Well, we got a congress here?

& How are you?

Audience voices: Yeah.

& Audience: Fine.

Ah, that didn't sound like we had a congress. Do we have a congress here?

& Voice in audience: F4 a 60th, ASA 200.

Audience voices: Yes!

& ASA 200 f4 at a 60th. I see people running around here flashing flashbulbs at these congresses. The light up on this stage is so hot that I very often have very hard trouble finding my body. The light goes through it, you know? I just thought you might like to know the light reading. Now that's for Super XX that is, for Super XX that would be a 30th, f4. And a box camera will do, simply on your, your Plus X, your 50 Weston and so forth, your Plus X, I suppose those are, I don't know what those openings are. But you actually would just get a picture if you just opened it up and snapped it. Just on ordinary, routine film. And all these flash bulbs keep going. See?

Good! Now, I'll give you the way an acknowledgment really gets through now. Good. Very good.

& I want to introduce to you two very important people. Two people that you should know at this congress, if you don't already. The first of these is Mary Sue Hubbard. Well, you have some popularity out there, huh? She must have hired somebody to do this, that's all.

Audience voice: Okay. It... see? It got through.

& Voice (MSH?): No, no, the sign's over the side. (?)

We started this congress, you know, with a group intensive - first three days of this week, and we apparently did something in that. There was one person in that that got a thirty-nine-point IQ rise, and the average IQ rise was fourteen points in those three days of Tone 40 Group Auditing.

& If you have any fainting spells or, or children, or you want to meet somebody, or so forth, why, you see Mary Sue. And if there's nothing anybody can answer for you or you just don't seem to be able to, to get the communication, you see Mary Sue.

Now, most of the people that were in that group intensive were actually old Scientologists. There were not too many brand-new people in that group. And to get a fourteen-point IQ rise as an average across a group which contains a lot of people who have been mined, plumbed, sifted and IQ risen practically out of this world, is utterly fantastic.

& MSH: I'll fix it.

This by the way, was an interesting adventure, because these people who were going to do this Group Processing, walked into it saying, „Well, Group Processing! Ha-ha-ha-ha! There's nothing to Group Processing! Well, that's all well. Group Process-processed them by the thousands! You know Nothing to it:“

& She'll fix it up. Thank you. She's your hostess.

They were handed an HCO Bulletin, that's Hubbard Communications Office Bulletin, giving Group Processing intensive, as written up two or three months ago, which was really - and it didn't say so on it - Tone 40 Group Processing, CCH on a group. That's what that realty was.

& And now I'd like to introduce to you your congress manager, Dr. Dick Steeves. I see that you've paid somebody down there, too. I see this. Dick has handled many of these congresses now, he's getting to be a very, very, very, very, very old hand at it. And if you've noticed, these congresses are getting smoother and smoother and smoother. And if you haven't noticed at this time, it is being run with considerable precision, which it just never had any acquaintance with before, at all. Isn't that right? And for all that we have to thank Dr. Steeves. And I wish to inform you, if I never have before, and if you haven't noticed it before, that Dick Steeves is actually now the organizational secretary who is in reality in charge of the Central Organization in Washington. So he's a very important fellow, so always say the right thing to him, propitiate him with the proper present, and you've got it made. Thank you Dick. Thanks for a very good congress. OK.

They walked in here; they first went down to a big building that we'd gotten for the Advanced Clinical Unit and threw their voices around in there, trying to get the intention instantaneous and so forth. And they said, „Well, we ... it's all right - group. We've got it made in the shade.“

& Now that I've given you the substance of the situation, there's hardly anything left to talk about at all. That's it, see? That's it. So, I've just got to kill time now 'til the end of the congress.

And they started out with the group - it was the first time they had run Tone 40 processing on a group; getting that intention into every skull. And if the person wasn't there - back of his head. And getting that acknowledgment through every time. Almost killed them for the first half-hour. But within two-three hours of the beginning of that intensive these old-time auditors who really know their stuff anyhow, had it grooved. So, you too could do this if you're willing to die a little at first.

Hardly anything to discuss. Hardly anything to discuss at all except a few minor factors that might have escaped your notice. Now having over-simplified it a thousand percent - you remember in the last lecture, I just over-simplified it all over the place. Terribly over-simplifying.

I also want to thank all those people who took that group intensive. Thank you.

Now I'm going to over-complicate it. I'm going to tell you about it now so that just nobody could understand what I'm talking about. This lecture is so complicated that I don't even know what I'm going to do just to get started on it. That's why I havn't started on it yet. It's complications are so extreme that as I glanced over my notes - I have several pages of notes... Ah, somebody present doesn't believe me. You notice every lecture is totally plotted out.

Now, we have ourselves a lot of things we could talk about, lot of things that we could talk about this congress, awful lot of people we could introduce, lot of things we could do, lot of things we could say.

LRH to someone in audience: „Would you give me that Congress program you have right there please? Sure you have, yes. Thank you. Thank you.“

But I think the foremost thing that we should say is, thank you, all of you, who over the years or even recently have carried the ball and done the work, and spread the word of Dianetics and Scientology. And thank you from me to you. Thank you very much.

I want to show you every single lecture here has a name. Every single one. It wouldn't be a Congress unless I pointed this out to you. Says lecture number two - you'll notice there was no lecture number one. I'm now engaged in giving you lecture number three. Now that shows you, these lectures did have titles.

Audience voices: You're welcome.

Actually I had a terrible thing happen at the London lectures. I was over in London - Royal Empire Society hall just a few months ago and they had a wonderful Congress over there. I was all surrounded by plaques of impacts. As a matter of fact I was so overwhelmed every time I walked in the front door of the Royal Empire Society hall what with all the handmen and footmen and so forth. I was confronted, every time I entered the building, with the Cecil Rhodes room and Cecil Rhodes' bust and all kinds of busts. And... we actually were the ... one of the first gatherings the organization had there after it was recompleted. It took them years and years and years to build it back after the war. It was all bombed to pieces and they built it all back and when they mounted up all of these Empire plaques for South Africa and New Zealand and Australia and everybody and I was standing up on the stage, you see, surrounded by all this grandeur. I got terribly overwhelmed and it was very upsetting because I had to explain to them that I had forgotten all of my Congress notes. And there were three or four people who didn't believe me and spoiled the gag. (Laughing)

Man has been looking for a very long time for answers.

But if you will notice here - if you will notice here it says lecture number three. And lecture number four, number five, number six. And then there's lecture number seven, number eight, number nine. Then ten, eleven and twelve. And I probably won't give anywhere near that number of lectures. As a matter of fact, I probably will ask you if you want some group processing tomorrow night instead of seminar. Well, now that just shoots the schedule all to pieces. I guess my secretary can just tear up the rest of those notes.

Fellow by the name of Diogenes used to prowl around Athens or Sparta or London or someplace. He used to go around in a barrel, they said, or something like that. He had a lantern. Well, Walt Disney, I suppose he's done this, and some of the kiddy books would tell you that he was trying to find an honest man. Really that was just one of his gags. He had gags and so forth.

I want to talk to you about a very formidable subject though, under the heading of lecture number three. A very formidable subject, one which nobody in the United States has dare approach for a very very long time. And all the better auditors did it. And all the poorer ones didn't. But the nation as a whole would rather not.

