Lecture: SOP 5 Long Form Step V – Additional Techniques

And there’s one datum you’re not working with, is . . I don’t care what people think of me.
Now you . . you can’t be very well and still care, by the way.
Where you have, then, an incident outlined you’ll find out in your experience that it’s there, and it’s that way, and it’ll run [...]

Lecture: Opening Lecture Question & Answer Period

Male voice: Ron, as the preclear’s acceptance of violence comes up to a high degree, what would violence be, then, as a definition?
An unappreciated series of particles.
Violence has been the servant of a preclear, you see? And he has caused violence and then has withheld causing violence. One of the favorite  methods of mothers the [...]

Lecture: How to do a Diagnosis

I want to call your attention to something on hypnotism. It will work out that what the patient says about having been hypnotized is about as reliable as a five horse parlay tip, bought down at the bookstore, because the standard forgetter mechanism on hypnotism can wipe out an entire sequence. If someone has been [...]

Lecture: Gradient Scales of Handling Space, Energies and Objects

Is the physical universe an illusion? You can test this one. If a man loses his last dream, you’ve got a corpse on your hand. Don’t kill a man with bullets because you don’t really kill him at all. We can test that and prove that on an E-meter.
No, sir. Kill him by taking his [...]

Lecture: How to Security Check

But if you think you’re going to take a member of the Bank Robbers Security League and sec check him on a churchman’s moral code and wind up with an increased IQ, of course, you’re quite mistaken. This will not occur.
What you’ve got to do is sec check within the reality of what the pc [...]

Lecture: Pan-Determinism (3)

We discover immediately a fact which I have known for a very long time but which was too horrible to tell you. That’s right, that’s a fact. I have known this fact for, oh, certainly, two years and have simply stuffed it in my back pocket and skipped it until I could lick it. And [...]

Lecture: Cause and Effect, Automaticity, Ridges Processing (2)

When we look – when we look at a big social organism we’ll see this tremendous effort to maintain a certain randomity1 within its own tolerance level. And it has decided, one way or another, that its tolerance level for randomity was so-and-so, and then everything it moves in is just to adjust that.
But the [...]