Group Processing - Nothingness and Somethingness (4ACC 540318)
Series: 4th Advanced Clinical Course (4ACC)
Date: 18 March 1954
Speaker: L. Ron Hubbard
A group processing session given by L. Ron Hubbard on the 18 March 1954
Okay. And this is the 18th of March 1954, first morning hour, processing.
I want you to get the idea, now, of a nothingness out in front of you insisting on you being a nothingness too. A nothingness out in front of you insisting on you being a nothingness too.
Many times. Duplicate it many times, a nothingness out in front of you insisting on you being a nothingness too. Duplicate it many more times.
Duplicate it many more times.
Okay. Now let's get a nothingness behind you trying to make a nothingness out of you too.
Duplicate that many times.
Okay. Throw those away. And now let's get you, as a nothingness, trying to make nothing out of a somethingness in front of you and succeeding. You, as a nothingness, making nothingness out of something in front of you and succeeding, time after time.
Many, many times. You, as a nothingness, making a nothingness of something in front of you.
Many, many more times, succeeding every time.
All right. Now let's take specific people in front of you and you make a nothing out of each one of them—pop—and they're nothing. Then another specific person—pop—they're nothing. Another specific person, so forth.
Person after person.
You, as a nothingness, making a nothingness out of people. Time after time, succeeding every time.
Now you, as a nothingness, making a nothingness out of full plates. Get full plates of food and you just make a nothingness out of them—pop.
Whole plates of food and you make a nothingness out of them.
Okay. Now let's get members of the opposite sex, and one after the other, you, as a nothingness, make a nothingness out of them.
Time after time, members of the opposite sex.
Make a nothingness out of them, make a nothingness appear where they were. You don't have to get them first, by the way. Get a nothingness and say, "That's where they were."
Okay. Let's get members of the opposite sex, now, and have a nothingness behind them make a nothingness out of you.
Members of the opposite sex, a nothingness behind them make a nothingness out of you.
Okay. Now members of the opposite sex— bodies—making a somethingness out of you. A somethingness of the body appears and makes a something where you are.
Now you as a somethingness make a somethingness out of other people in front of you.
Many times.
Okay. Sweep that aside and now have somebody else, as a nothingness, insist that you be nothing, and you loom up mighty big. You really get to be something. They're insisting you're nothing and you really get to be something. You show them. Let's do this over and over.
This nothingness insists you're nothing and you loom up mighty big. You'll show them.
Okay. Now you, as a nothingness, insist somebody in front of you be nothing and they loom up tremendously large and solid, just to show you.
Many times.
You, as a nothingness, insisting somebody else is nothing, and boy, do they get solid and big. Time after time.
Okay. Now you get big and solid every time this nothingness in front of you insists you're nothing. Nothingness in front of you says, "You're nothing" and you get solid and big. Really loom—gel dense. "I'm somebody. I'm something."
Many times, a nothingness in front of you insisting you're nothing and you loom up mighty big.
Many times.
Okay. Now let's have a nothingness in front of you being a nothingness, time after time.
Okay. Now you insist that this nothingness become something and it becomes more nothing. You say to this nothingness, "You've got to be something," and it just goes into an utter nothing.
Many times, over and over.
You insist this nothingness be something and it gets more nothing.
Okay. Now have a somethingness in front of you insist, insist that you be something and you get more nothing. Insists you be something and you be more nothing. It insists you be something and you be more nothing, time after time.
Now have whole mobs of people in front of you insisting you be something and you become more nothing than you are. Put up a mob and it insists that you be something and you become more nothing.
Big mob of people insisting you be something and you become more nothing.
Now make these people, if you can, about ninety feet tall.
And you become more nothing.
Okay. Now get a whole bunch of nothingnesses which you've made out of specific things, one after the other. "Oh, that's a nothingness of so-and-so." And another one, "That's a nothingness of so-and-so." "That's a nothingness of Mount Shasta." Nothingnesses, one after the other.
Nothingnesses you have made out of something. Specific something. Just get the nothingness and say, "Well, that's a nothingness of so-and-so, such and such." Now, don't put that—the object there—just get a nothingness and say, "Well, that's a nothingness of it." Many times.
More nothingnesses that you've specifically made.
Okay. Now let's get several tremendous somethingnesses—doesn't matter what—and each time say, "Well, I made that." Huge somethingness and you say, "I made that."
Now let's get a number of people that you have detested or disliked in life, put them up there and say, "Well, I made that."
Your father, your mother, anybody, "Well, I made that."
All right. Now let's get a string of nothingnesses, one after the other, and get yourself as a huge object and this little nothingness is saying, "Well, I made that." Set it aside and do it again.
Many times.
Okay. Find a couple of objects and hold on to them and don't think.
Okay. Let go. And find some places where you can be.
One for sure and then some more.
Find some more places where you can be.
Okay. Now make some places where you can be. Make some places where you can be. Make a place, say you can be there.
Put up different kinds of scenery or spaces, say you can be there.
Many more of these.
Okay. Now let's start piling up things you have successfully made. Make a big pile, one after the other. Get something, say you successfully made that. If you're only getting darkness, say you made that and get some more of it.
Get some more objects and add them to the pile and say each time, "I made that." Whether you did or not, whether anything calls you a liar or not, doesn't matter. Earth, the Sun, coaster wagons, bicycles—"Well, I made that."
All right. Now let's get some ruins, disaster areas and say, "Well, I made that." Bodies strewn around and decayed and so forth, cemeteries, wrecked cities.
More wrecks, ruins and disasters—"l made that."
Okay. Now let's get some bodies in a bad state of decomposition and wreckage, one after the other and say, "Well, I made that." Grinning skulls, ruined beautiful women, ruined strong men, dead, decayed, decomposed, smelling bad—"l made that."
Lots more of them. State arbitrarily you made it, no matter whether something calls you a liar or not, whether a protest comes up—lots of these dead bodies.
Lots more dead bodies—"l made that."
Lots more dead bodies—"l made that" or "those."
Lots more dead bodies, the declaration each time, "I made that." And none of this, "Well now, I don't know whether I made that or not." You made it. Let's get that real strong now—"l made it."
Get them real dead and shattered.
Now get them very sweetly laid out, either already buried or about to be, get "I made that" or "I created that condition."
If one keeps popping up, why, just duplicate it many times with the insistence each time that you did it.
Many more of these dead bodies.
Getting only darkness, why, get a dead body lying there in the blackness. Look at it, lying there in the blackness. Blackness hides it.
Okay. Find a couple of objects and hold on and don't think.
Okay. Let go. And find some places where you can be.
Some more places where you can be.
Some more places where you can be.
And some more places where you can be.
Some more places where you can be.
Okay. Now get a dead body and have it dwindle to a nothing. And when you've got it down to nothing, why, say, "Well, I did that."
Okay. Now let's get, or get the idea of, bodies dead in public places. The public walking in, finding this dead body and you say to him, "Well, I did that."
All right. Now let's get a whole series of nothingnesses that have been bodies that you did.
Now let's get nothingnesses which were your own body. You made your own body disappear to complete nothingness. "Well, I did that." Full responsibility on it. Nothingnesses which were your body.
A lot more nothingnesses which were your body.
Now get nothingnesses in your own universe which were your body.
And let's get a lot of places where you can be.
A lot more places where you can be.
You know, there are some places in the past, certainly, that you can be.
Okay. Find a couple of objects, hold on to them and don't think.
Find some places where you are not.
Put out a couple of nothingnesses which you say are places where your body was, but is dead and gone now. Find the floor beneath your feet.
End of session.
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