“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] The most bloodthirsty acts have been done because men believed themselves right and so they killed to uphold their worthy ideas. So be even playful with your ideas and what you believe, for no idea is worth killing for in your terms. [...]

In many cases your scientists seem to have the strange idea that you can understand a reality by destroying it; that you can perceive the life mechanism of an animal by killing it; or that you can examine a phenomenon best by separating yourself from it. [...]

I admit that I am being sneaky here; but if you did not feel the need to kill animals to gain knowledge, then you would not have wars, either. [...]

[...] Kill one and another will, and must, emerge from the inner self which is its source.

[...] If you are told that the ego must die then you will kill it. [...]

Mankind thought that killing worked. [...] You know now that killing is not practical, since it is being brought home to you in a very practical manner that in the long run he who kills will not survive.

Your child, in a past life, this child was an uncle, and in an accident you killed him. [...]

For various reasons, and because you did not understand, you held it against yourself that once you accidentally killed him, and then when he was a child you gave him away. [...]

[...] The old ideas of voodooism recognized some of these concepts, but complicated and distorted them with fears of evil, psychic invasion, psychic killing, and so forth. [...]

[...] Even in contests between young and old males for control of a group, under natural conditions the loser is seldom killed. [...]

[...] The emergence of the “pause of reflection” mentioned earlier (in the 635th session in Chapter Eight, for instance) and the blossoming of memory along with the emotional intensification, led to a situation in which members of the new species recalled, in the present, the dead and the diseases that killed them. [...]

[...] In some societies or tribes, the old or infirm were killed lest their care take too much attention from the able-bodied and endanger the group.

[...] For example, I was thinking of the Los Angeles earthquake, one man walked out into the street and was killed by a brick. [...]

([Florence:] “Before he was killed.”)

2. “The killing in Iran continues—and hardly just because of that country’s war with Iraq,” I wrote in the opening notes for Session 936, in Chapter 11 of Dreams. Some three months later the killing goes on, and with even more ramifications of violence, intrigue, and power politics—involving not only Iran but that unhappy country’s neighbors in the Middle East.

[...] I repeat, however, that in this country no public citizen has been either seriously injured or killed in an accident at a commercial nuclear facility (as have a few workers).

[...] Until the development and use (by the United States, no less!) of the atom bomb four decades ago, we could routinely kill each other while knowing that most of us, and our homelands, would survive. [...]

[...] After all, if you do choose suicide, you can always kill yourself. [...]

[...] If a hunter literally knows his relationship with an animal, he cannot kill it. [...]

[...] Yet such experiments represent a strong line of probability only in its “infancy,” in which man could sustain himself without draining the earth, live without killing animals, and literally form a new kind of physical structure connected to the earth, while not depleting its substance.

[...] Since six of them were considered vital for a successful rescue, the mission was canceled at that point—but eight crewmen were killed when one of the remaining helicopters collided with a transport plane during a refueling attempt. [...]

[...] 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.

[...] AIDS is a kind of biological protest, as if symbolically the homosexuals are saying: “You may as well kill us. [...]

[...] She said it was “a broad spectrum drug” that could kill many germs. [...]

[...] And when you think that you kill, you kill nothing. [...]

(Surplus children, who would have been “an impossible burden” upon the economy of the times, its housing, food supply, etc., were simply killed before baptism. [...]

[...] Often he had to kill life in order, he thought, to discover its reality.

I am not advising that malformed infants be killed, but I do want to point out that even in those most severe cases there is meaning in such conditions, and the consciousness involved then chooses another kind of experience.

At his behest [he said] this invisible friend killed a lawyer. [...]

[...] She told me that sometime she walked in the night, and that some night she’d turn on the gas jets and kill us both. [...]