Your main difficulty with techniques - continuing this on what I was saying about Clinical Procedure - your main difficulty on techniques is that they wear out, for the most part, when used on the preclear who is bad off because they depress his reality. And so you've got to have a technique which immediately enhances his reality. And you must not take the chance that the person walks up the stairs - who's got just enough reality to find the doorknob but is looking bright and cheerful and well dressed, just enough reality to find that doorknob, walking on all the automatic machinery you could possibly rack up in a whole universe - will be hit by you with a technique which will be calling you out of bed at eleven o'clock at night with the fact that somebody has a convulsion.

Now, this is not prevention for the clinic and it's not prevention for you as an auditor It's just the fact that if you have a cynical attitude against all these preclears that you're perfectly willing to have be you, too - you got a nice cynical attitude about it and you say, "They're all Step VIIs," you'll win every time. Because most of them are.

It must be obvious to you that that which has been chosen out as an opponent will then attack the individual. Let's get the concept of resistance to evil as the great contribution of an organization of which you've not heard at all, called the Christian church. There's nothing between me and the Christian church because I don't resist them. But they teach resistance to evil.

Therefore, you won't be up against the problem, every time, of the doctor who must, of necessity, deliver some kind of an effect but who must, of necessity, associate himself with being a person. This always catches up, sooner or later, with a doctor He goes sawing and chawing and madly hacking and beating bodies; then, one day, he's sick, too. Well, there's no reason for you to do this.

There's a fellow by the name of - I don't know, I think his name is Sheen, or something. (There's no sheen to him though!) This guy last night was - had a - had a gorgeous lecture on. (Somebody turned it on by accident.) And this is a real character. The first - the first thing he does - he walked up to a blackboard and he wrote down what a nurse should have. And the first thing was a nurse should have an incision. And... You think I'm joking, but you could actually go get this tape. And the second thing a nurse should have was cheerfulness. And the third thing she'd have is a sense of the invisible. In other words, "Let's you and me play hidden influences, huh?"

If you run a technique which doesn't wear out, your own confidence isn't being continually undermined. Because this one doesn't wear out because you're up against the roof on this one, on - for this universe. And it doesn't wear out by the fact that you use it. And you can use it on a preclear and he can foul up and you can use it on him again with equal effectiveness, mostly because he doesn't expect anything radical to happen. And you don't get upset because you don't expect anything radical to happen either. All you expect him to do is get into his head and move three feet back out of it, patch up his body and go home. That's all you want to have happen. So there's no strain.

Well, he gave a long lecture on this. And the reason she should have an incision is - he couldn't quite put this in but somehow or other... It doesn't have to be a physical incision you understand... And I'm surprised at this old boy, frankly, I'm surprised at him - at his age! I never ran into any nurses that didn't have. But anyway, not to make his spiritual guidance tawdry or more bawdy than it is... He goes on for some time with this.

Working with one another and working into a "Gosh, are these all the problems you run into?" and "Gee, look at all this randomity," and so forth, that's not the question. But if you're operating clinically, you don't want to have that necessarily as your randomity. Why choose it as your randomity? Just - you just run a technique which steps him into his head and he knows he's in his head finally and knows he's in his head; then he knows he's back of his head and then he knows he can look and he knows his perception's pretty good and he - look over the body and patch it up where it is and then he goes home.

It's remarkable that the fellow is applause happy. He is uncertain... Remember the applause scale in the recent charts, and so forth? The applause scale? Hungry for applause and - oh, no, he - he'll just get applause; it doesn't occur to him one way or the other that he won't - that's the top of the scale, toward the top of the scale. And then you run on down to: Certain he won't get applause. Well, somewhere along the line he gets uncertain about applause. Well, Sheen is dramatizing it, but madly. And it's very curious to sit there and watch the Tone Scale operating.

Well, of course, this is actually taking some of the fun out of it for you. We're not trying to make superman here, because after you've done that is when you start to work to really make superman. Now you really have to get clever.

[Editor's Note: The charts referred to in this lecture have not been found.]

Of course, a thetan in real good operating condition can make himself visible. It would be the shock of somebody's life to suddenly realize that he was visible. And it would ruin this whole society and put us squarely in the hands of Bishop Shenanigan if you were to start doing this. Because you as a MEST body would never be able to explain fast enough to tell him you really weren't Christ. They've been looking for him to come back - with blood in their eyes. You know, they only got a few nails in that guy last time.

But it's no wonder that this boy has got a very good command of audience right now because, brother, he sure backs up the hearse-operations, blood, and so on, all in a pleasant tone of voice, just as though he was talking about flowers, and so forth. And he's hit the Christian acceptance level right on the nose: death, blood, suffering, suffering, blood, bandages with pus on them, so on. He - he's just - just cracking it right there beautifully. Just gorgeous to watch the Christian church in operation - just gorgeous to watch it in operation.

So - so, it's exteriorization on up. And if you're looking for Clinical Procedure, you merely want to get the guy secure and certain that he's exteriorized and get him to patch up the body and be fairly happy about it. Of course, he'll come back and see you later and say, "I want to - I'm not stable as a Theta Clear. I got uncertain and I popped back in and a lot of other things happened and these were all undesirable," and so on. "And my wife's still mad at me," or "my parents still rack me around. And I tried to bap them the other day and I couldn't do anything about it and I - this war that's coming up with Ugohuvia, I tried to do something about that and I was very sure I was over there in the palace. And I was very sure that I'd bapped Lord Zaggah straight on the coco, but you know I picked up the paper this morning and he's still alive. So this is all very upsetting to me," and so forth.

Resistance to evil. How the devil would you make the most evil culture you possibly could make? Point out that something is evil and make them resist it. That's the whole trick of the universe: resistance. Because that means matching wavelengths, which means entanglement. That is evaluation on what you should choose out for randomity. And, brother, anytime you choose some randomity, please choose something that is bright and fast. Don't consider any other kind of randomity is worthwhile at all.

Well, you're op- you're into the sphere of operation. When you move into the sphere of operation, you're in a different sphere. You see? See the difference? So Clinical Procedure just continues to aim at just what it says, which is simply curing up and straightening up the guy mentally and physically so that he can be an awful damn good senior superior Homo sapiens or Homo novis or whatever you want to call this boy. That's all right, isn't it? That's good. Well, that's the technique we're hitting hard for. And you'll find out that there's a tremendous amount of data to be run after you've done that.

A gentleman a couple of hundred years ago, five hundred years ago, a thousand years ago was entirely aware of this - "What, you cad! You dare cross swords with a gentleman! Flog him!" You know? "He wasn't well born. I don't dare stab him."

Not one of you here today is visible as a thetan. I just call that to your attention. Now, I don't say that you ought to do this. But I don't say you shouldn't. But like the rooster who rolled in the ostrich egg$ I want to show you what can be done elsewhere.

Well, that sounds silly. But the fastest way in the world they could have caused the deterioration of the state of being a gentleman was to have dueled indiscriminately. See? Choosing out for randomity people who weren't gentlemen. And as long as they were gentlemen and dueled only with gentlemen and killed only gentlemen, and would only deign on the field of battle to slaughter other gentlemen, and as long as this code continued and until Christianity got to it, the world was in a rather firm grasp, believe me. These fellows, actually, really didn't know that the peasantry existed. They knew it in a sort of a side way that there was another being around, sort of like you know there are mice in the world.

