“This individual that we’re processing probably has the feeling that if he makes a postulate that’s quite actual, then it will come about for the worst. So we can use all sorts of mechanisms here to disabuse him of this.
“We can say, ‘All right. Now, let’s get some sort of a postulate that you could make now that would apply to this immediate environment that would be a safe postulate to make or a safe statement to make, a safe prediction to make about this room in the next thirty seconds’ and go on from there.
“For instance, ‘If I stand over in that corner, the ceiling will not fall on my head.’ ‘All right. I can say, ‘The ceiling will now fall on my head the moment I touch this table.’’ And he finds out that doesn’t happen.
“Such mechanisms give a person considerable freedom. But remember your goal is to make his postulates more effective, not less effective. So don’t just keep breaking a person’s postulates, that is to say, make him make postulates that don’t come true. Have him make postulates that do come true. And this of all others is the most effective of the processes, the postulates which do come true.”
— L. Ron Hubbard
Excerpted from the lecture Exteriorization, Taking Direction delivered on 1 February 1954. This can be found in the 3rd American ACC lectures. Track 8.
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