The discovery of the
Rock
An
article by L. Ron Hubbard, from
The First Postulate lectures
I
have been carefully and gradually leading
you up to this gigantic object. I had to
give you your lecture yesterday because
yesterday's lecture contains most of the
solutions to this object known as the Rock.
Now, definition of "Rock"
is that facsimile which the preclear is
continuously and obsessively creating and
which he is suppressing below his level
of consciousness with an inhibitor. The
Rock, in other words, is an obsessive creation.
It is almost totally identified with anything
and everything wrong with the bank. Its
keynote is A=A=A, reference Book One.
We said one time that
if you could find out what the mind was
doing and parallel it, you could undo it.
That's one of the earliest observations
of Dianetics.
Well, when I discovered
this one, that the mind was obsessively
mocking up something and then inhibiting
it obsessively, it became very clear why
there was a reactive bank. And when you
say "Rock" you mean the core,
center of the reactive mind. Not for this
lifetime, not for the body, not for Freud
but for the whole track; it is what the
thetan has been accumulatingly wrecking
himself with from time immemorial and explains
the dwindling spiral.
He begins to obsessively
mock this thing up. And the longer he mocks
it up, the more he identities other things
with it.
Perhaps it was originally
a word of warning: "If I keep this
mocked up, then I'm not going to get into
a similar situation again." So duplication,
old Op Pro by Dup, all by itself, chipped
away on the Rock.
The "service facsimile"
is a computational lock on the Rock, and
is that series of complaints or protests
the preclear makes to protect the Rock and
that is the service facsimile.
Therefore, that about
which the preclear complains had better
never be audited by you except to make him
a little happier so you can get on with
the job, because you're auditing the protective
coating of something.
Now, at the outset let's
go into this with zero technicality. A thetan,
spirit, you, is actually capable of tremendous
creation. But when you have taken an irresponsibility
for some part of your ability to create,
you can then continue to create without
knowing that you are creating. Now we don't
know that you aren't creating the whole
physical universe. We don't know that you
aren't creating everybody you see. We don't
know this positively; this is simply a matter
of "Who's God?" Well, you're the
logical candidate. You've accepted the blame
for everything else, you might as well accept
the blame for that one.
Now, where you are capable
of tremendous creativeness, you very often
find that creativeness painful or undesirable
or upsetting in some way and you have a
potential of disowning itcreating
it and disowning it at the same time so
that you don't even know about it. And this,
in essence, is the reactive mind.
Now, when we talk about
the Rock, we are talking about that thing,
that engram which an individual is continuously
and obsessively, compulsively creating and
continuously and obsessively and compulsively
inhibiting in such a way that he knows nothing
whatsoever about it. So the first definition
of the Rock is: that experience on the whole
track which the person has totally disowned
and is totally creating.
Now, the test of it is
this: if you improve a person's ability
to create mental image pictures, you improve
the quality of his reactive mind. You improve
the quality of his mental image pictures
by improving his ability to create. It's
quite important. And this tells you why
the Rock remains obscure and why an individual
continuously lessens his ability to create.
Therefore, it becomes
painful to create. If you become a little
bit better at creation over here with your
left hand you are busily mocking up behind
your back something that is butchering you.
And you get better able to mock up a billboard
out in front of you; you also get
better able to mock up a total reactive
mind.
What do we mean by a
"reactive mind?" Anything anybody
has ever meant or summed up as an out-of-sight,
compulsive thinkingness that victimizes
the individual. Now, thoughts and engrams,
secondaries, locks (of course, with their
energy and masses and space and time tabs)
all go together to make up this reactive
mind.
Restimulation is simply
a signal in the environment which sets off
the individual's compulsive need (he thinks)
to mock up the unpleasant experience again.
Actually, an engram doesn't
exist until it is keyed in. Do you remember?
Dianetics. Doesn't exist until it's keyed
in. It is not stored anywhere except in
the capability of the person of re-creating
an experience. It's not stored; there is
no "bank" which contains a billion
engrams which are selected out in some supermechanical
way.
What happens is quite
different. The individual goes through an
experience, and until something reminds
him of the experience, doesn't even re-create
a picture of it. But he has the potentiality
of re-creating the picture in full.
L. Ron Hubbard
Excerpted from the
lecture THE ROCK
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