Thank you.

Hiya. Thank you. Thank you.

Well, I hope you haven't gotten too wet. I hope you haven't gotten too wet. I'll try to dry you out now by putting your attention on some energy masses that will develop heat.

Female voice: Three cheers for Ron. Hip-hip. Audience: Hooray!

Like to talk to you something about goals. Tell you something about goals and so forth, because this is your easiest entrance point as far as cases and interest is concerned. Everybody has a goal. Now, when you say, "a goal" that's the way it registers with people. They have a goal. They want to get their goal. You hear this. You hear this. "I would like to get my goal." So forth. I used to say it myself And thirteen banks later, you see, well, it becomes rather obvious - it becomes rather obvious that a person has a great many more than one basic purpose.

Female voice: Hip-hip. Audience: Hooray!

Now basic purpose is not something - a goal is not something that is new in Dianetics and Scientology by a long ways. Not at all. You'll find it mentioned in Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health, Book One. Talks about every person has a basic purpose and this is a monitoring factor as far as his life is concerned and so on. Well, this is what makes the difference amongst people. This is the thing that makes the difference. Completely aside from the fact that thetans are not different castes or classes or something like that, but they do have their own inclinations quite individuated or individual as far as purposes are concerned.

Female voice: Hip-hip. Audience: Hooray!

Now, if they weren't different as beings originally, it's my contention that they would not take quite as many divergent paths and postulate quite as many different basic purposes.

That did it! Now I know I'm in England.

This fellow wants to catch catfish and that fellow wants to be a tiger and this girl over here never wants to be shot and this sort of thing - different, different, different, different. And a person's basic purposes that he postulates and that you find him with are monitored by different tastes and different experience and so forth.

Well now look, Mary Sue has been working very, very hard to make an OT out of me and been working at it and working at it and she didn't make the grade. I wanted to get OT today so I could give you some nice weather. And I just didn't make it, I'm sorry. I only got thirteen banks back and got stuck, you know.

But we're off in a never - never land that at this stage we cannot talk about as to what makes one thetan different than another thetan before he starts living and before he has any experience. That is not an area we can at this time discuss. But we can discuss this one. We can discuss this one: A person who has the basic purpose to be a motorman naturally has an entirely different experiential track than somebody who has a basic purpose to catch catfish. You can see this fellow on the bank of the river now, you know and he's lying there with a fish pole and his experiential line doesn't include, let us say, banking and doesn't include war and so forth. But this other fellow, to be a motorman, well you try to get him out on a fishing expedition and "What fish?" you know. "What drives them?" he'll start saying, you know.

Well, I'm really awfully glad to see you here. I been waiting quite a while to give you some of the announcements 1 want to give you in this congress. Quite a few years, actually. You've been over as many jumps, most of you, about this stuff as I have. So congratulations for lasting it through.

Now this is - this is quite remarkable in that these two people, because they had divergent purposes, have lived through entirely different experiential tracks which has given them an entirely different experiential pattern. Now, difference of experiential pattern it comes about - two people can walk down the street together and because they are slightly apart they see slightly different views of the same objects. Therefore their experiences walking down the street are different.

This congress actually celebrates quite a few things. We have received congratulations and wishes for a very good congress here from various organizations and I didn't bring all of the telegrams but they're all with you.

Now, you take a person who walks down the street of a modern city consistently and a person who walks over the Sussex countryside consistently, we can see that their experiential track is widely different. And we exchange position and the fellow who walks through the streets all the days of his life dodging scooters and taxicabs and that sort of thing, we get him down here and he goes to - tries - starts to go to sleep at night and he can't. His ears hurt, you know. It's too quiet. And he takes a walk outside and there is sort of an absence of anything. It isn't that we've made things unfamiliar for him, he doesn't know what dangers lurk. But he feels it's probably dangerous.

Now the news, the news that comes through is highly practical clearing. Highly practical clearing. And that is the news.

Now, there's no more cruel thing than to send somebody away on a two - or three - week vacation who is a busy, busy person living in a big city, you know, and we send him down to the seacoast. And he sits down on the seacoast and it's all different. Well, he has no experience with seacoasts. Let us say he doesn't - you know, just going on regular vacations gives you an experiential track - but those waves coming in, you know, the waves coming in and he listens to these things. He listens to these things. Lies there all night long listening to these waves coming in, you know. And he gets back and actually he has an apartment that's just above a bus terminal, you know, and he gets back and he lies down in his bed and how nice it is, you know, to lie here in nice, quiet, peaceful London. You know, crash, bang, thud, you know.

Now, if you think this is just another one of Ron keeping up the hope factor on you, why, ask the students down here in Z Unit. And a few weeks ago these were about the saddest people you ever saw. You know? I mean, Z Unit, that's the final clearing unit here on the Saint Hill Special Briefing Course, and these were sad people. They-you know, “He says it's supposed to go this way, you know,” and they'd sit there sneeringly, you know, trying to reason all this thing out-putting in time, putting in time in the auditing session just becausethey were supposed to, you know, and pc ARC breaking and blowing and so forth and the auditing Supervisor spending most of his time on the road between Saint Hill and London recovering students that were blowing, you know.

It's what - partially what he's familiar with, but there's another point to it. What purpose does a person have that makes him live in London? What purpose does a person have that makes him live in the country? What purpose does a person have who would live on the seacoast? These are all different.

Very grim, you know. See them outside-I will say this, I will say this. They might have been snarling at their Instructors, but when they'd see me, why they'd give me a cheery hello. I appreciate that.

Now, this is your bonus. This is your bonus in clearing. Once you have cleared a person of his basic purpose he can now perform it. Until then he can't. Why? I've told you many, many times that the only crime you can really commit is to deny yourself - that - to call yourself a liar and say you are wrong. That is the basic crime that a being can commit.

But they were slugging along and you know, the hope factor had completely worn out. Clearing? Well, they'd probably never make it. Probably nobody else would either. Maybe we ought to go into “Subub” you know? Very grim. Very grim.

He can say, "I have been wrong," and look at this. And he can do things which are an overt against himself. This is the fundamental. Of course, he does things that are overts against others too, and it's those things he apparently suffers from. But in actual fact it is because he goes against his own basic purpose. He sits down and he says, "All right. Now, I've had a very tough time of it and this way and that, and things haven't worked out just right and in this next few trillennia I am going to catch catfish. Now that - I can trust myself to do that, and I can lie on the riverbank and so on. That seems very nice to me. That's very good and I'm going to catch catfish."

Maybe this Buddhistic method-maybe this Buddhistic method of sitting there regarding your navel for twenty years, maybe that'd work better than sweating over an E-Meter that never found a reliable item, you see.

Now, he gets very adept at this as the years go on. He gets better and better and the years go on and he gets better and better, and he finally can say to himself that he is a catfish catcher, you see. And oh, he really catch catfish. That's about the middle of the bank, you know. He just looks at a river and the fish just leap out of the river, you know.

And then-then something happened. Then something happened. We have had something that stood somewhat in our way and that was, we have been too little evaluative. And a preclear working through clearing, all the way through clearing today, just can't-just can't find his way around, that's all. He just can't do it.

And all this time - all this time, however, he has made a fight of it and he has imperceptibly closed terminals consistently with the enemy. Well, there's game wardens, there's the people who don't think that you ought to catch catfish, there's the Preservation of Fish Society, there's the baleful look that a catfish gives you when you skin him, you know, and there's all sorts of various actions which are extremely detrimental to his goal to catch catfish.

The ability to confront is proportional to the amount of charge that has been taken off the bank, not proportional to the amount of confronting done on the bank. You might or might not understand what I mean by that. But it means that the charge of aberration on a person is so great that when it comes to the exact things which prevent him from being Clear, when it comes to those exact things, he can't see.

So about the time he becomes a catfish catcher, why, he has to admit that there are enemies to this goal, he says, you see. And he goes on and from that point on for the last half of the duration of this basic purpose the individual turns against the purpose to catch catfish and we eventually find him not only someone who would never catch catfish, that's not quite the top you see, it is just no catfish catching. There just isn't any. He has no reality on it at all.

You could drill him all you wanted to, you could educate him all you wanted to, you could let him list actually, as one fellow did, I think eighty-seven pages and so forth, and he still wouldn't put down the item you've got to have.

As a matter of fact, before he gets to that stage, of course, he has joined the society to prevent the catching of catfish. And sooner or later he will form a society to prevent the catching of catfish. He has turned against his basic purpose.

So I had to break a time-honored thing, had to break the Auditor's Code, slightly. It's still not all right to evaluate for the pc and tell him what's wrong with him and all-that sort of thing. I had to break the Auditor's Code slightly and tell the pc what he should be looking for. And the moment I started that, it worked. And a little more important than that, to me and you eventually, it made it necessary to have the exact pattern of the bank. And boy, are you lucky. You're just lucky, that's all! I mean, if the pattern was varied from person to person and from aberrative reactive mind to reactive mind-if human beings were each superindividualized on this single point-oh, well, I don't know how many thousand hours it would take to clear somebody. It would just be absolute agony. And you're just lucky. It's all the same.

Now, that is the state the basic purpose you're going to find in a pc is in. It is always an expended purpose. Once in a while you are lucky enough to get the actual absolute top goal. And if you find it, it will have advanced a greater or lesser distance into the present. In other words, the first goal that the pc is actually living is usually not found by the auditor the first crack. Isn't that interesting. Instead of that he'll find the second or he'll find the third, something like this because it's easier to find that one and you go ahead and run it. The pc's perfectly happy with it and he says it's his purpose but there's still a lot of mass around and when he runs these things, hey, there's pains you know, and they keep going through his neck, and he's not quite happy about this whole thing. And you realize that when you've run this bank you've got to go the other way. You've got to go toward present time now and find a later basic purpose and sometimes once more a later basic purpose, and it's more difficult to find where that ends. But that is all in the business of auditing.

It's all the same. Bank to bank, person to person, it doesn't matter what goal you get, it doesn't matter what person you grab ahold of because I've sampled enough of them. There-we've got a couple of students on the course here that aren't human and they all work on these principles. And that made you very lucky.

Now what I'm talking about, however, is you're going to find, as the first basic purpose on the individual, a basic purpose that he has turned against and that is all wrapped up, is gone, expended, he has nothing more to do with it. Ah, but let's look at this, let's look at this now on the standpoint of experience. This person was at one time an expert. He was a real expert catfish catcher. He was a - he was a whizzer. And man, all you've got to do now is show him the label on a can that has the picture of one whisker of a catfish on it and he just goes bluuuh.

If you had any idea of the amount of agony involved in getting what is called a reliable item wrong way to-listed wrong way to, the pc feeling like he's being crushed, everything descending on him, hydraulic presses moving in from every side and the poor auditor sitting there saying, “Oh-oh-oh what am I doing to this poor pc?” you know. And the pc's groaning and he's getting flatter and flatter, you know, and his face is turning blacker and blacker and he's going down further and further, and finally there's a tremendous ARC break and he gets sick and everything goes to pieces and that's that. Well, we've left that day behind us.

