Being cause and predicting
the future
An
article by L. Ron Hubbard, from
the Rehabilitation of the Human Spirit
lectures
So, knowingness doesn't
happen to depend upon the time stream and
it doesn't happen to depend upon data and
it doesn't depend upon geographical location
and it just doesn't have any dependency.
Because highest-level knowingness and highest-level
causativeness are the same statement.
The best way to know any future
is to cause one. And that's why, you see,
when you start consulting the oracle at
Delphi, you've taken a step downhill. You've
assigned cause to the futurefor the
future elsewhere.
And when you get down so mean and impoverished
imaginatively that you start to assign prediction
of the future to dataoh boy, is that
debased. You see, you don't even give it
the color and aesthetic of an oracle at
Delphi, you see? You don't have this beautiful
girl standing over the volcanic fumes and
consulting with the gods and getting drunk
over the fumes, and going and quoting some
sort of a riddle. And the oracle doesn't
get a big costly present of ivory and gold
or something of the sort and there aren'toh,
and see, there's no color to it at all.
The fellow says, "Now I'm going to
be logical." You know, he sits down
and chews on a cigarette or something of
the sort and he says, "Now, let's see,
let me figure this out." What a conceited
fellow he is. Anybody that'll sit
down and say, "Let me figure this out,"
admits he's trapped somewhere.
Well, cause must be all around himhe
must be surrounded. He is, tooright
in close. He's right there in a very, very
narrow piece of space. He can't figure it
out.
If he said, "All right. Now, let's
see. Now I'm going to know about it, and
I'm just going to know what all these factors
are going to amount to," he actually
will come up with something like a solution.
No matter how strange the solution may sound,
that's probably what's going to happen.
But now let's go a little bit higher, and
instead of saying, "Now, let's see,
how can I figure this out so I know what's
going to happen?" supposing he says,
"Now, let's see, I'm going to accomplish
end goal." See, he says this, "I'm
going to accomplish end goal." And
that's all he does, and he accomplishes
end goal. And that's very simple. Then he
really has predicted the future, hasn't
he? Or he says, "I'm going to undo
end goal." So he does. He's really
predicted the future then.
So one predicts the future as much as one
is cause. The future isn't a pattern laid
out to abuse and bully you. The future is
a beautiful playground that nobody happens
to be combining. You talk about virgin territorythe
most virgin territory there is, is the future.
You can do anything you want with it. Nobody's
doing anything with it.
L. Ron Hubbard, from the lecture
TECHNIQUES WHICH DO OR DO NOT ASSIGN CAUSE
Excerpted
from the Rehabilitation
of the Human Spirit lectures
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