Thank you.

Like to talk to you now about the aims and goals of Dianetics and Scientology. We haven't talked too much about this lately for the excellent reason that nearly everything I was doing was involved in the evolution of processes we could actually trust and count upon.

How are you?

Lately we have originated a rather original sort of a clinic as such, here at the HASI. We have been having a tough run of preclears. That is to say, we've had some real, real good preclears. So we instituted a daily auditor's conference and so on, and we have been bringing the auditors in and looking the preclears over very carefully, and generally getting people swamped up, so on, that weren't before. And we talk to the auditors, and then they tell us all the boo-boos they made that day, and we straighten them all out. Well, we've straightened them out enough now, and things are going along well because these boys are pretty well trained.

The program today is kind of flat because I haven't got anything to tell you. (laughter)

But I am learning, now, that it's time we thought about some organizational goals. Because processing goals are getting very, very scarce. We can do what we set out to do and we can do it rather easily. Of course you get an exceedingly, terribly (well, a technical word) — loused up case — if you get one of these, he can puzzle you a little bit, but it's mainly a puzzle on just how are we going to get this fellow to talk with us for at least a short time so that we can go ahead and process him. In other words, how do we get him into a better two-way communication so we can go ahead and get something done?

Now, in the matter of processes, actually, the oldest processes we have and the newest processes we have, actually, are on one channel. There's one common denominator to all of them. And that is two-way communication. Where two-way communication was missing, the process was unworkable. And thus we had the difference between a bad auditor and a good auditor. A good auditor was one who could maintain two-way communication with his preclear.

Well, this points out to me that organizationally and individually, that we have quite a bit to think about in terms of goals. You cannot possibly sit still and inactive with this much dynamite lying around. It's just not safe to keep doors closed on it. You could very well say, "All right. Now," — this is typical, typical investigator philosophy — "Well, now that I've solved it, (snore). No further responsibility." Typical.

Let's reminisce for a moment. Have you ever had an auditor sitting there, he looked perfectly smiling, perfectly cheerful, he obviously had lots of ARC and he ran this process on you and told you to do this, and you did this and, at that moment, 8,000 Christmas tree lights suddenly appeared out in front of you out here; or your mother suddenly showed up as having stood here for the last twelve years; or some other phenomenon of some kind showed up, immediately — bing.

Look at Edison: He had all this — gimmicks and gadgets, you know. Like we have, he's figured out a lot of things, you know, in various ways, and . . . You got any idea what electric signs say now? You got any idea at all? This man should definitely have laid out a program, what was going to do — at least what people should do with electricity. Look at the — have you seen any television programs lately? Huh? Well, that all happens, that complete chaos, because of no responsibility after an investigation was completed. Have you seen a movie lately?

And you said to this auditor, "Say!"

Audience: Yes.

And the auditor said . . . (silence)

Gee. Have you talked to anybody lately? (laughter)

And you said, "But right out in front of . . ."

Have you failed to get any answers lately?

And the auditor said . . . (silence)

Audience: Yes!

And you said, "But now the somatics are going all up and down my back!" And the auditor said . . . (silence)

Well, you don't get any answers from somebody who's been sitting looking at TV for years.

And you said, "I don't think I can stay in this engram anymore!" And the auditor said . . . (silence)

Audience: No.

At which moment you felt more like sending for the wagon for yourself and a .45 for the auditor. (laughter)

Not a single answer.

Now a very funny part of it is, is the processes which we have today, worked on a Scientologist, actually, sooner or later start to unwind all these moments when he was on the time track waiting for the auditor to say something — anything. They start to unwind, these instants, and the time track starts to straighten out as we supply the acknowledgments, the replies and originated communications which should have been there.

Audience: Right.

And when a technique will straighten out auditing without much ado, we must be there somewhere — somewhere because Communication Processing on two-way communication, as the common denominator to all processes, demonstrates to us very adequately why individuals get stuck and fixated on things.

All right.

Well, this might be a joke. It's true, however. They are fixated on anything simply because they are waiting for a reply. Or they're waiting for somebody to originate a communication. Or they are waiting for an acknowledgment. Or they are waiting to make sure that they're talking to something that's alive. And that is what your preclear is doing.

The number of things that we could do with Dianetics and Scientology today are very great. But it is up to us, not to some accident, to determine which way it's going to go. Otherwise, it's liable to take some channel or another which is antipathetic to the best interests of one and all.

And when he sits there and you run Technique 97, Technique 64, technique this and technique that and the preclear simply sits there, we might say he was waiting for a change to occur. He is, but that isn't the full of it. You might say that he is waiting for some effect to take place. He is, but that isn't all of it. You might say that he had some idea that you were going to do it for him, and he has, but that isn't all of it. All he's doing is waiting. He's not waiting for an effect or anything else. He is simply waiting for one of these four parts of the communication formula to be fulfilled.

Now, it almost, in the past, almost has gotten onto sets of rails where it had no business. Tell you a little story of Washington: The date was May 3rd, 1950. Publication date of Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health was May 9 — actually announced May 15 — it really came out May the 9th. Fellow came up to see me from the Navy Department and he says to me, he says, says he, "Ron, the Office of Naval Research would very much like to have you on its payroll."

And that's why, when preclears get in worse and worse condition, that they comm lag worse and worse. Their communication lag gets worse and worse. They are simply waiting longer and longer and longer. You follow me?

And I said, "Well, that's fine, that's fine, Sir, but I'm busy."

We have in, then — four parts of two curves. We have these two communication cycles which make two-way communication. One is originated by self and the other cycle is originated by others. Now oddly enough, there is a third cycle. It isn't three-way communication but it's three-cycle communication. You could actually wait for somebody else to talk to somebody else — two more curves out there, you see. See, you could originate, or somebody else could originate to you and then there could be an additional curve out there, you're waiting for somebody to originate a communication to somebody else, or that somebody else to originate a communication back. Now we've got four, haven't we?

And he says, "Well, Ron," he says, "heh-heh." You know the false comradery these characters can assume, you know, when they really got you pinned, the dagger's at your heart. They say, "Well, ah-ha, heh-heh-heh, that's all very well, Ron, but, heh-heh, we can call you back to active duty." He gave me a comm lag! And it was true, he could. He actually had it in his power to issue me a set of orders and put me on the job — not as a civilian consultant at ten thousand a month but as an officer at ten cents.

Now, you might be waiting for somebody else to wait for a communication or receive a communication from somebody else through somebody else, and we start to stack up these cycles around here until it would become a high number. So let's be satisfied with two-way communication.

With a book deadline staring me in the teeth, just about, you see, to be published and everything going to go very, very well, very fine — ooh! Then I suddenly remembered that two or three years previously I had resigned, or had tried to. I'd sent in a resignation, and about six months later the Secretary of Navy's 57,000th assistant, I think it was, wrote me a letter saying the Secretary is very sorry, but we need all of you fine boys, you upstanding characters, we need you, and you should think of your country first and your welfare last. And therefore we don't want you to resign.

Now, there are just four parts: origin, answer, acknowledgment, live form. Now, "live form" actually belongs in the second place but I've put it last because I've saved it up to tell this congress about it. It isn't in Dianetics 1955! It isn't in The Creation of Human Ability. I want to tell you about this vis-a-vis. And that is the problem of live form. It takes a lot of telling, actually.

