I have a little datum for you that I just happened to th ink of; th is has been a puzzle to me for many years. Down in Panama and in other parts of the world, they have a large number of insects that have taken on a complete pattern of ferocity or something of the sort, so that you find a butterfly with a ferocious, snarling face painted on his wings or you find some bug that looks just exactly like a poisonous bug, only he isn’t poisonous. It is a camouflage of sorts.

I often wondered how on earth this design came about. It plagued me and plagued me, because the patterns are excellent and the amount of duplicity involved in it is tremendous.

The theory of evolution was a happy thought on the part of the fellow who wrote the fourth Vedic hymn. The fourth Vedic hymn actually contains the theory of evolution. That was certainly word of mouth before people could write. It wandered into Europe during the eighteenth century and in the very early part of the nineteenth century after being bruited about somewhat. Then somebody looked up one day and saw that horses in the highlands of Persia grew long hair, but when brought into the plains they grew short hair; then when they went back into the mountains they grew long hair, and so on. So they said, “Let’s make a science out of it.”

You can find these insects in entomology books, and it would be worth your while to take a look. It is unbelievable that life would make a butterfly and then reproduce an animal’s face, teeth and all, on its back. And you don’t just imagine you see it there. It is there.

A lot of people monkeyed around with it. There was a fellow by the name of Lysenkol who messed it up somehow, and there have been a lot of people banging their brains out on this for a long time. I speak rather disrespectfully of them because they did a lousy job.

How simple can we get? This is merely a counter-effort. It does it by counter-efforts. What has been killing it? Somehow or other it has gotten fixed up on the basis of counter-efforts, and it just takes the counter-effort and builds a new body just like the counter-effort. It doesn’t put the sting in or the poison or something like that; it leaves that out because it doesn’t have that.

A very good piece of work was done by a fellow by the name of Darwin. A blinding flash occurred to him and he said, “You know, I think that one ought to take a look at the real world and see what cooks.” This staggering flash sent him off on a trip around the world, from which he returned to be figuratively machine-gunned, guillotined, executed and riddled. As a matter of fact, he was assaulted from all sides, driven back from every parapet and discredited. Finally we got the theory of evolution by Charles Darwin. .

I wonder how many human beings operate that way. Maybe some fellow has been killed by large, tall men with fierce black mustaches, so in the next lifetime he grows tall and wears a black mustache.

Actually there is no theory of evolution. I have never seen the law stated as such, but I have heard “theory of evolution” mentioned many times. I have seen no codification of it. I have seen some attempts to codify it, but the theory of evolution as stated has holes in it.

We are out into the blue as far as the amount of stuff we can recover is concerned. Actually, though, we have a very finite package at this time. We have answers to an enormous number of hitherto unknowns or “guessedats.” “Guessed-ats” are more dangerous than unknowns, because people with “guessed-ats” will defend to the death their guesses, whereas you seldom get into a fight with somebody because he says he doesn’t know.

It is not, as it existed a few years ago, a wholly workable plot. But some of it is workable, and as a consequence they have kept it around sort of for old sake’s sake,l and biology has a lot of fun with it.

An overall picture of the subject at this time definitely tells us that we have axioms which embrace all the phenomena. But the phenomena do not have to be listed with the Axioms. The Axioms are just as valid without the complete listing of phenomena. We have taken a departure point in this subject.

But the theory of evolution as practiced in biology, the theory of evolution as practiced in cytology, the theory of evolution as practiced in the fie ld of ani m al husbandry, again in soc iology an d again in psy chology, are five different theories of evolution. They do not agree one with another. So I wouldn’t blame anybody for being a little bit confused about it.

I imagine that there is an actual reason for a secret society beginning to use some of its rites secretly. It is because the public won’t believe them. They get their hands on certain phenomena which the public doesn’t believe and they don’t just willfully say “Now, we’ll use this phenomena to control a large segment of the populace.” They don’t say this; they just get driven into doing it. The object, however, is not control; the object is simply to know and to use what one has. There is nothing impermissible whatsoever about telling somebody about thi s materi al. But the problem of making them believe it is yours.

The missing link in it was the insistence on the part of some individuals that all of this information which would go to make up the blueprint of a living organism was somehow or other on file, but never under any circumstances must be available.

You have been into this subject up to your elbows; you know what this stuff is about and you know wh at can happen. You are trying to tel 1 somebody who doesn’t even know there is a time track that once upon a time he was an algae, and that he can remember it! He says, “Gawp.” You can see why.

This is a complete piece of nonsense: The living organism grows, but it doesn’t have anything on file — there is no blueprint. “Well, the blueprint is carried in the genes. That’s simple. It’s an impulse. Memory is something else. Memory is what you forget what you had for breakfast with.

The funny part of it isthat the basic axioms and standard phenomena can be offered,can be backed up, and can be completely believed. Somebody will walk in on it at his peril, because if he starts walking in on it very far and becomes very practiced in it, he is going to run into the rest of the phenomena. It is inevitable that he will.

”Obviously, the living organism has to have a construction blueprint; obviously it has to have one. If we want to be completely inane we say, “Well, it has one but it’s not on file.”

However, the Superficiality of study of subjects may also make it so that, in the immediate confines of the subject, those who have been trained in the subject know how bad it can get or how good it can get. And others, merely smdying from the text, find the material very useful, very usable.They goon using it at that depth and with no greater depth.

I would like to see you build a factory where everybody said “You follow the blueprint!” but when you asked “Yeah, but where are the blueprints?” they said “Well, they’re not on file. They’re not available; nobody can have them.”

What I am trying to tell you now is that you have a subject which explains itself without your introduction of any incredibilities to anybody’s mind. You can tell Somebody about this. You can get very simple. You can say,“Well,pain is like an energy, and once a person is hurt there’s a sort of storage record of this energy of pain. Then later on, why, this storage file is brought into present time and the person hurts.

That would be really something; you wouldn’t get much of a factory built, and yet all around us in the world today we see living organisms. At least, some of them are partly alive; I saw a kitten the other day that was alive.

The fellow looks at you and he says, “Gee, that’s a tremendous thought — something new.”

Here we had somebody shoving off an imponderable on us as logical. They were posing this phenomenon — that the living organism comes into being on a blueprint which is not available to the living organism. That would really be something! They were saying a factory got built although nobody knew where anything was supposed to go or what shape it was supposed to be, and nobody ever had a blueprint of the factory.

And you say, “And furthermore, we can work it out. You can take this old file of pain and you can work it out in such a way that it doesn’t bother you anymore.” This is very acceptable, no strain at all — particularly when you start running the somatic and he starts to hurt when you tell him to.He may consider this rather odd and peculiar, but after a while he doesn’t hurt so much, and certainly his sinus trouble has been handled and he isn’t worried about what you hit and knocked out. It was his service facsimile and its attendant locks and some of his conclusions. He just feels fine.

