The difficulty here is that there is a curve which follows the level of sanity and the level of absorbed radiation. And these curves do seem to be parallel. The more radiation which a person absorbs, the less sanity he can be expected to exhibit. It does seem this is the case. He goes down Tone Scale[1. Definition: Tone Scale], and he goes down rather rapidly. Well, is there any place one could make a halt with this? Is there any process that could be used to stop this? Well, currently we … [Read more...] about Lecture: Radiation (November 5, 1956)
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Lecture: Laughter in Processing (1954)
So if the sanity of your preclear could be said to depend upon any self determinism, could be said to depend upon the ratio of his own dangerousness compared to the dangerousness of his environment. When the environment is total danger, and an individual is no danger, you have somebody who is in very bad shape indeed. A badness of shape which is impossible to conceive, even to an auditor. Simply because it's never totally existed. It's an absolute. And let's get the other extreme - an … [Read more...] about Lecture: Laughter in Processing (1954)