And this is January the 15th, 1954.

There are several things which you have probably caught up with, by this time, in terms of communication and experience and havingness and time and so forth. And if you haven’t caught up with them, you still have your written form of SOP 8-C, you still have your codified rote processes-just Six Steps to Better Beingness, Short 8. Short 8 is not anywhere near the process that Six Steps to Better Beingness is, by the way. And in addition to that you have, of course, as always, Creative Processing and Self Analysis.

When all else fails, why, pick up a copy of Self Analysis and you’ll find the fellow will come out of his slump. That’s an interesting fact, isn’t it? Because it’s a slow process, nobody really pays as much attention to Self Analysis as he might. This is an interesting thing that the amount of actual relief and power could be in a little book like that and have as little attention paid to it by an auditor.

An auditor is always thinking there is something very, very much better, there is something very much faster and this is very true, there is. But in terms of patching somebody up so he really feels like he is something, why, you have a very, very good weapon in Self Analysis.

All right. You’ve got a preclear who is pretty rocky. And his rockiness is to a large degree-well, it rather escapes your immediate ability to grab on to. You know, you-hold the two back anchor points of the room-he can’t concentrate that much, he feels bad, his reality is poor, he doesn’t know what he can do or what he can’t do. He’s not in good shape. All right.

You want to do a fast patch-up job on this person, you know, you want him to feel better, you haven’t got much time to invest on this, let’s say, you’re not going to go all the way out and so on or you’re just simply balked. None of the other things which you know seem to function with you. Incredible as that may seem, a fellow can sometimes get a case sufficiently parallel to his own cross-up or something like that that he just doesn’t seem to be able to make any progress with this case.

Well, you know whether you’re making progress with a case or not after you’ve audited it half an hour. Your time look is awfully long right now, by the way, it’s terribly long. You’re evidently measuring auditing in terms of fives of hours or tens of hours. And when you can start measuring auditing in tens of minutes, you will start getting yourself some terrific results. Because you will be willing to shift what you’re doing rapidly enough to meet up with what’s working on the preclear.

In other words, if you don’t get a communication change in a couple of minutes, a perception change in a couple of minutes, you’re just not on the right track, that’s all. Well, you just better drop down later into the process or you better do something else.

But getting back to Self Analysis, once in a while you’ve audited somebody for a half an hour or forty-five minutes and you’re getting no perception change. Well by golly, there’s one way to make that fellow feel better. And whereby he may not say he’s had it or something of the sort, you just reach back and pick up a copy of Self Analysis, open it

Present Time, Self Analysis469 up at random, see what he does with these mock-ups. He says he can’t get them. He can get the idea of them, but he can’t get them otherwise.

And you say “Well, okay.” And you turn over to the next-to-the-last list of the book and you read that or you read any of the back lists of the book for that matter and rephrase that next-to-the-last list, you know?

Instead of saying, “A time when somebody was in good communication with you?” ask the fellow sometime, “How about a time somebody was talking to you and you knew what he said?” Some good communication. And this is just evading him, well, just find out “When was somebody talking to you and you knew what he said?” “Well, what did he say?” You just go over that a few times, give him a few mock-ups. And this person will not immediately grow an aurora borealis, but he’ll feel good. He’ll be able to function. Remember that, he’ll be able to function.

Now, there isn’t an auditor along the line in America who I know, who is using Self Analysisfor what it is, which is his security on a case. And that’s not true, however, in Great Britain. The boys know what that book can do over there and they use it quite uniformly and they get very excellent results with it

Now, I think the main reason for this is the desire for the spectacular, probably, in case recovery. You know, as a case drifts south on the Tone Scale, you’re getting, for every tone down, a much longer recovery period. See, you get that? I mean, it’s a compounding inversion. You know, as you go up, why, things are wider and wider apart and more and more differentiated, but as they are more and more identified, yeah, there are actually longer and longer time periods involved in the recovery.

Let’s take somebody who is a real screaming psychotic, I mean, a real screamer. And we worked with him real hard for a day, two days, something like that, and we’ve got him up to a point where he’s neurotic, see? But that’s with the most modern techniques, the best use possible of the most modern techniques. Day, two days, three days, we’ve got a neurotic case after we’ve finished up to that level, you see? It took a long jump, that’s a long jump.

