The final lecture here*Note: This lecture ended the first twelve hours of lectures of this series given by Ron from Monday, 23 March to Friday, 27 March 1953. is devoted to technique — how you do it — and Standard Operating Procedure.

This is the fifth evening and the first lecture of this last evening of this series.

Actually, what I'm going to give you at this time is really your basic material in terms of Scientology whether operating in terms of groups or operating on individuals.

I'm going to talk to you tonight very swiftly. In two hours I'm going to cover the technique which we will call Standard Operating Procedure Utility and give you the basic modus operandi of how you become things and what the most general fear is with regard to living.

The techniques which we have here are group techniques or individual techniques. A big step forward, isn't it? And they will do more, you will find, than any other techniques that you've lined up.

In other words, in these last two lectures, this last two hours, I'm going to try to cover with you what man has been trying to find out for an awful long time.

They do so much more that you've got to readjust your perspective on how many hours of processing you give people.

When you know you know this material, you'll know that you know. It's very simple material.

But you understand that Standard Operating Procedure 5 or Standard Operating Procedure 3 remain much as before, and I will do a short rundown on Standard Operating Procedure 5. It will appear in a class book for the professional student because it's an intensely workable technique and an array of techniques and people are getting into beautiful shape all over the place with these techniques.

We have here, first and foremost, how you become and why people don't become.

However, at Level V, at Level VI and at Level VII there the auditor is in difficulty; he's got a long haul. Now, the — actually at IV, the auditor is a little bit in trouble, so you either simply use Standard Operating Procedure 5 and take what I'm giving you now as the solution to IV, V, VI and VII or you just use it for the whole technique.

All right, what is the modus operandi of becoming? How do you become something?

In other words, what I'm going to give you here is Standard Operating Procedure Utility, and it just goes on all steps and any condition.

Well, you know how you become something. You study. You apply your-self. You get some influential friends. You inherit some money. You do other things. And if you do all these things well and if you have a good honest face and your service record is good and your fingerprints aren't on file in too many places you will become something.

You will find most psychotics, if you could just even vaguely get in communication with them, they love this game. Now, the best part of this is this is fun, a lot of fun.

Well, that's — that would be nice if it were true. It would be very nice if it were true, because you have two billion Homo sapiens currently engaged in following that modus operandi. You also have an enormous number of insane asylums and prisons. I wonder if there's any coordination between those two facts?

But individuals that you set out to processing themselves with this technique quite often do it for a few minutes and then skip it. The reason why, it's too effective. That is to say, they want to think about it and they want to fool around with it and they want to be logical about it or something of the sort, because they want to fall back into the training pattern of agreement with the MEST universe. In other words, they want to go according to the lines of observe and learn and guess and figure, and what they're doing is dramatizing agreement with the MEST universe, which is get logical and get it all down and figure it out, and so on.

Unfortunately, for Homo sapiens, his modus operandi of becoming is just about as reverse-vectored as you could get. He's mired down in the MEST universe, and he thinks he has to follow the course which led MEST into being MEST.

So your individual who is below Step IV on the Tone Scale — the individual who is below Step IV — you won't find doing this for a very long span because it just takes him right straight out of what he's in. If he just kept going with just this, why, he'd just land there, that's all. It's not too long a process, either, but on the way he'll get into restimulation the fact that he has to be logical and he'll have a tendency to just knock it off. Whereas, as a matter of fact, it's the only route toward knowing.

Now, you understand that we have scouted and plotted, and in the work which has preceded this work, we have a very complete map, really, of how MEST became MEST. We know the basic thing: the thought, then some space, then some terminals and lines and particles and then we get counter-action between two terminals and they get driven tighter and tighter together. And then they know they mustn't be each other; and then the next thing you know, they are tighter and tighter, and it goes right on down the line. That's the dwindling spiral.

The only real route toward knowing is being. You want to know what that ashtray is, why, just be the ashtray for a second and you'll find out what it's all about. Not that it has any hidden influence or fingerprints on it or anything of the sort. You'll just find out what is the composition of molecular structure in glass, that particular kind of glass, and you'll find out its brittleness and its coldness and warmth and a few other things. You — very perceptic. Now — and you'll also find out how stupid it is.

Well, that winds up, evidently, in conservation of energy. Winds up in the laws of physics: interaction, laws of motion, all that — inertia, so on. These things all evolved from that upper line.

Now, in a book — British author T. H. White wrote a book called Sword in the Stone, a very charming book about, allegedly, the early days of King Arthur. Merlin there is the teacher of the young king, and who is known in the book affectionately, I think, as "The Wart." And one of the educational processes was to take the young Arthur out and let him be things. Of course, Merlin mocked them up so that he could be them, and he had the experience of being a carp and being a few other things that were very interesting; a very fascinating literary passage.

And if you want to have some fun sometime, why, take a week off, and just plot for your own satisfaction from that, on your own initiative, just how it came about from these basic principles and you will see that it is really quite simple.

But it is very peculiar that it doesn't take any great magic on your own part to go through this same experience, and that is about all the experience you can go through. Any other experience line is apparently down, and that experience line is up and out. And that is being.

Having evolved this, it is going to take me probably the next twenty years to write enough material on various subjects in order to cover behavior aspects in man and in the physical universe. It's probably going to take me that long to do that because there's a terrific amount of complexity comes out of this little simplicity. And the background data which I have accumulated makes it necessary that I go ahead and do that just as part of the responsibility.

What you're doing with this technique in any way this technique is used, the technique will be as effective as these two things are followed: You are getting the preclear to be things in order to overcome his fear of becoming things. And as long as your target is primarily the MEST universe, sixth dynamic . . . I'll say more about that in a moment.

But as far as the overall look is concerned, it's very simple.

Now, your modus operandi of how you become something or how you get something under control is a very simple one. It's so simple it could be completely bypassed. It has to do with agreement. You get something — you agree with something, and agree with something in order to get it to agree with you. And when it agrees with you then you change its status of agreement slightly, and you change it some more and some more and some more on a gradient scale until you can control it utterly.

Now you see, then, that the track of evolution from space, terminals, "Let there be light," and so on, right on down along the line to hard matter and no space and great value and everything scarce, you see that agreeing with this modus operandi will of course take you right straight on down the line on a dwindling spiral until for all intents and purposes, you aren't.

You'll see this in interpersonal relations. This is a salesman's technique. But it is an actual technique. It — you're — let's not practice the shadow. Let's take a look at the — how you would handle this in mock-ups. Now, that is actually the way you'd get to be things so thoroughly you are entirely in control of them. Let's not pull our shot on this.

You see how that would be?

You just agree with it and agree with it and agree with it, until you've got it sort of coming your way, and then you've got it coming your way, you put two x's on it, you put one x on you and two on it. And then it thinks this is all right so you put four x's on it, and right then it's yours.

If you agree with the MEST universe, you're agreeing with this modus operandi. And if you agree with this modus operandi, then you can become the MEST universe under compulsion of agreement. Do you see that?

You see, that would be the way that it was done. Now, you have to remember this in processing; that's — isn't that a terribly brief statement? It's really most ghastly important.

By agreeing with the MEST universe continually, you also pick up the compulsion to hold off anchor points, to defend, to protect, to get in there and fight, to keep terminals apart, to criticize, evaluate and flounder around like mad, and never find any peace of mind, but find less and less and less peace of mind, until you find your entire environment is falling in on you!

There's a little bit more to know about this. One of the ways you do this, you see, being like something and agreeing with something and sympathizing with something are the same thing. Moving with or moving like: sympathy.

You can't hold those anchor points out there anymore. The horrible joke is there were no anchor points to hold out there.

So that if, for instance, in interpersonal relationships, you were to degrade something slightly to demonstrate that it needed admiration and that you sympathized with its needed admiration, what do you know? You're in co-motion with it. Now, you're sympathizing with it, now you change it slightly and therefore, after that, you can control it.

But this is — this by the way, as a highly generalized solution, has been tried many times. There are many people who have come up in the last few thousand years and said, "All is illusion, all is illusion, all is illusion, God is good." And they buried them, too.

Men and women do this to each other all the time. It's one of the oldest, moth-eaten methods. They don't quite realize in what they're doing. So I give it to you in its — in its perfect form. You don't have to guess about the method; it's very precisely that. You just tell somebody he needs appreciation, then you sympathize with the fact that he needs appreciation and then you've got him agreeing with you on this basis and then you just put four x's on him when he isn't quite — you just, gradient scale, the next thing you know, you could control this person's whole life utterly.

The agreement with the MEST universe — well, you had to know what you were agreeing with before you knew whether or not you were agreeing with it! Well, that's why we've got a map. We've got a good map. And therefore, it really isn't dangerous for you to approximate the MEST universe. Not if you know how the MEST universe works. Not if you know what human behavior is and what energy behavior is in relating to it, then it doesn't become dangerous even vaguely, to play along with any part of this. You can do anything you want with it.

Now, that is the modus operandi of control. It's also the modus operandi behind this process. You find, in this process, then, that you have several levels of attack. The first one is simply this: this processes in many forms; there are countless combinations.

Just because you have a bottle of milk sitting in front of you is no reason why you mustn't drink the milk, you see? If you have a bottle with "contents unknown" sitting in front of you and you say, "Well, am I going to take a swig of this or am I not?" you're in the same frame of mind as most people are with regard to MEST: "Should I own it or shouldn't I? If I do, what'll it do to me?" You know, big doubt, uncertainty.

You know about double-terminaling things. The process, then, could be utilized in its simplest form. You just — this is permissive, easy. You just keep telling the preclear to be things. Now, I provided a list there. It's a very limited list and so forth, but it's quite representative as a list. And it's merely a list of words, nouns in English, which are suggestions — just suggestions, just things to be. You'll find an awful lot of them are MEST universe things.

But if you know it's a bottle of milk, you can go ahead and drink it. And if you know it's a bottle of poison, you can throw it in the garbage. That's about all there would be to it in the line of thought.

All right, things to be. And you just tell the preclear "Be — be a floor," "Be a mop," so forth.

But if you thought that there was always going to be something unknown about it then you would always be in the position of a man sitting at a table, looking at a bottle, "contents unknown," and you'd be trying to look into that bottle to find out what was in that bottle. Should you drink it? Should you throw it in the garbage?

