“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

It is pointless to ignore the fact that you feel hatred, even though hatred is a distortion of a basic psychic mobility. Unless you learn never to distort the basic consciousness survival in terms of hatred, you will always have to deal with seemingly unresolved hatreds and aggressions.

You are secure as long as you put a good portion of energy into painting, but this distortive expectation of yours could end up making you bitter even against your painting; because even when you are pleased with your work, it could tend, definitely, to prevent you, in strong terms, from seeking not only financial reward from it, but other satisfactions as well by preventing you from showing it where such showing in galleries and exhibitions throughout the country is important.

Such a veto upon exhibitions for example is not part of your distortive expectation now, but could easily become part of it. [...]

[...] Your fear of freelance work is mainly, but not entirely, caused by your distortive expectation. [...]

(Silently, quietly, all distorted thought patterns in her subconscious mind are removed and dissolved, and the vitality, wholeness and beauty of the life principle are made manifest in every atom of her being. [...]

(All distortions and ugly images are now washed away by the infinite ocean of love and peace flowing through her, and it is so.

[...] Any reality therefore will be variously perceived, and the nature of the reality will necessarily be distorted in the very attempt to perceive it. Here again we have our creative tension, whereby a new reality is formed as a result of the distortion itself. [...]

Since perceiving an action is itself an action, the perceiving must because of its nature to some extent distort the object of perception.

Again, in this distortion we see the creation, however minute, of a new reality. [...]

(Distortion probably operates here. [...] She used blue ribbons perhaps through a distortion of the blue pertaining to the envelope object.

[...] Seth did not go over it after break, mentioning distortions and telepathic static instead. [...]

(We believe this data is an example of the distortions Seth refers to. [...]

[...] This may refer to the package in a somewhat distorted manner. [...]

[...] The relief of course was the result of his partial success in distorting the information, but despite distortions the sender came through, and the sex of the person whose death was unfortunately perceived.

[...] In this case, even while distortions come through, there is a validity of basic undistorted material.

The distortions referred to, represent those occurring in the dream and in the psychological time experiences, particularly in today’s experience in which Ruburt saw the white-gowned hospital personnel.

[...] He heard the words spoken by a nurse, “She is still in shock,” but he distorted the words so that he remembered them as being, “She is coming out of shock.”

[...] Within your own material you will find reasons if you look hard enough for them, intuitive reasons for some (underlined) information that would seem highly distorted or influenced by the subconscious. A particular fact may be entirely wrong or distorted for example, but there may be also highly valid reasons for the distortion, and truths within it that are more valid than physical fact.

When distortions occur therefore and you recognize them finally as such, look for the reason for the particular distortion, and you will find the truth. [...]

[...] You should find also that rereading your own earlier material you will find it easier now to pinpoint distortions and subconscious data.

[...] Always distorted, the symptoms themselves are a representation of certain distortions. [...]

He also comes through as a young woman with some problems, with a repressive tendency that is physically materialized, with dogmatic and somewhat rigid distorted ideas that have only lately really been understood by the personality. [...]

[...] Retracing is a noticeable effect, not understood, highly distorted, in the explanations you have been given, representing an echoing effect that occurs whenever the individual involved touches upon those thought and feeling areas that brought about the difficulty.

Now, number one is an attempt to get at number two, which was simply a sign of a copy made, a distorted or doctored copy. The middle one, (three), was a mark made for a much less distorted copy, and the last mark, (five), was for an undoctored record.

[...] To them the information was clear and the distortions obvious. Now the Scrolls are full of such protective distortions. [...]

Some of the distorted records have been taken as fact, and it is a good joke to realize that the Vatican holds some of these. [...]

[...] Even the shape of the features, never clearly glimpsed, were space distortions necessary to come through on this plane at all. As a stick thrown into the water seems distorted to those who watch, so this image thrown into your plane seemed distorted to you. But the distortions were what gave it any features at all. Without them, the distortions that is, you would have seen nothing.