Well, this had all been gone through with. It's necessary, you see, that you write this letter of resignation and then you're supposed to make up your mind. They don't let you resign. So I all of a sudden remembered this, looked into my briefcase and fortunately I had all the papers. And I went down to the Navy Department, I saw a pal, a buddy, I went over and saw another buddy and I found out that it didn't have to go through my home district, New York, that I could get the Potomac River Naval Command — a vast fleet of one launch which they keep in the Potomac River to keep Washington from being invaded — and I went down there. They have an admiral in charge of that, and I got his signature on that, and I got the Bu Pers signature on that, and it came back — because the fellow said he'd see me next Thursday. Well, he saw me next Thursday there in Washington, and he said, "Well, have you made up your mind? Are you going to come to work for us at the Office of Naval Research?"

Why does somebody get any relief at all on touching a wall? Well, one of the things he finds out — it isn't alive. That's one of the things he finds out. He gets relief from touching a wall. On communication, we also have the problem of terminals. We get flows, discharges and automaticities occurring because somebody puts up a couple of electrodes and we get a current between these two electrodes.

And I said, "No!" And he sort of did a comm lag waiting for the "Sir," you know, because he was gold lace from here ... (laughter) But there wasn't any "Sir" there — perfectly legal now. I said, "No!"

An individual gets a lot of these terminals in his bank, one discharges to another, discharges to another, discharges to another and he gets an electronic relay system. And that, developed to the full, is the human brain: an electronic relay system. The reactive mind, for instance, is nothing but an electronic relay system consisting of a number of these terminals. All right.

And he says, "Well," he says, "Ron," he says, "you may be making a mistake," he says, "all I have to do is go down to the Bureau of Naval Personnel," he says, "and, you know, get your orders."

The individual's attention is fixed on these terminals. We can, to some degree, get him to put his attention on the wall. We put him — attention on the wall and we say, "Look. There's a more solid terminal called present time that you can discharge against" and this makes him much happier. But that is actually a very simple statement. It's a true statement. But there's a little bit more to it. How did the wall get there in the first place? Well, it got there in the first place because somebody wanted a game. And it stayed there because it didn't answer.

And I said, "Go right ahead. Go right ahead, Admiral." I said, "I've resigned."

Now, the question of live form comes in here and furnishes, actually, one of the more fabulous processes. We see this communication curve goes: origin to somebody there, to answer, and back — acknowledge. It goes in that cycle. We walk up to somebody, we say, "How are you?" He's there, you see.

"Oh you couldn't," he said, "it takes over six months."

And he says, "I'm fine." And you acknowledge the fact, one way or another, you know, by a nod or just looking at him, that you have received this communication. Well, actually, there's a preliminary communication that involves live form and that is getting the attention of something so that you can communicate with it.

And I said, "Well, we've been through all the red tape and there are the papers, and now wouldn't you like to know something about Dianetics?" I said, "I'd just as soon have you as one of the students here on this subject." And I didn't go in the Navy.

Now, before any communication can take place between two ships, somebody has to stand up there and wag a couple of flags or blink a light very rapidly or do something in order to attract the other ship's attention. Eventually the other ship will go blink-blink and then you're in communication. You'll send a message back and forth.

And the book was published on May the 9th, and I was able to keep forward on research and investigation. And fortunately organizations held together with — some people said it was mucilage but it was too thin for that. But somehow there was enough organization, there were enough people interested, there was enough to keep research going, to keep material being published and to bring us to where we are now. And that has been a considerable trick.

Well, there's a sort of a little preliminary on communication and that is to have the attention of And the formula of communication itself includes attention, intention and very, very juniorly, interest. Two people not interested in each other can still communicate, and mostly do. So that we have — we have communication taking place between two terminals. All right. If the communication is to take place between two terminals then attention must be procured between these two terminals. And that is not quite a communication but it is very, very necessary to communication.

And this little story about the admiral is only one of the very few serious derailments which could have occurred: Finance, business, people getting tremendously interested in the profit involved in Dianetics and Scientology. The ninth dynamic: the buck. And any one of these things could have derailed the situation. At any one time almost anybody was willing to sit down — that is, not people who had any sense but people who had business acumen — were willing to sit down and say, "Now we have arrived at a point where we can make money out of this."

And I ask you to think, now, of someone that you have known, was impossible for you to attract the attention of. Can you think of anyone that you used to have an awful hard time attracting the attention of? Can you think of anyone like that? (pause) I'll give you a little example of this: Now have that person turn around and look at you and say, "Yes?" (pause) Get the idea? All right.

I don't know what you do with money. If somebody could just tell me what you do with a large pile of money and no human beings, I'd like to know. When they locked that gold up down there in Fort Knox, they said it was important. Well, it certainly isn't important now. How long has it been since you've seen a gold note or a gold coin? It's become completely unreal; it's no medium of exchange now and so it's worthless. It's a pile of metal.

Now, whether you thought of anyone or not, I want you to have a little spot out in front of your face look at you now and say, "Yes?" (pause) Go ahead. Okay.

We go down here to Kingman; there used to be miles — square miles of planes down there. Once upon a time when the enemy would look up at the sky and see no sky but see airplanes, those airplanes were important, weren't they? But sitting down there rotting in Kingman, Arizona, they're not important to anybody. We've forgotten they are even there. They are not in use. And when a thing gets out of use it becomes entirely unimportant.

Now, let's have that little spot say, "Yes" some more in that sort of a tone of voice, you know. "Yes?" You know, "Yes? What do you want?" (pause) You get that very easily? Can you have that? All right.

Well, therefore, the first and foremost thing which we have to do is to keep something in use until it is in general use. Do you understand that? I mean, you — just the action of keeping it in use will eventually bring about general use. But if we don't use it, if we just have no program for its use whatsoever, it will simply be a forgotten piece of investigation.

I'm not processing you. I just want you to see what I'm talking about. That's what's known as "live form." You want a live form out there to communicate with. All right.

Now, is there any reason why it shouldn't be forgotten? It's been fun. Well, let's look at the original reason why this material began to be assembled, and we discover that it came out of a physics laboratory. But the other physicists in that laboratory were not interested in applying anything they knew to any betterment of man. They had no idea that this was at all important. They went ahead and developed what was known so that it eventually could be announced by responsible officials of more than one government, that an entire continent can be wasted of life in one attack. That's a goal. Is it? I don't think it is.

Let's have it say "Yes" a few more times. "Yes?" You know, just like you'd said, "Hey, you!" and it said, "Yes? What do you want?" (pause)

Well now, it's a funny direction man is going when somebody could look over this formula of an atom bomb, hydrogen bomb, when somebody could patiently collect enough cobalt 12 to add to enough hydrogen bomb in order to kill all life for enormous distances, kill the trees and the grass and everything else. And somebody willing to write a check for three billion dollars so that that bomb could come into existence.

Have it say that a lot of times. Fine. Let's have it say it a lot of times. "Yes?" (pause) Okay.

And outside of the good people who are the founding members of the HASI, the people who have been members of the foundations, the people who have attended these congresses and those students who have paid for training and those people who have paid for processing, there was no check for three billion dollars. It's been up to us, it has depended upon us, for the entire financing of a piece of research and investigation which should have cost ten billion dollars and which didn't; which actually has cost less than half a million. And which I think is a little more important than how to destroy life for hundreds of miles in all directions.

Is that very easy to do now?

Now, the early research and investigation of Dianetics was financed by a typewriter. A lot of you remember Ole Doc Methuselah. (applause) Ole Doc thanks you. But once we had moved into a foundation status, it was you people and what you had and could spend with the Foundation which continued that research and investigation.

Audience: Yeah.

