First, let’s take the lightest of the light, which is straight ARC. The methods of gaining ARC must be understood by the auditor, for the good reason that ARC is the only way you can reach most psychotics. You give them an appearance of similarity and they will start to move over a bit into your valence and start processing out things that weren’t themselves anyhow.

Self-determinism is the phrase we are using. There should be a better phrase for it. It ought to be a phrase which says “self-determinism on all dynamics,” which would be, really, pan-determinism or something of the sort, because when a fellow says self-determinism, he is to the greatest degree trying to think of himself. Therefore he is doing self- determinism on the first dynamic.

That is just present-time ARC. The various ways in which this can be used don’t need to be covered particularly; possibly they ought to be, but they are not very complicated. It is very easy to understand them.

First things come first, and the first dynamic comes first. But at the same time, there are dynamics two, three, four, five, six, seven and infinity on top of that. Therefore, when we say self-determinism, we should understand exactly what we mean by self-determinism — exactly what we mean by it. It is the person’s own command or control on each one of the dynamics.

One of the earliest uses of it was by a fellow by the name of Homer Lane. Lane went into an insane asylum in England and he said to the individuals involved in the management of this insane asylum, “I want to see your toughest case.” He was not a psychiatrist (most developments in the field of the mind come from wildcat sources — in fact, all of them do).

One of the early axioms says that the mission of theta is the conquest of MEST; that is a very valid axiom, you will find. That embraces self-determinism as far as the goal of self-determinism is concerned.

They said, “Why, you couldn’t possibly do that, because this man would tear you to pieces! Then we would be responsible for you, and we’re responsible for him.” “Well, he’s no good anyway — isn’t that so?” Lane said. “Well, that’s true.” “Well, then, I couldn’t do him any harm.” “Well, that’s true.” “I can give you a release as far as I’m concerned, so that you’re not responsible for me.” “Well, that’s true. Well, the devil with you — go ahead.”

Self-determinism says, “It is I who ...” and then there is what. What is the person going to do? What is his goal? His goal is the conquest of MEST, oddly enough, along each dynamic.

He went and opened up the cell door, and there stood a hairy, horrible creature, naked, in a padded cell. This fellow had been there for a number of years, and he was just a wild, huge beast. Lane stepped inside the cell, closed the door behind him and said, “I understand that you can help me?”

You will find that individuals have to cooperate on the third dynamic so that the group, the third dynamic, can engage in a conquest of MEST. But you will find that an individual is only really well off when he feels that he himself would be able to command a group in the direction of a conquest of MEST. If he feels that he would be able to do this, you will find, oddly enough, that he is also able to cooperate. But he cannot cooperate wholly unless he himself could control.

And the alleged psychotic said, “How did you know?”

Now, that isn’t a paradox, as it might appear, because when an individual is on an enforced-cooperation basis, what has been injured — what has been forced or warped on the third dynamic — is his ability to control a group engaged in a conquest of MEST. When that gets warped enough the individual will go into apathy on the third dynamic.

That is the contribution factor. The fellow was sane! “How did you know?” That was all he had been waiting for. He had been invalidated to a point where he was insane, so Lane suddenly validated him. That was contribution, and it was just straight ARC.

People then say, “Well, he is now a part of a group which is engaged in a conquest of MEST.” This fellow is not. Just look at your tone scale. This fellow is not a good unit of a group. When his self-determinism on the third dynamic is high enough so that he actually has a belief, self-confidence, with regard to the third dynamic and his ability to handle people in the direction of a conquest of MEST, you have an individual who isn’t aberrated on the subject. He can be rational, and cooperation is only possible in the lineup of rationality.

There is one character who is basically a pretty good old dame; there is nothing really wrong with her at all. If she hadn’t gotten associated with psycho-analism and a bunch of other things, she would probably be quite a gal. As it is, she has had to turn into a poseur just to hold up a front, in return for not being able to produce results. That is Dr. Frieda Fromm Reichmann. She has developed herself a very weird accent and so forth.

So, what you shudder away from is the person who is doing a manic control — “I’ve got to control this.” This fellow is so inhibited in his self-determinism on the third dynamic that itis pitiful. The fact that he has got to control demonstrates that he has a fear that he won’t be able to.

But there is nothing wrong with this old girl’s courage — nothing wrong with it at all. She doesn’t know what she is doing, but she will go into a cell with an insane person, and no matter what he does, she will do. That is the total knowledge on which she operates. Everyonce in a while, one of these people turns sane. That is her technique. That takes nerve. But, again, this is ARC — operating on a mimicry basis.

Have you ever had somebody stand around you when you were busy fixing a flashlight or something and you couldn’t quite get it together, and they wanted to take it away and do it? There is an anxiety on their part about fixing a flashlight. If this person were in good shape on the third dynamic, he would be able to have enough confidence in himself to have confidence in you to fix the flashlight. Because when you aberrate the third dynamic, what gets aberrated is a person’s confidence in others. Having no confidence in others, the individual starts to take weird shortcuts — completely irrational shortcuts — and he will wind up with a screaming necessity to control other people.

By agreeing with an insane action, you may give an insane person the idea that it is no kind of an action to agree with. So he will criticise the action in you and therefore invalidate it in himself.

Now, an individual who is very relaxed on the subject can walk in on a third dynamic, find out that this group is engaged in a certain angle of the conquest of MEST, look over what their problem is and decide that either he can help them or he can’t. If he decides he can help them he wants to know who is doing the best job there, who is in control of it, who knows the most about the subject. He is perfectly willing to drive the tractor, if the tractor has got to be driven and if that is what he can do in that group.

You will find, then, that there isn’t very much which can supplant ARC and contribution as a technique. It takes a lot out of an auditor sometimes to carry this technique along any great distance. An auditor who goes around imitating insane people and agreeing with insane people certainly had better start out with a conclusion that it isn’t going to affect him! So we have that level of operation; it will be a long time before that one is supplanted.

But an individual who has to control that group will walk in and although his only skill is driving a tractor, the second that you put him to driving the tractor he starts backfiring into the control of the group by introducing entheta, cutting off the communication lines and doing all sorts of weird things. He goes around and says, “Well, the boss doesn’t really know what he’s talking about; I mean, it’s an awful mess and so forth. And this project isn’t being done right. If I were doing it . . . And your job there, it’s too bad that you’re doing that sort of work...” This is murder. Yet this manifestation passes itself off for self- determinism on the third dynamic, and it is not. It is domination because of aberration on the third dynamic.

The next level of operation is Straightwire — good old Straightwire. The earliest Straightwire that existed in Dianetics is still valid. You can start asking a person, “Who used to tell you you were like your mother and father?” And you can spring them out of valences sometimes and get them moving on the track and so on.

Here is a postulated experiment: If you took a number of individuals and got them together and there was a certain job they could agree upon — they agreed on the fact that this job ought to be done — you would find them pretty well falling into line on who got orders from whom. The most relaxed sort of an atmosphere would prevail.

But you must differentiate between a mechanical treatment of entheta facsimiles and what you are treating. In other words, here is a mechanical operation: How can you handle entheta facsimiles? What do entheta facsimiles do? You must know this. What can you do to them? What can they do to you? That is basic knowledge and you have to know that.

