Hello.

Hiya! Hiya!

Audience: Hi.

Well, I'm glad to see there's some people in Australia! You know there were a bunch of jokes before I left England about this is the first time I'll ever lecture standing on my head, you know, all that sort of thing. And we can say from here now — we can say from here, „How do they do their work standing on their heads?“

It's very warm out today.

Now, actually — actually, I'm very, very glad to be here. It was a bit of a crush getting here because just at the moment I started to leave, of course, there were seventeen hundred and fifty-five emergencies and HASI Limited came through, just like that — bang!

Audience: Yes. Sure.

This means a great deal to Scientology in general because what it does is tie up, under a public limited company status, all of the various branches and divisions of Scientology throughout the world. And you would be amazed how much that is. You would be amazed.

Summer's coming on.

Well, I want to thank you and congratulate you here in Australia for the really tremendous job you are doing. You probably, just like in other parts of the world, are in there pushing up against the seeming carelessness, the feeling that it doesn't matter — we'll all be dead anyway in a short time, so why worry about it and — may seem to you occasionally that you're not getting anywhere, you know, that you're sort of stalled down or that you're progressing very slowly or something like that.

Audience: That's right.

You have to have fairly exact statistics — fairly good statistics to really understand where we are getting and why. The tremendous amount of forward impetus that Scientology has had in the last five months in Australia, you Australians wouldn't believe. You just wouldn't believe it. Because it is considerable. But this is more or less true all around the world.

I get out of adjustment on that.

And I'm real proud of people that have been carrying on, particularly here. You know, we owe the people that have fought the good fight through here in Melbourne, in HASI Melbourne, we owe them a great deal, because it's not been easy. They've not had a good smooth run of it over the years. They've had some bad breaks. Originally, a HASI was set up in Melbourne that wasn't even authorized and there was no way to straighten it up or square it around or do anything for it at all, and it limped along and kept falling on its face and being set back up again and people would work at it and sacrifice their time, energy and so forth to keep it going. And several months now, they have had a very fine running organization and it's there for the long haul. I'm very proud of it and I want to thank everybody that's had anything to do with keeping HASI Melbourne alive these many years. Thank you.

Well, I think probably I had better read you some of the good wishes that you got today from around the world, as the first gesture.

I was extremely pleased, by the way, to walk in and see the building looking so good and see the staff looking so good and see everybody full of beans, and doing all the right things in the right directions. It was very pleasing indeed.

And here's from Saint Hill: „Have a star performance congress in all respects. Love, HCO WW Staff, Saint Hill, East Grinstead, London.“

Once in a while you think, well, Scientology is basically — must be very mercenary, very mercenary: thinks about money. You bet it thinks about money! I'll tell you why it thinks about money. Because tradesmen think about money, because it takes money to pay the rent, because it takes money to pay staff. They have to think about money.

And here's „Welcome to Australia (stop). Best wishes for successful congress. Staff, American College, Perth.“

There are two points of agreement that Scientology has to maintain with the rest of existence. Just two, really. One is finance, and the other, unfortunately, is legal. In other words, they stay in agreement with the society where legalities are concerned — court orders, filings of changes of name and board minutes and bylaws and you have to go see solicitors and try to communicate with solicitors and... And then every once in a while, why, somebody will rush in and say, „Why haven't you paid this bill?“ you know. Have you ever had that experience personally? And they say — they say this, you know, and of course the basic impulse is just to say, „Ha! What are you talking about — bills. We're all in this together,“ and so forth. But they don't listen to this line at all.

The — tremendous numbers of them here, my goodness! My goodness!

So as a result the two points of agreement with a relatively — well, I don't like to say rough words about the society at large. There's no reason swearing at them. There's no reason to get down and say, „Well, they fffft, grum-grum-grum.“ You know? You know, in the comic strips where they have asterisks and exclamation points in the balloons — well, there's no reason to say that about society in general.

„We all wish you a wonderful congress (stop). Excellent clearing at — the ACC. Signed, HASI and HCO New Zealand.“

But it is rough to have to stay in agreement with some of the general procedures of society. Have you ever noticed that? It's rough. Because some of the things that they're now supposed to do and some of the things that they're absolutely certain are absolute fact are so far out in the middle of the ocean and so far away from anything necessary and truthful that it's quite amazing.

Oh my, there's just too many of these things, too many of them, too many of them. Wow! Wow. Wow.

I don't know if you know anything about socialism or politics or anything like that, but give you an idea of how far out of agreement it all is: socialism, apparently, was something that was dreamed up — now I'm not talking about the political aspect, I'm talking about the pure theory — it was evidently dreamed up by a couple of tramps down alongside the railroad track who couldn't bum any more chow so they had to figure out some political philosophy by which to get somebody to — that did work to support them.

Oh, I have to read you this one. This is actually „unofficially“ from Spain. This is — this is unofficially from Spain. This little girl is the HCO Steno, HASI London, so she sent it through for HCO London. „Ron. Very best wishes for successful, giant congress at ACC. All our love, HCO London.“

That's cruel of me to say that. But I never had — I never had a — a decided opinion on this before, not until the general election occurred in England. I got a fairly decided opinion on the thing. Because right away, the first thing that the socialists and laborers and so forth — the Labor Party are the people who don't work. And I got a tremendously new view of all of this when they said they were going to pay every person in the country who wasn't working 10 shillings more per week. Now of course, socialism, by which a person couldn't be worked to death, and would have something for his old age and couldn't be exploited left and right and so forth, was a grand dream. But socialism in actual practice is the ways and means of making enough people indigent so they'll vote for you, or something like that. It doesn't have very much to do with labor or production.

You know, you talk about „international boundaries.“ The people who want international boundaries and borders had better not want Scientology too. The truth of the matter is two of the star performers in London are Australians. And I was on the telex the other evening...

So, if we were to go into a total agreement with some of the leading trends of the world, we would have to go into agreement with socialism, which is to say, we would have to cater totally toward disabled people — unable people, and we would have to work very hard in order to keep these unable people unable. And we're not going in that direction. And every once in a while we get into a considerable argument.

By the way, you know — you know, you're awful close to London. The space is just totally jammed in between on these new jets. I came through so fast that I actually was getting baggage aboard halfway around the world, you know. Some of the HASIs are now connected together by teletypewriter, and all of them will be soon, and you will be connected up with the rest of them by teletypewriter soon, too. And then I look forward to all the franchise holders being connected up by teletypewriter, and we'll have it made.

Now you'll think I have decided political views. No, I don't have decided political views beyond this one point: I don't believe that the working man should be made the slave of all parasitic groups. I don't believe that. And actually I think that's a philosophy that the working man would agree with. In other words, the worker, or the person who does the work — and believe me, it's just as much work to manage as to sweep floors; I'm talking about work now — anybody who works has a perfect right to be assisted in his work by somebody else working. Right?

Now, it's really remarkable. We count noses in the various HASIs of staff nationalities, and it runs as high as 16 nationalities — that's right — in a single HASI.

Audience: Yes.

It doesn't matter where it is, but they just — Australians are there, and other nationalities are here, and so on. But they just don't seem to get the idea that they're different.

