The hidden influence
An article by L. Ron
Hubbard, from The Factors: Admiration & the Renaissance of Beingness
lectures
Now, would you specialize in live things or MEST universe things? Well, the
MEST universe falls under this classification: It is in the category of giving
no attention, receiving no attention, and not noticing any attention. And therefore
it is the terminal which the individual will fight unsuccessfully every time.
There's only one direction, in absence of processing, that a person can go
in the MEST universe, and that is out the bottom. And that is because it does
not give him the attention which he gives it. So therefore, he sticksthe
MEST universe sticks everybody on a one-way flow of attention; and the attention
is never given back. And this stuff is just like sponge. You put admiration into
this stuff and it just goes slurpreal hungry. And you'd have to be
able to make an awful lot of admiration to make very much of this stuff disappear.
I imagine if you sat still for a year or so and poured admiration through here,
you could probably have a four-inch hole bored through the wall. But you'd have
to be pretty good at it. You see?
Now, to stay out of flows, to stay out of this manifestation known as communication
lines, get him into present time as best you can, and handle him from there, this
technique is definitely recommended. And it is a technique which apparently is
almost nonsense as a technique, and it's terribly simple. But itand nail
this down, know this nowthat by changing his beingness, you will change
his communication level. You're trying to produce a change in a preclear, aren't
you? Well, you're trying to change his being then, aren't you? The best test of
changing his being is did he get a communication change? You can measure that
easily, you can say, "Well, he sees better." That tells you that you've
improved his beingness....
And you walk a little bit further down and you fell in a hole and that wasn't
a snake that hit you in the head. Because the one thing that will always get you
in the end is the MEST universe, and therefore you have to be able to love it
very dearly. If you don't love it very dearly, you can't control it worth a darn,
because it's something that is composed of fighting terminals. And it is composed
to deny you any possible admiration, while you give it all.
Guys will get fixed on this universe, and they'll look at nothing else but
this universe, and this a very, very, very horribly sad factterrible fact
that life in as high a form as man gets so aberrated by the presence of MEST that
man hasn't got enough sense to realize that his dramatizations against man are
immediately derivable from his reactions from the MEST universe. In other words,
the reason he hates man is because the MEST universe hates him.
Who can salvage man? Man can. So he's running aroundso he's running around
hating and spitting and having an awful time and giving no admiration like mad.
Well, what's the contagious factor? It would be the source of all hidden influences,
which is itself the hidden influence; it's the sixth dynamic, the MEST universe.
Youeverybody
knows it's people that aberrated them. Everybody knows it's people that did this!
Well, if everybody knows that, you can be darn sure it isn't true....
Why do they work like this? Well, they work like this on Homo sapiens
because he's on a flat-plane surface on Earth. He's on a sphere, here, and he's
concentrated this way. In other words, to turn on this sort of thing you getyou
find out the Sun doesn't admire you, it sunburns you. And you find out the earth
doesn't admire you, it kicks you in the feet sometimes, it gives you a good hard
slap. The tools don't admire you, and yet you're working from them below and you're
expecting something to look up at you or back again and it never does, and so
you just work more and more and more and get less and less admiration for it and
eventually, why, you just sort of spin in....
And if this preclear gets that starved for attention, he is practically on
his way to becoming a piece of the MEST universe because the MEST universe got
there by being starved for attention.
L. Ron Hubbard, from the lecture, PRESENT TIME
Excerpted
from The Factors: Admiration & the Renaissance of Beingness lectures.
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