CHAPTER 13 - RESPONSIBILITY
THE ENVIRONMENT
A paranoid is one on whom
everything is impinged. There isn't really, any such thing as a paranoid.
There's such a thing as collapsed space.
As a person goes down the
tone scale, his environment contracts on him. The lower emotions are contracted
environments, less motion capable, more solidity, harder to move through.
A person can actually feel this. You run him through a moment of shock,
he will feel the environment close right in on him and become practically
no-dimensional.
He's abandoning every anchor
point in the environment because he's saying, "It can't be happening. I
don't want this motion. I've tried to stop the motion itself, but in order
to stop the motion, all I can do is abandon the anchor points and that
will make the motion stop."
Only that doesn't make it
stop either because he's still got the body. He's got the body and the
motion continues in relationship to his body as an anchor point and so
he feels the whole environment contracting down and he'll finally abandon
the body as well in order to stop some motion which he conceives to exist
beyond his control and beyond his ability to withstand the perception.
DEX/DEDEX AND OVERT/MOTIVATOR
You are giving him mock-ups, he starts to slide out on a boil-off, just give him more mock-ups. But normally, you've just got the thing running the wrong way. The probability is that he has overrun the DED or the DEDEX.
A DED is something that somebody
did without provocation to somebody else; they say, "He deserved it." They
had no other reason to do it. DEDEX could be interpreted as 'deserved action
explained'. This is why the action was deserved. He tries to put the DEDEX
ahead of the DED. He tries to scramble the track and put it in a logical
order.
How do you use this in mock-ups?
Your preclear's George, and let's mock-up George and let's mock-up Bill.
George has been mighty worried about this guy, Bill, but now you have this
mock-up and you give him a real workout. Have George picking up Bill and
throwing him out the window, or dumping him down the chimney or busting
his face in.
George has been mad at Bill
for a long time and you've got him bashing Bill's head in and all of a
sudden he goes on a boil-off. What you've got to do now is have the mock-up
Bill turn around and knock the hell out of that body there you're calling
George. If you kept that up too long, the preclear would eventually again
boil off - Bill has beaten up George too long.
An overt-act / motivator
situation is quite different than a DED-DEDEX situation in that there's
little blame or upset. The motivator happens to the preclear and he does
it to somebody else. That's justice in this universe. He doesn't worry
very much about that.
However, it will also turn
on boil-off. If you run more of an overt act than you run motivators, you
will get again a condition of grogginess resulting, because, incident for
incident, you're really handlin flows.
An incident is composed
of many, many flows, but an incident that is outgoing, dominated by outflow,
it's overt, and an incident that's incoming, dominated by inflow, it is
a motivator. Or, outgoing - DED, incoming, DEDEX.
On a guy's whole track there
can be too many motivators and not enough overts - that guy's overt as
hell.
If he does more overt acts
now than he has motivators to account for it, so naturally some of them
become DEDs. He's used up his credit. He's done too many things, therefore
he's in debt, and he has to be paid. He'll rig it in such a way that he'll
sooner or later get a DEDEX.
If he came in to tell you
how all these things have been done to him and that's why he's in horrible
shape - just run him doing things to people and he'll get nicer and pleasanter
and calmer.
By mock-ups or some other
means we've straightened out all of that superfluity of DEDs that he did.
Now he's got a bank which has more motivators than he has overts and he's
become a cheerful, comfortable, calm guy.
The motivator and the DEDEX
are incoming incidents and the overt act and the DED are outgoing incidents.
Under the laws of justice, it is allowable to do an overt act, but it is
not allowable to do a DED - no provocation, no motivation for an act. And
the facsimiles will sit that way.
This is simply elementary
bookkeeping, it's just a matter of credits and debits. He's done too many
things (overts), therefore he's in debt, and he has to be paid. So they
pay him. Remember this debit and credit proposition and the gross nature
of flows. If the fellow has been flowed in upon too much, he's gonna outflow.
If he hasn't been flowed in on enough, he's gonna inflow.
RESPONSIBILITY
Responsibility is the experience
manifestation of the taking on command of energy. Responsibility is force.
Willingness to be, use and have, utilize and own energy and objects sitting
in space - that's responsibility. If you get a person who's not willing
to handle force, you've also got a person who is not capable of responsibility.
Responsibility is the ability
to handle force in the MEST universe. It's the ability to handle force
and take the responsibility for the use of it, the ability to create and
handle space of any dimension and take the responsibility for handling
it. He can't even run his engram bank unless he says, "It's my business
and I mean to make it so."
For a group to be cause it
must consist of individuals who themselves are cause. Therefore, that group
where the individual has banded himself together to keep from being cause,
is a group which is easily handled by force. So the governments of a society
and almost any line finds it handiest to use force, not reason. And they
band a people together and keep them together and control them by the threat
of force.
