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[...] Now any of these distort his ability to perceive and to create. [...]

[...] They distorted his reality and his perceptions without his being aware of them.

I am going into this rather deeply because while we are dealing with perceptions we will also be discussing distortions, because the information will help Ruburt, and because personal examples serve well for your understanding.

[...] Therefore, you also project this distorted viewpoint upon your conception of the reality of the soul. [...]

[...] The term, “to lose or save your soul”, has been grossly misinterpreted and distorted, for it is the part of you that is indeed indestructible. [...]

So-called extrasensory perception gives you but a crude and distorted idea of the basic ways in which the inner self receives information, but the concepts built around extrasensory perception are at least nearer the truth, and as such represent an improvement over the idea that all perception is basically physical.

[...] In some other instances concerning the same kind of matters, some distortions did occur. These were not basically distorted passages, only partially so. [...]

[...] There was no subconscious distortion on Ruburt’s part, when I told you that the nonphysical self book would sell. [...]

[...] This is not a distortion: The book will quite literally change your circumstances for the better, and lead into areas with which you are not now acquainted.

The first journey from one home station to another, unfamiliar one may bring you in contact with various kinds of bleed-throughs, distortions, or static. [...] Before you can pick up the “next” station, for example, you may see ghost images in your mind, or pick up distorted versions from your own home station. [...]

[...] When you begin to alter your perception, then, and your habitual picture of reality drops away, you may well find yourself encountering in distorted fashion elements of your own reality that you have up to then studiously denied or ignored.

[...] Instead, they are telling him something — that his home program is impoverished, for he has been denying the reality of his being.³ If he ignores the advice of his psyche, then his journeys into the unknown reality will be highly distorted. [...]

[...] Besides this, it seems to you that such encounters involve a simplification and distortion by their very nature as far as your work is concerned, along with a unique kind of psychological disclosure that could be humiliating, lacking the proper frame of understanding. [...]

[...] We had his identification with his grandfather momentarily, and the subsequent distortion.

[...] Later Seth corrected the distorted data, telling us Jane too would live that long.)

I would apologize to Ruburt, but the distortion was not my own. [...]

[...] That is, after a vacation from experiments he will not be nervous and distort data.

The divorce was a distortion (pause), not of memory but of interpretation, representing a psychic separation that occurred between you, not in 1964 but later, when Ruburt became ill—and to some extent (underlined) you did hold him back, as you know from the work with the pendulum that you did. [...]

[...] The affair with the screen was distorted but legitimate—the screen was his mind—objectified outward, so to speak. [...]

[...] The images were somewhat distorted. [...]

(This last sentence as I recorded it is obviously distorted. [...]

1. Once again (as in Note 7 for the last session), I quote Seth from the 45th session: “Any investigation of the basic inner universe, which is the only real universe, must be done as much as possible from a point outside your own distortions … To get outside your own universe, you must travel inward … Your so-called scientific, so-called objective experiments can continue for an eternity, but they will only probe further and further with camouflage [physical] instruments into a camouflage universe … The subconscious, it is true, has elements of its own distortions, but these are easier to escape than the tons of distortive camouflage atmosphere that weigh your scientific experiments down.”

[...] Space travel will be dumped when your scientists discover that space as you know it is a distortion, and that journeying from one so-called galaxy to another is done through divesting the physical body of camouflage [matter]. [...]

[...] This question of distortion came up for perhaps the fiftieth time in the 463rd session. [...] After several joking remarks to Peg (“Someday I will interview you”), Seth began speaking about distortions.

[...] In order to make sense to our three-dimensional selves, information must be “squeezed” through—and this in itself causes some distortion.

Seth goes on to give examples of the various kinds of distortion that can occur in normal and extrasensory perception. [...]

[...] The Seth Material reveals what is beneath the normal reality that we know, but the very translation into words must necessarily distort the meaning.

[...] I can impart information that is not distorted in three-dimensional terms simply because I am so apart from three-dimensional reality. [...]

[...] I am here simply at Seth’s request to tell you that the dimension that you know is but a small spot in the all of reality, and also, that your concept of a god is highly distorted by three-dimensional concepts and ideas. [...]

—where the circle area is not complete, it is distorted down to a point, and I believe broken or open at the opposite side. [...]

[...] We made no connection here, although Seth points out an interesting one, somewhat distorted, after break.

[...] We wonder if Seth/Jane mentioning a house or residence referred to a hotel, via a close distortion.

[...] The object is yellow, so the color reference could be somewhat distorted. [...]

[...] If such translations contain distortions, they are better than no translations at all, and intuition will allow you to see through the distortions.

[...] The color red also appears on the drawing, the data may be distorted.

[...] His name may have arisen in this data however through distortion, since it would appear the Gallaghers have a more direct newspaper connection with the object, through me.

(It appears to Jane and me that a distortion has already appeared, since Seth states that I wanted the sister I did not get, yet also married her. [...] Too, Seth has previously stated that distortions are most likely to appear either in the beginning or at the end of a session; and this one cropped up close to the end.

[...] Because of any distortive possibilities, I try to stay out of such matters unless they are serious.

[...] They are not distortions. [...]

I can get no more material through, as Ruburt I am afraid will begin to distort.

But the idea of self-betrayal can lead to distortions.

([Gene]: “But these distortions are part of the game that Shiva plays with yourself [me] and conversely.”

The will to live can be covered over, buried by fears and doubts, or even distorted out of all recognition, but it is still present. [...]

These faculties can also be distorted, however, if children are taught to doubt their strength and agility, and instead to be overly cautious and fearful of overdoing. [...]

[...] Then whispering:) Each individual is innately driven by a good intent, however distorted that intent may become, or however twisted the means that may be taken to achieve it.

[...] I do want to point out that few crimes are committed for “evil’s sake,” but in a distorted response to the failure of the actualization of a sensed ideal.

There was a major distortion having to do with B-A-E-L (spelled). [...]

[...] Once in Atlantis, and once in the Christ story as it has come down to you in all of its distortions. [...]

Now the image analogy is in some respects distortive, but good enough for our present purposes. [...]

You must remember that the word, time, is itself distorted. [...]

[...] There will be, therefore, some distortion while your vision clears. [...]

Your scientists’ instruments are themselves distortive, and will only allow you to probe further into camouflage. [...] Your scientists think in terms of getting beyond earth’s atmosphere, and thus avoiding the distortions involved.

[...] It is with the words, of course, that necessary distortions must occur.

When it is understood that space and time are both camouflages, and that your cause and effect theory is a result of a continuity theory that no longer makes sense, then your scientists will recognize the impossibility of trying to decipher basic reality with camouflage instruments, and vehicles, that of themselves produce distortive theories, and only serve to probe further into a camouflage pattern.

They do not realize that beyond that distortion lies another, and it is within that you must travel, and it is with inner tools that you must work. [...]