The truth of the matter is, Diogenes went around with a lantern in broad daylight, and all he wanted to find was answers to his questions.

This subject is practically unmentionable. It has a lot to do with babies. Has a lot to do with anything. As a matter of fact, the words I am about to give you now would probably never be used in a drawing room. The material which I am about to give you has not even been discussed as itself between married couples.

And his questions concerned where life came from and how it did arid where it was going and what was the nature of man. And a few other propounding preponderances that were utterly horrible. And nobody answered him for a couple of thousand years. But, Diogenes, whoever you are now, we're ready for you! We have answers to your questions.

Now Freud, Freud in 1894 broke with Breuer who taught him to psycho-analyze, and announced the libido theory, a three-letter word adding up to sex. And Freud brought sex, they said ... they used to say out of the bedroom into the parlor. That was his contribution to humanity. But what I'm talking about has never even gotten to the bedroom.

Man has been looking for a very, very long time, As I say like Diogenes, he has searched really with a lantern in broad daylight. The answers was all ... were all there, all he had to do was look.

This subject has been known to make strong women quail and men weep. It's probably the most controversial as well as the least mentioned subject today in America. I'm sorry I have to go into it at this time but I do. It's for your own good!

But people would rather figure-figure evidently and argue with Professor Snodgrass on his misinterpretation of Professor Fromptf than to look at life and find out what it was all about.

The subject is control.

There are at this moment good friends of mine who became too successful with Dianetics and who just say, „Well, Dianetics was fine. Dianetics is fine. Dianetics works, we know that. But this Scientology, we're pretty doubtful of it. Now, why did Ron change anyhow?“ Now you hear that; you hear it quite a bit.

You haven't looked at that yet. What I've just said about control is totally true. If I told you bluntly that the mission of a Scientologist was to control within an inch of his life, everything in his vicinity. you'd say zzzzzr, it's not for me. People would run, shedding their coats and hats rather than to come to you for processing. Control what? „You mean this fellow’s going to sit there and control me? Ohhhhh. No, no.“

To go into why the change was made is not germane. But I have recently read one of these good friends of mine - they're still friends of mine, believe me, that's for sure - and he said, „This business about theta is uncertain. But everything else in Scientology is validated.“

Child-ha-psychology - new way of pronouncing the word. By the way, it's being pronounced that way more or less uniformly throughout the world today. Child-hapsychology. You didn't think I could do it again, did you?

Well, he's been going around in broad daylight with a lantern. It never evidently occurred to him that the subject that we study, that those things which we embrace are walking down the boulevard and revolving around the sun and coming off the assembly lines of Detroit and being snapped by photographers every day. That is the subject.

It has given America a vast gift - for which they all ought to be shot! That is, „a child must learn how to express himself and must never be interfered with at all times by nobody no place, and should just go on and on and on and on.“

Philosophy is not the subject. Epistemology - ontology, I think they call it. There's 1862 different names for nothingness, and their composite was the field of philosophy. People went into the field of philosophy to find answers to the mind which was sitting right in front of their faces. That's something like going down - well, not quite - I was going to say going down to the Capitol to look at the zoo.

You go to call on somebody in America - just shows you this deadly virus - you know the deadly virus that was just imported by the Public Health Service from China. Yeah, they assured everybody they weren't going to let it in and then they took a boatload of sick people and unloaded them into California and they've now got it down there. Anyhow, all of this deadly virus has reached deeply into the American home. You go to call on the average American family. Wonderful. You sit down. You do one of two things: you either fight junior off all night or you look at a TV program that you always avoid at home. It has become one of the favorite indoor sports of America to fight off the children before they fight your head off.

To go one way to look at something which is right there is quite interesting. And we come to the conclusion that man has been running a tremendous avoidance of the subject of man, and if we have done anything we have simply broken through this avoidance and we have taken a square look.

Now, one of the interesting things about it is it will undoubtedly result in tremendous cultural advances. Very certain it is that yon, in future years, would be able to be heard in the middle of a roaring crowd if you whispered, so great has been your practice of trying to talk across the top of your neighbor's children while you were calling.

Now right this moment I'm going to give you an example which shouldn't wind up with the uncertainty on the subject of theta. Theta, as you know, is merely a mathematical symbol, as it represents an awareness of. awareness somethingness. But I'll give you a demonstration right now and show you how difficult it is. Now, we could read tomes, we could study telekinesis, we could - or telekinesis. I'm very very shaky on these things. As a matter of fact I should have read a book on this subject, but ... But I remember vividly reading a book on this subject - as a matter of fact I read quite a few books on this subject many years ago-and I was sitting there, I wasn't feeling very well at the time, and I was sitting there and I was reading books of philosophy, you know, and... As a matter of fact I have a book now written by - The Remarks Made by Plotinus, I think it is, and we use it in Book Mimicry.

Now, let's agree that they overdid it in the old days, but I don't think they knew anything about it to overdo it. What is it? Control. In other words, we have a whole cult - I hate to refer to psychology as a cult because it's reactive. It is a cult, definitely though. It's a German cult. They have various other kinds of cults in Germany. They had the Jungvolk and the Volkswagen and they had all kinds of... all kinds of cults in Germany and one of them was psychology. Psycholocult they call it over there. And they imported it over here. But it's got this factor of they're all animals anyhow and there's nothing you can do about it so why try. And that's psychology. That's child psychology in particular.

Now, I read these books, and I kept reading them and I read some more books and I had some more books on philosophy over here and I read all those books and I studied all those books over here. And I got a five-foot shelf of books on philosophy and

But I'm not talking today about children. I'm merely talking about this deadly virus „don't control anybody“ sort of a philosophy which has swept the length and breadth of the land. America is losing on the international front simply because she nationally is unwilling to control anything. And she's going to get bit!

I read those books, and so forth. And I found out after a while what I was doing - I was reading books. So I decided to study the mind instead. In other words, to go to this degree of via, to study all the philosophers, all the religious leaders, all of the messiahs and savants of all times and ages to find out what makes things tick is just about as silly as buying a manual describing the repairs on a Cadillac but never riding in one. Now, there is the facts of a case.

They hired me - They wrote me a letter and hired me, especially here a few years ago, to go out and shoot Japs to make them more amenable to democracy. They hired some of you too. They paid us money to go out and do this.

All we've really done is short-circuit this thing to a good look. And we find the world in which we live is susceptible to understanding and doesn't function unless we understand it.

Now they back out and they say, „Well, you boys do as you please. Uhhuh, nothing to it. Go on, trade with the Red side. Do whatever you please, and so on.“ Blaah.

We find all of these various attitudes, ideas, misinterpretations of interpersonal relationships, of various works of man, his various activities and so on are tremendously interesting, but they aren't a direct observation.

Japan had methods of controlling its populace. It had an organizational structure there, a social structure. It was very interesting. Women had a role, men had a role and so forth. Well they just shot that to ribbons. Women are all free and the men are all free and everybody's all free and they've got a constitution they can't even read. And then we say „All right, now, there you are. Go ahead. Go ahead.“

Now, true enough in Scientology we have done an awful lot of describing, but as a description on a brand-new level of action. What I describe in a book you can look for and find at once. And a book on Scientology is not a book of philosophy to air the erudite and aesthetic opinions of LRH. It is a road map of where it is, what it is - if you want to look at it. And the end product is not reading a book. The end product is taking a look at it.

