“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

They were so on the outlook for violence that their entire system of communication was built upon fear, for they could not protect themselves, they could only run. They did not face the issue of creative energy and how to use it. They blocked the energy off at the source. To put a hole into the earth is violent. To pluck up a flower from the earth is violent. To yell out into the air, as I am doing, does a violence to the atoms and molecules. Your blood rushing through your body does violence to it then. Learn what energy and life is, and then you will use it creatively and you will not fear it.

The dream served several purposes. It allowed him to release aggression in a much less violent manner than he would have in the past. It also, however, allowed him to see the picture of his own aggression as it existed on a subconscious level of his mind. The aggression that he feared was not so great and big and powerful and black and hairy and threatening as he thought. Instead, it was a part of himself and very small, fish size, you see, and easy to squash and kick. It was not this giant that you feared, and it was easy to rid yourself of this. Now, in this case, the fish was not a probable fish in another reality. It was a portion, however, of his own energy.

([Joel:] “We appear quite vulnerable though. I was thinking of the fish again. When you say the lilies of the field may, lose a leaf or two, but still have a great deal of protection, I was wondering had Ned’s fish, perhaps. In his case it was only an image, but in my case, suppose I had a probable fish. Now what kind of protection would that fish have had against my violent acts?”)

There was a civilization, and I am writing this in my book and some of you know of it—a civilization, in your terms, in your dim past, in which a group of human beings tried to form a physical body that could not act violently and when violence was threatened the body automatically closed off from action. It could not, literally, act. These people thought then that violence would be wiped away from the face of the earth, and they hoped to begin a race of people that would not know violence. It would seem perhaps to you, that this was a highly idealistic race and that they grew in strength and beauty, but they were not facing the issues clearly, you see.

[...] bid you to reexamine your definition of the word violent and all the connotations that you have placed upon it. [...] Now, when I speak to you, I do not equate violence with evil anymore than I equate a summer storm which is violent with evil. [...]

Now the true feelings do not necessarily imply the violent or aggressive feelings. [...]

[...] You were terrified of it because you are terrified of the idea that evil is more powerful than good, and that one stray violent thought of yours was more important and more powerful than the vitality of good. [...]

[...] Now you have some idea in your head that good is gentle and bad is violent and that no violence can be good and this is because in your mind, violence and destruction are the same thing. [...]

[...] When you are violent for any cause, the violence returns. [...]

You cannot pay lip service to peace while you are violent. [...]

[...] Because one seems so compliant and docile and one is so violent and unruly, you may never see the connections between their behavior, thinking them so obviously different. Yet if being “good,” polite, and compliant is not the usual state of normal children, neither is incessant violent activity. [...]

The collection of unrecognized artificial guilts, built up through the centuries, has led to such an accumulation of repressed energy that its release has resulted in violent action. [...]

[...] “A red and violent connection. High activity connected with a male, or repressed violent tendencies, in the situation.” [...] [The object represents Jane’s first day of teaching.] Briefly, a very violent scene was enacted before Jane and her class. A male teacher entered with a young male student in tow, and literally threw the student across the classroom in a violent fit of anger. [...]

A red and violent connection. High activity connected with a male, of repressed violent tendencies, in the situation.

[...] Also safeguards were automatically built into the physical structure so that accumulations of energy could not be repressed—so no buildup could then emerge with violent overtones. [...]

[...] The system, the body system, short-circuits itself at the contemplation of violent behavior. [...]

[...] The beauties within it are often the result of violent changes, of strong energy, used to change pattern and form, and yet maintain a definite stability. [...]

[...] Yet your more educated beliefs lead you to an even more pessimistic picture, in which even the violent action of men and women who are driven to the extreme serves no purpose. [...] He is driven to violent action only as a last resort — and illness often is that last resort.

[...] On the other hand your common, unlettered, violent television dramas do indeed provide a service, for they imaginatively specify a generalized fear in a given situation, which is then resolved through drama. [...]

[...] The viewer can say: “Of course I feel panicky, unsafe, and frightened, because I live in such a violent world.” [...]

In the overall, then, violent shows provide a service, in that they usually promote the sense of a man’s or a woman’s individual power over a given set of circumstances. [...]

It will be difficult for some people to believe that spontaneity is to be trusted, for they may be only aware of feeling destructive or violent impulses. [...]

Actually the people involved are repressing not violent impulses but natural loving ones. [...]

And if the means are violent, the ends are violent. [...]

The true feelings do not necessarily imply the violent or aggressive feelings. [...]

[...] You are terrified of the idea that evil is more powerful than good, that one stray violent thought of yours was more important and powerful than the vitality of good. [...]

[...] You have an idea that good is gentle and bad is violent. [...]

(Now Jane suddenly pounded her left fist on the table so hard that the cups and saucers and other objects jumped violently. The gesture was so rapid and violent that I too jumped. [...]

[...] This ended, but now Jane had taken off, evidently wrapped up in the role briefly, for she shouted at a fast and furious pace, shaking her head violently, eyes closed. [...]

[...] As long as power is equated with violence, then you will feel it necessary to regulate normal aggression in your behavior; and considering power as violent, you will be afraid to act to some extent. [...]

[...] The enforced incarceration of violent men often leads to a riot, and the private closeting of normal aggression often brings psychological rioting and outbursts of physical symptoms.

[...] Society as you know it, not understanding the nature of normal aggression, considers it violent. [...]

[...] Jane suddenly cried out and began to shake her head violently from side to side as she sat in her rocker. Her movements were so violent I feared she would tip over in the chair. [...]

[...] Oddly enough her glasses were on; nor did she lose them in the violent shaking. [...]

[...] However he began his creative life very early as an outlet, you see, for aggressive and violent feelings. [...]

[...] He held them back in pure terror of the consequences, for suddenly the violent-tempered mother was immobile. [...]

[...] The mother now could no longer be violent in act. [...]

[...] These Lumanians died quickly, for they could not bear violence nor react to it violently. [...]

[...] They could not trust the earth, since they were not allowed to protect themselves against violent forces within it.

When man’s ego turns instead into a shell — when instead of interpreting outside conditions, it reacts too violently against them, then it hardens and becomes an imprisoning form that begins to snuff out important data and to keep enlarging information from the inner self. [...]

[...] This is what the ego does when it reacts too violently to purely physical data. [...]

Neither should the ego react so violently that it remembers and reacts to past storms in the midst of clear and sunny weather. [...]

[...] When man’s ego turns instead into a shell, when instead of interpreting outside conditions it reacts too violently against them, then it hardens, becomes an imprisoning form that begins to snuff out important data, and to keep enlarging information from the inner self. [...]

This is what the ego does when it reacts too violently to purely physical data on your plane. [...]

Neither should the ego react so violently that it remembers and reacts to past storms in the midst of clear and sunny weather. [...]

[...] Jane’s father is still in danger of losing his life violently, but if he survives the next five years he will die a natural death, before 70 I believe. [...]

There is a connection here between last night’s episode, and the emotionally charged psychological climate behind the overt behavior itself: the behavior for example was not violent in any way.

[...] Nothing strong or violent. [...]

[...] He spends his life trying to hide what he thinks of as aggressive — violent — behavior, and trying to be understanding and kind instead. [...]

[...] When his system has had enough, our friend may then indeed react with violent behavior. [...]