I remember an engine room where we had two or three men successively in command, one right after the other. These men just had to control that group; they had the rating to control it and they had the knowledge, obviously, to control it, but those engines just kept breaking down, breaking down, breaking down. So one day I said, “Whose advice do the firemen and the boys down there take? Who do they ask for advice down there?” As it happened there was a little motor machinist second class who had run a diesel-repair shop outside of Chicago. He knew very little about the navy and so on, but this was the man everybody went to. So I called up the personnel officer, had three chief petty officers removed, bumped this man’s rating up to motor machinist first class and gave him the engine room. I took the officer out of the engine room and gave this man the engine room. This felt all right. The engines never again broke down — never again. Everybody in the engine room was happy.

Then there is definitive processing — definitive. What is there in entheta facsimiles which is bad? What is there good about them? And where are their weakest links? How do you cut them up? That is a definitive operation. If you will notice, in Dianetics we handled the field more or less on a phenomena basis. We knew people could go back down something called a time track and they could do certain things to incidents. There was a mechanical process there, which overstressed words but was still terrifically valid. But the definitive in it, the stressing of words, the running out of engrams as such — which we now call entheta facsimiles — was defining what we did with our mechanical knowledge. That has changed, but it has mostly changed in emphasis.

There were no orders issued down there. It was remarkable! The boys had it figured out about what they were supposed to do and what they weren’t supposed to do, and they would get into a powwow and talk with the new chief about it and decide who had the watch and who didn’t have the watch. They suddenly decided that the Old Man had the Watch Quarter and Station Bill all fouled up as far as they were concerned, so they made up their own Watch Quarter and Station Bill. After that, when you sounded general quarters you were liable to find engineers almost anyplace. You would have certain engineers assigned to a gun crew and they wouldn’t be on that gun crew. You would say,

We still have the mechanics, then, of entheta facsimiles. What will they do? What is important about them? What is important in them? What are locks? How are they formed? This is mechanical. The entheta-theta theory is very valid.

“Well, where is Jones?”

Take an entheta facsimile: A young child gets thrown on the operating table and they give him a tonsillectomy. He has gotten a nice entheta facsimile. It has all the perceptics in it. It has a position in time, and it can get cut loose from its position and drift into present time. It can be restimulated (he can bring it into restimulation). Locks can be formed on it and it can lie as the basis of a secondary engram — grief, fear and so forth — because it has physical pain and effort in it.

“Well, Jones is — he isn’t here.” “Where is he?”

That is an entheta facsimile. We find that it is not necessary to reduce all the perceptics in that facsimile, because if the effort is taken out of it, it doesn’t have any punch anymore. So we just take all the effort out of this entheta facsimile. That is definitive. We have the entheta facsimile and we know that we can nullify it, erase it, reduce it. We know that mechanical fact, but the definitive fact is that if we take all the effort out of it, it just goes by the boards.

“Well, he’s down in the engine room.” “Why?”

Quite in addition to that, if we can pick up the self-determinism which selected it — again, this is definitive; we are just taking another little piece of this same entheta facsimile — it will cut loose and we will no longer be worried about it. The stress is on what you get out of these things, and you can take anything out of them you want to.

“Well, he’s the only man down there that can run the emergency oil pump. He knows that. That’s where he belongs.”

The mechanical formation of entheta facsimiles is outlined in Science of Survival, and nothing is changed about that. But our whole study is definitive now, on how to best get rid of them. We know everything that we can do to them, practically.

“Oh, all right. Well, why are you here?”

Take somebody getting out of a dentist chair: he is in a state of shock. You are looking at an entheta facsimile, not at a human being walking around, because what he has is fear, charge and so forth.

“Well, I guess they figured I’d be better off on deck” — and he would be perfectly happy about manning the guns.

Let’s take one of the things that you can do to an entheta facsimile — just one thing: you can scan it. You don’t even have to go into the depths of the facsimile, but just go into the facsimile in the vicinity of the depth point.

There was peace, peace and quiet.

Just scan somebody three, four, five times over his going to the dentist’s office, sitting down in the chair and getting up out of the chair. Just scan him through this stuff — miss the tooth if you want to — and all of a sudden the fellow will quiet down. He stops sweating, his heart starts revving up and he no longer has any sign of shock. It is fascinating.

This machinist was very high on the third dynamic. He never had the slightest doubt in his mind that he could take these engineers — some of whom were some of the toughest articles you ever looked at — and talk.them into doing almost anything. He never had any doubt about this. He never came up and told you so and he never told them so; he just did it. He had complete self-confidence with regard to himself. And yet he had worked in perfect calm as a motor machinist second class in that same engine room without making any fuss, without any enturbulence - or anything. But the moment the job had to be done and I looked around to see who was doing the job, he got the job. Why? Because he knew more about engines than anybody else and because he could handle the men. That was self- determinism on the third dynamic.

So that is one thing you can do, then, with one particular type of entheta facsimile: you can scan it. This is still valid. There isn’t any reason for you to sit around and ask this person when he first concluded to be shocked. He is in a state of shock! What you want to do is get him out of this state of shock as fast as possible. So you address the entheta facsimile; you take out of it what you want to take out in order to produce the result which you want to produce at that time.

Self-determinism on the fourth dynamic follows right straight on through. You find somebody who has an overweening desire to change this whole human race and you have found somebody who is basically scared of it. That is perfectly true.

In other words, here you are with a number of known factors. Your technical judgment must be exercised in which of these factors you handle, what you treat, what you define as the thing that is important about this case.

I have knocked around the world to an enormous extent, and I have gotten my head beat in a lot of times. Things didn’t run right. But it wasn’t until I got involved in a war that I decided once and for all that man just didn’t know what he was doing. Having decided that one afternoon, sitting at a typewriter, I made a big conclusion: “People get the government they deserve.” I said, “Well, boy, they sure don’t deserve much, then, do they?” I thought something ought to be done about it.

Now, that is a very simple thing. You take somebody who looks like he has just come out of a dentist chair, although he hasn’t been near one for a long time, and this fellow is in a state of shock. Let’s take some shock off his case. There are several ways that we can do it — several ways. We can just start scanning back through areas of his life, if he can scan at all. Or we can give him some Validation MEST Processing, and the next thing you know, some of the kick will come off the line. It is quiet, it just works the memory and it is not dangerous in any way. Just run Validation MEST Processing on him.

In 1936 I was writing articles on “the United States is going to go to war with Japan.” In 1941 I found myself involved in fighting this same war which had been predicted. I had said, “The United States has either got to go along with the Japanese imperial policy of the conquest of Asia and assist that policy and pat Japan on the back and so wind up with an orderly Asia, or she has got to say no right now to Japan — tell Japan to cut its army to pieces, cut its navy to pieces and stop right there” — because Japan would have come up to a basis where she would have made a formidable enemy.

The fellow is sort of in a state of shock, he is kind of neurotic and so forth, so we just desensitize enough entheta facsimiles to bring him back to battery a bit.

I wrote all this down, it appeared in a magazine and so forth, and then all of a sudden I got involved in a shooting war. They are very nasty things to get involved with. So I felt a terrific outrage. The fourth dynamic had put upon me more than I had intended to be put upon ever again in my life.

Your knowledge of the tone scale and of individuals on the tone scale is still valid. You can look an individual up on the tone scale and know what kind of processing this fellow can stand. But the point is, you want to get the fastest kind of processing to him that you can. You want to get the fastest process available for the position of the preclear on the tone scale.

