What's wrong with a thetan[1. Define: Thetan] is being a thetan, and he gets as right as you let him be something else. You increase his ability to be other things, to do, to have, to move, to compete, to participate, you've got it. Now, if you have a law-enforcement agency around which is always telling people they're not supposed to do, not supposed to act, not supposed to look, not supposed to do this, not supposed to do that, must go out of communication with this, mustn't touch that -- … [Read more...] about Lecture: Auditing Techniques: Workable and Unworkable (1957)
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Lecture: A Postulate Out of a Golden Age (1956)
A fellow offered me a job one time. He said, "All you have to do is walk in here, leave your gun at the gate, walk in here and you're supposed to walk around for eight hours a day, and do so-and-so and so-and-so." And I said, "In where?" He said, "In that enclosure there." And I said, "What's the difference between that and a prison camp?" "Oh," he says, "you're nonsense. You get paid in there." That was the first and only time the government offered me a post as a nuclear … [Read more...] about Lecture: A Postulate Out of a Golden Age (1956)
Lecture: Rugged Individualism (1955)
You walk into a government agency and you give them any problem that is related to that agency but is not exactly right in the middle of the paragraph that tells it what it could do and it won't have a single thing to do with it. So you go over to another agency and they look in the middle of the paragraph which tells them what they can do, and if your problem isn't in the middle of that paragraph — and maybe your problem lies dead between these two agencies — it'll never be done. You know … [Read more...] about Lecture: Rugged Individualism (1955)
Magazine article: Project Celebrity (1955)
project celebrity If we are to do anything about society at large, we must do something about its communications lines. One of the parts of this plan is Project Celebrity. There are many to whom America and the world listens. On the backs of these are carried most of the enthusiasms on which society runs. It is vital, on our Third Dynamic operation, to put such persons into wonderful condition. It is obvious what would happen to America if we helped its leaders to help others. … [Read more...] about Magazine article: Project Celebrity (1955)
Lecture: Havingness (1954)
You know, psychosis is quite a game itself. There is nothing like an eccentric behavior to command a great deal of scurry on the part of the environment. We have this boy Hutson out here, psychosis is just a game to this boy. It's revenge. His mother, a Christian Scientist,[1. Hubbard said elsewhere that many members of his family were devout Christians. Hubbard spoke many times about his knowledge of Christian Science, and about statistics relating to Christian Scientists and mental illness. … [Read more...] about Lecture: Havingness (1954)