 Adventure vs Total Freedom [message #1230] |
Sun, 15 November 2009 01:19  |
|
People flock to the cinemas to experience a sense of adventure. Not only James Bond, Star Wars and Lord of the Rings. Hollywood caters for a wide audience with adventures of love, tragedy and everyday life. From Casablanca to Finding Nemo and Gandhi, there is the longing for excitement and for something different. Society is rife with antidotes for the dreaded boredom or the lack of game.
Thetans want a real game. Playstation can be a substitute for an exciting life. Live Action Role-Playing is as close as most people get. Some challenge death by throwing themselves out from cliffs. Others goes overboard and becomes mercenaries. Thetans want to create effects in a real game.
Have a look at what you want. What is the ultimate game for you?
Why then does Scientology sell "Total Freedom"? Total freedom is an all out Tone 40 - a "no games" condition.
The optimum level on the Tone Scale is 22 - Games. That's a tad above action and that is where adventures are experienced for real.
Most people would prefer the adventures of Indiana Jones over continual serenity on cloud 9, watering plants and playing the trumpet all day long.
L. Ron Hubbard says:
"There is only one way, really, to get into a state of living, and that's live! There is no substitute for an all-out, over-the-ramparts, howling charge against life. That's living. Living does not consist of sitting in a temple in the shadows and getting rheumatism from the cold stones. Living is hot, it's fast, it's often brutal! It has a terrific gamut of emotional reactions. If you are really willing to live, you first have to be willing to do anything that consists of living. Weird. But it's one of those awfully true things that you wonder why one has to say it. And yet it has to be said."
Living is the game at hand. What Scientology can offer is for you to be a better player of the game you want. And that is what Scientology should be selling.
My greatest win on OT VIII was a surge in adventure - being able to fully experience and enjoy the games I play. To play the game for real and not just coping in life. I used to be dreaming about more interesting games. Now there is action and participation everywhere I look. The quote above is the real deal. It is life as I know it. I want adventure more than total freedom. Working toward total freedom is exciting. I just think selling a nirvana of sorts carries with it a lot of unneeded expectations.
I believe people want adventure. Handling the abuses and out tech in the Church of Scientology is an adventure worth engaging.
Cross-posted from my blog
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Re: Adventure vs Total Freedom [message #1338 is a reply to message #1230 ] |
Sun, 15 November 2009 23:05  |
 |
Maria
Messages: 555
Registered: November 2009
Location: USA |
Blue |
|
|
I don't know about you guys. Don't you think you need to set a good example? Be careful? After all, weak-minded individuals might try these things at home and there could be terrible, terrible consequences! One must be responsible, and safety conscious, and always act conservatively, ensuring that no one comes to any harm, ever. And Geir, I can't believe you would jump out of a perfectly safe airplane!
LOL!  
Seriously now...
I had a hilarious experience on the interpersonal front. I was walking around at an event with two long time guy friends and we were laughing and joking and having a whale of a good time. It was all games and we all knew it.
The next day I received a knowledge report about how I was "leading on" married men with inappropriate levels of ARC and setting a bad example as an OT?!??? Didn't I know that one only acted with high ARC with one's own husband or wife?!???? And racka racka racka it went on. Gasp! -- I was walking between two MARRIED men with my arms linked in their arms and we were swinging our arms!!! Gasp! -- we TOUCHED each other!!!!!
Believe or not I was confronted with this in ethics. Not by either guy's wife (they both got copies, "just for their info") and with an overlaid sympathy for how they had been "jilted" so unkindly. Both wives knew me well and thought it was the most hilarious thing they had ever read in their lives!
So after that, when any of us hung together at events we walked about like nuns and monks so as not to disturb anyone! Ever attended an event as a nun? Strange experience, odd beingness. Still fun but not as much fun.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Re: Adventure vs Total Freedom [message #1358 is a reply to message #1344 ] |
Mon, 16 November 2009 01:29 |
 |
altruistichedonist
Messages: 7
Registered: November 2009
Location: Canada |
Infrared |
|
|
To me, Games are the embodiment of the human condition. Playing them is the adventure and when the time arrives that one game is mastered, another appears, almost magically, to further challenge the human spirit to higher levels. Or to take us down new avenues that, until the previous game was mastered, were hidden from our perceptions.
For me, living with the intention of bringing joy out in others keeps that game going eternally during my life. I'm not always successful, but it challenges me to pursue new outcomes with more vigor.
For example, a friend of mine, a "redneck" welder, was getting down on life and consistently blaming others for the calamities in his life. I attempted many times to help him take responsibility for what occurs around him. But to little avail. So I changed the game with him and asked him to cut out of steel a squirrel. He did.
4 weeks in and he has produced 4 more squirrels, a duck, a fish, 2 storks, 6 pigeons, and he's considering a condor. He still blames but that has subsided due to awakened artist he's become in such a short time.
Now I'm not taking credit here. He's done that himself. But every once in a while it's sheer fun to gently nudge someone down another path and then delight in the path their walking.
I like playing "winning" games.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Re: Adventure vs Total Freedom [message #3368 is a reply to message #1230 ] |
Tue, 15 December 2009 00:21 |
|
I know what you mean and I'd like to have it more stably, it comes and goes too often. Do you find that after OT VIII, you see things as adventures more often?
There's an LRH quote involving being willing to crush or be crushed by the universe, it's a great one to post if someone has it on their computer.
|
|
|
| Re: Adventure vs Total Freedom [message #3370 is a reply to message #3368 ] |
Tue, 15 December 2009 00:25 |
|
Anonymous Participant wrote on Tue, 15 December 2009 00:21I know what you mean and I'd like to have it more stably, it comes and goes too often. Do you find that after OT VIII, you see things as adventures more often?
I sure do 
That is one of my great wins from doing VII and VIII.
|
|
|
|
|
| Re: Adventure vs Total Freedom [message #5376 is a reply to message #5347 ] |
Sun, 10 January 2010 00:09 |
 |
lasa
Messages: 156
Registered: November 2009 |
Yellow |
|
|
I will not and never will buy the Bridge to "Total Freedom" Besides, bridges are built so one can cross over or get through to the other side "from above".
|
|
|
Members
Search
Help
Register
Login
Home