The very funny part of it is that a lot of this feeling sort of went by the boards in getting processed. And we are not moving as rapidly right now on the fourth dynamic because I had stopped feeling that we were this badly put upon, until, not very long ago, President Truman issued a statement that said, “Well, we now have weapons which can wipe out all of civilization.” That was also a statement that we could use them too. So right away we had a lot of people getting awfully interested in the fourth dynamic.

Now, you have Straightwire; the next technique is Validation MEST Processing, then Repetitive Straightwire: he remembers it and he remembers it again and he remembers it again. You don’t have to just make him remember it time after time; you can have him remember other things, then come back and make him remember the first one again, then remember other things and remember that one again. All of a sudden he doesn’t care about that anymore — he extroverts.

Now, the wrong way to get interested in the fourth dynamic would be to set up a revolution and so on. That would be all wrong.

The symptom of extroversion doesn’t have as much to do with attention units as it has to do with the fact that an entheta facsimile has just kicked off. It is no longer of interest to this preclear; he is no longer holding it in place, so it shoves off.

But our necks are in it right now along with everybody else’s, so if there is any possible alignment that can be put into the problem at this time, all of a sudden we have a responsibility to put it in — not to destroy or knock apart governments, not to get class conscious about certain segments of man or anything of the sort, but certainly to make information available to man so that he doesn’t drop those bombs.

The next process would be lock running on an individual lock — one lock that you run just like an engram. You can run out a lock in this fashion, and in a case which is pretty badly off you are going to have to do this sometimes. Simply take a lock out; run it just like you would an engram.

Maybe a little aberration, a little mania, would help us out. “A government gets the people it deserves and people get the government they deserve” — that conclusion could have been left in place.

The next is the technique of running engrams. And believe me, you can run an engram by original Standard Procedure and get results. If there is an engram sitting there to be run and you can run it, you ought to run it. There is nothing much to it. But definitively, take the effort out of it; concentrate on getting the effort out of it. It is something like taking this engram and pulling up all the pins in it by which the individual can hold on to it. If he can no longer get a line on this engram again, it will just go. That is a dirty trick. You haven’t found out why he is holding on to the engram, but you just make the engram impossible to hold on to. And that obeys the law that says you should get the earliest engram that you can get on the chain and knock it out.

The point is that there is an apathy strata whereby a person says, “Well, I’m not much of anybody and my vote wouldn’t change anything. Why vote?” “Well, men will get along by themselves,” and so on.

Then there is the matter of knocking out secondaries. You will find out that getting a grief charge off a case is very, very beneficial. In psychoanalysis they call this a “release of affect.” They fish around for five, six or ten years, finally get two tears, and then they consider the patient well.

There was a fellow by the name of Hitler who really had aberrations on the fourth dynamic. He had been a corporal and he had been pushed around by Junkerl officers, which aberration eventually licked him; he would not take the orders of the general staff. He wanted to give them orders, but they knew best — he didn’t. So we got a man who said he was all out on the fourth dynamic, and there are thirty million human beings dead. He did a little bit “better” than Napoleon. That is not a fourth-dynamic self-determinism.

This is what really fascinates psychotherapy about Dianetics — the fact that you can, by repeater technique, get a person into one of these charges.

Right now, as a result of processing, for instance, I feel and people here in the Foundation feel perfectly competent to do something. But what do you do? You offer information and you make it possible for organizations to pick up and use this information by restoring self- determinism wherever possible on the fourth dynamic. That is a good solution.

For instance, there was a girl that I couldn’t get any charge out of at all; I finally persuaded her to repeat the words “Your father is dead” I didn’t know what the words in the engram would be. She started repeating “Your father is dead, your father is dead” and bang! — she was into it. I just repeated her down into what was an obvious statement with regard to it.

The wrong solution is to get a terrific anxiety on the subject and then go around shooting certain strata of the populace in order to “help” the populace. That is aberrated.

I cured somebody of sinusitis one day. I say “cure” advisedly because I just got a letter from this person. It was a long time ago that I gave him this treatment. This is all the processing he ever had! Perhaps his total time in processing was around two hours; he said in the letter “two hours” but I remember it and it was not two hours. It was much less than two hours. He had a bad sinus condition and he couldn’t do anything much about it. This person had been an orphan. So I said, “Repeat the words ‘Poor little boy’” “Poor little boy, poor little boy” — half a dozen tears! “Hey, that’s funny” he said.” I don’t even know where that’s from?” “Well, try it again” “Poor little boy, poor little boy, poor little boy”

So there are optimum solutions on each one of these.

—then he cried for five or ten seconds. “That’s strange; I don’t know where that’s from! I haven’t any idea of it.” “All right, try it again.” “Poor little boy” and he got “Poor little boy, his mother is dead.” and then splash! — a few more tears. And he said, “Well, let me see if I can get ahold of that thing again; let me see if I can contact that again.”

Now let’s take the fifth dynamic, life — self-determinism on the subject of life. I don’t know anything that helps a man in this category like a belief in his control of animals. You take somebody who is frightened of dogs, for instance, and you are going to find him badly off on the fifth dynamic. Being that badly off on the fifth, it will go just straight across the line. A man must have a belief in the fact that he is a very superior quantity on the subject of the fifth dynamic. He is top dog.

So he tried to contact it again just with those words — he had no further words on it, he didn’t even know where it was in the bank. All of a sudden he said, “I can’t find it anymore.” “Well, how do your forehead and sinuses feel?” “They feel all right.”

He has a perfect right to kill game. You get these people who are afraid to kill for food, who think of “dear, poor little Bambi,” or “We’re all out for Pekingese dogs because men are no good.” Bambi is cute, but deer are good eating. It is very, very nonsurvival not to feel, as a human being at the top end of life, that one has the right to control and command life organisms. One should have that feeling. You will find that the lack of this feeling is not a mild aberration. You will find that most of your preclears that walk in are loused up on the fifth dynamic, and it takes some unlousing.

And they are still all right; there has been no recurrent attack.

I remember getting my fifth dynamic unloused very dramatically. Because of the deaths of dogs and things like that, I was kind of run down on the subject of life.

This was done with repeater technique. This case, by the way, was a completely occluded case; he didn’t know yesterday from August. He didn’t know anything about his life.

My mother went out to buy my little boy a dog. They went over to the pound and found this beautiful white dog, and they said, “Oh, fine” and bought this dog.

So you have a trunkful of tools, and the oldest tool in it is still a valid tool. It is sort of clumsy to go around fixing up cases with a bone drill, but it can be done! Naturally, you could overuse this, but sometimes it is the only technique that you can use on a case.

The dog was half spitz and half malamute — a sled dog. There is only one thing that a sled dog knows: pull! It is bred in the bones. You take hold of a leash on a sled dog and he takes off! And if you happen to be luckless enough to be of my mother’s weight, you go.

If a person doesn’t think anything is going to happen and you know he has a certain kind of an incident, anything is valid to get rid of the entheta facsimile.

He was too much dog, that was all. He was a powerhouse. My mother would take a stick and try to beat him to make him stop, and he would look around — ”Oh, somebody’s playing!” You could hit this dog with all your might and he would think you were playing!

But let’s define what we are doing. All we want to do is get a moment of pain or discomfort disassociated and disconnected from this preclear. That is all we want.

