From Philadephia Doctorate Lecture Tape Number 1 Lecture one.

1952

How does a little kid get bent into agreement with the Mest Universe? It's a remarkable thing.. He runs down the street, and he's got a body, and his body has to run just so fast, and he has a mother by the way, telling him, "You are a body, take care of your body, the teachers say so, the cops say so, traffic laws say so, everybody says so, the doctor gives him an inspection, You are your body, you are your body, you are your body. Huhhh!

You ought to hear the wheezing sigh of electronic relief, that goes out from a thetan you spring out of an 8 year old kid!

(Tittering from audience.)

That's wonderful, you know, you can just take ranks of kids, and you can just go down and say, (snaps finger) alright, be two feet behind your head, OK, you there, alright, that's fine, next kid (snaps finger), two feet behind your head, what did you say?

What did you say? Ohhh, you want to go to the British Museum, go ahead.

(Audience laughs) Ahhhhh,.. (Hubbard laughs).

One fellow, doing this, he was able to get the cooperation of a whole troop of scouts, simply by telling them, "now, you want all the ice cream you can eat, and you want to got to any of the cinemas you want to go to, OK, this is how you do it, and sure enough,..

It's impossible to do anything with those children now. (Audience laughs).

It's really terrible. I mean, he should of thought of the future society before he did this. Because those children, those children are doing terrible things. They don't study. Don't study.

One of them picked up a bank, of an education at Oxford and plugged it in.

(Audience laughs).

Well, you know you aren't supposed to get things that easy unless you earn it. (Weird sarcastic fake laugh from Hubbard. Audience laughs) And another one, studying geometry. Very interesting, but all he would keep doing is make the shapes, he wopuld make the shapes and fit them together and of course he could answer his problems, and he could tell the angles were on a truncated polygon, when you did this or that with it, really he'd just make one you see, he didn't keep figuring on it the way you were suppose to on it. (Audience laughs).

And another one, horribly enough, of course looks through the desk top at the answers on the exanimantion paper, goes back to his seat and makes his body write down the answers down and gets 100.

(laughingly) Why that's no good, I mean you can't have a society running like that. (Audience laughs).

Two of these kids, by the way are very amusing, they are brother and sister, and boy, they are in kind of bad shape, they lost their daddy one way or the other some years ago, and gee they brightened right up.

One of them lost her glasses and the other lost his shyness, and became really well mannered instead of shyly well mannered.

And they spend hours and hours and hours now, playing a game.

One will mock up an illusion and put it on the mantle. And And the other will look at it and then he will mock up an illusion.

And she'll take hers down, and then she'll mock up an illusion, and see, they're looking at each other's ilusions.

And that's all they do. They just sit there, their bodies parked over on the other side of the room you see? (Laughs Hmmm, hmm. hm!) (Some giggles from audience).

Now. It's very amusing that phenomenon of this character and so on could exist all these years and be individually known in so many places without really coming up and presenting itself, saying 'here we are.

The importnat phenomena."

Every once in a while you talk to a person and they tell you rather shyly , "well yes, I get in and out of my body all the time. I felt there was something wrong with me. Audience laughs.

Or, or I have been trying to get into my body for the last 20 years, and I haven't been able quite to make it.

Or, yes that's the way I solve my problems, I step out of my body, think of the answer and step back in again And you'll run into people who'll tell you this, but they kept it kind of quiet.

-- Happy Hogmanay!

Cheerful Charlie

Go Back