“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] When they are repressed they gain a charge out of all proportion, to which overreactions can then occur. [...]

[...] The unresolved and partially-buried attitudes that you have written down upon your paper (our creed), and the fact that many of these were so repressed that he would not think about them himself, much less discuss them with you, unless he was driven to it.

If you find yourself running around in a spiritual frenzy, trying to repress every negative idea that comes into your head, then ask yourself why you believe so in the great destructive power of your slightest “negative” thought.

over repression’s frosty land,

Now this is the difference between repression and positive action. In repression the resentment is shoved beneath and ignored. [...]

(Jim H.: “You don’t just automatically think good things about this fellow, and repress the negative thoughts without becoming aware of what you felt.”)

[...] I want to learn how to handle such feelings, without trying to repress them.”)

[...] When one set of rigid beliefs threatens to make action appear meaningless, then another set of buried, repressed beliefs may surface, providing new impetus precisely when it is needed — but also forming a secondary personality with characteristics almost opposite to those of the primary self.

[...] The patient may also feel abandoned by God or the universe, and may feel unjustly attacked by the disease, thus arousing a whole new tumult of anger, and it is most important that the anger be expressed, and not repressed.

[...] While he experienced you, as given much earlier in the sessions, as cautionary and repressive, then he did not need the symptoms. [...]

Let’s consider Sue’s symptoms, caused by explosive and repressed aggression, in relation to Seth’s statements. Sue had been taught as a child to repress emotions, but the time had come when expression was imperative. [...] According to Seth, even the calcium deposits were accumulations of repressed energy stored up in the body.

[...] When the lines to the repressed action are released and the channels to it opened, such an illness will vanish. [...]

[...] The ego would see no reason for such a memory, and on general principles attempts to repress them.

[...] In other instances, the inhibited emotions can be projected outward into other persons, or as in the case of the York Beach images, very charged repressed energy can actually form pseudophysical images which present the personality with the physically materialized image of his fears.

[...] There was no evidence of excessive emotionalism in the material, though: no repressed hates, prejudices, or desires. [...]

(Long pause at 3:34.) You can also find single families, of course, that operate like cults — or an entire nation — that are given over to repression with its resulting violence.

[...] This means that I sidetrack —but not try to repress—those cultural and learned beliefs I’ve let rule my life in large measure, instead of following the natural, creative dictates of my first, or primary man. [...]

In nearly all matters of poor health, or unfortunate living conditions or mental or physical stress, there exists a strong tinge of denial, fear, and repression.

[...] It is instead a fanatical Puritan vein, peculiarly American in character, and restrictive rather than expansive, for the bursts of emotion are highly structured — that is, the emotions are limited in most areas of life, permitted only an explosive religious expression under certain conditions, when they are not so much spontaneously expressed as suddenly released from the dam of usual repression.

[...] When this happens your institutions become more repressive, and violence often emerges as a result.

[...] All of the minute manipulations necessary to hearing are unconsciously repressed. [...]

[...] The trouble is that working within that framework, the self-structure is further weakened, for the normally repressed characteristics of Augustus Two are forever denied. [...]

The matter of speaking the opposite of what he means to say: this always occurs then he makes an innocuous remark that is meant to cover up a repressed feeling. The remarks are again harmless ones, usually a line or two of pointless conversation, chatter meant to cover up a thought that has briefly come into consciousness, and been repressed.

[...] You have found the door, you have beat aside the jungles of repressions (words lost) door. [...]

[...] She was tired, and I was far from being at my best as I fought off a half-repressed cough—an affliction that seldom troubles me.)

[...] Only repressed communication leads to violence. [...]

(10:48.) True religion is not repressive, as life itself is not. [...]