Dianetic 61 and the Whole Answer to the Problems of the Mind | A Talk on South Africa |
on the 1 January 1961 | on the 31 December 1960 |
Thank you. Thank you. | Thank you! |
I want to wish you a happy AD 11. Happy New Year! | Well this is just about the most gimmick first day I think you’ve ever seen isn’t it? Now well that’s because I’m getting my havingness up you know. And, ah, you’re about to see ah, some various, ah, oddities again. And then there will be nothing tomorrow, you’re going to do nothing tomorrow. |
Okay. It's about time you woke up after that horrible evening you had last night. | First before going much further, I had better tend to business here a little bit. And I’d better read some greeting-grams here of one kind or another. And the first one of course just by accident is on top. But ah, it’s to Scientology Washington D.C. “Hello and greetings to all. Have a wonderful congress. And to my favourite lecturer all my love, Mary Sue”. |
Well, I have good news for you today; very, very good news for you today. We're going to talk about practically nothing but technical all afternoon: Your case and you. God help you now. | Ah, dear Susie, she walked into it head on you know. She was going to go down to South Africa and have a very nice ah, vacation. She thought it’d be a very nice to have a vacation. And when she arrived they didn’t have much of an HGC so I put her on as D of P. She got that all straightened out got some people trained up along the line for HGC Admin and was taking care of about 30 PCs a week and everything was going along fine and then I made her Assoc Sec. Put her in charge of the organization. This was mean you know. But she had looked forward to a nice time, visiting you know all the wild animals and enjoying herself you know and just having a time. And that was what happened to poor Mary Sue. But she really does hope you have a wonderful congress and she does give you all her greetings. |
But that's all right. You may even survive these lectures. There are cases which have been known to survive these lectures. That's right. That's right. | And here is ah, “Have a good congress. I find that people really know and apply your development in Scientology to be the best for my hat is off to you. Glen Vance, president of the Advance RD.” |
We have – we have several people who have. | And, “Here is our very best wishes for a very successful congress and may “61 be even more successful for us. Pam and San Diego staff.” That’s Pam Kemp. |
Now, there's probably a lot of things I could tell you. One of the things I could tell you is that if you want to get a Professional Auditor's Certificate, you'd better enroll in the Academy this week because it is about to disappear as an Academy course. We're about to teach a Practical Scientology course which is the same as the old Professional course, but you don't get the certificate. | Here’s one from Johannesburg, they don’t know how appropriate this is. Oh yes, I guess they do. “Have a roaringly successful congress, love from HCO, HASI and The Lions Johannesburg.” |
After you've gone through the standard course to a course completion certificate for Practical Scientologist, you then begin to study Scientology. And when we think you are ready for it, and when we think you can run a Central Organization, and when we think you can clear cases, and when we think a lot of other things, you might get a certificate if you're nice. | And, “Here’s best wishes to Ron, staff and all congress attenders for a fine congress followed by a stupendous ACC from all staff HCO, St. Hill.” |
That's a change, isn't it? | And here is, “Ron, our very best wishes for a marvellous congress. Love Jack and Alison, HASI Ltd. Cape Town.” |
That lets everybody have auditing in lieu of training, and they can go – oh, nobody got that joke. Please wake up! | And here’s one from the director of security Johannesburg he says, “We miss you in God’s Country. Stop. Ron come home. Come home Yank!” |
A lot of people enroll in the Academy just to get processed. Got it? | And here’s. “Best wished for greatest success of congress in the new year. May it be the best yet. HCO and Church of Scientology Los Angeles.” |
Audience: Yes. | Well… there’s are lot of good people in this world. That is for sure, for sure, for sure. |
Hey, what the hell is this? An English audience? | Well, you know, getting down to business here. I have some ah, data that you might be interested in which is not basically Scientological but which has quite a bit to do with Scientological data. I have been down in the most controversial country on earth today which is South Africa. Would you like to hear a little something about South Africa? |
Now anyway, the exact line-up because of the new PE Foundation setups and the expansion of Central Organizations and a lot of other things, it isn't wise to go on teaching a Professional Auditor Course at an 8-week level because tremendous numbers of people want this course just for its information. And you will be able to enroll tremendous numbers of people in a practical Scientology course and it can be taught by any Central Organization. | Ok. The ah, most controversial spot on earth today probably is South Africa. And the only reason I would like to talk to you about South Africa is because it points out something that you yourself should be tremendously aware of in The United States and England. You should be tremendously aware of the dangers involved in propaganda. The entire Communist campaign is being conducted with propaganda. The campaign in it’s entirety is propaganda. |
But after this, we're going to have to be awfully choosy about auditors, believe me. | And the only shocking thing about the South African situation is just this: That not one word of truth has been written in the northern press about South Africa from the first days of the beginning of this campaign. Now you don’t have to take my word for it, actually if you went there yourselves, and if you had nerve enough and energy enough to go around and look at all of the areas and all of the plots in South Africa that have been talked about and talk to all the people without reserve in this situation you would then begin be able to appreciate the extreme truth of what I’ve just told you. That not one word of truth has been published in the northern press concerning South Africa. Not one word! |
And so an auditor who doesn't know a Central Organization would be a lost dog, and he'd have to be pulled into a Central Organization and trained and groomed and have to retake all the weeks that he – the Instructor in the Academy, you see, said, "Yes, you – you passed. You're through." And then he comes back for his certificate, you see. He's now decided – at a very small extra cost, you see, very small – he comes back and he says, "Well, I think I want to be a professional auditor." | Name anything, anything that has been said about South Africa. Anything! I can give you prima facie evidence that it is not factual. What is fantastic about this whole picture is that these statements occur uniformly and regularly on a planned order throughout the press of the northern hemisphere. I’m pointing this fact out to you for just one reason only. That if you can believe this and believe these things about South Africa, then you must also be getting fed a tremendous amount of publicity and propaganda about America and England which is also false and which is planned exclusively and completely in the Propaganda Ministry of Moscow. And is fired off on schedule through some of the most unlikely and unsuspected voices. |
All is changed. And the Instructor, the Academy Administrator goes down the list, and he says, "Well, you flunked week 2, week 5, week 7, you flunked your examination on the Axioms. Now, when you retake those, we can talk some more." | I’ll give you an example: A minister in England said, he wasn’t very high in the government, but he said, “There is one thing you can be certain of about South Africa, that there is going to be a great explosion.” And simultaneously this same statement was being made by a man by the name of Moss who is a senator from Utah in The United States. And it was also being made in four or five other quarters, always the same statement occurred in many places and is then replaced by a new statement which is made in many places and is then replaced by a new statement that is made. Who plans these statements? |
You get the idea? We intend to be real rough on a professional level and let lots of people know all there is to know about Scientology. That's a new policy. And after this week, it'll be in effect in Washington. It's your last chance to get a certificate easy. | And you can’t watch this thing without becoming aware of the fact that there is an orderly, organized propaganda campaign going on against the free governments of earth. And because certain things can be blown into being as quote “great truths” amongst the population of the northern hemisphere actions are taken which are favourable to the people who are inflating earth at this particular time, the communists. |
Not trying to sell you certificates, I'm just giving you warning. | I am not particularly against the communists. I am only against the slave maker. I am only against the liar, the cheat and the thief. I don’t like these people, it’s a peculiarity on my part. Now maybe you don’t like some of the things I’m going to tell you in this lecture. But may I preface them by a letter I received immediately before my departure from the Minister of Defence of South Africa in Pretoria: “Dear Doctor Hubbard. As a South African I can only express my appreciation for the stand you are taking, not on the side of white South Africa but on the side of truth. Thank you. J. Fouché. |
Now, we're getting cases off the bottom. We're scraping them from below bottom. We move them up through the negative gain stages to a point where they're at the bottom. There's a tremendous number of changes have taken place. | I know many of the cabinet ministers of South Africa. These men are some of the hardest working government officials you ever cared to meet. They are very sincere. The only weakness they have – they have two weaknesses. One is security. They do not push security home, they are too decent. And two information. They do not conduct a comparable propaganda campaign to the communist campaign which has been launched against them. These are their two weaknesses. They have no other weaknesses. Just as you are prepared to forgive people you consider friendly and decent some of their sins, so was I prepared to forgive the government of South Africa some of it’s upset when I went down there. |
