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spontaneous

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Ancestral Lore of spontaneous

from Late Latin spontaneus "willing, of one's free will"
Latin phrase (sua) sponte "of one's own accord, willingly"
Latin spons, spontis "free will, volition"

1650s, of actions, "occurring without external stimulus, proceeding from an internal impulse" by 1732, of persons, "acting voluntarily and naturally"

spontaneous adjective
  • arising naturally, of one's free will
  • proceeding from natural feeling or native tendency without external constraint
  • arising from a momentary impulse
  • controlled and directed internally; self-acting
  • produced without being planted or without human labor; indigenous
  • developing or occurring without apparent external influence, force, cause, or treatment
  • not apparently contrived or manipulated; natural

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“This state of affairs is known technically as the "double-bind." A person is put in a double-bind by a command or request which contains a concealed contradiction...
This is a damned-if-you-do and damned-if-you-don't situation which arises constantly in human (and especially family) relations...

The social doublebind game can be phrased in several ways:The first rule of this game is that it is not a game.
Everyone must play.
You must love us.
You must go on living.
Be yourself, but play a consistent and acceptable role.
Control yourself and be natural.
Try to be sincere.
Essentially, this game is a demand for spontaneous behavior of certain kinds. Living, loving, being natural or sincere—all these are spontaneous forms of behavior: they happen "of themselves" like digesting food or growing hair. As soon as they are forced they acquire that unnatural, contrived, and phony atmosphere which everyone deplores—weak and scentless like forced flowers and tasteless like forced fruit. Life and love generate effort, but effort will not generate them. Faith—in life, in other people, and in oneself—is the attitude of allowing the spontaneous to be spontaneous, in its own way and in its own time.”

"The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are"
by Alan Watts

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~☉~lucid definition; added layer of lucidity, or aethereal context
classic definition
artificium definition; usually words which have undergone a warped evolution, or a complete perversion of the original sense
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