I want to talk to you, give you a brief summary that we could call “Aberrative Incidents.” Aberrative incidents: What are they? What incidents in the lifetime of a human being can be considered to be aberrative? How do they look? How do they run? And how can you recognize when an individual isn’t running them?

This is actually the first official talk from Hubbard College. I might give you a few words about that.

Now, to any of you that haven’t heard too much of what an individual’s genetic evolutionary chain — something of the sort — might be, it might come to you as a surprise that there are facsimiles on record — that is, there are memories on record — which formerly in psychotherapy were considered to be “instincts.” Jung, Adler, many other people, have been carefully cataloguing these things in terms of human behavior, but they had no means of looking for them as incidents because they did not have the tools to handle memory.

Things have a habit of happening too fast in Dianetics. You know, every once in a while I think I am up-to-date and it is all on the rails and it will go out in this direction smoothly now from here on, and it is all settled down and we have got the train sandbagged so it just can’t jump the rails, you see? And then all of a sudden, boom! There it is on some other track with another railroad name on it. And I come along and I say, “What? Where are all these beautiful blue coaches that we had yesterday?” Well, they’re red coaches today.

Having the tools to handle memory and knowing that memory consists of thought, emotion and effort, that it includes all perceptics, that a person can be returned to it and run through it while fully awake and aware of what is going on around him, it became possible to reach into the strata which was formerly called the unconscious or subconscious mind and pick up from that strata the aberrative incidents which composed the basic causes of aberrated behavior.

What has happened in the last two years in Dianetics is — well, back in the days when I was writing fiction I could have made it into a very wonderful story. The idea of something like this hitting a society at this time is in itself dramatic. I failed to sense any great drama in it at first.

Now, it has been a very interesting search, but I want you to understand clearly that this search is not newly adventured upon; it has been in progress for a very long time. Nobody ever had tools to get along with this search before. It is discovered rather clearly and demonstrably with a psychogalvanometer that there are a certain number of aberrative incidents — it is a finite number — which individuals would not ordinarily suspect were on file. And that which an individual does not suspect of course can exert its maximum force on an individual. It can remain hidden, out of sight, unanalyzed and un-understood to a point where it can wreck an individual’s life with great ease.

Maybe three, four years ago I found out various strange things would happen. If I went into a town or a neighborhood, I would go up to somebody on the street — somebody who was limping along with a cane or something of the sort — and I would say, “Here’s a card. Why don’t you come up and see me, and we’ll see what I can do about your leg.” And the fellow would look at me kind of oddly, and then the next thing you know, why, there he would be. I would put him on the couch and do a little bit of Straightwire and fool around with the track and pick up his level of reality and a few other things and knock out a couple of engrams and he wouldn’t need his cane. Well, he would go home then, and Aunt Bessie who had rheumatism and Uncle Oscar who had kidney stones would say, “I wonder, what’s that guy doing? I wonder if he could do anything for me?” So I would get a knock on the door and here would be Aunt Bessie and Uncle Oscar. And the first thing you know, I would be having a hard time.

What are these incidents? Charles Darwin and others tried very hard to plot out the theory of evolution. The blueprint of man, they knew, was on file, because from the moment of conception and through the progress of the womb to birth, man progressed through practically every form that he had had on the evolutionary track — which is very interesting — which demonstrated that the blueprint of man’s growth, development and structure was on file.

I wasn’t calling it Dianetics; I wasn’t calling it anything. It was just, they would come to see me and they would walk out without a crutch, or something.

We have played the rather incredible trick in this science of finding the file-card system. And today in running preclears we don’t have to worry too much about why little Agnes drowned her grandmother’s kittens (which was a major aberrative incident in Freud’s day); we are into very solid, large, charged incidents which are relatively patterned in their running.

Well, this in itself was interesting to a town. First thing you know, I would be walking along a street and people would glance in my direction — people in the neighborhood and so forth. “What is that guy doing?” Years later they are still asking the same question. Only in those days, I knew, and these days I don’t.

The incidents which are aberrative to man are evidently those incidents which have found him at a loss, a complete loss in solving his environment. Yet somehow, by dogged determination and endurance, he came through these periods and arrived, a man. These incidents were not very many.

Well, I was busy in this field. I have been busy in it, actually, for about twenty-two years. It was interesting. I thought people knew about the human mind, and then one day I found out that they didn’t know, that there were all sorts of “ologies,” and there was phrenology and astrology and everything, but people just didn’t know. And I thought this was wonderful, because there were people walking around in big hospitals, and there were people here and there, and they all knew — obviously they must know, because they got paid for doing something about it. But a checkup demonstrated that they didn’t know, and they were some of the first ones to tell me, actually, not only that they didn’t know but that nobody would ever be able to know. I got redheaded at that point. That is how I got my red hair!

The first incident, which is a rough one, is before time begins. I am just moving from what is evidently one incredible into another incredible. And if I couldn’t show you this on a machine and show you well preclears after these have been run, I wouldn’t adventure to tell you about them at all. But they talk quite a bit in religions and so on about man having come into this universe. Well, they tell you interesting stories about it, but practically every religion tells you that man came into this universe. And it may be of interest to you that the religion from which Christianity was taken — or, that is to say, that Christianity owes the most to — was a very oldreligion, almost thirty-five hundred years old, which is in our hands today in written form (but, by the way, was not written for a long, long time). And its first written form — was written down thirty-five hundred years ago — is known as the Vedic hymns, the Medic hymns. Thirty-five hundred years ago in India these were first written down; they had been going for a long time before that. And they tell you about evolution, very specifically; I mean, this isn’t any Nostradamus monkey business. This tells you about evolution and it tells you a lot of other interesting details, and it tells you about man coming into this universe, and it tells you about man going out into the “great all beyond” and so on at the end of a long span of time.

They got money for knowing, but they maintained they didn’t know, and I merely maintained that somebody could find out. And this was like dropping a carload of railroad ties across somebody’s freight-train track; this was terrifically objected to.You think that objections that have been made to Dianetics since it came out in the first book form are wild: you should have heard some of the discussions which I have had in psychology departments in universities, in hospitals, in sanitariums, on the subject of “Could the problem be solved?” And that elicited a far greater battle than merely saying the problem has been solved, and the kickback against that. That is mild compared to this other.

Christianity in its writings has skirted the indecisive points on this by leaving it open to question, so that you can read, today, the New Testament in its various forms (and, by the way, particularly its newest translations) and you won’t find it controverting this. You look for arguments against these facts happening: they don’t exist and statements that it doesn’t exist aren’t there. It is left in a nebulous, translate-it-as-you-please state. That is interesting.

Now, oddly enough, we receive these days oblique letters and statements from doctors, heads of psychology departments, saying things like this: “There is no slightest doubt that Dianetics works.”

For instance, there is nothing in there that tells you that man is injected into life on this earth at the beginning of one life and dies and leaves at the end of that life — but quite on the contrary, tells you that Jesus was the first man ever to take off from Earth, specifically says so. And as a matter of fact, if you know what is lying in Dianetics now, you go back and look at the Bible and you will really get popeyed about it. How did they know so much? Well, of course, they didn’t, but they sure look wise! But that is very interesting, that it specifically states that he was the first man to leave — to go!

Well, two psychologists, for instance, were working in a big city, and an auditor went over to see them and he had a big discussion with them. And the only thing that was upsetting to them was the fact that they didn’t know how it worked. And they evidently had been cut off a communication line and they couldn’t find out how to work it because they wouldn’t read the first book, because it wasn’t complex enough. That is what they said. They didn’t say it in that many words; they said it wasn’t academically or authoritarianly written or something like that. So they figured there must be more to the subject. It looked too simple to them again.

And earlier religions in the Christian faith were telling you continually that there will be a Day of Judgment someday, and you will all go to heaven on that Day of Judgment — all of you, all at once. And it does not tell you anyplace that you go to heaven exactly at the moment you die. But it says you kick around for a long time. And it doesn’t even tell you that, but it is sort of understood that, well, you sort of lie buried for a long time, and one day Gabriel blows that trumpet and the tombstones open, or something of the sort, and everybody walks forth. Except it doesn’t say that in the Bible. That is very interesting, that they have avoided such statements. The Bible can be interpreted in lots of fashions.

In short, the main fight in the old days was just trying to tell people that something could be done about the human mind and something could be done about psychosomatic illness and something could be done about the physical health of individuals and their efficiency and their capacity to work. Now, that created a furor.

