Thank you. Oh, you like me better today. All right. All right. Okay.

Well, all of you probably have a great many questions concerning an awful lot of things. I probably would have the same questions, only I've got a few of them answered.

I want to drink to you. Happy AD 12. They didn't think we'd make it, but we did. We did. AD 12. In case we drink another toast, there it is.

What we're doing these days — what we're doing is a highly concrete pro-gram, probably the most positive program we have ever had — undoubtedly the most positive program.

I was just telling Reg and Bonnie in a moment of fun — I was just telling them in a moment of fun that psychology has attained its quota, its nadir, and so forth. After a great deal of expenditure of funds lasting over a period of many, many decades and so forth — after tremendous expenditure of funds — billions, you see — psychology finally discovered that if you boot a pig in its posterior, it squeals. This is stimulus-response mechanisms — and there we will leave them. I'm very fond of . . . You realize that it was an effort to suppress psychology that caused Roosevelt to plow in all those pigs. Did you realize that? The far-reaching consequences of that particular program have never ceased to reverberate and we will keep them reverberating.

It runs something like this. Right at the present moment, key figures of Central Organizations have been to and come back from or are at Saint Hill being very thoroughly and arduously trained. A great many field auditors are at Saint Hill being trained very hard. Throughout the world and in Central Organizations at this moment, including FCDC, you have auditors pushing forward right on up to Class II, working rather arduously. For instance, this week I will be down at the organization just checking them over one way or the other and making sure that that Class II is firmly in hand. And the upgrade is strictly and straightly through Class II. This is classification of auditors.

But I can warn you against making a similar experiment because the work has been done. Use a psychologist instead. The price of pork is far too high just now.

There's auditors Class I, Class II, Class III. It has nothing to do with their certification — doesn't matter what credentials or certification an auditor has. These are not certificates. This is classification for allowed processes.

Now, I like to begin a new year with a serious mien and lofty thoughts. I'm very happy to be able to contribute this to 1962, in order to set a tone for psychotherapy, psychology and psychiatry throughout this year. We wish them very good luck. We wish them very good luck. Poor chaps. Their boots are almost worn out.

Class I can use any process that we have had that worked since 1950. He can use any of these things. There's no limiter on it — he can do every-thing that he was ever trained to do, that's for sure. But if he's very, very wise, he will go on using those things and working like mad to get his Class II classification. If he is very wise. He will make far less mistakes. Let me assure you, he will save far more auditing time.

Now that we have disposed of that, I haven't anything to talk to you about today because you see, I planned a two-day congress and I arrived to find we had a three-day congress. And I hadn't made up any notes and lectures, you see, for the third day. So it's all just random, you see, from there on. And the end lecture of the congress actually was havingness. See? I was supposed to give you lots of havingness and then you could go home very happily and have havingness, and so forth. And now there's no telling what will happen. You'll have to come to the party and get processed at the HGC and so forth, in order to pick up your havingness. I intended to give it to you because today will probably as-is the lot.

Now, that's Class I. Therefore, any certified auditor regardless of the class or grade of certificate is a Class I right as of this moment. That's it and he's got it.

The difficulties of trying to maintain one's havingness in this particular universe at this particular time are of course considerable.

Now, since he received that certification and so on, we have had new skills brought forward which are simply intensification of old auditor skills. And it is just an effort to get them to do these old skills exactly perfectly — absolutely perfectly. With — using a good E-Meter, Mark IV, doing an absolutely proper and exact Security Check, being able to do a Problems Intensive, being able to carry forward and prepare cases for assessment and 3D. Very precise. Now, it takes a — quite a while to prepare cases. It takes a long time to prepare a case for a 3D assessment.

One of the reasons you have difficulty maintaining your havingness is probably you haven't got the havingness to which you were accustomed. I can see a very pretty girl out in the audience out there and she says, "That's true. That's true, you know. That's true." Sleek sport car, you know. Furs. Lovely apartment, you know, with the potted palms as you see them through the glass bricks, nice maid, full wardrobe, total income and no husband. Havingness. Yep. Yep. Probably a good thing she hasn't attained them though. I'll tell you that confidentially. I won't tell her that but I'll tell the rest of you. It's a good thing she probably hasn't attained them because the young men in Los Angeles have enough trouble. They have enough trouble — being pestered on the streets all the time.

If you — some of you, in some cases, particularly cases that have been audited a lot, you could get a hold of one, you could assess him, you could find something that resembled a package, you could probably even check out — everything would be fine. But before you went very far or ran any part of the package, you would wish to heavens that you had prepared the case before you started to run it. That's all, see.

Anyhow, now nobody said a word about Los Angeles, but we now in Scientology have a — an overt on Los Angeles. Hitherto, we've had nothing but motivators but now we have an overt. Williams was down there the other day and he made it his business — this is probably a paraphrase — to drive all over town and say, wherever a Californian can hear him, "Nice village you have here." That was actually done so that we could have an overt on Los Angeles. It's been a hard time getting one. Because the motivators are flying so thick and fast that you haven't any time to look up and cook yourself up a very good overt.

So it doesn't matter whether you'd do it before the case is assessed. You're going to have to do it anyway, even though the case is assessed, before you can run the case with any safety. Otherwise, there's going to be a terrific liability because there's all this stuff of present lifetime, present time problems. I'll tell you, it's no time to get a present time problem when you're in the middle of a willow wand in the wind, you know.

And I want to recommend to you the therapeutic values of a good overt — a nice, good overt. That is actually — do you realize . . . You realize, of course, that your withholds are mostly composed of not having a good, satisfactory overt. You realize that? It's probably why you were withholding. You recognize that?

You've busily got the willow wand in the wind and you're handling this beautifully and then all of a sudden the wind shows up and it's a very windy day and so on. Well, you'd be perfectly prepared to run that out. But you get a problem that has absolutely nothing to do with anything but your present lifetime. Here it is and it hasn't anything to do with the Goals Problem Mass and you're all upset about this thing and the boss is threatening to fire you — or you're the boss and threatening to fire somebody else — you're very worried about all this and you're very upset, you're very excited and life is going on and "Oh, it's just bluh-bluh-uhh-wuhh-wuhh-wuhh . . ." You had no business worrying about that in the middle of a 3D, let me tell you. You'd better have your life pretty well neated up by the time you start into this rolly coaster.

In case you get any ideas, why, of course you immediately afterwards have a tendency to withhold twice as much, but that's beside the point. In that split instant there, when you're remedying your havingness of overts, you see — in that split instant there — it is very enjoyable no matter how much you pay for it afterwards.

So, the exact line of preparation — and I know that there are auditors right this minute who doubt this very much and who know all about 3D and who will be ... They — there are always auditors who know better than I do about some of these things.