Now, we go up through this neurotic band and that’s quite a jump too. It’s nowhere near as long as a psychotic jump. But now we go up from neurotic into the milder ones and we get fast jumps. There, with the most modern things we’re doing, the jumps are pretty fast.

Well, now let’s compare this, actually, with what we were doing a year or so ago. And honest, that psychotic jump could be months long. Now, I’m talking right straight out of the record book, now, of what auditors have been doing-understanding it or not understanding it with the material to hand-and they have occupied months on one psychotic. The least paying proposition I know of. That isn’t why I say “the dickens with the psychotics,” it’s the fact that if you start paying attention to the lowest band of the society and validating it, why, you’re just helping the society cave in. Let’s think about the Third Dynamic. All right.

SOP 8-C, for instance, four weeks ago, was applied by a real good auditor, very good auditor, applied just as it sits there, no other way-no sudden spurts of intuition or anything of the sort-on a woman who was a real screamer. You know, I mean, it was strictly “What fog?” and a real screamer. And three days later, this woman was in excellent condition and a Theta Clear. They exteriorize very well-very stable, very sane and very happy about existence.

Now, that went from Opening Procedure just done down the line and it actually took this auditor about three days to wade through the whole works. And she didn’t exteriorize immediately, he had to do quite a bit of patch-up before he could get her to exteriorize. Well anyway . . .

There, however, was the most optimum use of the most optimum technique by one of the best auditors we’ve got. That’s awful fast. This same auditor has had some comparable results. Another report which I have as of about three weeks ago, a five-day period was required on a man who was also strictly a screamer, as we used to say in Dianetics. You know, you run them into an engram, they start screaming. Boy, do they scream. The power of a human voice. I’ve heard them three, four blocks away and have had complaints from two blocks away. And here again, about five days. Now, this auditor wasn’t quite as good as the other auditor, that was one of the differences there.

But we can’t actually count on this happening, psychotic after psychotic. Right at this moment I can’t tell you with any great assurance that we can simply take psychotics and in three days or five days, if we were well trained, turn them out. Well, I think we could if we were talking in terms of a couple of weeks or three weeks.

Well let’s, however, look at this three-day problem and find out that it took about one and three-quarters days or something like that to bring the person out of the psychotic level into a neurotic level. And then she started going on up and she spent probably something on-this is just estimations of the time required-probably half a day in the neurotic level. And then she went the rest of the way she was going on the rest of the band.

You see that time lag, how it also enters auditing time lag.

All right. I’ll give you a case I did a few weeks ago. And I spent two days on this case and I do not know at this moment, really, tell you the honest truth of the matter, I don’t know whether this person is going to, as a GE, pull it or not because the case was all but gone. That’s one of these cases where you actually almost fish them out of the coffin. And how this person had the nerve to walk into my office-just nerve to walk, I don’t know. And well, for me to suddenly take a bite on that one-just that sudden and swift-pretty rough.

Well, the first auditing period was four hours and the second auditing period was five hours. There were nine hours of auditing involved here. I made a Theta Clear. But the body had deteriorated way, way beyond anything you thought the body-the body was practically rotten at the toes. This was very interesting. The thetan, however, wound up in excellent condition. However, this person exteriorized rather easily. It wasn’t any particular difficult job, it was rather a routine job.

But the first four hours of that nine were occupied in trying to strike through a communication barrage which was completely nonsensical-getting in one auditing question every fifteen or twenty minutes. Fabulous, huh? Just one of those things. That was the first. Now, you can consider that a lag. How many auditing commands can you get in, is an index of what the comm lag is of the preclear. You see how this would work out? So there are different-looking kinds of comm lags-it’s all the same thing, communication lag, but how many different kinds are there?

Well, the funny part of it was that I broke the crust on this case with, as usual, the next-to-the-last list of Self Analysis. I got this person moting from, well, pretty close to a psychosis and up through the neurotic band just by getting that sort of a twist on the case. It broke up through the neurotic band, got an exteriorization, went through some Spacations and one of the most beneficial things was getting the preclear to make some space and sit in it for a while and this was very relaxing, indeed.