And I'll bet you that some politician in a few years gets terribly surprised when it goes boom! And they say „What happened? Why those nasty people.“ No, it meant that there were existing methods of control of that particular culture; it meant they were chopped to pieces: no other control level was substituted in, and then they went off and abandoned it.

Now, the only reason a road map is necessary is because so many phony road maps have been issued. And a book on Scientology becomes necessary if one has had the misfortune of being educated in the twentieth century in a public school.

Now, my point here is not international relations. I couldn't care less because you could always ask the question of international relations is, what relations? There aren't any That's the trouble with international relations, a camouflaged hole. Everybody talks about our international relations. You mean our International inability to communicate? International relations was that psychosis which grew out of the fact that most other nations speak different languages.

Female voice: I agree.

All right. But we are very allergic here in America to this idea of control. Very allergic. After the war they were talking about sergeants had to have a big brother attitude toward the troops, and soldiers didn't have to salute and so forth. Well, there's maybe everything wrong with armies but armies do run according to certain rules, so that makes them armies, you know?

You've been told all sorts of things - via-via-via, wiggle-wiggle, alter-is, not-is. And a book on Scientology is a road map out of a morass of „don't looks.“ Do you see that? That's all it is.

I well remember when Christianity hit the Roman army. . . Belonged to the tenthseventh legion at the time. Oh, that's on the backtrack. And they got so bad, that they were so out of control that they wouldn't even wear armor into battle - the Roman army after a while. And they either would run away or simply stand there and say, „Kill me, I wish to be a martyr to the cause,“ And that was the end of Rome.

But we have achieved a subject then. But the subject itself embraces life and the subject of the subject is life: livingness, actingness, doingness, beingness, and havingness. Now that is the subject of Scientology.

Well, if you depend on some channel of control, you don't reinforce it, don't take care of it, why, don't worry or don't wonder, please don't be surprised if everything goes to the devil suddenly. I mean if there is a set of control factors and you cease to exert them without substituting anything else for them, why be surprised if the thing blows up. You understand?

The subject of Scientology is not Professor Fromptf's contradiction of Professor Snodgrass's Phrumpfs. It is not a learned dissertation on how many angels can stand on the head of a pin.

Control is a dirty word...much dirtier word than sex. Marriage couples fence without ever using the word, really. They fence on this subject all the time when they're having a bad time. And it merely comes down...the item boils down to this: You're not supposed to control me. I am supposed to control you and on the other side, you're not supposed to control me. I'm supposed to control you. And this argument can go on for years and years because it happens to be two opposed viewpoints.

I ran across a book the other day which was used until recently by a very large and profitable organization. I think it has - its central organization is in, just a minute, don't tell me - its central organization, it's someplace over in Europe. A lot of our troops took it recently, but they left this central organization alone. I don't know why. Rome, that's right - Rome. I knew it was some town where the plumbing was sort of outside.

Usually never occurs to such a couple that as long as she can't control herself, he'll have to try to control her and as long as he can't control himself, she'll have to try to control him. And they're gonna get awful busy with control the more they chop out each others controls. And if they just reduce each others' controls to zero, we have the standard American home.

And they talk all about demon exorcism. But I assure you, they had to invent the demon before they could exorcise him.

Now, you say, „These are very interesting words you were saying, Ron. These words are pretty dynamite. It's really not safe to talk about this dirty word 'control' right out in front of public...tsk. It's not safe.“ Well, I pay you the honor of not being public. I wouldn't swear at you.

There is a great deal of material of a discursive nature on whether or not man is going to go to heaven or going to go to hell. And a lot of attempts to put in his hands some sort of a road map that will take him to either place. But the key question has never been asked: Is there heaven? Is there hell?

Now, let's take a look at this. Let's take a look at this. What do we mean by control? Well, to most people it means, „I will beat you until you do as I say.“ That's control. Well, the funny part of it is that isn't control at all. „I will threaten you until you comply.“ That isn't control.

I've been looking recently and I can't find them.

If there is anything new under the sun, it is Scientology's new understanding of positive postulation. All control is is positive direction. And when it gets mixed up with „I will beat you unless you obey the postulate. I will kick you, fine you, jail you unless you obey what I have said.“ When it gets down to that, control has already long since disappeared.

Imagine the disappointment of somebody who kicks off, well aware of having led an exemplary life, gets a knock all ready, and can't find any Pearly Gates. He would then feel he was rather lost. Just as you would feel lost if you were told to go to Brumpfville and nobody had ever built it. But that's no reason for an individual to believe he's wrong just because he can't find Brumpfville. The question is: Is there such a town?

All these laws which carry with them a penalty are assuming that the government is no longer in control of the people. And that's an interesting observation because control, we discovered, cannot carry with it duress or punishment and still be control. Aaah... but you say... and here's the weak one. The do-gooders down the years say, „Well, we mustn't punish anybody, we mustn't duress anybody, we mustn't command anybody, we mustn't control...“ No! Those things don't follow. We shouldn't punish people' is not consecutive to 'we shouldn't control anybody', but usually is.

Now if somebody wants to come up and say, „Look, here's a road map: You take two turns to the right; three good turns to the left; three pennies in the collection plate; and a couple of Ave Marias - and there's the Pearly Gates.“ If somebody comes up with that, I follow the directions, I arrive at the Pearly Gates; I'll go back and shake him by the hand.

What do we mean by this? We have discovered a zone, an area of control and direction which we call Tone 40, which means positive direction with total intention, considerations, Start, Change, and Stop. We found out the reason people hate control - it's become a dirty word - is because nobody can. They say, „If you don't do so and so I'm gonna hit you in the jaw.“ That's control, though. That isn't control. That's a „Because I can't control you I gotta hit you in the jaw because I don't want you, because I can't control you.“ See, see how that works out?

But I've read several road maps on the subject recently, exteriorized rather neatly - went around. As near as I can find out somebody fell into one of the volcanoes out in the South Pacific or something one time, and got an idea that hell existed. But I don't know what kind of a shape a thetan would be in to be bothered by a little heat!

Actually, I tell you, when control starts hitting a dwindling spiral in a government, you get a very interesting state of affairs in a government. Somebody was talking to me about this the other day. I'll just mention it to you - brought this up. You get the government using duress to enforce compliance. Now the only people who disobey in a government are those who can't take orders. So the reason the government issues orders and punishments is so the people who can take orders .... Now wait a minute let's look at this again. All these speed laws and everything like that are put out so as to get the people who can't take orders to... now just a minute. If they can't take orders and directions, doesn't matter how many laws or how many threats are made, they'll never hear about them. Doesn't matter how often they're jailed - they'll never reform. And we get the enigma of our present criminal system. It is a criminal system.

These road maps that man has been given to read all had a pitch. They had a pitch - they were to make him be good for somebody else's benefit but not his own. That is my opinion, for what it's worth. To make him produce for somebody else - not himself.

Now, people who can take orders, read the law and they say, „Well, I'm not supposed to...“ They read the law and they look it over and they say, „Well, all right, go along with it. Reasonable law, reasonable law“, and so on. Of course, if they put a four-pass highway down with no curves on it and say ten miles an hour is the speed limit. This is already a sort of a stupidity that would rather disgrace the idea of control because it doesn't make good sense. So, the order of direction connected with it doesn't make good sense and that's invalidative too.