I had a pal one time, back about 1930, when I was trying to keep from going to college. We went on a barnstorming trip out of Washington here and we were flying an old — I think it was an airplane, I think. It had an engine; had wheels. Personally, I believe he picked it off the ground and carried it around in the air. I don't think it had anything to do with the aerodynamics of flight, because looking over the aerodynamics of that aircraft since, I haven't been able to find any flying characteristics in it of any kind whatsoever.

Anyhow, and then they learn — they learn as much as I do about them and then they come into line very nicely. But that period — that period where they're trying to adjust to that is sometimes hectic.

This was almost as bad as the type of aircraft just a little earlier than that. The way they test whether or not a flying wire was gone between the two wings, they'd turn a pigeon loose, and if it escaped, why, there was a wire gone.

Anyway, the best thing to do — it takes anywheres from seventy-five to two hundred hours of Security Checking on all known varieties of Security Checks to get the pc's havingness in the present lifetime up to a point where the pc's havingness can stand the strain of running a 3D. So it takes seventy-five, couple of hundred hours, something like that. All depends on how long it takes a person to get through that.

Yeah. These were the days. I remember sitting out here at Congressional Airport in a soaring plane about to take off on a stunting exhibition where they were having an air show. I used to stunt soaring planes. You almost didn't have me here. I don't think anybody else has ever dared do it since.

Now, included in that is, of course, something that you call a Problems Intensive. That gets away all the present time problems and straightens it up. Actually, you could run and flatten old 1A on the pc during that period with profit. There was nothing wrong with a routine called 1A. It's "What problem can you confront," roughly. And that does people a lot of good, too.

And I was sitting there and I was feeling very proud and very manly, you know. I was sort of flexing my biceps. I had a white helmet on and some nice, shiny man's field boots and I was feeling really the stuff, you know. Really feeling the stuff. Masculine, manly, brave, you know and so forth. And a newspaper photographer came up and he said, "Do you mind if I take your picture, miss?" White flying helmet. How could he tell, you know? I've still got that picture. I'll have to show it to you someday.

But you get them up the line, you get rid of their scratchy needle going tzz-zzz-zzz-zzzzz all the time and you straighten them up so they haven't got present time problems all over the place and you kind of pull the thing together, and that's the way it is. And by that time, why, there'd be quite a few auditors around who are Class II and are permitted to operate as Class IIIs.

But anyway, this old pal of mine who used to fly around a lot — he used to have a philosophy. It had a lot to do with overts and withholds. He'd get so tired of withholding from having an accident that when he saw that it was inevitable, absolutely inevitable that he was going to have an accident with a car or something of the sort, he'd immediately make a postulate to make it a good one. Well, you always crabbed afterwards that it was hard on the fuselage and so forth, but I'm sure he found it was enjoyable at that split instant of time. A good overt.

See, a Class II is only permitted to operate as Class III for quite a while before he's actually awarded a Class III. And that means he can Handle any-thing. But a Class II Auditor who is trained in it could actually assess, providing there is a Class III Auditor so classified around to check all of his results before he does anything with them. That's the way that works out.

The reason man is having so much trouble is factually he can't have action without overts today. Well, it's an awful overt against you. You get in an automobile and you put it on the highway — overt against your body. And it's on the highway and you start wheeling it up and revving it up. I don't know. They're rather low speeds on this particular planet. You get it up to about 120, 130 miles an hour and you're going down the highway. You put it in the ditch. Meat body — meat bodies are softer than windshields. Meat bodies are softer than steering columns, and so forth.

And by that time, why, we'll have some Class III Auditors around. Actually, there are five of them returning to FCDC in just no time at all — show you the program is very well advanced. And here is the upgrade of the situation. By that time, why, you can go and get an assessment and plunge into it and you're on your way — on your way through. The slang phrase for it is "into the knothole." The way out is the way through and the way through a Goals Problem Mass, well, it's like a fighter. You wouldn't expect him to go to the championship fight of the world unless you give him a little pretraining. And that's about the way it is. By that time you will have had enough pretraining along this line to handle it.

Overt. Start moving fast. It's an overt. You get up in an aircraft and the pilot can't quite make up his mind 150 feet above the runway, just as he's taking off, and decides to go back. And they scrape the passengers and the pilot, you see, off the runway. What's left of the charred embers has the benefit of selling more newspapers — about the only benefit that crash had.

But there are quite a few form Security Checks and these are very precise Security Checks. They are laid out in HCO WW Policy Letters; they are exact and precise Security Checks. And there's a whole string of them and all of those Security Checks should be gone through. You'd be surprised what you would get out of a childhood Security Check. You'd be absolutely fascinated — it's a marvelous Security Check.

One mustn't go fast on this planet. One mustn't make any speed because if he does, he'll get an impact greater than the body he has is capable of withstanding. That true?

And other Security Checks of that particular type, you go all the way through those things to the bitter end, you get a Problems Intensive, maybe flatten IA, something like that. You get up to a point where you can cope with the situation pretty well.

How did you rig yourself up so that you could hurt that bad? That's what's interesting. How did you do that? Pretty good trick.

Actually, at that stage of the game, you will never have felt better in your whole life. That is the most winning type of auditing there is. There is no processing we have ever had that is better than this processing and I think there's some amongst the crowd right this minute that will say this is true. Really sets you up.

Checking speed. Checking against speed. Mustn't go fast. Mustn't make any speed because the velocity, of course, brings about an impact which is far greater than anything you would really care to experience. And you get taught to go slow. And as you get taught to go slow, your cycle of life gets less. The slower you go, the shorter you live. Not reversewise. Till you get short cycles of action. Till you get a lifetime you can't get anything done in. A lot of people around — you ask them, they'll say, well, they're not going to live until they're thirty or they're going to die when they're twenty-five. Did you ever hear anybody say anything like that? Well, they've sort of surrendered to this short cycle of action. How long does it take to really get educated, get going and have some fun in a society? I'd say a good life's span was four or five thousand years. You might be able to find your feet. You might be able to find your way around if you had a proper life span.

If you get some good Security Checks and get your overts off and so forth and you feel right with the world and you go out — you walk out the front door, you know — you walk out the front door, you don't slide out and look up and down the street first. You're looking for the engram police that haven't been after you, actually, for a long time. But you've got that keyed out, everything is very nice. And then into 3D and on through.

Look at the franticness that anybody who's trying to make money or straighten anything out is put up against. Look at this tremendous franticness. Awful franticness. He's got to make it within what? Well, he can't start making it till he's about at least eighteen, nineteen, twenty — something like that. And his — the speed with which he can travel probably starts slowing down at the time he's about sixty, which gives him a total span there of something in the neighborhood of about forty years.

