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Seriousness and failure...  
 

"Failure is merely the gradient scale of death. If a person fails too many times, he's going to die, that's certain—because this society will deny him food, clothing and shelter. If he fails too many times, he will die. It's all right to cut your finger, but don't cut your throat. Cutting the finger is a little bit of dying. If you cut your finger too hard and too solidly, you could kill yourself. In other words, this is the way people look at this. That's their gradient scale of failure, the gradient scale of defeat. And they regard life seriously just to the degree that they regard death seriously, and they regard failure and defeat seriously just to the degree that they will regard the whole computation of survival.

"How serious is it that you live? Well, if you're going to die, it becomes very serious that you live—becomes serious business. And a person, actually, is situated on the Tone Scale to the degree that they are serious about living. They are also effective in inverse ratio to their seriousness. You can show me any person who is taking it very, very, very seriously and I'll show you a long chain of failures. A person gets most serious about living when he is dying."

—L. Ron Hubbard

L. Ron Hubbard
Excerpted from the Scientology: Milestone One lectures.

 
 

Your sphere of influence and space
An article by L. Ron Hubbard, from the Scientology: Milestone One lectures

Now, the individual, let us say, has offended against groups—he doesn't want to take responsibility for those groups anymore—and so the dynamic of groups is something he is not going to touch.

And let's say he's offended against children, so he's not willing to take responsibility for children, and he's missing on that dynamic. He's offended against women—he's not willing to be responsible for women, therefore his second dynamic is all the way out. This leaves him dynamic one. He still owns his body pretty well as long as he's alive. And so his sphere of influence could then be his body or the first dynamic only. And when he has offended against this often enough, he won't even take responsibility for the first dynamic.

And so he contracts his sphere of responsibility. And when he has contracted his sphere of responsibility to this regard, then all the dynamics, all the counter-efforts, all the counter-emotions, all the counter-thoughts of all the dynamics can hit him. And most people, by the way, are riding on this very little, thin margin between not quite being able to stop all these efforts and barely being able to sidestep them enough to keep alive in their own body. This is just a concept that they have.

Your body is not your mind. Your facsimiles are not your body, even though those facsimiles contain that blueprint. The size of your mind is not the size of your brain. The size of your mind is not the size of your body. Your mind is as big as the galaxies or as big as the island universes or as big as all the universes there ever are—it doesn't matter how big it is, but it will be as big as, and will influence as much as, you want it to influence. That's very blunt. You could conceive your mind—it could be withdrawn in its periphery to something the size of a head of a pin, as in politicians. Or you could expand it out so that you were able to command your own body, as will do an athlete: he is at least in command of his own body. Or you could expand it out to the size of a group where you are trying to handle or manage a group. You can expand your mind that far.

And by the way, you won't handle that group unless you do conceive your mind to be as big as that group!

You've got to be able to conceive your mind to be as big as whatever you're trying to influence, because it means that you've got to take the responsibility of whatever you are trying to influence. So therefore, you've got to conceive yourself that size.

You see, the trick in this is the mind doesn't have any size. It doesn't have space or time. It merely has recordings of space or time.

Most people looking at themselves in the mirror, looking at space and time around them, looking at themselves, conceive their mind to be merely as big as themselves. Now, most people do not believe that they handle much of a periphery of influence. Most people are actually having trouble with themselves. They have trouble with themselves.

If you can't sit down to a typewriter and learn how to type on it in fifteen or twenty minutes, you're having trouble with yourself. If you can't grow a better-looking nose, you're having trouble with yourself. That's really blunt! That's compared to an optimum—an optimum situation.

Therefore, in order to secure any freedom, or to call yourself to any degree self-determined, you have to have a concept of yourself to the size, to the sphere of influence that you are trying to determine.

What's self-determinism? "Self-determinism" could be called something much better, but most people couldn't take the bridge that fast. It should be called something like "pan-determinism"—pan meaning all the way across or around or over. Pan-determinism: determinism on all dynamics. And if you were in 100 percent possession of your mind, of your actions and so on, you would have 100 percent sphere of influence over all the dynamics.

Pan-determinism. You're just as responsible for Russia going to war at this moment, or trying to threaten the rest of civilization with war, as Russia is. And in view of the fact that Russia is not even vaguely responsible for what it does, having contracted in each and every mind within it to bare-necessity control of self, and having to think in terms of "We're collectively something, but individually nothing"—pretty badly off. If you know—if you know that you can be determined all the way across the line, just potentially determined across all the dynamics—then, you see, you have to accept the responsibility for Russia being in the state of mind that it's in, as well as the United States being in the state of mind it's in.

And if you were to just broadly accept responsibility for the atomic situation in the world today, you would, of course, do a great deal about it. But as long as your concept is that you can barely take care of yourself, you'll not be able to do anything about the war.

—L. Ron Hubbard, from the lecture THOUGHT, EMOTION, EFFORT AND THE OVERT ACT

Excerpted from the Scientology: Milestone One lectures.

 
OT Quiz
Test your knowledge of the Scientology: Milestone One lectures
Select the correct answer to the questions below:

1. The black enchantment...

    Has destroyed every facsimile you owned for the last 76 trillion.
    Was laid across man so they did not realize it.
    Is a force that was not recognized until now.

2. Can Facsimile One ruin your "film" (facsimiles)?
    It can utterly destroy everything that it is attached to.
    Facsimile One will aberrate the film to the point where it is unrecoverable.
    Nothing destroys the film.
3. What are you?
    A complete bundle of counter-efforts.
    You are made up of electronic particle ridges from the backtrack.
    The thetan is a 50% stimulus response energy postulating mechanism.
4. What happens the more something becomes aberrated?
    It starts causing more trouble.
    It individuates.
    It's counter-efforts key in.
5. An unknown datum can:
    Generate developed traffic.
    Create a complete indecision and stall the case.
    Produce aberration.
6. Why shouldn't you talk about space opera?

    It's always entheta incidents.
    They won't believe it.
    It scares people.

7. What's the purpose of daydreams?

    Keep one amused so that one will stay in motion.
    A thetan trying to keep himself busy.
    To resolve the problems.

8. What is worrying?

    Whole track facsimile keying in.
    Estimation of counter-efforts.
    Introversion on the dynamics.

9. What does Facsimile One tell you?

    You're not supposed to know.
    You can't succeed in life.
    You're nothing but mud.

10. Show me a good mystery and I'll show you:

    an invalidation from the Facsimile One machine.
    a conquest of earth.
    an unknown counter-effort.


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