Apr 16, 2008

Why people have trouble with bodies

"Now, it happens — it happens that man has reached a point in his track where he either starts to run these machines or they'll run him right on out and off this planet. See, he either has to start to run this equipment or it's going to run him out. Why? Because it is so easy to depend on equipment.

"Now, people have trouble with bodies because they depend on bodies to get them around, which is about the silliest thing anybody ever looked at when he really starts to look at this. If you want a good laugh, get an intensive sometime. It's one of the silliest things to just be carting bodies around all the time and so on. People have trouble with these bodies. Now, why do they have trouble with bodies? They have trouble with bodies because they are dependent upon bodies; they cannot do without them."

L. Ron Hubbard

Excerpted from the London Congress on Human Problem


Being efficient with your body

An article by L. Ron Hubbard,
from the London Congress on Human Problems

 

You boot somebody out of his body — he doesn't know the time, the square root of zero, the Einstein theory, and as a matter of fact he just goes completely stupid. He does. He couldn't even tell you who his mother was. Why? You separate him from the mass, you separate him from something that he thinks is doing all of his "memorying" anyhow — his brain. Although how a brain remembers anything I don't know. I had a brain once, and I asked it some questions and so forth, but it just sat there in the alcohol.

But here he is — here he is, dependent upon this thing for locomotion, commotion and all kinds of other "-otions." He's dependent upon it. He says, "I cannot do without it." And that's about the silliest thing that anybody ever said. You get somebody three feet back of his head and exercised up and squared around on the subject of mass and so forth, and he says, "What am I doing with that thing!"

And you say, "Now, it's the social thing to do, old boy, to carry it around."

He'll say, "Oh, no." And he'll take care of it, he'll do well with it and so forth, but he has gotten over needing it. And what do you know? The body gets well.

Why does the body get well? What's this got to do with it? Well, I tell you. There's this thing called a power of choice. And if every time a body wants to sleep you wake it up, and every time a body wants to eat you make it wait a bit, and every time a body wants to take a vacation you go back to work at eight o'clock the next morning, you'll see that its power of choice is continually upset. In other words, its needs are not rather uniformly answered. Why? Because it is pressed into the continuous emergency of affairs. It is in a continuous state of emergency. That is to say, it has to get here and it has to go there and it has to do that and it has to do something of the sort, and a fellow driving one of these machines after a while just drives it out through the bottom.

Well, that's not because the body is overworked. It's because the body has no choice particularly. And if a fellow doesn't need a body all the time to do all of his thinking and entertaining and everything else for him, he can put it down on a couch and let it sleep once in a while; he can let it eat once in a while, you know?

The thetan is trying like mad to protect the body. Various other things occur in relationship to bodies, but this is not a lecture on health — in spite of the program. His dependency on it has reduced the only ability present — the thetan's. The body doesn't have any ability. You put it down on a couch and it'll just stay there. You put it down at a table, it won't even pick up a fork. It just sits there. It's alive, the heart keeps on beating, it keeps on breathing, but it doesn't do anything — not a thing — until a thetan comes along and says go here and go there and do this and do that.

Now, the thetan gets pressed into an emergency level and says go here and go there and do this and do that and do something else so continuously that the function of the body, which is evidently built on so much rest and so much food and so much this and so much that, is overset and we get a bad condition. But most important — most important about this combination of the thetan is the operator. If he is inefficient, he works the body nine times too much. …

In other words, the thetan has become irresponsible with regard to the body — irresponsible. Because the body is it, the body is everything, the body is all that is there and the body does all the work. See? His dependence goes over and creates, then, a state of irresponsibility. And having created this state of irresponsibility, we get a decay of the body. The only thing that is there to be responsible is the being running the machine.

— L. Ron Hubbard

Excerpted from the lecture PERSONNEL EFFICIENCY

This lecture is available in the London Congress on Human Problems

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