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All of this, of course, applies to Ruburt’s situation — for once, indeed, he willed himself into immobility, willing to sacrifice certain kinds of motion in order to safely use other kinds of psychological motion, because he was afraid of his spontaneous nature, or his spontaneous self.

He just told you that when he begins to speak for me he senses an entire tall structure of words, and unhesitatingly he lets that structure form (intently). The same is true with his ability to move and walk; the more he trusts his energy, the more his spontaneity forms its own beautiful order that results in the spontaneous physical art of walking — and he is indeed well along the way. [...]

[...] Now he is beginning to understand that his energy is the gift of his life — to be expressed, not repressed — and to understand, again, that spontaneity knows its own order.

[...] Imagine yourself playing at your painting with the spontaneous feeling a child has. [...] Express yourself spontaneously with it, and let yourself go with it without telling yourself beforehand what you expect of it. [...]

[...] I want you to be spontaneously happy with him and to allow his spontaneous happiness to come across to you, and do not be a bitchy old dog. [...]

[...] Now, in some native cultures this is not true, but you are learning to encourage spontaneity, and yet within certain areas there must be a concentration of abilities in the physical line and in this extent you are a teacher and you are learning as you teach them. [...] You can learn to experience again that spontaneity and to encourage it. [...]

[...] You can be more spontaneous now in your speech, and you will find that you can communicate more smoothly to others. [...]

(11:11.) You are correct, stressing the inner spontaneity, however. [...]

[...] He has been lately working with inner ideas of spontaneity, hence the Cézanne material, and the initial speaker’s manuscript. [...]

The spontaneous love-making is an improvement, and important, and Ruburt’s remarks to you today were pertinent in that regard. [...]

[...] But in a manner of speaking, it is true to say that the universe was created in the same fashion that your own thoughts and dreams happen: spontaneously and yet with a built-in amazing order, and an inner organization. [...]

[...] Spontaneity knows its own order.

[...] The world’s parts come spontaneously together, with an order that basically defies the smaller laws of cause and effect, or before and afterward. [...]

[...] The writer only knows that he or she creates without understanding the spontaneous order with which the creativity happens. [...]

[...] The belief that the self must be kept in reins—a trust in the spontaneous self directed toward work, but a distrust of the spontaneous self when it is not so directed.

[...] Ruburt therefore put himself in a position—as he knows, now—where he focused most of his spontaneity and attention on his work to insure its fulfillment, while cutting out all other distractions and possibilities of misuse or license.

[...] If he had not trusted his abilities so much in his particular way, he could not have felt the other freely-spontaneous portions so threatening. [...]

[...] Behind those beliefs was the belief that spontaneity is an indulgence to be controlled, that good things are not spontaneous, but bad things are. Abilities must then be protected against “spontaneous” desires, which, it is taken for granted, will lead in another direction.

Creativity, and artistic creativity most of all, is spontaneous. [...]

[...] The spider has no intellect or ego, and its activities are pure spontaneous uses of the Inner Senses, unhampered and uncamouflaged to a great extent. [...]

[...] It also shows itself in inspirations, and episodes of spontaneous “knowing”. [...]

[...] He then discovers a newly-born puppy, fully alive, and this represents his finding and claiming the new spontaneous, creative portions of his being. [...] The police usually stand for discipline, the puppy stands for spontaneity, and that spontaneity and order are united. [...]

[...] The meaning of the dream is as follows: In the beginning you and he are about to lecture or address small children, which means that you were both invoking the spontaneous, creative portions of yourselves, which in the truest sense are childlike. [...]

[...] I said I hoped Seth would go into my question of yesterday, about not wanting my own suggestions for Jane’s improvement to come into conflict with her body’s own innate and spontaneous order of healing itself. [...]

I would like to make a few remarks concerning such spontaneous sessions as we have had, and particularly concerning our last spontaneous and witnessed session.

In the past we have held few such spontaneous sessions. [...]

[...] I have been strict concerning our schedule, since conditioning must be set up, and while we always allowed for some spontaneity, it was necessary that Ruburt develop greater efficiency in his handling of the trance state.

There are obviously many occasions when his condition is unusually suited to hold a spontaneous session, but when the emotional climate is not for one reason or another correct, or when other elements, practical ones to you, may prevent a session.

You always recognized and envied his spontaneous nature, without realizing consciously that it operated despite his intellectual disapproval of it. [...] It is because his spontaneous self is so strong that the conscious self had to learn to cooperate, if the personality was to achieve full stature.

[...] Now he must trust himself to move physically without thinking, and as much as possible to let his body act in a spontaneous way. [...]

[...] He must now push himself to physical activity, into vigorous action, and in doing so he is expressing the inner decision that he will no longer tamper with intuitional spontaneity. [...]

