It's a scroll!

Now tell me something now. Did anybody get restimulated in that last lecture?

Oh, wow! I better not read this. Well, I'll just post it and won't read it. Okay?

Audience: Oh.

Audience: No. Read it.

Look, I'm terribly sorry. I'm very, very sorry. I didn't really mean for you to. The kindest thing - the kindest thing to do would just be to leave the subject alone after that, wouldn't it? Huh?

Says, „To L. Ron Hubbard: In behalf of the peoples of this planet, as a token of our gratitude for your tremendous gift to mankind and in celebration of the consolidation of Scientology throughout the world this past year, we present this globe to you the first day of January 1960. The Central Organizations of the world.“ And they are listed.

Audience: No.

That's very lovely and that's very unexpected and probably completely undeserved.

Male voice: Keep your process going.

The - you got a congress yet?

I've just been accused here of a breach of the Auditor's Code unless I continue to talk about this. Want to hear some more about this?

Audience: Yeah. Yes!

Audience: Sure. Yes.

Well, hello.

All right. You're for it. You're for it - overts and withholds. How does a thetan get less space? It is a very simple mechanism. He does something which he thereafter can't do again because he mustn't, so he withholds it. And once upon a time he could reach clear out to infinity, couldn't he? And then he reached clear out to infinity and decided he had done something that he shouldn't ought to do again. You know, reach for the jam pot - „Better not do that again.“ So after that he withholds reaching for the jam pot. Right?

Audience: Hello!

Well now, he continues to withhold reaching for the jam pot from there on out. So then he does something else that he shouldn't have „overted,“ and when he did that he then realized that he should not have done that so he doesn't reach in that direction anymore, does he? He withholds! He not only does not reach - that's what we kind of thought, you see, that he just really didn't reach anymore in that direction. Oh no, that isn't what he does. He withholds from reaching in that direction. So then he does something else that he says, „I shouldn't have done that,“ and he withholds from reaching.

Hello.

„I'm blind! Oh well, let's see, now, if I get some auditing - if I get some auditing, well, I don't necessarily have to give up any of these withholds because I'm dangerous. But I will just sit there and the auditor will audit me. And if he audits me, why, somehow or other, mysteriously... Let's see, without my ever reaching again in any of these directions, and if I continue to withhold real hard, so as not to damage the auditor, I'll get Clear. Ouch!“

Audience: Hello!

Now, that's the state he's in. That is a pc. And we can laugh because we have the solution. But until this time it was „Don't cheer, boys, the poor devils are dying.“ Get the idea? Well, we can laugh because it's ridiculous.

Okay.

Some of the things which people are withholding are incredibly stupid.

Audience. Okay!

Now, when I made the last lecture there were several people present - some of those in the back were saved because the PA system was down slightly and they didn't hear too well. But, most of the things that went through your mind that you were withholding appeared to be pretty darned big with a kind of a reservation on the tail end of it, „Well, it's really not so big. I could probably tell an auditor. But of course, I won't have to but I've got to, but I won't have to because, of course - no, I ... There was a fellow I knew once down in Tucson that was very sympathetic. I might be able to tell him. Um, he couldn't hear good. Now, let's see, just how would I go about doing this so as not to injure my reputation?“

Thank you.

Well, this is how we have failed to have as much third dynamic in Scientology as we could have. Because it's that reservation of „Who could I tell?“ which withholds one's total participation. That reservation of „I mustn't tell anybody ever anything,“ of course, just eventually separated one out. That just took him out, not only of Scientology but took him out of the human race.

Audience: Thank you!

Now, this is not a comment upon your particular overt or withhold. I say that seriously; it's not. But the same mechanism that you looked at with regard to who you could tell what to - that same mechanism, blown up Lord knows how large - is the criminal. I'm not trying to link you on the same chain in any way, but I'm just trying to show you, you can get a subjective reality on what this boy is all about when you realize that he has totally withheld to such a degree that he isn't at all. And he has assumed a total uncontrolled valence, or a false beingness over which nobody or anything has any control of any kind whatsoever and has moved out into this, and it just fires off automatically. See? He isn't there; he's withheld himself right out of the human race, you see? But he has this valence, or this false beingness, which he says is a self - that's not your little thing of being in Mama's valence or Papa's valence or - this is really out - outside of any livingness. He's dead! But there's this animated structure that kind of fires off on a stimulus-response. See, he's withheld himself right straight out of the human race.

All right. Remember „Okay, Mama“?

He has no responsibility on any dynamic for anything. Therefore it doesn't matter what he does, and any stimuli gets any response. And there's a gold fountain pen lying there and it just leaps of its own accord into his pocket. And there's a car there with a key in the ignition and obviously key in the ignition means drive the car; he just drives it.

Audience: Yes.

Now look, this fellow got there from punishment. And you in Scientology have been absolutely right: Punishment never got anybody anyplace. He got there because of enforced withholds, and these enforced withholds wound up eventually into putting every action he did on total automatic, and putting every action on total automatic, then there is no such thing as right or wrong or criminal or good or anything else. He becomes an automatic mechanism which just robots through life doing criminal actions. And you're going to punish this man? You're going to punish him into being good?

You know, I think they still talk about that in this hotel. Well, that's a real nice globe. That's a real nice globe.

Oh no. There's only one way that that could work, and there isn't a police force in the world capable of enough violence or overts to make it workable and it's not workable anyhow because we just keep picking him up in the next life. And that's „Wherever he's found, kill him!“ You see, but that's just more of this, isn't it? And that was a stopgap.

& There's a display back there someplace of photographs but

So it was either total savagery and remove it all to the next generation, or it was be effective. And as far as criminality is concerned we're in the position right today to be effective. And it's the first time anybody has been effective.

I think this globe had better go in my Washington office, don't you?

There's - nothing is going to work of any kind whatsoever with regard to this particular personality but rehabilitation as a human being and put him back in the human race because a human race can't run with a lot of nonhuman robots roving around in its midst!

Audience: Yes.

Now, that is the extreme - that and of course the insane and of course the official that goes to war because his diplomacy has stunk for ages. These criminals, these insane, cannot be handled by any mechanism the society has available except what we know. And we have just gotten to a point where we can handle this.

All right.

That gives you some sort of an idea of how far man was into the dark ages with regard to justice. But it tells you that somewhere along the line, a halt has to be halted on this subject of the automatic, self-firing personality that has no responsibility or [of] any kind on any dynamic. It makes one's flesh crawl to realize that such a person might wander in toward the automatic push button which sets off all of the guided missiles. Because basically when he's gone down into a personality of this character, the only thing he can do is confuse and destroy. Those are the last abilities of a person; the last abilities are confusion and destruction. When you see a criminal, that's what's going to happen in his vicinity: confusion and destruction.

& There's a display of photographs back there concerning some plant experiments and concerning some other things and of course I know there's some pro photographers around. I see one down here, John McCormick, he's a pro and he'll probably sneer you know, but that's alright. Is Wing Angel around here? Where's Wing? Oh, hiya Wing!

There's all kinds of interesting automatic-firing mechanisms in a criminal intelligence. Something like this: „Oh, I will be good. I have now learned my lesson. I will now be better and I will go straight.“ That's just an automatic-firing mechanism; it has nothing to do with it. See? You just push the proper button and it says, „I will now be good. I will now go straight. Oh, please do not punish me anymore because I am now going good and going straight.“ You see?

& Voice from Audience: Hiya Ron!

So we all say, „Well, let's give him another chance. After all, he has admitted his guilt.“

& I was going to say as long as Wing's around, why, he'll defend my photography.

