“Many people are afraid to make postulates, by the way, because they are immediately taken up. He immediately obeys them. He says, ‘I don’t know, but I’m probably going to be sick about two o’clock’ and he is. These people are frightened of the tremendous effectiveness of their own postulates, they’re very afraid of these things. …
“Now, there’s a little trick in Opening Procedure we have not used yet, and which I recommend to you, is the making of security postulates. 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.’ …
“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 7.
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