And we look at this: all of a sudden man was started out at the beginning on an evolutionary track, and some day he will get off of it. And the New Testament doesn’t give you a single argument — not a single argument. As a matter of fact, a lot of things make sense in it all of a sudden.

The furor that was created when the first book came out — that was in the spring of 1950 — lacked the concentrated kickback that I expected it to have. It actually did. There was quite a fuss. The press was rather sarcastic, but the general fields of practice at first tried to just ignore the whole thing, and then they sort of succumbed to it, and then once in a while they would lash back on a covert line.

Yes, this was quite a trick. Jesus was the first man to get off Earth. He didn’t wait for the Day of Judgment. (I was reading the Bible the other night; I’m more up-to-date on it than you are!)

But do you know that none of these people have ever written me a letter? Not one. I have not received one letter from a medical doctor or a psychiatrist challenging Dianetics in any slightest degree or in any way. That is very interesting. On the contrary, I have many letters from medical doctors and psychiatrists asking me for more information. And some 10 percent of the associate membership of the Foundation in 1950 consisted of medical doctors and psychiatrists. Their mail, however, was always to be sent to their home, not their office.

Now, evidently, according to incidents discovered on cases and what can be run off of a case and what makes a case rise in tone, the moment when you came to this universe or this earth is on record as Facsimile One. It is on record as Facsimile One — and that is Facsimile One. And it consists of you being ejected, more or less, out of where you were and having to come down here and go through an evolutionary chain.

And today, after this great lapse of time of two years (Dianetically, that is two or three million years, it seems), the comments coming in from the field are, interestingly enough, “The trouble with this subject is that no book has been placed in the hands of a psychiatrist by which they can work with their patients.” That was stupid of me. There hasn’t been a book written to that effect. The Handbook for Preclears lacks the directions on how you administer it exactly. It should say in there “You take this book and you open it up to page one and you read on through for your own instruction until you get to Act Four. And then you ask your patient what is the meaning of this and that to him, and then you explain the meaning of this and that to him out of the first text, paragraph so-and-so, pages so-and-so. And then you go to Act Five and then you read off these various things and you write down his answers in these columns and you continue through to the end of the book, omitting only Act Ten.” Now, actually, those directions are not in the Handbook for Preclears. And the Handbook for Preclears right now is too complex for these people to use. But, actually, this is a bad omission. We became so angry at what psychiatrists did to people with electric shock that we actually cut the main line of mental therapy off as a communication line. And it has been sharply cut.

The third echelon tells you why, and I am not talking to you about the third echelon. The closest we go into the third echelon is right over that borderline into Before Time as Facsimile One. And from there on and from here on out you needn’t question me, because I am not going to tell you any more; that is as far as we are going to button this up.

Doctors, for instance, right here in Wichita, are astonishingly enough not in disfavor to Dianetics. There are some that actually mad-dog on it, but at their own staff conference meetings they are in a big split-off. They are not sure, and they argue with each other in their staff conference meetings.

Here is point one. It is a very strange thing that any of you at this moment thinking “Goodness, that couldn’t possibly be,” I could take ahold of you and put you on a machine, an electronic device, and show you that this incident can be sensed, measured and experienced. And furthermore, if I persisted in my questioning on this, you would probably get a fear charge on it that would be very interesting. You can take a case, any point on the tone scale, and get this reaction.

They were watching quite alertly, I understand, the arthritis programs which went on here at the Foundation. They watched this very alertly, and I never did make a publication of the results. But there was a doctor here in town that actually put a line through — a very covert sort of a line — to me to get those results. He didn’t come in openly and say “Please give me the results.” This is an interesting thing.

But Facsimile One is mostly without perception, so that it is left to the preclear to run any perceptions in on it he wants to. As a result, he will get some of the wildest ones, as perceptions, because there is no perception there. It is just counter-thought. And all it does is carry you down the tone scale to a human being. And the complete map of it is found in the Chart of Attitudes. The complete map of what happens at Before Track is in the Chart of Attitudes in the Hand book for Preclears, and it wasn’t intended to be there at all. And that book all of a sudden becomes the most important publication we have, because if you want to run Before Track, what you do is run the reduction of each column, step by step, on Before Time.

That is Dianetics, more or less as I outline it, and the field of accepted or conservative medicine, psychology and so on.

A fellow believes he was cause just before he was sent here, and so you run the change from cause to effect. And he believed that he was; he had a high state of “I am.” And you just run him to the moment when he thought he was not. He was able to think — in other words, know and think. He was able to know, and you just run him down the line until he doesn’t know, on Before Track. Because what it is, is just a shut-down on all of those twelve columns.

Right here at Wichita University, the chair of psychology or some such post there will occasionally make very smart cracks to his class — so his class reports to me. But I have never met the gentleman. And his knowledge of the subject is not up to the first book. Now, that is again my fault: I haven’t written Dianetics in a very complex, dry, horribly dull fashion. I haven’t gone to the library and found out some big words to use. I thought one time we might put its terminology in Sanskrit or something; that would be abstruse enough and then, of course, they could understand it!

There is one extra column that should be there, and that is “freedom” to “restraint.” And that is the task of having to take over and use and handle a body — and does an individual hate that!

But the point I am making is that Dianetics has not paved the way for the conservative fields that are supposed to treat human beings to follow the track of Dianetics. And one of our first jobs in Hubbard College is to make this possible. I am going to write up a little book that a psychiatrist can open on his desk and read to a patient and watch the results he gets with the patient. Therefore, the psychiatrist will not have to study Dianetics to find out if it works for him. He will see the results in his patient, and then he will feel either uncomfortable or comfortable about it.

This at the moment, of course, may strike you as pure mysticism or something of the sort; fortunately it is not. Fortunately — because the mystic has a tendency to fly out into the wild blue yonder and not land again anyplace. Well, this one lets a fellow get his feet on earth because it is his issue in.

We should have there on the shelf — Scientific Press, the book-publishing company that handles Dianetic books — something about that thick; I think we could probably use pages maybe that thick. And if we got it nice and thick and then made the print very small on it — very hard to read — and then made the words very big, you would find out that there would be acceptance.

And there are two things in that that you should watch for very carefully: You are not supposed to tell — there is a “won’t tell” and “won’t know” there, the like of which I have never seen, because the individual himself makes these postulates — the down postulates. The individual makes these postulates himself.

This is actually a literary form that is in criticism, not a science or a subject. I don’t know how anyone could do that, but they do that. The only criticism from that field has been literary form, not the subject. Because you don’t call criticism such things as Menninger rushing into print madly in Liberty magazine and saying, “Dianetics is only psychotherapy as it is utilized, and it only contains things in it which psychotherapy utilizes, and Dianetics doesn’t work. And there is no difference between Dianetics and psychotherapy.” Now, you think I’m just giving you a sarcastic quote, but I’m not. Actually, it wasn’t just Menninger; it was about three of the leading psychiatrists of the country that came up with this same statement, one right after the other.

Now you are on your own. If you don’t want to run this, you don’t have to. And what happens when you run it, I am not responsible for. But that is BT — Facsimile One.

What it is, is actually literary form. They couldn’t possibly understand it if they keep saying that they are not doing anything, because I say every place they are doing something and they ought to stop. And this is a big difference.

It is actually on record. But why wouldn’t it be on record? If a man is acting because of something or if something influences him, it is certain that that something has to be on record someplace. The thing of it is, we just found out where it was on record, that’s all! So we can run this incident, Before Track.

Now, as far as the subject itself is concerned, it has come forward through stage after stage of improvement and simplification. Any one of those stages accomplishes a consistency as far as the last stages are concerned. Any one of those stages works.

It gives a bump in tone. The first time I have seen a pc go off the top of the machine, just right on off the top of the machine, fast. The tone rise in it is just dial after dial after dial after dial of rise. I never saw anything like this.

The earliest stages of Dianetics (it might amuse you) came when a study of general semantics indicated that there was some possibility that words themselves were very aberrative — just words. And the first effort of Dianetics, along the line of going back down the time track and so forth, was to clarify the definitions which people had of certain words, was to de-emotionalize words. That was its first effort.

Running this one incident thoroughly, bringing it in with every column, bringing it on full, might introduce capabilities into you, you do not even now vaguely suspect you have.

