“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] ) You wear a cloak (gesturing ) to protect yourself while flying in the cold night air.

[...] It began as a protection from, and a defense against, some of the mysteries of the natural world. [...]

[...] We must protect the integrity of the zero also you know. [...]

[...] It must be protective, I said. [...]

[...] The more terrified you are personally, the less you dare let down your guard, and you build up psychological walls to protect you. [...]

[...] It added to the dimension of your work, but to some degree it was also adopted as a protective mechanism, to give you some feeling of separation. [...]

[...] Yet the lines also served to protect you from that which you were painting, and from the feeling involved.

[...] Boxes and boxes of letters are now at Yale University Library, where their privacy is protected. [...]

[...] To leave the church, say, meant to carry still some of the old beliefs, but without the Band-Aids that earlier offered some protection. [...]

[...] The need to justify life through writing, the exaggerated need for protection from the deceptive unconscious and the unsafe world, and the concept itself were so involved with his entire thinking patterns that he could not isolate it to see where and how it bore upon his activities. [...]

[...] You protect yourselves and automatically sift out what is too vivid or intense at any given time.

[...] This has to do again with the self-protection used. [...]

You cannot afford that kind of method now, because you do not believe that the mind itself can help protect the body against disease caused by bacteria or virus. [...]

[...] Infants carry a strong telepathic connection with the mother, which is not severed for some time, so that inoculations given the infant can work in that regard, even as a child can also be protected in other systems when the mother calls upon the appropriate spirit.

(We’ve also talked over Seth’s answer in the last session about why the subconscious doesn’t back off when it’s obvious that it’s gone too far in a protective role, say. [...]

[...] Ruburt was convinced he needed certain protections. [...]

[...] Those who were allied with religious principles, now, mainly survived, and brought forth communities and descendants who were protected. [...] Religious concepts from the beginning kept tribes together, provided social structures, and insured physical survival and the protection that made descendants most probable.

Physical time, or that is clock time, was invented by man’s ego to protect the ego itself, because of the mistaken conception of dual existence—that is, because man felt that a predictable conscious self did the thinking and the moving, and an unpredictable almost automatic self did the breathing and dreaming. He set up boundaries to protect the predictable self from what he considered the unpredictable self, and ended up by cutting the whole self in half.

Nor is the invention of clock time the only such mutilating device mistakenly invented and used to protect one part of the self from the other. [...]

[...] The units can and do intermix, yet because of the propensity for selectivity and significance, whole groups of them will “repel” other whole groups, thus providing a protective inner system of interaction.

[...] There have been experiments upon your earth (by consciousness) with both men and animals at a different level than just mentioned, but with that in mind — herds of animals, for example, with each animal quite aware of the joint knowledge of the herd, the dangers to be encountered in any individual territory, and a psychological structure in which the mass consciousness of the herd recognized the individual consciousness of each animal, and protected it.

[...] This could be for my own protection, I think….”

[...] Any “thing” in quotes so created entirely of fears, would be frightened, and particularly angry at its creator, and it could do nothing else but attack; in one way to protect what reality it had, for it knew Ruburt created it only to slay it if possible.

This will always protect him in any out of body endeavors, or any other unearthly realities. [...]

[...] She then must take steps of course to protect herself against illness, and she is in fear of robbers for the same reason.

[...] His direct experience has not included it, the cruel adult world that he must protect himself against. [...]

He is fiercely protective of you, and regardless of his feelings about families, you see, had he felt that your parents dealt kindly with you he would have gone along with them all the way. [...]

[...] The protective layers were built up so strongly, and became such a part of the personality structure, that I could not bring them all toppling down from the inside.

[...] It would mean that you did not kill animals in experiments, taking their lives in order to protect the sacredness of human life. [...]

[...] In the same manner, say, the ideal is to protect human life, and in the pursuit of that ideal you give generations of various animals deadly diseases, and sacrifice their lives.³ Your justification may be that people have souls and animals do not, or that the quality of life is less in the animals, but regardless of those arguments this is fanaticism — and the quality of human life itself suffers as a result, for those who sacrifice any kind of life along the way lose some respect for all life, human life included. [...]

[...] The better known he became the greater the belief that he must protect himself, and the greater his feeling of unsafety, for now he became known in a world in which it was only safe to hide. [...]

[...] They will protect their own, and according to circumstances and conditions they will tend their own wounded. [...]