Okay. This is the afternoon of December the 9th and we're going to take up some specific examples of patter on SOP 8-C.

And this is December the 9th, morning lecture. This morning we're going to talk about the various combining factors, and why the preclear fails and why the auditor fails on exteriorization.

In the process of running SOP 8-C, there are many things which you can do right. There are a few which you can do wrong.

We've had a great many factors handed out here in the first few weeks of this course. And these factors, of course, combine into a rationale which is utilized in many ways. The things which have been stressed here are only the most important things.

In view of the fact that almost any preclear, when you first lay your hands on him is in a "I mustn't be hit," or inverted, "I must be hit" frame of mind — you see, "I mustn't be hit" or "I can be hit" — it is very easy to invalidate a preclear.

Those things are: the curve create, survive, destroy — a very important curve; the next is the dynamics, all eight of them, what they mean — they're quite important because a preclear is inverted on one or another of them very badly; the matter of the invisible barrier because this, of course, makes solid the idea that thetans are flying around ready to tear one apart and so forth. And one knows it's solid but he can't see it, and he depends upon his sight to tell him if something's there, and then if he can't see something there, and then he finds something there — and this is the basic confusion.

Now, let's get this one — just get this one down real good, let's get this down real good: Invalidation by words is the symbolical level of being struck. You got that?

The next is making something out of nothing, and nothing out of some­thing. That's quite important, because here is your basic automaticity. A something-nothing combination is, in itself, the maybe of indecision.

Invalidation by words is the symbolical level of being struck. If a person is afraid of being hit, he is afraid of being (quote) "invalidated" (unquote). You see that? All right.

So we look over automaticity and we find out that automaticity comes into being and persists in an individual on two methods. That is to say, he uses automaticity to do two things — actually, most specifically, two specific things, which is to mock and unmock things — to create, that is to say, and destroy things.

Now, let's take a look at inversion. You know, things — DEI — the desire, enforce, inhibit. You'll get things inverted. A fellow can run just so long on "I have to have something" until he gets into "I can't have it." Now, he'll run "I can't have it" just so long until it all of a sudden is a terrific desire. He's gone in — down to the lower one, you see?

Now, automaticity itself is laid in to persist. And there isn't much of a methodology to make things persist except postulates to make things persist; and it isn't actually technically correct that an automaticity exists which make things persist, but it appears so. And so we will say that there's — for your purposes and for your uses — there are three kinds of automaticities: those which create things and those which make things persist and those which destroy things.

Now, if he desires it, something is going to see to it that he enforced — that enforced havingness takes place. And as soon as enforced havingness takes place, he's going to be inhibited in having, and so he can't have it again. And after he can't have it on this lower inversion, then after a while he realizes, "I can't have that," he gets a terrific desire for it. He gets curious about why he can't have that, and so he gets a desire for it. As soon as he gets a desire for it, it gets enforced that he must have it, and then this is obsessive and he doesn't like that, so he decides that he better not have it, so he can't have it again.

Now, all that automaticity comes under the heading of handling things. All automaticity comes under that heading. And when the individual is convinced that he cannot any longer handle something, he generally becomes convinced because he set up an automaticity which he has now made more powerful than himself. So the decision that one can't handle something or one can't control something is preceded by a decision to have something be automatic. To have something be automatic is — inevitably sets up the successor decision "I can't handle anything."

All the time, he's getting down on a lower grade of "it" — whatever "it" is. In terms of sensation, it starts at the top with a complete serenity, and at the bottom winds up — goes through sexual sensation and winds up at the bottom on an utter, sort of a gooey degradedness. Sexual sensation too greatly condensed is a — is degradation. And force — any type of force of this character will give this symptom of degradation. All right.

You want to know why the preclear can't control this and control that and control his position in space and so forth, he's set it all up automatically. The reason he set it up automatically, ordinarily, is because he lost interest in handling it. He just didn't any longer care to handle it or he believed he was wrong in handling it.

Now, let's look at this inverting thing. We realize, then, that a preclear is in a body — being protected by the body after a while, so that he won't get hit. He gets the idea he's in there, he mustn't be hit. Well, that's the antithesis to perception, because in order to perceive, he has to be hit. He has to be hit by the wavelengths of the things he's trying to perceive. So if he can't be hit, you see, he can't see. And this is elementary, my dear Watson.

Now, we have the factors of cause and effect, and one is trying to resist effect in order to be cause. And when we combine these major factors, we find that we have several modus operandi as contained in SOP 8-C which specifically address them. And almost any modus operandi in SOP 8-C addresses all of these, or can address all of these. In other words, any step in SOP 8-C can be applied to all the material there that you've had.

The next point in the line is DEI, see? He mustn't be hit, he mustn't be hit — he's got to be! See? That's the next thing — he desires to be hit. So he sits around waiting for you to invalidate him.

These steps are — you take location — where couldn't he handle something, you see? Where wasn't he cause? So even there you could, by putting in a further significance, use in location all the factors, such as the dynamics. "Where's God?" That's one of the main stumblers: "Where's God?" Well, people have answered this with an abandonment which is glorious by saying, "He's everyplace!" That's real apathy. "The son of a gun chases me everywhere I go, I can't have any space without his space." (laughter)

You see how it goes on the postulate line? He says for a long time, "I mustn't be criticized. I mustn't be invalidated. I mustn't be criticized" — and he's got to be. One day he suddenly wakes up to the fact that that's "I must be hit."

Now, we take the old triangle of ARC, and we find out that all these factors come into being and become confirmed when they are agreed to. And this agreement itself becomes the reality of the individual. He makes a postulate and he's — finds that this is agreed with. And it's consistently agreed with, and therefore, it becomes a very firm postulate. Methodologies of politeness and so forth are continuous agreement that one really doesn't exist, and one can't amount to very much, and one can't do anything, and one is weak and flabby and so forth, in the present culture.

And you'll find this preclear going slllrrpp! to every electronic they can lay their hands on. Bong! Bang! Somatics — they've got to have somatics, they've got to come in on them. They have to be insulted. They will work with you until you finally insult them in some way or another — because they'll call an insult, on this basis, invalidation, see?

One of the most virile cultures of Europe — very interesting culture — Germanic culture, the Teutonic. The Romans used to go up and kick their teeth in regularly, burn their villages and so forth, and then the Germans would come out and burn a few on the Roman side of the border. And that's gone on now for about twenty-five hundred to three thousand years. Interesting, isn't it? World War II is just the recurring engram of the Teutonic resistance to Roman invasion.

Now, they get on a "I mustn't be invalidated; I m," see? In other words, "I mustn't be hit," is the force level of this. Now, the symbolical level is, "I mustn't be invalidated." And then that goes, eventually, into "I must be invalidated."

But what in essence made these people so powerful? And what makes them even today so powerful? They don't say, "I don't amount to nothing. I'm nothing. I'm dirt beneath your feet." They don't say this. They say, "I'm big and strong, and I can lick anybody." And they only started failing when they started saying, "Well, maybe I can lick everybody."

Now, there's what we'd call a motivator hunger. Now, when you surfeit a motivator hunger, you have satisfied an appetite which bumps them up one small gradient on the Tone Scale. And you'll find some preclears that you have going through this motivator hunger or overt hunger, and that's just this: "I must be hit" and so forth.

But a German knight back in Roman days had, actually, an ethical standard which was so far out of the Roman sight that the Roman kind of made fun of it. He couldn't understand how anything could be this good; but it in essence was the reason why the German nations and tribes could stand up to the Roman legions so long, and actually are still going in 1953 a.d. Of course, we don't particularly consider it desirable that such organizations go on forever, I'm merely offering it as an example of what is being done elsewhere.

Now, it goes this way too: "I must hit. I must not hit." See, "I desire to hit," then "I have to hit," and then "I must not hit."

Now, Japan with their negation complex has consistently lost. And, for instance, there was no slightest thought, actually, in the Japanese mind that they would ever defeat the United States. I knew before the war, because I had many friends and knew quite a bit about Japan, I knew what their mood was — and I considered that Franklin Delano Spoofer was more sensible than he was. I figured out he might have some adviser he might listen to, but he only listened to CPs and other people I guess. Because it was inevitable that anybody that pushed Japan would get this immediate reaction: "We have to commit suicide." You start shoving a Japanese around, the most horrible thing he can do to you is commit suicide.

And some people will run this cycle in one fight. They'll — oh, often they'll slug somebody — crash, see? Boom! down somebody goes. And the next moment they're being very sympathetic about the whole thing. You get that? See, "I must not hit. I must protect now."

Now, by the way, you look this over with some preclears — the most horrible thing they can do to you is to fail to have anything happen. They're trying to get even with you. They don't have anything happen, see. That gets even with you. Isn't this weird? They're clutching to their breasts something like: "They have betrayed me" — which, by the way, is a wonderful postulate to run — "they have betrayed me, see?" And they keep holding up this betrayal. Well, that's getting even with somebody on it. Because that is actually a horrible thing to do to somebody: to hold up a betrayal and then make them agree with it. That's really vengeful, but way down scale, and is not very survival.

Now, a thetan early on the track ran this with bodies, very rapidly: "I'm — I've just got to knock them off," and then "Poor bodies." And he's run back and forth on this about bodies, and you'll find a preclear doing this under processing: "Bodies — oh, I don't want anything to do with bodies or the mest universe. I don't want anything — I just want to get out of it, out of it, out of it." You know — he doesn't want anything to do with it. And then the next thing you know, what do you know — "Aw, bodies is just lovely. Oh, yeah. Wonderful. Wonderful."

So, the Japanese empire with its constant talk of "an insignificant us," "holding our foul (indrawn breath) foul breath from your face," "so sorry," and so on, of course, is a setup. But it's dangerous because it will commit suicide. That's why it declared war against the United States. I knew that. I knew that in 1940, they were going to do this. But it never occurred to me that anybody in Washington would be so stupid as to realize it; because when — golly, that's some suicide — they start firing bullets through their own brains, they ricochet afterwards. And yeah, that was real tough.

