“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

On occasion even in waking life a personality may spontaneously shift gears, so to speak, and suddenly find itself for a second or perhaps a few moments within another such realm. [...]

[...] First, of course, with various degrees of spontaneity, there is the inward turn of consciousness away from physical data, from worries and concerns of the day. [...]

[...] The trembling was felt as the result of a spontaneous, sudden increase in motor activity and circulation. [...]

(Seth continued:) He also began to see two poles in society one highly conventional and closed, in which he would appear as a charlatan; and another, yearning but gullible, willing to believe anything if only it offered hope, in which his activities would be misinterpreted, and to him [would be] fraudulent … There was a middle ground that he would have to make for himself … to make a bridge to those intellectuals who doubted, and yet maintain some freedom and spontaneity in order to reach those at the other end. [...]

[...] It may happen spontaneously, as when a severe emotional reaction is set off; through external circumstances, and what Ruburt has read in the past along these lines is partially correct.

[...] Some, because of excellent development, inner communication with the inner self, feel subconsciously secure enough to change focus spontaneously, as one might listen to one radio station and then another, still retaining knowledge of the basic “I” who listened.

[...] 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.

[...] There is a kind of larger spontaneous order of which the seemingly unpredictable elements of your world provide their own clues.

[...] It is rather a question or a matter of completely altering your approach to life, so that you no longer block out such natural spontaneous activity.

[...] In Ruburt’s case, it began to worry that the exuberant, spontaneous, emotional parts of the self would allow their search for truth and creativity to get out of bounds, bringing some danger, perhaps, rather than honor—or at the very least scorn and criticism. [...]

(9:37.) Over a period of time you ended up with two exaggerated postures —artificial ones—with the spontaneous elements of the personality straining for the full use of their abilities (in parentheses: value fulfillment), and the reasoning one determined to pursue such endeavors—but with caution. [...]

[...] You must remember the childhood spontaneity. [...]

[...] and yet in that one particular life I learned more about the nature of spontaneity and joy than in many of my ponderous intellectual existences.

[...] You must remember the childhood spontaneity. [...]

[...] And yet I will tell you, that as a frivolous female who loved to play with a ball in the bright afternoon and had no chores to perform, seemingly an idle life and seemingly a quite useless personality—I was not burdened with intellect—and yet in that one particular life I learned more about the nature of spontaneity and joy than in many of my ponderous intellectual existences. [...]

[...] The world exists because of spontaneous order. [...] It grew spontaneously and came into order. [...]

[...] There is only spontaneity. For a particular interval you must be taught as if there were cause and effect, so that the result of spontaneity would not end up as chaos. [...]

[...] The spider has no intellect or outer ego, and his manipulations are the direct result of activities performed by pure and spontaneous use of the inner senses. [...]

[...] These would enable him to enlarge upon his scope of awareness and activity, but at the same time impediments would be placed so that the web construction would no longer appear either as direct as far as its source is concerned, nor as spontaneous.

[...] Spontaneity must be allowed for.

[...] When I spoke of terms, saying that my terms should be met, I was not, again, speaking of any impossible conditions; merely that spontaneity, trust and integrity be necessary factors in our endeavor.

[...] This does not occur when he does not know in advance that a test is planned, when I speak spontaneously; as for example when on one occasion I gave definite details concerning your Mark’s vacation.

[...] He saw himself trying to walk without the table the other morning, spontaneously, and before breakfast—a sign of future physical motion of that nature. [...]

[...] The love-making in particular must be encouraged, and it arouses your own spontaneity as well as his. [...]

[...] Now you are also being encouraged to develop your own spontaneity with Ruburt, in a cause in which you believe heartily. [...]

[...] He felt that with his natural spontaneity great discipline must be used, as given before. [...]

[...] Out-of-bodies, writing and spontaneous impressions are all things he likes to do, but some fell inside his work category and some did not. [...]

His fear of the spontaneous self originally developed simply because that self seemed so different from other people that he tried to keep it within bounds. [...]

[...] Ruburt acted as naturally as possible today, reminding himself to be spontaneous. [...]

[...] This awakening, again, happened spontaneously, and yet with its own order. [...]

Will dreams of being spontaneous. Yet even in this open [class] group, Ben’s spontaneity becomes embarrassing to adults free enough to play with the idea of spontaneity while not trusting it completely. [...]

[...] In many respects he is a child, and utterly spontaneous.

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

[...] Whatever happened to the spontaneity and joy in life? For surely, I found myself thinking as I read all of those antagonistic ideas, spontaneity and joy were the very ingredients that Seth would place uppermost in any theory or scheme of life’s “beginnings,” regardless of its philosophical stance.

One of the main attributes of this value climate is spontaneity, which 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.

[...] There is a delicate balance here of spontaneity and discipline, and I try to keep the sessions fluid, fluent, disciplined and yet also to give them life through spontaneity.

[...] She said she’d decided to hold the session because she “should” have it—whereas last night’s session had been quite spontaneous: she’d wanted to do it. [...] On the other hand, given our present work orientations the sessions would have to happen sometime during the week—at least twice—and it didn’t seem reasonable to think that Jane would have every one of those on the spontaneous spur of the moment. [...]