Have you ever seen a building built without blueprints? It makes for an interesting building, usually. The cellar door connects in the second story and other interesting things occur.

What I am asking you to do is forbear on educating and concentrate simply on doing things for people, because you can wave the magic wand with this subject. You can do things for people. Not until now were we completely beyond depth, because in order to communicate the subject, you put yourself somewhat on the order of a geometry teacher taking a five- yearold child and teach ing h im geometry. You have to estimate how much the five-year-old child can understand.

Whereas it may be perfectly true that psychiatrists are built without a blueprint, I do not think that living organisms are! I think that they have a blueprint. One fine day I started to look for some material on the track and found myself treading water. Did you ever see a cartoon where a little fellow runs off the end of a cliff and goes way out into space still running, and then all of a sudden he notices that he is way off the ground, and the second he notices this he falls? I went off what I considered the beginning of the time track with a preclear just about in that fashion and I found myself doing the same thing, much to the astonishment of the preclear. He found himself in a place where there wasn’t any place to be.

“Geometry? Well,geometry is very interesting. You know there are such things as angles.”

The data which was accumulated in the ensuing months became more and more interesting.

The five-year-old chi Id looks up — "What’s an angle?”

Now, I call to your attention the valence mechanism. You can see this operate in this lifetime in any preclear. You send him back down the track but he is out of valence. In order to get him into valence, you have to take him to an area where he was in apathy. And only by working an awful lot of effort can you get him to the no-effort of being in valence again and then up the tone scale to where he is. You can watch this work.

“Well, that’s an angle. Now, it can be a narrow angle, it can be a wide angle.”

I call to your attention another interesting phenomenon: Josie had a grandfather and the grandfather died when she was seven years of age. That was the end of Grandpa. You take Josie back on the time track and you find Grandpa — or do you? Not if it really has a charge on it. We don’t find Grandpa. You don’t even find Grandpa way back earlier before he died; you don’t find Grandpa anyplace if this is really occluded. This is a twist on the valence mechanism. This individual shuts out. And every individual has in his lifetime several people who are closed off in this fashion. You have seen this mechanism.

He says, “Gee, th at’s right! I never thought of th at before. T remen dons.”

Now let me call to your attention another mechanism: An individual can have ARC with himself or not have it. He is to his command center an organism, much on the order of associated organisms, except that it is just more intimately associated.

Then you say, “There are circles. There are big circles and little circles. And you look all around the world about you and you’ll find circles — big circles, little circles — angles.”

So we lose Grandpa on the track, and we lose the preclear every time he kicks off. Here you have the individual defeated by death and you get a close-off, and this is simply a valence-shift mechanism, just as it is in an ally. There is nothing much to this, because if you start working it over you find out that if you go back and find a time when this individual was a great disappointment to himself and you turn that on and turn it up, you will find an enormous amount of material earlier than that appearing on the track.

This child is tremendously edified. He will immediately go out and tell the other children that he knows geometry now. But he won’t know geometry.

I also call to the attention of auditors the exclusion of material before the first out-of-valence flick that the preclear does — in childhood and so on. The main service facsimiles usually happen between ages three and ten. You will find the material before that first serious service facsimile very messed up, very cloudy or shut off entirely.

People come around to you to work out a problem .You have the mathematics with which to work their problem, you have the data necessary to re solve their problem and you are a scientist to that tfegree; you have the data. You have to decide whether you are going to act

People cannot remember their childhoods, and this is why people can’t remember their childhoods: they have flicked out of valence. They have gone through a sort of symbolic death through failure. That is a very, very basic mechanism.

with your information or teach your information. And even if you decide you are going to teach your information to Someone, you have to deci de how much.

Now, you take a preclear way back down the track — way, way back down the track — and you will run into all sorts of things. The odd part of it is that you run into deaths. I am very sorry if this is a sore subject any place, but you can’t work anybody by Effort Processing without bumping into a death whether you want it or not. Sooner or later, if you just keep working your preclear by Effort Processing, he is going to be lying there deader than a mackerel in his coffin with everybody saying “Poor Oswald.” And your preclear says, “Oswald, Oswald, Oswald, Oswald; seems familiar, but . . .”

Never, never try to teach somebody more than he can absorb, because you will just leave him confused. You tell somebody, “Well, a person’s lifetime is very full of pain. They’ve been hurt lots of times, so if you could get rid of all this pain or get rid of the reason to have any of this pain, a person would feel a lot better, wouldn’t he?”

You bring the rest of the death up and he will be more willing to be Oswald. You see, Oswald failed. He died and he shouldn’t have; this is against the rules. This is a little joke life plays on you. It says, “You’ve got to live, you’ve got to live,” and then kills you! You are alive as long as you stay in there fighting with full ARC, and if you are not, you are not.

The fellow would be perfectly agreeable.

Anyhow, this phenomena of theta facsimiles back down the track, before the time track is supposed to start, is very easy to find. And one should find it much easier to accept the fact that the theta facsimiles are on file than that they are not on file.

So you say, “Well, it so happens that there’s a way this pain is stored, and we can knock it out. Now, you just remember this, and you can remember that,” and so on. That is about all the explanation you actually need in order to execute processing on somebody — about al 1 you need to tel 1 them. Don’t tel 1 them anyth ing more: you are wasting your time doing so, because they are not going to understand you unless they go to the beginning of the subject, start in where you did and study all the distance that you have studied — and that is quite a distance.

Man has done this valence shift to a point where even in his existing cultures he has said, “Well, I was never connected to anything before. I just suddenly arose here and floated, and here I am. There’s no blueprint. My talents, my skills and these sorts of things are just sort of inherent, because I’m bright. I was born, and I couldn’t remember a thing — everybody told me — until I was three. Of course, the funny part of it is, I had learned the full English language before I was three, but of course I can’t remember that. That’s why I don’t speak English.”

They haven’t Spent the time you have Sitting around the couch trying to make a preclear well while realizing that your techniques are not quite adequate, knowing that there are things which you don’t know, wondering whether or not you are doing it all right, locking straight down the barrel of phenomena and trying to make it operate according to your dictates, being triumphant at your small successes and being way down in the depths at your failures, and so on. This is a different kind of attitude than anybody else will really have on it.

So people keep posing these utterly mad ideas. This is the introduction of an arbitrary, and the introduction of another arbitrary, because nobody ever looked for the theta facsimiles. There was something wrong, that they didn’t look for them; I think they were just scared. I wouldn’t say anything harsh of them; I just think they have been yellow.

