Now, ARC of course means affinity, reality and communication. The first thing we run into a cropper on in trying to translate this, is the word affinity. Affinity is so much itself and is so relative, that we get into a considerable, to use a Texas word, hassle, in trying to interpret it in an […]
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Lecture: A Postulate Out of a Golden Age
A fabulous thing to observe: We think “Love thy Neighbor” has been the civilizing influence. It has not been. “Be free” has been. The religious world may have dominated, at one time or another, the Middle Ages, but the religious world consisted in itself of a tyranny and was itself antipathetic to this very thing […]
Lecture: Last Lecture of Advanced Course, Camden 1953, Reviewing Students’ Ability to Process
I recommend to you a story called “One Was Stubborn,” I wrote one time many, many, many years ago, 1939, in a society where everybody had everything done for them. This was intensely unpopular, this story. It was intensely unpopular with the editor. He really writhed over it, but he had a hole in the […]
Lecture: Restimulation of Engrams, Experiences (2)
Because the truth of the matter is that low on the Tone Scale1 man is recognizing a mockery of the truth which is quite obvious high on the Tone Scale; and this truth high on the Tone Scale is a very simple thing. It simply says, “We’re all in this together. These molecules belong to […]
Lecture: Forget and Remember, Good and Evil
This is a love-hate universe. What do you think a ridge is? A ridge basically is a symptom of anger, hate. If you really want to get somebody mired beautifully, get him to hate something and start cutting his communication lines on hate. You’d say hate is unacceptable. No, it isn’t. Christianity made it scarce. […]
Lecture: Uses and Future of Scientology
Now, where we talk about, then, broad “love,” this mawkish horrible concept of: “You’ve got to love your neighbor, you son of a gun, or we’ll beat your ears in and fry you for an eternity.” No, let’s not worry about love that close to hate. Admiration betokens in itself a kind of respect. It […]