All of these road maps have been written out of a misguided idea that you have to have slaves. And I've seen slaves around, and I've never found them doing anything but giving trouble. Man cannot afford slavery.

But these people that cause accidents and these people that have a rough time, are the people who run through the stop lights because they can't read them. Well, isn't that fascinating! You mean to say, all these duresses and laws and legislation and everything else are being launched to inhibit a group of people who cannot receive an order or direction and wouldn't read them anyhow. So we get the dwindling spiral of the general populace being victimized by an errant government that cannot cope with its inability to control its population in all strata. The dwindling spiral of government is simply the failure of a government to control its population. And it signifies its inability to the degree that it threatens and gives duress. Promises duress unless... And you get this fascinating ...well, you get penal systems and you get reformatories and you get laws and you get courts and you get jurisprudence and so on. Boy! There are nothing but vias on a control line, let me assure you. Because if you really knew what control was, you would not try to beat to pieces your havingness. You see that?

It isn't whether or not slavery is bad or slavery is good, or whether it's esoteric or against the Emancipation 24th Amendment, or the 29th, or which ever one that is. That is not the point.

I mean, a government says, „Well, we're gonna execute you“, they say to this fellow because, why, „well, we couldn't control you.“ „Gonna execute you because we couldn't control you.“ And the government is minus, at that moment, one person. They just shoot the havingness to pieces this way, don't they? It's rather silly. You say, „Well, if we didn't have restraints of this character - man being a beast and being naturally an anti-social animal 'cause just a little old baby, they bite - and man being an anti-social brute, beast, dog... wooff... we have to use the switch or a krock and the more we beat him, the more social he becomes.“ Yet the very people who do that - say, the more we beat him, the more social he becomes, if they went down to a prison they would find the people in it were the people who had been beaten. Can it be these guys themselves are kind of nuts? Can it be nobody's been thinking about this for an awfully long while? Can it be man was totally ignorant of this whole thing. Well, let's get on with this idea of control.

The point is, can people afford to have slavery in their vicinity? On a national level, can any nation afford to have a poor, bunged-up neighbor? No. Can any nation afford to wreck the government of another nation? No.

You try to sell somebody on the idea of control and he's liable to flinch. He's liable to flinch for this reason: He doesn't know what you're talking about, the word has been totally misused, disabused; he hasn't a clue. But here is a way to explain it which is quite interesting.

Just a passing glance at this, look at the French Revolution. The stable government of France was overthrown; her neighbors kept that government in a turbulence by declaring war and making pressure and so forth. There was a broad world war grew out of that at the end of the eighteenth century. When France started to go out of control none of her neighbors, England, or the rest of them, reached out and said, „Let's put it back together again. Let's get the controls lined up so we have a more equitable exercise of the government of France.“ They didn't do that, and as a result they were living with a psycho for fifteen or twenty years. It was causing war on every side. Two generations of the manhood of Europe were eaten up in the flames of the uncontrolled hysteria of France.

You ask him, „Have you ever been controlled by somebody?“

Now, France, herself, was eaten up because she founded her economy on a sort of slavery. And other nations around her were able to sit with great aplomb and watch the feudal slave state go on and on and on, to see man tromped into the mud and dust. They paid for it after a while.

I ask you - have you over been controlled by somebody? Didn't like it, did you? Well, how would you like to de-control that area of your life? How would you like to pull out those old bad 8-Cs that have been run on you, and re-control that area of your life yourself? You'd buy that, wouldn't you?

No nation on the face of earth can afford to loosen the power of another nation. No war ever earned anything but war. And anytime you loosen the control over himself and his environment of another human being, you get the same circumstances. You get somebody that you can't live around.

In other words, if you had a father that ran very bad 8-C, something like that, or ran none at all, which is worse. And he left a whole area of your life completely littered up with this sort of thing. Yes, that's an area of control isn't it? Well, you'd love to decontrol that, knock it out, knock it flat; and substitute your own control in that particular area. That would be a very good thing to do.

And what is slavery but the substitution of one area of controls for the proper area of controls. We take a human being who should be able to control himself and his environment and we put him in chains and we tell him that he is now totally controlled! And he mustn't breathe or spit without some kind of a government permit. And we say, „Ah, this is the way to go about it. This is the way to have a civilization.“

Well, you could explain it to people like that and they'd have a little more idea what you're talking about. But it's control to them and it would still he bad. All control is, in essence, is positive direction. And the only way you can have positive direction is when it is on the basis of an optimum solution.

Oh no, it is not. That is the way to have chaos! And man cannot afford slavery. He cannot afford duress. He can't afford to tear his fellow man to pieces if he wishes to live any kind of a life at all.

The optimum solution stems from the eight dynamics. The eight dynamics you know well. Now, an optimum solution is the greatest good for the greatest number of dynamics. What do we mean by „good“? Substitute „survival“ and you've got it. The most survival for the most dynamics is the best solution always. And as long as positive direction is leveled on this that we call the optimum solution, it is very acceptable direction. Isn't it? Very acceptable. We tell somebody - no matter how practiced we are, with controlling bodies and so forth - we say to somebody; „Jump over that cliff.“

There is nothing wrong with the world today, except the world believes in duress and slavery as a method of possession.

He goes and jumps over the cliff and he hits the bottom of it and he's dead. He gets another body and somebody says, „Jump over that cliff“.

No, it's a very simple thing. It's a very simple picture. Let's look what this has done to the entire study of the mind. A study which came up from Chaldea. A study which came through all of the ages of Asia.

And he says, „To hell with you.“ Isn't that the way it works?

Every time somebody who’d come up with a little idea that had some notion of what it was all about, there was always somebody standing there ready to take that little idea and use it as a control mechanism on somebody else, and enhance slavery, but not man.

So that commands or postulates which do not forward an optimum solution - the greatest amount of survival on the most dynamics - are bad commands. And that would then be bad control. And you might get the intention through the first few times, but after a while people would say, „Na-ah.“ They would set up a resistance to direction which could then become so psychotic that they would resist all direction and you'd have a criminal.

In other words, somebody would try to look at this, and then the next thing you know anything that was discovered would be used to make slaves.

A criminal is simply somebody who resists all direction. What's this make him, by the way? This makes him totally directed. How do we work that out? Well, that which ye resist ye connect with. So that we get this idea of positive direction and we find out that communication goes hand in hand with positive direction and a person to give commands or to control adequately must himself be capable of receiving a communication. Quite important.

Let's take a poor, innocent little goof who really must have had something. You know, he was not a man of stupidity; he was a man of some genius - a fellow named Pavlov. Interesting fellow. He left government alone, he didn't have anything to do with government, he went down to one corner of Russia there someplace, and he had a hard time. He eventually got some money and he experimented on dogs.

The old-timers way back when making a big pitch out of this, trying to steer people into purgatory before their time, always said it another way: „Ye who would learn to command must first learn to obey. And when we've got you obeying good, we'll tell you to jump over the nearest cliff.“ See, this is the way it went. If you would command things, you must first learn to obey. Nah.. If you're going to command things you'd certainly better be in communication with them. Did you ever try to drive a car while you were sitting two or three blocks away, your body, too? You and your body are sitting two or three blocks away from the car. Well, you don't like cars, so you're going to direct and command this car. Yet you're not going to go near it, not going to have anything to do with it, but you're going to command it. Oh, no. See, that just doesn't work. You have to be in communication with that which you would command.