Let me start in at the beginning and tell you how auditing sets up these days. | I knew they had a hard time, I knew they only had about three million whites and they had fifteen million Bantu. I knew they were trying to handle themselves particularly. I’m not against the Bantu, I’m not against the black man. As a matter of fact I’m probably more friendly toward the black man than any person in this audience. I don’t want him thrown in over his head as he’s been thrown in in the Congo by the propagandists of state department of The United States and Moscow. |
There are two distinct classes of auditing. Two distinct classes. | Two hundred Balubas a day are dying of starvation at this instant. Three hundred thousand of them will die. Why? They didn’t even know what a vote was. They didn’t even know what self-determinism was. But all of a sudden they were told, we now abandon you. I don’t care how you talk about this thing called freedom. There is freedom and there is abandonment and the United States and other counties is following the policy today of abandonment of the black man. They don’t care to put out the money by which he can develop himself, train himself and go forward. Subsidize himself until he can stand on his own two feet. So they abandon him by telling him he’s free! And that’s the source of all this talk of freedom. |
For the last ten or eleven years, I'm the only one who has been able to do Class II, but that doesn't say it doesn't exist. | Now there are other ways to do this. Right now you tell me, “Well, the government of South Africa does not permit the black man a vote.” Ha ha – he doesn’t even know what a vote is. What do you want, another Congo? But the untruth of that situation lies in this: The Bantu administration of South Africa is working as hard and fast as it can in the direction of getting the Bantu a vote in spite of the fact that most white South Africans are upset by the fact that they’re going to be outvoted someday if this program is permitted to go all the way through. Now does this sound like a bad government that is denying people the vote? How far do your kids have to walk to school? Well a Bantu child only has to walk a maximum of a half a mile to school. How do you like that? In the locations and townships there is a school every half mile. |
I've been able to teach a very few auditors here and there a few of the tricks of Class II auditing. Very few. But it still exists and is a class of auditing. It would turn Mr. Sigmund Freud around in his grave like a whirling dervish and paint him a bright green with envy. You can do a five-year psychoanalysis in an afternoon. That's Dianetics. Did you ever hear of it? So we exhume that from its grave and it exists again. And it had better exist because you're the first time for a long while going to be facing the raw public. You'd be surprised what happens in Central Organizations. They've all gotten down to a point where it's a big club, see? And we know everybody and we know all their withholds, and why their cases didn't advance, and who they knew and didn't know, and so on. | We’re told that they will not permit the Bantu to be educated. I walked into a high school, a Bantu high school. And I though well, what are they teaching them? I didn’t even know they permitted them to go to high school. What are they teaching them? I was rather suspicious as a matter of fact. But I was much luckier that a great journalist. |
Well that's great. | One of the things that gets on the government’s nerves down there is that every American goes down there and spends ten days and writes a book or an article. Alsop of The Saturday Evening Post only had to spent nine days, he’s brighter than most. But do you know that in South Africa he did not go near one government official to write the article he just published in The Saturday Evening Post. He didn’t talk to any person or inspect any situation that would have anything to do with it, yet he was very knowledgeable, wasn’t he? This is very interesting isn’t it? |
Well, that club still exists. It's not being wiped out by a long way. It still exists, and it'll get bigger. But we're going to start handling the raw public. Raw meat. | Now look, I’m just a Yank. I’m not expected to be an authority on South Africa, and yet I’ve become one in Johannesburg to white South Africans because they themselves haven’t bothered to inform themselves of what’s going on with the government. Doesn’t that sound wild? Now there’s where – why I say the government falls down in the field of information. |
They walk off the street and feel through the door, you know, and they say, "I have nightmares every night." | Now I went into this high school and I say they couldn’t possibly be teaching them standard high school subjects because I’ve heard there are even laws in this country against educating the Bantu. I’ve read this in the press. And what do I find? Euclidian geometry all over the blackboard. Biology. Then the high school principal, a black Bantu, his main interest in life had to do with whether or not Mercedes Benz cars were better engined with diesel or with petrol. He himself favoured diesel and so his Mercedes Benz had a diesel engine. |
They don't say, "What's Scientology?" We just assume suddenly that we're the total monopoly in the field of psychotherapy throughout the world. We don't bother to explain to them what we're doing. We do it. | This boy took me secretly into a closet and showed me that controversial evolution chart. He said, “There it is Dr. Hubbard”. It’s the same Darwinian chart that is taught in England and the United States. I looked at it and laughed at him. It’s the same chart, there’s no difference. It’s out of the same text book. His main concern was his library wasn’t big enough. |
This gets on some Central Organization's nerves. And you want to see a Central Organization the first time it starts facing nothing but raw meat off the street. | Later when I went through a Bantu university where they are specially teaching Bantu doctors and other such chaps and teaching the forward lines of agriculture the same curriculum used in agricultural colleges here in The United States. I was tagged for an even bigger bid for a library. And one of these days I’ll be calling on you to help me give them a library. But the point is not even the white South African, who doesn’t stir much out of his city, is well acquainted with what’s going on in South Africa. And that’s what’s fantastic because lying over the country itself is a network of propaganda, and people read the propaganda. |
They didn't know cases could be that low. You've got to be able to do a five-year psychoanalysis in an afternoon. Otherwise, you can't get the fellow to sit in the chair. | The main anxiety of the white South African however is not to give the black his freedom but the fact that he might suddenly be given his freedom because they live with him. And they know very well what he’ll do. |
Today Dianetics is done with an E-Meter. You takes your E-Meter, and the pc takes his chance. You can clear up a neurosis, a psychosis, something like that, in a relatively few hours. | The communist message to the world is all you have to do is get the European out of Africa and there will be total peace and it will be OK in Africa. What happened when the Belgians left the Congo? Well that is what will happen throughout Africa. All development and advance whatsoever will be stopped if the European is driven out of Africa. You can count on it. |
Now, in view of the fact that the target of Scientology is not a neurosis or psychosis, we've never paid much attention to this particular field. But it still exists as a class of auditing. And we mustn't forget that it does because it ends psychotherapy as an end of cycle. You think I'm kidding. | Now what I’m telling you probably doesn’t make too much sense. What’s this Bantu being educated and Bantu being this and Bantu being that. I myself have handled about four street fights amongst the Bantu. They don’t attack Europeans. The Europeans sometimes have to handle them. But the only riots I’ve been a part of or near riots were occasioned by a government administrator who said to a bunch of Bantu in a little village, “What’s this I hear about all you people wanting the national government out?” And he meant it as a joke so I would get a back flash or get a kick out of it. |
There are many items which aren't immediately and directly hit by Scientology auditing. In other words, you don't take the fellow's goals and immediately translate them into accomplishment the way you sometimes did in Dianetics, you know? Bang! You know? | And all the Bantu said, “What? What? Who? Who? Who want’s to drive the government out? Who, who?” And they were very upset people. Because the Bantu knows very well what will happen to him if he is turned over to total exploitation. The people who want that government knocked in the head are people who wish to exploit the Bantu. The government will not permit the exploitation of the Bantu. |
You work on him, you increase his reality, you make him more and more capable of understanding and living in the real universe around him. You don't pay too much attention to what is wrong with him. You find out what is right with him and you improve that ability. | The Bantu today, on the average, working in the cities, make more money than the equivalent British worker in England. His payroll is fantastic. He’s divided into two classes. He’s the city Bantu and he is the aboriginal tribesman. And the aboriginal tribesman is being brought up as fast as he can be brought up to some semblance of order. But he hates other tribes to such a degree that it is always a worry and an upset trying to keep them from killing each other off. That has been the history of South Africa, the blacks kill off the blacks. And all you’ve got to do is pull a stable government off the top of them and they promptly start killing each other off. |
