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Milestone Two: Prisoners of belief
https://milestonetwo.wordpress.com/2015/02/01/prisoners-of-belief/
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Posted by Lana M.
February 1, 2015
by Jim Logan
I read Lawrence Wright’s book. I looked for something that was actually part of the subjects of Dianetics or Scientology in it. I didn’t find anything. I mean, ANY, actual, real Scientology in its pages.
What I did find was a cornucopia of drek. Gossip, rumor, hearsay and not a wit of the ostensible topic, Dianetics or Scientology. A Russell Miller redux, and in light of the facts that Margaret Lake has presented this is really pretty cheesy.
How could that be?
I think I have one answer to that question.
Lawrence Wright is a regular ol’ average human being. He considers he is “Lawrence Wright”, that body, with one life, in that body, living on a lone planet that spontaneously brought about that one life, in that one body, from a sea of ammonia, sometime in the last billion years or so, evolving along until one day, carbon and oxygen and hydrogen and a bunch of chemicals gave rise to his “consciousness” as “Lawrence Wright”. One day that will die and that’s the end. He’s convinced – or at least he’s pretty sure.
He’s got lots of company and so he figures he’s set, in agreement and in tune with current thought of a certain vague group of people. A rational, reasonable man, a normal guy.
In order to grasp Scientology, Lawrence would have to attain an awareness level that would somehow approach, at least to some degree, being able to conceive a Static.
In other words, he’d have to attain somewhat on the way to a state of beingness where he would be ABLE to conceive a Static. That’s quite a jump. In fact, it’s the goal of many schools of enlightenment, to achieve an awareness of “essence”, that cognition of the individual’s actual beingness as source, the creator of space, the maker of energy particles. The distinction of the Static from all that “something” that is everything else. It’s a jump that a whole bunch of people don’t make, even miss altogether. Such is the Tao.
I was studying a tape the other day, Clearing: Possibilities, from 9 June 59 and part of the 6th London Advanced Clinical Course. LRH is going over cases and awareness levels. He’s discussing the subject of “valences” and describing some of the phenomena related to these assumed beingnesses. A person will take on the personality of something he thinks is the best method of surviving. On the other hand, if the person is surviving, then they seem to be in the best method. After all, they’re surviving aren’t they?
For somebody who thinks they live one life, then they have one mode of surviving, that body, its composite personality, the memories of their life adding up to “who they are”.
For a lot of people, they are in the only valence they can conceive, and they barely conceive that and getting them to see beyond that, is quite a task. They muddle along, in a condition of “phrnah, bluch, wog-wog, figure-figure, what wall?”.
Here’s a quote from this lecture:
“Now, let’s simplify this whole thing. We can talk all we want to about the philosophic questions that Man faces and all we find out is that Man doesn’t know that he faces these philosophic questions. He speculates on them very poorly and he does not envision a beingness, ordinarily, which lies outside the beingnesses which he readily observes. He readily observes these beingnesses, he says there are no other beingnesses. Some fine day another beingness jumps up and eats him up, skin and bones and hymn-book too. And he says, “Where did that come from?” He had it all taped.”
Scientology is unreal to Lawrence Wright. That’s why he can’t describe it, write about it or comment on it in any meaningful way. He cannot conceive a Static. Lacking this level of awareness, this cognition or degree of understanding, the subject eludes his grasp.
He can write about the beingnesses he readily observes – his idea of what a person is, what it means to be a regular ol’ human bean. He can opine that this person is “odd”, that person is “normal”, or some other person doesn’t seem to be in agreement with what Lawrence Wright thinks is agreeable or what he considers other “rational, reasonable” people consider is OK. He’s got it all taped.
Falling outside his limited viewpoint, well, one is simply unreal. It’s pretty hard to get around his “now we’re supposed to” think this way about what life is, and what the experience of living consists, especially for Lawrence, because he simply cannot envision some beingness beyond what he thinks beingness is, and so there aren’t any other states of beingness.
