“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] I know it’s easy to feel bad about what appears to be someone else’s dilemma, but at the same time they live in the reality they’ve created and have their own kinds of protection. [...]

[...] As long as you stayed within the framework you were protected. [...]

[...] In their own way symptoms frequently operate, actually, as repetitive neurological ritual, meant to protect the sufferer from something else that he fears even more.

[...] There are methods whereby you can indeed help your own system, and to a large measure determine the constructive nature of action as it operates within the system, and protect the organism from such distortions before they occur.

[...] The neutrality is protective, a duration within the spacious present, where nevertheless there is a certain acceleration in terms of value fulfillment.

[...] Remember, consciousness has its own protection, its own vitality, and trust in the vitality of your own consciousness and of your own way and that is the answer. [...]

(Jane [Ruburt] said something to me on the tape about having a strong feeling of resistance on my part—as though in spite of all I said about wanting to have orgasm, I really didn’t want to—that it was a strong protective measure, as though my survival in one way depends on it.

“There are obviously ways in which you mold your own conditions, protect yourself from your own negative suggestions and those of others. [...]

“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. [...]

[...] This steady checking has the added advantage that it serves as a protection against any possible hallucination [although this would have to be a mass effect, and highly unlikely]; the checking in a deliberate manner was a good method to keep one’s feet on the floor, so to speak, even if the table was acting contrary to gravity.

[...] I understood that the lampshades were both comforting and protective, however, and I felt no fear, or even unease, at this adventure. [...]

[...] As mentioned earlier, he exaggerated the power of aggression, so that the simplest self-protective act frightened him, and resentments built up. [...]

[...] For this reason we have been holding recent sessions in a protected back room. [...]

[...] Its inhibitions always are intended to protect the ego.

[...] The entity then projects a personality within that plane of existence, equipping it with whatever camouflage senses, mechanisms, and protections that are necessary for survival on that plane.

In all ways we protect all such systems. [...]

[...] The idea still is to love and protect and cherish, and express the body that you have.

[...] To some extent now, you applied discipline in your work and lives to protect yourself against response to a world that you felt was insane, in direct conflict with artistic pursuits, and in which you felt quite alien —both of you, that is, as a unit.

[...] It is a natural protective mechanism of inner origin, directly affecting matter. [...]

[...] Jane was especially concerned that every time she improved so far she’d regress because she’d touch upon certain hidden fears that she’d adopted as protection against the world. [...]

Individual reactions follow this innate knowledge, for while man fears the unleashed power of nature and tries to protect himself from it, he revels in it and identifies with it at the same time. [...]