“It is true that anything that happened to him, he was basically the cause of. But that’s way upscale up here, see? And now he just feels this reactively that he has become an effect, therefore he caused it. This automatically must be true. …
“And we get that as the entering wedge into superstition. ‘Let’s see. I’m a victim. So, therefore, I must be guilty of something,’ and they dream up something on the order of original sin. Something like that. You see, it’s all bad, so therefore you must be the effect of it. That’s repent, repent. That sort of an attitude toward people is an effort to do that.
“Well, actually, an individual only needs to accept the responsibility for his own acts; things will take care of things very nicely. And if he recognizes clearly the effects which he does cause and if he’s perfectly willing to cause effects which he dare be the effect of himself, why, naturally he can walk through this bramble and brush with great ease, even as a body.”
— L. Ron Hubbard
Excerpted from the lecture Scientology and Living delivered on 4 July 1954. This can be found in the 7th American ACC lectures. Track 3.
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