Willingness to be and communicate

"You're not really upset by becoming things unless you are unwillingly forced into becoming something. And then you became something without your own determinism. And so you are being something you do not like to be, you do not want to be, and so you won't communicate with it. Although you're being it, you're not in communication with it.

"When you become willing to be it you simply communicate with it. The moment you communicate with it, it goes pshoo! It has the same solidity as a vacuum. And that is how engrams are blown, how locks are blown, how blocks, you might say held-down fives in computing machines, and so forth, go by the boards — that's how occlusion goes by the boards."

L. Ron Hubbard

Excerpted from the Universe Processes Congress


Theta-MEST Theory: Being a Problem Aspect

An article by L. Ron Hubbard, from the Universe Processes Congress

 

Just recently, I was working with it and suddenly realized that the principle of problems was inherent and was contained in the Theta-MEST Theory.

Here we have something which is itself a solver of problems, a poser, a solver of problems impinged upon something which is never more than a problem. The difference between theta and MEST is, of course, theta can get ideas and MEST sometimes receives them.

So we get theta as a no-motion thing impinged upon this all-motion thing, which is to say we get a solver, a poser and solver of problems here imposed on the raw material of problems. And that raw material is itself chaos.

And out of this chaos theta brings order in organization. Now, that's actually an old theory that life is bringing order out of chaos; that God, for instance, they say, one cult, religion or another says that God brought order out of a chaos, and so forth.

That's what a thetan is trying to do. He's trying to bring order out of a chaos. After he's failed several times he gets to be an organizer. But he gets fixated on it, but that is something that theta does. And this chaos is matter, energy, space, which in itself (combined at uniform rate) gives us time or MEST.

All right, you say, what's this theory got to do with me? It's got a lot to do with you. It sure has. Has a lot to do with processing. And at the moment this was struck as an advance point in research and investigation, there wasn't any more problem, because one had taken in the anatomy of problems into the woof and warp of Scientology itself.

What is the anatomy of a problem? Let's say, in terms of force, that a great many force vectors going in random directions will itself produce a confusion. That's the basic problem. A confusion. A number of force vectors traveling in a number of different directions.

Life comes along, stops one of them, gets two more of them to line up and unite, gets a bunch more of them to go a different direction, makes a pattern out of it, makes it repetitive and has an automobile, a dam, has some face powder, see? The raw material of the problem. A bunch of confused vectors of force. A bunch of force confusions being lined up in some fashion or another, or disaligned for some purpose or other.

Life has to put a purpose into that chaos and then make the chaos align itself. And so we have all kinds of things. We have automobiles, and we have thinking machines and electronic brains and nuclear physicists. We have all kinds of bric-a-brac in the society. Endless bric-a-brac, which is all planned and organized. …

The Theta-MEST Theory demonstrates that whatever is solving problems is Life, and whatever has problems to be solved is MEST. Ain't that horrible?

Whatever is solving problems is Life. That could be said to be a definition of Life: that which is posing and solving problems. And that which has problems to be solved is MEST. Now, you see that? See that? …

That means — that means that the auditor-preclear relationship is not really dependent upon transference, valence switches or any complexity of this character. It puts the preclear into a position he was not before willing to be. And as long as he was unwilling to be in that position, he would himself force himself into the position.

That is to say, he's putting the preclear into the role of being the physical universe. And the preclear simply starts being audited, he starts answering up the answers to the problem, you see? He is taking that part of him which is the physical universe, which is relatively inanimate, which is not thinking, and he is willingly occupying that role and simply by being willing to be it and willingly occupying it, he blows it. And again becomes theta.


— L. Ron Hubbard

Excerpted from the lecture Theta-MEST Theory: Being a Problem Aspect

This lecture is available in the Universe Processes Congress

What's Inside?
Willingness
to be and
communicate

Theta-MEST Theory: Being a Problem Aspect

Universe Processes Congress
 
 

Universe Processes Congress

What are these lectures about?

Delivered in Phoenix, Arizona, in June of 1954, the Universe Processes Congress was the culmination of eighteen months of intensive research by Ron into techniques for exteriorization and the achievement of OT.

And the breakthrough he announced at the beginning of this Congress was momentous, because here was the discovery of the relationship of duplication to Bridge progress.

If an auditor could not duplicate, how could he deliver the tech? And if a preclear could not duplicate, how could he do the process? How could he exteriorize and go free?

Here was the very key to entrapment on the whole track — a discovery so encompassing it provided the resolution for all cases.

And this opened the way to still more answers: from how a being creates space, to how the material universe itself was created; from why a person's willingness to duplicate establishes his ability to communicate, to why an exteriorized individual who can duplicate sees far better than anyone with MEST eyes; and finally, to why any difficulty stems from a person's unwillingness to duplicate.

Here, too, were duplication processes, delivered for the first time ever on a group basis and introduced by Ron with these words: "I have some phenomenal things — never tried before — to try out on you."

Thus the Congress experienced, first-hand, hours of processing personally from Ron, culminating in the Universe Processes.

The Universe Processes Congress includes 14 lectures complete with transcripts, an extensive glossary and a guide with key LRH references which relate to the series. The master glossary in the guide covers both the lectures and the issues.

 
 
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