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"The power of decision is actually the power of sanity.

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"If you just mercilessly search out of your life, in the actions and the common actions of your life, all of the maybes on a decision level, and if you suddenly assert your decisions where you have withheld decisions, I can guarantee you that your life will smooth out pretty well. If you do that in a big office, for instance, where there's a big staff, it may very well be that by asserting your decisions they fire you straight out the door. That's where you belong, then. You're a lot better off outside that door. If this environment has smothered your power of decision, you don't belong in it. Most of the indecision which you will meet in life is strictly based around choice of environment and the ability to exert decision in that environment." —L. Ron Hubbard

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

 
 

To Be or Not To Be
An article by L. Ron Hubbard, from The Route to Infinity lectures

I would like to talk to you about decision.

Decision is, you will discover, one of the fundamental points of indecision and one of the fundamental reasons why people are sane or insane. Decision.

You see, decision is a short way of saying choice. And choice, of course, is the keynote of self-determinism. To determine anything, you must have the choice to determine. Choice to determine means that you must have the power of decision.

Automatically, you will discover—automatically, in any case—that the one thing that is holding up beingness is indecision, a maybe.

In any engram that presents itself to be run—in any engram that presents itself to be run, there is a maybe: two choices which are relatively evenly balanced and their even balancing make an irresolution.

Now, there's a great deal to do with time in decision. Decision and time have a lot in common. When we have clean, clear decision, we have clean, clear time. And when we have an indecision, there is an unclarity about time. If you are trying to decide anything and having a difficulty in trying to decide that thing, the root of its trouble is time. Not even necessarily data; it's time. There's a time hang-up there somewhere. And if you look for that back of the data, usually the data becomes needless.

Decision: The basic decision that life makes, that theta makes, is "to be or not to be." Shakespeare's famous line: "To be or not to be: that is the question." Hamlet was in very, very bad condition that day. He was hung up on the squarest maybe that anyone can be hung up on.

If you see someone facing a new job—a choice of whether or not he's going to continue with his old job or take a new job—you may think that he is resisting change or a lot of other things, and so on. He's not anything. I mean, he is hung up until he decides one way or the other on a beingness situation. So that any beingness situation where you had a "to be or not to be" on a case becomes itself the most aberrative situation.

Running an engram is really, basically, only necessary until the preclear has reached, of his own volition and evaluation, the decision he didn't make. He's found the maybe in his life. He's found that maybe. And having found the maybe, it is clearly enough in view so that he can resolve it or evaluate its importance, and the rest of the engram will blow. It'll disappear—become completely unaberrative.

Postulates are important only because postulates are the root material of decision. That is to say, you have the decision and you make the postulate to resolve the decision. "To be or not to be" is action or inaction, existence or no existence.

—L. Ron Hubbard, from the lecture DECISION

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

    solutions.
    time.
    ideas.

2. 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.

3. Illusions are:
    the one thing on the track that is most aberrative.
    way up the Tone Scale.
    a create, counter create, effort, counter effort.
4. Do you need experience?
    yes, it is important in the evaluation of decisions.
    no, it's another operation.
5. 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.
6. What are muscles?
    muscles are 100% MEST.
    muscles are efforts and counter-efforts.
    facsimiles of terrific effort.
7. What is the ultimate personality of you?

    the ultimate personality of you is tone 40 and 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.

8. 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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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

For the first time in the history of this universe you can find out the answers to these questions. They are all contained in The Route to Infinity lectures.

You get 7 lectures on CD with transcripts, glossary and a supplement of related issues from the time period. To aid your study of this series, glossaries at the back of each transcript booklet define the terms used in those lectures. The supplement contains a master glossary and index, covering both lectures and references.

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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 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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