Reasonableness Explained

Introduction: "Reasonableness" is a very interesting humanoid subject that is well worth taking a closer look at. “The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”– G.B. Shaw

Former staff members of the church of Scientology are more than familiar with the term reasonable. A term which, at least in my perception, was used far too often—and often incorrectly.

Reasonable or, as Ron actually called it, Reasonableness, is a very interesting humanoid subject that is well worth taking a closer look at.

Let us begin with a quote by George Bernard Shaw:

“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world.

"The unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself.

"Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”

George Bernard Shaw died on November 2, 1950 – it is quite possible that Ron was familiar with this quote.

Below 1.0 on the Tone Scale, one takes on the effort of the other person or of the environment. Above 1.0, one fights it. Above 2.0, one is indifferent to it, but not apathetic. And above 3.0, one can bring the environment, through one’s own drive and enthusiasm, to do what one wants oneself to do. This is not the forcing of one’s own intention – that would fall more in the range of 1.0 to 2.0.

Reasonableness has a great deal to do with the lowest band, 0.0 – 1.0, that is, apathy.

Someone tells you some kind of nonsense, and you are reasonable about it – “reasonable,” that is.

A doctor says, “This could be cancer,” and immediately you are in agreement. The doctor is an authority, and I am almost a “0,” so it must be true.

“Stay at home” – yes, that’s reasonable?

“Interest is the price of money” – is that really true?

“Man thinks with the brain” – really?

We are reasonable about so many things. The sheer amount of it is frightening. Humanity is trapped in Reasonableness worse than someone who has sunk into mud and digs himself in deeper with every movement – unable to get out without external help.

Unfortunately, over the past decades our society has sunk further and further into this Reasonableness. Instead of being tough and demanding much, one says: “You poor guy, we have to show understanding for your inability and laziness and give you a lifelong pension.” And that is only the beginning.

One becomes reasonable with more and more criminal elements. Society is systematically conditioned into Reasonableness even toward the most abhorrent things. Under the weight of enforced Reasonableness, many people no longer know what is right and what is wrong.

Here is one of my favorite quotes from the book:

“The Creation of Human Ability” – Chapter Resolve Dangerousness of environment – Cause and Effect:

“However, it can be said with some truth, and was said in ‘Excalibur’ in 1938, that a man is as sane as he is dangerous to the environment. What occurs is that the environment becomes dangerous to the man and the man cannot be dangerous to the environment. And his answer to this is immobility and general deterioration. ”

All of the above is very correct and OT. Unfortunately, it also has a shadow side: ARC – understanding, humanity – was often deliberately put out of operation. Staff had to live in a kind of enforced non-Reasonableness. This led to a situation where one often – if not to say never – was allowed to understand, or even wanted to understand.

Whether it was a cheap excuse or a sincerely meant origination, one was brushed off with a curt: “You’re being reasonable!”

Being OT always goes hand in hand with ARC. When projects are carried out without ARC and without understanding, one very quickly ends up standing alone. And that is exactly what we see in the church of Scientology.

ARC includes.

One should not – and does not have to – be reasonable, but one must nevertheless understand and have ARC.

 “Truth which has no ARC hooked up to it, is denied the individual and can wrong him and harm him.” 17 March 1964

Much love

Max Hauri

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Reasonableness Explained

Below are the definitions of Reasonableness from the Administrative Dictionary of Scientology (order changed):

• 2. Faulty explanations. (HCO PL 30 Aug 70)

  
  

• 3. A staff member or executive can be "reasonable" and accept reasons why something cannot be done, accept incomplete cycles as complete, and fail to follow through and get completions. All of which results in further traffic. (BPL 30 Jan 69)

  
  

• 4. An objective can always be achieved. Most usually, when it is not being achieved, the person is finding counter-intention in the environment which coincides with his own (this is reasonableness), and his attention becomes directed to his own counter-intention rather than to his objective, i.e. he has interiorized into the situation. (FO 2116)

  
  

• 5. You can safely say that being reasonable is a symptom of being unable to recognize out-points for what they are and use them to discover actual situations. (HCO PL 30 Sept 73 II)

  
  

• 1. Illogic occurs when one or more data is misplaced into the wrong body of data for it. An example would be "Los Angeles smog is growing worse so we fined New York." "I am sorry, madam, but you cannot travel first class on a third class passport." Humanoid response to such displacements is to be reasonable. A new false datum is dreamed up and put into the body of data to explain why that datum is included. (Reasonableness is often inserted as explanation of other out-points also.) In the smog one, it could be dreamed up that New York's exports or imports were causing L.A. smog. In the train one, it could be inserted that in that country, passports were used instead of tickets. (HCO PL 23 June 70)

Creation of Human Abilities

R2-27: Resolve Dangerousness of Environment

Resolving the Dangerousness of the Environment could be done in many ways, but by experience it should not be done by deleting various things which could be dangerous by the use of mock-ups. If there is any trouble with the preclear it is that the environment is insufficiently dangerous and so does not produce sufficient amusement.

The physical body was built in the time when escapes from death by wild animals, by falling, were routine. It was built in an operating climate of great hazard over a period of many millions of years. It requires about three escapes from sudden death daily to stay in present time.

Many of the preclears being audited in Scientology are being audited simply to experience a new adventure. However, it can be said with some truth, and was said in ‘Excalibur’ in 1938, that a man is as sane as he is dangerous to the environment. What occurs is that the environment becomes dangerous to the man and the man cannot be dangerous to the environment. And his answer to this is immobility and general deterioration.

The basic remedy of this condition consists of getting a living thing – a pet, a child, a sick person – to reach out towards one’s hand. At that moment, without moving so suddenly that the living being will be startled, the person doing the process would withdraw his hand. The auditor would then advance, again to be driven away, over and over. And it would be observed that the living being would strike out with more and more enthusiasm and would recover considerable sanity. This, of course, is done on a gradient scale.

While an auditor should know and use this basic process in assists or when processing animals, very small children or people who are extremely ill, the remedy which is used in Intensive Procedure is Cause and Effect.

Parts of the body can be used in this process, the whole body, or the thetan. But the auditor must be specific about what he is addressing. The basic commands are, ‘What are you willing to cause?’ And when the preclear has answered this and the communication lag on the question has been fattened, ‘What are you willing to be the effect of.’ And when the communication lag has been flattened by the repeated use of this question, ‘What are you willing to cause?’ and so forth, using just these commands. One can additionally apply this, particularly when the preclear has a psychosomatic illness, to a limb or organ of the body as an assist. But in Intensive Procedure, the most permissive of these questions, as given, is used.

L. Ron Hubbard