At first, he's — he gets them way out there someplace, but gradually, little by little, without you forcing him or anything of the sort, why, the first thing you know, he's a mop. He's perfectly happy to be a mop.

And that is what is known as a maybe. And a maybe is a double flow, or a controversion, to such a degree that an individual is hung up on it. And the anatomy of maybe is the anatomy of procrastination and suspense and duration, and all the rest of these things. Maybes dissolve because energy dissolves under the impact of admiration. You can admire anything that is enduring and it'll fall apart. Stop admiring my car out there!

Now, you could just go on like that, by the way. At first he'll tell you, "No, I — " and he'll tell you there is something bad about this mop, and he'll tell you there's something bad about something else and something bad about something else, and it's bad over thataway and it's bad over thataway and it's bad over thisaway and it's bad right here, and he's liable to remark this considerably; he wouldn't want to be a mop; he wouldn't want to be a rock; he wouldn't do this.

Now, here we have then — we see this anatomy of maybe. "Should I drink it or shouldn't I drink it?" Now, what state do you find — well, let's be real blunt — what state do you find all of your preclears in? You find one in one peculiarity and another one in another one, but there's one thing that is common to every preclear, and that is he's sitting on the middle of a maybe. He has an uncertainty.

And gradually he can be still things very easily. He'd say, "What do you know, I don't mind being a mop; I don't mind being a floor," so forth. Now you just step him up one and you introduce motion. "Let's be a mop in motion; a floor with something in motion on it; let's be all these things now with some motion taking place."

Now, you could flounder around and you could resolve several uncertain-ties out of his life, and what do you know, he becomes more certain. And when he becomes more certain, he is more able to act. And as soon as he is able to act, then he is well. Now there, as far as you're concerned is — ever since we had Technique 80 (we have tapes of that here) we've known this is the case.

And now, after we've got him completely settled on that, let's let him be all these things where some collision is taking place. One thing is hitting another thing or something is blowing up or something unexpected is happening in each case. "All right, now let's be a car and have its motor blow out of the hood." That's all.

If you could resolve a maybe, why, you were in good shape; or if you could just make him ram through some communication lines to some doubts. The second he'd run his communication lines out to his injured knee or some-thing of the sort, he was in communication with it, why, pow! he didn't have any injured knee anymore. You should test this sometimes just as a basic peg on which so many of these discoveries are founded. If you throw a communication line into some part of the body which is ailing and just insist that the line go there and the line come back from that part of the body to you — just insist upon it — you'll see pain blow up. It just — it just disappears at an awful rate of speed. And this is communication. So communication was important. I found out empirically that communication was more important than anything else.

A guy wouldn't like to be that right off the bat but you'll find if you've worked on a gradient scale, that he is very happy about this.

Actually, communication is more important than the maybe because the maybe would merely say, "Do I dare communicate with it or not?" That's all a maybe is.

Now, how far do you go with just that simple, stupidly simple process? To be something would be to perceive something, and also to perceive from its viewpoint. Isn't that right?

So the fellow is in the halfs-twilight, the twilight of "maybe he'll communicate and maybe he won't communicate, and maybe he should and maybe he can't, and maybe, maybe, maybe, maybe, maybe," and there he sits.

Furthermore, you're going to specialize more in mock-ups than you are in actual objects. You're not going to say, "Be that sink," "Be that flower." It'll be "a sink," be "a flower" — mock-up things. Now, you're not even going to care much whether he's in the real universe or whether he's mocking up what he's being.

And if his mock-ups are bad and he can't see them, he's sitting on a maybe, but he's also sitting on "Do I dare communicate with it or not?"

But the truth of the matter is that his ability to be is his ability to perceive. So he tells you after a while, "Well, I don't know what a pump feels like." This tells you one thing. This tells you he is opening up to the point — you have never informed him of this — but he's actually getting up to a point of curiosity, "I wonder what a pump does feel like?"

Now, we know basically that space — and you can test this so easily — space is compounded from just a viewpoint of dimension. So if you don't have a viewpoint of dimension you'd kind of automatically be everything, wouldn't you? Unless you were holding down an arbitrary dimension that you said nothing else dare occupy. The second you were doing that you were saying, "Something can hurt me." Now, you see the difference there?

Well, it's not up to you to tell him how a pump feels. You just tell him to be a wash basin, and be a bird and be a weather vane and be something else and be something else and something else and something else. And he'll say, "You know, I don't think that a weather vane is this cold." Get the idea?

A fellow, he just doesn't bother to take a viewpoint of dimension. If he did that, he'd get this funny feeling of "Gee, you know, I'm just everything. I'm a whole universe," if he just didn't take any viewpoint of dimension at all. It's a strange state of mind. Well, people won't let themselves get into that state of mind because this is dangerous. They know that the second they did that, everything would move in on them right now! They never make the test.

And you'll notice something else happening. At first, if he's being the things right where he is — right where he is exactly — he will have a very limited view because he'll be right where he is.

There is an odd technique of simply letting go of what you're holding on to. You'll find the individual is holding on with great force on to various things in his body, and he knows that there's pressure there. Well, instead of letting him try to rub out this pressure, let him just let go of what the pressure is pressing against. You just sort of — it's just sort of a letting-go technique. It just sort of sorts it out. Well, you just stop his guarding, you stop his protecting. And what do you know, the second that he does this the pains go away. He just lets go of whatever is facing whatever is pressing, you see, because he's creating the pressure both ways. And when he discovers this, he thinks that something alien is pressing against him. Now, he doesn't even know that he's holding the thing which is being pressed against, and he doesn't realize that he's also the alien thing doing the pressing! And as a net result, he can get into a fine state of divided terminals.

But then he will begin to gather more and more environment. And he'll catch on to more and more environment and more and more environment and more and more environment, until he is a weathercock but he comments to you upon the view of the countryside, not on the quality of the weathercock. In other words, he's getting big on these things, see?

He says, "This is not me, this is me and I have to hold that off," and then he doesn't know that he is pushing that other terminal, pushing it in, and he's creating the pressure.

Now, you don't double-terminal that or anything else. That's this process in its simplest form, and all you have to do and all you have to know is that you specialize in the MEST universe objects, only this — it's all perfectly all right to have him be anything else. That list is pretty good, except that list doesn't have communication objects in it. It's missing on all its communication objects. I don't know whether this is bad or good. You don't even particularly have to have those in.

Fellow says, "I've got a terrible migraine headache and it just entur--serve me all — ." Why, he's the fellow who is holding the head in such a way that this pressure can come in and press against it. He's doing the pressing and he's holding the line so that it gets pressed against; he's doing both. And if you just simply ask him, "Will you please let go of the press-in?"

But a lot of people are unwilling to be letters; they're unwilling to be telegrams, for obvious reasons. See, it doesn't matter because that's adding too much idea into it, so let's not worry about that.

"Oh, I can't do that," he'll say.

Just take that list, two hundred basic nouns as represented in basic English — which list is available anyplace — the nouns in the eight-hundredand-fifty-word basic English. And you just go over those and any variation you happen to think of going over those.

"Well, why don't you let go of what it's pressing against?" This is a brand-new thought to him. Yeah, this is a hidden one. He didn't realize he was holding on to that, so he lets go of that, and there will be a sharp flip as the motion moves on through. He's let go.

The preclear is sitting down, you've got somebody else there, you're giving it to two people simultaneously (much better, two processes for the cost of one). You're going to pay attention to the preclear, but the other guy can do it too. That's very good, by the way, that's very smart of you as an auditor. Get two terminals there; that they're both doing the same thing, that's wonderful.

What's he done? He's increased his beingness by taking responsibility for the terminals! That's all. He said, "I'm these two terminals." He hasn't really let go, you see? He says, "I don't want to be the two terminals." But he reacts best if you just sort of ask him, "Well, just let go of them." In other words, you're asking him, "Don't worry about them," and sure enough, that blows up. Now, that's just a test technique, but an interesting technique because it demonstrates so forcefully the basic truth of what we're working with here.

Well, you can do this to thirty people, see, just as well. Simple process.

Now, here the fellow, he's under terrible pressure all the time in the area of his chest, and he's not only doing the pressing, but he's holding the thing which it's pressing against. And he's doing both of these actions so he's having a terrific battle with himself! That's real cute. He's having a terrific battle with himself.

First you want them stationary, and next you want them in motion, and then you want them in preferably destructive condition or action or in motion destroyed — in motion destroyed — an old mop on a dump heap. All right.

Ran into a preclear one day, he said a thetan was attacking him. Well, that's fine, a thetan was attacking him, and it turns out to be that what was attacking him was the facsimile of their assumption of the body. They didn't want to be that thetan anymore, that's why they became a body, you see? So they didn't take responsibility for that area anymore, so they said, "It must be somebody else." And they were fighting themselves like mad.

Your preclear, is he going to get them in this order? Most of your pre-clears will. But very often you will get somebody who feels quite hectic about life, and they will get them in motion — in hectic motion first — uncontrolled, hectic motion. Do you interfere with that? Do you change it? Do you do any-thing else to remedy this? No, not a thing. Not a thing. You see, that's your big test of how alert you are.

In other words, they're just — this reminds you of — you've seen comedies, comedies where the lights go out and everybody goes sock, sock, sock and then when the lights go on again, all the villains are beating each other up, and the comedian has gone up on deck someplace, something like that, you know. Well, the comedian in this case is the hidden influence. The hidden influence has always gone up on deck somewhere and left you in there fighting you. Actually, there isn't a flatter statement could be made. That's just what's happening.

Now, his perception will observably get better and better and better, but not just on his mock-ups. This has an immediate reaction and influence on his ability to perceive with his MIEST beingness too. But we mustn't overlook a couple of things with regard to this. By throwing him into these things, one right after the other, we're going to clip on incidents, aren't we? We sit down and process any of them? No, we do not. It's real tough; we just don't.

Somebody came along and said, "You better fight you," and gave you a good reason why, but he didn't tell you he was there telling you. And then he kind of slid away and you've gone on fighting you ever since, and you don't know that it's a comedy. It's rather a tragic, grim comedy when you see how far down the line an individual could go on fighting himself.

Where do we want these objects, in the past or in the present? We want them in the present. The greatest certainty of object will be a mocked-up object. Is he certain that he mocked it up? And is it his that he is being? That is the best object.

