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There is something in here also having to do with your feelings about yourself as a rebel—as one who does not conform, who stands apart. In not having an orgasm, to certain layers of your personality, now, you are maintaining your individuality—you are reinforcing the idea that you are a rebel, and free, but not conforming as is expected of you. The same applies to hypnosis.

Even in psychological circles you are to some extent considered a joyful rebel. Your methods are sometimes thought of as avant garde in comparison to many others. You think of yourself then as someone different, as a rebel, as able to help other people and as spontaneous and warm.

The same applies to hypnosis. When the condition is set up or the situation in which giving in, in your terms, is expected of you, and when the hypnotist is set up as an authority—you instantly rebel, and in your own way, you reinforce your ideas of spontaneity by refusing to go along with the authority. Going along with the authority is not being spontaneous to your way of thinking—it is conforming.

[...] Some of your early unfortunate responses, for example with Rebellers, were highly charged, you see, because of the circumstances. [...]

[...] Since your reaction when Rebellers was published, he feared that you would grow to hate him for any success, if you did not succeed, since his success he felt was largely at your expense—you bought him the time in which to work.

When Rebellers was published he felt (underlined) that you were coldly angry at him. [...]

(At the time Rebellers was published, I was jealous, but it took me some time to learn this. [...]

[...] Now, rebellion can be a good thing if you know what you are rebelling against. And if you are rebelling, it behooves you to know what you are rebelling against. [...]

[...] (Pause.) Both science and religion, generally speaking, provide certain services, which again generally speaking can be withheld to those who rebel against such authorities. [...]

[...] It made him more of a rebel. [...]

[...] Jane rebelled. [...]

[...] He saw instantly that you resented the publication of the book, as he had seen earlier that you resented the publication of The Rebellers. [...]

(“The Rebellers?”

[...] As I rebel against authority now — a characteristic remarked upon by Seth in the 721st session — so do my Roman selves in their times.

[...] In my reference works I read accounts describing how Pontius Pilate, the Procurator (or governor) of Judea from approximately A.D. 26 to A.D. 36, had organized hunts for members of the Zealots, the Jewish political-religious sect that had consistently rebelled against the rule of the Roman Empire. [...]

[...] Just as I do, Peter rebels in his own peaceful ways against conventional authority, preferring to go his individual route in the arts, no matter how dubious his rewards may be.

Now Ruburt was always a rebel in this life. [...]

[...] So while he rebelled against any given framework he was also certain that one did exist.

[...] Otherwise they rebel—not against motion, but against the exterior commands that do not come from within. [...]

[...] Because the body has its own sense there were always periods when it rebelled, when physical improvements showed. [...]

[...] Jane had felt that I was disappointed by the publication of her novel, The Rebellers — and correctly so. [...]

[...] How cruel we could be to ourselves, I thought, and this reminded me of my old questions about why the body consciousness itself didn’t just rebel at times and refuse to let itself be so beaten down by erroneous beliefs. [...]

[...] Hence the difficulty after Rebellers. All elements of the personality were not united.

Now he felt that Rebellers, representing his first book success, helped bring about your illness, and this feeling alone is responsible for much of this.

[...] Therefore he carried this attitude into the dream state, and rebelled against the idea of working while he slept. [...]

[...] Throughout history the downtrodden have often risen into power, using force, rebelling against their oppressors; and yet, learning little from that experience, they turn and become the new elite, the new power-holders. [...]

[...] Years ago, when it looked—generally speaking, now: I am simplifying—as if you might be swallowed by Artistic, you rebelled and became ill. [...]

[...] As a youngster particularly, he rebelled against male-oriented learning and orientation. [...]

[...] The World as Idea Construction came to him, beside its extrasensory origin, subconsciously, with an exploding effect to save him, because he had so put the lid upon his creative activities after Rebellers, that he had effectively blocked the intuitive self.