Now you've bumped him up the Tone Scale, so you're running the DEI cycle backwards: "I can't have bodies," into "I must have a body," into "I want a body," again into "Oh, I can't have one," — but milder, you see. And then, "Well, I'd better have one," to "Well, it's kind of nice to have a body," and then up we go a little bit higher on the thing and it — "Well, there are a lot of people that — sometimes I don't want a body and ... A lot of people, and they don't want bodies either and . . ."And he goes up a little higher and — "Yeah, I could have a body if I wanted one." You see? You're running the DEI cycle backwards, it's I-E-D up scale.

So we have these two types of culture on the third dynamic which are demonstrating that the agreement, within the culture, of personal power has a great deal of bearing upon the culture's survival itself.

So that you'll find a preclear suffering consistently and continually from this invalidation trouble — invalidation and evaluation. Now, as we go down scale with a preclear, we find that evaluation becomes more and more harmful because it impinges upon his knowingness.

Now, a culture which is — agrees continually "I can't create, I can't create, I can't create, I can't create," is of course that one which is superdoomed. And that's really doomed, because it says, "We're effect, we're effect, we're effect, we can only be effect." Well, there are two methods of arriving at that end. One is to make everything automatic, which makes one an effect of everything, and this afterwards will reflect in the fact that nobody can create anything; and the other is simply to go around and be apologetic about creating.

Invalidation is actually — goes straight up against motion, and knowingness goes into space, and above that, knowingness itself. You see?

Now, a cultural level which apologized for being creative would be one doomed to failure. And we have such a culture, it's called Hollywood — another scene across the world with which I happen to be fairly familiar. And in Hollywood you have a continuous agreement on the part of people that they can't create.

So we've got the two things: We've got motion and impact under the heading of invalidation, and we have cut-down knowingness under the heading of evaluation. See, we've got these two categories sitting side by side.

And in engineering you have the same continuous agreement. "We can't create. We're just handling the stuff that's already been created, and we're handling Professor Wumfgutter's formulas, and it's all according to Ohm's law or Poom's law or Boom's law. And we're in agreement. We're in agreement. We're in agreement." And these guys get more and more glasses, and they get more and more Pepsi-Cola or some other disease. And they wonder what on earth is wrong with them. Well, they're just agreeing all the time on the fact they can't create. They also are agreeing on the fact they can't destroy, and they wind up surviving forever in agony.

Now, these two categories are in the symbolical level, too. So there's evaluation by telling a person what his words actually signify. This would be the same thing as cutting his knowingness down, because you're telling him here's something he doesn't know.

Well, in Hollywood and amongst (quote) "slick paper magazine circles" in New York, the politeness level of the authors is, "Well, it's not anything, I just knocked it off, it doesn't amount to very much. I'm not very proud of it. And I just hand this stuff out, it's just junk, you know, and we're just filming the . . ."

The only thing wrong with instructing in anything is that it informs people there are things they don't know. Well, there is a time when you have to tell anybody some sort of a scale of knowingness so that they can go back up grade.

Actually I can't — I wouldn't put on a tape, standard Hollywood talk about what they call the hero and the villain. And what they commonly refer to in their own work. They do not respect themselves. And nobody who works in Hollywood very long can fail to note that his own respect for himself is declining.

And any class or unit under instruction in Scientology has to fight back up through this one, because they're being told that they don't know when they're being told techniques — when they're being told what these things are. But this is a fast route. And the only excuse for it is, is it's far less harmful to do this because it puts them on a route to being able to know for themselves. So the "what they don't know" turns into — in Scientological instruction — turns into "what you can know." And what I'm giving you is headed that way. It's what you can know — what you can do, what you can know.

It's a wonderful world of make-believe, and if it had a few sincere people in it, a few people who realized they could create, it would be a wonderful lot of fun. But it is not that kind of a world. And it is going by the boards. I don't mean on a tipped slide, I mean on a vertical one.

But if we cut this down, on some preclears it comes under the heading — they hit pretty low, and it comes under the heading of evaluation. So that they shudder back from — sometimes an auditor will shudder back from being told a workable way to do something, simply because he's trying to protect his own knowingness.

Supercommerciality — one of the finest things they will produce, after a while, will be a commercial for Boo-Boo soap. Because they're all saying all the time — here are these creative artists — they're saying continually, "I can't create. I can't create. I didn't do anything. It's just junk. It's no good," and so on. They're in superagreement upon this inability to create. "We'll make one like Blatz Pictures made last month. That went over good," so on. Because they're asking for the volume agreement of the society at large, which is registered on the box office in terms of figures and dollars. And this is a dependency on the whole society. So these organizations and artists depend upon agreement with the entire society as to what they should be able to do.

And now, what's the remedy is — for that, is not to refrain from telling him how to do something, but to tell him how to do that which corrects the fact that he's shuddering back from being told something — see, his knowingness.

These factors are factors which you have to consider in auditing. You may think they're quite far afield, but they're not far afield at all. The thetan is absolutely nothing if he cannot create, and if he cannot destroy those things which menace his creations. He's just nothing. I mean nothing. This is all he's got! And now you're going to wash it all up by letting somebody agree that he can't create. Well, that's suicide itself.

How does he im, how does he get out of the state of mind whereby he thinks his knowingness is being cut down by learning how to know, see? How does he get out of that? That would be the way to handle that problem — in the same way, evaluation. We can cut right straight through the whole problem of invalidation same way as evaluation. We cut through the whole problem of invalidation now, very simply, by curing people of fear of being hit.

Well, the thetan is in this state of mind of committing suicide. He's not in the state of mind of saying, "I'm tough, I'm big." People will hang around him all the time trying to get him to agree to be wrong. How wrong can you get? Human. You cannot be a human being and be right. It's impossible. You just start looking it over, and you find out that an individual who has to depend upon and put up with all the factors a human being has to depend upon and put up with, is in agreement with so many things that are contrasurvival that he himself is left with no choice about being right.

Now, people are actually afraid of being hit by words. You can take somebody who's terribly bad off, and you can make him utter a word and then reach out and catch it.

I don't wish to belabor this or upset you particularly, but an individual who takes the agreement of others with him seriously, is in trouble. And in essence, that's all that's really wrong with your preclear: it's just terrific agreement on the part of his own Wrongness. And he gets this terrific agreement, and doesn't realize it's agreement in terms of his own Wrongness.

Now, you wouldn't think that this technique — that this technique would actually find anybody serious very long. You say, "Now say, 'Cat.' Now say — look at the word cat and say, 'Gee, that'll betray me,' and reach out and grab it and put it in your pocket. Hide it." You know I have seen somebody keep this up for an hour?

The first wrong thing he does is to take things seriously. They're not serious. They can be wiped out overnight. Someday somebody will get bored and yawn too wide and rip the air cover off of Earth. And there's where all these wonderful problems — where will they go? They'll go poof in the vacuum. It's not serious. But your — when a people become insincere and savagely critical and in super-agreement amongst themselves that what they're doing is not worthwhile and that others around them are untrustworthy, and where there's no faith and there's no purpose and there's no goal and there's no reason why, and they get serious about this, you see, you have the difference of agreement level which makes for failure.

I just sat there wondering how long they'd go on with this. They just went right on, because it doesn't — if it doesn't point out what they're doing immediately, you see, why, it's just not going to. What they'd have to do is move the postulate around for a while until it stopped evaluating for them.

And these things all may be true, they just may be as true as true can be, but they shouldn't make any difference. You get the viewpoint: "So these things are true. I mean, should that modify my conduct particularly? No. I don't have to depend upon what I have learned from the physical universe in order to carry on. I can't do anything else but survive." That's your — the way a thetan ought to feel about it to be in real good shape: "I can't do anything else but survive." I mean, why take all this nonsurvival seriously?

Now, the other thing your preclear doesn't know is the difference between a postulate and a word with meaning. There's a big difference. I could throw all of you people on your ear with this one. I'm going to try not to leave you utterly baffled till the end of time. This is a horrible thing to do to anybody.

And yet he does take it seriously, and so he fools and befuddles himself to a point where he can't even be three feet back of his head. Now, that's really remarkable. In view of the fact that he really isn't anyplace, that he can't be someplace, it'd be very remarkable.

A statement is a sing, a consecutive meaning in symbolic terms. See, it's symbolized meaning. A postulate has nothing to do with meaning. A postulate has to do with straight command and determination by it, and it's not made — this is a horrible thing, but it's not made with symbols.

Now, I want to call to your attention out of these various factors — you get this agreement, panel of agreement and so forth, hitting him in every side — why is it that preclears fail and auditors fail? Well, they've had to make postulates that they've failed. Where are these postulates? Well, we better look over the anatomy of a body being handled by a thetan. And we find that originally and early on the track, a thetan was handling bodies, if he handled them at all, from above and behind the body. Therefore, there's a great deal of old energy kicking around which can be re-created by any automaticity which wants to make the past last. And all of that deposit of energy has to do with "handle with energy." That's its prime postulate. It says, "Handle with energy."

The place where people over in India go appetite over tin cup a lot of times is that their rituals are perfectly valid but they use them in words, with people who can use only words. So the things which they start stacking up as mecha­nisms and so forth, are word mechanisms — they're not postulate mechanisms. Now actually, you won't know what I'm talking about right there until you all of a sudden see a postulate, see.

If you could imagine a tall dunce cap about twenty-five feet long, sitting on the back of a preclear's head, coming to a point about twenty-five feet away — they've got a — much too stylized, much too neat a picture of it, but that's a mass of energy, and every bit of it says, "Handle with energy." All the postulates and everything that had been originated there have been shot down a line of energy to the body. And this accumulation of energy, at length, brings about a conviction one must handle with energy. Because that's the prime postulate in all that mass of energy in that dunce cap.

Anytime you're moving an idea around, you're ordinarily not moving a postulate around, you're ordinarily moving a symbol around. But by that process, you eventually come out through the top and say, "What the hell am I doing with these symbols?" Of course, this is about the same time that the lightning will flash, as far as that's concerned. I mean it's pretty high.

