“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] Such ideas certainly do not foster feelings of security, health, or well-being, and they distort the nature of your physical environment.

As long as our attempts are completely honest, aboveboard, there is no more disgrace in any distortion of message than there is in a like distortion in usual communication, such as the misreading of a letter.

[...] Some distortion of material is bound to occur, and is no reflection upon Ruburt, or indeed myself, and certainly not on you Joseph, but is instead a natural result of the type of communication itself, which attempts to surmount and pass through different fields and many barriers. [...]

[...] (Long pause.) Cervical cancer can involve — can involve — distortions of the growth process itself, because of the complicated distortions of belief on the woman’s part. [...]

[...] Whatever errors that you have made, or gross distortions, even those exist because of your need to find meaning [in] your private existence and [in] life itself.

[...] For example: No matter what information or data you receive as the result of animal experimentation or dissection for scientific purposes, and no matter how valuable the results appear to be, the consequences of such methods are so distorted that you comprehend less of life than you did before.

[...] You may say: “Granted,” yet persist, saying: “In our terms, however, when did the world begin, and in what manner?” Yet the very attempt to place such an origin in time makes almost any answer distorted.

[...] I kept searching through my work...disliking organized religions with their distortions and suspecting the “supernatural” that went along with it. [...]

There are bound to be distortions—but the distortions themselves are meaningful. [...]

There are some reincarnational connections involving Tam, but the overall important point is that in its way, Prentice has attempted to maintain the books’ integrity, and not made any effort to distort the message, to sensationalize it, as for example the Bantam covers, or to personally exploit Ruburt, yourself, or the situation. [...]

[...] Since their atomic structure is not the same as yours, distortions must occur in order to make any contact possible. [...] You then try to figure out what is happening but the sense data, you see, means that the event is already distorted to some degree. [...]

[...] I use the word “materializes” because it makes sense to you, but it is distortive since it predisposes an appearance within matter. [...]

[...] Distortions must therefore occur in order to make any contact possible and indeed, distortions must occur in order to make these contacts possible. [...] You then try to figure out what is happening from the sense data that is presented to you, but the sense data, you see, means that the event is already to some extent distorted. [...]

[...] Now, I use the word materializes because it makes sense to you but the word itself is distortive because it predisposes an appearance within matter materialization, and yet all realities, as you know, are not physical. [...]

Truth contains no distortions, and this material with all my best efforts, and with yours, of necessity must contain distortions merely in order to make itself exist at all on your plane. [...]

Any material, to exist on your plane, must to some extent don the attire of your plane, and in the very entry to your plane it must be somewhat distorted. [...]

Inner data, even this, must make its entry through some distortion. [...]

[...] You and he must see to it then (Jane pointed vigorously at me) that he does not color his experiences with me through reading material that ‘is highly camouflaged and distorted, even though the distortion is well-meaning.

[...] Some distortion is necessary, as you know, simply because all words are a translation.

[...] The organizational “distortions,” however, were also necessary within the framework of history as events are understood. [...] It is for this reason, however, that he will emerge once again, this time to destroy those distortions.

[...] Now these prophecies were given in terms of the current culture at that time, and therefore, while the stage has been set, the distortions are deplorable, for this Christ will not come at the end of your world as the prophecies have been maintaining.

This person had superior energy and power and great organizing abilities, but it was the errors that he made unwittingly that perpetuated some dangerous distortions. [...]

[...] Many of you have been saturated by conventional, distorted ideas concerning health and illness in general. [...]

[...] And in many cases, the visualization in itself would be a distortion. However, you could examine the distortion. In many cases, without the distortion, you would see “nothing.”

[...] It will also include in the opening chapter several occasions when I tried to reach Ruburt in the dream state, and the ways in which I was able to insert several ideas into his dreaming consciousness, and the ways in which the conscious mind utilized and distorted the information.

In such dreams, the physical future event is often perceived opaquely, distorted in at least some aspects, just as dream events are when seen from the viewpoint of waking life. I’m including here a few of my favorite precognitive dreams, choosing those which exemplify various degrees of clearness and distortion. [...]

The differences between the dream and physical events — the distortions, in other words — are also obvious. [...]

[...] Each of them contains subconscious distortion, and strong precognitive elements interwound with other dream material. [...]

[...] That the ideas of Orientals that you had at that time were highly distorted. [...]

[...] For another thing, through listening to what others have said you should realize the vitality that is distorted in these deep charges that you often carry within you for these deny you the use of your own energy. [...]

[...] A subdivision of primary construction can be called the distortive mirror construction, which would include of course the physical construction of another physical being in birth.

This distortive attempt to re-create the self once more on the physical plane, and to insure self-continuity within that plane, is the basis for the divergence of physical types and characteristics. [...]

The distortions are so great that the attempt is foredoomed. [...]

Growth is an erroneous conception that begins with the distortive idea of continuous physical matter, durable in time. [...]

You see the growth process in a very distorted manner, because of your antiquated cause and effect theory. Growth on your plane is merely the reflection, or one of the reflections, of value fulfillment, seen through the distorted lens of your perspective.

[...] Nevertheless, there is no distortion in the particular material which you have been reading. [...]

During our next session I will give you further material on the inner laws of the universe, and show you again how the so-called laws of the universe, with which your scientists deal, are sadly inadequate and the result of the same kind of distortion as your cause and effect theory.

Later on we will discuss more thoroughly distorted ideas about the self and the body in particular that stand in the way of natural exuberance and good health.

[...] But it purposefully distorted the idea image so grotesquely that it knew it could not be maintained. [...]

[...] Part of it was clairvoyant however, and part was highly distorted. [...]