Chewing Gum Test

I can remember in high school learning that if you chew gum to study for a test, then you should chew gum when you take the test. Does this work? I believe it does.
Why does it work? I never knew. Scientology is beginning to explain it for me.
I’m reading the first few chapters of Handbook For Preclears and the text is reviewing facsimiles, or memory pictures. It mentions that a good student only does good because they can go back to the memory of learning. This is true for me. When I took a test, I would often find myself going back to reading or seeing the thing I needed to remember. I could picture the page and sometimes I could read what was on it. Sometimes I could not.
It’s amazing to me that there is an explanation for this. I just thought it WAS not WHY IT WAS. It makes sense.
What concerns me is fanatacism. I have historically been an easy fanatic before thinking fully about something. This happened in high school when I joined the local youth church group. My sister and I threw away all of our “evil” music and traded it for Christian Rock. I feel that it was something that I came to regret. I don’t regret it anymore, but take it as a learning experience. I try not to get that fanatical about things like that. Learning about Scientology makes me want to tell everyone, “look how cool this is!”
But then I think back to high school. The one good thing is that I don’t feel a compulsion to do anything, just a controllable desire. Thanks to the Freezone. I feel that Hubbard’s system isn’t changing my life the way Christianity did, but that it’s changing only me and how I think about things. I don’t mind the changes. I feel that they are all welcomed by me. There are things that I don’t agree with and I’m absorbing them, but not letting them affect me. A lot of the things are stored in my memory waiting for validation or invalidation before I take action on them or decide they are true for me.
One day I’m going to list all the questions I have about missing pieces or things I haven’t discovered yet.

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~ by tucsonwebgirl on August 29, 2009.