Before Time and Before Earth
An article by L. Ron Hubbard,
from the Scientology: Milestone One lectures
Well, I studied and I thought and I studied and I thought and figured and figured
and
You know, the first thing I knew, I saw the machine dive on "before
time." It says, "before time." "Has anything ever happened
before time?"wondering whether or not somebody might not be pre-aberrated.
And the machine just started going crazy. "Before time."
BEFORE TIME
"Did something happen before time? Did somebody aberrate us before time?"
And all of a sudden you get this horrible picture, this horrible idea of maybe
this is hell and once we lived in heaven, and somebody came along and picked us
up and said, "Mmm. You're a bad'un!" took us before a tribunal or a
council and then dumped us on the chute and we arrived here on Earth. Crash. Well,
this is not very solid. But the lady went off the top of the dial on running the
first part of it. The first time I've ever seen anybody go off a psychometer,
all the way up, off the top. And we only ran just a little bit of it.
And then I tailor-made the idea, thinking that this was all by counter-thought
in some fashiondone by counter-thought in some weird way. I figuredall
of a sudden realized we had the Handbook for Preclears, and there had a
map. It's from "not-know" to "know," it's from "effect"
to "cause." In other words, if we run the cycle backwards, we will run
time in reverse; therefore regret will vanish off not-knowing, and a person would
theoretically go through this incident from not-knowing to knowing, not-knowing
to knowing, not-knowing to knowing, and pretty soon would get into the state of
knowing, running this incident. Fascinating. Ah-ha!
After I ran it for a while, experimented with it a bit more, located it in
other people, and ran into something I had known of in mysticismthe third
eye. This eye of the soul, the jewel eye, so forth, lot of complimentary things
about this. And then suddenly located circuits. The second I located this, I located
circuits. What are circuits? Circuits are divisions of your own mind which seem
to make up other personalities, and these other personalities affect you and argue
with you and so forth. And here was a brand-new therapy.
THE JEWEL SOUL
What you did was taken the youngest circuitthat is, the last one, closest
to present timeand find out which circuit back of that had set it up; and
you went back through about four circuits and you blew out those four incidents,
and you would turn on this eye. Only one thing wrong with itthe eye turned
out to be an engram. Get this: The jewel soul, the soul of souls, the super-valuable
entity, turned out to be about the most lousy, stinking trick ever done on the
human race! It's a manic of sorts.
Once upon a time, a fellow by the name of Henry Ford said, "Undoubtedly,
lying under the seas of the world are railroad tracks, rusting away, the forgotten
and hidden relic of former great civilizations." Mh-hm. I don't know about
Atlantis. I haven't been therenot lately.
Now, this was very interesting that we all of a sudden began to turn up with
information which was not B.T. but B.E.before earth. But that could also
be merely before this civilization, if you want it to be that way, if you wanted
to make it that way. And we really started localizing this stuff. It had on it
thought, emotion and effort. And it is simply a manic which degrades, and it's
laid in on a pattern.
THE SUPERSONIC SOUND
Well, I guess if you were a civilized people and you kept being hit by the
barbarians and your patrols kept getting cut down and so forth, you'd eventually
do something about it too. Particularly if you had supersonic sound and you knew
how to lay in an engram, even if you didn't know how to pick one up.
When did it happen? Maybe a million years ago. I can't get a proper estimate
on it in terms of time, but it's some such order of magnitude. What were we and
who were we?
Well, they did a nice, thorough job. They hit you in the middle of the head
with a supersonic pellet and they said this would make you good and happy and
cheerful and honorable. And of course it took you way down the Tone Scale. It's
the supersonic equivalent of a prefrontal lobotomy. And then they hit you in the
stomach to produce anxiety.
Sound. Did it with sound. Wonderful gimmick. And is that stuff sticky! And
I'd run into this somatic on preclears before and I thought it was just a board,
like a board had been pushed up againstthe fellow had been squashed. And
it would never release.
The way you release it is get it as sound, get it as a vibration and try to
keep it from vibrating, and all of a sudden the thing will start blowing out.
Turn on the eye, try to keep it from vibrating; you'll get the rest of it. It'll
take quite a while to do. But you can feel yourself go down Tone Scale as this
stuff hits you.
Who did it? Why? I'm sure I don't knowyetas completely as I might.
But, boy, I'd sure like to find some of those guys!
If this were just found in one person here and there, this would be one thing.
But it isn't. It's pretty uniform. And the availability of that eye, to some degree,
establishes a person's effort to get out of it. You see, when you're yourself
you'd have that. Well that'd be pretty bad because you'd be half asleep or three-quarters
asleep. When you're running past deaths, what were you running into? You were
running into this thing.
Now, I'm talking to you about a research line as sober and as consistent as
any research line was ever conducted. A relentless searcha very relentless
searchto find the wild variable. You followed all the laws you knew about
thought, all the laws you knew about mind, and it didn't quite turn out right.