And then one day the failure postulate starts to come in. The failure postulate comes about when a thetan does — has depended too much upon a body, and no longer considers himself sufficiently strong or powerful to hold apart the terminal of the spot twenty-five feet back of the head and the body itself. He can't impose space on these two terminals anymore, he considers himself weak. He can do it, he just considers he can't do it. And so the body has a sudden pain, and he gets all of these "handle with energy" lines energized the reverse way to. And every tractor beam in there collapses, because it's energized.

But a postulate is above force. And a symbol is subject to force. The difference between a postulate and a symbol is position on the Tone Scale. We have to go up through force and be able to handle force before we really recognize a postulate for what a postulate is. Otherwise, it is all 100 percent meaning — significance. Whereas a postulate is a direct command.

Now, a tractor beam, when energized, collapses. A pusher beam — a pressor beam, you know, pusher — expands when energized. But a tractor beam collapses. And so in he comes. And all the way on in he's saying, "I've failed" — the whole length of the dunce cap, see? Pam! He goes into the head. The body gets its — shot in the guts or it gets tripped or scalded or something of the sort, and in comes this thetan — swoosh! And all the way in, he can't put on the brakes. In other words, he can't handle this energy which handles energy. And all the way in he's saying, "I've failed. I've failed. I've failed. I've failed." Pam!

You could make a preclear run a postulate out, but a postulate is not a feeling, it's not force, it's not a symbol — you might say it's an intention. And very high, it's an intention which will not be brooked. But that again brings about the idea of effort determination, see — heavy effort determination. Well, that isn't what a postulate is, either. "The mountains will now collapse," dealt with the most serene hand imaginable, would simply be in terms of a whole flock of mountains collapsing. See, it wouldn't be a big symbolized thing, it's just the fellow's self-determined intention that something happens, and it happens.

And then where is he? He is sitting on the head end of the dunce cap. And back of him he has all of this stuff up there that says, "handle with energy." And then he comes into a failure in this life, and this stuff reenergizes, and it says — the whole kit and caboodle of it says — "Failure, failure, failure, failure, failure, failure, failure."

Now, a preclear can — becomes very frightened of this as long as he can't use and isn't accustomed to handling force. So, again, we have the problem of perception. Perception is a problem of force. He doesn't want to think of something for two reasons: One, if he thinks where he is, they'll know too. You know, he's afraid he'll let it out. He's afraid his mind will be read. Somebody can find him. He's been told this often enough. It's one of the biggest electronic tricks on the track, was to tell somebody that he had to think right thoughts — that he had to think thoughts which were properly protective to the state. And if he thought thoughts which were not properly protective to the state, he could be arrested and things done to him. And if he thought thoughts which were not properly protective, and which yak, yak, yak and so forth to the state, he would be located by the fact that he was thinking them.

Now, you come along as an auditor, and you say, "Now be three feet back of your head, Joe Preclear." And the fellow does, and this horrible sadness comes over him. He gets real sad. Why — what's he get sad for? Well, it's very simple. He's just run into this mass of "handle with energy" and failure.

So a person gets afraid to think for fear he will be located. And people who are difficult to locate are afraid of being located. And here we have a single problem in fear. So we handle it as a postulate "afraid to be located" — some version of that, symbolically placed and put. And we handle that around, and the fellow all of a sudden realizes it's nonsense, he can think a thought without being located up in the Psi Galaxy where they're still looking for him and have big posters all over the place, he thinks, and where they still have his records and — he's thought the wrong thought up there. Well, that's just another method of making a thetan wrong.

Now, you should see very clearly here a couple of the most important, immediate goals to handle with Postulate Processing, and why you handle it back of the preclear, not in front of the preclear. That suddenly click, whir and make sense?

So very often your preclear will become very disturbed, and he's unaccount­ably disturbed. Well now, it'll lie in three spheres only: evaluation, invalidation and location. He's afraid to be located, he's afraid to be hit, and he's afraid to have his knowingness cut down. See, evaluation — he's afraid to have his knowingness cut down because that's less space, in his terminology. He's afraid to be hit, so he naturally is afraid of any symbol which goes counter to his motion. A symbol which is counter to his motion is very upsetting to him. And he is afraid he will be located — just that.

And these people who back off from the body and then later on come into the body again and stick, or are upset about it and so forth, are simply running into this failure postulate which is contained in this dunce cap.

Now, basically, he was made afraid of his own power. He destroyed things which he desired to persist. Or he built a Frankenstein's monster — and this we call the "Frankenstein effect." The fellow is sure that if he builds something and gets it all beautifully created and it actually would walk and talk and do something or other, it'd go off down the street and while down the street would do something very destructive — but just before it did something destructive, he would say, "Stop!" and the thing won't stop.

You know, this dunce cap takes many forms. It'll sometimes get around in front of the face. It'll sometimes be to the side of the body and so forth. But they're in — it'll take many forms — they'll be long lines or tubes or small tubes or anything that might look like energy.

Well, we've run immediately into "resist all effects." See, he built it to resist all effects; and then because he desired randomity, didn't put in "except his own." So he builds something to resist all effects; well then, pray tell, why is he upset that it resists all effects? Yet he is. Because it does a lot of effects which are elected as bad cause.

Don't try to specialize and say, "It is a dunce cap made out of 20-weight paper," or something, because it's not. It's very different. But the purpose of all these different forms are represented by this dunce cap, and the purpose of all these different forms was to handle a body with energy, and to communicate with energy, see? And as a result, a person got that former postulate, "I have to handle with energy." That's not handle with postulates — "I have to handle with energy." That's the prime postulate in all that mass of energy. And then, with that, he comes in with a crash. And he's done this many times, and other thetans have done this on this same body, so their postulates are there too, and they all say, "Failed." Failed to what? Well, failed to handle the body, of course. Failed to control one, failed to stay outside, but mainly failed to keep two anchor points apart: the anchor point which is way back of the body where the thetan ought to be, and the body. So we can impose position on terminals.

So in auditing an individual, one does deal immediately and intimately with these factors — continually deals with these factors of evaluation, invalidation and location. And he deals with another factor: automaticity. He has set himself up — the auditor — as an automatic machine which directs the preclear. Therefore, he's liable to throw into restimulation that machinery which the preclear has which sends him places. And almost any preclear's got a machine that sends him places.

Now, let's look at that electric motor, and we find out that the sole force of the electric motor is the fact that it has space and time imposed upon it. In other words, space — different spaces consecutively imposed upon two terminals. And the base of the motor holds these two apart, and Earth holds the base of the motor apart. And the solar system — gravitic, centripetal, centrifugal system, you know, of the Sun going around and so forth — that holds the Sun and the Earth apart, and we go on up the line until we find that the galaxies are holding apart. And when we move on out of the universe, all we have found when we get all the way out, is the fact that somebody has imposed space on two terminals.

So we run into a condition where the auditor says, "Are you here?" and points to something, and that puts the preclear there. It — the auditor isn't doing it — the auditor has triggered the machine which sends the preclear to any place the preclear thinks of. Well, the preclear's got that kind of a mechanism, so let's not overlook this.

So when it comes down to a problem of a body and a thetan, we again have this problem of can the thetan impose space upon terminals or can't he? And this is an ability, and it is done with postulates, it's not done with energy.

You can ask a preclear only about four times, "Are you in the corner of the room?" or something like that, and if he's got one of these machines, he'll trigger. That's why we say "not." He hasn't got any machine that tells him where he's not. And that's why we stress "not" as a postulate.

But he has started handling things with energy instead of postulates, and this deteriorates down to a point of trying to keep things apart with energy, and this is very silly, because energy won't keep anything apart in absence of a postulate. I mean the fact that the top of the microphone is apart from the base of the microphone solely depends upon a prior postulate, and that's all it depends upon. You think otherwise, why, you go along with this subject for a while, and you'll find that by pulling postulates out of mest you can make it collapse or make it move.

Now, you can set up some preclear this way — you can say, "Are you on the desk? Are you in the chair? Are you here and there?" You're offering him places to be, which keys in the automatic machine that starts sending him places. Almost any preclear has one of these things.

Well, we're not up to that point yet, and we're not even vaguely worried about doing that. That'd scare you to death. And by the way, thetans very often completely resign their right to handle postulates and mest. They just say, "I don't want to do it anymore." They were looking at this very pretty mock-up or this pretty girl or something of the sort, and they yanked the base postulate and so on, and it went poof and there wasn't anything there, and this was very sad and remorseful.

What do you do with a machine? Well, it's — comes under the heading of Step IV — you waste it and so forth. Well, what if it just turns up up here in "by location"? Well, it won't turn up here in Step I if you ask him where he's not. And that's why you ask where he's not in Step I — so you don't key off this machine. He's got it, it's all set, ready to go.

Well, that wasn't so bad as when they yanked it partway so as to make a cripple or something of the sort. And this was real bad, so they didn't like that, so they said, "I don't want to do it anymore." And they said, "I can't trust myself." And that's the basic source of distrust, is being convinced or convincing oneself that one is bad cause with one's own postulates.

Now, you could be defined as people learning how to use and handle a life unit. And a life unit, at this stage of Scientology, as advanced as we are, could be characterized like a watch. And you could actually put it down in terms of learning how to keep a watch running. But you don't have to be able to build a watch to keep a watch running or repair it.

And so we have, then, this two-terminal ability — that imposition and so forth — that thetan position which is somewhere outside of the body, and the body. The thetan will stay outside as long as he can impose space on two positions. See, he can keep space in between two terminals. Well, he doesn't do it with effort. He just says, "Space between two terminals" — swish, there it is. But he uses all of this energy to do it. And the energy isn't going to do a thing for him. He gets in there and grinds and crunches and so on. And he says, "Rrrh, rrrh — put some space between these two terminals" and, of course — collapse!

