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The undoing of the black enchantment  
 

"Well, that's what has happened, approximately, to this degree: a black enchantment has obviously been laid across man, who, natively, has every potential for good, for constructive action.

"But how would you keep a people from realizing it? You'd divide them within themselves. You would teach them that they had—could know only law. That they were incapable of assuming full responsibility, that they were not to meet in groups or perform various actions, and that they could not unite in a single effort forward toward the conquest of the material universe. And that was what we were told, evidently. And man has been living up to it very well ever since.…

"Here was your fear of death. Here was your shut-off of knowledge of past lives. Here is your fear, and here is incompetence….

"Oddly enough, evidently, the only reason I went on and invented Dianetics was because, to get me, they had to pull me out of the brush with both feet flailing; and my intention as I went into it was something quite beyond them, and that is 'Someday I'll get even with you bastards and find out. And the rest of the people you're doing this to are going to be undone.' And evidently this is almost very close to mission accomplished."

—L. Ron Hubbard

L. Ron Hubbard
Excerpted from the Scientology: Milestone One lectures.

 
 

Before Time and Before Earth
An article by L. Ron Hubbard, from the Scientology: Milestone One lectures


Well, I studied and I thought and I studied and I thought and figured and figured and … You know, the first thing I knew, I saw the machine dive on "before time." It says, "before time." "Has anything ever happened before time?"—wondering whether or not somebody might not be pre-aberrated. And the machine just started going crazy. "Before time."

BEFORE TIME

"Did something happen before time? Did somebody aberrate us before time?" And all of a sudden you get this horrible picture, this horrible idea of maybe this is hell and once we lived in heaven, and somebody came along and picked us up and said, "Mmm. You're a bad'un!" took us before a tribunal or a council and then dumped us on the chute and we arrived here on Earth. Crash. Well, this is not very solid. But the lady went off the top of the dial on running the first part of it. The first time I've ever seen anybody go off a psychometer, all the way up, off the top. And we only ran just a little bit of it.

And then I tailor-made the idea, thinking that this was all by counter-thought in some fashion—done by counter-thought in some weird way. I figured—all of a sudden realized we had the Handbook for Preclears, and there had a map. It's from "not-know" to "know," it's from "effect" to "cause." In other words, if we run the cycle backwards, we will run time in reverse; therefore regret will vanish off not-knowing, and a person would theoretically go through this incident from not-knowing to knowing, not-knowing to knowing, not-knowing to knowing, and pretty soon would get into the state of knowing, running this incident. Fascinating. Ah-ha!

After I ran it for a while, experimented with it a bit more, located it in other people, and ran into something I had known of in mysticism—the third eye. This eye of the soul, the jewel eye, so forth, lot of complimentary things about this. And then suddenly located circuits. The second I located this, I located circuits. What are circuits? Circuits are divisions of your own mind which seem to make up other personalities, and these other personalities affect you and argue with you and so forth. And here was a brand-new therapy.

THE JEWEL SOUL

What you did was taken the youngest circuit—that is, the last one, closest to present time—and find out which circuit back of that had set it up; and you went back through about four circuits and you blew out those four incidents, and you would turn on this eye. Only one thing wrong with it—the eye turned out to be an engram. Get this: The jewel soul, the soul of souls, the super-valuable entity, turned out to be about the most lousy, stinking trick ever done on the human race! It's a manic of sorts.

Once upon a time, a fellow by the name of Henry Ford said, "Undoubtedly, lying under the seas of the world are railroad tracks, rusting away, the forgotten and hidden relic of former great civilizations." Mh-hm. I don't know about Atlantis. I haven't been there—not lately.

Now, this was very interesting that we all of a sudden began to turn up with information which was not B.T. but B.E.—before earth. But that could also be merely before this civilization, if you want it to be that way, if you wanted to make it that way. And we really started localizing this stuff. It had on it thought, emotion and effort. And it is simply a manic which degrades, and it's laid in on a pattern.