There was something there; somebody was stealing the second apple. What was it?
Well, this was it. Now, you all look very grim. (laughter)
When you get around to this thing, there's real honest-to-goodness terror in
it. It's practically all the terror there is on a case. It's the anxiety stomach,
it's your fear of arrest, it's your fear of being mauled around, it's your unwillingness
to be, and it's alsoGod help us allthe installed circuits.
They put a man on one side and a woman on the other side, and every time you've
been jealous, every time you've been upset, one of these things has gone into
restimulation and come back and kicked you. Aw, what a dirty trick!
Now, of course, this has lasted for a long time.
THE CIRCUITRY
I wouldn't dare tell you about any part of this and so excite your incredulity
unless I could show it to you in processing, and unless it was a very, very fast
route out. And it's a very fast route. It takes quite a while to coax a preclear
sometimes into running it and to get out all of its manifestations and to get
his sonic on full in it and to run all the columns backwards and forwards until
a person does get up to "know." But every time in the past when you
tried to say, "I know," you've come up there and this confounded incident
would kick in and say, "No, you don't!" And down you'd go.
Every time you tried to say, "I am cause, I amount to something, I'm important,"
this incident would kick in and say, "No, you're a slave."
And in addition to that, circuitry setups: They gave you somebody to walk through
life with you and keep you on the straight and narrow. Also to obey their laws
and like them. And to stop shooting their patrols to pieces!
THE ADVANCED SOCIETY
Evidently this was an advanced society which moved ina society possibly
not even as advanced as ourswhich moved in suddenly on almost a cave society,
almost Stone Age. Maybe it was planets that got crossed. Or maybe it was merely
continents that got crossed. People would hardly know that. But whatever it was,
here was a retarded society being suddenly hit.
Here was the story of the Polynesians; here is the story of Tahiti. A barbaric
but very happy, very dignified, very cheerful, honorable people that suddenly
objected to someone coming in and say, "We're going to make your laws now
and you stack that wood over there and draw that water." And so you said,
"No-o! Workers of the world will now arise." And you started
cutting them to pieces. And they objected to this naturally.
ELECTRONICS
So they evidently cooked upmaybe they did it this way. Some places they
might have done it one way, some places they did it another way. They might have
cooked up a big story about "this is the great thing to do; this is the stuff.
We're gods and we're really going to make you into gods, and
" Pow!
"We'll fix you up." Bap! "Turn on the sound." Actually, the
sound box they've got runs with a crank. I don't think they even had electric
motors. But there's some sound like electricity in there.
The poor fellows who manage power stations! Ohhh! I often wondered why they
were so crazy. I often wondered why when you got into the navy and you'd listen
to a ship's generators pulse, pulse, pulse, pulse, pulse, all night long in the
air vents and so forth, that you'd eventually get kind of groggy. And you'd wonder
what was wrong with your headyou have a headache. And you'd notice this
amongst the men.
Well, I had an electric typewriter and it sat there and it whined and whined
and roared and roared and roared, and it put years and millions of words' worth
of lock on top of this, with all the postulates in it. It's made the case kind
of rough. But it was this one.
Now, separating it out and getting the locks of electric motors and that sort
of thing off of it, we were starting to whip ourselves. That's why we started
to go down the line in a hurry. We had a choice, then: we were either "them"
and vicious, mean and degrading, or ourselves with somatics. From that point on,
that was our choice: either to be mean, wicked, ornery, vicious, degrading your
fellow man, but very thorough and ride over everything, about 1.8 or 1.5; or if
you wanted to be good, decent, noble or upstandinglung somatics, nose somatics,
bad eyes, headaches and general frailty. Because you'd have to take one
or the other.
Therefore, anybody confronted by somebody being good
You see, if a person
is confronted by somebody being very good and very honorable, the valence is stolen
to some degree you see, and they have a tendency to flick into this other valence.
And when you've got somebody being very mean and very wicked, you have a tendency
to flick over into the good valence. And this has been this endless drama going
on, on, on. Hrrrr.
It's easy to run this incidentdo it with thought, emotion and effort.
Very simple to run it. What's difficult to run is, is this supersonic is so solid
that you have to realize that it was such a kind of a wave in order to run it
at all. Before that it wouldn't budge, because you couldn't get a preclear to
run a vibration. He thought he was just being pushed, and as a push it didn't
go away. And it hit there, and it hit there, and it hit there. Somatics are with
it and so on. A person kind offeel awful crippled up running this thing.
How many hours it takes the average person to run this, I don't know. But I
know that running it runs you off the top of the scale.
L. Ron Hubbard, from the lecture DISCOVERY OF FACSIMILE ONE
Excerpted
from the Scientology: Milestone One lectures.
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