All right. What do you do then? Here - here's just rote procedure on it, Orientation Straightwire. Preclear comes in, crawls in, gets over the doorsill. You pick him up, prop him up in the chair and you say, "Where are you?"

But to get the state of mind of such people would be rather difficult today because everybody is equal today. Oh boy! That - that's a real operation: resist everything. You finally wind up with everybody playing "the only one" and everybody's lonesome and nobody's got any friends. You see how that would work? Resistance to evil.

And he says, "I'm four feet back of my head. I haven't been able to get in my body all day."

"Now, I'll tell you what's evil," the Christian church says. "The devil is evil!" He doesn't exist, you see. I mean, there is no being, an evil being, known as the devil, who has this and that. Well, that's what you resist; so that gets them to fighting nothing. Well that confuses the dickens out of them, and they said fight this and fight that and fight something else and then they finally said, "Fight your own original sin." Oh! Go back on the time track, in other words, and fight yourself.

You're all set. You go on from there. But it's very, very few people in this society that will so inform you, in fact there are practically none who will tell you this because it's not the condition. They don't know where they are.

Resistance to evil. And out of resistance to evil you get, actually, the entire pattern of modern aberration. You want to know - you want to know what modern aberration is all about: You get some preclear and they can't stand dirt. The idea "Oooh dirt! Nnh!" Yeah, you'll see them - every once in a while they get so bad off that they carry pieces of toilet tissue in their hands and touch doorknobs only with the tissue in their hand. You go around New York City where the space is scarce and you see this quite often: somebody opening doors with a piece of toilet tissue and then wadding the tissue up very daintily and throwing it away. That's resistance to germs, resistance to dirt - contamination. But notice how hidden it is.

So you ask him, "All right. Now, do you know where you are?"

Do you know, frankly I don't know whether a germ exists or not? I happen, unlike medical doctors, to have studied pathology. You go in on most medical doctors and talk about bacteriology and pathology and biochemistry and they say, very intelligently, they say "Huh?" That's the truth.

He's liable to get insulted. He'll say, "Of course, I know where I am - I'm right here in your office!"

I almost fell flat one day. I walked in a place - I'd sent a couple of... I was in a port that didn't have any naval hospital and I had a couple of boys who were bad off bacteriologically and so I went over to see if there was a town doctor to take care of them. I went into this place and here was an old guy and he had a back room full of slides and microscope and stains and doves and all kinds of things. He was a bacteriologist as well as being an M.D. He was quite interested - quite interested in the problems involved. He immediately took slides and he took specimens and slides and he went back and examined them very thoroughly and pronounced his adjudication on the subject of bacteria by having looked at the bacteria. See how peculiar this was?

And you say, "That s good. That's fine. Now, where aren't you?"

Do you know that you walk into any medical office anywhere in this town and you simply tell them, "I think I have whumpbitis," and the fellow will look at you and wonder whether or not the whump gland is swollen or something and then promptly shoot you with Formula 627 that just came in in the morning mail from Abbott & Company. They said it was good for this; he doesn't know whether it is or not. He'll keep on shooting people with this for the next two years until all of a sudden Abbott & Company says, "We've just found out it isn't any good for that." If he is sold on the idea of disease and if disease is caused by bacteria and if the bacteria is visible in a microscope, it would seem that the happiest and quickest way to find out if somebody had a certain disease would be to simply take a specimen of the blood or something of the sort and take a look at it. That's Pasteur in operation. Well, they don't do that. This old boy is a freak. He's sitting out in one corner of the world... He actually looks for bugs. I don't know whether bugs exist or not, but I know that if you - if a guy has an agreement that certain biochemical compounds will give him assistance, why, he evidently gets well from it. But I know if he's really convinced there's disease, he's a sick man. He's real sick.

"Oh I'm - I'm ... I never thought of that before. You know, I'm practically anyplace."

A young girl ... It'll break your heart sometime, you see this pretty little girl and she comes in and she - she's real sick. And you noticed as she opened the door to your office that she used a piece of paper or she merely diffidently touched the knob. Look; notice things like that. She's just scared of dirt. She's scared of bacteria. She isn't going to touch; in other words, she doesn't dare reach - what? Something which she has been caused to resist and they've taught her to resist it.

"Well now, let's not go into that - let's - too far. Let's not worry about it. Where aren't you in the past?"

So the next on resistance is, of course, an inhibition. And just below that, desire. In the next life you'd see this character gloriously wallowing in all the dirt they can find, wearing old and ragged clothes. See? See how the cycle works? So you teach people mental hygiene and safety. These - this particular bunch of kids that they're training today in schools are going to be worse off in terms of accidents. The number of accidents in America twenty years from now is going to be staggering because everybody has been taught to resist accidents. So you resist accidents, inhibit accidents and then you turn up wanting accidents.

"Uh, practically everywhere, I guess..."

How do you manufacture fifty million accident - prones? By arduously training all the schoolchildren in safety. You make accidents real scarce in their minds. There's plenty of accidents out there - anybody can have an accident. And you show them that the whole world is running on a sort of an automaticity and they can't do anything about it so they have to be careful.

"Well, where aren't you in the future?" you say.

How do you disenfranchise a thetan? You show him that he has to resist something because it's bad for him. This means he's not that powerful. How do we solve it? You have the kid be the accident and then have the kid be himself and be the accident and be himself; and so forth, till he gets all over the idea of fighting accidents. That's what you're trying to get him over. You're trying to get him over the idea of fighting and resisting as something bad because he thinks these are bad, you see. They're also taught that fighting is bad, you see. I mean, it's a real squirrel cage. They're taught an accident is bad and then fighting is bad; and so if an accident is bad then you've got to fight accidents, but you mustn't fight. And they're all caught in that - in that squirrel cage. And it results in automaticity so that you get people who can't think and who are excellent slaves.

"I don't know, I guess I'm most everyplace. Gee, that's funny. I never thought of that before. You know, I'm not certain where I am." just like that, you see?

How do you make slaves? It's not allowed today to use an electric shock machine on people who are normal in order to involve and engage them in slavery. That's not allowed today. It's only allowed to educate them into slavery. That's allowed. All right. That's not even bad, by the way. Whoever wants to make a whole bunch of slaves, that's perfectly all right, as long as they don't get me too involved in it.

So what do you do? What do you do? Well, there's this one little trick of, "Are you certain that everybody can be certain?"

And that's really all I've objected to for a number of years. And I think the only reason I came out in the open and started on the subject of Dianetics and Scientology was I told them there was going to be a war with Japan - I happen to like the Japanese people; I've never chosen them out for randomity; I spoke Japanese when I was a kid - and said the Japanese national character is such that if you push them so far and do so many things that cost them just so much face in the Orient, they will then have no other choice than to commit suicide by declaring war against the United States. They'll have no intentions of trying to win the war; they'll just commit suicide. And the wild abandon of a Japanese committing suicide is comparable only to a Malay running amok.

"No, I'm certain nobody could be certain."

