Well, I'm awfully glad to see you here. I really am. I didn't really want to come to this congress, worth a nickel. I thought, "Well, same old lectures. Tell us everything is going to be wonderful," you know, and then the world falls in on you. So, then I thought, "Well, I'd better go. I'd better go and find out what he's talking about," I said.

Thank you. Thank you. Feel ... Thank you. Thank you very much, I'm glad to see that you're happy to see me. How are you?.

No, but all joking aside, I am very pleased to be back in the country if only momentarily. The insularity of America actually puts out of your sight the — the tremendous breadth of Scientology. It is tremendously broad today. And that is a very good thing. Dispersal of an item like Scientology makes it absolutely defensible.

Audience: Good. Fine.

All in one place, that's very — rather dangerous the way things are. But today you'd be happy to know that you have skilled auditors and organizations on every corner of this world. And wherever they are, they follow through, of course, along national lines, by orders, patriotic to their own governments. I keep having to issue these orders. Basically, it's a very great achievement. You have made that possible.

Well, I am very glad to see you. I really am very, very happy to see you. Best reason I'm happy to see you is I probably have the best news for you that I have ever given at a congress. Applause.

Today — well, we have an auditor, for instance, be going back shortly to back up Tshombe. I, by the way, should tell you something about that. I know you're very worried about it. I've been reading the American papers concerning it and I thought I'd better tell you about it because, you know, he attacked the capital yesterday — day before yesterday, you know.

You know, we've been talking for a long time about Clears. We've been talking for a long time about worldwide dissemination. And there are some people amongst us who had never heard before of Scientology before their friends brought them here today saying they ought to go to a congress and see what it's all about because the lectures are very introductory.

He's got one of the strongest and most powerful lobbies going that is attacking flat out Congress, you know — Tshombe is. He's attacking it — just about to wipe out the whole US Senate and that would be funny only to a Scientologist.

They're very simple. They're much simpler than a PE. We'll bow our heads for a moment of silence for those people, because they're about to get it between the ears. Because at this congress I'm not going to pull any punches for you at all.

Did you read the front page story in the Washington Post of Tshombe's attack on the US capital? He is operating the most powerful and deadly lobby that has ever operated. Pretty dangerous.

A tremendous amount of data has been gathered since I was last here. And a tremendous amount of accomplishment has been accomplished. And I will be here again in June. And I hope to be OT in June.

Here's this little pool of mud in the steaming jungle that's about as big as that little shopping center that you have near home, the smaller one — got a hospital and a couple of stores and some buildings. And the whole fury and might of the — ha! — United Nations is being leveled with violence against this tiny, little hamlet and a few handful of ragtag, bobtail people. And the United States spent, under Eisenhower, billions, billions to buy friendship abroad and then sent US bombers to the UN to bomb Katanga.

So at this particular congress, if you'll put up with my ragtag, bobtail appearance and the fact that at the moment I am not scintillating as a thetan over your heads in the middle of the hall, why, I will appreciate your forbearance.

You won't hear about this in America, but American stock went out the bottom at that moment. Pretty darn weird. Here's this little pool of mud, see. But I think it's a state of comparable size so that it'd look like opposition to the UN. And I think it also looks big enough to be confronted by Kennedy.

With a tremendous amount of material, an enormous amount of accomplishment has occurred since February of 1961. And as a result, one has to put it all together because a new complexion has come to Scientology entirely, than we have had in the past. There are new factors involved in Scientology which you wouldn't have recognized two or three years ago.

So he sent bombers. And he's going to buy a hundred million dollars worth of UN — ha! UN — bonds to finance all of this sort of thing and it's all very interesting. But the size of the overt is tremendous. The size of the overt is absolutely fantastic.

We are at a period where the skills of an auditor are finite. They are extremely finite. If you know how to do these things, these exact things, then probably you can handle any technology that comes along after them. If you can't handle these things, why, stick with the CCHs or run Rising Scale on somebody.

You see, the Katanganese has never been part of the Congo. It's a colonial acquisition for the Congo during all this period of anticolonialism. So of course, they've got to have a motivator. You get the joke?

But a new level has been reached. We have gone up the ladder and we have hit a new plateau. That does not wipe out the old plateaus. They still exist. Anything that could have been done yesterday can still be done today. But it does mean — very, very definitely and very emphatically it does mean that a brand-new aspect has arrived.

Now, they've got to have a motivator and they actually have got Tshombe attacking the US Senate. Overt act — motivator sequence. Most gorgeous example of it I ever saw in my life. But it is totally, totally concerned, a hundred percent concerned, with somebody's wits here — hasn't anything to do in actuality.

This is a new plateau. This is "for God's sakes, build a better bridge." Well, you put up new girders and new spans across new streams and people look at you in some horror. They say, "What? Where have we gone now?"

There is no war. There couldn't be any war. How long do you think it would take you as a shotgun — with a shotgun to wipe out the local shopping center? And then somebody comes along and gives you six rocket bombers to help out. What you going to do with them? What you going to do with them?

That's all right. Wait till they look at their cases and find out where they've got to go.

Now, this is no savage criticism of US policy. There has to be a policy before you can criticize it. But to a Scientologist, these things loom up a little more interestingly one way or the other because if they will just — if these characters, pardon me, if these politicians — well, let's be polite ... Which is the more derogatory word? Anyway, if they would just quietly go someplace and sit down for a few years, we're all set.

When you tackle anything as undone as the human mind and the status of life in this universe, unassisted by any textbooks that are not booby-trapped, you've got a handful. And piloting the way on such a thing is full of many surprises; it's full of many simplicities and many complexities. But let us not make the mistake of believing we are doing something other than what we are doing.

See, if they'd just go quietly and, oh, I don't know, assign posts to their friends as ambassador to Mauritania or something, you know, and just knock it off, all this fussing about, we've got it made.

The first error we could make is assuming that we are doing less than we were doing or we're doing something else than what we are doing, and that would be a serious error. Because we are doing exactly what we are doing.

That's the only thing — the only reason I talk about it consistently is because it worries me just a little bit. Because if they lose their heads within the next decade, why, we will have been caused an enormous — a lot more trouble that will be very difficult. It'll be — it's hard enough going as it is without going in a world where all the comm lines are broken down and in flinders. Hard enough going without walking across radioactive rubble that were once cities. It's hard enough auditing somebody now without having to take the radiation burns off first.

And you get people all around the fringes and they say, "Well, what they're really doing, you see, is so-and-so and so-and-so on and da-sk-sk-da-da-da. And really it's like psychotherapy, only a little better, you know. And uh, it's uh — it uh — it's uh — uh, uh — well, you know, uh, it — it teaches you a new way to think. Uh, it uh, it — it — it uh — it uh, well, it — it betters your IQ. It's like psychiatry, only different."

So it's not a matter of "Hubbard is simply fixated on the third and fourth dynamic." Hubbard is a little bit concerned about the fourth dynamic just to this degree. We've absolutely got it taped if they will just be quiet just a little while longer. And that's what I hope for.

This is man's fantastic effort to get a datum of comparable magnitude to Scientology. How do you get a comparable magnitude to Scientology? Well, how much trouble are you in this universe in? That's the comparable magnitude to Scientology. And let me assure you that child psychology that teaches them to put block A on block B and then knock them down so they can abreact their hostilities is not a comparable magnitude to what we are doing in Scientology.

And when I see these idiocies of "We've got to have a war," to the extent of bombing the local shopping center, and then we hear that this — a very serious crime has been committed whereas Tshombe has formed a lobby which is attacking flat out the United States capital — I would say somebody's in a frame of mind where he wants trouble.

This is the road out. This is the effort of individuals who have been drifting along by actual fact — and now the person next to you who's never heard of Scientology before should be advised at this point, "Well, past lives — you'll come — you'll come onto that later. It's just — just, it's — it's — it's just an idea he has, you see."

And we have a disagreement there because I don't want any trouble just now. And he does want trouble just now and of course, it's in our interest not to have any trouble for a while.

But apparently this has been going on for a couple of hundred trillion years with no change except a bit of worsening. A little cave-in here and a little cave-in there, and a little skid here and a little skid there, and it's been going on and on. Because, what you will learn more about, the 3D package demonstrates conclusively that its elements have been around for at least 200 trillion years. So that means it's been an awful long time since you've been sane, brother. You'll have to explain to that person next to you, "Well, that's the way he talks early in the congress."

It is so distracting to fight a war! Haven't you found it so? Boring, in fact. One of my terminals has to go into operation every time we fight a war and I tell you, it's getting frayed at the edges.

But we're not — we're not running this toy tractor over a ridge in the rug, see. This isn't what we're doing. This isn't what we're doing. We're flying into the teeth of the Fates — and auditing them, too.

You know, I've practically had to do no auditing on it at all. It's almost gone through overuse. Every time a war goes on, you see, I get this terminal, and that terminal goes into play, and I go down and sign up, you see. And the war's over and I put the terminal back in mothballs again, see. It's getting worn out.

