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"And when your thought gets into bad shape and you're not directing it well at all, it'll turn into matter eventually, but the wrong way! So that when you try to go in through MEST energy and action into the real universe just as such—MEST action only, with no aesthetic, no art, no dream, none of these things you're just going to go into the present, and that's not good enough. It's good enough for a raving psychotic to be in present, but it's not good enough for you.

"Now, when you take the will to do action and to that you add aesthetics, shape, form, dreams, illusion, now you're moving up into the real band of sanity. That is the real band.

"There's an old, old poem that says, 'And the best of a man is gone when the best of his dreams is dead.' And it finishes up to the effect that when the last of his dreams is dead, he's dead too. And that's very true. But actually, when the last of his dreams is dead, he's just moved into present time only. That's a hideous place to be! So I just give you the difference of goals."

—L. Ron Hubbard

L. Ron Hubbard
Excerpted from The Route to Infinity lectures.

 
 

Aesthetics and the Tone Scale
An article by L. Ron Hubbard, from The Route to Infinity lectures

And then we go way up on the Tone Scale to a figure that looks like a point that many zeros out, and we get the wavelength of aestheticsvery, very high. And yet not so high that we couldn't duplicate it today with our electronics. But it's way up there! That's aesthetics.

And you get a person as he drops down the Tone Scale, he becomes less and less able to do aesthetics or appreciate aesthetics. One of the most aberrative incidents you had in yourin this lifetime, by the way, was running up to one of your parents and saying, "It's pretty," and they say, "Well, Junior, wash your hands for dinner." In other words, they said, "Aestheticsphhh. Aestheticsnah. What you want to be is practical!" The use of "practicality" is very poor.

But do you know that the aesthetic wavelength and that band immediately below it and above it and aroundthe mid-band of aestheticsis practically a disintegrator wave; it just thaws through all thought of a lower tone.

You can produce a piece of beauty or, if you please, an aesthetic ugliness of such magnitude that you just stop people in their tracks! You can blow away and erase their anger, hate, discomfort or anything else with an aesthetic.

But when you can generate an aesthetic that high, you are so high up the Tone Scale that you practically own them. And they realize it, and they say, "Hm! Oh!"

The way you really fix up a society is to kill all its artists, like they do in the United States. They don't let an artist exist in this country. One of the things they do is they try to teach him in the university. You can't teach the guy aesthetics. He has to come clear down here on the band of the Tone Scalephewto get into MEST communication level with somebody who is going to teach him about something which iswhssht!way up here. Can't do it. An artist is an artist. And any one of you is an artist if you are up in that band, if you can emanate that band. Nothing, nothing under the sun will mold up faster than that band. It'll go into anything.

A story somebody mentioned to me the other night: a verya crowd became very angry at an artist in some ancient civilization; it became furious with this artist because he has taken a slave and had made the slave pose so long and so arduously that the slave had sickened and died. And the artist had used him as a model, and the crowd grew very, very angry and they were storming his doors and about to tear the house down, when the artist simply walked out and held up the picture he had made of that slave. And the crowd stopped, and that stopped all the motion as far as they were concerned and they went home. That was the answer.…

Now, there's communication. And the highest level of communication there is, is art, and the lowest level there is, is a whip. And you can take your choice in a society of whether or not it's going to be an aesthetic or a whip.

—L. Ron Hubbard, from the lecture WAVELENGTHS OF ARC

Excerpted from The Route to Infinity lectures.

 
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1. What is the most horrible trick played on anybody?

    Convince the person he only lived one lifetime.
    Force him to sin.
    Trick the person by creating an indecision.

2. Illusions are:
    The one thing on the track that is most aberrative.
    Way up the Tone Scale.
    A create, counter create, effort, counter effort.
3. Do you need experience?
    Yes, it is important in the evaluation of decisions.
    No, it's another operation.
4. What is matter?
    Matter is the most important component part of MEST.
    Thetans like matter because it's more real than his own form.
    Matter is dead thought.
5. What are muscles?
    Muscles are 100% MEST.
    Muscles are efforts and counter-efforts.
    Facsimiles of terrific effort.
6. What is the ultimate personality of you?

    The ultimate personality of you is tone 40 and will create decisions and enact them in the physical universe.
    The ultimate personality of you has certain definite characteristics and they are written across the Chart of Attitudes.
    The ultimate personality of you is theta the solver.

7. Why will locks not blow on some preclears?

    An engram chain is in restimulation to a very marked degree.
    They've got to have this memory bank because this memory bank is them.
    There is a counter-effort lock chain in restimulation.

 


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