They called him Al. She taught him to bark at calves that wandered in from strange pastures onto the ranch, and promptly, of course, he couldn’t be broken of barking at calves — this was fun. So he could then pull and bark at calves; this was two tricks he had now. The next thing that happened was that every dog who even showed up way over on the horizon someplace promptly got his neck broken, because that is something else that a malamute can do. Their natural element is “Kill or be killed at forty degrees below zero”! One of those dogs has been known to move a one-ton sled — break it out and walk with it. That should give you some kind of an idea of this powerhouse.

We can deintensify it and let the preclear keep it or we can snip the moorings on it, at which time he can’t get hold of it anymore. We can do it either way. How you want to do it is all that counts.

I was feeling kind of down on the fifth dynamic and so forth, until I ran into this dog. I wrestled around with that dog for about three weeks. He was saying, “I’m boss, you’re not,” and I was saying, “Look, I’m boss.” We had it out. When I would try to make this dog heel — I was just teaching him standard routine training, and I would try to make him heel or do something like that — he would bite me. He had nice, long, sharp teeth. So I cured him of biting me.

Your next technique is Lock Scanning. This is very valid. You will find yourself using a lot of Lock Scanning on Conclusion Processing. If I just sent you back to the first conclusion that you ever made, as you scanned forward to present time you might latch up on the track in some other kind of incident. But nevertheless, we keep this up. It is very simple. We just say, “Go back to the earliest time in your life that you made a conclusion. Now, are you there? Okay, scan forward to present time. All right, can we find any earlier conclusion?” “No, I could only find four on the track there.” “Well, let’s go back to the first conclusion you can find and scan forward to present time.... Now can you find an earlier conclusion that you have made? Let’s scan through that, catching, if we can, reasons and so forth as we go by — but just push forward again.”

It was actually the physical handling of this animal that picked me way up. I could feel my tone go up on it. Looking back on it now, I didn’t realize what was happening at the time, but I finally got this dog buffaloed. Every time he would flash at me I would get ahold of his jowl and flip him, and it discouraged him. Finally, it got to where he would see me and he would take a running rush at me, and I would catch him by both jowls — as his cavernous red mouth opened up — and use his own impetus to throw him. He would land — crunch! — and the ground would shake. He would get up and you could just see him thinking, “Something has happened.”

We could keep a person doing this, probably, for eight or ten hours, and at the end of that time we would have quite a remarkable preclear on our hands.

Day after day of this kind of athletics was very rehabilitative. All of a sudden one day the dog took a look at me and said, “Gee, he’s a pretty tough guy. I guess I’d better join up.” After that I would tell the dog “Heel” and he would, and he would be very happy about it. I would say, “Stop,” “Come,” “Go,” and he would do it just fine. So I said, “Gee, ain’t I something?”

What we would have done is cut the moorings. We didn’t tell him to get the affinity, and we didn’t tell him anything about anything.

My self-confidence on the subject of dogs went way up, which was enough force — and you will see this happen in people’s lives — to spring back and knock out any earlier conclusions on the subject. Here you have a big enough static so it actually masks the earlier statics.

We just want him to do nothing but scan all the conclusions of his life. That is a process that is very simple, but you had better make sure this preclear is high enough on the tone scale to be able to lock-scan. It is not whether or not he can reach his conclusions; can he lock-scan? That is the mechanical aspect of it. You can do processing and get terrific results with just that one technique. I don’t think we can get much simpler than that.

So, there is the fifth dynamic. And this is something for an auditor to remember: With each one of these you can start shooting on a preclear, and you will find all sorts of data if you remember that it is self-determinism on each one, that it is the self-confidence of an individual in handling things on each dynamic — to handle himself, children, future, sex, group, man, life.

But what is actually happening? We are, at once, knocking charge off locks — desensitising the locks themselves, these entheta facsimiles — and pulling out the center pin that the individual has in each one of those entheta facsimiles. What happens as he scans these conclusions is that he is scanning all of the times when he has reached out and picked up entheta facsimiles and put them into use in his life. That is what you are really doing — casting these things off in wholesale lots, by just scanning conclusions.

So now we get to number six, and that is a very interesting one — dynamic six. Self Analysis is devoted wholly in its impact to the sixth dynamic — an attempt to rehabilitate on the sixth dynamic. The sixth dynamic is a very, very important one.

Now, the next technique is very much in question, because a fellow has to be practically up to the top of the tone scale to run it. He would have to be 3.5 or something like that. You can scan engrams and you can now scan the effort out of engrams, if you can get anybody up that high on the tone scale. You can scan the effort out of them. It makes for an interesting proceeding. Make sure you have a preclear who is in very good shape before you do such a thing. It can be done, but the case would have to be almost three-quarters cleared already before you would venture to do this. If you scan through all a person’s conclusions, the reasons why, you will find out these things have kicked off anyhow.

You will find out that people who have kleptomania (as most children have) get it simply because somebody upset their self-confidence about their ability to control, or to be part of a group to control, MEST. They haven’t any confidence in it. They don’t want to own things.

Therefore let us postulate that our goal in processing is not to run engrams, not to desensitise entheta facsimiles, not to get off secondaries and so on. These are not the goals; these are just by-stops, just routes — ways to get to the goal.

Beware of an individual who doesn’t want things, because that person is bad off. Greed definitely has its part — not greed of other human beings, however, but greed for MEST. A person who likes the idea of getting a hold of a nice, big chunk of MEST — he likes this, it is satisfying to him and so on — is in a good frame of mind. He is pretty well off.

What is your goal? A very finite, short-term goal, but a very positive one, is to get all the conclusions the fellow ever made, with their reasons, cleared up. You can put that down as your goal, and any time another process does not assist you in getting this case closer to doing that, skip it. Don’t do it. Just because this fellow has had eight operations and nine something-or-others is no reason to run them — unless you have to.

But it goes over on to an aberrated basis of where a person has just got to have it but as soon as he gets it, it will fall apart and he isn’t sure that he wants it; a person will start negating against things that he has. Look at how somebody treats his own possessions and you will find immediately about where he sits on the sixth dynamic. It is a very, very important dynamic.

In other words, what you are doing is fixing a case up, first, so that it can straightwire conclusions with accuracy, and then fixing it up again so that maybe it can lock-scan conclusions with accuracy. Then you will find that the case will get to a certain point where it is blocked off by an engram — maybe a fall out of a highchair or something of the sort. It has some conclusions mixed up in it that you aren’t able to get, so you run the fall out of the highchair; you run the effort out of it. You get rid of that one; you get the postulates out of it. Then you go right back to work on conclusions again.

Now, as far as dynamic seven is concerned, you can draw yourself a great, big question mark as to just what. But you will find that the seventh is aberrated, badly. As an auditor you should know this, very definitely — how badly the seventh dynamic can be aberrated.

Let’s postulate that your finite goal in a case in one lifetime is to get all of the times when his adding machine said “total” You are knocking out all the totals, because there isn’t a single total this individual has which is now valid. Not a single one.

Every few preclears, you are going to get hold of one who has monkeyed around with spiritualism, mysticism, yoga, Hinduism and all the rest of it, right down the line. And self-confidence in handling the seventh dynamic depends on not having tampered with it. That is a fact.

There is an old Christian statement, “Judge not lest thou be judged.” There is more to that than they knew! It isn’t very obscure either. A person says, “Oh, he was no good because .

