“Above observation, of course, is simply knowingness. It is possible for you to know the answer to a very complex mathematical problem simply by knowing, not by working the problem in terms of some system of mathematics. …
“We have in knowingness what may be called, at the same time, certainty. Certainty and knowingness are themselves synonymous. It’s the same phenomenon. Self‑confidence adds in there. People have many names for it because there are many facets to knowingness and they’ve never recognized too well that this knowingness was merely composed of several facets and was these facets.
“Now, the route which we follow here is a road toward knowingness, knowingness of oneself and knowingness on all the dynamics.”
— L. Ron Hubbard
Excerpted from the lecture Knowingness delivered on 10 December 1953. This can be found in the 2nd American ACC lectures. Track 2.
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