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Keeping energy and pictures…  
 

"So when you get this car, you actually have an object. Well, this is tremendously desirable—an object. It's a big mass of energy. Fine, there's nothing wrong with owning energy, nothing wrong with owning cars or anything else. But there's something wrong with the next abstraction: losing the car, finance company.

"And here's a car, and then it's gone. Well, when that first happens to a fellow, he keeps a picture of it. It's very touching and nostalgic. A person only keeps pictures around of things he can't have. He only keeps blocks of energy around when he can't have energy. Isn't that sweet, nostalgic and touching? The only reason, really, no matter what the preclear says—the only reason he's got that picture, the only reason he's got that picture of Papa that keeps recurring to him all the time ('Papa's a dog; Papa's no good' and so forth)—the only reason he's got that picture is because he can't have Papa, so he's got a picture of Papa."

—L. Ron Hubbard

L. Ron Hubbard
Excerpted from the First International Congress of Dianeticists & Scientologists lectures

 
 

Exteriorization and the creation of energy…
An article by L. Ron Hubbard, from the First International Congress of Dianeticists & Scientologists lectures

You know, every once in a while somebody will walk down the street, and he will need a hat. And he'll see that there's a hat sale, and he will have an excess ten dollars in his pocket. And he'll look at the hats, and there's a hat there he likes very much, and he looks at the hat, and then walks down the street without buying the hat. Why?

Well, he knows his insufficiency of supply is so great that he can't have a hat. This is stimulus-response; it is not rational. There's no reasonableness to this. He has the money in his pocket; he has the time to go in and buy the hat; he needs the hat; there is the hat he wants; and he doesn't buy the hat, because he can't have a hat. Why can't he have a hat?

Now, you could go over and talk with somebody on this line and try to argue him into realizing that he doesn't have an insufficiency of supply, and he will still have an insufficiency of supply. You can reason, talk, cajole, bribe, do anything you want to this reactive mind, in an effort to lead it into a reasonable activity and adjudication of its environment, and it will still go on being a normal human being.

You can, however, reduce its motion. Its motion reduces, but doesn't increase. The reason the motion of the reactive mind doesn't actually increase in terms of controlled motion, which is to say, increase in terms of better procurement of energy, is because it isn't manufacturing any energy. It is borrowing energy from elsewhere and using it.

Now, it starts barrowing this energy from the beingness of the person himself, which is—we call thetan—again, a mathematical symbol. …

And the reactive mind has an insufficiency of supply, and the thetan, the being of the person—that's you, by the way. People who go around talking about "My thetan thinks…" You're just listening to some more of this reactive mind, because a person doesn't have another thetan; he's it. When he says "I" and what he means by "I," and everything he means by "I" is him, and that's the thetan. And the thetan gets a lot more things added to him that are not necessarily him but he's appropriated them too, and Freud called it "alter ego," because it was a nice term. Well, in the same way we use thetan as a nice term. And a thetan there, it may be still perfectly competent to use—create and use—energy. But the reactive mind, with which this being is still connected, is energy-hungry, terrifically hungry for energy. And so every time the being puts out a little erg of energy, the reactive mind—the thing the analytical mind is running—the reactive mind soaks up from the actual reasonability of the person, slurp, what little bit of energy the reasonableness of the person puts out, because of an energy starvation. Do you see that?

A person could be very, very competent in creating and directing energy. And every time he creates a little energy, it sort of disappears and he doesn't quite know where it goes, and before this he never knew where it went. Now, you ask this person to exteriorize; that is to say, you ask this person to be at a little distance from the body. This will come to a lot of people as a shock when you do this to preclears. You just—in off the streets—you just say, "Be three feet back of your head now."

The fellow says, "All right, I—I am. Now—hey!" Big shock. He finds out just in that moment there that he doesn't happen to be an integral part of this MEST thing.

Now, when he's three feet back of his head, he has some little chance of putting out a couple of ergs of energy without getting them soaked up, as long as he doesn't have his attention immediately upon the body. But if you could put him out there several miles, he could then safely generate some energy, because it wouldn't immediately be taken away from him by the reactive bank.

Now, the reason the reactive bank can take it away from him is because a large portion of the reactive bank is his own. This is just old stuff that he picked up like goats chew up tin cans, and he just sort of picked this up here and that up there, and he's got this old favored facsimile that he swiped someplace, and he's just got junk, junk, junk, junk all around. And it didn't mean anything and it didn't do anything to him till one day he got into confluence with the body. And when he got connected with the body he put this stuff into the body too, like you put things into trunks in the attic. And now it matches his wavelength and he can control the body better and this works out just fine; only he isn't just quite sure how it's working out, but it works out. But every time he thinks he's matching the wavelength of what he put in there. And all of his controls of the body and everything he's ever taught the body is matching up with his wavelength.

And so every time he thinks, the body picks up an energy which is creates and it starts to act as a sponge on a starvation of energy. And as a result, when he makes a facsimile, the facsimile itself is pulled in, just like it was water going into a sponge. And when the thetan puts out a little beam of energy, pam, that goes into the body.

Now, I'm not talking about anything strange or esoteric. Because all of these things have been strange and esoteric, one has a feeling that maybe they still are. But if you just take pc after pc and you say, "Be three feet back of your head." "Now be eight miles back of your head." "Now, that's fine, now put out a beam of energy." "Now walk across the ceiling." "Now find—change something." And then, "Now come back and pick up the body and throw it over on the couch." And he does and…

Every once in a while you get a preclear that does it just like that. He doesn't know anything about what you're doing. You have to assume if it keeps happening, person after person, that it must be an objective phenomenon, instead of an objectionable one.

- L. Ron Hubbard



Excerpted from the First International Congress of Dianeticists & Scientologists lectures

 

 

 

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