Well, isn't that a new, novel, strange idea!

Well, some recent developments have occurred technically in the field of Scientology which give us the courage to go for broke on OT.

Here we have — here we have two nineteenth-century philosophies which are fighting it out now here on Earth, between the United States and Russia. They're fighting it out. Russia — communism, the worker, so forth. And the United States — capitalism, you know? They both belonged in the nineteenth century. They were — they're something that's covered with mold and moss: capitalism, communism.

There isn't time in a congress to describe all of these. They will be taught on the 1st Melbourne ACC, complete. But it'd be a very bad thing if I didn't give you a little peek in, wouldn't it?

Communism was something dreamed up in Germany a hundred years ago. The Germans knew it wasn't any good so they threw it across the border into Russia.

Audience: Yes.

And capitalism was the basic idea whereby you took some money, preferably stolen, and loaned it to somebody at an exorbitant rate of interest so his labor would then support you. Now, that was basically capitalism. And both of these are old hat. They're total antiques.

That'd be bad show.

And we have Russia fighting the United States because it's a capitalistic nation. (The United States isn't a capitalistic nation — just try and save some money in the United States today!) And the United States is busy fighting Russia because Russia's a communism. Boy, I don't know what it says in Russian, but when it comes down to it, I think if you asked any commissar to practice pure communism, he would be sure you were trying to start the counterrevolution; he'd probably have you shot. It's kind of — some kind of a laborers' fascism.

I know there are people here that don't know too much Scientology. And I know there are going to be auditors afterwards that will tell me, „Well, I brought so-and-so along and they didn't know much about it, and so forth. And all you did was talk tremendous technicalities, and you just talked over their heads entirely, and they were very upset and so forth.“ So, if you want to be a friend of mine, don't tell the auditor who brought you that it was all over your head, huh?

Both philosophies (communism and capitalism) and other such philosophies are actually simply parasitic upon the one producer. The person who produces, they try to figure some way — means to corral or monopolize this production or to get part of the production for no return, something like that — bunch of figure- figure-figure.

But the tremendous developments always come back to tremendous simplicities. The great points of progress — not just in Scientology but almost in any field or area — are based on finding new, more simple fundamentals which themselves illuminate more areas of knowledge.

Now, that's an extreme view on my part. But that's all I believe in the field of politics. I don't care about any of the ramifications about it. I simply believe that the person who works should have help. He's entitled to have somebody else work too. And I believe that people that are not worth anything to the society and are not going to produce anything in the society and are just going to drag it down and so forth, I don't believe they need to be supported at all. The only thing I think you could do for those people is help them all you could to salvage them and bring them up to a point where they could pull their own weight in the society.

It's the simplicities that are scarce.

Now, there's — there's actually a different political philosophy, if you want to call it that. But it is a practical philosophy that if we've got to work at all, well, let's all work; and if we aren't going to work at all, well, let's not any body work. But if there's got to be work done and if that's the way the wheels are going to run, then, those that are a burden upon the economic structure of the society certainly could be promoted up into a status where they could pull their own weight. Now, don't you think it's a fairly workable philosophy?

Now, you can get people out making atomic bombs, and figuring out quanta, and missiles and bigger missiles and rarrr, and brrrr and fixing it up so they land flags on the Sea of Dreams, and — and accidentally land in the Sea of Violence. All kinds of — of complexities exist in this world today. All kinds of complexities, nothing more complex.

Audience: Yes.

If there's anything more complex going to be thought up it's by the „more progressive“ scientists of Earth.

Well, but that philosophy, you see, is not actually a political philosophy. And I don't give it to you as the political philosophy of Scientology at all. I just give it to you as a practical statement of how to keep the show on the road. And does that agree with any existing philosophy on Earth today? Doesn't at all.

For instance, the last Lincoln car that was built in the United States is a wonderful example. Lincoln's always been a pretty darn good automobile. And the last one went on total automatic and it's just got gadgets and gimmicks and thingamabobs and you press buttons and they operate solenoids and doors open and windshields flap up and little men come up and dust off the radiator cap. And people — people around Washington, are — in the organization and so forth, are always trying to get me to turn in an old 1954 Capri I have. And so I tell them „I'll turn it in any day that one of your new ones, you see (meaning the car they just bought, the 1958 or 59 or something of the sort) can beat it away from the stoplights and so on.“

Money, for instance, should represent worth but worth should not be represented in money. You get the idea of a fellow has value to his fellow man — he is valuable to his fellow man; he's valuable to his society, his community and so forth. He performs service, he has value, he knows things and so forth. Well, now, that person should be recompensed and the money should represent his value. Well, the society at large has got this totally reversed.

They haven't managed that yet, so I'm still stuck with this old Lincoln. I finally took it to England so it wouldn't be out of style.

You go down to the bank and you say, „How much is Mr. Jones worth?“ They say, „Well, Mr. Jones is worth 100,000 pounds.“ You couldn't sell Mr. Jones for 100,000 pounds! Couldn't be done. Couldn't be done at all.

But anyway, salesman came up and got ahold of me, and he says, „You've got to come down and look at the new 1995 (or whatever it was) Lincoln. And you just should be ashamed of yourself driving that old car... Want to get this new, big, wonderful, sensational...“ So forth.

No, capitalism, communism, this sort of thing, sort of out of shape today. But these political philosophies are more or less special interests, badly understood, used to serve the interests of people who don't mean the best for the other fellow. And so we have an enturbulance going on in the world today, which makes the Southern Hemisphere a very valuable part of Earth, since there's some possibility that it will be the only alive part of Earth within the next century.

So, he takes me down, and unfortunately for him I walked through the repair shops into the showroom! And here's nothing but 1959 Lincolns! See? Stacked up one on top of the other, so to speak! And I said, „You haven't been able to sell any Lincolns this year?“

Now, you can scoff at that if you like. But these new things — missiles, atomic weapons — can lay waste a considerable stretch of country, just because somebody didn't understand or believe in or try to help his fellow man. Left in the hands of the incompetent, who is being parasitic upon somebody else's labor, atomic weapons sooner or later will be loosed on somebody somewhere. But it will happen in the Northern Hemisphere, not this hemisphere.

„Oh, yes, we're selling Lincolns beautifully!“

Your worry on the score of atomic fission, in my opinion, is an entirely different worry than it is in the Northern Hemisphere. In the Northern Hemisphere, the question is, „How long are we going to stay alive, and, if it happens, what can be salvaged out of it?“ That's the question up there.

I said, „What are all these Lincolns doing in here?“

As a matter of fact, the question is so burning, so weighty that nobody can confront it. You see a picture of an atomic bomb in a newsreel, and don't bother to look at the picture on the screen, look at the people in the seats. And they'll go this way. And people step out of their seats and walk up the aisle and leave the theater. There's nobody even talking about it. Nobody confronts this fact at all. They just not-is it and brush it off and say, „Well, we're all going to stay blind to this if we possibly can and maybe it won't happen.“ Although they know very well that it very probably will happen. If not in another dozen years, maybe a half-century, certainly within a century. Weapons of that magnitude cannot continue to exist on a planet with man in the state he's in without someday being used, unless, of course, we get there first. If Scientology got there first, we'd have some guarantee that no insane people would be in the Northern Hemisphere governments.