I had several articles in 1936, 1937, 1938 on this subject of: Japan means to conquer the Orient and if she can't do it she'll have to commit suicide. So the United States has to decide whether or not it is part of the Japanese empire, which is to the effect, does it approve of the Japanese empire and is it patting it on the back and working hand in glove with it? (This was perfectly easy, by the way, because the Japanese were practically enslaved by American ideas.) Or they have to turn around and say right now, before Japan gets it all built up into forty-five-thousand-ton battleships, "Naughty, naughty," and slap their wrists. So if they commit suicide now, all right.

"Well, then, you're certain of something, aren't you?" Well, that's kind of turning it in on him and that isn't too good but can be done.

But the years drifted on and Sumner Welles' company, Tidewater, kept selling oil and scrap iron to Japan to build more battleships; and when they got it all fixed up, why, they had a big war and that was all right too, but damn them, they got me in it. And I couldn't - this was too much insult. And I think, actually, that's the only thing I've got against war. They involved me in it, they involved my family in it, and so on. It's taken me years to try to patch up havingness, and so forth, as immediate result of this confounded, stupid war. I liked the Japanese in the first place and the next thing I knew I was standing on a bridge firing away with mad abandon at Japs. Silly! Whole thing was silly.

The other one is, is "Who's dead?" And we're right back to Book One. "Who's dead?"

See, it was all right if somebody wanted the war and somebody could have a good time fighting it. I wouldn't have minded going out and shooting at a bunch of Japanese while a batch of Japanese were shooting at me just for the hell of it. But to give it all this significance and to mess up things and to make a bunch of slaves out of men by dragging them into the armed forces, so forth, this was real bad.

All right. He answers you rapidly and he says, "Grandma." That was the last death on the chain.

I was in the armed forces, by the way. I didn't have to go to that war. So again, that must be specious one way or the other because I was in the armed forces way, way, way before Pearl Harbor. But I knew it was on the time track so I thought I might as well be in - in a position where I at least said where I was going to be standing when I got shot. And I was! So you see what randomity is.

"Who else is dead?" if he answered that very rapidly. "Uh-oooooh, my father."

Now, there is resistance only because one has become an integral part of a culture. See? Being in a - an integral part of a culture - being a part of a culture, you see, and being dependent and interdependent upon this culture for one's general randomity in existence, one then finds oneself inheriting the enemies of the culture. The difference between this, as it goes on every day of the week, is occasionally somebody comes up and decides he's tired of inheriting all these enemies; he might as well - he might as well do something about it and - do something active about it - and then not get swamped just because he's doing something active about it. That would be the other thing.

"Well, who else is dead?"

The noble thing to do is to sacrifice and go down into the noble glory of having - having served all. You'll find many people run this, by the way. They - you get some preclear, so on, you're not going to get him two inches up the track until you get him the - over the idea of sacrificing himself for mankind. This is another piece of randomity; that's the play he's playing. It's an interesting play for him. But it - he gets playing down so far and then he finds out he's too close to the footlights and his pants are on fire.

"My sister." You needn't ask him. He's giving you - this is the earliest death is the sister's death.

Well, the solution of randomity is the solution of automaticity and one does this by beingness. That clear?

"Who else is dead?"

As you process this - I'm not going to give you right this minute the endless processes by which this can be done - but, actually, you should be able to figure them out from exactly what you've been taught here in the last - first few weeks. They're just endless. When you get that as the goal of processing, you've really got yourself a goal.

"Well, my baby brother. Uh oooh."

Now, one of the randomities you have to solve is the randomity between the thetan and the body. And what do you know, there is one - big one. The thetan has chosen, early on the track, bodies for his randomity. Now he wants them. What's the difference? Now he wants them and can't have them; now he isn't... Just that, now he isn't.

"Who else is dead?"

All right. And let's take up immediately, to wind this up, another technique which I spoke to you about yesterday and which I don't think you're doing to its fullest extent: Where the preclear isn't. Now, the reason I'm taking this up is I wish to impress upon you, if I possibly can, the fact that you, in pretty good shape, will have no idea whatsoever what some - what shape some preclears are in. It takes a lot of imagination sometimes.

"Nobody else."

Yesterday I said, "How far south do you have to go?" Well, you're liable to process some preclear for five or ten minutes on "Where aren't you in the past?" And you understand that it's "Where aren't you in the present time?" of course, and then "Where aren't you in the past?" and "Where aren't you in the future?" And these things would go together. And you process him for five or ten minutes and you get a little line charge out of him and then you find out that he isn't several places in the present and so he feels better. And you think you have done the technique. Oh, no, you haven't!

"Who else is?"

If you were to look into his mind you would find out that you had to play this parlay of "Where isn't he in the past?" "Where isn't he in the present?" "Where isn't he in the future?" For hours and hours and hours and hours - particularly, "Where isn't he in the past?" Because his certainty level as he first enters it is so low that he's only partially convinced he isn't. And only by trickery does he get any certainty on not being somewhere in the past because he thinks he's everywhere in the past if he's in pretty bad shape.

"Well, my grandfather died when I was three."

A case that's really occluded and doesn't readily exteriorize thinks he's practically everywhere in the past. And some Step I's after they have been neatly and nicely exteriorized and have pretty good perception still think that they're everywhere in the past. Well, that's just their postulates carrying them forward and they're not escaping - they - they've escaped the body's randomity but, what do you know they haven't escaped their own masses of randomity and can't even see them or look at them. They're hidden, but good.

You've just about exhausted it. Aside from the fact that he's dead just before he was born, which is what he's having a rough time with. But you don't - needn't upset the American public with this one right off the bat.

So how do you bail them out of this? Exteriorized or interiorized, you're having a lot of trouble with a case, just figure it: He's spread over the past, he's spread over the present and he's spread over the future.

"What - what's this? What are you asking him this for?"

How long does it take you to beat this out? How long is this technique good for? It is a Straightwire technique and is good forever. It's an unlimited technique. And this will solve the trouble. Just giving it to you now here just so we can "ruin" all these beautiful cases - and we will ruin them now - he said sadly. People won't be walking around playing "the beautiful sadness of" in this class. But you've seen all these other things in demonstration except this randomity; I want to see - want you to see that demonstration as resolving automaticity.

"Well, where did he die?"

Oh, and by the way, I've got to make one remark with regard to that. I just remembered something. I... And it's on the subject of forgettingness so I, of course, would park it. And that is when you run this randomity technique you're going to run into the inevitable consequence of knocking a preclear who's not in too good shape, knocking his memory into the well-known cocked hat. Because part of every automaticity is "forget it."

"In Oklahoma."

When you start to get him being the things which are attacking him and attacking the body and all the other combinations that can be run, you're attacking, immediately, straight into the heart of postulates which say "Forget." And so his memory will just go to pot on you, but fast. And he will come for his next appointment staggering, saying, "I - I ca-can't remember what I had for breakfast. I mis- I mislaid my - uh - I mislaid something this morning. I'm not..." If you want to know what's happened to somebody's memory is they have done just this trick: They have chosen something out for randomity and then afterwards have decided that it wasn't so bad and have tried to patch it up and their memory went to hell. Because they were processing themselves with their own actions in present time and they keyed in the automaticity in the postulate. That's what a bad memory is and that's all it is: a fellow's postulates catching up with him in the final analysis.

"What part of Oklahoma did he die in? Were you in Oklahoma at the time?"

