“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

All of the time of course these feminine aspects were being used as the intuitive, mystical thresholds of psychic activity. I told you once that Ruburt would not have allowed a feminine counterpart of myself to speak, but neither would you have. You would have been afraid of the “unpredictable” in quotes feminine aspects.

The relative (underline that twice) exile of Ruburt’s symbolically feminine characteristics is something that neither of you consciously realized. You did this to assure yourselves that these abilities, feminine in both of your minds, would not so get the upper hand that the responsible, and in both of your minds, masculine or dependable aspects of your life would be threatened.

The intuitive portions of himself he has always considered as feminine. The intellectual capacities he always considered masculine. He relied upon the intellectual abilities therefore as the stronger, because in his own background he believed the male to have the greater strength.

One of the reasons why he did not understand that the spontaneous intuitive self was the deeply creative and therefore deeply stable self, was that he identified it with his idea of femininity as he unfortunately misunderstood it. It was therefore second best, undependable, and could lead to byways that were not respectable. He never equated money with respectability or prestige. As a youngster he had no family background or money, and his need to be looked up to and held in esteem could not wait.

Now: you are creative, but you are a male—and one part of you considered creativity a feminine-like characteristic. [...] You would not take your art to the marketplace after you left commercial work, because then, in a manner of speaking now, understand, you considered that the act of a prostitute, for your “feminine feelings” that you felt produced the painting would then be sold for the sake of “the male’s role as provider and bringer of power.”

[...] Generally speaking, creativity has feminine connotations in your society, while power has masculine connotations, and is largely thought of as destructive.

[...] They cannot imagine (pause), life’s “initial” creative source, for in their terms it would remind them of creativity’s feminine basis. [...]

[...] He decided early to have no children—but more, to fight any evidence of femininity that might taint his work, or jumble up his dedication to it. [...]

Now (to me): You are creative, but you are a male — and one part of you considered creativity a feminine-like characteristic. [...] You would not take your art to the marketplace after you left commercial work, because then, in a manner of speaking, now, understand, you considered that the act of a prostitute — for your “feminine feelings” that you felt produced the paintings would then be sold for the sake of “the male’s role as provider and bringer of power.”

[...] Generally speaking, creativity has feminine connotations in your society, while power has masculine connotations, and is largely thought of as destructive.

[...] They cannot imagine (pause) life’s “initial” creative source, for in their terms it would remind them of creativity’s feminine basis.

[...] He decided early to have no children — but more, to fight any evidence of femininity that might taint his work, or jumble up his dedication to it. [...]

Yet to Ruburt’s mother, if you were a woman you either banked as she had on that femininity, and used it as a tool, or you became educated. Education meant that the feminine nature must be controlled. [...] She also felt that Ruburt was a poor woman to begin with, in a way, because the intellect and femininity did not seem to mix—that is, Ruburt’s mother considered them odd components.

His mother banked upon her femininity, or so it seemed, stressing what Ruburt thought of as feminine wiles. [...]

Ruburt, wanting a certain kind of career, tried to be less feminine. You thought of your father in many ways as feminine—passive, and of your mother—in many ways, now—as aggressive and male, though she was emotional. [...]

He also feels that crying is dependent in a feminine way, and goes against the fact that he has rejected the stereotyped feminine role. [...]

[...] To be “illogical” is a scientific “crime” — not so much because it is an unscientific attribute, but because it is considered a feminine one. [...] Up until the present, science has consistently tried to do without the so-called feminine qualities. [...]

[...] There were gods and goddesses galore, and deities in whose natures the feminine and masculine characteristics merged. [...]

[...] While he was tainted to some extent by conventional sexual beliefs, he still felt his own personhood in such a way that he gladly took advantage of characteristics considered feminine. [...]

[...] The intuitions and the impulses are considered erratic, untrustworthy, feminine, and to be controlled. [...]

[...] In your system of beliefs, however, it is often identified as feminine, along with the artistic productions that emerge from its creativity. In that context, the day hours and waking consciousness are thought of as masculine, along with the sun — while the nighttime, the moon, and the dreaming consciousness are considered feminine or passive. [...]

There would have been no question of men performing so-called feminine tasks, or of women performing so-called masculine tasks, for there no leeway for that kind of individual action would have existed.

