CHAPTER 12
HELP
To be helped, you need to be willing to give and receive help. But help is often abused, being used as a control mechanism and a means of dominating others.
Even when help is given freely without strings attached, it sometimes fails and the usual foolish tendency is to accumulate the weight of the failures without balancing them with the successes.
Because of the altruistic nature of true help, it is also a useful way to push through the barriers that you build up as you engage in conflicts with others. If you can find ways to help your enemy and for your enemy to help you, you can break down the barriers of hatred that keep you at war.
Here we are going to emphasize the positive side and use that to push through any weight of failures. We have been around for a long time and we haven’t always failed even if recent times look grim in some cases.
And we will use general rather than specific targets because you have often engaged in the same game over and over again and we do not wish to narrow the scope to the current situation. In other words, we want to do things like considering helping a parent rather than limiting ourselves to your specific parents in this lifetime because you have often gotten into the same kind of games with different parents over the course of many lives.
And we are only going to consider how you COULD help others or others COULD help you. There is no insistence that you do help, because true help must be given freely without pressure or strings attached. It is not a duty or a remedy for guilt (using it that way is one of the reasons it often fails).
But by considering how you could help, you will blow out the barriers of hatred, failure, and control and become free of much mental charge and difficulties. And then you can think freely and make your own choices in the area.
These are simple repetitive processes with alternating commands. Just keep doing the commands, spotting ways that you could help. The answers don’t have to be perfectly logical, just whatever you can think of.
As you run a process like this, you are often pushing through forces which are not immediately obvious from the processing command. As these come into view and dissipate, one can often have very interesting realizations.
This is the most desirable result of running a process, namely that you push through some kind of force or resistance and then, because the force is now out of the way, have a realization as a result. These sudden realizations are called “cognitions” in Scientology because one has become cognizant of something new.
If you have a cognition (sudden realization) while running a process, it generally means that the process is complete and you should give yourself a pat on the back.
And note that there are relative truths. Something may be true in a specific case or a limited frame of reference even if it is not broadly correct. And some truths are stepping stones to higher ones. These things are not absolutes although they often seem that way when you first realize them. So don’t invalidate these things when you notice exceptions, simply take a broader view and see what areas they do or do not apply to.