But if you were to mock up the preclear punching himself in the nose time after time, he would eventually begin to laugh, because the truth of the matter is that's what he's been doing for just ages. He's been punching him-self in the nose continually. That's all he's been doing and that's all the pain and travail he has.

But in your processing of this individual or individuals, you're going to find that you're going to open up an awful lot of doors. And the fellow is going to want to tell you all about it. And you just tell him to be a mop.

It's very interesting, by the way, to get a preclear to look back over his track and see the number of things which have hurt him in life. You don't ever use a technique that evaluates and points out to somebody for some-thing. The hell with that! That's just phooey. That's going at it the hard way and the long way around and so forth. That's just no good.

Because what he thinks about it doesn't amount to a whoop and a holler and a tinker's damn. I'm sorry, but what he conceives about the beautiful methods by which you perceive shoe leather while you're in shoe leather and how he can see, actually, that this is why the tanner does what he does and all that sort of thing — that's all interesting. Don't cut his communication line to a point where you're pushing him in the face all the time but he's dramatizing if he starts telling you what he thinks about it. He's dramatizing logic and it's what you're running out of him, so of course expect it to go into restimulation. Logic, learning of that character, is directly counterpointed against beingness.

You just sit there and you keep asking him if this means anything to him or how does he figure on that or what does something else mean to him, and if you do that long enough, he'll go blow his brains out. So it's not that it's bad it's just going to take you a long time. It's just not a workable technique.

Learning about something by some other method is entirely different than being it, you see? Learning about it — over here there is some other method, being it. So just remember that, that his logic is going to go into restimulation.

So where we have, then, a good technique — where we have a good technique is where the preclear fights it out himself and you just pitch in the suggestions of various things for him to sort of fight out himself. That would be a nondirective technique. That would be a — what's known as a permissive therapy. And the least directive, of course, a technique is, the better it restores the individual's self-determinism.

And if you as an auditor spend any time whatsoever listening to what he thinks about logic, you might as well spend your time going out and watch somebody pitch horseshoes or break glasses or something of the sort. Any kind of action, you don't — it's of no importance, because that's what you're running out of the guy.

Now, the only thing that's been injured is his idea of his self-determinism, and if that's all that's been injured, then you'd certainly better not introduce anything that cuts him back down again. He's just fighting himself, that's all.

This doesn't mean that a fellow shouldn't be clever or that a fellow shouldn't be smart. He should be. But boy, he'll get so much smarter you'll hardly know him. If this fellow starts out being very logical and very smart at the beginning of the process, his IQ is going to go out of sight but rapidly, you see. You're not destroying any of his memory. But logicizing on this could sure slow you way, way down. Just let him be.

And you ask this fellow, all right, all these points in his life when he got into real trouble, and if he were going over this meticulously and you had all the data, you'd find out that he started each one of them. He has become in each case the effect of his own cause.

Now, supposing he had a weak heart. Well, if you're not pushing him into things to be, you're not shoving him into everything, if you're letting all this take care one way or the other, you'll find out that he will get into a much easier frame of condition. Why?

You say, "Well, who else had something to do with this?" And the truth of the matter is nobody else! And it's the weirdest thing why this works out this way, but it works out this way with mathematical precision! It is a ghastly thing for a man to suddenly notice this! He just wasn't enough of things in order to keep the ball rolling. He limited his beingness for one reason or another, and when he limited his beingness for one reason or another, he was in the soup! He was no longer willing to be something!

What's tension? Tension is a collapsed communication line. This thing they've been talking about called "tension." Once a time, there was a guy by the name of Spoonerduff or something who lived about thirty years ago, had a technique known as "relaxation." I think a fellow laid down with a hot water bottle across his middle or something of the sort and got well.

Well now, he might have had good reasons why he was no longer to be something. The — actually, he could have worked it out and said, "Look, I'm evaluating. I'm going to concentrate what I am doing over here, and I'm going to let that go." He can certainly expect to be kicked in the teeth by what he let go, because he simply said, "I'm no longer willing to be it" and it's going to kick him in the teeth. He's going to be in bad shape because of that.

Two hundred years ago, two thousand years ago, they used to take mineral baths. Relaxed them and they got well. They used to hypnotize people and it relaxed them and they got well. And the doctors give them phenobarbital and it relaxes them and they get well, and so on.

Well, sometimes, even when he knows this, he says, "Well, I'll let go of this thing anyhow and take the consequences and go along the line and finish this up."

Any relaxation, then, of a communications line will make a person well to a somewhat slight, limited degree in over three or four percent of the cases treated. All right.

Actually, that's the story of most any man. He has abandoned something because he felt he should in order to give time and beingness to something else. And the society is pretty well rigged, the chips have been stacked, the cards have been cold-decked against him, so that actually the society itself was forcing him to make such evaluations and abandonments.

Why is it, then, that changing an environment will make somebody well? Why is it that just by educating him, even by the old creaky standards, would very often improve his beingness and his state of mind? Why is it? Why, change his environment and the fellow gets better?

But it was he who made the first choice to be the thing which he is now going to abandon. And it's only because he made a choice to be it that he later abandons it. You see, he couldn't abandon something he never wanted to be. Nobody ever forced anybody to be anything. They just think they did.

See, there are three valid therapies — there were, there aren't now — there were three valid therapies. You processed him or you changed his environment or you educated him. Well, now, there's one of them because you're doing the same thing. When you start changing his beingness around, you're certainly going to change his environment, and when he gets to be being various things, he'll certainly become educated about them in the finest possible way.

Well, what's this — what's this that's sort of going along, and making these people so confused then? They really cause their own grief. And you, by the way, you could set up an entire school of processing and so forth which would — simply said, "Man is the cause of his own woes," and when the pre-clear comes in, why, you say, "All right. Now you did that. All right. Now weren't you willing to suffer for it?"

So we've lumped these three possible processes into one thing because the environment — of course, you've changed his environment, you've changed his communication lines. He didn't get any more yap from his mother, or he didn't, so on. You changed his environment, in other words, and it went out of restimulation, you see. So you change his communication lines; if you change his communication lines, you change his level of beingness. You've educated him. You've fed him in a nice, calm smooth communication line; it changes his level of beingness. I mean, that's easy, easy to see. All right.

And the fellow would say, "Well, let's see . . ." And you could point this out and the next thing you know, why, you could have some terrifically successful thing going, because it would be a sort of a nasty, mean way to operate and your preclears would feel you must amount to something if you had that much right to insult them, and you'd probably be terribly successful. But anyway, anyway — the . . . You know, get them to confess. Anyway, when you — slow fuse.

This, then, is the simplest, the simplest of the simple, and that's just Mock-up Beingness. You take a group and you can just go on by the hour on this stuff. Your imagination can have them be automobiles running into trains and all that sort of thing. You'll find out that it's very interesting the number of things that you can do in a variation of this. And they'll get a lot better and they'll get a lot better and they'll get a lot better and a lot better and a lot better.

When you have — when you have a preclear before you, you are certain, then, of this: He's fought himself to a standstill. He — you can put that down as — when that guy, no matter what, you see, you're liable occasionally to get tipped over a little bit about a preclear. You're liable to get passionately enmeshed in his existence. The horrible things that have happened to him and the awful betrayals from which he has suffered are such that your sympathy gets elicited, particularly if you're sitting in the same kind of a chair in the same position as he is.

But this isn't all the technique there is to this. You can just put this one down as something that you can just reel off by the hour.

And you're liable to kind of forget where the roof is and so forth, and that's one — that little phrase — you put it down on your desk blotter or some-thing of the sort and take a look at it when you look at the preclear.

Now, the manifestations, as I've told you, will crop up and anything you know about auditing anyplace is liable to show up. Anything is liable to show up on something like this so don't be dismayed and be quite ready to send for the fire brigade, namely you, and put out the fire.

Anything that's wrong with him, he caused it. Any fight that he's engaged in, he's fighting himself.

Because if you take some fellow that's pretty red-hot and pretty neurotic and you start him being a lot of various things, you're liable to hear some wild chatter. You're liable to say, "You know, you know, I know what's the matter with me. I've got another thetan hanging on my ear who is trying to get into my head. And now I know what's wrong with me." Yeah, that's all it took. A nice hidden influence like that. It — that's all it took. Believe me, it'll really trigger him.

You can write it down as a horrible condemnation that this preclear's worst enemy is himself. And what do you know, people throw that as an insult at people. It happens to be the truth! No one has any real enemy except himself when it comes down to this.

What do you do in a case like that? Do you pay any attention to this? No. You invalidate it if you pay any attention to it. You shift off his beingness into something else.

The more you work on this, the more the macrocosm appears to be the microcosm — the more you work on it. So where we have a preclear who is in a sad state of affairs, he's fighting himself. What's that mean? That means that he has (1) been something which he now does not want to be. See, he's had to — assumed a terminal and then abandoned a terminal for something bad to have occurred. You know that, as the first — just one glance, that he's a man, isn't he? He's alive, isn't he? Well, that's — follows as truth; he's abandoned a terminal which he's had now — which he once assumed. And that he is fighting himself.

Well what happens to this guy eventually? This is why this shouldn't be uniformly in the hands of a professional auditor, and shouldn't be handed out very much. This guy is going to start to be the things around in the room. He'll be the things out in the street. He hasn't any fear of being these various things now. And he'll start to be these various things and it's very happy he is. You've got a Theta Clear on your hands. You better remember that.

And that applies to a psychosomatic. He's holding on to what is pushing him. And by the way, all you have to do is get him into communication with the area, and he finds out he's holding on to it, he'll let go.

Everything you know about Theta Clearing is right there. It means that he can change his beingness by changing his postulates, and it means this and it means that and it means so forth. And all the data which you can scrape up on this subject applies.

Now, these are not terribly workable techniques, though. Why? Well, it's a funny thing about techniques, very funny. I have, well, I have a rather critical eye toward techniques. I generally look over what I dream up and label a technique. I generally test it. I know this is not customary amongst men but I have that peculiarity. Waste my time maybe, but I do that.

But the fellow, if you keep at this long enough, he'll just simply go on out of his head, that's all. Not the right way, which is to get an electric shock and be driven out of your head — everybody knows that's the right way to do it — but the wrong way; that's by using Scientology! So, that should be remembered.

And I have found that in techniques, I have found, that there are techniques which you would think were just wonderful. I mean, you could sit down and you would be scribbling along and you'd be thinking about something, maybe working on a preclear, and you'd all of a sudden think of this gorgeous technique! Theoretically, it can't miss. It is the most marvelous technique!