These are allergies, by the way, and other things of that sort come under this same heading, you see? And that's all you've got to show him.

It's not just clearing that I am announcing, but very easy clearing. Because we've got the pattern of the bank. I went back 216 trillion years. After not clearing the first eight banks at all but just taking the charge off the goal, putting my head back on, and eventually we got the basic pattern. And the basic pattern is terribly simple. And now we find the truth of the matter: English is an inadequate language.

Well now, after you've audited him, what happens? Does he become unable? No. The odd part of it is, for the first time he will be able to perform that basic purpose. He can catch catfish or leave them alone. He is able to exert a power of choice now over his own actions with regard to that basic purpose.

You know, of all the things I expected to find, that wasn't one of them, you know. I thought, “Well, we of the Anglo-Saxon race dominating Earth, have, of course, the best possible language.” And it's got holes in it. It has concepts that cannot be easily expressed. So your pc occasionally gives you something that sounds like absolute gobbledygook and it's not in a foreign tongue, it's in English-but you'd swear it was. I'll give you an example: Here is a relia-they aren't all like this, fortunately, they're all “no water” or a “cat whisker” or “catch catfish,” you see. They're all very simple, in the most part, except in the top of the bank, the very part which prevented people from getting Clear. And there you find such words on a goal that contains “capitalism” you find a word there “capitaltivity.” And the pc cognites like mad, you see. And you sit there and you say ...

Let's take the poor fellow who wants to play a piano. You see? He has a basic purpose to play a piano. It'd probably be expressed some other way, like to be a musician, you see. To play a piano. And this poor guy is forced every now and then to take music lessons. Something happens in life and he comes near a piano. And he can't read music. And he gets his fingers caught and breaks his fingernails, you know, on the keys and he keeps getting his foot caught down here in the midst of the - of the pedals and all kinds of wild things happen every time he comes near a piano.

And then the main liability of clearing today is you can't pronounce some of them to read the question to the pc. I was so glad to get off of an RI the other night, a reliable item, and get onto the next one that I practically erased it off the line plot, you know. Let's see if I can remember what this thing was. It's the same goal - “capitalistishness.” Now if you can say that with no break in between, you're a linguist- “capitalistishness.” I got pretty good at it. You try it.

Well, he goes over and sits down to the piano and just starts to play the piano and his arms get tired, you know, or they get tired and they start hurting - start hurting way up here. Can't quite understand what's happening. And the next day - the next day he comes down with sinusitis. He knows what this is attributable to. Medical science has already determined - has already determined that it is a virus.

The RI form in that particular place has to be “ishness” and that's all it can be. So it's got to be whatever the goal ending is “ishness.” And Lord help these people that have a goal like “to skate up the side of the Empire State Building and dive into the local pool.”

So he comes down with this virus called a piano and there he is. There he is. He's going to be sick and so forth. Of course he'll still kind of monkey with - he can't quite get away from it, he can't quite have nothing to do with it. You get ahold of him, you audit him, you find this goal to play a piano. You finish the thing out. Now the funny part of it is he can now play a piano or not play a piano. But here's a test of it: In general ability, in general ability alone, auditing out a basic purpose results in an increase in ability in all lines. We - you get that one? Just not just playing a piano.

Where is the “ishness?” Is it after the pool? Does “skate” become “skut”?

You audit that out, you've unfixated him to a degree where he is now more skilled and more able generally. You see, because his attention isn't fixed.

But these problems are very easy ones. These problems are very-very pleasant problems. The problem of seeing the pc just sort of disappear from sight-ARC break, go out and tell all of your neighbors that you murder babies-that problem was too much for us and we could never have survived it in actual fact.

Now if you audit out "to be a motorman" out of somebody who is trying to play a piano you will find out that as you run out his basic purpose to be a motorman, he will learn how to play a piano better. You understand? So there's that general gain. That, by the way is the most observable gain. This individual is now more able generally because his attention isn't fixated. But let's talk about the specific basic purpose now. Let's supposing this poor guy is trying to play a piano and he's got a goal to play a piano which is run out. And the top of it is no piano playing, you see. That's finished. And he gets allergies when he comes near a piano and all these various things. We run that out - and this is the specific gain that you get - all of a sudden he walks over and sits down to the piano, you see, and he can play a piano. He never played piano before, see, but now he can suddenly play a piano.

So, we have the pattern and the students over in Z Unit walked around this thing, they walked around every quarter of it and they looked at it and sniffed at it suspiciously. And they said it's just some more hope factor. And a couple of them said, “Well, I don't think it's right for Ron to invade our banks this way and tell us what word should be there.” And that was before they found their proper top oppterm, as it's called.

In other words, he is now capable of executing his skills on his experiential line, don't you see?

As soon as they did that, sniff-sniff, top terminal, ss-ss, second top oppterm, “Hey, hey.” And then several auditors started getting worried. It was too easy.

Let's get this poor fellow who has a goal to be a general. And then of course one of - any one of these modern armies would accept him. And he has - he has this goal to be a general and he's got to be a general and well, they eventually elect him president of the United States, you know, I mean they - something like that. And he's got this goal and there he is and my golly he can't be a general. He'll do something weird every time. He's always kind of sickly; he can't quite make it on any line. You see? And here he is with this goal. Auditor comes along and they find the basic purpose "to be a general." They audit it out. For the first time the fellow could be a general. You see, there's the trick. After the individual has postulated - has made his basic purpose stick with himself - he then is committed along a fixed line against which he eventually turns and he can no longer do what he decided to do.

So they started going back to the top oppterm. Did they have the right one? And so forth, and you know-spend a couple of sessions, the pc getting blacker and blacker, you know, then he got back on the line again. Did it work? Was it this way? Was it that way? Did this fit in here? Did that go in there? And it did, so on. And not very long ago Mary Sue walked into the Z Unit down here and a pc, you know, in-session -usually you can tell a pc who is in-session, you know, because they don't look up when the Instructor comes in, you know. But in this particular case-in this particular case, why the pc looked up and leaned over as Mary Sue came in the door, and says, “We got three RIs already.” And the auditor turned around and beamed, you know, and he said, “Yeah, we got three RIs. Yeah.”

It's like New Year's resolutions. There is nothing as dead as a New Year's resolution in September. Well, you know it yourself You can't even remember. This is only April.

And these characters couldn't be tied down with an anchor right now, I think.

So, here is the crux of the situation, is after the individual has lived he should have the ability to live. But because he's made basic postulates and turned against them, he then lives less. By the ordinary action, the more you associated with this universe, the more you associated with life, the better you would be able to fare in life. Now that is in the cards. We know that.

Now you don't have to take my word for it, ask them. They're around. You'll see them.

An auditor can take somebody out here - just ordinary processing - he takes somebody out here that can't pass a driver's test. He - every time he goes down, why, the police say, "Ha - ha - ha - ha, you again," you know, and take his shillings, you know, because they have to live - or they think they do - and gets another permit or, you know, a test. And he goes through this thing and he flunks again. He keeps turning U - turns where he should do right turns you know and ... You can always tell these fellows that are going to fail. The fellow that rides with them you know, steps out and looks scared, you know.

They're the ones that are smiling in spite of the weather.

Well, you take this fellow, and you don't have to - this was the way the world used to go, you know, swami, swami, "You will now..." you know, hypnotize him, you know. "You will now be able to pass your driver's test." Do you remember the scandal they'd had down here in Brighton? Somebody was hypnotizing people so they could pass their driver's test. I don't know if you remember that or not, but you actually can implant a suggestion in somebody that he can and it will last for quite a while, right up to the first wreck. Anyway ...

But it got easy. It got easy. And how did it get easy? Well, because there is a standard pattern-there is a standard pattern to the reactive mind. It is so standard as to absolutely stagger you. You won't believe it yourself We have the meter that will do the job, we have the auditor techniques that make it possible for it to happen and our main thing right now is developing methods to find RIs faster.

And any auditor can take this individual that can't pass this examination and just get him to familiarize himself with the car. Not to the degree of going around and driving the car, but just reach and withdraw from the fenders. Well, oh a - lots of us have done this. Just reach and withdraw from the fenders, reach and withdraw from the bonnet, reach and withdraw from the windscreen, reach and withdraw, reach and withdraw; turn the key on and off, turn it on and off, turn it on and off. And the next doggone thing you know, individual sort of goes wog and something hits him and he looks at this and ace - gets in the car and he can drive it. Have you ever seen this, or a shadow ~f_ this phenomenon occur? It's a common phenomenon. All right - to us in Scientology it is. It'd probably look like a miracle in the world of science. I love that world of science.

Well, you don't have to find them faster, you've already got them. The problem is, is how do you write that fast?

Anyway, here are these - here's this familiarization. Now, we know in auditing that if you familiarize somebody with something he can then accomplish it, unless there is some deep - seated engramic reliable item or something that is kicking his head off, you won't be able to do it. All right.

That's right. That is. That is.

But we know then that familiarization results in tolerance. That is in the ordinary course of existence.

And breakfast this morning, Mary Sue and I were going over this, I'd dreamed it up that you could take a platen - and we were discussing how we would do this - and you could take a platen and put it over the line plot and on one side of it it gives you the question by which you treat-with which you treat an opposition terminal and it has a hole in it, you know, in the platen; and on the other side on the same sheet there is the one that fits - the question that fits for a terminal, you see. And it's actually now streamlining down the wording. You could put a number in here and put a number over here on a list, and then do your list from that number. Like forty-one, you see-odd numbers would be opposition terminals - forty-one.

Well, the reactive mind, by fixation on purpose, brings about a reduction of experience.

And then take what the pc says, and when you've got it, transfer it instantly right in the middle of this platen, you see.

This motorman would go on strike if anybody asked him to be a conductor. And some of them have recently, you know? And they've - and in the United States the railroads are all going broke because the unions have it all fixed up that every diesel locomotive has to have a coal passer. Coal passer just rides to Chicago or New York. He never does a tap of work, you see. Seems funny. Seems funny. They could find something for this fellow to do. But he's fixated on this purpose and oddly enough will never become familiar with a diesel locomotive. And one fine day the law will slip or something like that and no longer hold this, what they call featherbedding, in and this individual has not familiarized himself with railroading. He's got a fixed action. He's always in a fixed state with regard to his immediate environment. And where you have a basic purpose you have somebody in a fixed state.

And then ask that question and get the next one, you see, and that's forty-two. And write “42” and list the three or four or five items that the pc gives you, get the right one there. Pick that up and put it into that platen and we possibly will be able to get it up to an RI a minute. That's what we're looking for: an RI a minute.