Well, but how did they catch up with him? He chose something out for randomity and then decided it wasn't so bad and so he sided with it too and tried to close the gap. Well, of course, he didn't even vaguely run it out and it keyed in the automaticity connected with all such subjects and all of those are sitting on "Forget."

"Uh - um, well, my mother said - uh - my father - no - was my mother - she said that I was at the time. But, you know I don't seem..." See that's good certainty. That's all you're looking for, see, certainty.

The implant one gets between lives which tells him to forget is nothing; that is not even worth sneezing about. It could only work if some other factor were happening. That's true of all implants: They could only work if they fall across a natural consequence in the business of living. And this one about automaticity and randomity when you - when the hypnotist says "Forget" and the patient forgets, he is depending entirely, not upon implants, but upon this fact that when one chose some randomity and then didn't want the randomity, he forgot. And his memory just started to go to pieces.

And you say, "Well, were you in Texas at the time?"

Now, the index of memory is the index of how much randomity one has chosen out, first, and then been sorry for and tried to patch up, second. He forgets. That - that's all there is to it. So be sure that you know this because you're going to run into it. And if you don't know this, it will worry you. It'll sure worry your preclear!

"Oh, no!"

Now, in running this other process, this is an unlimited technique, it is a Straightwire technique and in Clinical Procedure is the technique which you should use on every case that does not immediately respond at Level II.

"Aaaaah."

You run Step I just - just like this, you know: "Be three feet back of your head," or five feet or whatever you want.

See what you're doing there? He can't look at the charge because the charge - it's just an energy mass - and it's going "woooooo" right at him and every time he puts an attention unit on it, it sparks and throws his attention off to the side. So you've got to take enough charge off of this thing to get his attention over somewhere close to it. So where do you go? You go to the rooms next door to the operating room where he was operated on and the room next door to the funeral parlor, the building across the street from the funeral parlor; you go next door to the childhood home; you go in the next state if you have to; and my God help you, you may have to go into the next continent. But you're going to get someplace - on what? A specific time.

The guy says, "Uh-huh."

That's the only reason you want to know who's dead. And you just sort that out and you'll unstick him. Because what are we dealing with here? We're dealing with fixed attention or dispersed attention. And we're making it possible for him to direct his attention, at will, through his ridges and engram banks. Okay? So simple. That's all we're trying to do is cause him to command his own fixation or dispersion of attention. And we do it with Straightwire.

You say, "All right. Now be in the first corner of the room, second corner of the room."

How do you do it is, if he can't look at it, you make him look near it. And it's all on the basis of where he is. And if he isn't someplace for certain or wasn't someplace for certain, why, there was a place where he was not for certain - every time. But many of them will simply come right in on "Well, I've - I'm not in - I'm not in Washington, DC, in the past because I was never in Washington, DC." Something like this, see, pam. He's not too bad off.

He says, "Uh-huh."

But the person who says, "Just nowhere in the past," he thinks he's all through the past - then you ask for a specific incident. If he has any trouble whatsoever, you come up with this gimmick, "specific incident," and then make him look to the buildings around it until it itself is let go of. Because he's holding on to it and it's holding on to him.

And you say, "Now, be over the street."

To make him let go of it, you show he can shift his attention without all of the world falling in on him, which is exactly what he thinks will happen. "If I shift my attention off of this thing, I will have my head taken off I know this. Matter of fact, one time I was being audited on old techniques," he says, "and so on, and practically half of my head was lopped off by an explosion just because an auditor dropped his cigarette case or something." He'll - he'll give you a lot of that.

"Okay."

By the way, that's true. You can take anybody who's in real bad shape and you've got what is known as Distraction Processing. If you really want to fix them up and make them let go of the whole bank... I'm sure psychiatrists would love this technique. And if it weren't for the fact that they were - they were - we would have to undo afterwards the damages they had done with it, we'd give it to them just for the hell of it!

"Now, let's duplicate the street."

You put a flashbulb up there in the corner of the room; you put another flashbulb over here in this corner of the room. All, you see, ready to go, with reflectors pointed straight at the preclear; then you put one over on the side of him. He doesn't know where these are; he's in a totally dark room. We flash this bulb, we flash this front bulb, we flash that bulb over on the side and just as he's recovering from that we drop about twenty glass bottles immediately behind him.

"Okay."

What do you think will happen to him?

"Let's blow it up."

Male voice: He'd come to present time.

"All right."

Female voice: On the first one.

"All right. Let's be in the center of the sun."

He would either be taken out of there on a stretcher or he'd be in present time because you've made him let go of practically everything in the bank. Real violent.

"Okay."

Now, instead of taking his attention off suddenly like that, you take his attention off slowly. You're trying to make him look at present time. He can't look at present time because he's looking at the past in the form of energy: ridges, old machineries, automaticities he's set up in the past located in geographical areas which he knows better than to inhabit since, because the cops are after him and the one thing he's sure of, that's it. He's wanted - but not the right way. That's what's known as inverted appetite. The Police have a terrific appetite according to some preclears. So we don't violently yank his attention off with a flashbulb, we just get him to put his attention over on either side of the thing.

"Now let's be in the Camden sewer system."

Now, the other thing you ask him, if he's got a psychosomatic ... Do you know Dianetics? Well, you'd better know Dianetics. Because without running it, you should be able to look at the guy and guess what engram he's in. Then you can thank your stars you know Dianetics on this Straightwire. I mean, you can thank your stars you've run some engrams.

"Okay."

You know a guy that's stuck in birth? You know a guy that's stuck at two? Guys that are stuck here and guys that are stuck there - in what kind of engrams? The guy keeps going, "akh, akh, akh," something like that, "akh,” something's pushing his chest out madly. Probably birth, if it compares with his physical beingness. Or he's in some kind of a fight or something. But something's pushing the wind out of him and that's all the kind of an engram it is. And you can fish around and ask a couple of questions; you can get what kind of an engram it is. But you don't even need to be that specific about it. But you know he's stuck on the track. I've kept telling you right straight along: Remember they get stuck on the track. And if you free them on the track, they're all set.

You see? I mean, this guy's working like a shot.

Well, they get stuck in grief charges. There are fifty ways to free somebody on a grief charge. One of them is just Change of Place Processing to the home where the person died, the funeral parlor and the grave. And you just run that back and forth and back and forth and back and forth and the engram has a tendency to key on out. Well, there's more specific Straightwire ways to going about it: You make him look at the house next door to the funeral home, the roof and so forth, by asking him what? "Well, are you on the roof at the funeral?"

What's happened? Well, why does he suddenly work like a shot? Well, he was a Step I and when you exteriorized him his troubles blew up because he moved out of the body's automaticity. The second he's out of the body it's just... Now, he'll come back into the body or near the body and be operating with the body again. He'll have a tendency to communicate much more slowly and remember much more poorly.

"No."

But exteriorization is the technique. Don't overlook that. It's - that is the gimmick. Exteriorization, bang! He's out of the middle of the ridges.

Of course, the average preclear coming in will think you mean his body. Don't disabuse him of it! Because this is the only certainty he's hanging on to. You've got an inversion and an inversion. And the one you work on first is, was his body in these places? Now, he remembers that and now you get him, as an individual, whether he was in these places or not. It may entail a little explanation on your part but the less you explain to him the better off you'll be. You can orient the body into finally orienting him in his own head and then out back. That's the best way to do it.

