Do you know that every essential datum - of
evolution, of anything and everything you want to think of - is contained
in mysticism and in the basic Hindu writings and in the Vedic writings?
You know evolution is in there? Do you know the Darwinian theory is in
there? You know everything is in there? I don't know anything that's left
out. They're all there.
There isn't any reason really why you shouldn't be
studying mysticism right across the boards. No real reason at all, except
for one thing. They booby-trapped it, or they didn't know, and for every
correct datum in mysticism there are a dozen incorrect data, there's a
mis-evaluation, there's a reversal of fact.
So if you enter in and use that data, you will be
smacked flat. If you want to finish yourself completely and utterly, get
standard works on mysticism and practice them just exactly the way it
says, and you'll be a dead duck one day.
The reasons for this are one, nobody wanted to
integrate the information completely because it was much more fun some
other way and two, boys along the line had no slightest desire for anybody
coming after them to really know. They booby-trapped it, just as though
they'd laid land mines across the line.
If you get your preclear to deny the MEST
universe, and deny it and deny it, you start up a one-way flow of the
uncontrollability of force, and he will be unable to manufacture enough
energy to keep himself afloat. The data is all there. It's been there for
8200 years.
It should strike you as very alarming that
somebody would really booby-trap this line, but let's be kinder about it
and merely say, "They didn't have a process." You'd probably be
closer to the truth. There's so much truth in it that the added
booby-trapping goes unnoticed. And when people try to practice it, oh boy!
You are going to find this out when you have a
preclear who has been deeply steeped in mysticism. He's going to be much
harder to work, because those things are angled toward pinning him down,
but good. They tell you all these things are possible and then fix you up
so you can't do them.
The way you're supposed to practice them is the way that ends your doing
of them. You might as well be sitting on a lighted bonfire, juggling sky
rockets. If they just hadn't booby-trapped the line, if they just hadn't
mis-evaluated this data, look where we'd be today! (1952,
Introduction - The Q List and Beginning of Logics, Lecture: 5211C10A, L&A-1&2)
Alexander Graham Bell busily invented the
telephone here. It was simultaneously invented all over the world. There
was practically every country in the world had some facsimile of Alexander
Graham Bell. A wonderful transfer.
What's quite remarkable about all of the research
in which I've been engaged is, it hasn't flashed up anyplace else. And
that's remarkable. It has not come up anyplace else - on Earth. In the
early days when I was working on this, I was experiencing a terrific
anxiety.
I knew in the next five minutes somebody was going to appear on the stands
with this first book I wrote on the subject. I knew somebody else knew. I
knew somebody else was working on it, too. And they were - but not here on
Earth. (1952, History of Man
Series III: The Theta and the Genetic Lines of Earth, Lecture: 5203C10B, HCL-20 - 16E)
Dianetics and Scientology didn't get born because
some angel stood in the clouds and whispered sweet formulas in my ear.
This work came about through very careful observation. I vacillate between
two ideas concerning this work.
There's two. "How is it possible for Man, in
all these millions of years, never to have fallen across this
material?" And, "I'm not that bright, that's not possible, and
therefore Man must be awful stupid."
When we look over past efforts, all past
activities which sought to discipline, socialize or free Man - in all of
the research, all the writing, all of the airy nothings and the
whisperings of the angels from back of cloud nine - we find
non-confrontingness. Any activity under those three headings - discipline,
socialize or free the individual - had a dramatization of enforcement and
inhibition of communication, reality and affinity.
It's a matter of lookingness. And if I've done anything here, I've merely
looked and not been upset about what I looked at, but looked at it to see
what it was. Possibly you could add it up to a simple matter of
confrontingness. (1958, The most Basic Rock of all Rocks, Lecture: 5808C07, 20ACC-19)
When Guatama Siddhartha rose in the East as a
Buddha, he could bring about the state of Bodhi in a man. Nearly all of
his teachings concerned the attainment of this goal. The state of Bodhi is
evidently our "clear." It is accidental that the goals compare.
From this action of a few reaching Bodhi, more than half the civilized world was changed.
It was forecast at that time that some day in the West, someone would make
it possible for this to occur in one lifetime and for many. Regardless of
the prophecy, it is evident that we are now able to bring about a higher
and more acceptable state than Man has believed possible.
(ABILITY Issue 66)
Why should somebody like me have to come along if
all the world is right and the universe an expression of deep love? What
are we doing in a universe in which hells are possible? We can rationalize
this universe, we can explain complaints, we can blame the inmates.
Tell me why Buddhism won so sweepingly. It
promised escape. If the great religions of all time became great on the
promise of escape, we must assume that a LOT of people want OUT, and that
there's something wrong with IN.
Sure, maybe you even ASKED to come here. But deep
in pain and shock shadowed by your own forgetting, why puzzle now if this
universe is a good place? What were we really looking for? Escape.
I know why you're here, and the fast way out. Without belief or faith or
right conduct, you can go all the way. (ABILITY Issue 57)
Those that I consider great religious leaders begin
with a legendary mythical monk whose name is probably not but is said to
be "Dharma." That word has meant wisdom ever since.
Some many thousands of years ago in the highlands of
India, he handed out or handed on information which was taken up and
carried forward by Krishna. Then Lao Tse who handed on knowledge in the
Tao. They said there was a spiritual side to life and that there is hope.
They were saying, "This life is not all there is.
There is some future life in which you can do better." Without that
hope, I do not think Man could have survived this far down the track.
Another great leader, Gautama Buddha, never pretended
to be a god but at one time, one third of the Earth's population was
better for Gautama Buddha, who taught that there is hope and that the
endless cycle of life and death does not have to continue, that and
individual can be free even from this.
These people handed on a torch of wisdom, of
information. One of these was Moses, and again it was handed on to Christ,
and Muhammed. We are indebted to these men. If I had not had that
information, we would never have had Dianetics.
... The biggest mistake I have ever made was the
day when I said, "We'll call this a science, we will agree that the
Western hemisphere is not ready to accept anything spiritual or religious,
This science we will call Dianetics." That was myself approving with
society, and I never should have approved. We went on a wide via,
associated ourselves with psychotherapy and that was not good
And so today, we have a little turbulence, people
are saying, "Dianetics had something, but Hubbard went crazy or
something and moved out of that and now we don't have anything."
That's right, they have a handful of nothing called a thetan. And that
nothing contains all the life and experience there is.
I have watched a long parade of cases. The culmination of this material
has brought me to the conclusion that we cannot lose if we stress the
spiritual side of Man and that we always lose when we stress his material
side. It's taken me 25 years to come to this conclusion and I give it to
you just that way. (Address of Welcome - The Hope of Man, Lecture: 5506C03, ASMC-1)
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