“The first downfall of any individual comes about when he desires to be an effect. And there is a postulate sitting on anybody’s track in this lifetime and in earlier lifetimes, again and again, and the earliest severe postulate on the track, which is ‘I want to be an effect.’ And this is immediately preceded by the ‘curiosity about an effect.’
“A thetan does not need to be an effect. He operates primarily as cause. But if he is continuously cause, continuously cause, he begins to suffer from a lack of randomity. …
“Optimum mental, physical, spiritual, whatever you want to call it—but beingness, certainly—in this universe consists of 50 percent attack and 50 percent defense; 50 percent Cause, 50 percent Effect. If you understand that thoroughly in all of its implications, the entire field of behavior will spread out before you like a map.”
— L. Ron Hubbard
Excerpted from the lecture Effects, Reaching End of Cycle delivered on 19 November 1953. This can be found in the 2nd American ACC lectures. Track 2.
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