Well, out in the raw public, the bulk of the cases have something so wrong with them that there is no ability to improve. So that end of the angle had better be known and had better be known right well. | It’s very funny in an old location Father Huddleston, whatever his insanities by the way, made too much money selling beer to the Bantu to forgive the government from moving them from huts which he charged them a pound a month for, which were made out of tin cans, into decent homes in the location. He was the source of this current bang and it would cost him a lot of money when the government entered into the picture. But the Father Huddlestons had their own exploitive efforts. They wish to exploit the Bantu, they want to hire him for nothing, they want to sell him at high prices. The present administration does not permit an Indian or a white tradesman in a Bantu area. Does that sound like oppression? |
A girl comes in and she has a terrible fear of husbands, and she's so afraid of husbands that she can't even sit in the auditing chair. | Now you can be right down there in the middle of all this and you listen to all of the press and you hear all of this sort of thing. But look. I’ve dragged through the mountains with the government. I’ve been in the Rain Queens country and I’ve been through the locations and they didn’t keep me from seeing anything. As a matter of fact they kept pushing me in deeper. You know, take a look, take a look, take a look. |
Well, your best bet is to cure her of this neurosis because it's a neurosis. She's got a win now, and she can go on from there. It's an incidental activity, but it's quite valuable. Now, Dianetics can do that. | Here is probably the greatest resettlement project on earth is going on in South Africa right now. They won’t permit these Bantu to live in slums they are resettling them and they’re giving them decent homes. Well if you saw it on TV, there’s a picture of it by the way. One of these resettlement areas is hanging up back there with me looking at it. Ah… as far as you can see in all directions from a watch tower they’ve built homes. They go to them at high express urban electrical lines that go out to these things and they give them most anything you can think of. |
Dianetics is yesteryear, way back when, but it's still very valuable, and with what we know about the E-Meter today, it becomes extremely valuable. | But you can live right in South Africa and not find out what the government is doing. So that’s their frailty, it’s the frailty of information. You can be right there, you can hear all sorts of lies. But’s that’s basically because they don’t trust any people any more. They have had more journalists come down there and look at all these things and then suddenly go back and write the wildest lies anybody ever heard of. |
HCO Secretary a short time ago said, down in Johannesburg, says, "Well, I don't know. There's one thing that nobody's ever got to. I have a terrible fear of snakes." | They got used to me after a little while and they got very happy about the thing and they saw I wasn’t looking for a pitch. They saw I was perfectly willing to look at the situation and see it for what it was and after that they opened up every door they had. |
We were sitting in the living room of my house down there, and a couple of guys were sitting there. I didn't even use an E-Meter. | Probably the most modern prison on earth is Leopold. There the Bantu is rehabilitated and it’s return is only forty five percent. It has been cut, these figures are approximate, the return has been cut by forty five percent. This is fantastic. There isn’t another prison on earth that doesn’t have a much higher return. The return in prison life is usually eighty percent. We have to go to a quote “police state” called South Africa to find a prison where the return is only forty five percent. Social reform is everywhere. |
Ran her back down the track, found the engram necessary to resolve the case and ran the engram. Twenty minutes later, she had no further fear of snakes and hasn't had since. What's this? A twenty minute run of an engram? Did anybody blink or did they think they heard wrong? | But beating these people up… People are kind of mad in South Africa at the government but that madness normally generates from anxiety, they don’t trust the government to hold the Bantu back. But if you can think of the wild west in it’s old days and let’s say there are about three million whites out there and about fifteen million Indians and then the press saying all the whites should be killed, what would you think? Wouldn’t you think that’s an odd picture? |
You know that it takes 75 hours to run an engram. Not if you can audit. Longest I think I ever spent on an engram was 9 hours. Been very hard to teach people this. But there's a new way of running engrams. I will give you immediately and directly what it is. | Actually the Bantu is not like the American black man and you can’t understand anything about the Bantu by understanding about the American black man. The American black man in the first place has been mixed with Indian and white blood over a period of a couple of centuries or less. But has actually been in close proximity to the white man and white man civilization for a century or two you see. At the least the last ones that came have been in contact a century or two. And for almost a century he has had, on paper at least, the vote. Of course, the southerner didn’t give him the total run of things and it’s only recently they’ve had decent or fair legislation with regard to the vote. But this is a different breed of cat. |
There is an area of existence known as experience. The willingness to experience. And when an individual will not have anything further to do with something, he becomes the effect of it. Right? | Do you know the Bantu peoples were not conquered by the South Africans until the slaying of Dingin in about 1879 or there abouts. And only then a few of them became associated to any great degree with the whites. The Bantu was the wild man down there. The early associate of the South African was the Hottentots and the bushman, not the Bantu. The Bantu is not indigenous to the area but comes down from central Africa. It isn’t his home, he was moving into the area the same time the whites were moving into the area from below. |
Audience: Right. | The history of South Africa is quite similar to the history of the United States, except we fought our revolution in 1776 and won it. And they fought their revolution somewhere in the vicinity of the turn of the century and lost it. And they're trying to make headway now in spite of losing their revolution. |
The poor girl who leaves home and leaves her husband because she can't stand him anymore, thinks she will be happy. But she goes off down the road with his valence shoved into her face. She is now the total effect of him because she can't stand there anymore. In other words, she's unwilling to experience. Unwillingness to experience is the tombstone of all cases. | But these are good people, they are mostly comparable to American frontier people. They have a high culture of their own. As far from being a police state, they're not even half as tough as the American cop. And you could just go all over the place without seeing cops. They don't have enough cops, they don't give the Bantu, actually, enough police protection. They haven't got enough cops. That's the facts of the case. |
This fellow's going down the street saying, "Creak, creak, creak, creak, creak, creak, creak, creak, creak." Just about ready to run for president or something. Totally done in, and well, what do you know about this man? | But these sentiments are not particularly welcome to people. But I only call to your attention, that I'm only telling you what I myself have observed, having been given ample opportunity to observe it, and I'm giving you nothing but what I myself have observed, and not anything anybody has told me. It's what I myself have seen. |
That exact condition is what he is unwilling to experience, so he's in it. People become the total effect of those things they are unwilling to experience. The whole political grab bag of the northern hemisphere, at this particular time, is based and predicated on one thing only: They are unwilling to experience an A-bomb. So all politics, and before you know it, all personal behavior, will be colored by this one thing. | But I have also seen an American newspaper photographer take a playground barbed wire area, and take a little Bantu boy and make him go in back of the barbed wire, which was to keep the little Bantu children from getting run over on the street and was wide open, and have him pose there; so he could show a concentration camp for children. |
And people will be going around saying, "Boom! boom! boom!" | The great Margaret Bourke-White, whose emblem is the garbage can, and are you aquatinted with that life photographer's badge of office? Goes out and shoots the garbage cans in the slums. She had a ball shooting pictures down there, but she couldn't get enough bad pictures so she sort of gave it up. They won't photograph anything that is happening in South Africa and they won't really talk about anything that's happening. I'm only telling you what I have seen, I have also seen people in South Africa who themselves had not had energy enough to go out and look at anything, and who themselves had totally erroneous opinions concerning what was going on in the country. I listened to some of the wildest tales from South Africans you ever wanted to hear about what was going on, they themselves didn't know. And I myself had in the odd position, that's when director's security down there said "Come home yank!". He's just mirroring the fact that in any gathering of South Africans, when they wanna know what's going on in the government they ask me. [Applause] |
We used to say that which you resist you become. Well, that's another way of saying the same thing. But this is a little more thorough and a little more practical statement of it: That which you're unwilling to experience you become. There's somebody sitting back there right now in the uniform of a soldier who doesn't want to be in that uniform. | Now I've driven an awful lot of weary miles, because South Africa is a big country, looking at the country and looking at the people, that sort of thing. And I'd say they got about 50 years to go before they get the South African Bantu up to the same status and level of civilization of the American Black. But I will add this, we started a security program, just to help the peace of the area, we don't take sides politically, we're humanitarians not politicians. And the Bantu doesn't register the same on an E-meter as a White. And I've had to start a whole program of research, in addition to everything else I've been doing, trying to find out how to read a Bantu on an E-meter. Because he doesn't operate like an American Negro, or like a European. And that's an interesting level of study. As I've told you, I myself have no trouble with the Bantu, I wish him well. As a matter of fact, they called me "Ezimhlophe Sangoma". And there at least one person here who I think knows what that means. It means "The White Witch-doctor". [laughter] |