And by the way, to this day you can take a patient and work with a patient for many hours (maybe ten or fifteen hours), redefining words — just that — and then finding out where he heard this word first, where he learned it and so on, and then running him through the incident. And you will find out every word he gets wrong, or every word he fails to hear when you are talking to him, occurred in an emotional incident or occurred at a time when he was punished for having defined it or misdefined it, like in school and so on.

There is a lot to that incident; there is a lot you forgot. And you know these fellows that go around all the time saying “Gosh, if I only had this knowledge which is the powerful knowledge of something or other, and it’s just sort of beyond my fingertips; I can’t quite touch it, but I know there’s some knowledge there”? Well, that is the knowledge you are tapping. Now, if you run that out thoroughly, theoretically you ought to be able to tap that knowledge.

That is still a therapy; I mean, you can still work with this therapy.

Of course, the preclear goes poof and disappears off the couch, but that is all right!

However, one parted company very, very swiftly with semantics on this basis: Semantics believes that words are labels and that you must differentiate between the object and the label. That is all very well, but words are actually descriptive code phrases of existing states or states of change or potential states of change. There is not just the label.

Now, as mad as this sounds, believe me, I was never more serious. And nothing is more easily demonstrated than that incident. You know these fellows with anxiety stomachs? As auditors, have you ever tried to cure up somebody’s anxiety stomach? He gets a quivery stomach whenever anything goes wrong, and he gets ulcers and so forth. Well, Before Track is underneath that quivery stomach.

There is something more to general semantics. They claim that words are undefined, that people cannot define certain words, and that when you talk in an undefinable term the other person can’t understand what you are saying.

Now, don’t run anybody into this one lightly without running them on through with it, because your computing psychotic is sitting with that one in full restimulation and the guy who won’t tell is sitting with that one in full restimulation. That is an interesting incident.

And again, this is not quite right; it is very close. But what happens is a person gets an emotional charge surrounding a word and then and thereafter is incapable of facing the word as a definition. It becomes an emotional state to him.

The next incident up the track from that, that has magnitude, volume — is really the first mitosis — what we are calling the Helper. This is when the split occurs. The individual, you see, as a cell, procreated by splitting exactly in half, and the problems of interpersonal relationship actually have their root there; because every time he splits, he is he although he is split, but he is somebody else, and he gets this into tremendous confusion. And if you run out a few of these times when something went wrong with these mitosis splits, you are going to find, throughout the rest of the track, overt acts and so forth fly off of this. There is interesting material there on that Helper.

You take a Republican talking about a Democrat: Republicans back in the thirties, you used to say, “Well now, Franklin Delano Roosevelt...” You got no further than that with an industrialist, or something, up in Wall Street — no further than that — and he would say, “That blankety-blank Roosevelt!” and he would start to explode.

You might find a minor one just ahead of that — two minor ones actually. There is when the photon converter is hit by a cosmic ray. (I hear somebody was running a nova exploding today; it was probably a cosmic ray-photon converter.) The other one is “waiting for dawn” — these people who won’t go to bed (such as me!). The photon converter practically died through the night, because it lived on sunlight and chemicals. So it waited for dawn, and then sometimes dawn came and it was a cloudy day so it died anyway. Rough deal.

And you say, “Why don’t you conduct a campaign to lick the Democrats along the line of the fact that this shouldn’t be a socialism, that American freedom, way of life and so forth ... And you can then demonstrate that the policies of Franklin Delano Roosevelt “

Now, that is not, however, a major incident. The Helper is one. We have, now, Before Track and the Helper.

“That blankety-blank Roosevelt!” That is all you would get. And so the Republicans can’t win. But it isn’t because they don’t know what Franklin Delano Roosevelt means — they know what that means — but the subject has been surrounded with so much emotion that they won’t permit it to be used, even in their own minds, as a definition.

You can distinguish the Helper because it has full thought, emotion and effort on it, but the emotion is not dammed up by tears, because the tear block comes later on the track than the Helper. It comes on with somatics of people splitting down the middle. It is quite serious and severe in its somatics. After the split, sometimes something goes wrong and one of the sides dies or becomes incapacitated and the other side feels a great deal of regret on having split. Very interesting incident — easy to find, fairly easy to run.

All undefinables have precision definitions. Every word in the English language is precisely defined, and every human being, if he is not terribly emotional about it, can get the definition for that word.

Your next incident up the track that has any magnitude on, is the half a million years that man sat out of the surf and on the beach — as did the Glob in the recent issue of Life. Here man was breathing air, he was poorly protected, he was beset by all sorts of weird things. He got his food out of the waves; he was not mobile enough to get back in a hurry. And we call this the Boohoo (slang term) because it is the tears shut-off and it was reached by trying to figure out what a person was doing spilling salt water and feeling better. That was silly. You see, it is very silly that an individual would spill some salt water and then gain markedly in tone. Everyone knows if you get a release of affect, or if you can get a preclear to cry, he will feel better, and that incidents that have caused him to dam up tears are quite aberrative to him. So how do you get every preclear to cry?

Voltaire, Thomas Paine, Thomas Jefferson, did a very good job of defining freedom, liberty, democracy. You go back through their letters, you find this definition repeated over and over and over. They are not undefinable words, but they are emotional words.

Well, the tears shut-off, and the reason he cries and feels better, is in this Boohoo. His eyes are actually inside the shell. He opens up the shell to get a wave to take on some water, and then he has to pump it out in an awful hurry so he can get a breath of air, and then he gets hit by another wave and he gets some food out of it, and then he pumps it out in a hurry and he gets some more. He keeps this up, and it must have been awfully bad doing this for a half a million years.

So, there is an old therapy in Dianetics.

But sometimes he had some remarkable incidents happen to him. And it is the remarkable incidents in the Boohoo area that you are looking for. On some beaches in some parts of the world, birds had actually gone on the evolutionary track ahead of man. So that you had the Boohoo being picked up by a bird and dropped. And of course the shell would break and the bird could eat. And you will find preclears getting into the valence of the counter effort — the bird — and trying to run themselves as birds.

Then let’s come up to the line of running just locks, before we understood about moments of unconsciousness. And we find out that you can actually take a preclear today and you can run him through — over and over and over — that big fight he had with his wife, and just run it as a lock, and you will deintensify it. Some locks don’t spring, so the therapy isn’t 100 percent workable, but a quite remarkable therapy for all that.

Now, the Boohoo never had any contest with the pterodactyl and it didn’t have a lot of other things, but it sure could worry a lot. Take the bird: Now, what does this Boohoo do? The only weapon he has got is to be able to close his shell — bang. So, a bird reaches in with a claw to hook him out and so he closes the shell, naturally, and this clamps down on the bird’s foot. Well, that solves the problem for about two minutes, and then the bird gets frantic and flies. And he gets way up, in a terrific altitude, and by this time the Boohoo says “We’re going too high” and lets go — crash! And that is the end of him.

For instance, your psychoanalyst faced this problem continually: The patient would walk away from his office feeling all right; he had had beautifully explained to him how his hatred of his brother was actually a libido theory in reverse on the left-hand cogwheel of the whatsit. And he was satisfied with this explanation, whatever the explanation was.

Other things happen there to the Boohoo. For instance, lightning storms will short-circuit a beach. There were lots of lightning storms in those days; man has passed through four volcanic periods while on dry land, so there are lightning storms and they can short-circuit a Boohoo. It is electric shock! Lightning strikes the beach someplace, the Boohoo gets short-circuited.

I am very satirical about this explanation because hardly anybody would believe me if I told you what the explanations really are. So I am giving you a more reasonable one. As a matter of fact, I wrote an article one time — just a gag article for a magazine — and I signed it Dr. Irving Cutsman. And I explained in it, throughout, how Dianetics didn’t work because it was just like psychotherapy — same line that had been thrown at me continually. I explained it very learnedly, that it was just like psychotherapy and that it didn’t work — big words and everything.

And, of course, most psychiatrists have been on beaches like that getting short-circuited! I am sure that’s why they do this. Because it sure doesn’t do the Boohoo any good. I don’t know why they think it would do a human being any good, but that is their business.