What's admitted his guilt? What has? What little robot-gimmick machinery fired off and admitted guilt? It's just another gimmick.

You really can't tell how glad I am to be here. I - you would be utterly amazed how „no-havingness“ the world at large is. You'd just be fascinated. It's just one large area of no-have. And in America we have so much, and there's so much we can do with it - if we just had a government.

Now, the person, of course, will put up some kind of a semblance of being auditable. And you've run into such a case. It evidently is auditable, goes through some sort of a propitiation, gets no better; is auditable, goes through a propitiation, gets no better. Of course, it was never auditable in the first place.

Oh well, we'll pass over that nostalgic moment. It is, however, rather typical of free peoples that their governments stink. It is.

Why? Because there was nothing there to be causative. You had to find that tiny entering point of the individual where the person could be cause and increase that point up to a point where you had a person there. That's a long road.

But governments should be less, not more. And this is no third dynamic speech I'm giving you here. Probably have to be edited off because I mustn't and probably completely be untrue to the United States Government. I have to support them abroad.

Now, you compare the things you thought about when I was giving the last lecture to that extreme case and you see you haven't gone very far down the line. Just look it over. You know what you're doing. You know right from wrong. You can still feel. You do make some progress in auditing, great or small, so you're not even in an extreme extremis of cases. All anybody here would be hanging up on would be some little gimmick like making a pass in the wrong direction at the wrong time. Seemed like a good idea at the time, but... Or maybe signing more checks than one had money in the bank. Something stupid, something minor.

People come around and say, „Why did they do this?“ You know, „Urhurerha!“

But minor, mind you, out in the broad perimeter of life. And don't think for a moment that I think you think it's minor. You don't think its minor. See, you say, „Oh, I don't know. Looks pretty big to me.“ Yeah, well, that's right.

Of course, my private opinion is, „Huh-huh, God knows!“ And I'd say, „Well, actually, the American people are one thing and the American government is another. And the American people are just as much at odds with their government as you are with yours.“

You know, man is basically good. And you know that's his difficulty. That's what's wrong with him.

And they say, „Oh, they are? That explains it.“

I followed this thing down - I followed this thing down a long distance, and almost wept when I finally discovered that the fellow was withholding himself because he didn't want to do harm to others.

But we have a lot of fun - a lot of fun in America wondering what we're going to do with our production and things like that.

Society has believed that man withheld himself because he was afraid he would be punished. But when we examine that a man can only be cause - you'll have to examine that one in your spare time. It is too incredible to be - embrace in a single gasp. Nothing can be done to you. Honest. And when we examine it in that light, we must then realize that a man is withholding himself not because of fear of what will be done to him - that he is just excusing things with. He's just paying a breath to this, he's just saying, „Well, that's the way it is. That's why I am doing this. If I steal a car I'll be punished, and therefore I won't steal any more cars.”

Well, this problem is not extant abroad. They wonder - wonder how they're going to do without their production. And about the only little cross you have to bear is the nonsense that comes out of - of the State Department and so forth.

And the cops go on the basis that if they catch a kid early enough, why; he ceases to be a criminal and, you know, and he won't steal any more cars if he has been scared. And even some of you have gone for this philosophy. I found the kid later on, you see, and it hasn't done anything. It just made him be more vocal on the subject, you see?

For instance, I wonder if you know that all the United States Government down here (Christian Herter and the rest of them) would have to do is just say to England and France and Germany and the rest of them, „We want to sign a treaty by which an American passport would be a free passport in your country equivalent to citizenship, and an American citizen would be bound, while in your country, by your laws, and we want to sign this as a treaty. Here's the line.“

Now, if he's brought to a position where he himself on his own volunteering cannot withhold anymore - you see, he - when he himself can no longer withhold, he's out of control.

And they'd say, „You do?“ And that'd be that, see?

Now, we get this very interesting regimen here: It's the ability to selectively and knowingly withhold that we are rehabilitating. We're not trying to shake everybody down for all of his secrets. Different look, isn't it?

Sounds funny, but we're in exactly the same position the Roman Empire was in a couple of thousand, twenty-five hundred years ago. Who wouldn't be a citizen of Rome?

When a person is no longer able to withhold he is no longer able to be good, so he just abandons himself into a total degradation, and says, „Well, I'm - I'm just no good. I'm...”

And although there were a few countries around saying, „Well, maybe we'd better not have very many citizens of Rome around because there won't be much left of us,“ they never said it very loud, and they never really objected. The Roman civilization covered Earth. This is the next civilization after the Roman civilization to cover anything. And we're the proprietors of that civilization.

I ran into a criminal one time - I think it was in Wichita (I was processing him; he had a paralyzed left side) - he was no longer able to withhold his primary dramatization which was to beat up fellows in alleys and take their money. He'd find a fellow near an alley or in a room, he'd beat him up and take his money. He couldn't do anything else. He had even gone to a point of paralyzing one whole side of his body to keep from doing it, and it still hadn't worked! So, he'd just abandoned the whole thing, and he'd just given it all up and gone over into synthetic valences and wasn't there anymore, wasn't accountable, couldn't be responsible for it, anything of the sort; he was a criminal.

They wonder down here - they wonder down here in the State Department how they're going to handle international relations. Well, that's the trouble - is they think there are international relations. There aren't any international relations, there's just Americanism.

All right. So, man is basically good.

Countries have even stopped defending their own cultures. And it'd be a wonderful thing, be a wonderful thing, if an American passport was as free as an American is made in any country on Earth. But the American passport is not as free simply because somebody in the State Department hasn't found out yet.

Now, somebody comes along and teaches him what being good is. That's quite a trick. The only moral codes you have in Scientology have to do with auditing, and that's a technically moral code if you want to put it that way. If you don't audit that way, auditing doesn't occur.

We actually - we actually have Earth squared. There it sits. It isn't mine, it's yours. And wherever we are and whatever we're doing, it's too bad we're not backed up by the government, too.

But please call to my attention my own words if I ever, in some lapse of God-'elp-us, write a moral code of what being good consists of: step A, B, C, D. Get the idea?

Well, enough of that. It's a bit of worry on my part and the rest of yours part. There are several of you been abroad recently. And it's quite interesting - quite an interesting experience.

People really start skidding when they go up mounts and get the hot dope out of the lightning zoks. Because whenever you run into a moral code you run into violations of it as a code. „Honor thy father and thy mother.“ Well, that's all right. That's a nice thought. That's sweet. But unless it's accompanied with „Honor thy children,“ it's a stuck flow. Doesn't work! It's not something that can be broadly applied. That's the frailty of a moral code.

One of these days, why, you'll find Chicago everywhere. Or New York. But not, please, California. That's my Iron Curtain. No kidding, I'm very fond of California, and someday I'm going to take it back. Actually, California is doing marvelously.

For instance, somebody says, „Thou shalt not kill.“ Great, You like steak? Well? Do you like steak?

& You know, I'd like to introduce just a few people here very rapidly at this congress, just to show you it is a congress. OK? May I?

Audience: Yes.

& Audience: Yes.

All right, thou shalt kill then. Oh, but they say, „Well, they didn't mean that.“ Oh yeah, that's the trouble. with these moral codes: They just didn't mean that. They didn't mean it, you know? There's differences. There's variations.

& Alright. Now, let me introduce first a couple of very brave spirits who adventured down past the Sunday-Monday line, came through the various domains of Neptune both south and north, and who learned that you can work while standing on your head, and who actually didn't... At this moment if it weren't for the Washington course going to be taught right after this congress, this pair would be lolling in deck chairs underneath the tropic sun, drifting homeward you know, mile by mile at seventeen knots or something like that. Instead of that they came home by jet, phwew.