This, you understand, doesn't mean that everybody being what he is being has been obsessively unwilling to experience it. Do you follow that? That doesn't mean that. | And I've learned some things about the Bantu, his nervous system and reaction, which are of considerable assistance trying to get along with the Bantu, and the things they blame him for happen to be native in the Bantu. And his nervous system is not the same as us, so he gets tremendously blamed and knocked around for things he does differently than we do, it isn't that he does them better or worse, he does them differently, he's built differently. There's certain things you have to do, so I've had to make considerable study of the Bantu, that study is not completed, and the only thing I can say about it at this time is that it's arduously in progress. |
This means that your superreactive, unthinking, unanalytical level, this condition obtains. You can always find some justification of this. You can find times when you were unwilling to be a human being. That isn't the reason you are a human being. It isn't true that all things in this universe are bad. It is true that all things that are thought bad in this universe are bad. | As far as my getting along with the Bantu is concerned I say I get along with him wonderfully. It's very difficult for me not to build up a practice. One of the first things one of the boys, we have tremendous numbers of Natives working in the central organization, and we have lots of Coloureds working in the central organization, and lots of Europeans. And of course, the people we have at home, we have four Bantu there. And these people in the central organization made me a sign, and it has feathers, and knucklebones, and Dr. L. Ron Hubbard, and then it says Scientologist, and below that it says "Ezimhlophe Sangoma". I didn't even have to hang out my shingle, practically any of the yard boys, or servants, or brothers, sisters, aunts, or cousins, anywhere in our neighbourhood, or anywhere in the central organization's neighbourhood, were liable to turn up with a sore fist, or a limping foot, or a hernia, or something of the sort, and ask me to do something for it. My reputation had gone along way ahead of me, see. And just on the basis of the reputation I'd say, "Well, who did you think an evil thought about?" They'd tell me, and their sore foot gets well. [laughter] |
But this unwillingness to experience opens up an entire new field of the running of an engram. And it cracks Dianetics. I haven't got very much news for you in this congress. We've just ended cycle on Dianetics. Because you can run this. | The only thing I'm trying to point out to you, I'm not actually trying to sell you the South African government. I could easily do so because I consider these men very able, from what I've seen, they're nice guys. I know them personally. And they're not as advertised, just the only thing I'm trying to tell you is there's these tremendous reports in the northern press, concerning a country on Earth, and none of these reports are factual. |
Now, Dianetics is a blackjack psychotherapy. In the hands of a Dianetic Auditor who is willing to apply the force, a pc hasn't got a prayer. | But South Africa has gold, and it has diamonds. And I think we're looking at a new type of imperialism. Now the same thing goes on against America, the same thing goes against England in various areas, and the same thing goes on against Scientology. |
Now, the pc's self-determinism may not improve. The pc may not get better as a human being, but the pc will cease to be sick or nuts. You see what can happen there? | The press has ceased to be factual, has ceased to be a reporting medium, and has become a propaganda media throughout the world. Therefore before you believe anything wild, whether about Scientology, South Africa or anything else, there's only one thing I ask you to do. And that's to, well, the advice of Minister Fouché, not necessarily a stand on the side of South Africa, but certainly a stand on the side of truth. |
The technology easily overwhelms the aberrations and psychosomatic illnesses of the case. The technology overwhelms. It doesn't necessarily make the person better, but it certainly straightens them out. Very often you will find a pc with Dianetic therapy being most recalcitrant about the whole thing. There's a fellow came into a Central Organization on a wheelchair, you know. And he was all crippled up. Arthritis, you know. And they audited him for a while, and he finally got rid of the wheelchair. A few months later, he was found on a golf course. He was there playing golf, you know. Also striking for president. | "Just because you hear it, it isn't true. Even just because I told you, it isn't true." Remember, that what you see, what you experience is factual, whether in Scientology or world affairs. And I believe that America can win across the world the moment it recognizes that the sole weapons of the communist are propaganda. And his sole stock and trade are lies, and his sole aim and goal is slavery. We don't hear any more of these countries they have overrun, they have disappeared. What of their talks of freedom of the press, when there is no press that isn't government press left in the countries that have been overrun by Communism. |
And a friend of his said to him, "Well, that Dianetics sure fixed you up, didn't it?" | So let's take a look at the status of things, recognize that the war that we are fighting is a war of information, a war of propaganda, and that the enemy wishes us to believe many things which are not true, so he can achieve his end-goal of slavery. That's the only thing I'm trying to tell you. |
"No," he said. "It didn't do a thing for me. Didn't do a single thing for me. I've still got my asthma." | What is true for you is what you have observed yourself. And when you lose that, you have lost everything. What is personal integrity? Personal integrity is knowing what you know. What you know, is what you know. And to have the courage to know and say what you have observed, and that is integrity. And there is no other integrity. Of course, we can talk about honour, truth, nobility, all of these things, these esoteric terms. But I think they'd all be covered very well if what we really observed was what we observed. That we took care to observe what we were observing. That we always observed to observe. And not necessarily maintaining a sceptical attitude, a critical attitude, or an open mind. Not necessarily maintaining these things at all, but certainly maintaining sufficient personal integrity, and sufficient personal belief and confidence in self, and courage that we can observe what we observe and say what we have observed. Nothing in Scientology is true for you unless you have observed it and it is true according to your observation. That is all. [Applause] |
He was cured of an incurable illness and never found out about it. And this you can ask old pros. And by George, they'll tell you. There's just case after case like this. | Now, whether or not the MP regiments will be reconvened, across the length and breadth of South Africa, with total right to kill all other black men. Or whether or not they won't be, and will continue to be governed with restrain, educated, and brought up to a properly domesticated level before they are let loose. That is a problem which has to do with the men who are on the ground, and what they stand up to, and what they surrender to. These various factors. |
So we can assume that the technology of Dianetics can overwhelm the psychosomatics and neuroses of the individual without his finding out about it. It doesn't necessarily improve his reality or his ability, but it certainly subtracts from his beingness a lot of the things that were blocking any further progress. This is an interesting fact. | But let me tell you right now, that if the fondest hopes of many great powers were realized, and total determinism was granted to every Black in Africa, the Black population of Africa would be reduced to 50% within a year. |
I don't care what else is read into it. It's just a fact. It's a matter of our experience over a long period of time. | Who is it [that] wants this many men to die? And that's the question you ask. |
Well, there's a brand-new one in the running of an engram. "What in that incident would you be willing to be?" And if you don't doodle-daddle around about it and monkey and shove tobacco cans into electric fans and do other things auditors are not supposed to do, if you just audit by the code, that incident is going to go phzzzzzt. The kick is going to come out of the incident – and rapidly. | Before the coming of the White man, the population of the Bantu peoples was very small, because he kept himself killed off. One tribe would go running over the heads of the other tribe with these very weapons which I'm holding in my hand here. They'd wipe out whole tribes, whole villages, they were like armies of ants, they just swarmed and swooped down upon everything and slaughtered every man, woman, and child in their path. Millions of Blacks died this way! And the White man came along and kept them from fighting. Started civilizing them. The last time the Bantu did this was 1879. Not even a hundred years ago! |
Beingness can be run on relatively low level cases. Now, you could take someone who is totally spinning, and you could ask him, "Is there anything around here that you'd be willing to be?" | Now that is something for you to understand. Because it hasn't been but yesterday. |