And an editor picked this up and he was on the verge of running it; he thought it was a good idea. He knew who wrote it. And he read the last third of it and he put it in an envelope and rejected it! He sent it straight back to me. Why? Because the last third was too incredible. And I was unable to explain to him that the last third was a direct quote from Karen Horney. It was the only straight stuff in the whole article. I think it was page 224, 225 and 226 of Karen Horney’s popular work on psychotherapy — direct quote. He didn’t even look at the asterisk. Then he wouldn’t believe me afterwards. Then he was down to the house one day and I tried to read him this and he said, “Oh, you’re just gagging about the whole thing.” He took the book away from me and he opened the book to those pages . . . and he started to shake. Now, the various therapies such as Lock Running — you just take an individual and you make him start in at the beginning of an incident and go on through — were workable, then, to a psychoanalyst.

Now, another point that happens there: there can be volcanic interruptions of the calmness, and I suppose occasionally there could be a tidal wave. In short, the adventures of the Boohoo — you will find maybe two or three of them on one case, but this is an area and you consider it more or less just one incident. It is, evidently, the sonic and visio shut-off to a large degree. It is a big shut-off because of the shut shell.

Because this patient would leave the office and then he would come back for his Tuesday appointment a shaking, nervous wreck. Something had happened between Friday and Tuesday, let’s say, and now the analyst would have the whole hour just reexplaining the whole thing to him again. And he would feel fine when he left the office but something would happen in between.

The next one up the track is the trouble we had with snakes. Now, in addition to the record which we already have about the Garden of Eden, man did have a lot of trouble with snakes. And you will find that man on the evolutionary track gets snarled up rather easily with snakes - either as a tarsus, a sloth, a monkey, something like that.

Now, to get rid of what happened in between was a major problem in psychoanalysis, and I showed three or four psychoanalysts in New York City how to run a lock and how to run all of the incidents between Friday and Tuesday. And these people actually started doing this, so that their patients would come in on Tuesday and they would have them go over everything that happened, as a lock, several times, and then they would find out they could work with them again with psychoanalysis. And they would give them an hour or half an hour remaining of psychoanalysis, you see? And they said, “Well now, this technique permits psychoanalysis to work,” and they were quite happy about the whole thing. Of course, what was working was that technique, but one never explained this and these people were happy with it. That is Lock Running.

Any one of these may be the motivator area. There is somewhere in that area the basic motivator for violence. Later than the Boohoo there is a basic motivator, and right after the motivator will be the basic on overt acts, and that is five incidents. So you have got an overt act - the individual trying to kill somebody with his teeth or his claws or his hands or something of the sort — and that is the last on the chain. Earlier than that is where he was being killed in some fashion or other with tooth or claw, and which he dramatizes to kill somebody else and then regrets; earlier than that, the Boohoo; earlier than that, the Helper; earlier than that, Before Time.

As far as engrams are concerned, for a very, very short space of time it was found out that you could run engrams out of almost any case. And then we suddenly found out you had to run the earliest engram, and you had to do a lot of other things if you were going to run perceptics out of engrams.

Now, I am not saying that this is all the incidents you can find on a case. You may find a certain percentage of cases have off-track incidents. But don’t run man as a bird; man was never a bird. Don’t run man as a snake; man was never a snake. What the preclear is doing in that case is running the counter-effort; he is running the thing that hurt him. And he is being very careful to stay over as a snake and kill the monkey, not be the monkey and get killed, because, you see, that is non survival.

This engram was just a moment of unconsciousness. Its existence was learned from soldiers who had been treated by psychiatrists. And these soldiers would often go into a base hospital, would be given drugs, and under drugs would be returned back to the moment of battle when they were injured. And the psychiatrist would go through it like this: he would say, “Go to the moment when you’re just charging the enemy. Now what are you thinking about? All right. Now — yeah, the bullet hit you there. Well, we’ll just skip this next passage now, and we’ll pick it up when you wake up. Now, where are you waking up from this wound?”

So, how do you find out if these things are haywire? It is very simple to find out: there is no charge on a psychogalvanometer on such an incident. And if there is a charge, the operator of that psychogalvanometer, the auditor, had better ask some specific questions about this thing, and he will get the answers. For instance, “Are you a bird?” Sure, he can say yes and get a charge, because what he is getting charge on is “bird.”

What happened when he did that? That, by the way, is just fabulous that they could keep doing this with narcosynthesis and never see this point. Here he is going into battle, there he goes unconscious and here he wakes up in the base hospital. And what the psychiatrist had him run was that assuming that all of this is just a blank period and it has nothing in it.

“Did a bird get you?” would be the next question, and then your psychogalvanometer should take a terrific dive. It was maybe only moving ten degrees down before, and now maybe it moves fifty degrees down. You get the idea? So these things should be scouted, if in question. The things that can go wrong with these incidents of course - are the things that can go wrong with any case. A very low-toned case or a case which is sitting on a very heavy emotional charge will dub rather than run the incident.

Now, the facts of the matter are that the mind never stops recording. And I was led into this by finding out that a good percentage of the soldiers treated for battle neurosis by narcosynthesis — a good percentage of those treated — went mad in a very short space of time. They were made much worse; awful things happened to them after they had been treated by narcosynthesis. Why? Was it the drug? I tested people. I shot them full of sodium pentothal and I ran them through locks and nothing happened, which left this only variable: the area of unconsciousness.

You shouldn’t lightly accuse people of hallucinating, however, especially when there is a machine handy. But you should be able to tell, because an individual runs hallucination in peculiar ways.

So I began to explore areas of unconsciousness. The reason they had never been recovered before is because late areas of unconsciousness are tied down by earlier areas. Here is this battle damage: Well, let’s come way back down the track and we find a moment when he fell off his bicycle when he was a little boy. And now we find him falling off his bicycle and he remembers — he feels, he sees, he hears — everything that happened to him during this period, but actually he was unconscious. The mind never stops recording until it is dead — and of course the mind never dies.

You see, delusion runs under certain laws, just like engrams run under certain laws. An engram repeats its effort cycle over and over and over and develops more and more data, whereas delusion wildly develops more data and won’t repeat the old data worth anything at all. It gets lots of variations; he gets lots of “changes” on it that aren’t there. And he will run the same kind of an incident many times; he will just keep imagining it. Any one of these dub-ins is actually running over the top of a real incident. And so you run the case, actually, until it runs down to what is really a real incident, or you put them on a machine and check for the real incident.

The point here is that here was phenomena and this war the first big, major pioneer phenomena of Dianetics — that moments of unconsciousness W actually are on full record; anything that happens to an individual is on record. Psychologists have tried to validate this — you see, it is easily validated in many ways — but they try to validate it wrong. They keep giving people narcosynthesis and running them into deep unconsciousness and then saying the alphabet to them, or something, backwards, and then trying to run them through this area after they wake up to recover the alphabet.

Now, a preclear was just telling me that merely by twitching his toes he could get the machine to operate. Sure. No trick about that. But boy, is the auditor stupid that is letting him do it. The trick is, you see, that he can restimulate fear on his case by wiggling his toes, because there is a fear charge in an incident where his toes wiggle. So instead of answering the questions mentally, all he has to do is wiggle his toes and he will get a charge.

There are two things wrong with it: There is no pain there; there is no shock there; there is nothing to alert this person’s mind. How many things go on around you, for instance, that go on around you all the time which you don’t notice? Well, that’s just because something has to get your attention. You have to get somebody’s attention when he is doing that. There is something else that they don’t do: It is way up the track, and this area of unconsciousness they are trying to penetrate is miles, in terms of time, from the basic areas they could penetrate.

An auditor should be able to differentiate this with great ease — nothing to this. This machine is not behaving in an orderly fashion; it is not being constant or consistent; it is getting charge on everything. So there is something awfully wrong. A machine operates in a certain fashion: just a little bit of charge sometimes and then a little bit more charge as you get closer into it. It is consistent in its operation; it tells you a full story. And when the machine doesn’t tell you a story, you haven’t got the incident. And that is the long and short of it.

And yet there is a very simple thing: The last time you hit your thumb with a hammer will demonstrate to you conclusively that recordings are made during unconsciousness. Because if you go back to the moment when you struck yourself with a hammer and you go through it several times, at first you think that you struck yourself with a hammer and the hammer was then laid down by you. And then you suddenly get the consciousness that you struck yourself with a hammer, and then you hit it here again and then laid it down. And then you go through it again and you find out you hit yourself with a hammer, and it hit here, and it hit here, and then you laid it down. And then you find out that when you hit yourself with a hammer, somebody in your vicinity said “Watch out!” You didn’t even know that before. And then you find out when you hit yourself with a hammer, that you actually picked up your hand and shook it before you put it back down again. In other words, more and more data will come out of this one little area of pain. Analytically you were not aware of it. It became buried. Buried by what? Buried by pain — simple.

