“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

“All religions are distortive. For that matter, much of your science is distortive. [...] The distortions in science and religion have been truly disastrous. [...]

[...] Bits of it appear here and there, scattered, distorted, and misleading. [...]

The big A, distorted, referred to a tepee, you see. I tried to get the 1842 through, but there was some distortion from Ruburt in the separate 46 data. [...]

I use the word directly loosely, for only the inner senses can really contact them without the necessity of distortions. [...]

[...] Ruburt thinks of your father, but is afraid of distorting the information. [...]

[...] Jane said she didn’t speak the initials aloud because she thought they might refer to my father, and that this was a distortion. [...]

Now, you are getting some distortion simply because of the focusing. However, you are also working toward an inner image of a self in a previous life but it is highly distorted. [...]

[...] Spontaneity has its own discipline and its own knowledge, and when you attempt to rule spontaneity with a heavy hand, then rigidity enters in and you destroy the fountain of inner knowledge and intuition and understanding and you distort the emotions that you have. [...]

(“Can this condition produce distortions in the material?”

(Naturally I wondered about this, and whether it was worth continuing the session under distortive conditions.)

[...] There are no distortions in this evening’s session, such as it is. [...]

A closed system as a concept is also closely intertwined and dependent upon the distortive idea of time as continuity, and the resultant cause and effect premise, which we have already considered earlier. One distortion leads to another. [...]

[...] Any appearance of enclosure is the result of camouflage distortions, quite necessary within a given system so that the organisms within it can focus their main attentions to the problems within a particular system.

[...] Either a partial projection was made to places which were not visited by the Gallaghers on the islands, or these were distortions, highly dramatized.

[...] Now here we see a temporary distortion, not an organic one. You can see however how such a temporary distortion could become, under certain conditions (that do not operate in your case) permanent.

[...] Neither, therefore, is it aware of those distortions that cause it to construct faults within physical matter, for in all cases the physical matter of the human body will be subconsciously created in line with inner conditions.

[...] However when there is a distortion, as when an ulcer is created, then we begin what can indeed be a vicious circle, for the idea and the reality of the ulcer is then accepted as part of the self-image. [...]

[...] If certain long-standing distorted concepts are held, therefore, then they must be faced and struck out. [...]

[...] The road was a distortion, but only superficially, for it was meant as a symbol to describe the man involved, and I could not get Ruburt to say salesman. It was a misunderstanding actually, rather than a distortion.

(Seth came through again at 12:10 AM, as we were discussing possible distortions of the test data. [...]

[...] This was not Ruburt’s distortion, but my own misunderstanding.

I could not get the meaning clearer to Ruburt, but he did not distort the meaning. [...]

[...] There is something within that exists independently, and whose reality you perceive in a highly distorted fashion, through the use of the outer senses.

[...] I want it understood that camouflage physical reality is indeed a reality, even while it is a distortion of something else.

[...] (Pause.) The older woman data leads Ruburt to make personal associations which could be distortive. [...]

[...] The older woman data leads Ruburt to make personal associations which could be distortive.” [...]

[...] Violence is a distortion of aggression.

[...] The stereotype is of course unrealistic, having to do with distorted concepts concerning the male and the female, but here we will merely consider the aspects of aggressiveness. [...]

Here, often, and for various reasons, you find a hidden and distorted sense of power that says, “I am so powerful that I could kill you with my thought, and yet I refuse to do so.” [...]

[...] Both are equally the result of passivity and distorted aggression, and of natural pathways of communication not used or understood. [...]

[...] Now to distort these by coloring them with lesser ideas, ideas incidentally that he did not have when we began our sessions, is unfortunate.

[...] Whenever distortions appear in the material it is indeed a tip-off of a given area that is particularly touchy to Ruburt personally, or represents an area in which he is not sure; a lack of conviction.

[...] There have been segments, not necessarily distorted, but given in different terms than I would have preferred; for at times I try to accommodate the material in order to get it through.

[...] He must rediscover however his spontaneous self for these distorted and adopted and superficial ideas—underline superficial—of religious rules inhibited him.

Dictation: Now: You may be quite able to see through the distortions of conventional Christianity. [...]

All such dogmas use artificial guilt, and natural guilt is distorted to serve those ends. [...]

[...] For some time Western civilization stressed a distorted version of intellectual reasoning, for example, and so the current stress about other portions of the self serves a purpose.

In our past sessions I have explained time distortions, and you are familiar with the spacious present. [...]

[...] As their physical instruments become more sophisticated they will be able to glimpse more of this reality, but since they will not be able to explain it within their known system of references, many curious and distorted explanations of reported phenomena will be given.

[...] It is of itself free of all distorted effects peculiar to the physical system. [...]

[...] In the eras of the great artists, civilization was united by a series of revelations, ideas and also distortions. [...]

The distortions grew so great that the whole structure crumbled. [...]

[...] The Hebrews knew but distorted the information. [...]

[...] Such isolated observation areas merely present you with a distorted picture of natural behavior, because the animals are also imprisoned within them. [...]

[...] Love goes underground, but springs up in distorted forms and exaggerated tendencies. [...]

The parent-child relationship has its own unique emotional structure, which survives even those distortions you have placed upon it, and its ancient integrity would not be weakened, but strengthened, if greater stress were laid upon your bisexual nature.

Now this distortion may possibly be a hangover from a previous existence, but it is a distortion. [...]

[...] Your physical condition in every way is a reflection of your inner expectations, accomplishments, and failures, and I have told you that any illness is the result of an inner distortion.

(Emphatically:) The Gibbs material was indeed unabashedly distorted by my friend, Ruburt.

(Since Seth did not return we are not sure if any of these three interpretations may apply in a distorted way to the 1841 data.

[...] Each person senses an ideal, and has good intent, but those ideals and good intents are distorted by beliefs, and by the conditions accompanying them.

[...] They sense an ideal, but those ideals and abilities are everywhere distorted by millions of other considerations. [...]

[...] And at work his art must be further distorted, it seems to him, by the ideas of salesmanship and advertising. [...]

[...] All of the distortions in Christianity are apparent, where the first group is blind to them, of course. [...]

[...] Drugs are often used as depressants, clouding the clarity of what seems to be distorted vision. [...]

[...] I am speaking generally now, of course, for your living conditions so distort the natural situation.

[...] The problem is not seen in any total light, but in a distorted manner. This distorted picture is then delivered to the subconscious, which is able to make some corrections. [...]

Because of the physical structure, experiences within your system have a slow-motion distortion which creates the appearance of time. [...]

[...] An ego that is overly rigid will inhibit the intellect from perceiving various portions of physical reality, and therefore distort the appearance of reality, limiting the intellect’s abilities.

When the ego is of such a rigid nature that it distorts physical reality out of all context, then however the personality had better rely upon the subconscious even in this respect, for the subconscious will at least perceive those elements of physical reality that immediately threaten the whole self.

The trouble is that we must somehow translate the data into terms that we can understand, explaining it verbally or with images—and distortions are bound to result. [...]