Look at the gorgeous louse-up that this dynamic can occasion. Let us take an individual who takes up Rosicrucianism when he is fifteen years of age. He is sent a little folder and it tells him that he should sit in a dark closet, gazing at a lighted candle for fifteen minutes every day, until he finally sees something. And believe me, he will eventually see something. If he can just get relaxed enough, one of these counter-efforts will hit him — bong! Now is he convinced! Of course, it was probably Mama’s broom handle or something of the sort, but it is much easier to assign this to a spirit world, and he says, “Gee, there’s something here — maybe.” And there is where the seventh dynamic starts falling to pieces: on that confounded maybe.

. ?” and yak, yak, yak, and then he finds himself a little later on in a similar situation, so now his opinion of himself is that he is no good. But he doesn’t realize why he doesn’t like himself anymore. So every time a fellow adventures upon a criticism of another member of the human race, he will run up against the confounded conclusion himself before he gets too much older. It isn’t that it is not nice to judge or not judge, it is just the fact that it doesn’t happen to work. You can do all the judging you want to, but knock it out after a while and keep this steady stream of conclusions desensitized.

Now, let’s look at this. This boy is saying, “Do I have any affinity with something that has gone beyond, or with spiritual guidance? Do I? Well, do they have any for me? Well, I can’t nail that down, but I have a feeling like there’s something there. Do I agree with anything that this spiritual guidance is trying to do or not? Or is it there to agree with? Does it exist? Is there any reality to it? Well, I don’t know. Now, can I talk to spirits or can’t I? And if I talk to them, do they listen?” A-R-C — question mark, question mark, question mark. Is there any A, is there any R. is there any C on it?

There is your finite effort, then; and I don’t care what you are going after in this case, that is what you are trying to do.

And that is how a fellow gets himself into a beautiful state on the seventh dynamic. He just gets himself completely loused up if he keeps this up.

Now, the running of engrams, the running of secondaries, the running of locks, the use of Straightwire (just gunshot stuff), the use of Validation MEST Processing — all of these things are just tools which you have in your hands to patch a case up to a point where it can run all its conclusions.

I speak with a great deal of experience. I know lots of people in various parts of the world , men who are very holy — who demonstrate it — an d there is no accounting for the things that these individuals can do. I have seen the poltergeist phenomena. Very interesting — matter moves without being touched. Fascinating. I know people that started in telling fortunes and were excellent at it, just expert, and in about a year or so they were all off the groove on the subject of telling fortunes. I know people that have followed and studied magic, mysticism and so on as philosophies, and I know that every single one of them started out in pretty good shape and wound up in horrible shape.

You will find that an individual can’t run all of his conclusions without running an engram or two, or six or twelve. Sooner or later, he is going to fasten up on one. He doesn’t know why this happens. Then you go back and find that he is busy in the middle of an operation concluding like mad, and a lot of later conclusions are hung up and a lot of earlier conclusions are on this thing. He can’t blow it without running the engram.

I studied this off and on, I guess, for about five years in my life, because it is the most beautiful field in which to find phenomena. And can you find some choice and lovely phenomena! But if you can’t get the phenomena and bring it back to MEST and pin it down in its association with MEST, it is just a blur and you get worse and worse and worse on it. I am telling you all this, not autobiographically, but so you can appreciate some of these people when you run into them.

The same old rules apply: If you start in on an engram, don’t leave it unfinished. Fortunately, effort seems to be able to come out of an engram almost anyplace you find it, though some are tougher than others. In other words, you can get effort out anyplace.

Let’s take the fellow who practices yoga: He sits down and contemplates his navel and he has various positions and so on. This is a fascinating field. But every time he sits still and trains himself to sit still, he is also training himself to receive a lot of counter-efforts. In fact, a person can sit still enough so that the counter-efforts-really start knocking him to pieces. He can feel them.

So let’s set that up as the finite goal of an auditor. That is what he is trying to do, and that is why he has other tools. You could not do this trick of getting the conclusions off the case if all of the body of Dianetics did not exist behind you, simply because such things as Lock Scanning are necessary. You have to know how to run an engram occasionally. You have to know how an engram can behave, know how they come into restimulation and so on in order to handle these things.

People practicing yoga don’t realize that they are always hanging, without quite nerve enough — because they don’t realize why they haven’t quite got the nerve — just on the edge of letting themselves into an utter relaxation. They hold themselves above that.

You will find that psychoanalysis is going to pick this up: “Boy, that’s all you have to do is straightwire these conclusions. Oh, we’re going to start turning out well patients for a change.” But they are hung. It is not that easy, it is not that simple. We can say it is that simple and all that sort of thing, and I am going to write a little book on the subject and so on, but it is not that simple.

In other words, they are out of valence. They don’t actually relax as themselves. If they went into a state of unbeingness, really into it, in valence, they would really get those counter-efforts — bang! I can show you how to do it any time you want.

You are going to get just so many conclusions desensitised on a case and then you are going to run into a brick wall. You are going to run into an engram, in other words, or you are going to run into something else on this case — the reason why it can’t get the rest of the conclusions off it. And you are just going to have to turn to and run it.

They also get cold. They are receding toward the static, and a person who starts to recede toward the static naturally gets ESP. Why not? He is backing up into the body of static where it exists. We know that theta doesn’t have any wavelength or distance or anything of the sort, so naturally if one gets in toward a source of theta, he starts picking up ESP and the rest of this stuff. There is no monkey business about ESP; it exists. But the state an individual has to be in with regard to MEST and motion in order to pick up ESP is horrible.

That is why you have to know how to run engrams, you have to know how to run secondaries and you have to know how to lock-scan. You should know about past deaths and all kinds of things in order to accomplish this one goal. But that goal is terrific in its simplicity. You can produce marked results with an individual without doing anything else but that, but I am afraid the markedness of the results you will produce will be about one to fifty compared to what you could do if you knew the whole package of tricks.

How one attains that balance is a study for somebody else. There are at least a couple of good signposts which haven’t been there in the past. So if anybody wants to play with this, that is up to him; that is his self-determinism. But let him be warned that his self- determinism can be very easily upset for the good reason that there is no positive ARC available on the seventh dynamic. He will get into bad shape.

Now, let’s take one of these preclears who has gotten butchered up one way or the other; you have to straighten out the case. What is the easiest way to straighten out a case? You can lock-scan off the auditing. If you can’t do that, you can just straightwire decisions to be audited and keep banging away at decisions to be audited, and the next thing you know, you will be straightwiring decisions to be treated and all kinds of things. And these are hung up on decisions to be sick! So, in straightening this case out you are really just working the case. It isn’t that auditing did this person very much harm; it is that it occasionally put a lot of locks on greater decisions to be sick.

Now, you may notice that psychotics will come in to you talking about ESP; this is inevitable. A person doesn’t have to be psychotic to talk about ESP, but being psychotic sure helps. What have they done? They have gone skidding down or up the tone scale toward a point which is a static, and they haven’t got enough motion. Life has arrested motion — or they have arrested it in themselves — to a point where they are approaching a static, and they act very loopy.

Sometimes auditing has been able to demonstrate to an individual how he can really get hold of entheta facsimiles — he can get hold of hundreds now — and he holds them to his bosom. That is what is known as self auditing; he goes around juggling these entheta facsimiles all day long and he says, “Oh, boy, I’m really sick now — finally achieved my goal.” No kidding — that is what self-auditing is.