But the main difference is, the potentialities of the preclear are so enormous that this fact overshadows many other factors in your working with him. You say, "Gee, he is capable of so much." Well, in SOP 8-C, we're telling you how much of him has to be handled. You get that? That's how much of him has to be handled, that's all. And to this degree, he is like a watch. And you, to some degree, are like — if you're doing something for thetans, you're doing something like watch repairing. I mean, it's very predictable, the facts that are going be wrong in this case. And they're not going to be something horrible and huge and unimagined that hasn't ever been encountered before. You'll never run into it, I guarantee it. You just won't ever run into it.

Now, it's no very difficult trick to resolve this problem. But you have been running into it and have more or less considered it, I'm sure, here and there, practically insurmountable. You exteriorize a preclear, and as soon as you get him exteriorized nicely and so forth, you say something wrong to him, or you do something that he considers upsetting, his trust level is not too good, and he goes pang! back into his head again. Well, he does that partially in revenge, and — he does it partially so that you'll be wrong and he does it partially because he can't help it.

You can run into a very imaginative thetan. But unfortunately in this universe, for the purposes of auditing, his imagination, when he tries to throw you for a loop with his imagination, will boil down to these seven steps. Why? Because this is modus operandi of a thetan in the mest universe. And the mest universe has got him pretty tame. And there's only certain factors there that the mest universe is leaning against him on.

Now, he's not being willful about this. He's just running into a lot of spooky elements that he isn't quite conversant with. Now, naturally this dunce cap is a sort of an invisible barrier. A postulate itself can make an invisible barrier. You can't see a postulate, and yet you can sense where one is. Thus we get into Postulate Processing, and we find out the postulates I've just been talking about are the most important ones. "I have failed" is a terrifically important postulate. It's not really a postulate, it's a realization, slightly a different kind of postulate. It's a consideration, we were calling it earlier, a realization — "I've failed."

So you don't have to handle all this vast array of potentiality that an individual has — his enormous talents, imagination and so forth. Mostly because they can't be effective in this universe.

Well, this stuff is fixed in energy. The thetan is trying to fix postulates in energy all the time, and boy, these postulates are sure fixed in energy.

You're only trying to free him up to a point where he can recognize that he can have freedom. And after that, all the freedom he gets will be given to him by himself. But you get him up to a security where he knows he can have freedom, and he's on his own. I mean, you can't go any further with a thetan.

So, "I have failed," and crash, in he comes. Well, it's an invisible barrier. And it's an invisible barrier behind him. And you would be surprised how long a preclear will process in front of him. He will just do it right from here on out. It will just never occur to him to put anything behind him. If you never said anything to him, he'd just keep on processing that way.

Now, his individuality sets in, actually, way above the level when you suppose it does. The stimulus-response mechanisms of the body, and of the thetan himself, are very predictable. I mean, you're working with a predictable organism: duplication, creation, survival, destruction, eight dynamics, automaticity, location in the mest universe, creation of space, handling of postulates, his fight with barriers — being able to go through them and not go through them — and you've just about said it, right there. I mean, this is all you're handling.

Well now, this is because of too fixed attention in one plane: the fore and aft plane of the body. You'll very often find a preclear unable to put anything to the right or left of him, but quite able to put things above and in front of him, and below him. This is because you have this single plane of attention, merely because his attention is mainly concentrated in that direction. Well, this is also reinforced by this dunce cap, this cone, this plane of attention.

What we've done here is take this enormous problem — this problem that was bigger than universes, and it just had so much data in it — and we keep boiling the data down and throwing out the irrelevance.

And you'll very often find somebody who is — impossible for him to see anything. He'll even consider he has blinders on, or something like that. He'll have big black masses of energy on the right side of his head and the left side of his head. And he can see between these, you see — frontwise, particularly — very easily. But you ask him to look sideways, and he runs into black energy. That's just a fixed plane of attention, that's all.

There's nothing irrelevant in SOP 8-C. The only thing that isn't remarked on the brief form for student use which is issued at this time, is "acceptance level" — processing acceptance level. And acceptance level, of course, should come in down there under perception — and doesn't quite belong, but does belong, in Step VII. Acceptance level: an acceptable state of blindness, an acceptable state of illness, so on, this is — an acceptable state of being afraid.

So we move immediately into the next thing which is important to handle, which is the concentration of attention. And when attention is too concentrated, an individual is unable to release it; and when attention is too dispersed, an individual is unable to concentrate it. What makes it difficult for him to concentrate his attention and not concentrate his attention — unconcentrate it, you might say — what makes it difficult? I told you the other day what makes it difficult. It's the invisible barrier more than anything else. And so you handle this invisible barrier — the eyes, remember? An invisible barrier.

During World War II, all the young officers had an acceptable state of being afraid. Older officers who weren't this indoctrinated and didn't see you had to have an acceptable rate of being afraid, or officers who actually were officers instead of college boys in cute clothes, they were utterly — I mean, they'd almost vomit listening to these young fellows. These kids would stand around and they'd say how they ducked, and how they got out of this, and how they got out of that, and how scared they would be if they'd been in that fight, and the — boy, were they big — running big agreement on fear.

Right back of all of this problem is the immediate problem, "I'm going to be hit." That's right there.

And you, of course, would assume immediately that young officers and groups — young men at the age when young men are athletic and adventurous and so forth, you'd assume that these people were, you know, just kidding. Well, they might have just been kidding at first, but they weren't as the war went on.

Now, any preclear who can't perceive is a preclear who is preventing himself from being contacted by the energy particles of the room. He conceives that these things exist and that they are heavy, and that he depends upon them to give him a vision of the room. So the photons go bouncing off the walls, he thinks, and everything proves it to him that it does, and they hit the other photons which he thinks are there, and of course, he senses the impact between these two.

A lot of them did very many brave and heroic things — they got startled out of, by an acceptance level — startled out of acceptance level into necessity level, in many places. And very fortunately, not all the young fellows were like that — very far from it. But they actually had themselves talked into it, so that about two years, three years deep into the war, these boys were green around the gills at the thought of danger. They couldn't tolerate the thought of danger.

Now, he decides at that moment when he's — first feels his first photon — you just step him out of his head, actually, he has a slight sensation of being touched. No matter how slight it is, it doesn't matter, that is a moment when he gets very leery. And if the auditor makes mistakes on the subject of asking him to perceive at that moment — if the auditor makes mistakes on this, he's liable to reinteriorize, boom! Why? Because you're asking him to be hit.

I used to heckle this sort of thing. Very — it was very wicked of me, I know, but — something like sound a GQ in officers quarters only, and fire a flock of blanks out of the Victory model star-gun. It was very effective, it got them out of — eventually broke their fear neurosis on coming up to the bridge. I did start doing things like that after I found out that they couldn't find their general quarters stations till a half an hour after the alarm was over. Credible? Oh, yes, that's very credible.

You might as well ask him, "Now, put yourself up against the wall. Now you see those fellows out there with that Gatling gun? Now put yourself over a little closer to them. Now attract their attention and tell them to shoot." He isn't going to do that. So you say, "Look at this" or "Look at that," or "Be under this bombardment" or "Be in front of that bombardment," prematurely and too suddenly — just making some colossal blunder this way — you're asking him to be hit. By what? A bombardment of light rays and so forth, which he conceives to be there. All right, these light waves are liable to hit him, and they disturb his balance because he's tuned up to them and in fine agreement with them, and he doesn't want to see.

One fellow really got green. He went down the ladder and decided he would hide in the magazine, and then found out it was his own magazine — he should have known better than that — and the shells were rolling around loosely in it. It was upsetting to him.

Now, you wonder what's wrong with your thetan's perception: A thetan in order to perceive must be able — according to his own agreements and so forth — must be able to receive on a 360-degree sphere basis, the emanations of the mest universe itself. In order to perceive the mest universe, he feels he must receive all of these particles. He must be willing to receive them in order to perceive.

After a few things like this happened, we took the only type of processing there was, which was just experience. You know, I mean it's all you could do to some fellow, was experience. Made enough uproar around till we conditioned them.

You want to know what is wrong with your thetan, and why he doesn't perceive and your preclear doesn't perceive, and — he's just in that kind of a condition. The reason he wants to be behind an invisible barrier is so that he will not be hit. The reason why he wants to be at the back of a pair of eyeballs is so that he won't be hit. And with all of this, we get a situation of "superdodge" and "don't look." "Don't want to be hit" and "don't look" are the same statement for our purposes in auditing.

I think the US Army was doing something of conditioning at the end of the war, but they never got the idea — mostly because the officers in charge of the organizations never would have credited this new level of agreement on "Let's all be scared. Now, that's the way to be acceptable to everybody and the troops and everybody, is just be scared stiff all the time, you see, and say, 'Gee, I'm not brave. I — I wouldn't know what to do if I had to do something and, gee, I was way back of the lines when that happened,'" and patter, patter, patter, patter, patter. See, and it just gradually eats in, eats in, eats in.

Now, there's a little higher one than that which you have to take into account, is "don't want to hit." He's afraid to hit. And this, of course, is on the basis of consequences; because he thinks if he hits, he will be hit. And so we run into, right there in perception, the overt act-motivator sequence. You see that? So consequences of hitting is being hit.

You run across a preclear almost anywhere, anytime, he has had certain patterns of agreement on fear. Now, you don't have to know. I'm just giving you an example of how big it can be and how little of it you have to handle. Now, you see, there's a big subject: the war and morale and cowardice and agreement and what would thetans do under that circumstance? Well, you don't have to be able to predict their behavior. Because almost anybody has been in some kind of a situation back up on the track where it was fashionable to be frightened.

Parents, by the way, are very fond of training their children endlessly and arduously that if they hit little Johnny, they're going to be hit back — probably by Papa, or something of the sort. And this is not necessarily bad training — it doesn't make good children, but it certainly is a fine key-in on the overt act-motivator sequence. All right.

In Greece — the days when Greece was really caved in, it had become very fashionable to be very effeminate about everything. "War, well. . ." and one dusted his fingertips daintily with a silk lace handkerchief and put a perfumed apple to his nose and said, "Hm-hm." That was in the days when they'd send over one squad of legionnaires from the tenth cohort of Rome or something, to take garrison at the northern end of Greece and all would remain calm throughout Greece. Greece was a slave at that time.