But just the same, if you are going to teach this subject, there are two ways to go about it. Somebody says he wants to know all about this subject. You can go about the whole proposition as in a class of actually teaching him the subject by the Axioms, demonstrating each time that you give him an axiom that there is phenomena to back up this axiom. You demonstrate it very quietly and go on.

You will find this cowardice in individuals you start to work with. You say, “Now, let’s go back and see if we can find anything before the track begins.”

Or you can teach him in such a way as to simply snow him under, and that has its uses. You could take the book of Axioms and hand it to him and say, “Now I’ll take Axiom One. Of course you are acquainted with physics.” (He flunked this in school, so you have already Snowed him under a little bit.) “In the general practice of mathematics, geometry and so forth, we find it necessary to set up an orderly array of data which coordinates. Now, this has been accomplished in this fashion.” {Don’t let him get off on to anything simple enough to argue with — and throw him double talk!)

They let out a pale scream and say, “Well, you nasty thing, you nasty thing, you believe that there’s such a thing as — well, that’s terrible.” And will they get upset! This is a cowardice. The fellow doesn’t want to go back and get killed!

But don’t be bothered to throw yourself into question and your knowledge — which is very, very good and very wide — into question by trying to talk to somebody who knows nothing about it and trying to unload the whole package on him simultaneously. You can’t do it! And you will windup by being invalidatedor something.

The net result of all this is that we find the most valuable datum on any such track of evolution would be death. You can’t make the theory of evolution work unless the organism can find out how it failed. If it knows how it failed, then it can repair or fix up its future generations so that it won’t fail. But if anybody tells me that an organism believes it is in the process of failing when it is procreating, that is wrong. And yet, according to old theory, that is where it takes off; it takes off along a genetic line — birth, growth, procreation. It would be a silly-looking cycle that went birth, growth, procreation; birth, growth, procreation; birth, growth, procreation — no failures! So obviously we are all still algae!

So fix yourself up a little package by which you relay what it is, in order to do processing. If somebody asks you, “What is this?” you simply tell them according to their ability to know the Subject. Or you conduct a full class and teach them from beginning to end. Those are your choices.

Whereas this may apply to certain fields of science, I hope it doesn’t apply here. I don’t believe that all the living organisms are static; I don’t believe they are still floating in a sea of ammonia. I believe they have progressed.

It is much easier to say “It can do” than it is to say “Well, its intentions in the future are to . ..” You say, “It can do.”

Why did they progress? “Well, that’s very easy to figure out: they reasoned it out. No, no, that’s wrong; they naturally selected themselves out, so they are no longer here.” Of course, they never had a single theta facsimile to tell them that they had been naturally selected out so as to construct something new that wouldn’t get selected out! It was all a gunshot proposition.

You actually can pull this trick at this time. I tried to tell an attorney one time what this Subject was all about. He didn’t click on any part of the discussion until I Suddenly said to him, “Well, what if you had a sentence that you could issue to an individual with a snap of your fingers and have him roll up in a ball on the floor?”

It is unfortunate for the people who have followed this long line of evolution that none of them were mathematicians. It is unfortunate, because they probably would have blown this problem sky-wide a hundred years ago if anybody had been able to figure it.

“Well, that would have some use.” (This gives you the point where he was on the tone Scale.)

They pose an unattainable infinity of factors when they say “Natural selection is all there is.” You just can’t figure it. They are also saying that the original protoplasm contained in it not just the potentialities but the full design of every future organism. How incredible can we get? We have given to this minute bit of protoplasm enormous and miraculous powers which it obviously does not possess, and wiped aside any logical explanation.

You can actually dothat. Somebody starts to tell you something about Dianetics, and you can take a look at h im and you can see he obviously has a chronic somatic, th at he is disposed to argue with you, and that he is going to be combative and skeptical about the whole thing. Just tell him, “If your head were being pushed, which direction would it be moved?” and make him jockey himself around like that until he finally says, “I’ve got a headache!”

They even go to the point of saying the environment has no bearing and does not shape the organism. Maybe you don’t realize it, but this is like the way people used to talk about psychoanalysis: “Well, everybody’s got everything buttoned up in the field of the mind.”

Then you say, “Well, so you’ve got a headache. I can turn it off for you,” and you turn it off for him. In other words, what I am recommending to you is that you avoid so-called reasoning on the subject and specialize in action, even when you are trying to demonstrate, even when you are trying to teach. Stress action.

You would say, “Why, not necessarily — psychoanalysis certainly hasn’t.”

You don’t realize, because it has happened gradually, the degree to which you have entered a complex and technical subject, and the degree to which you have succeeded in orienting your knowledge of that subject. And you are apt not to realize that it took quite a while, and that the people around you may not be able to come up to the same level you are at in five minutes.

“Well, it’s obuious that it’s been around for a long time. So obviously, it has everything buttoned up.”

But you can certainly demonstrate that you have considerable force and power if you just say, “Well, now, let’s move your head in that direction,” and so on.

And you would reply, “The formulas of James Clerk Maxwell on the theory of electricity were in full bloom in 1894. The libido theory of Sigmund Freud was in full bloom in 1894. Out of the formulas of James Clerk Maxwell, we have the atom bomb. We’ve still got the libido theory. That isn’t a very live theory.”

They become very convinced. They say there is something to it.

It is hard to believe unless you have looked into the field that this actually exists as a prime tenet — that the environment does not influence the organism. Everywhere we look, we find organisms fitted to the environment, to survive in the environment. We find that adaptation has been quite good, one way or the other, if we were just to go on the adaptation theory.

And yet they say it is all inherent in this bit of protoplasm at the beginning of the track. Then somehow or other every time it didn’t quite click, that line died off and it left all the other lines carrying on.

We have had considerable discussion about holders — the holding and damping out of pain. That is what happens at 1.5. It takes a 1.5 to damp it out and hold a deposit. It is quite a remarkable facsimile that will cause an individual actually to take a deposit of calcium and hold it in suspension in his body. That is quite a holder. That is really a.wide aberration; it is physical and it is very bad.

This is incredible, because it poses an infinity of shapes and sizes; it poses an infinity of happy circumstances and lucky accidents. “Let’s just leave it all to the roulette wheel down at Las Vegas, and not think.” This is very definitely a 1.1 or a 0.5 line of reasoning.

So let’s realize, then, that if we are treating an arthritic,we are treating a 1.5. And 1.5s are pretty easy to treat! They are rancorous and cantankerous and they will find a lot of fault with you and so forth at the beginning, but you know exactly what they are doing and you know exactly how to resolve what they are doing.

