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contributed the following essay to the list of IVY-subscribers on 22 Jul 1998. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Unpopular thoughts by Phil. J. Spickler Being of unsound mind and body, and spiritually quite decrepit, I yet once again take up electrons with my palsied hand and enter into the unmined field of free expression known as the IVy-subscribers list, which, due to Antony Phillips' unflagging devotion to the ideals of freedom of speech and the great heuristic possibilities that sometimes come forth when birds of a feather flock together, allows me to share with the silent minority and majority some poor remembrances. Back in the late 1930's, a chap by the name of Alfred Korzybski put together and published a subject which he called General Semantics. I only mention this in passing, since his is one of the names that Ron Hubbard put in the front of the original editions of his book _Science of Survival_. This list consisted of people that Ron (the Ron of 1951) felt had been great contributors to thought and understanding that had helped him in constructing Dianetics. Korzybski's book was called _Science of Sanity_, and it's a fairly lengthy book, but one that's pretty easy to read once you get into it, and it contains a fair number of things that certainly can be found in early Dianetics -- one of the big ones, of course, was the notion that "A = A" as an example of the kind of mindless identification that occurred between one thing and another in that bastion of aberration known as the Reactive Mind. Korzybski also set a great store in the kind of conscious and analytical differentiation that we can all engage in concerning time, location, and other points of differentiation that make possible a heightened degree of perception in the present moment. He also decried the use of generalities, which have led to some pretty horrifying conflicts, not to speak of extremes of bigotry and prejudice. Anyway, there's a lot more, and before a later Ron (circa the late 1960's) came out with the idea that he'd never gotten anything from anybody and that nobody had ever really contributed anything to helping his creation of Dianetics and Scientology, you will find various places throughout his books and tapes, if they haven't all been edited out, where he points out the valued contributions of those that went before. And now for a short dose of the most unpopular subject that I've ever had the pain and pleasure to run into. You may well ask, before proceeding, what are we going to talk about? Well, in a word, Truth. But, you say, isn't that what everyone is seeking and desiring and working toward and cultivating, that single thing that we're all entirely devoted to and would certainly never object to if it came walking inthe front door? And I say again, Yes, the Truth, the very unpopular possibility, and as you know from personal experience as well as observation in other areas, a force that makes the hydrogen bomb look like a dim flicker of a small candle at a distance of many miles. If you will allow me, I shall remind you that it is somewhat axiomatic that it is necessary to lie about, or alter, the truth of anything in order for it to gain persistence in time. In fact, this very thing that we call Life, this game between Static and itself, requires that this remain unknown in order for Life, the very tissue of reality, to persist. Just as in magic, most games fall to pieces and become kind of silly once the truth of what's really going on is known. In our ordinary human affairs, in order to keep things from getting too filmy or gauzy or disappearing altogether, the necessary ratio of truth to untruth must remain extremely high on the side of untruth, in our ongoing and frantic efforts, as they say on the western side of the dateline, in the Orient, in order to avoid the Void. We've seen notable examples of fellow human beings who have been processed (not like a piece of cheese, though) to the point where they became the Truth, and in most cases after which their lives, such as what was left of them, completely fell apart: one of the liabilities that goes with getting on a highly accelerated road to truth and suddenly, with great horror, finding out that you're there. Gee whiz, I just reached nothingness -- hmmm! It's sort of on the order of taking the old Havingness process known as Trio, which had a lot to do with increasing one's ability to have, to let remain, and to dispense with. Now if you really wanted to screw somebody up tremendously, just leave off the Have and the Let Remain and run them on Dispense With until there's absolutely nothing there, at which point have your straitjackets and tranquilizers ready for quick action. So, how much Truth are we, as I like to thing of myself and IVy subscribers -- how much truth is Homo sapiens really comfortable with, about Life or any dynamic? There's no set figure or percentage points that really answers that question, but suffice it to say, it's that amount which allows us to feel that life is a real and substantial and ongoing thing, and that we are much the same. Toward that end, wise auditors generally worked with people in the direction of improving their willingness and ability to play the game called Life, and some of the lesser games that are found within it. And in order to do that, it really doesn't take very much in the way of auditing or philosophizing, education and/or training to reach such a result. If you simply get the guy, the person, or someone, as close as possible to the notion of not trying to get rid of their case (case in this case being defined as life), but simply get him to be willing to have his case, or life, you've really done the best of helping someone else that I can possibly conceive of, unless you're running the Divine School of Super-secret Mysteries that yields nothing but a few folks at the Serenity of Beingness contemplating their or other people's navels, with occasional flights of drifting along on that famous cloud number 9 just before the lightning and thunder. So, in conclusion, Truth, or too much of it, coming in the front door cannot be, and is not, popular and is one of the primary known spoilers of the game, and if not spoilers of it, de-intensifiers of it to the degree where it loses its great flavors for pleasure and pain, joy and sorrow, beauty and ugliness, and all the other great pairs of opposites that arise together to make this thing that we seem to be all creating or mocking up together really interesting and exciting. Thank you for listening to all this drivel -- I look forward to a large number of caustic comments that don't start out "Dear Phil." Meantime, I've fortified my cave with several guard sheep who can say "Baaa" in a decibel range that should discourage any attacking rabbits. Bon voyage, Phil