„Oh, well,“ he says, „uh, ahem, come on into the showroom.“

We're going in that direction, by the way, and that is our program. It's a very — it's a very complicated program. It's not very popular. So if Scientology misses, since there is no other organization, rationale, know-how or anything else that is even vaguely pointed in the direction of atomic fission — there are few little groups that hold meetings in towns, and occasionally get together and say nobody should use the bomb or we should stop manufacturing it or something. Very limp — very limp little groups. And everybody says, „Boo, boo, boo“ and go out and arrest somebody because they put up a placard or something of the sort, and said that atomic bombs are bad. You know, it's such a limp effort that it's hardly worth measuring at all. And it leaves Scientology with a job on it hands it never intended to have and didn't want and puts pressure on the line of dissemination and colors organizational actions, even colors the actions of individual auditors and so on, makes them hit pretty hard. It makes them try harder and it makes them feel defeated more easily.

I said, „No. No. No, I'm interested in this Lincoln right here.“

They can't pull it smoothly and evenly forward, you see. They can't say, „Well, if we just get a PE going and if we get our friends interested in the PE and we just get people coming in — small groups — and eventually we'll make the grade.“ They realize that they're on some kind of borrowed time and it gives them the feeling like, „Well, we just haven't got time to get some people in and put them on a PE and straighten it out and get dissemination going in this way. We just haven't got time to do it.“ And they're always trying for the total effect. And you'll occasionally find them up at the US Senate or something like that, hammering on senators' doors and so forth. That's a very unpopular activity.

And I got in and slid under the seat and started to press switch buttons. It has panels full of buttons, you know. I started operating these panels, you know. Windows didn't open, doors didn't open, hoods didn't fly up, you know, boots stayed shut, lights stayed off. It wasn't operating.

There was a fellow got a new thought into the US Senate one time or another and... I remember I talked to a US Senator about this one time. I said, „What are you doing about atomic fission, you personally, in your political campaigns and so forth?“ And he looked absolutely surprised like, should he have any ideas concerning this, you know? And I said, „Well, what are you doing to smooth down world tension, and so on, so that atomic fission wouldn't eventually come to be used to solve political problems and so on?“

It had gotten so mechanically complicated, had so many vias and supercontrols, and little motors and so forth to go wrong, that all you have to do at one of them is sneeze, you see, and something stops operating.

„Oh, well, we have the answer to that, ho, ho.“

You know, it's like these new — these new missiles the same way. They put them on the launching pad and they fill them up full of fuel, and they blow up. They put a new one on the launching pad, they get it full of fuel, but as they're disconnecting the electric razor or something off of it, why, it blows up and so on. And they finally manage to put it all together and back off very carefully and get in and then push the button and it blows up.

And I said, „Well, what are you doing?“

Well, now the funny part of it is that they think that by adding greater and greater complications onto their mechanical basics that they can get greater and greater performance. And that isn't true at all.

„Well, we've got the answer to that. We do that. That's our power here in the Senate and that's what we do and. . .”

When a communication line stops operating, just strip all the gadgets and things off of it and just put the straight line back and it'll start operating again. That's a truism mechanically. And it's certainly true technologically in the development of Scientology research investigation.

I said, „Yeah, but what are you doing?“

Now, by achieving a new, even more simple basic — those amongst you that were brought by the auditor and don't know much about Scientology just don't pay any attention to the next thing I'm going to say because it won't do you a bit of good. But the auditors will understand it. It works like this: We could probably go to the moon and erect any number of batteries of flags with no oxygen masks or anything else by simply achieving a few more simple simplicities in Scientology.

And he said, „Fighting communism, of course!“

You see, the conquest of the moon doesn't depend upon supercomplexities. It's much more likely to be achieved by our arriving at supersimplicities.

I said, „Well, how are you fighting communism? I mean, if you're going to fight communism.“

Now, for instance, we've had a map of the back of the moon for about five years. And the last map shot by the Russians when that thing went around back there — its photographic quality is very sour, but it shows that they more or less did send something around the moon. Everybody doubted it for a while, but they did send something around because I've got a chart on my desk that shows they're more or less correct.

„Well, train up a young fellow and you put a gun in his hands and have him go shoot communists.“

The achievement of a simplicity is a greater goal in Scientology than the achievement of a super-supercomplexity that nobody can understand.

Well, these programs — these programs that are originated in those particular spheres are not necessarily the programs that will win! That's an understatement if there ever was one!

Now, the basics in Scientology can be explained to a little kid and he'll get them right away if they're true. The truths, the valuable truths, and the things that are really going forward in Scientology are that easily communicated. And you can always tell where we're just a little bit off the rails because a little kid can't understand what we're talking about. And if that's the case and it's gotten very complicated, we may be on the verge of a simplicity but we haven't quite reached it because we haven't achieved understanding.

So the — the Scientologist is in a slightly more tense frame of mind in the Northern Hemisphere if he looks in this direction at all. When he tries to do something he feels that, well, he won't get there quick enough; it won't be done fast enough. And he goes through cycles of being — snarling about it and being apathetic about it. But here you've got a longer, smoother pull. And this is an easy one, actually. And you're succeeding and you're succeeding very well. But you do have some share in this problem of the Northern Hemisphere.

You might say that all things worth understanding are infinitely simple. And all things which are very, very difficult to understand aren't worth studying.

Because — well, for one thing, if there's anything manufactured in the Northern Hemisphere that you have to use to keep this society going, you'd better be manufacturing it. And if there's a spillover of radiation one kind or another, which there very well might be, a tremendous amount of fallout, you'd certainly better know how to — to handle small amounts of fallout — the small amount you'd get. If you have any economic dependence on the Northern Hemisphere at all, you certainly better get over it. If the Southern Hemisphere is self-maintaining, if it is a total economic unit, if its know-hows and so forth are top-drawer, it'll continue to have a civilization that may very well be the only civilization left on Earth.

Well, you take accounting. I'll give you an example, take accounting. Now, if you don't think organizationally around the world we haven't had trouble with accounting. In the first place — in the first place an Australian chartered accountant is at total odds on how to do it (you wouldn't believe this, but it's true) with a London chartered accountant; they don't quite talk the same language. Their columns of figures add up just a little bit different.

Now, that sounds like I'm just beating the drum and trotting out a horrible fact and hanging up a carcass and so on. But it's a fact you don't even dare say in the Northern Hemisphere today, because it's too true. It's just too true. It's too much truth.

They get in a balance sheet in the London office and they read the year's report and so forth on it, and they say, „Well, the — eh — he shouldn't have added that up quite that way. That's not quite the way it's done.“ And down here I'm sure they do the same thing. And an American accountant takes a look at the thing and says, „Huh! Internal Revenue will never agree with that!“ I mean, just does that automatically, it doesn't matter what you put down.

If you were to destroy 50 percent of the facilities of the United States, 50 percent of its population, so on, with atomic fission, I promise you that the remaining 50 percent would be so pulled down and so overloaded with the — with the burden of trying to care for the injured and the sick and the tremendous epidemics that follow and so forth, civilization would just never survive it.