Now, why is it — why is it that you're going to rehabilitate the sixth dynamic? Why the sixth dynamic? Everybody knows it was Mama and it was Papa and it was so forth. As a matter of fact, on the surface it apparently is those people. Those people happen to be in the level of sympathy with the preclear. In other words, they're about the same height, same size, same environment, and naturally he's going to be in sympathy with them.

Well, of course, it would be kind of embarrassing if you tried it on a preclear, because you might find it wouldn't work, so the best thing to do is not try it on the preclear. The best thing to do is write it up in a book and get it published by the Fairhope Herald, or something.

Now, you can take Double Terminals on these people and you can do wonderful things for a preclear; just wonderful things, you see, by processing these people. Well, why then the sixth dynamic?

And there are lots of these techniques. And just — I, by the way, I probably know five or six hundred of them; they don't work. That's all that's wrong with them.

What's wrong with your preclear? The ability to estimate effort is the ability to use force, and the preclear who has an engram bank that's liable to cave in on him or who can't handle things in existence or who's pinned down in beingness is unable to handle force. If he cannot handle force he can't destroy anything. If he can't destroy anything, he's stuck with every memory he's got right up tight.

But, for instance, I'll give you a technique right now which is the most beautiful technique you've ever heard of. You'd just — you could just swear, I could tell you tonight, I could tell you, "Now, this is the highest echelon technique you will achieve. And this is the highest echelon. This happens to be true, this is the highest echelon technique. And this is what you'd better know and what you'd better practice."

Furthermore, cause and responsibility are intimately associated with force. And what's force? Force is the sixth dynamic, the MEST universe.

And you'll all go out of here and you'd get a lot of preclears, and you'd try to run this and you'd try to run this, and you'd try to run this, and you'd say, "Well, damn it, it's obvious that's the technique. Why doesn't it work? It's so obvious that it's the technique!" You all — you're all going to agree with me in a second.

Furthermore, because everybody "knows" it's Grandpa and Grandma and all these other things, it obviously must be and couldn't possibly be any-thing else! Anything that is that well known isn't so! And that's that. It must be something very insidious, and it is.

This technique is you process out and concentrate on this fact: The one postulate that is back of the trouble with all postulates is the only one you process out of the preclear, and that is, "Postulates must endure!"

My God, what do you think would happen if you stepped off this top step out here and didn't step on the rest of the steps? That's space and gravity waiting for you right there. You — can you see gravity? No, you sure can't see gravity.

And you think that over for a moment, you'll get the idea there, "Of course that must be the only technique, the only thing wrong must be that: postulates must have duration." Now, you could come up bright and smiling, you know, and hand out this technique to some poor guy. And he could go over here, and he'd just beat his brains out! There's nothing going to happen, just nothing. It's the awfulest blank you ever wanted to look into.

Well, how about sound? You can't see any sound. Well, how about — how about all these other things, these other manifestations of MEST universe perception? What about those things? You can't see them, can't feel them, but really, through the MEST body, they're sort of there and, well, that's a mystery as long as force itself is something the individual won't touch.

I know hundreds of techniques like this. For instance, somebody came out and he said, "Well, the trouble with everybody is," he says, "they haven't seen the light. So what we've got to do is just make them see the light." Well, of course, if they make them see the light hard enough, they'll get them into an electronic. But it's a — but it's a beautiful technique. It sure puts people into apathy and you really can control them. Anyway!

And if you want to rehabilitate force, you don't rehabilitate anything but.

The next — another technique there — there are lots of these things. You'd think that this technique would come right in on two terminals, and so forth. You feel that all you had to do is process out all the loneliness an individual had, with two terminals, and all you had to do was process out all the loneliness and he'd be all set. Phooey! Nothing happens!

You'll find out — the sixth dynamic — you'll find out, for instance this: The fellow will tell you, "Well, this happened in my life and that happened in my life, and something else happened in my life." And then, what do you know, you find out that his decline was coincident with that automobile accident. Maybe all these things were wrong, you understand, and you could process them and make him much better, but you find out it was that automobile accident which marked the moment of his actual decline. He didn't feel good after that accident. He kind of felt funny about life. And you'll find out that — you'll find out that this fellow, oh, all these various things occurred in his early childhood, and his dog did this and they stole this and that and he was taken away by the gypsies and they turned him into a horse, or anything you want. Something horrible was wrong with him.

So, it's not — it's not good enough to be theoretically perfect. That's not good enough. You can be theoretically perfect, your mathematics can be utterly without flaw, and you can be so far off home base that you'll want to go find Newton and the rest of the boys that invented these mathematics and shoot them dead.

And they keep telling you, fifth dynamic, fifth dynamic, fifth dynamic, merely because the fifth dynamic is the one they're in best communication with. You want to process something with which people are in good communication? No, you certainly don't. You want to get something that'll get their communication level up! Well then don't take their best level of communication and beat it around. Take their poorest level of communication!

For instance, I just gave you that example, postulates must endure. That's obviously — out of that, then, must come terminals and space and energy, and that's why the MEST universe goes on and on and on, and obviously this is all there is wrong with a preclear is postulates endure. You'll find him worried about this, too, by the way. You'll go up to somebody and you'd said, "You know, I tell myself something and it comes true, and I do it. And I do it days later sometimes, and I don't dare say anything to myself because I take myself literally and I do it." Well, it's obviously number one psychosis. Only it won't process.

Poorest level of communication happens to be MEST. The thetan can't see it. Tells you that it's awful bad! That tells you that's really bad, and he can't see it, not worth a darn. Even Step I's get out and they say, "What room? Huh?" And they'll tell you cheerfully, "Sure, I know I'm in this room, I guess. Ha-ha. I hope."

All right, once in a while, by the way, you might — you might high-pressure some preclear into springing himself just by giving him that one. You can high-pressure him too into springing himself if you tell him "Now look, all that's wrong with you is — all that's wrong with you is you read advertisements and you believe them."

Well, that is simply force. That is force in the MEST universe. They're so afraid of being hit by force that they're not going to perceive force and they just cut it off and protect against it and all that sort of thing.

And he would say, "You know, that's true." Oh, he'd feel very reverent about that time. You'd say the — "You read advertisements, and when you were young you read advertisements and these advertisements worried you. And we just process out of you all your advertisements that you've ever read, and you'll be well." And if you told him hard enough, he'd get into a state of hypnotically believing he was well. That's kind of different, you know, from really being up there. All right.

What are their anchor points? Their anchor points are force; force in the MEST universe.

Let's get back to this other now. What — what then establishes this technique? What establishes whether it's true or false? Well, it's whether or not it works on a lot of preclears. That's what establishes it.

You stand around a machine which is running at a very high rate of speed sometime and be calm. And ask yourself this: "Can I be absolutely certain that it's not going to fly off its flywheels? Can I be?" The second you've asked yourself that, you sort of feel "Hm. Nnnyeow! I don't want any-thing to do with that machine." You find yourself backing up toward the passageway, or something. Not noticeably, you understand, because we must all be brave.

And do you know that there's techniques right above "mock-up beingness," and techniques right below "mock-up beingness," both of which appear to be more workable. But it was because of empirical tests of this whole range of techniques, see? There could be techniques of the echelon of lines, techniques of the echelon of terminals, techniques that had to do a little higher up with postulates. "Why did you have to have ideas in the first place? What are your originality," for instance, and so on. And "What about putting out anchor points and bringing them in again?" And the — "Where did you get the idea to do that?" You could go over this thing, you see, and you'd get lots of techniques that would lay out each one along this line, and then you could do something about solving it.

And another thing is, is people have a terrible fear of becoming MEST, which is so bad they don't even express it. They say, "I don't want to die." They think they become MEST if they die, you see.

Well, where did it work?

The idea of being buried in the cold, cold ground and becoming so much mud, that's a favorite idea with science. The leading scientists of this age all know completely that man came from nothing but mud, and he's going back to nothing but mud, which proves he's wrong, utterly wrong. Any time you get the leading scientists of the world agreed upon something, skip it.

Well, the fact that it worked right there at the point of beingness showed up the fact that beingness and communication were the same thing! It was just this fluke that it showed up right there where it did, and it processes right there. It doesn't process any higher and it doesn't process any lower.

Now, their whole attitude demonstrates, then, that they must be fixed on something. They talk about mud and more mud and so on. And they must be kind of fixed on something.

Isn't that sad? Completely cut the throats of all future investigators. But they're going to come around and give you these techniques. You're going to hear about — all about these techniques just below that level, and all above these techni — . I've got them threadbare, looking for something.

Well, not so long ago, they were fixed on another thing entirely and everything was explained in terms of an unseen, unknown, unknowing but all-knowing God, who had a Devil mixed up in it somehow or other; but we never mentioned him, you see, never mentioned the Devil. And there was no communication, except maybe there was, and everybody was safeguarding the communication line, which maybe it existed and maybe it didn't. Boy they ran that thing out. Of course, they got into science eventually.

Because look-a-here, it's obvious that everybody has to have lines. How does he get anything? Then it's very obvious, then, that if he has to have lines, the MEST universe is making him use sound, and that's not a — that's not a thetan communication line. So if the MEST universe makes him use sound, and he's really supposed to have an anchor-point communication line, obviously this error, then, would be the error you would process. And what happens when you do that? You'll find your preclear wound up in the grave of every ancestor he's got! You haven't got time.

A science is closer to an agreement with the MEST universe than a worship of God any day of the week. It's far more debased and also much more practical.

Well now, you've got Admiration Processing. You've got admiration/ sympathy, and we can give admiration/sympathy to this fellow for being so dead in so many places, and so forth, and what do you know, we just find him in more graves. And he gets sadder and sadder, and there's more and more psychosomatics turning on.

You see, actually, man has been playing a very interesting race here. It's a quite interesting race of "could you get that low?" Could you be as low as a physicist? Could you get that low and risk it and somehow or other, reach into the lion's mouth and pull out the answer before you got caught?

What's happening? These darn communication lines are popping open. He was smart, he had them shut down, and you're going to be awful dumb; you're going to come along and open them all up. Don't stand below a lake of ink and open the flood gates!

And he did. They got brave enough to get as low as going to school and becoming engineers. And it paid off, but not very — it paid off, but it had no business paying off. It's a fact.