Now, I've been accused of playing down 3D. Actually, you haven't heard too much about 3D. This is kind of new to you. Routine 3D, what is this thing? You know, what is all this? Well, actually, I have kind of played it down. But this is rather interesting because 3D all by itself is getting more results just by assessment than we have ever before had in processing. A 3D run correctly gets more results just by assessment.

Forty years he's got to build it all up, get it all in place and then enjoy it. He's got to do all this in forty years. And you never saw some men working so hard to enjoy what they have worked so hard to put together in your life. And you go down to Miami right now — I imagine there's older chaps going up and down the street there, wiping the sweat off their brows — no, it's ice cold down there just now. I just had a personal report on the matter. But they're going up and down, breath in front of their faces, beating their arms against their parkas, hurrying around trying to have a good time while there's still some time in which to have a good time in, you see, before it all evaporates and they drop the mock-up.

When you've got your whole 3D package, the first package that will run, never in your life will you ever have felt any better. You — oh, man, that is there, you know. It's — the fresh air, the sunlight, you know, you kind of know which way it sets. You know now why you've got these stripes across your back. And everything is gorgeous and then they assess you on the Auxiliary Prehave Scale that was put together especially for 3D, and one bracket later, you have never felt worse in the last hundred trillion years. But you're happy about it. And there it is. That's into the knothole. And from there on through it is ghastly in a sort of a happy way and you come out at the other end and you have actually attained a higher level of stability and so forth than was ever available for — before in Scientology._

And this gets to a sort of a franticness after a while. And this franticness gets to the point of where, well, you'd better drop the mock-up because you can't win anyhow. There you get short cycle longevity.

Yes, I haven't had too much to say about this sort of thing. I've been too busy doing it to tell you about it. But that is the course as it runs.

But isn't it interesting that the valences that you're wearing may or may not have anything to do with the body or life span which you are in at this particular moment. Isn't that interesting?

Now, auditors who expect to be able to get along this route and so forth — there are several routes open. The — no special courses are going to teach clearing now. They're all going to teach Class II, so don't you downgrade Class II. Class II is a high upgrade. There are very few auditors could pass

Your valence. You will hear a great deal about this sometime up in the future here, not too long. Your valence. Of course, your valence merely means that thing which you attacked enough to become. That's all that — that's all that is.

Class II. I don't know of any that could just off the cuff pass Class II, see. That's a pretty high upgrade.

And the opposition terminal, that's something which you also hoped would overcome it. Very interesting thing, this Goals Problem Mass, because it's composed of identities. Full packaged identities. They think and walk and talk and key out and key in. As your havingness goes down, in comes the valence. Havingness goes up a little bit and the valence may or may not go out.

Now, if those of you who are waiting, waiting, waiting till everybody gets back from Saint Hill and it's all ready and everything is all taped out and so forth before you start on your program in any way, shape or form — you're just going to be left behind because you're going to take seventy-five to a couple of hundred hours to get that early stuff out of the run anyhow. So you just go ahead and get it now. Flounder through; get it straightened up.

A valence. Now, formerly you thought perhaps we were talking about a thought or an idea of beingness. We're not talking about a thought or an idea of beingness. When you corral one of these valences and look at it and adjust your ability to see, the thing is usually a black mass and very often, by the way, has arms and legs. What do you know? Huh! Or antenna. It all depends on what you've been up to with that valence, you see.

And if you're going to come to Saint Hill, it's an awful good idea to get it straightened up, too, because Saint Hill alone — that's regardless of auditing — going through the Saint Hill course itself at the present time, the way it is progressing, is probably one of the heavier endurance contests that have been dreamed up on Earth.

No. It'll be a full-packaged identity. It's quite amazing. Quite amazing. Now you yourself have collided with these things in your nightmares. You've been tired or had too many drinks of — I think it's Calvert is what gives you dt's. That's the best thing to drink to have dt's. It used to be. I don't know about now. I don't drink now — stopped having any effect on me and it's a "so what" now, you know. But Calvert used to be the stuff that'd give you delirium tremens in an awful hurry. And you drink some of that and all of a sudden you're talking to a black ghost out in front of you or something like this, you know. There are people around that lie up half the night processing the black thetans up in the corner. You ever hear of anybody doing anything like that? Well, they do. This is true. This is the world as it is, not as we hope it will remain. Some fellow has an emotional shock and he suddenly feels like something has walked into his face. Not quite sure what it is. He's lying down. All of a sudden, he has a pain in the center of his head but it isn't his head that's hurting.

And if you were brave enough to do this, I don't think you would regret it. Wouldn't be too rough. But it is not an easy sprint, and the only thing that keeps them going is auditing. They get lots of that, and you can see them falling on their faces in the driveway and another schoolmate picks them up and runs it out rapidly and they grab the bus or something and go to town and get a bit of dinner or something like that. Or somebody stumbles and is in a state of collapse someplace or another but an Instructor comes out and says, "You're due to audit somebody," and they go up and audit him.

We take somebody up to the hospital and turn him over to medical treatment. The medical boys will know what to do at this particular time and age. They haven't started putting on too many artificial limbs at this time. They cut off his leg. He has hangnails or frozen toenails or something and they cut off his leg. They generally cut it off two or three times, ankle, thigh, neck, you see? They want to make sure and also get a double — triple fee. So much easier, you know, to collect a fee from an estate rather than from a person. Did you recognize this as one of the economics of medicine? Estate always pays up because it's got all the insurance money now. You never recognized that, did you?

Actually, most Scientology courses are rather rigorous, but I've never seen a course with higher morale or higher esprit and I'm actually very proud of these people because they — when they come out at the other end — the common thing is, is they arrive, they fall in the front door, we patch them together with sticky plaster and then proceed to do something with them. When they go home, their friends don't even know them. That's right.

Chinese don't work it this way. They pay their doctor as long as they stay well. The second they get sick, they stop the bill. That's it. But anyway, the individual all of a sudden has his leg cut off. Everything's fine now except his toes itch. Before, he at least could scratch his toes. Now he can't scratch his toes. That's been the total gain of having his leg sawed off. No. He's still got a leg. It's a valence leg. It isn't a ghost leg or what they think it is. Or it's — it isn't the nerves playing tricks on the mind. There is still a mass down there sufficiently thin that it doesn't reflect light. That's all that amounts to. And this thinness, of course, makes the thing invisible. But it's still a mass and it still has the sensory perceptions of a leg. Have you ever heard of this sort of thing?

As everybody meets them — meets them at the airport, something like that, why, you know, kind of "Who's this?" you know and "Gee," you know. And we get tremendous numbers of letters come back, "What did you do to him?" you know, "Isn't this marvelous?"

Male voice: Yeah.

Anyway, the congress draweth to a close and your very fine attendance here has been something to really warm my heart. My, were you certainly dead in your chair on the first day, brother! I came out here and I took a look at you and I said, "Boy, I've been gone too long, you know."

