The anatomy of the time
track
An
article by L. Ron Hubbard, from
The Power of Simplicity lectures
Now, the anatomy of
a time track is of extreme interest, since
it is a mechanism by which a thetan seeks
to defeat time. I'll go over that again very
slowly. A time track is a mechanism by which
a thetan seeks to defeat time and recover
the havingness which the automaticity of time
repeatedly costs him. Follow this?
Pocketa-pocketa-pocketa;
there goes time. The walls now are not the
walls then; the walls then are not the walls
now. Boppeta-boppeta-boppeta.
Fellow gets married,
losses a wife. In the final analysis, what
cost him a wife? Time. He hasn't got her,
he did have her; that's that. Obviously,
the villain is time.
Fellow buys a new car,
runs into a D.C. or a London driver: no
havingness. What cost him a car? Time. Fellow
was rich, now he's poor. What cost him his
wealth? Obviously, time. Obviously, he had
it, didn't he? He can remember having had
it. He hasn't got it. Therefore, the wealth
was in the past, so he was cost wealth by
time. Quite obvious.
Fellow has a beautiful
game going: He has a planet with everybody
in revolt. Beautiful game. People getting
shot in all directions. Electrocardiograph
catches up with himhe has spoken from
the heart once too oftenand he has
no beautiful game. Gone, all that lovely
confusion. What cost him that? Time.
Time is an agreed-upon
consideration by which we get rid of the
things we don't want. Time is an agreed-upon
consideration by which we inherit things
which we don't have yet. Time is a beautiful
consideration and is, of course, the heart
of motion. Motion is simply motion; time
is time. We record the postulate time by
the change of particles in space. We record
time by the change of position of particles
in space; that's all. That's all we do.
We could say that time
is the change of position of particles
in space, but that's not really true. That
is the mechanics definition, and as such
it does process in the field of mechanics;
it does process in the field of mechanics.
But of course, above the field of mechanics,
we have the entire field of postulates,
and all these changes of position in spaceall
they are is a proven record of the passage
of time.
Not only is the postulate
time there, but we have convinced everybody
that it is there, and then we prove it by
changing the position of a car from A to
B, and we say, "See? Time has went."
Time is basically a postulate or a consideration,
as all things are, and that consideration
came into being in order to produce motion,
randomity, havingness, a game and other
such basic considerations. But weaving through
all of these other considerations we do
have this one consideration of time.
Now, it would be possible
to have without time. That is the one single
exception in the field of mechanics. And
so a thetan tries to defeat this as the
last-ditch effort. And he makes a time track,
and he has pictures on the time track, and
these pictures are the shadows of what has
happened.
Now, actually that
is an inverted universe. That is not his
own universe, usually; that is the universe
he has created by taking pictures of the
stuff as it has gone by. And that is a time
track. The time track is the last vestige
he has of his own universe. All he has left
of his own universe is an ability to make
a picture of other things that have been
made. Now, that is the final analysis of
what a time track is. It is that mechanical
activity of taking pictures of what already
exists and storing these in some orderly
or disorderly fashion in order to have yesterdayat
least have a picture of what has gone by.
That is what most people call their own
universe.
L. Ron Hubbard
Excerpted from the
lecture TIME TRACK
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