“We’re dealing with two spheres of influence: we’re dealing with the MEST-wise sphere of influence and we’re dealing with the theta-wise sphere of influence. …
“Somebody is busy sticking a gun in your ribs and demanding your wallet like they do on television. And you flip three feet in back of his head and he puts the gun in his pocket and walks away. See, you could envision being three feet back of the body’s head and exerting a direct and immediate command control upon that body which was hostile to the body you most favored. That would be a sphere of influence, wouldn’t it?
“Well, that sphere of influence increases to the degree that you are not hiding, protecting, owning exclusively one point of MEST—a body. You see? Now, the more you are protecting the body which has the gun thrust into its ribs, the less you will get behind the other fellow’s head and give him the orders.”
— L. Ron Hubbard
Excerpted from the lecture Smoothness of Auditing delivered on 5 October 1955. This can be found in the 4th London ACC lectures. Track 4.
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