He'll find something; sugar bowl or something. And all of a sudden start coming out of his psychosis, just like that. Because all psychosis is, in terms of experience, is an unwillingness to be anything, which, of course, is a necessity to attack everything. | Who wants all these Black men to die? Who are the evil people of this world? Same question. We understand that the world right now is being given a great deal of propaganda on the subject of overpopulation, we're told that we're going to get all overpopulated. Now, is this freedom kick a bid to prevent overpopulation? What is this? |
A guy's got down to zero beingness. Neurosis is a person is unwilling to be to such a degree that they can't confront even thinking about not being it. But every time it gets in any way restimulated, they go naaaooooooo. Some of you – some of you people possibly have stage fright. You wonder how I can stand up in front of a lot of people and talk to them. | But on the subject of overpopulation I have asked myself several times "Who will be the overpopulation?". You? Me? The fellow who doesn't agree? Who is the overpopulation? What is this idea that we mustn't have overpopulation? What is this? Where did this come from? |
Several ways of doing it. One is just not being here. Loud speakers do that. They never – never seem, however, to communicate with the audience. It's a mystery, you know? | I personally, in dealing with plant experiments in England, demonstrated that it would be rather easy to grow about 5 times the amount of foodstuff in England as is grown there right this minute. It'd be perfectly easy to do this by erecting dams in South Africa, only 15% of their land is arable, by preserving their rains and using all their subterranean sources, and building up various reactor power units, and so on. The country could, well, it could raise, I don't know, 20, 30, 40 times the produce that it's raising right now and it's very productive. The whole of Central Africa was not at all until a few Whites went in there and were subsidized by England in order to open up a plateau and grow some things and so forth. And they made progress, agriculturally. |
Another method is just be there. Another method is be willing to be somebody who is speaking to an audience. The other thing is to be willing to be an audience. There's a lot of, a lot of gradients on this. This is all there is to stage fright in terms of experience. There isn't anything else connected with it. But you can find, Dianetically, particularly with the meter, the exact moment on the whole track when the individual became convinced that he was not willing to be a speaker. He just decided it that instant. Oh, I don't know, he was a member of an audience or he was – walked in the back of a hall or something like that as the head of the Gestapo or the Secret Police of Marcab and some fellow was mouthing evolutionary activities at a mile a minute or something like that, and so they lifted their tommy gun and shot the speaker. Something like that, you know. Some kind of an overt. | The Sahara could be recovered again, I remember when it was wiped out, if you pardon me for harroping(???) on the Whole Track. A fellow the name of Belisarius and Justinian wiped them out. It could all be put back together again. As far as that's concerned, all you'd have to undo is some of these silly customs that are used in India and China under the heading of, ha, agriculture and get them to grow something and they wouldn't even feel they're overpopulated. |
It's always an overt against the thing they're unwilling to be. And you run this down, you find it. "Oh, no. I don't want anything to do with that incident." | What is this talk about it? It hasn't anything to do with food! Why, we're throwing food in the oceans! Here? Isn't real, is it? If we're at an over-surplus, and we aren't even exploiting the United States to the degree of raising food. |
And that's why it's a blackjack method. | So what is this kick called overpopulation? Is it an attempt to keep you from getting another body? Or is it because there are areas of man that just hate man? And can't to see him around so they decide that the best thing to do is to put out a lot of propaganda that permits him to wipe him out. |
You say, "Well, now, in the Auditor's Code we are going to run it, and the best part of – don't, no-o-o-o, you can't leave. Ha-ha. No-o-o, no." The best part of the Auditor's Code is always flatten the process. Even if you have to flatten the pc. | What is this kick "overpopulation"? As far as South Africa is concerned, the final thing I will say, which is probably very shocking to you, is there isn't any trouble in South Africa. There isn't any trouble. The only problems they've got in South Africa is the idea that they have problems. There isn't as much crime in South Africa as there is in Washington D.C. This becomes fascinating, because it's probably the most peaceful country on Earth. It is peaceful. And the Bantu is working, and the Government is working, and everybody's happy, but there are a lot of people around saying "Yow yow yow yow yow! Look at all the Trouble! Look at all the upsets! [Unintelligible]" |
And a little while later, the person will say, "Well, I don't see anything wrong with being a speaker. I don't see anything wrong with this. Seems perfectly all right to me." | I'm not necessarily approving or disproving of South African policies, as a matter of sober fact, I believe their policy is slightly dangerous. I believe if they bring the Bantu up to a level of civilization and give him a total vote, I believe they will fall short of bringing him up to that level that they desire and will yet him the vote. And will yet wipe out White civilization in South Africa. I believe that this is a high probability that will occur. But it will occur because the Nationalist people are too kind and too decent, not because they are too rough. |
And if they also say to you, "But what did this incident have to do with it?" don't bother to explain. You were – you were knocking out a neurosis of some kind or another. Don't expect it to be an intelligent neurosis. | The picture is an entirely different picture than one would expect, and it's very amusing to be an American, in the midst of South Africa, very very amusing. |
Now, old time psychotherapy had its tough moments. I imagine the toughest part of it was sitting there all those hours not listening. But it must have been pretty hard to know they really weren't helping anybody. There must have been kind of a spinny situation. | I am making good success with learning Zulu. As a matter of fact while I was at that high school, the English teacher, a Black Bantu looked at me and he said to me "Ah, hmm. How do you do Doctor?" and then he said to his class instantly, you know, about 40 persons, teenage class, "Here is an American! And I'm going to ask him to say something to you in American! Now, Doctor Hubbard would you say something to him in American? Say something to the class!". And you know me. [laughter] In Zulu, in perfectly good Zulu, I said to them "Well thank you very much! I am very glad to be here! Good day!". These Bantu sat there, you know, round-eyed. They weren't expecting to hear Zulu, and they heard Zulu, and then you never saw a joke fall flatter. [laughter] They were reading The Hound of the Baskervilles by A. Conan Doyle, which was their lesson of the day. So, I gave them a talk on The Hound of the Baskervilles by A. Conan Doyle, in English, even in American. And they were all very erudited, but to this day I don't any of them realized that I said something to them in Zulu. [Laughs] |
Now, in view of the fact that we have the psychologists of this country now maintaining that IQ can be changed (ha-ha-ha-ha); we've got the medical doctor maintaining there is such a thing as prenatal and birth engrams; we have the psycho – the psycho-sologists maintaining IQ and personality can be changed, and so forth; and the next thing you know, we'll have them maintaining that the best thing that people can do is go to the Central Organization of Scientology. | But oh, kidding aside on this, the White South African, deserves my greatest admiration as of course the Scientologist there. The country is full of Scientologists. There are lots of them. And, from the Government, because it doesn't have any Communist infiltration or propaganda hitting it in the teeth all the time, Scientology doesn't get knocked in the head. After I was persona grata with most of the Government the head of the South African Psychological Association decided that we were going too far, and got very angry about it, and told some people in authority that he was now going to write letters to the Prime Minister and all the Cabinet Ministers, telling them what a bad person I was, and what a terrible subject Scientology is. The only trouble is, I had been talking to them, via central organizations for years, and for months I had been fast friends with Cabinet Ministers in South Africa. He didn't get very far. And I think they consider he's a little odd and he now probably is on the suspects list. |
But this is quite important, actually as an announcement because it isn't fair to suddenly begin clearing people with Scientology, with purely Scientology techniques, without having ended cycle on Dianetics. | But my hat particularly is off to the White South African because he's been pretty scared from time to time. He's been jarred by lying press in his own country and so forth. He's been holding the fork any way he can, and these chaps realize that in Scientology they have an answer to ability, that a person who can ring control and quietness to his own area is very desirable to have in South Africa and they recognize that Scientology does this. Scientology, right now, has in two cognates a contest going on. Australia claims it is going to be Scientology country on Earth, and South Africa claims that it is going to be. So they can fight about between them. But these are great people, and that's a wonderful part of the world. You ought to know these people, you would find that of all the peoples of worth you would be able to talk to them the easiest. |
Dianetics mustn't sit there as a failure, and it doesn't sit there as a failure now. But I will tell you that it takes forceful auditing, it takes very clever auditing. It takes very clever E-Metering in order to do it. And it's practically auditing with a blackjack sometimes. You find yourself sitting on the pc's chest saying, "Go through it once more/" That's about the way it has to be sometimes. | But here, we have, a very serious lecture to close this particular day on. Probably you're not particularly interested in this particular subject, beyond the fact that there could be this many lies told and believed this firmly about a country which weren't based in fact. |
