“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(Long pause.) Since ancient times religion has tried to help man understand the nature of his own subjective reality — but religion has its own dark side, and for this reason religion unfortunately has fostered fear of the spontaneous.

We will have more to say on all of these issues — but now I want to discuss spontaneity, or its lack, in relationship to sexuality and health.

[...] It was necessary because he believed that the spontaneous self, left alone, would not so concentrate—or that his spontaneous self would not, but would also be tempted by whatever other private pursuits. [...]

[...] It is the intuitive, spontaneous and psychically exuberant nature of Ruburt’s whole entity, for one thing, that makes it possible for me to communicate with you both.

Joy and the spontaneous expression of it will always bring increased strength and resiliency to the personality. [...]

It is, as a rule, lack of knowledge on the part of the ego as to the nature of reality, and its part in it, and the resulting fear, that often prevents a personality from accepting spontaneous expression of emotions in general. [...]

[...] Emotions demand resiliency, and resiliency is both the result of spontaneity, inner assurance, and discipline. [...]

[...] Your creative self, your spontaneous, creative self—that self that speaks through your impulses—keeps you alive.”

The spontaneous self is learning to manipulate and maneuver within the somewhat rigid ego limitations. [...]

[...] (Pause.) The spontaneous self he was afraid of. [...]

[...] Our third law is spontaneity, and despite all appearances of beginning and end, despite all appearances of death and decay, all consciousness exists in the spacious present, in a spontaneous manner, in simultaneous harmony, and yet within the spacious present there is also durability.

One of the main attributes of this value climate is spontaneity, that shows itself in the existence of the only sort of time that has any real meaning, that of the spacious present.

[...] The spacious present, while existing spontaneously, while happening simultaneously, still contains within it qualities of duration.

Energy transformation and value fulfillment, all existing within the spacious present, add up to a durability that is at the same time spontaneous. [...]

[...] In periods of spontaneity therefore he will sometimes be overly spontaneous, and in a times of rigidity will be overly rigid.

There is far less danger when his spontaneity overerupts. [...]

“It is a gift, a boon, an exquisite pleasure, to become physically alive on your functioning planet, couched securely within your dusk and dawn, your existence supported by the seasons and by an overall operation of spontaneous order.”

[...] I had several spontaneous out-of-body experiences during Seth sessions and while doing the exercise Seth calls psy-time. [...]

In the meantime, the dream-recall experiments led first to spontaneous projections from the dream state, and then to deliberate experimentation. [...]

[...] We ordered Oliver Fox’s Astral Projection. Astonished, I discovered that my experiences followed his rather closely, even though most of my projections to that date had been spontaneous. [...]

[...] Desperately, Rob wished for some support, and quite spontaneously he created a child’s scooter that appeared beneath him. [...]

[...] If you become proficient in the use of the third Inner Sense [perception of past, present, and future] when cognition is more or less spontaneous, then you can utilize the conceptual sense with more freedom. [...]

[...] Do not let the improvements rearouse old fears, but remind yourselves that improvement is natural and spontaneous, and easy in the new system of beliefs. [...]

[...] Oftentimes information will come through in a rather indiscriminate fashion, and a spontaneous (underline spontaneous) choice of available information is important. [...]

Ruburt picked up energy in this way this afternoon, quite spontaneously, and without conscious consideration.

A discrimination, preferably a spontaneous and subconscious discrimination, is necessary, but it may be consciously diverted if undue conscious direction is not allowed to rule with a heavy hand. [...]

[...] Belief therefore was necessary, for unbelief of spontaneity, fear of spontaneity, was a basic cause of the difficulty.

Other intimate improvements have shown themselves, and they are symptoms of increased vitality and release, as spontaneity is allowed for, and returns. [...]

Spontaneity will rise up during the hours given to work, and outside those hours, but he must continue those habits upon which his well-being depends. [...]

[...] This would be a sign of the spontaneous change Seth mentioned in a late session. [...]

[...] Ruburt’s “overly conscientious self” was indeed built up in response to his belief that he was, to begin with, overly enthusiastic, overly impulsive, overly spontaneous. [...]

[...] He felt he was too spontaneous, again, too impulsive—but then in that belief system he worried if his sexual needs could not be properly squashed, supposing someone else aroused them, and he “fell in love” with someone else as quickly as he had fallen in love with you. [...]

In your society therefore the black race has represented what you think of as the chaotic, primitive, spontaneous, savage, unconscious portions of the self, the underside of the “proper American citizen.”

Often in the aged you find such frameworks coming into being naturally, but those who awaken spontaneously after four hours consider themselves insomniacs because of their beliefs, and so cannot utilize their experience properly. [...]

[...] Rather often, too, Jane will break up her nighttime sleep period by spontaneously waking and getting up for an hour or so.)

[...] Fear of the spontaneous self is meaningless unless the spontaneous self is set up against the idea of an authority which is not spontaneous. The spontaneous self is feared only because it might break down the authority of a rigid structure. [...]

(4:26.) The main characteristic of bodily consciousness is its spontaneity. [...]

The act of seeing, and all of the body’s senses, are dependent upon this inner spontaneity.

[...] The children are strictly raised, and a lack of normal spontaneity is the rule rather than the exception. [...] They are often food faddists of one kind or another, but because they do fear spontaneity to such a degree they will often become afflicted with diseases or maladies associated with the body’s unconscious processes.

(My own activities, then, have aroused in Jane the urge to try the same approach, and I’ve suggested she think of her own women numbers 1 and 2. It seems that she confronts the same basic challenges I do, I told her, so she could delineate the two opposing portions of her personality well enough to understand that many of her cultural beliefs have been imposed upon her natural, spontaneous, free, creative self, and to such an extent that the acquired beliefs have turned into detriments rather than aids, that she envisioned as helping her obtain what she wants in life. [...]

His creative spontaneous self created the body to begin with, and all of its physical desires were precisely those that his creative abilities needed—a quickness of body and mind working together, a quick perception mentally and physically, a natural exhilaration that is supported by (underlined) the power, of his own nature.

[...] When you learn through relaxation to accept life spontaneously and to trust to your own inner being then this energy is released. [...]

[...] As you learn to live spontaneously on a physical level, so automatically you will be able to build up such forms and when you do you must learn to train them. [...]