THE SUPERSONIC SOUND

Well, I guess if you were a civilized people and you kept being hit by the barbarians and your patrols kept getting cut down and so forth, you'd eventually do something about it too. Particularly if you had supersonic sound and you knew how to lay in an engram, even if you didn't know how to pick one up.

When did it happen? Maybe a million years ago. I can't get a proper estimate on it in terms of time, but it's some such order of magnitude. What were we and who were we?

Well, they did a nice, thorough job. They hit you in the middle of the head with a supersonic pellet and they said this would make you good and happy and cheerful and honorable. And of course it took you way down the Tone Scale. It's the supersonic equivalent of a prefrontal lobotomy. And then they hit you in the stomach to produce anxiety.

Sound. Did it with sound. Wonderful gimmick. And is that stuff sticky! And I'd run into this somatic on preclears before and I thought it was just a board, like a board had been pushed up against—the fellow had been squashed. And it would never release.

The way you release it is get it as sound, get it as a vibration and try to keep it from vibrating, and all of a sudden the thing will start blowing out. Turn on the eye, try to keep it from vibrating; you'll get the rest of it. It'll take quite a while to do. But you can feel yourself go down Tone Scale as this stuff hits you.

Who did it? Why? I'm sure I don't know—yet—as completely as I might. But, boy, I'd sure like to find some of those guys!

If this were just found in one person here and there, this would be one thing. But it isn't. It's pretty uniform. And the availability of that eye, to some degree, establishes a person's effort to get out of it. You see, when you're yourself you'd have that. Well that'd be pretty bad because you'd be half asleep or three-quarters asleep. When you're running past deaths, what were you running into? You were running into this thing.

Now, I'm talking to you about a research line as sober and as consistent as any research line was ever conducted. A relentless search—a very relentless search—to find the wild variable. You followed all the laws you knew about thought, all the laws you knew about mind, and it didn't quite turn out right. There was something there; somebody was stealing the second apple. What was it? Well, this was it. Now, you all look very grim. (laughter)

When you get around to this thing, there's real honest-to-goodness terror in it. It's practically all the terror there is on a case. It's the anxiety stomach, it's your fear of arrest, it's your fear of being mauled around, it's your unwillingness to be, and it's also—God help us all—the installed circuits. They put a man on one side and a woman on the other side, and every time you've been jealous, every time you've been upset, one of these things has gone into restimulation and come back and kicked you. Aw, what a dirty trick!

Now, of course, this has lasted for a long time.

THE CIRCUITRY

I wouldn't dare tell you about any part of this and so excite your incredulity unless I could show it to you in processing, and unless it was a very, very fast route out. And it's a very fast route. It takes quite a while to coax a preclear sometimes into running it and to get out all of its manifestations and to get his sonic on full in it and to run all the columns backwards and forwards until a person does get up to "know." But every time in the past when you tried to say, "I know," you've come up there and this confounded incident would kick in and say, "No, you don't!" And down you'd go.

Every time you tried to say, "I am cause, I amount to something, I'm important," this incident would kick in and say, "No, you're a slave."

And in addition to that, circuitry setups: They gave you somebody to walk through life with you and keep you on the straight and narrow. Also to obey their laws and like them. And to stop shooting their patrols to pieces!

THE ADVANCED SOCIETY

Evidently this was an advanced society which moved in—a society possibly not even as advanced as ours—which moved in suddenly on almost a cave society, almost Stone Age. Maybe it was planets that got crossed. Or maybe it was merely continents that got crossed. People would hardly know that. But whatever it was, here was a retarded society being suddenly hit.

Here was the story of the Polynesians; here is the story of Tahiti. A barbaric but very happy, very dignified, very cheerful, honorable people that suddenly objected to someone coming in and say, "We're going to make your laws now and you stack that wood over there and draw that water." And so you said, "No-o! Workers of the world will now arise." And you started cutting them to pieces. And they objected to this naturally.