It isn't a matter of being able to change your complexion so you won't have to wear Max Factor — not a datum of comparable magnitude.

And it smells so of camphor, but we don't need a war to run that terminal out further. Now, I know a better method. You get an auditor who is very, very well trained and you sit down in a chair and he sits down in the other chair and you take hold of the cans, and he looks at the E-Meter, and he says, "Is it all right with you if I begin this session now?"

There you sit. How long have you been around doing things you didn't want to do and not understanding what you were doing? Look at it. You any idea of magnitude? "Yeah, well," you say, "childhood." Great! Great! Been around since childhood, have you? Childhood when?

And I'll tell you what to say then. You say, "Yes."

Now, I realize you're very happy with the game you are playing. Cheerful game — whatever the game is. Keeps you occupied so you won't think of other things. Games such as "all garbage cans must be emptied." You know, high-level game. Something with nobility and future.

That's a much better way of handling terminals and valences, you see, a much, much more fruitful way of handling them. They handle much more easily than trying to wear them out on the field of battle or in the United States Senate or being a garbage collector and getting elected president. Anyway, the gist of this work depends on this.

And you get so you think there's no other game, you know. "Got to keep those garbage cans emptied, man. If we empty them good enough and long enough, why then we'll get to empty more garbage cans. And maybe someday we'll work up to only emptying garbage cans and we won't have to do any-thing else. Won't have to think of anything else. And there we are — emptying garbage cans."

We have come to a point in history where communication is adequate, where technology is adequate and where there's a moment of — a breathing spell and a little bit of leisure.

If it weren't for Scientology, 200 trillion years in the future, there you would be emptying those garbage cans. Well, maybe you like to empty garbage cans, so Scientology isn't for you. It's true there have got to be hewers of wood and drawers of water and emptiers of garbage cans. That's a stable datum for this universe.

All right. Now with this, perhaps we've got it made. See, just nothing happens just now, you see. But it's a momentary, almost accidental breathing spell in which we exist at the present time. And that accounts for a great deal of our progress.

But you've been running on this track for a long time — a very, very long time. And you may be telling the other fellow that you feel all right about it, but just sort of look back at you and I don't think you feel all right about it. I think you get the idea occasionally there's something you don't know. There's something that is not quite explained about all this.

I am not for peace because I dislike war. War has good points. There is no doubt about it. War has very good points about it. Some people like to hunt ducks. Other people like to hunt airplanes. But they — but there's times when you don't want to hunt airplanes and we happen to be in one of those in Scientology right now.

You're sitting at the breakfast table, you look at your mother-in-law, you grip your knife. You think, "At happier times and places, this could have been a poniard, and no law would have intervened." You know, times have been better.

If the international situation will just stay nicely balanced — give us — give us just two or three more years and we'll have it taped. Not that we will then be able to take over Earth, but then we will be in a position where we will be figuring out how not to.

Most men lead lives of quiet desperation. And all of that is totally based upon ignorance of things as they are. These are the assumptions one can make. It isn't a new thought that man might get out of the cycle of action. It isn't a new thought at all.

Right now Central Organizations are having a very difficult time of it. I don't mind telling you this because they are just on the upper edge of a wave. Some of them are in a kind of a "Let's wait it out a little bit longer," and "We hope," and so forth. But life is about to change on every Central Organization front. Some more than others. And that's because practically every Central Organization in the world has, has had or will have certain staff members at Saint Hill being trained within an inch of their lives. And these people are either home and just now getting going, or they are going to come home very shortly, or something of the sort. And everybody in Central Organizations is sort of on a, "Well, what are they going to do next?" You know?

Twenty-five hundred years ago, Gautama Siddhartha, variously known as Buddha, had a big ambition. He thought man could break out of the cycle of birth and death, and twenty-five hundred years ago, apparently a few made it. But as time has gone on, even Buddhism has become booby-trapped to such a degree that you're supposed to sit and contemplate your navel. And actual, technical experimentation has demonstrated that regardless of the size or attractiveness of the navel, regardless of how well cut was the umbilical cord, one can probably sit and regard it for the next 200 trillion years without a blessed thing happening except that he will get more so than he was.

But they do have a certain calm confidence. It's only when calm confidence is not differentiable from apathy that I begin to worry.

I don't mean to paint a dismal picture. This is a universe. This has beings in it, and they are doing this and they are doing that. And this would all — be all right providing those beings were happy doing what they were doing and wanted to do nothing else but what they were doing and nothing interfered with what they were doing and they could go ahead and do what they were doing and so forth, and nothing ever interrupted this or threw it on its head.

But this is a pretty tough, a pretty tough run of it. We're right in the middle of a forward advance right at this moment. You have not seen very much of it yet. You have not contacted too much of it. You possibly — one or — some of you have been on the fringe of it. Some of you, of course, are right in the middle of it. But the largest number of Scientologists throughout the world are just in a — in a sort of a — maybe up to a rumor stage on this. They haven't quite met it head-on.

Perhaps that would be all right. But if we look at this straight in the face, we find before us a rather cruel universe. We find it rigged in most directions, and I think it's an — worthy opponent. We look at the laws of nature, so called — the law of tooth and claw, the spider eating the fly, the waterbuck and the tiger — we look at the various games of life. And I don't know, maybe you'd like to lie down and be eaten alive by a tiger, but I find it myself an unpleasant experience.

And that is this: An auditor trained at Saint Hill today is trained into very definite skills which are auditing skills as you've always seen but with a precision that you haven't ever noticed before. And they look different and they act different. And when they come back ... They leave, you see, and they say to all their friends from the Central Organization, they say, "Well, goodbye, Bob. I'll be seeing you pretty soon, yeah. Goodbye, Joe. All right. Yeah, well, I'll give — I'll give Ron your best. Bye-bye. Bye-bye." You know? And they go back all friends, you know.

This universe is an interesting universe. And it remains interesting to the degree that it remains unknown. As long as people can sit around and make up stories of how it got here — well, I'll give you one of the fairy tales, one of the current fairy tales.

And they go to Saint Hill and they sit down and — don't kid yourself. Saint Hill course is not an easy course. You think you've been through tough Academies, but this one's got them all beat. Mary Sue and the rest of the training staff there, and other people, see, they really put these boys over the jumps. And they live on English chow. And it's rather cold sometimes and sometimes the furnace goes out in the house. It's a great big house and big grounds, but they never get much time to look at the outside.

There was a sea of ammonia — sea of ammonia — and it was out there and there it was, and all of a sudden there was a spontaneous combustion some-where in it and sufficient chemical elements combined in this sea of ammonia so that this beautiful girl walked out of the waves. Oh, I beg your pardon, I'm mixing it up with Greek mythology as well as current mythology.

Usually, they're looking at an E-Meter, an Instructor breathing down their neck, "What did that say? Hm, I thought so. Ha, ha, ha, ha. Why don't you read E-Meter Essentials again?" Nasty, you know — mean. It's really vicious — really vicious.

But isn't it an interesting fairy tale? Look at the despair of such a theory, the utter despair of such a theory. That there was this sea of ammonia — from where it came nobody bothers to explain, you see — and it was sitting there, and suddenly all these elements combined — 8,642 elements combined at CO2H3SOP4 beep-beep, you know, some chemical formula — and it all combined just at that instant and then life was caused, see. Life, see. That's where you started. This is — this is science, you see. And you haven't been able to understand household ammonia since.

I have seen students standing out in the hall crying big, large tears. "It is just — it's just — it's just Mike's terminal that is in operation. He — it's just Mike's terminal, that's all." "I assessed him once and got a terminal, 'sadist' on him as part of his package, see." "It's just Mike's terminal. He can't — he can't — won't — he won't pass me on anything. He's just doing it to be mean. He's got orders from Mary Sue not to." And they buck up and go study the bulletin again, and they go in. By this time, Mike has decided it's too, too many examinations of this particular bulletin, so he says, "How many commas in the first line of the bulletin?" So they flunk that one. And this time they go back and study it and find out what it said.

Anyhow, along with this interesting, widely held theory is a tremendous contest that you have never lived before. Isn't that interesting?

And they come in with flying colors, and they're asked three consecutive questions about the bulletin which are all very, very straight. Everything is all set. They know exactly what to ask — and exactly what to answer. And then they ask the fourth, "What's the date of the bulletin?" you see, and they flunk that. That's it. And it is! It is. It's just Mike's terminal. That's all.

Well, let's look at this. The best-held scientific theory is that there was this sea of ammonia and all the elements combined and there was life. And cell by cell it accumulated and eventually you have this cellular conglomeration of God-'elp-us and there you are, see. All right. That's fine.

I'm not exaggerating this, by the way. It'd be very hard to exaggerate. It is not that it's capriciously sadistic, but they're pressured through. And what is expected of them before anybody says they can audit is so fantastically arduous and so precise, that these people who have been through many courses under very good Instructors very often and through good Academies are horrified to see what is really demanded of them. And then they measure up to it and then they can do it, and they come home. That's the point. They come home then, see.