You say, „Well, thy - thou shalt not kill thy feller human beings.“

& Now you know, if you don't travel by jet, you're fired. People say they can't notice this speed but they're not me. I notice every mile of the five hundred and seventy-six miles an hour of it. And the only thing I object to is the number of locations that get stacked up on one location. Get the idea? We left, we left London airport at eleven and got into New York at one. Well, of course there's the time lapse there, but you never can quite figure this out.

„Oh, that's what you mean? Oh, 'You shalt not kill thy fellow human beings.' All right,“

& Well, I'd like to introduce this pair to you because they're here actually at some sacrifice, because as I say they could be underneath the tropic sun right this moment and they aren't, and that's Dick and Jan Halpern. Stand up. And I'd like to introduce John McCormick. John's one of the good things of California, he really is, he really is. And others, just so many people here that are good people and old time people. Golly. I have to introduce practically everybody in the congress.

„Attention! Squads east! Squads west! To the rear hup! To the rear hup! To the rear hup! Here's a gun. Ready on the right. Ready on the left. Ready on the firing line. Fire! It's patriotic, son.“

& Well, let me introduce Wing and Smokey Angel. Let me introduce Jack and Melodie Horner here. And Tom Maxwell. And Mr. and Mrs. Bezazian. There're just so many people to introduce to you that I'm just going to have to carry this out the rest of the congress. Right now, let me introduce you to you. Hello!

„Yeah, but how about this thing 'Thou shalt not kill'?“

& Audience: Hello.

„Well, they were Japs.“

Okay, let's get down to something here that's very important, shall we? Let's get down to some technology. Now, I was going to save all this technology until day after tomorrow. Do you think I ought to do it?

„Oh, Japs? They're not human beings then?“

Audience: No.

„No, Yes. No. Yes.“

Because if I saved it till day after tomorrow, you know what would happen? I wouldn't have time to cover it. So if give it to you right now all in - all in one package, it'll take me the next two days to explain it. Okay?

Now look, every time you lay down one of these broad ones whereby you have a code that says, „Thou shalt not“ and „Thou shalt“ and „Thou shalt not“ and „Thou shalt“ and „Thou shalt not“ then the shalts become shalt-nots and the shalt-nots become shalts until all of a sudden everybody goes adrift, and „being good“ is the equivalent of being, oh, I don't know, a Turk pirate, or an archbishop, or almost any pursuit of lower activities.

Audience: Okay.

Now, you have a problem just in this one fact: the interpretation of what being good is. And I think it was Dianetics that first laid this down. Now, this happens to be a fairly workable one, providing you don't work at it so hard day and night that it wears your wits out. And that is: Good would be the greatest benefit for the greatest number of dynamics involved in any given situation, in other words, the optimum solution. The greatest good for the greatest number of dynamics. Now, we've known that for a very long time.

Would you like that right now?

Well, you can work your way through on this sometimes and you can kind of make yourself come out right when you shouldn't occasionally, but the greatest good for the greatest number of dynamics.

Audience: Yes.

I remember vividly hanging whirling dervishes just as fast as I could get my hands on whirling dervishes. Any time in the Middle East that you were trying to get going on some kind of a military expedition, out of the desert would come the whirling dervishes, and they would say to your troops, „Lie down. Go away. Skip it. After all you are now attacking the bloodline ruler of the prophet Buluhya,“ and so forth. And - in other words, you were just dealing with a bunch of lousy spies or something of the sort, so you'd just hang the whirling dervishes.

Let's get this off to a high whine like the turbojet racing cars you were telling me about thirty thousand years ago. If anybody restimulates on that one, I'm sorry.

Well, that's an overt act, basically, unless you realize that if you let the whirling dervishes come in and disrupt your troops, then the order and discipline of the entire area and district that you were associated with would just go by the boards and some king, satrap, sultan, Lord knows what, that had usurped some power and he was busy killing people as fast as he could exercise his eunuchs and so forth, you know, just execute, execute, execute, execute, execute, you know, tax, tax, tax, tax, disrupt all the trade. Those boys used to have a wonderful idea: They thought government consisted of taxing everybody all the time of everything they had. I don't know. I don't think any governments since that time have had that idea. But they totally lost the idea of what a government was. And a government was - is simply and totally a body of men working for the public good, and serving the public. And they kind of miss that one, you know? They get elected, you know, and they think somebody elected them to be somebody. No, they elected them to serve the rest of them. They don't get that idea very well, and it kind of drops out of sight every now and then and you have to punch it back up and put it back in line again.

Ladies and gentlemen ... I had an old friend once back in Athens who had a slave. He had a slave and this slave's name was Diogenes. And the slave used to live in a barrel. And there were very many stories concerning this slave but, actually, he was trying to find, according to modern books, an honest man. And he used to go around in daylight with a lantern, looking for an honest man.

But all right, if you didn't kill the whirling dervishes, you didn't have any troops and the whole district was upset, and all of a sudden the men, women, children were all starving to death and the trade was stopped and everything had gone boom. So, did you kill whirling dervishes or didn't you? See, was it an overt act, or it wasn't.

Now, because of the length of this microphone cord, I can't pass amongst you.

Well, obviously it couldn't have been an overt act but at the same time it was an overt act. Get the idea?

I might find an honest man!

But you had to figure it out on the optimum solution. Was it more harmful to the greater number of dynamics to get rid of this particular set of whirling dervishes than not to get rid of them? And you acted accordingly.

Certainly, in the last twenty-five hundred years there has been no better opportunity or no group more eligible to deliver one up than this particular group right here and now. None more eligible - but on the other hand, I might pass amongst you m vain. And that would be very sad. That would be very sad.

Now, every time you have done that, you've come out all right. See, you haven't had anything to worry about when you did that. So, you said, „Well, that was in the line of duty and that was the way I was supposed to do it. And I did it!“ Ah, it's the things that you did and then you said, „Oh, I didn't do that. I'm - does bad. I regret it. Wish I hadn't done that. Don't know what was the matter with me. Didn't have anything to do with the dynamics.“ Get the idea? Those things are the overt acts.

But the next congress, I will be able to pass amongst you and find nothing but honest men and women. Because actually it's as much as your life's worth not to be honest.

And, boy, they are so hidden! They are so hidden! A person absolutely buries some of these things so deep that although he knew about them all the time - he's walking along the street and he says, „Well, got a clean conscience. I've told all. I told my auditor about Ruth. Henry. I told the auditor about that bank thing. I told the auditor about what I did to that cat when I was a little boy. I told the auditor about, yes, stealing the apples from the old lady. You know? Yeah, should feel a lot better than I do feel but... Let's see, and I told the auditor about - oh, yes, told the auditor about being nasty to my mother, and putting the bucket of soapsuds all over the back steps so that she'd slip and fall.”

If I ever run into this friend of mine, like I lately found Karl Marx - if I - if I ever run into this friend of mine, I'll tell him that Diogenes can come back and start looking and maybe with some success. Because processing today is fundamentally „fundamentalized“ and basically „basicalized“ on just this single horrible fact: Them as ain't honest won't get cleared, bud.

„Yeah, I'm pretty cleaned up. Scientology doesn't work very good; I just don't feel very good. Something wrong here. But I've told him everything anyhow. I've done what Ron said had to be done. And there's nothing else.”

What do we mean by honesty? In this particular regard, we mean somebody who has nothing to hide.

