“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] You each share some general beliefs that the rest of the world is a threat. You differed only in that Ruburt chose what seems to be more drastic methods in meeting those threats. [...]

[...] But I no longer felt as I did as a child, that the universe was well-intended or cared for me particularly; and looking about the world saw personal threats. [...]

The very idea of protection, however, as you know, implies a threat—so if you believe in threats you had better have protection. [...]

If you build up feelings of threat, then at your level you also react to those. [...]

[...] It now becomes apparent that a war, or near-war in one country is a threat to all others, and man’s consciousness at the level we are discussing is struggling to attain a planetary concern, a sense of life’s balances.

There were wars before, and threats and disasters, but people in countries that were safe were not daily confronted with those other realities, so consciousness has taken upon itself this additional opportunity and burden, in that each person, largely speaking, is far more aware of events in other corners of the world—natives in deepest bush country have transistors.

[...] She is also insecure and very on guard against threats of any kind. [...]

The resentment felt by the tenants was picked up by her, and felt as a threat. [...]

Often you are reacting to implied threats—either those you imagine in the future or remember from the past, so that you do not take the necessary comfort in the sense data of any given moment. [...] The imagined threats then cut down your feelings of security, adding anxieties for which the sense perceptions can directly find no reason.

[...] One or the other of you reinforce the idea of threat, the extraordinary energy is available. [...]

Before this Ruburt considered anything not writing a danger, a threat, or at least felt it a distraction to himself as a writer. He considered such things as a threat to you as an artist.

At the same time, and somewhat because of your attitudes, he felt his womanly reality a threat to both of you as artists. [...]

[...] You must go, go, go, to prove that you can do so, and any threat to your mobility is not only strongly felt but negatively exaggerated.

[...] This year you felt the vacation almost as a threat because of the fears that had built up during the year. [...]

[...] Any threat to your motion or advance, even in the business area, becomes highly charged for this reason. [...]

[...] Whatever—both cases would involve time and interruptions, a threat to what I see as my main course in life these days, painting. And that threat would be the main cause behind my self-injury: guilt at feeling that way. [...]

Living each day at a time, you respond to the present, and you need not in one day protect yourself from a lifetime of projected distractions or threats to your time that must, in your day, be imaginary, since they are probable events from the future.

[...] The larger threat was in his mind.

[...] He felt that his obvious femininity was almost a threat to both of your works, that he had no right to look sexy and tempt you both when spontaneous love play, for example, would not occur. [...]

These feelings were also based upon youthful feelings, that a woman’s biology could be a threat to a writer, so there was a base there that made a certain sense to Ruburt.

[...] His being demanded expression through the use of its abilities, and despite his need to be accepted by others he began to exaggerate the threat of their disapproval into scorn. [...]

[...] This was actually a threat he held over his own head. [...]

[...] He felt that any success of his was a threat to you. [...]

[...] They still represented his feeling that his writing was a threat to you, and were a reminder of the whole situation. [...]

[...] There are people who cannot appreciate or enjoy the satisfaction of life or of happiness unless faced simultaneously with the threat of death or intense pain.

Your mother felt that his creativity was a threat to stability, so maintaining your own creativity stubbornly, you still felt to some degree that it was a threat, that it would not pay off, and so you tried to clothe it in the garb of work, effort, regular hours, and stability, and to deny or play down its playful aspects.

[...] Had there been a strong or powerful overall threat to Ruburt, I would have discontinued the sessions. [...]

The ego, because of its responsibility, will therefore fight against what it then considers an unknown threat to survival. [...]

The strong male is therefore a threat, while he also represents security. [...]

[...] —had accidentally dropped the lighted cigarette, and Jane had jerked her legs out of the way to avoid being burned, or to avoid the threat of injury. [...]

Such negative patterns in childhood cause adults to be frightened of freedom—because freedom seems to imply a threat to life and to health. [...]