Energy and Communication
An article by L. Ron Hubbard,
from the First International Congress of Dianeticists & Scientologists
lectures
If you wanted to know what was wrong with an office you would simply walk through
and give everybody a communications-lag test and fire all the people who had a
lag and the office would straighten up. That would be all there was to business
efficiency if you used this point. Now, this is a horrible fact.
But in treating preclears, this is of the greatest importance to you. Because
if you haven't changed the communication lag, you haven't done anything to the
case.
Now, why is their communication lag going to stay slow? Is it just willful
perfidiousness on the part of the preclear? No. Is it just the orneriness and
meanness of the MEST universe that would make a person into this condition? No.
What is it? It's a scarcity of energy: they can't put out any space because any
energy that comes into the space is immediately drawn up into the bank at such
a rate that the space collapses. And so they don't have any space. And out in
front of them, if you ask somebody real quick, you'd say, "Whose space is
it in front of your nose?"flash, and they'd say, "Other's, somebody
else's." They'd say, "George's" or "Bill's." Yet a person
ought to own at least a foot in front of him. Very few people do. A great many
people don't even own their noses. And a great, great many more don't own anything
in front of their ears, nothing forward of the ear. They haven't even got this
space; this space belongs to somebody else.
Why is that? It's energy starvation. Now, a person has gotten a lot of impacts
at some time or another in his life, and these impacts act as a sponge for further
impacts. And the person has begun to believe that he himself cannot create energy.
There's only one thing for which the whole universe punishes, there's only
one punishment, one crime and that, in its fullest sense, is communicating. That's
the one crime. Putting out an anchor point. (That's essentially communicating.)
Putting out an anchor point is the one thing for which a person could get punished,
which tells you why the people that get the rank of general and admiral get there.
It's traditional in every army and navy of a conservative country that a person
is advanced in the ratio that he doesn't do anything. If he commits no crimes,
he gets there. And this isn't a criticism of it, it's just the way things operate.
It's just the way things operate. Just happens that that's the way it is and they
don't want to get well, and so we can't do anything about it, can we?
Well anyway, the only thing that is punishable is putting out an anchor point.
And so, you can tell how often this person has been slugged, slapped, hit by the
reluctance he has in putting out an anchor point.
But there is another thing here at work: it is the remaining, the residual
potential a person has in creation of energy. Some people have a tremendous energy-creation
capacity. And these people can take an enormous slugging around without
altering their communication level. That's because they're still up above that
break on the Tone Scale. Although the energy-creation potential might be different—isn't
necessarily, but might be different—for every individual on Earth, there is this
similarity amongst all individuals: There is a point above which they create,
manufacture and direct their own energy, and below which they depend upon energy
from exterior sources before they can operate. That would be the make-break line.
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The goals of processing, then, should become very manifest to you. They should
be the restoration of the ability to create and direct energy. Now, to direct
energy, one must have a good sense of location. And so the rehabilitation of location,
as well as the rehabilitation of the ability to make space, as well as the rehabilitation
of being able to create particles in that space all come under the same heading.
How do you know if the preclear is in better shape? He's in better communication.
L. Ron Hubbard, from the lecture PROCESSING AND ITS GOALS
Excerpted
from the First International Congress of Dianeticists & Scientologists.
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