Step II. He didn't do that immediately. He didn't be three feet back of his head. "Well, mock up your own body out there in front of you. Now get it turning it around. Mock it up again. Mock up two or three of them. Mock up three of them. Okay. Mock it up out there in front of you. All right, now be behind it."

Now ask him all over again, now that he's out back, Orientation Straight-wire because now he's operating as a thetan. Only he's not operating - he's limping as a thetan.

He says, "Okay."

Okay? So, you ask him "Who's dead?" And you'll get the same kind of a reaction. But maybe this is too tough a question. Might be, you know. Person looks all shaky when you ask them and they're not in the past; they start looking real shaky. Ask them something very light. You say, "When was the last time you cut your finger?"

Now you have to drill him a little more carefully. But if you have to go to holding corners of the room, you haven't got time for it in the clinic. You understand? You just haven't got time for it. You can fool around with it in a drawing room and it's lots of fun, but it's too slow. Because what's wrong with this fellow? He's stuck on the time track. Now, you can run Change of Space Processing and get him unstuck on the time track.

Now, in Dianetics, we would have directly tackled the problem, which was why we very often didn't get to first base on a person who was bad off. They couldn't look at the problem. And there is the case you couldn't make look and run the engram.

By the way, you can run Change of Space Processing - "Be in the place where somebody died," and "Be here" - on a case that has some certainty on being around and you will actually spill grief charges which will materially affect the case.

We used to get around this by running light engrams before we ran any heavy engrams and we found out eventually running heavy engrams was pure murder, on sonic preclears. Screamers are just an example of that. There's no reason why a screamer should ever scream. All you have to do is make them look on both sides of what they're stuck in. You got an E-Meter to tell you where the guy's stuck; you've got dates that will tell you where he's stuck.

You can also just sit down and run a secondary, but you haven't got time for that in a clinic. If you want to run a grief charge out clinically, why, just boot them to the place where the grief charge was received and boot them back again; and boot them around on Change of Space Processing until you've shed the grief charge if it's right there to be run.

How do you handle it? You make him look on both sides, above and below and in back of it, earlier in time and later in time, until he's got the thing completely spotted. And when he's got it completely spotted, he can take his attention completely off. So when he can take his attention completely off of it, it's done.

And immediately one did "Mock up the body," exteriorized, okay, drills, fine. But you say, "Mock up the body. Mock up the body. Mock up the body. Mock up the body. All right. Now be five feet back of the body." He isn't? You go right straight into this process: "Where aren't you in the past?" "Where aren't you in the present?" "Where aren't you in the future?" And you give about five questions about the past for every one you do about the present and every so often one about the future. And you'll find out he's buttered all over the universe - ordinarily. And all you do is just centralize him and stabilize him. And then he - then get him certain he's in his head by moving him out of his head and moving him back in again; and then move him very gently out of his head; and then get him out of the areas of automaticity. And then just running drills.

The wrong way to go about it is wear out the mass of energy on any preclear so bad off that he can get stuck. And the only reason he's come to you is that he's stuck. If he's so bad off that he's going to get stuck, he's having trouble with energy. If he's having trouble with energy then you could, theoretically, work lightly enough on running engrams to get him someplace. But that'd be a real long job. So let's just turn around to Straightwire, find out where he's stuck, make him look on this side of it, that side and the other side of it.

And if he shows any tendency to be unstable while he is exteriorized, you give him this process: "Where aren't you, where are you?" Geographical location. Past, present and future.

Well, all right. If he looks too bad off to really be tackled on exactly where he's stuck, let's take a type of lock. We find out he's stuck in a tonsillectomy at the age of seven. Nothing to this. Clinical Procedure, see? Let's just find this out, not run it blind. You just ask a few questions. This makes him feel comfortable too; it gets him into communication and so forth.

How many hours will a Step V take of "Where aren't you in the past?" How many hours will he take? I don't know. I don't know how many hours he'd absorb, actually, because it starts on a geometric progression after a while. But I've had them so darned variable that I couldn't even make a clinical record of it. One fellow was just fine after about half an hour of it; another fellow was just swell after about five hours of it; another guy was just swell at twenty hours but taking more of it from another auditor I handed it over to do to him. I mean, how liberally - it's - you see, there's an infinite variety of case. And the variety is: How loused up is he about geographical position, past, present and future? How bad off is a case? A case is as bad off as he is disoriented. How worried is he about time? He is as worried about time as he cannot establish his geographical location.

All right, you get him... By the way, you take his assessment sheet and you look for the operation he didn't put down. You see, what you're looking for is what he's not looking at. So, you're at cross purposes with him; and therefore, you had to - have to add a little duress in order to process at all. If you don't add a little duress he'll never direct his attention to anything.

Now, I'll give you a trick about this. You ask this fellow several times - let's take this real extreme case - and you ask him several times, "Where aren't you in the past?" You see, if he can't say, "I'm not somewhere in the present," you've immediately got to go into the past. But you should ask this question anyway.

Let's take the kind of lock that would be on top of such an engram. Tonsillectomy. "All right. Let's get the last time you saw somebody choked." Well, this is - this is using unburdening; the old-time technique, unburdening. Take the lock of it off and have him look above and below and behind and in back of this area, this area in this time. Well, you say this took place... You know that you can actively and accurately spot to a micromillimeter on the time track, the exact instant when the thumb went into the throat, the exact instant when he came into the doctor's office? Remember, too, that you'll recover as you do this - if you keep it up, if you wanted it with that in mind - you can recover full perception on the incident in which he's stuck by making him look over it instead of look at it. And you'll eventually get him to a point where he's looking at it. But you're not interested in getting him to do that. You just want him to be free enough so he knows it's present time.

You're hitting circuits right on the head and you'll plow the things out, and then another circuit will show up and you'll plow it out, and another one will show up and you'll plow it out and all of a sudden he's in good shape. But after you - you've processed him for fifteen minutes and he apparently is in good shape, why, you see him the next day and another circuit is there. It's because you didn't exteriorize him. See, he's back in the middle of the machinery.

Well, this has the virtue of being a fast technique. How many questions does it take to free somebody up out of a tonsillectomy? Darn few. Fifteen, twenty - something on that order - frees him up well enough so that you can go on with your processing.

What's a circuit? It's a thinking machine. So he's up against these circuits and they go into activation. So you just keep threading them out. Because every circuit depends upon a misconception of geographical position; two spaces have become one space. Now here's a trick. Give you this little trick. He - you ask him, "Now, where aren't you in the past?"

How long would it take if you tackled it directly with Mock-up and Creative Processing? Aw, at least fifteen, twenty times as long. Even with Creative Processing. Very lengthy. Because you're tackling it directly by making him look at symbols.

All he'll say, "I don't know. No, I don't know."

Why does Creative Processing work? Evidently, simply because you let him look at the symbol until he's totally accustomed to looking at the symbol and is no longer frightened of the symbol; and then he looks at the thing and it keys out. That's the theory of creative processing. But there's something more than that: You're making him disagree with its command over him. And so, you're making this individual - as you process him with Orientating- Orienting Straightwire - making him disagree, to some degree, with the hold the past, present and future have on him. Geographical area. Simple, huh?