Have you ever tried to talk to somebody who had some sort of social problem and had him answer you at the end of an hour or two's dissertation on your part, you know, you just - logic coming out, you're just absolutely beautiful. If you just could have had a tape of it, you see, you could have found out how brilliant you were in arguing with him on this point. Have you ever had such a conference? All right. And at the end of that time, find this bird twice as convinced of his first opinion. That's what he's got to do.

Now, two RIs a week was what the Z Unit was shooting for. That was fifteen hours. And I kept pushing them along and pushing them along and making them get more interested in this and they got it down to a half-hour or something like that. And Mary Sue was already leading considerably on this and she got it down to one every eighteen minutes, one every-I think her last average was nine minutes, and now we're hoping to bring it down to one minute. Why? Why? That's-the length of time it takes to clear is now not dependent upon the speed or the nonsense that you have to go through in terms of can the pc do this or can the pc do that, don't you see? The pc's sitting there with a line plot ending in front of his face.

Well, of course you're not going up against - you're not going up against now, familiarization or reason or anything of the sort, you're going up against fixation. Now, fixation will deliver into somebody's hands a great deal of experience. No doubt about that. This girl has a goal to dance and boy, she's been dancing in here and there and you get back to the temples of Nineveh and she was dancing back there and there isn't anything she doesn't know about dancing except now she walks like this so she can't, see?

He simply puts the next one down on the line, you know. He may have to word it two or three or four different ways, but when he gets it he knows he's got it.

Well, you take this girl, she's got a terrific track on the subject of dancing and you clear her of this purpose "to dance." It takes the fixation off which prevents the familiarization. And when you take that fixation off, then the individual can function. And the first thing you know, boy can she dance. There isn't anything she doesn't know about dancing. In other words, you've cashed in at once about the experiential track and there it is.

So the speed of clearing depends on the length of time it takes to find a goal, plus the number of minutes it takes to find an RI. Now, why are we talking about this? And I'm in a high level of technical for some of you, I know, and you possibly won't find it terribly interesting, but it means the speed with which a man can achieve all the way up. Because first-goal Clear, second-goal Clear, third-goal Clear, these are meaningless terms. There are about twenty or thirty banks back there. And in thirteen banks you have 650 items.

So, let us put it this way: You've been living for quite a while, whether you are aware of it or not, you have been living quite a while and you're about to cash in. You're about to cash in. The only way you can actually cash in is to free your attention from the failures of the cycles of these past basic purposes. But everybody has a basic purpose.

Now if you found an item-well figure it out yourself - you found an item every ten minutes, it would take you 150 hours. And if you found an item every minute it would take you fifteen hours. Speed of advance, don't you see?

Now it's very funny that they all admit they have a basic purpose and will discuss this with you and will look for it and will be audited on it and will do everything under the sun about the subject of a basic purpose. You they never - you never mentioned to them that this basic purpose may have been going on you see for a very, very long time. You never have to tell them anything about this. Well, that's quite interesting, isn't it?

Because here's the news: you can't stop short of OT. You can't stop.

As a matter of fact, even in the US I've seen some newspaper stories devoted to Scientology, very friendly ones, on the subject of everybody has a basic purpose. That's quite interesting. I mean that's an open door. Everybody has a basic purpose, what's yours? You know? And people get quite engrossed with this because their attention of course is fixated in that particular direction, but they're very interested in it. Why? Because they've got a tremendous experiential track along that line and anybody who has had one and departed from it wishes he could have it again. What he wants is the experience that went along with it. What he wants is the memory of all the adventures he's had along that line, and yet he doesn't have those anymore. They're so closed out he doesn't even remember his basic purpose, which is a very gruesome joke and very grim.

Yes! You can find a person's first goal. Yes! He feels wonderful. Yes! Everything is fine. Yes! He's better than ever he was before. But you've already got him in the next bank. He's not any longer-he's no longer interested in this goal “to shoot sparrows.” See, he's no longer interested in that goal. That's dead. That's gone. That's no longer part of his life. He's now interested in that-this goal “to preserve wheat,” see? This is the one, you know. And he sits there and he talks to you about preserving wheat and preserving wheat and you say, “Well, how about this -how about this goal 'to shoot sparrows,' you know? This - this goal 'to shoot sparrows.' Now, on that goal has anything been suppressed'.”

Well, right here, what happens that an individual can't remember everything he's ever been and done and can't remember his basic purpose? Why not? It's the instantaneous character of the reactive mind. Everything in the reactive mind is monitored by instantaneousness. Everything is instantaneous. Time is actually the single source of human aberration. And this instantaneousness reflects itself in the fact that when you find your first - and I'm talking about you - when you, as an auditor, find your first RI on a pc, or you as a preclear have your first RI found on you, it'll look like it's right now. It always has that sensation with it. It's always right now. And you find an earlier one and an earlier one. And each one is right now. And you find an - you find an earlier basic purpose and it's right now, too. And you find an earlier basic purpose and it's all right now.

“Well, yes. Lots has been suppressed on that. Well, now about wheat...”

In other words ' instantaneousness. Time has ceased to exist. Time has ceased to exist. Time has closed out. The individual no longer conceives of time spans on this subject, he only conceives of instantaneousness. In other words, time has perished.

All right. As soon as you got him all out of that area about wheat, everything is fine and so forth, goal finding is nothing inside the bank. Absolutely nothing. I mean, I've got this taped. All you do is do a final oppose list and it gives you the next goal. Bang! Just like that. All right. Now you go through it on that pattern, you get to the end of that bank, you do your next final oppose list, you've got your next goal. Do you understand?

And so each individual is carrying around this terrific instantaneousness of things he was doing Lord knows when. And he thinks of these things as an instantaneous occurrence. And because of this character he can then only spot those things which he himself has been definitely connected with over a period of time. Such as he has lived in this house in this body for ten years. So therefore he has that much track, you see. And his current lifetime will have memory connected with it. But everyone agrees that nobody has lived before - not because they are mean, not because they are trying to get even with each other, it's because "before" doesn't exist. Only now exists, you see. And when they try to think before this life they run straight into the instantaneous character of the reactive bank. So there isn't anything there. There is a no - ness of yesterday. It doesn't exist. It's all instantaneous. These things - these things you can experience. There's nothing much to this. But the ...

Oh, yes, you've got to keep them cleared up; oh, yes, you've got to do this and that; yes, you've got to brush it all up - but will the pc let you? That's the question.

It's rather fantastic when a pc suddenly looks up and - he's been going along with you, you know, going running along and he doesn't know anything about the past or anything of the sort and he's running along and he's been running out reliable items out of the bank and he's been running out his basic purpose and he's been going at it and so forth and he looks up and he says, "This is very, very peculiar."

There is no stopping, no immediate direct stopping, short of.

You say, "What's peculiar?"

Now, that's technical information. So what is this thing called Clear? So what is this thing? What does it amount to in the final analysis? Well, if you realize that under this term “Clear” comes the heading of every hope man has ever had and every effort he has ever made to attain freedom, every concept he has had that people are in trouble, every concept he's had that he is sick, that he doesn't like where he is, that he doesn't like what he's doing, that he cannot exist or survive in his present environment-all of those things, one right after the other, are lined up against clearing. All of those thing's.

"Well, I could - I could get the idea . . . I saw, a few days ago a picture of the French Revolution and somebody beheading somebody. I don't quite take this. "

What in essence - what in essence was some messiah selling way back on the track? I don't care how far back. What was he selling? He was selling being Clear - being clear of Earth. He was selling being happy, not being aberrated, not being upset, not being worried, not being trapped. He had to invent a new trap called heaven in order to accomplish this where you sat endlessly strumming on a harp, and so forth, and I'm not against people having heaven. People say that I'm antireligious. No, I'm not antireligious, I'm pro-religious. I'm against people who are antireligious because this dream about strumming the harp, you see, for eternity, doesn't appeal to me. I have an RI which didn't get well discharged called “conventional music.”

"Take what?"

Anyway, the facts of the case are that you are dealing with a commodity, you professional auditors and students, you are dealing actually with a commodity which is as old as man is-in fact older. You're dealing with his hopes to be free or to be happy.

"Well, it seems like this is trillions of years ago in some space society or it's - or it's on some planet someplace else or - gee, whose memory am I running? Oh, that's the answer, yes. Somebody else's mind. Yes. Yes. It's - I must be running somebody else's mind, you see." And this is prompted by the fact that all of these identities are other identities than the one he has.

Now whatever bank he is in, whatever goals or purposes he may have, these things are dominated by these other things. In spite of the fact that he's postulated himself a goal to go to jail, he in actual fact wants to be free. Man wants to be free, wants to be happy. What are the common denominators of man's hopes? Well, these are it.

Now, his instantaneous characteristic is eventually discharged and now he has time. You get most people, you know they - you think that they can't remember back of five years or something. If the psychologist had made a thorough examination of this situation - that is, he'd have found quite differently that a person is incapable, the ordinary person on the street, of remembering past the age of twelve or eleven or something. It's quite late. It's quite late. They have some spotty memories somebody else has told them about. And they'll quote these to you as their actual early track in this lifetime. So actually not even this lifetime is a total memory span. So don't be surprised - don't be surprised when the memory span closes down back of this lifetime.

Now, those that are totally overwhelmed will only hope for those things which are in their reactive minds. They themselves have no further volition as individuals. They are totally dictated-to, totally dominated people. And you see these chaps around.

Now, that which you've seen as time track on a pc which did lead back into past lives is outside this reactive bank and these items and identities. That's what you call free track. And you can run a person up and down this free track. But every once in a while - he's got this airplane in some earlier life or whatever it is and he's - every once in a while, "This airplane is okay but the left wing is black." Well, get away from that if you're just running free track because he's seen - he's seen the borderline where this incident impinges upon the Goals Problem Masses in the bank which are black masses.

Now, of course, the worst thing that can happen to a spirit is to become totally enmeshed in the physical universe so that every time he touches something he can't get off of it, and every time he is in something he can't walk out of that and so forth. So naturally you'd expect the blokes around who are causing the most uproar about the human spirit and getting

So you can run a person on free track and do quite a bit with this, but the track they have actually lived arduously on their own basic purposes is not there. It's just not there. It's just one big, black scrunch. Totally instantaneous. So, of course, nobody's ever lived before because that's instantaneous, see, and there's nothing there, don't you see?

Clear will be scientists, because these poor fellows have been shoved by their educational pattern just deep into the physical universe as you possibly can get-they're around, so on-“I wonder if ergs go twitch or if they go twatch. What is happening with these ergs?” and so forth and they get closer and closer to this, you know, and they eventually think, “Well, there is no such thing as freedom, there is just me standing here watching this electric bang, you know.”

That's the state man is in. He is not living the life he thinks he is living. Now, you go about the business as an auditor of finding the basic purpose of an individual and you will find him just as happy as can be. And I have an announcement for you auditors: About the most therapeutic, best, grooved - in, acceptable auditing a pc can have is contained in the activities under the heading of (quote) trying to find a goal (unquote).

