Scientology A New Slant on Life 1965 Chapter 16

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Acceptance Level

One thing that a person will discover is that he has been carefully taught that certain things are bad and, therefore, not enjoyable and that he has set up resistance’s to these things and that they, at length— these resistance’s—have become a sponge for the things they were set up to counteract and the resistance, caving in, has created a hunger for that which was, at first, resisted.

This is the physical universe at work in its very best operation: Make one fight something, then so arrange it that one winds up craving for what one was fighting.

You can, if you look about you, see Acceptance Level dramatized in every activity of life. You can understand, then, why some woman will not clean up a living room; a living room is not acceptable, except in a cluttered fashion to this person. You can understand, also, why some man leaves a beautiful and helpful girl and runs off with a maid or a prostitute; his acceptance level was too far below the beautiful girl. You can understand, too, some of you, why you were not acceptable in your own homes when you were young; you were too bright and too cheerful and this was too high above those around you. You can understand, as well, why the newspapers print the stories they do.