“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] This will improve your painting, your creative life, and your psychic life, but you are turning inward too much without knowing what you are doing, at this time. You need to compensate by direct and aggressive physical action, either in a job that will relate you with others or in some aspect along those lines that will allow you to untangle the inner self and release your creative abilities. [...]

(To Arnold.) Now, to our friend here, you are worried about being aggressive in your psy-time. You can allow yourself aggression in your psy-time. [...]

[...] Our seed, however, who does not have this fine intellect that sits so nicely beneath your hair and within your skull, our seed without the intellect, rests joyfully within the earth knowing it is in the midst of creativity and that from within it, again, another flower will spring. [...]

[...] However, aggressions can be turned into constructive terms if care is used. Aggressions should be, as soon as possible after their recognition, turned into constructions. If not, consciously you forget the aggression; the energy stores up until it explodes in what we will call an unsupervised construction.

[...] Physical activity is an excellent way of using and controlling the effect of aggressive reaction, and will prevent the buildup of aggressive emotions into unsupervised physical constructions, and also prevent the habitual piling up of such aggressions, where detrimental constructions result continually.

Aggressions are merely the result of energy not clearly directed, invalid survival patterns. If these aggressions are not handled with some degree of success, they will form themselves into expectations, where they will then let forth their power in the formation of unfortunate constructions.

In his own way your father was saying “Since you do not trust my creativity I will deny you its benefits, even if I deny myself its benefits”—this to your mother; and you picked up a taboo: you could make money on art as long as you felt it was not really (underlined) creative—that is, commercial. [...]

[...] Ruburt never learned how to handle normal aggressive thoughts.

[...] They serve to prevent strong (underlined) aggression or violence, both in animals and men. [...]

[...] Speaking about the problem you mentioned, because your aggressions are fairly well controlled consciously, and because in the present your creative energies are in the realm of your subconscious, at this stage they can be, and often are, used to create unhappy image personality situations such as at York Beach. [...]

Once more, your personality is creative and constructive even when it is tuned to a destructive trend. [...] The very fact that the images were so solid and real, and so vested with physical attributes shows how strong your aggressions were.

[...] His emotions were not creatively—if you’ll excuse the term—destructive. You and Jane both have a peculiar problem in that you are creative even when you are destructive.

[...] Think in terms of creativity. [...] And (very loud voice) I will not tell you this is creative violence. Now, the very sound of my voice, as our dear friend knows, assaults the silence of the room and yet it is creative. And the vitality that sweeps through this form assaults the silence and yet it is creative. [...]

[...] The worst thing that could happen would be that, once again, you restrain the acknowledgment of your feelings and the pent up and unacknowledged and perfectly natural aggression in the beginning that has now built up, is ready to explode and now you send out a thought form out of all proportion to any of the event that causes your friend severe harm. And all of this because you were afraid that one stray aggressive thought of yours was more powerful than the vitality that resides in each of you. [...]

Now the atoms and molecules also, my dear scientific friend over there (Arnold), these atoms and molecules, minute as they may appear to you, also carry their burden of consciousness and a responsibility, yet there is a portion of consciousness that can joyfully perceive in a different manner that is not forced to perceive by its nature, but that can playfully perceive as a creative aspect of its being and without responsibility. [...]

[...] Because of this many were unable to express normal aggression. [...]

[...] Oftentimes the previously withheld normal aggression now can be legitimately expressed—against the food companies, the technological environment, the medical profession, and so forth.

[...] You both hit a period when for the moment your work was done —a time of creative regeneration.

[...] They show up in your creative work, for otherwise you would have been far freer. Your creative work therefore shows the emotional depriving aspects. [...]

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

[...] There are richly creative emotional founts within you both. [...]

[...] Then, as of Monday, he can begin to correlate the new physical activity with his writing, gently, by settling upon three hours a day of the basic “time put in”—but with the stress upon creativity, ideas, and free creative play that may or may not include Seven on any given day.

(11:07.) His creative abilities will see to it that Seven is finished. [...] You are not to compare yourselves with people who have jobs, or to say “They put in so many hours”—for you set up comparisons that do not apply, and that hamper your creativity.

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

[...] Privation naturally leads to great aggression of feeling. [...] The emotional aggression caused by privation caused the climate.

[...] Excesses over this survival construction are used in various creative aspects, and represent the basics for culture and civilization.

It goes without saying that upon your plane male and female are equally important, although because of the plane’s particular overemphasis upon aggressive manipulation the male has thus far dominated.