„Oh, no! No. Oh well, that - that was just one of those things, and there wasn't anything you could do about it and... Well, I just wasn't myself. Just wasn't myself. That's what that was. No need to tell him about it because - just upset him.”

& Step Six phenomena went astray and Step Six phenomena was simply that the pictures and masses of the bank got bigger and bigger, and more and more vicious, and more and more violent, and more and more crushing, and more and more, until the person was finally practically rubbed out. The more you ran Step Six on some people, the worse they got. And that little bug alerted us to what we have now.

„Just upset him. That's right. Just upset him. Well, I'll just tell myself about it.”

& I could do an awful dirty thing here. I won't, though. I could do something terrible. I could ask for a show of hands of those people injured by Step Six, but I won't and don't raise your hand, you'd be telling on yourself. Step Six phenomena isn't what increased the bank. It wasn't running „keep facsimiles from going away and holding them still and making them more solid“ that made the bank worse. It was that it was being run on somebody who was hiding something from the auditor he didn't dare tell the auditor about. And that's the totality of it.

„I'm - funny, like I - I kind of knew about that all the time, but I just never seemed to call it to mind. You know, and I wonder why I didn't call it to mind. It seems to be very peculiar.”

Every preclear you have lost - that is to say who didn't finish his intensives or his processing and go through to Clear - every preclear that you've had difficulty with, every person who has ever blown a course, every person who has ever blown a session, did so because they had something to hide! And until those somethings are cleared up they will never be Clear!

„Well, it's probably something that was done to me way back in the past, and therefore I did it then and it probably is so far out of my perimeter of behavior that I don't have to worry about it. God, I've got a headache!”

And if we were a religious organization going to town on the sin of man, we would at this moment have it made! We could convince with what violence, with what brimstone that you sinners had better come clean, or hellfire and damnation was going to be your lot! Man, we'd have it made.

„Well, anyhow I've - that didn't have very much to do with me so we don't have to do anything about that one. Now, I've done everything Ron said, so now I should get Clear pretty soon. Well, maybe I'll feel better about it next session!”

Fortunately, we're not. So we can get something done. The greatest overt act in the world is making other people guilty of overt acts. That is the greatest overt act in the world - about which, more later. So don't think at this moment that I'm trying to make you guilty of overt acts! The only thing I'm trying to do to you is get you Clear! That's all I've got in mind. And that's why no resistance, no attack for ten years has been able to get anywhere on Dianetics and Scientology. Because basically, as far as the subject is concerned, there was nothing to hide. That's why we're still alive.

„Now, how the devil did I ever get into such a thing anyhow, you know? Could that have been I? Could that have been me that did that? No, that couldn't have been me. You know, I think I'm dreaming the whole thing up! Oh, I'll tell him, Ah, that makes me feel - oh, Christ! I can't tell him!“

Oh, that doesn't say that I have told you all. That doesn't say that there weren't times when I could have slipped you some hot dope concerning me or conditions or organizational wiggle-waggles in efforts to stay alive. And that doesn't say that I myself am not guilty occasionally of withholding something from you, because I am guilty of withholding quite a bit from you. But what I am withholding from you, basically, is how rough it's been. I've tried to keep a good public presence going. That's very often been very rough. And that I've withheld. But as far as any deep-seated, cross-purposed, tangled-up pitch no, we had nothing to hide there.

That's the one! That's the one that's going to get you. But just go on and ruin your reputation. Throw yourself on the pikes and skip it!

For instance I could tell you a lot about me. I could tell you a lot about my whole track. And some of it the psychiatrists would at once start saying, „You see, we told you. We told you so. He believes he's...“ But I'm not that one. I just set that one up. But as far as anything withheld on the standpoint of our goals, as far as any errors along that line that had to do with technology, as far as data or anything else that could make anybody better or Clear or make a better civilization, that's never been withheld and it's never been an overt act. Therefore, We're still here And that, incidentally is the only reason we're still here. Because don t think with as much shotgunning as there's been, that we would have survived it else.

Now, what's the keynote - what's the keynote - we'll talk about this later in the congress but what's actually the keynote of such an experience?

Now, where a case left your session and told you that you were a very bad auditor and told you that you shouldn't have been doing it, there was enough truth in the matter for you to say, „Yes, he's right. I'm not as good an auditor as I could be. My TR 4 stinks. So therefore, he is justified in what he is saying, and therefore I will let him go. I'll go back to school and learn how to do it a little bit better or maybe I won't audit quite so much. Or maybe I'll audit only easy cases or some other such thing,“ and there were lots of reasons - lots of reasons - reason, reason, reason, reason, reason - why he should have blown session.

This is badly stated because we have too many connotations for the word responsibility, and the only reason we can do this trick flow is because I finally have found out the exact anatomy of what responsibility is and we can run it in other terms, much better terms that preclears respond to very rapidly and come up the line. Because you've run responsibility on a lot of preclears and they didn't go anyplace. Well, that's just because they thought responsibility was something else. Well, I've had to be able to get exactly what definition of responsibility works as a process. That was the trick.

But there was a reason that underlay all those other reasons! And that underlying reason added up entirely and completely to just one reason: As a person, he had something to hide. Something he didn't dare let you know about, he felt. Now, in that the preclear made a tremendous mistake. Of all the peoples of Earth, of all the groups of Earth, the one least likely to mess somebody up because they found out something about him was a Dianeticist or Scientologist. These people have my confidence and have had my confidence for ten years. So therefore, it must have been pretty bad if he couldn't even tell us about it. It must have been pretty bad!

But it's a matter, shall we say, basically of responsibility. And the things a person couldn't take responsibility for are, of course, the things that are most alien to him. And he does something, he can't take responsibility for it and he doesn't know what the devil got into him, lie can't take responsibility for it but he did it, but he didn't do it, but he did it, but he didn't do it but he couldn't have done it! And that's inevitably an overt act. And one of the things he can't tell you is what it's an overt act against.

But a lot of these things are like the microbe seen through a number of magnifying lenses. And the fellow said, „I did so-and-so,“ and then he puts a big lens over the top of it and he looks at it - „My Cod! That microbe looks big!“

You say, „All right. Which one of the dynamics or which person is this thing you've done, an overt act against?“

And then he thinks, „Well, I actually shouldn't tell anybody, really, about this, and somehow or another I will get along without having done so, and that will be smart of me because I will get by - I will get by anyway, and then someday I will be Clear enough maybe to just as-is the whole thing.“ Swsh-swsh.

„Oh, well, nobody really. Myself possibly. Nobody else. I'm the one that suffered for it. Nobody else.“

And the moment that he did that, he took another great big magnifying glass and put it on top of the stack. And now he looked at this microbe, you know? Microbe is about that long by now, you know? Has hair, teeth. And he said, „Well, I'm a pretty bad fellow, but I'll fool them all. I'll fool them all, and I'll get auditing in spite of this and I'll go on and do good. And I will do enough good that it won't matter!“

And that's just the whole thing. He just can't even fit these things to the dynamics. It's a missingness of responsibility. There has to be a certain amount of responsibility present to have memory.

And of course, by that time you got this great big magnifying glass put over here - clank. And the microbe was now much bigger than he was. Everywhere he looked, he could see the microbe.

Now, identity is one of the big clues to all of this. Responsibilities on identity is a tremendous process. This is - this is a - this is one of the great processes, if run right. But when you no longer feel responsibility for a person you have been and now are not, you of course forget him or her That person is no longer extant, even in memory, because one is no longer responsible.

And one of these fine days you're going to get hold of that fellow, you're going to take this little microbe hunter, this E-Meter, you're going to put him on the cans and you’re going to find that microbe that diseased his character.

