“We see Man investing his livingness, his beingness and the materials and the playing field with certain purposes. But the purposes he invests them with are all junior to this one: game.
“What do we mean exactly by a game? It’s another thing that’s quite interesting. We mean ‘an involvement and consecutiveness of incident participated in by living beings, which contains an element of chance or unknownness.’ We have satisfied all of our requirements but one: the element of unknownness.
“If you know the outcome of a horse race, it is highly doubtful if you will go to see the ponies run. In fact, you couldn’t care less. You know that Ginger is going to be second and Rachmaninoff is going to be first and so forth and so what? No, there must be an element of chance for you to take interest in horses. …
“You must at any time be prepared to have your expectations overwhelmed and to have your mind changed on the subject. If you didn’t feel that your mind was going to be changed sometimes in life, the expectancy of the thing would have insufficient randomity and as a result we would have no game.”
— L. Ron Hubbard
Excerpted from the lecture The Game of Life (Exteriorization and Havingness) delivered on 7 February 1956. This can be found in the Remedy of Havingness lectures. Track 6.
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