Now — now, sitting right alongside of that, taught in the same lecture room in the same university at the same moment is the fact that you have only lived once. Where does that put the sea of ammonia? Well, let's look this over.

They come walking in. They're pretty calm, pretty good shape. They're pretty competent about it. Look around, everybody runs up to them. "Hello, hello. How was Saint Hill? How's everything going? Everything's fine. Every-thing's fine."

There must be a sea of ammonia each time you get born. Well, that's obvious, isn't it? If you've only lived once and you've never lived before this life, then the sea of ammonia, of course, obviously occurs at the exact instant of your gestation or combustion or something. So this would have to be a repeating cycle, or, what? It would had to have occurred a long time ago, so if it occurred a long time ago, the agglomeration of God-'elp-us that is you, scientifically, must have been coming along for a long time. Yeah, but you don't have anything to do with the long, continuous line of protoplasm going through space. This protoplasm runs independently of you.

"Anybody ever run a Joburg on you people? Well, let's look over and see how — how your auditing is."

Oh, wait a minute. Let's go back over this thing again. Where'd you come from? If there's this unending stream of protoplasm which comes up from the spontaneous combustion in the sea of ammonia and arrives in present time and this is you, cellularly, why then — and if you have never lived before and you just occurred in this lifetime and your consciousness is that — well, they explain that very carefully.

Two nights later: "Dear Ron, I have never believed that auditing could be so bad as it's being done at the present moment in such and such a place. I've got it in hand somehow or other, but do you know that these people don't even know . . ." And then I got a big long list, you see.

They say, "Well actually, you and your personality and that sort of thing is a motion-picture camera taking a picture of a motion-picture camera taking a picture of a motion-picture camera. That's right. That's what you are."

Don't send any staff members or friends to Saint Hill. They'll come back and ride hell out of you. They ruin you. Perfectionists.

Now, I tried this experiment. I set up a motion-picture camera and I took a picture and then I took a picture of the motion-picture camera taking a picture and then I took a picture of the motion-picture camera taking a picture of a motion-picture camera taking a picture, and it wasn't alive. There wasn't a single thing there more alive than there was before. It didn't — I ran out of motion-picture cameras. Of course, you can say, of course, that if I'd put up enough motion-picture cameras, of course, the whole thing would have come to life and functioned like a human brain. But isn't that true? Isn't that true? The visual image out in front of you is supposed to come in through your optic nervus and registers on some sort of a coordinated screen, and that gives you the stimulus-response mechanism that creates consciousness of the scene before you. I don't think there's anything wrong with the theory. The very — the very, very, very best authorities adhere to this theory today.

Trouble is their case has had an enormous forward gain so they can

So it must be true, mustn't it? They draw a lot of pay. They've got tremendous numbers of letters after their name. So obviously it must be true — except it doesn't make sense. But it must be true. But it doesn't make sense.

reach with this critical attitude much better. That's why I say you haven't seen too much of the forward advance. You haven't yet had a Saint Hill graduate sniff — just sniff. He's sitting down there doing a letter-perfect job. Everything is fine, you know. Your staff auditor is doing a letter-perfect job. Everything is fine and you're doing exactly right. Everything is going fine. "Oh, no. Turn on your E-Meter."

And that is modern science and life. And it's gone no further than that. I actually believe — I favor — I favor some of the theories I have heard in Stone Age societies.

See, you got a sudden upgrade of terrific authority on the subject of guys who are totally competent. And they come back and they come into an area which thought it was competent, and it's this — a bit of an invalidation. This is what's happening at the present moment.

Ug is sitting there going, "Ooga ooga boongoo boongoo boongoo boongoo um booua."

Central Organizations and some field auditors are coming to Saint Hill and being trained, put over the jumps, and then they are coming home and straightening out Central Organizations, and putting those over the jumps and so forth. And to this degree, you're getting a more — much more perfect job of auditing going on. And the upgrade of auditing skill is occurring at the present time. And it's not taking too long. It's not going to take the next ten years to get this thing done because we can tell you immediately what is good auditing and what is bad auditing. We can tell you at once what a good auditing action is and test out whether it was an effective auditing action almost at once.

And you say, "Well now, Ug, where'd you come from, Ug?"

Now we're into the area of this is how you do it. And that is making a big difference because if the pc gets up out of the pc's chair and hasn't had a gain — well, I'll give you an idea. Ron went off to the Saint Hill course, went back, took over Assoc Sec Johannesburg. When he first — he taught a special course down there mostly making classified — I'll talk about that later, too — but making Class II Auditors mainly.

"Oh, me child of lightning. Oo-hoo. Ugugug lightning strike, Mama say 'Yeep,' there me." Much better theory. Much better theory.

And he said this was what happened in those six weeks. The auditor would be sitting there auditing, and the pc would be perfectly willing and settle for a small gain in twenty-five hours. That was the beginning of the course. At the end of twenty-five hours of auditing, the pc expected some-thing to have happened and would have settled for that.

You say, "Where'd the lightning come from?" He'd never bother with that — "Oh, lightning." Then he goes off and he says, "Oh, that was God. That was one of the gods. That was a god who did it."

And at the end of that particular course, raging ARC breaks and upsets with the Instructors were occurring because two hours of auditing had gone on without anything happening! It's different, huh? Different.

And you say, "That's good. Thank you." Let's not bother any further, you know.

And it isn't anything new they are doing. They are just doing what they are doing absolutely right. Then you're getting a tremendous upgrade of quality in Central Organizations. You take Johannesburg. It was almost flat on its back. It was having a dreadful time as an organization, and so forth, and the HCO Continental Secretary South Africa went back and she finished off her case there in a few hours of auditing, and as a Clear, she started to operate.

But when they have deserted deity as a marvelous explanation — you see, deity's a very good explanation. They say, "Well, God did it. I haven't got anything to do with it. You don't have to understand anything about it. Just — he did it. You want to know about the wall? He did it." They never bother to say, "I have no responsibility, no responsibility, no responsibility," but of course that's the case level of such a theory.

The organization started reintegrating and for the first time, why, they were over the top on some of their quotas. For the first time in a year, they were over the top on these things and they were making progress in all directions, and everything was settling down and looking good.

Oh, I didn't mean to insult you there. I know there are people in the crowd who still go to church. And I should think — I think you should. I think you should. I think you should go to church. Only stop sleeping and wake up and hear what they're telling you.

Now, that's just in a Central Organization. You don't see too much of a Central Organization's activities. They usually put the — they put on your idea of how they ought to be for you. And they try to conduct themselves in _a method and a way that inspires confidence in you, and so forth, and it — they should. But they have their difficulties. And their difficulty is, right now, is how to cope with a Saint Hill graduate when he gets home.

People say I must be an atheist. Oh no, I'm not an atheist. I believe in God. I believe in God 100 percent, absolutely, across the boards. I'm no agnostic like these other denominations. I really believe in it. I believe you've been around for a long time raising hell.

They'll turn out a little textbook on it. "This is how you should act. Do exactly as he or she says." End of book.

Only I'm not kidding myself about what this deity thing would be all about. As far as I can tell — well, you'd either have to go on the basis, you see, that there are more thetan — some thetans are more thetan than other thetans — see, you could get that theory. And then you'd have a big thetan and then you could blame everything on the big thetan, see? That's called the "big thetan" theory.

This is quite well — this is well taken. Understand then, what I'm doing at the present moment is taking full responsibility for auditor training and upgrading it throughout the world with total intolerance for anything short of total perfection on the part of an auditor, period.

Now — and now there's another theory you could lay along there. There's the "you and me and him got careless one day and we were throwing stuff around and it collided. And it was him that made a mess out of it. But we will admit the responsibility that we were at least there to be messed up. And anyhow, Joe and Bill and Agnes and Bessie and Pete, and we sort of came into collision on this subject and we started making this stuff that we're now sitting in and we forgot to stop making it and here we are." Now that is the "us" theory. And I think you will find that one bears out. Who did it? Not "you did it" or "him did it" — "we did it." I think — I think you'll find that bears out._

All right. When you've got your technology, you can do that, but you can't do it before. Let me go into it now and show you what an auditor has to know how to do. He has to know how to run a meter, a Model Session and do a perfect Sec Check or Problems Intensive at which time he becomes a Class I] Auditor. But that is — although absolutes are unobtainable — it's just as close to an absolute as we can press it — that he can do these things right and well.

You didn't arrive as a spontaneous combustion. You was simply you, and you've been you, and in view of the fact that "you" doesn't have any time factor in it, you can also manufacture the illusion of time, so there you are.

If he can sec check well, if he can run a meter perfectly and carry on in that particular line, we know then that he can do this job. And we know also that if he cannot do those exact things perfectly, we can never trust him to assess, which is a Class III skill.