And then I handled the person’s name which was one of these “pun names” and handled the name by Postulate Processing. And then did locational drills and just did a tremendous number of locational drills and did goals on the person and then did the Grand Tour.

But the whole thing was a rather easy job of auditing, except those first few hours. That was brutal. I’d rather have been shot than leave my body sitting in that chair leaning up against the chimney looking down through the roof saying, “Grief. Yeah. Okay. Yes. Yeah, it’s very interesting. That’s very interesting. Now can you remember s— ? Up against what?”

“Yapity-yapity, yapity-yapity, yapity, yapity, yapity, yapity, yapity, yapity, yapity, yapity, yapity, yapity, yapity, yapity, yapity, yapity, yap, yap, yap, moom-bow.”

Comm lag. Now, there’s the other kind of a comm lag where they go silent. And this silence is about the same breed of cat, it’s just the other side of the apathy band. You know a person can be in perfect apathy and still use their voice to defend. I talked to you yesterday about defend, you know? Well, this is just another symptom of defense. A person can throw up such a barrage of words that you plain ordinary never get through this barrage of words, that’s all.

So, where our difficulty lies with a preclear is getting in that original communication and that’s your trouble with the psychotic, you see? Getting in that original communication.

But how long does it take to take a case from all the way south to Theta Clear? Well, it would find most of its time occupied in the lower band. You know, the first jump would be the most difficult one and then the jumps happen with greater rapidity.

Well, there are very probably techniques which, as we swing along, will find our people more and more receptive and more and more-well, easier and easier to communicate with and will find things in a far better state of auditing in general. Probably, there’s a lot of things that we’re using crudely now, we will refine in their uses. But there isn’t too much reason to go around hoping. I mean hoping, you know, all of a sudden, well we’ll drift along and we won’t study this because Ron’s going to come up with something that is newier and brassier. That was perfectly true a few months ago.

The funny part of it is, right now, we find ourselves using, though, such a process as Self Analysis. That’s funny, gee, that’s been around now over a year the way it’s now written up.

All right. What are you going to do with this preclear who doesn’t make a good jump? Let’s take a preclear who’s occluded, doesn’t exteriorize, has no certainties and so on. If you audit that preclear for fifteen minutes and the preclear is not feeling well, doesn’t feel at all in company with life, you can do a lot of things but, the odd part of it is, one of the more beneficial things you can do is just reach for a copy of Self Analysis.

Mind you now, this preclear’s occluded, can’t get mock-ups, has no great certainty on anything and so forth. Now, that’s quite interesting, isn’t it?

What you do is at least get him to make the gesture toward havingness. All right. If this person has the gesture there ready to deliver, you know, “Put up a mock-up of you getting an idea of doing something,” you’ll at least get an associated chain of thought going. And you get a little mass added to the case. Quite interesting, isn’t it?

Now, some of the somatics that go through as a person is just gesturing at putting up these things is fantastic. That’s because his havingness is being rebalanced or unbalanced and so on. So you can change the case. That’s the main thing which you are trying to do anyway. I hope you’re trying to do that.

Now, where do we expect, then, our case to bog or where is the toughest point of auditing? Well, it happens that it’s right at the beginning, right there at the beginning of the case. I’m sorry that it is that way, but it is. Right at the beginning.

Now, you people could feel very discouraged about one preclear or another who insists upon being too this way or too that way, you know, doesn’t quite increase and so on. Well, with such a preclear you’re making what we would call a long haul and you’re making some kind of a break, up through the level.

Now, you’re going to slow yourself down to the degree that you get anxious and start pressing. You know the fellow that presses on the golf club-he never gets on the green. Well, you’re going to err more times in auditing, in that direction, than in any other. You’re going to be pressing on that golf club and feeding out techniques and thinking it’s a fancier technique that’s needed, thinking it’s a fancier computation, and all the time, it’s right there on the stove-the old frying pan that this preclear ought to be cooked in-it’s just an ordinary frying pan and it’s just exactly what you’re doing. Your speed picks up markedly when your understanding of this point picks up.