Now you'll say, "Well, all this preclear has to do is to get rid of all of his blackness and teach him how to handle blackness and naturally his occlusion will go away." Well, obviously, obviously that would happen. Only it doesn't happen. He takes all the blackness that he had stacked up in the room and he puts it out in the front yard or something like that and then the next day, why, he's going to blow his brains out. Why? "Well, the blackness is now in the wrong place." So you put it back in the room and he's happier. So you see, that wasn't a technique.

The guys who go out and build an atom bomb aren't on the way up. Boy, they've agreed with MEST, and they are in a level of uncertainty where they know nothing.

It's — well, we're right on the groove, right on the line when we say that beingness is communication and that one can communicate only with those things which he's willing to be. And one fights or is afraid of only those things which he is not willing to be. And therefore, one will not communicate with those things which he is not willing to be. He will simply fight them. But this collapses his lines on them and he finds himself becoming them. That person becomes those things of which he is most afraid. Isn't that grim.

Talk to one of these atomic scientists. He is just walking around saying, "Let's see, protons, molecules on the fusion side. And I hope that last equation I had was all right. But I was not certain about that. And when the bomb goes off — I'm not quite sure about that. And let's see, the number of fission units per erg — I'm ..."

You'll find anybody — you'll look over the cells in teeth and that sort of thing. And they've really got postulates in them; it's kind of spooky. You'll find out the one thing that they're just frightened to death of, why they got those anchor points way in, just one thing: They're afraid of being a mouth.

You say, "What are you talking about?"

It is a universe which is driven together by terror; an emotion of terror of the like of which one has never really seen, unless he's got really down there and looked at it. You can say, "What in the name of Christ could every-thing have been so afraid of to have pulled in its anchor points this hard?" Your immediate assumption would be, "Gee, there's something really terrifying!"

And he'll say, "Well, I was just thinking about my work this afternoon."

Yes, there is. There is the terrification of being afraid of being afraid. They're afraid they'll be afraid.

He's on an uncertainty. In other words, he's come to the parting of the ways. Everything was perfectly all right up to the moment he got there. And now he finds out that this stuff has an intolerance for being together to such a degree that if he pushes it just a little harder, it blows to pieces. And he would like to put a smooth face on and tell the university president — who is president of the university, see, because he's a good football coach or star or something, or he's a good promoter of stadiums or something — and he hates to go around to the president of the university and say, "You know, old man, I don't know what the hell I'm talking about." There are very few people who will do this by the way. I don't think I would — although I do all the time. And so he gets — he gets himself really bogged down.

You go around to little boys and you ask them what are they mostly afraid of and they will tell you a lot of objects, but if you really want to get down there and ask them real quick, they're afraid of being afraid. Now, if you're afraid of being afraid of something, then you'll become afraid of some-thing and can get into a state of terror about nothing.

Physics right now is in a whole flock of maybes that are just going off in all directions. You talk about scattered chaos! Really, you're looking at it when you're looking at nuclear physics. The mathematics they go by is put together with matchsticks. So anyway, this is your exact science. Anyway, you get — MEST is the most dangerous thing. It can't be predicted, can it? You're not quite sure; you're never quite sure. Well, anything you're never quite sure about and utterly dependent on, oh, look out, look out.

And what have they gotten into a state of terror about? What was there to be afraid of? Well, afraid of the idea that you might be afraid. And if you're afraid enough of being afraid then you'll become afraid, and if you become afraid then you'll — can be afraid of becoming more afraid; and then you'll become more afraid, and you'll get yourself up into a full state of terror and pull in the anchor points real tight; and you'll get smaller and smaller and hold on to what MEST you've got. And you'll organize it and you'll work harder and harder and get more and more logical and more and more logical and more and more logical and then you'll do nothing but work, work, work, work, work with no admiration whatsoever. And that's the cycle.

Now, what do you do with this MEST? You walk out here and you step off the edge of a cliff and you'll fall two hundred yards, and you go down into the bottom of the canyon with a squash. Now, of course, you get up at that moment and you take a stick and you beat the canyon. Or do you?

It's not a very, very difficult thing to understand how this would come to pass. So, we have then .. .

Can you ever punish this stuff? What period was it in your life — and by the way, you probably have a recall on this if you fish around a little bit — what period in your life was it that you found out it didn't do any good whatsoever to kick a rock back? Hm?

By the way — by the way, that's another one of these techniques, you say, "Gee, you know, that's a good technique! You just process out the fellow's fear of being afraid. Yeah, it gets the whole line."

Well, that was a — one of the biggest moments of defeat that you had in your life. That was really the biggest moment of defeat.

No, it doesn't. I'm sorry. It's another one of those dead alleys that is probably going to appear in some doctorate thesis someday. Anyway We have this, then, "afraid of being afraid" as observable, but not reach-able because that's the reason techniques don't work. It obviously could be there, but it isn't reachable.

You found out that this rock would not listen to reason. Well, don't look around for something that's capable of reason such as animals and man to establish the most effective method of aberration, look at something that won't reason. MEST won't reason.

Try and process a postulate sometime directly as a postulate and you're not going to reach it by flows, you're not going to reach it in any way, shape or form. It's buried in ridges. The second you start to get the thing, you start to work at it, ridges start to flow in all directions and so forth, darnedest things start to happen when you start to dig up by force some of these things like "afraid of being afraid." You know, it's sort of booby-trapped. What's the right way, then, to go into this hall? Well, you get this. This is quite obvious, then. You get "fear of being is fear of communicating." A fellow's perceptions are bad, so therefore his fear of being is bad. Why is his fear of being this bad? Hah, let's take it backwards.

So let's look at that sixth dynamic, and when we're doing beingness and so forth let's specialize on that fact. You know, one of the first things your preclear will start getting, "You know this stuff is treacherous! I've — I'm this — I'm this tire and boy do I feel treacherous. You know, I'm just sitting here, just waiting to explode at the wrong moment," and all these various things that he's happily put out of sight.

Why is his fear of being bad? Because his perception is just terrible. His perception is so bad that he doesn't know what it is he's trying not to be. And we get into this dizzy spin of the fear of the hidden influence.

Now, he goes unconscious when the MEST gets too rough. In other words, he just resigns. The thetan who really can't go unconscious has actually got it figured out so he can go unconscious. He's that bad off with regard to the sixth dynamic.

The hidden influence! "We all know there are hidden influences." Now, here's another one you can say about any preclear who comes in and sits down in the chair and gets processed. You can say this about him: He knows there is a hidden influence someplace.

Now, of course, man does become an engineer of punishment along these lines in which the sixth dynamic is applied, but remember that he's using something in which the individual is thoroughly trained: When you punish a child, you are using his thorough training and the thorough training of his body that force is applicable.

When this gets terribly bad, you get your advanced states of paranoia. But you don't have to look for the advanced states of paranoia. Just stop this fellow driving this bus out here and say, "Do you think there are any hidden influences in your life?" He'll look around, "Well, I don't like to mention it but as a matter of fact, the manager of this line has had his eye on this job for his son-in-law for a long time. Ahem! Of course, I haven't any evidence of this, you understand."

And you're using the fact that when force is applied, that he can't doanything about it. See, he knows that. So in the face of great force, he quits.Your individual has quit to the degree that he will not face force. And your individual is sane to the degree that he will not use force on man. But he's crazy to the level that he will refuse to use force.

Well, you'll get one of the reasons why he's holding that job down so hard. Somebody is liable to occupy it. And yet — yet he's never checked it up, but it so happens that the manager doesn't have a son-in-law.

That sounds a little bit chaotic, doesn't it? It really isn't.

There's always something like this wrong with the hidden influence.

An individual who will go out and han — know all about force and be able to handle force and then turn around and attack life with it is really nuts. See, he's really, really — he's really raving. He belongs in the Pentagon building or someplace.

Now, you'll find other people; you'll wonder why they are so successful in life and yet why they're so hated. Be running a bank someplace, something like that. They've always got a hatful of hidden influences to hand out to people — always got a hatful of them. They say, "Well, I was talking to the board of directors the other day, and the board, well, that matter of the divorce you had, they wondered whether or not that . . . Of course, they didn't say anything personal about this you know. (People don't say anything personal about this really. They don't mention it very loud, they mention it quietly once in a while and — but always behind your back.) But they decided that they weren't going to renew your loan. However, however, out of my influence, well, I was able to prevail upon them to give you a ten-day extension and so forth."

Now, whatever you realize about processing, you'll see this one coming true. And you — therefore, you're going to see a lot of engrams come in and a lot of somatics come in. Your job as an auditor is plow on through.

Of course, the funny part of it is, there has never even been a board meeting, you see? It's just complete, complete balderdash. This person has always got a hatful of hidden influences. That is the single, worst, solidest, best method of making people go down to a flyspeck in this universe, is the hidden influence.

Now, let's go at the rest of this very, very rapidly here. Now, let's take this as a professional addressed-to-one-preclear process. This is a real fancy one, and you will see more, more aberration go by the boards faster than you've ever seen before. This isn't just the slug, slug, slug, go on and be, be, be.

Now, then what would be the worst hidden influence? If beingness and communications are so important and if they interlock, then the worst hidden influence would be a hidden communication, wouldn't it? Now oh, if you could convince everybody that there was a hidden communication someplace, they would go mad! And so they do. Try it sometime. Try it sometime.

Now, there is a variation of the slug, slug, slug, go on and be, be, be technique and that's to double-terminal everything. You can vary it that way or you can always put it out here in front of you.

Tell somebody that is perfectly sane, well-balanced and so forth, and say, "Well, I got a letter this afternoon, mentions your name," and then shut up. Don't say another word! They're sunk!

But let's continue with how you become something and let's carry the cycle all the way through with being processing. You see, you become some-thing by agreeing with it and that's what you're doing with be, be, be, be, be, be; it's just the general run of processing, you see? You're just making the fellow kind of agree with it, but he's kind of finding out about it, and because he's only agreeing with mock-ups, why, he's in good shape, you see? It's all right, you can agree with your own mock-ups any time you want to. They're not very dangerous.

Sometimes people try this with me in organizations. They start sending through to me a very selected line of letters, you see? They say, "We received two hundred letters today, we're sending along one of them to you." It's a terrible letter, it's just horrible. So that leaves you wondering, "What's the other hundred and ninety-nine say?" Well, they would never send those to you for this reason: the other hundred and ninety-nine are good letters. Anyway, that's driving in a person's anchor points.

