“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Aside from the information given in that chapter, there have been distortions in some past material concerning that life. [...]

[...] The overall picture, the validity of the existence, carried through the distortions, however. [...]

[...] There were some distortions in other portions of that session, however.

[...] Therefore in reincarnational data the emotional values will come through more vividly, and with much less distortion.

[...] The appearance of an expanding universe is also caused therefore by this distortive boundary effect, resulting from the interaction of which I have just spoken. In some cases the distortive effect could be likened to the reflection of a solid tree in water.

[...] All universes are continually being created, and the appearance of expansion seen by your scientists is distortive for many reasons.

Their time measurements, based on camouflage to begin with, are almost riotously inadequate and bound to give distortive data, since the universe simply cannot be measured in these terms. [...]

[...] The phenomena that are given as evidence of this kind of expanding universe are the result of camouflage instruments, distortive ideas of time, and the resulting cause and effect theory.

[...] In view of earlier material I remembered, I thought the 67th- year information was a distortion, and that such a distortion was natural enough when one talked about one’s own passing. [...]

[...] He proceeded to explain that Jane had indeed distorted her personal information. [...] The grandfather had died of tuberculosis, hence Jane producing a distorted reference to a “breathing difficulty.” [...]

[...] It is also highly distorted, for your physical senses are lovely liars that betray you constantly. They form reality for you, and yet the reality that they form is highly distorted; and what you see, dear friends, does not exist and you do not see what does exist.

[...] Where there appears to be nothing, there will be no distortion. [...]

Time, as you know it, is a distortion brought about by the operation of the physical senses. [...]

[...] Shall I tell you which of the two realities are more valid and which is least distorted? [...]

Your beliefs so structure your experience individually and en masse, however, that evidential material contrary to those ideas shows itself but seldom, or in distorted or exaggerated form. [...]

Through medical techniques some of your old people are kept alive long enough so that this process begins, appearing in distorted form, sometimes psychologically apparent but biologically frustrated. [...]

[...] And indeed it shows itself in a distorted fashion that can appear most grotesque.

[...] This would be sad enough if you did not often use such distorted data to further define the nature of male and female behavior.

[...] I am fully aware, perhaps indeed surely more aware than either of you, of the dangers of distortion in this material.

Distortion is not falsehood. [...]

I will now explain to you where the Watts material came from, its significance, and the reason for its distortions.

[...] The distortions, too numerous to mention here, were the result of inexperience, not only on Ruburt’s part, but also on the part of the personality who did live and was called Frank Watts.

I do not intend to give you any personal reincarnational information this evening, as we did run into some distortions the other evening, as you probably know by now. [...] And without a few distortions you would not have received this material to begin with. Nor, really, is Ruburt to be blamed for the distortions, since the method with which we are involved is somewhat subject to distortions of personal material.

The distortions can be cleared, however. The general material is very seldom blocked or distorted. [...]

[...] But we think the G data a distortion, referring to our friend Bill Gallagher, as brought out in the question period.

[...] Some distortion possible, as seen by Seth’s answer to the first question.

[...] This could be distortion arising from the object being similar to a postcard. [...]

[...] With you and another man," Some distortion develops here, but we think this legitimate data. [...]

(Long pause at 4:12.) Politically as well as medically, such distortions have led to unfortunate conditions: the Aryan-supremacy biological ideas fostered in the second world war, the concentration upon “the perfect body,” and other distortions. [...]

[...] Even the (in quotes) “distortions” are necessary elements to their growth.

Distortions in many ways are simply truths appearing in ill-fitting clothes. [...]

[...] And you dwell in a world in which words grow into a distorted lens that denies your own vision. Therefore, to some extent, we will crumble the words up, crumble the words up and distort them until it seems that in the language that we use you perceive certain familiar sounds. [...]

[...] The Bible is but one aspect, and highly distorted, of revelations that occurred, in your terms, in the past. [...]