We won't go into whether or not the money was wisely or unwisely spent. As a matter of fact, it couldn't have been unwisely spent. The Ford Foundation to date, without the discovery of a single answer of any kind, has spent upwards of fifteen million dollars. And we have done the whole job for probably less than half a million. That's fascinating.

Yeah? That real easy to do? Have you thought of anybody who didn't do this? Have you thought of somebody who didn't do this? Have you known somebody that didn't? Impossible to attract the attention of. Okay.

The most important of all this is that having won this much of an echelon, having won to a level where we do have the information, where we do have publications and where we have learned, now, how to train an auditor so that he can go on and get results . . . That was quite as important, by the way, as learning what to do to a person. Learn how to train somebody to be able to do it. That was very important. Having learned these things, and obtaining these results, we find ourselves at this date and this time in possession of the only collection of information and formulas which resolve the difficulties of man. You think that isn't a responsibility?

Let's find the floor.

Don't go to the University of Chicago and ask them what to do about the lame and the blind and the halt because they can't tell you. Don't go to the Atomic Energy Commission and ask them; they don't care. But there's a lot of people here on Earth and not all of them are bad people. This could be a very great civilization. It already is a fairly high-level civilization. It has been greater, it can be greater.

Let's find the chair.

But where sits the responsibility? It doesn't sit on just my shoulders. Because one man working by himself, no matter how sincerely, while he might be able to dig up some answers, certainly could not even vaguely undertake the task of education and dissemination of an entire planet of people. Look at it for a moment and you will see that it's a big job. Yet, theoretically, that could be done. You could actually disseminate this information.

Let's find the right wall.

We could ask ourselves, "What could we tell them, what good would it do?" Well, have you ever seen an unhappy family that had in its midst one person who was disoriented, who was completely missing, let us say, on the third dynamic? Whether that person was insane or an invalid, or simply cross and unbearable and intolerant, the ability of that family to produce, to be happy, to fit itself into the society, is damaged thereby. Supposing we care nothing about the individual who is sick in that family and who is causing that upset. Supposing we care nothing about him. We still would care about the other members of that family, the kids that are growing up in an atmosphere of this character. We'd still care about that, wouldn't we?

The left wall.

And if we were able to place in people's hands just this datum, we would have won a tremendous gain just this datum: Something can be done about it.

The front of the room.

Do you know what state the society is in now? Do you know that a police officer going out here on a traffic run, pulling down cars and handing out people's tickets, completely lacks that datum. He hands out the tickets and he sees, year by year, speeding, wrecks, drunk driving continue. He keeps watching this and sees it goes on happening. Yet he hands out more and more tickets. He knows basically that this isn't doing anything about the situation, he's just trying to hold back the flood one way or the other. He thinks maybe he's helping it out a little bit but he knows he's not solving it. Do you know that that police officer (just consider him as a common citizen if you can), does not know that the person who is driving that car recklessly amongst traffic and causing casualties — does not know that that person in that car is incapable of following orders, laws or regulations. Just give you one thing he doesn't know. The people who have the wrecks are the people who cannot read the speed laws. And if they could read them, couldn't — just physiologically, mentally — could not obey them.

End of session. All right.

It's only ten percent of the cars out on the road. They're driven by people that, if you started these people into Opening Procedure of 8C and you said, "Go over and touch that wall," this person would look at you and — he'd know he was in session and everything, you know — he would look at you and he would say, "Oh, well, a chair is just as good."

Now, we see this little trick here? That is live form. There is no substitute whatsoever for something live to talk to. There is no substitute for it. The idea of attracting the attention of something is paramount and primary above communication.

And you say, "No, go over and touch the wall. Come on, let's go over and touch the wall," and you'd set him an example and so forth. He might touch another wall, he might just sit there, he might just object, he might try to throw you off in some other direction. He wouldn't touch that wall. He's psychotic.

Let's look back at the Factors. We've had no reason whatsoever to change the Factors. The Factors are still there and they still ride pretty well as they are. We could add a couple of things to the Factors but it really isn't necessary. And we find that, to create an effect is the primary intention. All right.

And just because he can talk and answer up to his own name and lift a drink off the bar, we say, "He's a full citizen of this great land; he's perfectly sane."

We get that as a primary intention. How are you going to create an effect on something that won't pay you any attention, if that something doesn't have very much mass that you can mess up? If you can't touch somebody or push somebody or shake somebody to attract their attention, then you're going to have an interesting time of it, indeed. You will begin to believe that they're not quite there, or they're not quite alive, or that they're not alive and they're not there — live form.

We could go out and hire a bunch of psychiatrists — the psychiatrists come around and tap him with little hammers or something of the sort. And they tap him in the right arm, his left arm flies up (reverse for you). And they say, "Just like I am — sane."

Waiting for something live to show up is what we're doing. You see, it's very easy to go into communication with something that's alive but if some-thing isn't quite alive or something of that sort, then it's not going to reply or signify that it is there so that you can go into communication with it.

Courts actually, in this land, call in mental experts, so called, to determine whether or not a criminal is insane. And let me tell you that a person who commits crimes on the second and third and fourth dynamic can never be considered sane. And a criminal, by committing willfully and knowingly harmful acts on the third and fourth dynamic, immediately has declared himself to be crazy. But they have to have, in this civilization, a mental expert to come in and find out whether or not his left arm flies up if they tap his right arm. They have to go out and discover and research whether or not somebody has some peculiarity which they can label insane.

Now, you can go over, if you'd like, and punch holes in the wall, and some-body is liable to get an effect from this, but if you went out someplace to some old abandoned temple nobody cared about and you punched a bunch of holes in the wall, it might momentarily give you a little satisfaction, until you suddenly realized that — nobody there to watch it, nobody there to feel it. You were just punching some holes in a wall — so what?

In effort to combat this, they pass new laws. And then crime and accidents, unhappiness, marital disarrangements continue, so they pass new laws. And then other things go wrong in the society, and they pass new laws. And after a while they pass so many laws that not even a sane man can read them, much less obey them, because the people passing those laws, getting no answer, go into a somewhat psychotic state. They say, "Nobody's listening to us, anyhow" twenty-two, they know nobody's got a job for them, they know they can't work, they know that to have anything they can't earn — the answer is to steal.

State of mind artillery gets into after a while: They never see the enemy and they just keep firing. I've talked to some artillerymen who have really raised havoc with barrages and so on, and these people were totally convinced that they hadn't done anything to anybody. You never saw such a conviction in your life. I mean — "Well, you just keep throwing it over there, you know, and you just keep throwing it over, that's the job. The actual thing we're doing is making a noise, as far as I can understand it," you know — this sort of a frame of mind. The enemy isn't alive. They don't see him. They don't get any response.

Another thing: Short time ago we had a thing called — in the US — we had a thing called universal military training. I don't know why they called it that because I looked in vain for any South Africans drafted under that law, but they called it universal military training. And it put on the time track of every boy, along about the age of eighteen, the fact that he was going to be thrown into a barracks and told to cart a rifle around for a couple or three years. And he stopped. He didn't lay any future. He said, "What's the use?" And no more active or criminal act was ever perpetrated upon youth than conscription.

Now, we have two live forms. And one of them addresses the other one to cause an effect upon it. And then this one who had an effect caused upon him, turns around and causes an effect upon this first one. And you have a game going, and that's the basic anatomy of a game. That's the basic intention of a game: to create an effect, then backwards, create an effect; then the other way, create an effect; then the other way, create an effect.

If they want soldiers, why don't they hire them? And that's an answer that no government ever has been able to digest. If you want somebody to serve in the armed forces, hire them! Make it worth their while. Don't make slaves and criminals out of them. That doesn't say that everybody drafted is going to wind up a criminal — only half of them will. When you think of the amount of life that has been interrupted for kids because of this nonsense, you could weep.