Well, all of this is valence phenomena. All of this is valence phenomena. You get an idea of — oh, there's odd things. Somebody's mother died one time and all of a sudden he had hundreds of voices were — just started yapping all over his body and all around him, and so forth. Just yap, yap, yap, yap, yap, yap, yap, yap, yap. Everybody talking at once and so forth. Like to drive him around the bend. Couldn't make head or tail out of it. He figured he was haunted. He was. He was. Absolutely. The most accurate estimate he has ever made of anything — probably the only time he's ever made an accurate estimate of anything. He was haunted. Had an emotional shock and everything starts talking.

Audience: That's right.

I refer you to Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health and its discussion of circuits. Well, let's take another look at circuits and recognize that they are whole package beingnesses. And you might as well call them valences because they are identities, and they have name, ranks and serial numbers. An experiment one time — I had an ache in my back and an ache in my skull and an ache in my knee, and I was down in Phoenix, Arizona and there were enough things going on to make almost anything ache.

And — kind of made me guilty of an overt, you did. And things were — things were grim. Then you got going. I began to see you a little bit more plainly. You looked a little better, felt a little better and I hope the congress has done a little bit of something for you one way or the other.

And I said — this was pretty rough, everything cutting up in the way of somatics. Too busy to have a session, so I said, "Shut up." And they did. That was it. They weren't talking. They were simply hurting, you know. Shut up. They did. Stayed off for fifteen minutes. Never felt better in my life for about fifteen minutes. And then one of them got brave. Very easy to personalize or personificate in that particular way but you are discouraged from doing this. You believe that any — if anybody has voices or beingnesses or identities in him that he's nuts, as a definition of being crazy.

Well, I felt I owed you some sort of a report and I came over here in the middle of winter which is a very, very poor thing to do, you know. But then you came up here to Washington and that's a poor thing to do, too, so we'll forgive each other on that.

I'll give you another definition for being crazy. A person who cannot perceive his own valences is slightly off. And that includes all of us. Now these are packaged beingnesses. They are just as though you'd built them up out of jelly beans and electric light cords and so forth, except they are too thin to reflect light.

Frankly, I had no — even hardly any business at all leaving Saint Hill, you see. Got lots of cases rolling, lots of people coming up the line, bursting out at all sides and a lot of stuff hopping in all directions.

And when you exteriorize, why, you very often exteriorize in a valence. Sometimes you don't exteriorize in a valence, however. Now the mystic has collided with this down through the millennia and he has called them astral self — the astral body. The mystic has always known what we were talking about when we were talking about exteriorization. Always has known and known all about it — so much so that they've never been able to find out what we mean by exteriorization because they're thinking and talking about the exit of a valence.

If you don't think it is a rough go in that particular quarter — it is.

Back in London many years ago, about 1953 I guess it was — something like that — I used to get somebody to exteriorize as an astral self, you see? You know, as a valence. And then get him, the thetan, to exteriorize from the valence — 1, 2, you see. Well, it wasn't successful in very many cases because I didn't know at that time you'd had to have him exteriorize as a valence and then exteriorize from valence 1, valence 2, valence 3, valence 4, valence 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and you would run out of adding machines, slide rules and computers before you finally got through with the number of valences he'd have to exteriorize out of.

If you plan to go to Saint Hill sometime in the future, you actually ought to go to the Central Organization or get your local field auditor and go through all the Security Checks. Go through the lot, from one beginning to the other. Go through the information letter Security Checks — those are not official checks, there's just more of them — and get those cleaned up. Get a Problems Intensive. Even get 1A flat. Square yourself around one way or the other.

You is populated! Some of the most — best populated people in the world pass through these doors, you know. Oddly enough, it's an easy method of beingness — is what these things amount to. At one time they would have considerable use no matter how they were built up, so a thetan has wanted them at some time or another.

Read all the books you can lay your hands on. Get your extension course completed up, something like this. Get the thing squared away. It doesn't matter how much of that you get done because the more of it you get done, the easier it will be on you. Because I tell you, going in — you haven't cracked a bulletin for a long time and Mike says, "Is 1.5 on the tone arm more dense than 5.0 on the tone arm?"

You got into a certain situation, why, cling-bang! You got into a cage full of lions, you just picked up one of your old valences as a lion tamer, and bang! You had it made, you see.

You say, "1.5 — 5.0 is a higher number and so forth. Well, obviously." And you answer erroneously and you say, "Well, 5.0 is more dense."

But one by one these things failed and then you didn't throw them away because there was no way to throw them away and you never as-ised them and they built up one way or the other and you lived lives as this and lives as that. Well, what do you think happened to all the lives you've lived as some-thing else?

It isn't so much that you flunked that one. It's the scorn he gives you across the desk. We've got him there simply because his oppterm is a sadist and we refuse to audit him.

You realize you go out in the sun now and the photons hit you in the face and you resist and you cry and you weep and you eat and you have overts and you have withholds and all of these various things. And your body has a form and shape and you put clothes over it and you stick pins in your fingers and get operated on and psychotherapized and so forth; and all kinds of disasters occur to you.

Well, what it amounts to — what it amounts to is you'd come up and make Class II almost at once, you see. It wouldn't take you but a very short time to make Class II.

Well, what exactly is happening? Well, you are actually building a body all the time you are doing this. You're constructing a body within or a body over a body. Naturally, you get an engram — have you ever seen an engram hang up an injury? Well, when the engram was run out, the injury disappeared. Well, let's have an analogy between a body and an injury. You haven't ever run the body out that you've lived with before. Well, where is it? Well, there were a whole bunch of facsimiles and all kinds of various bric-a-brac of one kind or another there. I mean, there's ... Well, let's take your life now as a citizen of this continent. Well, let's be extravagant. Let's make it ... You could be fairly unreal; between the years 1920 and 1962. See? Take some far flown example like this. Some imaginative example. Let's say you'd lived a life on this particular continent during 1920 and 1962, you know, past life of some kind or another or future life.

You'd have to be all straightened out in your auditing. You arrive knowing you know all you want to know about how to do it. It wouldn't take you very long, however, to find out what you didn't know and to be oriented, straightened out and made to look something like an auditor. And then get your examinations finally on Class II and be an auditor and then you could spend and concentrate the bulk of your time on making Class III.

All right. Now, it's real enough while you're living it, isn't it? Audience: Yes.

Because frankly, the difference is, if somebody just got out of an Academy and were to come to Saint Hill, if he were accepted, would have this kind of a problem: It would take him the next two and a half or three months to make Class II because he has no background. All weekend and every day of the week. No chance to sleep, you see, because he's so busy trying to catch up. Well, you could take that much weight off yourself.

Real enough while you're living it.

