The problem, this morning, is an extension of what we’ve been talking about with regard to courage and its specific applications, specific things you can do with this process.

Okay, and this is the afternoon lecture of January the 29th, 1954. And this moment, we are going to ask you an interesting question as an auditor: Why is there somebody in this class that isn’t Clear?

Now, let’s take this scale from Know all the way on down through to Sex. And we find ail individual who’s hitting along the sex band is below the individual who is hitting along the eatingness band, but that individual is below the individual who is hitting along the symbol band. But that individual is below the individual who’s hitting along the computing band or thinkingness band and that individual is below the effort band.

I’m asking you that as an auditor now.

Now, look how many rungs of that ladder we go up to get to Effort, huh? Now, you start raising one of these cases up the line and, all of a sudden, he’ll start to develop terrific effort. How does he do it? You tell him to put some effort in the walls and it blows all the walls down-you know, I mean, it’s according to his perception. It goes out in terrific whams. It’s sort of all mixed up with anger. In other words, it is the lower harmonic of anger.

What’s the answer?

And we get this condition at some little distance into a case. You face somebody after you’ve been running him on “courage about thinking,” why, “courage about other people’s thinking” and so forth and you think, boy, now we’re all set here and the next thing we know, why, we start putting up this effort and here we go. Wham! It looks like the walls are falling down and every time he puts up some of this stuff, boy, it’s going to take the whole town out and so on. It scares a preclear. Well, it simply should be run as an automaticity, which is what it is.

Female voice: I didn’t now there was anybody here who wasn’t.

But that is a manifestation in the effort band. And you’re going to take a lot of preclears an awful long way north from an awful long way south before you hit this in some cases. But it’ll be there. But remember, don’t get too happy about this case or too despairing about this case until you get the case up there.

They’re getting there. They’re getting there, but some of them are dragging their heels. I’ll tell you why it is. It’s in view of the fact that instruction up to certain principles takes a certain amount of time, absorption and some confidence in your own material.

Now, one of the ways you do this is you ask the individual to pick up an ashtray or the edge of the table or something of that order and then you say to him immediately after this, you say, "All right. Now in your imagination, let’s pick it up again and feel the weight of it.”

If you took this long to clear somebody you pulled off the street, I would be so ashamed of you I would just go and cry quietly into my beer. I don’t care what kind of a case he was-they brought it in on a stretcher, you poked it and the flesh where you poked it stayed dented.

He does, he feels the weight of it, he does it with accuracy and adequacy, he is above the effort band. If he cannot do this and feel the weight of it, immediately, clearly, he is below the effort band. And if he is below the effort band, then this manifestation will turn up as you progress the case north. So don’t run the case up toward thinkingness and then tell somebody you’ve got him at Tone 40. You haven’t. You’ve got him on the Tone Scale. You’ve just barely shoved him over the edge. He’s just past Death. [laughter] He’s a little bit warmed over by now. Okay.

So, let’s not get our sights adjusted on what we’re doing here and what we can do. Let’s just not adjust what we can do by what we’re doing.

Now, if you’ll just keep that little datum parked there, going to save you a lot of time and a lot of puzzlement about some preclear. There are other characteristics in this case: he can’t get emotion freely. A person who is below the effort band is, of course, below the emotion band and he just can’t get emotion freely, that’s all. He doesn’t dare get angry, he doesn’t dare get sad, he wouldn’t cry if he had to. He’s having a rough time emotionally.

All right, there’s a lot of answers to this. You’ve had the answers. You may not have fully enough digested some of these answers, but you had them. Now, if you think there’s any big mystery that’s suddenly going to be revealed all in a flash, it will probably wait upon that moment when you suddenly reveal to yourself that you’ve just now integrated this business. And that will probably come as a flash.

Well, when you start to get this person into the emotion band, if you told him to “Well, all right. Now shed some tears,” it would be just about as sensible for you to have him standing on the street and tell him to climb in the forty-first story of the Empire State Building. He’ll say, “ Wait a minute, I’m not level with the forty-first story there, it’s way up there.” And you’d say, “No, no, that’s very easy, climb in the forty-first story there.” In other words, shed some tears, see?

You’ll say, “Hey, that’s simple. What do you-hey, wait a minute. C to E, trying to get a straight communication line, thetan is trying to get a communication line in the body. Oh? Well... you know, that must mean that he doesn’t have a straight communication line to the body. Hmmmm. Say, you don’t suppose that could be communication lag, do you? Well, no. Probably not. That doesn’t quite tie in there. But, you know, you run this courage and the fellow bogs and picks up and bogs and picks up-I don’t know, do you suppose he’s busting through something?”

This fellow is way down there on street level and you want him to start emoting. Well now, it’s a funny thing, but there’s an artificial method of skipping a lot of that Know down to Sex band. There’s a lot of methods of skipping around on it, but the manifestations of the lower band quite uniformly show up. All right.

“Say, I wonder if that’s what Ron meant by ridges? Hmmm-hmmm. Well, it might take a little time for a communication if it were going through particles all the time. Maybe that would be a communication lag.”

One of the methods of skipping and a very, very good method of skipping you have already had, which is you put emotion in the walls. Now, let’s take somebody who is exteriorized. This character is having an awful hard time with his basic personality, because he has assigned the emotional values to the body, as long as he himself is on the minus Tone Scale. Therefore, the body can emote, the body can have sensation, but he can’t.

“Say, you suppose that there’s some-something about this fellow who comes in and says, ‘Well, I don’t know, but I think ...’ Suppose there’s some connection between this manifestation and that guy’s case? Hey, I bet there is.”

In other words, he’s exteriorized and he considers himself, you know, sort of lifeless and powerless and so forth. But the body, that can emote, communicate and it can do all these other things. Well, his main worry is that the body can emote, but he can’t. He has been exteriorized without his personality.

And I’m now being very nastily sarcastic about it. But the truth of the matter is, it’s just that simple. Only we’re undergoing an unlearning process. And this process, time after time, overshoots the supercomplexity of your observation.

Now mark this down because if you don’t remedy this in a preclear, you just might as well skip clearing him, because he’ll go right back in. Got to, you see-body has got his personality.

You observe this terribly complex mass of communication lines. Somebody has just taken all the communication lines in the United States and bundled them all up in a ball, fixed it up so that the ends don’t compare with the ends and there’s no color tracing charts and there’s nothing like that and they’ve suddenly dumped it in your lap.

Well, anybody who’s below the effort band and you still exteriorize him-you can do that-certainly emerges without his personality. And anybody in or just above the effort band emerges without his personality. And to some degree, any thetan you exteriorize, whatever his position on the Tone Scale, is exteriorized back of his head without his personality.

This is a graphic representation of “a preclear.” The preclear tries to put in at C, to the body to get, in effect, the following command: “Walk.” And then it goes through all the communication lines, all balled up, and it goes down to Cincinnati and at Cincinnati it says, “Well, walking is connected with orthopedics and I knew a man in orthopedics. And walking is connected with orthopedics” and then as soon as it gets to St. Louis, that changes. “Knew a man-well I knew a man I hated once whose name was Ortho. Therefore walking is difficult and therefore ...” so on. That’s what goes on the back line.

Now, let’s just assign this as “parked personality.” And this is a manifestation which you will have to remedy in the preclear. And this is about as important to you as actually exteriorizing him, because if you don’t do it, he won’t stay exteriorized.

And then it goes up to Denver and at Denver, why, there’s a big ridge there that says, “Walking too fast is bad for your health.”

So let me put this to you real strong. This is a process. It is a simple process. It »m/be done. If it is omitted, you are going to suffer the consequences thereof, in having your preclear pop back in. So let’s be very, very sure that we do this. And this is actually part of Theta Clearing. But if you start to take off with some case who is very certain and stable outside and start to go into Operating Thetan without crossing this bridge, well, you’re jumping off from the wrong jump-off spot. You haven’t got a Theta Clear yet. Person wasn’t ready to go into SOP 8-0.

And this is a ridge known as Aunt Grade. And this backfires all the way up the bank and you’ve got the thetan cutting off all backflashes, resisting all the backflows and trying to get the communication through anyhow. And the more he pushes and the more he tries not to be pushed at, the more balled up the lines become. The obvious solution to the problem is to have the thetan on one communication line which is from C to E if he’s running a body. And it bypasses all those other lines.

So SOP 8-0 has a preparatory step. And the preparatory step consists of the restoration of the personality to the thetan. And that could also be said, “the transfer of the personality from the body to the thetan.” It’s his personality. He’s just used to experiencing it in the body.

Well, you can either take all those other lines and blow them up and remedy the havingness when you’ve done so, or you can go around the other way and simply neglect all the lines and insist on a straight line going through. Insisting on a straight line going through is Opening Procedure. Neglects all lines.

Well, to give you some kind of a silly idea about how much of the preclear is a thetan, there’s a famous case around here who keeps coughing. (None of those present.) Well, when this person is exteriorized and he gets way back of his head and you tell him to start coughing and he’ll keep coughing with an automaticity-as a thetan. He doesn’t make the body cough and even he noticed this finally.