Now, when you get a scarcity of effects, you have very many interesting mental conditions occur. But it's based on scarcity of live forms — scarcity of living beings, scarcity of living things. So, we have somebody come up and he says, "Oh, terrible, terrible, emergency, emergency, disaster, disaster, crisis, crisis." What's he trying to do? There's no crisis. There's no emergency. He rushes in and he tells you, "All of Scandinovia has just gone into revolt," and you find out that somebody issued a bulletin that said he didn't like the mustache of the existing king.

But, I've talked to boys, talked to young boys. They couldn't be permitted to work, you see, up to the time they were eighteen, so they couldn't make anything they had to have or they wanted. They had to depend on somebody or sponge on somebody in order to get this money to buy what they wanted. And then at eighteen somebody said, if they were foolish enough to stay in good physical condition — we've had some preclears, by the way, who didn't get well until after the selective service had passed them over — and here we have somebody at eighteen who is suddenly conscripted. Where do the girls go if all of the boys of their age are suddenly picked up and sent into never-never land to carry a rifle — squads east and west?

This person has become frantic about, "Yes . . . ?" you see. No live form turns around to him and says, "Yes? What do you want? What are you going to say?" or "Yes, I'm listening." You see? And every time he's tried to create an effect, this live form has simply said . . . (silence)

It's not that I'm against the military. I like the military. It's an interesting game, it's a good game, but it's a game you have to play because you want to play it. Not a game that you play because somebody drives you into it. Nothing is a game that you're driven into. So these kids aren't asked to play a game. They're told they've got to do time. And there's another nice barrier on the track.

And then he went ahead and created the effect but he didn't have the live form's attention. If he didn't have its attention, of course, he couldn't create an effect at all. So out of this, we actually get an evolution of a communication lag. And of course, when we get a communication lag, we get a reality lag, an agreement lag, we get an affinity lag. All out of what? Waiting for somebody to say they're there so that you can get on with the game.

Well, recently they've started to repeal this. Finally got the word someplace or another that they had an atom bomb, now, and they didn't need that much infantry. So they cut down on conscription.

So that we have these games which are composed of a known terminal and a hidden terminal: known terminal, hidden terminal. Such a game is cops and robbers. And the cop eventually becomes utterly frantic because there are very few criminals around waiting to say, "Yes? We're listening." But the cop knows that he has to discharge against something, somebody, some terminal, and he can't go and find this criminal, you know.

Conscription is a great mechanism. One of the earliest boys who did any conscription was a fellow by the name of Napoleon, and his conscription was a wonderful thing. He conscripted, all right. And you had young farm boys going out and cutting off their right trigger finger with an axe on the chopping block so they wouldn't have to serve in little Nap's armies. And he was able, Napoleon was, by this great movement, to reduce the height of Frenchmen one inch — his total accomplishment and his monument to the future. Like to meet Napoleon today and ask him how proud he might feel for having reduced the height of Frenchmen one inch. But that's what all this legislation amounts to.

And a robbery is committed and the next thing you know, why, the police are scattered all over the place trying to find a robber and he doesn't show up. He doesn't walk in the police station and say, "Yes?" You'd be surprised, the police would probably dramatize and go almost psychotic if robbers and so forth, started to make a practice of walking into police stations saying, "Yes? I'm listening. What did you want to say? What do you want to know? Yes, I'm in communication."

Now, it's not all wrong out there, by a long ways. There's a lot of it that is tremendously right. The engineer today has come into possession of technology which licks enormous numbers of problems. We ourselves can put into the shade and into yesterday such things as psychosomatic illness.

So we get this hidden terminal. We get the known terminal and the hidden terminal. Every time you lose something you may feel a little bit frantic. You feel a little bit frantic; you say, "Where is that? Where is that? Where is that? Where is that?" And one of your reactions is, "I'll just get dozens of those things," you know, "I'll get dozens of them and put them on the shelf. I can't find those combs. I'll go down and buy a whole display card full of combs and I'll put those up there and then — then, that will work."

Man is learning how to build. He's learning how to communicate better. He's learning better means of transportation. He has himself a better world right before him — not just around the corner but right up there in plain sight. There's a terrific world.

When an individual gets into this frame of mind, and if he loses too many combs and he is unable to get display cards full of them, or even after he does get display cards full of them the kids keep eating up the card and so forth, even if he does all this, why his next move, of course, is to leave his hair uncombed. He doesn't even look for a comb. He knows there's no comb there. Every time he thinks of combing his hair he thinks he'll have a cigarette. See, he can't have a comb, so he can have a cigarette.

What's he going to do with it? In 1932 my classmates had decided what he was going to do with it. He was going to blow it up, that's what he was going to do with it. By adding together enough protons and electrons in the right order, they could make a beautiful boom of the hopes and dreams of everybody. But none of the fellows who were doing that are in present time. What they're doing — we're just getting ready to play a good game, you see? And these guys, as their crowning glory, go out and blow up the playing field and burn up the goal posts. The little squirt who used to come in and grab your marbles so you couldn't play marbles with the rest of the boys, you know? He'd come in and grab them and run off, "Nyah, nyah, nyah." That's your nuclear physicist today. Some of these men are my friends; I know them.

And then the government comes along, puts a sufficient tax on cigarettes so he can't even have a cigarette to quiet your nerves. Only way a cigarette would possibly quiet anybody's nerves is simply by being there. You know, it's a handy object which can be a nice substituted object and you'll always make nothing out of it, too. And so as a result, you'll get this hidden-terminal affair. All right.

And this is a magnificent thing, isn't it? You just get the world into a state of communication. You get the transportation real good. We come up with the answer, even, to psychosomatic illness. Man's getting to a point where his answers in the field of sanitation, his answers in the field of study — he's getting real good, you see? But before we get anyplace, somebody goes boom!

The police go out — what do they eventually do? The police go out, they're looking for the burglar, they're looking for the criminal, they're looking for criminals, burglars. Who did it? Those terminals are not available. They're not standing there saying, "Yes?" So the police, to keep from going utterly psychotic, start questioning somebody, and they usually wind up questioning any honest citizen they can lay their hands on.

Well, maybe that's one of our organizational goals. It would be, if I thought anybody thought we ought to go in that direction. If anybody thought that we should to some degree make it our business to make sure that the people who handled the weapons which might blow up the playground should be made saner, that some of the people who have their hands on the rudders should get the word, we could have a pretty interesting game of that.

This is sufficiently severe and significant in this society or any civilized society that police will eventually get into a state where the "criminal" is the honest citizen. They will just invert. And they will be very punitive.

We've learned something in the last few months. I have finally decided, after a great deal of study of this, what a wrong step is. Finally found out completely what a wrong step is. It sounds like we almost have an absolute. Probably there are exceptions to this. But what could we do that's wrong? Actually, could you know that there was something to do that was wrong? Yes. That's to do nothing. That's wrong.

They will graduate into government, and you get a fascist state. You could say by new definition that the definition of a fascist state would be that state in which the police became so frantic in their inability to find criminals, that they eventually, in an effort to find somebody who would listen, started to look at the private citizens who were honest. And then because they didn't listen with any great degree of patience — became the government of those people. That's what could be called an evolution of a fascist state.

You start auditing a preclear and you discover it's the times when he stopped communicating that he went by the boards — just that: He stopped communicating. He decided he would no longer communicate in that direction or he would no longer communicate with that thing, and that preclear went by the boards. And you can go back in the lives of any one of the preclears you have and you will find out inevitably it's when he decided to do nothing and decided to stop communication that he went to pieces.