You say, "Well, where - where were you in the past during an operation?" (Well, if you've spotted him on the E-Meter as being stuck in this operation, this is - this is just dynamite, this technique.) You say, "Were you in the next room to the operating room during the operation?"

All right. Our next step is to what? Make him put, with great certainty, into the past, things which aren't in the past, things in the present which aren't in the present and things in the future which aren't in the future and make a whole flam-damn liar out of it and by this time you've completely disagreed with the MEST universe.

"No!" Certainty.

He thereafter, in mock-ups, oddly enough, can make water run uphill and gravity work backwards and any other darn thing happen. See? Because the - his agreement with the MEST universe is totally dependent upon the fact that the MEST universe has put him in space and time so often and so accurately that he has faded away in his competition with the MEST universe and he no longer wants to have anything to do with it. He knows he's lost; therefore, he has attention stuck all over the place.

In other words, you sneak him in to take a look by having hini be in places where he couldn't have been, And you'll have to fish around with this case for some little time probably before you find that factor of where is he next to that he was never in. Sometimes the case will tell you, "Well, I might have been in there." So let's give him some other places that he couldn't have been in.

What's this got to do with randomity? Well, it's sure got plenty to do with randomity because it's just randomity that has chased him out of all these places.

"Well, all right. While you were in New York City," (we'll get by dates now) "while you were in New York City in 1936, were you in South America?"

What was his cycle? He got curious about something, he went in there, he chose something out as randomity and then it - then he inhibited - he resisted it and then it resisted him and then he wanted it and then he went down - because then somebody else saw that he had it and they chased him out of there. Just about the same cycle. And it went over and over and over always downhill. So this means he's forgetting everything because all of this got keyed in on automaticity in the first place. So he doesn't remember his past, be doesn't remember anything. You talk about restoring memory! This Orienting Straightwire will restore more memory in less time than you ever heard of. How fast is the process? It is a faster process than any you have used to date if you use it well.

"No," he'll say.

You prefer not to unstick him on the track directly. You prefer not to and you only go into that when he obviously is getting hung up. See? But if he slows down too much and you just can't do too much about it, why, you - you unstick him very directly. But remember, for heaven's sakes, this poor guy is stuck all over and to find his first area - it's out of direct recall, and it becomes almost impossible to find his first area.

"Were you in South America - were you in South America in 1939?"

Now, how do you increase his perception? Same problem. You know you can take somebody who has popped back into his head and he himself... By the way, you don't have to take him, he can do this himself; and you'd better know this technique.

"No. No!"

He's always asking himself "Let's see, where am I?" and then he can't find himself. This happens to a guy every time he turns around in this universe because he's going on letting everything be his anchor points without having actually claimed these things as anchor points. He's got to make a good out - forthright claim on everything in sight as anchor points - not on a basis of ownership, but just on the basis that they're perfectly legitimate anchor points - before he feels happy about it. See? So, how does he get himself oriented? He says, "Well, let's see where I'm not." That's one for you to remember: "Let's see where I'm not. See, I'm not - I'm not over there in those Venetian blinds; I'm not..."

See? We just slip it to him very easy. Obviously they weren't in South America. Sometimes you'll even find a case even then if they're real batty, why, they, "I don't know, I might have been. At night when I went to sleep I used to - I get the idea that I was dreaming, and so forth, and I'm not quite sure."

This is after he's been fairly stable outside and he gets into an automobile accident or something happens to him and he gets scrambled. This is a self processing technique, by the way. "Let's see, I'm not - you know I wasn't sure I wasn't in that Venetian blind. Oh dear. Let's see, well, where am I not in the past? Well, what's happened to me? My goodness, I don't know. I'm sure I wasn't somewhere in the past."

Well, give them some place they're sure somewhere on the track. But remember that you're asking them to look where they aren't. And it's easy for them to look where they aren't, but it's hard for them to look where they are. And in this way you slide the whole time track off of them just as nicely and neatly as you please.

He has experienced what is known as key-in. He slammed back into the body, a body ridge caved in; he's got some kind of a key-in which has taken place there and it is now in restimulation and he's stuck slightly at a new place on the track. This is going to happen to somebody who hasn't run randomity exercises after being well and clearly exteriorized. Because he still has chosen and still has space and energy as his randomity. As long as the fellow has chosen just all energy, all space as randomity, which most thetans have - I mean even the thetans right now, right here - the only reason you're having a bad time is, is that you've just chosen those for randomity so you've forgotten things on the whole track and the rest of it.

And if we'd had this technique when we were working with Book One, we'd have had so damn many Clears you couldn't have counted them. Because you just use that technique, all by its little lonesome to make Clears - MEST Clears who are not exteriorized. And you just go on hour after hour after hour after hour and you just shake the whole universe apart on somebody. Probably wouldn't have taken you twenty hours to make a Theta Clear. Of course, all you want, to do it, is to do it up to the point where you can slip the guy out of his body and he's on his way. Anything gets wrong with a case, give them that one.

What's the best way to resolve it, however, when the person is confused about it? Just this process: "Where am I not in the past?"

Okay?

"Let's see, where am I not in the past? Okay. Let's see, I'm not - uh - I'm not - uh - not - uh - not in Kentucky. Let's see, Louisville, not in Louisville. Never been in - yes, I was in Louisville once so I'm not in Louisville. Gee, am I that bad off today? Huh. Let's see, 1930, was I in Louisville in 1930? No. I wasn't in Louisville in 1930, I was in China! I wasn't in Louisville in 1930. Let's see, where else wasn't I in the past? Where am I not in the past? Washington, DC, Washington, DC, Washington, DC, no - I don't know - I was down there pretty often. Let's see ... In the White House, yeah, I know I'm not in the White House." See? Bong! Here we go.

Call it a morning.

All of a sudden he's in present time and then, "Where - let's see, I know I'm not in that corner." And then he's totally certain he's not in that corner and he's totally certain he's not there and he's not there and he's not there and he's not in his feet and he's not in his knees, and so forth.

And all of a sudden he realizes he's been standing there with a big, gobby ridge - he's four or five feet from the body - and what he did was exteriorize suddenly or something of the sort and he ran into this ridge and he went (quote) blind (unquote), because energy is still his enemy. MEST universe energy is bad energy, as far as he's concerned, because he feels he can't go into competition with it. So there he's - there is his blindness. And that's why he didn't know where he was. And he suddenly straightens out and his perceptions come right on up.

Off and poor perception is simply - just look right straight at the Factors - viewpoint. If you don't have viewpoint, you don't have anchor points. If you don't have anchor points, you're dead. So let's find some anchor points and find that they're not our anchor points so that we can find some anchor points that are our anchor points; and having found those anchor points, then, let's find us as a viewpoint seeing very well.

Now, nearly everybody who exteriorizes, after a short space of time, gets the feeling that what they're looking at isn't quite as bright and clear as it might be. They have the experience of looking happily and quickly around the room and seeing all the ashtrays in the room or something like that, all the beautiful red ashtrays, and then they open their MEST eyes and the damned ashtrays are glass, white glass. "Aaaaaah, I'm not seeing," they say.

