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[...] We project our inner knowledge “outward” in distorted fashion; thus on a global scale we thrash about with our problems of war, overpopulation, and dwindling natural resources, to name but a few.

[...] In practical terms it would mean that you would not wage war for the sake of peace. [...]

[...] I paid her back out of my wages in the Air Transport Command when I was drafted to serve in the military in World War II.

They are the dreams that warn of famines or of wars. [...]

He used the sword—another reason, incidentally, why he does not want to hurt anyone now—and the magic of words, and was involved in wars against Christendom. [...]

[...] He told us that a European artist had done a portrait of him while he’d been a soldier in World War II. [...]

[...] We believe that this was a reference to World War II, when the salesman who waited on us had his portrait done as a soldier. [...]

[...] Your negative emotions appear to you quite obviously as ill health and wars and desolation, and when something is wrong you recognize them. [...]

Hatred of war will not bring peace — another example. [...]

[...] She was tired of the constant battle, never realizing that much of the war was one-sided and unwarranted. [...]

“If, on the other hand, under the same circumstances, you stop yourself and say gently to yourself, ‘He will begin to feel better now, or his drinking is temporary, and there is indeed hope here,’ then you have given him aid, for the suggestions will at least represent some small telepathic ammunition to help fight off the war of despondency.

[...] The proceedings, however, do involve a biological violation, a going against nature’s flow and intent, a process in which a form of life is made to go against its own value fulfillment, and it is because of such attitudes involving other kinds of life that the horrors of the Jewish war camps were made possible.

[...] They also accused Iraq, with whom Iran is at war, but it’s almost certain that one of the dozen or more Iranian underground revolutionary groups is responsible. [...]

[...] Also a drummer boy in a civil war. [...]

(See the details of Jane’s dreams, detailed on page 5. For more data on the immediate past lives of Jane and mine in Boston, before the Civil War, see the 59th session, Volume 2, page 140. [...]

[...] It has its biological aspects, of course; but war, for example, is not a biological culmination of an aggressive instinct (period).

[...] One life is all you have, and that one is everywhere beset by the threat of illness, disaster, and war—and if you escape such drastic circumstances, then you are still left with a life that is the result of no more than lifeless elements briefly coming into a consciousness and vitality that is bound to end.

[...] Only when the private nature of reality was emphasized sufficiently would I be ready to show how the magnification of individual reality combines and enlarges to form vast mass reactions — such as, say, the initiation of an obviously new historical and cultural period; the rise or overthrow of governments; the birth of a new religion that sweeps all others before it; mass conversions; mass murders in the form of wars; the sudden sweep of deadly epidemics; the scourge of earthquakes, floods, or other disasters; the inexplicable appearance of periods of great art or architecture or technology.

(Long pause.) In wars, people automatically reproduce their kind to make up for those that are killed, and when the race overproduces there will be automatic controls set upon the population. [...]

[...] They often go hand-in-hand with war, and represent biological protests.

[...] Now you know that no wars are holy, only regrettable.

[...] Neither of you had been vitally (underlined) touched by war. [...]

[...] Many younger people [and not only in the United States] have become very fatalistic over the possibility of nuclear accident, or worse, war. [...] And most older people avoid seriously considering what nuclear war would really mean for them, out of fear closing their minds to certain aspects of that psychic atmosphere.