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Lecture: Releases and Clears (2) (1966)

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 like some of the Christian philosophy that was advanced in the second or third century A.D., that man was conceived in evil and was evil so it was perfectly all right to kill him, maim him, harm him, do anything you wanted to. Do you see these things as justifications? Justifications for overts, no more than that.

So you have the entire, what is laughingly called “field of philosophy”–it is a field too, out there in the rain, man. You have what is laughingly called a field of philosophy embracing now uniformly, the idea that they’re dealing with rats or something. Well, they’re not going to make very much progress and they could get themselves into one awful bloody revolution. I’m not using that as a swear word, I mean a bleeding revolution. They could, they could be cut down in the streets, man. Because the Christian has not yet found out that the psychologist is an atheist. And there is atheism being taught right in the colleges and there’s a bunch of bigoted Christians going to find out about that someday and they’re going to get mad. Fortunately for psych–for psychology it is such an inarticulate subject that it hasn’t made itself sufficiently plain to be understood that it’s an atheistic subject.

But if your psychologist were ever to succeed he would have to come closer to the truth than the brain is all that is there, and a man is dead forever. Because it’s very unpopular, very unpopular. But suppressives would like it, and so psychology, psychiatry and things like that tend to be supported by governments rather than by the populace. The populace think anything is better. They think psychology is silly. But governments employ it. So you see suppressives employ these nontruthful subjects or subjects which prevent philosophic advances, or subjects which prevent releasing.

So your actual–you’d be surprised how far you could go just doing this–you actually could move in to the whole subject on the subject convincing somebody that man was a spiritual being. See, he’s already halfway agreed with it. “Well, you’re a Christian, aren’t you?”

“Oh yes, yes, yes.” You know he knows better than to say he’s not a Christian. He gets an c.

Well, you find even in Christianity–you know the whole subject of reincarnation was barred very recently by the Roman Catholic Church–very recently. Only in the last few hundred years. They carried reincarnation right along with them, pockety – pock. They said the guy who hadn’t been good enough had to come back and live it all over again. And somehow or another they dropped that, they had an edict of Scrantes?[sic]   Or something, I don’t know, some stupid edict by which they abolished wisdom.

Now, therefore that man is a spiritual being and not an animal–you could become very involved with as an argument–but if somebody bought the idea, if somebody bought the idea that he was a spiritual being rather than an animal, you have then got a state of Release. He’s released from an untruth that could trap him. Now very possibly–very possibly, this is where you could use exteriorization, but I do not advise it. What’s useful at this point is Dianetics. Because a person goes rapidly back, but it’s a little bit ahead of itself; don’t you see? There isn’t a perfect answer to this.

Ah, a guy goes back and only runs so many engrams and there he is sitting on the parapets of the castle, you know, watching the enemy march across the plain. And he says, what am I doing here, this is obviously me. And he makes it up out of his own head that he must be an immortal being because he has lived before quite obviously. Dianetics will bring people up to that point. But, this is a release from this lifetime. A person is released from the very narrow span of just one lifetime. And that is a terrific release because the death of–the terrible consequences of death fall away, he stands around and laughs as the funerals go by, you know.

I mean, I remember a long time ago I was–I had to pull off the road–I had to pull off the road down in Arizona to let a funeral go by. And boy, people’s eyes were streaming so that it looked like rain falling out behind that funeral. And boy, everybody was real sad. And I sat there and watched this, you know. And I just got through gauging on some researches into the immortal nature of man, you know. But it suddenly looked so silly to me that I sat there and laughed like a fool for about ten minutes. I couldn’t get the car going again, I didn’t dare drive. It just suddenly seemed so funny. All of this action with regard to this one thing, you see, such a production. And of course it was a very big funeral and a very sad one for a banker. Of course they–I knew he’d never get to heaven. I know he would be back there stirring it up again.

Anyhow, you, in that fashion would take people out of the one–lifetime idea. And that is your–a tremendous breakthrough that is available to you because it’s a release from the idea of one lifetime. There is a breakthrough for concentration which is quite acceptable to the society in which we exist.1

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  1. Hubbard, L. R. (1966, 16 August). Releases and Clears. Saint Hill Special Briefing Course,   (SHSBC-438). Lecture conducted from East Grinstead, Sussex. ↩

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Lecture: Hope

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 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 defense. And we found out that there was no point in it. Nobody would have read it. In other words, at that time we were interested mainly in the dissemination of Scientology, and we wished civil defense to front for us a little bit on some of the things we could do. (That was only two or three years ago.) But we did not publish the manual.