Don’t ever walk away from a psychogalvanometer which has only dropped a degree or two and think you have the answer to this case. Of course, you may operate on the idea that you are so clever that you couldn’t possibly have failed to think up the right computation for this machine. But the horrible part of it is, the machine didn’t act — you didn’t think of the right computation.

And so, this technique is, more or less, the basic on the technique that came out in the first book; it is still a very workable technique. You go early in anybody’s life and you find areas of unconsciousness — and the person has their perceptions and so forth, which are quite aberrated, and later on his environment reactivates them and he gets sick because of it — and you run them out. That is very valid.

I have worked a preclear for some little time on one of those psychogalvanometers, worked him hard and been very imaginative about the situation and never got anyplace — particularly trying to locate a specific kind of overt act. And finally in desperation — the machine was ducking two little divisions — I would say, “Well, that must be it.” And then, being fresher another time, I would pick up the same preclear and ask another line of questions and all of a sudden start getting terrific dives on the thing. I was just not asking the right questions. And all of a sudden, all the strange reactions, the wild reactions, I was getting before that couldn’t be answered up would fall into place and become logical. That machine is awfully logical — far more logical than an auditor. That is why we use the machine!

But from there we have gone on and on and on and on — all in the interest of getting the mostest the fastest, shooting for techniques which would clean up a whole lifetime, not in hundreds of hours with expert auditing, but let’s say scores of hours with indifferent auditing. And then let’s start nailing it down to a point where we can get fifty hours, forty hours, thirty hours, and each time find that technique so additionally effective that you have a much greater resurgence for having done what you did — fighting all the time the fact that the environment, to an individual, is restimulative.

Now, in running these incidents, let me give you a brief rundown on how these incidents run - very simple. The Before Track incident runs as you being fetched up and having a lot of counter-thought thrown at you, being reduced down the line, being very puzzled as to why you are there, being quite resentful, not wanting to leave and so on. You get all sorts of strange things there, but mostly you get “I won’t tell. You can do anything you want to me but I won’t tell.” That is definitely there.

Now, a restimulative environment on an individual will actually undo an auditor’s work as fast as he does it. Let’s take a little kid I was treating once. I would work out something that would make his sinusitis better, and then he would go home and he would come back to me as sick as before. They were laying locks into this kid and abusing him faster than I could pick him up, and it became a foot race. So I finally connived to get him sent to his aunt’s during the period I processed him, and in the space of four days I got him wiped up to a point where he thereafter didn’t sag.

The tribunal is a fascinating setup. Almost any tribunal we have had here on Earth is patterned exactly after it. It doesn’t matter whether it is a savage-tribe tribunal or a court of the French Revolution or the Wichita County Courthouse brand of law down here, or anything of the sort: it is more or less all the same kind of a tribunal. And man really picked up his law practice from there. Fascinating, the constancy of this particular incident.

It was a race between his environment holding him down and my trying to lift him up. And if I could have done it, for instance, in four hours, I could have gotten him in the morning, cleaned him up by noon; he could have gone home and faced that environment. But if I had only been able to clean him halfway up, he would have dropped right back down again like the frog trying to crawl out of a well.

I won’t tell you the whole story, what goes behind it, because I am not going to discuss it anymore. If you want to find it — the whole story behind it — well, more power to you.

So, this fight was a fight being fought by auditors all over the country and was a tough fight. Now we have got techniques that are too fast for restimulation to be very effective. A preclear can come in and they can actually go up in tone to a point where people won’t bother them after they go home. In other words, you shoot the curve up on them fast enough, they will stay there. And that has been the main struggle.

There are two of you standing there, by the way, right and left, and there is some more scouting you can do on that. There are some variations.

What do you have to do to a preclear to raise his tone markedly and swiftly? What do you have to do to him? Now, what you have to do to him is finally buttoned up in what we call the second echelon of Dianetics. The second echelon of Dianetics is thought as it applies to the MEST universe. It includes self-determinism....

The Helper just runs off on the fellow swimming along and he is one, and then all of a sudden he starts dividing and he becomes two. And the ones you will find that have charge on them are where he got hung up and couldn’t quite separate; or where he was hung up, couldn’t quite separate and started going into surf or something of the sort and then he couldn’t get apart; or where he was being dragged down by the other one and finally had to do something terribly desperate to end it all, as far as the other side was concerned on the split. But it is run with thought, emotion, effort — very heavy somatics — and is the basis on all sorts of interpersonal systems, particularly marital. The sexual chain is landing on top of the Helper.

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There is very very deep anaten in both Before Track and the Helper. You can expect a preclear to boil off for hours — that is to say, go into a semi-unconscious state. Then he will come up and he will think he has just blinked out for a half a second or something: he was lying there for three hours, just boiling away. He will come up; he is still in the incident, still running it. There is anaten on Before Track and that Helper. I have never seen quantities of anaten like you will find there.

. . . starting technique of Dianetics. It would have a better chance of winning than it did two years ago, because there you had this sag, you had a long time, auditors had to work hard to do it, they had to know too much to do it and so forth.

Now, on the Boohoo, the way you get a person into the Boohoo is tell him to cry. And he says, “I can’t cry; I never have cried.”

Now you could take the Handbook for Preclears and just read it to a fellow and produce results fast enough with him so his environment can’t keep kicking him down again. So we won, in terms of technique; we definitely have won. This battle has been won, now, for weeks really. We are just rearranging emphasis on what you run. Sometimes one incident is more effective than another. We have begun to use electronics in locating incidents — very simple stuff.

And you say, “Well, get your shoulders to shaking and your tongue to going and your voice box to going and start shivering around, and . . .”

Now, those are two phases of Dianetics that I have outlined to you. Now there is another one. It happens to do with the business of Dianetics. I never had any trouble with Dianetic business in 1938, 1947, 1950 — early ‘50. I never had a bit of trouble with business in Dianetics, for a good reason: I never charged anybody anything, there were no books to keep, and once in a while my secretary — that I had as a writer — would keep appointments for me, and that was about all there was to it. That was the business of Dianetics.

“Well, I’m not . . . I just . . . I don’t feel like crying when I do this.”

And then the letters started to arrive hot and heavy. Somebody out in California would hear something was happening, and somebody up in Washington would hear about it, and somebody in Chicago would hear about it, and I’d start to get mail — more mail than I could handle — without ever having published a book or made an announcement. It began to go by word of mouth. All right, what do you do?

You say, “Go on and go through the motions. Not the emotion — let’s just go through all the motions of crying: boohoo-hoo-hoo-hoo; throw-yourself down on the bed and put your head down on your arm and let your shoulders shake, and sob and gasp and . . .” Make him do it.

Six people — really, five particular key ones — came to me and said, “Let’s form a foundation for you.” One of them was a lawyer; one of them was a psychiatric-textbook publisher; one of them was an editor of a national magazine; another one of them was a medical doctor, an endocrinologist — a very representative group of the various fields. They came to me and they said, “Let’s form a foundation for you and you can be president and we will handle the business concerns of this foundation.” And that was back in the spring of 1950. The personnel amongst those trustees has varied considerably.

Charges that he should have been running a long time ago will start parading by while he is doing this, if you have really gotten him to do it. Well, keep it up with him and he will land in the middle of the Boohoo. All of a sudden, there he is with his eyes inside of his shell, looking out at the beach or pumping out salt water or doing something of the sort. And if you don’t find the real incident that you are looking for there in the Boohoo, right now, scan him through all the Boohoos and he will latch up in it. He will stick in the incident. Then you run it through and until you get full reality on the thing and you wear it out, and strange things will happen to him.

The Foundation tried to do its work. It tried fairly honestly to do its work, but it was something like standing in the middle of a bargain-counter rush in Macy’s basement on a Saturday afternoon. There was just too much, too fast. Too much mail. People would come in for treatment — we hadn’t trained people fast enough to treat the number of people that were turning up. People would turn up for training.

By the way, eye somatics are in there; various mouth disorders are in there. There are all sorts of things in that Boohoo. And above all else, there is occlusion in there. There is also occlusion Before Track; there is a tendency to shut down Before Track because you are not supposed to know.

