Studying only the route to truth, then, with nobody around who has a final concept of what the truth is, is an idiotic activity best relegated to dog kennels. “Let’s all sit down and study how to get to Rupf “ And then nobody ever asks, “What’s Rupf?” “What do you mean how to get […]
Immanuel Kant
Lecture: Games/Goals (4)
The limitation in the rules of games, the limitations on self and others, is necessary for there to be an interplay. There’s got to be a limitation. There’s got to be some frame of reference. That limitation can only be as light as an ethical understanding. We’re going to operate within ethics. And the reason […]
Book: Notes on the Lectures (1)
The Dynamics – Remarks about Groups A dynamic is a surge of energy within us which is seeking to promote the survival of something. There are seven dynamics.1 First Dynamic Self Second Dynamic Sex and family Third Dynamic Group Fourth Dynamic Mankind Fifth Dynamic Life – Life has a great deal more affinity for living […]
Lecture: ARC and the Tone Scale (1)
Once there was such a thing as one-valued logic. That was what man had, and he got along very well on it—the will of God. Anything that happened was God’s fault. Man had no responsibility for his own actions; he was strictly a pawn in the hands of fate. Ancient superstitions ran on this basis: […]
Book: Dianetics: The Evolution of a Science (2)
First we divided what we could probably think about and had to think about from what we probably didn’t have to think about, for purposes of our solution. Next we had to think about all men. Then a few men. Finally the individual man and at last a portion of the aberrative pattern of an […]