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"Just think of some of the things which you wouldn't even begin to do with this piece of MEST which you have, a human body. Just think of it. Every single one of them is an aberration! Heavy.

"Just practice action!

"Be willing to use your body to its complete endurance.

"Be willing to use it in any direction to accomplish a purpose which you have decided on beforehand. And if you do that, all by itself, you'll come up the Tone Scale—whsht! And you can go on from there with more processing."

—L. Ron Hubbard

L. Ron Hubbard
Excerpted from the lecture Decision: Cause and Effect contained in The Route to Infinity lecture series.

 
 

Becoming what you agree with
An article by L. Ron Hubbard, from The Route to Infinity lectures

Reality is another thing, and rather frightening to realize that the only reality you know is that reality—the only reality you know in common with other people, let me put it that way, is that reality on which you and they have agreed. This is an old one in Dianetics, very old one.

We're all sitting here and all of a sudden this cat walks in. We all saw a cat. We agree that thing is a cat. Fellow walks up and he says, "That wasn't a cat, that was a Cadillac."

You say, "It wasn't. It was a cat."

REALITY IS THE MAJORITY OPINION

Well, it's a rather pointless argument because all reality is established by is the majority opinion. One for you to think about. All the reality there is, really, is the majority opinion.

So you get into a minority on reality and people start really fighting you. They say, "He must be crazy. He doesn't agree with us." Well, their reality might be entirely a psychotic reality in that it was not good for their beingness. They've all decided not to be, you see? They say, "Well, we'll just—what's real here is not-beingness. Nothing exists; that's real. We have all agreed that nothing exists."

The United States right now is on the very astonishing basis of "We have all agreed the atom bomb does not exist. Ha! Well, it doesn't exist!" There's only one unfortunate thing about that, is they are not joined in that agreement with Russia. The atom bomb would practically cease to exist if everybody in the United States and everybody in Russia, or even the majorities in both places, were in perfect agreement that the atom bomb didn't exist. Or if they were even in agreement that it was not a—that it was not a threat, it would cease to be a threat. That would be a real thing, then, wouldn't it?

THE MEST UNIVERSE

Well, enough people agreed hard enough one time about the MEST universe to make various things in the MEST universe. And that's the long and short of it and that's why you got a MEST universe. That's reality!

But if you go around searching for what people say you must face and call reality—in other words, if you go around obeying this thing "Well, the only thing that's wrong with you can be healed and so forth if you just face reality. Now, if you will just pay me twenty-five dollars an hour and face reality, we'll all be nuts." Excuse me, I mean, we'll all be rich. That's wrong too, because the patient would be poor. That is your standard therapeutic advice, however. Face reality! In other words, agree with everybody!

BECOMING WHAT YOU AGREE WITH

Well, I don't know how sick you can get reading Dale Carnegie*, but it's not well, because to some slight degree you become that with which you agree. If you agree that the desert is a dirty place, you will become dirty. Blunt as that. You become to some degree that with which you agree. And the only way you can escape it is to go up—high enough up the Tone Scale so that you are creating an illusion for yourself.

I saw a cartoon one day, a wonderful cartoon, a wonderful cartoon. It said, "Doctor, I just go on day after day facing the same grim reality." He had learned to face reality 100 percent and he was a sick man.

YOUR ILLUSIONS

What you've got to teach a man to learn, if you are going to teach him to learn anything, is you've got to teach him to face his own illusions. To hell with his reality. Everybody has got reality. Throw it overboard.

You start agreeing with every reality that you run into and you will have a good time!

Now, in Dianetics you go out in the society and you wonder why you have gone out of communication just a little bit. It's because you don't any longer agree with their reality. You've said their reality is too MEST. Because, you see, reality is on this gradient scale too.

GOING OUT OF COMMUNICATION

And you've seen a society which is perfectly willing to be in chaos. What's this? This thing is in chaos; it's a solid chaos. It's going in all directions this way and so on, and it's going all so furiously and so fast and with so much force that it became solid, and so there it is, a solid chaos.

And you get the society as it goes down the Tone Scale it approaches that chaos. And when you get a living culture which has gone down the line to where it doesn't care about this and it doesn't care about that and it says this is that and so on, and so on and so on, it's getting too close to being a dead culture. And you, being a little higher up the Tone Scale, say, "Hey. I don't want to be that dead." That second, you've gone out of agreement with it. So your reality goes out of it and you go out of communication with it....

AESTHETIC BEINGNESS

And you can say, just bluntly, that there will be as much communication as there is affinity; there will be as much agreement as there is communication; there will be as much affinity as there is communication. They just interact, interact—any of the three points.

So, you've got this whole band. If you want to go up Tone Scale, you'll finally arrive at the beingness which is an aesthetic beingness, and there alone is enough horsepower to come right around and actually create or disintegrate matter. I snuck up on you with that one, but that's what you do.