[...] If compassion, kindness, and gentleness were feminine characteristics only, then no male could be kind or compassionate because such feelings would not be biologically possible.

[...] The unconscious therefore seems to be female, and the feminine characteristics are usually given as passive, intuitive, nurturing, creative, uninventive, concerned with preserving the status quo, disliking change. [...]

[...] In a past life you had no use for women, and therefore chose an existence in which you were feminine; not only feminine but endowed with those qualities that you had particularly disliked; because you feared those qualities you therefore lived with them, and to some extent learned to understand them, though you are still left with some impatience when you see them in others.

[...] He was impatient with you at times for he remembered you as a companion in male pursuits, and bitterly resented your femininity.

[...] The secondary personality may seemingly be female, however, even speaking in a feminine-like voice. [...]

It is also possible for the individual to dress in male attire, while the secondary personality wears feminine clothes — or vice-versa.

Because the entity has not expressed but withheld the basic femininity of its nature, it has fed back upon itself so that the overall identity of the entity appears as feminine simply because there is a backlog of those characteristics thought of as feminine.

An entity is composed of what you may call feminine and masculine characteristics, but when all energy is focused into masculine-oriented personalities then a backlog develops, so that the entity is left with only unused, unmanifested, so-far-denied feminine characteristics.

[...] The overall entity however is a feminine one.

[...] This provided needed leeway in the formation of his ideas, and allowed him to leap free of the stereotyped beliefs about femininity that otherwise could have hampered him. [...]

[...] Because of Ruburt’s old ideas about femininity, kept beyond their time, he feels more vulnerable than you amid those unsafe conditions, and has put up extra safeguards. [...]

For Ruburt, again, the old ideas of femininity, not examined, hung over, and so he felt more vulnerable than you. [...]

[...] Ruburt’s held-over feelings about femininity make him try to be overly respectable in his work. [...]

One small note: A male with growths of any kind — kidney stones or ulcers, for example — has tendencies he considers feminine, and therefore “dependent,” of which he is ashamed. [...] In ulcers the stomach becomes the womb — bloodied, giving birth to sores — his interpretation of a male’s “grotesque” attempt to express feminine characteristics.

[...] India takes a feminine stance — in terms of your beliefs, now.

She tries to dominate in more feminine ways. [...]

[...] She does not want to dominate him through feminine wiles, and yet subconsciously she feels driven to do so.

[...] A woman doubtful of her complete femininity in the same manner does not trust the integrity of her personhood.

These are simple enough examples, but the man who possesses interests considered feminine by your culture, who naturally wants to enter fields of interest considered womanly, experiences drastic conflicts between his sense of personhood and identity — and his sexuality as it is culturally defined. [...]

[...] In a world in which women are considered passive and the trance largely feminine, you feel that the performance of a session could be too easily misread. [...]

About your dream: (Pause.) You were telepathically picking up some of the thoughts of Joe Bumbalo as he suspiciously wondered about John, because John’s talents and abilities struck him as being too feminine. [...]

[...] Anyhow, on her own she said that the Oriental women further represented to Joe Bumbalo his ideas that son John’s abilities weren’t American—that, indeed, they were unAmerican, foreign to male sexuality, feminine. [...]

[...] In a past life you had no use for women, and therefore chose an existence in which you were feminine; not only feminine but endowed with those qualities that you had particularly disliked; because you feared those qualities you therefore lived with them and to some extent learned to understand them, though you are still left with some impatience when you see them in others.

[...] He was impatient with you at times, for he remembered you as a companion in male pursuits, and bitterly resented your femininity.

[...] You are endowing yourself with what you imagine to be feminine qualities. [...] There are no qualities as such that are masculine or feminine. You are knocking down those abilities that are your own because you conceive of them as feminine. [...] So you are allowing yourself to behave in what you imagine to be a subservient, feminine behavior. [...]

The woman who had interests beyond those acceptable as feminine was often in the same position. [...]

[...] No works bear their feminine names, for they used male ones. [...]

If creativity itself was sometimes considered irresponsible, or “feminine,” or adolescent, then psychic activity, he discovered, seemed to be held in an even murkier light, in which the abilities themselves were sometimes thought of not as creative enhancements but as symptoms of feminine weakness and irresponsibility. [...]