“In order to change his survival condition, he has to have a postulate obeyed, doesn’t he? You know, he says, ‘I will now be a cowboy.’ Or ‘I will now take charge of the horse and take the horse down the road.’ Or ‘I will now take this dog and train this dog and when I say ‘Boo’ the dog is going to bark. And when I say ‘Boo-boo’ the dog is going to bark twice. And when I say ‘Boo-boo-boo’ the dog is not going to bark at all.’
“And that’s the way it is and if he’s that way to this point: he’s powerful enough to make it come true and then not care whether it comes true or not, he’s in terrific condition.
“So he says ‘Boo’ and the dog doesn’t bark at all. So he says at that moment, ‘Well, what do you know? Some randomity has shown up.’ Well now, he doesn’t feel himself called upon to unmock the dog or to be mean about it or ornery about it. The moment he’s in that condition, do you know that he’ll almost invariably be obeyed, by anything and everything, even the birds of the air and the flowers of the field? But he’s got to be in that kind of a frame of mind.
“Now, it isn’t the kind of a frame of mind that you determine a preclear into or that he gets determined to have or not have. That isn’t that kind of a frame of mind. It’s a frame of mind which one obtains by a confidence in one’s own power.”
— L. Ron Hubbard
Excerpted from the lecture Introduction to the 3rd ACC delivered on 4 January 1954. This can be found in the 3rd American ACC lectures. Track 15.
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