“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

You have used your own abilities, both of you, and done well with them despite your overly protective attitudes toward them, and despite methods you used, Ruburt in particular, to insure their use. [...]

[...] She does wear my elasticized winter stockings, which offer some such protective support. [...]

[...] It will even protect you despite your own wishes, keeping the physical system going for example.

[...] By the denial of hope and the inhibition of joyful emotions he tried to protect himself against disappointment or defeat.

[...] He was not sure enough of his new world; he was still enough a part of the old one so that he often saw his life and abilities through the eyes of the “old world inhabitants” — the others who might scorn him, or set him up for ridicule.¹³ They represented portions of his own psyche still at that level of consciousness, not having quite assimilated the greater knowledge or experience, so he felt he needed protection — the protection that would … cleverly … serve all of his purposes, allowing him to go ahead as he wanted to … that would keep him at home working, and yet also serve as a control against too much inner spontaneity until he learned that he could indeed trust the new world of experience.

[...] Now if you are in poor health, and have a physician, you had better continue going to him, because you still rely on that system of belief — but use these exercises as supplements to build up your own sense of inner health, and to protect you against any negative suggestions given by your doctor. [...]

[...] The self does not need imaginary fences to protect its privacy, or its safety or its solitude. [...]

[...] They protect him from inner impulses. [...]

Ideally that force is to a large extent self-protecting. [...]

[...] Now there was a time, speaking in your terms, before the making of symbols; a time so divorced from your idea of reality that only in the most protected areas of sleep does any memory of it ever return. [...]

[...] It is most usually encountered either in a protected deep level of sleep or in a sudden spontaneous trance state. [...]

(“Realize that since ‘79 at least I’ve felt to some degree that I had to protect my work even against Rob, whose ill feeling at Prentice might.... [...]

[...] Put another way, the intellect then must learn to cooperate in that trusting by relaxing its near-paranoid protective cover.

[...] In those terms, the world came into being and the species appeared in a completely different framework of activity than is imagined, and one that cannot be scientifically established — particularly within those boundaries with which science has protected itself.

[...] Here she has the symptoms as a kind of protection, so I’m wondering about our reactions if we took steps that would put us more in the public eye—left us open to more criticism—as well as praise—for instance. [...]

[...] How would you protect yourself, or your time? [...]

[...] And in an unwary, emotionally upset personality, particularly if under stress, such a suggestion could cause a harmless and protective nodule to be changed by the strong powers of adverse expectation, or rather expectation poorly used, into the form of what is feared; as a slight but harmless irregularity of heartbeat, with the unthinking suggestion of a doctor, can become through the patient’s fears an actual functional disorder, so could suggestion turn a relatively harmless formation like Ruburt’s into an arthritic condition.

On the other hand, he should also protect himself from personal remarks made by the chiropractor, through suggestion of his own, although this situation is better than it was. [...]

The hill house is protected. [...]

There is a certain protection (?) in his method. [...]