“Postulates of one kind or another to the tune of billions and billions and billions and billions of postulates, different kinds, shapes, sizes and descriptions, have been uttered at people and then crossed up. This is the way the physical universe works. They say, ‘Lift your head out of the water’ and push the guy’s head in the water. Now they say, ‘Push your head in the water’ and lift his head out of the water. They pick him up and put him in the Sahara Desert and say, ‘Drink.’ They throw him in the Atlantic Ocean and say, ‘Never get wet.’ …
“Here’s another one: is it better to have or not have? Of course, if you have something, then you will lose it and that will cause pain. You’ll find many preclears telling you something like that. It’s better not to own anything at all. But he’s got to have in order to live, but he can’t have because he can’t live. But the best way to live is not to have anything because then nobody will tackle you and kill you. You see the basic confusions. …
“It’s only these confusions which keep the thetan stuck in any kind of a track. He can think his way through anything as long as it’s logical. It becomes logical to us when we know both sides of all the puzzles.”
— L. Ron Hubbard
Excerpted from the lecture CCH delivered on 7 August 1957. This can be found in the 18th American ACC lectures. Track 15.
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