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I have told our Dean that spontaneity knows its own discipline. Your nervous system knows how to react. It reacts spontaneously when you allow it to do so. And the clouds flow through the thick skull easily. Now when you attempt to hold them back, it is then that they collect—and the electric charges grow—and the storm clouds grow.

In the spontaneous working of your nervous system, what do we find? We see here the head of the Dean that rests upon his shoulders and the intellect that demands discipline. And yet all of this rests upon the spontaneous workings of the inner self and the nervous system of which the intellect knows little. And without that spontaneous discipline, there would be no ego to sit upon the shoulders and demand discipline.

Now. My Dean, the spontaneous self that you so fear is the self that speaks to Bega. Then it is not a self that you have to fear. You are highly confused as to the meaning of spontaneity and discipline. Now the seasons come each year as they have come for centuries upon your planet—and they come with a magnificent spontaneity and with a creativity that bursts upon the world. And yet they come in your system within a highly ritualized and disciplined manner. And spring does not come in December. And there is a merging of spontaneity and discipline—truly marvelous to behold. And you do not fear the coming of the seasons.

None of you—none of you—including our profound Dean, solidly understands what I am trying to tell you. I hope you shall some day.

Again, Seth stared at “the Dean,” but now he spoke to the others in the group. [...] We see here the head of ‘the Dean’ that rests upon his shoulders, and the intellect that demands discipline. [...]

[...] Seth calls this man “the Dean,” with affectionate humor, because he’s one of my best students, and the others listen to his psychic adventures with a good deal of interest. [...]

[...] I have told our Dean that spontaneity knows its own discipline. [...]

He said to “the Dean,” “Why is it so difficult for you to learn what freedom is?”

[...] What our friend, the Dean (Theodore) here said, does indeed apply and also I acted as a translator. [...]

(To Theodore.) And I expect over here, for our Dean, a return to the Great Hall and there you should receive your own answer to the question that you asked earlier, but if for any reason you do not, then I will answer it for you. [...]

(To Theodore) I have one note for our Dean over here. [...]

[...] I would not want our Dean to miss his rest. [...]

(To Theodore.) This will also help our Dean, here. [...]

(To Theodore.) Now, our Dean, I expect you at the Great Hall. [...]

[...] I certainly expect our “Dean” (Theodore) to continue with his own development. [...]

[...] We have a Lord and a dean now so the atmosphere should, indeed, be very auspicious. [...]

(To Theodore.) I have a remark for our dean and it is this. [...]

[...] I do welcome you (Zen Dean) to this room. [...]

[...] One was a painting purchased by Carl and Sue Watkins (which, half jokingly, we had called Moses); one, the portrait of me (pause); and one that you have not completed — that the Dean (Seth’s friendly title for Tom M., one of the members of ESP class) asked about recently, of a woman. [...]

[...] Our Dean (Theodore) is beginning. [...]

[...] However, we have a Dean and now we have a Doc. [...]

[...] And like our class member the Dean, you will begin to follow your own way. [...]

Now our Dean has not experienced this yet. [...]

I am shortly going to end our session, but I have a word for our dean(Theodore), over there behind the vine. [...]

(To Theodore.) Now, our Dean is also doing well and given what you have and what you are doing, you can do better. [...]

[...] The C can refer to either Gene Cesari, an assistant dean at Elmira College, or to Bill Cieri, of the public school night-course system. [...]