Now your next level of Release that was acceptable to the world at large–that man is a spiritual being. Now that is in decay. That has been known and has been suppressed, and has been suppressed since 1879, Professor Wundt, Leipzig, Germany. I always like to remember the man’s name. Man was an animal and he was nothing but an animal and therefore it was all right to kill him, maim him, shoot him, do anything you possibly could to him because he was “Nyaa, no good,” see? Now this is something … [Read more...] about Lecture: Releases and Clears (2) (1966)
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Lecture: Hope (1956)
And man today is in a state of having developed something it cannot confront: atomic fission. It can't confront it. You go into a theater, they show the motion pictures of Bikini or something of the sort, and you will find people toward the rear will sneak out of their seats and will walk out into the lobby. You find other people will duck their heads. Interesting phenomenon. I had to study this phenomenon because I wanted to know whether or not it'd do any good to release a manual on civil … [Read more...] about Lecture: Hope (1956)
Lecture: Groups (1950)
We look over a national government in the light of these tenets now, just as we’ve looked over the Foundation, and we find out what it offers and what it doesn’t offer. We find that a national government is taking far more in contribution than it is giving back in service, by means of the income tax and so forth. For instance, it is taking contribution on the pretext–or the fraud if you want to call it that–that it will protect the personal property and the persons of the individuals who are … [Read more...] about Lecture: Groups (1950)
Lecture: Political Dianetics (1950)
By the way, I know whereof I speak in regard to bills and legislation and the mechanisms and central working mechanics of our government. I went to school in Washington, D.C., and I had a lot of friends up on the Hills during the next few years, and during 1941 I decided to push a button. A friend of mine (a public-relations man from the Pacific Northwest) and I were sitting over coffee and we decided the government was too calm. We decided we would push a button and see what happened. There … [Read more...] about Lecture: Political Dianetics (1950)