And one of the reasons a preclear doesn’t operate and one of the reasons that an auditor doesn’t operate very easily on this early span, or the early run, one of the best reasons why he doesn’t, has to do with his urgency, you know. He gets this feeling of urgency from the preclear or he gets the feeling that nothing can be done from the preclear. Here’s the big point, see? Urgent! Urgent! You know it’s very urgent. It’s an emergency proposition.

Well, let me tell you how to handle an emergency: be efficient. That’s how to handle 7 an emergency.

I’ve seen more emergencies go to hell and really deteriorate simply because everybody had to be fast and it didn’t occur to anybody to be efficient.

I well recall one time an engine had a shell in it. And boy, everybody was rushing around there trying to put out a resulting fire and, man, they were running around there with empty extinguishers and empty buckets of sand and they couldn’t find bales of rags, but when they did find them, they couldn’t find knives to cut bales of rags and so forth. And do you know what was sitting immediately above that engine? Immediately above the engine was the valve which flooded the engine room with spray.

I listened to this hubbub going on down there-just time after time, I’d call down through the speaking tube and say, “Have you got that fire out?” Expecting the tanks to go up at any moment or something to happen, see? “You got that fire out yet? Is it under control?” And then give a couple of more conning orders and then stand over the thing.

So finally, I took the coolest looking fellow I could see on the bridge and so forth and

I said, “Go below and put that fire out.”

And he came back a couple of minutes later, just that, a couple minutes later and he says, “The fire’s out, Sir.”

I said, “What happened?”

“Well, nobody had pulled the sprinkler cord.”

Well, I swear they were fooling around with that fire for about twelve, fifteen minutes. See, it was an emergency and people get wasteful of time in the face of an emergency.

And you as an auditor, when you feel yourself getting very, very anxious about this case and pressing very hard on the case, do you know what you should do at that time? Just a little discipline for you: just reach back and pick up a copy of Self Analysis. Now, that you have done so doesn’t mean you’re rattled on the case, you understand, but this is probably what the case needs. The case actually is benefited by the feeling that there’s something slow going to be done. It gives him the reassurance too, “Well, it might not all have to be done by five o’clock.” See that? So here’s something for you to-here’s a security for you to depart from.

I recommend very thoroughly to you, this, and I recommend it in the face of an awful lot of data. I’ve seen that, however, deteriorate when an auditor didn’t-well, when he had too much urgency, that’s all. There’s too much emergency in the air, so on, and they don’t pay attention to that little book.

I’ll tell you the routine course of a preclear in bad shape, applying to my office for assistance. First thing I do is write them a letter-I’ve gotten down to a point where there’s a pattern of these letters.

The first letter says, “Well, here’s a copy of Self Analysis and get somebody to read it to you or read it to the person who is in trouble, either way. Now, tell me how you make out” The second reply is to the effect that the person has now gotten worse and what are they going to do? So the letter that goes back in answer to that is, is “Get the copy of Self Analysis and use it.” And the next letter that comes back is in a reply to this copy of Self Analysis. They have received it, but they think it’s best to take the person to see somebody in Salt Lake City or on the Moon or someplace.

And then, finally, you’ll get a letter in-months have gone by, by now, and they write in to you and say, “Well, we took the person to Salt Lake City and we, finally, wound up and saw a psychiatrist and been in and out of a sanitarium now and has had five electric shocks and so forth and now what do we do?”

And you write back and you say, “Please open the copy of Self Analysis and begin on page (I think it’s 66) and start in.”

Six, seven, eight months is a lag on this.

And they finally do and the person finally bails out of it-z/they do it at all. But by not reaching for the technique that has some resolution for the case, they sacrifice six or eight months! Now this is what? This is a psychotic communication lag, isn’t it? That’s all.

So, if you know that this is a symptom: an emergency and waste-you know the amount of waste there was in the war? When they waste time, they have to waste havingness and everything else. They finally wind up-in any emergency Homo sapiens winds up much worse off, ordinarily, than if he’d just stood back and let the damn house burn down! You see that? That an emergency attitude is one which worsens, not one which betters the situation.

Honest! In most fires, it would actually be better if they just stood back and let the house burn. I’ve seen a fire take place on a street and the only efficient thing that was done about the whole thing was to turn some water on the two or three neighboring houses so they didn’t catch fire too. That was efficiently done. And that was done by the people who owned the two or three neighboring houses, usually, and was done with a garden hose.