The unreality one runs into on the whole track. And these people that just say, „Live before? No, I've never lived before. I can't get the slightest idea of any past lives. I never lived before. I have no reality on it. I'll tell you intellectually I have had people and even preclears that have told me that they have lived before. And for the benefit of the auditing and the case, why, I will take it for granted that they have lived before. But not for me. I mean, after all, I've just...“

He's going to say, „Oh, no, there's nothing there! No, no, no, no, no. That's me breathing. I can very often control the needle because I'm really OT. And whenever you say 'women' and it dives, that's emotional response because I like them!.“

You're just looking at a terrific lack of responsibility on identities. That's all. And the second you improve responsibility for identity this person's whole track memory turns on. That's what's got us into whole track in the first place, you know?

But you're not going to be fooled now You're going to reach under all these magnifying glasses, you're going to pull this thing out and dump it in the carbolic acid. And that'll be the end of that man's case and he won't blow sessions anymore. He'll just sit there and go right on straight through till Clear. And that's the way it is.

Just as a side note, I was getting - I was getting amnesia. I couldn't remember some places. You know, I'd say, „What was my house address in 1610? I'm going crazy, losing my mind. Let's see. Yeah, it was 22 Athenian Road, Athens. Yeah, that was my address in - that was my address in 351 B.C. Yeah, that's right. And my address then was so-and-so and then we moved to so-and-so and so forth. And then the next life it was so-and-so and so-and-so. I can't remember my address in 1610! I'm going mad.“

The worst case has the most overts and withholds on all dynamics.

That's - I've had one goal, by the way, in processing and so forth. Just to get these amnesia spots cleaned up, you know? I know I'm nuts!

Let me call something to your attention. Only those cases only those cases which did not advance at all, one iota, never recovered anything, never got better in any way, shape or form, harmed us. They were the people who chopped us up. Why didn't they ever advance?

Then I run into somebody that says, „Past lives“ Or somebody that says, „I've got a pretty good reality on having lived before. I've run into a facsimile.“

Look at the penalty these people were paying - to never get out of the mud at all. Ah, what a pathetic thing. And no Dianeticist or Scientologist would keep them in the mud. And if we'd just known the value of this data that I'm giving you - if we'd just known that this was at the bottom of all of that, how easy it would have been. But as poor old Joe Winter who went this route once said, „What wonderful six-foot rearview mirrors we have with a little, tiny peephole in front.“

You see, we just get - all we're looking at is degrees of responsibility, that's all, for identity, for beingness, for life, for time and so forth. Just degree of responsibility; that's all it amounts to. One is unwilling to take responsibility in certain zones and areas, one forgets.

But that's the history of the failed case, that's the history of the failed student, and that's the history of the enemy of Dianetics and Scientology.

A person with a bad memory has a bad level of responsibility, and that's one for you to put down in your book. Their responsibilities are poor. In other words, responsibility and memory, responsibility and identity, so forth: these things go right straight together. Irresponsibility and amnesia and so forth; these things go together. And that's what, basically, a lot of this is about.

He is our enemy because at any time in the last ten years we had the ability to find out. And only those people are against us who have something to hide. And this is not an opinionated, political datum. It's cast-iron technology, and for dramatic purposes, lends itself extremely well. But it is simply coldblooded, advanced Scientology and nothing else: That a case that has something to hide will run - find some excuse to run - and then will sit and jabber, jabber, jabber about how bad you are or we are. And that case dramatizes what's wrong with the case, which is to say overt acts against the various dynamics and will dramatize it by saying there's something wrong with the auditor, something wrong with Scientology, there's something wrong with the way it is, there's something wrong... Well, we're not perfect - but we're not trying to hide anything.

Now, I - I have had that as an auditing goal to get a lot of these things patched up and so on. And when I get audited and so on, why, it's generally to put together things of this character and a half a dozen other things, because I'm going for OT and getting not enough auditing to get there. I'm mad, mad about it.

I took such a case, and because he had done something to the organization, I didn't restrain myself from being punitive. I have a well-grooved pattern on being punitive, as lots of people have. You know, if people do something, you're supposed to do something to them, you know? And it's just my standpoint: The guy elects himself a victim, so I say, „Well, all right. You're a victim.“

You're mad - you're mad because you're not getting enough processing. You ought to hear me sometimes. I frankly don't know what my address was in 1610, see? Maybe it was the county jail. Probably was.

But this fellow said this was bad and that was bad and the other thing was bad in his immediate area and it was all bad, bad, bad in his immediate area, and I said, „Then why haven't you done something about it?“

We fool ourselves all the time. We fool ourselves continually about these things. We fool ourselves about life and fool ourselves about our motives and so forth. But every time and everywhere that we fool ourselves, we are simply being irresponsible for the dynamics one way or the other. And of course, the first dynamic is one of the dynamics.

And he says, „Well, I couldn't. Not in the position I was in. I wasn't in such a position, I was in a junior position. l wasn't - there wasn't anybody anyplace in the whole organization, and I couldn't have said anything to anybody.“

Now, the fellow who embroiders you a fancy fabric of romanticism he isn't doing you any harm. But the fellow that says to you, „I don't have to do anything about you because I am not responsible for you. You live your life and I'll live mine“ - that fellow's doing harm. Because, basically, individuals do not live alone. They can't live alone. That's it.

I said, „Why haven't you done something about it?“

You were never unhappier than the last time you flew out into the firmament and went past cloud nine and met no friends on it. Or a few hundred years ago when you, swallowed up by various propaganda systems, decided to go look for heaven and meet Saint Peter or something like that, see? You got an idea after a while you'd had it, because you didn't find him. I bet there's more thetans going around even now, you know, saying, „Gee-whiz. No gates, you know?“ I don't know what theta trap that was that had gates. And of course, the trick on - I'm sorry if I abuse your religious sensibilities. Actually, I'm not at all, but I will say that just to be polite.

He says, „But“ - boom!

If there's anything that gets my goat, it's somebody that will foul people up to such a degree that they can't find their way around. Or who put out a philosophy saying that „You can do what you want to do in this life and mess up what you want to in this life. It doesn't matter, because you will never have to pay for it. You're not ever going to live again.“

We haven't seen him since. Because any thetan has the potentiality of doing anything to correct anything anywhere! And he knows it. And what he does every day is the sin of omission in that he doesn't straighten it all out. And that, any case, no matter how honest, is living with at this moment.

And then, by golly, you who didn't straighten out - you were - you were the head of the whole school system in the whole district, and you could have straightened out the various abuses amongst the teachers, and you had this philosophy, you know, and, „I've never lived, never going to live again. Never lived before. I'm just here, and I'm head of this. And when I die I'm dead. And when I'm gone, I go to heaven or hell or some place to my just reward, and that's all there is to it and ...“

Now, if you can stand truth, you'll live. And if you can't stand truth, you won't. And the dead ones of this planet who are walking around zombielike in the dark shadows and slippery alloys of the world can't stand truth.

You were head of the school system. You step under a truck or something like that, or eat some of these best-advertised products on TV, go by the hoards, pick up a body and Miss Gooch and all the Miss Gooches that you had ample opportunity to straighten up are now teaching you.

And there's been an operation here on Earth which has totally dedicated itself to making truth about yourself totally unpalatable. Now, I won't mention any names and never do mention this particular organization, but it's specialty is 100 percent making you guilty of an overt act. It tells you what sin is. Out of what black morass do they tell you what sin is? If they'd used a handkerchief more often, their own noses would be clean enough to tell you what sin is.