And you say, „No! No! We want this balance sheet for the Association Secretary. We don't — we want to know what the organization did. Not — not — not what Internal Revenue thinks about it.“

Nobody looks at that fact up to a point of where they don't even take precautions with civil defense. There's hardly even a store of bandages sitting outside of any metropolitan center up in the Northern Hemisphere. There's just nothing.

„Oh, well, it's got to be for Internal Revenue.“

Old air-raid defense of the old days and so on, that's what they kind of fall back on. They've got it all planned out — all planned out in Washington that they have a warning — air-raid wardens, you see, and they're out on the outskirts of the city and they look up, you see, and they identify the guided missile and then they pick up a telephone, you see, and then they call somebody and then they tell somebody else and then somebody else gets everybody together and puts them into cars, I think it is, and takes them to various centralized parts of the city.

And you say, „No. We want an accounting department that tells our own executives and people what we're doing financially.“

And I asked the chief of civil defense of Washington, DC (because I was trained in this work to some degree), and I ask him, I said, „How fast does a guided missile travel?“ He just changed the subject. See, by the time an air-raid warden put his telescope or binoculars on a guided missile, it, traveling at 30,000 miles an hour, would have exploded. There isn't any time to phone anybody up or evacuate any buildings or anything else.

„Well, I don't care. Internal Revenue, Inland Revenue, and your income tax and so forth.“

Now, you say, „Well, you could have a far warning system.“ Well, I guess you could. You could have a far warning system and they could look up, boom! See? This is beyond — beyond the reality of the Northern Hemisphere.

You say, „Look, just — just drop them all out the window, will you? We want to find out what we're doing.“

So I wouldn't pay much attention to it if I were you, what the Northern Hemisphere thinks about atomic radiation and that sort of thing, what's released there or what the political promises or future is. I would just sort of think to myself, „Well, if it happens they've had it, and if it happens we better not have it too.“ Because the Southern Hemisphere, obviously, is the only area that will ever have a prayer in an atomic war. But it will only have a prayer if it is very definitely self-sufficient.

We actually have gotten to a point where if it gets — if an organization gets too big, we just set up a partitioned section that does the kind of accounting the government wants, and then just kind of forget them because somebody's got to keep us informed. And government accounting has practically nothing to do with what a businessman or an organization man wants, has nothing to do with it. He wants to know whether he's solvent; the government wants to know how much they can gouge him for. Entirely different thing just as any businessman here will agree.

And that's why it's such good news all around that you're doing so well here with Scientology. Because we are putting all our chips on this bet here. There's a lot more depends on Australia than you would at first notice. I hate to have to bring it up.

Well, we had to realize finally that accounting was stuck someplace in the eighteenth or nineteenth century; it wasn't in the twentieth century because the governments demand certain things of you, and other people demand certain things of you, you have to know certain things, and no accounting system extant was giving us these things. And everybody was getting all tangled up with accounting! And anybody can tell you, I am sure, that accounting is a very difficult subject, very difficult! Complicated! Well, it's just complicated enough these days so as not to tell us anything.

But Australia — Australia is no stranger to me. I know your country very well. Before the Yanks came I was Senior Officer Present of northern Australia, not because I had any rank, but because there wasn't anybody else there. The — perhaps you're aware of the status of a Senior Officer Present, naval status. It's the flag ashore. Senior Officer Present ashore commands all Senior Officer Presents afloat. Now it's one of these interesting things.

So, every time we move into some zone of human activity we're unfortunately confronted with a muddle and if we go very far into that particular field we wind up having to straighten it out so that we can get someplace, and that's kind of the way it's going.

Well, I got mixed up in the early part of the war and got detoured and that sort of thing, and I finally wound up falling back to Brisbane. And I was walking down the street in a bad state of dishabille — I'd saved some insignia, you know, and the army stopped me and said, „Who are you?“

And we had to sit down, of all things, and find out the fundamentals of accounting. What is accounting? What does it do and how do you do it?

And I gave my name, rank and serial number.

And we finally wound up with an accounting system that does what the government wants and does what the executives want and does what everybody wants and doesn't take any time. It's all very simple.

And they said, „Do you realize that there's no naval officer in this port or in Northern Australia?“ And I said, „Well, I hadn't realized it.“ Couldn't have cared less, as a matter of fact. I was thinking, „Gosh, it's nice to be alive!“

The government wants records, so all you do is file records and you've got a system that they agree with. And you put the records in file envelopes so that an executive can look up any person or company that he's doing business with — everything about the person or company is in one envelope, not scattered around anyplace; pick that up and he can look in there and he could read it all off.

And — „Well now, in your regulations,“ the army said, „I'm sure you will find a clause that says, 'By exigencies of service on foreign station, the senior naval officer present shall take command of all naval activities.“

In other words, all we're doing now is assembling records and filing them, and you can file records in a certain way so as to give you any accounting answer that you want.

So I looked at my stripes. I said, „Okay. That's the way it is. I'll sit around and look pretty.“

Nineteenth century said that you had to write it all down in books, which is an alter-is. Well, you don't have to do that because the government doesn't want you to keep books, they want you to keep records. They look at your books, you know, they say, „Ha, ha, ha, ha!“ And you say, „Well, these are our books. They're kept by our chartered accountants and so forth.“ And the government says, „Yes, we know. Where's the records?“ They know you can alter the books, but it's harder to alter records, so that's what they call for these days. So, it might as well be a record accounting system, and that's what we've invented.

„Look pretty! There's 17 merchantmen in Brisbane lower river; they haven't been brought in. There's 4 million dollars worth of jettisoned cargo laying on the docks that nobody has any responsibility for. There are 250 refugees who have just dropped back from Malaysia and Singapore that nobody's taking any responsibility for, and you have about 200 naval personnel drifting through this port that nobody's taking any responsibility for. There are enemy agents all over the place. Nobody's taking charge of naval censorship. Well, here's a sergeant and a girl and there's your office.“

It turns out to be a very simple system, but it had everybody in the organizations on their ear for just ages — accounting. Everybody going mad with accounting.

For ensuing months, why, I had a ball. Forgot what it was like to sleep. I remember vividly — you see, Australia had already been written off the books by the US Navy. I don't know if you knew that — very early in the war. In the US entrance into the war it had been — it had been written off the books. I opened up the trans-Pacific telephone line and called the Bureau of Naval Operations, Navy Department, Washington, DC, because I'd sent them already ten messages without any single reply. One of them had to do with what the hell did they want me to do with a heavy cruiser? So I just phoned them up clear, straight through. Got the officer of the day right in the Navy Department in the Pentagon in Washington, and I said, „This is Hubbard, Senior Officer Present in Northern Australia. I want to talk to somebody — who will give me orders for certain vessels in these waters.“ And he said, „Just a moment.“

It's like that in any field of human endeavor. And when something is so complicated that you can't understand it, then don't you be criticizing you as not being able to understand it! Because you've been taught that when you see something difficult or incomprehensible that you can't comprehend, that therefore, you, not understanding it, you must be stupid! And you've been taught to criticize yourself as the first reaction to a complexity! Isn't that right?