And all he was trying to do was change training patterns by identification. And he had the whole idea of conditioning identification. He was creating engrams every day, but he missed the whole subject. But he was all right. He had dogs, and he was happy, and the dogs slavered when he rang bells, and it was very useful material.

Now, here's what's interesting too. You mustn't be flinching from commands it gives you, see. Automobile commands you to turn it back on the road. See, very simple method of control.

Nobody around the Red Square - because he lived on after the revolution - said to themselves, „You know, we have an enormous number of men, women and children out here to

By the way, there was a fellow or two, several of them, all Scientologists, who have been driving lately - the only people in the world who have been driving lately. The other people have been driven. People sit behind the power steering wheel with power brakes with power motors with power navigators with gimmicks that follow the white line, providing it doesn't turn black, and the car takes them down the road, you know. They're not there -... you know.

control. We're a government. These people have got to be clothed and fed and sheltered. There's been a revolution, and we've got to get things going again, we've got to put them back together again. Let's see what Pavlov could teach us that we could employ in our effort to make these people happy, to make them better people.“

„What's this thing?“ Crash! They say, „I didn't disobey any law. I was driving my Cadillac at ten miles an hour right down the middle of the road just where I should have belonged. I was not near either ditch. I was obeying all the laws, ten miles an hour and somebody came right down the freeway going sixty and hit me square...“ Well, this fellow that was driving this Cadillac - I don't know why it is all Cadillacs have to go ten miles an hour. And all cheap cars have to go seventy-nine. Cadillacs can go seventy-nine. The cheap cars can go ten.

No, no. No, no. The Kremlin didn't do that. The Kremlin wrote Mr. Pavlov a letter. And they said, „Dear Mr. Pavlov, You come and see us. We are going to fix you up. We are going to give you laboratories. If you don't come voluntarily, we're going to bring you back on active service.“

Now, this fellow told a lie. He said. „I was driving down the road at ten miles an hour.“ No, he wasn't. Even though he was sitting behind the wheel, even though he had a driver's license in his pocket, which I think they have slot machines now in almost any station or so forth. You put a dime in you get a driver's license out. You see, if they issued these things and they were really valid licenses, and they really did enfranchise people who could drive to drive, they would be exerting control on the populace and we mustn't have that.

Undoubtedly Mr. Pavlov bad reached a considerable understanding of some of the factors of behavior, and so a chap by the name of - I don't know what his name was. He called himself Stalin, he's dead now. Wonderful how beams work. And this fellow, Stalin, put him in a little corner of the Kremlin, and he says, „Professor, write me a manuscript that tells me how to employ on human beings every slavery mechanism that you have found in working with dogs.“

No, fellow had his driver's license in his pocket and he was sitting behind the wheel of the car and everything looked just as though, just as though he was controlling an automobile. Let me assure you that the bulk of accidents occur when the automobile is controlling the driver. He was being driven down the road by a car: and because he sort of has some trained responses that he picked up years ago that other cars are going along and he can duplicate those.

And Pavlov wrote a four - he didn't know any better - he wrote a four-hundred-page manuscript. He didn't throw Stalin into session as any of us would have done. He didn't say „Well, I'll have to give you a demonstration here, Mr. Stalin, I mean, I can't just write this stuff out. It would be meaningless. I'd have to give you a demonstration. Here's a couch,” see, „The somatic strip will go back to birth.“

It's quite amazing this duplication of the other car as a method of driving. The other car's driving in the lane, so the fellow drives his car in the lane. You see, his car follows the other car because the other car, you know, the machinery is driving. It's very interesting. Very interesting to watch. Fellow crosses over the white line accidentally, see, crosses over the white line. It's quite interesting to notice that the two or three cars behind him will also make the same mistake.

He didn't do that. He didn't know how. But he did write this manuscript - fourhundred-page manuscript. And ever since that time, this undoubtedly valuable piece of know-how about human behavior and animal behavior has been employed exclusively to extract confessions from human beings as to how they have injured the Red state, or why they should at once desert some other control factor and join up in some fashion.

And when they put up these white crosses alongside of highways to show people who got killed there, the white crosses multiply at that particular spot. They say there's where a car killed a man. So the car sees the white cross and kills another man. What I'm telling you is true - these white crosses always multiply.

In other words, it's been totally misused and they've made slaves with it. And we call that today „brainwashing“ and that's where brainwashing comes from. All brainwashing is, is getting a person to identify beyond reason. Any time you can get somebody to identify beyond reason, you've brainwashed him. It has nothing to do with scrubbing brushes; they sure could have employed some.

Now, this is a case of something controlling a person. Now, if he's totally unwilling to be controlled by a car, he can't drive it at all. If he's only willing to super-control a car and the car could never control him, this is kind of weird. It's also an unworkable situation because the car could be going off the side of the road and he would not notice it was taking him off the side of the road. So he wouldn't do anything about it because he was unwilling to be controlled by the car and we have an accident. Just as the person who is not controlling the car at all would have an accident. You see how these things go together?

But here, here is this whole ... this whole panorama of thousands of years all in vignette. Here we have Pavlov writing what he knew, and the material then being used for the enslavement of his fellow man. In other words they give it a big pitch. They colored it. They didn't want anything to do with making people happy, making people free. They wanted nothing to do with that at all.

All right! We look this over and we find out then that a control is a somewhat give and take proposition. A person who accepts control, who can accept control, who can accept communication, who can accept postulate direction is the same person who can direct because the channels are open out if they're open in. It's just as true as this.

And yet, who knows? Russia, which at this moment is failing, might well have become a successful experiment and therefore a successful nation had she taken people like Pavlov and said, „What do you boy's know? Now, how can this be used to free from slavery - the slavery of superstition, the slavery of indolence - the Russian people?“ But they never made that request.

Now, it's true enough that a person can go on controlling things after he becomes slightly unwilling to be controlled. He can go on almost controlling things after he becomes very unwilling to be controlled. He can put up a show. He can put the Cadillac in the middle of the road so that it is driving him down the middle of the road, and he says, „I'm controlling this Cadillac.“ It's a very interesting thing.

We didn't wait for somebody to make the request, we're just going ahead and doing the job. That's the best way to go about it, by the way.

Show you what...I'm not talking about cars but it's quite amusing if you want to vary your driving. One if you want to kill yourself, try to drive totally in present time with each action totally independent right then, recognized as necessary right then, done right then, and on no automatic action at all - no machinery at all. You'll just do everything there is to be done at the moment you do it. It's quite amazing. It almost kills you for the first few hundred miles. And after a while you really start driving a car. The point is that you have to have an intention to take the car down the road. And it's a very weird thing that you can just teach somebody to do this and as long as he can get away with it without a ridge kicking his teeth in, why, he has a ball. You say, „Now why don't you... YOU take this car down to that next turn, and then YOU take this car around that turn, and then YOU take this car up that next strait-a-way.“ You get some old knocked down, knocked to pieces Chevrolet and it starts flying like a bird. It's quite fantastic. He starts taking the car down the road, you know. It's quite interesting. He has an intention to put it up the next mile. Drivers who have accidents, have only this much acquaintance with intention. The intention's built in on the assembly line by Henry Ford. Later manufacturers have not built in any intention.

