“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] Dream objects and physical objects alike are symbols by which we perceive — and distort — an inner reality that we do not seem able to experience directly. [...]

Some of this has to do with distorted ideas of both the conscious and unconscious minds, using your terms now. [...]

[...] When this is carried to an extreme you wind up with devil cults, in which the poorly understood powers of creativity and exuberance rush out in distorted form; the undersides of consciousness are then glorified at the expense of the other, white, “conscious and objective” values.

[...] The symptom or symptoms will follow the area in which the person most strongly disapproves of himself—will hide, distort, or exaggerate those tendencies about which the person feels such disapproval.

[...] You both had exaggerated ideas, or distorted ones, about the nature of creativity, and about people who were creative, and you considered yourselves rightly as creative people.

[...] At the same time a few lines were used to hint at a variety of unseen, apparently unstructured objects, so that in that regard the line became in the hands of a master a strong symbol, hinting at other realities that lay within the seemingly distorted portrayal of objects.

[...] Pause.) As I have said often, language is used as often to distort as it is to clearly communicate. [...]

[...] Both are necessarily distortive, but beneath both is the same reality.

[...] Added to this was his fear of distorting it. [...]

Foremost, connected with the distortions about creativity and expression, is the belief that knowledge itself is dangerous, evil, and bound to lead to disaster. [...]

[...] The reaction of course being a distortion. That is, any camouflage pattern at all is bound to be a distortion, in a sense, of vitality forced into a particular form.

I have spoken more slowly than usual because I want this material to be taken down carefully, with a minimum of distortion. [...]

(Right after the session began, Seth showed how Jane’s personal subconscious memories had, during the sitting with the Gallaghers, on August 20, distorted the material we received. [...]

[...] The problem here is getting the information through Ruburt, without distortion. [...]

[...] At one point Seth asked Bill to not say so much when he answered a question, because this led Ruburt to start to actively and consciously consider the material and to make his own interpretations, which could be distorted. [...]

[...] Information or events running counter would be ignored to a large degree, or distorted in such a fashion that they would be made to fit in with what the mind said was reality.

(11:01.) When you think in other terms, then you fall into distorted views in which power is assigned to negative elements — and seen as threatening, wrong, or even given demonic connotations. [...]

[...] Even without all of the distortions, that formula worked for centuries in large measure. [...]

[...] You set for yourselves a goal of shoving aside all of the beliefs and distortions for yourselves and for others.

As you noted, the dream provided a distorted glimpse of your visitors.

[...] The apples did provide the painting connection with the girl, and the dream was very simple—a distorted view into tomorrow’s mirror. [...]

(Number twenty-seven: Is evolution, as it is commonly thought of, a fact or something greatly distorted?

[...] I painted a male in modern garb, but in reality, according to an amused Seth, the subject was a female clairvoyant who lived in Constantinople in the fourteenth century; unconscious distortions in my own perceptions led me to the male figure. [...]

[...] There is no distortion here.

Ruburt’s ability to allow me to speak without distortion has grown. [...]

[...] Actually, many criminals are motivated by distorted versions of righteousness. [...]

[...] These repressed emotions, and the whole charge behind such distorted concepts about the unconscious, result in a projection outward upon others. [...]

The natural experiences of what you think of as time distortion, for example, occurring in childhood and old age alike, represent quite normal experiences of your basic “time environment” — much more so than the clock time with which you are so familiar.

[...] Your cause and effect theory, again, is responsible here for many distortions, such as the idea that the matter of say, a flower, grows from matter of a seed directly. [...]

In all cases constructions will follow the line of expectation, and often a vicious circle is initiated, where the environment created by an individual will then reinforce the very distortive conceptions that caused it to begin with.

[...] It seems not only as money taken from you, or from Ruburt, which annoys you more, since you think he worked so hard for it—but worst of all, the money is being spent to promote national stupidities of distorted beliefs, to which you are diametrically opposed.

Yet those very distortions may be the very openings that allow others to perceive.

[...] There is some matter here not clear, not distorted or blocked, simply not clear, concerning the actual desire for the birth of males, however. [...]

Now, and no distortion here from our friend (Jane), your mother was from the beginning a fragment, an offshoot actually, from the personality that she was in her last existence. [...]

[...] On a different occasion I had a rather small out-of-body that trailed behind it, for almost two weeks, a series of incomplete projections or dream experiences containing distorted elements of such phenomena. [...]

[...] (Pause.) There are many distorted inner connections between these. [...]

[...] The creative function and basis that has been distorted into the idea of aggression — the urge to act — was not understood. [...]

[...] Some of the tools fashioned by the cavemen were distorted versions of those they had found.