In the early 1950's L. Ron Hubbard recorded a lecture called "Games". Very interesting and provocative lecture. In the late 1960's a pop psycologist named Eric Berne wrote a popular book called The Games People Play, which got great attention in the ever changing world of pop psychology for a couple of years. It is fascinating to listen to Ron's lecture after reading Berne's book. In short, nothing Berne wrote was original; how close his examples are to the examples in Ron's lecture are amazing. It is of note that Berne's concept of man did not truly stretch beyond the idea that one's dramatizations in life are all games. The idea that one could rise to a level of awareness and self determinism and rise above the playing of unknowing games, or how this idea could be accomplished seemed in actuality to elude Berne. Berne's book was actually a knockoff of Thomas Harris' book, I'm OK, You're OK. Again, a book that closely copied a small portion of Ron's theory of games put forth about 15 years earlier. The fact that neither of these men ever developed any technology of value and soon went the way of most psychological fads, highlights the fact that they never pursued their research to the point that they understood the basics of life and the mind, and, in fact, simply plagiarized a very small slice of the work of someone who never ceased his research until he had uncovered all the secrets and worked out the exact methodologies to free man, namely, L. Ron Hubbard. The CD of the lecture, Games, is available at any Church or Mission of the Church of Scientology, and it makes for a truly fascinating listen.
