Lecture: Group Dianetics
Author: Hubbard, L. R.
Document date: 1950, 9 November
Document title: Group Dianetics
Document type: lecture transcript
Event: Professional Course
Location: Elizabeth, New Jersey
Document ID: 5011C09
Description: Hubbard discusses big theta and little theta, as the macrocosm and microcosm of thought. Big theta, in Hubbard's view, is the physical or universe of matter-energy-space and time. According to Hubbard's Theta MEST theory, spirit is at war against MEST.
So, what is thought? It was discussed in an earlier lecture as big theta and little theta, and this appears to be a workable analogy.
We consider thought as something which is exterior to the finite universe. It doesn’t occupy the same time, space, energy or matter, but it procreates and evidently comes from a fairly identical source. It’s apparently a unity. Individuals along the line take pieces off this unity. In other words, an individual was once part of the central unity, and then whether in one life or many he became himself, which is nevertheless a portion of this other unity.
We look at it this way and immediately we begin to understand some of this strange phenomena about groups, about affinity. And we begin to get an understandable explanation of why people can audit people.
Did it ever occur to you that that is quite a worry to someone who is looking at a theoretical field? He says, “Why is one person necessary to audit another person?”We can get some mechanical explanations but they are not satisfactory.
If we go into the field of parapsychology, we find enough evidence to throw overboard the rest of the energy-matter-space-time idea that thought is just another energy and we are all pieces of earth. We are not. As near as I can find out, we belong to a central raiding body which is taking over the finite universe. Our main goal is an identical goal with that of the finite universe: to survive. We are still working on the two central pivots of survive and succumb. They work in the field of thought. They also work in the field of the finite universe. This does not mean that thought and the finite universe are the same just because they work on more or less the same principle.
So thought seems to be taking over the finite universe, and its main goal is the overriding of the laws of conservation of energy. Thought’s total concern seems to be the handling of matter, energy, space and time toward its own purposes. It is at war when one of these things is trying to upset its goal. And more and more, thought gets pieces of the finite universe to work for it.
At first when thought came in, maybe it didn’t have many allies. But gradually thought turns over natural laws of the finite universe in order to further the aims of thought, and when enough enemies are made into allies, a geometric progression begins and thought definitely takes it over.
Hubbard, L. R. (1950, 9 November). Group Dianetics. Professional Course, (5011C09). Lecture conducted from Elizabeth, New Jersey.