By the way, there are a couple of such states have formed; one was in Germany, one was in Spain — now, just that way, the police graduated into the governing role. Missing terminal — so they have to find a terminal. They have to have a terminal.

So we can tell you by exact clinical demonstration and experimentation that the wrong thing to do is nothing. And if we conceive ourselves even vaguely to be faced with a problem of a world destroyed in the anger of war before it ever has a chance to become really civilized, the wrong thing to do is nothing. We know that. The wrong thing to do is not communicate.

And let's look at this communication formula again. Let's find in this communication formula here — let's just take one lobe of this and let's take here, [See chart 5 in the appendix] the first point, up here, that we will call Bill. And this point over here we will call Joe. And then this point here we will call Joe prime, and this is Bill prime. We get our parts of communication — just to go over this with you again — this first Bill up here is "origin" (0), and this first Joe here is "live form" and this Joe prime here is "answer," and this Bill prime here (the final Bill prime) is "acknowledgment."

It's not a popular thing today to tell the public out there "Hey, what do you think about this atom bomb?" We conducted a little survey here a short time ago, an interesting survey: What are the reactions of people on the subject of atomic fission? And we found out that they covered up their eyes when atom bombs appeared on the screen, that they left the theater, they walked away, that they were busy doing nothing about it. They couldn't even vaguely face it.

Now, these people — these two people engaging in communication with each other would have an awfully hard time of it if they didn't use a little bit of energy to represent themselves. They themselves do not have any real mass or energy but they can mock up some, agree that it's there, across a space that they are making and agreeing upon with communication. So we have cause (C), distance (that line), (E). Cause, distance, effect. And then we have cause prime, distance, effect prime. And we get one cycle of communication.

And our governments have been setting up typical homes and dropping their bombs on those, just to impress the public with how gruesome this could be. And the public still didn't do anything about it and won't do anything about it because they don't think anything can be done about it.

Now this necessitates, we see, lower here, actually two terminals. When this gets real solid and when people start really working on it we get these two terminals. We could call this terminal "B" and this terminal over here "J." It wouldn't matter what we call them, "A" and "B," Brown and Smith, or two electrodes on an electric motor. You'd have the same thing. Let's take alternating current. And we find out that alternating current is a communication flow going back and forth.

But I'll tell you the wrong thing to do about it: Nothing. That's the wrong thing to do. And I'll tell you the wrong thing — wrong way to handle information on the subject: Don't communicate. That's the wrong way to handle it. We know that. We might not know the right way but we know the wrong way.

Electricity is a dramatization of what life does. Life is not doing a dramatization of what electricity does. Your electronics boys are good boys, there's no doubt about it. Their scientific methodology and so forth has been of enormous assistance. The scientific methodology which I have applied in scientific research in the field of the mind is extremely useful.

Now, let's look over this. Does it mean anything to you, to me and to ours, that a weapon exists in the world today of such force and violence that the continent of North America could be obliterated from Earth? Does that mean anything to us?

It's a practical way of thinking about something. But why is it a practical way of thinking about something? Well, it's because what life — that's what life's doing. And after a while, particles wait long enough and get solid enough and are mocked up solid enough so that you have this fascinating condition known as terminals — two terminals: "B" and "J."

Audience: Yes.

You can do anything with these terminals. You get them fairly close together, run a little wire in between them here and you're liable to find a slight difference of charge. If you were to take any pieces of iron — any two pieces of iron not hitherto connected, and run a wire between them — no way you connect them, you see, but you just ran a little wire between them, you'd find there was a momentary flow, ordinarily. You know, they'll equalize, then, their potential.

Well, you know, I've tried to talk to people about that, in service stations and so forth, and it was a datum they couldn't grasp.

But if we keep insisting that one of these pieces of iron is hotter than the other or is — by pounding on it, is more active than the other — you will find that you get a little electronic flow going across that wire all the time from "B" to "J," "B" to "J." Now if we were to pound on one of these pieces of iron and not pound on the other one, we would find an electronic flow would result. That is one of the older forms of demonstration in physics.

Very interesting conversation I had with one fellow. He was a salesman, he walked up to sell me something. And so I started asking him what he was going to do about the atom bomb, the hydrogen bomb. This was such a new thought that he was completely flabbergasted that he had anything to do with it. And he imparted the information to me that he didn't think he would be affected in any way by the hydrogen bomb or the atom bomb. And I said, "Well, what if the continent of North America, as was announced in the paper the other day, could be obliterated by atomic fission?"

Now, if we took a piece of cat fur and made these two terminals out of glass, something like that, and we rubbed one, we'd find the — if we had a little meter hanging right here on the middle of this line, this little meter would read current flow.

"Well, somebody will think of something. We have weapons, we've been told, that counter this. We could obliterate Asia." This is an answer! But he says, "So, I don't think it would happen."

We don't care anything about this. This is just a dramatization as far as — on the part of the MEST universe of what life does. The basic mistake that has been made in all of this is a very simple mistake. I've made this mistake too, so I know it's a mistake. And that is that life is mirroring the physical universe, or that it is behaving as it does because it has the example of the physical universe before it. You get the idea? That life behaves as it does because it has the physical universe before it. That is not true. The physical universe behaves as it does because life makes it behave that way. And that's the truth.

"Well," I said, "what would happen if it did happen?"

Now, why is it the truth? Well, because when you use that principle it works! And when you say, "Well, life is going along acting as a mirror to the physical universe," you don't get anything. You don't get any results. You don't get any results in processing. You take that theory and you apply it, saying that life is simply echoing the activities of, or is derived from electricity, or something of the sort and it just doesn't work at all. So we go at it the reverse, and we say the physical universe is doing pretty much what life wants it to do, and we're pretty close to the truth. And that is the truth.

"Oh," he said, "you'd get along somehow."

So that we find this big formula of communication, two-way communication, in which this is one cycle represented here on chart 5. We discover that as it solidifies, you know — let's take a part out of here, let's say, live form missing, and yet the fellow keeps on communicating: "Hammer," you know. He keeps on communicating, but no live form is there. Nobody has said, "Yes?" He'll get into a stuck flow, here. He'll get into this — [writing on chart] I'm drawing very heavy here — he'll get into a stuck flow and he'll be going along like that, and he'll get into this two-terminal activity down here. See? And he'll get a current going straight across that wire and become, who knows, an electronics engineer someday.

And I said, "Well now, let's just see, if it were going to happen in the next ten or fifteen minutes, if it would influence you."

Electronics engineers are good men, but they have the frailty of falling into their own trap. They start to depend upon electronic flows. They start to depend upon pieces of brass and copper and glass in order to accomplish these things. And so when they — usually, when then they start to theorize, even as I did when I was first in this work, they will come to all sorts of remarkable conclusions. They will always, inevitably, sometime or another, get interested in the mind.

"Oh," he said, "I suppose it would — probably have trouble getting communication through to the home office. It's in New York," and so forth.

Your boys at MIT right now, and so forth, are very interested in the mind. They're not interested, though, in the human mind. They're interested in an electronic mind. And once in a while one of them will speculate — I promised Norbert Wiener I'd never mention his name in connection with Dianetics so I won't mention his name but this fellow . . . (laughter) It's too bad, too, because I was quite happy he wrote that book called Cynergetics or whatever it was, and he talks about a neural response system. And this book about this neural response system, Cybernetics, has applied the principles of electricity to life. And it tries to demonstrate somehow that life comes about because of electronic flows. And it doesn't.