He’s got lots of company. (Alex Gibney “didn’t see any holes” in Lawrence’s work.)
Considering this incredibly parochial, narrow, state of existence of these poor fellas, one wonders just who is the prisoner and can feel some pathos for them, bodies unaware that there is any other state of beingness, than bodies.
“Now, when a person has a chewed-up time track and when he himself has been victimizing and being victimized-back and forth, give and take-his own fixations upon valences, his own difficulties and so on have assembled themselves into a personality package than which there is no other. You see? Because it’s totally made up out of attention fixation, he really hasn’t a chance of recognizing-not a chance of recognizing-that there could be any other state of beingness.
“It’s rather pathetic. You jump into a Roman slave pen and say, ‘Come on slaves, strike off your chains, be free’ and so forth. Well, you and I know intellectually they, of course-of course, they’re just waiting for somebody to unlock the gates, you know; and strike off the chains and walk out and assume natural existences and all we’d have to do is just?jump into the slave pen and say, ‘Well, strike off your chains, slaves, here we go.’ You see? And they say, ‘Who’s this nut?’ They’d say, ‘Is there any other state of existence besides slavery?’ “ (LRH, Clearing: Possibilities, 9 June 1959.)
Two-dimensional worms really don’t get other dimensions. They seem to be prisoners of their own belief there just can’t be anything else than what they think they are, a “two -dimensional worm” holding on with white knuckles to that beingness.
Alas, conceiving a Static can be a heavy process, and isn’t recommended for any cases having any real difficulty (Creation of Human Ability R2-40). Gradient scale approaches are indicated as lots of beings are at pretty low levels of awareness that are completely unaware of anything above.
There are those that can reach to the level of cognition that includes the ability to conceive a Static. Those beings can go Clear, they can achieve OT. They can grasp their own postulates and considerations that led them to the state they are in.
They can actually be free.
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Milestone Two: Prisoners of belief
https://milestonetwo.wordpress.com/2015/02/01/prisoners-of-belief/
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Posted by Lana M.
February 1, 2015
by Jim Logan
I read Lawrence Wright’s book. I looked for something that was actually part of the subjects of Dianetics or Scientology in it. I didn’t find anything. I mean, ANY, actual, real Scientology in its pages.
What I did find was a cornucopia of drek. Gossip, rumor, hearsay and not a wit of the ostensible topic, Dianetics or Scientology. A Russell Miller redux, and in light of the facts that Margaret Lake has presented this is really pretty cheesy.
How could that be?
I think I have one answer to that question.
Lawrence Wright is a regular ol’ average human being. He considers he is “Lawrence Wright”, that body, with one life, in that body, living on a lone planet that spontaneously brought about that one life, in that one body, from a sea of ammonia, sometime in the last billion years or so, evolving along until one day, carbon and oxygen and hydrogen and a bunch of chemicals gave rise to his “consciousness” as “Lawrence Wright”. One day that will die and that’s the end. He’s convinced – or at least he’s pretty sure.
He’s got lots of company and so he figures he’s set, in agreement and in tune with current thought of a certain vague group of people. A rational, reasonable man, a normal guy.
In order to grasp Scientology, Lawrence would have to attain an awareness level that would somehow approach, at least to some degree, being able to conceive a Static.
In other words, he’d have to attain somewhat on the way to a state of beingness where he would be ABLE to conceive a Static. That’s quite a jump. In fact, it’s the goal of many schools of enlightenment, to achieve an awareness of “essence”, that cognition of the individual’s actual beingness as source, the creator of space, the maker of energy particles. The distinction of the Static from all that “something” that is everything else. It’s a jump that a whole bunch of people don’t make, even miss altogether. Such is the Tao.
I was studying a tape the other day, Clearing: Possibilities, from 9 June 59 and part of the 6th London Advanced Clinical Course. LRH is going over cases and awareness levels. He’s discussing the subject of “valences” and describing some of the phenomena related to these assumed beingnesses. A person will take on the personality of something he thinks is the best method of surviving. On the other hand, if the person is surviving, then they seem to be in the best method. After all, they’re surviving aren’t they?
