“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Because Ruburt’s background in this life was particularly bizarre in a way and certainly unpleasant, he became beautifully efficient as far as sensing the approach of psychic storms is concerned and very adept at sensing moods, and also amazingly efficient in learning self-protective devices. It is true that Ruburt can also be trapped by his own capacity for protection. [...]

[...] The body senses your fear, looks for the source in the immediate environment of the moment so that it can suitably react to protect you—but it senses no immediate difficulty. [...]

—rather than upon any sense of justice, so that in a very basic sense man is considered a natural criminal in the eyes of the law, and more and more laws are then seemingly required, in order to protect man “from himself.” [...]

[...] You both believed for years—and many years —that if you were gifted you had to do all you could to protect yourselves from others. [...]

[...] To an extent they have served as their own stabilizers, giving you both excuses and protections from events of perhaps an intrusive fashion, such as the interviews or guests, or even strangers at the door. [...]

[...] This protected him from censure, both from within and without.

3. Jane and I regret that we’ve deprived our guest of the protected and warm—if not natural—habitat it had chosen. [...]

[...] I rather think that Seth put her in a deep trance for this highly charged material to protect her from the sort of thing she went through with Barbara when he wasn’t around.)

[...] He now encounters his experience from within a body that must be fed, clothed, protected from the elements—a body that is subject to gravity and to earth’s laws. [...]

[...] That one concerns Jane’s fear of the spontaneous self, and how she regarded her immobility as a form of protection.

[...] [She told Jane she’s had five operations herself.] Jane got so that when Eleanor was here she was constantly saying “no, no, no” to herself as the nurse talked, in order to protect herself from that steady barrage.

[...] (The living room.) He feels that such objects are protective, and since he is without these he feels more vulnerable.

[...] One point: Ruburt’s whole personality did indeed protect itself, for unless it were integrated and fully committed it would not have the energy to sustain the activities with which it will now be involved.

[...] It protects the inner self by acting as a barrier that keeps the whole self’s energy controlled, and keeps it from seeping away. At the same time it protects the whole self from certain radiations which do not here concern you. [...]

[...] The farmers protected him. [...]

[...] They did not need long periods of protection as infants, but in an animal fashion were physically more agile at younger ages than, say, the human infant.

[...] The restrictions were thought to be ways of protecting creativity and ability.

[...] Before that it was protected, somewhat coddled, with instinctual behavior holding it in bounds. [...]

[...] They are protective. [...]

[...] This is even rarer — but so does the species protect itself.