“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] The suggestions serve as reminders that action is possible, and that spontaneity, not repression, is still the best way of countering the situation as it appears to be. [...]

[...] You still try to carry your own cultural versions of reality into the dream state, for example, but the natural heritage of both body and mind escapes such repression — and despite yourselves, in your dreams you come in touch with a greater picture of reality that will not be shunted aside.

The collection of unrecognized artificial guilts, built up through the centuries, has led to such an accumulation of repressed energy that its release has resulted in violent action. [...]

[...] Now he is beginning to understand that his energy is the gift of his life — to be expressed, not repressed — and to understand, again, that spontaneity knows its own order.

([Joel:] “You don’t just automatically think good things about this fellow and then repress the negative thoughts and never even become aware that I felt...”)

([Joel:] “Yes, what I am trying to get at is how I should have had, though in this hypothetical case, these feeling without trying to repress them and going through this.”)

[...] Your natural feelings, denied, will also carry the great charge of repression. [...]

[...] On the contrary, they are often highly therapeutic, and they present the personality with an alternative — an alternative to continued repression that would be literally unbearable.

[...] The result is repression of one kind or another. [...]

You must realize that expression and not repression is the natural complement of creative abilities, and that in freeing his body, in encouraging physical mobility, he also encourages and frees his inspiration, his psychic awareness, and creativity.

[...] The attributes of the creative self are those of the personality, so that these attributes cannot be accepted under certain conditions and repressed otherwise, without difficulties resulting.

Your Ella, then, reacted against the repressed violence which has always been a part of that family structure as it is composed of its various personalities. She reacted vehemently against this repressed violence. [...]

This does indeed mean change at other levels of activity, the Sinful Self not only loosening its hold, but relinquishing some of the energy that it had withheld and repressed, so that the energy becomes available practically speaking for the body’s use once again. [...]

[...] Unfortunately when you bottle up repressions and feelings then often a structured procedure is necessary to help you release them. [...]

[...] You used, literally, a half of your energy repressing these memories and ideas building up a bridge between yourself and the rest of the world in terror that they should discover this secret, and so constructively you could not use this energy. [...]

[...] High activity connected with a male, of repressed violent tendencies, in the situation.

[...] High activity connected with a male, or repressed violent tendencies, in the situation.” [...]

[...] (Long pause.) Those feelings of panic are the ones that he has repressed, of course. [...]

[...] It also siphons off, expresses and uses subconscious desires and moods and repressions, thus freeing the channels of the personal subconscious so that those deeper areas can find expression in psychic work.

Many churches are primarily devoted to the repression of high spirits rather than their promotion, and a fear of an almighty God is generated, so that God becomes the bestower of punishment rather than the giver of love. [...]

[...] Also safeguards were automatically built into the physical structure so that accumulations of energy could not be repressed—so no buildup could then emerge with violent overtones. [...]

[...] Ruburt’s reaction to stressful situations was a repressive one: he did indeed often feel in a steady state of some alarm. [...]

[...] Sufficient enough repression here has caused these rampant electric brain discharges that automatically affect the motor systems. [...]