Now, this again would be a very poor theory if it is unsupported by evidence. The theory must be supported by some sort of evidence and observation. But when you find out how busy a pc is, manufacturing a bank, it doesn't take very much imagination to extend it just a little further of his manufacturing a few other things. I mean, that is an understandable factor. And if you want to subscribe to the big thetan theory, fine, by all means go to church. But recognize what you're doing. You're not taking responsibility for what you probably had a hand in.

Now, it doesn't matter what kind of a package you are looking for or what you are looking for in the pc, you get your second skill. Your first skill is your Security Checking skill. Your second skill is your assessing skill. And that is just your second skill. And there is no halfway mark. Either an auditor can assess perfectly or he should be shot. I mean, there's no halfway measure. You can't assess "fairly well" and run what we're running today.

Now personally, this big thetan theory is all right except it — it designates an overwhump. It designates that somebody has been overwhumped. That's Scientologese for "overwhelmed." But it says that one thetan overwhumped the other thetan. And as a result of this overwhump, the thetan who got overwhumped is now in a state of worship of the thetan that overwhumped him. And I don't know, you may at some time or another have gotten into the condition whereby when the traffic cop gave you a ticket you drove away worshiping traffic cops. This may be true — may be true. You possibly did.

You can't assess "mostly right." "Well, we got it all straight except we had the wrong terminal. We ran it for forty-five hours and the pc spun in." You know, that's about the way it would be, see.

Maybe you worshiped the government the last time it made you pay four times as much tax as you were supposed to pay. But here is the rest of the story.

The demand of the technology is that the auditor be absolutely right, he be correct in what he does. Now he has to do some adjustment of what he does, but it breaks down to these two precise skills. One, the ability to pull withholds and to handle an E-Meter and run this type of processing check on the preclear. That is a skill and it is a precise skill, and that one cannot be done wrong. You leave a withhold unpulled on the pc and you have hell for breakfast thereafter.

Maybe you drove away worshiping that traffic cop saying, "Yes, Officer, isn't law and order — aren't they masterful. Look how strong they are." Maybe you went away with all this theory and so forth, and when you drove away that was the way you felt.

All you've got to do is miss a withhold. So that Security Checking has to be perfect. Therefore, he has to be able to run a meter perfectly. Therefore, he has to also have .the proper meter. You can't have a meter which almost works because it'll miss withholds for you.

But you run into an auditor and without informing you of anything, he simply runs out the incident, and you go into a vituperation about halfway through about these condemned, cotton-picking traffic cops. That's where the big thetan theory breaks down. You can't take anybody who has been overwhumped, run out any of the circumstances of the overwhump without his being mad as hops and then coming back to a parity with what overwhumped him. And as long as he is overwhelmed, he is suffering from ulcers; and as long as he himself has overwhelmed, he is suffering from ulcers; and he's in good shape, you know, in good shape. If he's very careful.

All right. So that is a precision action, and an auditor can be taught that action, and they can do it. One of the things happens to them, however, is their own case gets in the road. How could this be that their own case gets in the road? Well, he who hath withhold will not pulleth withhold from he who hath withhold.

He's in terribly good condition all the way along the line except for being so sick all the time. And you want to cure his sickness or make him feel better or make him effective in any way, or make him stand up and take some responsibility for what he's doing, and you have to run out the overwhumps. You have to find those periods when he was stamped down to a point of where he believed he was nothing.

So the only bug on the forward track is getting all these people with withholds to perfectly pull withholds on all these people who have withholds. And I'll go into that — technically why that is necessary.

And having — having found this to be the case, you will discover that he recovers and all of his aches and pains disappear and he's in pretty good shape. And he's now effective. Now how does this compare as the best possible recommendation of the big thetan theory? Does that recommend the big thetan theory? Or does it say the big thetan theory — oh, no, no, I won't — I won't say that the big thetan theory is totally responsible for all the ills of the world. There are other theories.

It isn't just that we want you to have clean hands. I know you would feel nice if you had clean hands and it makes you well, and it makes you feel better and it's that sort of thing, but that isn't why we want you to have clean hands. That isn't why at all. We just want you to have clean hands so that you can be set up for an assessment and find out where you're at and get going.-

But you get the idea there of — there's this fellow and he's all overwhelmed and he can't move and he can't see and he can't do anything very much. And there he is, and we keep falling over him — go down the road and we fall over him, come back up the road and we fall over him — and there he is and so forth.

And we can't find out where you are and get going unless a perfect job of Security Checking and Problems Intensive has been run on you first. And of course, you lose the pc if you miss the withholds.

And we finally say, "Well, let's take this fellow and sit him on the curb and find out what's going on." And we say, "All right. Here, Bill Thetan, what's the matter with you?"

You want to see somebody blow? You want to see somebody leave the organization? You want to see somebody get out of the pc's chair and be your enemy thereafter? Just sit down there, and just sit down there and you're going along fine, and you say, "All right. Have you ever murdered anybody? All right. Well, it didn't move much that time," and so forth.

And "Oh, I just don't know. I was just fine, but it's — it actually — the big thetan has smoted me."

About three minutes later — about three minutes later, the pc says, "You're talking so loudly, I can hardly hear you. I don't know what you are doing. Why can't I have a cigarette? You gave me that — you gave me that command twice. You know you did. I heard you. You're using the old style of Model Session, too. Yap, yap, yap, yap, yap. Rrowrrh."

And you say, "All right. When did you get the idea that you'd been smoted by this big thetan?"

And the auditor who doesn't know how to audit 1962 style, huh, he says, "Well, I'm very sorry. Do we have an ARC break? All right. What have I done? Oh, I have. I've screamed at you. All right. And what else have I done? And what haven't I done?"

Well, he could trace it back and you could run it out and you could fix it up and at the end of that time, he says, "Well, what do you know?" He says, "I'm as big as the big thetan," or "I don't feel so overwhelmed," or "Actually, I overwhelmed him."

And the pc gets up out of the auditing chair and he tells the next-door neighbor, "Oh, my God, that auditor's terrible," and blows and has a lot of trouble, and comes down with sinusitis the final week — the following week, you see — stumbles around, goes on a binge, leaves his wife, walks around in circles and falls flat on his face and one day finds himself in the hands of another Scientologist and gets the withhold pulled.

And when he gets this type of realization on the thing, what does he do? He recovers. The next time you walk up the road, you don't fall over him. The next time you walk down the road, why, he's doing something interesting on the corner. And he says, "Hi ya, Joe."

And this Scientologist, by that time, has been over the jumps and we say, "All right. Have you ever murdered anybody? Oh, yeah? Well, who was that? All right. That's fine. Who else have you murdered? Thank you. Okay. Good. Who else? Have you ever murdered anybody else? All right. That's clear now. Okay."

And you say, "How are you, Bill." And there's some life around.

Fellow says, "You know, auditors are awfully nice."

These things don't compare to the theories and philosophies which we have been taught in the past. They don't exist in that area. And we look for a comparable magnitude to S — a datum of comparable magnitude to Scientology, we don't find one. We find a lot of dead-ended attempts to straighten it out or understand it. And having found these dead-ended attempts, we find out they've been booby-trapped to push people in further, which makes a very interesting picture.

That's the mechanism of your ARC break — is only the missed withhold. That's all. That's the totality of it.

Therefore, you are very — it's very fine for you to regard Scientology with some suspicion. The usual course of somebody hearing about Scientology, he'll either say — well, he hears about it and he says, "Boy," he says, "that's the thing, you know. Boy! That's just what I've been looking for. Whee-bang!" you know, and so forth.

The reason fellows get upset, the reason people blow, the reason people have ARC breaks, the reason they have bad sessions, the reason for this — and this — isn't really that the auditor's intention was bad. It was only that the person had withholds and nobody got them. They asked for them and didn't bother to collect them. And this is about as silly as going down to the bank, making out a check, they put your money on the counter and then you walk off and don't pick it up. It's just as silly as that. There's the source of ARC breaks.

And he hears some more about it and he gets the PE Course and he gets some more and somebody runs a Touch Assist on him and all of a sudden he doesn't do this all the time, you know.

There's the source of the invalidation of the E-Meter. Of course, an inoperative meter should be invalidated. But the source of an ARC break or the source of invalidations of meters and things — Scientology doesn't work — is the fellow sits there and you say, "Have you ever murdered anyone?" And he knows darn well he has and then you don't ask him anything about it, he thinks it hasn't shown up on the meter, which it has, but the auditor just hasn't read it. So he invalidates the meter.

And everything is just going along fine, and then one day he's sitting there and he hears this true datum, you see, that one of the auditors drinks coffee with lemon in it. This is pretty reprehensible, you know. So he wonders if it's all that it's cracked up to be.

And he said, "Well, it isn't operating." No, what isn't operating is the auditor usually, if the meter is all right. Simple. These are simple mechanisms.

And he goes through this period of doubt.

In other words, I'm talking to you about something that has turned out to be as elementary as: You take a pie plate off the cupboard and put it on the table, and then you take it off the table and put it back in the cupboard. And it'll arrive both ways each time so long as you pick it up.