And several other processes do this same thing. One of those is “Take ahold of the back anchor points of the room.” The lines try to come through. You hear them backflashing, you hear the ridges trying to click in and tell you to think and do this and do that and you just ignore them. You hold the back anchor points of the room and don’t think. Well, that’s neglecting the lines.

He was back of his head and I’d say, “All right, now cough.” Body wasn’t coughing, you see, but he was. Way back of his head, cough, cough, cough, cough, cough, cough, cough, see?

Your unlimited techniques uniformly are neglect-the-line techniques, neglect-all-the-lines technique. And your limited techniques are the blasting techniques which try to go through the lines. Every preclear is composed of enough lines so as to make either/or-you know, either you just say, “Well, we’re going to-on this case we’re going to neglect all lines and we’re not going to pay any attention to any lines and we’re going to do this as an ‘all’ technique.”

What he was using it for was a communication breaker. A mechanism of communication break. A covert introduction of a sudden explosive sound. People are afraid of coughs because they are mimics of explosions. And this individual used a cough for a communication breaker.

Well, you understand that you’d get there. It might take you a lot longer, however, but you’d get there, sooner or later, if you just say, “We’re going to neglect all lines and we’re just going to do Opening Procedure and Hold the Back Anchor Points of the Room and Look through Walls, until this person is in good condition.” Now, that’s insisting upon a straight line. The thetan, C, the body, E. One line. And then actually no line. There’s just an understood line there.

Now, not everybody is doing that. Cough just cuts in as an automaticity. But in this particular case, that manifestation was very strong. And he would stop coughing as a thetan and then go on coughing for another three, four seconds. In other words, his automatic machinery was operating on him as a thetan, making him cough.

And you’d have to bail him out of energy, which would be bail him out of agreement with the MEST universe to some degree to do this-this is why you’d at least have to get him to look through walls.

Well, you say, “This is a very peculiar thing. Yes sir, very, very peculiar.” Only, if we consider the eccentricities of the personality as a personality-you know, Dickensonian type of characterization. The way Dickens characterizes everybody is to pick up an eccentricity and exaggerate it and then that’s a characterization.

The other process will get you there faster if you interject it and know when to use it. It’ll get you there, oh, much faster unless you try to consider it an “all process.” If you try to consider blasting through the lines an "all process,” you will eventually bog somewhere if you don’t use an unlimited technique in between.

Anyway, in such a way, even a cough gets transferred back to the thetan, because it’s his cough, it isn’t the body’s cough. There can be things wrong with the body, sure. But damned if they don’t have to practically be wrong with the thetan first, so we start transferring the fellow’s personality back to him.

Though if we ran Courage Processing on somebody just endlessly and we never paid any attention to anything else, we never let him look through walls and never had him hold on to the back anchor points of the room, we never did anything like Opening Procedure, you wouldn’t get there. It’s not an all technique; it’s limited in use. Because you’re going to upset his havingness this way and upset his havingness that way and do various other things.

Well, I don’t care whether you transfer it back in terms of sex or coughs or thinkingness or anything. A guy is a thousand miles back of his head and you say, “Now think of something.” You know, he’s apt to have an awful time. He’s tried to get some conduit circuits so the brain will think of it. He’s the only one that’s thinking. He’s the only one in connection with his own circuits. And so, we have such things in SOP 8-C which remedy this thinkingness.

Well, the main thing wrong with your preclear, because it’s a C to E, is as covered in the Philadelphia Congress last year, Q and A, C to E, duplication, duplication of the communication. The difficulty with your preclear has to do with an energy starvation.

Now, when 8-C is run on an exteriorized person, from beginning to end at least through once, it restores a tremendous amount of the thetan’s personality to him. He finally finds out he’s doing it. And that’s about the biggest lesson he can learn.

Well, in the level of intentions it has another thing to do. If the preclear doesn’t work well, easily, or exteriorize well or easily, then he’s on some kind of a flinch. Now, there are three kinds of flinch that are stuck. What you call stuck flinches.

Now, how did he get into the idea that he wasn’t doing something? How did he get into the idea that he was doing everything? How did he get all messed up on his responsibility? Well, he got messed up on that responsibility in this wise: somebody shot him and then he got the communication line switched, because it was better to be in a winning valence. It was better to be in the valence of the shooter than the shootee. So he got a communication line switched to go into the winning valence. Now, how do you get this winning valence switch?

There’s don’t-flinch stuck, flinched-away stuck and no-place-to-flinch-to stuck. And those are three downward levels. Now, you’ll find a lot of people facing up to life and doing all sorts of interesting things with that regard and these people can’t flinch. You know, they’ve got to-it’s a stuck-forward. You know, they’re stuck at life. They’re stuck on it. It’s a flinch. It’s right there, you see, but they can’t flinch. And so they’re stuck on life and determined somehow or other to muddle through because they can’t get out of the situation.

Safe falls on a fellow’s head: it’s C and he’s E, but it won. In order to be at C he had better be a safe and so he goes into the valence of the safe merely to get on the cause end of the communication line. See how elementary that is?

This person is recognizable immediately if you get one lock up on Straightwire which doesn’t release. You say, “Now, you’re worried a lot about yourself. Who in your family used to worry about you?”

You can take somebody and have him mock-up something like a piece of string in front of him and switch ends. You know, put one end next to him and the other end away from him and then turn it and switch it so that it reverses ends. It’s not a technique because it’s too violent.

The fellow says, “Oh-uh-mmmm . . . not my mother or father. They never worried much about me. Ummm-let’s see. Hmmmm. Say! My grandmother worried about me all the time. Say, that’s right. My grandmother worried about me all the time. You see, I feel better.”

But by golly, just switching that piece of string in front of his face produces some of the weirdest phenomena. Why? Because a communication line is actually a line and, by switching this around, you’re switching him from the C to E positions. And rather than just a graph, what do you know? We can mock-up the graph and have the preclear twist it from C to E. You know, just mock-up a piece of string. We don’t tell the preclear anything about communication and all these darn fool manifestations whereby he’s going into the winning valences of a safe and going into the winning valences of this and into that, begin to show up. And he begins to feel like a dog and a cat and a safe and a horse and an automobile and so forth. What are we doing? We’re just having him mock-up a piece of string, which we didn’t tell him anything about, and we’re swapping its ends in front of his face. You know, he’s got one end next to him and the other end away from him and then we make him interchange those ends so they go the other way around. C toE.CtoE.

That guy is not on a stuck flinch. That released immediately.

So your individual gets this swap of the line-like bronco busting, swapping ends-and he gets this manifestation in order to stay at C. See, he tries to stay at C and there’s his favorite position, so anything that is at C, he goes into its switch. And that is duplication In communication and so forth. If you do that, if you understand that, you’ve got a good understanding of what people are doing.

All right. Let’s take the other case. “Well no, my mother and father didn’t worry about me, but my grandmother- Grandmother used to worry about me. Yes, she used to worry about me. Mmmm! Gee, I caused her a lot of trouble. Gee, yes, used to do all sorts of things, very upsetting to her. Mm-hm. Yeah, she worried about me all the time. Yeah.” Stuck flinch.

More important than that, more important, his position on the C to E becomes very confused. Somebody shoots him, so he swaps the ends of this line. He becomes the shooter. In other words, he just takes the valence of the shooter. Takes the valence of the person who shot him. So who shot him? He did. See? Fellow thinks he shot himself now. Life to life. And he’s now a murderer. What did he murder? Him. Guy gets all confused about this.

Not only did his grandmother worry about him, she used to hold him and impress it upon him that he had to be a better boy and so forth. She wouldn’t let him flinch. She put in a ridge. Here’s what your boy is riding. He’s stuck on a ridge. You’ll find a lot of

By the way, you’ll occasionally find this manifestation back on the track when thetans were thetans and they hadn’t gone down so far in this spiral, you’ll occasionally find in a duel, a person-body killed-and the person attacking the killer, as a thetan. Just a forward exteriorization and bat the hell out of the guy. Makes people superstitious about ghosts. Anyway...

Resistive V’s will get up to this point and then find out they’ve got a black ridge stuck in front of their face. Well, what’s anything doing stuck in front of anybody’s face? He can certainly get away from it, can’t he? He can simply move back and he’s away from it. That’s simple. Well, he can’t flinch from it. And so there they sit with the ridge right in front of their face.

You’ll find this, by the way, you can find this in incidents. You know* Joe stabs Bill, kills Bill. Before even Bill has a chance to drop to the ground, why, Bill as a thetan, he says, “ Well, body is dead. To hell with this guy Joe.” Claw. And he’ll go right down that sword, see, and right around the guy’s throat.

Can’t flinch from Grandma. Can’t flinch from this, can’t flinch from that. You’d say offhand this fellow is pretty brave. No, he’s not. As a matter of fact, there’s a lot more terror in him than the fellow who did the release. But he’s on a can’t flinch, stuck at it, see? He can’t flinch back.

Female voice: Yeah. These things happen regularly in countries that aren educated the way we are.

Now, there is the fellow who has flinched from life and he’s a much worse case. He’d answer you somewhat on this line: “Yeah, my ... nobody-mother and father used to-didn’t even worry about me, I know that. My life, been ruined by the fact they never took any interest in my career” and so on.

