“Organizations of science, so-called, which have existed in the past have existed on this basis: that the mind was a very, very complex problem and that the mind could not solve the problems of the mind. And upon this defeatism all of their research was based.
“‘Any genius or any such activity is entirely based upon neurosis.’ This makes insanity cause for all aesthetics. So artists have been asked to go crazy before they could be artists. And in the culture of the arts you find a great many people who are trying to follow this and be completely mad so that they can be artistic. And you find all the work being done by pretty darned sane people. They’re just working along. And it’s when they start to get neurotic that they stop producing.”
— L. Ron Hubbard
Excerpted from the lecture Thinking Processes delivered on 17 October 1953. This can be found in the 1st American ACC lectures. Track 3.
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