ELECTRONICS

So they evidently cooked up—maybe they did it this way. Some places they might have done it one way, some places they did it another way. They might have cooked up a big story about "this is the great thing to do; this is the stuff. We're gods and we're really going to make you into gods, and…" Pow! "We'll fix you up." Bap! "Turn on the sound." Actually, the sound box they've got runs with a crank. I don't think they even had electric motors. But there's some sound like electricity in there.

The poor fellows who manage power stations! Ohhh! I often wondered why they were so crazy. I often wondered why when you got into the navy and you'd listen to a ship's generators pulse, pulse, pulse, pulse, pulse, all night long in the air vents and so forth, that you'd eventually get kind of groggy. And you'd wonder what was wrong with your head—you have a headache. And you'd notice this amongst the men.

Well, I had an electric typewriter and it sat there and it whined and whined and roared and roared and roared, and it put years and millions of words' worth of lock on top of this, with all the postulates in it. It's made the case kind of rough. But it was this one.

Now, separating it out and getting the locks of electric motors and that sort of thing off of it, we were starting to whip ourselves. That's why we started to go down the line in a hurry. We had a choice, then: we were either "them" and vicious, mean and degrading, or ourselves with somatics. From that point on, that was our choice: either to be mean, wicked, ornery, vicious, degrading your fellow man, but very thorough and ride over everything, about 1.8 or 1.5; or if you wanted to be good, decent, noble or upstanding—lung somatics, nose somatics, bad eyes, headaches and general frailty. Because you'd have to take one or the other.

Therefore, anybody confronted by somebody being good… You see, if a person is confronted by somebody being very good and very honorable, the valence is stolen to some degree you see, and they have a tendency to flick into this other valence. And when you've got somebody being very mean and very wicked, you have a tendency to flick over into the good valence. And this has been this endless drama going on, on, on. Hrrrr.

It's easy to run this incident—do it with thought, emotion and effort. Very simple to run it. What's difficult to run is, is this supersonic is so solid that you have to realize that it was such a kind of a wave in order to run it at all. Before that it wouldn't budge, because you couldn't get a preclear to run a vibration. He thought he was just being pushed, and as a push it didn't go away. And it hit there, and it hit there, and it hit there. Somatics are with it and so on. A person kind of—feel awful crippled up running this thing.

How many hours it takes the average person to run this, I don't know. But I know that running it runs you off the top of the scale.

—L. Ron Hubbard, from the lecture DISCOVERY OF FACSIMILE ONE

Excerpted from the Scientology: Milestone One lectures.

 
OT Quiz
Test your knowledge of the Scientology: Milestone One lectures
Select the correct answer to the questions below:

1. Can Facsimile One ruin your "film" (facsimiles)?
    It can utterly destroy everything that it is attached to.
    Facsimile One will aberrate the film to the point where it is unrecoverable.
    Nothing destroys the film.
2. What are you?
    A complete bundle of counter-efforts.
    You are made up of electronic particle ridges from the backtrack.
    The thetan is a 50% stimulus response energy postulating mechanism.
3. What happens the more something becomes aberrated?
    It starts causing more trouble.
    It individuates.
    It's counter-efforts key in.
4. An unknown datum can:
    Generate developed traffic.
    Create a complete indecision and stall the case.
    Produce aberration.
5. Why shouldn't you talk about space opera?

    It's always entheta incidents.
    They won't believe it.
    It scares people.

6. What's the purpose of daydreams?

    Keep one amused so that one will stay in motion.
    A thetan trying to keep himself busy.
    To resolve the problems.

7. What is worrying?

    Whole track facsimile keying in.
    Estimation of counter-efforts.
    Introversion on the dynamics.

8. What does Facsimile One tell you?

    You're not supposed to know.
    You can't succeed in life.
    You're nothing but mud.

9. Show me a good mystery and I'll show you:

    an invalidation from the Facsimile One machine.
    a conquest of earth.
    an unknown counter-effort.


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