And I waited. And the Australian telephone company that I was working with, they waited. Everybody waited. And the voice came back and said, „Well, I'm sorry. There's nobody of that name here.“ And hung up. Australia didn't exist.

Audience: Yes.

The ship in question — the ship in question was a heavy cruiser and its four-stripe captain had first come ashore and had looked at me, you know, „What! You're Senior Officer Present ashore?“ and had sniffed. And I was trying to get him orders and he was trying to get orders and everybody was trying to do something to get it out of here, because the Japanese might strike in the north at any time.

Well, we've got a new look at this. We find out this is just an operation. This is just a way to control people. Let's erect something here that has glittering metal bars and balls and transformers and dials and all sorts of things and then write a textbook that has to do with the quanta of the inverse electrode. Get the thing all computed out in compound calculus with analytical figments, get it put into the local university as a necessary subject if you're going to understand engineering, prove it all conclusively. Nobody understands it — „You're flunked! You're stupid! We of the great priesthood understand it. But you, you louse... Therefore, we are very great people. You owe us a debt. Look at all the work we go to understanding this thing.“

He finally came in the office, you know, all four stripes and gold braid and so forth, and he said, „Mr. Hubbard,“ he said, „if you will sign — if you will sign sailing orders for me, I'll sail.“

Man, man has been falling for that one too many years. If you can't understand it, one of two things is true: You haven't looked through it to find if there are any simplicities in it that you can understand, or it is incomprehensible. See, one of those two things is true.

So I scribbled out: „You are hereby detached from this station and shall proceed upon your way as befits your duties and missions. Signed, L. Ron Hubbard.“

True enough, if there's going to be anything to a big machine or structure or something, there will be some sort of a simplicity on which it's based. And even though the thing does look imposing at first glance, if it contains truth and workability and has value, then somewhere in it there is a simplicity that you can understand, and on that simplicity you can simply build the rest of the mechanism and understand the whole thing.

A couple of years later I was kicking around — I had command of a squadron over on the other side of the war — I was kicking around an officers' club and I was — just been introduced to somebody and this officer sat there and all of a sudden he went into a brown study, you know. „Did you say your name was Hubbard?“

It might be that you didn't do it in a second, but if it took you two or three days, begin to suspect that there's something phony about it. You see that?

„That's right.“

Now, very often you'll come in late on a subject. The simplicities have all been bypassed. In other words, the simplicities are all taken care of, and somebody is using a language which at this stage of the game is incomprehensible. Now, that language means something or it doesn't mean anything. So, the thing to do is to pick out some of the words that are being used and find out if they are simple words in terms of definition. And if you can understand those words defined, then you can understand the subject. But, if you don't understand those words — if „telekinesis“ is „the right bower of the vortical curve put on by God,“ you say, „Well, that's — I don't know about that. I don't know — Gee.“

„Hubbard. Hubbard.“ He says, „L. R. Hubbard?“

You're usually better off just by picking this subject up by the scruff of the neck and going... Because there's some hocus-pocus in it. Somebody is being quite unreasonable.

I said, „That's right.“

Now, I well remember in universities taking up the subject of physics. And physics is comprehensible as long as you're dealing with fundamentals, but some of the things they make out of the fundamentals are quite fantastic. You get up into kinetics and it isn't true. But oh, expansion of gases, for instance, something about gases expand or how you balance two things on a lever's arm or something of that sort. That's all comprehensible. And if you understand that clearly and completely where they apply in physics you can understand all of physics and it's an A-B-C subject that even a little kid could understand.

He says, „Good God,“ he says, „you're that fellow from down in Australia!“

Now, there's another method of obfuscating, a subject, one more method of doing it. And that's to take a subject that's basically simple and talk double talk on it so as to make it appear very complicated even though it's very simple. And perhaps many great truths have been lost to man that way. In other words, the truth was there and then somebody came along and „explained it“ and somehow or another forgot to repeat the truth in the explanation. This is another operation.

And, actually, through the remainder — they had kept this set of orders framed on the wall of this US heavy cruiser for the remainder of the war. And actually, throughout the remainder of the war I was known as that fellow who was in Australia. So you see, I must be one of you.

But if you, on close investigation of a specific subject — like looking up the definitions of its various words or something like that, find that you can't understand it, certainly we can say one thing absolutely — that it isn't true for you. We could say that absolutely. But the probability is that it isn't true at all.

All very funny. Very funny. I sent four ships to MacArthur and everybody says, „You mustn't send them.“ Refugees all over the place, everybody says, „They're probably all spies. You mustn't do anything with them.“ I'd keep rounding them up and shoving them aboard ships and people would say, „We can't take them. Have no orders.“ I'd say, „Yes, you have. You've got my orders. Take them.“

Of course, complicated words, communication barriers of one kind or another, specialized definitions and so forth, do occasionally give you a complicated-looking word. But, if you look around and you find the definition to that word and you find out that word does describe something that is true to you now, well, there's probably something there. But if you don't understand it, then there's nothing.

I remember reading at that time — I remember reading a US newspaper story. It says, „Where is the US fleet? Where is the US fleet?“ And there's a big picture, you see, of battleships and a map of Australia. „It is guarding the shores of Australia.“ The US fleet was on the bottom at Pearl Harbor — thud. And what was guarding the shores of Australia was a six-inch gun in charge of some naval — Australian naval reservists down at the mouth of the Brisbane River, a few territorials with Lee-Enfields and Hubbard with a submachine gun. I was the antiaircraft battery. Actually had bullets for the thing! That was before the Yanks came.

Now, in research it's my job continuously to suspect complications. Every once in a while, man, we'll find one that looks like it's going right on up to the stars, you know, it's just wonderful rationale; it just seems to work perfectly and so on, but it's pretty complex. It kind of takes an expert to get it crossways into his skull, you know, and he can still feel the points jabbing him a little bit.

The — this is very, very amusing. One of my officers, some years later, told somebody, „Yes, he's the fellow who was down in Australia. He was relieved by a million men.“ Well, we had a ball.

And you figure it out in long formulas, and then you have to know this and that and the other thing and so on. Well, I'm too old a hand at it by now — I'll just carry one of these things down about half a column and say, „Well, I guess we better look a little bit further. Because I'd say about next Tuesday we'll find the simplicity that makes this whole thing fall apart.“ And we have just found some of these simplicities in Scientology research that have made a whole lot of things that were evidently a little bit complex fall apart.

One of the jobs I had was keeping enough rumors on the line. Every time we'd find a spy, why, naval intelligence and army intelligence and so forth — I've actually received orders: „Take him out in the middle of the harbor and drown him,“ see, spy. Oh no. Oh, I'd just tell them, „Well now, listen, I've got something for you to do,“ you see? And I'd give them all the data on all the batteries. I'd tell them I was privately a German spy, you see, and I wanted him somehow or other to get the dope to the Japs: all the tremendous massed batteries and the airfields and the tremendous numbers of troops and the battleships and everything that were down here ready to knock the Japs off. Anything to keep the Japanese high command totally convinced that there was something here. I'll never know — I'll just never know why Australia came through it at that time. I just never - I'll never know the facts.

