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Continuing to create and perceive life  
 

"Now, let's just accept as factual that a thetan can create something and perceive it. Let's just accept that as a fact. You got it? That he has to continue to create or he doesn't continue to perceive.

"An easy example of this: If an office boy fails to create his job newly in any given hour of the day, he soon finds himself without a job. He thinks he is holding a job. Nobody ever holds a job; one creates a job; one has to continue to create a job.

"And this one, fully explained to a PE class over a course of a couple of hours, will cause some of the doggonedest reformations of attitude toward work you ever cared to measure. You don't hold a job; you don't get a job and then hold it. You have to create a job and keep it created."

— L. Ron Hubbard

L. Ron Hubbard
Excerpted from The Power of Simplicity lectures

 
 

An observation of the preclear
An article by L. Ron Hubbard, from The Power of Simplicity lectures

If you saw a thetan going down the boulevard dragging behind him an old, bent-up bronze wreath of some kind or another which clanged and clanked, and would keep getting caught on milestones and corners of things and so on, you would say, "What you doing with that wreath?"

Well, it's rather obvious; it's a memento of his last funeral or something like that. We could say it's just a token or a substitute for the body he just lost. We could say it's a lot of things. And we'd say, "Hey, you don't need that wreath. There's some much better items around if you want to pick them up. As a matter of fact, you could go pick up another body if you wanted to."

He might do that. But if he didn't, and if he didn't drop the wreath and he just kept dragging it down, complaining about how hard it was to get on down the road, but all the time he was trying to get on down the road the wreath kept getting caught in the milestones, you know? I mean…

And you say, "Hey! You know you're dragging a wreath?"

Funny part of it is, you gave him a big explanation at first, and you told him he didn't need it, and you told him a lot of things; you were assuming he knew he had a wreath. If you were to say to him, "Hey. You know you're dragging a wreath along behind you?"

Fellow is liable to say "Nahh."

And you say, "Well, look around."

And he'd say, "Where? Where? I don't see any."

You'd say something must be wrong with his perception, one way or the other. Well, actually the truth of the matter is there's probably something wrong with you, because there's a Model-T Ford he is also dragging along, but that's another quarter of a mile behind him. And his attention is so fixed on it and it won't run that he's never noticed the wreath.

Well, just add that up as a straight observation of a preclear.

I'll tell you a funny story with regard to that. Processed a preclear one time that had a missing ear. Ear was totally missing—gone. Zip. I assumed the preclear knew all about this missing ear. How stupid can an auditor get, see? Wasn't getting anyplace on him at all. He didn't seem to have anything else wrong with him. He was doing all right. Had a few freckles, but they're allowable. Finally in desperation I said, "How did you lose your ear?" This was the wrong question. It didn't take me long to find out it was the wrong question, either. Not that he blew up. Not that he blew up, but I had asked him how he lost it, not "Have you got an ear?"

Now, you'd say it was utterly impossible for an individual to go around without an ear for a long time and not know that he didn't have an ear. This fellow knew all the time he didn't have an ear, but he didn't know he didn't have an ear, don't you see? And all of his difficulties and so forth were surrounding the incident of the ear, and in order to get rid of those difficulties and forget them, he had to forget that he didn't have an ear, too. Don't you see?

—L. Ron Hubbard

Excerpted from the lecture SKULL GAZING

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Continuing to create and perceive life
An observation of the preclear
The Power of Simplicity lectures
 


The Power of Simplicity


"Once upon a time there was a little thetan. And he was a happy little thetan and the world was a simple thing. It was all very, very simple. And then one day somebody told him he was simple. And ever since that time he's been trying to prove that he is not."
—L. Ron Hubbard

A thetan in his native state is utterly simple—and powerful.

But colliding with the seemingly endless and intricate complexities of living in the MEST universe, a being can find himself unable to hold a position, unable to perceive, unable to duplicate or act as well as he knows he truly can.

In this series, Ron covers in detail the factors of simplicity and complexity, relating them to such Scientology® fundamentals as creation, confront, communication, the ARC triangle, the Tone Scale, games, duplication, confusion and the stable datum and the basics of education and learning.

The lectures:

  • Opening Lecture
  • Mimicry
  • Complexity
  • More on Mimicry
  • Mechanics
  • Scale of Reality
  • "CRA" Triangle
  • Cut Comm Lines (In and Out)
  • Games Versus No-Games
  • Learning Rates
  • The Mind
  • Education: Point of Agreement
  • Rest Points and Confusion
  • Coordination of Classes of Processes
  • Windup on Stable Datum and Rest Points
  • Radiation
  • Time Track
  • Creation
  • Simplicity
  • Skull Gazing
  • Simplicity Versus Alter-Isness
  • Aberration and the Sixth Dynamic
  • Training Methods
  • Diagnoses: How To
  • Summary Lecture
  • Farewell Lecture

From the first lecture of this series through to the last, Ron explores and clarifies the basic mechanics upon which life in this universe is based. The fundamental data he gives on confront, simplicities and complexities, creation, the time track and much more, equips one with the wisdom necessary to create desirable changes in the conditions of life and to better operate as an OT, no matter one's case level.

Containing 2 binders, 26 lectures, transcripts and glossary.

Retail Price: $520.00
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