But here are all these firemen all over the place and here are these tremendous streams of water and here are the axes and the battering rams and so forth and inevitably you alwa— go back to the place the next day and take a look, it is burned to the ground. And I mean, there’s nothing salvageable about it.

Well, now it didn’t much matter how much effort was put forward into the fire, ordinarily. The result is about the same-with this difference: is the more emergency there was about it, the more additional property to that property was injured.

I have seen the most wonderful things happen in fires. One time, I saw a lady in the fifth floor of a building which was on fire. She was completely neglecting the fact that she had better come downstairs and bring that baby with her. And she had some Hepplewhite, or something, china or whatever you call it and she did it all up in a blanket and she took it out on the fire escape and without even saying “Stand clear” to anybody below, dropped it five floors! Yet, she just had seconds left to clear through the areaways. That was efficient, wasn’t it? The horrible part of it was the fifth floor never burned. She would have had all of her china.

Now, I’ve seen people rushing grand pianos out of parts of houses that weren’t even vaguely threatened during a fire and knocking their legs off and busting up their keys and everything else. And if they’d just left it alone and concentrated on the fire, they’d have had a grand piano the next day.

This is what’s known as an “emergency frame of mind” and it is a technical thing for you, I mean, it isn’t just a commentary name.

Now, this seems like I’ve spent a lot of time telling you about nothing, huh? Nothing. No great wisdom involved here. Well, if you just put it down there that the “emergency situation, the emergency attitude,” when we say it in Scientology, we mean a very technical thing: we mean something which is occurring without time enough and so it’s going to take a great deal of time to get it done.

When an author gets rather bad off (he has the novel to write), do you know, he’ll stand and look at it for months before he does it? He just can’t write it! Why? He hasn’t got enough time to write it.

Well you say, “But look, you’ve already wasted three, four weeks. Why don’t you just sit down and write it?”

“Well, I can’t write it, I don’t have enough time.”

Well now, it sometimes occurs with an auditor that he looks at that preclear and he realizes the preclear is real bad off and the preclear doesn’t have enough time and this is restimulative, so the auditor doesn’t have enough time and so we get a fascinating problem. We get no recovery.

And when I see cases hanging fire consistently and I see that we’re not getting perception changes at the time ratio of a case level in a Unit such as this-you know, we’re not at a terrifically low case level. But I see that a person is trying to audit the data which has just been given him or something of the sort-actually, what it is, to a large degree, is an emergency factor. The golf club is being pressed so hard that the ball stays right there on the tee.

The auditor wants to shine, he wants to do something terrific, he wants to do something sensational. What he probably ought to do if his preclear isn’t making adequate progress is simply reach back for that little copy of Self Analysis and start in. Not that he can’t do it himself just that way-you know, you can just know that type of technique so well, you can just start reeling it off. It isn’t any particular insult to the preclear either, by the way.

Honest, if I could just communicate to you the number of times when I have seen a neurotic person or a person who was rather badly bogged in present time problems recover on an hours’ worth of mock-ups and that type of Straightwire. And I’ve seen these people snap out of it, stop acting goofy, stop trying to commit suicide, stop trying to do all sorts of things. It belongs in Steps VI of SOP 8 and a Step VI really doesn’t really respond to much of anything else.

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Now, the funny part of it is, it’s so mechanical that the “sanity index of the person,” which is a different thing, a little bit, than his “case index”-you know, how much problem have you got, is the big question, “How much problem do you have to handle?” Well, a person is not nearly-really just as sane as he’s handling his problems, he’s as sane as he thinks he is. And so sanity is something different than the mechanical aspects of a case and unwinding him.

It’s a very funny thing that all these years they’ve been going forward at insanity and unreasonableness and all of that when, actually, there was a terrific amount of just mechanical bric-a-brac which was standing behind and interrupting the flow of communication and so on. The guy-really perfectly sane, but his ability, mentally and so on and creatively, is markedly cut down by mechanical bric-a-brac which doesn’t have too much to do with his sanity. Well, Self Analysis will even crack through that if long enough applied.

