Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology
From: kenlong@netcom.com (Ken Long)
Subject: Necessity Level Powers
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 1995 18:04:38 GMT

They say "Necessity is the 'mother' of invention."  Well, it can be the 
mother of intention, as well.

Many people have heard stories of people "developing" superhuman strength 
in a time of impending peril.

Like a mother who discovers he child is about to be swept away by a 
raging stream.  The child had gone across a bridge and then along the 
stream and was at the edge when the mother finds it.  She doesn't have 
time to go across the bridge and get to where the child is to prevent 
disaster, so necessity takes over and she just jumps across - a distance 
greater than an athlete could jump.

Others I've heard of were guys lifting a vehicle off someone, which they 
could never otherwise do.

LRH mentions that necessity level can bypass the reactive minds influence.

But these cases of "superhuman" strength, or some other amazing instant 
ability - which is lost as soon as the necessity is over - go beyond just 
"not being banky."

They alter the illusion of the physical universe, momentarily, because 
the consequences of not doing so are greater than the the consequences of 
"playing human."

The art of "dowsing" is locating hidden objects or minerals via an 
implement designated as such.  But what's actually happening is the 
dowser is finding the thing through his natural ability as a being.  But 
he's doing it on a via because admitting to himself that he could do it 
without it would be to much power to allow himself to display and be 
responsible for.  It's okay to do in with a "witching stick," a percentage 
of the time, because most people will just laugh him off.  If he could 
(he can but doesn't let himself know) just locate hidden objects 
directly, and 100% of the time, then the "witching stick" would be the 
clubs of the people on the witch hunt that are after HIM!  Like the 
townspeople after the Frankenstein monster.

There are stories in every issue of Advance! magazine called "OT 
Phenomena" where people write instances of using their natural, recovered 
abilities.

You don't have to be a Grade Chart OT to manifest them.

Here's one of mine:

A friend and I were riding in my full-sized Dodge van, in Calaveras 
county, California, one weekend during a gold prospecting trip.  It was 
Sunday and it had rained all day Saturday.  We'd seen no other vehicles 
in this remote area.  It was a one lane, paved (but in poor condition) 
country road.  I was probably driving too fast, thinking we were the 
only ones out and about on such a story weekend.  I wasn't going too fast 
for the road - just too fast for the road plus other traffic.

All of a sudden, we went around a bend and here comes an El Camino the 
opposite direction!  It was on the uphill side of the road.  There wasn't 
enough room for both vehicles on the road!

I immediately got VERY alert and veered to clear the car without touching 
it.  And I didn't touch it - it would have been consequences too great 
for us to deal with.  But there was also not enough room for the 
right-side wheels of the van.  If those wheels had gone onto the 
shoulder, the van would have gone out of control, due to the mud.  I was 
on the outside of the curve, so the van would have gone off the 10 foot 
bank, at worst, and at least hit bottom on the right side and damaged the 
undercarriage and got us stuck.

But nothing happened!  We just went past the car, got back into the 
middle of the road and continued on.

I was alert, but calm, while seeing and passing the car.  But once it was 
passed, *then* my heart started pounding and exclamations of amazement 
and relief began.

The only explanation is I either (out of necessity) shrunk the van or 
widened the road or the right-side wheels were riding in intention and 
nothing else.

I recall the postulate I made the instant I saw the other car:  "We're 
passing it safely."

So, it's the postulate that makes it happen.

Another story I heard was a sheetrocker fell into an elevator shaft while 
working on a high-rise building.  He hollered as soon as he went in.  
Down on a lower floor an ironworker heard him and looked up and saw the 
guy falling.  He decided "I'm catching him," and reached out with one 
arm, while holding the door frame with the other and caught the guy!

Does Stephen Speilberg know about this stuff?

-Ken-