Mm-hm. Yeah. That’s not an uncommon barbaric manifestation. Well, any way ... Some very interesting twists on this sort of thing in the Philippines: The total significance of headhunting is to-you cut off enough heads and then you take the heads up and hang them up in the field to fertilize the crops. You know, the ghosts in the heads and so forth will look over the crops and so for th-it’s weird business; Anyway .... They don’t think the crops will go unless they get a crop of heads first.

And he’s on the subject, although it isn’t the right answer, see? Almost any subject he gets into, he sits there and confronts braced back from it. He’s flinched back and he can’t get into center position again.

Well, this manifestation of C to E gets a fellow pretty confused.

Now, if you’ll just see this as a fellow who should be on point X, center of his head. And the stuck-flinch boy is out forward-you know, the stuck-flinch-forward, just sort of stuck out front. And the stuck-flinch-back is stuck back and can’t move forward. You see, he can’t move forward in any direction.

All right. Now let’s look at it positionally where he didn’t swap, he didn’t go from C to E. You know, he didn’t swap the communication line, he didn’t twist it around.

Why, you will see then that, any subject which you put in front of him, he just stays back-flinched from it. See? He’s back-flinched from a subject. There it is. He’ll go on talking about it. He’ll go on examining it. But he’s just kicked his head back, you see. You can almost see them do this. There they sit, see? The other fellow will get in there. You see, he’s stuck-flinch-forward. The other fellow, he’s backing up from it.

A fellow walks up alongside and hits him over the head with a blackjack. You know, thug hits Bill over the head with a blackjack. Bill falls down. Now, what does he do? What’s this C to E manifestation? Time, he considers, is in the future, to the right. You see, he won’t be the thug, he will merely disdain the thug, so time is over there, to the right. Thug hit him from the right. Cause is to the right, you see, and cause is future. A person knows that instinctively. So that the points which have injured him are themselves future.

The personal characteristics of these two people are quite different. One is quite progressive, he gets things done in a sort of a bulldog, horrible, grind-it-all-to-pieces sort of a way. And the other fellow has somewhat of a donkey personality. And you try to get him to take one step forward down the street or up the time track or something of the sort and his reaction is to move back down the time track. If you tried to pull him up the street, he would find a reason why he had to go the other way on the street.

You get a fellow who has had a tooth pulled with the dentist standing over to the right, you will get the manifestation on the operation, afterwards, that the future is kind of over to the right. See, cause is over to the right. Future-the communication line has a lag in it. And he’s the effect, so therefore, that must be the past.

And then there’s this poor fellow who tells you there’s no place to flinch to. And you’d say, “All right, now look in the blackness around you and flinch from it.” He will quickly discover and tell you he’d happily flinch but there’s no place to flinch to.

The more a person is an effect, the more he is the past—till you get a wall. That’s total effect, total past, but it’s present time.

Well, this is a dwindling spiral. A fellow is alternately on stuck-forward-flinches and stuck-back-flinches, alternately. And each one more thorough, until finally he runs out of any place to flinch to. He can’t flinch back and he can’t flinch forward. You know, life has just got him.

All right. Where do we enter this on transfer of personality then? We find this thetan, quite ordinarily-his body has, by the way, the dunce cap effect: that’s about a twenty-five foot or more cone which stands up above the person’s head and slightly back. He’s directed the body from there, so this is a pretty solid communication line, this is a terrific communication line. See, it’s just terrific, it’s real solid. He’s been C way back there. And the body has been E. But the thetan kept sliding down the line, operating the body closer and closer till, finally, he’s operating the body from within it.

Well, in all of these cases you have a problem of exteriorization and interiorization complicated by the fact that any time you’d confront the preclear with-any one of these preclears with something, he will handle it in one of these fashions. He’ll either try to grind it to pieces or he’ll back up from it and look at it and sort of be “Well, there it is, that’s all.” He won’t go any place, though, on the subject.

That would be a gradient scale of going into a body. Usually it doesn’t happen quite that smoothly, not according to the graph and, nevertheless, this manifestation is the patterned manifestation.

Well, all right He gets the idea, then, that all flow is to the body, so therefore all traits and all skill belong to the body and all emotions and all sensations belong to the body and everything he’s doing belongs to the body. See? Everything is sliding down that line.

Now, you will see that’s terrific generalization there, but you’ll actually see these cases unfold before your eye. Now, the stuck-flinch-forward will be trying to find the answer to his case with deep significance because he’s pouring his banks and lines full continually of energy.

Now you’ve suddenly put him back at C. Well, he knows where C is: C is the one point that has deprived him of bodies and deprived him of skills and deprived him of this and deprived him of that and he’s back there and he can’t be at C, so as-he’s more or less at E. And the environment is at C, so he’s getting a bombardment.

And of course he’s energizing all kinds of things. And they pop up and hit him and he stays in there and pitches. He’s like a boxer that’s completely punch-drunk into standing in the middle of the ring delivering rather poorly directed blows doggedly. Hasn’t got enough sense to dodge any blow that hits him. Yet he’s terrified of every blow that might be struck. Not by his opponent so much as the ring posts or the referee. Might be the audience is going to hit him, too, he doesn’t quite know. But he’s in there slugging. And a horrible state of mind, by the way, in a preclear, to combat.

And if he can’t be C, he can’t have a personality. Well, a good way to make him be C is just transfer his personality back to him. And this is not a complicated process. You maybe pick up some of the goofy traits the body has-you know, coughing, a peculiar smile, a method of looking with the eyes-these mannerisms, visual mannerisms. And you get him as a thetan to go through these visual mannerisms.

And the cases which are back-flinched won’t take the most obvious answers you give them. You can turn up an answer. The reason why the fellow’s ankle hurts is not so much a somatic as having barked his ankle on the back bumper of a car just before he walked up your steps. And you say, “Well, that looks to me like a bruise from something. Have you hit something recently?”

And you’ll catch him, even though he’s a bit south of the effort band. See that? Visual mannerisms.

“Umm-umm-no. No, it must be ...” He’d say, “I don’t know and ...” You’ve offered him an answer. He knows you say he hit himself on the bumper of the car and so forth, but he’s back-flinched. Every time he has an answer presented to him he just further back-flinches. He just keeps going backwards, in other words. That’s his philosophy. If you back up and don’t look at any of the answers you’ll get by, he figures.

You just look over your preclear and you decide what mannerisms he’s got as a body and-not derogatorily-and you just have him go through these mannerisms and we get quite a recovery of personality, just like we make him cough back of his head. It’s his cough, he suddenly recognizes his cough. He suddenly recognizes his own smile. He starts feeling a lot better.

And the fellow who can’t flinch anyplace regards every answer delivered to him as just another whizzing particle going in some undetermined direction, which adds to the general confusion in which he is sitting. It’s an overt act on your part, but he can’t have any justice and he can’t do anything about it. See that? There you’re looking at chaos. It’s a beautiful picture of MEST.

You’ve given him something that is more dear to him than mass, which is to say, his characteristics. Well now, he built these characteristics into the body. If you go around and find a fifteen-year-old girl, boy, something like that, he’s generally standing in front of a mirror trying to make his face do this or do that. And when he walks down the street, he’s trying to make his body walk in a peculiar fashion, the hand motions and all that sort of thing. And he put them into the body and they’re his, they’re his favorite mannerisms.

Well, in any one of these cases, what are you dealing with? You’re dealing with communication lines. The first fellow, with his forward-flinch, he’s trying to get that communication through-he’s trying to get it through! See? And the other fellow is back-flinched because he knows that the communication he just put through is going to hit him. He knows it was just the fact that he said he was going to lay down this envelope, but he just doesn’t even bother to look, but if he thought it over, he’d know the envelope a moment later was going to come up and smash him. This is how obvious it is to them and you think I’m exaggerating these cases, but I’m not exaggerating them. All right.

And some people’s favorite mannerisms, by the way, is walking with a crutch and so on. Aw, it doesn’t matter what a thetan is doing-it’s mock-up anyhow. So, you just transfer his walking with a crutch back to him. By doing what? You say, “All right, now be a hundred feet back of your head there and now go down the street and get yourself a crutch and walk down the street with a crutch.”

There’s all kinds of things you can do with these cases on these two bases-the unlimited technique, which just bypasses and neglects all the communication lines and the other fellow.

And he’s liable to protest about this because he’s sold you the bill of goods that he doesn’t like to walk with a crutch and that’s why he wants to be exteriorized. But he’ll cheer up, right away. He can walk with a crutch or not walk with a crutch.

Now, the guy who is sitting in the middle of horrible confusion does some interesting and peculiar things the moment that you start to put him into anything vaguely resembling an orderly communication system validating his own communication system. You know, you get him to validate, or put life into, the communication lines in which he’s sitting. Well, the second you do this, his confusion becomes much more apparent, of course. And you finish a session having cleaned up to your satisfaction a great many things and he’s just sitting there in more confusion.

Well, that’s just one part of the personality and the crudest part-physical mannerisms. Now, let’s ask him what his pattern methods of thinking are and then let’s have him think that way. And then let’s find out something about emotion by doing this.