There was one fellow who was one of the roughest V’s I ever saw. And he got Self Analysis for a couple of hours a day for three months-that’s a hell of a diet, isn’t it? And it never occurred to anybody to tell him just to be two feet back of his head and one day one of his friends did, almost jokingly, and he was. He’d worked himself up-sometime down the line, why, he’d cleared up enough so that he could be exteriorized easily and with some certainty and became a Theta Clear within the next day or so.

By the way, you work somebody who is notoriously a V and you work them as a V for a long time and you just keep on working them as a V, you don’t realize that he’s become a IV and then a III and he’s up around II now. You just kept on working this V - which is persistence.

Okay. Let’s move up the auditing a little faster by being a little more sensible about it. In other words, let’s step our pace up by being efficient rather than being in a state of emergency.

Always about this time of the Unit, evidently, you’ll get a slight bog along the line somewhere, here and there, and if we don’t interrupt it rather sharply here and there, why, it’ll continue. Well, what happens is, is auditors have gotten a little bit disappointed here and there in a preclear or something. It never occurs to the auditor he’s probably overreaching the ability of the preclear, quite markedly. And it’s time when you look at a preclear-there’s plenty of time, there’s always lots of time.

The MEST universe is kind of short on matter, that’s true. A planet here and a planet there and a sun here and a sun there and lots more space than there is matter. That’s true, we’re kind of short on havingness, but at the same time, let’s not try to do it all in a minute. That attitude of trying to do it all in a minute is what prevents you from doing it all in a minute.

And I look over this case and that case as they come along and, for instance, there isn’t a hard case present, there isn’t a real hard case present-not а гаг/hard case. Because I’ve seen hard cases in my day. When they’re almost totally occluded and almost totally psychotic, you’ve got a hard case. That’s a rough case. Not just an occluded case, that isn’t a very rough case. That’ll work out one way or the other.

Now you’ve got a weapon, “double-barreled shotgun,” for one of these cases that’s tippy about this and that. Very often, you can overaudit the case, you can give them the technique they need, obviously need-the obvious computation-but this person is so bogged down in significances they can’t reach it. That’s true of a case that I saw last night. All this case needs-obviously, all this case needs is just run “Don’t touch.” That is obviously all the case needs. We just run all kinds of variations and brackets on “Don’t touch.”

Case was raised to be very polite and, you know, well bred and cultured and so forth and has gotten to the point where, of course, he can’t touch anything. And if you just got “Don’t touch” in various ways with Opening Procedure and brackets and ‘Where aren’t you trying to touch something now?” And “Give me three things that aren’t touching you at this moment.” “Give me three things which don’t want to touch you at this moment,” back and forth and around and around, in all possible combinations, including running some flows and some agreements and masses of viewpoints. Get masses of people out there, all of whom are agreed now (that’s Viewpoint Processing, by the way)-masses of people, all of them are completely agreed that nobody must touch anything and then duplicate it and duplicate it and duplicate it and duplicate it and duplicate it-that sort of thing, you know? Just "Don’t touch,” why, this case would recover.

And instead of that, this case gets plunged into all kinds of stuff. I mean, stuff that’s way off, far away and so forth but is liable to be very quick. And everybody has been trying to heal this case quickly for over a year-case must be healed quickly. Well, if the case had been healed slowly it could have gotten well in a week or two. That’s real weird.

And it makes one feel rather strange sometimes about processing to realize that the effective process is not the most brilliant process. These two aren’t there together. The most brilliant process is not necessarily the most effective process. The most effective process is the one which works, that’s all.

Now, you’ll find various processes working on various cases. And the one thing that you must be cautioned against is working a limited technique too long on a case merely because it’s apparently working on the case. You might be taking the long road to China. You just might be.

For instance, I can solve things today with Effort Processing that would appear to be damn miraculous-the effort within the effort, within the effort, within the effort, in terms of brackets. The effort not to within the effort not to, within the effort not to, within the effort not to, in terms of brackets. I can get more perception changes on a lot of preclears, but what’s the trouble here?

Well, the trouble is that it tends to validate the effort band. And this is confusing to the preclear and he buries himself away from present time, slightly, although it has great effectiveness for quite awhile and it can be run for quite awhile. There’s always a time not to run it because, in the first place, it’s a GE technique normally. It’ll cure up all sorts of things, but it’s a GE technique.