I'll give you an idea. Here's a difference between these two subjects. Anatomy properly belongs to Dianetics, which discovered most of it. | But more importantly, more importantly, I tried to give you some sort of an idea about what I've been up to. I haven't been doing anything, I've just been observing and making friends. And that's one of the better things to do in the world. |
But here's a – here's a – here's a large difference. We have a husband and a wife who been feuding. I know this sounds unreasonable to you, that a husband and a wife could ever have any differences. | Of course, I've been very busy technically, and I've been very busy central organization-wise, and I have a few hats that I wear. But of course one of these hats isn't trying to pat South Africa on the back one way or the other. It is just telling you what I have observed about them. These sentiments may not be popular but ask yourself why they aren't popular. Because I've simply told you that there is a country on Earth which has a lot of decent people that are doing their best. And if these words be treason, make the best of them. |
But let's say hypothetically that they have been feuding. Now here's the proper, exact, long-term and best way to handle it Scientologically. | But you've had a very gimmicked up day, haven't you? Lots of gimmick created today, you don't get any tomorrow. In the evening seminar however, I'm about to have sprung upon you, if the seminar leaders will assemble, up here in the dressing room, I will tell them what to spring on you. Because there's a brand-new process, brand new one, and I think you might have a lot of fun, one and all, running it, on a couple seminars tonight. It's a process that does everything. Doesn't necessarily clear anybody, it isn't necessarily an undercut or anything, but it's HAS Co-Audit Process No. 1, and I think you ought to get used to it because we no longer use un-co-audits, the processes which we will be using on HCC Clearing Courses. We've got a brand-new series of processes which are used, only and entirely on Co-Audits, I think you might be interested in it so we're going to use some of them on you in the seminar. |
We do a Marriage Co-audit. We bring them both in the same room, the auditor sits down with both of them present and runs O/W, Overt-Withhold on the wife about the husband while he sits there and takes it. And then you flip it, and run O/W on the husband about the wife. "What have you done to her?" "What have you withheld from her?" And clean them both up so they got no secrets no more, of no kind, no how. We get that tone arm standing there and the needle quiet with sensitivity at 16. | While I hope that I haven't bored you totally stiff with all the matters of politics and other things, and I hope that tomorrow you will have survived the seminar tonight. Because you are the guinea pigs, if you can't run this we'll abandon the whole project. |
That marriage will go along just fine. I can guarantee it. That's a Marriage Co-audit, and the best way to handle one. | Thank you very much for coming to the congress and for being here today. Be sure to appear at the seminar, I will see you at one o'clock tomorrow afternoon, thank you. |
Now, the next thing I'd like to bring to your attention is that perhaps the wife is always mad at the husband and he can't figure out how or why or something of the sort. And it seems to be a situation out of gear just as it would be in a Scientological auditing, see. But Dianetically, you would handle quite a different way, with an engram sort of thing. Now get this trick. This is a very important trick. It took me a long time to find this trick, and it's so simple, it's easily forgotten. We put the husband on the meter, and we say, "When did you decide to get even with your wife?" And we run it back down to the exact moment in time and we will find a totally occluded incident which may come up as a secondary. | |
And we take the wife, and we find "When did you decide to get even with your husband?" and we run the secondary out of him. And we produce a found – profound, rapid change, if we can do it. | |
Now, this is the – this is the difference between these two subjects. There is a difference. There are two subjects. One, we clip it out with a secondary and the other, we unburden it with 0/W. | |
You say it'll eventually both amount to the same thing. Well, I'm not so sure that it'll both amount to the same thing. Because I had a pc who had been run on O/W on her husband a considerable length of time and spotted her on an E-Meter because I knew it wasn't getting right. It just wasn't adjusting properly and spotted it on an E-Meter on "When did you decide to get even with your husband," found an incident she didn't remember, a person she didn't remember, and circumstances that she had never had in sight. She was just totally unwilling to be any part of that whole thing. | |
Now, it wasn't that O/W didn't get it. O/W would have gotten it eventually, but maybe it would have been flat on a longer run. And of course, the case would have been flatter and the case would have been in more satisfactory condition, perhaps, on the Scientological side of the thing, but maybe you didn't have time for all that. | |
Well, facing the raw meat of the public, you'd take such a person, put him on the E-Meter, and you'd say, "When did you decide to get even with your husband?" | |
She'd say, "I'm having an awful, lousy time. My husband beats me every night, and he kicks me, and he throws me out of bed, and he keeps throwing me out of the window, and throwing my clothes out the window after me, and cutting all of my shoes up with scissors, and so forth." | |
And you ask the husband, "Did you ever lay a hand on her?" | |
And he says, "Well, as a matter of fact I did. When we were first married, I carried her across the doorstep." | |
This data doesn't agree. She's trying to make him guilty. Now, please note, however, that you're dealing with the stuff of neurosis, not just an ordinary disagreement. She's nuts. | |
One of the best ways you can get this thing is locate the hidden incident and run it out. | |
Now, how would you get rid of this incident. Well, just make her go through it a few times with old-time Dianetics would get rid of it if it's a light secondary. It wouldn't take you too long to do that. | |
But that's a fast patch-up. It's good. It'll stay that way. Probably wouldn't make her any better woman, but it'd make her nicer to her husband. Get the difference? | |
Now, in Scientology you'd straighten this girl out on the sane level, and she would eventually be able to be nice to husbands. Not nice to Joe, particularly, or necessarily. You'd straighten her out on the subject of husbands. | |
You take this thing, this fear of snakes that Scientology could handle and would handle. All you'd have to do is run Help in various ways on a snake, and it'd handle this thing eventually. Perfectly well, too. | |
But let's say a person is real batty on the subject of snakes, and say, "Just get the idea of a snake," and they start going, "nnnnn-nnnnn-nnnnn." Even their hands remind them of one. Well, if they're neurotic, you're not going to be able to get them to sit still to run anything very much, and it won't bite or anything else. You won't get their attention on it. | |
You just have to overwhump them. Say, "All right. What – what did you do with the snake – to a snake, when?" | |
"Oh, I never did anything to a snake." | |
"What's the date of that? and so forth, at such and such a time, period, place, so on." Locate it exactly. | |
All of a sudden, willy-nilly, they're staring at the engram. | |
"All right. What part of that incident would you be willing to be?" | |
"Oh, not the snake." | |
"Well, is there any part of the incident you'd be willing to be?" | |
"Well, I'd be willing to be that rock down there." | |
And here we go. We just start picking it out. All of a sudden the instant changes. Moves forward. Bang! Moves through a couple of times automatically, and we don't have a neurosis on the subject of snakes anymore." | |
Dianetics is psychotherapy. It's an end cycle on psychotherapy. In old time Dianetics, I've seen somebody auditing out of Book One, Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health, rescue somebody out of an insane asylum, where they had been incarcerated as hopelessly insane for many years. Stand them up against the wall in the corridor and run them through engrams until they were sane. | |
Of course, running through the engram is a token willingness to be, and that's why engram running works: willing to be in the situation again. But it really might take some strong arm on the part of the auditor to get them near the situation. It might register on the meter, but not on the pc's memory. | |
So we're dealing here, actually, with different approaches entirely. And in auditors' hands, I don't think Dianetics will clear anybody. I can clear people with Dianetics; have never been able to teach anybody to clear with Dianetics. Some people have cleared people with Dianetics, but I'm talking about broad clearing that would anywhere near approximate any percentage of the cases at all. | |
Well, you'd be able to get anyone here and there and clear them, and so forth. You have to look into Scientology for the improvement of IQ and ability. You can clear them with Scientology. It's relatively easy to do today. | |
What'll be taught on the 22nd American rather easily clears people. It's complicated. The processes are complicated, but the clearing is well assured. | |
I don't know how long clearing takes these days, probably 250 hours, something like this. Most cases. I haven't got any timing on the thing to amount to anything. There's a lot to know about clearing in Scientology. | |
The goal of Dianetics was clearing. Well, I've cleared people in Dianetics, but I've not been able to teach auditors to do it. But I have taught auditors now to clear with Scientology. So that's a successful field. And quite an accomplishment. | |
We have done the impossible. You know, there's always been some savant, Messiah, wise man, soothsayer, thunderbolt that came out of a Zeus, full armed or something, that could always come down with a bunch of hocus-pocus of some kind or another and make people into angels or something. This was always – there's always been people like this around. | |
