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At Level 4 in TROM we run overt and withholds. here is L Ron Hubbards view on OW's
very interesting keep on TROMing Pete Sent from my iPad Begin forwarded message: > From: Ant Phillips <ant.phill...@post8.tele.dk> > Date: May 4, 2012 12:14:30 AM PDT > To: ivy-subscriber...@lists.worldtrans.org > Subject: [IVy-subs-1] O-W A Limited Theory > > ** ivy-subscribers-1 > Started January 1997 > Relaying positive communication to participants. > ** > (Apparently authored by LRH from a time about ten years after Book 1) > > HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE > 23 Hancock Street, Joubert Park, Johannesburg > HCO BULLETIN OF 22 DECEMBER 1960 > Franchise > O-W A LIMITED THEORY > > Before I would permit you to believe that the overt-withhold mechanism was a > total way of life, I would point out that it applies only to a strata of > existence and that it > stems from failures to help. > > The theory that what you do to others will then happen to you is a punishment > control mechanism peculiar to this universe. It derives from a deteriorated > willingness > to duplicate. It is the law of physics of Interaction — for every action > there is an equal > and contrary reaction. > > “Love thy neighbour”, when it is no longer a willingness, is enforced by the > theory of O-W. “Love thy neighbour” can exist only when help, control and > communication are high. When all these go, then O-W comes into vogue as a > method > of enforcing peace. > > O-W is a theory which sets in when aberration sets in. It is not a high > natural law. > It is junior to the various laws of Communication, Control and Help. > > O-W can occur only when help has failed. Help is a co-joining of vectors of > life. > When two beings who have joined forces to help fail each other, only then > does O-W > come into existence. > > The forces of two beings cannot come into dispute until after they have first > joined. Thus there is no war like that seen between brothers or husband and > wife. > > The cycle is this: > > INDEPENDENT BEINGS > COMMUNICATION > MIS-COMMUNICATION > CONTROL > MIS-CONTROL > HELP > FAILED HELP > OVERTS AND WITHHOLDS > OVERTS AND WITHHOLDS BY TRANSFER > WORRYING OTHERS > WORRYING ABOUT OTHERS > BEING CRITICAL > BEING CRITICAL OF SELF > > Basically, O-W is an effort to regain the status of independent being without > taking responsibility for any of the intervening steps. > > The reason we run O-Ws is that most pcs are on O-W by Transfer, which is to > say, when they kick George in the head they get a headache themselves. This > makes > them think they are George. We use O-W since it explains phenomena found at a > low > humanoid level. We do not use it because it is a senior governing law of the > universe. > > When Help comes up, O-W as a mechanism drops out. We could run a full case, > it would appear, with Help. However, in practice it is better to run lots of > O-W with > failed help as they complement each other and move the case faster. By running > O-W we disclose many new failed helps. Why? Look at the cycle above and see > that OW > occurs only when Help has failed. > > Similarly, on the same cycle we see that worry undercuts O-W. But if it is > run, it > should be worked with O-W. The worry cure has commands as follows: > > Get the idea of worrying something. > Get the idea of not worrying something. > Get the idea of something being worrisome. > > People, animals, things can be used in place of “something”. The process, > going > rapidly up toward failed help, is a bit limited and should be run with > another process of > the type of “Get the idea of attacking something” “Get the idea of not > attacking > something” to keep it going. The worry process bogs if run too long just by > itself. It is > a very valuable process as it explains many reactions and undercuts many > cases. > Worrying something is close to the lowest level of overt. It is the lowest > effort to > individuate. > > But just as worry is not a way of life nor an answer to all of life, neither > is the OW > mechanism an end-all law. > > Many cases are not up to recognizing their overts. They will also have trouble > recognizing their failures to help. Usually, then, they can recognize being > worried or > worrying people and thinking unkind thoughts and even attacking things. > > Failed help also lies as a harmonic below O-W and so runs on any case if > assisted > with O-W as in Formula 13 or assisted with the Worry Process as above. > > Worrying people is almost a way of life for the juvenile, just as O-W is with > a > criminal. People who feel childish or act that way are stuck in the violent > motion of > childhood and worrying others. Many pcs use their processing just to worry the > auditor. Worry is the most easily dramatized O-W. > > O-W, whether as worry or being critical (unkind thoughts), is the result of > failure > to help. O-W is the reason one gets another’s valence. O-W is why pcs have > somatics. > But O-W is not a high order law. > > You will not always have to be careful not to bump Joe. It would be a horrible > universe indeed if O-W was its senior law, for one could then never do > anything. > > Fortunately, it drops out, both as a governing law and a necessity in life. > > L. RON HUBBARD > LRH: pe.cden > Copyright © 1960 > by L. Ron Hubbard > ALL RIGHTS RESERVED > > [This HCO B was later reissued from Saint Hill Manor on 5 January 1961 with > the distribution > “Franchise Holders”.] > ** > Originations, comments, to the list, send to > ivy-subscriber...@lists.worldtrans.org > Home Page: http://www.ivymag.org with extensive links to FZ! > ** >
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