We can do something about it...
"I
don't think there's been a time when culture at large was
more accomplished technically and more stupid socially, than
the world culture we're living in at this moment.
"Do you know that practically every do-gooder organization's
practically folded up? Did you realize that? ...
"There are very few organizations, activities or groups in
the world today that are going ahead, circulating around and
trying to keep the show on the road. And there is no organization
on Earth today except ourselves who can do something about
it. And doesn't that saddle us with an interesting responsibility?
But for the sake all the way up the dynamics all the
way up the dynamics our own sake and the sake of the family
and the sake of the group and the sake of mankind and the
sake of life, and so forth, all the way up the dynamics as
we go, the only wrong action we could take at this time is
to do nothing. We have the know-how to do something about
it."

Excerpted from the Theta Clear Congress lectures
The cycle of our civilization
An article by L. Ron Hubbard
from the Theta Clear Congress lectures
Factually, it's very interesting how many civilizations there have been that have gone up in smoke. And you should also be aware of this interesting fact, that they all go up in smoke just about the same way this one's going up in smoke, and they have been for some time. They do an interesting job of smoking.
Should be signs around on these planets saying, "No Smoking."
Now, the general the general situation on the whole track has been a dwindling spiral. And it keeps dwindling and dwindling and dwindling. These moments of a spring-up of civilization and its expression in some kind of a mechanical culture are more and more rapid. In other words, we get a culture built much more quickly these days, because everybody starts remembering things that he has told himself he mustn't remember because it's so painful, and that's why nuclear physicists are in such bad shape. They're trying desperately to remember things which they have carefully blotted out with nice somatics so it won't happen again. And then they're obsessively remembering and doing the things which they have to do, that they know very well they'd better not do. And it cripples them up pretty badly because of the game of "They shouldn't have done it, they would have done it," and so forth.
But for instance I don't think I'm stringing you a fairy tale, but there was, a couple of hundred thousand years ago, a planet not too distant from this planet, but in another system, which had almost exactly the same civilization as this planet almost exactly. It had the same brownstone fronts, it had the same fire engines. The airplanes had just a little bit bigger cockpits. They had battleships, and finally the battleships started firing electronic weapons, and so forth. The battleships looked just the same. And they had a war that looked amazingly like World War II. Only trouble was, right there toward the end of that war somebody developed an A-bomb, and then the war kind of fizzled out for a little while and it remained under cover, and then somebody got mad at somebody else, and some Pete somewhere, never having been able to make his postulates stick, and being very sick indeed, said, "Well, I'll get even for all the times that Mabel and Bill and Joe have been abusing me," and he pushed the button. And that was the end of that society. It was quite an interesting society.
If you trace back on some of your pcs, or if you trace back on the track, you may have come through the society on that route.
But everything got developed here with great rapidity. Because
all they were doing was doing a duplication of what they had in
that society. And it's perfectly true what these fellows were
saying, mechanically a scientist is always saying, "It's
all been thought of before." Well, he shouldn't say that everything
has been thought of before, but certainly it's true that most
of the gimmicks, the washing machines, refrigerators, electronic
weapons and all this sort of thing that he is now building
are just about as new as Model Ts. See? He's even using the
same designs.
...
Now, I'm not trying to sell you anything on the idea of past
life. I don't know why you'd have to sell anybody on the idea
that he was himself. But I will tell you that there have been
awful long periods between the blowup and the next culture.
There's nothing to work with and nothing to do, nobody to
talk to. You even get such things as genetic lines going,
where you're picking up clams and birds, and anything. Come
on up the track and make some kind of a blueprint so as to
excuse it when you finally start mocking up human bodies. When you
start tracking somebody on the genetic line, make awful sure
which time which sequence of beach, wait-on-the-edge-of,
you are spotting. Because they've done it, and they've done
it, and they've done it, and they've done it, and they build
it all up, blow it all up then, what wall? What planet?
And then gradually get in, start to build life forms somehow
or other, get it worked up to some kind of a level, get it
speeded up, and so forth. Blow it up, and here we go again.
This is a cycle of action that has been going on here, for
some time.
L. Ron Hubbard
Excerpted from the lecture HOW TO CONDUCT AN HAS CO-AUDIT AND WHY
This lecture is available in the Theta Clear Congress lectures.
Successes from listening
to the Congress Lectures
"I am listening to the Theta Clear Congress and LRH explains
a lot about bodies, what happens when they are ill and how
to be cause over that happening. As a result of having this
datum, as well as others in the lecture, I was able to help
someone a lot. I have also found that by listening to this
Congress, my understanding of others has increased tremendously!
I am so glad to be applying what I learn!" B.D.
"Listening to LRH is the best session I have ever had
and the best session I could ever get! I realized that there
is a tech and I see the track of how it came to be. Addressing
the physical universe with auditing is vital as it is part
of the eight dynamics, and by doing so you gain greater stability.
Another win I had was listening to the Group Processing; LRH
made me realize that you have to get in comm with the physical
universe so you can survive!" E.S.
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