"Well, I don't know. I guess it's too good to be true. It was a beautiful dream, anyway. And it's awful nice." And he goes loafing off and empties a couple of more garbage cans, you know. And feeling kind of sad about it. It was a nice idea, but of course it was all a fake, you see, the whole thing's fake and so forth.

But if you neglect to pick up the pie plate, you will never get it on the table. And if you try to knock it over there with your hand, it'll bust to pieces in the middle of the floor. There is a way to pick up a pie plate and move it from the cupboard to the table. And it's that elementary; only missing one is that serious.

And then — then one day, why, somebody's — falls over a lamppost or some-thing of the sort, and he remembers something he learned on a co-audit and he says, "Well, stand here and touch the lamppost for a few minutes," you see.

Class I skills — that's anything that we ever knew how to do up to last year. Do them all. I don't care. Go ahead. But if you don't know what you are doing and if you cannot classify or qualify as a Class II Auditor as perfect on an E-Meter — and I don't mean you read the E-Meter Essentials and know all the answers, and somebody comes in and sits down and you say, "Well, all right. And on page 62 it says so-and-so, that's the answer to that question. Yeah, I can answer all the questions in the book."

And the fellow stands there and touches the lamppost for a few minutes and wham! he's all right now. And he walks off down the st — .

"All right. You're perfect on an E-Meter now." I don't mean that kind of training. I don't mean 100 percent perfect on the E-Meter from that quarter.

"Gee," he says, "thank you."

"There are ten reactions on an E-Meter needle. What are they? One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine and ten. Very good. Show me an example of each one. Very good."

The fellow says, "Maybe there is something to Scientology. Do you sup-pose there is something to Scientology?" and so forth. And then he meets a friend of his and this friend of his is something of the sort, and he says to this friend of his, "You know what you need is some Scientology. Yeah, that's what you need," and so forth. "It's a good thing. It's a good idea."

"Now we will find somebody and you will be able to run twelve Security Check questions on him. And then we're going to security check him after-wards and if we find one single quiver on the needle, you're going to go back to the foot of the class and do it all over again." That's the way you pass your examination. That's what we mean by 100 percent on the E-Meter. Perfect knowledge of E-Meter essentials, perfect knowledge of the meter, perfect demonstration of each one of the types of motions of an E-Meter and perfect Security Checking so that a withhold is never missed or quivered. Never a quiver of that needle missed.

And he goes away and he says, "I wonder if that's right. Yes, I guess it's right. Scientology's okay, I guess. It's — it's really Ron. That's — that's the thing. The guy runs things, you know. He just runs things, you know. He says — he says 'white' and everybody has to say 'white.' I don't know. It's pretty bad, you know, and so forth. But I don't know. This is too bad. A lot of the stuff in S — there's some of the things in Scientology work, I guess," see?

And then we have what we consider passing. Perfect is passing because life and the mind demands of us that we be perfect in this particular line. We can't do a fair job of this action.

And then one day he happens to find some money he didn't know — quite know what to do with. And he goes down and he says, "Well, I might as well — I might as well take an HPA Course, something like that." And he goes in and takes an HPA Course. The first three weeks — absolutely wonderful, and then he finds out the Instructor comes late to class every now and then, and he gets corrected several times and then he kind of misses out and he gets some infraction sheets and he knows he didn't do anything wrong.

Life and the mind does not tolerate a fair job. All you have to do is miss a withhold, miss a rudiment, miss something of the sort, and your pc's all upset and coming to pieces. And if you do it very often, your pc blows and his whole life is in flinders.

And then he goes through a period in class of not knowing whether or not Scientology is or whether it works or whether it doesn't work. And he comes out of that and then he knows Scientology really works. And then he doesn't know if it really works or not. And then he knows .. .

So we have to take the responsibility today of the fact that Scientology has entered a new level of effectiveness. And its new level of effectiveness contains in it this fact: that anything that is powerful enough to completely alter the human mind can backfire if done wrong!

You think I'm joking. Just look at your own history. See, I mean, you've gone on and off the bandwagon, and on and off the bandwagon. Well, what's so peculiar? Everybody does. It's too good to be true that there's a breakout of this magnitude and progress. Look at the number of times you hoped there was in the past, and there wasn't. You keep stumbling into those things, you see, and they keep getting restimulated and can't be true and then you're getting withholds off a preclear sometime and you — he says, "You know, you know frankly, I have a big withhold. I have a big withhold. I heard somebody else say that actually Ron was seen smoking a pipe."

So new technology has forced upon us this fact: that we can no longer tolerate a fair job. We have to have a perfect job, but it is an easy job to do. It is not hard to be perfect at it. It simply requires training and skill. It can be done. It's easy to do as a matter of fact. It is easier to do an E-Meter job perfectly on a pc — easier to do it perfectly than poorly. Because if you do it poorly, what happens? What happens? Oh, dear. God help the auditor.

And the auditor sits there in a state of shock. He said, "What? No. Not really," you know, said this to himself. But he has to withhold it now because he's auditing in session, and he goes around . . . This happens all the time, you know. It's wild, man.

That's the only time the pc ever clams up on him. That's the only time the pc ever has the ARC break. That's the only time the pc ever finishes a session feeling horrible. That's all.

What is fantastic is they always come back. That's what's fantastic, you see. You never lose them completely. We'll even pick up them as has went out the hard way in the next life or two.

If you don't believe this, take somebody that's just had some auditing and they feel terrible. He's done — been audited by somebody. Put him on a meter and say, "What question was missed on you? What withhold has not been pulled on you? Which one did that auditor miss?"

Some people have doubted so hard and fought so hard and raised so much hell and so forth, they finally kicked themselves off. And no auditor was around to pull them back in and audit them, and they're off someplace attending school in Nueva Vizcaya, upper Bayombong or something at the present moment, and we'll even catch up with those.

And you go clank. You say, "What was that?" Follow it down very care-fully. You'll find out there was a missed withhold. As soon as you get that missed withhold off, the person feels wonderful. Isn't this interesting?

But stop looking at things as they ought to be and start looking at things as they are, including Scientology, and you will be much happier.

The difference between good and bad auditing is perfect auditing for we can no longer be tolerant of these things. So a person who is doing this job should be perfect at it. That is all there is to that. He should be perfect at it. I don't care how many people this upsets because the only thing I have ever been with you is honest, as honest as I knew how to be. And if I didn't know something, I told you. And when I did know something, I told you. Well, I'm telling you now. That's the way it is.

Absolutely marvelous. Of course, a bunch of aberrated guys, including you and me, start putting a lot of things together, start getting results and start making it out along the line and really start doing something and getting somewhere and actually proceeding and not falling on our heads totally, being 51 percent right while we're being 49 percent nuts — we of course are going to make a few mistakes.

It isn't me laying down the law. This is what we have run into.

But look at what's really happening. We are making it. Wobbly, yeah. Driving all over the road, sure. But we're making it. The point is, is don't go completely into the ditch. That's all I ask of you. I don't expect you to be driving down the highway with a great big flag on your radiator cap — Scientology, the S and double triangle — and shoot everybody dead who dares whisper against Scientology or spread any entheta or something of the sort, and never yourself doubt anything and always be in there — a sterling, good, solid representative Scientologist at all times. I've gotten sick of you, too, occasionally.

All right. Now let's go into Class III. If you do a Class III job — if you do an assessment job on somebody and you're not sufficiently skilled to know the difference between a cognition surge and a repeating item or something of this sort, if you don't know what you're looking at, if your assessment is not right on the button and doesn't keep on assessing that exact way — in other words, if just the pure mechanics of running the E-Meter are not perfect, you have let this pc in for more misery than he has ever been let in for in his life. It's that serious. It's that serious.

You almost say there must be something the matter with a fellow who's never fallen on his head on the subject sooner or later. He must be fixated.

Oh, this is a new look, isn't it? Remember at the beginning of one of the — I think about the third book of Book One — the third part of Book One, it says any auditing is better than no auditing. It's only been in the last year that we have violated that principle for the first time.

Well, it's remarkable, you know. They — you see them around and then you see them disappear and then you see them come back again and you're used to a familiar face and all of a sudden it's missing. And you hear they had this terrible time and they had this bad auditing and then they did this and this was done to them and that was done to them and it was all pretty hard and so on. And then somebody reports having seen them — they're going down the road under full motivator. And maybe a year, two, three years might go by, and all of a sudden you look up and there they are at the congress.

That is only true of skills as they existed, well, let's say, up until maybe autumn 59. That is completely true of those early skills. Any use of them was better than no use of them at all.

And they feel all contrite, you know, and they — "I'm sorry, Ron, you know. Sorry, Ron."

Now let's go forward into the raw meat that we have been running into and handling since that time, and particularly the raw meat of this year, and we find for the first time that perfect auditing is excellent. There's no further statement can be made. Perfect auditing is excellent. There is no comparable statement that fair auditing is fair. That's just totally missing, see. That isn't there, see. No such thing as fair auditing is fair.