That’s because the trouble with him was there’s too many lines live anyhow. And you just made some more lines live. Unless you tackle it on this basis and this is an interesting thing. If you can give him anything orderly-if he can find anything orderly in his communication lines-if he’ can find just one C to E that satisfies him, boy, he’ll pick up quite markedly. And this is so true that a psycho will very often break on the next-to-the-last list in Self Analysis. You’ve just straightened out one line. You say, “Now, let’s see if you can recall something that is real.” Fifteen minutes of silence.

Now, so far you haven’t been therapeutic, you’ve merely been transferring a person’s ability. Let’s go into it from therapy and let’s hold an emotion upon the body, while he himself experiences several emotions.

“Yes,” he says. What an enormous relief it is. Now; do you know he’d go around hugging that communication line to his bosom as a straight line for days if you just left it right at that.

The way you get him to do that is just have him experience several emotions himself and then have him hold an emotion on the body, which he is sure he can hold on the body easily, while he himself experiences several emotions.

The other one is to whistle him out of the communication louse-up. You say, “Come on up to present time.” You validated the fact there was a present time and didn’t charge up his lines. Perhaps he’s been treated by psychoanalysis, which examines the past continually.

Let’s find out the body, more or less, feels bored to him. You say, “Well, hold the emotion of boredom on the body and you be happy, you be sad, you be enthusiastic, you be conservative” and so on. We just go up and down the emotional band while holding one emotion upon the body. Then we hold another emotion upon the body and have the thetan go up and down the emotional band. See? And we’ve freed his emotions up. And his emotions will free up in an awful hurry this way.

All right. All they do is chew up his lines. They chew up more lines and more lines and more lines and they make more things live. In other words, these lines are as live as he validates them, these lines are as live as he puts life into them. And the more you start chewing up this fellow's past, if he’s in that horrible condition, you’ll get away with it, maybe-apparently you can run an engram. But after you’ve run the engram he’s even more confused. You can do all sorts of things, but he just seems to be more confused.

Now, you can do this while a fellow is in the body, with a remarkable recovery of ability. While he’s still in a body, you would take a pillow and you could say, “Make the pillow feel happy, sad” and this way and that way and you’ll-can experience a considerable freeing up of emotional ability.

Well, they kept validating the past and validating the past and validating the past and validating the past, on the theory that there was some kind of a magic button which when pressed, or some sort of a little charge machine that was superinstalled in the individual which when energized, would blow the person into the clear. Their reliance upon the automatic machinery to throw the bank open was even more pathetic than it was childish.

What most people complain about, about life, is that they no longer have free emotions. Now, a horrible part of it is, free emotions be damned. You get somebody down below the effort band and he has an awful hard time trying to get into the emotional band.

They expected something in the preclear to magically clean his communication system up. Well, maybe he did have a machine once that did that, but the trouble with him is his automaticity. And now you’re looking for, and have as your total goal, an automaticity whereby this fellow all of a sudden is going to get clear or something of the sort-whatever they call it. I think they went into the upper bracket of schizophrenia was their highest reach-that is to say, not neurotic yet.

So, is there a remedy for this? Yep. But first, let’s dispose of this matter of the transfer of the personality. You’d better, sure as the devil, get that thetan to be able to do and feel and be alive, as himself, exteriorized. It doesn’t depend on an energy mass for him to do that. But you better, sure as the devil, get him to do and feel the various emotions and mannerisms, thinkingnesses and so forth.

I’m joking now, but actually you’d think-when they’d give you their results and tallies and you’d talked to the people that they had worked on, you’d be fascinated because you’re still talking to somebody who is raving.

Now, his appetites in the body are one thing, as far as eating is concerned, and quite another thing as a thetan. As a thetan, he would love to eat certain kinds of energy. So even there, you cover the eatingness band.

Or somebody who was being-this one is common-they were being very careful to live their life according to a pattern which wouldn’t disturb them. You’ve seen those people around, you know? When you say, “How about remembering something that’s real?”

Now, in the matter of a transferred personality, you are adding to the person’s certainty, consistently, and you’re also showing him that he can be himself, exteriorized. And you’d better demonstrate this to him and that’s the opening gun on 8-0. You make him into himself so he could be himself before you start tailor-making some new self. Otherwise, it’s all kind of useless and unreal to him. He doesn’t want much to do with it.

“Well, you’ll have to ask my analyst.”

So you better make him himself. And himself smiles, looks, acts, walks, gestures, communicates with a certain mode, spirit, motion and feeling. So you get him to do these things and all of a sudden, he says, “What the devil, this is I out here.” And that’s that.

I’ve had them do that, by the way. All right.

Now, most of the people you’re exteriorizing without certainty are simply-can’t stand that much drop of havingness. You remedy their havingness and they exteriorize.

They’ve had some very nervously plotted communication lines given them. Not their Own communication lines at all. The analyst has drawn a C to E from the time they raped their baby sister up to the time when their dog committed suicide and he’s shown that one was cause and the other was effect and he says, “Now, you’ve got this, you’d better be happy with it because that’s all you’re ever going to have” or something.

Well, there’s another method of freeing up this problem so that it can be done easily and that is you run “courage about” by “wasting courage” on the subject of courage about sex, courage about eating, about symbols, about thinking, about effort, about all the various emotions on the emotional band, including owning, protecting, hiding. And you’ll go on up into all the perceptions-courage about all these perceptions and waste them. And then you move on up into courage about being and then courage about knowing.

And they’ve gone off with this artificial line, not even their line. So these people can be thrown way out of gear by evaluation. That’s what evaluation does for somebody, gives him an artificial line. All right.

And when you’ve wasted and accepted these on these bands, more stuff turns up than you’ve ever seen turn up on a case before. And that’s the way to run a scale with courage. It can be done in many ways. The poorest way is to do it by concept. That’s the poorest way. But even that’s better than nothing.

Now, when we’re dealing, then, with the business of people, we have these various mechanical factors to look at. So it tells you that the more you validate the past, the more you’re going to charge up somebody’s lines. Right? The more you depend on an automaticity to suddenly blow a guy clear, the more you’re validating automaticities.

About the best way to do it is just to run a full bracket on wasting, saving, accepting, desiring and being curious about courage. You’ll show up every aberrated character in his life and you’ll show up every aberrative computation in his life.

So we’re going to blow a guy’s lines clear, then let’s take the particle that blows lines clear and work with that and then step over into unlimited techniques and then step back over to not just the line-blowing-clear technique, but let’s use it with some good sense. Let’s take Courage Processing and, all of a sudden, as we run it along the line, the fellow just—he’s kind of getting awful bogged on something or other and he has mentioned at this moment his sister is-he’s mentioning her for the third time.

Now, in the matter of transferring a personality, you transfer it to the thetan who is exteriorized. Somebody just came up and asked me, “Do you do this to somebody who is exteriorized?”

You should suspect at that moment as his communication lag extends and extends and extends that you have entered a new part of the communication system, hitherto relatively unexplored. And you’ve charged up something there with some energy and he’s going to grab this energy as havingness and see if he can’t get the significance out of it and press the energy to his bosom. That’s what he’s trying to do.

Well, all right, you’ll do this to somebody exteriorized: you want him to have his own personality while exteriorized, otherwise he doesn’t feel stable or adequate or complete while exteriorized and he feels part of him is missing. Of course, he feels part of him is missing because part of him is missing. He thinks that some of his things belong to the body. So we have a question of ownership. And there’s one of the first things we settle with this case with ownership. He owns his own mannerisms. He’ll even remember when he dreamed them up. He tailor-made them.

Well, you’ll help him look for significance and if you can look for enough significance, you’ll give him some nice, clean energy that he can press to his bosom. It’s easier to mock-up some.

One little guy that was blind, partially, in one eye, when exteriorized, suddenly remembered-without any prompting at all, just shoving the mannerism of being blind in his eye over to him-suddenly remembered desperately sympathizing with a blind little boy and thinking that i£ he went blind while he was a little boy, that the blind little boy wouldn’t be blind anymore. It didn’t help the blind little boy any, but it sure knocked the sight out of his eye. But as a thetan, he was holding on to this as just a cute mannerism. It’s quite important and serious to a body, but it’s not important to a thetan. He can survive.

Now, any time you find that he’s mentioned his sister or his uncle or something, two or three times, and he seems to get fixated on this subject or he crabs to you about the horrible treatment that he got from his Uncle Oscar and so on, you should have an idea there’s a line charged and stuck. That line is charged and stuck. And the line itself is alive.

So we get the importance of this transfer of personality. As long as this fellow has got a lot of things laying all over the universe which he thinks belong to somebody else, which are really his, he’s going to have difficulty.

Well, it is alive because he wants the mass which he believes is there. So it tells you that when this stuff sticks and when the individual sticks and when his comm lag goes up, you’d better remedy his havingness. You’ll remedy, at once, time. And you’ll kick a lot of things out of havingness.

Well, now we further expand this, as we go into 8-0, with lots of Change of Space Auditing according to that list which you have of various parts of the MEST universe.

Now, here is an example which I will just cross up that just happened just a little while ago that has to do with havingness. An auditor found in a preclear-a very experienced auditor-found in a preclear a very good accounting phrase, an excellent answer, to one of the manifestations which the preclear had noted and worried about. And the auditor remedied the phrase. It was a Dianetic phrase, you see. He remedied the phrase.

