SUPPLEMENT NO. 4 to SCIENCE OF SURVIVAL February, 1952 From The Hubbard Dianetic Foundation, Inc. Wichita, Kansas Effort Processing L. Ron Hubbard Life energy, the moment it becomes impinged upon the physical universe, concerns itself with physical universe motion. This may be a trifle difficult to understand at first but it becomes obvious when one examines the nuclear physicist's formulae of composition of the physical universe. Motion is the one thing common to everything in the physical universe. Matter is composed of atoms and molecules. Even in something as solid- appearing as a table, these atoms and molecules are in continually changing position; a molecule which might this year be at one corner of a desk may be next year at another corner of that same desk. Additionally, and more importantly, atoms and molecules, those infinitesimal bits of matter are evidently themselves composed wholly of motion. They have a center and around this center swing particles of energy much in the same way that the planets swing around the sun, but on a much smaller scale. And these minute particles, the center and the bits which swing around it, are themselves, evidently, nothing more than motion. The modus operandi of survival is motion. Too much or too little motion brings about that state of organism motionlessness called death. Thus, life energy, engaged in a conquest of the physical universe, is engaged upon a conquest of motion. Thus, the most important phase of thought and action is effort. Effort is force with direction, motion with purpose. The organism is concerned with self-generated effort and the counter-efforts it receives from the physical environment. An individual initiates the effort to go forward; he receives the counter-effort of air pressure, the force of gravity, even his own clothing. There is a law concerning effort and organisms. Life energy effects its conquest of the physical universe by taking the efforts of the physical universe and turning them back against the physical universe. Life learns by impinging upon the physical universe the laws of the physical universe and then uses those laws to conquer the physical universe. One sees this done in engineering continually. And any organism, with much greater simplicity, can be found to be utilizing the energy of food to produce more motion for itself. The basic food, as used by the algae, a tiny cell creature, is sunlight and minerals. That is all an algae "eats." A higher form of life lives on algae. And higher forms live on lower forms. But all the way at the top of this scale, food is basically sunlight and minerals. The trick of taking the force of a tennis ball as it comes at you, and, by rolling your racket, returning it, is not unlike life's trick of using the motion of the physical universe to conquer the motion of the physical universe. There are many basic laws concerning this in the science of Dianetics. Most important to an individual is the fact that effort he himself conceives to be necessary is the most important effort to him. This is self-determinism. One determines how much effort he is going to apply or withhold to accomplish certain thoughts and actions and then seeks to apply that effort. All thought is concerned with the estimate 214 of effort. When one makes a right calculation, its rightness is determined by whether or not the desired action was accomplished. Self-determinism is all important in the organism. An organism is as successful as it is right. That is to say, it is as successful as it or its group is self-determined. Trouble enters when the environment begins to determine one's actions without recourse to thought. One begins to be a puppet dancing on the strings of the environment. Counter-effort to one's self-determinism is simply the efforts which override one's decisions. One puts forth an effort. It meets counter-effort. If that counter-effort is sudden and strong enough, its impulse backs all the way into the awareness seat of the organism and unconsciousness ensues; here counter-effort has won and self-determinism is momentarily wiped out. However, the impression of that counter-effort remains. Reduced to its lowest level, all pain is a randomity of molecules and atoms in the human organism caused by counter- efforts. Self determines the alignment of an effort, whether to move or remain at rest, and a severe counter-effort throws the atoms and molecules into mis- alignment. This is extreme randomity; this is pain. The trouble with pain is that it remains as a facsimile of the effort-counter-effort moment. All the pain one has ever received is still on file and can be re- experienced. When counter-efforts get into present time, they become what people have called "psychosomatic illnesses." These are simply -- past situations where pain was present, brought out of their right position in time and into present time where they do not belong. Nothing is easier to prove than this part of Dianetics. Counter-efforts remain latent and can come into present time. This list, used long enough, may exhaust some old pain you have. Your present attention is not only on the environment, it is upon an old pain or on dozens of old pains you didn't even "know" you were experiencing. You may be unaware of that wasted attention until your attention is taken to some other part of the body. This list simply takes your attention to some other portion of your body. You may feel groggy or you may feel a real pain when you practice this list. You will notice that when your attention goes to the part that hurts, the pain shuts off. You may also notice that the old pain tends to wear itself out when you re-experience it several times. Direct your attention to the parts of the body named, each one in its turn. Concentrate on the aliveness of the part named. Feel as though you were wholly alive only in that part. If any pain turns on in some other part of your body, ignore it and go on with this list. Feel the aliveness of: 1. Your right hand. 15. Your right ear. 2. Your left hand. 16. Your right cheek. 3. The back of your head. 17. Your forehead. 4. Your right foot. 18. Your left ear. 5. Your left foot. 19. Your left cheek. 6. Your right knee. 20. Your right shoulder. 