For somebody who thinks they live one life, then they have one mode of surviving, that body, its composite personality, the memories of their life adding up to “who they are”.
For a lot of people, they are in the only valence they can conceive, and they barely conceive that and getting them to see beyond that, is quite a task. They muddle along, in a condition of “phrnah, bluch, wog-wog, figure-figure, what wall?”.
Here’s a quote from this lecture:
“Now, let’s simplify this whole thing. We can talk all we want to about the philosophic questions that Man faces and all we find out is that Man doesn’t know that he faces these philosophic questions. He speculates on them very poorly and he does not envision a beingness, ordinarily, which lies outside the beingnesses which he readily observes. He readily observes these beingnesses, he says there are no other beingnesses. Some fine day another beingness jumps up and eats him up, skin and bones and hymn-book too. And he says, “Where did that come from?” He had it all taped.”
Scientology is unreal to Lawrence Wright. That’s why he can’t describe it, write about it or comment on it in any meaningful way. He cannot conceive a Static. Lacking this level of awareness, this cognition or degree of understanding, the subject eludes his grasp.
He can write about the beingnesses he readily observes – his idea of what a person is, what it means to be a regular ol’ human bean. He can opine that this person is “odd”, that person is “normal”, or some other person doesn’t seem to be in agreement with what Lawrence Wright thinks is agreeable or what he considers other “rational, reasonable” people consider is OK. He’s got it all taped.
Falling outside his limited viewpoint, well, one is simply unreal. It’s pretty hard to get around his “now we’re supposed to” think this way about what life is, and what the experience of living consists, especially for Lawrence, because he simply cannot envision some beingness beyond what he thinks beingness is, and so there aren’t any other states of beingness.
He’s got lots of company. (Alex Gibney “didn’t see any holes” in Lawrence’s work.)
Considering this incredibly parochial, narrow, state of existence of these poor fellas, one wonders just who is the prisoner and can feel some pathos for them, bodies unaware that there is any other state of beingness, than bodies.
“Now, when a person has a chewed-up time track and when he himself has been victimizing and being victimized-back and forth, give and take-his own fixations upon valences, his own difficulties and so on have assembled themselves into a personality package than which there is no other. You see? Because it’s totally made up out of attention fixation, he really hasn’t a chance of recognizing-not a chance of recognizing-that there could be any other state of beingness.
“It’s rather pathetic. You jump into a Roman slave pen and say, ‘Come on slaves, strike off your chains, be free’ and so forth. Well, you and I know intellectually they, of course-of course, they’re just waiting for somebody to unlock the gates, you know; and strike off the chains and walk out and assume natural existences and all we’d have to do is just?jump into the slave pen and say, ‘Well, strike off your chains, slaves, here we go.’ You see? And they say, ‘Who’s this nut?’ They’d say, ‘Is there any other state of existence besides slavery?’ “ (LRH, Clearing: Possibilities, 9 June 1959.)
Two-dimensional worms really don’t get other dimensions. They seem to be prisoners of their own belief there just can’t be anything else than what they think they are, a “two -dimensional worm” holding on with white knuckles to that beingness.
Alas, conceiving a Static can be a heavy process, and isn’t recommended for any cases having any real difficulty (Creation of Human Ability R2-40). Gradient scale approaches are indicated as lots of beings are at pretty low levels of awareness that are completely unaware of anything above.
There are those that can reach to the level of cognition that includes the ability to conceive a Static. Those beings can go Clear, they can achieve OT. They can grasp their own postulates and considerations that led them to the state they are in.
They can actually be free.
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Yes, I 
I'm pretty sure it's obvious to everyone except Jim Logan who has the incredibly parochial, narrow state of existence and who is the prisoner of his beliefs. 
