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WHAT IS
COMMUNICATION?
How does one talk so that another person listens and
understands? How does one listen? How does one know if
he has been heard and understood?
These are all points about communication that have
never before been analyzed or explained.
People have known that communication is an important
part of life but until now no one has ever been able to tell anyone how to
communicate.
Until Scientology, the subject of communication had received no
emphasis or study. Any attention given to it was mechanical and the province
of engineers. Yet all human endeavor depends utterly on a full knowledge of
the real basics of communication.
To master communication, one must understand it.
In Scientology, communication has been defined—an accomplishment
that has led to a much deeper understanding of life itself.
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Communication, in essence, is the shift of a particle from one part of space
to another part of space. A particle is the thing being communicated. It can be
an object, a written message, a spoken word or an idea. In its crudest
definition, this is communication.
This simple view of communication leads to the full definition:
Communication is the consideration and action of impelling an impulse or
particle from source-point across a distance to receipt-point, with the intention of
bringing into being at the receipt-point a duplication and understanding of that
which emanated from the source-point.
Duplication is the act of reproducing something exactly. Emanated means
“came forth.”
The formula of communication is cause, distance, effect, with intention,
attention and duplication with understanding.
The definition and formula of communication open the door to
understanding this subject. By dissecting communication into its component
parts, we can view the function of each and thus more clearly understand the
whole.