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(The “blue” middle finger on Jane’s left hand was better, and has been slowly improving a bit each day, yet the visit to see Dr. Sobel was a disaster as far as Jane was concerned. [...]

[...] Disaster indeed shows itself within the dream state before it appears as physical fact.

[...] This doesn’t mean that you have to experience disasters. [...]

You bought your rifle and your food supplies in case you had to withstand a disaster of nuclear proportions. [...]

(Pause.) A particular idealist believes that the world is headed for disaster, and [that] he is powerless to prevent it. [...]

[...] A war, in your terms, can be practically experienced as a murderous disaster, a triumph of savagery—or as a sublime victory of the human spirit over evil.

[...] The world with its wars or disasters, its illnesses or poverty, its mass or private tragedies, seems to be thrust upon man or to happen—again without his consent.

[...] He thought of the spontaneous self, his spontaneous self, as joyful, free, intensely creative, but also as somewhat evil, frightening, unreasoning, and liable to lead him to disaster.

[...] Wars, violence, disasters — these are obviously shared by many, and are a part of your shared psychological and physical environment.

[...] You have meditations for disaster, beliefs that invite private and mass tragedies. [...]

[...] If you dwell on ideas of danger or potential disaster, if you think of the world mainly in terms of your physical survival and consider all those circumstances that may work against it, then you may find yourself suddenly aware of precognitive dreams that foretell incidents of accidents, earthquakes, robberies or murders.

Though caught up in a life of seeming frustration, obsessed with family problems, uneasy in sickness, defeated it seems for all practical purposes, some portion of each individual rouses against all disasters, all discouragements, and now and then at least glimpses a sense of enduring validity that cannot be denied. [...]

[...] I am speaking in very simple terms now, and yet those involved in a flood, for example, want the past washed away, or want to be flooded by bursts of vital emotions such as disasters often bring. [...]

[...] It can turn a minor annoyance into anger for example; a rainy day into a creative disaster.

[...] This will not happen before disasters also occur, but when it does happen it will represent the first such time within the planet’s history where there was peace with equality for all.

You preferred spending most of the time in the house, even bored or disgusted, rather than put yourself in a situation that you felt, literally, had possibilities of disaster. [...]

Seth often uses episodes from our lives as specific examples of larger issues, and our experiences with the flood served as a starting point for his discussion of personal beliefs and disasters. [...]

[...] This applies to mass conversions and to natural disasters alike.

None of them want any disaster, and yet some of them think it would serve the people right — for then the people might realize that politicians do not understand science, and that the scientists should after all be put in control: “We must have enough money, or who knows what can go wrong?”

[...] It can find refreshment only within the limitations of the reality which it was formed to meet; and when it looks about with the best of intentions and sees disasters and terrors, it does not know that these others also play their roles, and that the roles are temporary.