“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(I added that the more spontaneous she was about doing what she wanted at any given time—in other words, following her natural impulses—the more writing and painting she’d find herself able to do. [...]

[...] The impulse to have the session came through spontaneously, as it should. [...]

I expect then a concentrated effort to spontaneously accept impulses toward action and immediate performance of the act. [...]

[...] This is important, for to him running is a happy, spontaneous activity, and he has blocked the impulse at times rather consciously because he feared he could not do it, that it would hurt or that he would look silly.

[...] In his own way at that time (underlined), he picked up the habit of checking happy spontaneity, and he felt you were accusing if he displayed it, and in small ways began blocking. [...]

(Lately I’ve really been working with ideas of safety, saying and believing that I am safe, secure and supported and that I do trust my natural spontaneous motion.... [...] but as if I always felt that spontaneously, left alone, I’d end up taking away people’s comfort blankets and I felt bad about that, even while I knew that those philosophic blankets were wormy, had to go. [...]

Perhaps primarily the answer lies in the necessity that man recognize the spontaneous source of his being. [...]

[...] Man must be free to experience the body as he wishes, and to be aware of its spontaneous order.

[...] I am not speaking of stance here, but of those invisible relationships mentioned earlier, for he felt earlier as if he were literally a self divided, so that one part shouted discipline, and one shouted spontaneity. [...]

(10:47.) Now: making love encourages feelings both of safety and spontaneity. [...]

It is an excellent sign that as portions of the body are released they move spontaneously, following their own order—but they do move with remarkable ease, even while other portions of the body are slowly beginning to release themselves. [...]

[...] The eyes also show these same characteristics, so that Ruburt is able to read with more and more ease and spontaneity. [...]

The released motions are not only spontaneous, but are experienced joyfully—another very important point. [...]

[...] Some people try too hard to be spontaneous, while others are frightened of spontaneity itself. The knowledge of reincarnational lives is spontaneously held, and you can receive profound insights from that knowledge. [...]

[...] Relaxation leads to spontaneity. [...] When you are tense you impede mental, psychic, and artistic spontaneity, when you relax you are open to intuitive events.

(Pause.) Your spontaneous selves in that area, relatively speaking, now, (underlined twice) were allowed their expressions. [...]

[...] In this area of your lives, however, and relatively speaking again, you have allowed your creative spontaneous selves some freedom. [...]

Inspiration, however, in its appearance is spontaneous, and those who possess it have their problems if they want to make such inspiration available to the world. There are those who can go from one spontaneous inspiration happily to another equally spontaneous one, and feel no desire to form any kind of art from it, or to order it along the ways of the world.

You underplay your own intuitional abilities and spontaneity. [...]

[...] I have said many times that spontaneity knows its own order, and I am speaking of true spontaneity. I say this because often anger, for example, may seem spontaneous—and may be—but is more often the explosive, finally forced expression of reactions long withheld or repressed.

True spontaneity however comes directly from Framework 2, and behind it are endless patterns of orderliness and complexity that are beyond your conscious Framework 1 comprehension. [...]

(This morning, for the first time in well over a year, at the very least, Jane spontaneously decided to do the dishes after breakfast while standing up at the sink.)

[...] Your feelings of spontaneity and discipline go back and forth. [...] On other occasions he enjoys spontaneous encounters. [...]

[...] He believes he should be objectively intellectual, cool and calm, and spontaneous at the same time. [...]

Ruburt’s creative work is highly spontaneous. [...]

[...] Ruburt, being true to his spontaneity, would forget publishing details. [...]

Now all of this serves to impede constructive and creative spontaneity, and when this does find its way though, it is in such an explosive manner that he fears it because it seems undisciplined. If he lets go creatively he fears his aggressions will also be expressed spontaneously. But spontaneously released aggressions are not only natural but beneficial.

[...] The flexibility, spontaneity, persistence, what have you, none of which he may have acquired had the “road” in quotes been absolutely straight from start to finish.

[...] Only a certain kind of personality could find balance between spontaneity and discipline. [...]

[...] Before one group of muscles on one side would react in one way, while the other side would react in another way, so that the conflict between spontaneity and caution was objectified.

He should read over, however, some old sessions, given on work and spontaneity. [...]

Giving himself psychic spontaneity might mean somehow giving into that spontaneity that both of you feared. Whenever psychic developments show themselves then, Ruburt improves in health, as he allows his energies their spontaneous play and expression. [...]