And the individual of the
group, by fear of starvation, by fear of pain or other things, stands in
with other individuals. In such a way a man can be made into a slave. He
is made into a slave by the threat of scarcity, and scarcity itself is
the greatest threat to Man's freedom.
The man who is able to take
responsibility for force, yet who does not employ force, is much more powerful
than the man who can apply force alone. And the man who applies force alone
is, of course, much more terrible to those who can only cluster together
in terror and hope that the mass of their numbers will restrain the hand
of force.
The gradient scale of going
down tone scale is the degree that one abandons space, energy and objects.
"I don't want to make any decision about it." As a consequence of becoming
the adverse effect of one's own cause, there is unwillingness to make a
decision or unwillingness to assume a condition of being, which is the
highest essence of no responsibility.
He's afraid that what he
says will come true. After a while he doesn't want his orders to stick.
One wants things to be automatic for which he doesn't want to be responsible.
When you get a postulate-changing
session going on with some preclear, you will be astonished. They'll realize
they don't have the right to do this, or to do that or something else,
because they agreed not to have the right. And one could call the whole
dwindling scale of stuff, "Agreeing not to be able to."
There is a bigness which
has to grow in the person. And if you don't see that bigness growing, he's
not on his way out. He'll have to take responsibility for what he does
and his force. And not only that, for everything that goes on around him.
You want to get as much
responsibility digested as the person believes he can digest. If he thinks
he has an enormously wide responsibility, well, you just better move him
up in terms of responsibility. Just let his capability catch up to his
desire to do so.
You can get him out on responsibility
any time you want to.
Joy of responsibility,
Beautiful sadness of responsibility,
Joy of irresponsibility,
and that sort of thing on
brackets and you can get him out any time you want to if you want to work
that long enough.
A person has to come up the scale so that he can take responsibility for himself and all of his fellows and the whole universe before he can walk down that road out.
RIGHT / WRONG - GOOD / EVIL
The difference between a right act and a criminal act is simply knowing one has a right to and knowing one doesn't have a right to. The criminal knows he doesn't have the right to do anything. He has no space and no time, no havingness. And as such, he comes right on down scale.
How right is something, how much is it going to assist the survival of something? How wrong is something? How much is it going to make something succumb. That system of ethics will hold for a lot of universes.
We sure are right before
we make any postulates. A lot of people won't act for fear they'll be wrong.
Your preclear is obviously wrong. Practically 90 % of the things you have
to do to stay in ARC with Homo sapiens are wrong. You have to pick him
up someplace on a gradient scale toward that wrongness and back him up
the scale, and get him up tone scale to a place where he can better act
and where he can get more right than he is wrong.
He runs into something in
the society which is evil. "This thing is bad and this thing is evil,"
and he withdraws from it. Unfortunately, he went back from just that much
space. That's what you mean by driving in anchor points. It's the way to
get a guy solid and to get energy solid - drive in his anchor points. How
do you drive in his anchor points? You show him things which he doesn't
want to be.
One of the worst tricks
is convince him that he doesn't want to be himself, "Look at yourself,
mud all over you, and look at your manners, and you know people don't like
you."
And this person does what
then? They won't even occupy the space their own body is in. So they go
down below the level of Four.
Realize the number of things
in the MEST universe that you're not willing to be. Every one of those
things is space you don't want to occupy.
His attention was dragged
out to ugly things and he was told he couldn't be those things so he has
to be very alert not to be those things.
ETHICS
This is a rough universe.
You'd have to be able to handle the majority of forces in it before you
could stand up to it and never be afraid.
Or you would have to hold
inside yourself a piece of courage that would be strained and tortured
beyond all belief in an effort to be courageous enough to take this universe.
An ethical code exists only
as long as a man has enough strength not to himself be afraid.
Any time he is susceptible
to terror, he's going to lose his ethics. And the only time a man gets
afraid is when he loses his belief in himself and his trust in himself.
Unfortunately it can't exist: an ethical, strong homo sapiens. He can be killed too easily. As a consequence, this big, blustering universe can look at him and say, "You don't dare be ethical. You're afraid."
Everybody has his own individual
concept of space and as these are combined, they make our collective and
agreed-upon concept of space.
In a society you can watch
the contagion of aberration on "Drive in the anchor points". Somebody gets
afraid, he gets scared. So he drives in somebody else's anchor points.
People go to pieces the moment
when they conceive that they can't trust themselves anymore. When they
can't trust themselves, they have to trust something else.
There's nothing else they
can trust, so they fix up an engram bank and trust it.
People are persuaded to turn
over their individual force to something that they are given to understand
is superior to their own ability to protect. And that can never be.
Nobody'll look after a man's
own but himself.
You have to get him up to a high level of self-determinism where he is a good ethical being as well as a very strong one. And we find out he has to be a very strong being in order to be an ethical being.
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