I can show you a palm tree. That is a form of life. A palm tree can hardly support its fronds where there isn’t any wind. If you want to look for a perfect airfoil, go look at a palm frond. It is a perfect airfoil. Do you mean to say that this piece of protoplasm at the beginning of the track could build a perfect airfoil for a beach and a climate of which it knew nothing?

Neuralgia — so-called — would not be as easy as arthritis because it can be below, above or all around; it is not necessarily in one spot. It is usually, however, down the tone scale to a point where the individual is surrendering to emotion. You go over the category of psychosomatic illnesses and you will find th at sinusitis, for instance, does not spot itself, so far as I know, inevitably upon the tone scale. It could be several places because it is just sort of a general ized part of the major syndrome.

This is real genius being posed here, and I think the boys got somewhat clouded up on the thing. Of course, you can go back behind this and find out why this impulse started in the first place.

A Scale of illnesses has not been completed. But you will find that on the Chart of Hum an Evaluation, in the column on behavior and physiology, depository ills come in at 1.5.

But you will find out that life forms are adapted; that palm frond is actually molded by wind. Generation after generation after generation, the wind itself molds a perfect airfoil.

There are other depository ills besitfes arthritis — many others. There is the fellow suffering from kidney calculi,! and lots of them. I am not quite sure where a duodenal ulcer lies, but I think it isjuSt a little bit down the tone scale from arthritis.

It is interesting that there would be no impulse to mold a perfect airfoil or recreate the pattern of a perfect airfoil unless somewhere along the line the palm had a chance to find out that its airfoils were failing. It has that perfect airfoil in order to support its fronds; they are very heavy. The wind blows very hard; a palm frond supports itself as an airfoil and can exist. It can live, it can stay on the tree. But if the wind were to die out completely and stay died out, the weight of the palm frond would break it off the tree because it is too heavy.

Now, you can estimate how long you are going to have to process an individual by estimating how much effort there is left in him to fight the efforts that are hitting him. A fellow in apathy, of course, is pretty close to zero residual personal effort with which to kick back against the efforts which have almost overcome him, so he is kind of rough. At 0.5 he has a little more, but not enough to make a smooth case for you. But at 1.5 the fellow has a lot of personal effort with which to combat the incursion efforts. He takes an incoming force and he holds it and damps it out. That is what he is doing with it. He is not very h ard to treat, and the treatment of it is done by rote.

There are millions of these things in life. A study of biology is just sown with these tremendously intricate and happy and beautiful combinations of organisms designed to defeat time.

The thing will be a sendee facsimile and it will have to do with holding or stopping, not changing. So what kind of locks do we look for all the way acrossthe tone scale? Ifwe want to get the entheta locks, we Just shoot out all the times when he has tried to hold on to something — particularly times when he has tried to hoi don to something and failed — all up and down the track. Those are the entheta locks.

You start looking along the track and you will find theta facsimiles; you will find the theta facsimiles which are the blueprint. This is quite a remarkable discovery, actually. I do feel that somebody might have thought it up and looked before, but I guess the world is in a pretty sad state.

The validation lock is when he succeeded in holding on to something — when he succeeded in stopping, in other words — and not just holding on to something, but stopping. When has he stopped his car? When was he able to stop somebody from moving? When did he stop somebody from talking? When did he stop somebody from walking? When did he stop a clock from running? There is pleasure in that, by the way; this guy busted something — he stopped it, broke it so that it would not move. Locks of th i s ch aracter are what you look for.

It stands as a discovery — something that obviously should have been suspected was there all the time — the theta facsimiles of the blueprint. They are all on file.

And you look for a computation whereby the individual is not permitted to hold on to something.

Furthermore, the failures are on file. Evidently there are parallel lines there. The blueprint line parallels only the protoplasm line. It is very interesting material.

The sendee facsimile has demanded a surrender and has caused him to hold on to something, So he is holding on to Something to Spite somebody. Or he is persisting in a course of action to spite somebody. As he goes down the tone scale he will then refuse changes of action to spite. There is a pattern here. In the sendee facsimile he is holding on to something. The service facsimile makes him hold on to something and he has accepted this facsimile. But the facsimile came about because he was not permitted to hold on to something.

Now, as you go back along the line you will find as you process preclears that there are very, very few preclears who don’t suddenly turn up with early failure facsimiles. The odd part of it is that when a preclear picks up a service facsimile, he picks up a package. It is all right for you just to go into this life and somehow or other get the incident, the service facsimile of this life, off the package and square it around in this life. It is all right for you to do that. But you will find that you will occasionally get there much more swiftly by knocking out the earlier part of the bundle.

This is the essence of simplicity. What kind of locks do you look for? Stops! What kind of a service facsimile are you looking for? Where he wasn’t permitted to hold on to something. He is fighting somebody; he is holding on to it anyhow on a sub-level. Only now it is arthritis!

Therefore you should know something of this past track and you should look because you are indeed doing a lot of exploring. You are examining a few billion years’ worth of theta facsimiles that nobody has ever looked at before, except the cells as a blueprint. But as far as a mind unit is concerned, you are for the first time looking at these things. And they are very interesting. There is data on that track the like of which nobody ever suspected existed. The biologists could find out, looking on that track now, exactly what the routes were. A thousand imponderable questions in biology would suddenly resolve. This doesn’t leave much question in a fellow’s mind. He looks at this tremendous material and he says, “Well, of course this step happened! Yeah, that’s how it did it.”

So, you get your computation into view and you will find out when he wasn’t permitted to hold on to something and so on. You just work it out. It should resolve fairly rapidly.

As I say, the biologist has been beating his brains out ever since Leeuwenhoekl in an effort to find out how it happened. The front window of the world has been opened up as far as you are concerned; you can sure take a look.

The reason I have been mentioning arthritis is that it happens, with other depository somatics, to be at a point on the tone scale which can almost invariably be worked. So your resolution of the ill becomes a leadpipe cinch. This person will hold on to his engrams to spite you, but you only want one engram. That is the sendee facsimile. He will be doing a lot of dodging with you and it will get worse if you don’t process the case the way it ought to be processed, but the processing of it is the essence of Simplicity.

There are two or three points which have been recovered in this. You can examine the whole track for your own edification, but there are two or three points which, unless you have been through them as an auditor, you might miss in a preclear. One of these points is the fact that man is two, not one. You might miss this. The basic unit of the universe is two and the basic unit of man is two, not one. The funny part of it is that a man is not an individual. He is two!

Now, when I say “holding,” I mean holding on at the 1.5 band.

The exact point has not been recovered, but the points before and after it have been recovered. The evolution chain starts on something like a very elementary photon converter. Just what this is exactly is not hard to stretch your imagination over, because you can find them still alive on earth: they are algae, plankton — monocells. But the photon converter that you will find at the beginning of the track is much more elementary-than an algae. An algae is a late and well-developed organism. It is a complete animal. It subdivides. It is called a monocell; it needs no mating up in order to regenerate.

