“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] Whatever reservations she shows—her conscious inhibition of impulses, for example—are learned devices that are literally protective in nature. [...]

[...] A man protects his family because he loves it—but in his love he can see threats all around.

This is a natural aspect, the self-protective principle that operates within earth life as you know it. [...]

[...] Suffice it to say that to kill for self-protection or even to kill a natural prey on your plane does not involve you in what we may call for the first time, I believe, karmic consequences.

[...] So there is no need to protect your own individuality because it may send out other shoots into probable realities. [...]

[...] Sometimes, however, they suggest that their wares will protect you against the flu and colds, and against the vulnerability of your nature.

[...] For now, suffice it to say that to kill for self-protection or food on your plane does not involve you in what we may call for the first time, I believe, karmic consequences.

[...] The men are obviously doing something connected with their line of work and are protected from radiation by their clothes. [...]

[...] It also developed that Jane had begun to develop her psychic abilities as a child, as a means of protection and escape from a very unhappy family situation. [...]

[...] I think that Marie’s domineering rage at the world (chosen by her, never forget) deeply penetrated Jane’s developing psyche, and—again in those terms—caused her to set up repressive, protective inner barriers that could be activated and transformed into physical signs at any time, under certain circumstances. [...]

[...] You will learn to protect and cherish life as you know it and the plant life as you know it. [...]

[...] Bill said the material for the ad, [the plates], was protected by two layers of heavy cardboard.

[...] Yet I am upheld, supported and protected in the midst of this pervading energy that seems to form about and within me.

Consciousness therefore forms the primary construction about itself, not to protect itself from matter but in order to become allied with matter, the consciousness obviously being diffused through the whole physical construction.

[...] In this case insanity is actually a protective mechanism, in that the personality will face almost complete disorientation rather than confront truths in its past that bring up problems it cannot solve. [...]

(A one-minute pause at 11:20.) While you were so concerned with protecting what you thought of as the boundaries and integrity of one selfhood, as a race you actually arrived at a point where you were beginning to deny your own greater reality. [...]

[...] Hallucination is not involved, unless I am hallucinating now as I write this page, sip my coffee, and feel honest indignation that some of us would limit our abilities to protect limited concepts. [...]

[...] You also adopted the symptoms as a protective measure against her. [...]

[...] Before you attempt the projection, however, the suggestion should be given that the physical organism will be well protected and comfortable. [...]

[...] You did not sign on as you should, and were discovered; but you reminded him of a nephew, last name Phillips, and he protected you. [...]