No training is ever thrown away. Everything we know, we know. All our past discoveries and activities are all ours and we haven't forgotten those. And they all serve in good stead. And similarly, the data which leads on up to Class II is the data which makes a Class II Auditor. And it's time well spent to get your — all the Security Checks done on yourself and get what reading and bulletins you have all disposed of — take that much weight off of you when you get there. That's the best possible advice that I could give you in the matter. Because, boy, there's an awful lot to learn when you get there without crippling yourself with trying to learn it over that withhold with that girl last year.

What you going to do with this life? You realize it's got facsimiles, it's got thinkingnesses. It's got education. It's got habit patterns. It's got all of this, that, and the other thing. What are you going to do with this life? What are you going to do with it? Because it's going to be residual as a body. Certainly, it's a body. We used to run engrams, just to tell somebody, "Get into your own valence." We were very gentle about it in those days. Never persuaded anybody. Never persuaded anybody when we could force them to do it. Get into your own valence, you know. Guy would and the engram would run out, of course.

You know, that's — that just adds just a little bit too much to it.

But when he started running past track things and we told him to get into his own valence, you know, he sometimes couldn't. And that's more or less what defeats engram running.

Now, as far as — as far as your auditing in the immediate future, I'm going to ask you — I'm going to ask every auditor . . . You won't have instantly a British Mark IV in your hands. You'll be dealing with meters which are not necessarily operative meters. And they certainly are not operative to the degree that a Mark IV is. For instance, Ray came here believing that you could salvage American meters and he was thinking in terms of building them and so forth. And he got his hands on a Mark W — he's gone over it just _ since the congress and he says, "Ha-ha." Wrote me a despatch, he said, "My advice is scrap them. There's just all that difference. You'd never bring the American meter up to the Mark N."

Well, what is this thing, valence? Well, the valence is what's got the pictures. The valence has got the pictures. Ho-ho. It's the valence that's got the ideas. It's the valence that's got the "now-I'm-supposed-to's." Valence that's got the interpersonal relationships. You, by your name, right this moment, have certain interpersonal relationships, don't you? When you pass in your chips in a very relatively short space of time, in the next hundred years, you're a Scientologist, two hundred years, three hundred years — some short period of life, you pass in your chips and so forth, what you going to do with all these relationships? Possibly some of you were in Egypt, but — I had a little bit of an overt. It wasn't really an overt in Egypt. Dreamed up an idea back in Egypt that secured personal property. It said when any official of the court or man — any man of repute or renown in the area, died, when he came back, he could have his property back. That was pretty good. That worked pretty good. Remember that gimmick?

All right. Get a Mark IV as fast as possible. They are available. They can be shipped. We do have them. This was not a condition which was true just sixty days ago, you see.

That fortuitous circumstance doesn't always exist on the track. You kick the bucket, you lose your friends, you lose your property and you've had it. As a matter of fact, the courts are rigged right now. You could go as far as to say that the courts are agin thetans. Agin 'em. When they declare a thetan legally dead, they want him to stay dead. And that's it.

But if you're using an offbeat meter and so forth, don't let it stop you from auditing, but please do this. Please do this. And even in the early days of auditing, even on a Mark IV, introduce this question into all Processing Checks that you are doing on a pc.

It's almost a high crime to come back after you're dead. Some of the most fantastic catastrophes have occurred because somebody who has been carefully pronounced legally dead by decree has turned up. Of course, it makes a lot of legal problems. A girl is married, the family's drifted off, it's all been split up by the will. Everything has been disposed of and he comes back and he says, "Where's my Jaguar?" "Oh well, dear, we gave that to the ashman, after all . . ." He has no legal recourse of any kind whatsoever. He has been pronounced dead and of course that is as dead as anybody ever gets.

At least every five questions that you clear on the pc, introduce this question: "Have I missed a withhold on you?" And end every session similarly, "Have I missed a withhold on you?" And keep that cleaned up. And if you're missing them left and right, do it every question. But certainly if you did it every three or every five, then you wouldn't be upset and if you're an auditor, your pc wouldn't be upset because of missed withholds because this is all that upsets a pc.

But because the person loses all of his havingness, he gets even with it all by forgetting it. That is the last thing a thetan can do to get revenge.

You do the beginning rudiments. You say, "Are you withholding anything?" is that beginning rudiment. There it is, bang!

I don't know if you've ever heard a little kid — they're quite realistic some-times, little kids are. They aren't bowed down with all the responsibilities and "now-I'm-supposed-to's" of the adult. A little freer, you know. You were too, for a while. Also perhaps a little bit spookier. You know, after you've just kicked the bucket, you're kind of nervous for the next few years. You know, it kind of makes you nervous. People expect you to sleep in the dark. And you open your eyes in the dark and you don't know where you are. And you think maybe you're back in Korea or something of the sort. You're not quite sure where you have wound up at.

And you say, "All right. Do you have a present time problem?"

I don't know why many adults think it is a high crime to leave a light on in a child's room, but it saves more nightmares. See a child floundering around with a little dim light in his room and he'll open his eye, you know, and he'll look around — oh well, you know — go back to sleep again. That was just yesterday. That was just another year, another life, another nightmare. But a lot of adults say, "Well, a child should learn to sleep in the dark." I don't know. I never have. I've never learned to sleep in the dark with a total disorientation. Unless I couldn't put out any light. That seems to be a bit of a dull thing.

See, the rudiment is, "Are you withholding anything?" and you miss it. Bang! You see? It may not happen. Anything may not — nothing may have happened. And you go into the bulk of what you're doing in the session, regardless of what you're doing. Let's say you were running Routine 1A which is quite permissible for a Class I Auditor to run, see. It's all those problem commands. Generalized problems. Getting somebody used to confronting problems and so forth. Perfectly valid.

You know what a dream is, don't you? A dream is merely an effort to orient oneself. A thetan is so disoriented he doesn't know where he is and he all of a sudden starts mocking things up in an effort to find out where he is — trying to duplicate the environment and his effort to duplicate the envoironment, is liable to mock up almost anything under the sun, moon and stars. You get the Capitol at Washington sitting on St. Paul's Cathedral, you know, all located on Marcab. And your effort to locate yourself is such a frantic affair, you find yourself running down Pennsylvania Avenue with no clothes on. The significance of a dream, however, is simply the effort to locate and it's nothing else.

You're running something like this and all of a sudden the pc is looking at you and there is pure hate in his eyes. And you're not aware of having done anything and he will tell you you just dropped the ashtray. Well, maybe you did. So you try to clean up the ashtray.

And you open one eye and look around and find out where you are and you go back to sleep because you might still be in that confounded tomb. You know the exteriorization from a body that's been embalmed is usually fairly easy. But sometimes you can't find the exit. Something like that happens.

