“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] Opposing determinism is the idea that man has always fought for his personal responsibility—that instead of being controlled entirely by his heritage, he’s capable of forming new syntheses of thought and action based upon the complicated patterns of his own history.

[...] Do not be alarmed by my wild mystical self, for it is well under control.”

One more sentence: this arrangement automatically sets up artificial barriers between spontaneity and discipline, and colorations that were sexual in nature, leading to deductions such as: spontaneity was dangerous, obviously, since it needed such controls. [...]

[...] The ego, emerging, needed to feel its dominance and control, and so it imagined a dominant god apart from nature. [...]

[...] “Maybe I can get better at it, but you need such a fine control….” [...]

[...] This certainly must hint at some conscious control, Joseph, and should make you feel more confident about our sessions, not less. [...]

[...] We have yet to see the kind of physical response we want, and I wanted to know if we’d prompted her sinful self to step up its attempts to keep her “under control.” [...]

[...] Now she understands it and can deal with it as belief, and not as a condition of reality over which she has no control.

[...] All of this demands spontaneity and control. [...]

A point here: It is not understood at all that the uppermost or personal layer of the subconscious is concerned with maintaining the autocratic control and position of the conscious ego. [...]

He became afraid that the body would go out of control and commit violent action, because he was of course aware of the strength of the denied thoughts and feelings. [...]

[...] Its original purpose was to enable you to empathize on an aware level with yourselves and other members of creaturehood, so that you could consciously control what was previously handled on a biological level alone. [...]

[...] This is the result of a lowering of egotistic guards, for the ego sets up controls that act as resistance to various channels, so that many connections are closed. [...]

“Much work has been done to interpret dreams, but little to control the direction of activity within them. [...]

[...] In your experiments you will meet with various conditions, and until you learn control it may be difficult to distinguish between them. [...]

[...] Ruburt’s abilities along these lines are great, but it is necessary always that certain controls are maintained; and he certainly sees to that!

[...] However controls adopted during this life made his abilities late in showing themselves, and now training and confidence must be given before he can spontaneously adapt himself.

[...] It does not control you, for you alter it with each thought and action, even as each motion at the mountain’s top affects its base. [...]

[...] Physical activity is an excellent way of using and controlling the effect of aggressive reaction, and will prevent the buildup of aggressive emotions into unsupervised physical constructions, and also prevent the habitual piling up of such aggressions, where detrimental constructions result continually.

[...] Quality control was not what it is today re paints, varnishes, etc.)

The spontaneous ran out of control. [...]