And they tend to turn around and say, “Well, you can't be free.” That there is no individual. And you know, you think this is something new. You think this is something new.

Now because you'll be straining so hard to find the pc's goal, you miss this fact: that the most rewarding processing the pc can receive is the effort to find a goal. I think that's quite interesting because, of course, it's liable to be missed. The auditor misses it, the pc misses it.

I was back on the track 196 trillion years on the pattern, and what do I find there? What do I find there? The complete concept-the complete concept that man was evolved from mud and there is no spirit. I mean, they really worked at it for a long time.

Both of them are sitting there saying, "I wonder what my goal is? I wonder what your goal is?" Don't you see. And they're working away to get this goal and they're working at it and they're working at it and they're working at it and. they're working at it.

But even those fellows are in the same category as the atheist. If you ever want to have a fine religious argument talk to an atheist because if there is any man who believes in God it's an atheist. You'll hear old priests and so forth tell you this. Give me an atheist any day rather than a lukewarm believer.

Now, if the auditor doesn't know this fact he gets the pc all stirred up all the time about an anxiety of not having the pc's goal. See? He gets the pc all anxious on the subject of "Well, what's your goal? I've been auditing you now for fifty hours and we haven't got any goal yet. Now put your goal down on the list," you know. And he harasses the pc. Or the pc's starting to get worried because, well, they've gone this far and they haven't found the pc's goal.

These fellows, of course, must be admitting the existence of God in order to contest him with that violence and valid - you see. I mean, he'll say, “He doesn't exist,” you know. And that's all they do, you know, they keep going around, “He doesn't exist,” you know, and ...

In actual fact, the pc is not up to confronting his goal. There's an element of luck and an element of confront in it. And he hasn't put the goal down on the list. And the moment when the pc puts the goal down on the list is in the lap of the gods. It is not a predeterminable moment.

Well, the atheist of our times of course is the scientist or the fellow who is in there with his scalpel making copy for TV programs.

Now, there are lots of tricks by which you can find pcs' goals, find them very rapidly, all this sort of thing. But what do we mean very rapidly? You'll find a pc's goal as soon as the pc puts his goal down on a goals list, and you won't find the pc's goal any sooner than that. In other words, you've got to have his goal to find it.

He is worried about health, he's worried about care of the body, he's worried about these things. He is so immersed into the idea of the physicalness of things, that he cannot even conceive of the nonphysical things. He can't conceive of a nonphysical existence and if you think about it for a moment, that-you present it to somebody and say, “Think of a nonphysical existence.” And the guy will think, “Let's see, being in the country and not having anything to do, that's - no, that's country.” And he'll work at it and he'll work at it, see? But to others of you with more confront on the line and less bowed down by all this, why, it becomes very simple. You can conceive of a nonphysical existence.

Now, therefore goals finding is totally determined on the basis of how long is it going to be before the person puts his goal on the list. That's how long it takes to find a goal given good auditing. His goal will be found as soon as he puts it on the list.

Well, you ask a scientist who is-or a doctor of medicine or something like this, to conceive of a nonphysical existence and he can't make the grade.

An auditor finding goals uses an ARC break to establish having gone past a pc's goal because you go over and past a pc's goal and he'll explode. He won't tell you you've missed his goal. He'll just be very upset with you and very upset with the world at large and you go back a few goals, page or two, and there's his goal sitting there and you didn't give it enough attention. It rocket read and it did this and it did that but you said, "Well, we're gonna we'll get to that next week sometime," and so forth and bow! He doesn't even know what's going to - what - you don't know what hit you as an auditor. This perfectly sweet pc that's always been so propitiative, you know, all of a sudden starts telling you all the mean, vicious, nasty things that you have done. They never say, "You've missed my goal," or anything like that. It's you who are the villain, you see. And you go back and you look at it and you will find the goal sitting there on the list. You've gone over it.

So what are we doing? We must be healing. Or we must be doing something to the body. Or we must be doing this or we must be doing that. And one poor auditor over in Virginia was actually-they never sentenced him, by the way, the judge kind of looked kind of shamed and forgot about the whole case. And I think it was years ago and I don't think they've ever called him back to court. But they proved conclusively that he was guilty by grabbing off some people he had cured of things. And they said he must be healing because he has been curing people.

But anyway, you can't find the pc's goal that - is ready to be found until the pc puts it on the list.

“Well,” you say, “that proves itself and it proved itself to the court and everything,” but this auditor wasn't trying to heal anything. In other words, by getting a person a little less immersed into the physicalness of things and by getting a person up so that he could look around and find there was something else about it all, why, people got well. And naturally this made Scientology a healing science. Well, it is. It is. But these chaps who are terribly immersed in the physicalness of it all will be the only people who give you any argument. They're the people who argue with you about Scientology and about clearing. They're the people that clearing can't be defined to.

Now, there are goals that are common to every pc and unfortunately, so far as I know, these goals are too far back and too heavy to be run. The goal "to create" is common to everybody. It's an early track goal that sits back around - well of course it'd vary from person to person but it sits back around 216 trillion years. When you run that thing it's just like, oh I don't know, eat dinner with burning fused dynamite on the middle of the table, you know. It's dangerous. Pc will live through it even if you did that. You can find goals that are common to every case, but I repeat, they are too early on the track and too strong and too far from the pc's reality to even read as goals.

So you try to downgrade what clearing is and that sort of thing and you try to make it so that they can comprehend it and you'll find yourself eventually getting into healing.

He can put these goals on the track and you can read them to the pc but they won't read.

You say, “Well, if you're cleared you don't have a sore spine.” And the fellow says, “Well, that's good. That's good. See? That's fine.” He understands that. He can't conceive of not having a spine. See, he thinks this would be terrible. He thinks this would be awful. He can't conceive of having a comfortable spine that he doesn't have to be in contact with, you see? All he can conceive of is a sore spine. In other words, his attention is so riveted on his difficulties that Scientology redefines itself down into what you do for his difficulties. Do you see that? See? He hasn't any breadth of view to see anything else.

Now, Washington had a fad going. Every once in a while an organization will get a fad going on a favorite goal, and Washington had the goal "to be." Some of the pcs they were running "to be" on, you know, they were looking awful creaky. That's way back. That's way back. That's a tough goal! See? That's tough. Well, look at the simple character of it. What do you think a simple - minded spirit flying around the universe, all of a sudden he says, "Well the solution to all of my problems, I'm going to say now that I'm going to be. That is it." You can see where the goal would sit on the track and you try to run such a goal and you're in trouble.

So you get clearing defined as an adding machine term. You say, well there's the held-down five. You know the old example. You say, “This machine has something stuck in it and every time you try to solve a problem on this computer, the mind, why, it adds five or it multiplies the thing by five. And by multiplying these things by five, of course, you get nothing but wrong answers, wrong answers, wrong answers. Now, if you go into it and take up this piece of solder or correct this fault, it will then give you correct answers. And that is clearing.” And the guy will say, “Gosh, you know. That-that's right. That's right.” Clearing, then, is staying inside of the necessity to use a computer. Clearing is having to have a mind that figures things out for you in good working condition without its fives held down by a stray piece of solder. You get the complicated definitions you get into?

So although there are goals in common to all pcs, that is not a good method of finding the pc's goal. Now, the later the goal is, the closer it is to now, why the more complicated the goal is - the more complex it is and the more finite. And you're going to find some funny goals. You're going to find some goals that you wouldn't think would be the pc's goal. We used to have this opinion: "Ah, it doesn't seem to be the pc's goal and so forth. A goal like that, 'to wreck cars,' ah, cars - lifetime. It's nothing." And yet you're liable to find such a goal.

And that's why you will always see a tremendous number of definitions of clearing. But man, in essence, in the final essence on the full track has always looked at this. Can he be happy? Does he have to be trapped? Can he be free? Does he have to be where he is? Does he have to walk on this treadmill of life? Does he have to grind along the way he's going now?

The nearer they are to PT, the nearer they are to present time - the more complex they are and the more definitive and the more defensive. They're the goals of a person who has had it. You know. "To have nothing to do with men." See? You know. "To leave." "To have no money." Good survival goals, you know?

And he's always had a little spark that said, “No. No.” He always has kept with him some tiny little shadow of feeling that it might not necessarily be so, it might not necessarily be impossible to achieve freedom or to be happy. He's always kept this with him.

Now, those goals are the goals that are nearer present time and the closer you can find that goal to present time eventually why, the better off you'll be. But here's the strange part of it all: The closer it is to present time, the probability is, the harder it will be to find. So you take the goal you can find that is offered by the pc. You don't try to force goals off on a pc. At least at this stage of processing.

And he's expressed this in various ways. He's expressed it via religion. He's expressed it in-well, even in psychoanalysis. He has expressed it in all manner of odd practices here and there. All of these various humanitarian efforts of some kind or another hinge over slightly into clearing.

You don't try to force goals off on a pc. You wait till the pc puts it on the list and you give him proper questions and you use what we had here, 2 - 12, to find items and you list goals against that. These are all fast methods of finding goals. There are all kinds of rapid ways of doing it. There are phrases like - the best phrase of them all is "Tell me the most anti - survival goal you can think of." You get a nice list of that and very often the pc puts it right down on the list, bang!

Now, how do you get somebody into some sort of shape? How do you get somebody squared around? Well, what are you trying to square around? You've got a limited view on the part of the person you're talking to and that person's attention is fixated on the problems which he has right now! Those are the important problems. The second you shift his attention by clearing up those problems, his attention goes on to another set of problems which gave psychology a total defeatism and it said it was no good trying to do anything for anybody because if you cured up one thing they got something else wrong with them.

And then he gets to thinking about it and when you null that little list, and you read that goal, it doesn't go out and he says, "Oh - oooh, that scares me stiff. That's my goal."

They didn't realize that they were walking a chain from this wrongness to that wrongness to that wrongness. If they cleared up each one in turn, they would eventually have come to the end of the road. And there wouldn't have been any more wrongnesses to clean up.

Now, there are questions of this character that you can get the pc to list on that very often deliver it. But sometimes the pc will not put his goal on the list no matter what questions you use, list after list, item after item, and so forth. You're liable not to get the pc's goal on a list until he has listed as many as five thousand goals. We have one actually on record. But on that one, no trick questions were used. That pc was just listing, listing, listing, listing. Five thousand goals up the line the pc put the goal on the list. Another case: three thousand goals. And on that case some of the goals were gotten by trick questions but the first fifteen hundred of them, I think, or something like that weren't. Maybe the first thousand of them weren't. Just didn't put his goal on the list.

Any of you as auditors who have ever run a process like “Tell me a problem, tell me a problem, tell me a problem, tell me a problem,” know that sooner or later you run to sort of an end of chain. And the fellow looks around and he says, “Well, I feel much better about my problems.” See, you've gotten this chain of lineups. And you've directed his attention to this one, to this one. But something else was happening: you were as-ising these problems. You were actually clearing.