Some of this begin to make sense to you, exactly why he doesn't perceive?

So fear, in its exhibition and agreement upon what one should be afraid of, is an index to the degree of hypnosis under which your preclear is laboring. Why hypnosis? Well, that must be an agreement on fear, hm? So a deep agreement on any subject is a hypnosis. So he's just hypnotized into believing he's afraid. He doesn't start out as being afraid, you see. He just gets into agreement with everybody, and then he finally agrees that this is the thing to do — start making postulates about being afraid. Well, he's run through society after society after society on the whole track doing this.

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Anybody who has formerly been in space opera has finally agreed that it was dangerous and upsetting to hit a meteorite flight with a ship at two light-years per second or something. Anybody — almost anybody has agreed, finally, that this is not an optimum experience, and one should be afraid that it will happen.

Now, in the various considerations which we have, the major one is the consideration of beauty. You have now a process which directly processes beauty and consideration of beauty, in shifting postulates. And it is very necessary for you to handle this in a preclear, no matter whether you think it's tactful or not — it's just handle it. There isn't a creature anywhere in the world that is sane, that believes he or she or it is as beautiful as can be. There is no zenith. There isn't a one. So that here, particularly, one shouldn't take it amiss or feel that tact has anything to do with it. Make it rather impersonal.

Well, what do you know, they didn't start the track early like that — they just reported back to base and got a new ship and body. And said, "What do you know, we were up there on Run 68 and shot full of holes. Why don't you sweep that area up? Where's my body? Oh, a Mark-8 body, okay. I see they've improved the wristlets." That's about as emotional as it was.

And in processing by shifting postulates, such questions as "Where aren't you being beautiful?" takes up number I. "Now let's get some ugly space, and let's get some beautiful space" takes up number III. In IV, in handling automaticities, so forth, machines which make beauty and which unmake beauty are very important. And in V, you shift terminals, that is to say postulates, in such a way as to bring about a betterment of this automa, pardon me, of this various automaticity that shuts off beauty and so on. And these postulates which are shifted, of course, is, "I am not beautiful" or "they are not beautiful" or "they are ugly" or "they are not ugly" or "that is not aesthetic" or "that has no artistic sincerity" or "my beauty will be criticized" or "if I put up anything beautiful it will be spoiled" — anything that would have to do with handsomeness, beauty, charm, grace, gracefulness, good meter (that is to say, rhythm) — any of the factors which represent, themselves, beauty.

And then after a while, I suppose somebody started a college or some place, and they got scared all over again, and it got fashionable. And then one day, they said, "Gee, I wouldn't like to go on that run because, gee, I might get on Run 68 and there might be a dust speck there that might dent the windshield, you know? So we won't go in for space opera anymore. Where's a nice, safe planet?" Because — see, it's agreements on fear.

Now, you can take this all by itself and just start chewing it up, and you'd have a well preclear. That's how important that wavelength is, because that's how he gets into energy. And the only reason he ever got into energy of any kind or consideration or description was because of beauty. And beauty is a very fine, high, aesthetic wave. And it in essence, apparently, is the gradient scale — is top on the gradient scale from postulate to apathy and mest. And so I refer you to 8 -80 and the little charts in there that have to do with this. It's a very high wave. And where a person has made postulates on the subject which are very definite, why, these postulates impede his further progress.

Well, if you get a preclear sitting in a chair or being in the center of the room exteriorized, and have him put into the six walls of the room fear, you've got, in essence, an agreement on fear. He has certain banks of fear and certain postulates about what he should be afraid of. In other words, what is sensible. "What to be afraid of" and "what is sensible" are synonymous remarks, you know. And he sits in the center of the room and puts some fear into the wall. Well, you have in essence a double-terminal agreement, see that? So you're running it out. So you make it possible for him to agree on any god's quantity of fear, because what he's basically afraid of is the emotion known as fear.

He said, "There isn't any use, because I'll never be beautiful anyhow." This sort of thing goes on in his mind. It's a feeling of sorrow — a feeling of sorrow hits him sometimes when he stands up to a mirror or hits her sometimes when she stands up. And I've seen quite a very, very handsome woman be very, very upset every time they looked in a mirror. And they were always consulting with the mirror.

I don't know if anybody here might have ever had the experience of actually becoming terrified — I mean, really terrified. That's a bad experience. I can assure you he's had it someplace on the track, but in this lifetime I don't know if he might have had this. Because it's a sort of uncontrollable proposition. But what one has started to fight, you see, and resist — one thinks one might be afraid of something and then he starts to resist it and then he resists it harder, and it resists him and he resists it, and all of a sudden he hits — bang! and he blows up a great big piece of fear someplace, you know? He's just got lots of it. And it's overwhelming, fed to him in this much dosage, in this space of time. And it might be set off by a shell, and oddly enough, maybe two or three years after the war, it might be set off by an automobile backfiring in the street — fellow goes into terror. And that is grim stuff! I mean, he goes out of control.

When people depend upon a piece of energy to contain all the beauty of which they are capable, they're almost lost right there. But that's so high above what your preclear's doing that it's almost inconceivable. So remedy this factor of beauty. If you feel you're stepping on some preclear's toes — devil with it. Better to step on his toes, or let him feel you're stepping on his toes, than to leave this fact overlooked.

And when he's had one of these experiences and you, as an auditor, are auditing him and you don't know about this experience — oh no. No, that — you're just not going to get anyplace with this case. Not unless you start specializing on fear, one way or the other. You can just start straight out and start specializing on fear, but then you've got that already, it's down here as one of these steps. So we've cut down the tremendous unknownness of his experience and everything down to a rather pat step.

Now, in the handling of postulates — I want to go over that again with you — preclears will do various weird things when they start moving postulates around. A preclear does not have to know why he is moving postulates, he does not have to know in order for this technique to work. But don't confuse this with other rationale than this — it's the Prelogics: theta locates in space and time, this and that. All right. Now, let's add postulates. He locates postulates and fixes them in space and time, and that in itself becomes logic. So we have joined up knowingness, logic, and geographical position, and the creation of space, and consecutive spaces which themselves become time, with this process of handling postulates.

But mind you, if you're dealing with a current lifetime, you're dealing with a dual fear: the GE and he were scared at the same time. So this puts fright solidly on the track in one chunk.

Now, we used to have a process of putting up a mock-up in front of one, and above one, and to the right, to the left, and below and so forth. Well, that had an incidence of failure which wasn't quite discernible. I looked over why people were failing with this because I wasn't failing with it. And it seemed to me quite remarkable that they were.

Very often, by the way, a person has been — spent part of his life terrified or scared or very upset about something, and has gotten over it; and will tell you, every once in a while — it's very customary for him to tell you that well, he's all over that, he doesn't have that anymore. Uh-huh. Tsk! That's not true. He has conquered it by suppressing it. And you're trying to set him free, and he's trying to suppress something. So the harder you try to set him free, the harder he's going to recognize that you're this fear charge which is going to — he has to suppress, so he starts suppressing you and suppressing the auditing and so forth.

Well, I found out they were doing this: They were putting up a mock-up and then they were unmocking it, and putting it in a new position and then unmocking it in the new position, and then putting it in a new position, and unmocking it in the new position. No, thank you. That's not the way to do it. What you do is put up this mock-up and move it. Now, just that — move it to the new position, no matter what you have to do — put it in a kiddie car or hitch a truck to it or anything. It doesn't matter how you get it moved, just get it moved to the new position.

But again, we're dealing with a central emotion there — fear, terror. It's better to just locate it and be real smart about it and locate it right straight off and handle it and let that go to that, see — with an E-Meter. That's the best way to do it, cuts short the auditing. Or just start handling it and putting it in the walls, that's all. You just recognize your case is not making progress after you've run the first three steps, and you've run them rather rapidly and he just doesn't show any signs of shaking out of it, you can — you could just say, "Well, to hell with it, put 'fear' in the bulkhead."

You'll find out that when a preclear puts up an idea, his tendency is, if you tell him to move it, is to — it'll be there as an idea for the first inch or two, and then it'll skip all the way through. And then it'll not arrive at all — it'll evaporate someplace, and then he'll put a new postulate at the destination. He won't move this postulate through to a new position.

Well, he right away is — be kind of upset with you, maybe, at the idea that you've suddenly saddled him with having been afraid of something. Well, I would like to see the thetan on the whole track that had never been scared this way, because he's gone in through consecutive agreements with fright.

The first place here, you are dramatizing, straight out, "can't arrive." You just see "can't arrive" all over the place. And the pinpoint repositioning, by motion, of this, is of the essence. Now, there's no reason to just sit there and make the preclear fail on it, it's just give him light enough postulates, easy enough things to shove around, to get the idea. Because in essence, you're using postulates to make space and make anchor points.

Now, you could know all about all the societies he's gone through, but all we're interested — in any society he's gone through, is contained on these two pieces of paper — SOP 8-C. That's the only mechanisms we're interested in. We're not interested in the other mechanisms he's gone through.

And you'll find that if he's well processed, he just gets the postulates a little further out and more certainly located, and he can put them further away, successively, as he goes along. And finally he'll be able to get them miles and miles away with great certainty. But at first he might only have been able to get them between two corners of the room, and was having a hard time doing that. He can move them, in other words. And you're asking him to move a postulate. But remember, you're asking him to move a postulate, not make one appear, disappear, and then reappear, and then disappear again. You're asking him to consecutively parade a postulate between two places. You'll find quite often that he's unable to make the postulate arrive at the destination. Well, you just coax him into it, that's all. Let him do it for a while and he'll arrive finally. And he receives the benefit of the thing of having the stuff evaporate.

But he feels — he is frightened of something, and if you just dig it up and handle it, and fear on that particular subject as postulates and so forth, you'll make lots of space. But there's where judgment comes in, in using these two pages, and that's about the only place it comes in. You have to know what you're doing.