What do you do as an auditor? Look for an engram about ESP? Encourage them to go on practicing so that they closer and closer approach that static? If you wanted to really start encouraging them to do so, you might just as well take a gun to them and do it quickly, because you can drive them all the way off with this on the seventh dynamic. The thing for you to do is to try to speed the fellow up, because you have to speed him up to get him into an optimum range on the tone scale so that he can function.

Therefore we have a shape to our processing now. We know the individual holds on to these things himself. We know he holds on to them by decision, actual decisions.

This fellow obviously started playing around with theta though he had insufficient stability. I don’t think anybody has really got enough stability to start sliding into these statics very solidly without getting pretty flimsy in the upper story. It can be a nerve-shaking proposition to play around with the seventh dynamic.

It is very mysterious to a preclear. after you have worked him for a little while on Conclusion Processing: he finds this out for himself (much to his great horror). When you start running him through the moments just before he got sick he will all of a sudden trigger the moment when he decided to be sick. He has never realized that he had ever decided it. He has so much entheta on the case and everything else that he is doing his concluding underneath the layers of entheta, so he doesn’t even see these conclusions.

So what do you do when you encounter somebody like this? Do you sit down and discuss with him, endlessly, his opinions on the subject of mysticism, ESP, and all the rest of it? No. Don’t validate it, because the person is running too slow to be here amongst human beings.

You know how an individual is surprised when you run him through a burn and there are a lot of perceptions of the environment showing up in the middle of this burn that he didn’t know were there? The fellow has burned himself, and on the first run he says, “Well, I burned myself, I took my hand back and I went out the back door.” That is all he sees on that run. You go through again and find that he burned himself, a pot fell off the stove, the cat jumped off the sink, and he went out the back door. You run him through it again, and he burned himself, the frying pan and a pot fell off, the cat jumped off the sink and screamed, he went out the back door and the cat hit him in the leg! This thing keeps developing; these are perceptions. Preclears sometimes are quite surprised at this.

It isn’t whether he is holy or bad or good or anything else — that has nothing to do with it. It is just that you as an auditor want to see him function as a human being.

By the way, if anybody doesn’t believe that the mind records when it is unconscious, run him through one of these light injuries. He will see how much he was perceiving and picking up that he didn’t know he was picking up. That is a good proof. The worst way in the world to prove up an engram, by the way, is to give somebody four or five gallons of sedation, and knock him out and latch it up on top of all his operations as a late-life engram, and then say “Well, he can’t remember this anyway, but we’re just making it as a scientific test. And yes, we’re following protocol. We’re doing exactly what everybody said — he won’t be able to remember it though” and so on, and then try to audit this thing out. Of course nobody can touch it. (Some psychiatrists did this when we were back at Elizabeth.) And they say, “You see? Nobody records during engrams?”

Now, he is really there because he wants to function as a human being again. But the closer he gets to the static, the colder he is going to get. That static is minus 270 degrees centigrade; that is its temperature. It has no wavelength, there is no mass, there is no space, there is no current, there is no motion, there is nothing. So he is backing toward a point of unbeingness. At this moment, I know of no way to back into the point of unbeingness in a body which requires 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit, a beating heart, a flowing bloodstream, air in the lungs and a certain amount of cellular growth.

The other test is much more valid: If you have a psychiatrist or something like that who you are working with, take his hand and lay it on a hot stove. Then you say, “Now, let’s run out this engram.” He will proceed to run it out, and he will find out that he was recording during the whole period. It will be a great surprise to him.

It may be possible for an individual to detach his own theta as theta and sort of suspend animation in himself, and somehow or other back into the static. There may be some way he can back into the static as a detached being. But if he is going to study in this field, he had better not try to take the body along with him; it is uncomfortable.

It is equally surprising to a preclear. when he starts scanning areas of decision, that he suddenly picks up a bunch of hidden postulates which he didn’t know were there. He was making up his mind to do this and to do that. This is a great shock to him. I did it the other day to somebody on his decision to wear glasses. I just went over the area about glasses, looking for the decision.

If you don’t believe this, any time you want to try it out, just try to assume a state of unbeingness. Slow all of your processes down; concentrate on being nothing, completely. If you can really let go you will slide into valence and you will start to get counter- efforts. If you can just let yourself take those counter-efforts and still stay in that state of unbeingness, if you can just get yourself to that point, a lot of somatics will exhaust. This is true, but you won’t be running very fast. You will get cold — you start down toward minus 270 degrees centigrade.

The fellow said, “I never made up my mind.”

You can play around with this and see how loopy you are after about two weeks; you will get pretty loopy. That is essentially the experiment which they are trying to get people to make in yoga, only this is its anatomy.

I said, “Let’s go through the periods before you started to wear glasses: the day before, two days before, a week before, a month before?” All of a sudden we dropped into about seven years of age when he had a teacher who was all-protective, who scolded Mama and who wore glasses, and we found an analytical decision sitting there — a concentration on trying to be like that teacher. It was not just “Well, it’s an automatic response and I’m sort of a puppet on the strings of fate.” The child was sitting there saying, “I want to be like that teacher” and then it suddenly occurred to him that the glasses looked nice on this teacher, so he decided, analytically, to wear glasses.

I am telling you about this because you have to know it; too many people who come to you will be suffering from this malady of running too slow. They have skidded back toward static.

We are not looking for anything hidden, obscure or anything like that; this stuff is locatable. And when he finds it, it will be some kind of a studied decision. It is fascinating.

What is a person doing when he is going down the tone scale? He is sliding toward the static of death. What is he doing when he goes way up the tone scale — too high up the tone scale — way out of sight? He is also going to that same zero. This is a circular tone scale — it starts and ends at the same zero. So a person can stop by going up too high or he can stop by going down too low. There is a tolerance band of life, and if you want this preclear to start functioning, thinking, being and so forth as he should, put him in motion.

For instance, a two-year-old child sits down and thinks, “My mother is mean to me. What am I going to do to get even with her. Now, let’s see, I was sick. Yeah, I had a bellyache; it didn’t bother me much, but she sure looked worried.” Okay. “Mama, I got a bellyache.” “Look how worried she looks — ha-ha-ha-ha?”

You don’t put him in motion by heavy processing because this slows him down more. What you do is start picking up, with Validation MEST Processing, his disassociation with the sixth dynamic. You rehabilitate him on the sixth dynamic in every way you possibly can, with conclusions about the sixth dynamic and everything else. You get this fellow back in contact with MEST and he will speed up. He will go to a better position on the tone scale and he will be healthier and less wild-eyed. I assure you this is what will take place; I have had quite a bit of experience with it.

This kind of a thinking operation goes on. And the fellow was doing it, just sitting there consciously, willingly, willfully doing all of this right straight along — step by step, everything understood, exactly why he was doing it, nothing blurred about it and so forth.

You should be getting in some experience, because you have, in your midst, people who are going to read those axioms and climb a pole. It is quite a desperate undertaking, by the way. The fellow all of a sudden starts to say to himself, “Let’s see, now, agreement... agreement is really complete obedience or something. There really isn’t any ARC. The worst way in the world that you could possibly fix up people on the tone scale would be to show them some sympathy, or to give them any ARC. So therefore ARC doesn’t exist. So therefore one shouldn’t love his fellow man. I wonder what theta really is? Let’s see . . . You know, I’ve got this idea — it just came to me in a flash that at night when I lie down, if I lie very motionless, I can pass into a sort of a coma state....”