It means trusting yourself, following your own rhythms, riding the thrust, the aggressive and joyful thrust of your creativity full blast, so to speak. [...] It is simplistic to say that you need food to work, and yet going out into the world in such a manner does indeed become its own creative endeavor when it is clearly embarked upon. [...]

[...] The creative self is the most spontaneous of all. There are hidden rhythms of creativity that you do not take advantage of, and I am not speaking here to you (RFB) alone. [...] It represents a way of handling your energy that is native to your own being, and permits creativity its easiest, most natural flow.

[...] Following your inclinations, you would discover your own prime working creative rhythm.

[...] If aggressiveness is the problem, for example, then the preliminary suggestion should include a statement that in the dream, the aggression will be harmlessly acted out and not directed against a particular individual. [...] This may seem like a double censor, but in all cases it is the aggressiveness itself that is important and not the person or persons against whom the individual may decide to vent his aggressiveness.

[...] Rather harmlessly, aggressive tendencies could also be given freedom in the dream condition. [...] In the case of the release of aggressiveness, the individual involved would experience this within the dream state and hurt no one. Suggestions could also be given so that he learned to understand the aggressiveness through watching himself while in the dream state.

He began a long lecture on the methods of handling aggression and expressing it in acceptable ways. [...]

Too much aggression.

(“Why does Jane have too much aggression?”)

(“Why haven’t our serious creative writers dealt more fully with this fact of communication between the two planes, if you can so easily communicate with us now?”)

[...] From the private session for January 30, 1974, which I quoted in Appendix 2: “Your father’s creativity … had its side of secrecy, privacy and aloneness … you identified creatively with his private nature. [...] You believed the painting self had to be protected … as you felt that your father had to protect his creative self in the household….”

The Sumari abilities are highly creative ones, however. [...] The playful, creative elements of personality can then be released. [...]

[...] The creative aspects of the Sumari can be particularly useful if those aspects are encouraged in any personality, simply because their inventive nature throws light on all elements of experience.

[...] The swearing when he drinks is a direct result of the fact that he tries to deny aggressive feelings otherwise. The garden should be begun as an outlet, and a creative one, for aggressive feelings.

[...] Karma can be worked out in many ways, and here again we return to Mark’s earlier male oriented, aggressive personality. This time, through the creation of beauty in paintings, he more than makes up for past errors; not only because paintings certainly should possess beauty, but because they instill positive creative thoughts in the mind of the beholder.

[...] The intuitions and the impulse behind your creativity must be disciplined, if the creativity is to come to fruition.

The discipline, for Mark or for anyone else, is difficult to achieve, in that what is necessary is a passive discipline rather than an aggressive discipline. [...]

[...] What happens in the case of constructive psychic energy when it is purposely denied aggressive outlets? [...] What does it feel like to be the brunt of aggression? [...]

[...] Your body is much like a sculptor or a sculpt, never really completed, the inner self trying out various techniques of creativity on its first test piece. [...]

[...] They limit his effective area of psychic and creative activity. [...]

Creativity is its own responsibility. [...] There are gradations of creativity as there are gradations to anything else, but all will be used creatively. [...]

[...] 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. [...]

[...] Or the creative nature that lies within it. Violence is a distortion of a thrust toward activity and when you realize this you can use it creatively. [...]

[...] I’d had a vaguely similar thought this morning, and it had reminded me of my feelings on Saturday night—that our friend’s continual sneezing amid the group was actually a prolonged act of aggression.

In a fashion this is a kind of biological aggression. [...]

[...] (The kittens had the same mother, but had come from successive litters.) I was 44 and Jane was 34, and in conventional terms both of us were still struggling—not only to learn about ourselves and the world, but to find our creative ways in that world. [...]

[...] The worst thing that could happen would be that once again you restrain the acknowledgement of the pent up, perfectly natural aggression that is now ready to explode — so you send out a thought-form out of all proportion to any of the events that have transpired. The thought-form causes your friend severe harm; and all of this because you were afraid that one stray aggressive thought of yours was more powerful than the vitality that resides in each of you.

[...] Yet there is a portion of consciousness that can joyfully perceive in a manner that is not dictated by its nature; it can playfully perceive as a creative aspect of its being, without responsibility. [...]

The true feelings do not necessarily imply the violent or aggressive feelings. [...]

[...] In such cases what you usually have is a situation in which one child is acting out unfaced aggressive behavior for the whole family. [...]

Love is outgoing, as aggression is. [...]

[...] Natural guilt is a creative mechanism, meant to serve as a conscious spur in the solving of problems that, in your terms, no other animals ever had. [...]