Only a valence can pin people down...
"I think it’d be safe to have people be themselves. I sometimes feel very lonely in this opinion. But it is – it’s safe to have people be themselves.
"Of course, it takes a certain amount of nerve to actually get in and unbale the valences to see what’s there. And you nearly always, even in taking a couple of valences off, find a better guy.
"And when you take them all off, you find a powerhouse….
"Only valences keep people pinned down to one dynamic or two dynamics. Because a valence can’t be expansive. A valence is a narrowing and a blunting."

Excerpted from the Melbourne Congress lectures
Valences
An article by L. Ron Hubbard
from the Melbourne Congress lectures
Until you change a preclear’s valence, you don’t change the pc.
If auditing could shed valences easily, you could change a graph, the responses of a pc to life, his ability to handle his environment, with great ease. If you could change his valence!
If you could keep pulling valences off of him until you dug him up – and when you got him dug up you’d find you had quite a person. And that’s the person that’ll register high on a graph and stay there.
There are many ways of defining or looking at Clear. But technically, the best way of looking at Clear is not in terms of a bunch of mechanics. It’d just be whether or not the person had become himself. Then you’d say he’d be Clear.
Now, if that self which was uncovered, unblunted, straightened out, was then improved to a point where he could, you know, relax and say, "Well, I dare reach as myself to a considerable distance and I dare actually progress," and so forth, you’d have an OT.
That’s a very simple way of looking at Clear. Just sweep away these mechanical ideas and say, "Well, we’ve gotten the fellow to be himself, unimpeded by superimpressed personalities."
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And that’s the fate of somebody who loses himself. He gets a valence over the top of that and he doesn’t like that one, so he gets another valence over the top of that one because he doesn’t like that one, and he gets a valence over the top of the next one because he doesn’t like – and he doesn’t like that one, so he gets another valence. And you’ve got some sort of a mysterious series of concentric spheres here – just valence after valence after valence – package personalities, each one of these. Each one is a package personality. It’s reactions are so-and-so and such-and-such.
You can always expect somebody who has attended Oxford – just to get the tone – to, in the face of emergencies say, “There is none.” Immediate response. That’s what that valence says. It says, “There are no emergencies,” see?
Roof falls in. The floor goes out from under him and he’s supposed to say something like, “Bit of a disturbance, what?”
He’s supposed to have responsibilities in certain directions and be irresponsible in other directions. He’s supposed to be made happy by certain things and unhappy by other things. And he gets a whole carload of “now-I’m-supposed-to’s.” And at any given stimuli he has a pat response. And you can play on him like a player piano, you know. Put the roller in and start pumping the pedals. And you’ll play the same tune every time!
L. Ron Hubbard
Excerpted from the lecture VALENCES
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