And then you say, well, I wonder if he has a present time problem just now. And then you run the ARC break process and you run present time problem processes and then you say, well, maybe there's something wrong with the room. And then you try to orient that. And this whole session has become a cow's dinner — not a dog's breakfast, a cow's dinner, see. Wow! Wow! Wow! See? All kinds of randomity, ARC breaks, arrarrrwoor.

Well, all this, of course, is very wild conversation and would be classified as metaphysical and so forth by the more insane, learned members of our society, because they have gotten so even with everybody that they have for-gotten everything. That's about all it amounts to. Sometimes a little kid hasn't forgotten all the tricks and he's liable to look at you. He can't beat you up. You're nine times as tall as he is, something like that. So he gets even with you. He looks at you piercingly and he says, "I'll forget you."

One hour to one hour and a half before this ARC break occurred, you missed a withhold. That's all. That's all that happened.

That's pretty near the thetan's last revenge. "I will forget you." Can't do much less than that. But you can actually — you think you do this to spare yourself the pain of remembering all of these past and uncomfortable things. You think that is why you were forgetting everything. That is not true at all. I can prove to you with a bingety-bang. You are simply getting even. You are a vengeful cuss. You is real revengeful. That's all right. I'm still a friend of yours, but I know that about you. And when you can't get even any other way, you forget things.

I'll give you an example. Pc sits down. Maybe — maybe you're chewing gum, something like that, see. You're chewing gum, pc sits down, you start auditing him, take the gum out after you started the session, throw it in the ashtray, see. Hour and a half later, your pc has a screaming ARC break about "You have repeated the same command twice instead of the next command." All busted up about this. Chewing you to pieces. Check it back and you will find out that at the moment that he saw you were chewing the gum, he objected to it and didn't tell you. And that is the withhold that wrecked the session because on top of that microscopic grain of sand of a withhold, other withholds and unkind thoughts started to build up, build up, build up, build up and finally it builds up to an atomic explosion. And that's what an ARC break consists of.

This is so much true that if a person has a bad somatic, you can ask him any kind of a combination of questions. Has something to do with this. "Who would be upset if you forgot about that?" And you're liable to run out not only that somatic but a bunch more he didn't even know he had. You know, make us go bzzzzzzzt. You know, brrrrrrrr. Something like that.

If you wanted to put it crudely, every out-rudiment results from withholds. That is all. Now remember that a withhold reduces havingness and reduced havingness alone is what keys in and makes immediately dramatized and functional the valence package of the pc. Reduced havingness is what pulls these valences in. And withholds reduce havingness. So, if the pc has withholds, the inevitable consequences is he will dramatize the valence in which he's sitting.

"Whom have you forgotten about to get even with?" is the stylized question, see. "Who would be upset if you forgot?" And "Who would you get even with if you forgot?" and so forth. That actually is the shut-off on the whole track. Let's not put it on the fact of "us poor thetans," which we have been doing, you see — having been deprived of all of our property, friends and relatives, having been grossly maligned and laid in the grave with only second-grade embalming fluid, not the good stuff, now we're unable to remember because we've been done in. And that's why we have occlusions on the past. I'm afraid that is not the way it is. The thing you do is — having been laid in the grave and having knocked off the body, one can now get even with all those people further by forgetting all of them.

But he's not ready to assess on 3D. He's got to be prepared for 3D. And you don't even know what the valence is. So the only way you can keep the valence out and keep the pc running and get the pc free enough so that he isn't always keyed-in on this valence is to keep his withholds pulled. Keep those rudiments in, keep his withholds pulled.

You see, forgetting people is an effort to unmock people. It's an effort to reduce them. It's an effort to make them disappear. You forget them, they disappear.

There's a process technique known as short-sessioning. You start a session, you run the beginning rudiments, you run a few questions of whatever you're doing — Security Check or whatever and so forth — and then you run the end rudiments and end the session.

Well, I'll give you an idea. What is the end product of swordplay? It's the destruction of a person. What is the end product of bullets? It's the obstruction or blowing up or obliteration of an individual, see? What is the end product of all weapons? What is the end product of all suits? Well, a suit is an effort to make somebody disappear by making his fortune disappear. See? Make a fortune disappear. You can't make him disappear, but you can make his bank account disappear. See? And by making his bank account disappear, who knows, you might be able to make him disappear, too. See how that _ works?

You give him a break, you have a cigarette, something like that, and you start the session. Do beginning rudiments, run straight on through, a few more questions and you end the session. You could do this three times in one auditing period. That's known as short-sessioning. If you did it three times in one auditing period, which is a bit extreme — ordinarily, in two and a half hours you would do it twice. That is to say you would have two sessions in one two-and-a-half-hour auditing period. And if you did this that way, you'd get four cracks at the rudiments.

But when you can't finally do anything else — you can't turn loose with a 67-gauge blast pistol, disintegrator setting, 1,006. That's pretty good, you know. You just turn it up — phewww! Not even a pale pink mist. You're not embarrassed by blood or anything. If you can't do that, why, of course, you can stab him and let him rot. And that'll make him disappear. Destruction of beingness or valences or identities is almost a professional activity on the part of thetans.

Well now, that's routine and that is stable, regular auditing today. You do that kind of thing. But look-a-here. Because of bum meters, because here and there an auditor's going to skid, I don't want you people upset. I want you coming on forward. I want — I don't want you getting ARC broken, all upset in an auditing session or something like that. I want you carrying on forward and making your gains. Making them good all the way.

And when they can't destroy them anymore, physically, they can always make a last final effort. They can forget them and sort of tell themselves that they've done it. See how that is? You see, if you forget somebody, he's disappeared, at least for you. Well, and who knows, we might be able to tell ourselves and console ourselves that he disappeared for him, too.

And here's another way to do it in addition to handling your Model Session and rudiments. Audit by Model Session, by the way. There's a new one just out, December 11th.*Editor's Note: reference to HCOB 21 Dec. 61, MODEL SESSION SCRIPT, REVISED, which is now cancelled and replaced by HCOB 11 Aug. 78 II, MODEL SESSION. The changes to the end rudiments mentioned above were also issued in HCOB 14 Dec. 61, RUDIMENTS MODERNIZED, which is in the Technical Bulletins Volumes. And it is so booby-trapped, the pc could get away with nothing, man. Marvelous set of end rudiments in it. And that's every-thing that everybody's ever been having any trouble with. And you pick it up there in the end rudiments.

There is nothing more disheartening than some fellow who has divorced a wife and forgotten her and she's gone out of his life and that is it. Once in a while he has a little twinge of conscience. He remembers her and he realizes that she is probably living in poverty, you know — in dire circumstances, you see — probably down by the railroad tracks in an old hovel made of tin cans and boxes, see. And down on Main Street one day, she drives past in her new Lincoln driven by a chauffeur. It's hard on him, because he's forgotten her. And it — suddenly realizes it didn't work. "Failed forgetting" then becomes a live button on his case.

