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"Searching for data is not as reliable a method of obtaining facts as taking responsibility for the object you wish to know about. If you don't believe it, take a little kid sometime and show him a machine and if he can at all grasp this concept of responsibility, get him to take responsibility for various parts of the machine and then listen to him tell you what the machine is all about.

"Now, education is that system of giving people data without making them responsible for any of it. …

"Now, an individual who will not take responsibility cannot change, and a person who cannot change cannot handle any problems, and a person who can't handle problems certainly can't help, and a person who can't help anything certainly won't create. And a person who can't or won't create is doing so because he can't or won't take responsibility for the actions and parades of his creations. So this little thing goes round and round and round in an endless cycle."

— L. Ron Hubbard

L. Ron Hubbard
Excerpted from The First Postulate lectures

 
 

The discovery of the Rock
An article by L. Ron Hubbard, from The First Postulate lectures

I have been carefully and gradually leading you up to this gigantic object. I had to give you your lecture yesterday because yesterday's lecture contains most of the solutions to this object known as the Rock.

Now, definition of "Rock" is that facsimile which the preclear is continuously and obsessively creating and which he is suppressing below his level of consciousness with an inhibitor. The Rock, in other words, is an obsessive creation. It is almost totally identified with anything and everything wrong with the bank. Its keynote is A=A=A, reference Book One.

We said one time that if you could find out what the mind was doing and parallel it, you could undo it. That's one of the earliest observations of Dianetics.

Well, when I discovered this one, that the mind was obsessively mocking up something and then inhibiting it obsessively, it became very clear why there was a reactive bank. And when you say "Rock" you mean the core, center of the reactive mind. Not for this lifetime, not for the body, not for Freud but for the whole track; it is what the thetan has been accumulatingly wrecking himself with from time immemorial and explains the dwindling spiral.

He begins to obsessively mock this thing up. And the longer he mocks it up, the more he identities other things with it.

Perhaps it was originally a word of warning: "If I keep this mocked up, then I'm not going to get into a similar situation again." So duplication, old Op Pro by Dup, all by itself, chipped away on the Rock.

The "service facsimile" is a computational lock on the Rock, and is that series of complaints or protests the preclear makes to protect the Rock and that is the service facsimile.

Therefore, that about which the preclear complains had better never be audited by you except to make him a little happier so you can get on with the job, because you're auditing the protective coating of something.

Now, at the outset let's go into this with zero technicality. A thetan, spirit, you, is actually capable of tremendous creation. But when you have taken an irresponsibility for some part of your ability to create, you can then continue to create without knowing that you are creating. Now we don't know that you aren't creating the whole physical universe. We don't know that you aren't creating everybody you see. We don't know this positively; this is simply a matter of "Who's God?" Well, you're the logical candidate. You've accepted the blame for everything else, you might as well accept the blame for that one.

Now, where you are capable of tremendous creativeness, you very often find that creativeness painful or undesirable or upsetting in some way and you have a potential of disowning it—creating it and disowning it at the same time so that you don't even know about it. And this, in essence, is the reactive mind.

Now, when we talk about the Rock, we are talking about that thing, that engram which an individual is continuously and obsessively, compulsively creating and continuously and obsessively and compulsively inhibiting in such a way that he knows nothing whatsoever about it. So the first definition of the Rock is: that experience on the whole track which the person has totally disowned and is totally creating.

Now, the test of it is this: if you improve a person's ability to create mental image pictures, you improve the quality of his reactive mind. You improve the quality of his mental image pictures by improving his ability to create. It's quite important. And this tells you why the Rock remains obscure and why an individual continuously lessens his ability to create.

Therefore, it becomes painful to create. If you become a little bit better at creation over here with your left hand you are busily mocking up behind your back something that is butchering you. And you get better able to mock up a billboard out in front of you; you also get better able to mock up a total reactive mind.

What do we mean by a "reactive mind?" Anything anybody has ever meant or summed up as an out-of-sight, compulsive thinkingness that victimizes the individual. Now, thoughts and engrams, secondaries, locks (of course, with their energy and masses and space and time tabs) all go together to make up this reactive mind.

Restimulation is simply a signal in the environment which sets off the individual's compulsive need (he thinks) to mock up the unpleasant experience again.

Actually, an engram doesn't exist until it is keyed in. Do you remember? Dianetics. Doesn't exist until it's keyed in. It is not stored anywhere except in the capability of the person of re-creating an experience. It's not stored; there is no "bank" which contains a billion engrams which are selected out in some supermechanical way.

What happens is quite different. The individual goes through an experience, and until something reminds him of the experience, doesn't even re-create a picture of it. But he has the potentiality of re-creating the picture in full.

—L. Ron Hubbard

Excerpted from the lecture THE ROCK

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What's Inside?
Responsibility and education
The discovery of the Rock
The First Postulate lectures
 

What existed before the beginning?


The 20th Advanced Clinical Course of 1958 was the toughest and most exciting ACC yet delivered. The know-how of clearing was in place and the most profound secrets of unraveling the reactive mind were being taught by LRH and drilled and learned to perfection by these students.

LRH had isolated an even more direct route to the most fundamental aberration of any being. But he knew that in order to successfully guide a preclear down that route, the auditor himself would need not only top-notch auditing skills, but a comprehensive understanding of the bank and how it works.

Thus, on 14 July 1958, the 20th Advanced Clinical Course opened in Washington, DC, with fifty-two auditors in attendance. The stage was set for broad-scale clearing to occur, the likes of which this universe had never seen.

The technology that LRH personally taught these select fifty-two auditors is now available to you in The First Postulate lectures: the discovery of the basic incident on any preclear's case and the processes and skills necessary to eradicate this aberration.

This and much, much, more is the subject matter of The First Postulate lectures.

Here are some examples of what you will find in these lectures:

  • What writer "burnout" is and the reason for failure with art.
  • The most stuck point on anybody's case.
  • How an OT® uses the Tone Scale causatively.
  • What shape this planet was in when it was first made.
  • Exactly what the "Rock" is and what it has to do with service facsimiles and creation.
  • The connection between the "Rock" and aesthetics.
  • A simple handling to do yourself that will immediately enable you to regain some of your responsibility.
  • The true data on the "flood" that appears in the histories of nearly all civilizations.
  • The golden rule a thetan runs best on.
  • Powerful OT data on the secret of the "Rock".
  • Find out the startling relationship between your worse aberrations, and your desire to please others.
  • Ron gives a process that tells not only how to find the "Rock" on someone else, but how to find one's own.
  • Explains why kids won't eat their food—vital data for any parent.
  • Covers the eighth dynamic and also fascinating data on the history of religion, as well as the story of how Ron died one day and found himself 150 yards outside his head.
  • Ron explains what the "Rock" has to do with the subject of ARC; what the "Rock" is doing when you're in ARC with someone and what happens when you have an ARC break. This lecture also tells you how to repair any severity of upset with a loved one, with a simple mechanical handling that anyone can do.
  • Find out why aberration is a third dynamic fact.
  • Ron discusses the basis of dramatizations and what is dramatized continually on this planet.
  • Hear Ron summarize the entire basis of aberration and exactly what a thetan is doing to remain so abberated.

For the first time in the history of this universe you can find out the answers! They are all contained in The First Postulate lectures.

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