“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

The understanding that the artistic self was not being threatened should allow you to relax sufficiently for the suggestions to take effect more. You were as a result distrustful of the subconscious, and this hampered the suggestions. You felt, if it were threatening your artistic self, what could you expect from it when you had always supposed previously that it upheld the creative drive? Your deduction you see was false—the earlier deduction that it threatened the painting.

The difficulties with the hand were not meant to threaten your artistic self. You feared they were. They were meant, in some instances, to protect your artistic self, if you recall our last session. Therefore the fear was a conscious one, and basically unwarranted. The unconscious was not (underlined) threatening your artistic self. You were afraid that it was, or that unwittingly the symptoms would bring this about.

It mirrored your attitudes toward your job, not toward your art in that regard. The fear that the artistic self was being threatened led to a certain panic that impeded the flow of information you were trying to suggest to the unconscious.

The tax episode threw Ruburt into a quandary—not only because of the situation, but because you, he felt, felt so threatened that there was no joy in his royalty check. [...]

The more financially threatened he feels, the less free he feels to be creatively himself, and the more something like a book deadline gains in importance. [...]

[...] When he feels financially threatened, however, that is when he pulls in his horns, cuts down on creativity, and tries to do his “job.’’

[...] since on the other side so to speak there was an incomprehensible frightening chaotic dimension, malevolent, powers beyond our imagining; and that to question the stories was to threaten survival not just personally but to threaten the fabric and organization of reality as we knew it. [...]

[...] you threatened the fine framework of organization that alone made life possible....

[...] You are not threatened. [...] You need not believe that the world of the newspapers does not exist, but you must believe that that world cannot threaten you.

When you have your stomach difficulties you insist, however, upon looking overboard and saying “Those waves are dangerous and threatening,” while forgetting momentarily that you are indeed quite safe aboard your craft. [...]

[...] This I is not threatened when you help others. It is threatened when you think that it is threatened.

It was important that Ruburt state his position, for example, by saying clearly that the symptoms threatened him, and that they threatened him more than any scorn, and important also that he state that the symptoms inhibited his writing. [...]

[...] A little later she said that she was “upset” by the question, that it threatened her. [...]

(10:15.) Of course the personal material did threaten him, with his beliefs, for how could the person responsible for such a weighty lifework have any weaknesses? [...]

[...] He fears his spontaneity directed toward you sexually and emotionally would threaten you. [...] Ruburt equates spontaneity with emotionalism, therefore he imagines that his spontaneity will threaten your art.

[...] This is enough for this evening but Ruburt has been afraid that his energy, spontaneously released, could threaten both of your prized abilities. [...]

[...] [But he could have chosen somebody else and he chose me because I had these ideas about work, wouldn’t threaten him with kids, make him get a regular job, keep us focused, etc. [...]

[...] The man and woman that you each are, are not threatened by love-making, parties, evenings out or vacations. The writer and the artist are not threatened either by those activities—but each of you in your own way have, until now, believed that they were.

Sex became dangerous—not to protect your persons—which would be delighted, but to protect your rigid, limited ideas of your “artistic selves”—the writer and the artist might be threatened, and so your personal lives must suffer, and the persons be shoved away.

They can express their personhood freely—in those areas that do not threaten their creativity, but as the idea grows, there are few areas left. [...]

As they sit thus comfortably ensconced (leaning forward with a smile), they observe dramas in which planets explode, and otherworld intelligences rise to challenge or to help the dauntless captain of the good ship Enterprise and the fearless “Spock” — but none of this threatens our friends, Ruburt and Joseph. [...]

[...] So watching such a program, you may feel slightly threatened yourself, yet still largely unconcerned.

[...] Ruburt and Joseph do not feel threatened, again, by Star Trek. [...]

A point also from the past—if he did not toe the mark with Walt, Walt also threatened to abandon him—once, in the middle of the desert.

[...] The Gallery of Silence affair was simply another episode, in which fears were poohpoohed, but he was afraid that those people would come here, and he felt threatened.

He felt that aggressive action was also threatening, for the same reasons as just given. [...]

[...] I still wanted to know why that portion of the personality was so blind to the harm it was wreaking—why it didn’t understand even in its own terms that its devastation was threatening greatly the very security and protection it has said it wanted. [...]

[...] I said I thought both she and Seth had avoided my questions about the sinful self, which I saw as part of the sinful self’s power to cover up issues it didn’t want to face, or considered threatening. [...]

[...] After his return home, the sinful self was threatened even further, it felt. [...]

People with life-threatening diseases also often feel that further growth, development, or expansion are highly difficult, if not impossible to achieve at a certain point in their lives. [...]

In all cases, however, the need for value fulfillment, expression, and creativity are so important to life that when these are threatened, life itself is at least momentarily weakened. [...]

[...] You however, being the male breadwinner as well as artist, feel most threatened by sex when you are working, because pregnancy could threaten the artist. [...]

[...] Because he is presently a woman he will react strongly and aggressively if he feels you are drawing too far apart, for this would threaten your life and goals as much as children would—children in your minds being coming too close together. [...]

You feel threatened if you get too far apart or if you come too close together physically. [...]

(Long pause at 3:20.) Again, people who have such views of the inner self usually project the same ideas upon nature at large, so that the natural world appears equally mysterious, dangerous, and threatening.

[...] 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.

[...] Mankind “competed” against nature, which was to be conquered, so the universe seemed to be a threatening place. In the same way, society seemed no longer to be a group of cooperative individuals, of creatures gathered together; but it became an alien, outside force, threatening the individual as much as it supported him.

[...] But no one sets the conditions, or pouts in a corner, or threatens suicide without courting severe difficulties. Ruburt has ridiculed the conventional idea of a god who says “Do what I want you to do or I will destroy you,” and yet you say to life “Give me what I want or I threaten to destroy myself.”

You set yourself against all of this, against the gist of life and joy and vitality, and turn your back upon it with the paltry excuse: “If one person does not love me in a male-female relationship in this life, then I threaten to destroy myself, and shatter the form that holds the spirit, and shatter the form like a glass thrown upon the floor, like a child in a tantrum.” [...]

[...] Who are you to threaten vitality and life?

[...] 2. This insight led Jane to an obvious one neither of us had ever made before: that when she gets a letter in which the writer threatens suicide if Jane doesn’t help him or her, this is like Marie threatening the young Jane that she will commit suicide.)

[...] His subconscious, however, knowing its own beliefs which were given it by the conscious self, after all, feels highly threatened, for it knows not more about Ruburt than he does, but more than Ruburt will admit he knows. [...]

The fact that you did do our notes gave you confidence, while you did not feel threatened by failure as an artist. [...]

[...] Those abilities have always been allowed greater freedom and spontaneity because they did not threaten you in terms of selling.

[...] Unfortunately in some respects certainly he went overboard, so that the symptoms served to cut out anything he felt might be threatening to his work and to your situation.

[...] They felt threatened by the world, which was painted by their beliefs so that it presented a picture of unmitigated evil and corruption. [...]

The Harrisburg situation potentially threatened the lives of many thousands, and in that circle of events the characteristics of a cult are less easy to discern. [...]

(10:17.) How did such scientific gentlemen, with all of their precise paraphernalia, with all of their objective and reasonable viewpoints, end up with a nuclear plant that ran askew, that threatened present and future life? [...]

She feels threatened by serious conversations, Philip, for she fears the unknown. [...] Such a discussion threatens the status quo.