[...] There was necessarily of course distortion, and rather tricky distortion at that.

[...] The intense but limited focus of usual consciousness will itself distort the true nature of dreams, and the ego will hold any such conscious examination of dreams within rigid bonds.

In the interpretation of your dreams then Joseph, as with Ruburt’s, we must change our focus, for what appears as a logical interpretation through conscious examination is often distorted.

So, even in the dream you misinterpreted and distorted the violence. [...]

(I now also was curious to see if distortion cropped up, since Seth had dealt with this problem in the 36th session to some extent. Distortion where personal material is concerned is, Jane and I feel, a possibility still, until her abilities mature.)

In your physical universe this law is followed through idea constructions which become idea approximations of inner reality that are, nevertheless, distorted to a large degree, and make up the various camouflage patterns with which you are familiar.

[...] That they deal with distortions and camouflage material is not to be wondered at. [...]

[...] Again, Seth had something to say about distortions in the 36th session, in Volume One.

[...] There are distortions in his thought as there are distortions in all of your thoughts. [...] Neither words within your brain, within your mind; for the voice itself and language itself is bound to be distorted. [...]

[...] Distractions can occur, as any information can be distorted. We are used to working together now, however, and the distortions are very few.

[...] After the glaring distortions of last session Jane had decided that she must relax, witnesses or no, so as the time for the session approached the radio still played, and we played with Willy, our cat, and exchanged banter with John.

[...] Nevertheless, with your camouflage senses you perceive only that part of the concept that happens to fall within your box, and even then you receive and interpret such a concept with your outer senses, and therefore distort it out of all recognition.

[...] Otherwise you only receive an approximation and a distortion.

[...] You insist upon labeling as laws of absolutes what is actually your distorted and limited vision of concepts as they seem to appear to you. [...]

Now, when you see what Ruburt can do occasionally, and the troubles I can have with distortion, then you can be sure that I would not double or triple the chances for distortion by attempting to speak through anyone else. [...]

[...] The speaking systems however and mental faculties have to be trained to handle the additional data; this of course causing some distortions along the way.

[...] Myths and symbols are often closer to reality than what are called hard facts, since so-called hard facts are often distortions of the outer senses. These distortions however are necessary frameworks for existence of the inner self in the material universe.

[...] But so-called hard facts, that may seem opposed to symbols and myths, are not necessarily untrue, since they may be necessary distortions without which the inner self could not survive in the material universe.

The myth represents man’s psychic attempt to understand facts that he must distort in his existence on the material plane.

He must distort them simply because existence on the material plane necessitates a way of focusing his abilities that will not allow the larger scope of focus to operate. [...]

Paranoia is extremely interesting because it shows the ways in which private beliefs can distort events that connect the individual with other people. The events are “distorted,” yet while the paranoid is convinced that those events are valid, this does not change other people’s perception of the same happenings….

[...] That question, often asked unconsciously — if not consciously — brings you back to beliefs in punishment that have nothing to do with the concept of natural guilt, but with those distortions placed upon it. [...] He tried to rise above the idea-systems of those times, yet even he had to use them, and so the connotations of sin and punishment distorted the message given.

[...] There may be distortion. (Too fast to follow.) It is dangerous to have highly distorted truth. [...]

Now I speak from several layers, though the word “speak" is a poor one, I turn myself, you see, into steps down which I walk and the steps represent what you would term personality fragments, though the term is distortive. [...]

[...] The deception of which I speak involves a distortion and emphasis applied too strongly—and a tragic one.

Recognize the fact that distortions will occur, particularly in the beginning. [...]

Do not push for the change, it unfolds out of its nature and to force change is to distort the true nature. [...]

([Joel:] “Is he picking up grades of distortion in my subconscious because I am trying to prove something?”)

[...] You have an idea of what that type of personality should be like and, to some extent, and for awhile, you will manage to distort his image until you are sure that it is pure and good and true. [...]