Now, what could you do to make something develop energy? Well, you could put it into two positions, one after the other, as though it were approximating a current flow. Change of Space Auditing is based upon the motor, you know? You’re in terminal place A and then terminal place B. Arid being in two different places, why, actually energy is developed. Enough energy is developed usually to blow the automatic machinery which is hanging around. And that’s the explosive stuff that you see when you do Change of Space on somebody. It actually develops energy.

But the phrase was spoken by a relative of the preclear’s. Oh-oh, oh-oh. Now, one phrase taken out of that is all right. If you took the remaining phrases out, this would still be all right. But we’re hitting a longer road. Now, the only reason I’m talking about this, I’m just trying to show you something that shortens the track for you all of a sudden.

You don’t tell a thetan to put out the energy, you just simply run him in Change of Space. And the other manifestation, because his energy is built on that law, blows. What blows is some of the law blows.

It must be that there’s a scarcity of havingness of that kind of mass. So instead-the second that we find out that a relative’s comment has had this much effect upon the individual, we must realize there must have been a scarcity of that relative. Ah-ha! Well, there’s the relative’s comment there being terrifically powerful on the preclear.

All right. Now, let’s take a problem in a thetan who exteriorizes all right, but it’s all black-you know, he goes out blinder than a bat. Well, of course, he’s flinching with no place to flinch to.

Well, why is it being? Well, he must be holding that mass of energy in it himself. Well, why is he? Well, it must be a scarcity, then, of that particular kind of energy that he thinks he has to have. Maybe he doesn’t want it, but he thinks he has to have it anyhow.

The way you can exteriorize him in that condition: We might do something about “wasting courage” on the subject of looking, while he’s exteriorized, in brackets. We might

Well, there’s a havingness problem on the subject of the mass of the person who uttered the phrase. So let’s just not hit the phrase, let’s be real bright. Let’s just remedy the mass. Don’t ever hit significance beyond finding out what kind of mass you ought to remedy. And don’t remedy mass beyond a necessity to just plow on through the lines.

"waste machines that make blackness,” in brackets, while he’s exteriorized. We might get him to do this: Get the idea that there’s a dinosaur in front of him and have him flinch. Get the idea there’s a dark night in front of him and have him flinch. Have him go through the actual mechanisms of flinch.

How long do you handle a significance? What do you do for a significance? Well, you handle a significance just long enough to find out whether or not the individual is constantly or consistently bringing up some such person as Mother.

We also might do this: We might have him take the blackness and switch it between two places in space, because the ambition of the individual to close distance collapses the bank and robs him of space. The barrier of distance is attacked by making something move, in this universe. You make something move from one point to another point. And that is an effort to collapse distance. And this effort to collapse distance results in collapsed space.

"Well, that was what my mother said. Yeah, that was what my mother said.” That sort of thing. Mother has come up here two or three times. Well, there’s a comm line going through a ridge called “Mother.” And the only reason it would go through that ridge is that there must be a scarcity of that mass. Okay, let’s mock-up the mass. What mass? Let’s mock-up Mother. How do we mock her up? Let’s get her to be acceptable. Let’s mock her up so she’s acceptable, some fashion or another-you know, broken down; a charwoman in rags; well, about to die. That isn’t so good. On her deathbed and unable to die but in horrible agony. Oh, that’s very acceptable. Snap, snap, snap, snap, snap, in we go.

Now, here’s a problem of arrivals and departures, you see? His blackness is a problem of inability to depart, plus an ambition to collapse space. You ever see somebody who was on a train and the train is going from one point to another point and "If I could just go to sleep and just forget about all this.” And “If I could just sit there” and, you know, he doesn’t like that distance. He’s bored. There’s not enough motion for him, because he’s sitting still and moving at the same time, which is quite confusing to him.

Well, the reason we’re looking for the automaticity is we want to know whether or not we’re knocking out the ridge. Because the suction pump on the thing is this ridge setup. And that’s why we want them to snap in. A preclear who tells you that he can’t get anybody to snap in either isn’t being audited properly or is on a back-flinch which is keeping him away from all ridges.

Well now, if he would just move his blackness from A to B and back and forth again and just shove it around for a while, the ambition and desire to collapse space will to some degree or another, deteriorate. You know, we’re trying to give him some space. His blackness is collapsed space.

You see that? I mean, they just-you want that automaticity. If you don’t get the automaticity, why, you’re not hitting in there. You could mock-up Papa and stuff him into the preclear and so forth, but you’re looking for an interruption in the bank which is an automaticity.

Well, here’s another one: You just have him mock-up courage in the space he’s trying to collapse and he’ll find himself looking out of more automobile windshields and forward from more train windows-he’s trying to collapse space. Well, he’s been putting courage up to collapse the space, but it’s never been echoed.

Now, let’s get a rejection form for Mama after we’ve mocked-up a lot of Mamas and crushed them together and shoved them into the preclear. Now have him mock-up in himself Mama, in some fashion or another, in such a way that she will fly away from him, automatically.

Now, there’s another thing like that: You can have an individual, who is exteriorized, have all kinds of things identify him. You see, he’s on a stuck flow He’s been identifying everything for Lord knows how long and now an awful lot of things can identify him and you’ll shake the flow loose. You know, have the stove identify him and other things identify him and so forth. He’s on a stuck flow.

Let’s use these automaticities. Just use them and blow them. And without giving it very much more trouble, you’ll find out that the phrases that Mama was prone to utter, her habits and complaints and so forth-if you’ve done this well; it might take you a little while to do it properly-will have blown out of the preclear. We’ve gotten rid of a valence. Remember what I told you about these comm lines going through C to E, winning valences? Well, Mama is all over the track as a winning valence. That’s why he keeps going through there. So he hasn’t got enough Mamas. See, he hasn’t got enough winning valences, it tells you right away.

Well, he’s on a stuck flow about courage and the collapse of distance. People drive with a certain amount of courage, they fly spaceships with a certain amount of Courage, they run machinery with a certain amount of courage, but the space they see from the spaceship has never exhibited any courage. And the machine which they have tun has never exhibited any courage. Nothing has ever exhibited any courage in terms of the space which they’re collapsing. So you have the space feel courageous, the machine feel courageous and just keep putting it in like that and you’ll find the space itself is unwinding-it uncollapses. It’s a stuck flow of courage with regard to space. This does things to blackness too.

Well, the back-flinch is unwilling to put lines through losing valences and has around him or her practically nothing but losing valences-insufficient number of winning valences. Doesn’t want to emulate anybody. Everybody lost. That sort of thing.

Well, all right. We start chasing him around the universe regardless of what we do to him and we run him up to the first place he made a facsimile and then have him be-oh, by the way, don’t have him keep coming back to the room. That’s dynamite, by the way, because you’re running into a more concentrated charged area. Have him go from the first place he made a facsimile and label that place A, to the top of the Washington Monument or St. Paul’s Cathedral and label that B. And you just run him A, B, A, B, A» B, A, B.

It very often happens that you’ll get people flipping out of that bank long before you can get anybody to flip into it. Everybody lost. Let’s just take Papa and Mama and other people and mock them up in the preclear in such a way that they will suddenly fly away from the preclear. Back-flinch remedied by-you have to get the preclear to be able to reject something because he’s backed off from all of life. Get him to reject a lot of things and all of a sudden, why, he’s not backing up from all these phrases. And so you can plow his bank open.

Now, there’s another very curious thing about courage. This fellow had a terrible experience once. He tells you, “I had this awful experience. We went over the bank in this school bus and a hundred and eighty-five children were all killed, including me, and we had this horrible experience and I just can’t seem to get near this,” so forth.

How clever do you have to be to do this? You have to be clever enough to pay attention to what the preclear is saying.

Well, now if you start running courage about that-let’s say this fellow is still interiorized-let’s put it on a Dianetic basis. You could run this in Dianetics. This would be fascinating, by the Way, in Dianetics. He’s interiorized, not exteriorized or anything. And if you started mocking-up courage about the automobile accident or the bus accident, right where he is in his body, you’re validating a collapse of space. It didn’t happen where his body is. So you have him mock-up courage above the spot that it did happen. He’s not exteriorized, see, he’s sitting right in the auditing chair and the bus went over a cliff at Rondonta Westchester or something and you just have him mocking-up courage above that cliff in Rondonta Westchester. He can do it.

Now, almost incidentally, I want to tell you about a special breed of case. There are people who have hit the eatingness band-eatingness-sexingness band-to such a degree that they’ll sit right in something on a back-flinch.

The next thing you know, he isn’t even vaguely worried about the bus accident. Because the facsimile is there, not where he’s sitting. And when the facsimiles start landing where the fellow is sitting, he’s already on a problem of collapsed space. So we don’t want the facsimiles run where the preclear is if you can help it.

Now, what more of a back-flinch can you get than somebody who is backing up from teeth which are about to eat him up? See, back-flinch. And he’ll just back away from the bank in all directions. And he’ll have the most intricate mechanisms to demonstrate that it’s very logical for him to back away from all the bank. Oh, and yes, but it goes back simply into this: it’s about that cut on the scale, Eatingness, something like that, on a heavy back-flinch. And what have we got?