I said, 'Well, let's look at the number of things you're trying to do right now. Let's see, are you paying for a car?"

That's the basic mistake made in engineering every time an engineer starts out. And I have gotten finally, even up to my big toe, out of this morass now. I know this. I mean I know that electronics come about because of life. I know that masses and forms, their arrangement, their timing, their continued existence comes about because of life; because life can create these things. And if life can create these things, then life is certainly the boss.

The fellow says, "No, I bought it, that's my car out there."

These things, these electronic terminals and so forth never create life — never. And when life lays off of them they stop running — just like that.

"Oh." I said, "Oh good. All right. Now, an atomic destruction of North America would be the end of that car."

One of these days, if we keep up this sort of thing, why, Westinghouse will probably eventually require the morning ritual of the prayer to the god Ohm — if we keep this up — the patron saint of electric terminals. Or they will require that a certain amount of insulation be burned every evening after work to appease — to appease the god Forest who makes tubes — makes tubes work. We might say it's probably the spirit of Edison is all that makes an electric light burn. It's probably true.

"Now," I said, "that suit you've got there, you like that suit?"

I don't know, actually, whether or not this physical universe and all of its laws work because these engineers invent new laws, or because they find old ones. But we know this very well: that when we have two terminals here, we know that a straight communication formula can get into a terminal arrangement.

And he says, "Well, yes!" He says, "My wife likes it too. I mean, she picked it up."

And instead of Bill talking to Joe over here as a live form, Bill gets convinced that Joe doesn't exist or that he's dead or he's gone or something, or that he can't answer, and so he starts to plug away on this line, plug away on this line, plug away on this line. Something has got to be there, so he'll mock up a terminal over here where Joe is.

I said, 'Well, that would mean the end of that suit."

Well, he'll get tired of flowing at just a terminal, a wall or something like that, so he will mock up a terminal. Bill will mock up a terminal where he is to flow at where he put a terminal for Joe. You see? Nice automatic system, isn't it? Now he's got a flow between two terminals. He inhabits a body; he hopes that that thing over there is Joe inhabiting a body, and he's got flow between two terminals or two bodies. When you are studying terminals, you might as well say bodies. There isn't any reason you shouldn't because these are the way they act.

"Hmmm. Yeah, I suppose you could say that."

Now, what happens after an individual has started this terminal arrangement? You can see how Joe as a body talking to Bill as a body, or Bill as a body talking to Joe as a body, is actually two terminals in action with some kind of a flow going in between. You could see that easily.

"Now," I said, "your kids — you're going to a lot of hard work . . . You got some kids?"

Well, what would happen here if Joe didn't have a body at all, and Bill didn't have a body at all? Well, I'll tell you what would happen. They'd have to talk all the time. They wouldn't ever dare set up anything on an automatic response system or anything of the sort. They would have to — in order to continue their conversation, they would have to stay in very close contact with each other.

"Yes, yes."

And rather than do that, why, they invent something called absent-mindedness or other-terminalness or bodiness. So that they set a body there in the chair and Mother's talking to the body, you know. And they say — Mother says, "Now — now, Joe, after this, I want you to realize that you're breaking your mother's heart by getting these bad grades. And after this, I want you to realize that you've got to study harder and you've got to amount to something in the world like your Uncle Bill." And she can go on like this for hours and Joe's body sits in the chair, and he goes off and examines the daisies — very handy mechanism. Life has uses for it.

"Well, you're going to a lot of hard work to keep them clothed and fed and give them an education and so forth, and you hope they grow up and amount to anything, you know, you hope so?"

Now, it'll go a little bit further than that. In addition to bodies as terminals, they start getting other types of terminals. They get invisible terminals which nevertheless have mass. They get all sorts of — kinds of terminals that discharge one against the other.

"Oh, sure, sure."

Let's get a picture of this fellow running a drill press down in the factory. And he's got this foot on this drill press, see, and he presses this thing and a bar comes along the assembly line and he's supposed to drill a couple of holes in it. And they're in such and such a place so he comes along and he presses it, moves it up to the next one, presses it, pushes that along. Gets the next bar, presses it, gets the next bar, presses it, moves that along. Gets the next bar, presses it. Next bar, presses it; you know — wuhhh.

'Well," I said, "well, that would be the end of that."

After he's done that for a year or two, he's liable to set up a terminal back of his leg here somewhere that, every time this thing goes "click" in a certain way as a signal, this terminal back of his leg will lift his leg and drop it again.

"Hmmmm." He was starting to get a little bit unhappy, but it hadn't come home to him yet.

He is no more aware of lifting his leg and dropping it. He's no more aware of his hands fixing that bar in place. He has become a machine.

So I said, "Well, let's see your wallet." He pulls out his wallet. I said, "Let's pull out some of your cards there." And he pulled out his Social Security card.

And you'll find many of these fellows who take jobs of this character have only one ambition: They want the kind of a job where they can set up some sort of an automaticity like this and then dream daydreams — to dream up things and think of things and invent fairy tales for themselves and so on. They like this.

And I said, 'Well, all the material you have in your hands at this moment, including that fifty-dollar bill, would all be destroyed."

You go around a factory and question a lot of these fellows that are running these repetitive-action machines, and you will find that they are very, very fond of highly mechanical jobs that they can set up on an automaticity, you know, bang, bang, bang. And then they sit there and they say, "Gee, wouldn't it be nice . . . and Marilyn Monroe walks in, and then I say, 'Hiya babe!'" You know? They're floating off someplace by themselves.

And he looked at me, and he shoved the stuff back in his wallet and he pushed it very, very carefully into his pocket and put his hand on it and he said, "We've got to do something about atomic fission!"

They don't have to put their immediate attention on these terminals and don't have to give attention to get some kind of an action done and get the rest of the machinery enough food so it will run. Sounds strange, doesn't it? But that's actually what they're doing.

Well, it becomes very interesting communicating. But it is possible: Think — think of being able to communicate something like this to a salesman who does nothing but outflow and who is stuck in that direction. It's an impossible task.

They're doing the work so that they can get enough energy to feed enough energy to the things which will do the work, so that they can get enough energy so as to feed enough energy to the machine so that it will work, so that they can get enough energy in order to feed it back into the machine, so they will feed enough energy into the machines . . . One day they'll come up to you and they'll say, "You know life has no purpose!" That's right, it doesn't — round and round, round and round.

The public at large, I believe, the people throughout Earth do not believe that anything can be done about their problems. They've even gotten to a point where these problems are more precious than life. If anything's going to survive, it's got to be the problem. They believe that problems are the finest things to have around because they don't think anything else could adequately occupy their time. It must be this way, otherwise they wouldn't permit a problem of this magnitude to continue to exist in their vicinity.

Well now, any engineer has learned to regard with extreme caution anything like a perpetual motion machine because it doesn't happen in the physical universe that he can observe — a perpetual motion machine. By his experience, all machines wear out.

The worst thing in the world that they could do would be to revolt against any existing regime. Revolution never carried anything with it — never carried anything with it but chaos and the return with more ardure of the same regime that the populace got rid of.

But unfortunately there is one: the life energy-space production unit itself goes on and on and on and on and on and on and on. And having no moving parts, having no mass, having no wavelength, it never wears out. But it can play silly tricks on itself. It can forget. It can channel. It can do all sorts of weird things.

It's the unhappy history of every revolt that ever took place that I know of. They revolt against the King of France and they get Emperor Napoleon. They revolt against the duke and they get a Duke of Lemonade. They revolt against a civil service system called the government of Russia, and they get a civil service system called communism.

