15 April 1996


          RI-537i  'The Right to Demand Awareness'


from Ambassador for Mankind (Ron's Inspector)


Message # RI-537i for Internet




It isn't GAINING more awareness,
 so much,
 it is more a matter of
  not anymore being UNAWARE
  of something or somebody, or of someone's intentions.


If the mental energy-output of others would be sound-waves,
 it would be like
  standing right next to the airport's most used
   take-off- and landing-strip,
  and wanting to enjoy a conversation
   with your best friend.

So what you do is
 - in the analogy when we suppose that mental energy equals sound -
 you shut off your awareness of part of the scene:
   You decide to not be aware of
   the thundering noise
   of the airplane-engines at take-off.

The noise is there,
 but you decide to not be aware of it,
  in order to enjoy life better,
  there at that place.


Now this is what you have been doing all the time
 with
  the unpleasantness,
  the ugliness,
  and the suppressive intentions
   which are part of life and livingness.
 (With this, you are also shutting out
  a lot of enjoyable things and awareness of beauty,
   but that is not the issue here.)


You have been doing this,
 - shutting off your awareness
   of these very unpleasant things -
 and you are doing this,
  in order to enjoy life better.


But in order to enjoy life BETTER,
 would it not be helpful
  to be aware, for instance,
  of
   whom you are talking with,
   whom you are marrying,
   who you choose as friends?

In order to enjoy life BETTER,
 would it not be helpful
  to know whether
  an area is contaminated
   with a contagious disease,
   or war,
   or radioactivity?


You have decided
 to not be aware of,
 to not see
  a lot of ugliness and lies and mean behavior.

You can't
  be aware of the very ugly things
 AND
  enjoy life at the same time,
   because
    you find it distasteful, or
   because
    you have the urge to handle ugliness or suppression
     whenever you see it, or
   for probably a million other reasons.




You have to find
 some workable balance
  for yourself,
 and
 you have to find
  some workable balance
   for your friends and associates,
 of
  what awareness you reasonably can demand of yourself, and
  what awareness you reasonably can demand of another.




And there ARE certain
 unpleasant things and evil lies and uglinesses
  which you CAN demand of another
  that he should recognize and handle.

You CAN demand of someone else
 to
  not refuse to recognize lies about you, and to
  not refuse to recognize hate or ugliness spread about you.

In other words,
 you are entitled, you have a right,
  to demand of others
   that they are aware of certain
   unpleasant and ugly things.

And of course you should demand of yourself as well,
 to be aware of those things
  which diminish or destroy
   the joy of life
   for yourself and others.



Koos Nolst Trenite - Ambassador for Mankind

Copyright 1996 by Koos Nolst Trenite


 references:
  RI-274i  'Setting Own Awareness-Level - Use of Vital Data' 8 Oct 95

  RI-83i   'The Right to Study and Apply Scientology' 16 Jun 94
  RI-269i  'How to Handle Irresponsible People. (GOLD!)' 26 Sep 95

  RI-514i  'Confessionals and Blackmail - VERY IMPORTANT' 16 Mar 96
  RI-516i  'A Definition of Institutional-type Case' of 17 Mar 96
  RI-519i  '"ENTHETA" = unpleasant truth = unwanted truth' 19 Mar 96

  RI-58i   'Fair Game Series - Treatment of Enemies' of 1 Jan 95
  RI-487i  'Dialogue: On Enemies and Hostility' of 20 Feb 1996
  RI-444i  'The Practice of "SP-declares"' of 5 Jan 1996

  RI-10i   'Confronting a Suppressive' of 12 Oct 1994
  RI-14i   'SPs in Scientology's Safe Space' of 23 Oct 1994
  RI-24i   'Definition of 'PTS' - IMPORTANT' of 19 Nov 1994
  RI-53i   'Past Life Criminals and Scn Ethics' of 29 July 1994
  RI-90i   'The Intention of a Suppressive' of 9 Oct 1994


  RI-0i    'Current Ethics' of 30 June 1994
  RI-288i  'The Main Evil Purpose' of 15 Oct 1995

  RI-242Ri 'Being There - Freedom to Act' of 22 July 1995
  RI-235i  'Handling people with Understanding' of 14 July 1995
  RI-471i  'Two Ways of Analyzing Life-situations' of 30 Jan 96

  RI-217i  'Choosing Sides - As Ethics' of 24 Jun 1995
  RI-263i  'Two Responses to Being Helped' of 20 Aug 1995
  RI-391i  'Cleaning up the Internet further' of 24 Sept 1995


  RI-50RQi 'RI-xxxi series Archive - Content and Use' 28 Dec 94
               Revised and Replaced on 6 March 1996

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