“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] After our meal I’d reread some of these late private sessions, and had planned to go over some of those from 1973, but various distractions prevented me from doing the latter. [...]

Such a consideration brings also to mind gears about changing the status quo, of adding to life’s ordinary distractions. [...]

[...] On the other hand the important thing here is that the book be completed with full psychic and creative powers, without distraction. [...]

(Today in our talks Jane and I said a lot of things about our goals, purposes, distractions. [...]

[...] Was it secure enough to keep you from accepting invitations, to allow you to avoid distractions, or emotional complications that might arise from any considerable contact with others in, say, “professional terms?” Ruburt built the edifice, but you looked on, for though you disliked the building blocks, say, the symptoms—you thought until very lately that it did serve its purpose very well.

(2. I found myself wondering if my own attitudes might have strongly influenced Jane’s early psychic behavior in ways neither of us suspected—that she may have inhibited certain elements of her abilities because she feared my own ideas about distractions, time, failure, etc. [...]

(This is the first session held in the back-room studio, where we were free from a lot of regular and potential distractions. [...]

[...] But he also chose to divest himself of any distracting family references in later life, as far as his own parents were concerned.

[...] Do one of two things if there are distractions. [...]

Now: Ruburt felt that you were more naturally disposed toward solitude and so forth, discipline, more naturally opposed to distractions than he was.

[...] This sort of thing Ruburt is not yet acclimated to, and distractions from other places nearby may cause him to confuse images. [...]

(I was tempted to ask Seth whether he referred to distractions around Jane and me here in Elmira, or possible ones in say New York City. [...]

[...] Jane also said she does not believe she will smoke anymore while dictating, since that too has become a distraction.

[...] When you are doing any of a number of other things, encounters with others that often appear as distractions, are instead springboards for insights that you may not have had otherwise.

[...] Self-questioning and doubts would begin to drive you to distraction. [...]

[...] Because of the noise distractions in the house I kept Ruburt in trance longer — it is easier that way.

[...] Her cigarette had become a distraction. [...]

By avoiding distractions you have often, in your work, given it duration. [...]

[...] As I understand the present dilemma, over the long run, the more successful Jane becomes as a writer the more she feels she needs the symptoms to keep her chained to her desk, to cut out all distractions. [...]

In this life the early background meant that Ruburt’s writing was done in the face of great distractions. [...]

[...] This fit in with his work ideas, and yours, earlier, as given—cutting out distractions, et cetera.

[...] Yet he is sure you would consider it a vast annoying distraction, even though not as annoying as moving. [...]