Well, now these trick questions - you can get it on the list faster. And this opens up a whole thing and again we are lucky. Taking goals from a pc and listing them and taking a meter and reading them against - on the meter and marking them in or out and eliminating them and bringing them down - and now I'm talking about a short goals list. Goals you should list in short lists. Don't list long goals lists now, list short lists. Couple of pages, just till the question you are asking no longer reads when you ask it of the pc. It no longer ticks on the meter. Just a couple of pages. You null those things down. Call each one three times, mark it in or out. You know, it's whether or not it disturbs the needle of the meter. Call it three times. You'll find that you have three or four goals left in. Call these three or four goals. You have a couple left in. Now, take those two or take the four and put in what you call the left - hand buttons. These are Suppress, Careful of, and Failed to reveal. Put those in on the goals you have left. We didn't find goals easier because we didn't have those secret buttons. It takes those three buttons to make a goal rocket read. We would have seen rocket reads years ago if it hadn't of been - if we'd had those buttons.

Now, anybody here could simply sit down and ask somebody, “Tell me your problem.” And when they said it, don't try to do anything about it, say, “Thank you very much. Tell me your problem.” See? “Tell me your problem. Thank you. Tell me your problem.” Just that much discipline, and the next thing you know they'd have walked through a whole chain of problems and the person wouldn't be so worried. He wouldn't have all these problems. I think that's quite interesting. Because that, you see, is clearing. What are you doing? You're clearing a chain-little chain of problems.

But you put those three buttons in and the goal either stays in or goes out. And then you've got one goal left in and now put in the kitchen sink on the thing, see. Just put everything in on it. You don't have to put eighteen buttons; you can put in eight buttons or something like that. Your big mid rud buttons is what they're called. And that goal is going to produce, ordinarily, fireworks. It's not the pc's goal, but it's a cousin and it is something the pc's attention is fixated on. You're liable to get all kinds of action from this. And the pc begins to feel terrific, you know, about life and that sort of thing. Well, you familiarized the pc with a goal.

All right. Now let's magnify this a little bit further and let's take this individual and do Book One clearing. He's had a great many traumatic experiences. And he's fallen downstairs and bumped his head and done this and done that and the funny part of it is you can run each one of these things out as a mental image picture or an engram. You can run each one out. You can take every time he fell downstairs and bumped his head. And you could run him through that experience of bumping his head and what do you know, you can feel it again.

Now, you should get one of these goals for every list you do. There should be one active goal for every list you do. These little short lists.

This is, by the way, what gets psychiatrists. This really fascinates them. Oh, this upsets them about Dianetics and Scientology. But it really doesn't upset them; they become terribly intrigued. You can reexperience pain. Hey. And you can show them on a meter. You can pinch a psychiatrist- and go ahead, pinch hard-and show him that when you pinched him it made the meter go flick. And then say, “Return to the moment I pinched you,” and run him through the pinch. And he'll see a meter go flick again. And he can see the registry of his own being pinched. And then he says, “There is such a thing as a psychic trauma. Freud was right.”

You just sit down and make a list of goals a couple of pages long, and you take a meter and read those back to the pc and mark the ones in or out and then put in your rudiments buttons and so forth on what you've got left; you should get a blowdown, the TA rise, the charge comes off the case, the pc cognites, feels fine, everything is fine. And you should get such a reaction as that just about every list you do.

So he goes studies Freud.

Now, if you find a dead list that doesn't give you a very hot goal, let that go by. But if you've done a couple of lists that don't give you hot goals, beware. What has happened now is the pc's attention has been stuck on one of these early track goals. We call it a favorite goal.

Every physical experience, every misemotional experience a person has been through, is in itself a sort of trap where he has been impinged upon the physical universe or his associates to such a degree that he cannot get free from that point.

"What goal did you really think it was?"

You have an automobile accident; the fellow's still stuck in the automobile accident. All right. You run the engram of the automobile accident. What have you done? You have cleared an automobile accident.

"Well, I thought it was the goal 'to create'."

Now, what we have actually done is walk up this gradient scale: “Tell me a problem,” the engram, we've walked further into other things and finally have found the personalities a person has formed for himself and we can run them out now at one a minute. Easiest auditing you ever did. You don't have to go through them; you don't have to check them; you don't have to do anything with them. It's just if they reacted on the meter and you can oppose them and you've got your proper meter blowdown, if the signs were there that was it, and boom.

Oh - ho - ho - ho. "Yes, all right. You thought it was that goal. That's fine." You do another type of list. You write down on that list, "What goal would you postulate after the goal to create?" or after - pardon me - "after 'to create' had failed?" And you just do a little, two - page list of that till the question no longer reads when you call it on the meter.

And what do these things amount to? Look, in the top present time area of a person's reactive mind you will find in a matter of four or five of these reliable items-just that many: no great number-you will find all of his hidden standards, all of the things by which he judges everything by. You know, does Scientology work? All right. He'll be sitting there saying, “Does Scientology work? Does Scientol-“ He's not being processed. He's saying, “Does Scientology work? Does Scientology work? Well, that auditing command made the pain in my ear a little more intense.”

"What goal would you postulate after the goal or after 'to create' had failed?" And he'll give you a list and that takes his attention off of that goal that can't be run, you see? Moves his attention up the track toward present time. You again start getting heavy action and reaction from your pc and you start getting these hot goals and the pc feels fine. You just keep this up.

So the end of the session, yes, he had some gains. He knew Scientology might possibly work because the pain in his ear became more intense. That was his total frame of reference. He realized that-on auditor's reports-that your pc is sitting there comparing everything that is happening toward the hidden standard he must have.

Now there's only one thing wrong with this as a process. It's probably the most wonderful processing you can give a pc - irrespective of finding the pc's - the goal, see? There's only one thing wrong with it is: you eventually find the goal. Now what do you do?

“What would have to happen for you to know that Scientology worked?” That is one of the most amazing questions you've ever asked anybody, and I'm sure you've asked them that. What would have to happen? And he'll give you some wild hidden standard. “Well, this-this feeling of heart palpitation I have would have to stop.” And if you checked back you'd find out every time he was ever audited, to find out whether or not he had done the auditing command, he consulted his heart palpitation. It told him whether or not Scientology was valid.

Well, it's all up now. Found the pc's goal. Can't run him on the Routine 2 processes anymore. There he is. He's had it. We've got his goal. Every time you say it, it rocket reads. Every time you try to come off of it or do anything else with it or take him someplace else on Routine 2 he ARC breaks. There he is. I mean, we've got his goal. What are you going to do? Well, actually of course, by reasons of classification and training and that sort of thing, you can't start your Routine 3G on him and find items and that sort of thing. You're going to wrap yourself - yourself and the pc around a telegraph pole. And that's what's the trouble with this goals finding process. Everybody will listen to it, everybody will run it and you should run it on pcs, but the trouble with it is it finally winds up with finding the pc's goal and then it lands you in a spot where you haven't been trained. And you say, "Well, what about this? How serious is this? How serious is this? How thoroughly do I have to go into this?"

Now, I don't care for the opinion of a heart palpitation and to that degree, why, we've been driven on forward because pcs are that way and they act that way so there must be more to it. There must be more to them.

Well, I would say offhand that nobody is - and I'm - you know down deep in your heart I'm the last one that ever stopped you auditing on anything on anybody, you know. You know that. Sooner or later you're going to find the goal, it's going to be sitting there rocket reading. There you are, you've got it.

Well all right, heart palpitation tells him whether or not Scientology works. Now, what's his chronic present time problem? By that I mean what's he worry about all the - time?

"Ah, oh, well, where was that bulletin on Routine 3M2? Let's see. You sit the pc there, now what is this pattern of the bank? I think we have to find the top oppterm. That's what I heard. Top oppterm. Now that - the top oppterm is always the goal 'to catch catfish' that's what that is. Or, no - I don't know, I've lost the bulletin. Joe borrowed it. I think that's right. I think it's the goal to do something or other."

What does he worry about all the time? Well actually, he doesn't know. But he will have something like “mother” or he will have something like “boss” or he will have something like “the terrible state of the London underground.” And this is just worry, worry, worry, worry and all contained in this top hamper of RIs.

Well, the only difficulty, the only body's going to be uncomfortable in this situation is the pc. How do you put this pc on ice while you go get trained? You're going to do this. You're going to do this, some of you. It's perfectly all right. We'll do everything we can to help you. I know very well that you won't do anything else. But Routine 3M holds with it its most violent guarantee of being followed. You do it wrong, it has its own self-disciplinary measures. You can't mess up somebody's bank. A bank is absolutely impervious to being messed up. You can find items in it, you can shoot it around, you can turn it upside down, pc says he's dying, that you've killed him and so forth. You haven't. Somebody on proper Routine 3M2 can go right back to that bank no matter how badly it was run or mauled or anything else and put it all back together again. Maybe there's a couple of items discharged at the top or something like that. It's going to be very hard on somebody.

Well, that's interesting, because we've suddenly put our fingers on two almost unsolvable problems for the auditor. The auditor has had these problems walking at his side every time he ever audited a pc. He says to this pc-he says to this pc, “From where could you communicate to the back of your head?” And the pc says, “Yes, there.” What has the pc done? He hasn't just elected a spot there. He's asked his heart palpitation where he should be located to communicate to the back of his head. Some weird mechanism has gone on by which he consulted something in himself to find out if there was any rightness to anything he was doing.

And worry is the occupational disease of clearing. I have never - I'm there's a couple of auditors here I could look at that I have never known to worry. Pc could lie in the middle of the floor screaming at high C, and they would just never have worried. Pc practically on his deathbed and the auditor never would have worried. Huh. Both of these auditors have worried like mad so they prac - they didn't sleep at night while running 3M2. It's a worrying process. Were you right? Were you wrong? Is this the way you run it? How do you do it? Ho - ho - ho. Wow. That's why I've had to take some awful fast shortcuts in researching it, is because there's such a demand for the knowledge. I mean, it isn't anything that you can just say, "Well, we'll do that next year," you see.

How has this boy been living his life? Should he take the new job? Well, no. Why? Well, when he thinks about taking the new job he gets worse heart palpitation. Should he eat an ice cream cone? Yes. Why? Well, when he thinks about an ice cream cone it doesn't increase his heart palpitation. These is his total standards of correctness. Do you see?

People have got pcs still sitting in the auditing chair; they haven't gone home yet, you see, waiting for me to do some research.

He feels a chill coming over him. And he does the things which don't turn on the chill-get the mechanism-and doesn't do the things which turn on the chill. And this is the way he's living his life. Why.? Because his life is a miserable life and he doesn't want to have anything to do with it. Yet this is the sort of life he's living. But you, as the auditor, have this person in the auditing chair and you are saying, “Have you made any of your gains in this session?” And the person exteriorizes from the heart palpitation just to this degree: was the heart palpitation better or worse during the session? If it was better, he'll say, “Yes, I made lots of gains in the session.” If it was a little bit worse he will say, “No, I didn't make any gains in the session.” And you haven't asked a human being whether or not Scientology gave him any gains in that session. You've asked a heart palpitation.

