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"Now, the truth of the matter is you very often will process a preclear who is on a hectic, frantic level of communication which appears, at first glance, upscale. And you start processing him and the next thing you know, he doesn't anymore talk like this (talking fast and frantically), he's starting to talk like this (talking calmly). You changed his communications. That's all you were trying to do. And because they slowed down did not mean that you worsened the case. They might have slowed down, you see, and gone under his control. That would be the test.

"Now, it would take more processing to speed them up under his control. But there's the test of whether or not you've done something for a case. Not because communications are sacred, but because communications are the best representation of the handling and direction of foot-pounds of energy. That's the number one index right there, because it includes perception and it includes force."

—L. Ron Hubbard

L. Ron Hubbard
Excerpted from the First International Congress of Dianeticists & Scientologists lectures.

 
 

Energy and Communication
An article by L. Ron Hubbard, from the First International Congress of Dianeticists & Scientologists lectures

If you wanted to know what was wrong with an office you would simply walk through and give everybody a communications-lag test and fire all the people who had a lag and the office would straighten up. That would be all there was to business efficiency if you used this point. Now, this is a horrible fact.

But in treating preclears, this is of the greatest importance to you. Because if you haven't changed the communication lag, you haven't done anything to the case.

Now, why is their communication lag going to stay slow? Is it just willful perfidiousness on the part of the preclear? No. Is it just the orneriness and meanness of the MEST universe that would make a person into this condition? No. What is it? It's a scarcity of energy: they can't put out any space because any energy that comes into the space is immediately drawn up into the bank at such a rate that the space collapses. And so they don't have any space. And out in front of them, if you ask somebody real quick, you'd say, "Whose space is it in front of your nose?"—flash, and they'd say, "Other's, somebody else's." They'd say, "George's" or "Bill's." Yet a person ought to own at least a foot in front of him. Very few people do. A great many people don't even own their noses. And a great, great many more don't own anything in front of their ears, nothing forward of the ear. They haven't even got this space; this space belongs to somebody else.

Why is that? It's energy starvation. Now, a person has gotten a lot of impacts at some time or another in his life, and these impacts act as a sponge for further impacts. And the person has begun to believe that he himself cannot create energy.

There's only one thing for which the whole universe punishes, there's only one punishment, one crime and that, in its fullest sense, is communicating. That's the one crime. Putting out an anchor point. (That's essentially communicating.) Putting out an anchor point is the one thing for which a person could get punished, which tells you why the people that get the rank of general and admiral get there.

It's traditional in every army and navy of a conservative country that a person is advanced in the ratio that he doesn't do anything. If he commits no crimes, he gets there. And this isn't a criticism of it, it's just the way things operate. It's just the way things operate. Just happens that that's the way it is and they don't want to get well, and so we can't do anything about it, can we?

Well anyway, the only thing that is punishable is putting out an anchor point. And so, you can tell how often this person has been slugged, slapped, hit by the reluctance he has in putting out an anchor point.

But there is another thing here at work: it is the remaining, the residual potential a person has in creation of energy. Some people have a tremendous energy-creation capacity. And these people can take an enormous slugging around without altering their communication level. That's because they're still up above that break on the Tone Scale. Although the energy-creation potential might be different—isn't necessarily, but might be different—for every individual on Earth, there is this similarity amongst all individuals: There is a point above which they create, manufacture and direct their own energy, and below which they depend upon energy from exterior sources before they can operate. That would be the make-break line.

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The goals of processing, then, should become very manifest to you. They should be the restoration of the ability to create and direct energy. Now, to direct energy, one must have a good sense of location. And so the rehabilitation of location, as well as the rehabilitation of the ability to make space, as well as the rehabilitation of being able to create particles in that space all come under the same heading.

How do you know if the preclear is in better shape? He's in better communication.

—L. Ron Hubbard, from the lecture PROCESSING AND ITS GOALS

Excerpted from the First International Congress of Dianeticists & Scientologists.

 
OT Quiz
Test your knowledge of the First International Congress of Dianeticists & Scientologists lectures
Select the correct answer to the questions below:

1. What is charm?

    Charm is a good quality that everyone should have.
    Charm is an ability to look into others and see the good qualities.
    Charm is the ability to reach out, be and admire.

2. What should you do with anchor points?
    Put anchor points on your body.
    Put your anchor points on ridges to make them blow.
    Put anchor points on the stars.
3. What is optimum introversion?
    2 percent introversion.
    50 percent introversion and 50 percent extroversion.
    No introversion.
4. Low-toned people try to:
    Destroy others morals.
    Take space away from others.
    Drive your anchor points inwards.
5. The only thing wrong with individuals is:
    their restriction.
    they do not try and just be.
    they don't apply the ARC triangle.
6. Does a thetan have a reactive mind of its own?

    No, the reactive mind is just part of the body.
    Yes, it's the bric-a-brac thetan carries around.

7. What is a man's health proportional to?

    Relative to the case's engrams… particularly the size and dimension of secondaries is what the health is proportional to.
    A man's health is proportional to his belief in his own dangerousness of the environment.
    A man's health is in proportion to the degree of affinity he exudes.


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