But do you realize that there are psychotic manifestations of a person not being able to give up any motion? This person can’t tolerate any kind of motion at all. Hi S nontolerance of motion is because he is just a tiny bit alive and he is opposing tremendous amounts of motion. You try to give this person any change, any start, any stop, anything, and it is dangerous. He is really holding on, and the motion which is opposed in the service facsimile is just sweeping, destructively and devastatingly, across the individual. It is just going through and by and around. You want to try to address “I,” but you only have a tiny Tittle bit to address. The individual tries to come back and he is working against this fact that he can’t let go of anything and he can’t do anything.

Where this original photon converter is, is not well established. Perceptions are very poor at that point on the track, from what I have observed so far. But impulses aren’t.

But with a 1.5 there is enough of the fellow there; he has a lot of force.

We have, going right along with this, ample proof of a theta-facsimile characteristic (theta facsimiles are not force but they contain a pattern of force), because the initial photon converters, which are microscopic in size, can yet exert on your preclear enough force to leave him gasping badly. It is an overall somatic.

The arthritic, by the way, is quite ordinarily a fairly forceful individual; ordinarily he is pretty well endowed. It takes a lot of horsepower to hold on to calcium to that extent. So you see the type of person that you are going up against?

Here you have an individual who is a hundred or so pounds and he is being influenced by a theta facsimile of something which is microscopic in size. When you see him puff and pant and wheeze, you will understand immediately that a theta facsimile contains a pattern of MEST that.can impose itself authoritatively upon MEST in no uncertain terms. It doesn’t matter how big the MEST is or how small it is; the pattern will fit.

Now, an auditor has to be very facile in the way he handles a case. He has to estimate how much counter-effort is sweeping across his preclear, being stopped by his preclear, or being shunted back by his preclear, and operate accordingly, because that gives him an immediate index of how much preclear there is left for him to work on. So he has to adjust his methods accordingly.

The organism starts out in this wise and carries along for a number of generations — many generations — and gets up to the rather advanced state of plankton. Its worries shift at that point.

But you can take an arthritic and practically bang his head in; you can’t upset him very much. The only way that you could really upset an arthritis case is to go lower on the tone scale — go into sympathy. That is going lower on the tone scale than the case. The case then says, “I’ve got him, so I don’t have to do anything.” You want to stay higher on the tone scale. Antagonism toward the arthritic does not hurt; that is higher on the tone scale.

Very early, the photon converter is only interested in one thing. The state of “not- beingness” comes first — the state of not-beingness. This is complete static. But the first photon that hits it catalyzes it into “to be” because it bats that motion back.

The fellow says, “Well, I don’t feel like working today.”

The next point is that it has to stop a few photons, change them and start them out another way. Therefore, this is the cycle of its motion: start, stop and change.

“Well, that’s up to you. It’s a nice day — I’d rather go out playing golf anyhow.” He will change his attitude right away. “Well, you don’t Seem to be in the mood to run anything or cooperate today; I think I’ll go for a drive.” Th at gets h ini.

The whole track, from there right on forward till now, has no other motions than these elementary and basic motions: change the direction of a vector, stop it or start it. Life is a static which is handling nothing but motion — that is all. Every piece of physical force which it has, it has borrowed from the physical universe. Yet it is catalyzed by an impulse or a static. And that is very interesting; something lies behind that original photon converter — there is something earlier than that — but we won’t go into it at this time because we immediately move into the second echelon of research when we do.

One thing that is interesting about an arthritic at that level of the tone scale is that just the act of somebody walking off or driving off is an entheta lock because they didn’t hold the person, they didn’t stop the person. Somebody goes to the grocery store and the 1 .5 understands clearly that this individual has to go to the grocery store, yet he will get mad. Then this 1.5 has to have a lot of fancy reasons why he had to get mad; none of them are valid. The only reason that he had to get mad is that something left him.

You will find that life has various problems along this track, and its first problem has to do with a cosmic ray. The bug in the ointment is the cosmic ray. Physicists have spoken wisely, learnedly and without any data about cosmic rays for a long time. I don’t have the figures in mind to rattle them off, but something like twelve of them pass through your body every second, whatever they are. They are not rays, however; they are particles.

He is holding solidly on to an antagonistic motion, so he considers all motions antagonistic, actually. He will try to keep anybody from moving, but the way you keep things from moving is by not letting them get out from under — don’t let them move out from under.

This was a mistake which we were making back in 1930. I couldn’t see, back in 1930, how in the name of common sense you could ever have a ray. It would have to be a particle flow, and yet I flunked an examination in atomic and molecular physics because I insisted there was particle flow. This did not become stylish for about ten years.

It is not too bad to have something out there moving in. But something starting in close and going out — no! And once something moves in, he won’t let it get out again.

Anyway, the point is that every so often — maybe once an hour — a cosmic ray explodes inside you. Those figures are simply estimates; they are figured out by quantum mechanics, and you can get any kind of an answer you want by quantum mechanics. (You could even get who is going to be the next president by quantum mechanics, by just instituting a few bugger factors! )

If you have a friendwho is an arthritic, you will find that this individual gets unhappy if, for instance, you say “Good night” and walk down the steps. He will hold you in conversation. Of course, that is quite ah tun an trait because people are interested in people, but this individual will go through all sorts of machinations and so forth in order to keep you from leaving. It isn’t that your company is so precious or anything else; it is just that you are something that is not to leave. You are a potential moving-away motion, and therefore you must not move away.

The point is that the photon converter’s first problem is a burst. The bursting of a cosmic ray (gorgeous phraseology!) — of a cosmic particle — is not unlike the explosion of an atom bomb, and to an algae is darn near the same order of magnitude. This wouldn’t happen very often with a tiny, tiny particle like a photon converter. It wouldn’t happen often. But when it does happen, it is of about the same order of magnitude as New York and Chicago being wiped out simultaneously by atom bombs.

You will find that such people very often are ready to complain that you haven’t treated them right, that you are wrong, and all this sort of thing — “You shouldn’t think things like that,” “You mustn’t move.” And when engaging such a preclear, it is very wise to get the preclear’s medical record and perhaps even X-rays which demonstrate the existence of the condition, and then get the X-rays to demonstrate that the condition has disappeared.

I am not drawing a long bow there. If you wanted to go out and examine a lot of plankton very carefully, you would only have to observe them for a few days before you would find one that had been destroyed by such a burst.

We have ample precedent for the disappearance of arthritis in processing — even when, as ] occasionally suspect, it has disappeared because the person has been moved down the tone scale.