Now this, in essence, performs an erasure. Theoretically, you could take an engram which suddenly appeared with a preclear and by moving it — not by jumping it and making it reappear, see, that's a different process — by actually moving it, not moving the scenery up to it and around it and so forth; they'll do that one too. You've just got to pester a preclear to death to find out what he's doing with this technique. And don't just sit there benignly and let him go on and run it and fall on his face and do all sorts of weird things and then afterwards say, "Well, let's see, I guess that technique doesn't work."

The point is that the human mind is a servomechanism to all mathematics. So the human mind is a servomechanism to all mathematical or symbolical communications systems. Western Union is a symbolical communications system, if you want to know precisely what I mean by a communications system.

No, your auditing didn't work, that's what happened there. That's because you just didn't keep asking him and hounding him all the time, and finding out exactly what he was doing. See, it's much better to give a preclear a completely harassed feeling of just being pestered to death than it is just to sit back and let him run benignly. ARC in a session — it has some desirability, has some desirability. But believe me, look at that C. And if you've got to sacrifice a little A and R to get a little bit better C, you do so — every time, do so.

A conversation down on the corner depends upon a specific and direct and very, very critically pinpointed communications system between two people. There's one thetan who is using certain apparatus in order to force air in certain directions across certain tensions which makes air vibrate in a certain way against somebody else's — other thetan's eardrums. The information is taken there, is rerationalized, is put into the vocal cords of the second thetan, and they set the air in vibration which goes into the ears of the first thetan, and that's a relay system — and it's a real complex system.

Although it might be not polite for you to keep saying, "What the hell are you doing now?" and it will jar the affinity and so forth, it would be even better to go in on that level than just to sit there politely and let him fall all over himself and not make any progress in the session. I'm sure some of you must be doing this. I mean, you know, just, "It's not so polite to interrupt, and it's not quite polite to keep hounding somebody all the time, so we'll just kind of let that one coast, and we'll let the next one coast, and what we need is a friendly atmosphere."

But a thetan gets sold on one of these communications systems and he wants to make it rigid. And that's another thing you might run into that's slightly outside our sphere of interest. But he runs into one of these communications systems — it's so lovely, it's so pat, it's so good — and he'll set it up as a system. He sets it up as something to do, rather than something which will do something.

By the way, that's the most gorgeous formula of all, is "what we want is a friendly atmosphere." That leads to cat-and-dog fights all over the place. It is an implant. Part of the between-lives implant in this particular era at this time is "we want a friendly atmosphere." It's a head-on implant, you might say, it's around in front of the body. A large mass of energy accumulates there, and you move that one around and you'll get some weird results on your preclear. And you'll also better his ability to audit like mad. The trouble with an auditor who is doing poorly, he wants a "friendly" atmosphere before he wants a cleared one. And that's a big difference. All right.

So you can audit somebody after a while with a specific system that has no surprises in it, and he'll pattern it as a system. And after that you audit what he's audited as a patterned system. You've audited what he's set up as a patterned system, after you've audited him too long.

Getting the postulate moved to the points where he can move it with certainty is, then, the job of the auditor. The preclear must be able to move. Now, how small a gradient, and how light a postulate? Well, I imagine you're going to have to find some that are pretty light and move them a very short distance indeed. Such as, you could take the postulate — you take — just take the postulate "fingers," you know, "there are fingers," and have him move that.

And the way to really wreck him and upset him endlessly in doing this and throw it out the window, is simply to audit communication directly. We notice this auditing has gotten down to a long grind with some preclear, he's not making any progress, he's just going through the motions. We can assume that he has set up some kind of a communications system on the subject. And if he is being audited patly, over a pat thing like SOP 8-C, why, he's too willing to set up a communications system. What he's unwilling to face is the effort of communication.

Have him move it where? Always behind him. You understand? Don't let that postulate get around in front. Move it behind him, and you might be able to move it from one corner of the back of the chair to the other corner of the back of the chair. See, he might be able to get that smoothly. He might only be able to get it one inch. Move it one inch with certainty, and move it back one inch with certainty. But remember, it's got to be moved all the way, and it's got to be there all the way, and so you just drill him on it until he's had it there all the way.

Well, why won't he face it? It's because, we go right straight back — see how nice these factors work out? — we go right straight back to invalidation.

And you'll find him doing some of the darnedest things. After you've got him all straight, see, and he's doing it just right, you ask him three minutes later what he's doing, two minutes later . . . You think this is rather peculiar — you've just been running this postulate, and you've run this postulate for two or three minutes and it doesn't seem to have any letup on it. Just say he's just going on running it, and he's — same communication space, you know, that's one of the ways you tell. Fellow says, yes, he's done it. And then, "Yes." And after a while he's saying, "Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes." It's one of the ways you tell. Also, he might have stopped doing it at all, and he's merely asking — answering you, "Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes," to get rid of you. But the point is that he starts doing it more easily.

Well, why do we go back to invalidation? Because a communications system has to do with the motion of particles through definite relay points. And this means that the individual is afraid of being hit. So he doesn't go near the relay points, he stays on the line. And therefore he's afraid of being hit. So you just handle it as "afraid of being hit" or "must hit" or "must be hit," see? Or "mustn't be hit." Just "afraid of being hit"; and we're back again to fear.

Now, you must — all of a sudden you've run this three minutes, no result — "Let me see here, see? What's going on here?" You say, "What are you doing? Now, move it into the basement. Now, did you do that? Now, how did you do it?" And you'll be amazed. The fellow was doing it perfectly correct just two or three minutes before, perfectly right, and now he has it under his arm as a football and is going down to the basement with it and is bringing it back up. Now and then he will be chasing it down to the basement by throwing rocks at it. Now and then you'll find that a little man has appeared — and this is a very handy mechanism — this little man runs from this point to the other point and runs back again, thinking it all the time. I don't give you these just to model it, but believe me!

He's not dangerous to the communications system, the communications system is dangerous to him. So he just sets it up as a system as soon as he can, and then steps off the lines — gets off the lines and skips it. See that? And so after that, you're auditing something or other.

And now you've got him — you're all content now. You've got this straightened out about he's taking it down to the basement, and he's taking it to the attic. And now you've just — "You've got to move it to the attic, and you're supposed to be right back of your head and move it to the attic, you see?" All right, he does that, he's perfectly content, so forth. And then you say, "All right. Now how did you make out with that?" after it's moved six or seven more times, you know.

Now, anybody who set — who will self-audit. . . This is something an E-Meter will tell you faster than the preclear — anybody who self-audits rather consistently and continually, runs a liability of simply setting it up as a circuit. He just sets up a communications system on the subject of auditing. And anybody who is audited long and arduously and monotonously, will set up a communi­cations system which in the — eventually, will start to audit him. See, he just sets up a circuit. Then the second the auditor's gone, that circuit is still there.

And he says, "Oh, that's fine. I'm just doing fine with it now."

Well, communications get scarce, and they are the most intimate form of havingness and not-havingness. People don't want communications or they want communications or they must inhibit communications — DEI.

"Well, what are you doing with it? Hm?"

What is a communication? A communication is a meaningful particle. And we go into, immediately, the fact that they are symbolical postulates. So we handle a lot of symbolical postulates and we will stop this self-auditing. That breaks down that easily.

Just terrible that it creates such an atmosphere of suspicion, but try not to sound too suspicious. But this time — this time he has been able to get the whole thing straight. He's running it along a telephone wire, and the telephone company is moving it. Anybody is moving this postulate but himself.

There's an enormous number of things that get cared for without your worrying about them too much. You can care for the preclear — you can care for the effects which have accrued over a thousand different civilizations on one individual. You can just care for it, that's all. You have the technologies to do so.

Now, the rationale behind this — and you just get him back to putting it there and moving it. Now, he wants you to — he says, "Do I — am I supposed to cloak it in energy?"

And there's this enormous randomity — how many things he could do, how many things he could be capable of. There's only a few of them in which we're interested. And they go back again to evaluation, invalidation and location in general, and that's all they go to. And when they simmer down to those, well, it just makes good sense and they sail along.

And you say, "No, you're just supposed to put the postulate there."

Invalidation — that's arrival of particles. He doesn't want to be cause, that means he doesn't want to despatch particles. So that's "not starting particles." And he doesn't want to be effect, well, that's "not arriving particles." Well, he'll symbolize this in hundreds of ways — he's just not arriving. You tell him to put something out on something, he doesn't arrive. You have to ask him sharply a few times, if he — if you've got any doubt about his case, he isn't arriving. That's the main thing that's wrong with his case. He's just not getting there. And there are many ways to make him do that, but they're all right here. Tell him to be close to it for a while, and then tell him to be closer to it, and finally let him arrive at it.

"Well, what if there's some energy around it?"

Another thing, the — a communication has to start and it has to arrive. And you're essentially dealing with a communications system when you're dealing with a preclear — postulates, symbols and aberrations. So the study of the communications system brings us right around, however, to these seven steps again, and we've still got the factors which we need to have to handle the communications system.

"Well, okay, there's some energy around it. Don't pay any attention to the energy, just move the postulate."

Now, when we say a fellow is not there by location — you know, "where is he not, where is he not, where is he not," why, he'll be happily "not" lots of places, see? That's what he's happiest about. And it'll finally pin him down so he is someplace, but it isn't up to the auditor to put him anyplace. Because if he announces where he is, then he has arrived. So we're up against the fellow who can't arrive, and the fellow who mustn't depart.

Well, this will work out all right until "handle with energy" turns up. And sooner or later on some cases, you're going to have to handle the dunce cap itself, and you just move it around. Now, he's been moving things around with it, and then it became automatic and moved things around for him. So now you ask him to move it around again — that gives him control of it. But move it around. Don't have it skip, skip, skip. See that?

Now, the reason people mustn't depart is they have to know before they go. And the reason they can't arrive is the mest universe cycle is that people who are at the point of arrival of a communication line are hit by a particle.