A road map is only necessary because every time a truth has been discovered heretofore, it has evidently been put to a misuse of further slavery and greater duress, and therefore the whole track is booby-trapped.

What is this intention? What is this control and so on? What is this positive direction and so on? Well, it's just all the same breed of cat. You say to that speaker over there, you say, „Stay there“, you know. Hmm! Well, you could say that and you sometimes find somebody does that. There are people around, who, if you ask them to tell that speaker to stay there, right in that position, would say, „Oh, why should I do that. It's already there in that position, you know. Why should I tell it to stay there because it's already there. Everything is already there. Life is prepared for me this way and I just sort of go through it, you see. That's the way life is.“

We don't know what Gautama Siddhartha really said 625 B.C. We don't know what Buddha said. Because I can assure you that if you tell somebody ... if you tell somebody to do what a Buddhist is supposed to do - sit there for twenty years or something - he'll ossify.

Now here's the funny one. You ask that person if he enjoyed the music that has just come out of the speaker and he will either say, „Huhah“, or, „What music?“ If he can't get the idea of placing it, controlling it, doing something with it, then he's not going to get anything back from it. You get that? I mean, that's the way it is.

Now, maybe, maybe Buddha said something. Undoubtedly he released considerable truths or he wouldn't have had that much popularity. His word would not have reached across the greater bulk of mankind. Buddhism would not be today one of the great religions of earth if it had all been lies.

Now, you take the control of a body - here's a vast subject. But if you realize that I just showed you a thetan... all right now, a body in most cases is busily controlling the thetan. Well, there's nothing wrong with this as long as the thetan knows he's there and knows it. But when it becomes totally unconscious and he's not there at all, everything becomes wrong with it.

But how was it used? Exactly how was it used? Well, somebody must have thrown a few curves into it. Somebody must have thrown a few pitches on the line. There must have been something rearranged in Buddhism. Because I can tell you by personal experience it doesn't work.

You walk down the street - well, to some degree you're being in controlled by a body, but to this degree you certainly are. There's a path through the woods. The body has to travel on that path because it gets scratched and muddied and it gets dirtied up, why you don't send up around through the swamp or the trees. You see what you do? You send it up the path. Got that? Well, you are controlled to the degree that bodies cannot go easily without paths. So you say, „Well, then the path is controlling the body too.“ That's right! But if you at the far receiving end of all this are totally allergic to control, you probably make the body walk off the path, or into the trees, or drown in the swamp before you will listen to a body controlling you to that degree.

As a matter of fact there is one paragraph Buddha is quoted as saying that contains in it a prohibition against using practically every factor there is in CCH! It said you mustn't think on separateness or nonseparateness, and you mustn't think on this and that. And he took each one of these and he made up a series of about twelve dichotomies, and things that just - you must have nothing to do about. And if you could just conceive of mind essence you were all set.

So, to some degree a body controls the thetan. Well, when a person refuses absolutely to be controlled by his body, when a thetan refuses completely to be controlled by his body anymore and so on. Why, he doesn't control his body any more and he himself just goes into sub-zero and that's that. After that bodies walk around and join the army and run for Congress. They do all sorts of things. Such a person becomes what an old time Scientologist calls an operating GE... Body being a Genetic Entity.

And I refer you to Creation of Human Ability: „Conceive a static...“ And it says, „Under no conditions run this as a process.“ Ask somebody to look at nothing. Ask somebody to look at mind essence and study it and drool over it and concentrate on it. And his havingness will go up in smoke. And his ability to control himself will go by the boards. That's quite interesting, isn't it?

Well, here's an interesting condition of affairs. Who's going to control this body unless there's somebody there to control it. You say, „Well, if Poppa and Mama lay in enough machinery ...” this is really what the society sometimes tries to do. If they just lay in enough machinery and get enough continued conditioned responses - Pavlavian - Pavlavian child-raising approved by the American psychological association. Ahh... we're gonna sue 'em for that some day, by the way. Make 'em give up the use of the wordit's fraudulent. Two fraudulent things. Psychology says - Psycheology, see. It's the study of the psyche which is the soul or spirit. Well, all you'd have to do is get them to admit it wasn't and they'd have to give up the use of the word. It's fraud - public fraud. And... you think a fellow couldn't sue on that basis and win but as a matter of fact, we probably could.

Now, I think that there was something thrown into the channel. I think the water in that stream was dirtied for somebody's profit. Therefore, it is of interest that what we now know remain clearly in view as a workable situation, as a workable activity. That is what is in ... I am engaged on right now: what we know is being codified in such a way that it can continue to be used without a lot of interpretations.

Here's this fascinating condition of this fellow totally conditioned into the idea that his boss and his mama and his papa and his schoolmaster and so forth are responsible for those control factors which he experiences. He goes through life like an automaton. Well listen, papa isn't there and papa didn't lay in enough sensible machinery to control him through every existing situation he will ever meet. And mama isn't there any more. And mama won't control this person through every existing situation this person will meet. And the headmaster isn't there any more. And this headmaster isn't going to control this person through every situation this person's gonna meet... till we get an average citizen. Bitter, bitter truth!

The exercises and drills which make up the TRs, for instance, are very, very easy to grasp, very easy to repeat. Nothing to it, they are very simple - to do them is something else. But to describe them is very simple.

If you take a large strata of men and try to sort out of them somebody who actually effectively can do something about something. See, they're all doing what somebody else .. you know, who isn't there any more control... it just doesn't make sense any more, you see. These people do all sort of things. I see this happening - tried to teach somebody to add up a column of figures in some different way than they were taught. Well, I was actually trying to teach the head of the accounting school the person had attended, see, because the person wasn't there any more to be taught. Quite amusing. And listen, even if he were there, the head of that accounting school probably could not have been taught very much about accounting. Don't you see? He would have said, „I know the subject, I learned it from my master.“ Well, that's fine. So, then you would have had to, when you were teaching him, actually teach the person who had taught him. You see where we're going? We're going in the direction of nobody there, total unresponsibility, control being done by tradition and perdition.

Now, your subjective reality on the universe doesn't lie over there eighteen light-years or eighteen miles away. Your own subjective reality on the universe and your own objective reality are viewed right from where you sit right this minute. And that's the subject of our study.

And this is the way it would look. This is what would happen to people and what happens to people who just abandon the whole idea of controlling anything, of directing anything, of doing anything. I don't know, they're kind of - life is a sort of a chute and somebody dumped them onto the top of it and they go down the chute. Get to the end of it; somebody buries them. Some where on the chute they might have awakened for a moment but the probability is, is they never found out. It would be a funny day - some people alive today would find out they were on that chute or alive, And you can do this as a Scientologist. It's very, very amusing.

Now I'm going to show you something here. This is a little gag. Now, I see some auditors are going to be going home to their groups and friends and so on; they'll be playing this gag on them, I know this. This is a lead-pipe cinch.

You can take acknowledgment all by itself and you can start working on the Effect Scale, a new scale I'll have to tell you about later on in the congress. You tell somebody, „Good. Good. Fine. Good.“ Just stand in front of them, you know, and you say, „Good. Fine. Okay. All right. Okay. Thank you. Good. Good. All right. Good! Fine. Thank you. Good.“ And all of a sudden the follow will say or just break out and cry horribly large tears. „Say, you know, I've never ... never been spoken to before.“

I did this in London, and it was once being done all over the place.

