Increasing the ability of a spiritual being
"If
you continue to validate the materialistic aspects of existence,
and only validate those things, and if you continue to neglect
the spiritual abilities which are inherent in the being, you
forecast and predict for your auditing, and for what you are
doing, failure all the way along the line. ...
"We're
not talking about a healing science, we're talking about a
science of ability. And part of that ability happens to be,
incidentally, being wellpart of the ability. If we took
a huge disk here, and we cut it up into an infinitely small
number of pie slicesan infinite number, tiny little
pie slices that you couldn't see with a microscopeone
of those would be the ability to stay well, and the rest of
them would be important.
"Therefore,
the direction of processing is successful so long as the auditor
is knowingly aware that he is increasing the ability of a
spiritual beingas long as he's aware of this. Increasing
the ability of a thetan to handle existence."

This
excerpt was taken from Anatomy of the Spirit of Man Congress.
Your power of imagination and invention
An article by
L. Ron Hubbard
excerpted from the Anatomy of the Spirit of Man Congress
lectures.
And when you were a little kid running around, the world
looked real bright, and that stick you had was a horse, and
that doll you had was a live baby, and that house you had
was a castle. Years later, you take a look at these objects
and what do you see? You see a stick, a doll and a very small
house.
What's happened? Why does the world look bright to a child?
No more and no less than this: A child assigns meaning, and
an adult has gone on a one-way flow so long that he lets everything
assign meaning to him. He looks over there, he sees a wall,
so that's a wall. He looks at another person and he says,
"Just a personbody, certain amount of education,
certain amount of liability." He's saying to himself,
"Now I know," you know? "Now I know all about
everything." In other words, "I've stripped the
meaning out of everything. I have the exact, proper assignment
to everything." And then we get what? We get a person
who has a very dull world around him. ...
Well now, there are meanings. There definitely are meanings,
the woof and the warp of the meanings of the world. And as
long as you are anxious about what things really mean and
as long as things are upsetting to youthat is to say,
you know, they might mean this and they might mean thatas
long as you have these feelings about your surroundings, why,
you have a tendency to be rather unhappy about meaning. You
just keep"What is the actual meaning of that wall?"youve
got a nuclear physicist.
He takes a look at a nonexistent atom which exists by agreed-upon
postulate, and so forth, and he says, "Now this means..."and
he has a total agreement of its meaning. See, it's just as
nicegot it all settled, it's all buttoned up, he knows
exactly what it is. But it's a damn lie and all he can do
with it is blow things up. Do you see this? He then has invented,
unknowingly, along with all other inventions, some new meaning
and then has agreed upon it and then has said that this thing
is the truth and thereafter refuses to let himself put any
other meaning into it.
Now he has learned his textbook. He's all set, you see. Well,
the funny part of it is, is there is an exact way in which
that wall got there, in which that man got there, and so on.
There is this exactness. But listen, just because there is
an exact way it all got there is no reason for you to lay
aside your power of imagination and invention, because that's
all the fun you'll ever have.
If a nuclear physicist could look at an atom and say, "What
nice baking soda! That definitely means that if I mix it up
with a professor, I will get an agency," if he had the
freedom to do this, he could come home at night and pat the
little kids on the head and be nice to the wife and eat a
dinner without following it with bicarbonate of soda. But
he doesnt do that. He stays in the laboratory all the
time and the fact that the gamma goes by the square root of
the beta which goes under the lambda and this is all agreed
upon and is all niceonly it's kind of a desperate mystery,
only he's got to find out more about these extant lies. And
he says, "It means just so-and-so. And it's all mathematical,
and I've got it all down in my notebook." And he comes
home and he slaps a kid and he sits down and he"What
you got for dinner? Rrrf!" and takes the baking
soda. Says, "To hell with the world, let's blow it all
up."
Why does he do that? He's lost his power to put any meaning
into it. He doesn't know where it came from, he's agreed with
a lot of lies, and he's stuck with it.
L.
Ron Hubbard
Excerpted from the lecture "GROUP
PROCESSING: ADDITIONAL PROCESSING ON MEANINGNESS"
This lecture is available in the Anatomy of the Spirit of Man Congress lectures.
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