And it never did anybody any good that I've ever been able to find out. | |
The only possible way you could do anything for man would be to teach man to do something for man. And that's been my solution, right or wrong, and that's the way I worked on it, and that's the direction I have worked. | |
And it's come true. It's worked out. | |
You should realize, however, that in the process of working all this out that there's been a terrific liability. All the way along the line there has been a heavy liability. Very heavy. | |
You cannot partially solve the riddle of the human mind. You might partially solve it, but you'd better not. You just better not. | |
This is something that will not stand up to partial solution. Partial solution is a sure method of going out the bottom fast. You can't have part of the answers to the human mind any more than you can take a hand grenade and pull its pin and take your hand off the safety catch, and sit there and look at it. You get your head blown off. This is dynamite. This is real dynamite. | |
I have, to some degree, known what I've been up against under this line. The goal was set to make other people be able to help other people. That's all. | |
It couldn't be partially solved. It would only be partially solved if I could help other people. That's a partial solution, isn't it. What I could do wouldn't matter because someday I'll get bored or something like that and kick off. | |
Well, what – what's this done for anybody? Put everybody at effect, that's what. Totally at effect. | |
Supposing you had it all solved except the overt-motivator sequence. | |
Well, supposing that was missing. The fact that what you do to others is what you get kicked in the teeth with. Your failures, rather, on others visit home unto you. Nobody'd ever be able to explain why everybody spun in when anybody tried to help anybody. They'd have to decide then that helping people was dangerous. And that would end the whole action, wouldn't it. | |
Or supposing – supposing you knew all about the human mind except the engram. Suppose you didn't know anything about engrams, but you knew everything else. That was the state psychology was in. You know, they couldn't explain anything. Psychiatry was in that state. | |
They'd walk into their institutions. They'd have to list thousands of types of cases. They finally just stopped classifying and said they're all schizophrenics, except some of them: they're paranoid schizophrenics. They'd have had to throw their classification away. Otherwise, every case was a different class. There are only two types of psychotics. One is a computing and the other is a dramatizing. | |
The computing psychotic is stuck in a circuit. The dramatizing psychotic is running endlessly through an engram. | |
And you go down to an institution. If you know Dianetics – you go into an institution – you know exactly what any patient there is doing. It's an open book. All they're doing is dramatizing their engrams. They're totally in, that's all. Or they're dramatizing a circuit. | |
Well, supposing you didn't know anything about engrams, and there would be the greatest wonder here. You'd be stuck in the mystery of it all. Supposing you knew all about the human mind except thetans. You knew nothing about thetans. | |
Well, just look at it. I mean if you could imagine a subject which would know all about the human mind but nothing about the actual being himself. | |
Look at how its practitioners and followers would spin in. They would think it was all being done by the brain. And they'd spin in. It'd stick them, but good, because there'd be this missing mystery. | |
Furthermore, there'd be absolutely no hope, and also there'd be no explanation for how anybody got that way because the bulk of aberration is on the whole track. It's not the present lifetime. | |
Oh, you think you've been bad in the present lifetime. Ha-ha-ha, waa, oh-ho. Last time I met you in Rome; oh, mo. What you were doing then. Whew. Well, I won't tell it out in public here. | |
If you don't know anything about the life unit, you would know nothing about life. And a thetan is a life unit. | |
I'm just pointing out to you that if we omitted various parts of the whole pattern, we'd wind up nowhere and almost be worse than never having studied it. Almost. And traditionally people who study in this subject wind up utterly mad. | |
Now, the subject of the human mind is known to be a very dangerous subject. One of the first things you were told probably when you got into Dianetics or Scientology was that you should leave your mind alone. Somebody certainly told you that. | |
Well, it's based on the wisdom of the fact that if you don't know all there is to know about the mind, you'd better not know anything about it at all. You'd just better vegetabalize. | |
Now, there are several reasons why you ought to be trained, not just processed. There are several reasons why you ought to be trained. One is it is better to help than be helped. Auditors are almost going Clear these days auditing people. They developed a profound contempt for the aberrations of mankind. They have become much less important and those things which become less important tend to fade away. | |
But there's other reasons why: is a partial knowledge of the subject isn't good enough. You've got to have an experiential knowledge. | |
Unless you're able to be an auditor, how can you be audited. You're unwilling to experience or unable to experience being an auditor because there's wide gaps about it all. You got the idea? | |
That's the reason why we're shifting over to a practical Scientology course which is the same, really, as the old professional course. An individual will wind up at the other end, not being a professional, nobody expects him to be a professional, but he will know all about it and be able to do it. And you'll find out he makes tremendously higher gains. That isn't just a come-on. It's just good sense. | |
Furthermore, somebody's IQ goes up to 176. Well, this is all okay. The IQ goes to 176, but that's a potential knowingness. Does he know anything with that 176? Got the idea? You give him something to know with the 176. | |
The whole of psychotherapy has been most dangerous to the practitioner in partial knowledge. Not in Dianetics or Scientology; we've always been a few thousand yards ahead of the lion. We have. We're able to get results, and fortunately, because we're cohesed, staying together and weren't being dictated to – don't think people haven't tried to dictate as to what we were supposed to research and what we were supposed to do and what we were not supposed to do. People have tried this very hard. | |
Amongst the sinners are the American Psychiatric Association. They've tried to tell us what we could do and what we couldn't do. These poor boobs can't do anything. These guys were fighting the only fellows who will eventually pull them out of the soup because they're never going to get out of the soup on their own. And one of these days, why, you may have a psychiatrist on your hands. | |
Well, that'll be rough, man. That'll be a rough case because he's done the adventurous thing of entering the field of psychotherapy without knowing any of the answers and then has punished psychotics because he doesn't know anything about the overt-motivator sequence. | |
He electric shocks and operates and abuses and renders dead and non compos mentis and things – psychotic individuals. Oh, wow! Poor guys. Don't cheer, boys. The poor devils are going nuts because they're going to flip into that valence. And the whole subject has the reputation of putting its practitioners into asylums. | |
Nurses, attendants and psychiatrists in institutions – find all too great a percentage wind up in their own institutions. I'm not just talking to – I'm not even fighting this organization. I'm just telling you factually that they are lucky that we exist. And yet they are the last ones to give us a break. | |
And yet if they ever pull out of it, it'll be because of us. A typical psychotic reaction. To cut to pieces only those who would help them. | |
But if you know the subject and you know the subject well, you, of course, know the mind, and you have experiential data on the subject of the mind and it doesn't baffle you anymore. And of course, just on that basis alone, you become more able. | |
There's all sorts of auditors around who, auditing a pc, have practically spun themselves in. They've had a dozen failures on the same pc, you know, consecutively. Auditing the pc when they are tired. Auditing the pc under the various conditions that it'd be absolutely, completely certain that the auditor would wind up almost spun in. Well, how is it that they don't? Because they don't. Psychiatrists do. But auditors don't. They wake up the next morning and it all goes out of restim. That's because they understand enough about it not to be afraid of it. | |
They may think for a day or two and wonder why – "Why did I – what was it all about?" That would just be the missing data that they had about the thing. Then they come out of it. | |
But knowing enough about it, they are no longer afraid of it and so are no longer resisting it. If you can solve or resolve or as-is, more importantly, psychosis and neurosis, then let me assure you that you don't mind being it. | |
Of course, you've got the question of being it perpetually. Well, that's a conditional beingness; adds the illusion of time. If you get the idea of being a psychotic perpetually, however, of course it as-ises being a psychotic perpetually. | |
The universe can't win, that's all. Not with us around. | |
So here is the, here is the breadth of what we're doing today. We have two distinct spheres of action. | |
Many of the old old-timers are pretty slippy with old Dianetics. They can do some weird things with Dianetics. Well, if they add that skill to good skill with an E-Meter and follow the meter and use the type of process of "What part of that incident would you be willing to be?" this type of shortcut auditing, they all of a sudden find that this becomes very simple, and they can knock out neuroses or little psychotic bugs out of a case with great rapidity. "What compulsion, obsessions do you have? What are you most afraid of?" Make a list of these things, and just knock them out. And then go on with auditing with Scientology. This would be an interesting method of proceeding. Got the idea? | |