Now, the best way - the best way to get Clear - the best way to get Clear, is actually to get trained as an auditor. Odd, isn't it? Get trained up in very modern techniques as an auditor. This isn't any sales talk for training. I'm just giving you the truth. I myself would rather hate to be run to OT without being a well - trained auditor. I'd hate to have that happen to me. I'd be too much of the effect of the lines and various other things would occur. About the best way to get Clear is to become a good auditor. Now that's the best way.

I consider this quite interesting when you figure out how hard you work.

Now, the next best way to become Clear is to get it done by somebody who is very well trained indeed.

So therefore, it actually calls for technology which gives a total defeat to these mechanisms. Now, you cure up this person-this person comes in with a chronic present time problem. He's worried about his marital affairs and he comes in and you give him some auditing, and so forth, and you have to work like mad to clear up this situation. And the funny part of it is, you can clear up his heart palpitation. The funny part of it is, you can clear up his chronic present time problems, and so forth, with older Scientology technology. But you could also miss. And it could also come back on you in the form of the pc saying, well, he got along fine for two years but now all of a sudden, just because he's got a new mistress, his wife is complaining. And you say ...

Now, those are very rapid methods of getting Clear. Your next method of getting Clear is to take somebody who doesn't quite know how, with you not well trained on it and dub through somehow. People are going to make it at that level. There'll be arms and legs missing and so forth, but they'll still make it at that level. We always have that kind of auditing.

In other words, if you continued to deal in auditing with the tiny little things, the person's attention simply goes on to other little tiny things that are also wrong and you have an absolute endless concatenation of tiny little things which just never seemed to clear up and you just have endless processing and so forth.

And the other is the co - audit line, where you have very heavily supervised auditing, very expert supervision over a few pcs and so on who are quite amateurish but they're being steered very closely through. Routine 3M2 by the way, does lend itself to this process. It's actually easier to clear them if you're a clearing auditor - in a co - audit group it is easier to clear them than it is to find their goals. Because that requires a little more skill.

Well therefore, clearing is a relative term.

You could steer these people through. They're not going to do anything wrong that will land them in any kind of trouble if you're checking all the way through because now you're running on a preconceived pattern. If they haven't found an item that did this, this and this, gave a rocket read, and blew the tone arm down, if they didn't find such an item, it's not it. This thing lends itself to this type of processing providing the person who is doing the supervision is an expert and is experienced along this line. So there is another method.

At what level do you clear? Well, we have understood clearing at the level of Book One. Fine. Still valid. Still valid. That's about the equivalent of a first - goal Clear with this slight exception: In view of the fact you have him in his reactive mind and are going on to the next goal, you actually don't get much of an opportunity -to turn on his sonic and visio and so forth. He's too interested in the next bank. You could, of course, haul off with forte main and give him a Prepcheck of that first goal and straighten it all out and you could undoubtedly come close to attaining the exact requirements of a first-goal Clear.

And then there's another method - there's another method of getting Clear on this and that is at a slightly lower echelon and that is a couple of guys get ahold of a couple of books and some bulletins and they read them very hard and they start doing it on each other. I suppose at HASI London they will be getting calls from such people quite periodically. Pc is wrapped all around the chandelier and the other fellow can't do anything about it. I would say that's a very insecure method of going about it. I would say that was a rather poor one, but nevertheless it will occur because such things have occurred.

His chronic present time problems, that's gone. His hidden standards are gone. He can think on the track. His education is more available to him. All of these various things are factual. But he's got another bank. And he's got another bank. He hasn't got an infinity of banks. They are fantastically long. They consider - the various aspects of existence are considered in terms of trillions. One of these banks-it's trillions - which is quite interesting.

Now there are some new attributes for clearing. There are some new clearing processes. A lot of you have had 2 - 12 items and a lot of you, by the way, have found on pcs and have had found on yourselves various items, of one kind and another. You know, anything that somebody could run a process on at any time in the development of Scientology. Do you see what I mean by an item? Anything. See? Person said, "Well, the trouble with you is your mother - we're going to run O/W on your mother." You get the idea? All right, so that's "a mother." That's an item.

When you get a bank, present time-let us say this is this lifetime, you see? Just this little span here. Have you any idea as an auditor how many problems he has in one lifetime? How many engrams he has in one lifetime? How many times he's fallen down how many steps on how many stairs in one lifetime? How many worries and upsets and various considerations he's had in one lifetime? You've got an idea of that, haven't you. It's a large number.

Now, any one of those things that have ever been found, you should carefully collect either on your pc or on yourself. You should carefully collect them, because this is one of the Routine 2G processes and is quite valuable. I think it's 2G3. And this process requires that you list goals against these items. And those items, the earlier they are, the more reliable they are to find goals with. Interesting.

Well, this lifetime, if we drew a line here representing the number of ages which an individual has actually come up through and - there are some liabilities to whole track clearing and one of them is the fact that you - slapping the idea of past lives and everything else gets slapped right at the person. Best thing to do is say nothing about them, just go on and audit the pc. He comes up after a while and he, “I think that uh-something very disturbing about this. It seems to me like this - this item we've just found here, this item we've just found 'to - to fly spaceships'- it's 'spaceship pilot,' it - it's quite a while ago. Is that all right?”

Well, you've found two things out here today. You've found two things out here today. You've found that all of your auditing hasn't been wasted. It's still valuable and very likely some item that was found on you in Lord knows when, by whom, if you say, "What would be the goal of (whatever the item was)" and take a two - three - page list till the question no longer reads, of that, will very possibly have your goal right on it. And those are all valuable, those old items. And the earlier they are the more valuable they were. It didn't matter whether they'd proven, were checked out, proven to be reliable items or anything else, just use all of them.

You don't have to tell him a word about it. You don't have to operate as any salesmanship. Anyway ...

And the other thing is that you've been clearing people for years. You have been clearing people for years. You've been clearing them of problems, you've been clearing them this way and clearing them that way. You haven't understood clearing so much in that definition. But wait till you take a raw meat pc who has never had anything run on them, doesn't even know how to sit in the chair and doesn't know which end and the middle a bank is and try to run raw clearing on this pc, you will thank the Lord that you have had some auditing.

If this was the line which represented the whole track, I could not make a mark with this pencil or a dot tiny enough to represent one lifetime. Now that's the magnitude of your problem. I just couldn't make a tiny enough mark to go up against seventy years versus trillions. It's too - too microscopic.

Now, you yourself in auditing, whatever auditing you've done, has been very successful. Far more successful than anything else being done on the planet even in its crudest stages. We're not at this time abandoning everything we know about auditing. Don't get that idea. Don't get that idea. And I'm not in any way discrediting anything you've ever done for cases. Don't get that idea either. We've just made a brand - spanking - new breakthrough here that is a highly skilled activity and so forth. I want you to know that it exists.

Now, one of these-if this was the whole track, a GPM - a Goals Problem Mass, part of the reactive mind-is about so. They tend to get longer. Yet you can use - one of these sections here actually represents one of these GPMs and they are a very finite number. They're a very small number. I don't know exactly what the number is, just - I'm just giving you an educated guess. They vary from person to person. But the educated guess would be - and don't hold me to this later on - but twenty-two, twenty-five, something like that. I consider that quite interesting. Very few of these. Well, you get back into the whole mechanism of human beingness and human livingness and you get back into all of the aspects of personality and all that sort of thing. And to conquer all these things at one fell swoop and to deliver into man's hands in one fell swoop-bang-the idea that he can accomplish the goal of every religion, of all of his own desires to survive and to be happy and to be free, and these things can be delivered into his hands in something like - well, let's be reasonable - three hundred hours plus the time necessary to find the first goal.

Now you, I greatly appreciate the work which auditors here have done. You've done people a lot of good. They very often have said you didn't when you did. They instinctively knew that up along the line someplace there was an open sesame to freedom, to total nonaberration. They sniffed this out as beings and when you weren't able to give that totally to them they tended to be a little bit nattery on the subject. Therefore, you are entitled to know that that gate has been opened all the way to OT.

That would be the most reasonable esti - and that's an estimate I would make today based on auditing of two weeks ago. But not on this week's auditing. I wouldn't base it on this because that's just a little bit faster. But nevertheless, you get into some amounts of difficulties. Trouble in running one of these things is if you make a mistake early on in it and then go halfway through it - you know twenty-five reliable items later-you have to go back to RI one and correct the mistake and then refind the same items. But you've got to refind every one of them in sequence down to where you finally had gotten to. It's a self-punishing mechanism. You've got to be accurate. If you're not accurate you've got to go all the way back to the beginning and go all the way through to that item again.

Have another announcement to make. This is a listing meter. This is a doll. This is a listing meter. This is a prototype and the manufacturers of this almost made us promise not to show you this. This was just for me to work with, but nevertheless it tells you what it is. It's a listing meter. You put it down and it's got a glass. See the glass? See? You can look through it. And it's got a needle inside this glass and that needle bangs and pops back and forth and gives you all kinds of reads and you put this down like this and then you take your piece of paper underneath this and your pencil and you look through the glass as you write.

Well, this amounts to what? This amounts to an absolutely overwhelming, incredible, completely unbelievable, unacceptable announcement. Because I'm not announcing that you can clear somebody in three hundred hours plus the time necessary to find the first goal. That's not what I'm telling you, see? I'm not announcing that. Probably, following these exact techniques, it might take you upwards to twenty-five hours to make a first-goal Clear if you had the first goal. That's twenty-five hours actual auditing time if you were very expert and didn't run into any hard luck-plus the time necessary to find the first goal, you'd have a first-goal Clear. It's getting in under the heading of, with an expert auditor, a twenty-five-hour HGC intensive makes one first-goal Clear, plus the length of time necessary to find the first goal.

Pretty good, huh? I invented it with my own little thetan.

Now, that is the bug and I'll talk to you about that later this afternoon. Finding that first goal it takes no time-takes about two and a half hours to do a source list and null it to find the second goal. See, that's nothing. That's all there. Once you've got him in the middle of the hurricane, why, it's very easy to find the additional clouds. But when he's standing without knowing there even is a hurricane, it's very hard to find the first one. And that's a highly variable figure. And I've been working on that like mad and I've got it condensed down quite a bit, but it is the variable figure on how long it takes to clear.

Now anyway, this good piece of news - a rather fine quality works (this is not as fine at all a meter as of course the Mark V which is a real doll) but this meter with rather good works in it - better than I thought we could do the thing - is in production and is quite cheap. It's quite cheap. Because I know you'll be wanting them in co - audits and that sort of thing running various activities and co - audits. And I know you will want one yourself and so on, so we've made the best meter we could and we're selling it with practically no profit line on it at all. Old Edgar over there just groans at the idea, you see, that it doesn't carry any profit with it at all. It's almost a giveaway.