Now you don't see this happening much in Scientology because Scientology people - for the good reason, not that they’ve been educated in this at all, but because. they had to have some quiver of' life in them to walk into this subject.

It goes like this. I want you to cooperate with me here a little bit - will you?

But you take somebody who's just plowing around on total automatic: well, you start this with them, why you .. you'll have given them a point on the chute when they found out they were on it. Most of the time they didn't want to know.

Audience voices: Yes.

All right. What does this add up to then in terms of control? Control is a dirty word, a thoroughly dirty word because it's been thoroughly dirtied. When I say they have a pitch, they had a curve when they gave out the information; they twisted it, they perverted it - the information that was discovered in past ages about the mind - and so on - to use it for a control factor. Well, I'm merely saying that somebody violated an optimum solution. In other words, they tried to control people to their detriment. They tried to push them around and eventually they forgot that control was Tone 40, always, and they came down scale to where control was the exact meaning of punishment. Control and punishment became the same thing because when these people controlled something they did so with the end view of hurting; the end view of punishing or upsetting or spoiling an organism. And finally postulates themselves and positive direction itself became itself, nothing more nor less, nothing more nor less than punishment.

All right.

So man has drifted away from control. But it's a dangerous thing to drift away from I assure you.

Now, I want you to take a look at the parts of man. Now, in Scientology: The Fundamentals of Thought, it says the parts of man are body, mind, thetan. See, that's very esoteric. And it describes them at some length.

Now, let's not worry about Scientology: Fundamentals of Thought, I want you to notice at this moment that you have a body there. Now, do you have a body?

Very interesting. If you don't want to live, why. don't control anything. If you don't want to be controlled by anything at all, why, go to another universe. If you don't want to be controlled against your will - which is to say against your best interests - by something else, then you had better learn control well enough and learn to control well enough that you can consciously and knowingly accept or reject whatever control comes your way. And that requires that you be in pretty darn good shape. You see how that would work out?

Audience voices: Yes.

There isn't any avoiding this. You can't drop out of the game. You could possibly rise out of the game, but you couldn't drop out of it.

You do have a body there?

Do you realize the only reason anybody gets an engram in restimulation is he gets his attention on it. Well what is that engram doing to his attention? What is that picture of that cat doing to his attention, huh? It's got it. Picture goes here; his attention goes here. Here he is. He's perfectly free of the picture of a cat. What's controlling his attention? A picture of a cat.

Audience voices: Yes.

Well, how come a picture of a cat could this irrationally control his attention? It's because he doesn't want to be controlled by cats. Believe it or not, that's the reason why his attention is fixed on it. He's got it there so it won't control him. And then he says, „I don't know anything about it and I've forgotten all about it,“ so he won't know that he's got it there so it won't control him. And he forgets about it so that lie won't notice or be bothered by the fact that it totally controls his working, sleeping hours.

There is a body sitting there in the chair?

You see this? It's very logical isn't it? Isn't that logical? If we just keep it there it won't get around to where it controls us. Total resistance, you see. It's the resistance that keeps it there. So what does a body do to a thetan? To a marked degree it controls him. What does an engram bank do to a thetan? What does a reactive mind do to a thetan? Controls him! Well, let me assure you that until he finds out that it's possible for him to accept control, he will continue to keep the picture of the cat there and the body there so that they won't control him. Silliest thing you ever heard of, but that's the way it is.

Audience voices: Yes.

You show him that by control he will not be annihilated; that he can accept a positive control without dying at once And he says, „What do you know? This fellow's been controlling me for forty-five minutes and I'm still here.“ And reverse-wise, he then finds out with further processing that he can control something else - himself. And these factors, one against the other worked in a processing session, bring a person up to a point where he is not totally resistant to control, and where he is not totally obsessed with controlling, and the end product is that he can control something.

You have noticed this?

He starts taking the automobile down the road by intention. He starts talking it over with his wife rather than worrying about whether or not she's controlling him. Funny part of it is he starts controlling her. But he could only start controlling her at the moment that he gets slightly willing to be controlled by her. And that unfortunately is the catch in the whole thing.

Audience voices: Yes.

We have answered the question: What is good auditing presence and what is good auditing address to the situation, when we say the auditor must exert positive direction which must not be thrown aside by every circuit which jumps up in its way. In other words, the auditor simply works to get through the idea to the preclear that these controls and so on, aren't going to kill him. The moment the preclear's bank moves in the road of it, circuits move up, service facsimile moves in, everything else. And the auditor keeps right on and the service facsimile blows up, the bank blows up. It's very interesting. Fantastic.

All right, that's the body part of it. Got that now?

What is a service facsimile but an old tired mechanism with which to control people? And what kind of a way of controlling people is it to lie down and be three-quarters dead. This controls people? No. I tried it once. I tried it once. I was lying down and I said, „Now I will be three-quarters dead, and everybody therefore will jump across the desk,“ see.

Audience voices: Yes. Now, maybe there are a few occluded cases or invisible cases around and we won't worry about those particularly. But I am going to ask you to get a picture of a cat.

And they didn't. They didn't. They stood around. They gave me some attention, but they certainly weren't under control. So I think this is kind of an aberrated mechanism. I don't recommend it.

Audience voices: Okay. Got a picture of a cat?

But the service facsimile is used as a control mechanism when the person can no longer control things. So therefore, every sick person is a person who is no longer able to control his environment or the people in it. It is only necessary to give him a certainty on his ability to do so once again for him to become well. This, amongst other things, is the secret of psychosomatic medicine. But it isn't that we don't practice psychosomatic medicine, we just make people well.

Audience voices: Yes

Here is one of these things that came up, and became very important, is very important, will continue to be very important and that is this factor which we will have to call, just to convey some vague meaning of what we're talking about - control. We actually don't mean control the way people mean control at all. We mean a new thing - which means a positive direction, in present time, from one being to another, with the end view of matching up to the optimum solution. The greatest good for the greatest number of dynamics. And positive intention, optimum solution, positive direction and wonders are worked. All a magnetic personality is, unless it's somebody who's had a magnet installed by a psychiatrist, would be somebody who could pervade an environment with an intention. That would be all there is to personal magnetism. He could pervade an environment with an intention. It's as easy as that. Not an intention for yesterday, but an intention for right now.

All right. Now, you notice that's a mental image picture of a cat. Is that right?

You understand this a little better now? Audience: Yes.

Audience voices: That's right.

Well, you'll be hearing a lot about it. I hope you do. I'll see you all tomorrow at one o'clock.

Hm? Now, can you go further than this and get a picture of a cat you have seen, or is that one?

Thank you.

Audience voices: Yes.

Get a picture of a cat you have seen?

Audience voices: Yes.

Notice that that is a mental image picture. You got it?

Audience voices: Yes.

Got that now?

Audience voices: Yes.

You see that?

Audience voices: Yes.

All right. That's the mind! The mind is a collection of pictures and automaticities having to do with pictures, and you have just looked at the total subject of the mind. These pict - Now, various things can be in these pictures - and the pictures can be different, but in final analysis they're pictures. You got that? The pictures can get squashed, and they get lopsided, but you're looking at the mind - that's it. There isn't anything else there. There is the machinery that handles them and the pictures themselves. All right, now, have you got the mind?

Audience voices: Yes Got the mind?