Do you know that during the early months of the Foundation, I laid off of a fairly remunerative hammering a typewriter. I was giving my first lecture at 8:00 in the morning; I lectured until 10:30; I took care of business affairs (did such things as buying furniture, paying off secretaries, planning, arranging, talking to newspapermen and so forth). I would work on through, do some processing of people in the afternoon and give a lecture to the Professional Course people, or something of the sort, again that day usually, and then give a lecture to the evening classes from 8:00 until 11:00 at night. And that was my day. And that went on every day except Sunday. And on Sunday all that happened was everybody interested in Dianetics used to come over to my house and keep me talking about it all day.

Okay. Now, in running all of these incidents, expect boil-off. But expect, if you are really in an incident, for large numbers of present-life and earlier life locks to start coming off. Lots of them will come off — hundreds. If you are really running an incident that is hot, it will just keep pouring out locks, locks, locks, locks.

There were some pretty good boys that could help out on this. But it was too much; nobody could keep tabs on anything. In the first place, the demand was very great out across the country, and foolishly or otherwise, Foundations were put in in other areas. And then they couldn’t be held down in those areas; the same things were happening there. Then I couldn’t be in all these Foundations at once to lecture. We didn’t even have taped lectures.

Now, in some cases you will find, if you ask them to do these things, nothing quite happens. You put them on a machine: you don’t get large charges on the first three of them. If you just can’t make anything happen on these first three incidents, what you have got is an individual stuck in an overt act. So you just go through the technique of having him kill something or hurt somebody — fight somebody or choke somebody or whatever he looks like he might have done. You know, a fellow looks like he has done something; if you put him on a machine, you just start fishing for an overt act, and then you fish for the overt act until you get it — big dips on it. You run that overt act and the rest of the track will show up. But the rest of the track sometimes won’t show up until you run an overt act off a case; something for you to know.

And I found out something very horrible in October of 1950. We had taken in hundreds of thousands of dollars, all told, and it was running on an accounting system of dumping it all in a barrel outside the door and hauling the barrel down to a bank every once in a while — just grim: The accounting was just horrible!

Now, as far as low-reality cases are concerned, they are low reality because they are stuck in an incident, and the incident has low reality on it because the individual is way down tone scale in the incident. There is nothing more simple or mechanical than reality. If a person’s reality is low on an incident, it is because he wants it to be low on this incident because it is too much for him to face.

More important to me was the fact that by October of 1950 I had not written a second book bringing anyone up-to-date, I had not done any broad writing of the subject and my advance work in research was suffering. What I was doing was a lot of business management.

You can actually do this trick: you can show a person how reality decreases. Do you know that you, as individuals, can look back at a period in your life when you felt the whole environment just shut down in brightness and everything else for you? It was when somebody left you or when you were tremendously invalidated in some way or other — and you can just feel yourself go down the tone scale. The whole environment sort of collapses; it sort of contracts. As a person goes up the tone scale, he feels his environment expanding; as he goes down the tone scale, he feels it contracting.

It was obviously leading nowhere because nobody could keep track of it anyhow, and everybody was trying like mad to keep everything on the straight and narrow but everybody was riding off in all different directions. It was a scramble; it was grim. And I simply pulled out of the Foundations, and I began to research and work as best I could.

And there is an interesting technique in this: if you make an individual feel the environment contracting on him and then expanding on him, and then contracting on him and expanding on him, and contracting and expanding again, you will land him in at least one of the central grief charges of the case. You will eventually land him there, and you will pull off, as a lot of locks in the process of doing this, times when he has been disappointed and upset. Because an individual who is suddenly given bad news has the sensation occur of the brightness going out of the day, the brightness going out of the colors in the room, the nice tones going out of music. All of these things happen to him sad d envy, and everything lowers on him. The intensity lowers — even the feeling of pain. And this is one of the reasons he wants it to go down — so he won’t feel the pain of it. So he lowers everything; he lowers the whole environment’s brilliance.

My first effort at this was in Palm Springs. I went down to Palm Springs, I got a modest little house down on the edge of the desert and I sat down there and I figured out and wrote down the chart notes on the Hubbard Chart of Human Evaluation. I severed connections actually, actively with the Foundations, and using some royalty money and so forth, worked out the chart you find in Science of Survival.

What is wrong with a person’s eyes when he is wearing glasses is, first, the Boohoo, and, second, a number of incidents where the world closed in on him, where he didn’t want to look at it anymore, where the brightness went out of the world. A color-blind person has had this happen to an extreme. And a blind person has had it happen to an extremity which you as an auditor will have to be very careful in handling, because your blind people are lost, and your blind people’s level of reality is terribly low. And you have a hard time with a blind person.

Then a great many sorrowful things happened to me in a rapid-fire order — I had neglected everything, everywhere practically — a lot of unfortunate incidents of one sort or another.

You can charge into this case, maybe, and you think you can produce these remarkable results. Oh, no. You have got to build him back up the line; you have got to find him, for him, first. You have to use the handbook or Self Analysis on him, work him carefully, carefully, build his tone, build his tone, give him confidence, give him confidence. And all of a sudden the incident you will find for his blindness will be about as explosive as an A-bomb. You can’t tackle that incident directly; blind people are too closed down on reality.

Finally, to get some peace and quiet, I went down to Cuba. And I sat down in Cuba with a recording Sound scriber and I dictated in a space of three weeks the book Science of Survival, which brought up the techniques and gave the evaluation of human behavior and so on, and then came back up here to Wichita. I was pretty tired by that time. I hadn’t been getting much processing; a lot of things had been happening to me. And when I got here to Wichita, on April 15, 1951, a man here very kindly took it upon himself to arrange the affairs of Dianetics and square them around in some fashion so that Dianetics could go on as a foundation.

But this sensation of one’s reality shutting off is actually the sensation of going down the tone scale.

The affairs of the old Foundations were not cleaned up, however, and this local Foundation, while perfectly solvent and carrying on as best it could, was nevertheless being consistently and continually hit by slopovers from the old Foundations, where the bookkeeping was bad. To this day I don’t know if there is a set of books for the old Foundations.

Now, as you work individuals, you gradually learn what to expect and what not to expect from preclears. And as you associate with human beings, if you know the tone scale we have in Dianetics, you eventually understand what to expect and what not to expect from people on this tone scale. You should be able to get good enough on a tone scale so that you would be able to predict the behavior of anybody around you with ease. Because that is an easy one — that is a very easy one. There is a very rough, short tone scale in Self Analysis. In Science of Survival there is a complete extrapolation of the tone scale. In the Chart of Attitudes in the Hand book for Preclears you have evaluation of people, and you will see there many people that you know. But going up and down the tone scale is going up and down brightness, love of life, love of being, and so on. You can feel these things, and you can see these things happen in a preclear. And we have got techniques now that make a person go up and down this tone scale so fast that you can actually sort of watch him glow.

There are some bank accounts and canceled checks. Accountants will go round and round for a week or two, and then they will suddenly come out and say, “I can’t do anything about it.” People will look at those books and they just practically faint. The U.S. government looks at it and says, “Hm, it would be very interesting if . . .” but they can’t even make enough sense out of it to get a suit on their hands. It is very grim.

If you have run one of these major incidents all the way out, by the way, and have not seen a marked change for the better in a preclear’s face, that incident isn’t all the way out.

These affairs were not wound up, and the windup of them kicked back this last August into this local Foundation here. A $189 bill was leveled at the local Foundation and a receivership for this local Foundation was demanded. It was not prepared or contested in court by the officers of the current Foundation. And the receivership was planted just like that, and then this Foundation had to give a bond.

Remarkable, the changes that take place in people’s faces — the physiognomy. The physiological changes of the body are just as remarkable. So that you know when you are getting results as an auditor. There is no question about that: this person is either changing for the better or isn’t changing for the better. If they aren’t changing for the better, you are just not working the case.

They appealed it. January 7, 1952, an appeal was supposed to be filed at the Court of Appeals in Topeka. There was ample time to prepare it — clear from August to January — but it was not prepared and it was not filed. I did not even know it was the closing date until the eighth of January. It was too late. As a consequence, a receivership on this Foundation was confirmed. A bond was posted again. And several lawyers around town, evidently fed suits by Dun and Bradstreet (which interested itself in collecting suits against the Foundation, according to a report I get from one of Dun and Bradstreet’s lawyers), evidently did this very interesting trick: they leveled at this Foundation all the eastern Foundation debts.

