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(Long pause.) Epilepsy is a disease often experienced also by people who have strongly conflicting beliefs about the use of power or energy, coupled with a sometimes extraordinary amount of mental and physical energy that demands it be used.

This particular group of people are also usually possessed by an extraordinary anger: they are furious at themselves for not being able to showcase their own strength and power — but “forced” instead into a kind of behavior that appears sometimes frightening and humiliating.

[...] Extraordinary talent takes extraordinary discipline, and the symptoms can be used against any distraction.

[...] It takes for granted abilities that are extraordinary, abilities that are not enjoyed by most. [...]

The dedication, again, is extraordinary. [...]

[...] He has made an extraordinary leap, and it is freeing him physically. [...]

[...] There were many questions he asked himself about his mother’s condition in particular (Marie is a bedridden arthritic), and about such situations in general, and he did indeed allow himself to go along on one level to provide an extraordinary impetus that he felt would be needed to conquer such extraordinary conditions.

[...] end up with extraordinary energy and physical vitality—plus refreshed abilities; as if today things are progressing at other than conscious levels and I’m doing lots that I’m not aware of. [...]

[...] The idea was that my belief in an extraordinary or supernatural force, working through nature, sustained me as a child. [...]

[...] This is a joint framework you have chosen for the display of extraordinary ability. [...]

[...] Very generally now, there are three main areas, though exceptions and extraordinary cases can take other roads.

[...] As long as he or she believes that a god or demon is involved, then the person can consider the entire affair most extraordinary, decidedly apart from usual experience, but valid.

[...] They are more apt to happen in adolescence, though I do want to stress that we are speaking of extraordinary cases.

One of the most rare and extraordinary developments that can occur in schizophrenic behavior is the construction of a seeming superbeing of remarkable power — one who is able to convince other people of his divinity.

[...] If those abilities are extraordinary, or if they do not fit into the social structure, a personality can approve and disapprove, use the abilities, and yet feel the need for protection. [...] Extraordinary ability may seem extreme behavior when compared to the mundane lives of many people. [...]

[...] Even in cases where physical survival might seem pointless, it is also possible for the organism to alter its course to an extraordinary degree.

[...] She realized immediately that it was connected to the extraordinary series of dreams she began having early this month. [...]

You would have an individual who displayed within himself [or herself] all of those great abilities known to the race, fulfilled according to his own unique temper — the artist, mathematician, athlete, the inventor — all the extraordinary qualities of creaturedom; the emotional realities would be used to their capacity, and any of the racial qualities or characteristics of the species would be given their complete freedom.

(Long pause.) You may have overall reasons for a particular illness, however, that have nothing to do with crime or punishment, but may instead involve an extraordinary sense of curiosity, and the desire for experience that is somewhat unconventional — usually not sought for — exotic, or in certain terms even grotesque.

(I’d like to add here that the flood of material issuing from Jane lately, both in and out of trance, has been extraordinary — and I note that as one who is used to her strong bursts of creative activity. [...]

Now: the student, Larry Carp, does have extraordinary energy, erratically and explosively used. [...]

[...] He had the idea for this chapter very clearly in mind, she said; and, with extraordinary vividness, he was “impressing” her with his idea of matter being used as a means of communication. [...]

(Just yesterday Jane received a letter from a woman who described the onset, a few years ago, of extraordinary feelings of transcendent love for mankind. [...]