No. We're not actually-I'm not actually telling you this about clearing. I'm talking to you about OT. And this is an OT congress and it's just sort of-I don't even think the students on the course are aware of the fact that they are not involved in clearing. They're involved in OTing. We've got-you see why clearing is a relative statement? Any time you've run a Problems Intensive on somebody you've cleared him-of what? You've cleared him of some problems. Any time that you have run any other type of auditing activity on the individual, you have cleared him of something, you see? Viewed from that standpoint we can finally walk up to the noun: a Clear.

The - I'm going to hand this over to Edgar so that you can look at it after we're through here and you'll be able to take a closer look at it. But that's kind of interesting.

Now what do we mean by a Clear? Well, just take it arbitrarily as the Book One definition. Just take Book One as it describes a Clear. We'll call that a Clear. Then there's a Clear above this: there's clear of a body. We call that a Theta Clear. But there are actually two kinds of Clears. And this is what I had better talk to you about.

Now, couple of other things I'd like to say to you. One of them is because you're doing something about human aberration or because you're doing something about the mind, people tend to hold you responsible for the mind on an identified basis, don't you see? You get how this is? Because you can do something for the mind or you know about the mind, then they say that you probably caused it. And they tend to hold you responsible for all of the aberration and the bad weather on Earth, you see.

You can key out a Clear. Now, there are two ways - there are two ways to handle a man and a river. One, get him far enough away from the river so he isn't getting wet, and the other one is to let him swim the thing so he can get familiar with it and so he doesn't have to worry about rivers.

They tend to. hold you responsible for everything that's ever gone on in their lives! Everything. Well, actually it's not true that an individual can't be hurt by life. He sure can be. But it is definitely true, it is definitely true that the major trouble was caused by himself and not by anybody else! And one thing I hate to have happen is for somebody to come up and accuse me of having made this universe this way or look at an auditor and sort of accuse him of having fixed them up the way they are.

Every Clear we have made up to this year-and we have made Clears every one has been a Keyed-Out Clear. The techniques we had simply removed him from the immediate proximity of the bank. And when that needle went free he was in fine shape and he was very happy and he might be that way for three months and he might be that way for three years and some I made Lord knows how long ago may still be clear as a bell.

Now, we're willing to take all the responsibility in the world for bailing people out and even take responsibility for aberrating people. You know, you'd have to. Otherwise that would go on an automaticity - not that we're going to aberrate anybody. But in order to take - in order to take the aberration factor into account, you had better realize that you didn't do it to him, you see. You didn't do it to him. He did it to himself. You follow that?

But that's a Keyed-Out Clear. That is pulling the individual out of the entrapment but leaving him with it there floating in the distance somewhere in his bank. Very worthwhile state. If we couldn't do anything else we could do that.

And you're actually doing him a considerable favor to bail him out. Frankly there is no greater favor that you could do anybody than to use well, good Scientology processing on somebody. There's no greater favor.

And that's why you haven't heard too much from me from clearing because we could have made-you know I haven't been going around saying so-and-so and so-and-so about clearing- because we could have made at any time Keyed-Out Clears and I could have worked or researched in that direction. But I knew there was a river to swim: What keyed these fellows in? What did they come up against? What was this huge black thing that they would sometimes run into? What were these black fives? What was all this sort of thing? And I knew there was something there.

And I myself got into this because Mary Sue was auditing me with great success and she hadn't put her goal down on the list yet and I was still sweating over trying to find her goal. And I had this idea that 200 trillion years from now, she'd still be going on the track, you see, aberrated, you know, and still trapped in it all, having cleared me, you see. And having made me an OT she was still going on because I couldn't find her goal. It was driving me around the bend. The obligation was just too great.

Now, not only found out what was there, but found out what it was composed of and how to get rid of it and how to get through it and how to get across it and so forth. That has all been discovered.

Similarly, all of the favors that you have done me and all of the friendship you have given me and so on, I appreciate, too. We couldn't have done this - we couldn't have done this otherwise. And I don't care how little you've done or how much you've done or how much fuss you've kicked up in the process of doing it - that was all forgiven on the March 13th Amnesty, by the way, did you remember that?

So, we have the actual stable state of first-goal Clear. He'll never get that first bank back. Don't worry about that. That's gone.

I want you to know definitely that I appreciate what you've done, I appreciate the people you've talked to, I appreciate the auditing you've done. Good auditing, bad auditing it doesn't matter. I appreciate it. Do you understand? Because I appreciate your trying, and your carrying through.

How about the next bank, though? He's worried about that now. Well, the mystic had what they call the abyss. The Buddhist had certain things about all this. But the abyss was very interesting. We had a plateau, a low plateau, and then there was a higher plateau where man could be happy or more cheerful or more able, freer and so forth, where he could attain his various ambitions. And lying between these two plateaus was a deep chasm, an enormous chasm, bottomlessly deep. And the trick was to get across that chasm without dropping into the abyss.

Now, there's no greater favor that you could do anybody than to process them. And for your support I've been trying to give you all the information, make all kinds of training available, make everything available so that you could find your way out, too.

This, actually, is older than Buddhism. The Buddhist not only fell into the abyss but deified it! That's nirvana.

We tend, in a world which is all too anxious to not - is everything that is going on, to rather discount our own importance as an individual, our own importance as a group.

You would laugh if it weren't so sad. Imagine this fellow trying, by meditation, by being silent, by being good, by never causing anything, by this, by that, by fantastic practices, imagine his final goal: He can get into the GPM without an auditor. No map! Nothing.

We don't realize the force we have as a group as Scientologists or the force we have as individuals. We don't realize these things until sometimes we look at the world outside of us. And although I try to protect you (you're delicate) from much of the bad news and things that go on, and the battles lost and won (I have a tendency to hold these things close in) - there's an awful fuss raised about Scientology. We're not doing anything to anybody. And you never saw such a fuss. Australia. Australia's been throwing stories in the papers. They've had the attorney general of - I don't know the Attorney general or corporal or whatever he is - they've gone to fantastic lengths to wipe out Scientology in Australia. Boy, they just had everybody in the fight, see? And the boys down in Melbourne have been holding a front line that was a pretty hot firing line recently and very easily Scientology could have been wiped out, organizationally, in Australia. Very easily.

You read the Buddhistic descriptions of nirvana after you've been through a GPM-you take a look at those and you'll say, “Hey, those characters are talking about a GPM. They're talking about these personalities and they're talking about this and they're talking about that and how it's all this way and how it's all that way and. . . “ And you look at a Buddhist picture sometimes-it's not accurate for an auditing map but you want-clip one out of a book sometime if the pc wants to know what his GPM looks like, just take Buddhist nirvana and say, “Well, there, that's it.” Camels and horses and little men sitting around. Man, a total reward.

And why all this investment of time and trouble? Why are the medical doctors investing tons of money in stopping us? We're not even curing anybody. We're not trying. They - trying to do? Make us so mad we'll start healing people? But why all this investment of government and police power and so forth? Why?

Now there-there is the illusion of the abyss. In other words, you can get well if you don't fall in. And this was the message of the mystic. And that's a perfectly accurate message and is perfectly true today.

Well, we must be more dangerous than we think. That's all I can say to you on the subject. We must be far more dangerous than we think we are. Because when it comes right down to firing the last shot they don't dare pull the trigger! And we just received a cable from Melbourne. We'd won, hands down. We'd won the fight. They'd run from the field. And it was all very simple and some of the Scientologists down there wrote letters in to the Attorney General's Office and a solicitor went down and filed a paper and they ran like scared pups. Interesting, isn't it?

You had to go through, however, you had to go through and across and over this chasm. And that chasm still exists and what is it? Well, it's the reactive bank and it's a certain number of items and we know exactly what it is and it hurts like the dickens and it knocks your head on and off again and on again. And the pc sits there and he goes, “Huch!” And you say, “What's the matter?” And he says, “Oh-oh, I just got a nice somatic,” you know? He gets plenty of somatics going through this thing. Well, inexpert auditing could drop him into the middle of the abyss. Partial knowledge of this thing could drop him into the middle of the abyss. An inability to handle the pc could drop him into the abyss, don't you see?

And although we have a fantastic fight going on in the United States over E - Meters: "We mustn't let these nasty things around, people might tell the truth. And where would government be then.!"

So, the mystic's ancient, ancient illusion is still with us. That's very good. I said at the end of Book One, I said, “For God's sakes build a better Bridge.” Remember?

Now there's that fight going on, and - although this is very far from won. There's an old source - that's an over, that's ended in Australia. This is very far from won in the States. The government is tentatively suing for peace. They want peace. They say, "Can't we dream up a label we could put on these meters which would just forget the whole thing, huh - huh, please?"

Well, we did. Been working ever since. And when you can run engrams- I don't know how long space one item covers, but it covers an awful long term in time -and when you can run all the engrams in half a thousand lifetimes by saying to the pc, “What opposes a catfish catcher?” And the pc looks and he says, “A-a no catfish catcher.” Tschsss! “What's that? Which way did that go? What's this?” The meter goes boom! Bang! Rocket read, blowdown and so forth. What have you just done? It's utterly fantastic. You've taken the central fixation which was with him for many lifetimes and on which he operated for many lifetimes and you've now vanquished the enemy and the person who thought that was an enemy. And you've unfixated his attention across those spans of lifetimes in just that flash-two minutes. That's why I tell you the thing's incredible. Absolutely incredible. It's unbelievable. Don't try to believe it, do it.

This is very peculiar. I never fought an action like this. I never fought an action like this before where the powerful enemy armed with rockets and nuclear warheads appears on the horizon - he's going to crush you, you see. Actually he's got the power, all he'd have to do is sneeze practically, and he'd blow all the organizations away. And all of a sudden he gets scared and runs. Interesting.

No, funny part of it is, that if we went down to a Mohammedan church - a mosque - left our slippers outside and told the girl auditors they couldn't come in - women don't have any souls in Mohammedanism: no thetans, they're thetanless bodies walking about - and we went in and we talked to the muezzin or whoever it is, and we said, “Hey, you know, you can clear people.”

We can't count on that all the way down the line. We can't count on that happening all the way down the line. But with this much upset in other nations - not England, there is none in England - with this much upset here and there in other nations, what on earth? What on earth? What's this all about? We must be far more dangerous than we think. And I think we are dangerous and I got to thinking about it the other day and I told Reg - I told Reg, I said, "You know," I said ' "they're right to attack us. They're just absolutely dead right to attack us this way. They're just absolutely dead right. Look what would happen if we won all the way. Look at what would happen to them. Wouldn't that be terrible." And he agreed with me. Yeah, they're dead right to attack us. They must be, must be. They can't be as wrong as they seem to be and we must be dangerous. Anybody who holds this much truth in the palm of his hand.. .

“Oh, yes, yes,” he'd say, “just spread your prayer rug and bend to the East five times a day, wash your hands regularly, follow the Koran and you got it made.”