These things explode on photographic plates and so on. They were thought to be what caused mutation, and now we know how they cause mutation. That is an interesting answer, isn’t it? They cause mutation, but not by any mysterious hocus-pocus magical force. They simply cause mutation by raising up such a fuss, by wiping something out so thoroughly that it now has a new type of theta facsimile, and that has to take off into a better organism which is big enough to support the explosion of atomic rays. There is the first engram: it is the explosion of a cosmic particle.

You can Succeed in changing this fellow by picking up locks and So forth; you can certainly cleanup his difficulties.

By the way, those explosions are quite amusing; you start figuring them out, and you find that the magnitude of explosion, the amount of energy released, is just fantastic! Every once in a while you may feel a twitch in your being: it will be one of them exploding. But the cell that it is recording on has gone to glory! It has received the kind of an engram that becomes a holder.

Now, I would not feel any such security or certainty with sinus conditions, although they are fairly easy to resolve in Dianetics. It is just that you don’t get a pattern package; it is not the same road to process.

The ambitious early converter tries to damp these explosions out. The ray explodes and the converter says, “Stop!” It hasn’t got any experience yet.

There is some possibility that cancer may lie along that line. The individual with cancer is probably in conception or mitosis! as an engram. The one he is in depends on the kind of cancer he h as. Embryonic cancer is mitosis in restimulation and malignant cancer is conception, merely because the fluids of the body at that time of generation were such-and- so and such-and-so, and this gets into re stimulation. Then the cell starts growing madly or you start getting mitosis all over the place and so on. It is a fascinating business.

Now, the photon converter has an emotion: the emotion of acceptance and discharge. These are very simple emotions; these are the emotions of start, stop and change. It receives, in other words. In order to be, it has to receive. So the emotion of acceptance comes in about that level: it accepts, accepts, discharges, accepts, discharges, accepts.

Have you noticed the “birth wax” on people’s hands occasionally when they are stuck in birth? I can tell a person who is stuck in birth very easily just by the amount of this waxy substance on his hands.

Then all of a sudden, boom! It is busy accepting something and the something is a cosmic particle, and that explodes! You can find this in your preclears with ease.

Similarly, cancer introduces certain fluids into the system. At the moment of conception there is a certain generation of nutritional growth balances — growth catalysts — and at mitosis there is another set of them to produce another effect, so that in a case stuck in either one of these areas you would get a type of cellular m al growth, or misgrowth. The whole body starts to produce these catalysts and some germ cell left around starts to go wild.That at least is a theory behind cancer.

From head to toe, but possibly not too sensitively in the legs, this theta facsimile superimposes over the existing being and will get into restimulation. And it is usually brought up by service facsimiles. It lays down a basic personality problem for the individual.

But cancer is of little moment to us. There aren’t anywhere near the cancer patients in the United States as there are some others. When I say it is of little moment to us, I mean this is not a big goal. A lot of good people go by the boards because of cancer, but it is not a major point; this is not a major answer. All I am doing is bringing in the fact that cancer may lie along this 1.5 band, and it would be interesting for you as auditors to See whether or not that holds true. I know arthritis does.

The combination of acceptance, discharge and explosion can be varied considerably; there are many variables. Out of this you can get a basic pattern of behavior. You should try this on a few preclears, but you will never realize it better than you will if it is tried on you.

Now, just above this level of arthritis you get minor dampings on motion, and the person gets minor diseases on holding. The minor depository diseases are just a little higher on the tone scale than arthritis. Kidney calculus is not at 1.5, but at about 1.7, 1.8, or even at 2.0, depending on its severity.

But you shouldn’t have any qualms about what you are tackling. You are tackling something that is a long engram to reduce, but it is simplicity itself. And you had better reduce all of it if you get hold of it. It is nothing to tamper with and then leave in restimulation. Reduce all of it.

So you can feel fairly confident when you tackle a case which is displaying a depository ill that you are tackling something that you can resolve.

You will find the effort to receive and the effort to damp out, and finally the motionlessness following it and so forth. You ought to get this on the individual. So that is the first major engram. There may be another between there and this next step, and there may be another before this one I mentioned. But the next one I know of at this time is the problem of staying afloat. Here you have an advanced form which has a form of buoyancy. It is a photon converter, but it is a very advanced one.

But I don’t think you should feel the same amount of confidence in tackling somebody who is about 0.2 or something like that. Trying to find enough motion left in them to rehabil itate is a rough deal. Th at is a real rough one.

I am not absolutely certain what its nucleus is, but the individual gets the sensation of being in the middle of it when he is in valence. The center of the nucleus is evidently in the middle of the forehead. This may vary in preclears; I don’t know.

You as an auditor, however, might have the tendency to consider the arthritis case tough because the arthritic is combative, and consider the lowtone-scale case easy because it is not combative, it is so placid. So you might have a tendency to give less serious attention to the apathy band, merely because it doesn’t give you trouble.

The point is that something is staying afloat. It is out in the sea, it receives sunlight and chemicals — those are its food — and it receives these over many days and finally expires and goes through another cycle.

The resolution of the arthritis case is a lead-pipe cinch with present techniques. But what care it requires on the part of an auditor to pick up the little grain of effort that is left in this great mass of counter-effort which is the apathy preclear, and somehow or other build it up in order to get back at some of this other effort and handle it. I point out th at this is the case which requires skill in handling — tremendous skill.

At night it is very dark. There are certain things which the photon converter — the algae, the plankton, whatever it is that you happen to be hitting — must not do, and it has already learned at this stage that it mustn’t go ashore and it mustn’t get itself wound up in waves. It can already record sound to some slight degree, as vibration influencing it. But it can’t propel itself or move in any particular direction. However, by death facsimiles it learns to stay away from the beach. How does it stay away from the beach? I guess merely by recreating its next facsimile further asea.l That is the only mobility that it could possibly have.

Your greatest forbearance as an auditor, of course, is called for at 1.1. Some of these 1 .Is will start tearing you up; it is gruesome. They lie on the couch and start to snarl at you, then they pretend th at they are being very friendly just so they can get around and chew at you again.

It has already learned, it thinks, that it can handle time, and it is ambitious on this subject. But in order to float, it has to expand. It expands all over; it blows itself up. It gets a tension line out to float to the surface. But if there is wind blowing and it is night, it doesn’t want much showing above the surface of the water, so it contracts. It contracts to sink, it expands to float. And sooner or later it gets to the point where it gets a death facsimile whereby it is trying desperately to float by expanding and goes on sinking.

