The upper ten thousand people on Earth...
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"Scientology
and Dianetics have included the upper ten thousand of Earth
very easily. If you don't believe that and you're not a professional
auditor if you don't believe that, why, just try some
professional auditing some day and just start picking them
up at random off of the streets or out of the hospital wards
and so forth, and start processing them. And you will find
you will find that you are amongst the upper ten thousand
of Earth.
"Now, I'm not trying to give you a swelled head. It's
true. It's true. You had brains enough to know you didn't
know, just like I had sense enough to know that I had to do
some tall remembering and reorganization here in order to
get anything together, because most of the information had
gone zock. And we knew we didn't know, and that made
us the smartest people on Earth. Most of the rest of them
think they know, and that is the high tide of ignorance. The
most ignorant man in the world knows that he knows everything
there is to know about everything."

Excerpted from the State
of Man Congress lectures
Cause is all in this universe
An article by L. Ron Hubbard
from the State of Man Congress lectures
The only effects you can experience are those which you yourself
dream up to experience. That's fantastic! It gives us a brand-new
look at cause-distance-effect. The truth of the matter is
more like cause-distance-cause. All is cause. The Buddhist,
you know, never got this one wrapped up. And his answer to
it was have nothing to do with cause and have nothing to do
with effect
leave them both entirely alone
making himself, therefore, totally guilty
of the sins of omission of never assuming cause, which was
the surest way in the world to spin anybody in.
But he knew something was wrong with this cause, distance,
effect, and that's all I wish to call attention to here. He
did know something was wrong with this cause- distance-effect.
But what's wrong with it is effect! Tsk. You're flattering
yourself if you think you can cause an effect without the
cooperation of the other fellow. All of your ability
and slyness must be devoted to getting that cooperation.
Now, where you have
where you have an individual who is obviously
the effect of somebody, and you audit him as having been the
effect of somebody, nothing happens. Now, that alone has caused
us to mark a lot of time in these last ten years. We've gotten
an awful lot done, an astonishing amount of things done in
the absence of this particular datum. But now, boy, all of
the time that was wasted on that, totally devoted onto this
other thing
wow! Wow! Man, you ought to see cases go
to pieces under this one. Zip-bang-thud! Because you're
not paying attention to untruths; there are no lies in auditing.
In other words, you're not auditing in the direction of a lie that the preclear's
condition is the result of an other-determinism than himself. You see, I could
have figured this out ten years ago if I'd been that much smarter. I have to
apologize once in a while for having been stupid about all this.
But we could have figured it out this way: If auditing pc A in 1959 can clear
up a circumstance which occurred in 1699, and the circumstance clears up without
any of the personnel in 1699 being present, then obviously the person we're
auditing in 1959 did it all. If it clears up, he must have done all of it. It's
worth looking at, isn't it?
But trying to draw a plot of the universe on this basis becomes a near... I
feel for people like the Jesuits and so forth when they eventually
have to tangle with this one. They're great figure-figure
people, you know? They're great philosophers. Actually, they're
pretty smart people. They turned out
practically the only educated men in the
last couple of thousand years were turned out in Jesuit schools.
But they're very good at figuring things out and making graphs of it all and
figuring it out and postulating it and straightening it out. And when they try
to make a graph of everybody in the universe being cause... Actually, it's dead
easy. All you have to say is, "Every man in the universe is cause of his
own participation," and that's it.
And where he has participated unworthily, all you have to do is knock it out
by knocking out the cause of his own participation, and you'll free that zone
of evil or mishmash or discreditable creation or whatever it is in the universe.
L. Ron Hubbard
Excerpted from the lecture WHY PEOPLE
DON'T LIKE YOU
This lecture is available in the State
of Man Congress lectures.
Successes from listening
to the Congress Lectures
"I totally changed my viewpoint on responsibility when
I listened to the second CD lecture, 'Responsibility', from
the State of Man Congress. It was exactly what I needed
to hear and I needed to hear it from Ron himself. It shifted
everything in my lifeall my considerations, excuses
and non-confrontand it left me just standing there,
acknowledging my power as a being.
"The feeling was quite wonderful and with it came great
responsibility and the realization of what exactly I needed
to do to handle my life.
"I took a step back and I looked at my life and I asked
myself, 'What was I doing?' and all of these non-optimum and
non-survival areas came to view. But now I could confront
and handle them.
"After listening to this amazing lecture, I know there
is hope for me and I have Ron and all the people helping me
to thank for that.
"It is a little strange for me now. I feel like I am
in a new body or something. People even look at me differently.
BUT I can say whole-heartedly that I am using my power for
good.
"Thank you for reading my success story and I encourage
you to listen to the State of Man Congress as well.
This is something for everyone."
K.O.
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