“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

The dependent portion of the personality is literally appalled at the more aggressive aspects of the whole personality. In the case of Philip, we find these aggressive tendencies welcomed. [...] The aggressiveness is given reign and acceptance. [...]

[...] It is also, regardless of current psychological beliefs, the basis for aggression, in general. All aggression is not detrimental, for example.

[...] I do suggest the pillow pounding, for it encourages the expression of normally aggressive feelings through bodily release, rather than repression through bodily tension.

[...] It enjoys using its strength, so the pillow beating need not be necessarily tied in with the release of aggression alone, but can serve now simply as a way for the body to express its sensations. [...]

[...] The aggressive social outlook would be good for the mother. [...]

[...] Helping others turns their aggressions into beneficial action, a transformation of sorts.

[...] On various occasions, when the suggestions in his papers worked—you follow me—they worked because at the same time Ruburt was writing down his feelings: his aggressions and his fears.

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

Aggression or fear may rise up. [...]

You would do far better by trying to bring these out into the open on your own parts and encourage them on the part of your mate; the angers or aggressions or misunderstandings, when you let them out and discuss them and feel them. [...]

[...] Boys are still taught to “be cool,” unemotional, aggressive, and assertive — as opposed to being emotionally warm, cooperative, gregarious but without fake bravado. [...]

[...] He does have a natural aggressiveness also however, and a rebellious nature.

[...] (Long pause.) He must learn to handle normal aggressions, and yet when he is operating spontaneously his natural exuberance is a mechanism for such release. [...]

[...] They cause a physical situation in which the body is placed in a state of defensive aggression. [...]

[...] It also means the natural aggression of motion.

[...] He was examining beliefs, expressing aggressions naturally, and freeing his spontaneity. [...]

[...] The ancient mother-goddess concept became “unconscious”; the male, purposely forgetting the great natural aggressive thrust of birth, took physical aggression and force as his prerogative — for this came to represent the quality of ego consciousness in its need to physically manipulate its environment.

We find here a swing between aggressiveness and dependency. In the female existence of which I am speaking, it was the aggressiveness which the personality found distasteful; and in this existence we find the dependency, which you see does not fit in with the personality self-image.

[...] The aggressive reaction is actually but the termination of a passive creativity. [...]

What appears to you as aggression in these terms is merely the tail end, or the apparent manifestation of creation. [...]

However, the personality does not seem at this time able to realize that this inhibited passivity is indeed the basis for all resultant aggressive behavior.

When you have strong aggressive feelings admit them as being legitimate feelings and accept them as legitimate on their level. [...] If normal aggressive feelings are accepted when they are felt they will not give you trouble, they will dissipate. [...]

[...] He might think that “aggressiveness,”⁶ competition, and emotional aloofness were required to perform that role. [...]

6. For some of Seth’s material in Personal Reality on true aggression, see Session 634 for Chapter 8, and Session 642 for Chapter 11.

10. For some Seth material on suicide, see the first delivery for the 546th session, in Chapter 11 of Seth Speaks. In the 642nd session for Chapter 11 of Personal Reality, Seth mentioned that suicide can be “the result of passivity and distorted aggression, and of natural pathways of communication not used or understood.”

[...] The Zealots were a much more aggressive, semipolitical Jewish sect that also existed in the Holy Land early in the first century — as I discovered from my recent reading.)

[...] It has been linked with the peaceful Essene sect by some authorities, while others just as strongly associate it with the more aggressive Zealots.

“The man and woman in the York Beach dancing establishment … were fragments of your selves, thrown-off materializations of your own negative and aggressive feelings … the images were formed by the culminating energy of your destructive energies at the time. [...]

[...] Here aggressive and destructive energies were unconsciously projected outward, given a pseudo-reality and temporary physical validity. [...]

As has been noted, all normal aggressive feelings toward the mother had to be masked. [...]

To voice any dissatisfaction to you verbally was highly difficult, for you could then take away your love and affection, as his mother did, for she would not stand, in Ruburt’s eyes, for such voiced aggression. [...]

[...] There is no competition between them and animals, for example, and they are not basically aggressive, though they could be extremely dangerous if they were cornered, or if their young were attacked.

[...] You are so distrustful of the innate vitality of life and of consciousness and of All That Is that you feel that your aggressive thoughts can take it off balance and, magnified a million times, destroy it. Now on an individual basis, each of you is quite able to accept from the other, though I am certain that it would never happen in this class, a stray negative thought, or an aggressive thought, or even at times a stray ray of hatred. [...]

It means trusting yourself, following your own rhythms, riding the thrust, the aggressive and joyful thrust of your creativity full blast, so to speak. [...]