“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] You have been taught to focus all of your attention clearly, ambitiously, energetically in a particular way — so daydreaming, or mixing and matching modes of consciousness, appears passive in a derogatory fashion, or nonactive, or idle. [...]

[...] The sensation itself is a strange one—quite active rather than passive.

[...] The passive qualities in him would have been far more predominant, overly so, but for the adversity he faced. [...]

(Jane said she was so passive at the end of the session that she couldn’t assert herself as she usually does; she thought that this assertion on her part helped Seth disengage at the end of a session. [...]

[...] The fear of spontaneity is what made him so passive in following suggestions of yours, to which he did not agree.

[...] I see the passive, thinking and unthinking tolerance of animal experimentation as a classical case of a society using ends to justify means—yet in the United States, at least, we carefully teach each generation of our species that such rationalizations aren’t morally acceptable….

[...] Such theories are based upon the concept that there is something innately disruptive, base, or wrong in man’s emotional nature, while the soul is always depicted as being calm, “perfect,” passive and unfeeling. [...]

[...] We now believe it possible, and the closing paragraph above struck a chord within me; I think the very passive state I achieve at times after doing hatha yoga might signal a beginning here.

[...] They would much prefer to think of him (Ruburt) as a sweet, passive, and spiritual channel—the figurative phone booth. [...]

[...] In that joint venture it made little difference which of you accepted the role that would in one way or another prevent the both of you from misusing power, for the one role would be passive while the other was active.

[...] She used the contrasting example of trees in a forest, comparing their passive state to the feeling of acceleration, of “being able to go right through the wall” that she sometimes gets. [...]

[...] But in certain terms she was the masculine center of the family, emotions or not, the aggressive one; and speaking conventionally now, your father (Robert Sr.) accepted the more passive creative role. [...]

[...] He will remain in a passive capacity relatively. [...]

[...] The control personality, so-called, in our case, is entirely passive, the psychological framework to which I have referred, and shall remain so.

[...] For them consciousness is nothing more than an epiphenomenon, the passive by-product of the brain’s physiology and chemical events. [...]

[...] Jane passively accepted them. [...]

[...] While I have Ruburt in such an excellent state of passivity, I will add another point that he has blocked in the past.

[...] The cat was not a passive receptor, however, and also learned from his encounters with your neighbor downstairs (who also has a cat). Many of Ruburt’s feelings about his mother are buried in Rooney’s grave. [...]

[...] I much prefer personally an active, fairly alert personality student rather than a deep trance subject who passively receives and transmits spoon-fed knowledge. [...]

In that sense Jane’s whole self or entity accepts her actions completely, as part of the learning processes available to “it” through her individuality—nor do I mean it does so in any passive or remote sense at all, but in the most intimate, sensitive terms possible, and also, probably, in ways we cannot appreciate now. [...]