Self-determinism and correction of an individual
"The
correction of a childnow get that as a definition of
what dives a psychotic back into the pastit's correction.
He misfigures for the future. He knows he's been wrong because
loss has occurred. Now he wants to remember it so that in
future futures, he will not again make the same mistake and
lose. So he's predicting the future from the present by addressing
the past. And this is very silly.
"That's
experience, I know. And the whole world runs on it, I know.
But if you take the level of determinism of individuals who
have been corrected a great deal and the level of determinism
of individuals who haven't been corrected a great deal, and
you'll find out you have two entirely different levelsthe
one who hasn't been corrected will have a much higher level.
"The
MEST universe does the most uncompromising correction; it's
much worse than Mama.
"When
you step out into space in the MEST universe in a body, you
fall. It corrects that error right now by punishing it. That's
an error and you mustn't do that, and so you'll remember the
fall and therefore you won't step out into space again. The
answer to that is 'What you doing in a body?' All right."
L. Ron Hubbard

This
excerpt has been taken from the
The Factors: Admiration & the Renaissance of Beingness
lectures.
How do you attract prosurvival attention?
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 they think you've
got a few bucks. It's wonderful. I mean, insurance brokersall
your time is 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.
Success from listening to the lectures:
"Life becomes grand, more aesthetic
and worthwhile..."
"Admiration is so powerful it can as-is ANY unwanted
situation. I didn't really have that viewpoint before I
listened to these lectures, but now I do. Life becomes grand,
more aesthetic and worthwhile. I also handled an unwanted
situation in my life by flowing admiration to it and a person
connected to the unwanted situation. Just by doing what
it said in the lectures blew the problem away, and in its
place I put something I created something theta and
productive!" B.M.
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