It’s something like, you want an ice-cream soda, so you ask somebody to bring the drugstore into the front room. That would be the same thing as trying to run things where the preclear is, as a body, see? So you wouldn’t do that around a body if you could help it.

We’ve got somebody who is refusing to give satisfaction. And they dramatize this. You ask them, “How do you feel?” And they say-you’ve audited them for two hours or an hour and a half or something like that and-“Well, no better.”

And now we’re talking about minimizing running in the vicinity of the body. The body is an automatic machine. It’ll keep on functioning for quite a while. It’ll do an awful lot of things. It’s a very good machine, but certain particles it can’t tolerate easily and those are high-charged particles of almost any kind. So you minimize the amount of running you do.

You know damn well they feel better. The E-Meter has climbed. You’ve done quite a little for the case. Getting a little more certain, a little more this and that. You can plot this case. And this case will say, “No better.” You got a case on a back-flinch. The case which refuses to give satisfaction.

Now, a thetan can get outside and run all kinds of admiration-all kinds of courage and everything else. But the second he’s near the body, they become a limited process.

Now, just a little bit above that case, you have a case that is insisting on giving satisfaction. Watch for both of these cases. Below that, you have the no-place-to-flinch case who doesn’t know whether he ought to give you any satisfaction or you ought to give him any satisfaction or who is auditing who. See? No-place-to-flinch, All right.

Now, you would, then, tend to run the thetan and run any incident or anything that was happening to the body, at a considerable distance from the body. You’d try to run it a distance from the body, preferably in the place where it happened. But remember, this in itself is agreeing with the MEST universe, so after you’ve run it for a little while where it happened, why, have the fellow change his mind and have it happen at the North Pole or over Greenland or in Switzerland.

Now, we’ve got that level of case. These, by the way-you don’t find these levels of case in people who are bad off. This is not an index of neurosis or psychosis that I am giving you. It’s just a mechanical indication of where the case sits, what you got to do for the case with regard to auditing, which is a specialized behavior pattern.

“Now be courageous above the scene of your bus accident, only this time let’s have it happen in Switzerland and you be courageous above that point.”

So you look around you and you’ll find that the cases are on a back-flinch or a forward-flinch or a no-place-to-go. And you’ll find out that the forward-flinch case will give you satisfaction; they will answer up and they will say they feel better and they have some hope and some optimism of the thing. The back-flinch boy will give you no satisfaction. And the Other fellow just keeps kind of saying uncertainly that he doesn’t know. See those three cases? Well, those are the only three cases there are that are hard to exteriorize. And those are the three classes of cases that are hard to exteriorize.

Now, be careful about scrambling somebody’s geography too much, but be careful not to agree with geographical locations in the MEST universe totally. Here’s a point of judgment. Agreement with the MEST universe would be agreement with its locations. You can actually pull somebody out of it by having him go around and label all the points that he knows, all the geographical points he knows and you can have him misplace them. In other words, put the North Pole two miles on the other side of the city limits and to the west and so on, until he can get a higher certainty that it’s over there on the other side of the city limits, than it is at the North Pole.

The reason they’re hard to exteriorize is because they’re stuck in a direction. The bottom level, of course, has no direction he can go, so he can’t move out of his head. The front-flinch, if he got out at all, would probably move out in front of his face. And the back-flinch, of course, is strained back away from the bank already and is stuck there and if you told him to go any further he’d lose total contact. See, you told him to be three feet back of his head, he’d just go out of contact. So he doesn’t dare do that, so he hasn’t got any place to go, of course. And the front-flinch boy, he’ll go into his head.

And if you did this as a consistent drill, his directional knowingness would come up along the level of pigeons. He’s been dependent upon the MEST universe to tell him where his anchor points are for an awful long time, you see. And now all of a sudden, why, you make him tell the MEST universe where its anchor points are. Same thing. Stuck flow, so let’s reverse it. All right.

Now, as you run a case up the line, a case will occasionally hit some of these manifestations. They’re very peculiar.

You remedy these dependencies of geographical location and you remedy these on an out of time-into present time basis. You want to get him into present time all over the universe and that’s why you’re flipping him in Change of Space Auditing. Don’t audit Change of Space Auditing on a Resistive V. If you’re going to change anything on a Resistive V, you change the scenery around him, if you’re going to change anything, and the best way to do that is to change it a large, long, far distance from him.

Now, you understand that a guy can be in one kind of an incident-just one incident-where he’s front-stuck. And he can be in another special kind-just one incident, rest of the bank just cleaner than a whistle-where he’s back-stuck. And in just one incident where he is squirreling around. You say the answer, then, is to find that incident.

“All right. Take your automobile accident and put it on top of the Washington Monument. And now move it over to the Empire State Building. And now to the Washington Monument. And now to the Empire State Building. And now to the Washington Monument” and we’d have Dianetics beat off the boards right with that technique. That’ll blow it. That’ll blow his automobile accident. “And give me some places where you’re not having an accident at the moment,” will also blow it, in brackets.

Well, you’ve got the answer to how to find the incident without even looking at it. Courage Processing. If it’s just one incident, believe me, it’ll blow but fast. It’ll blow right out. Courage about the closure of distance and courage about distance which insists on closing. You have the preclear on the stuck front-flinch: he’s being courageous about closing the distance and so his space is all out.

That is so superior to running an incident and so much more effective, that there’s hardly any comparison. If we wanted to suddenly come forward (and we very well may) into the arena with a psychotherapy, which is the most advanced psychotherapy we have, we would probably just peg it at there. And not talk about exteriorization and teach people to move things, from remote locales to remote locales, that have happened to them.

And the fellow who is stuck on the back-flinch has everything out in front of him there that won’t close. Nothing will close with him. He’s gotten into a state of mind or he’s in kind of an incident that makes him sort of think everything goes on forever and that he can’t back any further off, but he’s got to. I remember a preclear I ran an incident out of, a space opera incident, beautiful incident. The ship blew up while-it was on the ground and it blew up while he was over against the hangar. And it blew him back against the wall, but he only had an inch to go. It plastered him all over the wall, but of course he didn’t move in spite of the violent explosion which had occurred in front of him. So he was back-flinching without any place to go further back from. See, he was stuck. He was stuck on a back-flinch.

Now, let’s see, now let’s do this right now.

All right. Front-flinch people quite often have been blown up from the rear and are going forward. See that? It could be just one incident. You needn’t even try to isolate it, however, because that kind of incident in what we’re doing, it’ll show it up rather rapidly if it’s just one incident. But the trouble with these cases are they normally are not stuck in just one, they’re stuck in chains of incidents which are similar. Their life is sort of Wrapped up in this kind of a pattern.

Be outside of your head-or inside, it doesn’t matter-be outside, preferably, and let’s take your childhood and put your childhood above China.

They think their philosophy of existence has matched this particular chain and so this chain is alive. Oh, get that, please. They’re not trying to do this because they’re dramatizing something that’s happened to them. They have an entirely different bank pattern, too. They could pick that up and dramatize it as easily.

All right. And now put it above Canada.

But their basic philosophy of existence is that it’s better to stand off and be an observer and eventually they’ll match this up with a chain of back-flinches which proves it. Such as being-a big explosion in front of your face but you can’t blow any further back through the hangar. So you just better stand there and look at it.

Now put it in the area where your childhood occurred.

Well, now, people start to use facsimiles to force the body into action. And the thetan himself has picked up this facsimile and put it on the body at someplace in the past or some body in the past, in order to make the body stand its ground and not retreat. He’s used the facsimile. So let’s not get this backwards. The postulate goes before the chain.

And now China.

So if we’re dealing with the basic intention of an individual it would seem that you could just get him to shift his philosophy and you’d occasionally get some sort of a result. And sure enough, in various religious practices and so forth, this was all they had, so they specialized in getting somebody to change his philosophy.

And now Canada.

Well, if they could do this, well, all he had to do after that, you see-all he had to do after that, was simply validate another chain and that would make another pattern live and not try to prove the old philosophy.

And the area where it occurred.

Well, what do you know? When a person is made to abandon a basic philosophy, he goes into apathy. That’s why religions are in apathy. Okay.

And now China.

You’d say then, this is very simple, all we had to do is just get somebody to change his postulates and he’s all set. Well, you get somebody to change his postulates-there’s too many things, too many people, too much of this and that have been around to make him change his postulates. And that basic postulate might have been light enough to change very early on the track, but he’s proved it too often. And that’s the engram chain that you’ve got there and this is why he’s not exteriorizing or interiorizing mechanically. The engram chain is why he’s not doing it mechanically.

And now Canada.

The other fellow says, “Well, the way to get through life is just to hit it and, you know, close in tight and devil take the hindmost and plunge and let it roll.” Well, he proves this by digging up all sorts of incidents, because the philosophy itself keeps validating that type of incident. When he reads a book, anything which validates that philosophy he’ll underscore or remember. He’s trying to prove himself right.

