Cause and creation
An article by L. Ron
Hubbard from The Factors: Admiration & the Renaissance of Beingness lectures.
You'll find out readily enough when you start processing beingness out of a
preclear, you'll find out all of a sudden, by the process which I will give you,
he will recognize something. He'll say, "You know, there's really notthere's
really not an object which is I." This will come to him as a little
bit of a surprise. He'll tell you this; you don't have to even give him a clue.
"There really isn't anything that is I. I don't have a form. I don't
exist, really, except as I
Gee, I'm only trying to be things; I am not anything."
And he gets real upset right about that point.
THE POTENTIAL OF CREATING
Oh, I'm sorry, he is something, he is something. He is a capacity to create.
And if you want to know whether or not a capacity to create is worth being, look
at the pure joy there is in the field of creating arts. If you've ever seen anybody
absorbed in anything, it's a painter with a brush or a kid in a kindergarten with
a crayon. Oh, boy. So that's not a little thing to be at all. And that's what
he is. He is a potentiality of creating something. He is the directive, creative
urge and instinct. He's nothing in terms of matter but he can create any quantity
of it.
So he all of a sudden tells you with horrible feeling that "I can'tI'm
not really anything!"
He's looking for the reason why. I mentioned to you a little earlier people
all come along and they want to know the "reason why," and the reason
I got bogged down originally in this whole work was I knew there was no reason
why for all this. Couldn't find any reason why.
THE PRIOR CAUSE
Well, the hell with the reason why. When you say, "reason why," this
says logic, you see? And what's wrong with your preclear is he gets logical. See?
Your "reason why" is based upon the fact that there is prior cause which
makes me an effect, and the fellow is always pushing himself up the time track
from cause and is never being cause.
So the highest thing a thetan can be is cause of creation, cause of creative
instincts, cause of creative beingness, cause of motivation.
He is motivation! But when he says, "I am not anything," he is saying,
"Nothing existed before I exist, which gives me a form I don't have any further
responsibility for." In other words, he's in the optimum condition.
PERMITTED TO BEING UNLIMITED CAUSE
There is no more condition more optimum than "I am what I create myself
to be at any instant." That is really optimum. That is too juicy. That's
too wonderful. Nobody could be that! And yet, that's what every thetan is!
And he said, "And there's no reason why." He said, "Nobody came
along," he suddenly realized, "nobody came along and gave me a top hat
and said, 'You are now a top hat.' And that's what I'm complaining about."
The fellow is complainingthe fellow is complaining because he is not permitted
to be an effect!
He's complaining because he's being permitted to be unlimited cause. That's
a heck of a thing to complain about, isn't it?
So there is a goal on the line. What do you want? What do you want to make?
What do you want to create? What effect do you want to create? It's just yourswham.
There isn't any more than that.
I mean, you've said the most superlative superlative you could say when you
say somebodysomebody is the potentiality of directed creation.
THE HIDDEN INFLUENCE
He doesn't need facsimiles to remember anything. He doesn't need energy. He
doesn't need terminals. He doesn't even have to communicate with anything if he
doesn't want to. He's cause.
And look at cause up there at the top of the Chart of Attitudes and you will
find that cause goes along with a lot of other desirable things. They're all about at the same band, and all those things exist up there at
that band. All right, enough for that.
What keeps him from being that?
"Oh, there might be a hidden influence."
"Oh, what kind of a hidden influence?"
"Well, there might be."
In fact, he might run into a vacuum. And everybody knows a vacuum pulls in.
That's really the truth. "He might be a vacuum." It doesn't ever occur
to him that he could mock the whole thing up again afterwards.
YOUR ABILITY TO CREATE
So the state of your preclear isactually can be graphed on a curve of
the amount of ability to create which he has retained. The amount of action he
can initiate is also an index. How much action does he initiate? How much is he
willing to do with his hands? All of these various things are indexes.
But the primary index is how much does he wish to independently create? What
is his creational desire? Now, it gets better the better he gets. That is one
index that is just as solid as the Rock of Gibraltar. That is one like the communication
lag index. The creative instinct of the individual: What is this creative instinct?
Your preclear gets as well as that is restored, and it is a beautiful little thing
to work with.
THE CREATIVE INSTINCT AND ITS POWER
Because one day your preclear comes inhe doesn't think you know he's
doing anything particularlyand one day he comes in and he says to you, he
says, "You know, I always wanted to paint, and I bought a brush yesterday."
Here he goes. You don't care whether he ever paints or not. That's a silly thing
to do anyhow, paint. You get it on you and so forth.
But you have restored his creative instinct. Now, it is being directed toward
MEST, you see, handling MEST and meshing the MEST around, and so on. Well, he'll
even unfix from that and he'll get to a much higher level of creation. He wants
creation with duration. That is the level of the painter and that level is way
higher than any level there is out in the society; it's up there in the stars.
It's so incomprehensibly high to Homo sapiens that he'll stand around
and look at a painter with his jaw dropped. And the painter, had a picture exhibited
and thought well of and so on, this is way up in the stars, this is dwelling on
the Olympian heights with the gods.
L. Ron Hubbard, from the lecture, SOP UTILITY
Excerpted
from The Factors: Admiration & the Renaissance of Beingness lectures.
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