Later on, he has gotten it down to an automatic process, falling against the original decision. Something happens — bing! — the decision for that is to get sick, so he gets sick and so forth. You can even locate it during that period if you scan over it a lot of times. All of a sudden he finds it. “Hmm, that’s funny. I sort of said to myself, ‘I hurt my head; therefore I have to be sick.’ I wonder why I said that?” You get him puzzled about these darned things; start looking for them and you will really find them.

This is a weird business. You are going to get people doing this. Somebody is going to read those axioms and start out like a shot gun. You don’t let them go on spinning. What you do is speed them up by the simple expedient of rehabilitating them on the sixth dynamic and taking their point of concentration off the seventh, and not by arguing with them on the subject of it. Just get them down off the pole by pointing out to them that a physical universe exists, and do it very adroitly. Don’t just bluntly say “You’re wrong,” because what do they do then? They flop over and unspin at such a rate that they go completely to the opposite end of the tone scale with no pause in the middle. The fellow has been invalidated and he will fold up on you. So you just rehabilitate his MEST — sixth dynamic.

But what do you do with a case that doesn’t know whether it’s Tuesday or macaroni? Can you run Postulate Processing on this case? No, you can’t. You can find things like his decision to go downstairs.

As far as the eighth dynamic is concerned, you will find that your preclears have an enormous number of aberrations on the eighth dynamic. In various parts of the world you will find that almost any manifestation of the deity has been brought forward as the manifestation. There are terrific arguments amongst cults. Does God exist or doesn’t he exist? And the ARC situation obtains there.

This is like the boy whose notebook was found and turned in by the master-at-arms on a ship I was on. The book was full of stuff like “I am forward, now I am going aft. I am now going below. I am below, I think I will go topside. I have started to go topside. I am now topside.” It was a thick notebook. He was keeping a written record of all of his decisions on what he was going to do. He was crazy, of course, but that was very interesting. This mechanism had come all the way to the front. It is operative all the time in everybody. All that had happened is that it had just come out and become the whole individual.

A little child gets into this kind of a state, and almost any child in this society has gotten into this kind of a state: “Does God love me? Do I love God? Is he there? Does he listen to my prayers? Do I receive any messages from him? Where is he? He’s everyplace. Well, that’s not possible — but he is.”

You can find with some preclear that he can find the moment when he walked downstairs and the moment he decided to walk downstairs. First he will try to tell you that he just walked downstairs, he didn’t have to decide to walk downstairs. The devil he didn’t! Unless he was carried down, knocked out cold, he had to decide to walk downstairs. Or he had to decide to walk upstairs.

This, fed to a little child, is ARC across the field. A little child has stability enough to stand up to the conclusions he makes. But let him get beaten around by life, and sitting back there are these conclusions, just ready to fix him some day.

The instantaneous character of such decisions renders them rather hard to locate for a moment, but they are decisions. If you got up all the decisions to walk down, to go down, in a person’s life, you would bring him up to present time.

This has nothing to do with religion. It has to do with a society which is on a very low band of the tone scale. It is just the fact that a society, when it tries to teach, enforces or inhibits. It doesn’t try to give anybody data and let him make up his own mind; it does it on the basis of “you’ve got to!”

But you are looking for decisions in the middle of entheta facsimiles, so you had sure better know how to handle entheta facsimiles.

This applies on the third dynamic and the second dynamic and the first dynamic, as well as the eighth, so it isn’t anything peculiar to religion. It is just the fact that this fellow has been given an enforced setup on something which is relatively indefinite, because the eighth dynamic is faith. It is not even knowledge, and it is certainly not ARC or understanding. It is faith; it is a static, and in a complete static there is no understanding. The individual is taught “You have to understand things in life,” so he goes ahead and tries to understand the eighth dynamic. But you can’t understand the eighth — that is faith! You accept it. You don’t try to wonder about it.

A woman comes in and she looks rough; she looks bad to you. You start going over her case, kind of testing it out lightly and finding out what has happened. You build a little ARC in the process of doing so, get a little inventory, talk to her “Oh, your father died?” and so forth.

You will find some peasant over in the middle of France who is probably very, very happy about God, who has never thought for a moment “Is he there or isn’t he there?” or anything. He is very happy; he has faith on the subject. And you will find some learned scholar, grinding away at his books — like Spinoza:l study, study, suppose, postulate, think, think, think, think; spin, spin, spin, spin; think, spin, spin. No faith!

You look this case over and it is obvious to you that if you ever got this case near a grief charge it would hang up fast. So you take some locks off; see if you can find some worries that you can take off, cure up a worry or two. Pick up her worry about being home in time for supper; she is worried about that. Just go over this a few times. Get her to remember times when she was late for supper and a few things like that — just nonsense, practically — until you get this case lined up so you can figure out what you can do with it.

Faith, however, is an automatic proposition, and the reason a person tries to think on the subject is that people try to use it as a control mechanism. And what this individual is trying to do is understand what is trying to control him in his own race — and he blames it on God. People are trying to control his actions and cut down his self-determinism by using the threat and potential of God. He gets upset on this subject so he bypasses trying to understand, because he didn’t understand what people were trying to do to him. He turns around and starts “understanding” on the subject of a Supreme Being — but he can’t do it! And the second he does, he will spin.

All of a sudden you figure this case is stuck in an engram, that the ARC of the case could actually be raised up to a point where we could run the effort out of that engram. So you decide on this very adventurous postulate, that maybe this is what you are going to do. You are deciding that with some deliberation, not with any spontaneous wandering-around kind of proposition. This is an actual diagnostic decision. You are going to take this scalpel and this pair of scissors and put on the rubber gloves and take out one engram.

The way you undo it is find out who was trying to control him with the eighth dynamic. What human being was trying to control him with the eighth dynamic? What human beings were associated with him on the subject of the eighth dynamic? Unburden his contest and conclusions with regard to these human beings and all of a sudden the eighth dynamic will go right on up and be in beautiful shape.

So you take out one engram. This doesn’t mean that you are just loafing on the job or sitting around, nor that you are going to go on and on and take out more and more engrams. No, you are going to take one engram out of the case, and then you are going to see if this case can’t do a little scanning on locks or something of the sort. Or you take out one engram and the case doesn’t improve particularly, so you say, “Well, this probably wasn’t it. I wonder if we could take out a grief charge.” How are you ever going to get the case up to a point where you can get a grief charge out? Validation MEST Processing. So you start pounding down the line on this, orienting the preclear with regard to matter, energy, space and time — just orientation. Then all of a sudden you find that there is a charge ready to come off, because that little book Self Analysis will occasionally blow a charge into view.

There was a very interesting officer who sailed with Columbus. He was a dashing fellow; he did very dangerous things continually. One time Queen Isabella was sitting on the top of a turret and she was bored, so this fellow said, “Oh, you’re bored, Your Highness?” And he stepped over the edge of the parapet onto a beam about six inches wide and about three hundred feet above the ground, that was sticking out about twelve feet. He just walked it, turned around in a circle on the end of it — he was not any kind of a ballet dancer or anything — and walked back. Queen Isabella had fainted!

So you start to take that grief charge off, you get it about halfway off and you find that it is being held down by a very bad circuit of some sort. If you were really a red-hot auditor you would shoot that circuit. That is really the ne plus ultra of auditing. If you can take a computing psychotic and shoot his circuit out, you will have a well person on your hands immediately. What is the circuit he is operating there?

