“A goal is a not-here. It isn’t just future. It’s not-here. It postulates that he is going to go someplace. …
“The auditor is saying, ‘Come on now. Can’t I possibly persuade you to move up the time track just that much?’ … It’s just—just that much. Just try. Try it now. Try it.’
“Fellow says, ‘Well, my goal for the session could be to get rid of the session, get over it and get done with it.’ Oh, but even in that bitterness he has still postulated this little tiny change. He said, ‘There’s going to be an end of session.’
“And that moment of time is different than the moment of time in which he’s postulating it. So he was handling the future, wasn’t he? This is a sneaker. Carried out to its final limit, it would move the person bodily on the time track and carry him on up to present time.”
— L. Ron Hubbard
Excerpted from the lecture The Key Words (Buttons) of Scientology Clearing delivered on 21 July 1958. This can be found in the 20th American ACC lectures. Track 9.
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