Parked Personality: Exteriorization, Stuck Flows

Well, you could then theorize and say, well, he has some idea he has to prove himself, and that sort of thing. No, your mechanics are still C to E. Let’s not worry about it any further. If you could make him work out this basic philosophy on a direct line to the body, you’d simply do so. He would make the body into the best spectator you ever saw, the fellow with a back-flinch, but also be able to exteriorize himself and do all kinds of things without changing his basic philosophy.

And the area where it occurred.

Now, he may have learned something or may have decided to change it on his own free will. He will. But there’s no amount of persuasion that you can give him that’s simply going to change his method of looking at things.

And move it over to China.

Now, the fellow who starts out to be the center of everything as a sort of a basic philosophy—he wants to be the attraction point or something—that’s just another philosophy. He’ll eventually wind up with no-place-to-flinch.

And then move it over to Canada.

So these are not necessarily a gradient scale of the dwindling spiral of a case; not necessarily, but they can be plotted that way. And we find out that of the three solutions, the forward-stuck is the most workable. The back-stuck, is the second least workable and the no-place-to-go (be the center of attraction, you see, everything is going to come in on me) is utterly fatal. Because that agrees completely with the MEST universe. This MEST universe isn’t back-flinching or front-flinching. It’s making everything into the center of attraction. Oh, it’s a very nice universe. It makes everything the center of attraction. It pounds it from 360 degrees.

And the area where it occurred.

Well, the basic philosophy of the case could enter in here. Well, you don’t have to deal with those factors. You should understand they’re there and it’s quite simple. The only thing that you’re trying to deal with is merely this straightforward line, C to E, and in either event it is courage and serenity on the upper level that plows through these lines.

And over to China.

Well, there’s beauty which goes right in with creativeness and so forth, which is a slightly different track. Beauty. And it goes upstairs, of course, to serenity, too. But if you start on the nobility track, you’re going to get into beauty as a particle or the guy will try to tell you there’s a beauty particle. He’ll get into something that he considers an emotion called beauty. It’ll be different, every person. Not like courage, that’s the same, everybody’s got the same particle.

And over to Canada.

But this other one, what he’s considered beautiful, is merely what he’s considered. Beauty is consideration. But he goes from nobility to beauty and beauty goes down through nobility to degradation. And there is the track of degradation. If you want to hit that directly, try to do something about this beauty, nobility and degradation.

Now the hell with where it occurred.

I repeat, though, that the much, much more workable track is courage. Courage to serenity. That plows through. How long do you plow through? Well, you plow through this sort of thing long enough to get your character out of these super back-flinches and front-flinches and spin-flinches and you just carry through until you’ve done it. Your remedy is havingness.

And move it from India to Canada.

When you find any object in the MEST universe is having a great command effect upon the preclear, remedy it in terms of havingness. And this is also a person. Remedy it in terms of havingness. Remedy Papa or Mama or-you know, Papa he never paid much attention to, but Mother, she said, “Well, a boy that makes good, makes good because he is honest and truthful.” See, he’s honest and truthful.

And just keep moving back and forth between India and Canada and get more and more specific about the part of India and the part of Canada.

Well, that’s all right. That’s one way of getting along in life. Except that your boy is not in good condition and he can’t exteriorize. Well, there must have been a big scarcity of Mama. And we find out, sure enough, there was.

Move it as rapidly as you please, but get Very specific about where in India and where in Canada. And when you’ve gotten specific down to a blade of grass, move it some more.

Other cases we find out that maybe it was Papa who had this tremendous command value. Ah-ha! There might have been a great abundance of Papa where there should have been a scarcity. Which has gotten to the point where one can’t get rid of Papa. So everything Papa said is true. You know, everywhere you look, there’s Papa. Didn’t want Papa, didn’t like Papa, although occasionally little things will show up that sort of make him think well, he really liked Papa. And you start to run this, first he tells you he hates Papa and then he tells you, well, he really liked Papa and then he didn’t like Papa and he liked Papa. In other words, your big maybe is Papa-ing out of the case.

All right. Now put Canada one mile south of Phoenix. And continue the operation.

And so we have our problem, though, again, in terms of havingness. And it’s always run the same way. You just mock-up Papa suitably until he pops in and mock him up suitably until he pops out. And you just get lots of him and remedy the mass and all Papa’s phrases will go by the boards. The phrases? You certainly can’t do much with a flock of air particles, let’s get mass.

Now put India one mile north of Honolulu. And continue the operation.

Well, there’s an awful lot of cute little processes, tremendous number of real cute processes. Every once in a while, an auditor will hit one of these things and be delighted.

Now keep India and Canada where you have them and put Honolulu at the North Pole and Phoenix at the.South Pole and continue the operation.

But when they’re very workable, they add up this way. It’s when they reverse a stuck flow-when a process reverses a stuck flow, you have then an excellent process which lasts just long enough, as in Ridge Running, to reverse the stuck flow. You know? Fellow said, “Walk,” and the line went white for a little while and then it went black. Well, what was the next phrase that stopped it?

Okay. Let’s throw the scrambles all away.

Well, “can’t walk” is the next phrase that stopped it and you run “can’t walk,” and you find out that line runs just exactly the reverse direction and it runs out, too. It turns white and then goes black, see, on “can’t walk.”

And find the feet under your floor.

So we get these two types of manifestations. Well, every time you’re hitting one of these ridges on a communication line going through the bank, you can run it for a certain direction and then it has a tendency to want to turn around. And this is also true of a courage particle. That’s why you must be careful to put it exterior to the preclear occasionally. Running it in brackets approximates the shunts and runs of the communication ball-ups in the bank, see? And you can have the preclear mock-up courage above his head and mock-up courage and mock-up courage and then one day-he’s been doing this on his own or something—and a couple of days later, you know he can’t mock-up a single particle of courage?

Okay. Get some childhood blowing into view and a few things popping around?

“Huh!” you say, “after all of my work he can’t mock-up any courage.” Well, he extended it forward into the bank and hit it to a point where it’s going to flow back.

Get some things showing up?

All right. Get bright. It’s just a stuck flow. Have him put some courage in the walls, that’s all. Simple remedy, isn’t it? Have him mock-up somebody in front of him and have them feel courageous toward him. Get some back flow. Make it flow both ways. Because you are dealing with courage, you’re dealing with a particle, a very valid particle. The very valid particles are courage and admiration-those are two distinctly different particles-and force, which is another entirely different particle. Those are very distinct, valid particles; And everybody has agreed on those particles: courage, admiration, force. Same particle, preclear to preclear. They mock-up the same kind of particle. All right. When you get off from that, why, they get different kinds of things which might or might not be particles, but these we’re very straight on.

Well, now that’s just a little pattern of what you can do with a single incident or a single lock.

All right. What’s our worry, then, in processing anything which flows through lines? Our worry is that we’re giving life to the bank. Well, if we’re going to give life to the bank, let’s only give life to it long enough so that we get the preclear out of what he’s stuck in. Well, how long do we have to run such a particle as courage, one way and then the other and back and around, in brackets and so forth? We have to run it until the fellow can hold the two back anchor points of the room with great effectiveness and exteriorize.

Preclear has had a big quarrel, you can’t quite get him to work. Well, if you’ll just move this quarrel between two places for a while, why, what will happen?

That’s how long you have to run it. Well, I don’t care how long that is. You won’t either. Because you’ll find out sometimes it’s only fifteen minutes. And you’ll find out sometimes it’s five hours. And you might find out sometimes it’s fifteen. And you may find out sometimes, in some case, if you can reach the case-this is the case with the dented flesh-it might be eighty, ninety hours. All of which would be interspersed with these unlimited techniques. See that? I’ve never heard of a case who would go up that far, but it could happen.

Well, the funny part of it is that Change of Space itself brings about exteriorization. Change of Space itself brings about exteriorization from multitudes of incidents.

All right. Where does your judgment come in as an auditor? Well, boy, it stands up like signposts. The signs on which you have to judge are now so big that if you were to run into them, gee, you’d get bruised. They’re big, they’re big. Big signs. Unmistakable. Change of perception. Change of attitudes and ideas. All of which boil down to communication lag. C to E. Those are the signs you look for.

You will find the manifestation consistent that an individual, when run in Change of Space, will be in past time when he first gets into these spaces and then will come into present time in these spaces, not because you tell him to, but merely because you’re flipping him from another space to that space. And you’ll flip him back and forth, back and forth, back and forth, back and forth and the first thing you know, he’ll flip into present time.

If you run this case for quite a little while and you’re not getting much communication lag, boy, he must be up into a ridge there so darned solid with that communication line that nothing is boring through that ridge. Not even Edgar Rice Burroughs’ earth borer could go through it. There’s some havingness connected with it there that’s so darned scarce; this thing is so darned solid that you sure better do something about it. It’s havingness on some subject or another and you better remedy it.

How long do you run Change of Space Processing on these areas such as entrance to the MEST universe, the place where he made his first facsimile and that sort of thing? You run Change of Space Processing until he’s in present time in these places.

All right. Communication lag. You didn’t get a change in communication. That was the biggest thing you were noticing with this case.

Now, a warning on this: 76 trillion years ago was a long time ago, in terms of space particle changes. It’s a long time. So as you start running your preclear, you’ll find out that you’ve got a consistent effort on his part, whenever you run late incidents, to hang up on early incidents.