He will have finally learned intellectually and consciously, that he need not fear the spontaneous self, which has always been his strength, for it sustains him. [...]

[...] Ruburt’s natural person is highly spontaneous, creative, imaginative, with an excellent intellect, natural habits of working with a spontaneous rhythm—a rhythm that follows its own internal, logical and intuitive order. [...]

[...] If possible spontaneously when you note them.

[...] Left alone and operating naturally, you can trust its spontaneous response. [...]

[...] It is the spontaneous nature of emotional creatures, and it frees the self and opens the channels of creativity. [...]

The system then enjoys its own spontaneous expression, and is flexible and therefore more receptive. [...]

(To Mark.) Now spontaneity knows its own order. [...] Some of you fear that spontaneity is destructive. You wonder where it will lead you, but the earth as you know it is spontaneous and you can trust it, and therefore you can also trust the spontaneity of your own nature. [...]

[...] A sense of privacy is always respected here, but also realize the sacred nature of spontaneity and of your own feelings, and do not make logical deductions now. [...]

I bid you all now a fond good evening and I ask you to be adventurous, to be spontaneous, to follow the ways of your own consciousness. [...]

[...] You see, and I have said this again many times in class, spontaneity knows its own discipline. [...] Spontaneity has its own discipline and its own knowledge, and when you attempt to rule spontaneity with a heavy hand, then rigidity enters in and you destroy the fountain of inner knowledge and intuition and understanding and you distort the emotions that you have. [...]

[...] Your spontaneity is your life. [...]

Now, if there is one thing I try to do in these sessions, again through my personality as I show you, and that is an old (words lost)is to show you that spontaneity is important and that death is not the ending that you suppose, and that no hobblegoblins are waiting to get you when you die, and that you are going to be very busy when you are finished with this existence as indeed I am still busy. [...]

(Long pause.) Now he wanted to hold such beliefs because he felt he needed that quite painful facade to protect himself from his own spontaneity, and then to protect himself against the world because he felt he was too spontaneous. The answer was to cut down on physical spontaneity. Spontaneity is easy, so we will make it hard. [...]

[...] She’s been trying to follow her impulses more spontaneously recently, in light of the recent session material, and I think has shown good improvement there. [...]

[...] Ruburt’s lifework so far has been produced—again, so far—because despite such erroneous beliefs he has still allowed himself a creative spontaneity. But in the recent past that spontaneity has had to emerge against those resistances.

[...] I have given more material than I can say on the subject of Ruburt’s attitude toward creativity and what happens when he emphasizes the idea of work as work, or as a career, above his spontaneous creativity. [...]

When he is emphasizing his own creativity, encouraging it, encouraging its spontaneity, then that flow has its own impetus and direction. [...]

The sessions I gave on spontaneity and work should be most helpful now, as long as the fears are now being admitted. [...]

Ruburt knew that spontaneity was the basis of his creativity, and of anyone else’s. To that extent you disapproved of it. [...] Ruburt feared that spontaneity had to be tempered, because spontaneity meant unbridled, rampant, uncontrolled impulse. [...]

[...] Lately he has realized that spontaneity cannot be treated in such a manner, and that he has given up too much. [...]

[...] You dared to be spontaneous with Wanda. [...]

[...] Under such loving conditions healing energies are spontaneously released. In its own fashion such acts of love are beneficially related with the spontaneous behavior of animals. That is, you can behave to some extent at such times with a creature-like sense of trust and spontaneity, and of loving openness of a kind that animals at their best often display. [...]

The same issues underlie your own attitudes, the tension between effort and relaxation, discipline and spontaneity has applied, say, in the creative area as far as painting is concerned. [...]

These ideas, with the last session, have to do with Ruburt’s partitioning of his spontaneity, for he also felt that you had to choose one way or the other, and that to protect your subjective freedom you had to inhibit the externally oriented spontaneity that was sanctioned by most of the society, because you could not do both. [...]

At the same time you think that Ruburt is at least spontaneous in his art, while it seems to you that you are not spontaneous enough in that area.

[...] You obviously did not fall for that to the extent Ruburt did —and all of this must be considered also in the light of the religious and scientific views, with Ruburt particularly, in which the spontaneous self was considered the psychological villain of the society and the individual. The spontaneous self is the guardian—that is what Ruburt is learning.

The Gallaghers trust spontaneity only when it is expressed through physical motion. [...]

[...] He believed, for many reasons hinted at or given, that spontaneity did not mix with work. [...]

[...] He has usually buried spontaneous desires to do other things, particularly in your apartment, so there were frequent dilemmas, finding of course physical expression in symptoms. [...]

[...] You were older, knew more, he felt; and you were also afraid of the spontaneous qualities that he possessed.

[...] He got up this morning because you did not expect him to, and he could act spontaneously—surprise you and delight himself. [...]