The manual was a very factual manual of material taken out of the technologies used by military governments in war-torn areas. A very realistic view of the situation. It isn’t all going to be the way they say it’s going to be in the civil-defense (quote) “manuals” (unquote) which are issued by the government. These civil-defense manuals of today start this way, “You will have to get used to the idea that after the dropping of an atomic bomb, you will be on your own. There will be nobody to help you.”

Well then, who’s — what they sitting there for? What is this thing? Oh, I get it. It’s some sort of a racket by which you can collect some salary from the government before the bombs go off. Must be, because their manuals are…

Now, you think I’m just kidding you now, drawing a longbow. I’ve had people tell me many times that they thought I was drawing a longbow and being very exaggerated or something of the sort.

One chap who went over to Ireland told me this. And he said, “You know… you know, all through my HCA Course I thought you were exaggerating things a little bit. But you know the other day I looked up this fellow Wundt.” And he said, “That’s impossible, but it’s true!” He said, “I didn’t think such a man existed. I just thought that was one of your jokes.” Mr. Wundt did invent animal physical psychology in 1879 in Leipzig, Germany, and threw away all earlier psychologies. And this HCA student thought this was just my way of saying that it was kind of bad and we ought to do something about it.

So when I’m saying that we laid aside the civil-defense program or when I say the civil-defense program of the United States is not realistic, I’m actually not telling you a joke.

And when I tell you that they start their civil-defense manuals by saying “This is all very well up to the moment a bomb is dropped, but after that you’re on your own, ’cause nobody’s going to help you.” And if this is the basic, primary statement of civil defense, it says at once that there isn’t any. Because civil defense would be the prevention of ultimate disaster to a civil populace by reason of a bomb having dropped. This would be the only reason you’d have civil defense, you see? So if they say there’s nobody going to help you, they say they aren’t even there.

Well, I read in this morning’s paper about a multibillion-dollar program. It was the most beautiful headline I ever saw. It just… boy, was it meaningful! I said, “Man, somebody’s got on the ball here. Somebody’s going to get in and pitch. Somebody’s right there.” A multibillion-dollar program proposed by Icky… Ike, pardon me. I gave him the Russian pronunciation. And he says he’s going to have shelters. They’re going to have civil-defense shelters built all over the country, and they’ve lately been taking all sorts of surveys amongst industrialists to find out if they had enough concrete and iron and reinforcing materials, and so on, to build these shelters. And Icky — Ike is going to ask the Congress for a multibillion-dollar bill or appropriation in order to start this air-raid program.

And I thought it was the most wonderful thing. And I read down the line: “Next year,” it said, “only a few million dollars would be expended, more or less piloting the project. Just how long it would take this project to get under way, of course, is a matter for future decision. But many government experts believe this, and many government experts believe that…” An expert in what? What are these experts?

Well, they must be experts in being unaware, because if anybody is going to start on a civil-defense-shelter program that is only going to spend a few million dollars next year to find out how to build them, these boys aren’t living in the world of today. I’m not saying the atomic war is going to happen at all. But I’m saying that from a government viewpoint to leave a target wide open is to invite an attack. At no time when you’re boxing do you ever — particularly in championship fights — drop your gloves to your sides and say, “You see, I can’t hit back. Got a broken arm,” you know? At that moment your opponent says, “No kidding?” Pow! See?

So, to leave a country wide open with no planning, no adequate status for the populace if there is an enemy attack, is to ask the enemy to make an attack. The least they could do is to advertise the selection of another city as a second capital, a second command post. Instead of that they’re burrowing into the West Virginia hills. There’s a government department here and a government department there.

