“The only thing wrong with a mind is a mind. I’ll go over that again. The only thing wrong with a mind is a mind. That is all that is wrong with it: it is. Because it’s so rigged up that every action an individual undertakes, every action undertaken is then held in suspense. Everything he’s done bad and done wrong is held in suspense to the end of time.
And somebody talks about karma. They’re talking about, without knowing what they were talking about, this series of pictures retained by the mind. All the pain and agony of yesterday can be carried in this mind and can be turned on again against the individual. This mind may have use. Who knows? But for sure it has liability. It has kickback. It is a sort of a trap. An individual is never free of his acts of yesterday. Well, maybe this is desirable in the other fellow, but it’s not too desirable in you, is it?
Retribution, the mind, conscience, guilt, restraint. And this would be all very well, providing anybody could prove that an unrestrained being is always damaging. And yet in processing we find out that the more we do for somebody, the easier he is on his fellow man and it’s only those people who are totally plowed into these minds who commit crimes, are criminals, lead countries. . . Only such people as are totally trapped with no hope of ever getting out are reactively engaged in the commission of crimes.”
from the article “The Only Thing Wrong with the Mind”
by L Ron Hubbard
The book Dianetics was written in 1950 describing how the mind works with procedures (processing) so that a person could remember the past experiences without having them affect him or her adversely. This way a person could now act and think without being unknowingly affected by the reactive mind*.
