“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Your whole civilization is immersed with the idea that the way to solve a problem–any problem, private or worldwide–is to exaggerate it, see its worst projection; and this, then, is supposed to make you take proper action. The approach unfortunately solves no problems, and only compounds them, whether the nation is trying to solve problems of energy, or social problems, or whether an individual is trying to overcome a dilemma.

(10:11.) When you become so worried, of course, you concentrate even further on the problem—how bad it is, and what will happen if it becomes worse in the future. The problem is, therefore, compounded to whatever degree—and when I give you both such reasons, then sometimes you use them, the two of you, to add to your private and joint self-disapproval.

The belief is that if you frighten yourself badly enough through imagined projections and imagination, you will be frightened enough to change—but the nation or the individual following that method does not change for the better, but compounds the original condition, concentrates upon it until it looms larger than before. Such methods cause panic, national or individual.

[...] These complex compounds are then carried by body fluids to other organs or tissues, where they have certain effects. [...]

[...] It has become virtuous to keep track of these, as if concentrating upon errors will do anything but compound them.

I am, again, not telling you to be blind to physical events, but to realize that the news media, and your organizations, are not giving you an “objective” view of the world, but a view compounded and composed by Freudian and Darwinian beliefs. [...]

[...] In other words, such attempts further compound the problem of considering a seemingly objective universe, and describing it in an objective fashion.

[...] Wars are self-perpetuating because they combine both natural and unnatural guilt, compounded and reinforced by memory. [...]

[...] I noted that such a situation could happen again—and it did: On November 4, Iranian students assaulted our embassy compound and took 63 Americans hostage; 3 others were imprisoned at Iran’s Foreign Ministry. [...]

[...] This would only compound the problem, and indeed there is no blame. [...]

(Jim H.: “In the beginning, before we compounded the frustration and the emotional charges, would you have recommended an action like saying, ‘Come on, this is wrong. [...]

[...] Those (underlined) issues are compounded by Ruburt understanding as of now of other people’s lives as they write to you. [...]

[...] We mourn the dead servicemen and wonder how many more Americans—military people and hostages—would have been killed had our commandos penetrated to the American Embassy compound, and the Iranian Foreign Ministry, in the heart of Tehran.

[...] Within your system, to kill is obviously a moral crime, but to kill another in punishment only compounds the original error. [...]

([Joel:] “In the beginning, with the first example, before we filled and compounded the frustration, the charges, would you have recommended an action like saying, ‘come on, this is wrong and I have probably done this sort of thing myself, but this is wrong and it really bugs me and that we got to get up and get to work here, be honest with him at that level. [...]

(Long pause at 10:11.) “Psychic explorations” never cause such difficulties, nor do they ever compound original problems. [...]

This brings about an atmosphere in which the problem is compounded. [...]

[...] That only compounds the issue.

[...] During break we discussed John’s company, Searle Drug, which is in the throes of financial difficulties compounded by management problems; Seth has discussed this often when John has been present, and to date his statements have been accurate.

[...] If the assembled atoms are all alike, an element results; if two or more different kinds of atoms combine into molecules, a compound is created.

[...] Those (underlined) issues are compounded by Ruburt’s understanding, as of now, of other people’s lives as they write to you. [...]