ABSTRACT
In states of disease, the process of life is somehow overwhelmed by the ever-present cancer cells, which were held in balance by the larger life system. This chapter proposes that man's terrifying ability to bring death to others grows from a similar "cancer," as it were, of the very process for experiencing aliveness. Strength and courage to come back from hurt and demoralization seem to be nourished that more by an ability to come to terms with one's inevitable death and to prepare for it. A possible key in helping us look at human destructiveness may be found in the notion that when people fail to balance and integrate their natural cycle of life seeking and death seeking; they are likely to become destructive of life - of the life of others as well as their own. Panic over the possibility of one's own death may cause one to reach out too desperately and intensely to experience the life force.