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

*Dale Carnegie: (1888-1955) American lecturer and author who wrote How to Win Friends and Influence People. The book stresses the importance of getting along with everyone you meet, and includes advice on interpersonal relations such as "Never tell a man he is wrong," and "In talking with people . . . begin by emphasizing—and keep on emphasizing—the things on which you agree." Carnegie's ideas were based originally on public speaking—later he extended them to include salesmanship and psychology.

Excerpted from The Route to Infinity lectures.

 
OT Quiz
Test your knowledge of The Route to Infinity lectures
Select the correct answer to the questions below:


1. Can you plot the Tone Scale with the dynamics?

    yes.
    no.

2. As a person's tone goes up he gets less:

    dense.
    controllable.
    idealistic.

3. If the world is not beautiful for someone, find out:

    the point at which he emanates an overt act and resolve the maybe.
    where the person destroyed his self-determinism.
    where he killed it for someone else.

4. How do you not discover a secret of existence?

    back up from it and sit still.
    interiorize into the problems of the humanities.
    look in the wrong places for the wrong why.

5. As you go down the Tone Scale you get into more and more:

    solutions.
    time.
    ideas.

6. 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.

7. Illusions are:
    the one thing on the track that is most aberrative.
    way up the Tone Scale.
    a create, counter-create, effort, counter-effort.
8. Do you need experience?
    yes, it is important in the evaluation of decisions.
    no, it's another operation.
9. 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.
10. What are muscles?
    muscles are 100% MEST.
    muscles are efforts and counter-efforts.
    facsimiles of terrific effort.
11. What is the ultimate personality of you?

    the ultimate personality of you will create decisions and enact upon 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.


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Make your decisions from the top of the Tone Scale!

Why are these lectures important?

The material covered in this series is designed to remove the self-created barriers that keep a person from arriving at sane, prosurvival decisions. In these lectures, Ron introduces the gradient scale of beingness, from zero to infinity, and thus bridges the gap between a being's ideal and current conditions.

These lectures bridge from whole track experience to infinite ARC and chart the path from indecision to a far more ideal statewhere life can be lived with the velocity, passion and purpose that only uninhibited beingness can bring to it.

Here are some examples of what you will find out in this series:

  • Why people go way uptone when they fall in love
  • How you can handle a body so it never gets tired
  • What makes a thetan susceptible to being implanted
  • Why the power of decision is the power of sanity
  • The root of any trouble in making decisions
  • What the point is from which you emanate
  • What the state of ultimate beingness is
  • How to make life much less serious
  • Why childhood is occluded
  • What the symbol of the circle, triangle, zero and infinity means
  • How time relates to one's position on the Tone Scale
  • How to disintegrate any situation or incident
  • How to get into communication with any part of your body
  • How a being's illusions become reality
  • What wavelength to use to get rid of the material universe
  • The two rules of cause and effect

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Success story from listening to these lectures:

"Without the data from those lectures [The Route to Infinity], I never would have dreamed such a wild dream, and been able to hold it there until it came true."

"My wife and I have been Scientologists for over 25 years. For a variety of reasons, we got stalled on The Bridge; I was at Clear, my wife at OT III. Although we had the purpose and intention to move up The Bridge, it just wasn't happening. As any Scientologist would agree, this creates a serious failed purpose.

"I started listening to The Route to Infinity lectures while in my car, driving to and from sales and service calls, and a key datum that Ron repeats frequently began to sink in. From my own duplication of LRH, it was as follows: The MEST universe is a reality only because we all agree to it, but that it is really an illusion, and a shabby one at that. One's own universe is the actuality. As a thetan slides down the scale, he reverses this concept, so that his own universe becomes a seemingly insignificant illusion, the MEST universe becomes the 'reality,' and that the actuality is lost to that thetan.

"Somewhere around the fourth lecture, the datum finally sunk in, and I cognited on what he was saying: That the reason I was so pressed back, having my intention blunted etc., was because I believed that I could 'survive' only if I agreed with MEST until it would permit me to survive. When I got home, I put aside all of the problems I was facing, located myself in the room I was in, and then created the illusion that I was in fact quite successful in anything I wanted to be, that had all of the space I needed, and could enjoy the game of life, and get up The Bridge.

"Less than two weeks later, I pulled in the money to get going on The Bridge again, and to do it full time. This year, I have moved from 'Stalled Clear' to OT IV. My wife has completed OT IV and V, and in less than two months, we will be going to Flag for VI and VII.

"Now, from this viewpoint, I see that I was imprisoned in a structure of my own making, unable to get out, even though I was holding the key in my hand, which I had forgotten about, and I wasn't even aware that I held anything in my hand.

"Without the data from those lectures, I never would have dreamed such a wild dream, and been able to hold it there until it came true.

"I share this data with you with the hope and postulate that you can use the data in these lectures, and if you are stuck, trapped, or blunted on your progress up The Bridge, I cannot recommend this data highly enough." —M.T., OT IV

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