Audience voices: Yes.

All right. Now, let's get that first picture of the cat back - would you please?

Audience voices! Yes.

Hm? What's looking at it?

Audience voices: I am.

That's a thetan. See that now? All right, now you've got a body. You had a picture...

Audience voices: Yes.

And you found out something was looking at a picture, didn't you?

Audience voices: Yes.

Or something was looking at something.

Audience voices: Yes.

Now, you have the subjective attitude of the thetan when you look at the picture. But let's go to just one other attitude of the thetan, the only other attitude of the thetan, and that is this.

Let's look at these curtains.

Audience voices: Yes.

Now, you to some degree believe that your eyes are looking at them. That I know. Are your eyes looking at them?

Audience voices: No. Yes. No. Well, are you looking at them?

Audience voices: Yes.

Well, all right. What's looking at them?

Audience voices: Me!

Well, that's a thetan, Honest. I needn't give you another word of lecture throughout the next four days, for today and the next three days. That is it! Those are the three things that we can most easily experience. And I gave you the fourth, which was the first... I mean, the thetan and the objective universe, and that became the fourth one, didn't it?

So there's the objective universe, of which these curtains are a part, I assure you, and this body is too, it's kicked around so much - its solid by the way today. [sound of curtains being moved] Pretty good, huh? I did that just for you.

But the objective universe includes as a specialization other body-mind-thetan combinations who you see mostly as the objective universe, do you understand? So you see people walking around, live things walking around and so on, and what you're looking at is simply this same combination I just showed you.

The three most intimate items - you have a body, you've got a mental image picture, that's the mind, and what was looking at it - that's a thetan. And then you have the rest of the universe, and it has the specialized item in it of other thetan-body-mind combinations who also see this agreed upon area we know as the physical universe.

Now, if we go into the field of special abilities, whether or not we can make the mind stand over here at 35 degrees, whether or not we can mockup spaceships out here that run, whether or not we can hypnotize or goof in some fashion a politician, these are all doingnesses, doingnesses by which we change location and consideration with regard to the four items we have just called off. And that's all doingness is, unfortunately.

Cross your legs the other way way to. Did you do that?

Audience voices: Yeah.

Physical universe change?

Audience voices: Yeah.

Well what do you know! Now cross 'em back this way.

Audience voices: Yeah.

Physical universe change?

Audience voices: Yeah.

Interesting isn't it? We changed it, didn't we?

Audience voices: Yeah.

So we get this doingness which requires only control - start, change, and stop. Well that's the entirety of the subject. I don't know why I go on discussing it, it's too simple.

Well in actuality, it is that simple, but the funny part of it is - there isn't really a person present that believes it's that simple.

You could tell me about lumbago and goiters and the uncontrollability of cats and politicians, kings and coal heavers, couldn't you? You could tell me, then, about what? Difficulties with the doingness of these four areas. The difficulties with the doingness simply add up to non-control, don't they?

Isn't that nasty? All of these beautiful problems you have. All these lovely problems your going to lay in the lap of auditors some time or another. All these problems you're gonna audit out of other preclears. Your problems that you audit out of the other preclear (laughter) - really have to be audited out. Because they violate a direct look, a direct contact, a positive ability to control and let control, because these things obscure your view of the four items I mentioned.

Now how many classes of things would there be that obscure the view? Ha! You name it (laugh)!

Your ability is nowhere more greatly demonstrated then your ability to throw up difficulties and obfiscations! You're good at it!

You might not be able to see across your bedroom in the middle of the night, or the front of that podium, but you could think of a difficulty. Well, that should strike you as very strange that you could think of difficulties to this degree - but it's true that you can. Well, you must have Q-and-Aed with people that told you difficulties were very necessary. You must have bought a bill of goods someplace that in order to study the mind you must first study telekinesis. In order to study the mind you must first be an expert in ontology. In order to study the mind you must first be able to cut out appendices. That's the present law.

And these first must-be-able-to's, particularly when they disappear out of sight and you can't remember what they are, become the anatomy of difficulties. You first must be able to do this. You first must be able to do that. You first must be able to ... And then you forget all of these firsts, and know there is something that you should do first before you do this, but you can't remember what that is, so of course you never do this.

And one day you're driving down the street and you forget one of these now-I'msupposed-to's and you don't turn the wheel quite far enough or something of the sort, and you run up on the curb and have a flat tire or something. And you say, „Now why did I do that?“ Well, there isn't any „why you did that.“ There is no reason you did that. There were too many reasons and you did it.

So, if you keep adding reasons, you get nothing but difficulties. All we need is a few more reasons - just a few more reasons why we have to have and test this A-bomb, just a few more reasons why. Just a few more now-I'm-supposed-to's, which then buried out of sight make a complete complexity and utter obfuscation of the entire picture.

And I come along and I say to you, „Have you got a body there?“

You say, „Yes.“

I say, „Mock up a cat. Have you got a picture there?“

„Yes.“

I say, „That's the mind.“ I say, „What's looking at it?“

You say. „Huh. I am.“

Well, that's a thetan.

And, actually the one thing you're liable to know best is it couldn't be this simple. But that's all that's wrong: you know that it couldn't be that simple.

Now, processing is addressed to the perfection of control, the perfection of communication, the better observation of or creation of things to communicate with and things to control. Thus we get what we call CCH. And all the Training Drills we have simply amount to this today. We say; „Do it right now, in present time, 100 percent.“ And we've got gradient scales of things a person can do that way and he gradually comes up to a point where he can do a direct observation or execute a direct control or communication right now with it, without further vias. It almost kills him but he can do it.

Processing and training would amount to the same thing, but they are both addressed to the same things.

How long does it take for a person to become disabused of complexity, vias, varied reasons why, causations without number? How long does it take a person to he disabused of these things? Well, that's how long he has to be trained or processed, as the establishing factor.

It's all very well for you to say, „Well, ha-ha! All right. I heard what you said, Ron, and all I am going to do is I'm just going to make up my mind, and I am going to put it right through right there in present time, I am going to look at things right now. I am going to throw my glasses away and everything is fine. Heh!“

You have enfranchised some devils and demons of one kind or another, some automaticities and some vias, that you have given carte blanche to. You have said these things now have priority above all other things - including my present opinion! So, you have to get over the idea that they have power too, and sometime that takes a little time.

You speak right now in present time as I am speaking to you. A great big healthy ridge moves in and hits you in tie nose. You say, „This was not in the rule books. Ron specifically said - - .“

Well, Ron might have said something, but you said something a long time before I said it, and that was, „This ridge is going to move in and hit me in the nose any time I get cocky enough to believe that I'm close to perfect.“ Some such postulate is in the ridge. You got cocky enough to say, „Well, I can do it right now without any difficulty at all.“

And it says, „Right now! - doomp!“

And when you find these things the only other thing you have to discover is, is they really don't bite thetans. And when you discover that a thetan can't be bitten, you are a Homo Novis or a Clear or a „have“ or whatever else one might be called; and that would be the absolute end goal. Not nothing - that is not the end goal of Scientology - not the reduction of everything to nothing. Some people think it is, you know. But it is simply high directive communication, excellent control in the four spheres which I have just shown to you. And that would be the end goal of Scientology.

The subject of Scientology is livingness. You are looking at it. You are it. And I'd better give you an intermission.

Thank you. Thank you.