“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] The moods may be recognized of course, but their destructive nature must also be recognized, and concentration then directed to other stimuli.

[...] The same results as those given could be possible: the growth of suicidal tendencies or other self-destructive behavior.

You may wonder why so many forms of life would be involved in what might seem to be self-destructive behavior, often leading to death — but remember that no consciousness considers death an end or a disaster, but views it instead as a means to the continuation of corporeal and noncorporeal existence.

[...] The viruses must be triggered into destructive activity, and this happens only at a certain point, when the individual involved is actively seeking either death or a crisis situation biologically.

[...] It is not so much that a virus, say, suddenly turns destructive — though it does — as it is that the entire cooperative structure within which all the viruses are involved becomes insecure and threatened.

[...] It would have disappeared in the throes of destruction or calamity.

[...] Negative expectations, far from protecting either the individual or those with whom he comes in contact, will actually, to a greater or lesser degree, turn as destructive as any epidemic.

[...] Ruburt sensed this, and if his own abilities had not been so strong, Ruburt would have ended up in a most unfortunate situation; for he attempted, for a time, to counter the wholesale destructive tendencies open in your house.

[...] For instead of the gun, which to Ruburt signifies destruction, purposeful destruction, you have the distortion of the eagle shape on the gun label, into a woman and child image, signifying of course creativity in this case.

[...] With the negative and destructive attitudes you had before our sessions, you are both very lucky that you did not run into more difficulty.

[...] That is why a feeling of hopelessness is so destructive.

[...] The child wanted out, finally, but did not know how, for he had allowed the destructive game to become real.

[...] As I said to Jane this morning during our long discussion, I still want to know why one portion of the personality would want to drive all of the rest before it, even to the point of destruction, and perhaps even beyond. [...]

[...] The great question, then, is why those portions of the self would — and do — continue their terribly destructive ways, even to the point of bringing about their own death — for if allowed to, I think, death would be the end result, the final step along their chosen path.

[...] However the relationship between her own parents has been destructive. [...]

Her father has been more destructive to her psychological health in some respects than her mother, for he gave her the image of males as weak.

Like most of your allies, it is taken for granted that nuclear plants will ultimately be used in the manufacture of bombs that will ultimately certainly be used in a destructive fashion. [...]

[...] He has always been a creative rather than destructive personality.

[...] Some, overall, would seem quite destructive. [...]

Wheat fields for example, filled not only with the vitality of sun and growth but bristling with creativity that (in quotes) “destroyed” each part of itself in death, that was transformed instantaneously into a new spectacular form in which the creativity and destruction were always apparent, and yet one in which violence was necessarily turned into life.

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

[...] This meant that a complete stop was made in all destructive issues. [...]

[...] This does not mean that we are not spontaneous, or that we must deliberate between one thought or another, in anxious concern that one might be negative or destructive. [...]

[...] The self-destructive behavior was much more advanced now, though, and I could only hope and trust that my dear wife’s feelings of panic were an attempt on her personality’s part to at least discharge some of the dangerous emotional charge that must have accumulated over the years, while being repressed. [...]