Anyhow, this officer had a little picture of the Virgin Mary, and he always carried this picture of the Virgin Mary.

But until you have become adventurous enough to shoot circuits, you might as well bypass that. Get off as much of the grief charge as you can; get it all off and the case will start running.

One of the caciques in Haiti was raising a lot of hubbub up in the hills and a big revolution was going to take place and so on. The officer heard that this cacique was making trouble and that the people in the garrison were worried about it, so he went up into the hills all by himself one night and walked into the camp of about four thousand natives. He tapped this cacique on the shoulder and said, “You come with me.”

All of a sudden this case is ready to roll on some scanning; now scan it, get up locks. What are you looking for now? You are looking for nothing but conclusions and decisions. You get a Tot of those up — a lot of scanning — then suddenly you find out that the case won’t scan anymore.

“Oh, no. No, no.”

Why won’t the case scan? You may now find out you have latched this case up in a tonsillectomy. Now you take the effort out of the tonsillectomy; you are going to put on the rubber gloves and take out one engram. You do that and you find the case has freed up and you can then run more postulates out of it.

“Well, you’re just going to have to.” So the officer picked him up and carried him out of the camp and took him back down to the stockade! Nobody even shot at him.

This is the way I work a case.

Two or three years later we find this officer conducting an expedition on his own. He sailed the Atlantic. Knowing nothing about seamanship or anything else, he sailed the Atlantic and explored the coast of Cuba and there he set up a colony. We don’t hear of these wildcat adventures that went on during Columbus’s expedition because he squashed them.

But I have seen errors an auditor can make: He takes a case and decides he will get fancy with this case. The case is wide open, locks are ready to be run, conclusions are ready to be shot out and everything else — the case is in good shape. But the auditor doesn’t take those locks out. He decides he had better just dive down the bank and get the earliest engram or something of the sort — not a very good decision.

If you had asked this fellow how he stood on the subject of the eighth dynamic — the Supreme Being — he would have looked at you very blankly. He would have said, “Why, the Virgin Mary takes care of me; I get along all right. I don’t have to be afraid of anything. I don’t know what you’re talking about, because nothing can happen to me — nothing!” And he acted that way. And to the end of this man’s career, nothing ever disturbed this. He did the most fantastic things imaginable.

Or he will run this case for a while and run it and run it, and all of a sudden this case is no longer getting up locks the way it ought to, but he continues Straightwire long after he should have done something about it. This preclear is getting the same incident, the same incident, the same incident, over and over.

This fellow was running on pure faith. It certainly wasn’t a manic because this man’s accomplishments were very rational.

On a case like that, you have to drop it into the next strata by running one engram or by running one grief charge or something like that. You lay it open and you expose, by doing that, enormous sections which can now be straightwired. You drain those sections and get that all squared around, until all of a sudden you run dry again.

But there is faith as it can be used. The reason why it keeps coming downhill (this is very simple) is that people try to control others with it.

And I have seen this happen: An auditor gets into the case, runs the case on locks, finds out there are very few locks available and then shoots some sort of a charge off the case, or an engram. He shoots something off the case and then shoots something else off the case, and then shoots something else off the case — but he isn’t picking up everything he is laying bare; he isn’t even beginning to pick up what he is laying bare. And this case can actually become disoriented and scattered. The way we are doing it now, the case can actually become disoriented by picking up too many of these entheta facsimiles and running the effort out of them as such.

This is awfully important, because a large percentage of the individuals who are neurotic or insane are neurotic or insane because of this eighth dynamic louse-up. So you can put that down as important.

Run all the decisions you can get off a case, in other words. When it won’t run any, then decide what else you have to do to this case to lay open some more area. Then take everything you can get on it, and just keep this up. You have here a repetitive process.

If you take a look at the Minnesota Multiphasic as an intelligence test, you will find that an enormous number of its questions apply to religious aberration. And you will find out that the people who got that together took it empirically from insane asylums. This was not somebody’s figure-out; this was all the kinds of questions that they assembled and found as the most common points of trouble. You will find that maybe 30, 40 or 50 percent of the insane are insane mainly because of the eighth dynamic. They have been controlled on the subject of the eighth dynamic till you find them in continual attitudes of prayer and so on.

But you are in the position of individuals who are being asked to judge — diagnose — what is wrong with a case. You have a good tool in the tone scale, a very good tool. Look over that tone scale and you will find that those mechanical processes still work at their own levels of the tone scale. You will find that there are cases which won’t work to anything but ARC. And you will find that there are cases which just appear to be completely bogged until you have done something about a grief charge, and so on.

How do you rehabilitate this? First, you probably have to reorient an individual with regard to other people — just anybody. Get him in contact with other people, and then finally carve it down to a point where you undo the efforts of other people to control him through a warping of the eighth dynamic.

But judgment is needed on your part. You now have a new, further end goal than you had before. You want to get the case into shape so that you can straightwire, repetitive- straightwire, and lock-scan out every conclusion the person has ever reached in his whole life. If you can do that for one lifetime, we will grant that you have on your hands technically what is a Clear. We will just grant that that is it. That is simple, isn’t it?

So you are not throwing the eighth dynamic in question. You are not paying any attention to the eighth dynamic, actually, to do this; you are just picking up the aberration. You don’t try to convince a person about the eighth dynamic any more than on the third dynamic you would sit and convince the fellow that he had to be friendly with groups. You give no sales argument. What you are doing is trying to pick up the control factors: When have groups controlled him? When has he concluded he had to be controlled by groups? And that resolves the eighth dynamic for him.

What do you have to do to the case in order to get all these things up? You would be good auditors if you took any case that walked in, and by the technique and formula of Conclusion Straightwire, you just got all the conclusions that you could lay your hands on out of this case. That case would be in good shape. He could then walk away and he would be saying, “Well, Dianetics did a lot for me. That auditor’s a good guy: he got results.”

You could do that and get away with it. But it is something like delivering a five-cent package when you can deliver a five-hundred-dollar package. That is the idea. There isn’t very much comparison to what you could do if you took all the conclusions available out, or if you set up the case in such a way that you could get enormous numbers of them out.

If you know the rest of your tools, if you can shoot out the engram that has this case latched up — he is stuck in this thing and has been in it for ages — take the effort out of it.

Or you get a person so far out of valence that he doesn’t know which end he is standing on. Find the effort that is keeping him out of valence and get him into valence. Turn up his ARC at that period, and all of a sudden the case will be beautifully patched up. Now you can do an enormous amount for this case; you can get a lot out of it now.

So that is diagnosis. You are going to get people as well off as you can use these tools. A person doing Foundation auditing ought to be able to do Straightwire by formula on Validation MEST Processing and conclusions. He ought to be able to shoot a circuit; he ought to be able to run an engram, completely, and at least get all the effort out of it. He ought to be able to run a secondary and get one when it is available. He ought to be able to muster up enough ARC potential so that he can take a psychotic and have this psychotic in fairly good shape in order to be processed. He should be able to do all those things, but that is not very many things to do, actually.

We would have, then, a bag of tricks by which we could ensure that anybody who walked in would certainly walk away in good shape.

Of course, a Foundation auditor ought to be able to shoot out, at will, a chronic somatic — just shoot it out at will. And I will give you some processes by which this can be done.