7. Your stomach. 21. Your left shoulder. 8. Your left knee. 22. The back of your neck. 9. Your back. 23. Your brain. 10. Your tongue. 24. Your right side. 11. Your loins. 25. Your left side. 12. Your right leg. 26. All your fingers. 13. Your right arm. 27. Your nose. 14. Your left leg. 28. Your chin. Do not concern yourself with any pain or grogginess which turns on. Just keep doing the list. If you continue this practice, you might rid yourself of some serious psychosomatic illness. This list, by the way, is a wonderful game for processing children. They will usually play it with you and thus you can turn off their coughs and sneezes, aches and pains in a large number of cases. ---------------------- PART III Records of Mind Are Permanent MEANS TO RESCUE MAN ALSO CAN CONTROL HIM In this, the last of three articles on Black Dianetics, Mr. Hubbard tells how the very processes of the mind are used for man's control, when utilized by persons seeking power. By knowing how the mind works, and adapting this knowledge to his needs, man at the same time can free himself of his operations, his psychosomatic illnesses -- even ascend to the stars. -- J of S Editor. Man, for all his years took the observation for the fact that when a human being was no longer able to control its own operations and functions and so long as it, again in control, could not recall what had occurred, that the material was not recorded. This was wholly unwarranted as an assumption Let us examine, first, pain. Pain, technically, is caused by an effort counter to the effort of the individual as a whole. The individual is a colonial aggregation of cells. Each cell is seeking to live. Each cell and the whole organism is basically motivated by a desire to survive. The entire physical structure is composed of atoms and molecules, organic and inorganic. While the individual is alive and conscious, these atoms and molecules are in a state of optimum or near-optimum tension and alignment. On the receipt of a counter-effort such as that of a blow or, internally, as in the case of drugs, shock or bacteria, the optimum or near-optimum tension and alignment of these atoms and molecules, as contained in the nerves, muscles, bones, and tissues of the body, are disarranged. The result is a slackening or speeding of the motions of the physical body in such a way as to cause misalignment and maltension of the atoms and molecules. This is pain. Counter-efforts to survival cause this effect to take place. The technical name of this effect is randomity. The directions of motion of the various portions of the body are disarranged into random vectors or patterns. Pain results in loss, invariably, the loss of cells or the loss of general alignment. When pain departs, it is still on record. The record of that pain can be called again into existence. If you wish to make a very simple test, simply go back to the last time you hurt yourself. Get as full perceptions as you can of the object which hurt you and the surrounding environment. Seek to contact the painful object again. Unless you are badly occluded, you should be able to feel that pain once more. If you yourself cannot make this test because you are occluded, ask your friends to try it. Sooner or later you will find someone who can recall pain. Another test: Pinch yourself and then go back to the moment you did it and feel the pinch again. Even if you are occluded you should be able to do this. In short, pain is stored on record. But that is not all that is stored. The whole area of any randomity is stored in full. The atoms and molecules rearrange themselves, when pain is recontacted, into the pattern they had when that pain was received. Hence the pain can come back. But also the effort and all of its perceptions can come back when either the pain or the general randomity come back. The misalignment caused by a blow, shock, drugs, or bacteria causes an inability of the control center of the mind to function. Thus, the control center of the mind can go unconscious, can be overwhelmed by this misalignment. After consciousness is regained, whenever the control center of the mind tries to recall what happened, it can recall only the randomity. It is trying to recall a time when it could not recall and thus draws a blank. Man thought that if he could not recall a thing, then it didn't record. This is like the little child who hides his eyes and then thinks you can't see him just because he can't see you. With every area of randomity thus created by injury or illness or shock or drugs, there is stored as well the counter-effort to the body. The effort impinged upon the 284 body by the blow or the other misaligning factor also was stored. This is physical force. When it comes back upon the body, it comes back as physical force. It can distort features or the body by being in constant "restimulation." Restimulation is occasioned by some part of the early recording being approximated in the environment in the present. This calls up the old area of randomity. The body, confused, registers the old counter-effort. Nearly everyone has these counter-efforts of the past being, some of them, exerted against him in the present. His sub-level awareness is tied up in resisting old counter-efforts -- blows, sicknesses, drugs -- which once affected him and drove him into unconsciousness. The moment an individual wholly concentrates his attention elsewhere these old areas may exert their force again. Feel the aliveness or full sense of being of each one of the following. Feel wholly alive only in the member of your body named: 1. The right foot. 2. The left foot. 3. The right cheek. 4. The left cheek. 5. The toes. 6. The back of the head. 7. The back of the neck. 8. The nose. 9. The right hand. 10. The tongue. 11. The left hand. 12. The stomach. If you have gone over these members, investing carefully, aliveness only in each, you probably will have received various aches and pains in areas where your concentration was not fixed or at least experienced grogginess. Try it several times. Processing cleans up these old areas with resultant rise in health and sanity. Black Dianetics uses this mechanism to implant new compulsion.