“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

The men, reassured by Ruburt in the dream, appeared without being old, although the original event of the past life involved men in their 70’s. This was a distortion of the personal subconscious, to add to the seeming separateness of the two dreams.

[...] The washing machine that he saw is an excellent example of subconscious knowledge distortion and fabrication.

He was bound up with you in the past life and what he did not know then, and he knew much, he has picked up telepathically from you, since the washing machine was a visual distortion of the idea of a ship, which he interpreted as a tub. [...]

[...] Earlier I mentioned that your concept, distorted concept of cause and effect, led to the idea that all things must have a beginning and an end.

[...] But I disapprove of the terms, since in themselves they serve to perpetuate a most unfortunate distortive concept.

[...] The beginnings, to use that distortive term again, the beginnings of dreams reach back into past lives of which you are not aware, and beyond even this the origins are part of a heritage before your planet even existed.

(Pause at 9:34.) Any attempt to impair the flow of true aggression results in a distortive, uneven, explosive pseudo-aggression that causes wars, individual neurosis, and a great many of your problems in all areas.

[...] Here I simply want to point out the difference between healthy natural aggressiveness, and the explosive, distorted emergence of repressed aggression.

If you shed the distorted concepts of unnatural guilt and accepted the wise ancient wisdom of natural guilt instead, there would be no wars. [...]

[...] But Jane and I have trained ourselves to try to recall accurately what others say, and we are aware of how information can be distorted as it’s passed on. [...]

[...] Now in matters of personal health, this is bound to add to the uncertainty: you are trying to live your lives according to new rules that are as yet not completely given, so to that extent it is somewhat natural that Ruburt and you become at times uneasy, wonder at times about the personal material, wonder if it is distorted in those areas, or whatever—and there are no known ways to check such material—the material itself is that original. [...]

[...] He has learned what happens when he does, and he has unlearned the false and distorted lesson that was put upon him in his early years.

[...] It seemed obvious that Seth used this extreme in order to get the material through tonight without distortion. [...]

[...] She wanted me to ask Seth if she had distorted this data while delivering it.

[...] We supposed there was a chance distortion had occurred.

[...] Wednesday’s affair was legitimate, though carrying several distortions. [...]

The name Gert comes to mind, though this may be distorted; that is, the name. [...]

[...] They presented excellent evidence of his own abilities, for they were crystal clear and distinct, and without distortions.

(We regarded, offhand, the data on my parents as probably distortive or associative, as the material on Jane’s aunt and uncle. [...]

Our own test material was only slightly distorted, and quite legitimate.

The older people represented the dentist’s in-laws, and the distortion occurred here, for Ruburt picked up correctly the idea of parents, but thought they were your own.

[...] But as the word evolution is the title for a fine tale with a little truth in it, and much distortion, so also, must the realities of consciousness sometimes be explained in terms that you can understand and in terms of your own time concepts. [...]

A deeper trance state would allow us to get less distorted results on such a test as this, initially, but our results will improve. [...]

(“Were you aware that he was distorting the information while he was speaking?”

The distortions that appeared are most helpful, in that they allow Ruburt to differentiate between my communications and his own thoughts. [...]

(Pause.) Sometimes to protect themselves because of their beliefs, people then form distorted portraits of themselves, and project these outward “to take life’s arrows,” so to speak. [...]

Psychocybernetics (underlined) is a good handbook, very simplified, with some distortions, but its premise is quite correct: you do hypnotize yourself into such situations. [...]

[...] Hence the appearance of what you may call distortions.

The experimentation with daily predictions will show you quite clearly, with practice, the nature of such distortions, as you see the difference between the predicted event and the event that occurs. [...]

[...] With all of their dire faults and distortions, religions have at least kept alive the idea of unseen, valid worlds, and given some affirmation to concepts that are literally known by the cells. [...]

[...] Had Jane distorted information in one session or the other? [...]

[...] I mentioned earlier that very little distortion occurs in such material. [...]

[...] The appearance of space is a distortion of your own perception, and that is all.

[...] He is ill often—always in fact—because of a distortion that is occurring within the self, and materialized in physical form.

[...] You could see, in other words, the exact extent of the distortion in quite physical terms.

[...] Myths are generally considered to be distorted facts, interpreted by primitive minds, or the result of creative acts of the imagination. [...]

[...] Others are distorted versions of factual events.

[...] Even the term, a supreme being, is in itself distortive, for you naturally project the qualities of human nature upon it. [...]

For example: There was no beginning, and there will be no end, yet parables have been given telling you of beginnings and endings simply because with your distorted ideas of time, beginnings and endings seem to be inseparable, valid events. [...]

[...] Whether or not such dreams are “distorted,” many of them represent a valid inner experience. [...]

(10:35.) Give us a moment … The true scientist understands that he must probe the interior and not the exterior universe; he will comprehend that he cannot isolate himself from a reality of which he is necessarily a part, and that to do so presents at best a distorted picture. [...]

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

[...] We fully agree with Seth that changes and distortions are inevitable as the Seth material is moved from English into other languages; we just want those alterations kept to a minimum. [...]

[...] It often hides a distorted, puffed-up, denied self-pride, because no man or woman can really accept a theory that denies personal self-worth.

[...] But even the myth was distorted. [...]

[...] This comes through even in the distortions. [...]