There is a new checksheet out for what you ran out of an incident (they have them at the college; I’m sure they would be very happy to hand them out if you want them) — showing what you run out of an incident. Interesting checksheet.

One man came through very nobly and he paid off all those debts; there was some $11,000 outstanding, I think. When he had them all paid and they had a journal entry ready to go into court dismissing the receivership — the Foundation was going to be in the clear — this Dun and Bradstreet lawyer, without any turning around on his agreement, reportedly said, “We have another suit here for $5,000, and you have to pay up or shut up. Now, we’ve held up the journal entry.” Having already pulled $11,000 out, he mysteriously thought that the Foundation could produce another $5,000. And so it went by the boards, because it was obvious that he would keep finding debts here and there where debts had never been listed and just keep knocking this Foundation to pieces.

Well, this is roughly what the track consists of as far as incident is concerned. In the old days we had to sort of let anything happen; we had no real way of checking reality. But now we have two ways of checking it. If, after you have run the incident, you don’t get a marked change in your preclear, what do you do with this incident? It wasn’t the right incident, for one thing; there was something wrong there. And the other one is, if it isn’t one of these incidents - if it is something wild and strange and peculiar — why you might as well either get him to a machine or try something else. Don’t let preclears run as pterodactyls and dinosaurs and so forth; they just aren’t on the evolutionary track, that’s all. What they are doing is running out of valence, if they are running anything.

However, watching the operation of the local Foundation and seeing that it was terribly enturbulated most of the time about its indebtednesses, and finding out that I could not put an adequate school into existence there, on February 12 I resigned from this Foundation. I sold them back my stock in this Foundation and severed connections with it completely. And then just a few days ago — this was quite surprising to me — the local Foundation filed voluntary bankruptcy in order to shut off this line of suits that were continuing to come in. I don’t know whether the local Foundation is going to continue to operate under its own name or not. This I don’t know. I no longer have any interest in this local Foundation at all.

Now, there is one caution I would like to read to you: There are lots of people who are terribly frightened of the genetic-facsimile line. The reason we have to put them into a genetic-facsimile line is quite often the overt acts on the case are so heavy that your preclear will not face them unless the earlier incidents that I have named to you tonight (Before Track, Helper, Boohoo) are run out. They will do anything rather than face an overt act! You get some preclear who is low on the tone scale, who has in some earlier existence committed some crime, and you ask them to go through this crime again and this preclear will beg — he will back up on the bed.

But when I resigned February the twelfth, it was to establish Hubbard College, a graduate school for auditors. And the plan of Hubbard College is to teach Dianetics the best that it can be taught and issue degrees in the subject, which we have a perfect right to do. It is a plan to make a film school, so that a Bachelor of Dianetics will be able to view some fifty hours of lectures and demonstrations on sixteen-millimeter sound film. And as you can see, this would be quite a course of instruction.

You could say, “Well, go ahead, stick this butcher knife in the baby’s throat.” And they will go ahead and they will stick a butcher knife in the baby’s throat; there is nothing on that. You say, “All right, now let’s choke this woman.”

Now, this organization has several associates out across the country that it is enfranchising, and its business is going along very happily and very cheerfully. As a matter of fact, it is not even vaguely influenced or impinged upon by Foundation affairs, for an excellent reason: Nobody ever challenged my right to teach Dianetics.

“NO!” and they will back up clear across the couch. Some of them will even run out the door on you. They will beg, they will plead, they will get down, they will weep — anything but run this. “No! No! No! No!” And what have you asked them to do? You have asked them to do nothing but reach out and close their hands around somebody’s throat. And they won’t do it! There is a terrific overt act there — terrific. And it would blow all ways from the middle if you could get them to run it, but you can’t get them to run it. And the reason why is because that act is supercharged by these earlier four acts: the motivator behind it — when it happened to them - the Boohoo, the Helper and Before Track.

The Foundation control was in my hands for, I think, three minutes once. That was the estimated time that it took for me to sign six stock certificates as having received them and sign them as having given them back to the local Foundation on February 12 this year. They had not issued me any stock, and in order for me to resign I had to accept my stock and turn it back. So I had never even owned any stock in the Foundation until that moment.

So it is actually a great relief to have these earlier incidents rather than having to buck a preclear into these overt acts, because that is almost impossible.

Well, nobody has ever challenged my right to teach Dianetics; it exists in the minute books of all the old Foundations. And I have often talked to groups about someday putting together a university. Someday, somehow, on whatever shoestring or whatever ten billion dollars — it didn’t matter — someday there was going to be a university of Dianetics. Only it was going to be more than a university of Dianetics: it was going to be a university of arts and science, whereby we were going to try to coordinate and correlate science and get it out of its specialized categories into a correlated category.

Do you know that auditors can’t run very many of these overt acts out of a preclear? We are talking about highly charged incidents; no incidents of this character have ever seen this magnitude before. I have never seen incidents of this magnitude. An auditor audits two or three out of somebody, and the first one he just does fine; the second one he gets by with, maybe; and the third one — by that time his somatics are jumping so and he is so uncomfortable he is ready to fly through a ten-foot wall.

This goal goes back to 1950. In the fall of 1950 I was talking about this. I have had projects on with the army, for instance, trying to get old campsites from them and so forth, in order to form this university.

As a consequence, an auditor can run one. He can probably run two of each before it really gets him. But then he needs running. And so an auditor should fix it up, on any kind of running like this, so he has at least three people, one working on another, and keep himself swamped up as he runs this stuff. It is deadly. I am not trying to make it worse by telling you so; I am just warning you. But you can run a couple of them through before you fold up, and you don’t fold up very bad. So you get a jaw ache; so somebody has to pull a wisdom tooth or something on you — so what? Relatively easy.

Well, it is formed; it is here in Wichita. It is just on its trembling, stumbling small feet right now, but it undoubtedly can progress. One of the things it will do is make widely available instruction in Dianetics as has not been made available before — probably make available correspondence courses and so forth, in it.

Now, people will go to the point of avoiding these things though, to the point of saying they aren’t or saying they are hallucinations that come out of birth.

Now, I only did this at a time when Dianetics became a complete package.

Now, this is all very well to talk about birth. You see, I happen to be an old hand about the birth engram. Anybody who wants to know about births, any obstetrician who wants to know about births, why, let them come around and I will give them a full dissertation on birth: its aberrative effects; the thousand and one ways of mismanaging a birth; the pat phrases, the clichés in three languages, that come out of births; the various troubles that babies have in getting born — the troubles before getting born, the troubles after getting born; the various stories that doctors tell nurses while waiting for the baby to finish coming down the canal. I can give you, authoritarianly, ad nauseam, all these details. If birth were an aberrative incident, I would be telling you to run it. There isn’t anybody in Dianetics knows as much about birth (for one thing) as myself.

This school down here, for instance — the university, the college — is going to teach an extended course, a nightly course. That is, a person can go five nights a week, and they emerge at the other end of this with a certification and so on.

Now, somebody claims birth produces delusory results. I have never seen a birth that did. How do you like that? Birth is too light to produce much delusion. Birth is about as aberrative as dropping a soccer ball on your right foot. I can tell you the day when my fondest hopes rose and soared: I had found that people could run birth, and now everybody would be in beautiful condition because we could run birth. So I started running out births out of a lot of people — and I still had people.

Now, in about a week I will be starting out a series, probably, of twenty hours of lectures. They will probably be given in ten consecutive nights — that is, five days a week — to this night course (and also the day students will be in on that), in order to make what we call a summary course of Dianetics. Let’s do a rundown and a summation, complete and so forth, as it exists as a package today.

There are incidents before track which, if you run them, will peel off all the births there are on the whole track.

There is a course which is going forward right now at the College (college — we’ve got four rooms!). But that will be expanded to take care of these various lines.

Birth doesn’t do it, but I can give you a technique that will run every birth that ever happened off of a case if you want it sometime. The only trouble is it doesn’t make the preclear any better.

We have got a subject now at the end of all this time which can be taught in a relatively short space of time, which is a complete subject, which has very specific, precise processes which do very specific, precise things. And it is a very happy thought that we were already going out on the track, with red cars this time, by the time somebody dumped over those blue cars.

Would you like a technique that you can run off all the births there are in the whole case from beginning to end — deintensify all the births there are? I will give you one: it is the Helper — only the births are so light, lying on top of it, that you would have to coax the preclear to take a look at them as they went by. They are this unaberrative compared to the Helper. Think of how many times a man must have been born if there is a genetic-facsimile line. Look at the thousands and thousands of births that you could get off of a case — just rows of them.

