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In my last article, I briefly mentioned the relationship that exists between peace and nature in the Seth Material. I mentioned how Jane/Seth had so cleverly linked the two as an almost inseparable topic; a topic that can and does affect us deeply. However, I wish to point out that this does not mean that Jane/Seth didn't also cover the topic of peace on its own merit. In fact, peace and war did affect them, in particular the Vietnam war. There are many references in Conversations With Seth, Volumes I & II by Sue Watkins, in The Nature Of Personal Reality as well as in several other books.

Exploring and discussing the topic of war and peace is at times difficult because we assume that the human species is a race prone to war and destruction, and if the race makes attempts towards a peaceful state, it may at best mean a state without war, as if war and its relatives are inherent in the human heart. This set of beliefs prevails in many sectors of society, sometimes so much so that it can appear that the desire for peaceful coexistence with our brothers, sisters and fellow creatures is truly no more than a dream. And it is precisely because of these and similar beliefs that peace seems so elusive.

The media persistently focuses on the Middle East, Bosnia, Somalia, and many other places where it seems that our beliefs in our inherent capacity for war, destruction and conflict are entirely justified. There are many psychological studies on the apparent nature of the human beings so-called 'unconscious', 'primal' 'aggressive' and 'instinctive' thrust towards disorder and chaos. Yet, I've never seen any study on the subject that instead focuses on what Seth called 'unnatural' guilt, as in his discussion of the matter in The Nature Of Personal Reality, Chapter 8, Session 634. In this session, Seth approaches the subject along with physical illness in a most original manner.

Basically put, after the 11:10 p.m. break, Seth says: "If you shed the distorted concepts of unnatural guilt and accepted the wise ancient wisdom of natural guilt instead, there would be no wars. You would not kill each other mindlessly. You would understand the living integrity of each organ in your body and have no need to attack any of them [organs]". It goes without saying that we would understand the living integrity not only of each organ, but of other human beings as well as all living things. Relating war, violence and physical illness seems to blend so well together, making further investigations into the nature of beliefs that much more viable.

Of course, Seth would not be Seth if he stopped there. He continued to describe the relationship that exists between the environment and our feelings in chapter 18 of NPR, Session 664, just before the 10:55 p.m. break, where he states: "Your feelings are as natural a part of the environment as trees are. They have a great effect upon the weather..." During break, Rob notes that as early as the 613th session in Chapter One of NPR, Seth was making statements like this: "Your feelings have electromagnetic realities that rise outward, affecting the atmosphere itself," In the very next session, number 665, at 10:27 p.m., Seth states: "There are as many reasons then for 'earth illnesses' as there are for body illnesses. To some extent the same can be said of wars, if you consider a war a small infection; in the case of a world war, it would be a massive disease. War will finally teach you to revere life. Natural catastrophes will remind you that you cannot ignore your planet or your creature hood..." Obviously, there are relationships between wars, violence, the weather, destruction, health and illness and our feelings (including our creature hood).

In Conversations With Seth, Book II, Chapter Twelve, page 328 of the hard bound edition by Prentice Hall, Seth says this on the suppression of feelings and thoughts we might deem negative or inappropriate: "Once you begin suppressing, you suppress all emotions to some degree, and set up barriers because you are afraid of the reality of yourself. If you cannot express anger, you cannot express love—not only that, you get the two confused!"

The love Seth talks about certainly has many facets, but again, he makes it quite clear where our collective consciousness is at in Conversations With Seth, Book II, Chapter Twelve, page 327: "You do not understand the holy and sacred nature of life or energy and that you cannot misuse it. You may think you misuse it, but you are not allowed to misuse it. You are not allowed to destroy. While you live with these things, you must deal with them and bear their consequences at this level of your development, but to think that you can destroy a consciousness would make the gods laugh. You cannot destroy one flower seed, much less a man!"

We always equate war with hatred of one people for another, one nation towards another, yet Seth's views diffuse the notion when he states: "...You do not hate anyone that you are not capable of loving. Remember that".
Now, I do not claim to have answers and solutions and neither does Seth, though I did find something most significant recently in the books. The quote is quite small, though it should be viewed in context with the whole paragraph in question for an even more rounded out explanation. It is from The Individual and The Nature of Mass Events, Session 829, Wednesday March 22, 1978, from the paragraph immediately before the (11:01 p.m.) time marker. In fact, the quote takes up the entire second half of the paragraph and it states: "Christ's message was that each man is good inherently—and yet a civilization based upon that precept has never been attempted. The vast social structures of Christianity were instead based upon man's 'sinful' nature —not the organizations and structures that might allow him to become good, or to obtain the goodness that Christ quite clearly perceived man already possessed".

This article barely scratches the surface of situations we have set up as social creatures. Yet it clearly and provocatively hints at directions we can take towards producing a more fulfilling place to live, both as a person, as a member of the human race and ultimately as 'caretakers of an entire planet', as Seth once said. In the meantime, keep sending in those letters and thoughts. I'd love to hear from everyone, especially Seth groups scattered all over the continent, and the world. We know you exist, give us a sign of life.

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