Now, the reason we take up and tell a thetan to "be here," and "be there," and "be someplace else," is this is actually the right way to go about it. But this should not blind you to the fact that a thetan should be able to move from one place to another. You ask somebody to be back of his head, be in his head, be back of his head, be in his head, now be back of his head, now move into his head. Arrrhh-hunh! He can't do it. This'll worry him.

You wonder what — what's happened to this man's perception? What's happened to this preclear's perception — how can it be so far out? Well, he just never bothers to be at the point where it's being received. He'd just rather set up something else.

Well, you ask him to be halfway, and then be in his head. Then be back of his head, now be a quarter of the way, be halfway, be three quarters of the way, be in your head. And you're getting the essential elements of motion. Motion is a consecutive appear and disappear, in infinitely small gradients. And if he can do it no other way, why, he can do it by those small gradients. But a thetan ought to be able to move from one end of the room to the other.

So we have people using all sorts of shifty methods of not being at the point where the particles are arriving. They use what you might call a remote viewpoint system. And remote viewpoints are put around and they catch the particles incoming. Therefore, the person's vision is pretty poor — pretty poor. And what they look at is not always what they are looking at, because they'd just as soon be discharged at by a facsimile as by a mest wall. I mean, they're both very dischargeable things — mest walls, everybody knows, continually shoot people. Now, you'd think so, the way people dodge off of them.

Now, he has handled things with postulates, and now postulates are beginning to handle him. And postulates handle him to such a degree that he has demon circuits and automaticities and all kinds of things that are undesirable. So it's of the essence that he handles postulates. He also should be able to handle energy and handle objects by making them move, because they have been moving him so much as a thetan, that he has become unable to move of his own accord. He has to be moved. So we just work this out in terms of making him move the things which move him.

So when you have a communication difficulty, a perception difficulty, you're right back here on barriers. But remember that the thetan considers himself a barrier, if the thetan has to have barriers. The thetan himself cannot be hit. But if he thinks in terms of barriers all the time, he thinks of himself as a barrier.

Now, would we run this in brackets? That's not necessary. They didn't go into his bank in brackets, so they might as well come out under his own horsepower. Is this tough on him? You bet it is. The ideas of space went into his bank in brackets, but the idea of postulates, his own postulates, never went into his bank in brackets. No matter how often he tries to tell you they did, they just went in just one way — he said so.

He wants to stop other people's attention — you know, he wants to get it himself — therefore, to put up something to catch it. He won't let it go on through, and then he gets afraid of it after a while, because he's put up too many things. Using a body as a bulletproof vest is not successful — doesn't work well.

Now, are these postulates in the past? They are only in the past when they accompany the postulate that there is a past. They are only timed when they accompany a postulate which assigns time to them.

So as we go through this and look at various parts of this, we discover that perception comes under the heading — perception is as good as a person isn't afraid of being invalidated. A person is afraid of being invalidated just as much as they're scared of being hit by particles, or afraid they'll hit particles, of course. Well, the main puzzler on that line is invisible barriers.

Now, preclears who make consistent and continual errors about time may fall into two classifications: One, they've kicked out their automaticity about time, and the other is they've gone up a high enough Tone Scale that time starts to look silly to them. They just don't care about time, and dates and things like that seem to be very nonessential.

Now, we've got invisible barriers in Step IV and, of course, invisible barriers belongs, very definitely, in Step VII. I notice that it's not written in Step VII. You ought to make a no — a motion of it there. Invisible barriers are far more important to some preclears than others.

Well, you'll find this will be the case at the moment you start kicking out the time labels — the postulate that one must have time labels on postulates. You'll make somebody feel like his whole bank is caving in to run the time labels on postulates — the idea that every postulate must have a time assigned to it. You just make him feel like his whole — everything is caving in on him. That's because he's tried to fix the postulates into energy.

Now, I have a preclear who will sit there, and he can run a mock-up with his eyes open, but he can't run a mock-up with his eyes shut. In other words, he's got to look at a mock-up through an invisible barrier. He must be reassured that he has an invisible barrier up before he dares put a piece of energy up.

But you find — he'll find out that this isn't quite as dangerous as he supposes. Particularly if you've made him handle a lot of energy before you get into that time postulate. And it's about the last one you'd kick out of anybody. And it is not in 8-C that you kick one out — that's 8-O. And that's the big difference. But I just want to give you that right now, that it's — these postulates are not timed, except as they say they're timed. Another postulate has to time the postulate. And you'll get various conditions occurring. So you should know what's happening with a time postulate. Supposing his whole track does cave in? Well, you just move a caved-in track around. Just get a caved-in track and move it around.

You'll find other preclears that will sit and look out the window. The invisible barrier has such magnetic attraction for them that they can do nothing but face an invisible barrier.

Now, if you're going right down the line with SOP 8-C on a preclear, and you yourself have no vast experience with it, you better handle it very much according to rote — because there are some hidden designs in it. And one of them is that perception is the last step — it's Step VII. It's not Step II, nor III, nor IV, nor V. Now, he's got to be looking at something. He just can't be getting the idea and staring into the blue space and that's that, when he makes mock-ups and things like that. But you're not forcing him to look at anything. You'd certainly better wait till Step VII — Reach and Withdraw, Contact with, Six Ways to Nothing and so forth, and the other techniques which fit in with VII — contact with this MEST universe, before you tell a thetan to look at the MEST universe very seriously.

The air screen of Earth is an invisible barrier. It's nice. It's a cushiony invisible barrier.

Your failures in raising perception of individuals is because you don't orient a person before you start telling him to look. He's so scared he's going to be hit — that's the reason he can't see. If he can't see well, he's scared he's going to be hit. So you'd start — better remedy "fear of being hit" at V and VI before you go into handling (and that's "fear of being hit" and "invisible barriers"; they're both more or less the same thing) — you'd better handle that in V and VI, right there, before you start any long, protracted drills. And if the fellow can look at things and he's perfectly relaxed about looking at them, all right. But he's just looking at things. You're asking him to tell you several places where he isn't. That's a lot different than say, "Look at several places."

If you've ever been up on the moon, you know that about thirty thousand meteors a day hit the moon. Boom-boom-boom-boom-boom-boom-boom! Crash-crash-crash-crash-crash! It's very, very "meteoratorous" in outer space — very. And if you object to being hit, why, there's no sense in you standing someplace between here and the Sun, because — well, you occasionally see them at night when they come in and hit the outer atmosphere and come in far enough.

So, if we had another name for Step VII in SOP 8-C, it would be "perception" — which in essence is contact, which in essence is barrier. See, perception and barriers are synonymous. So you could call it "perceptions" or "barriers" or most anything. So don't ask somebody to look at something he obviously can't see and give him a big lose. Furthermore, don't give these people too many loses. Don't give people these terrific number of losses. Because that's all he's running on: wins and loses.

They — Earth is a very, very thoughtful — boy, the modus operandi, the way that some of these planets are set up to operate. Some are more tricky than others. Earth is just wonderful. I mean it's got this big screen and that filters the heat of the sun very nicely and — of course, radio engineers think it's put up there exclusively to turn their radio waves back, but it's not true. It was set up there originally to catch meteors. And the meteors come in and they burn up before they hit. Because just — many more meteors would hit Earth than are currently hitting the moon if you didn't have an air screen.

Now, I recommend to you, in running 8-C, the Chart of Attitudes in the Handbook for Preclears — top and bottom, negative and positive, you know — for use in handling postulates. And just take that Chart of Attitudes and handle the postulates.

So you have this terrific invisible barrier on which you're utterly dependent. Nobody ever pays any attention to it, then somebody comes along and wonders why he has asthma. Do you see that? Air! Air! And the body's got to have a big reason for everything — terrific reason, you know — so they have to breathe the air, and that gives them energy. Or does it? See, I mean there's a big reason — but the point is that air is an invisible and necessary barrier.

Now, you know old repeater technique in Book One? The old psychoanalysts — why, I remember one down in Washington. These people who don't know are always sure that there's an awful lot of ways to know, and this boy was very, very indoctrinated in psychoanalysis. Oh, boy. And he finally told me, "You know, you have something there that psychoanalysis can use." And I looked at this character.

Now, we get sound being very aberrative to people — terrifically aberrative. And sound goes through space and hits and — objects. It's the motion of an air particle — bap-bap-bap-bap-bap-bap-bap-bap — that's all sound is. It's motion of an air particle going rappity-rap-rap-rap-rap-rap on somebody's body. You can get a concussion off of sound.

In the first place, psychoanalysis — I was probably undoubtedly a better analyst than he was. He was a boot-eyed kid that didn't know a psycho from a horsefly. He was supertrained, he'd been in school about twelve years or something. And he had all kinds of knowledge and no experience, and he was going to tell me something about this. And I looked at him very amused. And he went on without noticing this quite sudden and intense regard for him.

The reason preclears get scared of sound is very amusing. Very early on the track, the only time they ever heard a sound was when it was contained in an electronic blast. It took particles in the electronic blast to convey to them the sound wave. Otherwise, everything was completely silent — the silence of a vacuum. And then somebody would set off one of these big electronic blasts (which is only possible in vacuums — big enough, with that little current) and, of course, when they'd be hit by the electronic blast, they would get a sound. So Earth here kind of backfires, you see — it restimulates electronic blasts on the track.

He said, "That repeater technique," he said, "that's wonderful." He said, "I just took the Book One, and I started getting a patient to repeat things, and the second I got him back, all of a sudden he was right there in the incident." And he says, "His father was scolding his mother for not having changed the baby's diapers, and we went immediately into the problem of toilet training and handled the problem of toilet training at that moment," and so forth.

You don't have to worry about that though, because you start turning on perceptions, and as you cure a person's fear of being hit, you cure his fear of sound. See, it's bap-bap-bap-bap-bap — the invisible barrier, the invisible vibration.

And I said, "And what happened to the patient?"

Now, you could have a person move a sound around, by the way — if you can make him get any kind of a sound, no matter how light or how imaginary or anything else, and make him move it around positively and make it arrive in various places, you'll turn on his sonic. Because sound always has moved him around — he's never moved sound around very much.

