Putting your communication lines out
An article by L. Ron
Hubbard
One
of the "solutions" that was put forward to me a long time ago was put
forward to me very interestingly by a couple of boyswouldn't you know itin
Hollywood. They said, "Well, why don't we get four or five millionaires and
process them all up to Clear. All of us auditors pitch in on it, and then we'd
have plenty of money, and that would be the end of the problem."
And I said, "Be the end of what problem?"
And he said, "Well, the problem about money."
Yeah? There isn't any problem about money. Truth be told, any good printer
can make more money than the government can. Anyway, when you get yourself a niceyou
confront this thing called security, very often it kind of digs you in behind
the ramparts, you know? And you say, "I've kind of got to hold the fort here
somehow or other, because, let's see, I need to make two pounds, because two pounds
is two pounds and if I don't make two pounds
"so on.
I tell you something very funny: Money is an attention unit. A crown, a dollar,
a mark, a franc is simply an attention unit. And do you know that money can be
regarded as attention? And it follows exactly the laws of attention. Isn't that
peculiar!
There is the lucky fluke of the guy who all of a sudden opens up a safe or
something and finds he has eight billion dollars or something and he says, "Now,
I'm going to take this out one dollar after another, and I'm going to keep myself
the rest of my life."
Every once in a while the police tear up some old home and they find some guy
died of starvation, and he had eight hundred thousand dollars parked up in paper
sacks, or something of this sort.
Well, you as an individual will make as much money as you attract prosurvival
attention. You can just absolutelyyou can plot how much money any man is
going to make just with that. You can plot them as they walk into a processing
session. This fellow is going to make so much; his life potential, from here on,
in terms of currency is going to be just this much. It'll be your communication
lag index, because he can get as much attention, prosurvival, as he's in present
time.
Nobody ever got any attention out of present time that was prosurvival. It
was contrasurvival attention; the police arrested him, or something of the sort.
You get the difference of this?
Money flows toward points which attract prosurvival attention. All you've
got to do is stand up there and keep on being prosurvival, and be prosurvival
in a widening communicating sphere and you will just have to start throwing this
stuff away! You just turn your back on it. It gets a little bit tough after a
while. You just have to turn your back on it because money gets you in trouble
faster than anything I know. More people start jumping you the second that youthey
think you've got a few bucks. It's wonderful. I mean, insurance brokersall
your time's taken up with trying to fight off securities salesmen, if you've got
money.
But this is something you kind of ought to put down. You make money as much
as you get attention, and you get as much attention in a society, as far as you
put your communication lines out. And if you don't put your communication points
out in a society, there isn't any flow-in in terms of money. That answers the
buck, but it answers something else at the same time. It tells you to put out
those communication lines. Put them way out.
L. Ron Hubbard, from the lecture, HOW AND WHEN TO AUDIT
Excerpted
from The Factors: Admiration & the Renaissance of Beingness lectures.
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