Some may ask what this has to do with spirituality and to that I would answer it offers some philosophical meaning to the violent images the mass media is so obsessed with looping every day all day as of late. This is from "The Nature of Personal Reality" which appears to be the 2nd most popular book by Jane Roberts out of dozens. She channeled an entity she named Seth.
https://findingseth.com/q/session:665+riot/ there are a few more on this page
"(10:09.) On quite a different level, riots often serve the same purpose, where the release of energy, for whatever reasons, introduces a group of individuals to the intimate recognition that highly concentrated vitality exists. They may not have found it earlier in their lives.
This recognition can lead them — and often does — to seize their own energy and use it in a strong creative manner. A natural catastrophe or a riot are both energy baths, potent and highly positive in their ways despite their obvious connotations. In your terms this in no way absolves those who start riots, for example, for they will be working within a system of conscious beliefs in which violence begets violence. Yet even here individual differences apply. The inciters of riots are often searching for the manifestation of energy which they do not believe they possess on their own. They light and start psychological fires, and are as transfixed by the results as any arsonist. If they understood and could experience power and energy in themselves they would not need such tactics.
(Pause at 10:19.) As racial problems may be worked out on many levels, through a riot or a natural disaster, or a combination of both, according to the intensity of the situation on a psychological level; and as physical symptoms can be pleas for help and recognition, so can natural misfortunes be utilized by members of one portion of the country, or one part of the world, to obtain aid from other portions.
Obviously, many riots are quite consciously instigated. Certainly thousands of individuals, or millions of them, do not consciously decide to bring about a hurricane, or a flood or an earthquake, in the same manner. In the first place, on that level they do not believe such a thing possible. While conscious beliefs have a part to play in such cases, on an individual basis the “inner work” is done just as unconsciously as the body produces physical symptoms. The symptoms often seem to be inflicted upon the body, just as a natural disaster seems to be visited upon the body of the earth. Sudden illnesses are thought of as frightening and unpredictable, with the sufferer a victim, perhaps, of a virus. Sudden tornadoes or earthquakes are seen in the same light, as the result of air currents and temperature, or fault lines instead of viruses. The basic causes of both, however, are the same."
—NoPR Chapter 18: Session 665, May 23, 1973
This video has some mildly upsetting content because it describes the event which launched the Arab Spring in which a man set himself on fire frustrated with economic conditions. I think the parallel between other riots we're witnessing is evident as many times it is a violent event that triggers social unrest. The Arab Spring began as a result of large levels of unemployment following the 2008 financial crisis, and I have no doubt the protests in modern countries lately are a result of minorities being disproportionately affected by the economic downturn. A poor household has obviously a lot more hostility in an economic crisis and minorities often live in a nations slums. It's upsetting that Syria, Libya, Iraq and Yemen have not brought an end to the violence in the past decade ever since. But this reading offers some insight in to what a riot brings people in the aftermath.
https://findingseth.com/q/session:665+riot/ there are a few more on this page
"(10:09.) On quite a different level, riots often serve the same purpose, where the release of energy, for whatever reasons, introduces a group of individuals to the intimate recognition that highly concentrated vitality exists. They may not have found it earlier in their lives.
This recognition can lead them — and often does — to seize their own energy and use it in a strong creative manner. A natural catastrophe or a riot are both energy baths, potent and highly positive in their ways despite their obvious connotations. In your terms this in no way absolves those who start riots, for example, for they will be working within a system of conscious beliefs in which violence begets violence. Yet even here individual differences apply. The inciters of riots are often searching for the manifestation of energy which they do not believe they possess on their own. They light and start psychological fires, and are as transfixed by the results as any arsonist. If they understood and could experience power and energy in themselves they would not need such tactics.
(Pause at 10:19.) As racial problems may be worked out on many levels, through a riot or a natural disaster, or a combination of both, according to the intensity of the situation on a psychological level; and as physical symptoms can be pleas for help and recognition, so can natural misfortunes be utilized by members of one portion of the country, or one part of the world, to obtain aid from other portions.
Obviously, many riots are quite consciously instigated. Certainly thousands of individuals, or millions of them, do not consciously decide to bring about a hurricane, or a flood or an earthquake, in the same manner. In the first place, on that level they do not believe such a thing possible. While conscious beliefs have a part to play in such cases, on an individual basis the “inner work” is done just as unconsciously as the body produces physical symptoms. The symptoms often seem to be inflicted upon the body, just as a natural disaster seems to be visited upon the body of the earth. Sudden illnesses are thought of as frightening and unpredictable, with the sufferer a victim, perhaps, of a virus. Sudden tornadoes or earthquakes are seen in the same light, as the result of air currents and temperature, or fault lines instead of viruses. The basic causes of both, however, are the same."
—NoPR Chapter 18: Session 665, May 23, 1973
This video has some mildly upsetting content because it describes the event which launched the Arab Spring in which a man set himself on fire frustrated with economic conditions. I think the parallel between other riots we're witnessing is evident as many times it is a violent event that triggers social unrest. The Arab Spring began as a result of large levels of unemployment following the 2008 financial crisis, and I have no doubt the protests in modern countries lately are a result of minorities being disproportionately affected by the economic downturn. A poor household has obviously a lot more hostility in an economic crisis and minorities often live in a nations slums. It's upsetting that Syria, Libya, Iraq and Yemen have not brought an end to the violence in the past decade ever since. But this reading offers some insight in to what a riot brings people in the aftermath.
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