“The aberrated postulates which one makes up and down the bank are the dangerous ones. But a person can actually change his mind almost any time, unless he’s giving greater value to the bank and its collections of impacts than he is to the environment around him. His present time postulates are as effective as he gives validity to the present time environment and as ineffective as he gives attention to the certainty of impacts in his bank.
“Now, you want to know why the postulates of some people release and some people don’t release. Preclear gets a sudden idea that so and so, ‘Oh, well, my father was like that, hah.’ That’s the end of the engram. And another fellow gets it, ‘My father’s like that’—now he’s slugged*. What’s the difference between these two people? It’s just the fact that one has got more certainty on the impacts in his bank and the one that it released from has more certainty on present time.
“How do you make postulates release? Just give a person terrific certainty on present time. That’s of the essence.”
— L. Ron Hubbard
*Slugged: Struck heavily; hit hard. Used figuratively.
Excerpted from the lecture Exteriorization, Difficult Cases delivered on 12 October 1953. This can be found in the 1st American ACC lectures. Track 13.
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