The truth held indifferently by any student of Scientology is more truth than has been on this planet for an awful long time, and any advanced student is holding more truth in his paws than any great philosopher of ancient Greece.

You say, “Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's-that's right. That's - thank you. Thank you. Thank you very much. Now, what I said was, you probably didn't hear me - we can clear people.”

I'm not trying to swell it up but we know it works.

Well, he'd say, “Yeah? What's that?”

Now move it on forward and take this as a collective organization, I don't think that we would tolerate as many lies as we're told. So they're dead right to attack us and I suppose we are dangerous. But we don't intend to be.

You'd say, “Well, we've found that some of your people haven't gone to heaven.

But don't worry about these because from here on it's going to be worse. Do you understand? Because up to this time - up to this time there was a lot of hope in - our efforts and claims. You understand? And now, the better we teach here and the better they work at HASI London and the better you work in the field and the better trained we all are, the more acquainted we are and the more results we deliver we become a real threat. A real threat. I don't intend to be a threat. I don't intend to be a threat. But look at all the games we spoil at once. Look at the games we spoil. Look at - look at them. Good, valuable games such as "hang all criminals," see. "Nothing can be done for anybody anyplace."

They're still around, earthbound. They don't take off.”

Look at the television programs we'd spoil. Look at that. Look at that. You seen these medical programs lately on TV? My children are fascinated with them. Absolutely fascinated with them. They watch them all very carefully. They turn from one channel to the other to watch the operations to laugh.

He'd call in some wise men and they'd consult about it and after a while he'd come out and he'd say to us, “How can we get our hands on them, not going to heaven this way-the way they're supposed to?” you see. And giving them a total defeat.

But think of what would happen. Now we're not trying to do anything bad, but I suppose a forceful good is something this planet is not used to and we're it.

You'd say, “Well, you have to clear them.” “Well, how do you do that?”

Well, our congress draws to a close. Our day has been a very wet one but I hope, for you, a pleasant one nevertheless. I hope you don't all come down with the sniffles and if you do, get processed. And I want to thank particularly all of you for coming down here today.

“Well,” you say, “you get an auditor and an E-Meter and you do this and you do that.”

I wish I'd had a better day for you. But as I said, we tried to make it. Always before I've been trying desperately to make a scintillant state of Clear before a congress. Congress comes up, I say, "Well, I've got to be Clear before this congress and everything's got to be fine and we've got to straighten all this out before this congress, you see." And Mary Sue always gets mad when I say that. She says, "You've been clearer longer than anybody we know." But anyhow that's beside the point.

And he'd say, “Well, I don't know. That's pretty heretical. That's pretty horrible. And besides, this idea of these people still being around, yes, we can appreciate that. We can appreciate that. And they shouldn't be. They should have gone to heaven or they should have gone-at least had the good graces to go to hell,” or wherever it is Mohammedans go. And then he'd have thought, “This is a rival activity. They've got their own private heaven they're trying to ship people to and they're trying to ship some of our people to their heaven,” and he would have understood it then totally in the framework of Mohammedanism. And then we would have had long and involved arguments.

Now, I made it, see. But this congress, why, I should have gotten to be OT and handle this weather for you. See? So I - here trying to be OT. So that when I do make - when I do make it, I'm going to have you all down here again.

The funny part of it is, if we'd talked to Mohammed, he'd say, “Is that so? Oh, really?

Oh, you didn't believe me.

Ho-ho! Hey, what do you know!”

And in the meantime, why, the rhododendrons were late this year. The rhododendrons were all late this year. We had a very rough winter and a lot of them got frozen. They all recover. But usually at this time of year Saint Hill is just one great mass of rhododendron blossoms from one end to the other and so on. So they aren't out and you had a very, very rainy day here today so I'm going to extend to each and every one of you an invitation to drive in and drive around and walk around as soon as the weather is better and the rhododendrons are out, why, I owe you all a good look at Saint Hill in good weather. Okay?

And you'd say, “Yeah, yeah, you know, man isn't his body. And just like you said, you know, he goes out of his head and so forth.”

Audience: Okay!

And by the way, it was a great shock that the radio listening population of New York had just a few weeks ago, you know - you know that Thomas' wife exteriorized. a professor (he - part of the New York organization) over the radio. One of the more popular radio programs. And he told this professor - the way I get the story, rather fragmentarily - to be - try not to be three feet back of his head and the guy was three feet back of his head and what did that do to his materialism. And that was done before, it's estimated, about a million New Yorkers. Must have been quite a shock, but everybody who heard that got a different interpretation on it because they interpret it in their own variety of trap, don't you see?

Well, thank you. Thank you very much for being here. Thanks a lot for coming down. You're - I'm glad to see you. I haven't seen much of you. I've been working too hard. And although you think that might be a pose sometime, why just look at the number of bulletins you've been getting lately and you'll understand.

But there somebody can go outside of his head. You could show Mohammed how you actually could exteriorize, and so forth, and he would have thought this was pretty interesting.

But I don't see enough of you and as soon as I get the workload off I intend to remedy that considerably.

We could have talked to Buddha-we could have talked to Buddha with the greatest of ease. Now, Buddha was the first boy to bring this up and popularize it here on Earth. He probably got it from about ten thousand years ago. The monk Dharma had certain things about it and they were talking about clearing, and Buddha-if you talk to a Buddhist, talk to him about not clearing but becoming bodhi and he'll say, “Oh, yeah, yeah, if you don't cause anything. ..” You know there's where the bank is really stuck; where the individual has said he will cause nothing. Why, if you want to find a nice big black lump in a bank, find where the individual decided never to cause anything or to be very wise and to oppose nothing. He'd be stuck right in nirvana.

So thanks for you being you.

Anyhow, if we'd talked to Buddha about this, he would have said, “Hey, now. You mean we aren't going to have to sit and look at our navels for twenty years? You mean you sit on that side of that and you go out of your head and these various things and the cycle of birth and death then cease?” And boy, he would have been right with us, see? He would have been right with us.

And thanks for being down here and good afternoon.

The Buddhist today might regard us with a little more suspicion. But he'd understand this. What are we communicating to here on Earth? We are communicating to people who are fixated on things they don't want to be on. And clearing to them means becoming unfixated from those things they don't want to be fixated on. That's clearing. That's what it means to these people. What it means to us may be an entirely different, broader, wider thing; we sense the possibilities of this, we know where we're going; as we go along we get greater and greater realities on this-there's hardly any of the old-timers here who hasn't at one time or the other bunged somebody out of his head and had, momentarily, a Theta Clear on his hands.

And sometimes they'd bung somebody out of their head and he got stuck against the ceiling and they had a non-Theta Clear. They've done all sorts of tricks with these things but these tricks are now all possible and feasible without anything else going on. We have moved so far ahead of anything that we were with that now we understand everything we know. And that's something that nobody else has done for a long while on this track.

And where we try to communicate clearing-where we try to communicate clearing, where we try to put it across, we're going to be understood to the degree that the listener is fixated on certain problems that he himself has. And to that degree we will communicate what clearing is. We have the embarrassments - many embarrassments go forward with us. Many embarrassments. Whole track and past lives. That's very embarrassing because it makes it necessary for the individual to sort of say, “Well, you've lived before.” And this can be contested.

So you don't, to clear somebody, even have to tell him he's lived before. You start running him. through the bank he finds it out - bang! You don't have to tell him anything about it. Don't broadly try to sell it because it's an incredible action. You've got plenty to say, you just say, “Well, we're going to clear you,” the fellow understands what you mean, he understands perfectly. You're going to get him so that he doesn't have to - he doesn't have to have a - an itchy end of his nose. And that will be the frame of reference by which he understands it.

We don't have to talk about “you have lived before.” But a great deal of knowing, a great deal of technology, a tremendous amount of knowledge comes into the hands of a person being cleared. It's fantastic - fantastic how much knowingness all of a sudden comes into his hands. He's - his - oh, golly! I remember in earlier clearing and so forth, an old lady sitting there telling the auditor - telling the auditor how you commanded a space vessel. Dear old lady, got a little bonnet, ribbon on her chin. She'd gone into the session like a creeping mouse and she came out stamping down the steps in her space boots.

The point is, you don't have to educate them. You only have to start in clearing them. And actually the point of clearing may begin with, “Tell me a problem.” And the guy gets cleared to some slight degree from the problems he is engrossed with or entangled with.

Now, what lies up beyond that becomes, as I've been telling you, incredible and unbelievable. It is incredible and unbelievable because you're telling man, all in one breath, everything that man or life has hoped for on the track, whether through religion or anything, has now been realized today.

He'll say, “You're mad!” No. He'll believe you if you say, “You know those problems you're worried about? Well, I could audit you out of them.”

“How do you audit it out?”

“Well, we're going to find your goal.”

“Oh, my goal! Hey! That's getting interesting!”

And when you've got the goal, “Now we're going to find your top oppterm.” “Oh, that's very interesting. Yes, it's a so-and-so,” after you've told him what it is.

By the way, if it's wrong, it won't work on the meter. I mean, that's the big trick. It isn't-it doesn't work because we say so. “And what's your top terminal? And what's that second oppterm and what's the second terminal? And what's that third oppterm and what's that third terminal?” If you got him down a few more and just left him there, he might not even suspect that there is some forty more he's got to find. All of his present time problems are gone, everything is gone, he'll be sailing up in the air.

You can even do this thing wrong. I've made the test as to whether or not it's safe. These various things you've been doing at a long reach can be done rapidly, but can they be done safely? Well, yes, yes. And I did make that test to make sure that you weren't going to knock somebody off in a sudden moment of enthusiasm one way or the other.

You can find wrong items, wrong goals, run wrong goals upside down, backwards, forwards, run a whole bank. You can actually run eight banks without finding any more in them than a half a dozen items in each bank leaving some forty-some unfound items in the bank but discharging the goal. All of these things can be done wrong and the pc will still live. He will scream! He will say you have killed him. Just don't believe him because he's still alive. It is very painful. It is very upsetting. He goes into lassitudes. He begins to not care whether life goes on or not. He gets into weird mental states, but he will neither go mad nor kick the bucket. It's necessary for us to know that.

The toughest banks on the track are as old as life itself And I've run one through one of these things with everything upside down and backwards and I lived through it. And what do you know: the auditor did, too.

Anyway, I wanted to bring you up to date on clearing. I wanted to give you about where it set.

You're going to be asked lots of questions about clearing and I tried to give you in this lecture a vignette, an understanding between thee and me, what clearing is. What you tell people it is, is your own business. You can refer them to books, you can-pamphlets, descriptions, anything else. That's fine. They want to know what clearing is, they are going to receive what clearing is to the extent of what they want to be cleared from out there in the street. So it's just up to you to tell them what you please to make it clear to them. And then know what clearing is, too.

Okay?

Thank you very much. Thank you.