Okay. It always upsets the living daylights with them because the truth of the matter is, is I'm always glad to see them again and so is everybody else.

All other types of auditing are horrible if you use these technologies of 1962. Used wrong, ploom! Fire a rocket off in the pc's ear, you'll probably do him better. Probably do him less harm.

When you can take away and handle the crimes, overts and withholds of man, let me assure you, you don't worry much about retaining their guilt in order to keep them in line.

Now, it isn't that you damage the pc forever. It's just that he becomes terribly upset. He may blow, he goes wog-wog, he may get sick and woggly on you and so forth. He'll destimulate and come out of it. Yes, he'll come out of it. It won't kill him. But what a waste of time. You've upset him, you've lost a member of your group, things of this character. He goes out of circulation as far as you're concerned.

We know the fellow must have had something on the ball or he'd have never been around in the first place and he never would have come back. That's what you expect of a Scientologist.

In other words, you can't do a halfway job with 1961 auditing and that's all there is to that. Auditing as it exists right this moment cannot be done "pretty well." It can't be done "pretty well." There is no such thing as "pretty good" Security Checking. There is no such thing as "not too bad" assessing. You see, those other solutions just don't exist.

But, of course, if everybody did that all the time we would be in a mess, and we have people who have stood by and who are straight along the line. But they themselves have had their moment of grief, every one of them. And me, too.

There is wrong assessing which will upset cases and wrong Security Checking which will upset cases, and there is perfect Security Checking and perfect assessing which makes the case walk up on cloud nine, cloud ten, cloud eleven, cloud twelve in a very, very steep rocket jockey climb. Done perfectly, you have never seen quite the same results occurring from auditing, which I will go into in this congress.

So it isn't a terrifically easy road. I've tried to put all the possibly soft paving blocks I could possibly find on the highway and put a few rest camps along the line as well as I could. But remember, I'm just me. I'm not in the paving business.

So don't fool anybody, much less yourself. If you don't know how to do these things perfectly, I'm not asking you not to audit. Nothing like that. I'm not asking you to take endless training courses and all that sort of thing because I assure you that once you have learned this perfection of handling of withholds — when you've got that skill perfect, when you really have that one — you're not going to have to learn it again. I guarantee that.

Possibly the toughest thing which I myself have to bear along this particular line is your ought-to-be. What I ought to be.

And when you can really assess and you really know what you're doing, and when you find an item on somebody's case, bang, you've got it. And that compares to this and it checks out. And the list is null and that's it. And you've got it and bang!

Recently some of the organization members and International Council members down in South Africa went out on a tour of the various cities. And they had to ask everybody's — answer everybody's questions such as, "Well, does Ron have horns, not have horns. Does he grow wings? Does he lecture from the middle of the hall, you see, supported in translucent splendor or something of the sort? Or does he do this or does he do that?" And they have to answer all these questions. Nobody ever believes them.

Well, you don't have to learn how to do that again. It doesn't matter if I come along and tell you to assess for something else. It is simply an assessment, see.

They say, "Well, Ron is just a guy, and he's just trying to do a job and so forth. And the best thing you could say for him is he keeps on and he does deliver the bacon as he — as he goes. That's about the best you could say for him. And there it is, and everything's fine and — but he's just a guy," and so on. And people don't want that.

It doesn't matter if I say, "Well, we have also all of a sudden found the alpha factor on cases, and you have to assess for the childhood integral . . ." Well, it'd just be a job of assessing. Or I say, "Well, you have to run a Security Check on the pc's oppterm." Well, that's just Security Checking, see. These are unchanging skills. And the reason why most people had to be trained over and over and over is they have not had a specific skill which was an invariable skill which they learned perfectly.

Man, you really run it on me. You really run it. One of the toughest things about a congress is one always has to come up bright and shining on a certain date. This is from my point of view, you see.

They were always satisfied if they learned "pretty good," see. And "pretty good" is not good enough. We won't make that statement, you know, "pretty good" is not good enough. Sounds like something you'd see on a garage sign or something. That's an improper statement. "Pretty good" is horrible! It's, "My God, how can you live? How can you do this thing? You murder children, too, in your spare time?" You know, it's that order of magnitude.

If I came limping on the stage, "Cough, cough, cough, cough, cough, cough — I'm sorry I can't give you much of a lecture and so forth, because" — be several people say, "Scientology doesn't work. Look, he's sick."

If I could give you anything at this congress or teach you anything at this congress of any value, it would be just this fact. It's for God's sakes, don't go on expecting that a fair job of auditing can ever be done. It cannot, not from here on, with what we're doing.

Well, look at this — meat body. It's a meat body, nothing else. Been dead three times in this lifetime. Been through a war. Lived in the United States. What I'm proudest of, you never notice — I'm still alive and functioning.

Now here's why. Technically, we'll go into it further, but here's why a fair job cannot be done: because you're heading this person on an outward bound passage. You're taking this person over jumps that he has never in his life ever dreamed that he would be able to confront. And unless you do a perfect job of taking him over it, he's going to quit. It's just too much to confront. It's just too rough.

Now, for instance, I should never show up at a congress with a finger bound up. See, the ought-to-be. That's — that's pretty — pretty grim. "Well, I don't know whether Scientology works or not because, you know, actually at the congress in Washington there, Ron had a — had a bandage on his finger and so forth. It was the Clean Hands Congress, too."

And he breaks down along the line. And I can also tell you these things are very easy to learn. The learning is — will never be done, "Well, Henry, I think you'll be able to do better tomorrow with your E-Meter and I think you will be able tomorrow to recognize the difference between a constant rise and a rock slam. And I think, Henry, you will be able to do that tomorrow," and so on. "Try anyway, Henry."

Now, I'm always supposed to be bright and shining, all on — always on top, always rolling on all eight wheels. It's fantastic — I usually manage to. But you've got no right to demand it of me, that's all! Let me fall on my head someday. I haven't had a vacation, actually, in years. And how I keep going, Lord knows — I don't. Work about 28 hours a day. I should be at Saint Hill right this moment, I shouldn't be standing here. Nothing's going to pieces, but we're right in the middle of a forward advance of magnitude right at the present instant and it's not a moment of advance at Saint Hill — it's happening right here in the United States. And you possibly haven't noticed it. We'll take it up at greater length in this congress, but it is rather fantastic what is occurring.

I'm afraid it has to be done on an entirely different plane — not necessarily a misemotional plane, but it'll have to be done whether said patiently, angrily or Tone 40 or serenely. It will still have to be said, "Henry, you ignorant blank, please notice that the needle goes this way and rises. Do you see the needle, Henry? Rising needle. Now rising needle. Do you see that, Henry? Rising needle. Now look at it, look at it again, now. Look, look, we're going to make it rise again. Rising needle. Don't you ever read anything with it!"

But that I can appear at a congress at all is pretty good from my point of view, see? That I can last out six, twelve, eighteen hours of lecture and so forth, I think that's pretty good.

"Oh."

You say, "Well, of course, he would be able to do it," you see? "Of course, well, that's — that's easy," you see.

I don't care what point of the Tone Scale it's got to be done. It has to be done. And you don't dare stop training him until he sees the needle go and he says, "It's a rock slam."

There's no glory in it for me, don't you see? I can't say, "Look how terrific this is, folks," you see? I can't say that. You say, "Well, that's — that's just what we expect of you, Ron," you see? "That's what you're supposed to be able to do," you know.

Somebody comes along and tries to tell him it's a theta bop — he'd break out a shotgun. He knows the person's psychotic, see, at that level of knowingness. That level of certainty has got to be there. He's got to know the difference between an instant read and a latent read. The only thing that isn't in E-Meter Essentials is you never pay any attention to anything but a — but an instant read. A read must occur certainly within a half a second after you've said the word. Actually, shorter than that. But if it doesn't, it's not significant. It isn't reading what you ask him. He only responds instantly because you want the reactive mind's responses, not his long thinkingness.

Well, pretty good, pretty good. But could you do it? And well, you possibly could. I'm — certainly I'm trying to put you in shape so that you definitely could. But I'm not in shape so that I can. And yet I do. That's the ought-to-be versus the actuality.

Here's what happens. You say to somebody, "Did you ever skin any cats?"

The only thing that you can really count on me for absolutely across the boards, and I think you have learned this over the years: One, I know where we're going, I know what we're doing, and I will work very sincerely and put everything else aside to accomplish our definite goals and ends in this particular direction. And I know that you know you can count on that.

Most people in America — at a particular time — will sit there and faith-fully watch the E-Meter. "Did you ever skin any cats? What was that movement there? What was that last movement there? Oh? What was that? Yeah, what did you think of as the needle wiggled?"

