14 January 1996
                                              updated 30 October 1997


                 RI-449i  'A Rule For Freedom'


from Ambassador for Mankind


Message # RI-449i for Internet




The rule is:

 "Things are as they ARE
  and
  not as you would like them to appear."



In other words:

You expect things to be a certain way.

And they are not necessarily THAT way.

In fact, they are almost never that way,
 if you look closely enough.


The ability to achieve and maintain freedom
 lies in the willingness
  to perceive
   BEYOND
    what you are expecting to perceive, and
   BEYOND
    what others are allowing you to perceive.


You expect the one you love most
 to not betray you and
 to have mainly good intentions towards you.

You expect the one who buys your work or praises your creation
 to have very good intentions towards you.

You do not expect the person you never saw
 to have a desire to help you, and
 you would never suspect him, whom you never heard of,
  to have been the one who got you out of a danger.


But a rule for freedom is:

"Things are as they ARE,
 and they are not
  how you would
   like or
   expect them
    to seem to be,
 not
  how you would expect them to appear"



This is, at second glance, a very tough rule.


It is tough, because perception,
 - by which one establishes how things ARE -
 is
  almost always
   this way:

    ONE PERCEIVES
    AS MUCH AS
    ONE IS WILLING TO PERCEIVE.


So, with 'Things are as they ARE',
 you are actually demanding of yourself
  to perceive more than you are willing to perceive.


But that is a rule for achieving and maintaining freedom.


It may appear as a rule of little importance to you,
 not even worth mentioning, maybe.
 But for sure,
  empires and populations
   have been destroyed and annihilated
    for the lack of it.


The denial of this rule
 in the Church of Scientology, especially since 1982,
  almost completely destroyed it and
  practically forbade the use
   of its tremendously valuable technology to Mankind.




Koos Nolst Trenite - Ambassador for Mankind

Copyright 1996, 1997 by Koos Nolst Trenite



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References (available also at the Library "http://Art-Org.com/"):

  (about the definition of sanity)

  RI-926i  'I do not respect the right of others to be insane' of 19 Aug 97
  RI-929i  'Simple Detection: "Sane or Insane?"' of 11 Sept 1997

  RI-714i  'State of Sanity, Definition of' of 24 Oct 1996
  RI-537i  'The Right to Demand Awareness' of 15 Apr 1996

  RI-925i  'Restoring life-force - Affinity for who and what IS THERE' Aug 97
  RI-918i  'Spiritual Power defined correctly' of 4 Aug 1997


  (about helping people)

  RI-592i  'How To Look At People' of 5 June 1996
  RI-734i  'Orienting Children' of 13 Nov 1996
  RI-781BPI 'Raising Children - or Keeping Them Small?' of 16 Jan 1997

  RI-631i  'Definition of "Woman"' of 12 July 1996
  RI-629i  'Definition of "Care"' of 12 July 1996

  RI-801i  '"You can never leave" - The spiritual universe' of 14 Mar 1997
  RI-785i  'On Not Remedying Disagreements - "Not Talking"' of 24 Jan 1997

  RI-602i  'Definition of Power' of 20 June 1996
  RI-705i  'Society Resurgence, Use of Rules' of 9 Oct 1996
  RI-750i  'Crimes are not motivated by money' of 1 Dec 1996


  (about facing evil and insanity)

  RI-908i  'The Ostrich-factor - on facing evil or criminality' 16 July 97
  RI-758i  'Insanity and Psychosis fully understood' of 13 Dec 1996

  RI-058Ri 'Fair Game Series - Treatment of Enemies' of 1 Jan 95
  RI-487i  'Dialogue: On Enemies and Hostility' of 20 Feb 1996
  RI-535i  '"An Enemy of my Enemy is my Friend" = INSANE' 10 Apr 96

  RI-010i  'Confronting a Suppressive' of 12 Oct 1994
  RI-444i  'The Practice of "SP-declares"' of 5 Jan 1996

  RI-921i  'Allergic against Truth - Only few are' of 10 Aug 1997
  RI-923i  'Facing Pretenders to the Truth' of 14 Aug 1997


  (about RI-Bulletins)

  RI-380Ri 'Obtaining Truth from the RI-Bulletins' of 1 Nov 1995
  RI-50RQi 'RI-xxxi series Archive - Content and Use' 28 Dec 94
               Revised and Replaced on 6 March 1996


These references and other RI-Bulletins can be obtained

    at the Library of Koos' writings on
         http://AmbassadorForMankind.org/ri-bulletins/
         http://AmbassadorForMankind.org/ri-bulletins/usp.htm
         http://AmbassadorForMankind.org/ri-bulletins/telepathy.htm

    or at the Archives at
         ftp://thetics.europa.com/outgoing/adams/RI
         ftp://thetics.europa.com/outgoing/adams/RI/USP