Now, let's look at this, then, at the level of the whole operation. You sympathize with something; that is to say, you go through the same motion as it and then what? Change it into you, and that's it. Now, do you see that technique? All right.

One of the best ways that this can be accomplished is to infer hidden influences.

Now, you say, "All right, now be a beanpole. Okay, now you're a beanpole? Now change the beanpole into you." Whshh! "Now good. Now be a book. Now change the book into you." Whsst! "All right, now . . ." You understand that you're probably doing this — he's probably doing this out in front. You don't much care where he's doing it. Just let him elect where he's doing this.

Now, as I told you earlier, there is the black cloud and the white cloud and the vacuum. The vacuum is always a hidden influence.

Now, you say, "Now be a table. Now change the table into you. Now," you say, "be a library. Change the library into you. Now be a tree. Change the tree into you. Now be a textbook. Change the textbook into you."

What is there about this confounded thing called a vacuum? If some-thing has nothing in it, then it is more powerful than it has something in it, and you're just talking about a vacuum, that's all you're talking about.

He'll say, "Wait a minute. Wait a minute!"

You get near that thing, and it will pull away from you any MEST you've got your hands on. It's a vacuum. Nature abhors a vacuum, they used to say.

You say, "Go on now."

Actually, what do you know, the physical scientist found this out a long time ago, but it wasn't applied to anything else: If you were standing in front of a vacuum and it were pulling the packages out of your hands, why could it pull the packages out of your hands? Because there was pressure behind you where there was something. Get that misdirection? Why is it that a vacuum works at all? You have a vacuum in a thermometer tube, and the tube obviously pulls, mysteriously, all this stuff right up into the tube, and it's a vacuum. Why, heck, that's the way all thermometers work.

"Oh, no!" he says, "There was the funniest feeling about this. And the funniest feeling about this — is it felt like I got unglued or something!"

You say, "That's terrible. I wonder how on earth this comes to pass?"

And you'd say, "Well, that's fine, that's fine now. Be another textbook. All right, you another textbook? Now ripple your leaves. Come on, got that now? All right, now change the textbook into you."

Well, it comes to pass not because the vacuum is pulling up anything into the tube, but because there is no pressure in the tube, but there's pressure outside the tube which pushes.

"Well, it happened again! It happened again! That was physics! My brains are all feeling loosened up! I feel good!"

Now remember that about the hidden influence: It is not any pull that nothingness has. It is always a push of something, always a push of some-thing. And that something is not invisible to the preclear; he's right there with it. It — he knows all about it.

And you say, "All right, now be a bed. Be a bed. Now change the bed into you." "Yeah" he says, "that's certainly good."

You just say, "Well, why don't you just let go of the thing?"

"Now, be your office. Be the whole office. Now change the office into you."

"Oh, I couldn't do that."

The guy says, "No, no, no," he says, "this feeling I've — always have on the end of my nose is one of the walls of the office! It just went away! I've sat in that place all that time ..."

"Well, why not?"

It's — what you did was complete the cycle. You completed the cycle.

"Well, I'd never get any more." You 'see, scarcity. Scarcity. "I'd never get any more of this." He's in a bad way.

Now remember, to become something completely, of course, you imitate it just to make it into you. And if you cannot imitate it to turn it into you, then you can't imitate it thoroughly or control it. So this has added another factor into beingness. This has added the factor in of being it and controlling it. Of course, you make it yours. You'll make it yours utterly.

But he's afraid of becoming a hidden influence. What's a hidden influence? A hidden influence is nothing. The hidden influence in this universe is nothing.

That's very fascinating. This will happen in the long run, but there is your special on just an ordinary utility auditing. But there is something that you must know about and you must be able to observe. And this manifestation will occur in it. It will suddenly occur to the fellow, "Hey, now, wait a minute. You keep — I kept turning those things into me but I keep turning those things into my body. And, you know, I'm not my body!"

You'll find out readily enough when you start processing beingness out of a preclear, you'll find out all of a sudden, by the process which I will give you, he will recognize something. He'll say, "You know, there's really not — there's really not an object which is I." This will come to him as a little bit of a surprise. He'll tell you this; you don't have to even give him a clue. "There really isn't anything that is I. I don't have a form. I don't exist, really, except as I ... Gee, I'm only trying to be things; I am not anything." And he gets real upset right about that point.

And you say innocently, "Yeah? You aren't?"

Oh, I'm sorry, he is something, he is something. He is a capacity to create. And if you want to know whether or not a capacity to create is worth being, look at the pure joy there is in the field of creating arts. If you've ever seen anybody absorbed in anything, it's a painter with a brush or a kid in a kindergarten with a crayon. Oh, boy. So that's not a little thing to be at all. And that's what he is. He is a potentiality of creating something. He is the directive, creative urge and instinct. He's nothing in terms of matter but he can create any quantity of it.

"No," he says, "what am I?"

So he all of a sudden tells you with horrible feeling that "I can't — I'm not really anything!"

He's up against the horrible fact that he's nothing, but that he can create at will. And at that moment you'll have to stand there with that datum and be able to demonstrate that.

He's looking for the reason why. I mentioned to you a little earlier people all come along and they want to know the "reason why," and the reason I got bogged down originally in this whole work was I knew there was no reason why for all this. Couldn't find any reason why.

"Now, create something to be," say.

Well, to hell with the reason why. When you say, "reason why," this says logic, you see? And what's wrong with your preclear is he gets logical. See? Your "reason why" is based upon the fact that there is prior cause which makes me an effect, and the fellow is always pushing himself up the time track from cause and is never being cause.

"Oh, all right, I'll create this big tower," he'll say, without much enthusiasm. "Now be it."

So the highest thing a thetan can be is cause of creation, cause of creative instincts, cause of creative beingness, cause of motivation.

"Yeah," he'll say.

He is motivation! But when he says, "I am not anything," he is saying, "Nothing existed before I exist, which gives me a form I don't have any further responsibility for." In other words, he's in the optimum condition, There is no more condition more optimum than "I am what I create myself to be at any instant." That is really optimum. That is too juicy. That's too wonderful. Nobody could be that! And yet, that's what every thetan is!

"Now create something else. Now be that. Now create something else. Now be that. Now this last thing that you were, change it into something else. Now change it into something else. Now change it into a soldier. Change it into a beautiful woman."

And he said, "And there's no reason why." He said, "Nobody came along," he suddenly realized, "nobody came along and gave me a top hat and said, 'You are now a top hat.' And that's what I'm complaining about." The fellow's complaining — the fellow is complaining because he is not permitted to be an effect!

He's being all these various things, and you've gotten him up on about the highest level of beingness there is. You see, he actually is doing this with-out knowing anything about it, when you just tell him to be things endlessly in just Standard Operating Procedure Utility. See, he's doing that. You're asking him to do that.

He's complaining because he's being permitted to be unlimited cause. That's a heck of a thing to complain about, isn't it?

But he never really gets wise to it and he never really de-aberrates to the degree that he should. All of a sudden, understanding has not dawned upon him.

So there is a goal on the line. What do you want? What do you want to make? What do you want to create? What effect do you want to create? It's just yours — wham! There isn't any more than that.

The way you'd give him understanding of this whole thing is to — he's--what he's been trying to do for Lord knows how long was an exact thing. He's been trying to make things imitate him so they would become him!

I mean, you've said the most superlative superlative you could say when you say somebody — somebody is the potentiality of directed creation.

And every now and then he met a real tartar like Papa, and he would try to be Papa and be Papa and then get Papa to be-e-e him. Now, ha-ha-ha, he wound up stuck in Papa's valence. Why?

He doesn't need facsimiles to remember anything. He doesn't need energy. He doesn't need terminals. He doesn't even have to communicate with anything if he doesn't want to. He's cause.

It backfired. He never could get Papa to approve of him or imitate him! Now, if Papa admired him that would run out all the effort, you see? And that just wiped that out; that would say, "Okay, son, that was a good job."

And look at cause up there at the top of the Chart of Attitudes and you will find that cause goes along with a lot of other desirable things. They're all about at the same band, and all those things exist up there at that band. All right, enough for that.

Or, if he could have gotten Papa to be exactly like him, he would have won the other way. But he couldn't do either of the two things.

What keeps him from being that?

And it is an effort that a thetan was trying to do all the time early on the track. And you will find as you process what the whole ramifications of that early game were because they'll just turn up and the preclear will start doing these things, that's all.

"Oh, there might be a hidden influence."

And at first he'll get awfully bored with just being this and that. Yeah, he won't like that. He'll get pretty bored with it and he'll slop off. And then he'll sort of get all kind of apathetic about it. Hmm, hmm, and then he'll get a little bit scared of it.

"Oh, what kind of a hidden influence?"

And about this time he'll decide he wants some more processing that is some other kind of processing. He's heard about these electronic incidents and he wants to be run through these electronic incidents, and so forth. And — nah. You know why he wants to hit the electronic incident? He wants to show you that he's not afraid of it! Get the idea? He's going to dramatize fear of fear right there. "I'm not afraid of it; therefore, I want to run it. That shows you."

"Well, there might be."

Now, as far as the rest of the family is concerned and his own terminals, you can double-terminal him up against other members of the family, and you'll just discharge everything, but you'll be much better if you just take all of his possessions and double-terminal them. And that last I recommend and the first I do not.

In fact, he might run into a vacuum. And everybody knows a vacuum pulls in. That's really the truth. "He might be a vacuum." It doesn't ever occur to him that he could mock the whole thing up again afterwards.

Take his possessions and double-terminal them, and those possessions, as far as life is concerned, would include his pets. But it wouldn't include any older people, any adults or any friends. It wouldn't include living beings beyond the level of a pet.

So the state of your preclear is — actually can be graphed on a curve of the amount of ability to create which he has retained. The amount of action he can initiate is also an index. How much action does he initiate? How much is he willing to do with his hands? All of these various things are indexes.

Double-terminal his MEST possessions and they'll discharge. Or simply make him mock up the MEST possession and turn it into him. Two methods, the last is more effective than the first.

But the primary index is how much does he wish to independently create? What is his creational desire? Now, it gets better the better he gets. That is one index that is just as solid as the Rock of Gibraltar. That is one like the communication lag index. The creative instinct of the individual: What is this creative instinct? Your preclear gets as well as that is restored, and it is a beautiful little thing to work with.