And beyond that, I'm afraid I can't recommend myself very much. Get cross. Meaner than a cat, man. You ought to see me sometime when a message comes in from Johannesburg that they have just been threatened with liquidation because they forgot to pay the water bill. You ought to see me, you know. I'm not trying to keep Johannesburg from liquidating and make sure they pay their water bills, but I have to make sure they do, you see? Boy! It's a good thing I have spoken several languages on the track because I would run out of curse words. And it's a terrible state of shock that some staff members sometimes — only new ones — go into. They find me in a hall, you know, and I'm chewing somebody up, my God, you know? And he's trying to tell me desperately that isn't his department and he's not responsible for it and I say, well, you know, something — something very pleasant like, "You're trying to tell me you're not responsible?" You know, something like this.

"Oh, I thought of my — I thought of my — my uncle."

And they say, "Gee, he can get mad."

"Well, what about your uncle?"

Well, that's another ought-to-be. You see, I'm never supposed to get mad,I'm supposed to withhold it. Well, I'd be withholding more anger in fifteenminutes over some things than most people express in their entire lifetime.Frankly, I am simply libeling myself at the moment because I am a fairlyeven-tempered character. But don't deny me the right to get mad about some‑thing, because I do. And once in a while I curse and damn some Scientologistwho is far away, the story on which I have totally wrong. Very often this is the case. I just get mad as hops, you know. "My God! What the hell do they think, so on, so on and so on and so on and so on." Cables fly out in all directions. "Yank his certificates, nail him to the cross, kill him."

"Oh, he owned a garage."

I get this rather pathetic letter back and say, "Ron, that was in Pomona. That was in Pomona that happened, not in Riverside. And the auditor was from Seattle."

"Where was that?"

And I say, "Prove it." And they do, and I say I'm sorry. I'm a liability along these lines, let me tell you.

"Oh, that was in Peoria."

But the reason the person took it and will take it and so forth, is because they know that I'm totally sincere in trying to keep the show on the road and keep it straight and get the right thing done. So they even forgive that.

"Was that in this lifetime?"

Well, that's the way it goes. But it's been tough the last ten or eleven years, let me tell you, particularly the last ten years of going along, having to do so many other things than my job; trying to take care of so many other things all the time. Having to hold together administrational activities and so forth which frankly didn't have too much to do with me.

And they call it auditing.

In 1950, I said Scientology (or Dianetics then) would go as far as it worked and not a bit further. And therefore, to expend tremendous quantities of time on administrative procedures and keeping everything straight administratively was a very short-sighted action. One would do the best he possibly could along the administration/communication lines of Scientology and Dianetics throughout the world, and keep the eye on the main chance, which was to do the best possible technical advance. Concentration on technical.

"Did you ever skin any cats? Thank you. Have you ever raped anybody? Thank you," is the rapidity of Security Check questions because the reaction of the E-Meter is going to take place instantly. Pow! If he did, it goes pow! And if it goes pow, he did! That's the other thing you've got to learn.

And although we have put together Central Organizations and so on in the past, it is interestingly significant that now we are going for blood on the administrative front because we now know exactly where we are going and exactly what we are doing and we have made it. And now is the time to make it neat. And I'll appreciate your cooperation in making it neat.

And he says, "Well, I don't know really, skin a cat? I — as a matter — I was a member of the Humanitarian Society one time and the Cat Farm Incorporated, and so forth and so on." And you — you don't ever say, "Well, all right. Well, he said that. Let's go on to the next question."

Because we've got a mighty fine future, and we've got a tremendous, wide, unimaginably wide area of advance immediately ahead of us. I speak to you from the terrifically confident, complacent standpoint of knowing exactly what you can do. I have for many years spoken to you from the standpoint of knowing what I could do and hoping what you could do. And I now speak from the viewpoint entirely of knowing exactly what you can do and exactly how far along you can go and exactly how distinctly good your skills can and will be and exactly what you can accomplish. And I speak exactly and totally and exactly from the point of view of knowing what you will become.

You say, "Good. Thank you very much. Now have you ever skinned any cats?"

Now I don't care whether you fall off the bandwagon and roll off one side of the road and onto the other side of the road and wobble around and so forth — the other end is inevitable. The course of existence is pretty well plotted, because this is one track you can't start going down and then turn back. Because no matter how mad you got, no matter how upset you got, no matter how betrayed you felt, you are still accompanied by this fascinating little point — one little point: It might be true. It just might be true. And that's right. It is true. But I've been trying, and I've been taking your support over eleven years to make a breakthrough which was positively — which included everybody. And that breakthrough has now occurred. And that is news.

"Yeah."

And I tell you at this congress that — not "you too can be Clear," but "you too can go all the way no matter how you have been falling on your head." That I can tell you with great certainty. And I can also tell you that you can learn to do it and you can do it. And these are tremendous certainties and they exist with me right here at this moment after a great deal of experience along that line. And I've never been able to speak to you from that level of confidence before.

"Well, all right. Now, what cat did you skin?"

I've spoken to you with the confidence it can be done: "I can do it. I hope you can. Here is what I hope you will be able to do. And basically, here is what will cure and clear quite a few people. And you can (I hope) do these techniques." You get this? This is the viewpoint on which we've been carrying forward as opposed to this viewpoint: "I know exactly what you can do. I know exactly what is going to happen to you, and exactly where you are going, and that is it. I know that I can teach you rather easily to do these exact things. And I know that anybody who then falls in your hands to be cleared or given other boosts forward and so forth, will receive an exact and finite end. Not necessarily in an exact length of time — it'll take some longer than others because that's monitored by the difficultness of the case and the speed and enthusiasm with which you will work, but I can tell you positively that it will occur."

"Well, I really abhor skinning cats."

And that is news. Applause.

"Yeah, fine. Thank you. What cat did you skin? When?"

Of course, we find the United States at this particular moment in the ho-hum of, "Well, we've heard about clearing before. Oh yeah, we've heard that before. You know, we've heard about clearing people and so on. Possibly true, possibly not true. He's talking about clearing again. Well, I went down to get cleared one time. I went down to get cleared by an auditor. He was an auditor. He said he was an auditor. And he ran a process on me. It was 'look at that light' we ran, long time. I've had other gains. I've had a lot of other gains. I've had a tremendous number of other gains, but I didn't get Clear. Keep talking about these Clears and there aren't very many, and there are really none in the United States or anything like that. The — I don't know what this is all about. Be a pretty dream, though, if it were true."

"Oh, well, really, I don't know why you're taking it out on me this way because I've always been a friend of dumb animals. As a matter of fact, some-body did a Dynamic Assessment on me one time and it was totally fifth, fifth, fifth all the time. So it couldn't be a — possibly be any withhold about cats," and so forth.

Well, I'm standing here to tell you that I'm not going to clear you and I'm not going to see you cleared. It's a waste of time. "What? What did he say? What did he say, Joe?"

"Good. Thank you. Thank you very much. When did you skin the cat? Did you skin the cat? Was it a cat? All right. Was it a cat? All right, it was cat. Did you skin the cat? Yeah, all right, you 'skin' the cat. Very good. Good. Now, what cat and when and where was it 'skin'? Not by your uncle. By you. When was this?"

We could have cleared anybody at Saint Hill rather easily, because clearing is a specific activity which is a way-stop on the road to other ends. We could take and orient totally what is called now a 3D package and run only one terminal to that package and get a free needle rather easily. And we could show the fellow the free needle and you'd say, "Look, you're Clear, son," and he'd feel great. And he would be Clear and everything in Book One, everything's fine. He's vaguely aware of the fact that someday something might fall in on him, but that's all right. That's all right. He's Clear. There's the free needle. He's — everything is expected — as expected and so forth. He isn't being troubled by a lot of things being trouble before.

"Oh, well, you're pressing me like that. It's not fair. You're demanding things like ..."

Why do it? Just so he'll feel good. I know this is unpopular. This is not commercial. You could go ahead and do this. Be perfectly honest of you. Go ahead and clear the fellow. You get a 3D package and then clear him.

"No, we don't care about that. What cat?"

Why spend any time clearing him when with the same 3D package you can push him through to OT? Because clearing is not a way-stop on the road to OT. It's a byroad. That's news, isn't it?_

"All right. You don't have to be so nasty about it. The boys and I used to skin cats all the time. So there! So there! So there. So there. So there. As a matter of fact, I feel much better now. You don't suppose my gesture like this all the time ..."

Audience: Yes.

Yeah, it's interesting, isn't it?

It's easier to go the whole road without traveling on any country lanes. Even though it's interestingly harder and even though it's rougher. But after a fellow's going to be Clear, he's got to go all over it anyhow. You're going to put him all over the jumps anyway. So why'd you waste any time putting him in this hole when you're trying to go up this road? So we have just bypassed this particular goal, and although this is fine and so forth, he is going to wind up Clear, but you'll have to call Clear with a capital C or something to differentiate between what we have been making. We have been making Keyed-Out Clears. We have keyed people out. And that has been the Clear of the past.

But that is Security Checking, not "Have you ever been — have you ever be — had any unkind thoughts? Have you? Have you ever had any unkind thoughts? Have you ever had any unkind thoughts? Well, all right. We'll go on to the next question then."

