“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Your mother represented the opposite in your mind—the emotionally explosive, suffocating immediacy, a female life and earthly ties, social commitment, homey chores and distractions that seemed to be directly opposed to solitary creativity.

[...] The material was of a type, Jane added, that was difficult to get while she contended with such distractions.)

[...] To some extent the symptoms provided you both with a cushion against too many distractions from outsiders. [...]

[...] That system regards the body as highly distracting, disruptive, heir to the lusts of the flesh, and so forth. [...]

You can quicken your own psychic experiences if you stop thinking of impediments, physical or otherwise, that seem to distract you, for example, during a nap. [...]

[...] A knowledge indispensable, and yet a knowledge that could not be allowed to distract the physical focus.

The symptoms also cut down distractions to insure that he did work while at home. [...]

[...] Jane now found this somewhat distracting, and gestured to me to remove the cat. [...]

[...] In a way Ruburt was doing precisely what you would do on one level—not leaving the house, avoiding tours, simply working, cutting out all distractions, and again you approved—not of methods, but of everything else.

[...] You must learn how to focus, how to emphasize those particular qualities you want to record, and how to cut out distracting influences. [...]

[...] You both do need privacy for your work and because of your natures, but this does not mean that you should try to find a place with no [distractions] within miles. [...]

Now because of their knowledge and temperaments, they had already begun to play cards — to distract their conscious attention — and to drink wine to help reduce tension. [...]

[...] Too many influences of this nature would be distracting, but some are definitely necessary; and again now, I would suggest that you invite a few congenial visitors to your home. [...]

[...] But in his own way, and no matter how misguided, he was trying to pace himself and his temperament with yours, to play up those mental writing abilities that would help his career, and in which you took such pride—and while doing that, play down qualities that might distract you from your own work, by encouraging physical activities—parties, vacations, travelings, that would further take up your time, when you were already taking time away from your art to help him in psychic work.

[...] For the word can distract you, and lead you into narrowing concepts.

I was still walking very slowly, with my astral eyes slitted to cut down the focus of distractions. [...]

[...] A funny whooshing sound inside my head also distracted me and my head itself began to feel fantastically light. [...]

[...] It is in this regard that you found the presence of your husband distracting when the two of you moved. [...]

[...] When you wanted to retreat from the world, you shut down on your hearing so that you were not distracted. [...]

[...] Not that Ruburt need regulate his, but that his distraction or impatience causes the cat to overreact.

[...] There was some hope in forgetting one’s doubts in whatever exterior distractions could be found. [...]

[...] In the past you have been in the habit of putting off “distractions” until this or that book was finished until you were sure that you could cope with freedom. [...]