The next thing you were noticing in the case, you weren’t getting a change of attitude. You’ve processed him now two sessions, three sessions, and he said at the end of each session, well, he guessed that might have helped him a little bit, but he really didn’t know. As a matter of fact, that case should have had a lot of Self Analysis, next-to-thc-last list. If that case keeps doing that, string him some lines. Let him string some lines. And he required a hell of a lot of Opening Procedure. Opening Procedure, you understand, is slow processing, not fast processing. But it’s fast processing and then its results are resulted. You get the result, it’s there. And that’s its value.

In other words, we’re going to run a quarrel off that he’s just had with his wife and we’re running it between two places and, boy, it’s just boggy as can be. Whereas you actually could run his-you could say, “Now move your time track from here to the place you entered the MEST universe.”

All right. Or the case says-gives you a wisecrack-or a rather sneering wisecrack at the end of the session. You know, you ask him how he is now and you just get kind of a sneering, sarcastic, something of the sort. The guy is on a back-flinch. Well, it’s all right for him to do this at the end of one session, but when he does it at the end of two sessions, you better start looking not at the preclear, but what the heck you’re doing here. Because the boy is on a back-flinch.

That would be horrible, I mean, as a process, but it would still be a better process than a process where this is going to hang up. In other words, the later it is on the communication line, the less the line is liable to come to pieces. That’s just Dianetics. Hit for basic-basic.

See, obviously, he can’t look at it. See, he’s backed way up off the subject.

You could tell somebody to reach and withdraw from basic-basic. “Reach and withdraw for an area” is somewhat like Change of Space, but not quite, since the individual is holding himself stationary. But the individual holding himself stationary and moving a flock of incidents between two places or even moving a bright bit of light between two incidents is still better processing than Dianetics.

Now, the next manifestation at the end of the session, the fellow says to you, “Well, you think you’re pretty hot, don’t you?” (You’ll get preclears who’ll do this to you.) Well, the guy is stuck on a front-flinch. See, he’s antagonistic towards you. That’s just a forward flow. That’s as close as he could get. Well, you probably did him a little bit of good, but he’s on a front-flinch.

Now, you can have a Resistive V move a little bright spot of light between two geographical areas or some such thing and his case will blow on up the line. But a very, very senior technique and a very superior one is to have him put courage over these places until they blow.

Now, you process him on the second session, he’s still on a front-flinch. Still gives that same thing. Boy, you’re slipping as an auditor. Two sessions in a row, same way, end of session. See that, why you are? Because you didn’t even get him from backward to forward or backwards to middle or forward to middle or forward to back. See that? He’s giving you the same manifestation at the end of the session. He must be in the same position, as far as the communication line is concerned, to the body. You couldn’t then have altered markedly his communication with the body line. Must be about the same length of line and it must be in the same position on the same ridge. Well, what are you doing, Mr. Auditor? What are you doing? Because you wouldn’t even have to look deeper, the other one is the communication lag. It would have remained the same.

“Put courage over the entrance to the MEST universe.” “Let’s put some more there.” “Put some more there.” It’s a pretty good process.

Supposing, though, his communication lag was much better, much less, and he’s much more antagonistic towards you. You might have thrown him into a back-flinch during the session and he’s back in another front-flinch. See? You might have done that. But the only thing that would tell you that, his communication lag would be unmistakably better. And you might have thrown him downscale, too, at which time his communication lag would have been much slower. See, he might have had the same thing, back-flinch, back-flinch, but now he’s back-flinching more slowly. See what the result of that would be?

Now, I told you, when I first told you about courage and so forth that there were an awful lot of little packages of these particles, which were not too dissimilar from courage. And they have a tendency to blow in and out as you run courage itself. Now what are these little packages?

If you could just envision your preclear as a mass of wires passing through a mass of ridges, which you can either take or leave alone, and he’s got as many of those wires live as you’re validating or making him pour life through or /pouring life through, you can sort of take your choice there. Or you’ve got something you can just build a new communication line from C to E to.

You know, courage to cowardice, the bridge is pain. Love to hate, the bridge is betrayal. There’s another one: creativeness to non-creativeness which, of course, is the MEST universe cycle itself and its bridge is survival.

Well, the hell with all that junk. We’re just going to throw it in the garbage lot and we’re just going to take this line and we’re going to pass it from C to you-your body. And then we’re going to get you to C.

But you can run this on this basis: mock-up the particle of imagination. And, of course, that’s a misnomer. There is no particle called imagination, but people have had an awful time with it, mostly because there is none.

Such a person, by the way, exteriorizes on this process. “Mock-up a dot o£ light behind you.” “Now grant it beingness.” “Now be it.” “Well, okay. Give me three places you’re not,” because he’s exteriorized.

They have invested their imagination into the whole track-consistently and continuously invested their imagination into serious effort. And this investment of imagination is what takes place in a child when he’s being educated. First, he’s totally able to imagine in all direction, then he gets thoroughly, thoroughly ground down and educated. All of his imagination is pinned down and secured in these serious data. So that this imagination particle would seem to be a sort of a fundamental particle.

Now, you could make this case do this, this way. You could give him an hour of mocking-up a serene pool of existence way up above him somewhere and granting beingness to it. Give him a whole hour. And then gradually get him up there. You just drop all the other communication lines. In other words, you get him concentrated on a new line at the expense of all the old lines. It’s a workable process.

Well, actually, it is all kinds of force and perception particles. It’s all kinds of them. But people, such as professional writers and things like that, think they have to be in a special state of mind to create and imagine something. And you tell them to mock this up, they’ll just mock-up that state of mind. It generally turns out to be a courage particle. But it’s quite similar to a courage particle. Sometimes you have to call a courage particle something a little bit off the line in order to get the individual to recognize it or run it at all.

Well, that’s as far as exteriorization goes. Well, now how do you tell the difference between what you’re doing with an Operating Thetan? Same thing. Because he’ll be doing all sorts of strange and peculiar things and he ought to change session to session like a chameleon. He ought to change fast and frequent. If he doesn’t, then he’s got some kind of a communication trouble which you’ve neglected badly.

Have him run the particle of creativeness. Mock it up a lot of times and he’ll get all the times he sat around and thought he had to hold his head at a certain angle in order to dream up a new sequence of something. Interesting. The courage particle is the important one.

He’s carrying some kind of a bundle of clanking chains or something around with him that isn’t permitting lines to pass and you better process him on Courage Processing while he’s way out of his body until he’s really set. And then you’d better turn around and process force particles until he’s really satisfied. In other words, make him make up force particles. And then have him go around and be courageous toward it. And then mock-up more force particles and then crush them together and spread them apart and blow them up and do all sorts of things with force particles and shift his wavelength.

Well, we have then, in working our preclear, the goal of trying to get him into a situation or a condition or a state of mind whereby he has enough courage to be himself.

And then you ask immediately, what is himself? He’s himself. He’s nobody else. He is the guy who would do this and do that.

Now, you’re all too prone-people are-to attribute eccentricities to some model that the fellow must have known or some compulsion or he’s trying to hold on to tokens. Tokens are covered in Dianetics: Modern Science of Mental Health. Well, he’s trying to hold on to some tokens and so forth and that’s why he’s dressing and acting the way he does. But you know, he wouldn’t hold on to those tokens unless he had dreamed them up, more or less himself, originally.

The only thing that’s wrong with tokens is now he’s in a state of mind where he thinks somebody else may have thought of them and they aren’t his. The way he smiles, the way he walks, the way he patterns his life, his thinking and so forth is strictly his own.

It has become diluted or adulterated by the fact that somebody else was doing it too. And somebody else was doing this too and he didn’t like the other person because the other person had something to do with hitting him or hurting him in some fashion and so he has gradually lost bits of his own created self. And he’s lost these bits of his own created self and he doesn’t have the courage to front up and own them anymore, because it would be too painful for him to be reminded of all of the bad things that have happened to him.

You will find, oddly enough, the preclear with some surviving remnant of every personality he has created, because basically, all these personalities in a large package, was himself. But you are not accustomed to thinking of a personality as being that complicated. And a personality is terribly complicated. Doesn’t matter that it’s complicated, you can still restore it to the individual.

But you’re not trying to make a limpid, personal-less, model Lord Fauntleroy or Pollyanna. You’re not trying to create an ideal textbook picture, which you can turn to page forty-four and this will be a picture of your preclear. What you will do is get somebody exteriorized and then you can restore to him, by these various methods of auditing, these types of personality, which he’s been using all the way down the line, one way or the other, and he has guts enough again to use them. And so he can be himself.

And you won’t find that he really has any reason to be any of these things beyond the fact that he thinks it’s either graceful or shocking or anything that might be interesting. He’s trying to be interesting. And he had a pattern of being interesting, at one time, and he’s been using it ever since and it’s been in full vogue for about 76 trillion years. But he uses and exaggerates one part or another of it as he goes along.

So you certainly better give your boy back or your girl back the personality. The first move in that direction is to get it out of the body and to the preclear who is exteriorized. You know, you just have him take these things for himself. Because they’re his.