One - one fellow who will probably be listening to this tape in a few weeks from now, and so forth, so I won't mention him by name - this fellow had an interesting experience with regard to that. He practically ruined a preclear. By the way, this is - this was the early days of Theta Clearing in England and Dennis never - very - he was never very slow on the draw and anything bad like this - some of the damnedest things happened to him - but if anything bad like this showed up, believe me, it never happened again and he came around and told you about it rather quick so nobody else would have it occur.

But he told this fellow - he had him exteriorized and the fellow had the ceiling of the hospital and, oh boy! Did he have that scenery scrambled and jammed up, and he said, "You're in for an awful shock," he said, "now be careful when you open your eyes because you're in for an awful shock as you look at the room." And of course this practically ruined the boy. When he came back in the body and opened his eyes, and so forth, he saw he had not been observing the room correctly and therefore, his what? His anchor points were wrong and he was uncertain, then, of his anchor points.

Well now, what would we do for that preclear'? This, of course, happened in days when we didn't have a very happy, fast patch-up, see? What would you do for him? He'd been made uncertain of his anchor points. We didn't go to Step VII or VI or anything of the sort. Invalidation is only being made uncertain of anchor points. All right What do you do? What did I just say the process of Orienting Straightwire is?

First, you find some anchor points that he can be certain of and then find they're not his anchor points. This is the formula.

And then you find some anchor points of which he can be certain and then he finds they're not his present anchor points.

And then some anchor points of which he can be certain and then find that they're not his present anchor points. Until he finds his present anchor points. And you just go through that invertive cycle and you are inverting the dynamics every time. It's a continuing cycle. Well, how high up can a thetan go on this? Believe me, he can go aw - plenty high. He can go plenty high.

Dennis pulled another one, by the way, while I'm just talking about it. He himself was having a rough time with his case. So a preclear came in, just walked - somebody walked in off of the street more or less, and he says to him, "All right, be three feet back of your head," and the preclear didn't say anything.

And Dennis says, "Well, Ron said, that every once in a while a preclear was looking straight at the facsimile in which he was stuck; so I'll just ask this fellow to look and see what he sees."

So he says, "All right," and he says, "Now, what do you see?"

Fellow, "A train."

Remember that one? And he - he had the guy - no he had the guy in and out of a girl's head and sitting down on the train track and all over the place, the poor preclear, and Dennis thought he was right in the room and was running Creative Processing. It'll take Dennis a long time to live that one down. But he told it on himself. No one else would have known about it.

Well, we look at a preclear, then, as somebody who is disoriented. And first he's disoriented on the MEST universe anchor points and then he's disoriented on his own anchor points and we have to run it that way. So he's disoriented on the MEST universe anchor points, so we orient him on them. And then we disorient him on them by showing him he doesn't have them - by this same Straightwire - and we keep unbaling it until he realizes, suddenly, that he doesn't either have or need MEST universe anchor points.

Well, at this stage you could say to him, "All right. Now put a terrible operation in the year 1946, June the 1st."

"Yes, sir!" And what do you know, he could even show you the facsimile and the somatic. See, terrific certainty. "Yeah, it happened." Because the process is to make a liar out of the MEST universe. Make a real liar out of it. If you do that real good, why, fine. You made it agree with you and only after you've made it agree with you can you start handling MEST.

If you wonder why these poor thetans come out and you say, "Move that match." You might as well say, "Move that match, you weak namby-pamby little bum," because that's just about the way he feels after he tries to move the match and then he's sure he moved the match and then he finds out he moved a facsimile of the match. Well, of course his automatic mock-up machine is simply automatically mocking up matches and he can move his automatic mock-up without a match moving because other people don't agree with him. He agrees with others, he - they don't agree with him. You get the difference? The command value of this preclear over the MEST universe is, then, very slight.

Well, there's no use in - in giving you any false ideas concerning this. It is essentially a tricky technique. But an auditor doesn't have to be anywhere near as smart as he used to.

The preclear's attention is stuck at a point where he is being dispersed from. If you can untangle that, you see exactly what kind of a fix he's in. So you get him to look sideways from the place and find out he's not over there, and that he's not over there; and then you get him to look at the place he is and he knows he's not there. You've got him out of that. And so you bail him out, and you can bail him out all over the universe.

Now, you can take any process - I mean, pardon me, any Change of Space area and you can go over it the same way. But it's not a good pay-off. It is - does not pay the auditor to run this technique exhaustingly and exhaustively to exhaust every position in the MEST universe in this fashion. Doesn't pay off. Because he only needs to run it until he gets a very thorough, beautiful exteriorization. And this does not depend upon the MEST universe having been run out. But the perception depends upon it because a person can't view if he doesn't know where he's viewing from. And the only thing that will tell him where he's viewing from is what he is viewing.

So we've apparently gotten into something very wicked and that's around and round and round: "If I can't tell where I am unless I can see something and then I can't see anything then I won't know where I am, so I'll never get out of this squirrel cage." That's what he thinks.

Well, the truth of the matter is, is you've got him on a level of think before you have him on a level of effort and you free him, then, with thinking. And so you've freed a completely collapsed case. And you've gotten him beautifully exteriorized - he's certain he's exteriorized at last - now you can really start to run him because you're not running into, constantly, his automaticities. He's out of the body's area of automaticity and so he runs rapidly. Now you can run any doggone thing on him that suits you. Anything you please you can run on him. Postulate changing is what it all bakes down to, finally. But this is probably the first thing that you will run on him after you get him into this next position.

Straightwire, you got him out of his head. You sneaked him out. Now, the next thing you find is wrong with his case is, of course, he thinks of a place and he goes there. Well, the remedy for this is very simple - I did this morning - it's a very simple remedy. Better mention it to you while I’m thinking about it because these things kind of skid. Once in a while I forget that this can be so idiotic.

You have the fellow mock up a machine with a postulate. in it and a good working machine. You find out, every time he thinks of a place he goes there. Mock up a good, workable machine and then have him hide it and - which sends him any place he thinks of - and then have him hide it and forget about it and then say, "Where are you?"

"Huh!"

"Where are you not?" you say.

And he says, "I'm no place but just here. I'm no place else than here."

That's all right, This is acceptable. Except his perception at this stage of his clearing is not acceptable to you or him either.

"I'm no place but here. I know that."

"Where are you not?"

"I don't know."

"All right, let's think of a place."

"Oh, I don't know. North Pole. South Pole. Yeah," he says, "I have a tendency to go there."

You say, "Well, blow up the machine."

And you say, "All right. Now think of a place and don't go to it."

"Mexico City."

"What do you get now?"

"Oh, I get a little picture of Mexico City now. I mean, I don't go to Mexico City; I get a picture of Mexico City."

"All right. Mock up a machine that gives you pictures of every place you think of. Now blow it up."

You can do the same process, see? Mock up and then forget about it, and hide it, and so forth, and now think of some place and demonstrate to him that the machine works and then blow it up again.

Then have him mock up a machine which sends him places and then forget - having forgotten about it, have him mock up a machine which stops him from going places, as though he were impatient in the first place at this, you see? Mock up the machine that stops him from going places. Of course, this locks him up solid. He doesn't know what the hell is happening to him by this time.

