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Increasing the ability of a spiritual being

"If you continue to validate the materialistic aspects of existence, and only validate those things, and if you continue to neglect the spiritual abilities which are inherent in the being, you forecast and predict for your auditing, and for what you are doing, failure all the way along the line. ...

"We're not talking about a healing science, we're talking about a science of ability. And part of that ability happens to be, incidentally, being well—part of the ability. If we took a huge disk here, and we cut it up into an infinitely small number of pie slices—an infinite number, tiny little pie slices that you couldn't see with a microscope—one of those would be the ability to stay well, and the rest of them would be important.

"Therefore, the direction of processing is successful so long as the auditor is knowingly aware that he is increasing the ability of a spiritual being—as long as he's aware of this. Increasing the ability of a thetan to handle existence."

L. Ron Hubbard
This excerpt was taken from Anatomy of the Spirit of Man Congress.


Your power of imagination and invention

An article by
L. Ron Hubbard
excerpted from the Anatomy of the Spirit of Man Congress lectures.

And when you were a little kid running around, the world looked real bright, and that stick you had was a horse, and that doll you had was a live baby, and that house you had was a castle. Years later, you take a look at these objects and what do you see? You see a stick, a doll and a very small house.

What's happened? Why does the world look bright to a child? No more and no less than this: A child assigns meaning, and an adult has gone on a one-way flow so long that he lets everything assign meaning to him. He looks over there, he sees a wall, so that's a wall. He looks at another person and he says, "Just a person—body, certain amount of education, certain amount of liability." He's saying to himself, "Now I know," you know? "Now I know all about everything." In other words, "I've stripped the meaning out of everything. I have the exact, proper assignment to everything." And then we get what? We get a person who has a very dull world around him. ...

Well now, there are meanings. There definitely are meanings, the woof and the warp of the meanings of the world. And as long as you are anxious about what things really mean and as long as things are upsetting to you—that is to say, you know, they might mean this and they might mean that—as long as you have these feelings about your surroundings, why, you have a tendency to be rather unhappy about meaning. You just keep—"What is the actual meaning of that wall?"—you’ve got a nuclear physicist.

He takes a look at a nonexistent atom which exists by agreed-upon postulate, and so forth, and he says, "Now this means..."and he has a total agreement of its meaning. See, it's just as nice—got it all settled, it's all buttoned up, he knows exactly what it is. But it's a damn lie and all he can do with it is blow things up. Do you see this? He then has invented, unknowingly, along with all other inventions, some new meaning and then has agreed upon it and then has said that this thing is the truth and thereafter refuses to let himself put any other meaning into it.

Now he has learned his textbook. He's all set, you see. Well, the funny part of it is, is there is an exact way in which that wall got there, in which that man got there, and so on. There is this exactness. But listen, just because there is an exact way it all got there is no reason for you to lay aside your power of imagination and invention, because that's all the fun you'll ever have.

If a nuclear physicist could look at an atom and say, "What nice baking soda! That definitely means that if I mix it up with a professor, I will get an agency," if he had the freedom to do this, he could come home at night and pat the little kids on the head and be nice to the wife and eat a dinner without following it with bicarbonate of soda. But he doesn’t do that. He stays in the laboratory all the time and the fact that the gamma goes by the square root of the beta which goes under the lambda and this is all agreed upon and is all nice—only it's kind of a desperate mystery, only he's got to find out more about these extant lies. And he says, "It means just so-and-so. And it's all mathematical, and I've got it all down in my notebook." And he comes home and he slaps a kid and he sits down and he—"What you got for dinner? Rrrf!" and takes the baking soda. Says, "To hell with the world, let's blow it all up."

Why does he do that? He's lost his power to put any meaning into it. He doesn't know where it came from, he's agreed with a lot of lies, and he's stuck with it.

—L. Ron Hubbard

Excerpted from the lecture "GROUP PROCESSING: ADDITIONAL PROCESSING ON MEANINGNESS"

This lecture is available in the Anatomy of the Spirit of Man Congress lectures.


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"A Scientologist CAN make an individual well, happy, and grant him personal immortality, simply by addressing the human spirit.

"It could be said, with Scientology, that we have entered The Second Age of Miracles."

—L. Ron Hubbard

Culminating five years of steady advance, the Founding Church of Scientology had just been established in Washington, DC. Summoning Scientologists to the first International Congress in the nation's capital, Ron opened with the lecture, The Hope of Man. And the title was more than apt. For what he presented were the results of advancing technology—results that could only be accurately described with a single word: miracles. Physical in nature—deaf children suddenly hearing, crippled children shedding crutches, and sight restored with eyeglasses discarded—and yet all of it accomplished by exclusively addressing the thetan.

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