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Postulates and the time stream  
 

"If you're in good shape, you can pick up all the postulates you ever made clear back to the beginning of time. I won't say what you'll come out to be here though; you might suddenly turn into a griffin. But that's a danger you can risk.

"So it doesn't matter what postulate you've made, that postulate is bound to make you into an effect by it. So you must be willing to some degree—if you're going to live in a time stream, in a time span, then you have to be willing to some degree to be an effect. See how that is? I mean, if you're going to be in a time stream at all, you must be willing to be an effect at least of yourself. And of course, most everybody is affected by everything that—this society makes a complete dance out of being effect; never be cause, be effect.

"Or, if you wanted to avoid this utterly, you'd have to live in no time. Maybe that's desirable. I don't know. Here's no time. It's desirable if it's up here at the top of the Tone Scale, because you can get everything done in the world. Because up at the top of the Tone Scale, you see, you don't have any concept of time, you have concept of action, which you can change at will."

—L. Ron Hubbard

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

 
 

The motion that pins you on the track
An article by L. Ron Hubbard, from The Route to Infinity lectures

Now, it may take an E-Meter to find it. Actually, they have a tendency to sort of look at an E-Meter and they say, "All right, I'll take hold of the cans"—sort of like "Let's make a little pact here, that you don't ask me any of these questions that are really hot."

And you say, "Well, now, let's see. What happened to you?" and so forth.

And he says, "Well, so, my younger brother kept hitting me over the head with a brickbat and he hit me over the head with a hammer and did this and he did that and did this and did that."

"Come on," you say, "now what did you do to your younger brother?"

"Nothing." The needle will go wheww!

And you say, "Well, now, you're sure you never did anything to him?"

"Oh no, no, no, no." Whewww!

You say, "Well now, what about it? Can't you just give us just a little inkling, maybe?"

"No. Hah. Well, of course, there was that business about the kiddie car, but that—that was nothing, that was nothing."

"Well, what did happen?"

"Well, I—well, I don't know. You see, I was never sure—my mother said I was, but I—I was never sure that I did knock him off of the kiddie car."

"Knocked him off of what kiddie car?"

"Well, little kiddie car down the street that I brought in. And, of course, it fractured his skull and he was in the hospital for about six months, and he's never been quite right since. But . . ."

Now, you'll get this type of interplay in any case and it follows some very, very definite rules. It follows some very definite rules.

Any time a person is protesting about a motion having happened to him—and this is a hard and fast rule, by the way: Any time a person is protesting about a motion that has happened to him, you can be assured that he has tried to use this motion and has hung himself up in a maybe, or he is merely telling you about a lock on that situation. One or the other.

Now, any time he gets one of these computational things that won't resolve, his mind is neither peaceful nor clear and his beingness is impeded on all fronts. You can be sure that if he's protesting about any motion of any kind—that something that's happened to him, if he's protesting about that motion—or actually if he's protesting about any motion on any dynamic violently, you know very well that he's guilty as sin of having tried to use that motion and found out it was the wrong motion to use.

In processing a case, if you will follow that thing through, you will see a case start to fall apart in front of you.

I dare say there are people who have run for a couple of hundred hours—as much as that, maybe; maybe many more. Nearly all the auditing was merely their justification. They were just running justification, justification, justification. And they're not going to run out of justification as long as you leave untapped the incident that they are trying to justify. So, "What are you trying to justify?"

You know the religious world tells you "Repent, ye sinners." They tell you, "You're all sinners." And everybody says, "Yup, yup, we're sinners all right. It's a good thing the fellow up there on the altar doesn't just know how much." But what's sin?

Well, they seldom bother to explain that; they make a big plaque or something of the sort and they say, "Sin is one, two, not putting a dollar in the collection plate, sin," down the line, they give you a nice long list of sins. Well, there's no reason to list it. A sin is misusing a counter-effort you have received. That's all a sin is. Because every time you do, badly, it'll wind you up in this squirrel-up*….

If you refuse to commit an overt act, or if you commit one and are very sorry for it, you will then be unable to remain yourself, but will do, to some degree, a life continuum for the thing you hit.

You say, "Bang! I regret it." That means that you go right around here, and that is not beingness on other dynamics; that is being an effect, not a cause.

There's two ways that this sort of overt act happens to you. One, it's—you're cause and you go along and you're just fine. And you receive a motion of some sort or other, and you've got that back here, and you've never worried about this motion before. But you're being cause. And one day you decide to be cause with violence, so you pick up this motion and you go wham! with it. But just as it's going, you say, "Snnnff!" but it's too late. And you spend the next thirty, fifty or five thousand years trying to pull back this instant of time, which keeps you there on the time track.

—L. Ron Hubbard, from the lecture THERAPY SECTION OF TECHNIQUE 80, PART I

*squirrel-up: (slang) a variation of louse-up, confusion; mess-up.

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. The less facsimiles you have:

    the better off you are.
    the worse off you are.

2. As a person's tone goes up he gets less:

    dense.
    controllable.
    idealistic.

3. If the world is not beautiful for someone, find out:

    the point at which he emanates an overt act and resolve the maybe.
    where the person destroyed his self-determinism.
    where he killed it for someone else.

4. How do you not discover a secret of existence?

    back up from it and sit still.
    interiorize into the problems of the humanities.
    look in the wrong places for the wrong why.

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

    solutions.
    time.
    ideas.

6. 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.

7. Illusions are:
    the one thing on the track that is most aberrative.
    way up the Tone Scale.
    a create, counter-create, effort, counter-effort.
8. Do you need experience?
    yes, it is important in the evaluation of decisions.
    no, it's another operation.
9. 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.
10. What are muscles?
    muscles are 100% MEST.
    muscles are efforts and counter-efforts.
    facsimiles of terrific effort.
11. What is the ultimate personality of you?

    the ultimate personality of you 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.


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