“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] Less satisfactory projections cause distortions, you see, that are characteristic features of this state of consciousness at that time.

[...] Seth has often spoken about the necessary distortions that must occur in any such communications, and he is most concerned that the material be as little contaminated by distortions as possible. [...]

[...] It was partially a distorted, unconscious understanding of this that led Ruburt to the exaggerated projection of that restrictive role to those other areas of your life.

Because of this role, adopted rather early on both of your parts in your married life, and because of his dim, distorted and hidden perception of it, he was vastly astonished at your permissive attitude when our sessions began.

[...] As it does, so the speakers within each of you can rise to the surface of ordinary consciousness without being considered blabbermouths or mad men and women, or fools, without having to distort their information simply to bring it to your attention. [...]

[...] This has to do mainly with the necessary distortions arising from your time concept and the idea of duration; for duration to you presupposes existence continued within a time framework — predisposing to beginnings and endings.

In order for such information to rise to conscious levels, it must of necessity be translated into terms that the ego can handle, and the translation must to some extent distort the original experience. [...]

[...] Even the distortions can be kept at a minimum with training. [...]

The lace was a very distant and distorted connection. [...]

It is easy enough to look at those belief structures and shrug your shoulders, wondering at man’s distorted views of reality. The entire scientific view of illness, however, is quite as distorted (with amused emphasis). It is as laboriously conceived and interwound with “nonsense.” [...]

[...] Suffering cannot be dismissed from human experience as a freak matter of distorted emotions or beliefs.

Your overreliance upon physical norms, and your distorted concepts concerning survival of the fittest, help exaggerate the existence of any genetic defects, of course. [...]

The concept of original sin was a very poor, limited and distorted one, but at least along with it went rather simple procedures: Through baptism you might be saved, or through certain words or sacraments or rituals redemption could be found. [...]

At about the same time many intelligent persons were realizing that organized religions’ ideas of God, and of heaven and hell, were distorted, unjust, and smacked of children’s fairy tales. [...]

[...] (Pause.) It is highly important that the material not be distorted then, for most communications take place on far different levels than this, so closely connected with your own system that even the most undistorted material is highly distorted, because the communicators themselves are so closely involved with camouflages, and do not realize that they create the realities which they then describe.

[...] When it is free in this manner, then there is no need to block messages or distort material. [...]

The entire idea of reincarnation has been highly distorted by other religious concepts. [...]

You know that this is distortive. [...]

The i-n-c was a distortion or misrepresentation of ink, i-n-k, for inking comic strips.

(This passage may be somewhat distorted. [...]

[...] They simply represent realities with which you are not consciously familiar, and they span the distortions of your time elements so that larger portions of the spacious present become apparent.

(10:00.) Beneath the dreams that you recall are experiences of consciousness that appear only now and then, and in distorted form. [...]

[...] For religions have often hinged themselves upon one or another quite valid perception, but then distorted it, excluding anything else that did not seem to fit. [...]

[...] Their roles became blended and distorted in history. [...]

He has learned much however since our last session, and you can see that it was much better that we allowed the distortions to come through in our first test, since it allowed him to learn more about the simultaneous existence of our consciousnesses during a session.

[...] He is concerned too much about the object which your friends are using for the other test, and for now I am afraid that he will unwittingly distort this material in this respect.

[...] These ideas have been distorted through the ages... [...]

[...] Any idea of a God, no matter how distorted, will triumph, for He exists in everything that you know. [...]

[...] It is a world of individuals, and distorting an old historic statement: God must love individuals because he never made anything else. [...]

[...] Now Anita Bryant serves a purpose for all of her distortions, for she presents each person with an exaggerated picture of certain beliefs. [...]

[...] Obviously, you think: distortion. [...]

[...] In order for such data to rise to conscious levels, for example, it must be translated into terms that the ego can understand, and the translation is bound to distort the original experience. [...]

[...] Even the distortions can be kept at a minimum with training. [...]