highly fired” firm might, and they have actually tried to protect your privacy.

[...] Some of this is related to organizations, and served as a method of protection. [...]

(Long pause at 4:16.) The more unusual and original your gift, the more you must protect yourself from the distrust of others. [...]

[...] You both also believed that you must protect your special abilities with all of your might — but you can see the road of contradictions that is constructed in such a fashion.

You therefore would protect him from the results of his own spontaneity, carried too far, for he never thought in terms of a spontaneity tempered by self-discipline. [...]

[...] You could not basically protect him from himself. [...]

[...] The individual must feel safe and protected enough to seek its own development and aid in the fulfillment of others. [...]

[...] Ruburt’s symptoms have always been a cautionary and protective measure. [...]

[...] If Ruburt understands that, then he will realize he does not have to protect himself privately or socially, for all of his characteristics are meant to help him deal successfully with the challenge he has chosen. [...]

[...] We were in town, protected, and looking out the windows I saw more spacious yards than actually exist there. [...]

[...] They feel safe and protected even when the events of their lives do not seem favorable. [...]

However it is your duty, and the duty of every individual insofar as it is within his power, to maintain his own psychic health and vitality; according to the strength of this vitality he will protect himself and others. Negative expectations, far from protecting either the individual or those with whom he comes in contact, will actually, to a greater or lesser degree, turn as destructive as any epidemic.

[...] Ruburt was able to counteract the temporary but overall negative storm by his own creative energies, and focus strongly to protect you both.

[...] Then when she changed the patch on Jane’s nose, that protects against the hard bridge of her glasses, Phyllis discovered that the irritated and sore nose had healed itself under the patch, unknown to all, since the patch has been there a long while. She put on a new one, though, to protect the tender bridge of the nose while it heals even more. [...]

[...] As a seed can fly through the air, so individual consciousness can travel through these systems, but it must be protected. Certain drugs can protect it. [...]

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

[...] You cannot put a leash on them and walk them around the block, yet trees form a protective barrier about, say, a home or a neighborhood. [...] The trees in that (hill house) neighborhood then are particularly friendly, strong, and protective, and they will help renew your energies.

In the past, Ruburt didn’t realize fully that his nature was both flamboyant and conservative—that his nature was protected by a natural inner caution that would make the path for his flamboyancy clear. [...]

[...] If those abilities are extraordinary, or if they do not fit into the social structure, a personality can approve and disapprove, use the abilities, and yet feel the need for protection. [...]

Your friend—Professor “Crazies”—thought himself on the one hand very avant-garde to come here, and on the other he felt the need to protect himself, to maintain the stance of a professor. [...]

[...] Many of those people, however, in say businesses or professions, would automatically try to grasp the new ideas with one hand, while protecting themselves from any consequences with the other: “I know these ideas seem crazy, but -” or, in the case of your professor, “I collect my crazies, but those people are authentic.”

[...] They protect themselves by setting up the conditions of such an encounter, and controlling those conditions, again down to the smallest detail.

[...] If your father did have daughters, rather than sons in the life that you know, he actually would have fared better in the physical world, because he would have felt it his duty to protect them financially: he would have considered them fairly helpless, and in need of his abilities. [...]

[...] He thought, for example, of his own pajamas that he wears now instead of the jeans he wore before, and it seemed to him that in all his strivings he had in one way or another also acted like your friend whose jeans kept turning into the Turkish towel: he had been trying to protect an important way of relating to the world, or to protect a way of life. [...]

[...] He needed protection, he felt. Your feelings about Prentice made sense in an unsafe universe, where you had to protect the excellence of your vision from incompetence. [...]

[...] (Dreams, Evolution and Value Fulfillment.) 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 the world with anything like joyful abandon, of course, but to protect yourself against its implied threats; threats that you have been taught to expect. [...]