“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] Your religions tell you that man is sinful: The body is not to be trusted; the senses can lead you astray. [...]

[...] Because there is an unconscious flow of information and experience here, you have one of the reasons for Ruburt’s caution in some psychic matters, and his fear of leading people astray. [...]

[...] She does believe that this knowledge has in itself prevented her from being led astray from Seth’s data a few times in the past, and that her ability in separating Seth’s data from her own will grow.

[...] He saw what could happen when beliefs are allowed to run astray, and he attacked some then quite directly, and won out. [...]

[...] And as far as assimilating our old friend Frank Watts, don’t let me lead you too far astray.

It would seem to me that his nature would be somewhat above deliberately leading the poor deluded woman astray by lies. [...]

[...] These stones, or rocks are not cemented down, merely loosely fit in place, and are always being kicked astray. [...]

[...] The mind helps to keep the personality from going too far astray. [...]

And as far as assimilating our old Frank Withers, don’t let me lead you too far astray. [...]

[...] This is an analogy, and in several respects it could lead you astray if taken too literally. [...]

Amid her incessant questioning as to who or what Seth is—even if he is a master event!—and amid her concerns about leading others astray, Jane added to her journal four days later: “The worst explanation for Seth that I can imagine is that he is the part of me that I can’t express otherwise—making a psychological statement. [...]

As he progressed with the series, Seth delved into Jane’s sinful self from a number of viewpoints: its birth and growth during her intense relationship with the Roman Catholic Church throughout her early years; the development of her very stubborn core beliefs; her creative dilemmas after she left the church in her late teens; the conflicts she began to experience after our marriage, involving on the one hand her sinful self and the religion she thought she’d left behind, and on the other hand science, art, writing, and the unconventional direction she discovered her natural, mystical abilities were taking via the Seth material; her growing fears of leading others astray; and the very real necessity for her—and for each individual—to achieve value fulfillment.

[...] I think her deep concern about leading others astray, related as it is to her early religious training, is the inhibiting force here. [...]

[...] But therein lies trouble, too, I said, because they would reflect Jane’s concern about public exposure, her fears about leading people astray. [...]

So in a fashion [Jane’s] physical symptoms became a psychological disclaimer, so that in some court of larger values we could not be “sued” for leading others astray from entrenched beliefs that we were still discarding, while not having any completed structure that would allow easy access or safe passage from one “life raft” to the new one that we were trying to provide….

[...] You do not have to go any place to get that destination; and it is only when you think that that destination lies elsewhere that you allow yourself to go astray. [...]