Use that Model Session. And in addition to that — in addition to that, if you're running Processing Checks, for heaven's sakes, about every fifth question invest some time: "Have I missed a withhold on you?" And watch that meter with sensitivity 16. No matter what meter it is. And use soup cans. Don't use little electrodes on your meter. Get some battery clips and use soup cans. And that's about what you will have to contend with and it will be tremendously alleviated. That is to say that what you're contending with is missed withholds, auditing with rudiments out and that sort of thing, and it's making a poor show all the way along the line.

"What forgettingness has failed to accomplish a make nothing out of?" That's what the disintegration of a valence and a being is. The odd part of it is, is having fooled oneself into the fact that it is gone and convinced oneself that it is gone, one continues to have ulcers, pains in the back of the neck, bad eyesight, staggers around. He's not quite sure what he's doing and an auditor comes along. He says, "I'll run those out. You're simply trying to get even with your mother, mother-in-law, your husband or something of the sort, and I'll just get this off and everything will be fine." And he runs some off and it diminishes. It diminishes. Doesn't disappear. These things must be located someplace else than in the here and now. They must be located some-place else.

All right. Let's counter that and let's square that up by making sure that we get ahold of these missed withholds all the way up the line. Sound like a good idea to you?

And they are. They're a past beingness he has unsuccessfully made nothing out of because he hasn't made nothing out of any beingness he has ever had in the last two hundred trillion years. He's got them all. And those things with their problems and because they are in play and counterplay and identity against one another in the most complicated series of games anybody ever heard of — jammed together into a total black mass, and you call — this is the Goals Problems Mass.

Audience: Yes.

When you start taking it apart, you find it's composed of nothing but identities. And each identity in it has its own thoughts. It has its own supposed-to's. It has its own goals. It has its own methodology of destruction. It has its own training patterns. It has its own habits, and so forth — the most marvelous potpourri you ever saw. If this were of any possible use to anybody at this particular time, we would say, "Well, by all means, let's go on using it." But it is no use to anybody. At this stage of the game, he's completely lost the map. He reaches over to put on the lion tamer, you see, and he gets a mouse. He starts teaching school. There he is teaching school, standing up in front of the children, and he knows exactly how to do this. All he has to do is reach into the old bag of tricks and pull out of this coal-black, agglutinous piece of asphalt, just a nice valence as a schoolteacher, you see._

All right. I'm trying to hold you — keep it going and keep you coming on forward until we're right there with the marines landed. Okay?

So he pulls it out and he puts it on. Only when he got it, it was a general. Has trouble with the school board — always in trouble with the school board. Funny part of it is he doesn't even know that he's wearing a valence of a general. He's still convinced that he is wearing the valence of a school-teacher, even at that moment when he picks up the kid's toy pistols, you see, and as they've been playing in the schoolyard ... It all fits very well, you see, and it all works very well, and so forth, and — but he just keeps saying to himself all the time — because it's hung up; he can't express it, you see — "Sir, take this man to the firing squad."

Audience: Yes.

You see, this keeps going through his head all the time. And he — little Johnny comes up and says, "nyaa, nyaa" and his nose is running, he's been making a lot of noise and he's been teasing one of the girls and so forth. And he walks up there and he opens his mouth to say some automatic phrase that requires no effort of any kind whatsoever. You see, he knows. He's a school-teacher. Therefore, he'll say exactly the right thing with the greatest of ease. It's all on automatic. And he said, "Sir, you are hereby condemned to death under articles of war and so-and-so and so-and-so on," you know?

All right.

After he's done this a couple of times, he checks it. Little Johnny comes up to him again and he's been trying to say, "I'm going to spank you if you do that again, you know," so he says, "Ah, go back to your seat."

And I'd like to thank every single one of you for coming here this winter to this congress and giving me an opportunity to tell you what has been going forward, and for me to make good the promises made since 1950 because we mean to make them good, every one.

Now, wrong game, wrong body, wrong training pattern. Put a guy down at the filling station. He's busy filling up trucks, and so forth. Works out all right. Kind of gets on his boss's nerve occasionally. The only thing you could get out of the ragbag in the way of a valence and the only thing he could do in the way of a valence and so forth, and the only thing he could get, was a dog. He keeps going up sniffing at the cars as they come in. He knows it's wrong. He knows he ought to act right, you know? He knows he's supposed to test the oil and water, you know. Can't get along.

And now let me wish you a very happy AD 12 and let me hope to see you again in July and meanwhile, good hunting and no withholds!

The odd part of it is nobody is more baffled than the person who has grabbed the wrong hat. Nobody's more baffled than he is. He'll come around and tell you, too, and he is — he says, "The funniest thing . . ." He doesn't let most people in on that, "but every time I take off a radiator cap, you see, every time — I unscrew the radiator cap, you know, you always have a little trouble with them because your claw — I mean your finger — and sniff, sniff ..."

Goodbye.

He says, "But my worst trouble is when I pass the air pressure post."

He thinks he's crazy. He isn't crazy. As a matter of fact, he's acting perfectly. He's acting at the exact dictates and is the exact effect of a perfectly complex, perfectly adequate training pattern, thinkingness pattern, everything else. All perfectly adequate for another place, another day, another dollar, another dog, but not for a filling station. Not for a filling station. Fellows pick up lives and they're very successful lives and they don't want to get out of them. Fellow will pick up lives. They're very unsuccessful lives and they can't get out of them, see.

And although they were pronounced dead, Lord knows how long ago, they're still living that life someplace in their beingness. And the only trouble is they can't even count on living that life. They've lived enough others that sometimes it's a hurdy-gurdy. Every time they talk to a woman they feel like a man. Every time they talk to a man, they feel like a woman. See, it isn't a matter of a one-valence proposition. See, they shift during the day under climatic conditions.

Get into a car. You're an airplane pilot. Get into an airplane, you're at the dog races. Okay? It's a mix-up, you know. There's just no telling what a guy's going to be next. That's most thetans' motto on this particular planet.

Somebody gets very distracted, you know, and they're tearing their hair — very distracted. They're absolutely ripping themselves apart. They feel life has really ganged up on them. They always say, "I don't know what's going to happen next. I don't know what I'm going to do next." Well, they ought to modify the statement a little bit. "I can't tell what I'm going to be next."

It's very, very astonishing. A thetan is getting along fine. She's being a housewife. Husband is coming home. Going to cook a nice dinner, so forth. It's all — it's all taped, see. Everything is fine. And she's got everything on the table and in the stove and so forth. And she even rehearses and says, "I'll go up to the door and I'll kiss him on the cheek and I'll say, 'Hello, honey, have you had a good day?' That's what I'll say. 'Hello, honey, have you had a good day?' See? It's all set and so forth. I'll take him in and I'll set him down and I'll really make him happy."