I was out on a long trail one day, and I came to a, you know, sort of dead end. And beyond that there were a couple of foxholes and so forth. And it said, “Defense Area.” I thought this is an interesting place to be until I realized that I was probably looking at a new government department. They’re being scattered down the length and breadth of the Appalachians and probably up and down the Rockies. You will see, undoubtedly, within a few months, some senator present a bill to get an emergency Senate, possibly in the Senate and House of Representatives. And he will propose that it be stashed away in Vermont or someplace.

This government is not acting to provide itself with a second command post. It is dispersing. And we have enough trouble in Scientology trying to keep communication up between downtown and the Distribution Center out in Silver Spring to realize quite adequately that if you were to put the White House someplace around West Virginia… There’s two or three towns down there that are very, very good places for the White House. One of them is Harlan County. Harlan County. That’s a very good place — they shoot everybody. And you have the White House there and the State Department is stashed up around Pittsburgh someplace, and then the communications office of the War Department is down in Georgia, and so on.

This will then be a government? Huh-huh! No, indeed. Couldn’t possibly. There isn’t enough communication centralization there in order to maintain its command of any given situation.

Hubbard, L. R. (1956, 29 November). Hope. Organization Series,   (5611C29A). Lecture conducted from Washington, DC.

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Lecture: Groups (3)

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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 dedicated to it. Supposedly, 36.6 percent of the United States tax dollar is dedicated to protecting the person and property of individuals from incursion by other elements, groups or individuals.

The only trouble is the weapon of today cannot be so defended against. The moment the atom bomb was delivered onto the national stage, nations ceased to be able to fulfill their full functions as groups. Individuals have’ more or less sensed this to some degree. They have become rather lackadaisical right now about war, infantry and so forth. They are waiting for the big punch.

In other words, the United States has got this tremendous budget which is supposed to protect the citizens from the incursion of other nations. Why then do we find civil defense motions? People are suddenly very interested in civil defense. I was in New York City about a year ago, and all of a sudden I got completely roped off in the traffic. The American Red Cross, the Boy Scouts and several doctors were practicing evacuation of an atom-bombed area. They had permission from the government of the city of New York to do this.

One small organization outside of Philadelphia issued a little notice in the paper and said they were holding a meeting to discuss civil defense– and the place was crammed! A place which was to accommodate a couple of hundred people received a couple of   thousand. People are very serious and practical about the whole thing.

The government has taken the attitude that we are very tender-minded, that we must be protected from these shocking horrors and so forth, but nobody knows better than the authorities themselves that there is no protection against this thing to amount to anything, and they are in a complete state of apathy about it!

For instance, we found out that the city government of Los Angeles had put one man, part time, and a couple of secretaries under the Parks and Memorials Commission, and this was the atom-bomb civil defense program. The newspapers are having a holiday with this.

The officially designated groups to which we are dedicated are suddenly not only not protecting property but are actually in a state of apathy about their ability to do so. But the citizens aren’t. People study, study, study. One of the best sellers on the market right now is a little pocket book about what to do in case an atom bomb drops.

I am afraid that the government hasn’t an element in it which can be supported by the people at this time. There must be something missing; the idea is decaying but the people aren’t. Here we have an elective type of government. Certainly, if there was a solution being offered by the government, we would be putting it into effect. The people themselves are evidently trying to work under a new cooperative idea, and you get the first germs of its evolution in the fact that you get public meetings without government sponsorship, and public interest in a governmental function–the protection of the person and the property against foreign invasion. That is the first germ of a new idea.Anybody could come along and start pushing this idea–it’s right there waiting to be pushed. In the ordinary course of human affairs, if left alone, it would evolve very easily into a new kind of a government. If it weren’t hit from abroad, if missiles didn’t hit it, it could evolve into a new idea.

We are in a period of change, but it is not going to get a chance. The second that this country suffers an onslaught from a foreign source, an atom-bombing or something like that, it will be a shock, and it is going to be an engram laid against the federal government which will practically nullify it. We’re not interested in the horror tale of whether it will kill off half the people all at once. (I notice Japan is very much of a going concern.) The point is that there is no defense against it, and it will catalyze. There will be something else. One of the main reasons is that the center of the federal government probably will cease to exist.

It is interesting what ripe, ripe ground this is for a revolutionary. The people and the whole group idea at that time will be down into the tone 1 band1 Somebody could hit this country on an authoritarian line and actually do remarkable things on this line. It could happen that some general of forces will find himself in possession of an untouched army corps somewhere in the continental limits of the United States.