There's a lot more to this — and yes, oh yes, he felt fine and everything of the sort. And everything was written down and — as prescribed and so forth, but it was Keyed-Out Clear. And there wasn't any way to go all the way through and make the total breakthrough until just a few months ago.

Or "Have you ever done anything to Ron? Very good. Have you ever done anything to Ron? Oh, oh, there? What's that? What's that? Have you ever done anything to Ron, and so on? Oh, you thought an unkind thought about Ron. Oh, da-da-da, da-da-da, an unkind thought, a critical thought and so forth. All right. That's very good. And you thought about this other person that said . . . There. That other person said that they had once heard ... Well, that's fine. You have thought this unkind thought. Very good. What have you done to him?"

And now there is the way by which you go the whole way and make the total breakthrough, but you have to confront up to God-'elp-us what. That's rough. That's tougher. It's meaner. The somatics are worse.

"Oh, well, you needn't ask me like that. That is pretty mean. That's pretty mean. I just thought this unkind thought and so forth. And anybody's entitled to their opinion. It's a democracy after all, so forth. It's not some kind of a fascism the way you people think it is, so forth."

When you get out at the other end, yes, you're Clear, but it would probably be the Clear which you have envisioned as a relatively absolute s — closer to absolute state with certain powers and abilities to exteriorize and all kinds of odd things that we have also talked to. It'd be closer to an absolute state of Clear.

You say, "All right. All right. But what did you do to him? All right. If you're thinking unkind thoughts about him, you must have done something to him. Now what did you done?"

Clears we have made have been Keyed-Out Clears. The state which we are making is the state which we have called OT. We are making Clears. There's no doubt about that. There were — on the congress in South Africa a very short time ago, six Clears stood on the stage together. All of them Clear as a bell. Wonderful shape. Marvelous condition.

It's the only reason the question exists in the Form 3 Joburg. "Have you ever thought any critical thought about?" must always be followed, "Good. You have? Fine! Well, what have you done?" Because he who thinketh critical thoughteth abouteth hath done, brother, hath done.

We've done some clearing here or there. There's been clearing done in Australia. I'm not trying to downgrade the state these people are in. We are making Clears. We've accomplished that particular goal. These Clears are relatively stable, but only relatively stable because they are keyed out. Now I'm not spending much time making Clears. I'm pushing it straight on through the whole way and making people that can make people go the whole way.

All of this is very important. You can't sit there — you know that a person could actually go on seven or eight hours getting off their critical thoughts. Do you know that?

So that is what I mean by a new plateau, and that is what I mean by a brand-new upgrade of the whole subject. Because to do this other trick requires auditing skill of a very definite nature. There are very definite skills. They are very, very precise. We will take those up in this congress. And the best news is that you can do them. I have proven that. I have proven that. I have been teaching people to do them and they have been doing them very successfully and very well. I didn't know that they could, but apparently a Scientologist can do a rather complicated, precise operation if he knows exactly where he's going, to the exact end product, without any doubt whatsoever about exactly what you do after you do something. And apparently he can learn this and he can do this and he can do this well. And that is very good news, because we are not having any failures along in this line.

Then go on and on and on and on and on. Critical thoughts, critical thoughts, critical thoughts, critical thoughts and I thought this, and I thought that, and I thought that. You don't have to listen to any of that. Why not end it up in thirty seconds, not five hours.

It's sort of a black and white, yes or no proposition. Today on these upper echelons, we don't invalidate the old-time auditor — no, no, he had his skills too. We upgrade these skills enormously, put them on a terrifically precise footing and carry them forward from there, and then this fellow really can work magic. But the techniques which he is using require such enormous precision of use that there are no arguments about it, and after he's trained along the line in this way, he sees clearly that there are no arguments about the precision with which these things have to be used and his understanding of his job. We have walked into a point of complete — tremendous demands on the skill of the auditor. And the news is, the auditor has been able to measure up and we have had no difficulty, even though it took us quite a while to do it, we have been having no difficulty at Saint Hill teaching auditors to do these things. And they have come to do them very, very, very well.

Say, "What did you do?"

So much better that if at this moment you were to see or be audited by a Saint Hill graduate, you would be very startled. You would know that this was right and that they were doing exactly right and it was going off exactly as it was supposed to go off and there wouldn't be much strain with regard to the thing, but it would be an entirely different auditing experience than you had ever before had.

You'll find out every time if they had critical thoughts, they've done something. It's interesting, isn't it?

It would be very rapid and very skilled. So don't kid yourself at all about how difficult it is to learn these things or do these things. Look rather at the truth of the matter, which is they can be learned and these — these end goals and end products are being duplicated by auditors and people like yourself. They have been able to do these things. And that has not been true of many of the old-time techniques.

They're going around with this terrific load of blame, blame, blame, blame, blame, blame, blame. "This fellow's no good because I shot at him once." That's logic. That's logic, Earth, 1961. "He's no good and he's a rat because I once wrecked his car." Make sense? No, it doesn't make sense, but who does?

These fellows can do a tremendous job and so can you. And these are spreading out across the world now, and I will take this up later in this congress exactly what we are doing with this sort of thing, and it's a tremendous new impact that you are looking at.

It's a horrible thing. You're going to find out that Tshombe has done more and more and more things to the United States. All the United States would have to do is throw down about — well, if they sent a battleship down there just now, then Tshombe obviously would have had to have been guilty of a greater crime. Don't you see?

You have a new horizon, a new future. It isn't life in the old horse, it's a brand-new horse. And you've had a rough ride up to now and you'll have a rougher ride in the immediate future and then it's going to be about the smoothest ride you ever heard of.

And if they sent a whole air fleet down and it did something, then of course there would have to have been a much greater crime. And these greater crimes actually are quite imaginary — just as imaginary as the lobby up at the Capitol, but they have to have it. And the very fact that a news-paper prints on a national basis, "Tremendous lobby overthrowing the United States by force."

"Oh? It is? What have you done to the lobbyist?"

"Oh, that's not fair. That's not fair. We did this and did that and did that, but that has no bearing on it at all."

Well, actually, you wouldn't get, "You did this and you did-we did this and we did that and this has no bearing on it."

As soon as they say, "All right. We did this and we did that," you don't hear anything more about the lobby. The fact that there are complaints about the lobby is somebody is not taking responsibility for having sent bombers. That's all. There's more to this than meets the eye, but the mechanics of it are elementary.

And in those mechanics lie the unhappiness of man — in those very mechanics, as elementary as they are.

An auditor who sits there and can whipsaw an E-Meter over the jumps and pull all the withholds as they turn up, pocketa-pocketa-pocketa, bangetybangety-bang — well, pc just feeling better and better and everything going along fine, and nothing's missed, and everything is wonderful.

But if the pc is being audited by an imperfect auditor, the pc goes over a very bad rolly coaster and he wonders why he's being so critical today and why he isn't, and all that sort of thing.

Well, now I may have cut my finger at this Clean Hands Congress, and so forth, but I'm not talking to you the way most reformers talk. I'm not a reformer, but most reformers talk this way:

Having raped innumerable virgins, they make it a crime and lecture against it with violence for years and years and years. And then burn people at the stake because they have raped virgins. Do you see the logic back of it? Of course, there is no logic back of it, but the fellow is dramatizing and making people guilty of his own overts.

I am in the very happy position of having a witness, having a witness that on a British Mark IV E-Meter at sensitivity 16, I didn't have any with-holds. That makes this the first time in history that anybody has ever stood on a platform or rostrum, an altar, a forum and has said to others, "Be better and have clean hands," who didn't have a pitch. Well we've got an historical first here at this congress. I would hate to have security checked Billy Sunday or numerous other gentlemen of reforming characteristics.

But if there's anything wrong with you or if there's anything that you feel upset about, it goes back down just to one thing. Oncet uponet a timet, you had a "withhold it." And you never spilled it. And it is still withheld. And you is still having a hard time with it.

And now you want an auditor to help you. And it is my responsibility that the auditor who helps you, as fast as this can be done, will be totally competent to do so and who will be able to say, "Oncet uponet a timet, you had a 'withhold it.' What is it?" And get it. And not leave you with your sciatica, your lumbosis and your civilosis. And that would be a change, wouldn't it? Wouldn't that be a change?

Audience: Yes. Yes.

Well, it's elementary and you don't think it amounts to much because you've heard it all before. What I'm trying to tell you is you've never heard of it with velocity. Yes, you've heard it all before, but not with velocity, not with the statement that it can't be a halfway job. Please don't do one.

If you must do some auditing in a halfway job, run Rising Scale Processing, would you please? If you don't know how to use an E-Meter or don't know if your E-Meter is perfect, put it on the shelf and run CCHs. Will you please? And you will have much better gains than trying to use 1961 processes in doubt. These demand perfection.

And it's marvelous news that auditors not only have but are consistently meeting up to these standards and doing a wonderful job. And this is the first time that I've ever been able to do something myself and show somebody else how it was done, and then have them do a perfect job of it! And I am proud. And that's making me very happy.

Well, we got a lot more congress to go, so I'll show you the rest of it next time.