When I discovered thought, emotion and effort and put them together in 1951 and so on we had reached the limit of auditing the GE. If you’re going to audit the GE, you just look at the techniques from ’51 back, plus Creative Processing and you’ve pretty well got it, nothing much else about it.

All right. Let me tell you now about something that happens to a preclear and dig you out of this a little bit. Nothing has ever exceeded this, nothing we’ve ever said or anything I’ve ever done and so forth has ever exceeded this or thrown it into question in any way whatsoever. Therefore, it must be a rather simple, central portion of auditing and it is the problem and question of present time. Nothing has ever thrown this idea of present time into question.

There is nothing wrong with bringing a preclear to present time. The whole computation involving present time is still the most centralized computation which you have, because of course the most aberrative factor is time because it’s the most hidden and strange barrier. The MEST universe is a game composed of barriers. Well, the most hidden and strange barrier is that barrier called time. And the person is in present time or he thinks he is someplace else.

Well, in view of the fact that a thetan can evidently create time itself, it is very easy for a thetan, of course, not to be here and yet, appear to be here.

Now, I’ve run into people sixty and eighty hours in advance of present time. This probably wouldn’t occur to you that that was the case, but it’s true! They’re way up. This isn’t particularly good, it’s that they thought they had to crawl that far ahead of present time in order to be cause. This might be what you would call an "emergency margin.” They need that much time for a margin. You know, they’ve got to think all their problems out today-day after tomorrow. And then maybe they’ll be able to get far enough ahead of their problems today in order to have-it’s a silly picture and it is not an accurate one. They just act as though they were two and three days ahead of themselves.

You’ll find the little child has his greatest objection to his family on these grounds: they’re not interested in now. The live up-and-coming adults are terribly interested in day after tomorrow, awfully interested in the future. And the dead ones are all interested in gone and buried yesterdays. Grandpop, and Aunt Belle, at one time or another, was the “Queen of the Mississippi”-they just don’t seem to have any connection with anything except “that time when.” And this is interesting, like a storybook, but it’s not even vaguely interesting to the kid, because he’s living right there in present time and you can run this on a preclear just as such. You could say, “All right, now get various members of your family not liking present time.” And gee, this guy will just check off the whole list if you give him enough auditing time.

All right. What’s this thing about present time, then? What’s it got to do with Theta Clearing? Well, I very seriously doubt, very seriously doubt this, that you can exteriorize an individual who is not in present time-at least most of him. And I would go so far as to say that a very simple statement of non-exteriorization could be made by this alone: He isn’t exteriorizing-synonym-he’s not in present time. He’s in the future or he’s in the past. He’s not here.

He has to be able to exteriorize into now in order to have a certainty and perception of now. It seems reasonable, doesn’t it? Well, remember that a thetan can make time. He can make particles move, so he obviously can make time, he can make space.

Well, if he can do these things, why, then it’s very easy for him to make a time to be in. It isn’t that something is making a terrible effect out of him, it may very well be that he’s simply manufacturing a time to be in. It might not have any reality with regard to the past either.

See, he just might have just made the time to be in, maybe the time is day after tomorrow. Of course it’s right now, but it’s day after tomorrow that he’s made to live in. So let’s not take this in the aberrated band now. Let’s stop talking about aberration and just start talking about time. And we find out that to get an individual outside and with some perception, there is a good chance of getting him out if he’s well in present time and if he isn’t, why, he won’t exteriorize into present time. And let’s just look at it like that.

Let’s take the GE, way out of present time, and the thetan is agreeing with the GE and the thetan tries to exteriorize and of course he’s can’t exteriorize, because he’s got this horrible problem: if he exteriorized, he’d have to exteriorize in 1870 and it’s not there. And so he says, of course, “I can’t exteriorize.”

Now, I’m not giving you the whole of the problem here when we talk about present time and so forth-you know, the other elements of the problem.

The problem has many elements. It has cause and communication and duplication. And it has these other factors, such as his ability to create: which is the loss of the ability to create or wonderment about creation, adding up to an anxiety about the future and about loss, is a better statement, really, of what’s wrong with the thetan.