I’m not just writing science fiction now. I’m showing you what the score is with regard to something like this.

Hubbard, L. R. (1950, 1 December). Groups. Professional Course Lectures,   (5012C01B). Lecture conducted from Los Angeles, California.

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  1. “Fear” is 1.0 on Hubbard’s tone scale. ↩

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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 was an outfit known as the Army Air Corps, and there was a lot of pressure to make it into a separate department of air forces like England had. We decided the air force needed an autonomous status. The representative from Massachusetts had been talking about this as part of his press campaign for some time.

So here we were, a writer and a public-relations man. We walked into the third floor of the government office building, and we had connections but didn’t want anything.

That’s how government becomes complicated–by wanting something out of it. You can do almost anything you want with government if you don’t want anything, because you just have no classification. Nobody can classify you, and as a result everybody just walks around and is glad to meet you because you are not asking any favors. And this is so strange that it gives you quite a bit of “pep” (that means publicity, within the cliques that work with the cliques).

We pushed the button on Monday and the autonomous status of the United States Air Force happened on Tuesday. We did it as a little experiment. We didn’t care whether the United States Air Force was flying helicopters or digging holes. It was just a point that there was sentiment existing on in some lines. All we had to do was go down and write a bill requesting what we wanted. We merely said, “Senator Phlipsenbalm just sent us down to write up these bills; he’s quite interested in it.” As a matter of fact the senator had muttered something like that the night before; it was rather indistinct because of Scotch, but he had. We went over to the House of Representatives and wrote a bill. Then we sent an alarm report that this bill was going through to tear the air force away from the army and the navy and to set up a new department.

So of course this just went along by word of mouth. It was wonderful! Senator’s office after senator’s office was alerted by the army and the navy, because the army and navy have patrons up on the Hill; they are not orphans. Finally we had collected a long series of names of people who were alarmed that this was going to happen. Then we told them something worse was going to happen–the air force would be set up as an independent department of defense. Then all we had to do was to tell the fellow who was a press relations man for the secretary of war, “Look, boy! You’d better get on the ball because this and this and this.”

“Huh! I’ll see the secretary immediately!”

Autonomous status for the United States Air Force was created. That is how it happened. You think this sounds too incredible, that a government could be so loose, so poorly controlled, so utterly unplanned, that anyone could just walk into the center of this government and do something like that. This government today is not very stable. I wish it were more stable.

Mind you, I happen to be a loyal American, I happen to be for the American people and I definitely enjoy our old friend Jefferson and the rest of them. It is just that occasionally I don’t enjoy seeing these things departed from too far. Even Jefferson’s statement that a government ought to be reorganized completely every twenty-five years doesn’t throw aside the fact that he was a pretty loyal American. I think there are people who will agree with the statement that he was a loyal American.

Suppose I had been an agent provocateur from Moscow or Italy or Germany; it wouldn’t have made any difference. I would have had the same connections and could have done the same thing. And suppose the point wasn’t quite as innocent, and a similar job had been done just before the war by this infiltration process, which prevented all the navy yards from getting machine tools to build battleships in case we went to war with Germany.

In other words, we don’t seem to have a good organisational plan going. We look for the people who are in charge and for the people who are doing the planning and so on, and we find some guy who is sitting out doing nothing much but pushing a few buttons and getting compromises, and occasionally jockeying something around or getting his boss a contract (because his boss is also the vice president of some manufacturing company). It’s pretty loose.

But we have, over all this, this huge illusion of terrific planning. We have the illusion of an organisation, we have an illusion that this country is held together today by a great democracy. It is being held together less and less by that. Actually this country is held together by the loyalty and ability of its individual citizens who form the social organism, not by a bloodless outfit such as those I described to you.

It is held together because in our minds we have this idea; we have an idea of what we want out of our government, that this is the kind of government we want and we hope that we have got. But now all the government has to do is keep convincing us that we have got it and things are running that way and they will go on running that way.1

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  1. Hubbard, L. R. (1950, 5 September). Political Dianetics. Public and Professional Course, (5009C05). Lecture conducted from Los Angeles, California. ↩