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A physical storm may, as you know, be far more disastrous than an emotional one. But a physical storm is a collective endeavor, and can be compared, if it is disastrous, only with disastrous collective emotional storms such as those that sweep across nations, when all minds seem seized by irrationality.

(Watching the blizzard that hit Elmira this weekend in action, I thought it like a disembodied psychic storm. Jane agreed; as session time drew near tonight she said she thought Seth would discuss the storm, and our weather in general. Seth has had something to say about the weather in these sessions: 56, 84, 123 and 175, without going into any great detail. Check Volumes 2, 3, and 4.

As emotional storms may be the result of a lack of discipline or of knowledge, or of control of one or more portions of the self, bringing about a corresponding exaggeration or growth of other portions of the self, so also erratic physical storms come from the same causes on a collective basis, but with the energy directed outward and often turned to a constructive purpose. Though this is not always the case.

Now. This is a good time to discuss certain interactions that occur within your system, and we can take your winter storm as an excellent example.

He felt himself to be a portion of the storm, however, and felt the storm as a vast magnification of his own emotional reality—even as he felt the body of the earth itself to be, beside itself, the magnification of his own emotional reality and that of others.

When man identified with nature, as given in Psyche, he did not imagine that the gods disapproved of him when storms lashed across the landscape. [...]

[...] Man could exult in nature’s energy, power, and splendor, even in the midst of the most fierce storm —in which, indeed, his life might be in danger.

With that loss of identification storms for the first time became truly threatening, capricious, for man’s mind could not intellectually understand the intimate and yet vast connections that the intuitions and emotions had once comprehended. [...]

INNER STORMS AND OUTER STORMS.

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(Pause at 10:32.) Next chapter [Eighteen]: “Inner Storms and Outer Storms. [...]

[...] There are great correlations between thunderstorms and psychic storms, for example, and between unstable electromagnetic properties of both feeling and thought, the brain’s ability to handle these, and its need to rid itself of excesses. [...] In certain terms it is a controlled storm.

Now: On other than conscious levels, simply as creatures, you are well aware of impending storms, floods, tornadoes, earthquakes, and so forth.

Men in those times protected themselves against storms, and yet in the same way they did not begrudge the storm its victims. They simply changed the alliances of their consciousnesses from the identification of self-within-the-flesh to self-within-the-storm. [...]

[...] Man actually courts storms. [...]

[...] Seth asked because the storm that had been threatening for several hours was finally in the process of breaking. We had most of our windows and both doors wide open, but since all seemed rather sheltered from the wind anyhow, I decided to see if we could ride out the storm without shutting up the house.)

[...] Now the storm was going full blast, but we left the house open to the wind, thunder, and lightning. [...]

[...] The storm was still in good progress, although weakening a bit. [...]

[...] He did not symbolically rage with the storms, for example, but quite consciously identified with them to such a degree that he and his tribesmen merged with the wind and lightning, and became a part of the storms’ forces. They felt, and knew as well, that the storms would refresh the land, whatever their fury.

[...] Each person participating fully in a storm, for example, still participated in his or her own individual way. [...]

[...] By now the storm was so noisy that Seth increased the volume of his voice.)

(There had been an accident, or fire, or both in our section of the city after the storm broke loose. [...]

[...] It was the kind of a storm in which even this big and solid house shook at times. [...]

[...] The explosive energy of a storm is highly creative. [...] A storm is part of creativity. You view it from your own perspective, and yet one individual will feel within the storm the unending cycle of creativity, and another will personify it as the work of the devil.

[...] It is foolish, as Ruburt once said, to hate a storm or shake your fists at it and call it names. [...] 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.

[...] Now the forecasts were for the storm to continue through the night.

[...] The warm living room with its soft lights, and the storm outside, seemed to have persisted forever. [...]

You have a storm. [...]

[...] There was a rather unusual rain and lightning storm of a mild nature, which kept up through the session. [...]

[...] Under different conditions, an electric storm can be beneficial to our purposes. [...]

[...] For some reason that day I’d forgotten to stopper the storm door, and the sudden blast of wind had slammed it shut with enough force to shatter the bottom of the two glass panels.

[...] So you were both at certain levels aware of the approaching storm. [...]

[...] Surprisingly enough, her voice hadn’t increased in volume to rise above the noise of the storm. Jane now said the storm hadn’t bothered her, so this fact may account for it. [...]

[...] Now the storm resumed in full fury, the worst rain and hailstorm here in 16 years according to later reports. [...]

[...] The storm had once again died down.)

[...] The storm outside was the only one I was aware of.)

[...] Emotionally accept them, then see them as natural phenomena in the same way that you observe the splendor and strength of a storm, and then let them flow out of you and outward into the great healing universe that uses both storms and emotions creatively. [...]

[...] But when you shove one black cloud against another black cloud you can have one hell of a storm so you do not have to retaliate, therefore. [...]

([Valerie:] “I wondered why we had so many lightening storms this year.”)

(A storm was building up as we sat for the session. [...]

[...] The storm had begun. [...]

[...] The storm raged in a gale of thunder, wind, and rain. [...]

[...] I do not recall a storm, or high winds.

Now, emotions flow through you like storm clouds—or like blue skies—and you should be open to them and react to them—and let them pass. [...]

[...] Now when you attempt to hold them back, it is then that they collect—and the electric charges grow—and the storm clouds grow. [...]

[...] We can travel through the varying intensities that make up a concept, and therefore experience it directly, as, say, you can move through a storm or a sunny day. [...] You are inside and not outside of the day or the storm.

There is a storm in the past, a physical storm, in which this man loses some animals. [...]

(While speaking for Seth, she had a mental image of a back room, and an “impression” of a storm. [...]

[...] Ruburt has indeed done well this week, the symptom storms becoming less and less frequent, and much briefer in duration as well as weaker in overall intensity. [...]

In your terms, friction might be compared to the winds and storms of the physical atmosphere. [...] There must be openings through storms of fear, doubts or angers. [...]