You want to know how to get rid of his ideas and worries? Fellow comes in to you and he said, "Well, I get so worried you keep telling me to be this frog, but I can't be a frog because I keep worrying so much because of my wife, and I keep worrying; I just keep worrying and I keep worrying and I keep worrying."

Because one day your preclear comes in — he doesn't think you know he's doing anything particularly — and one day he comes in and he says to you, he says, "You know, I always wanted to paint, and I bought a brush yesterday." Here he goes. You don't care whether he ever paints or not. That's a silly thing to do anyhow, paint. You get it on you, and so forth.

Well, what do you do with him? You just mock him up twice facing him-self and keep him — make him put mock-ups there, make him put mock-ups there and make him put mock-ups there and make him put mock-ups there, until he can finally get himself facing himself rather stably. Or he can get his wife facing herself rather stably. I don't care which you do.

But you have restored his creative instinct. Now, it is being directed toward MEST, you see, handling MEST and meshing the MEST around, and so on. Well, he'll even unfix from that and he'll get to a much higher level of creation. He wants creation with duration. That is the level of the painter and that level is way higher than any level there is out in the society, it's up there in the stars.

And then, now you say, "Get both of those mock-ups worrying." And then he'll have to put them up some more and some up some more. And he'll start worrying and this one will start worrying and that one will start worrying and then he'll start worrying and then something else will start worrying and then you keep putting the mock-ups up and make them worry, make them worry, and so on.

It's so incomprehensibly high to Homo sapiens that he'll stand around and look at a painter with his jaw dropped. And the painter, had a picture exhibited and thought well of and so on, this is way up in the stars, this is dwelling on the Olympian heights with the gods. And it's about I would say — I would say, oh, about a hundredth of the way up the Tone Scale you're trying to bring the pre-clear up; it's on its way, you see, we've really got it pegged. All right.

And as soon as you get two mock-ups out there your E-Meter is going to quiet right on down. As soon as he's really got two out there. And if he gets a sudden pain, he's only got one mock-up out there. He may tell you he had two, but at the moment he got that pain he only had one. You see why that is? Because he was using himself as one terminal.

Now, let's tell you some more about this hidden influence. How is a person pushed down scale? By being restrained from being. If he's restrained from being, he goes down scale. Then why and how do you possibly convince anything that could create or be anything that it should be restrained from being?

See, you can play with double terminals and get away with it. You can discharge. He doesn't like one of his possessions. Why doesn't he like it? He used to like it. He doesn't like it anymore. Have him mock it up twice facing itself. Just let it sit there. He mocks it up a few times and gets it there; mocks it up a few more times and . . . All of a sudden he says, "I don't — I don't care; I like it."

Well, I tell you how you do this. This is ... You just tell him anything he's trying to be has gotten something hidden and it's bad. Something bad about it and it's hidden. And he gets convinced of this and so he doesn't want to be these things. And so he thinks he is hanging in on his privacy of him-self and he thinks that he'll violate everything if he ever steps out of his own head or steps out of his own nose or steps out of his own right ear or wherever he's saddled down to at the moment you start processing him. And he thinks that he mustn't do this and the reason he mustn't do this is because if he moved out any further he'd run into a hidden influence.

You say, "Okay."

You can actually measure your preclear's case level with his belief in a hidden influence. "What do you think is in this room that you don't want to walk out into it?"

What was the matter with this possession? Do you know? No, you don't. You don't give a darn. Easy auditing, huh? Real easy.

He thinks over it for a while and he says, "I don't know, there's some-thing in the corner." He doesn't say right away what's in the corner. He said, "There's something in the corner."

Now, you'll have to remember this to some degree. When you make them flash in and out their anchor points, make them put their anchor points out and bring them in again, a couple of times — no matter how occluded they are, and make them try to go through the effort — you'll find some hidden scenery that will tell you about where they're parked on the track.

"What do you think might be in the corner?" Well, tell him to mock some things up in the corner, and he suddenly realizes there's nothing in the corner.

Now, what do you do? Do you work this out as an incident? Do you double-terminal it? Do you double-terminal the personnel in it or anything like this?

He's restrained by that shadow. In Self Analysis, this story about the fish in Lake Tanganyika and the shadows that go down to the bottom and — of the lake. The shadows are used as the bars which trap the fish, and the shadows could be called hidden influences.

This technique would be investigation of where stuck. And boy, how invaluable this would have been a couple of years ago, and now it's just nothing. That you get them to put out their anchor points and pull them in again. "What's the operation? How do you do this?" the fellow says.

Now, darkness and nothingness are quite interesting. You can never quite trust something which has nothing in it because it might have some-thing in it. Same way with blackness; blackness may not be just blackness. It may be blackness and something else. That is why blackness closes in on so many preclears. It might be blackness and something else. But remember, he's as willing to use blackness as anybody else. He's as willing to use this modus operandi as somebody else.

"Well, you just kind of get — reach way out from you and pull in again, and you reach way out and pull in."

Once in a while, some fellow without very good sense gets going on the subject of "Well, I intend good and I'm going to use these things for good." I — some goof ball like myself. He'll run himself down scale at an awful rate of speed if he doesn't watch himself. Because he's suddenly abandoned 50 per-cent of things, just abandoned them, because he says, "I want to be the other 50 percent." He's immediately said, "There's 50 percent good and 50 percent evil and I'm going to be one of the 50 percent good." Now, he's down 50 per-cent. He's — he goes on down from there, see? He says, "What's good?" Then anything that's evaluated as good, he will become. Horrible state of affairs.

And he says, "I get a picture of — I get a picture of my Aunt Isabel standing in front of me looking at me."

Now, you won't perceive what you won't be. That's obvious, isn't it? We've gone over this, over and over, and being is communicating. You won't be what you won't perceive and you won't perceive what you won't be.

"Where are you?"

So, of course, if you don't perceive what you won't be, you're wide-open to believe that there is a hidden influence in it. And the way you won't be it is because it has subjected you to that horrible thing known as betrayal!

"Ha, I guess I'm in her work basket. Yeah, I'm in her work basket."

And the track of any thetan is the track of betrayal. They have been betrayed!

You know where he is? He's in his childhood home, and that's normally where you'll find your preclear.

There are two mechanisms you should know; one is the mechanism of betrayal, which is the knock-in of anchor points. One's anchor points are pulled out and then they are suddenly knocked in. That operation, when done exteriorly by somebody else is betrayal. And it gets so bad that the individual won't put out his own anchor points and pull them in himself because he's been betrayed.

So what do you do? You work with him on gradient scales to make him be his childhood home. He's — was the whole childhood home at one time, and then he lost it piece by piece. That was the process of getting educated. One by one, he lost every fragment of it. And of course he's stuck then, locked up and he can't be any part of it. And there's where all of his childhood memories are tied up. Where? They're in his childhood home.

And the other is being ridiculed. And ridicule is pushing the anchor points in and then pulling them out and holding them out. You can get out of any preclear the feeling he is being ridiculed by just saying, "All right, now get the idea you put your anchor points way out. Now they are being held out." He doesn't like that. He gets the feeling, the sensation of being ridiculed.

Well, why can't he get to them? Because he can't be his childhood home. Isn't that simple? There's why you have an occlusion in childhood.

So these two things happen with the out-and-in workout of anchor points. In other words, out-and-in beingness, see, ridicule and betrayal. These are the two horrible things that happen, and that is their operation in terms of anchor points.

Well, you just mock up a childhood home and have him change it. Change it to his hat. Now, here's the technique of when he can't do this immediate beingness change: change it to his hat, change it to his shoes, change it to his schoolbooks, change it to anything personally connected with the preclear, and then gradually, more and more, more and more, the preclear.

So if a person has been betrayed, then he won't look! One of the reasons he won't look is he wants somebody else to feel ashamed.

Now, do you have it changed to a little boy? No, remember we're — goal of auditing is present time. You just change it to him as a man as he sits right there. Right?

Now, I'll give you this little technique in passing. You double-terminal up all the people the preclear has had trouble with, just match them and just have them say, "We're sorry we hurt (whatever your preclear's name is)." And my gosh, what do you know, they just start disappearing into the limbo. Zongzong-zong! They just keep diving out of sight and disappearing and you get Mama and Papa. You get Papa mocked up double facing Papa, you know, Papa facing Papa and saying, "Oh, we're so sorry," or looking slightly toward the preclear, "We're — I'm so sorry what I did to poor Algernon." You know, the preclear begins to feel better and better.

He — now is he mocking up the childhood home in terms of a facsimile or present time? You'll find out he'll start mocking it up as a facsimile and it'll be way back on the track and then he'll mock it up in present time. It's — just follow that he will do this the more times he mocks it up.

He mocks up Mama doing this and he mocks up — you mock up family doing this and the dog's doing this and the car doing this and inanimate objects doing this and so forth, and gee, he feels better and better and better.

What's that say? This just says convert whatever he's afraid to be in such a way as to be him.

He's been holding on to these things to make people ashamed. So you just mock them up that people are ashamed and say, "Okay, Bud, you can let go of them."

How do you use this in occupational therapy? Use this in occupational therapy by mocking up the person's tools and environment, and particularly the floor that he works on customarily, and convert it, if by gradient scales is necessary, making it be a little bit and then a little bit more and a little bit more, converting them into him. Turn the things with which he works and where he customarily is into him.

Oh, he'll — he glories in this. By the way, he'll do this by the hour. This is wonderful.

He works on a drill press. Have him mock up the drill press and say, "All right." Give him as few failures, you see, as possible. You say, "All right. Now turn this drill press into uh . . ." You could say, you know, "Just turn this drill press into you." But you'll find he won't be able to if he's worked there for years.

You also mock himself up being ashamed of what he's done to others, double-terminal himself, you see? Only you'll find out he doesn't do that very much or very often.

So what do you do? You'll say, "Well, turn this drill press into your hat." "Yeah."

And you can put that down as one of the techniques which you'll find yourself using. That is the technique of apology; that's matching terminals with apology. "We're so sorry." You could call the technique "We're so sorry." And you can just put that down; you just match these terminals, one facing the other, and you just have them fall away.

"Turn it into your shirt." "Yeah."

