Ron Says…

“It would be practically impossible to commit an overt act against me. It’s not that I’m tough or I am a no-effect proposition but I merely wouldn’t consider it so! Now that’s just an attitude of mine.

“Well now, a little kid—and maybe something else—but a little kid, he’s just committed the overt act of witholding his death, see. And he went through a big pretense of dying and here he is again and so he’s all occluded. And this, itself, is a major overt act, as I told you in an earlier lecture. And, boy, is it easy to commit overt acts against children in their consideration unless you break them out of it.

“And, you can break them out of it in various ways. Not by arguing with them or something of that sort, but the basic way to do it would simply be to not go into a victim valence every time they started screaming, you know. Like, ‘Oh, what am I going to do? I don’t know. Why did I ever become a mother (or a father) da-di-da-da’ or any other version of the same tune, you see.

“That fixes it up so when he’s sixteen, fifteen, fourteen, that child is going to hate your guts but thoroughly! And they find the normal reaction in a generation so ‘normal’ (quote) (unquote) that the clinical psychologist considers it inevitable that the child in his teens will do some kind of an individuation or separateness from the family by hating everybody in the family. And this is considered to be routine. Well, it’s only routine if everybody in the family has it set up so the child has committed innumerable acts—overt acts against them. Don’t you see?”

L. Ron Hubbard

from 1st Melbourne Advanced Clinical Course lecture
“Universe of a Thetan”
24 November 1959

“Well, I’ll dare say that every argument you’ve ever gotten into was because you did not handle an origin. Every time you’ve ever got into trouble with anybody, you can trace it back on the track and find out there was an origination someplace along the line that you didn’t handle.

“Person walked in and he said, ‘Whee,’ he said, ‘I’ve just passed with the highest mark in the whole school!’

“And you say, ‘You know, I’m awfully hungry. Shouldn’t we go out and eat?’

“You’ll find yourself in a fight.

“He feels ignored. He originated a communication to have you prove to him that he was there and he was solid.

“Now, most little kiddies get frantic about their parents when their parents don’t handle their originations properly, because handling an origination merely tells the person, ‘All right, I heard it. You’re there.'”

L. Ron Hubbard

Dear Alice Lecture 4 Disk 2
15 May 1957
Dummy Auditing, Step Four: Handling Originations track 4

Ron Says…

“Well, people pick up their valences rather easily and stack them in. Now, it wasn’t necessary for the person to have a moment of physical pain and unconsciousness, to then pick up the valence of this movie star, you see. All he had to do was go to a movie and they felt kind of sick and they were a little bit tired and they’re looking at the screen sort of fixedly or they’ve had an operation in the last few days and this becomes part of a physical pain experience, you see. They just hook it onto the end, hook it into place, move into the valence and after that go around Humphrey Bogart-ing everybody. It’s quite amazing, quite amazing.”

L. Ron Hubbard

5th London ACC
Lecture #5: Engrams
31 October 1958
track 10

Ron Says…

“A teammate is someone who assists in the overwhelming of the enemy. Aberration is mainly the overwhelming of teammates (wrong target).

“When one views life as a series of attempts to overwhelm he begins to understand it rather well. Two people may be playing many games, some between them, some with others. They are opponents in some things, teammates in others. They succeed in the ratio that they can define their games AND overwhelm the proper enemy for each game. Marriages fail only because the games get confused between husband and wife.”

L. Ron Hubbard

from Professional Auditor’s Bulletin 80
SCIENTOLOGY’S MOST WORKABLE PROCESS
17 April 1956

Ron Says…

“Let’s take a young kid—let’s take a three-, four-, five-year old kid: Can you possibly imagine a child of this age walking along by himself and not having people look after him? Well, that isn’t any strange and peculiar urge so much as it is people like the bright face of the world they see reflected on the child’s face. The child can see a bright world for them.

“If you yourself wish to bring to people a feeling of security in your presence and a feeling of pleasure that you are there, then you reflect the bright face of the world to them.”

L. Ron Hubbard

from 2nd American Advanced Clinical Course lecture
“Remedy of Havingness”
22 December 1953

Ron Says…

“In auditing children, you have to get over minding the way other adults hanging around the children snicker and laugh and mock the idea that the child can understand you, if you talk to the child. Communication to a child seems very silly to most adults. They don’t talk to the child.

“Little baby, maybe five, six months old—I’ve had nursemaids—they get over this very rapidly; something cures them. I’d walk up to a little baby five, six months old, something like this, and say, ‘Hello, how are you getting along?’ I talk to them perfect, you know vis-à-vis, and little kid levels out and looks at me, you know, and looks relaxed. Explain to some little kid what’s going to happen now, you know, some baby, maybe only a two-months-old baby and say, ‘I’m going to take your picture now’ and walk up to a little child and tell him what’s going to happen.

“For instance, little Arthur the other day—medico had him with his mouth open looking down his throat to find a watch somebody had lost or something. And he—little kid was a little shocky. You know, he was,’What-ah-ah.’

“I walked over and I picked him up and said, ‘Now, it’s all right. They’re through with you now.’

“He’d been watching and he—’Whew!’ you know. ‘That’s good!’ you know.

“And the medico caught this out of the corner of his eye and he looked. Something had happened. He had seen a communication where he didn’t suspect a communication existed. And so you do, generally, get a reaction from people when you start talking to children as though they’re people. You have to learn not to Q and A with this, because all they’re doing is not-ising communication with children—their sniggers, embarrassment, discouragement, so forth.

“Usually nursemaids get over this by—I make up a practical demonstration. I usually show them conclusively that the baby is smarter than they are.”

L. Ron Hubbard

from Academy Lectures lecture
“Processing of Children”
29 April 1959