The identity of the thetan
"Thetans begin to believe they have no identity of their own. They don't think they can be spotted they hope! That's their, well, saving grace, they say, 'Well, I cannot be identified. As a thetan, I cannot be identified but as a body I can be identified and if I adopt other identities, why, then I will have an identity because I have no identity of my own.' Actually, people have simply invalidated him as a thetan to a point where he believes he has no identity unless he adopts something to give him identity. And what are we back to now? We're back to the first basic-basic: Rock."

Excerpted from the London Clearing Congress lectures
The Rock: The first basic-basic
An article by L. Ron Hubbard
from the London Clearing Congress lectures
Now, this thing called the Rock has been known to be found in cases; its habitat its habitat is in the genus preclearus. It is usually the thing that makes the preclear's bank more solid.
Now, it's called the Rock, not because it is a Rock in every case, but simply because it's called the Rock. And that's all the information I can give you on it because I think that's all that is known concerning the genus of its name. It's simply the Rock. Not even that it's hard to carry around because you're seldom aware of it.
But where it came from and why it came, and what it is and what it does is unfortunately, the concern of all of us. Back in Dianetics which we have to study all over again if we're going to go up the lines of the certificates and going to do a good job of auditing we had a thing called basic-basic. You ever heard of basic-basic?
Well, after all these years, we finally found what basic-basic was. Basic-basic is an object people used to please people, an object. Basic-basic was a simple geometric object. They started to reach people with this object, and the first time they ever tried to reach people with this object, instead of themselves reaching people, they began the formulation of what became a reactive mind. In other words, it's reachingness on a via. And that is a Rock. Fascinating thing, fascinating thing.
If after all these ages this bit of residue, this mock-up, is still around without you knowing about it, I'd say you were awful clever! You've got enough vias reaching into enough vias that form enough vias, you see, so that you don't know what the first or last via was on the subject and you've got this thing called a Rock.
Now, I don't say you have to have it. You you you personally probably don't have one. You're probably the exception. I mustn't evaluate for you. And here we have, however, this object: a mass of some sort or another, a mass to which people could communicate thinking they were communicating to you.
Well, it kept you from being reached and it kept you from reaching directly. And the next thing you know, you had all sorts of vias going. And maybe it was a lot of fun for a while, but after a while you forgot you had it and then you wondered what all of these engrams and facsimiles were sticking to. What were these mental image pictures sticking to? What made the basis of them all? And evidently that thing is this thing called the Rock.
So, what we're describing, really, is basic-basic and we're simply giving it a new name because we know it better. And that is: It is this thing which a person used to reach people and this thing which a person expected other people to reach, thinking they were reaching him. It's a communication via is all it is. But it happens to be a solid object, and it happens to be a simple geometric form.
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Now we know by experience that everyone has a reactive mind. That we can tell pretty well. If somebody didn't have a reactive mind, he's out he's out there doing things the like of which nobody else is doing. He'd be quite spectacular as a human being or he wouldn't be here at all. And it doesn't say then that everybody has a reactive mind. It just says those people we are interested in and those cases which are around do have reactive minds.
Well, if they have reactive minds, they've evidently got some kind of a Rock to hold it together because these reactive minds, by our experience with thousands and thousands and thousands of cases, are hung together on some basic idea or object. And that basic idea or object is that thing which holds together the remaining facsimiles, engrams, chains, secondaries, locks, machines and the rest of it which we know as the reactive mind in Dianetics, which Freud knew as the subconscious mind.
L. Ron Hubbard
Excerpted from the lecture THE ROCK
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