There must of necessity be in the beginning a distortion, but this comes because of the give and take between us. If our communications involved, or if any such communications involved invasion, there would be no distortion because the individual so invaded would be blotted out. [...]

[...] Ruburt’s mind, believe it or not, is much like my own; though, if you’ll forgive me, in a very limited fashion, therefore the distortions are much less distortive, much less harmful, and more easily discovered and cleared.

[...] The time will come at a much later date when you will allow such material entry into your conscious state directly—that is, without the need to project it visually, since here a certain amount of distortion is almost always present.

In the beginning, for example, there is always a distortion of material by the person who receives it, at least on the topmost subconscious level. [...]

In this line of feeling, the distortions, artistic distortions represent those points where you feel that the irrational could enter in, or untruth. [...] To represent it differently than it was, represented at best a half-lie—this from the exaggerated and distorted ideas of order that surrounded you as a child on the part of your father.

[...] I pulled the little sketch, which was a free interpretation of what I considered to be a man facing himself, embodying certain distortions of face and form from my files recently and decided to paint it. [...]

[...] (Pause.) You trust the extrerior sense of order you perceive in objects, and when they are distorted this brings a sense of alarm—again, in paintings, not sketches.

[...] Many other systems reflect inner reality more clearly, with less distortions, but the distortions themselves are creations. [...]

Yet these very terms, all that will ever be known, are distortive, for they suggest an ending of knowledge and experience and there is none.

Take the minor god connection lightly as the term is a poor one but brings out the idea I want to portray, though it is somewhat distorted. [...]

[...] For when you harbor negative ideas and resentments, then indeed you set up a block and the block causes distortions. [...] They are distortions. The energy is being distorted and misused and misshapen.

[...] You distort the picture. [...]

[...] For when you harbor negative ideas and resentments, then indeed you set up a block and the block causes distortions. [...] They are distortions. The energy is being distorted and misused and misshapen. [...]

[...] You distort the picture. [...]

Some very old religions understood the hallucinatory nature of the devil concept, but even in Egyptian times, the simpler and more distorted ideas became prevalent, particularly with the masses of people. [...]

[...] Within the mass of distortions, however, hidden beneath the dogma there was always a hint of the basic creativity of every effect.

[...] Now, strong portions of Jewish scriptures carry traces of the message of these early Speakers, but even here, distortions have hidden the messages.

[...] During this long oral period many distortions, omissions, etc., took place for a variety of reasons. [...]

[...] As I mentioned some sessions ago, on the one hand you can say that the method involves distortion, but without the distortions there would be no meaningful knowledge for you to understand. [...]

That translation would be bound to be distortive, and yet it would be the only kind of perception or understanding that would be possible under the circumstances.

Now were I to communicate with someone in that system, I would have to affect their sense mechanisms, and therefore the material would be delivered in a way, again, that would seem to distort it, and yet without the method it could not be given.

[...] The excerpts from the book that Ruburt read from in class earlier this evening were highly distorted but they were less damaging, the excerpts read in particular, than the excerpts you just described. [...]

[...] This is unfortunately one of the main distortions that have come down through the centuries and that is the only point I felt strongly enough that I should interfere with your fine rendition. [...]

[...] The questions themselves, and forgive me, my dear Lady of Florence, the questions themselves could not be answered within a semblance of truth because the questions were basically meaningless in the real fabric of reality so this has much to do with the distortions also that have come down through the ages, both in the Bible and many other writings. [...]

[...] There is a continual exchange of energy and vitality, in other words, of actual atoms and molecules between one plane and another … the interaction and movement of even one plane through another results in effects that will be perceived in various ways … as necessary distortive boundaries, in some cases resembling a flow as if a plane were surrounded by water, or in other cases a charge as of electricity. [...]

[...] The appearance of an expanding universe is also caused, therefore, by this distortive boundary effect …

“In some cases the distortion could be likened to the reflection of a solid tree in water. [...]