[...] Did he spontaneously want company, he felt this deeply disloyal to you. [...]

Both of you, so far, still believe that your spontaneity must be measured out because of those specialized focuses, and for no other reason. [...]

Ruburt used his body as a symbol of the entire situation, and the symptoms as a way of maintaining privacy, and lack of distraction on both of your parts—again, inhibiting sexual freedom, spontaneous outings that threatened both of your ideas. [...]

[...] When you are concentrating upon responsibility, however, then each lapse becomes a lapse from responsible action, and complicates the inner spontaneous rhythm that to a large degree is automatically maintained. [...]

[...] It came spontaneously and clearly. [...]

Again, the old feelings about spontaneity of course apply, so read this session remembering other ones. [...]

[...] Now Ruburt had the session because he spontaneously felt like having it—and my heartiest regards to both of you. [...]

[...] In a variety of ways, Ruburt was rewarded for mental and psychic spontaneity. [...] He was discouraged from physical activity, and social spontaneity. [...]

[...] One word carries many meanings, and no matter how spontaneously it seems you speak, even the most mundane remark is carefully chosen so that it serves as the spoken symbol for many unspoken ones.

The actual words you use, again, no matter how spontaneously chosen, have meanings on many levels, and speak of your own intent, Joseph, as much as Ruburt’s. Before, you see, when I brought up such issues, you would become defensive, thinking “Must I watch every word I speak?” or “How can suggestion be that important?” Ruburt would react the same.

[...] In a way, much of what I told you threatened your framework, for my ideas of spontaneity clashed with your beliefs and the need for discipline above all. [...]

[...] In other areas he feared that the spontaneous self could lead to childbirth. [...] With you, for a while, he felt the spontaneous self brought you only trouble—as per the Florida trip and so forth, and that he had better learn to control it.

[...] While it is not now specifically related to particular past events, it is still related to past training where he was led to believe that he must keep a tight rein upon himself; not go ahead full blast, and restrain the spontaneous parts of the personality, unless they showed themselves in “acceptable” fashion.

The class sessions incidentally, served to keep the spontaneity available, for the spontaneity of our own sessions suffers when your own relationship is less than the both of you accept. Then it becomes something you want to do and feel you should do, and a strong part of your work, but the spontaneous fountainheads beneath do not have that easy flow. [...]

[...] You distrusted spontaneous relations most of all, for those were the ones most likely (laugh) to produce the feared results. [...]

[...] Precisely at the point where he feels pressed enough to practically and symbolically invade your working studio with intimacy in mind, and spontaneous intimacy at that—that is the point that you quickly begin an emotional and physical retreat.

Symbolically you also compared that spontaneous flow with semen, creative abilities, and were jealous of it getting away from you. [...]

Once someone gets through your surface restrictive tendencies, obvious ones, then your spontaneity flows to the surface. Once someone gets through Ruburt’s open spontaneous characteristics they are apt to wonder what happened, because he will often not let them get any further. [...] But the spontaneous emotional character warms up, brightens, and refreshes what can be a morose inner self at times. [...]

[...] You were not sure that it was safe to communicate spontaneously or easily—emotionally or sexually, with Ruburt following the two personal sessions. [...]

[...] He enjoyed your massaging them, but he did not want to ask you to do so, for he saw it as a sign of emotional giving on your part that must be spontaneous, and not asked for or demanded.

(Jane said that the reasons she didn’t have a session for Tom and friends were that her own feelings were against her doing so even though she’d had the spontaneous urge, and that she was also tired because of her symptoms and sitting on the couch for so long. [...] It had never occurred to me, for example, that she’d consider such a spontaneous session these days—nor had she for years. [...]

[...] Yet now there’s been a change, or at least a thought about a change: “But I don’t think having a spontaneous session would be all that bad,” she said, “if by being spontaneous I got set free.” [...]

[...] Ruburt was astonished, and became more so at the spontaneous nature of his own and my creativity. [...]

[...] We talked about the fun we used to have on Friday nights at 458, years ago, when the sessions had just gotten underway, and Jane often spontaneously let Seth come through. [...]

[...] He did not understand that the spontaneous self knows its own order (gently), or that the spontaneous creative self had any notion of his conscious needs and desires. [...]

[...] He believed such measures must be taken because of his erroneous concept about the spontaneous self and creativity. [...]

(9:49.) Many other issues were involved, as stated often—but all were based upon the misunderstanding of the spontaneous self—its creativity. [...]