Now, I still suspect a couple of the items in this new work because I don't think I could explain them easily to a seven- year-old kid. So, I'd say, „Well, I don't know, that's — there must be something wrong with them so there's something simpler to know about them.“

I finally figured out why the Allies won the war over the Japs: because the Jap high command was stupider than ours. And that's the only — only real reason for it.

Once in a while these things look very good and go very bad. But they only really go very bad if they're away from the fundamentals that we have known for years and years and years.

But Australia had shipped everything it had overseas at that time. And there was nothing left in the country and there was just a handful of troops and so forth here just to make some kind of a show. Any boatload of Jap marines could have taken the country. That was up till almost the end of spring of 1942. Maybe you didn't even know it was in that condition. But it was really rough. It was something to perspire about quite heavily.

Somebody's always coming along and telling you, „Well, Ron's always changing Dianetics and Scientology. He's always changing it, always changing it.“ The person that tells you that doesn't know the fundamentals or simplicities of Dianetics or Scientology. It's very simple — the setup.

I thought I was going to come back to Australia at the end of 42. They shipped me home and within a week gave me corvettes, North Atlantic. And I went on fighting submarines in the North Atlantic and doing other things and so on. And I finally got a set of orders for the ship. By that time I had the squadron. And I got a set of orders and these orders said, „You will proceed through the Panama Canal to Auckland and then Melbourne.“ And I thought, „Isn't that nice! Now that the place is in good shape and everything, why, maybe I can go back because I think Australia's wonderful.“

We're not changing that. We're trying to find something simpler than the simplicities we already know. It's been working for a long time. How does it work faster? How does it work better? And you'll get shifts of emphasis on various types of processes, shifts of emphasis this way and that.

And I called all the officers together in the wardroom and I said, „Well, here we go, and isn't this swell and everything's fine. And this is all supersecret and you're not supposed to tell anybody but your girls.“

Once in a blue moon — I could say we make a mistake; I won't — once in a blue moon I make a mistake; I take full responsibility.

About 24 hours later I myself got a set of orders and it said, „You are hereby detached as commander of the squadron and you will proceed to the training center in Florida for preparation to take command of a new war vessel.“ Reason, you see — the reference was „All NAV (something or other, something or other)“ which the — any officer who had served in these waters and area up to the beginning of summer of 1942, would not be returned to these waters for a year. Now you tell me why. I don't know why. But that was the order they put out because there actually weren't many people got home from the Asiatic fleet. Maybe you noticed that. There was a few casualties around. And so I got detached and I went to Florida, not Melbourne. This is the first time I've had a chance to be back. So I'm awfully glad to be here.

But the difference is, is I'm not so anxious to save my face as never to mention it. There are probably a half a dozen bloomers on public releases over the past nine or ten years, and I made every single one of them and corrected them afterwards and said so.

Well, I actually didn't mean to tell you all that. Probably not particularly interesting as far as Scientology is concerned. But it's interesting as far as Australia is concerned because I feel this is — this is one of the — the country, perhaps, with the greatest and brightest future on the face of Earth today.

One of those was a thing called Step 6. That's a bloomer of vast magnitude. Just because myself and a half-dozen other people that were on the research lines and so forth didn't run into the solid bank phenomena, we went ahead and released it broadly. Just because a number of people were cleared using it, why we thought, „That's it.“ I did say at the time that it was only good for about 50 percent, but I didn't calculate what was going to happen to the 50 percent it didn't clear, and that was pretty grim.

I believe what political philosophies are adopted and followed, what governing principles are put into effect here, the care — of utilization of the land, the supervision of immigration and all of these various concerns are of tremendous importance. Any one of them could make or break the future of this country to some degree. There's some bad mistakes could be made along this line someplace and the future of the country could be muddied up rather easily. But I think it's going along fine.

You make a picture, a mental image picture, more visible and more solid for an individual whose engrams are still live with big claws. And this beautiful picture of the flowers in the field, it gets prettier — and prettier and prettier and solider, and the blades of grass finally get so he could practically feel them, you see? In the meantime there's something going further and further and more solid into the back of his neck. At the same time you improve the quality of any picture in a person's mind, you improve the quality of every picture in the person's mind!

The only thing I see it doing right now that worries me — and it's very funny that I would be worried about it, but I am worried about it — is I hate to see inflation occurring. Where sterling is stable and where money is stable more or less everyplace but the United States, to see Australian money inflating slightly and going up the line and so on, is a worrisome thing. Because it means only one thing — it means the production isn't up here.

Now, the mental image picture — the mental image picture is of course, by rights the subject of Dianetics. And that people had mental image pictures and that these pictures were the cause — the recording of them, the cause of the continuance of pressure or bad feeling or misemotion or something of the sort, we considered that by desensitizing or erasing these mental image pictures and taking the teeth out of past experience, in other words, we could bring a person up to more optimum operation.

Now, all you have to know about economics is that in a period where you have low production — per capita production — you don't have enough goods — where money won't buy anything, then money inflates. Where goods are missing, money inflates. And where goods are there in too great a number, money deflates. And that's — beside from the law of supply and demand, which is part of that — that's about all you need to know about inflation and deflation and economics.

Well, that was fine. And, I demonstrated it time and time again, did it often and — and it was highly successful, and even today you can take Book One and open it up, as I have had somebody do, read the „canceller“ or something on it, you know?

I don't care what some special interest tells you, if you see money inflating it means there isn't enough production, that's all. And it means that somewhere along the line — somewhere along the line, why, either Australia isn't getting enough construction machinery or it isn't getting enough raw materials of some sort or it isn't aligned economically in some fashion in order to keep it stable. Because inflating money is a very, very dangerous symptom. It makes a country liable to many political consequences. It makes it a target for many things. It's not terribly dangerous in the state that it's in, but if the money inflated up to a point where it cost a thousand pounds to buy a loaf of bread, you'd have raw, red revolution here. Because an economic stress of this sort is something that a country can't possibly afford to have.

I've had a person, by the way, read a session to me out of Book One. It's very amusing, you know? It's got places in there where your — the exact way you run a session, you know? Well, they didn't memorize these things. They were using Book One to audit with and they'd simply open Book One, you see, and read it off to the preclear. „Now, I duh-duh-duh-duh-duh.“

As I see it right now, the role of Scientology would be to assist the increase of production in any way that it could. And, of course, the best way to assist production is to just bring about more able people. There must be — it isn't necessarily true that there are people dragging on the lines, but it is true that by increasing the production of individuals, you would tend to halt an economic chaos sometime in the future.

Well, you can do that and get somebody to — on a couch and „Close your eyes,“ and all the rest of it just as it says in Book One. Return him to the incident necessary to resolve his case, run him from the beginning to the end of the thing through and through and through, make him reexperience the thing fully and totally and so on, and get rid of his sciatica or baldness or almost anything!

Probably the only thing that faces Australia now that looks the least bit dangerous to me is just this slight inflationary trend. And I'm sure somebody's going to get hold of that. But if they don't, why, we ought to. And I got so darn used to protecting Australia that I worry about it.