But if you took all the things growing on Earth and had them feeding everything that they were getting, you know, into machinery, round and round, and round, and round, and round, we would have to introduce new energy all the time in order to justify the energy in heat loss which was going on. And we do have new energy all the time. We have the Sun. The Sun goes across and furnishes enough energy and there's enough old stuff lying around and old life deposits and things like that, that these machines can keep up.

So revolution isn't the answer. The answer must lie somewhere in the field of evolution. But evolution cannot take place without better information and more data. And more importantly, this single thing: a hope that something can be done about it.

The reactive mind came about through some breakdown in the communication formula. For want of a terminal, he put one up. He made a facsimile, you see, of some sort. He didn't have enough terminals so he put one up.

And if we could tell people today, we could demonstrate to individuals today that something actually could be done about it — I don't care what problem we're addressing, you say something could be done about it — if we could tell them this, and that we could do something about it, we would probably just be getting into the entering wedge of two-way communication on the subject of Dianetics and Scientology.

Lack of answers eventually makes him anxious about answers. Lack of originated communications gets him stuck on originating communications.

Well, I'll tell you the wrong thing to do with Dianetics and Scientology is not to communicate it and not to use it. We know that's wrong. What are the right ways to communicate it? Those we can work out but any way is better than no way.

Any time that thing breaks down, it starts to jam and you start to get more and more massy form. Life evolves itself into a necessity to have terminals. It has to have terminals, it thinks, so it evolves itself into tighter and tighter terminals.

Every once in a while a group of auditors may get very dissatisfied with me or the HASI. It has happened. I hear about these things very seldom, they usually fold up before I get a message about them. But, they get dissatisfied somewhere or another, they feel that somebody's being too punitive or is upsetting them in some direction or is doing something wrong in some direction. And I'm usually appalled by the fact that they don't know what we're doing. They don't know what I'm doing. They don't know what the organization is doing. They haven't bothered to find out. All they noticed was that somebody was communicating. And their dramatization was to stop it.

And you get all of these crazy phenomena that you find in a preclear — all this mad phenomena. You get circuits and you get facsimiles and you get recording machines and you get things that evidently think and do things. When he thinks of being someplace, why, he has the impression he's there, or when he thinks of being someplace, he actually goes there if he's an exterior.

The only thing that is thoroughly against the law in this universe is to communicate. And the only thing you can do wrong is not to communicate. And between these two factors you get a very big game.

Gadgets, gadgets, gadgets — all kinds of gadgets: arms, legs, brains, noses, lungs — all kinds of gadgets. They're just gadgets. Thetan gets gadget-happy. And then he gets some ritual involved in it, like chew your food thirty-two times, sleep eight hours per day — rituals, so as to justify his possession of all these gadgets.

Another thing you can do wrong is to be there. Your parents ever slap you around? Ever say you got muddy shoes, you should comb your hair, why don't you brush your teeth, why don't you mind your manners, why don't you get to school in time? Your parents ever do this to you? Do you know what the crime was? You were there! That's the only crime.

Now, a fellow has something. Then somebody comes around and says, "Why do you have that?" Fellow's got an old pipe. It's been lying on the living room table. Old piece of pipe — and there it is on the living room table. And somebody comes in and says, "What on earth are you doing with that piece of pipe on the living room table?"

And let's suppose that for a moment they didn't notice you were there and you started to communicate. You said, "Mama — Mama, can I have an apple?" Naaahh! — second crime, which is the first and only crime: to communicate. If you cried, don't. If you yelled, don't. Don't communicate.

Well, actually right up to that point it was — simply had some mass, that was all, and it was an interesting gimmick because it had some mass. He's got to invent a reason, right now. And quite often he will be conscious of the fact he is inventing a reason and conscious of the fact that right afterwards, that is the reason it's there.

Well, there's one thing that we will never learn. There are a lot of things we have learned, organizationally. But whatever the aims, whatever the goals of Dianetics, Scientology or the various organizations or people connected with them, there's one thing I know fairly sure that they will never completely learn: They will never learn to stop communicating. Because auditing with the modern processes we have demonstrates to an auditor, time after time, that the only thing wrong with his preclear is the fact that he stopped communicating.

And he'll do this in such close order that he thinks he had a subconscious reason to have it there. So he says, "What tricks are my mind doing now?" He just invented the reason out of whole cloth. He did it himself. He says, "Well," he says, "I have that to clean my pipe." Person looks at him and he's likely to take him seriously. But he says, "That's right. It's just a gag. That's what it's there for. It's a big piece of pipe and I have to clean my pipe, so . . ." This person looks at him skeptically and says, "Hmph." So somebody else will come in, see, and — you see what happened? That was an unsatisfactory communication to the person, you see. They came in. They saw the pipe. They wanted some reason to have a communication or a conversation so they said, "What is this pipe doing there?"

And if we ever get taught any lesson by preclears, if we ever get taught any lesson by aberration, it will be that to stop communicating and to do nothing is wrong. We'll learn that. If we ever make one human being well, we'll learn that one.

And this fellow says, 'Well, I use it to clean my pipe."And this, they didn't — you know, improper responses and it's just not good, that's all.

Organizational policy would to a large degree dictate what we were communicating. And of course there are lots of ways we could communicate that are better than other ways. There are lots of ways we could communicate that are worse than other ways. A great many opinions could be expressed on how we should communicate and what we should communicate about. But let's not fall into the trap of punishing every time somebody communicates.

So the next person comes in, why, he says, 'Well, what are you doing with that piece of pipe on your living room table? Look at that beautiful living room table and that old, rusty, ugly piece of pipe lying there. What are you doing with that pipe on the table like that?"

If they're communicating about Dianetics or Scientology, let them communicate. You don't have to answer, particularly, but let them communicate.

And the fellow says, 'Well, I read sometimes, and I use it to hold open my books." And they'll look at this as an impractical piece of engineering. And they'll realize it's dirty and will get the book dirty and so forth and they say, "Humph." Unsatisfactory communication.

Organizationally, we conducted an experiment in August. We chopped off a lot of certificates. We put a lot of people out of communication. And I sat back to find out what was going to happen. Did anything get better?

Another person comes in and sees this pipe lying there and this guy by this time — see what he's doing? He's getting more and more reasonable about this. He figures out, he can't pull a bum joke, he can't give a bad engineering reason, he's really got to have a reason why that piece of pipe is lying on that table.

Well, as a matter of fact, we couldn't put these people out of communication. They might not have written us for years but they really started writing us when we cut their certificates off.

And it's never going to occur to him to move that piece of pipe. That piece of pipe will stay there. People are objecting to its being there, he thinks, so this makes him dogged. He's going to leave it there in spite of anything.

One other direct result of this will be amusing to you: We stopped receiving complaints about auditors written by other auditors. Our mail used to be full of complaints from auditors about the horrible, how-bad-it-is-overthere other auditors. Nobody's complained about an auditor since.

They walk in — the next person walks in and says, "What are you doing with that piece of pipe on that beautiful table?"

A fellow whose name we won't mention, in Great Britain, wrote over a very scathing, damning report on an auditor who had been a member of the Advanced Clinical Unit. So we accommodated him, this auditor that had complained. Without further investigation we simply yanked the certificate of the person he was complaining about. And he almost went into a spin. He told people for weeks, "No, I didn't write anything about her." Practically in the next mail, we restored this person's certificate. But this particular how-bad-itis-over-there has stopped. We don't receive our weekly condemnation, from that one auditor, of the auditors in Great Britain.