Now, that’s a very narrow, superpersonalized attitude about it. But I had a very, very well educated, apparently very learned professor of physics of Columbia University tell me that he had never worried about atomic fission particularly, because it - he'd be dead before anything happened to Earth. And didn't matter whether he was killed by the atom bomb or by some other means didn't matter because he wasn't long for this world. And he died a short time afterwards. And I imagine now here he is a kid in New York or something like that pushing up along the line and believe me somewhere back in his consciousness is some little, tickle, tickle, whir-click, you know? Every time he reads in - the bomb, „Disarmament Proposed,“ you know? Its right on his track he's just not taking responsibility for it - was his conversation with me about the subject of teaching some of his students some responsibility for their mechanical advantages and for their machinations on the subject of atomic fission. I told him he ought to teach them some responsibility in the field of the humanities if they were going to fool around in the field of the sciences. And he said, oh, pooh-pooh-pooh, he was going to be dead, you see, and all this rigmarole. And here he is. He must have some inkling of this, see?

One of these days we're going to have a collection fund. We're going to get it together to buy handkerchiefs for this organization so they can have clean enough noses to tell the rest of us what overt acts are. Sound like a good project?

That's all very well to sail along up the track with no responsibilities whatsoever expecting to land someplace, but nobody's going to be very happy doing it. Their responsibilities and their memory are actually not adequate to the situation - to the situation of their own livingness. That's all that it amounts to.

Now, I don't mean to be necessarily hard upon your bank. But the last few thousand, few hundred thousand, few million, few billion years have been „kind to the bank“ period! And now I think we can afford a new slogan! Because „be kind to the bank“ hasn't worked. And „use the bank to control“ hasn't worked.

Now, what is an overt act? An overt act - you could classify it in various ways. You could say an overt act is something that was not for the greatest good on all of the dynamics. Something of this sort. Or something which inhibited the future survival of; or you could say an overt act was giving something an experience which it couldn't experience. There are various ways of doing this, but there's no reason to define it, because you know all about it! Now, that's the trick, that's what it's all about.

So our slogan here for a number of years has been a mathematical formula which says „no bank = people.“ Works, too. But how do you get no bank? How do you take the Freudian unconscious, reconscious, deconscious, munconscious and „unconscioulize“ it? How do you pick the id out of the lib? How do you get rid of the reactive mind? How do you scotch and scrap off, wipe out and erase the facsimiles and engrams which bedevil man's days and nights? How do you do this?

Now, the thing that was difficult to do was to define responsibility so that it couldn't miss as a process. See, that was the trick. All right. Now, we got that. Now, the other one will come out.

Well, for ten years we've had a lot of technology. For ten years we've been able to do a lot about it. I don't think there's very much phenomena left in the bank that we haven't discovered one way or the other, one time or another. Phenomena that we haven't looked at is practically nonextant. But what held it in place? Why did it continue to stay there? Why, with all of our hard work, did we still have people being uncleared? What reward was this for the labors we invested as auditors to have somebody sitting there still going, „Nyaaah.“ Well, why did it happen? Why did it happen? Why did we still have aberrees when we should have had Clears, hm?

So, there's no sense in defining what an overt act is and therefore a moral code is just that much wasted lead pencil, stylus or wax tablet or stone or hammer or chisel or whatever it is they write them on. Because everybody knows what an overt act is or they wouldn't suffer from them. You know, an overt act is what you suffer from, and that's about as far as you could define the thing, you see?

Well, I'll tell you something. This phenomenon has been running alongside of my auditing for a very long time, and I've just been sufficiently unobservant to see it until recently.

The thing which you are suppressing and mustn't tell somebody must have been an overt act! See that? That's what an overt act is. An overt act is that thing which a person feels he'd better not do again. Simple as that.

I was auditing a fellow in the - as you'll hear on one of the tapes, if you ever hear the tapes of the Melbourne ACC. And I'm auditing this fellow in an auditing demonstration. I say, „All right. Tell me something that you could let me know“ - or „Think of something you could let me know. Now think of something you could withhold from me.“

Now, wherever you try to define it further than that you get into trouble. Man is basically good. He restrains himself; restrains himself; down to the point where he loses himself. And after that, unfortunately, the only real evil takes place. Having lost himself; there's nobody there representing him but an automaton which is consciencelessly going through a series of motions, and you get criminality.

And he answered this several times, very glibly. Po-pollok, pocketa-pock, pocketa-pock, pocketa-pock. „Yes, I could withhold that from you.“ All of a sudden he says, „You know, withhold from you? You know that takes some doing!“

So, a basic - a basic overt act could be said to be irresponsibility for identity. Now there - I'm afraid there isn't anybody in this room that's committed any real ones.

That was probably the only reason my auditing was faster than other people's. Matter of altitude or something like this that the person couldn't withhold things from me. That was why - people got Clear and I never paid any attention to the fact. I just thought they told everybody these things, you know?

Female voice: I don't know about that.

But I used to get more Freudian traumas dumped in my lap about their sexual irregularities when they were three. You know, it's really amazing to have a fellow who devoted his entire life to exploring sexual irregularities at the age of three. I'm glad that he did because he gave us some dope and left a tremendous area with some knowns in it instead of totally unknown. But nevertheless, now that you look back on it, it's awfully hard to be sexually irregular when you're three. And I apologize to those younger thetans that are in our midst here for making a crack about it.

But I'll make you a bet that there's nobody in this room - there's nobody here would have that much confidence in himself. In other words, I don't think you'd have that much - as much confidence in your overt act record as I have in it. Do you get the idea? That's because I have an exterior view to it. I have a pretty good idea what's been done and what hasn't been done on the whole track line.

But wherever a pc sits down and starts telling you all, all you have to do is listen. Well, that doesn't say necessarily that they have to tell you everything they ever did and all the crimes they've ever committed and all the irregularities they have ever gone through in order to get Clear. That doesn't tell you that, but it tells you that those fellows that don't make very much progress in auditing or that the auditing is slow on - it tells you that those people are sitting on one that would blow the head off the purity league very easily. And you realize, of course, that more - most purity leagues are very hardened people.

There was probably nothing terribly wrong with somebody dreaming up the plan - the last plan that was dreamed up that had to do with ice cubes and removal of whole civilizations, and transplantations of whole peoples and handling of excess populations and so forth throughout the planets, and redistribution of skills, and body form and all of this sort of thing. One of these things that couldn't have been worked out on a UNIVAC or an ENIAC even if it was hooked up to a Remington electric shaver.

Now, the person who makes no advance at all, who never gets anyplace at all - oh, now, look! I'll have to let you in on this -amongst us Scientologists. I'll just have to let you in on this: The person is guilty of a crime for which they could be jailed or punished in this lifetime if it were divulged.

So anyhow, this plan - inevitably, men'll - and beings will work on plans - this plan happened to have the drawback that it was so good and required so much goodness and integrity on everybody's part that there weren't any people around good enough to carry out the plan so therefore the only way the plan could be carried out was with total viciousness, which made, of course, the whole plan into an overt act.

Now, when you get into that level, you've had it. In other words, he robbed a bank or something. But the crime is serious, and the person could be arrested for it or punished for it in present time if it were revealed! And this fellow, by the commission of that crime, trapped himself as far as auditing was concerned, unless he actually does straighten it out one way or the other and get it cleared up because his case isn't going to move that far until he does!

So, sometime somebody conceives something and it becomes - it becomes an overt act merely because he didn't foresee where it was going. That isn't true of all overt acts. But having done them out of regard for your fellow man, your fellow women, you busily withhold them.

