“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Individuals who defy death time and time again are actually more frightened of it than most other people are. Trapeze performers, stunt men and women, race-car riders, and many other groups have a life-style that includes death-defying stunts on a very regular basis.

[...] You have, for example, the extremes of poverty suffered by people in many other parts of the world — a poverty that stunts all kinds of growth, mental and physical, and brings about an early death. [...]

[...] Along with this sensation they also felt curiously stunted, with the right leg bent and drawn partly up at an odd angle. [...]

It is erroneous to say that they did not develop, or that their progress was stunted, for it was not. [...]

[...] Any other course leads to a stunting of growth.

[...] I am not only speaking in terms of your limited sense of what is practical, but what is truly practical for your personality is the full use of your abilities, and not stunting them through studied hypocrisies.

[...] There is however one point along these lines I would like to make, and that is that your present father impeded his own inner development, and stunted it, through an unwillingness to face challenges in the outside world.

A job which prevents you from using these abilities is at best a compromise and at worst a soul-stunting experience. [...]