“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] Seth asked because the storm that had been threatening for several hours was finally in the process of breaking. [...]

[...] Ruburt used to feel as a child threatened by crowds. [...]

[...] I am telling you that the number of distractions in your life is laughable, though in your experience they appear quite threatening. [...]

Ruburt fears that if he were suddenly better he would add to your distractions, so when distractions seem threatening to you he emphasizes the symptoms: if he were better, would you want him to do all the chores? [...]

[...] It became fat like Ruburt’s mother, but no longer threatening. [...]

He becomes more afraid of them as you speak in such a way, and through your attitude, as he interprets it, the distractions seem more threatening.

Creative people, if they succeed at all, often find themselves in a position where they feel that the precious inward isolation is threatened. [...]

He also felt that you reacted to his improvement by feeling threatened yourself, that you disapproved of it. [...]

[...] When he is away from you, however, in his particular case, any characteristics that are not yours that he sees in his grandfather somehow become threatening. [...] When he is alone, however, with the older man, any characteristic of his that does not agree with yours becomes threatening to him. [...]

[...] The whole nature of your independent and joint creativity involved a retreat from the world that you both enjoyed, followed by, in the case of books, an expression in the world—in which, however, the books appeared in your stead: a way of life that involved usual publicity—lectures and so forth—seemed to threaten that kind of existence to Ruburt, in which he feared expression itself would be diverted, simplified, so that the message that finally did get through would not be the same message at all as the original one. [...]

[...] Ruburt felt that a public career threatened his own, and to some extent your characteristic, natural and absolutely necessary ways of relating with the world. [...]

[...] The life came from All That Is, from the spirit of life itself, and was freely given — to be taken away by no one, or threatened by no one or no force, until that life fulfills its own purposes and decides to travel on.

[...] It comes to be out of the force of itself, and no force stands against it or threatens it. [...]

[...] The ego feels threatened by the extended “leave of absence” it must take, becomes wary of sleep, and sets up barriers against the dream state. [...]

[...] Any or all of these may take symbolic form, and may appear beneficial or threatening according to the attitude of the personality involved. [...]

[...] If such a materialization appears threatening, then simply wish it peace and withdraw your attention from it. [...]

She’d almost tear the apartment apart looking for the threatening letter that she was sure had come in the mail. She was so persuasive that the first two times this happened, I wondered if she was getting threatening mail, as unlikely as this seemed. [...]

[...] She thought she was getting threatening letters.

[...] You felt your mother’s liveliness and vitality threatening, for it was not disciplined in any manner, but erratic.

[...] Then, it is threatening to you.

(“Yet each individual must eventually realize that you can’t give up power in one area without … ultimately threatening the inner core or psychic territory of power to some extent…. [...]

If death disappeared on your planet even an hour all of life would soon be threatened. [...]

Your growing understanding, however, began to threaten that framework, for you saw that life itself was an art. In a way, much of what I told you threatened your framework, for my ideas of spontaneity clashed with your beliefs and the need for discipline above all. [...]

Peter will interpret such body events in a negative fashion, and as threatening, so that some quite normal sensations will serve the same functions as a fear of policemen, for example. [...]

[...] If you are bound and determined that “GOD” (in capitals and quotes) creates only “good,” then any physical deficiency, illness or deformity becomes an affront to your belief, threatens it, and makes you angry and resentful. [...]

[...] Those dreams are most closely related to survival in physical existence, and whenever that survival seems threatened such dreams arise to consciousness whenever possible.

[...] Such dreams, however, can also be triggered often, as in your own times, when the conscious mind is convinced that the survival of the species is threatened—and in such cases the dreams then actually represent man’s fears. [...]

[...] Then Seth said: “The feeling of something hanging over, threatening or overhanging, on the upper half of the object, and dark.” [...]

[...] Seth threw me another: “Something bright and small also, beneath this overhanging or threatening portion.” [...]

[...] See how correct and yet ambiguous that unfinished impression was—“the feeling of something hanging over, threatening or overhanging, on the upper half of the object, and dark.”

The second impression that I was supposed to complete (“something bright and small beneath this overhanging or threatening portion”) was to lead me to the word “roller pan,” which also appeared on the bill beneath the word “roofing.” [...]

[...] Thus the older beliefs momentarily feel their old unity, and it is, again, realistic behavior to feel yourself also threatened. [...]

[...] You cannot say “I live in a safe universe, but I am threatened by the economic problems of my state,” move to Pennsylvania, or to Timbuktu (humorously intent). [...]

[...] Until the energy, once again, becomes disentangled, action will therefore flow also in the crosscurrents, and the main trunk of energy that gives overall integrity and identity to any given unit could therefore be severely threatened.

[...] Any impediments here can be most threatening to the integrity of the personality itself, for one aspect of the personality would benefit at the expense of other aspects.