“Mis-emotion, upset, destructive considerations and actions pursue from the refusal of something to be helped. Now, a crude example of it is a fellow fixes a clock—tries to fix a clock—didn’t work. So he takes it apart, puts it back together again, fixes it again. It didn’t work. So he takes it apart and he fixes it again and it doesn’t run. Well, that’s how that scar got on the wall.
“He’s balked or dismayed. So, we get back to the basic intention, impulse of. The basic intention is to help, to assist, to be kind, to remain in communication and so forth. These are all basic intentions. If you would understand Man, all you have to understand, really, is that his basic intention was good and has been dismayed.”
— L. Ron Hubbard
Excerpted from the lecture Engrams delivered on 31 October 1958. This can be found in the 5th London ACC lectures. Track 5.
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