Well, oddly enough, you have to do this to him several times. You have to have him mock up - make actual working machines, thetawise, that he then hides and forgets, which send him places, which give him pictures and which keep him from going places, and so on. And it's a very short technique; it doesn't take very long. And when you've done this several times he can then think of a place and not go there. This is his worst malady. That's all that's wrong with him. His old automaticity is shipping him all over the universe, see. He's between this place and that. He also has automatic machines which are giving him pictures of things instead of looking at the things.

It's very remarkable. A thetan gets so wary that he'll put out some flitter, out - like across the street there, and then he drags... Well, what do you know, it's - it's true! I brought it down and put it on my own MEST eyes. A window across the street over there just got - it's very dusty, it needs dusting, like mad; I just brought a facsimile of it across the street. I demonstrate too well sometimes. Very sneezy window. A girl in there too. Well, on with the lecture. So what was I talking about?

You - he'll put out some flitter and haul it hack in and look at the facsimile he made. Well, this is something like the amateur photographer, wearing a blindfold, rushing out in the street, snapping his Brownie box camera, coming back in and developing it and looking at it to find out what he could see. Very silly, you see? Real, real, real silly. All he had to do was while he was out in the street, see, was just look. Well, the thetan will very often do this and you can actually gauge the state of a case by asking him to put out a lot of flitter and bring back in a picture of something. And he will and if the picture's entirely different than the thing he was trying to take pictures of; he's real bad off. If he's taking a picture of a bird and he merely gets a different species, he's not bad off at all. It's just how wary he is. If he gets the same birds, he's merely seeing by facsimiles. And when you finally get a - in the final analysis, he ought to simply look, as a thetan, and see the bird.

So a lot of your thetans only get up to the stage of taking a very beautiful, nearly accurate facsimile of what they're supposed to be looking at rather than get blown up themselves, because they're afraid they'll - they're afraid they'll come out of hiding.

Well, how do you solve this? Well, you solve this by solving energy and space. And you have him be space attacking himself and be himself attacking space and be horrible monsters attacking him and himself attacking horrible monsters and lightning bolts attacking him and being the lightning bolts that are attacking him and being him tackling the lightning bolts; and so in other words, get him over this idea of fighting energy - because, in the essence, that's all that's wrong with him - then get him over the idea of fighting space so that at least he doesn't fight all space, so that he doesn't fight all energy. Because that, in essence, is the reactive mind at work and those are automatic machines.

So this is all you have to do with your preclear - is merely orient him and get him over the ideas that space and energy should be chosen out as randomity. And get him over the idea of going automatically to places or automatically departing from places or doing something automatically in relationship to geographical position in the MEST universe.

He either has to get into a position whereby he owns or is willing to own - not owns, but willing to own - all the universe's anchor points and all the anchor points in the universe, or, on the other side, so certain of his own anchor points that he puts those up and he doesn't even have to bother with geographical position or anything else in the MEST universe. Do you see that?

Two routes of processing - one you just start right out in high gear and you give him a black point and you get the black point in good shape and you set it up around him and he knows he's got anchor points and that's real good, see? Now by pushing around the anchor points and putting them in relationship to this and that and so forth, why, the first thing you know he's - he's there with some certainty. You've increased his certainty when you've done this. But actually, that technique belongs above, in Clinical Procedure, Orienting Straightwire. Now, we're not going to talk very much more about Clinical Procedure today, because there's quite a little bit to know about it one way or the other But we are just going to nail down and leave it that way, the entrance of the case.

Case comes in, crawls over the doormat, lifts the doormat up and says, "I want some processing."

So you put him in a chair and prop him up very carefully with toothpicks all around and you say, "All right, now, where are you?"

"Well," he says, "I'm right here."

"Well, where aren't you?"

"It's funny, You say every place I am - I - I think of, I am there. I mean, of course I am there - I think of these places."

And you say, "Well, where aren't you in the past?"

"Everywhere, I guess."

"Where aren't you in the future?"

"Everywhere."

"Well, who's dead?"

"Oh, nobody. Nobody's dead."

"When did you have an accident last?"

"I don't know. Did I ever have an accident?"

"What are you into there?"

And, "Did I ever have an accident at all? Well, I don't know. Maybe," and so on,

"Well, let's recall a moment that's real to you," is your next question.

"Oh, I don't know."

"Well, how about - how about when you came out of the elevator or when you came up to the top of the stairs?"

"Oh, do you have stairs?"

"Well, now let's look around you and find something that looks real to you, as you sit there in the chair."

Oh boy, you - he just elected himself. You've got to establish this boy as a body in relationship to some anchor points because he's lost his - not only lost himself; he's lost his body, too. He's lost his past and he hasn't got any present so he hasn't got a present time anchor point. Well now, how the heck does this differ?

The body in this case hasn't got an anchor point so you have to go, whether you like it or not, into something real in the room itself. And you simply start addressing the chair. By - you preferably have an armchair to do processing with; and the reason why is because you want to be ready for that case and you want to be ready for cases that are blind. These cases are really lost.

Get him to feel those two anchor points of that chair. What are they? Anchor points. The two arms of the chair. Feel one, then feel the other, then reach for the back of the chair and feel those two points back there. Feel those real good and then reach out of the back of their head and try to feel the wall behind them, then feel the front of their nose, then feel the wall in front of them, then try to feel the wall behind them and try to feel the back of their head. Then reach back here, feel the back of this chair; reach forward and feel the arms of this chair.

How long can you keep that up? Well, believe me, you can keep that up a long time. But if the person is blind, you'll have to start with that technique.

Now that you've gotten the body established at least as being in the room, you have to establish the body in time: Is the body here, is the body there, is the body someplace else? No, it's here. He knows it's here. You finally shred it out where the body isn't in the past. Now you've rescued the body.

Now, let's rescue the guy as a thinkingness. Is he in the past? And oddly enough, he will differentiate to some degree on that. Is he in the past anyplace? No. Finally get him up to that point.

Just reverse the procedure. But how far south do you have to go? It's always solved by getting an anchor point - always solved by getting an anchor point at least for the body.

You wouldn't bother then, by coaxing him in on Straightwire, as we used to have to do, about remembering back to the elevator and then remembering back to breakfast and then remembering - so on. Because you re hitting the wrong track. Just because he can remember it is no reason he's certain he's found it. But you can make him tap the two front arms and the two back arms of the chair, make him feel his nose and feel the back of his head and feel the wall behind him and the anchor points of the wall in front of him, the two upper corners. He will do this, even if he's practically blind. He will eventually feel that wall in front of him.

But remember, that in this ease, when he gets that low and you've gone that far south, don't ask him to look. Just remember that: Don't ask him to look. Because you know that if they were that dim geographically, why, they can't look worth a nickel. How far south do you have to go? There's probably a level of case which could only feel effort. Probably such a level of case.

Well, we'll take up such an extremity later, but this is what you would do as the first thing you would do in Clinical Processing. You just wouldn't mess around with the case in any way, shape or form.

Because it doesn't mess a case up to do Orienting Straightwire. And it does mess a case up, every once in a while to stir up a bunch of ridges and automaticity while they're still in their head, but Orienting Straightwire will boost them out without stirring anything up. Follow that?

Okay. Now don't let me have to ask you a couple, three days from now the embarrassing question as: "Why is there still somebody in this class who has not yet exteriorized with certainty?" Don't let me have to ask that embarrassing question.

Okay?

Let's call it an afternoon.