“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] In such circumstances an individual might then construct an artificial devil or demon who annoys him constantly, and even orders acts of a highly destructive nature.

The individual, like Donald, has also given up the responsibility for his own choices, and feels that he or she cannot be held responsible for any destructive acts that might be committed.

[...] It is useless to personify a storm and treat it as a demon, focusing upon its destructive elements, or those elements that to you appear destructive.

Change of form is not destructive. [...]

[...] This is the truth so often forgotten — that [the combination of] consciousness and existence continues and absorbs those elements that seem to you so destructive.

[...] If she is destructive, he sees that this destruction is the other face of love never truly given. [...]

[...] Your mother represents to him the destructive, unreasoning energies of his own mother, and in the pull and conflict between your mother and father, he sees the tortured connections of his mother’s soul.

[...] Hate creates destruction in that ‘room,’ and until the lessons are learned, destruction follows destruction. [...]

“In the terms of other systems, that kind of destruction does not exist—but you believe that it does, and the agonies of the dying are sorely felt. [...] It is not that you must be taught not to destroy, for destruction does not actually exist. [...]

[...] It is not that your race has an instinct for destruction, although it does have what can really be called an instinct for manipulation. What seems to be a destructive instinct is instead an inability to control emotional energy, and to discharge it in a most effective manner.

[...] But this destructiveness in itself serves the purposes of creativeness and arrival. [...] I am not here saying that all destruction is good, by any means. [...]

[...] It was destructive, and psychically older than they —Seth confirming my suspicion here. [...]

[...] Generally speaking, creativity has feminine connotations in your society, while power has masculine connotations, and is largely thought of as destructive.

[...] Much of this is involved with the unfortunate myths about this creative person, who is not supposed to be able to deal with the world as well as others, whose idiosyncrasies are exaggerated, and whose very creativity, it is sometimes said, leads to suicide or destruction. [...]

[...] When you think of a possible destruction of your planet, you imagine perhaps the mutilation of nature as you know it, the species changed. [...]

[...] As you know, there is no destruction, and yet in other terms you must believe for a while that there is, if you are going to work for the good of yourselves and others, as you must.

[...] You cannot be destructive even when you try. [...] Despite all man does, he cannot really work any destruction—but while he believes in destruction, then to that extent he minimizes what he is, and must work harder to use creativity.”

Constant fears about nuclear destruction, or other such catastrophes can also fall under this classification.

[...] There is another probability in which the Second World War ended in nuclear destruction, and you did not enter that one either. You chose “this” probable reality in order to ask certain questions about the nature of man — seeing him where he wavered equally between creativity and destruction, knowledge and ignorance; but a point that contained potentials for the most auspicious kinds of development, in your eyes. [...]

Ruburt’s student Venice must have her weight, or she fears destruction. Ruburt must have his failure, and relative poverty, or he fears destruction.

He fears destruction in the terms of being a complete cripple. [...]

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[...] Creative ‘Destruction.’ The Length of the Day and the Natural Reach of a Biologically-Based Consciousness.”

[...] If you look upon them in that manner, you will avoid being overwhelmed by what seems to be an endless parade of negative thoughts and beliefs that can only lead to destruction. [...]

If the major religions have been touched, then there have also been numberless smaller cults and sects throughout history into the present that bear that same stamp of great psychological power and energy, coupled with an inborn leaning toward self destruction and vengeance.

He became so aware of fear’s destructive energies that he panicked, thinking there was no way to keep fear away. [...]

Fear of any kind, including fear of fear, is destructive. [...]

[...] They are not destructive. [...]

(Long pause at 9:02.) The Sinful Self shows itself in a period of transition from its religious to scientific format in science fiction or fantasy in particular, where you can almost trace the translation of religion’s self, tainted by original sin, to the Darwinian and Freudian concepts of the flawed self, bound to destruction one way or another, propelled by the unbridled unconscious or evolutionary defect. [...]

(Long pause at 9:13.) The use of the Frankenstein monster and so forth in television dramas, and the merging of strong destructive tendencies intermixed with the psychic abilities in current psychic horror stories, shows again the potent mixture of religion’s Sinful Self and science’s flawed self. [...]

[...] Creative people are not self-destructive, but if they sometimes appear so in the western world, it is because of that division, that artificial barrier. [...]

[...] Materialization will quickly appear, and potentials therefore for both constructive and destructive elements are high.