“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

More than this, again, any money thus acquired in the future, as in the past, would go to promote the continuance of the very system that, left alone, would mutilate our book, and continue idiotic cultural and political policies that are opposed to what you stand for.

When you let yourself go, your “natural” feelings lead you to fear that they will mutilate photographs, or in some way cheapen the book, dragging it down from the ideal. You have not really gotten it through your head that such thoughts do not represent practical reality, but impractical reality. But the main problem is the dilemma caused by the difference between the ideal and a feared, opposing actuality.

Prentice’s mutilation of the photographs is the same thing on your part. You are taught that to be practical is to expect the worst. To expect the best is Pollyanna. Despite that belief, however, you have both managed to express the ideal, and to clear, whether you realize it or not, one area of life after another.

Van Gogh, for your information, was (underlined) obsessed personally with ideas of self-mutilation, and underwent great inner torture. [...]

Personally then he took upon himself what you would say perhaps were great problems—too great for the personality to handle, but his inner tendencies for self-mutilation always kept his vision true to his main image of the world.

[...] He talked of selling the land and tearing down the terrace as a projected act of self-mutilation, mutilating something that he loved, to do penance for his sins, in his light.

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

The mother had been particularly given to the mutilation of prisoners, and hence chose the physical condition finally—not, now, as punishment, but to understand the experience—and to develop abilities under those conditions.

There must be self-sacrifice, to some degree self-mutilation. [...]

Nor is the invention of clock time the only such mutilating device mistakenly invented and used to protect one part of the self from the other. [...]