Ron Says…
“Well, in view of the fact that everybody in this society has agreed wholeheartedly that it’s care of the body, care of the body, care of the body—and just for variation, care of the body, care of the body, care of the body. If you were to take a little kid and let him eat when he wanted to eat and sleep when he wanted to sleep and let him stuff all the candy he wanted to stuff down his gullet and go and come and act and not sleep and come in with wet feet and go out with wet feet and roll in the snow, boy, he’d probably be as healthy as they come. That isn’t what makes them unhealthy. It’s ‘Now, Johnny, take care of yourself. You will catch cold.’ Continual running fire of ‘You’re weak, you’re weak, you’re weak, you’re weak, you’re weak. You can get sick, surrounded by danger, don’t have any self-confidence, don’t have any self-conf—-, you can’t control that body, I have to control it here.’
“Maybe to some that doesn’t sound too familiar as the modus operandi. But Johnny is a lot safer being permitted to walk the high-tension power line in his bare feet than he is being coddled about wearing his rubbers and carrying his umbrella to school. If he carries an umbrella to school, he’ll probably get half-killed by the kids down the block!”
L. Ron Hubbard
from The Philadelphia Doctorate Course lecture
“Goal: Rehabilitation of Thetan, Case Step 1”
13 December 1952