"Oh, he's — he was sick today. But that's all right. That doesn't make any . .."

Big competition in the mest universe on the subject of sound. You go out here and you listen to these diesel trucks and you listen to ferryboat whistles and all this sort of thing — yeah, that's big sound. And then you go out and you decide you're going to yell that loud when you're a kid. And you don't.

This guy, a complete disconnect that a process and making somebody well had any connection, see? The goal of the process was lost to him. He didn't have any goals of his own. He didn't conceive that anything he was doing had any goals. You could imagine somebody being in the business of psychoanalyzing people who wasn't psychoanalyzing anybody to get them over any mental aberration or make them any more able, or to make them feel any better or anything else? Without the slightest inkling that any of the techniques of psychoanalysis or any other technique would even vaguely influence the health, well-being, or the family, or the status, or the society? Can you imagine somebody doing this? Well, you'd better imagine it because you're looking at psychoanalysts in general.

And you go around and you say, "Well, why can't I have a siren on my bicycle?" You go down and maybe you find one, maybe you buy one.

Repeater technique — we really had something. Well, I've sheered right on off of phrases and ideas and symbols from that moment on. I shunned them, talked them down, never said anything more about them. But it comes back to the point that the trouble with this society is that it has symbolized postulates in the form of language to a point where it is utterly overburdened with symbolization, till everything is a symbol, till everything has supersignificance.

Well, the police are more aberrated than you are, and they are very conscious of the fact that nobody must get into competition with them. Probably the only way to get into trouble in a police state is to imitate the government or the police. That's the only way to really get into trouble when justice begins to deteriorate. In other words, collect taxes or extort money — and if you do either of these two things, you're in real trouble with the cops.

Looking becomes condensed — when condensed, feeling. Feeling when condensed becomes effort. Effort when condensed becomes circuit-type thinking. Thinking when condensed becomes symbols and words. And there is the level at which the society is resting at this very minute — symbolized. The only solid things are symbols. Nothing else is good and solid, but symbols are.

Furthermore, you mustn't use any force against somebody — that's strictly police prerogative. So competition is what they're most afraid of. Well, actually, that's what a thetan is terribly afraid of — he's afraid of competition and superiority like mad.

So we get back to repeater technique. Repeating symbols over and over and over did not solve them because they were being more firmly fixed too often in one place, and because of the restimulative character of the automaticity known as the facsimile. Therefore, it required, in order to handle this problem — which is peculiar to Western civilization at this time, very peculiar; it's much more acute, by the way, in Eastern civilizations — is the technique of postulate position changing.

Now, he'd love to stay in one place if he could. But he can't, because the place would get too bombarded. That's true too, by the way — I mean, if you stayed in one place consistently, being hit by every wave that came in and receiving every wave that came in and letting no waves go through, you would soon have considerable mass.

You will find, as the cases roll along, when you're trying to handle something very specific and very pertinent to the case, that if you will handle it on the basis — just on the basis that this case is stuck in symbols; if you just say that when you look at somebody, "This case is stuck in language, he's stuck in symbols, symbols are matter to him" — you will have a better clue to the case than any other one that I can give you. And the way to handle it is SOP 8-C in its entirety.

Well, you see what an awful lot of data there is here? You getting kind of snowed under? Huh? There could just be thousands and thousands and thousands of reasons why, couldn't there?

But the things that you can handle under V was anything that could have been attempted to be handled under repeater technique — anything. And any rationale which has been delivered in Dianetics or Scientology can be handled under Step V.

Well, we've boiled it all down — this tremendously complicated object known as the thetan, we've boiled him all down to certain definite things that he must be able to do. When he can't do them, we remedy the fact that he can't do them and make it possible for him to do them. And then after we've done that, why, the rest of it works out of its own accord. That's what it amounts to.

It all comes about the ability to impose and change the space between two terminals. And upon that, depends the power of the individual. And the power of the individual alone is going to set him free. Not his symbols, his power. And that power has nothing whatsoever to do with setting up a machine to give him power. It has to do with his native ability — which is very native — to create space, to create energy, and do the exact things which you are doing on SOP 8-C. And those things, when all added up, give him force and power. And when we get down to it finally, it's the power of knowing a postulate is going to stay where he put it.

So we make it possible for him to do things. These are the things — these seven steps — that you'll ordinarily not find him being able to do. One or the other of them will be poor. Well, you improve these abilities and you've got a good guy, got a good girl, on your hands. This follows. This has been following through now for a year — this refined 8-C which you see here is after a lot of study of an awful lot of people working on something. It isn't introduction of a lot of new material — it's new organization.

Okay.

Organization isn't terribly important to a thetan, but it's terribly important in a modus operandi. It's harder to organize data than to originate it, any day in the week. Because organization is the thing people agree with — they don't agree with the postulates, they agree with the way the postulates are organized. Hence, you have symbols being so heavy.

Now, taking up here all of these things — your own patter, conversation with regard to them, then, should minimize reaching for significances, trying to find out something that lies beyond the something. You know, the invisible barrier is something you look beyond — that's into the future and so forth. Looking beyond is looking for significance. The physical action of trying to find deep significance is looking beyond an invisible barrier. I mean, they're synonymous.

Therefore, you cut your patter down to a point where you're dealing with just this material on these two sheets, and trying to find out what he isn't doing and what he is doing and making it possible for him to do it. The thinkingness and knowingness and lookingness which you apply, then, is consistently — should be delivered toward — relocating, reestablishing for the preclear his ability to do these things.

The only thing that'll interrupt you in this — if you yourself are being hit by one of these dunce caps which has inverted, which has got to fail. If you've got to fail, why, you're just being hit by this fact — you've gone into too many heads, and you're carrying too many coils of stuff.

Now, it isn't that you — there aren't lots of things that you could know with profit. Believe me, you can always know something with profit. But I'm — by snowing you under here with lots of data, see, and lots of stuff. . . I just love to give you a good, broad view, and maybe many of you right now think you're looking at this big, broad view of all of a thetan's adventures and potentialities and what he can do, and that you have to know about all this, and "Gee-whiz, gee-whiz, my gosh!" No sir. It's just these things that's important, and whatever adventures he's ever had, it's just these importances, one after the other, that — which we comb through, and we find out that if we remedy these importances as we go through, your individual is able then to function much, much better. And he can function, because this is generally what's wrong with him that has to be right with him.

Now, when you discover something he can't do — yes, it has a significance for you. It means you've hit a step which has got to be gone over. You'll probably have to go over it with a gradient scale. And there's where your side knowledge comes in. You don't make him lose all the time, you make him win.

So you keep your patter real simple. You ask him to do real simple things. You don't have to ask him to do anything complicated. If your imagination suddenly dictates that you should do something complicated, always ask yourself, "Is this too much for the thetan that we're trying to do it to?" Because if we give him something that's terribly complex and he gets lost, that's wrong.

There's another one to remember, is don't give him two things to do before he's executed one. That's always a good one. You give him one thing to do and when he has done that, give him the next thing to do. You might know the next thing for him to do a long time before he does. But if you give him two consecutive things to do, or three consecutive things to do, one right after the other, it's kind of poor — and if they're contradictory, it is murder. He isn't tracking with you. In other words, you've gone out of communication with him, which is going out of agreement with him.

No matter how many factors have been gone through in all of this material here in the last twenty-five years that I have handled, has always gone through a boil-down of this material. And where the material which you're holding right in your hands ran through rather cleanly, any piece of information, the information would hold good and would work. Getting rid of information on the subject itself was more important.

Now, this is actually an action — this is a piece of doingness, this 8-C. It's action. And you'll find out, oddly enough, that 8-C will handle anything that's been proposed here in the last three years in the public eye. It will. It'll handle anything in these. And just for your own edification, you ought to go back and get ahold of a copy or take your old copy and — we can get it now, by the way — Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health. Shortly should have or we have now, Science of Survival. Very interesting. Proposes an awful lot of things — 8-C handles them.

Take What to Audit — very interesting book. There's a lot of preclears, by the way — a lot of preclears have startled very nonbelieving auditors into What to Audit fans. These auditors have become What to Audit fans after they have seen somebody in the Tumbler — somebody in one of these engrams or other, they've seen them. And they didn't have to look very hard to see them, either.

You take old Fac One; that's the most vicious of them all even yet. You find more people caved in with Fac One. It's kind of a relief to a preclear after he's been in a Fac One, and has had some kind of a compulsion toward cameras that he couldn't do anything about — you see, he didn't dare really take a picture, he just had a camera — to be out of Fac One and interested in photography and taking pictures. It's a lot of fun taking pictures, but it is no fun to be in Fac One taking pictures.

And there's all sorts of bric-a-brac around in terms of information there in What to Audit which is fascinating indeed, and explains many of the things which you possibly see in a preclear.

We look at 8-80 — old 8-80 is good material. It's better material at this moment than it was when it was written.

And we look over 16-G, that becomes very important.

Most of the Doctorate material — it is in Scientology 8-8008. We have that now in a printed edition. But Scientology 8-8008 contains background theory for most of this stuff and it contains the background theory of the Doctorate Course.

Well, that's a tremendous amount of data, isn't it? It's really true that a person feels he should go over it just so that he can take a look at it. And he should if he's going to know his preclear well, and know a lot of other things.

Because there is a lot of high adventure in it; it isn't a lot of things wrong. It really opens the door to what you can do.

But it's important for you right now — important for you right now to recognize that an apt, brief, in-good-communication use of just this, SOP 8-C and these steps, remedy anything that has been mentioned for three years, and remedy it better and faster than any earlier technique, used in this order.

Now I've gone and gotten you all upset on a couple of loads of data, and I hope at the same time I have given you a bit more confidence. You don't have to know all that. It's darned interesting. What you have to know, and know how to do, is 8-C. And you'll get results if you do it.

The only bad results I have found and had reported in this unit, have been from actually flagrant breaches of 8-C — very flagrant. They're just wild — I mean nobody could do this.

Okay.