She goes and she — zero hour approaches, see. She rushes up to the front door just the moment she hears him coming up the steps and she opens the front door. And she says, "You big baboon, I'm going back to Mother." And spends the rest of the evening trying to patch it up. She can't do it so she knows how to patch it up. She used to be a cop.

He can be especially lucky if she has never been Lucrezia Borgia, you see. As far as wives are concerned — I'll tell you guys, you gentlemen in the audience — as far as wives are concerned, boy, you really take a chance. You think you're marrying one girl, you see. I'd say at an absolute minimum, she had something on the neighborhood of well, let's be conservative — hundreds of billions of beingnesses that she could be. She's been hundreds of billions of people and she isn't anybody just now. It's sort of like playing roulette. Only she's liable to be three different people in the same day.

I'll tell you girls something. Boy, that's nothing. Man, that's nothing. Boy, what you married. He's got just as many valences as you have, with a slight difficulty that he has a little more physical strength probably in this particular lifetime, and it's geared up economically so he can abreact his hostilities a bit better depending on which valence is coming up.

You ask him for some money to run the house or something like that. The miser valence comes on. That's his terminal at that minute. He's upset. He's more upset than you are. He's wondering why he's saying this, you know. "Well, how come I'm saying this?" You know. He's sorry inside there. "What did I say, you know?" "And I so detest cliches; to have actually said, 'Do you think money grows on trees?' " You know? It's no wonder people stammer.

The thought goes through and then they have to say the right thing, you see? But life barreling along any old way, no telling what might happen. But it's a bit of randomity that doesn't make anybody happy. If it made anybody happy, well, all right, leave it alone. Funny part of it is, you reactivate some of these valences and you'll find something very interesting. Fellow who has a miser valence can't even be a good miser. He's a lousy miser. That's all I object to. It's bad acting, bad stagecraft, bad livingness. Shakespeare said all the world is a stage. Well, this guy — the performance he puts on as a miser — let me tell you — I mean, bad show, very bad show. It's not up to The Merchant of Venice. Let me tell you. Nothing like that. No, his performance of a miser has watered down to this "Oh, you want some money to run the house. Is that it, dear?" He's almost broke at the bank, you see. "Would a thousand dollars be enough?" See, he can't be a good miser, you know. He's got to fight the valence.

All right. This fellow's got a valence as a cop. Criminal walks up to him. He walks up to a criminal. He knows what he's supposed to say. "I arrest you in the King's name" or something of the sort. You know? Depends on whether or not he's in Washington or New York. "I must warn you that everything you say will be used against you," you see. He's got himself all beefed up to this. He sat up, you know, in the night, and he said, "I'm going to arrest this guy tomorrow, and so on, and I'm going to say, 'I arrest you in the King's name.' Yes, I've got to, you know. 'I must warn you that anything you say will be used against you.' I'll go over that again." He steps in front of the mirror and he looks sour, you know, and he looks mean, you know, " . . . used against you, and so forth. Got you now." Got it taped, see. He knows how to arrest some-body. He's all set.

Next day he walks up to the criminal. He says, "You got a match, buddy?"

The sergeant says, "We sent you out to get Black Bill, the upper town mobster. Where is he?"

And he says, "Well, he wasn't home." He says, "You know, I must be yellow."

No, he isn't yellow. He's got a valence as a cop and he mustn't be it. And that is the common denominator of all valences. If you've got one, you mustn't be it. And if you be it, you feel guilty. You just mustn't really be the valence which you are. So these packages are totally useless. They're totally wasted. Anybody could be a better cop than a fellow who has a lot of past lives as a cop. Quite amazing. Anybody could be a better miser than a fellow who has a long, successful career as a miser and is now in valence form. Anybody could be better than anybody with a valence.

I'll give you an idea. I had a valence kicking around. First time I ever realized that this valence had any real suppressive characteristics with regard to me, is after it had been run pretty flat. I was sitting down at my desk and I all of a sudden did an operation with a pencil and fixed it up and suddenly realized that I hadn't been — ever been able to do sketching. And I all of a sudden — I mean engineering drawing, you know. I was educated in that field and I could never do this. You know, sketch drawing and perspective. And I sketched a drawing and handed it over to somebody and told them to build it, and everything was fine, you know. And I said, "Well, what the hell happened? I've never been able to do that before." And I suddenly realized I had run out the guy who was able to do that. Spooky, huh? In other words, I had run out the thing and had been able to do it. God help anybody who has a terminal as a racetrack driver that gets his hands on a racing car.

We had an example of that at Saint Hill. She was afraid to get in cars; afraid to drive a car and the car always broke down. Terminal: racetrack driver. You'd think she'd drive like mad. Actually, she was driving at about ten miles an hour when she couldn't go slower.

No. A thetan fights his valences and he can't be them. And they limit his skill and ability and they are the primary limiters of ability. If you can't be what you want to be, you probably are "it" in a valence. Then you won't ever accomplish being what you want to be until you got loosened up enough and recognized enough that you don't have to be it and then you can do it and be it. Isn't that interesting? What an interestingly complicated piece of nonsense.

But the Goals Problem Mass is composed totally of all of these beingnesses which have accumulated all of these eons and ages on down the line. You'll find them in anybody. Now I'm not talking through my hat. It's very easy to do. You should see the look come over a pc's face when you've assessed it all the way down, and he was working at it, you know. And he — you worked at it and you assessed it, you know, running a Routine 3D or something, and you get it down the line. And you get it there and you finally get the item. And the moment you get the item, he of course has been kind of afraid that was it all along, you know.

He is instantly alert. He is very happy to have the item and nobody is more pleased to get this item in the world. Valence: skunk. See? You say, "Well, that's what came out of it: skunk."

And he said, "Well, I'll be damned. So that's why I've had to use perfume all my lifetime. Yeah, that's right. That's right. I got a black fur coat and I insisted on having a white mink stripe put in the back of it, you know."

And he starts to check it up. All the habit patterns that's made him worry about him are all contained in this silly package which is the central package. All these things are completely interwoven. They explain all of his actions to him. He knows now what he has been doing and why he has been doing it.

Then you find his opposition terminal and of course he knows what he's been fighting all the time. There is what he has been fighting. "Well, of course!" he always says, you know? It would be so much easier, however, if seventy-five hours before he had walked up to you, and he had said, "Well, I'm a skunk and my opposition terminal is a perfume factory." It'd have been so much simpler. He always acts like he knew it all the time, you see. But he — I haven't had any of them yet really tell me until I found out because, you see, he has to find out, too. He hasn't known either. Well, so much for Goals Problem Masses and 3Ds.

I wish you very, very good hunting when you find yours.

Thank you.