The freedom of the material which we know
"I try to look far enough in the future to forecast and predict what might be, so as to not do too many things wrong. You must allow me some percentage. And as I look into the future, I see that we are handling here, material of a potential control and command over mankind which must not be permitted at any time to become the monopoly or the tool of the few to the danger and disaster of the many. And maybe in this I am simply being overly proud, conceited or optimistic. But I would never for a moment step back from the role of being conceited just to be approved of, or just to be wrong in a prediction. And I believe that prediction is right.
"And I believe that the freedom of the material which we know and understand is guaranteed only by a lightness of organization, a maximum of people, good training and good, reliable, sound relay of information. And if we can do these things, we will win."

This
excerpt was taken from Anatomy of the Spirit of Man Congress.
The truth about insanity and psychosomatic illness
An article by
L. Ron Hubbard
excerpted from the Anatomy of the Spirit of Man Congress lectures.
Insanity appears to be that thing of a death wish of such strength and magnitude that the person will see almost everything die around him in an effort to carry it out. And sanity returns when the person decides again to live.
And out of all these years of study and observation, that's really all I know about insanity. Because I have seen preclears in much more serious condition than an insane person seemed to be in. I have seen them with all the manifestations that an insane person had and yet they were not insane. I have seen them with engrams in restimulation that would have killed an elephant, and they were still sane. I have seen them so nervous and shaking that they were practically shaking the threads out of their sleeves and they were still sane. But they wanted to live. And so, by themselves or with the help of an auditor, they overcame the ghosts and things that go boomp in the night. But that person wanted to live. And so that person was sane. That person was willing to take responsibility for some part of his difficulties. And so that person was sane and so that person could recover.
What we call the insane desire to die. And they might have some very minor thing wrong with them, but they desire to die. And that is the vector that they go.
As far as psychosomatic illness is concerned, I have felt that psychosomatic illness was overrated. And I would continue to feel that it was overrated until I found a man who did not have one. And I have begun to believe that psychosomatic illness is a misnomer and it should simply be called "unwanted sensation" or "unwanted absence of sensation." And to classify it as illness was to make it unsolvable. Because illness infers that some bugs or some malfunction of organs or something else is basic causation.
And we find that psychosomatic illness is apparently simply unwanted sensation or lack of sensation. And that psychosomatic illness comes about when an individual is called upon to prove something and fails. So much so that if you were going to process a chronic somatic you could do this fascinating thing: you could say to an individual, "What have you got that would prove it?" See, you're not talking about a thing. You just ask him, "All right, what have you got that'd prove it?" And he'll have an answer. And he'd look himself over and he "My head, that proves it. I've got a body, that's the reason. Because people were mean to me; that's why I have a body."
You can ask a person and solve the entire service facsimile that was described in 1952 simply by asking that person, "What would it get you out of? What would it get you into?" You ask him these questions alternately.
"Oh yes, you have a bad arm. All right. Now, what'll that get you out of? Now what'll it get you into? Okay, fine. What'll it get you out of? All right. Fine. What'll it get you into? Fine, that's fine." And then you could finish it up, if you had that flat, with "All right, what can you prove with it?" and you'd find out he had a whole category of things he could prove with this psychosomatic illness.
So I think that in treating psychosomatic illness, we are running straight up against the computation of a thetan that he ought to have some sensation, and that any sensation is better than no sensation. And that he should have something with which to gain a little sympathy and to prove his lack of guilt, because when we touch these buttons, all of these fancy psychosomatic illnesses that are so beautifully described and cataloged endlessly, fade away.
L. Ron Hubbard
Excerpted from the lecture "WHAT SCIENTOLOGY IS DOING"
This lecture is available in the Anatomy of the Spirit of Man Congress lectures.
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