************************************************************************ The following first appeared in the private email list IVy-subscribers, which is available to all those who subscribe to the printed magazine, International Viewpoints. ************************************************************************ Dancing in the dark by Phil Spickler 9 Aug 99 My dear fellow __________(please fill in the blank), Perhaps I should say "Fellow implantees," or "implanters," but that might not indicate and might not be "true," therefore I won't say it. I would, however, like to say there should be a very, very special award for Alan C. Walter, who was kind enough to both enlighten and entertain us with great humor as he proceeded to share some marvelous insights about his great self and Knowledgism. Thanks again, Alan, for keeping the list alive and lively. And now for some dancing in the dark. Many moons ago, when my hair was brown and I walked upright, I chanced to hear a talk by one of our most unforgettable characters, namely L. Ron Hubbard, on the subject of complexity levels. My failing gray matter and somewhat less than perfect data retrieval system will not allow me to repeat this lecture verbatim, but I seem to remember a few things about it that may prove interesting and also shed some light on all the different theories about who we are and where we came from and how we happen to be here. This light will probably fail to shine, but having been in the dark so long, I shan't notice the difference. Subject: Complexity, a scale that falls away from absolute simplicity, something on the order of Void, Static, Ultimate Truth, through a vast series of gradients, each in its own way obscuring utter simplicity, until finally landing at a level or degree of complexity that completely obscures any notion of the simple and/or any perception of complete or utter simplicity. Each step along this scale could be considered, to one degree or another, a lie: a lie designed to mask total understanding.. Now on the other side of all this high-faluting junk, and in the most simple of terms, you can relate this notion of complexity to a person or a group, and by using an understanding of the degree of complexity in affairs that is required by an individual or a group, this being done by obnosis, observing the obvious, you can, both in auditing and in life, by meeting or matching this complexity level, establish very, very high reality and all that goes with that. You may have noticed in life a humdinger of a problem hanging around in some zone or area, and through a fine moment of insight have seen a simple solution to the problem. However, when offering it up, you have been met with very bad indicators and found yourself being pushed in one way or another to get you out of the scene -- all because the individual or people you were involved with required much more complex and difficult solutions that did not permit or admit of sudden change or the rapid bringing-about of the end of the problem. The problem might have provided some particular group with future activities for years to come, and with good income to go with it. You might imagine that if tomorrow you could announce a cure for any and all forms of cancer that was quick and simple and inexpensive, that the whole world would rejoice in your name and discovery. Well, it's probably true, there would be a fairly large number of people that would be very happy about this, if it ever came to market. However, your discovery, your simplicity, that was about to obliterate one of the most nagging and complex problems known to personkind in this century would be destroying a very large and very lucrative business. Your discovery would end the professional careers of all the kinds of doctors who have specialized in this form of medicine, not to speak of the tens if not hundreds of thousands of people that work in the hospitals and clinics and diagnostic institutions throughout the world. Yes, you would not see the medical fraternity jumping for joy; you would not be being carried around and given ticker-tape parades through large cities, hosted by the ecstatic and happy faces of doctors of oncology. Rather, you would see some of the worst BI's (bad indicators) you've ever seen, and you and your discovery would probably get relegated to the scrap heap of quackery, fraud, and other terms too unpleasant to repeat, having brought such a horrifying threat to all the lives of the people who are depending upon this disease to provide them with an exalted position in our society for many decades yet to come. Conversely, if through proper channels, and only through proper channels, you were to offer some extremely complicated and somewhat successful approach to some form of cancer, your name would probably live in the annals of that profession. Since anyone reading this so far has completely gotten the idea by now, let's move to the arena of explanations for just about anything, and some of the humorous differences between complex requirements and the simple. At one end of the spectrum, there are some folks regarding existence who simply perceive it. At the other end of the spectrum, there absolutely has to be an explanation for each and every facet of existence, starting with who and what is responsible for it, all the way down to the lowest denominator of materialism to be found in physics, sometimes called particle theory. Some folks believe that when there's a solar eclipse, a large creature has swallowed the sun and later on gets indigestion from it and gradually regurgitates it. These folks got to that description by having to have an explanation for why, on a perfectly fine sunny afternoon, it gets dark and then light again. Well, we say, circa right now, ha ha ha -- it's really because the moon gets in the way of the sun's rays for a little while, and that's our explanation for it. Some folks might say that theta has been organizing MEST on Planet Earth for some time now, and has come up with this pretty fancy creature who has the temerity to refer to itself as Homo sapiens, and that this evolution is continuing, possibly indefinitely. That's of course too simple a possibility, even though for those familiar with theta-MEST theory it has no boundaries. Others require more complex explanations, such as invasion fleets, prison planets, prisoner-of-war planets, Scientology's famous answer contained in the never-to-be-revealed OT 3 materials; there's also that nut named Phil who thinks it's simply the Las Vegas of the relatively near universe, etc. etc. Well, none of this stuff, in our opinion, is either right or wrong -- it's just simply an expression of how complicated a given group or individual needs to be in order to feel real. The best thing about this is, instead of fighting with other folks or groups, you can simply duplicate their complexity level and they'll become so happy with you they'll try to make you a charter member of the club and invite you to all of their affairs and events. Once you've got the hang of this, you can move in all circles and enjoy all beingnesses, if and when you yourself become comfortable with the whole range of complexity and can move around on it at will. It also helps to understand why efforts to simplify certain things often run into such resistance -- no need to take it personally. It also helps to understand why complicating certain things can make you far more popular than you ever hoped to be. The best case supervisors and auditors have a good line on this, and tailor their work to the degree of complexity that the person or group they're working with has mocked themselves up to be. There are so many insights in connection with this notion that I shall close now and leave it to your interest to pursue such matters. All the very best, and as ever, -- Phil P.S. Forgot to mention that the obsession with the need for explanation goes with a high degree of complexity in personality, whereas to one who can simply look at something with perception, all that is, is. But that's very simple. ** Replies, comments, to the list, send to ivy-subscribers@lightlink.com Home Page: http://home8.inet.tele.dk/ivy/ - with extensive links to FZ! **