1981.02.03 - Book 1, Session 17 - Oahspe

[Monica]

...what does the term "distortion" mean. May the term distortion also apply to "willful misinformation"? Perhaps yes in a sense, but as a purist definition, I think not. Willful misinformation is simply lying, this in the willful effort to willfully mislead. Logic would seem to suggest that given this effort as being one "less than true" would therefore not be an effort that 6th density would engage in. Distortion, I am more inclined to feel, is "misinterpretation", either by the inability to understand fully or by the inability to receive clearly, but not as a result of the intent to purposely mislead.

My understanding of the term distortion as used by Ra has to do with perspective, not interpretation. Perspective can result in what may appear as bias/coloration to someone of a different perspective. Since we are all One, is it not perspective that gives each of us our uniqueness? Edgar Cayce's channeled works had a Christian flavor, which was a distortion. But I don't see that as a misinterpretation; it was just Cayce's bias due to his perspective. Misinterpretation implies a mistake. I don't perceive Ra's use of the term distortion to mean a mistake of any sort, but a just a variation in hue.

Of course, it could be my own tendency towards distortion talking here! Maybe when I re-read the passages referring to distortions, I might see it differently!