“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] As a rule these ideas represent your parents’ conceptions of natural guilt, distorted by their own beliefs. [...]

[...] Such practices can lead you to use your own “history” so that it gives a very distorted picture of who and what you are — a picture that then paints your present circumstances.

[...] Therefore even for us, communication was somewhat difficult, distorted and restrained. [...]

Now the woman who was his mother this time had a connection with another leader—I am trying not to get distortions in here; you may have to check some of this later—I believe Charlemagne, and Ruburt slew him in battle, after he was first crippled. [...]

The distortive illusion of successive moments, and of the resulting conception of cause and effect, are both on your plane the result of the observation by the outer senses, and are practical and useful on your plane and therefore have a certain validity, if for you only.

[...] (Pause.) Now to some extent this allows me to dispense with certain distortions necessarily a part of any personality who has been physically oriented.

[...] Thusly I reasoned: If I am flawed I must automatically distort even those experiences of the soul that seem clearest. [...]

[...] How could I be sure that our sight wasn’t also distorted; that our “sin” was in not accepting sin as a value? [...]

[...] Even while it was, it also got the message across, though the inner drama itself was not recalled, and as the dream merged with historical events, and as it was interpreted by so many, its message also became distorted—or rather, it mixed and merged with other such dreams, whose messages were far different.

[...] Even more unfortunate are the special policies for the elderly that detail in advance all of the most stereotyped and distorted concepts about health and age. [...]

[...] He worked, or allowed me to work through, the layers of personal subconscious only, which now and then may yield valid information, but highly distorted as a rule, and unreliable for our purposes.

[...] You could not use them as a youth, fully, anymore than Ruburt could have used his psychic abilities without gross distortion. [...]

[...] The only concern I had in this respect was that it represented creative drives, if in a distorted form. [...]

[...] This is from distorted attitudes of your own. [...]

[...] The vitality that rings, however distorted, through this voice rings through your own molecules and through the tip of your ear and through your (word lost).  This energy is a part of you that you have denied. [...]

[...] Not that such material wasn’t often distorted, or just as often discounted: In any case, it would have to be interpreted again and again so that it applied to the species’ experience in time’s framework.

Rob and I are both convinced that the Seth Material springs from sources beyond my self, and that it is much less distorted by pat, conventionalized symbolism than are other paranormal scripts we have encountered. [...]

[...] There is also some element of distorted clairvoyance, in that your father’s death—when it does occur, and it is not imminent—will finally be a painless one.

(Seth dealt with the expanding universe theory in sessions 42-45, saying among other things that our physical universe is not expanding as is currently thought; he had much to say on the distortive data furnished us by our instruments.)

[...] This episode was the less distorted. [...]

[...] Your conscious energies are focused upon the physical field, and the distortive cause and effect theory holds sway.