“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] In such cases, we just inserted the hyphens, semicolons, and parentheses as he suggested, and deleted the directions themselves to avoid distracting the reader. [...]

[...] There may be distractions and even some distortions, but in the long run there will be no doubts. [...]

[...] But in some newish way I seemed to understand how much seemingly mental work is dependent upon physical vigor, flexibility and so forth; and then rather strongly—emotionally it came to me that I’d thought it my duty to clamp down physically, to cut down mobility in order to … have mobility as a writer; that is, to sit down, cut down on impulses, distractions, to make sure I’d ‘do my work,’ pursue my goal undeviatingly; that new [book] contracts instantly led me to that kind of behavior and that I really see that such behavior carried to its extremes would end up smothering my writing, defeating the purposes it (seemingly) meant to protect. But I did fear that impulses and body motion were … distractions to work…. [...]

The very next day we were distracted: We received back from our publisher the film option contracts for The Education of Oversoul Seven. [...]

[...] I told her that of course she was with me all the time, pacing so fast that at times it was distracting. [...]

[...] While Jane had been straining to compress a long syllable into something recognizable, the tape picked up little except distracting background noises: class people coughing, or moving about or shuffling papers; the sounds of traffic … But Jane and I take class events as they come. [...]

[...] She was very distracted. [...]

(The session was held in our front room, and was free of interruptions or distractions. [...]

[...] The workmen swarming around all day, and the noise involved, are both exciting and distracting. [...]