Man's prevention mechanism from doing wrong
An
article by L. Ron Hubbard, from the
London Congress on Dissemination & Help and the London Open Evening Lectures
One time I was looking around for people to straighten up on a series I was trying to do a series of about ten and I got a hold of a criminal who was a real hardened criminal. He is what is known as the dyed-in-the-wool criminal, I think that's the technical name of it.
This fellow had a habit. He would find somebody who had some money, lure him down the street, take him into an alley, and then hit him a hard blow on the jaw, take the money, put it in his pocket and walk off. He'd been doing this for years. And his arm was very shriveled. But he hadn't quite made it yet. He was still capable of striking a blow with this shriveled arm. But he was working on it. And I tried to get this shriveled arm straightened out and he went so fast that he practically got a total paralysis of one side before I'd worked on him more than a few minutes.
I gave him a wonderful opportunity of really crippling himself. He was desperately trying to get himself into a state whereby he could no longer hit people on the jaw, because that's what he did. And the way he was trying to work it out, you see, was that way.
He never he never asked the question of why he hit people on the jaw. This was something he couldn't confront. So he just never looked for that; he just looked at ways and means to prevent himself from hitting people on the jaw. That was all he did. Obvious answer: crippled arm.
You see some old man going down the street on two canes, gimping along. Terribly interesting what that old man thinks he would do if he had two good legs. It's quite fascinating. You find out what he would do if he had two legs it's easy, because he himself can hardly stop himself from answering you if you ask him, "What would two crippled legs prevent you from doing?"
And before he can hardly open his mouth, the words come out, "I'd just get any woman I saw and knock her down and just kick her and kick her and kick her. That's how I got two crippled legs, see?" It's very funny.
Now, as long as man has been fooling around with man, he has considered that man was basically evil. And factually, this isn't true. Man tries to prevent becoming evil to such an extent he moves right around into the middle of it. He tries to restrain himself to a point of where he can't restrain himself anymore and there he goes. And there's what? There's your Control button.
Now, the fellow who has the crippled arm I found out, by the way, why he had a crippled arm. When he was a little kid, there was an older boy on the newspaper route who used to beat him up and take his money. And this happened at least once a week. As soon as this fellow as a child had collected his money on his route or collected his money from his customers, this other fellow would come along and beat him up. And he got so fixated on this whole thing, he got so fixated on the idea that the best thing to do was beat somebody up and take their money away, that's all he could do for the rest of his life.
But he really didn't get a paralyzed side until one day his mother woke him up, unexpectedly, and he drew back his arm to hit his mother. And actually, his arm was drawn back in the act of hitting his mother from there on out, because he checked that, but good. But he couldn't check the other dramatization; he could no longer control that dramatization.
You straighten out these various buttons, try to find out what the individual has failed to help that is your lowest entrance point. And if there's anything lower than that, the case is probably not conscious, unable to talk to you in any way, is in an asylum someplace and you have to use another regimen of processing entirely, called the CCHs.
But we assume that this individual can still talk to some slight degree. And if you find out what that individual failed to help, you will find out at once one of the points that prevents you from helping him.

L. Ron Hubbard
Excerpted from the lecture Help
from the London Congress on Dissemination & Help and the London Open Evening Lectures.
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