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Ruburt’s father, to Ruburt, meant laxness, relaxation to the extreme, without drive or fire, responsibility or control. Ruburt’s mother meant will, drive, power, for she had power over the household and over Ruburt. But that power went nowhere, for Ruburt’s father was physically free while his mother was not. Ruburt thought he had to make a choice (louder). If will and power meant relative immobility but purpose—and purpose was what he had—then in the past he chose that above what he thought of as laxness, relaxation, and physical freedom that might mean frittering away ability, a relaxation in which nothing was accomplished.

We come back to will and freedom, discipline and purpose. Ruburt’s background with his mother and his beliefs in will then merged with your feelings for isolation from your father. Ruburt blocked out emotional spontaneity, feeling that his father was lax. You blocked out emotional spontaneity, feeling that your mother’s was detrimental to creative isolation. At the same time you admired Ruburt’s spontaneity. You trusted it however only because it was merged with creative purpose. He therefore used it only for such purpose, not wanting to frighten you with it otherwise because he loved you so.

[...] So we asked that Seth consider our laxness in not using the towels in the session tonight.

It often seems to him that to relax is to be lax, to let down, do nothing, achieve nothing, as if spontaneously left alone he would be lazy, unambitious, and again lax. [...]

[...] His father was lax. [...]

It leads to Ruburt feeling physically that relaxation means letting go into laxness; as I told him in the past, however, letting go means motion and the ability to respond. [...]

[...] Jane is too concerned with bodily improvements, as Seth suggests, and we are still lax in playing badminton daily.)

[...] You were both loath to leave your work behind and to allow yourselves the “lax” freedom. [...]

[...] He is afraid that it can lead to laxness. [...]

[...] I had approached it in a casual way through self-hypnosis: the same lax, heavy looseness in the limbs when I made the effort to move. [...]

[...] To both of you, however, relaxation means somehow to be lax, to shuffle (louder) rather than to be resolute and determined and forever at it; and so then natural relaxation can seem overwhelming, for you are afraid, both of you, that if you relax you will do nothing. [...]

[...] Seth had discussed her father’s laxness, and her mother’s drive toward purpose, power, and control, and how Jane had felt that she must make a choice between the two modes of behavior. [...]

[...] It is not lax, does not mean laziness. [...]

[...] All of this caused muscular tensions, but he was appalled at what he considered Dick and Ida’s laxness in so many areas, and it seemed that that was the natural human condition, so that you must exert great discipline to keep yourself aloft from it. [...]

He is afraid, of course, that if he “gives into” impulses other than writing for a day or so that he is lax, yet the exercise and relaxation of the body refreshes the soul and allows the intuitions their clear vision. [...]

[...] Lest people decide that you were lax or lazy or irresponsible, you were determined to show that you not only worked as hard as they did, but harder. [...]

[...] The muscles are lax because activity of a physical nature is not required for the physical organism. [...]

[...] Needless to say Jane and I have been lax in this field, and we are most grateful to John for his efforts.

[...] But there was a laxness within, and a lack of inner concentration that in this life hampered earlier development.

In this life Ruburt feared a laxness within himself because of his mother’s remarks about his father. [...]

[...] He was uncontrolled— uncontrollable, lax, slow, and yet evil. [...]

[...] Editors like other human beings know when they are lax.

[...] The muscles are lax then because physical activity is not required. [...]