Slavery

Introduction: You can measure the degree of disintegration of an economy by the amount of slavery introduced into it! And as a government becomes more and more anxious to enslave companies and people within its borders, it becomes less and less solvent and more and more inflated!

Slavery: Master or Slave?

We can look at life from many different perspectives. But one thing is certain: if we do not take responsibility for our own lives, no one else will do it for us. At some point, we become adults and have to find our own way in life – and succeed or fail along the way.

Scientology provides a comprehensive education in the fundamentals of life. What you learn can be applied to practically every area of life. It is not just theory, but an applied philosophy that gives you practical tools for everyday living.

For example, you learn how to communicate better with people, how to find or create a job and succeed in it. You gain tools for relationships and family life, as well as for many other areas of life.

The key question is: How much cause are you yourself in your own life?

The more consciously and independently we create and direct our lives, the freer we are. The less we are knowingly and willingly cause, the more we become controlled by circumstances and by other people.

We often recognize how much cause we really are only when we suddenly find ourselves swimming against the current and facing challenges.

Ron’s text can help you take the necessary steps to become much more cause in your life than you may ever have thought possible.

Much love.

Max Hauri

You may listen the full lecture here: sciento.org, look for "Lectures"

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Slavery

An expert from the lecture "Cause and Effect" given by L. Ron Hubbard on the 30 December 1957

The people of Earth today are overwhelmed. And the more they are overwhelmed, the less they can think. The more they are overwhelmed, the less they can act. And the less they think and act, the less they can live. And no government to date has ever been able to afford a slave population.

Long since in Europe the governments learned that private enterprise was far more beneficial than a slave economy and therefore they let the slaves go. There was probably no other reason they let the slaves go. They found out that it was not efficient.

You can measure the degree of disintegration of an economy by the amount of slavery introduced into it! And as a government becomes more and more anxious to enslave companies and people within its borders, it becomes less and less solvent and more and more inflated! It's a fascinating little gradient scale. We know about gradient scales but that's the way it goes. As slavery increases in a country, as freedom becomes less, inflation and other economic evils become more because slave peoples do not produce and free peoples do.

It is a very, very serious adventure to embark upon the enslavement of a human being; that is probably the most dangerous venture that anybody ever embarked upon. To invite his cooperation is one thing, to enslave him is something else.

What element is necessary in order to bring about slavery? The element necessary is unwilling and unknowing. You could call those two elements but they go hand in hand: Unknowing and unwilling service to the state.

You become adventurous in the field of slavery when you accept something that is unwillingly given; you have then become a partner to this deadly dwindling spiral. You have an instinctive reaction along this line.

Somebody's mad when she cooks breakfast, let us say. You know, "There's your breakfast." You're a fool if you eat it. You will get into more trouble if you eat that breakfast. It's unwilling service.

Now in Scientology, we not only have the mission of liberation of intellect, we also have to overcome past enslavements on the part of an individual.

The definition of an Operating Thetan is as follows: A thetan who can be willing and knowing cause over life, matter, energy, space and time. Knowing and willing cause.

That tells you that an aberrated person is somebody who is unwilling or unknowing effect of life, matter, energy, space and time.

Here's somebody, he throws a custard pie. He's cause.

Now, we attach to that shame, blame and regret. But those are opinions of cause, and we didn't talk about the opinions. You have to be able to think of cause without thinking of opinions of cause before you can think about cause. It is neither bad nor good or effective or ineffective or anything else; it's merely cause as you look at it.

Now, as we trace down this mechanism, the bullet goes across space and hits somebody. All right, to define cause there – we used to be working with this a long time ago – but to define cause there, is it the bullet? Is it the powder? Is it the priming cap? Is it the barrel of the gun? Is it the hammer? Is it the trigger? Is it the gun itself? Is it the fellow's shoulder? Is it his body? See what we're doing here, we're backing up cause as the point of impulse. Is it the fellow's mind? Is it the person himself or is it his environment? Pzhhht. Well, man, that's one where we draw a line; I just wanted to make sure you understood that. It's one where we draw a line in Scientology; in Dianetics we rather recklessly let the environment do all the causing.

It tells you, then, that a person can be cause who can accept some responsibility for his own actions. Otherwise he is only effect even if he acts like he's being cause. So the fellow who acts like he's being cause and the fellow who is being cause are two different guys. One is knowing cause and the other's unknowing cause. He says "the environment did it" but he did it! So therefore, it's unknowing cause, isn't it?

Well, so we get an order in the middle of the definition then, there is such a thing as unwilling and unknowing cause. And we get into the field of weapons.

Hardly any soldier isn't slightly unwilling, and every soldier is unknowing, on the subject of the cause of weapons. He has to be. You let a sniper go and inspect his victims and rest their head on his folded up blouse and take the – as he did in "All Quiet on the Western Front" [A classic war novel by Erich Maria Remarque] – take out the pictures of the wife and kids out of the fellow's blouse, he won't shoot any more soldiers; he will always manage to miss. See, he didn't know what he was causing and therefore realized that he had been "unknowing cause" of a great deal of suffering which went far beyond the person he had just shot. Do you get the idea?

And so we reach the field of morality with regard to cause. Now, there's morality and ethics and so forth.

But the definition of cause is simply cause. It doesn't have anything much to do with whether it's good or bad or moral or immoral or anything else; it is simply cause.

Now, you can have opinions about that cause, and you can see what kind of causes are successful and what kind of causes are not, but it doesn't alter our definition of cause, which is just merely "the point of impulse."

So here's cause, here's effect, and in Scientology we simply mean cause-distance-effect; cause-distance-effect.

An individual could have all effects be all effects in some balled-up fashion, but we'd have "A = A = A"[A=A=A, anything equals anything equals anything. This is the way the reactive mind thinks, irrationally identifying thoughts, people, objects, experiences, statements, etc., with one another where little or no similarity actually exists.] or the old identification. "All effects are all effects." We could have it "all causes are all causes" and get it just as crazy.

Until we get these two things separated, cause and effect, we can not have sanity.

So, in processing, all we are trying to do is to free the thinkingness of the individual. That is all we are trying to do. Therefore the goal of all processing is freedom. We cannot improve anybody unless we free his thinkingness, we free his ability to think.

Therefore we must accustom him to associating thought with matter, thought with space, thought with time, thought with energy. Not forbid it like the mystic, not cancel it out entirely like the Tibetan, but actually, factually make it possible for him to do this without feeling he is being murdered by it. To associate thought with matter, energy, space or time, freely and knowingly, is to bring an individual up to a point where he can be cause over matter, energy, space and time!

And when he can do that he can be free! He is never free when he refuses to confront matter, energy, space and time. Then he's a slave, and that's the operation that's happened to him.

Everybody says, "You've got to work!" I don't know what's wrong with work; work is just a sort of a heavy association of thought with matter – usually all work is. If you make him an unwilling worker, then he won't do it and he becomes incapable of doing it and you have the basis of a slave state.

But a preclear is not cause across the boards if anywhere he's an unwilling and unknowing effect. Now remember, he can be the effect of anything as long as he is not an unwilling or an unknowing effect. And that's the one thing we mustn't forget in Scientology. We're not trying to say, "Don't ever be at effect." We're saying, "If you're at effect know what it is."

Therefore we can disseminate Scientology; therefore I can tell you this material without liability because you're here by choice; I am here by choice; we're discussing these things by choice because we are interested.

The day it becomes a vital subject that we must have a credit in, Scientology becomes a slave subject.

So I ask you, don't ever let it happen.

Thank you.

L. Ron Hubbard