Article written by John Galusha in 1954
This article is from page 5 of the 1954 Journal of Scientology issue 32-G:
"a simple summary of Scientology
Any action a person engages in is primarily concerned with just one thing: the location of objects and energy in time and space. This is not to say that one has no other abilities. There are many abilities one has or could have, but none of them get quite so much usage as the ability to locate things in time and space.
The exercise of any perceptic is the action of locating in time and space. One looks at an item and thereby locates it in space; he sees where it is. He also locates it in time; the time is when he is looking at it; This follows for all perceptics. When it does not follow the individual becomes upset. For instance, a sudden sound occurs and the hearer wonders where it came from. He feels much better when he has located the source of the sound. When these things are not located, one is left wondering "What is the source of the sound?" "Where is the source of that flash of light?" "Where is that smell coming from?" A great many people in the world are at present engaged upon locating the "flying saucers" which have been reported to have been located momentarily by sight.
Another aspect of the locating of things in time and space is the actual placing of items. Parking an automobile, setting a table for a meal, placing one's hat on his head, putting one foot before the other in walking, are all actions of locating things in time and space. This becomes a matter of real precision to an athlete, a dancer, a skilled workman, an artist, or to anyone else who is interested in doing what he does competently.
Remembering is an action of the same ability. If a thing is remembered accurately by an individual, he remembers where and when the thing occurred. Memory is precise and useful to whatever degree it locates accurately in time and space.
Prediction is, again, the same action. One says that he will have dinner at a certain place at a certain hour, and he is as certain of this prediction as he is able to locate the energies and objects involved.
Anyone who has ever been lost knows how necessary it is to be able to locate himself in time and space. Any auditor is familiar with this one to a much greater degree than most other people. To many people this one does not make sense. But put it on the basis of "Have you ever been lost?" and it gets home very quickly.
One is as able to be, to do and to have as he is able to locate things in time and space. An actor, a salesman, a speaker, each must be able to be various things in order to succeed. An athlete, a workman, an executive must be able to do. Any person is concerned with having. If one cannot locate his goals and ideas and orient them properly, he cannot be what he wishes to be. If one cannot place such things as his body, his tools or his orders in the right place at the right time, his doingness will be largely restricted. Being unable to locate his hat, an individual certainly can't have it.
Individuals have the ability to locate things in time and space in varying degrees --a gradient scale of this ability. As a person is processed he less often says, "Where is it?" and more often says, "It is there." Scientology is the Science of knowing how to know, and one thing anyone could afford to know better is how to locate things in time and space with certainty. The ability to move, to cause motion, to communicate, to receive communication, to cause the effects one desires to cause, all these things are to a very great degree dependent upon one's ability to locate things in time and space.
John Galusha"
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