“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] Most people, however, don’t realize the time or work required to keep up with Seth’s seemingly endless creativity: the sessions to be typed, the various stages of manuscript preparation, or the simple persistence necessary, so that the sessions continue despite life’s normal distractions.

[...] The noise had bothered me, but Jane said that as she was speaking she was aware of no distractions.

[...] In periods of concentrated focus, with all distractions cut out, the desired ideas are then implanted (in formal hypnosis). [...]

An artist or writer, believing such selective nonsense, will of course find all of his or her other creative abilities a distraction, a bother, a temptation that is bound to detract from the main genius, rather than add to it, deepen its application, and add an orchestration to its subjective moods that would otherwise be quite lacking (all intently). [...]

[...] All of that building activity was much noisier and more disruptive than the work had been for the front porch, and forced some changes in our schedules, including more night work, as we manipulated around those distractions.

[...] I was affected by the heat much more than Jane was; as usual, she seemed almost impervious to such distractions while she was in trance.

[...] In a fashion they served as regulators that he felt at one time allowed him to live on an even course, tempering spontaneity or psychic exploration lest it progress too quickly for him to follow, yet also protecting him from other distractions so that he could continue his explorations. [...]

[...] One: you had to cut out distractions. [...]

[...] Ruburt has gone to extraordinary lengths to cut out distractions, among other things, until he realized that he went too far.

[...] She had not been aware of traffic, or any other distractions for that matter, since the first delivery of the evening.)

The immobility protected him, so he thought, from encountering any such outside conflicts, and insured his continuing creativity by cutting down other interests and distractions, and by organizing his time in a most economical fashion—or so it seemed. [...]

You said once that you would like to live on a mountaintop, and never go out, and just work and have no distractions. [...]

[...] Another might find friends a distraction. [...]

[...] Then these split personality fragments or images can be kept under scrutiny without taxing the present ego to distraction. [...]

[...] He was saved, so it seemed, from endless explanations; so with a kind of psychological economy that worked far too well for a time the symptoms served to keep him writing at his desk, to regulate the flow of psychic activity, making sure of its direction, and to provide a suitable social reason to refrain from activities that might distract him—from tours or shows, and also even from any onslaught of psychic activity that might follow any unseeming (underlined) spontaneous behavior. [...]

(I was still somewhat puzzled by the answer, but did not press for elaboration for fear of distracting Jane. [...]

[...] Then these split personality fragments or images can be kept under scrutiny without taxing the present ego to distraction. [...]

[...] The ego finds such occurrences extremely distracting and annoying, and when forced to admit their validity will resort to the most far-fetched rationalizations to explain them.

(With much humor and irony:) What comic book reader wants to bother with a Clark Kent who, before his transformation, distracts the reader with such beside-the-point questions as “What am I doing? [...]

[...] I kept the notes going by making an extra effort, but I found it quite distracting to keep thinking about the mechanics of writing while trying to concentrate upon what Seth was saying. [...]