“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Part of the stronger hand also had to do with his attempts to help you with your family, to shut you off from too much distracting emotion, when for example you moved back to Sayre after New York. [...]

[...] She also said she thought Seth might address the session to Dr. Instream, and that if he did she would prefer not to be distracted. [...]

[...] Then he did not need to deal with what he thought of as distracting elements—to leave his desk. [...]

[...] The dog was disconsolate, and as distracted as a human being might be. [...]

[...] It is for that reason that, misguidedly, he drained his physical energy and cut out all distractions.

[...] I was afraid Jane might be distracted, but she gave no outward sign. [...]

[...] However on this first instance I had no phenomenon, and was somewhat distracted by children playing outside.

[...] He has learned to repress feelings, and he believed heartily that repression was necessary to his work, to maintain your privacy, to provide time, to cut out distractions, and to focus attention and expression.

[...] I told myself these things would not distract me. [...]

[...] Her sudden change in direction had distracted me. [...]

[...] Literally, the whole inner personality is able to focus upon any given problem, completely free of distractions, using the subconscious language of symbols. [...]

For this reason alone, I would like to believe that his abilities were mine, that in the trance state, my own latent talents were operating without obstruction, freed from the normal hang-ups and distractions that annoy us all and hamper our development. [...]

[...] She did not appear to be distracted, however, or to break off in the middle of a piece of information. [...]

To use full consciousness would be most distracting in many instances. [...]

[...] The inner senses are not accustomed to operating so freely and this upsets that all-present ego, and would seem sometimes to drive it to distraction.

(Jane now told me that while speaking last time, she received a message from Seth to the effect that from now on she wasn’t to smoke during tests, because of the distraction involved. [...]

[...] Jane was not bothered by the noise or distraction. [...]

[...] As with the burning chicken described in the last session, she paid no attention; during delivery she seems to be largely impervious to distractions.)

[...] The ego finds such instances distracting and annoying, and when forced to admit their validity, will resort to the most farfetched rationalizations to explain them.

[...] She thought Seth had done this deliberately to compensate for the traffic noise coming through our open windows, and because the witnesses had, in the beginning of the data, unwittingly distracted her by moving papers, coughing, etc.