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Creativity is its own responsibility. It follows laws that are beyond those that you realize or recognize. It answers needs that consciously you do not know exist. It has its own validity, and it will always work. The defeatist kind of literature, to which you are referring, often serves to bring to the foremost of the mind the deepest fears that have been unrecognized and being unrecognized has done the greatest damage. Also, such information brings issues to the foremost where they will be dealt with. There are gradations of creativity as there are gradations to anything else, but all will be used creatively. And you will get further answers from yourself and doubtlessly from me.
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Consciousness has its built-in protection. But when this is not spontaneously admitted and when out of fear of evil it is repressed this is when it gains additional charge. And so for release that it turns into violence, both individually and en masse. You are so afraid of violence that you do not try to understand what lies behind it. 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. When out of fear you try to pretend that it does not exist or, on the other hand, you fear it so drastically that you shove it under, then it is magnified and can do damage.
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