For ten years we've seen this phenomena and we wondered what it was all about. We wondered why we couldn't audit anything on this fellow. He just, you know, sat there, you know. „Yes,“ he'd say, „yes.“

And one of the reasons you don't tell anybody is because you think it'll hurt them. That's an interesting thing, isn't it? Look it over. You say it would shock or harm the auditor, or it would shock or harm somebody else if this were to become known. Now, how much evil do you suppose that continues on the track, huh? Don't you think that's more harmful? Don't you think that's more harmful than the immediate thing?

And you'd say, „Double match terminal a couple of dogs now.“ He would. „Yes,“ he'd say, „Yes.“

And as far as that's concerned, you actually can't harm auditors - not possible - except in one way, and that's make no progress. An auditor will stand into buzz saws and baths of liquid air as long as he thinks he's making progress and getting wins. About the only way you can harm an auditor is give him loses, loses, loses, loses.

End of session come along: „How do you feel?“

We found that out in training classes. We found - we usually have two or three old-time auditors around that have just had too many loses, and we snap them back by giving them a few wins, and it works fine. They come right back up!

„Oh, I feel terrible.“

There's nothing more wonderful than watching an auditor who is absolutely convinced that he is tired to death of auditing and wants nothing more to do with auditing than to watch him get a nice, big win! And he says - he says, „Well,“ he says, „any more candidates? Any more candidates?“ promptly and immediately.

„Thank you. That's it.“

I know I'd - always have had wins of one character or another, big ones, little ones and so forth. I didn't know my enthusiasm could go up in such a steep rising climb, because I'm on a diet of them now. I mean, I'm just on a diet of them. It's just a matter of what case - what case do you want a win on. You know? You want a win on such and such a case. Well, all right. Process it, that's all.

Why? Why? Why? Well, we already know the technology: He's auditing across a present time problem. And it comes under the heading of the technology which we already have, which is a present time problem or an ARC break.

Once in a while I find my moral purity getting in my road, even as you will, you see? You say, „Well, I don't know. I don't know. You know? She really fixed this guy up, you know? I don't know whether I ought to process her or not. You know, why should I do that?“ You know?

Now, he can't go into two-way communication with the auditor so he never goes into session! He's never in-session because he can't be in two-way communication. And he can't take his attention off of what his attention is fixedly on and put it on any other part of the bank because he has a present time problem all the time, whether he realizes it or not. He doesn't know it, he just kind of „knows“ it, you know?

And inevitably, if you think it around just a little bit further, you'll find out that in 1302 when you were - when you were a ward of the court of such and such a place, you knew this guy, see? And you've got an overt act that absolutely parallels hers. And of course, you can't take responsibility for the preclear because you're not taking responsibility for the overt act that you have. You get the idea?

And his attention is always fixedly on this thing. But it's the one thing that he can't reveal which makes a total plug to any auditing happening. And there it is, and it just locks him up just as nice as though they'd thrown him in jail.

Well, it looks - a healthy view of this thing - that it's a fairly easy climb out of the rat hole. It is. All you've got to do is first, strip the case down of its overts and withholds, present lifetime, straighten it up, smooth it out from a standpoint of that, run Responsibility on every one of them that comes up (and I'll tell you more about how to do that later), but don't let this case come up with: „Well, lets see, I stole a car when I was twelve. Yes. Well, I'm glad to get that off my chest.“ Oh, yeah?

I can tell you something. It'd be better off to be in jail than never have Scientology work. Wouldn't it? Because that means you're going to be in jail from here on out. Locked up in a ruddy head with no freedom and no power. That - I tell you, that's a sentence, isn't it? Not even until death do us part. But forever and ever and ever as long as ye shall erg. That's how long. Fellow's passed sentence on himself already.

Not this auditing command, but you would have to do something of this sort: „What part of that incident could you be responsible for?“ And run it flat. And where do we go from there?

But that doesn't give him any right to give the auditor the bad time that he gives an auditor, does it? Hm? Because he now blames the auditor for what he himself won't divulge, and he says it's the auditor's fault.

Well, you pick up the next one he gives you and locate that and argue him out of it, and then flatten that one and get his responsibility in that zone and area fully restored and straightened out. Get the idea?

Well, basically, technologically, it has been our collective fault for not getting our cotton-picking fingers deeper into his cotton-picking reactive bank with one of these things.

You just don't strip a guy down of overts and motivators and withholds and just let it all go, go, go, you see? You just don't keep stripping him down of all of his data and then not running anything on it and just skip the rest of it. You get what would be wrong with that? There'd be plenty wrong with that.

Now, these things are now available - actually are manufactured on every continent. Nice gimmick. And they'll tell you what the score is. And they'll go for broke. And there's things now - there's by the way a new booklet on this, a new electrometer booklet - and I'm going to give you addenda to that booklet right here in this congress concerning the functions of this here particular gimmigahoogit with the electronic whizzlebubs.

Because all a confession is, is the first gradient step of taking responsibility for it. That's just the first edge in, and getting him to tell you about it is just to start the process! And you could practically kill somebody by getting him to tell you just overts and withholds endlessly, strip them all off the bank and then never run any Responsibility on it at all. You could practically kill somebody with this thing. It's the dirtiest trick that could be done to anybody - never to run any Responsibility of any character on these overts and withholds, see?

There's a lot of things to know about this thing. And one of them is that the person who has the greatest crimes has the least responsibility on all dynamics and at first registers the least on a meter. The meter only registers those things he still has some slight responsibility for. So there's ways and means of walking around a case on one of these meters we didn't know about before. And the greatest condemnation, you might say, of a case is that it didn't react on a meter. Case didn't react very much on a meter? Well, the auditor knows where to go from there.

Now, I'm not saying any - any organization on Earth does that.

Another thing is - I'll tell you more about it later - but the needle is not as important as the motion of the tone arm. The motion of the tone arm is a better detector than the needle. Interesting, huh?

And the other thing you've got to rehabilitate - after you've rehabilitated responsibility, you've got to rehabilitate the ability to withhold! After you've broken him down you've got to put him back together again, see? Because it's only his ability to withhold that has kept him good. And that's very important.

Now of course, this machine here - you young sprouts that are in the audience will probably live in a civilization where to get a job you'll have to be checked out on an electrometer, and where they won't have unreasonable and destructive revolutions for the excellent reason that most of the criminals are missing out of the society.

If a person is still able to restrain himself from committing antisocial acts, he's in good condition. It's the person who no longer can that is the criminal.

& By the way, I get in some good licks unexpectedly once in a while. I was riding with a fellow who was in charge of one of the largest mills in northern England on a jet plane and I was talking to him about this and that. And as close as I could come to telling, making him understand about what I was doing is I was finding out about people. And he could understand this. And I asked him if he had any communists working for him in his company and organization and so forth. „Oh,“ he says, „Oh yes. A few, you know, shop stewards and things like that.“ And I said, „Well, you having any trouble with any strikes or anything like that?“ „Oh yes, yes, terrible trouble with strikes and so forth.“

So, it's very simple what you have to do to straighten out a case. Of course, this doesn't finish the case off; this doesn't clear the case. This merely sets the case up to be cleared.

& I said, „Well you know, I found out something very funny recently. The communists always have criminal backgrounds. Every time we find a communist we find somebody with a criminal background.“ And this fellow said, „What?“ And I said, „Yes,“ I said, „It just goes together,“ I said, „It's a funny thing we found lately. I thought you might be interested.“

But the steps are very simple: Break down an overt and a withhold that the individual has, run Responsibility on it; find another overt and withhold, present lifetime, run Responsibility on it; another overt-withhold, run Responsibility on it; another overt-withhold, run responsibility on it. When you've got that all set you've got him down to a point of where he's just obsessively confessing, you see - he wakes up in the middle of the night and wants you notes to confess some more - then it's time for you to get in and pitch, you see, and rehabilitate his whole ability to withhold. In other words, having poured the garbage into the ditch it's about time that you let him put up his own tailgates.