The things wrong with him tend to get right within certain limits by the erasure of engrams. The only thing that happens wrong in Dianetic clearing is the person suddenly runs out of havingness. In other words, his whole acceptance level was horrible engrams. And the only thing he could really have was gruesome, terrible, horrible mental image pictures! And you erase two or three of these, erasing the wrong ones, not the one that made him want them, and he would just — he just lost two or three perfectly beautiful mental image pictures, didn't he?

But here's — whether the political future is good or bad or — or whether we're going to have atomic war or not, all that's beside the point. The point is, right now, is I'm awfully glad you're here and I'm awfully glad to be here, and I hope by this time you've got a congress. Have you?

And if you erase them wrong way to and so forth, people get upset because they're possessions. They're possessions that can never be replaced.

Audience: Yes.

Now, engrams have teeth and claws and all sorts of things.

All right. I want to take up a lot of, oh, technical material and odds and ends and so forth, but I thought I'd just better ramble on this first hour and tell you hello and tell you I was glad to be here and tell you I wasn't exactly a stranger to it. Because many of you probably didn't even know I'd even seen Australia before.

I had an attorney one time — he said to me, „Oh,“ he says, „you're that guy — you're that Dianetics guy.“ I said, „That's right.“ He said, „What's the good of that stuff?“ He — „Would it be any use to me?“ I said, „Well, how would you like to be able to snap your fingers in front of a witness in a chair and say a certain magic phrase and have the witness curl up in a ball and roll on the floor?“ „Aw,“ he said, „that would be terrific.“ He said, „But you couldn't do that. Show me!“

Oh, you knew — knew I'd been down here? Do you also know I was the fellow from Australia?

I put him in a prenatal and he rolled up in a ball on the floor. I never saw that man afterwards at a club or on the street for what he didn't say, „How are you today, Dr. Hubbard?“

Well, later on we'll get into some more interesting stuff. I was up all night writing materials for these lectures, you see. And I made a tremendous pile of notes about it, and I had all the notes all set up and all ready to go and the chambermaid threw them out this morning. So you'll just have to bear with me on what data I can manage to remember from my notes in these next few lectures.

The horrible part of it is that a mental image picture will obey the other fellow before it will obey his possessor — its possessor. One's own mental image pictures mind the other guy better than they mind the person who has them because their common denominator is other-determinism.

And until the next lecture, thank you.

Now, where auditors have had difficulty making Dianetics work is they think the preclear has some influence on his mental image pictures. They think the mental image pictures do what the preclear says. In other words, he says, „Go away. Come back. Change. Turn. Run this way.“ See, they expect the preclear to do it! The responsibility is being assigned by the auditor to the preclear!

The reason it's a picture in suspension and is still there hanging fire to the end of time is because the preclear has no control over it. It's an other-determined thing!

There's this picture of a fellow being beheaded, you see, and the pc, when he gets a little tired or something like that will notice kind of, you know, that he has this picture of this fellow being beheaded, you know? Has nothing to do with him. Thinks it's something he read out of an old book. Maybe he saw it in the movies. Sort of stuck there, you know?

He'll be sitting there, won't be thinking about anything, and... Well, that doesn't bother him, and it has nothing whatsoever to do with this horrible pain he gets across the back of his neck!

Well, everybody has mental image pictures, but some people have found them so painful that they have gone mmmmmm and have squashed them down to an invisibility. They either made them very furry or quite invisible. And you say, „Close your eyes. What do you see?“ Such a person says, „Oh, nothing but this wide — you know, just nothing. Ha. don't see anything. No, nothing. Ow!“

And some other people have decided that the invisibility itself was still too terrible, so after they've squashed their mental image pictures down to an invisibility — those that are chronically stuck — then they get some black paint and get it all nice and black!

And you say, „Close your eyes. What do you see?“

„Oh, nothing. Just this blackness. Ha. Doesn't bother me — cough-cough-cough-cough.“

And some people, believe it or not, still feel so insecure that they take the blackness and alter it to something else. And when you start to — run these people, you start to run the something else. You get — all of a sudden it's something else, like little rockets or something like that.

„What do you see?“ you know. „Close your eyes. What do you see?“

The fellow says, „I see these little rockets. Rockets going across. That's all.“ Yeah, that's all. When you run that you'll get blackness. And when you run the blackness you get invisibility. And when you run the invisibility you'll get a picture, and there's this headsman standing there with his ax. The fellow is just — his whole action toward it was not to take responsibility for it, but to get rid of it in some outrageous way that didn't get rid of it at all. And that's about all the responsibility most preclears take for their mental image pictures. You know — squash!

You walk up to a psychologist, you say, „What do you know about mental image pictures?“

„Oh, you're talking about Dianetics, aren't you? Well, they don't exist. Oh, we knew about that years ago. Nobody has any.“

You say, „Well, do you have any mental image pictures?“

„Nah. No, I don't.“ And he just... And you say, „Close your eyes. What do you see?“

„Oh, just these little things going this way.“

The general — the general status of people's minds varies, of course, according to their pattern of experience.

Joe here has not led the same life as Isabel. And so Joe has one set of pictures and Isabel has another set of pictures. And then these pictures are more — have been more impressive to Joe, let us say, than to Isabel, so Joe's pictures are more not-ised or scrunched up or squashed or done away with, you see, than Isabel's.

So, Isabel has a picture of something or other that she can see; Joe has a picture that he can't see. So, you get these variations but you get the common denominator and simplicity that people have pictures. People have pictures.

And the only people who could have pictures and not have them be a total liability would be a Clear, because the difference between a Clear and a person who is not Clear is not a total absence of pictures, as everybody tries to define it. A Clear can have pictures, but a Clear can do something about them! And the person who isn't Clear can't! It's degree of other-determinism effective on the individual, if you wanted to be very technical about it.

And the Clear can determine his pictures. If he wants to see again his being beheaded, whenever it was, he can mock it up, and look at it and even put the pain into it and go the rest of the way through the thing again. After he's gotten rid of a picture he can put it back there again. That's definitely a Clear's relationship to mental image pictures.

But, another person who isn't Clear is in this terrible condition: that the pictures don't obey him. They obey anything and anybody else — particularly headsmen.

Auditors very often miss when they're very young in their career and don't know their business. You know, they're just fumbling around and trying to get there somehow. They miss this terrible fundamental. And this fundamental is with us today in Scientology as it's never been before. It's a fundamental.

It's degree of other-determinism effective upon the individual, and it's represented in his own control over his pictures. But that person learning to be an auditor who doesn't know his business yet, actually believes that the preclear is being a bad pc and is being upsetting and is being mean and is being stupid and willful if he won't go ahead and handle his pictures. And he keeps trying to get the preclear to handle his pictures!

And the only person that can handle the preclear's pictures is the auditor — that little simplicity there.

Now, as the auditor starts handling them, the preclear finds he can start chipping in. And after a while finally comes up to a point where he can determine something about the picture. And when you're handling pictures directly that's the only thing that happens, is the picture goes from totally other-determined to self-determined. That's all that happens with pictures.

And in clearing people you are not trying to erase every picture and every possession and every everything that the poor preclear has. If you take away all of his aches and pains and all of his mental image pictures, all of his own physical possessions and his body, according to some people he would be very Clear! Well, he isn't Clear; he was robbed.