I have had preclears at that level so insulting that I wceider I just didn’t bust the couch over their heads. I had one who, every time he would sit down, would say, “You pompous jackass,” and start off from there. 1 would give him just about so long along that line — let him ride just about so long — and I wouldn’t say anything; I would be producing an opposite effect. Then he would come around to propitiation,and everything would be nice and quiet.

Here you get the first illusions of time-track action. Anybody who has worked very long on a time track has gotten mixed up with this illusion.

This fellow was once forbidden to have any more processing by somebody that was working for me. They got mad at him. They said,“Nomore processing for you.”

The illusion, for instance, of the birth engram is very interesting. A person is liable to key in these early photon-converter engrams because he is trying to expand so he can get up to a point where he can breathe and function. Hence you get just the normal reaction, in a birth, of the baby trying not to be crushed, and this will get multiplied by this earlier effort to stay afloat. It is a very severe effort, that effort to stay afloat.

“Oh,” he said, “look, I’ll be good. I won’t do this anymore — I won’t do these mean things, I won’t say these mean things anymore, and everything else — but don’t do that to me.

The next major engram of which I know — and there are probably several intermediates that have been skipped — is “not to get pulled up.” Somewhere along the line there is a vegetable development which grows from the bottom up, and the only really horrible thing that can happen in this stage is to get pulled up and go adrift. If they go adrift they go ashore, and if they go ashore they get in the sun and the sun dries them up; that is pretty painful. So you get this effort to stay down, this effort not to be pulled up. It is pretty sticky.

He came back, sat down in the chair — ”You pompous jackass.”

There you are getting into some interesting data, because that is a static state of being. It mustn’t go ashore. And there you get your first sunlight engram — drying up in the sunlight. Lots of preclears have had photophobia — they didn’t like light. This is the first engram along that line.

This character, by the way, was stuck in a very, very nasty mumps engram at nine. If I had had Effort Processing at that time I could have saved myself an aw fill lot of work, because he was right there in that mumps engram. The second he got disturbed the least bit in that motion,he became bad off. He was not convinced that he could handle the counter-effort, but he was still thinking he ought to try.

Later on there are many interesting complications occurring, such as the bursting of small mollusks and that sort of thing. These give strange somatics too. If you know what they are and where to look for them, though, you can just see a preclear hurting someplace, and without bothering with anything else, just hit one of these types of engrams that you know cAdsed that somatic and you will blow out whatever pain he happens to be suffering from. It is very handy to know.

You will find th at the easy cases to do are those that are above 2.0, of course. Hardly anybody above 2.0 gets sick to any great degree; Some of them wear glasses.

The organism gets out to sea in various types and forms. He finally finds out that you just can’t stay tied down to the bottom. Enough death facsimiles get together on this subject, and you eventually get something like a jellyfish. And then you get the first mollusk.

By the way, do you know how to take somebody’s glasses off? Let me tell you that. It is very easy.

Up to this point, evidently, you were a one-colony being. But here you became a two- colony being — two complete and distinct lines. And this could really fool you as an auditor. Two complete, distinct lines started back earlier with photon converters and moved forward, and then, along about the mollusk state, merged so that the organism had a double control. That is very important to you because it is not compatible.

Any time you affect one dynamic, you affect them all. Isn’t that so? So let’s get the locks of stopping anybody from looking on any dynamic, including self. Get all these locks about stopping people from looking. They exist, though they are a little bit hard to find in most preclears.

This is a major difficulty on the time track: the conflict of two beings both trying to run the same house on an equal footing. One loses. On which one loses depends whether a person becomes a southpaw or a right-hander. But the one that loses contains a lot of apathy along the line; that epicenter is pretty well fouled up. You will find such things as its control lines extending only to its own side, whereas with the other epicenter, when it gets a somatic you can feel the somatic on both sides. But on this losing epicenter, you get the somatic only on the same side.

Then get, particularly, conclusions that one has to have assistance to look, and I don’t mean just glasses. You want conclusions that one has to have assistance to look, and this includes going and getting a flashlight or any time one admits that one needs assistance to See Something.

These two epicenters eventually work out the problem of government, and this is a wonderful solution; it is just all set for something like Russia and the United States. They take the government of Russia and they put it in the United States, and the government of the United States and put it in Russia. And after that they have some peace. That is why you have your right and left opposites of control. You can find this point in your preclear. There is a lot of stuff there, a lot of data.

After you have unburtfened this for a short time — you have gotten these locks more or less off — you want the effort not to communicate. And you clean tip communication setups here and there: the effort to communicate, the effort not to communicate and so on, specializing on this. Of course you will run square into the service-facsimile engram for the glasses. And that is how you get there. Then you just process it out by effort.

These two epicenters, however, are the most sensitive nerve spots which you will run into in the human body. They are at the hinges of the jaw. They are surrounded by the biggest nerves. But these two epicenters control opposite sides. There is a louse-up on the track in most people, evidently, that has to be straightened out right at that point.

Now, you will find that a rape or sexual attack may result in glasses, because this is refusal to communicate. And after all, what is a dental operation but a sort of rape, if you really think about it that way? Somebody is trying to take something away from an only partially reasoning individual who is under drugs. And what dees the patient want? He wants to get away — not communicate. Do you get the idea? "Don’t communicate with me, don’t touch me, don’t hurt me."

The next major setup, of course, is more contest with sun, gas and putrefaction. Take somebody who has a very gassy stomach and that sort of thing; that is a very simple one. The sun hits these things after they go ashore and then they swell up and burst and so forth. It is very interesting that preclears running on this subject get the nastiest tastes in their mouth. They comment on it; you don’t have to suggest it.

So you start up and down the track and you will find incidents here and there, and particularly locks are what you want; you don’t want to process a thou san dengrams just to get off a pair of glasses. You get the times when the individual didn’t want to touch, feel, see, hear, or any of the rest of the package of communication, because that is what you are looking for.

The teeth are formed by small spores going out to the edge of the shell. They also may be on other genetic lines, but I haven’t any evidence that they are. You find that on the rim of the shell this little mollusk will form. When the sun hits it, it bursts. The only somatic that nobody would ever think of looking for in a tooth is the effort to hold one down, to hold it together against tremendous gas pressure building up because of putrefaction in the middle of the tooth.

Also, falling out of love with somebody is a decision to break affinity, which can cause bad eyesight. How? Because you have affected C by a break of A — a break of affinity causes a break of communication.

Now, if you have ever had a toothache, you may remember how it started in one tooth and then spread to several others, and after a while it just ached all over the place. That is one of those facsimiles of a burst. They are quite painful.

So, run Conclusion Processing on affinity, reality and communication and you will start moving in toward more locks on not letting people look, not wanting people to see, and so on.