Now look, there are a lot of people in the society (quote) „doing good“ or „trying to change the society“ because they themselves owe a debt to society which they are trying to pay in an oblique way.

Now, that's the essence of getting a case on the road, and there's no case that can stand up against this. You've got them all now. If the case can talk, knock! you've got it. I don't even care if the case doesn't want auditing; you've still got him as a case.

I'll tell you something very funny: that is simply a compulsion that never gets anyplace. All of us owe a debt to society as far as that goes. We owe our services on all dynamics. But when we have to give them under compulsion, they don't work very well. So this idea of „the fellow is trying to do good because he has been so bad“ generally winds up with us all in the soup. The funny part of it is, he'll do ten times as much good, a thousand times as much good, if he himself doesn't have to do any good at all. Quite remarkable.

Take any policeman, or take any anything anyplace and you've got him in-session before you know it. I'm taking my revenge out on all the bad press we have ever had by - I break down every newspaper reporter who comes into my hands these days and put him in-session instantly on his own overts and withholds against Dianetics and Scientology.

So there's no reason for this mechanism beyond the fact that certain individuals individuate and fall away in the society, fall away from the dynamics to such a degree that they become something else than human, become something else that isn't alive, that's sort of a synthetic something that crawls through life and tries to get along.

Now, that actually is the way you start a case. And I figure that you figured someday I'd possibly come up with some sort of a kickoff and that is the kickoff for a case. There's numerous tricks and ways and means of doing this, but actually they're just as crude as getting an overt and a withhold and running Responsibility on it, getting another overt-withhold, running Responsibility on it. You keep this up for a while, you'll have that case in-session, and the more you do it, why, the faster they move. Sooner or later you're going to have to rehabilitate their ability to withhold, even from you, and you've got it made.

When you try to audit a person who is guilty of too many overt acts, he makes no progress. When you audit a person who has a few he had better not say, he makes slow progress and is once in a while a little blowy, once in a while tries to leave, once in a while tries to get out of school or get out of a session. And we've long since known that when we got somebody with hardly any up the line he'd tell us those.

Well, I have ruined you today, giving you all this data on the first day. We have nothing then for the second and third days. And I'm very sorry that your banks are so restimulated. (How insincere can a guy get, huh?)

It s an old HGC phenomenon: The fellow comes in and he says, „Sh, I urnm mmmm-rnmrnm-mmm ...“ And he goes out saying, „Wtsch! Tell anybody you want.“ Get the idea? I mean he had a change.

And I'm very - I am very happy, however, to see you here. Basically I've given you now everything that I was going to give you at the congress here, and there's nothing much else to tell you, and so we needn't worry about it too much and you can go to sleep peacefully tonight and realize there are no shockers in store for you tomorrow at all.

Well we knew that, but the reverse was actually what we were looking for. We were looking for the fellow who was doing this, you see, to find the fellow who was causing any trouble, to find the fellow who wasn't doing constructive things, to find the fellow who wasn't getting the show on the road. That was the destructive person.

Now, if you are too restimulated tonight to sleep, why, just be comforted by the thought that there are others in the same boat. And tomorrow, sometime tomorrow, I will try to run you a Group Process that won't take the edge off - it'll probably make it worse - but it'll make - it'll make things much clearer to you.

You are looking here - and we will go into it much more later - but you are looking here at something - something that has very far-reaching ramifications, something that goes out across a great many future millennia. You're looking at something here which has meaning.

In the meanwhile, thank you for coming, and I think so far we've had a good first day, and I wish you a lot of luck in your seminars this evening.

It only takes one cognition on anybody's part to just go for broke and make it true - a world without criminals, a world of effective people. The only cognition you have to - is it isn't necessary to have overt act-motivator sequence as part of the game! The second you have a subjective reality on that, you just drop the rest of it as though it's hot chestnuts, just brrrr. As a matter of fact, the overt act-motivator sequence game - „You're guilty, we'll punish you. I'm guilty, you punish me. I'm a victim, therefore you've done so-and-so. You're a victim, therefore I've done so-and-so“ - this isn't even vaguely necessary to any enjoyment of life or any game of any fun!

Thank you very much.

You just look it over, and you'll find out that all the games you've enjoyed had nothing to do with the overt act-motivator sequence. Very funny.

It's the overt act-motivator sequence which puts the end to all games. Doing things to people and having to punish them and be punished by them and all of this sort of thing is a sort of a sordid, last-ditch activity which people hope somebody will mistake for a game. But that's about as far as they get with it. They really don't have a game at that level. So it actually is antiquated. There's many things you can do without going into that.

Now, if these statements of mine have upset anybody, I am truly sorry - for their case.

For instance, there was a little girl who wasn't making very much progress. She was a - she was a civilian from out in town, she wasn't a Scientologist. And she wasn't making very much progress, and I noticed her face was getting sort of sunken and she was getting a little bit haggard under auditing and was really going along with it all right, but somehow or another wasn't quite getting much benefit from auditing and so forth.

So I sat down at her desk the other day and I said, „You know, girls do a lot of things in life. They think they're all very reprehensible. Matter of fact, I wouldn't be a bit surprised but what you don't think that you've done something that if Doctor Hubbard heard about, he'd sack you.“ I said, „Well, the funny part of it is,“ I said, „I don't think you could do anything that bad. Next time you're audited, why don't you tell your auditor all about it?“

So she did, and her case went zoom! It was very reprehensible. Something on the second dynamic at the age of eight. Pretty bad, you know? But she was sitting on a big withhold.

Now, a person's overts and withholds on any or all dynamics are the only reason their cases stay bogged! And it gets back to the definition of Operating Thetan which is „willing and knowing cause over matter, energy, space, time, form and, of course, thought and postulates“ - Operating Thetan.

The horrible thing we have to face up to, if we're going to get anyplace, is; We done it. And I'll talk to you later about responsibility. We're actually not trying to hang people left and right with this thing called responsibility.

But we are saying just this and I am telling you just this: True recovery of one's beingness goes along with one's realization that he has been the cause of any difficulty he has ever had. And that's an awful tough bullet. That's so tough that you probably won't make it for hundreds of hours of auditing.

It's all very well for you to step up very happily you know, and say, „Well, that's right. Ron says that. And there's nothing to it, and I'll get down here in the auditing chair, and I'll sit here. Ha! Now, what can I be responsible for? I can be responsible for all the difficulties I've ever had.“

And the auditor says, „Well, all right. Well, just tell me one you could be responsible for“ „Well, I could be responsible for... No, I couldn't be responsible for that difficulty at school! That was her fault!“ And there derails that set of flatcars right off into the woods, see?

No, we got lots of them - lots of things we're not willing to take responsibility for, but it isn't responsibility we're trying to hang people with. We've got lots of them.

And right away, glibly, we say, „Is that all it takes to be Clear? Who'll listen to me? Who'll listen to me? Listen, I - I'm willing to take responsibility for everything. I caused all of my own difficulties. Boy, I was“ - boom! And you collapse on that point.

Now, the point I'm trying to make is simply this: That the state of Clear is the state of being admitted cause on all dynamics. And you have been, but you haven't admitted it. And that's the auditor's job; to get you to.

Thank you.