Thought being trapped by energy

"Let's look at old Dianetics and discover that the facsimile — that's a very interesting energy picture which individuals mock-up — that this facsimile would contain in it fifty-five separate perceptions, and an individual looking at a facsimile could get kicked back by the facsimile.

"All right, if that's the case — if that's the case then somebody must have thought the thought that energy was superior to thought and could entrap thought. Only if this were the case could an individual who is essentially a thinkingness — not an energyness — could an individual be influenced in his thoughts by the impact of energy."

L. Ron Hubbard

Excerpted from the Universe Processes Congress


Consideration and this universe

An article by L. Ron Hubbard,
from the Universe Processes Congress

 

There's no time in thought. Thought is instantaneous or forever. It doesn't matter. There is no time in thought. How can there be any time in thought? Well, it's just the fact that he's also made up his mind that he can be worked upon by energy because time is in energy; time is the coaction of particles. If time is in energy then, of course, an individual can watch the energy and tell what time it is. And he's agreed and postulated himself that a certain amount of time passage goes by and things that happen over a long period of time are harder to change than things that happen over a short period of time. That isn't correct, but they just made up their mind to that.

Actually a mind can make up its mind to anything. And then make up its mind to change or not to change its mind.

And out of all this we get what? We get the fact that the basic common denominator of all thinkingness is the ability of the mind to consider. To make up its mind about something, just to consider, to make up its mind, to think something is true. If an individual can — is well off he can say (snap) and know that it's true. He can think (snap) and know that it's true. He can (snap) and that first postulate is gone, and (snap) the other one is gone. And (snap) something new is true.

He is the author of truth, not the agreer upon truth. And when he slavishly gets to a level where he can only agree with other people's truths, then he's in difficulty. Then he's in difficulty.

That is the single barrier in all of the teaching of Scientology. The individual knows this instinctively, that he cannot pick up my thoughts and use them as his own. He knows this. And so I try to make it very amply and adequately clear to him what is true about this. I'm not talking about my thoughts. I'm not talking about my thoughts. I'm talking about that series of considerations which have taken place for the last 76 trillion years in this universe which have brought it to pass and to which you've agreed — if you're here, you agreed to them — and to which I agreed, too, or I wouldn't be talking to you about them. So whatever I'm talking to you about in Scientology is actually this point: consideration, our consideration of.

Now, this consideration, of course, has been well codified in Scientology — probably could be much more ably codified because I did it, but an individual getting in there and really doing a scholarly job on it could have done a much better job, I'm sure. Because I wasn't much interested in doing a scholarly job. I just wanted to get an effective job done, and — different goals entirely.

So Scientology has been and is a search into that pattern of considerations which comprise this universe, to discover the common denominators of all considerations to which all of us in this universe are liable, or else we aren't here. It is a study to find the most elementary of the considerations on which the other considerations depend in order to bring about a situation where consideration itself can be altered by the group or by the individual, with ease. If you cannot alter a consideration, you can't have sanity. You have stimulus-response thinking. Unfortunately, if everybody could alter every consideration which he ever had at any time, you wouldn't have a physical universe. As far as we can tell, that comes very close to the truth. Because using these principles, we have gone a long way.

— L. Ron Hubbard

Excerpted from the lecture OPENING LECTURE: HISTORY OF DIANETICS AND SCIENTOLOGY

This lecture is available in the Universe Processes Congress

What's Inside?
Thought being trapped by energy

Consideration and this universe

Universe Processes Congress
 
 

Universe Processes Congress

What are these lectures about?

Delivered in Phoenix, Arizona, in June of 1954, the Universe Processes Congress was the culmination of eighteen months of intensive research by Ron into techniques for exteriorization and the achievement of OT.

And the breakthrough he announced at the beginning of this Congress was momentous, because here was the discovery of the relationship of duplication to Bridge progress.

If an auditor could not duplicate, how could he deliver the tech? And if a preclear could not duplicate, how could he do the process? How could he exteriorize and go free?

Here was the very key to entrapment on the whole track — a discovery so encompassing it provided the resolution for all cases.

And this opened the way to still more answers: from how a being creates space, to how the material universe itself was created; from why a person's willingness to duplicate establishes his ability to communicate, to why an exteriorized individual who can duplicate sees far better than anyone with MEST eyes; and finally, to why any difficulty stems from a person's unwillingness to duplicate.

Here, too, were duplication processes, delivered for the first time ever on a group basis and introduced by Ron with these words: "I have some phenomenal things — never tried before — to try out on you."

Thus the Congress experienced, first-hand, hours of processing personally from Ron, culminating in the Universe Processes.

The Universe Processes Congress includes 14 lectures complete with transcripts, an extensive glossary and a guide with key LRH references which relate to the series. The master glossary in the guide covers both the lectures and the issues.

 
 
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