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The spontaneity is considered safe along certain lines, but these lines become narrowed, and the further the situation continues the more narrowed the area of spontaneity allowed in your work. In the past this has caused a tendency toward overreliance on technique. Do you follow me?

He mistrusted your permissiveness then. It frightened him. If you could not be counted upon, who could? So he began to build up restrictive tendencies of his own. Before you had handled the spontaneity for him. It was your role. He had handled the other end.

You had always counted upon him to be freely spontaneous, and could not understand his reactions. When you told him to be spontaneous he was all the more confused. Earlier in both of your minds, Ruburt was the spontaneous part of the relationship, hence for many reasons the unpredictable element. You were the discipline element, the reasoning part. Neither of you were fully willing to work out these seemingly (underlined) contradictory elements of your own personalities. For of course your personality has some strongly spontaneous and intuitive elements, as you now know, and Ruburt also has very definite, now too definite, tendencies toward discipline.

Now. The division was actually an exaggerated projection of the predominating tendencies of your present personalities.

[...] As you have a tendency to think that earth is the center of the universe, although you know this is not true, so you have a tendency to think that the ego is the center of the personality, and that other aspects of the personality exist for the use of the ego, that all else revolves about the ego. [...]

[...] With some variation these drugs are actually sometimes given to overactive children, where their effects can be very unpredictable, and result in moods that encourage suicidal tendencies, even in those so young.

[...] The fact is, however, that many such people use drugs instead as a kind of chemical blanket that has a tendency to smother rather than relieve.

[...] It can also quite literally wash depression and suicidal tendencies away.

The chemically inhibited tendencies would to some extent be forcefully blanketed through medication. The problem would remain, though, and it is quite possible that overt suicidal tendencies could result; or more insidious hidden suicidal inclinations, where vital organs would be attacked.

[...] The same results as those given could be possible: the growth of suicidal tendencies or other self-destructive behavior.

Fanaticism abounds, of course, because the human tendencies and experiences that have been denied by the mainline society erupt with explosive force, where the tendencies themselves must be accepted as characteristics of human experience. [...]

[...] They would take what they could from your technology, but in conscious and spontaneous ways they retaliated — and still do — by exaggerating all of those human tendencies that your society has held down so well. [...]

[...] This is affecting you, releasing your own creative energies, for his holding back in the past reinforced your own tendencies in that direction. [...]

Your impulses and tendencies, physically speaking, your desires to go out to do things, are better developed now than his, now. [...]

[...] I mention this because there should be no divisions, and in trying to maintain balance, now, Ruburt has a tendency to think “Now I should try to be physical,” or “Now I should work,” where the two flow effortlessly together, and you can help him see this.

The two-sex division was adopted, separating and balancing these most necessary but seemingly opposing tendencies. [...] The anima and the animus, therefore, are embedded deeply with their necessary complementary but apparently opposed tendencies, and they are highly important in maintaining the very nature of your human consciousness.

[...] I have to some extent explained the fascination that one has for the other, as resulting from the inner knowledge of the whole self, that strives to attain true identity as it struggles to combine and fulfill the seemingly opposite tendencies that are a part of it.

[...] There is a tendency for spontaneous dissociation that has always been characteristic, and this tendency is simply given freedom when he stares into flames.

Now there is a tendency here emphasized because of youth. This tendency actually involves a lack of focus, or a lack in the direction of focus. [...]

[...] The nations of the world saw their own worst tendencies personified in Hitler’s Germany, ready to attack them. [...] Hitler brought many of man’s most infamous tendencies to the surface. [...]

[...] That unfortunate chant is behind the beliefs of many cults — scientific and religious — and Hitler’s Aryan kingdom was a curious interlocking of the worst aspects of religion and science alike, in which their cultish tendencies were encouraged and abetted.

[...] Nevertheless, beneath there is a denial of involvement, and a strong desire for permanency, both of which are repressed, and the stronger the efforts put forth by the ego to repress these tendencies, then these tendencies will explode with inadequate stimuli. [...]

But this illness is not so accepted by the whole self, or by the deeper layers of the personality, although certain general tendencies from past lives have aided the personality to strike out physically against his own organism in such a manner.

This is why there appears to be two such diverse tendencies that show themselves. [...]

[...] There are here indeed other psychological and surface reasons for the illness, and also deeper reasons for the tendency toward this particular type of illness.

[...] The arts, sciences, agriculture — all of these reflect natural contours and tendencies inherent in man’s mind, as general rather than specific attributes emerging first in the dream state, and then sparking specialized intellectual tendencies in the waking state.

I am simply explaining the characteristics, aptitudes, abilities, and tendencies of Nature, with a capital N. There are so many different levels in what you call the dream state that they are impossible to list, except in stereotyped ways. [...]

[...] It is not available to all to this degree, and he has a tendency to fall back, so to speak, and not to demand the most of himself. [...]

[...] At the same time you have an alternating current, also of high intensity energy, with this maturating tendency however. [...]

[...] She will have a lot of design, and a tendency toward painting. [...]

She will be much more content and pliable to reason if you can manage, regardless of your intellectual tendencies, to approach her in that light. [...]

[...] In many cases however you do not ask, but have a tendency to command her. [...]

[...] The explosions are after all small ones, and of a harmless nature, that have a definite balancing tendency. [...]

[...] Consciously recalling the dreams is excellent, since the subconscious data is at least to some extent consciously assimilated, and in the dreams aggressive tendencies are indeed released and worked out in an actual manner, as satisfying to the subconscious as if they were worked out within the physical field. [...]

[...] There are no tendencies now worth speaking of, but the discouragement could in certain circumstances turn into an unhealthy despondency, and his intuitional urge to counteract it by seeking out people is a sound one.

[...] With the physical condition to some extent the tendencies in winter were overemphasized. [...]

He has been telling himself that he must go out in the face of some other tendencies, then, that ordinarily, in a good state of flexibility, would be relatively unnoticed. [...]

[...] I am not speaking, you understand, of any kind of predetermination, but of temperamental tendencies used differently by each individual. [...]

[...] Ruburt is obviously afraid that he will have not only his own negative tendencies to contend with, but yours as well.

[...] ) Your own tendencies (to me) are general ones, against personal encounters, before such encounters are made. [...]

You have a tendency to project this upon each other. [...]

Despite all your own tendencies to avoid such contact, you are bringing it about through our sessions, and the importance of the material—the inner self placing you in a position where such contact will come about. [...]

[...] Yet as the approach of the scientific age appeared, before its blossoming, so new tendencies are now showing that do indeed signal a new era, in which the emotions and intellect are no longer regarded as opposing tendencies in man.

[...] (Pause.) A tendency then to run from problems, and a fear of settling in one place.

There is a tendency toward overdependence balanced by a scorn toward those who are overdependent. [...]

There is on the one hand a fear of demanding, and on the other hand a tendency to demand too much in personal relationships in which the other sex is involved. [...]

[...] You are overly nervous, partially as a result of your dietary deficiencies, and also by certain temperamental tendencies. [...]

[...] There is a dangerous tendency here that should be mentioned, and it is this: you must not blame others when you do not achieve your goals.

[...] There is a tendency, again, to lash out at others, and this should be restrained. [...]

[...] Ruburt has strongly held down any tendencies through the years to spend any money, small as it might be, in decorating, buying furniture, simply because of your joint attitudes, the feeling of transition.

These tendencies have been almost completely repressed. [...]

You (me) (underlined) have a tendency to think in terms of obstacles. [...]

And do not be overly harsh on yourselves, as you both have an unfortunate tendency to do so.