“A person believes—when running into a game called MEST universe, consisting of barriers—when he believes that all of his own actions are dependent upon the MEST universe, he thinks that any action he takes is going to be barriered. He thinks he’s going to be stopped in everything he does. If he were to say, ‘Well, I think I’m going to be a painter,’ if he just thought that, he would probably get the idea of some kind of a wall sitting right straight in front of his face. …
“He thinks, ‘I’m going to be a painter.’ Immediately after that his stimulus-response mechanism says, instantly, ‘Well, you know you couldn’t be a painter. Your mother always said…’ You know, instantly. …
“You’re trying to take him away from that kind of an idea, separate him out and bring him over here to a point where he can make a postulate and make the postulate stick.
“And you do that by separating him out of universes, making him make his own postulates good and making him capable of determining an action and then bringing the action off. … And getting him to a point where he can get over here and make up his own mind.
“That’s all. All he has to do is make up his own mind.”
— L. Ron Hubbard
Excerpted from the lecture Universes delivered on 30 March 1954. This can be found in the 5th American ACC lectures. Track 15.
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