By the way, they do that, you see, and the terminals behave that way automatically. They start falling away from the preclear. You can match up Papa facing Papa and they'll — he'll be quite big at first, and you — the pre-clear will have a hard time getting rid of him. And all of a sudden all quite automatically, why Papa will be facing Papa saying, "I'm so sorry, what we did to poor Algernon" and swish. You mock it up again, "So sorry what we did to poor Al — " swoosh. "So sorry — " swashoosh! And he says, "Gee, this is fun." Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh. Well, let him do it.

"Turn it into your pants." "Yeah."

And he'll find that some of it's fantastic, some of the things you can get. Very often a person will want to mock himself up doing that, and he'll just continue that for a long time and then he feels very happy and you say that's that. Makes him feel lots better.

"Turn it into your shoes." "Yeah."

What this is, is just running out shame, you see, the overt act. It's just — he's been holding on to these things to make somebody apologize, so you just let somebody apologize.

"Turn it into a pile of clothing that's yours." "Yeah."

Well, the reason why he's — because he is not going to put out his anchor points again, he's going to shame somebody else by holding his anchor points in, because what do you know about betrayal. The fellow says, "Look what they did to me." Well, if he's saying, "Look what they did to me," he's not going to be something else. He's going to sit there and say, "Look what they did to me." And these fellows are going around with these little purple flags and little facsimiles, saying, "Look what they did to me. Look what they did to me."

"Turn it into your body." "Yeah. Hey, what do you know, I feel better."

You see, it's better to be something than nothing, and people who have been betrayed are interesting, because everybody gets interested in an occluded case. They've been betrayed. All right.

He's to stand in front of something. Any time a fellow stands in front of something that long without it changing into something else, he knows he's wrong. That's what being wrong is. "I tried to change it and it changed me." Well that's "I'm wrong."

Let's take a look at it. That — it's very, very amusing to you once you start running this.

What's this process then? Very simple process. This isn't scrambled. Now, we'll break this all down and we'll tell you, first, what's the goal of the process? That goal is present time. Find present time.

Now, ridicule is something they don't brag about so you don't run this in very much. But they're still holding on to ridicule, but they'll generally be holding on to it because they ridiculed somebody else and they don't want to be in that category.

I'll tell you the simplest way to find present time that I know of. The simplest way I know of to make a preclear find present time. This is a technique, and this is one which you could do worse than using. And this fits right in with the battery we're doing right now. It's just as powerful as these techniques.

You see, in each case they were really ridiculing themselves. "Do not send to find for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee." Nothing to that. The reason why the fellow is saying, "I have been betrayed, look at me," is because he did it to me and he — you see? And "he" and "me," in this case, are the same thing. So he's saying, "me," it's better for me to be here as "me" as the betrayed party than to be this character over here that everybody despises, and so forth, that did the act.

The way you find present time for the preclear is to make him put an anchor point out in that corner of the room, and that corner of the room. Don't care how occluded he is. You just say, "Reach out and try to feel those two corners of the room." Preferably corners which are even with his head. For instance, it would be better for him to put out two that were just little bit behind him than too far in front of him. So just have him sort of reach out and feel those corners of the room, the upper corners of the room.

Furthermore — this is totally mechanical — there is no admiration really connected with being betrayed or being ridiculed so nothing came along and admired it out of existence. That which is not admired endures. So betrayal endures. Nobody admires betrayal, much less the person who was betrayed, and he's the person who should admire it out of existence.

"Yeah, I got that."

So you snap somebody's anchor points out and then shove them in real hard, that's betrayal. If you pull them out and hold them, that's ridicule.

"Feel the upper corners of the room. Feel that one now."

If you put somebody on the stage, force them to be on the stage in a ridiculous situation, won't let them come off the stage they feel they have been ridiculed. Forcing people to exhibit, in other words, or be seen.

He'd say, "I keep feeling this one easily, but I can't feel the other one." And you just say, "Keep trying to feel it; keep trying to feel it. Now, you finally got it? You finally got ahold of it?"

So, when we look this over, then, all control is effected by hidden influences and the hidden influence is always nothingness. The thetan is under compulsion to be something, and thus is afraid of being nothing because he believes it to be a hidden influence.

"Yeah, yeah."

You keep a thetan from being — from what he is — by convincing him that what he is, nothingness, is a hidden influence.

And you say, "All right, now hold on to them and just examine them, and don't think."

Practical jokers are dramatizing the hidden influence. There are many other such instances.

And he says, "What?"

Now, the only fear is the fear of becoming something. And what you've got to rehabilitate, then, is you've got to rehabilitate the ability to be, which automatically rehabilitates the ability to perceive.

And you say, "Don't think."

You see, that's the mechanism which tells you he's out of present time. This constant stream of consciousness; this association; this figure-figure-figure-figure-figure that says, "Out of present time, out of present time, out of present time." He is at the prey of circuits. Even if his communication lag index is pretty good, he's liable to have a circuit that will give him an answer every four or five days. And he's in contact with these things, so all right.

Let's take a look, then. He's got ahold of these two corners of the room and you say, "Don't think." He's also got ahold of your E-Meter cans, I hope, because if he really is trying this, you'll be able to read it on the needle because things will clip him. Things will go jolt, jolt, but the needle will be fairly steady. It'll be steady, more or less, with a series of jerks.

Why will it be jerks? It's because he's letting go of all those facsimiles he's holding on to in the past, you see? He doesn't realize this. And if he goes on thinking, he's still holding on to them and you'll get a gradual rise or a gradual drop on the E-Meter and it will be behaving in a very orderly fashion and there won't be any jerks present. Those little jerks — snap, snap, snap — that means pain. And if he settles down into a "bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop," oh, he's — you've really got him into a stuck one and he's in the stuck one; he isn't feeling the corners of the room.

You just want that E-Meter needle sitting there pretty quiet, except for these occasional little jumps — bop! jump! jump! Every time he jumped, you'll see the preclear jump sometimes too, because he's getting hit.

What are you doing in this case? Well, you're just throwing up a couple of anchor points out there. This is the easiest technique you ever wanted to get into.

Don't double-terminal this one by the way, but just — that's present time, see? And you just have him feel that corner and you have him feel that corner, and you just have him keep on feeling those two corners. In other words, communicate with those two corners.

And he says, "But, I have to think!" He says, "All of a sudden" he said, "a voice has just turned on just down here below my face and it's screaming!" And you say, "Just go on holding to the corners of the room." That's all. He says, "But I can't. I can't figure out what this thing is!"

And you say, "That's it. Don't think. Just to hell with thinking. Just don't think. Just no — no — no think. No thinkee, see? No think! Just shut that off."

"Oh," he said, "I just have to grit my teeth just at the thought of having . . . Yeah," he says, "it's awful to have to stop thinking!"

You say, "Go on and hold to the corners of the room." Real sympathetic, see?

And he's locating present time. It's not a bad technique; it's a good technique. It really takes some concentration — some concentration on being nothing. You're asking him to be the only thing he can be: nothing. Simple?

All right, that technique of just locating present time can be used at your discretion, but your technique of beingness, mocked-up beingness — just telling him to be one thing after another thing, after another thing, after another thing, after another thing — will get there.

Any special thing? You do any figuring about this? You try to figure out where he is or anyplace? No, you can just keep up that.

You can throw in a few things. You know where he is, but he will eventually bail out. Preferably he's thinking in present time; that is to say, he's being in present time. His concentration is coming more and more into present time as he does this.

Or you can make him turn — you can make him mock things up and convert them into being him, which is an interesting technique. And you specialize on MEST universe objects; that is to say, a car rather than a man, a rock rather than another boy, see?

He's already convinced he can be a living being. Ninety percent of his time he's trying to be very selective as a living being so he can keep out of trouble.

Now, you'll find that you'll have to run a certain amount of people. He'll just demand it, that's all. So you just go on and you run a certain amount of people.

But you have him as his father for a while and you have him as his mother and you have him as his wife and you have him as something else.

You'll quite often find a preclear who is so fixed on the idea that he mustn't be Papa that you just can't get him off any other subject.

All right, so make him into Papa. Make him into Papa's shoes and make him into Papa's this and that, and finally get him to turn around with relaxation to where he can be Papa or not be Papa at will.

Because his habits and so forth demonstrate that he has a fear of turning into things. He does. He has a big fear of turning into things. And that fear of turning into things is — turns into a fear of perceiving, of course.

And don't be very surprised if your preclear says, "You know, I got a mock-up and it was almost alive and walking and three-dimensional! Ahhh! Ohhhh!"

You see, that's just on the same line of beingness. You see, he has a lot of fear of beingness, so don't think that that is something special. Actually, I don't know of anything special that can turn up on this line.

But this fellow who has dim mock-ups of course is afraid of being these things. That's all. It's so simple.

Now, how good can a mock-up get? Well, you'd be very amazed how good a mock-up can get with such a technique.

Any liabilities to this technique? No, no more than the liabilities — certainly less liability than in any other technique we have had.

Now, what do we do? Here we've got Matching Terminals. What's about these Matching Terminals and so on? Why have we been studying them if all you do is tell a guy to be and tell a guy to be and tell a guy . . . You're trying to make a Theta Clear, aren't you? That's still your goal. This guy isn't a body. You want him to know. You want him to figure it out so he can handle things; so he can be things; so he can perceive and so forth.

Do you notice what a Double Terminal does? You have two mock-ups facing each other and they start discharging one against the other, and if one of those mock-ups disappears, your preclear starts getting somatics. You can make this test just to prove it to you.

Furthermore, you'll find a lot of preclears, they think they can't put up a mock-up, because every time they put up a mock-up it snaps into them. It snaps into them so fast they don't even observe where it's going. It just disappears, disappears, disappears.

The remedy for it is to make more mock-ups. Any time you get an impersistence of mock-ups, make more mock-ups. Any time mock-ups persist too long, mock up two mock-ups — mock up another one like it — and it will discharge and run out. Those are the remedies.

So what about this Double Terminal? Why is this so important? We're not even going to use this in processing. What the hell has he been talking about it to us all this time for, anyhow? Now, what — what's this? You've been lead astray, you've been betrayed.

I'll tell you why. You've got to know about Double Terminals for this reason: Every time your preclear tries to walk out of his body, he's a double terminal. And his body starts to interact and discharge against the thetan. And the thetan, whatever the thetan is holding on to in the way of MEST, starts to interact and discharge against the body. And what happens to those two terminals? They close — snap!