“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

He tries at times to use a schedule, a disciplined schedule as a fence against the subconscious, and becomes panic-stricken imagining himself without it. This is not to say that a schedule in itself is not good, it is to say that he can and sometimes does misuse one. In these instances the time is actually used to clamp down on the inner self, rather than to release it. These outings will be of benefit here, not only because they allow for spontaneous interaction, but because they serve to break the schedules in ways that do not disturb working hours. They provide a beginning for a habit of release. Here the ego is helping us now, for it is sticking to these plans, and the plans are those the ego itself enjoys, and can accept. He has been afraid to simply sit and think, for fear of letting the spontaneous self show without the symbolized writing mechanism.

This rigid control of consciousness prevented spontaneous enjoyment of an everyday variety that would otherwise have had a beneficial and balancing effect. On this dining out, for example: even the small shock, you see, involved in different tastes provides small surprises that are releasing to the sense mechanisms.