“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] As given [at various times over the years, mostly in personal material], they involve cultural training and religious indoctrinations.⁴ He is challenging, finally, the old beliefs that say that the self’s spontaneity is not to be trusted. [...]

[...] It is instead a fanatical Puritan vein, peculiarly American in character, and restrictive rather than expansive, for the bursts of emotion are highly structured — that is, the emotions are limited in most areas of life, permitted only an explosive religious expression under certain conditions, when they are not so much spontaneously expressed as suddenly released from the dam of usual repression.

What we need you see are various elements that usually combine spontaneously, but that can be caused to combine when they would not usually combine. [...]

(To a particular student:) I remain spontaneous and alive, and do not allow myself to be deadened by your projections upon me. [...]

[...] At times the creative pace grew even more complicated: From March to July 1972, she put Adventures aside completely to write her novel, The Education of Oversoul Seven, when that idea spontaneously came to her. [...]

[...] More on aspects came to her spontaneously at intervals during the next two years. [...]

28. Seth’s remarks here are actually an extension of a long discussion on individual beliefs and spontaneity that he’d initiated in a class session two weeks ago: “Now, my words will not, I hope, be used to begin a new dogma. [...]

[...] This was a spontaneous, vivid wish on my part.

You kept insisting on trying to portray new vision by using methods that could not contain it, and did not spontaneously allow your visions to flow into their own forms. [...]

“Years ago such spontaneous objections of mine really bothered me,” she continued, “and I’d sit and mentally argue with Seth so that the session didn’t begin right away; it only started after I mentally shut up. [...]

[...] Here’s what I spontaneously produced.

[...] She very creatively considered those journeys and her new goals in the untitled poem that she spontaneously dictated to me from her hospital bed on March 1, 1984. [...]

[...] It can even happen spontaneously, and I had a most exhilarating glimpse of a past life of my own that way. [...]

[...] And although Seth hasn’t said so yet (that I remember), I also think that within the spontaneous plan of probable realities each of us—anyone, that is—explores all aspects of sexuality and parenthood at the same time.

[...] He believed he needed strong mental barriers as well as physical ones, set up against his own spontaneity. He is beginning to understand that the spontaneous and creative aspects of personality are the life-giving ones. [...]

Still, I was never aware of new developments until they actually occurred spontaneously, and to my own surprise. [...]

[...] For this psychic creation is spontaneous. [...]

(Seth spoke briefly and spontaneously once during the holiday break, with Sue Mullin and Carl Watkins as witnesses. [...]

[...] He feels how you would enjoy and appreciate painting in the same way that my book is being presented, so spontaneously and quickly, comparatively speaking. [...]

(“Before nap I asked for help from spontaneous self, and when I awakened I did feel better. [...]

[...] in a fashion Ruburt and Tam’s seemingly emotional, fairly spontaneous relationship has represented good common business sense on Ruburt’s part. [...]

Such exercises as a rule will not take up time during sessions however, but will appear at other occasions, consume hardly any clock time at all, and seem spontaneous. [...]

Because I am so sympathetic, I will then leave you as I found you, in peace and quiet, though indeed there are times, after the quiet of our sessions, when I would indeed speak with more spontaneity, for I have grown most fond of you both, and therefore I become more willing to display what I may call my more playful nature.

[...] The intuitions are of a more spontaneous nature, and less dependent upon such step-by-step movements.

[...] Spontaneity must be allowed for in this respect. [...]