There is evidently a procreation going on somewhat on that order too, whereby the animal puts out a little spore on the edge of the shell, and that thing goes on and grows and becomes the next generation. I found something very interesting: There is a concern for the loss of teeth because it and the loss of progeny were all mixed up together; there is a lot of anxiety on the subject.

It is wonderful how many teachers wear glasses. It is really wonderful how many teachers wear glasses, because regardless of what they th ink about it, until they get rid of the glasses they will have a slight impulse not to let the pupil see what they are talking about. They won’t communicate all they know by a long way.

Now, as we come up the line a bit further we run into various other types of forms. There is an interesting engram along the level of things trying to get at a shellfish. It can’t let go and it can’t close down, and it is really a static. If it opens up its shell — which has been partially entered — of course it will be attacked all the way. But it can’t close the shell. This is a static and it is a very bad static state. This whole beachhead operation finds the organism in more or less inactive states. For instance, it has no mobility. It hasn’t even the freedom of the sea or anything like that. It is exposed to sun and waves; it gets beaten to pieces. This is a very interesting lineup.

Now, it is an odd thing that the holding of a secret or the promise not to tell, when picked up,can result in an almost spontaneous remission on glasses.

You start from there into progressive animal forms, and you get into some interesting things. I don’t know how this got figured out, but evidently it is right: the tarsier and the sloth are man’s ancestors. You will find them back on the track.

Do you see why that is? The person has promised not to communicate. And if he was scared or little or something when he made this promise, or if the secret is very big or very dreadfill, all of his communication channels get affected to some degree. It is only that it is more popular to wear glasses in this society th an it i s to be deaf th at causes him suddenly to pick up glasses. If it became popular to be deaf, everybody would go around with ear trumpets and their eyes would be all right.

If your preclear becomes very puzzled as to what form he is in you can just send him to a death and he will flick out of valence and get an impression of his own form.

Promises not to communicate, premises not to tell — you will find them effective even when they are in the form of a game played with the big sister or with Auntie — "Now, when Mama comes home we won’t tell her what we did, will we?"

This data comes on up the line; it has been amazingly accurate. The men who worked this evolution line out, working with a bad theory — that is to say, they had limited their theory beyond any necessity to limit it — did a truly brilliant piece of work in tying together what had occurred. They were limited in their viewpoint, but it was truly brilliant. They would look back and figure out somehow or other how to connect one species up with another species or something of the sort. And it was just a fine job of sewing together all this data.

“Oh, no, we won’t!”

What was not fine about it was in the field of the mind. They didn’t think these things were on file, and they never bothered to look for them. And they are on file, all the way down the line.

And the funny thing is that this ties them both to glasses.

Later on, a lot of speculation can enter in, a tremendous amount of speculation. How does a person get talent? What are these mysterious elements like talent? Has it occurred to you that if somebody were taught for 150 generations how to beat a drum, he would finally wind up a pretty good drummer? I dare say you will find individuals on higher and higher strength levels of talent as they are progressively trained in earlier generations. This is just a possibility.

That is a handy one for you to get up as an auditor anyhow'. There are chains of these doggone things — ”I won’t tell, I’ll keep it secret,” and so on.

There is also the possibility that we have our finger mighty near the switch which turns on the knowledge line — all knowledge, all the way back down the line. As a matter of fact, the finger is more than near the switch. I have been fooling with it and it presents some very interesting possibilities.

Take somebody who has been operating very long in intelligence work and you will find he starts to hang glasses on his nose. Take anybody who has been in the armed sendees, and you will find that some part of h is perception will be affected very definitely if he is handling classified material. This is not supposed to be communicated, so it is not supposed to be communicated on that dynamic.

Evidently one conceives here and there that his talent on some subject is shot before he dies. You can rehabilitate it with repeater technique. Just blind repeater technique possibly may have some effect. There are certainly easier ways to turn this on than this, but it is an interesting little experiment. Take some fellow who is trying to write but having a lot of trouble, and have him just repeat “I will never write again,” or “I’ve failed, I’ll never write again,” or something of the sort.

Now, let him get to a moment where he suddenly communicates unlawfully against the decision of the big sister or something of the sort — where he communicated unlawfully and is made to realize that he has broken his promise, where he has failed his own conclusion on the subject of communication — and you have such things as glasses and deafness as a lead-pipe certainty,right there.

You could gunshot, theoretically, back into some earlier-life failure or a conceived failure, and pick up the earlier conclusion. It may be that these earlier-life conclusions are effective, and it also may be that we are on the verge of turning open the whole battery of theta facsimiles for the review of the individual.

So this is the kind of thing you look for in order to take people’s glasses off. And, believe me, you are not going to effort-process off a person’s glasses unless you pick up at least some of the reasons why he has to have the service facsimile of those glasses. So get some of those reasons up.

We know the valence mechanism, and we know that the valence mechanism — going out of valence — occludes the earlier life. We know that in this life. So therefore, some adequate combination of this — a rehabilitation of an individual’s ARC for himself — would put him back into his own valence, at which time he would recover, of course.

You also may have noticed that an individual, immediately after he is operated upon, has a bad memory. The new epicenter gives him a bad memory, and he will go around for quite a few days forgetting things that he ought to be remembering. He will finally more or less get the new epicenter hooked in to the motor switchboard and get going on it somehow.

I think, if this knowledge is available, that there is probably no great trick in locating it and getting full recall.

I also want to call to your attention that little boys and little girls are made to agree upon who they are. This is another conclusion line. “You’re Billy Jones. You’re our little boy; you belong to us” — great stuff. Maybe at first he doesn’t agree on this, and you possibly may find some preclears who have periods in their lives when they didn’t know who they were. In their very early life, very early childhood, they went around wondering who they were. And you will find there is hardly a child alive who isn’t going around with a complete concept that his parents are not his parents. The most popular story you can tell a child is “You were a waif, you were found. They are not your real parents.” The child will agree with you. Everybody in the past has interpreted this as the natural antipathy of a child for his parents. But it is very funny that it happens in every child.

My research on children is pretty good because we get along fine. You can just stack the children around you like sardines with any kind of a story which has to do with “They weren’t your real parents.” They really agree with you.

I can recall, myself, times of standing around thinking, “Who the devil am I? I know I’m not supposed to be here. I’m supposed to be doing something else. What am I doing here? This is this part of the world, and I am not supposed to be here. Who am I?” and then going off into a sort of apathy — because of course I was skidding in toward a past death.

It would be interesting for you to check yourselves and check others on this, because the person is made to agree that he is who he is. And it may be that if you just started getting up those agreements — all the times when he finally agreed to be who he was supposed to be — he might spring wide open all the way back down the track. It is a possibility. And we have seen what a man can do to himself with his own self-determinism.