“Havingness can be defined as the ability to reach. Ability to reach equals the ability to have. If the pc feels he can reach something—I know this is so elementary… That very nice little boy that was sitting down in front here a moment ago, he could tell me. That’s right. Everybody knows that. If you can reach an apple, you can have it. If you can reach a cookie, you can have it. That’s elementary, isn’t it? Everybody knows that. Well, why didn’t you tell me?
“Now, the pc has to have the idea he can reach before he can have. Now, it’s the idea that he can reach, not the possession. The idea that he can reach, not the action of reaching, which remedies havingness.”
— L. Ron Hubbard
Excerpted from the lecture Havingness, Quality of Reachdelivered on 31 December 1961. This can be found in the Clean Hands Congress lectures. Track 3.
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