“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] Personalities in such transition are thereby allowed to acclimate themselves in a period of neutrality and relative passivity.

The relative, neutral passivity is attained as various portions of the whole self once more collect together. [...]

[...] Before all of this, however, nature was seen as primarily passive—put here by God for man’s purpose, but without possessing the uniqueness or even approaching the status of man. [...]

[...] The full sweep and extent of the natural world , with all of its seeming ambiguities, cruelties and splendors, had to be accepted as more than a passive package delivered into man’s hand. [...]

[...] You must understand that I am not saying that you are passive, fleeting dreamers, lost in some divine mind, but that you are the unique creative manifestations of a divine intelligence whose creativity is responsible for all realities, which are themselves endowed with creative abilities of their own, with the potential and desire for fulfillment—inheritors indeed of the divine processes themselves. [...]

[...] Even her arms remained pretty passive, folded across her belly. [...]

The discipline, for Mark or for anyone else, is difficult to achieve, in that what is necessary is a passive discipline rather than an aggressive discipline. The passive discipline allows for a fuller perception. [...]

This passive discipline also allows inner data enough durability to be realized. [...]

[...] This led to his passivity as far as you were concerned. [...]

[...] Hence his passivity in many instances, and his avoidance of sex.

[...] The balance between aggressiveness and passivity on Ruburt’s part also forms a highly charged medium that allows him to act in his present capacity in the sessions. [...]

[...] There was too much passivity involved. [...]

[...] He would have been too passive to do so. [...]

[...] And guilt can be a very silent and quiet and passive and gentle thing indeed. [...]

The word “passive” is a poor one to describe the characteristics of the anima, in that it suggests a lack of motion, and this is hardly the case. [...]

[...] This is not a statement of passivity in conventional terms, but a creative releasing of the basic personality from the restraints of hampering beliefs.

[...] She had felt “really passive” during the session, and I had listened to her pace grow slower and slower as the session progressed.)

[...] Ruburt had to have, and adopted, both strong passive and strongly independent characteristics. The passivity and receptivity as a necessary prerequisite for our work, the independence as a necessary prerequisite to offset the early chosen environment, and also as an aid in dealing with physical communications.

[...] Dreaming is not a passive activity. [...]

[...] Call Norma A the assertive part of the personality, and Norma B the passive partner. [...]

[...] Had another passive person been present, the same would apply.

[...] The male is passive and of a submissive mind, and given to an obsession with overconsideration for security. [...]

[...] Then there is an undifferentiated level between wakefulness and sleep where you act as a receiver — passive but open, in which telepathic and clairvoyant messages come to you quite easily.

When you view the animal kingdom, you also do so through your specialized sexual beliefs, studying the behavior of the male and female, looking for patterns of aggressiveness, territorial jealousy, passivity, mothering instincts, or whatever. [...]

[...] They are active rather than passive, then. [...]