And he says, "As a matter of fact, last night I came down here about two o'clock in the morning and I heard this noise. And I didn't have a gun so I rushed out back and I got this piece of pipe, and the burglar ran out the front door and I didn't see him again. And I just happened to put the pipe down there and forgot about it."

Now, this tells you, then, that there is better ways to communicate than some ways. But even entheta is better than no communication at all. We'd rather have an erroneous report than none. There are better ways to communicate.

And the fellow says, "Gee, that's interesting." Ah, he's stuck with it.

But we found out that if we as an organization, started to rap the knuckles of every auditor who was trying to communicate sincerely on the subject of Scientology, that we might as well go out back and cut our own heads off with the axe. And we found that out. We're guided by that practice and principle.

People who are doubted will always finally make a production out of their reasons — complete production. And after a while, he'll get to believe that any time he wants to explain anything that no reasonable explanation — no reasonable explanation is possible. He's got to invent something. He's got to dream something up.

But as far as auditors in the field are concerned, auditors scattered here and there across the world — and I do mean scattered across the world — I can sincerely tell you that I do not know of one of these auditors who isn't trying to do a good job of communication in his own framework and experience. They're all trying, one way or the other. Some of them think the only way they can communicate would be to shut off all that darn communication Ron does. There's very little of that, fortunately. Most everybody has learned that it's best to let that one run, and run another one, too. They can't stop that one anyhow. But these people are trying to do a job, they're trying to keep on communicating, they're trying to be there and they're trying to resolve some of the problems of man.

Well, he'll get tired after a while, of dreaming something up just because everybody comes along and says, "What's that pipe doing there?" He'll get tired of this. So he'll set it up automatically. And he gets a reasoning machine which adds all the factors into this side and pulls them all out that side and they run down the ruddy rods there, and it sorts them all through and it says, "People have not been interested in this pile, people have been interested in this pile. People haven't been interested in this, people have been interested in that. Burglars, robbers ... too exaggerated ... my age is now such-andsuch and therefore what is expected of me is so-and-so," and after it gets all down through the hoppers, people walk in and say, "What is that pipe doing there?" And the machine pipes up and says, "Do you know that is actually a part of the battleship Maine, that was dredged up." And he finds this is the perfect response.

And our organizational policy today is to do what we can do to help these people in their job of communication, and to communicate all we can, ourselves. And if anybody finds these organizations hard to understand, it's just because he'd have a hard time understanding communication.

And he finds the machine is more able to give him answers that are beneficial answers to other people, than .anything else, so now he's got the machine.

Thank you.

Next thing you know, this machine starts to get more and more active. It finally tells him what to do, what to eat, what to wear, where to go. Next thing you know, he's got it inside of a skull and it's called a human brain. And when he wakes up in the morning he has to bow down to this thing — and burn a little insulation to it every night. And that's what we've been studying all these years.

Thank you.

We've been studying this thing called the human brain — if we were really studying the human brain. Actually we stopped studying the human brain with Science of Survival to a very marked degree because we found out that there must be something else present besides a bunch of machinery.

If you were to walk in a plant which was in full operation, you would be suspicious if you found no living thing anywhere in the plant. And if it was sitting out in the middle of a desert and you were unable to contact anybody who had anything to do with it at all, although you searched day after day, why, you'd decide after a while the place was haunted. Very least, you would decide it was haunted. You couldn't conceive of a huge plant running full-gun sitting out in the middle of a desert with nobody running it just running.

Well, that's actually what an engineer does when he takes a look at this human mind. It's a big plant. It's doing the most fantastic things. It goes on running, running, running, running, running, running, running. Must have some purpose in life so he decides after a while — or at least I decided after a while, it must be haunted. Must be something alive around there. I didn't buy this story about neurons. Last time I invented one anyhow, it didn't work. It kept synapsizing terminals with me. (whistle) (tsk) — terrible. (laughter) All right.

So having decided it was haunted, I yelled into this big plant and I said, "Hey you! Get out of there!" And the fellow did. That's the history of research of Scientology.

Now, you can see — you can see here, if we're up against a problem of fixed terminals, if we're up against a lack of communication parts, lack of communication origins, a lack of live forms, a lack of answers and a lack of acknowledgments — if we're up against absences on these, and if these things do get us stuck and fixated one way or the other, and if these things do become these terminals that we find as demon circuits and other things in the human mind, if they do, then it should evolve that an individual would exteriorize and come off of these terminals and fixations with ease the moment that you reestablished the quantity of these things, these origins, live forms, answers and acknowledgments which should be present. He should just pull right off terminals, just like this. All right.

I have run some experiments in the past, and I've been processing preclears for quite a while, and have run some experiments definitely associated with people fixated on demon circuits, and have run Group Processing here at this congress. And it all demonstrated that these fixed terminals, these missing terminals, invisible terminals, all of these items, gadgets, gimmicks on which people get fixated, came apart — fell apart.

And I found out the body, if a complex one, was just another such ballup of communication terminals. And that by restoring the abundance of origins, the live form, the answer and the acknowledgment, that people backed right on out of their heads. "Say — what was I doing in there?" And when I say people backed out of their heads, I mean it. We ordinarily mean people as somebody who walks up in a body.

Well, let's specialize it further. Let's say somebody who drove up in a Cadillac, that's a people. Now, if somebody couldn't get out of his Cadillac, you'd think he was nuts or something was wrong. Well, you would, wouldn't you?

Audience: Yes!

Well, how about these guys that can't get out of their bodies? Same thing — it's just a vehicle. They're too lazy to walk around themselves, so they eat, and feed a body, so the terminals over on this side will activate against the terminals over on this side which will activate up here and activate across here, and then they'll get a ridge that goes into action there, that opens and closes their eyes, and so they can see that they're not walking into anything. And they get an alarm reaction system in the endocrine glands so as to tell them whether or not they should be scared of what they are looking at, and they take their body down the street, only — big joke — there's no driver anymore. The fellow isn't even driving his body anymore. His body is taking him around.

You know, I see a lot of big cars on the road and I watch them because it's very amusing to me when I discover that the car is taking the person somewhere, and the car is doing all the driving. That's fascinating.

You'll see them go into situations — any situation which is terrifically routine and ordinary — any routine or ordinary situation, they'll just get through fine. But give them a slightly extraordinary situation, which just is a little bit offbeat — like, instead of just stopping down to a certain number of miles an hour to go through a school zone, why, the kids jump out in front where there are stop signs, you know. You know, it's just a little bit offbeat.

And these cars will do the silliest things, and the people in them will look like they've just been awakened from a nightmare. They'll be very startled because all of a sudden they are being asked, of all people, to make a decision for this very wise car.

Now, I dare say, even today, thetans have cars all hooked up. I imagine they have machinery all hooked up to cars, I'll bet you. So that all they have to do is kind of think at the steering wheel and that activates. And they think at this and that will move, and so forth. Of course they're using their hands and their arms to do this sort of thing, but their hands and their arms are under the control of the car's machinery, rather than otherwise.

Well, this is automaticity. But we see somebody going down the street, the car's taking him down the street. All right.

Let's look at this body walking down the street and find out the body's taking somebody down the street. There is somebody there. That somebody doesn't have mass. That somebody doesn't need terminals. But that person is as fixed in his body and as fixed upon his circuits, as fixed upon his facsimiles and his engrams as he has lacked communication parts in the past, and as he is waiting for. He is as fixed as he is waiting for communication. And we have the basic law of this and so we have the resolution of the human mind.

Thank you.