“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] Before these days, she wouldn’t let much of this kind of material through, being afraid of wishful thinking, distortion, and error. [...]

[...] The old ideas of voodooism recognized some of these concepts, but complicated and distorted them with fears of evil, psychic invasion, psychic killing, and so forth. [...]

Collecting such distorted data about inner or outer worlds can only make an individual build up defenses, or want to. The newspaper world is, then, highly distorted, organized in such a manner that its data reinforce negative beliefs, and constantly give evidence only of negative patterns. [...]

([Gert:] “Then we have distorted the word love as being something simply sexual?”)

([Joel:] “I am wondering if as we continue to get ourselves into the emotional level if we will experience less distortion at the communicational level, or if rather dealing extensively at the communicational level, if we will be able to communicate intuitively or telepathically?”)

[...] The god-versus-devil, angels-versus-demons — the gulf between animals and angels — all of these distortions are impediments. [...]

[...] Christianity was but a distortion of this main truth — that is, organized Christianity as you know it. [...]

[...] In a manner of speaking it does not even distort, though it may reflect distortions. [...]

[...] There are, in fact, so many distorted ideas connected with the concept of reincarnation in general, that I think it far better to simply concentrate upon the idea of multiple existences. [...]

A species that senses a lack of this quality can in one way or another destroy its offspring — not because they could not survive otherwise, but because the quality of that survival would bring about vast suffering, for example, so distorting the nature of life as to almost make a mockery of it. [...]

This distorted picture depicts a species of sinners innately driven by evil, sometimes demonic, forces. [...]

[...] There are rather unfortunate distortions occurring in Jung’s writings, as well as in Freud’s, since they did not understand the primary, cooperative nature of the libido. [...]

I was concerned somewhat with Ruburt’s reading of Jung, simply because while he seems to offer more than Freud, in some aspects he has attempted much, and his distortions are fairly important, in that seeming to delve further and offering many significant results, he nevertheless causes insidious conclusions. [...]

Now what I tell you, to some extent, must be distorted because when I speak I use words, but the inner self interprets the words that are spoken. [...]

[...] They are, therefore, less distorted. [...]

[...] Or was this distorted?” See the 568th session, in Chapter Seventeen.)

It was not distorted. [...]

There must, of necessity however, be some distortion. If our communication involved invasion, then there would be no distortion because the person so ‘invaded’ would be blotted — out and this is not possible.

In the beginning particularly, there is always a distortion of such material by the person who receives it. [...]

[...] Therefore the distortions are much less harmful, more easily discovered and cleared. [...]

[...] Some can only be glimpsed in distorted form because of other “natural” conditions that you cannot perceive. [...]

[...] There can be a direct connection with the envelope object, and a newspaper connection; it seems that both are somewhat distorted, and that one perhaps influenced the other.

[...] Jane and I had talked about the stabbing at supper this evening however, and evidently the knife connection here and with the object caused the distortions.

[...] In distorted form he picked up that Jane and I had decided on January 2 that Adventures in Consciousness would not be written or contracted; that in daytime working hours Jane was to go full steam ahead on her own writing, etc. [...]

[...] He made several distortions, substituting you (RFB) and the book I suggested (Through My Eyes) rather than Ruburt and Adventures. [...]

[...] Such actions distort data from both within and without.

[...] False beliefs can result in a rigid ego that insists upon using the conscious mind in one direction only, further distorting its perceptions.

[...] Imagine here, now, that the screen’s picture is off-center to begin with, so that everything is distorted to some extent, and going out into space seems to be going backward into time.

[...] Objects may appear blurred, ordinary sounds distorted. [...]

Give us time … When you change your ordinary television set from one station to another you may encounter snow or distortion. [...]

[...] When you are so serious, you almost always distort the nature of your own spirit as far as your understanding of it is concerned. [...]

[...] (Pause.) Play brings you a needed rest from your distorted concepts of selfhood, and many of the world’s finest inventions have come when the inventor was not concentrating upon work, but indulging in pastimes or play.

To me, beside whatever relationship it might have with counterpart reality, the soul-mate belief embodies strongly distorted versions of the ideas contained in the two Seth passages quoted above.

[...] That sentence is not distorted.