“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Your sexuality is a point of focus, and that is all. For those of you who need it said, I say it: A woman is as intellectual as a man. A man is as intuitive as a woman. You chose your sexual focus for a reason. The reason has more to do with the flexibility of consciousness than you presently understand. It has to do with the real nature of aggression and passivity,¹ which you have allowed yourselves to forget … Birth is an aggressive experience. Passivity is based upon the joyful recognition of natural aggression. To be carried along, each of you must be very sure of yourself. To allow yourself what is now, in your terms, a luxury of passivity, you must have confidence in the nature of your own reality and strength. Otherwise passivity frightens you to the core.

[...] You enjoyed your passivity (to CW) to the point of a joyous giving-up; and instead, you see, there is a point within passivity where you are passively alert. [...]

[...] There is a difference between passivity and alert passivity. [...]

(Pause.) Sometimes you think of suicide as ignominious and passive, but of war as aggressive and powerful. Both are equally the result of passivity and distorted aggression, and of natural pathways of communication not used or understood. You think of flowers in terms of gentleness, beauty and “goodness,” and yet every time a new bud opens there is a great thrust of joyful aggression that is hardly passive, and a daring and courage that reaches actively outward. [...]

[...] It is instead a passive surrender to emotion which is not understood or evaluated, only feared, and at the same time sought.

[...] The sense of power felt during such episodes is the result of repressed energy suddenly released, but the individual is always at the mercy of that energy then — submerged within it, and passively carried with it.

[...] You enjoyed your passivity (to Ned) to the point of an enjoyous giving-up; and instead, you see, there is a point within passivity where you are passively alert. [...]

[...] There is a difference between passivity and alert passivity. [...]

[...] They represent uncluttered areas, but also open channels, inactive in themselves but passively waiting. Now some symbols also wait in such a passive manner to be activated.

Aggressiveness and passivity are both behind symbols of birth, for both are needed. [...]

[...] 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. [...]

[...] You were in a very passive state. This passivity comes rather easily to you under such conditions, as those that existed at the time.

[...] Conditions that come about during your exercises bring forth this passive state, with you personally. Now this passivity is good, and you use it well. [...]

[...] In your passive state you were a receiver. [...]

Concentrate upon the idea of your body being a field awakened by the wind and the rain—awakened into sensation—not necessarily passive, then, but in a strange condition between alertness and passivity.

[...] Use a balanced alertness and passivity. [...]

You, as teacher in this love relationship now, can count oddly enough on the passivity of his nature, and play on this, for then assured, reassured, the super-conscientious self can allow the spontaneous self to emerge in the sex relationship.

You can be stern here, again counting on his passivity in the love relationship. [...]

[...] Two areas of activity are involved, one very passive and one acutely active. In one state this portion of consciousness is passive, receiving information. [...]

[...] 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. [...]

[...] The mental state brings about the activation of a virus that is, in those terms, passive.

(Pause at 10:16.) Despair may seem passive only because it feels that exterior action is hopeless — but its fires rage inwardly, and that kind of contagion can leap from bed to bed and from heart to heart. [...]

I am not speaking of some romanticized, “passive,” floppy, spiritual world, but of a clear reality without impediments, in which the opposite of despair and apathy reigns.

—for we find in all cases that creativity rises first in what you would term passive terms. The aggressive reaction is actually but the termination of a passive creativity. [...] For in many cases dependency is a passivity that leads to creation.

[...] And a word here should be said, indeed, concerning the distortive ideas that arise concerning dependency and passivity.

[...] The male personality then finds himself unable to accept so-called passive subconscious manifestations with ease, this being in part the result of feminine existences.

However, the personality does not seem at this time able to realize that this inhibited passivity is indeed the basis for all resultant aggressive behavior.

[...] 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. [...]

[...] 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. [...]

[...] There is a kind of passive energy that carries you where you want to go, and material of that nature is being utilized now. [...]

[...] He was not a passive receptor however, the cat, and he even learned from his encounters with Jack Wall. [...]

[...] Active sports are considered good, however, but often contrasted to passive intuitive activities which are then seen as bad.

Such individuals are trained to consider any alterations of consciousness, any seemingly “passive” endeavor as dangerous to one degree or another. [...]

[...] a spontaneity in passivity. Allowed to be passive you feel free to be spontaneous. Passivity, however, should be balanced on your part by more assertive action as far as habitual reactions are concerned. [...]

[...] It contains many others in a passive state. [...]

[...] The traveling involves merely a change of focus, both on my part and somewhat on Ruburt’s part, for he is far from inactive, far from being a passive receiver.

[...] Nor is your capacity here a passive one. [...]