The only thing an auditor can do in the final analysis is to restore other-determinism into self-determinism. In other words, he can make the pc able to control his existence rather than existence controlling the pc.

Now, that tells us where we are in relationship to Wundtian psychology which was invented in 1879 in Leipzig, Germany on the premise that man is an animal that reacts on neurons and synapses.

Once in a while an auditor hears a lecture by me and I tell them about psychology. I define psychology, or tell them about psychoanalysis and define psychoanalysis and tell them the facts, you know — brrrrrrrr — and they're this and that and so on, and so it all adds up this way and so forth. They think I'm kidding them.

Then they go out to a meeting of psychologists, they go out to a meeting of psychoanalysts or they read a few textbooks. And they come back and they tell me I am very guilty of understatement. It's much more so!

But, psychology believes that the individual must adjust himself to his environment to be happy. Anybody that knows that subject can tell you that's absolute fact. That isn't all! I mean, there's more. But he has to adjust himself to the environment!

If a fellow becomes the effect of all dynamics, he would be happy! Is there anything wrong with that? If a fellow becomes the effect of everybody he knows, then they will all like him. Is that true?

No. A fellow has to come over to a point where he can be cause over his environment and the dynamics and so forth — not obsessive cause, but just be cause over these things in order to have them in some relationship to himself that isn't harmful to himself and others.

The only thing wicked about this universe or this world, the only wicked thing would simply be this: That it is so other-determined where each individual is concerned, that much evil can result since evil itself would be just random chaos never determined by anybody. And I'm sure that would be evil. I think anybody would agree that would be evil. That's all anybody ever really objects to is just chaos just going on, nobody doing anything about it and everybody being subject to the chaos. And if a steamroller gets its motor started somehow and starts down the road it just runs over people. You know, that's the way it should be.

Well, if you followed through the basic goal of psychology you'd have that kind of a world.

Well, that isn't a good enough goal or isn't a good enough level. So, in Dianetics we had to find out what was it that kept a person this convinced that he couldn't do anything about anything. And it's simply the other-determinism character of his mental image pictures. And all the mental image pictures are that do him harm are the pictures of things that happened that he thereafter couldn't do anything about. It's things he couldn't do anything about. And the common denominator of all mental image pictures that are harmful or overwhelm people simply is that — he can't do anything about them. They're other-determined. So, after a while, people turn around and say, „Well, God has charge of them.“ Or they say, „Well, it's the Politburo has charge of them.“

And there are societies that have built things called thought towers. Believe it or not, this is true — thought tower. And this thought tower was supposed to emanate messages into all the minds of the people, and if they thought a thought against the government or if they thought a thought that broke the law, then the thought tower knew about it and would signal them a message to report to the nearest police station to be brainwashed at once. There have been whole societies operated on this thing.

The joke is, of course, the thought tower does nothing. See, the swindle is that the individual turns himself in. And he turns himself in to be brainwashed because he considers himself a menace to the state thinking that badly. And of course, this is whole track and space opera and isn't happening here on Earth — is it? No, no. They're not doing that in Russia! No, no.

You know that people report back for their next electric shocks when they've been sent to institutions? You know they never have any trouble with it? They give this fellow an electric shock that makes him real stupid. Just like that he'll report back for the next one. And he gets the next one, it makes him more stupid. And they tell him, „You've got to come for another one,“ so, he reports back for the next one.

Well, the trick is the shock was of sufficient duress that he couldn't do anything about it. He could have done something about it right up to the moment, but then everything is brought to bear on him to convince him that there is nothing he can do about it! After that it becomes totally other-determined, doesn't it? So, it itself operates as a mental image picture that makes him do most anything he wants it to. And that's the basis of other- determined control in any society! All you have to do is convince everybody that they can't do anything about anything and you've got total chaos.

How anybody can profit out of total chaos I don't know, but people are around who seem to think they can. They seem to think that they would best exist in a society of total chaos. There are. Maybe it's true, maybe they can exist best.

I know there's certain types of worms and flies and things like that that can only exist amongst corpses. I wouldn't go so far as to say such people are of the same strain, breed and variety of these worms and flies. I'd just say I wouldn't insist on it.

So, all these years of research, whatever attack line you find research on, is the best way to convert other-determinism to self-determinism. Because we find that when an individual is once more captain of his destiny he doesn't do wrong things with it. He only does bad things if he can't do anything about anything. Then he has to do bad and ignoble things because he can't do good things. But, given his choice, man is basically good.

All of us know strong men who are very gentle men. And little weak men who are very, very treacherous. We, all of us, have had this experience with people.

The fellow who is in terror or is afraid or feels that all kinds of pressure can be brought against him is liable to do anything.

I don't know how espionage organizations operate at all to tell you the truth, because they're filled full of people who are held there in terror! And the man held there in terror is liable to do most anything. And he seldom does anything that's good. But a man who has some control over his own destiny, who can exert his own determinism and feels that he can and knows that he can very seldom does things which are harmful and evil to others.

You can see this and demonstrate it, but the basic goal is the conversion, then, of other-determinism that should be self- determinism.

Because you have this silly picture of an individual, himself, mocking up pictures which he considers „other-determined“ which then influence him harmfully. And that's what a person's mind is doing. That's what a person is doing. He actually is making these pictures which affect him, but he doesn't think he's making the pictures. And one of the most unpopular thing you can tell anybody is, „You make your own pictures, you know.“

„I don't believe you! No sir!“

That's one thing they know: These things appear and disappear with no volition from self. They are not in any slightest degree responsible for any picture they have in the bank. Consequently your best, if most dishonest, dissemination line is, „You're a victim. You're a victim of your pictures. And these pictures are there and they've been implanted on you. And you can't do anything about them and you're just a victim of them.“ And everybody says, „You know, that's true!“

But once again our principal — our principal gains have been made in a field of such simplicity as the difference between chaos and order is other-determinism and self-determinism. See, that's totally simple. And other gains are — that we have just made on the route to OT are so simple right now that — gee, they're awful simple. They're so simple that all you do is utter one of the commands to a pc and his head sort of splits. It's almost that bad.

There are a few things that you could tell a people to think about now that you — both you and he will wish you hadn't. They just start tearing the bank up in long strips and so on. Not — it's not dangerous, particularly. He comes out of it.

The funny part of it is he's better off having thought them than he was not having thought them. Get the idea? Because if there was this much violence ready to turn loose in his mind just because he thought a thought, look how other-determined his thoughts were.

He daren't think this certain thought, therefore, all of his thoughts are more or less controlled so as to detour around these various thoughts.

And that one of improving people's pictures, improves the whole bank and improves all the engrams. It improves all the self-det — other-determinism — was such a barrier to clearing that I have been trying ever since to move sideways.

Fifty percent of the people don't experience this because they get rid of the pictures before they can bite them. But the other 50 percent half get killed with this phenomenon.

And what I have to announce to this particular congress is I found the route through this Step 6 for the remaining 50 percent. This phenomenon has been handled and we have the answers to it, and again they are very, very simple answers so they have a ghost of a chance of staying with us for a long time.

But, I'll tell you more about that in the next lecture.

Have we got a congress?

Audience: Yes!

Okay, thanks for being here.