Assassinations Of Martin Luther King And Two Kennedys

Seth Early Sessions, Vol 8, Session 414

Assassinations Of Martin Luther King And Two Kennedys

(…  Today saw the shooting of Senator Robert F. Kennedy.  …)

You are concerned about some rather earthy matters. Distressing ones.

Nations, like individuals, go through cycles of emotional reactions.  An individual may be swept by certain emotional patterns and then thrust them aside, and come under the influence of other emotional patterns, so nations do the same.  Nations being made of individuals, overall problems are solved in a series of acts.

The acts are attempts to solve problems.  They are often attempts to rid the mass psyche of exploding, misdirected, poorly understood aggressions.  As a physical organism tries to thrust out poisons that impede its health, so the mass psyche organism, symbolically speaking, attempts to rid itself of this now-poisonous overdeveloped aggression.

The physical organism forms weak points through which the poison can be ejected.  In order to save itself as a functioning unit, it sacrifices a portion of itself.  The same thing happens with the mass psyche.  Certain individuals are peculiarly suited for this function, because of their own inner background, the aggregate result of strong challenges they have set for themselves.

These mass killings are your nation’s way of pinpointing an extremely dangerous inner trend, that otherwise could have far more severe worldwide consequences.  Obviously serious consequences result from these particular recent murders.

The consequences however for the nation and the world would be far more disastrous had these hates and aggressions not found these therapeutic, almost surgical, unfortunately necessary, outlets.

I am not condoning, you understand, the situation.  The inner hate and aggression has not been recognized by the nation in the past.  A holier-than-thou attitude developed into a spiritual hypocrisy.  A portion of this was the result of ideals that could not be lived up to in practical terms – an over idealization.  This does not mean the good intentions caused these situations.

The ideals were mouthed but not believed.  Individuals only gave them lip service, and yet individual and mass guilt grew because of the difference between ideals and behavior.  The country did not face its own inner reality.  You have a schizophrenic condition then.  Those who stood in the position of King (Martin Luther) and of both Kennedys bring the inner psychic problems to a head.  In one way they act as physicians, but they are also the patient who dies.

(Note that here Seth implies that Senator Kennedy, who was alive at the time of the session, would die.  In fact the Senator did die the next morning, close to 5 AM, EDT.)

There are close psychological connections in all cases – psychological web-works, and psychic recognitions that bring together the slayer and his victim, and these are known to the inner self.  The stature and meaning behind the victim adds to the horrible nature of the act, and of course this is the point.

The point would not be nearly as clearly made, you see, were the victim a man giving himself to crime.  He must be in one way or another a symbol of those idealized qualities that the individual and massed natives of the land give lip service to.  These ideals are highly vital and important.  The strength of the inner unrecognized hatred and aggression can be disastrous, and yet it works for the service of the ideal.

It operates, this aggression operates, as a constant check.  It shows the rate of progress.  It is a measure by which you can see failures.  Were it not for this you could fool yourself, as your nation fooled itself for some years, not realizing its inner psychic condition.  The ideals then are mouthed, but they are not taken seriously.  Without these recent deaths, your country could have initiated a disastrous war.

Initiated.  Without the struggle for these ideals a complacent vacuum develops.  Now the real struggle for these ideals results in strength.  The struggle results in strength.  If there is an honest struggle, an honest effort toward peace and brotherhood, then even if war erupts on a practical level then the psychic development is healthier than if no effort toward peace is made, or if ideals are merely mouthed.

If ideals are merely mouthed, and the idea of peace not seriously strived for, then this is an inferior state even if there is no war.  These men are showing the nation the difference between ideals and actions.  Their deaths point the way and will give the impetus that was sorely needed.

They provide crisis points.  Your nation, because of its greatness and ideals, must judge itself accordingly against those ideals.  It therefore cannot afford to judge itself against others, find itself superior, and rest.  Such murders would have been taken for granted in some other nations.  Those who point the finger now however know, in one respect, that they have the right to do so since you are the ones who have set forth the ideals of peace and brotherhood.  It is against these, then, that you must judge yourself.

Strength does not come in national terms, real strength, by bullying aggressive stance.  But it does come when the people within a nation are making an honest effort to bring about in physical reality the materialization of their individual and mass ideals.  The best that is in them, whatever their point of development.  The unity and strength is psychically recognized.

Without these murders the nation would not know what was wrong with itself.  The murders are symptoms, but without symptoms the patient will not realize that anything is wrong with the inner self.