What they're liable to do, however, is try to finish a case with Dianetics. Yeah, they would utterly finish a case being neurotic and psychotic. And what would they have left? A humanoid. I beg your pardon. I apologize. There was probably two or three in the audience. | |
But the recognition of the spheres of knowledge of existence and what those things are, that all by itself tends to drop the mystery out of it all and permits one to more closely experience existence. | |
Now, let's take some fellow who's been reading space opera. I know. I like to read space opera. I've written a lot of it. As a matter of fact, they don't write it anymore. | |
But this fellow just can't seem to keep his nose out of space opera, and he said, "Gee! I'd like to do that sometime in the future when this civilization – when we get really geared up and when we really get into the future, and when we really have space ships, and when we really, and…" All this time he has this horrible burning sensation on the end of his nose, you know? And he can't quite account for that, but he's into space opera, but he's not in space opera, but he likes to read it, but it has a horrible effect on him, and-and-well, the first time he can enjoy space opera is when he finds out he's been a rocket jockey for the last 18 dozen lives. | |
No wonder he gets a burning nose. One of the favorite skills he had back in the early days of one of the space societies was shooting off doll's noses. He didn't like to hurt them. He just singed their noses, you know. Fast draw. You wonder why all these guys are fixated on western movies. Western movie is mostly a substitute for space opera if you only knew it. | |
It's space opera that's full of the fast draw and shoot them dead. Listen, human bodies are not bulletproof. I don't know if you've ever experienced that fact or not. Probably not in this lifetime, but you do have some evidence to this effect. If somebody stood up and pointed a gun at you, something in you would tell you that it would make a hole in you. Well, I wonder how you learned that. Not by watching western movies because they all die very cleanly and very calmly, mostly, except when they are being filmed with realism. Then they splatter a little blood on the fellow's shirt, you know, make him cough twice. | |
Factually speaking, it takes a doll, if you please, a nonhumanoid body to be able to stand up to firearms of that character. There isn't any reason you should be killed dead just because you're shot. There isn't any real reason why it should hurt very badly. | |
You're afraid right now of travelling down an icy, slippery road at 110 miles an hour. You'd say that'd be a bum show. Why? | |
If you were in a doll body: So it plows into the concrete abutment, and it dents up your new shirt. Next time you think of it back at the base while you're over to the armor, and you say, "Hey, pound out my chest, would you? That's right. Pound it up, smooth it up a little bit. The enamel's cracked there too. Yeah. Thank you. Yeah. That's better. That's better." And you haven't learned not to go 110 miles an hour on icy roads. Because there's no reason to learn it. | |
'Tisn't a particularly dangerous activity. And the Marcab Confederacy within the last 200 thousand years, racing cars went 275 miles an hour and were turbine driven. Everybody thinks a racing car should sound like a Marcab racing car. Just ask somebody how should a racing car sound. | |
Well, they don't say, "brrrrrrrrrrr" like an Earth racing car. They say "mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm." That's a Marcab racing car. They don't have any here on Earth. | |
Everybody knows how it is. I wonder why they know this so well. | |
Well, they were using meat bodies on some of that stuff, and boy, did they get messed up. Meat bodies. Imagine driving in racing cars like that. It practically cured everybody of driving, so nobody on Earth can drive. | |
But I don't want to talk about past track because some amongst us are in the innocent state of thinking they have lived only once and are right here. But, I will give those who have been annoyed by people who sneered – you know, how a guy can cover up 99 and 9999999 percent of his experience and say it never existed, and then be happy thereafter, I wouldn't know. But people seem to be trying this. And you'll find many bad-off cases are very afraid of going into the backtrack or are trying desperately to do so but can't, they tell you. | |
Well, there's an HAS Co-audit process to be released shortly which takes care of this. It's an old one. An old process. | |
Tell me something you wouldn't mind forgetting. Run long enough, the fellow's memory keeps improving, his memory keeps improving, his memory keeps improving, and his memory… | |
"Spiders' bodies are very hard to move, aren't they? Well, I never had anything like that!" | |
"Tell me something you wouldn't mind forgetting." | |
"Oh, well, that I ever had a spider's body." | |
That'll turn on your backtrack. I know of only one case that couldn't run it. And he kept answering it this way: | |
"Tell me something you wouldn't mind forgetting." | |
And he'd say, "Well, I wouldn't mind forgetting an appointment with somebody I didn't – well, I don't know. I don't know. I probably ought to remember that." | |
He kept going on this way for some time. We caught him about a year later and audited him again. By this time he could run it. We must have done something else to him. Well, for a long time he couldn't run it. But most cases can run this, and with great benefit. | |
You want to improve your memory? Get it run. That turns on your whole track and makes life much less mysterious. | |
It's like Suzie. The Director of Security and I'd take her out in back of the house up against the hill, and he gives her a gun, which is a model of an old western gat – peacemaker – and we show her how to – we show her how to load the thing. He shows her how to load it rather. And so on, standing there. "Supposed to shoot that box over there, see?" | |
Well, Suzie is a nice, delicate, little feminine girl. You know Mary Sue. And you don't expect a nice, delicate, little feminine girl, even if she is from Galveston or Houston or something, you don't expect her to pick the thing up and fan it six times. | |
We tried to get her to shoot it some other way, but she couldn't hit anything. But fanning it! Yeah, we didn't bother to teach her much more about guns. But it's a terrible mystery to a guy finding he has memories, odd memories, odd nightmares, odd skills, and if he's never – doesn't know anything about a thetan or ever having been around except in this life, then he has no accounting for it, and he's really stuck in the mystery of it all, isn't he? | |
Well, anyway, today your case is pretty well taped. One of the best ways to tape your case is by being able to experience taping cases. I'll give it to you frankly. | |
You can't sit and be a pc forever. You can't be the effect of anything forever. You got to reverse that line sometime or another. Well, it's pretty easy to do. | |
Now, the world is far too accustomed to these fellows who march forth upon the stage of affairs and magically wave the magic wand, and drive thousands of swine out of pcs or something, and all at a, you know, hocus-pocus, prestidigitosis, you have no leprosis. | |
The world has been pretty well indoctrinated into this type of individual and has been convinced that it is some peculiar thing, some long spark that makes it possible for them to do this. And that it is a beingness of such magnitude that they would never possibly be able to approximate it because it is native in that individual and not in themselves. | |
You'll find that this mechanism has been done time after time after time on the whole track. | |
Now, the only thing that makes it impossible for you to do this sort of thing is you just don't know how, that's all. And you just might as well get over the idea that you have to be a Messiah. I'm just a guy and appeared at the right crossroads at the right time – he lied – and put the thing together. | |
But the point is, the knowledge is there, the knowledge isn't something I dreamed up, the knowledge is residual in you, or you wouldn't even be able to understand it. The knowledge is yours as much as mine. You should be able to know how to use that knowledge and you should be able to know all about that knowledge, and stop respecting it as something superspecial because it's just the woof and warp of which life is made. | |
And if you don't understand all sides of it, you won't get anyplace. | |
Most Scientologists have as their only nightmare, kicking off and not being able to remember Scientology. That would be a rough one. The easiest way to do that is just "something you wouldn't mind forgetting." Get the forgetter off – you see, people are obsessively remembering all the time and they never decide to forget things, really. It's all on automatic. Take it off automatic and you remember all the data. But I can already assure you that people when they back out of their heads, when they've been trained, they don't forget it. | |
They think of their responsibilities and they think of this and they think of that and when they're back there about eight feet, they find they're still stuck on something, so they audit the beam off and depart. | |
And then they get overwhelmed and conscience-stricken about it all and come back and pick up the mock-up. And they'll tell me about it occasionally. "Well, I almost dropped the mock-up the other day, but I got to thinking what would you do for a D of P," or something like that, you know. Brings them back, but they do fly out of their heads knowing all about it, providing they know all about it. | |
And I'll assure you of something. You can't remember something you don't know anything about. It's pretty hard to do. | |
Now the whole of cases today has only one hole in it, and that is because of me. I know I don't have very much to do. I'm very lazy. And it's been very remiss of me not to get it all down in book form right up to date, ss-bang. I haven't been able to do that. | |
The only thing I can do is put it on tapes and teach it in some courses. And one of these days, when you get good enough to carry your share of the load, why, then I can write it all down for the future. | |
So help me out, will you? | |