This has been under contemplation for a long time. I was going to open up an office a short time ago and call it just “My Office” — that much style — just put my name on the door and go back to work on the basis of meeting a fellow in the street and handing him a card.... Things look very bright for Dianetics right now.

You can doubt the validity of wild material off the evolutionary chain — and rightly. But you stack up the incidents which I have mentioned against a psychogalvanometer — fascinating. They run just as hot — they are very highly charged incidents, and they run a preclear off the top of the machine when they are run. You run them all the way out and the preclear will go off the top of the machine. The machine, in other words, which is supposed to measure human beings, won’t measure them anymore. This fellow has ceased to be a human being, naturally; I mean, it proves that you have created something new!

Now, one of the things that is going to happen in the next few months: you will probably see, increasingly, the word Scientology occurring. And that is in order to give doctors of medicine and psychiatrists and psychologists an out. It is pretty hard, after a man has made a pronunciamento about which he knows nothing, to convince him that he ought to say something else about it now that he knows something about it, because he will lose face with the people he has said this to. So if we just give him another word for a similar package and we say “Now it’s Scientology, and Scientology embraces the Axioms,” why, then, two things will happen: he can say, “Well, Dianetics was no good and Hubbard was really crazy when he threw that one. But Scientology — now, that’s different. scientifically done. It has a great many things to recommend it. Well organized, and it works! (Dianetics didn’t!)”

Now, not to belabor it any, but the incidents are quite standard; they behave, each one, very similar to the next one. The preclears, on the techniques of thought, emotion and effort — each one behaves very similarly to the next one. And there is not much doubt about what you ought to be doing with a case or how the case ought to be behaving. And nobody ought to be running anything very off-track. The only reason a person would be having to run something off-track is if he was afraid to run something that was on-track. And, in all sincerity, that can happen. And I frankly would not blame an auditor for diving into a nice comfortable birth if he had a good, hot Boohoo that he was trying to run away from, himself.

And as the students who are going to graduate out of Hubbard College will discover, their degrees are in Scientology, not in Dianetics. It says that they are professional Scientologists and that they are capable of understanding mental and physical stress and are eligible for further degree work in Scientology. So I hope these graduates will feel themselves capable of understanding physical and mental stress!

These auditors who have been running birth I do not believe could stand to running a Boohoo. They just couldn’t stand to it. Because I had a couple of these auditors that were running birth and I was running them through some incidents — just some light overt acts — and I could not get them to do any part of the overt act. Another auditor and I were running them through them, but we couldn’t get them close to those overt acts. Argument, argument, argument, argument and then they would say, “All right, I’ll cut off his head once more” — click! “Well, I just don’t want to do that any more. I just don’t see that that’s important in the case,” and so on. “Well, let’s do it once more.”

That phrasing, by the way, bypasses such state laws as Texas’ which has a basic science law. Do you know that in an awful lot of the states of the union you can go to prison for about twenty-five years for telling anybody that you can cure arthritis? It doesn’t matter whether you can cure it or not; the law specifically states that what is penalizable is telling somebody you can cure it. I think that is gorgeous! In other words, medicine itself, if it produced some gadget by which they could dose a fellow up or give him some pills, or something would actually rid him of arthritis, if they said it cured arthritis or if they said it finished off arthritis specifically, anybody using this drug could be sent to prison for about twenty-five years. In other words, “You’re not going to cure nobody around here! “ And whereas we can see that this is an attitude which may keep an awful lot of state employees in state sanitarium jobs, taking care of patients suffering from this and that, it certainly doesn’t help the race very much.

Quiver, shake hand — “No! No.” And these were the auditors who were specializing in running birth.

There are twenty-five specific ills, by the way, that you are specifically enjoined in California not to cure; it is against the law to cure them.

Now, the avoidance mechanism can be done, then, by an auditor, and it can be done by a preclear. But an auditor that knows what I have been telling him now, and a preclear that can stack up on any kind of a machine — on a psychometer — that combination shouldn’t let anybody get off the track very far.

Every once in a while there is a big flurry goes up out in California — they are going to pass a big law that says nobody can practice Dianetics anymore, but every time it comes up it fades away. People have been writing me letters and getting excited about this now for two years, really. They have been telling me about this state law that is going to come up. But I have the edge on people telling me about this: I know state legislatures. I am very well acquainted with politics as it is done on a state or national level. It takes a long time to do anything, and if it gets started it will take a longer time, and when they get all through, it will be indefinite and it will have riders on it and somebody else will have gotten something into it so that the whole law will be ineffective and canceled. And that is usually the history of militant legislation in government. You don’t have to do anything about it; it just collapses of its own boredom. So nobody has been able to worry me about this.

What we are trying to do in Dianetics is make people as healthy as possible, as capable as possible, as fast as possible. And anything that doesn’t promote those goals should be dropped by the wayside.

Now, in the second half of this talk tonight (take a little breather now) maybe I will tell you something of interest and something important.

The Chart of Attitudes in the Handbook for Preclears is very, very important. Let me emphasize that to you. Did you ever see these cartoons where a little rabbit or something of the sort is tearing along and he is supposed to stop at a certain place and go in? And he is running so hard he keeps on going, you know, and then he starts running backwards and you see his feet smoke and hear the tires scream? That is what I did with the Hand book for Preclears. I went clear past this point — it is way back here. I went way on down the track someplace doing a lot of other things and picking up a lot of new data, and all of a sudden turned around and looked, and here sat the Handbook for Preclears — way back there. It is terribly important. Sitting right there are the thirteen buttons necessary to run Before Track. And the biggest resurgence you will get in any case is by running those thirteen buttons, in whatever style.

And there is even a therapy around those thirteen buttons. You can take that chart, each and every line on the chart, and just sit there and figure out all the times you have tried to convince somebody else on this basis. Just sit there and try to convince somebody else of each line. You had your own special phrase by which you were trying to convince somebody of this, like “I’m important.” Now, just get all the times in this life (or get some of them at least) when you tried to convince people you were important. You have got a therapy in that chart, just like that.

Now, we go Before Track and we find out that that reduction of those thirteen buttons down along the line was the most significant thing that happened anywhere on your time track.

And by the way, don’t go around saying you “know” unless you have gotten BT and found out, because you don’t know. Boy, when you do know, that is really interesting; that’s really interesting. But it isn’t just an empty saying to yourself “I know.” There is having all the data. When you have got all the data that occurs in Before Track, you have your hands on the wildest adventure that man ever undertook. We thought there was quite an adventure in examining your past lives; we thought there was quite an adventure earlier in examining your engrams, but boy, that adventure out there now really runs like “opry.” The only trouble is, the most conservative individuals imaginable will sit down and run this, much to their horror and sorrow — because it is a very hot incident.

The “I know” button, if attained, the “I am self-determined” button, if attained, and so on, are tremendously high. I couldn’t begin to describe these because we would immediately go out of communication on how high these things are. Anybody who has reached up toward that point at this time is pretty high, but it is something like having stepped over the sill of the Empire State Building with the rest of the Empire State Building to rise on. It is that much of a surge up. Tremendous — great surprise to me that it was, because I didn’t know there was that much to be known. How conceited I was!

Now, a therapy plotted on you just sitting down and saying “I know” is liable to fail, because what is going to happen to you is you are going to flick into the wrong valence on BT. The whole conflict of the society is the right or wrong valence on the Before Track incident. Fascinating stuff — very fascinating.

If any of you want to try this and fool around with it, why, my blessings upon thee. And if I ever see you again, why, let me know how it comes out! You probably won’t tell anybody what you know either after you have run it.

Finding out where man came from, finding out where he is going, finding out why he knows what he knows and what he is trying to do is, of course, the greatest adventure that man can have. This is a pretty conservative and apathetic period in the world’s history. It is very conservative and apathetic because it is not reaching in any great numbers toward the greatest adventure possible, and that is the adventure of man’s past and man’s goals, where they are really known, not just guessed at. Because there is higher, wilder adventure contained in this than anything I have ever read anywhere, and I have read some wild ones — and written some too. (I was a piker!)

Thank you very much for coming down this evening. And don’t think I am completely mad. Just look over some of the things I have said to you, but don’t try to test and run them by yourself, because we are awfully short of auditors right now.