But let’s just make this crude analogy about time. See, the person can’t lose the body, because he can’t create a body and so on. Well, let’s look at this present time problem and let’s find out several things about it. Is this person so much in danger or in trouble, according to him, right in the present environment, that he can’t exteriorize into it? And that would be what would be interrupting Theta Clearing into present time. See that? And therefore, you could handle some sort of a present time problem he has. Handle it by Creative Processing, handle it by . . .

Oh heck, one time I was trying to work a preclear and all this preclear could worry about was her husband being faithful to her, because the husband had recently hired a very nice-looking secretary. This was really all that was wrong. She had no other evidence, she was going around trying to manufacture evidence. And I Match Terminaled the secretary for five minutes, the problem blew up and we went on with auditing and exteriorized her and the session went right on off the line. There was no difficulty whatsoever with the case and all it required was just this. But while that five minutes was going on, first she was apathetic and then she was mad and then she was this and then she was that. Wonderful. What fireworks!

Well, being a limited technique, if we’d gone on with this for the rest of the day, we’d have probably had her bogged down like mad at the end of the day. But for five, ten minutes, an hour, that was fine.

Well, she wasn’t in present time. See, she was worrying about what all the evidences were, pro and con, and those evidences had all occurred in the last few days. And the funny part of it was, they didn’t occur-they hadn’t occurred but she thought they might have occurred. So she was living in day before yesterday and last week and so on, all mixed up, and it didn’t have anything to do-she wasn’t in the room.

Well now, if you could look at a preclear and say, “Be three feet back of your head”-he’s not. If you make the next statement, “Well look-a-here, he’s not here,” you will be, for workable purposes, right. He’s not here.

Now, the reasons why he’s not here is what we go into when we say duplication and communication and creation and all the rest of it—the reason he’s not here. And we add this up, we find out that there is a powerful button, oh, a powerhouse of a button! And that button is “resentment of present time.”

Now, let’s see why that’s a powerhouse. A person who doesn’t exteriorize well has gotten into flows. The way you get into flows is the way you get into this universe. You decide to resist it. You know it can’t decide to resist you? You have to decide to resist it. And so you start matching flows. And this matching of flows is itself what causes ridges. Continuous and anxious perception will pile up effort flows, very heavy flows.And so we get the manufacture of ridges and agreement with the MEST universe being the same thing, which is just this: matching flows. It starts flowing at you and you’re just getting along fine, you’re not flowing back at it, it’s just going right on its way, just as happily as can be, but it’d love for you to team up and match and resist.

So all of a sudden, why, you decide one day that you’ll match those flows and you’ll resist them in some fashion or another and, the next thing you know, you’re slightly stuck in that time period, see, just a tiny little bit. And as these things compound more and more and more and you agree more and more and more that you ought to resist more and more and more and so on, more and more and more, and then, the next thing you know-bog. Well, that’s the mechanical-without any deeper significance-mechanical proposition behind non-exteriorization. That’s the mechanics of it. It’s just matching flows. You agree with the wavelength of the MEST universe.

Now, look what a neat job it is: here comes light at such and such a centimeter of wavelength (point several zeros 3 or something like that) and in comes this light. Boy, what a tricky character you are to be able to match the wavelength of that light and so pile it up. Boy, that’s really tricky. In other words, you have to just exactly hit on exactly that if we’re using these flows. And it’s very tricky to match it up. It’s very easy to unsettle it. One of the easiest things I know of to unsettle is a matched flow from the MEST universe-it is tenuous, it is thin. It’s very hard to match one of these flows and it’s awfully easy to unbalance them.

Now if you’ll run "resenting present time” in brackets and “desiring present time” in brackets and this little technique I gave you the other day, “the ideal person,” and having the universe-all kinds of objects in it-accusing the preclear that it didn’t create it, you know? Mountains say to him “you didn’t create me.” The ground says to him “you didn’t create me,” so forth. The sky is saying to him “you can’t create, you didn’t create me”-round and round and round and round and round.

Now, that’s a little package there, which I have used-there are many of these little combination packages, you might say, of auditing-but I have used just exactly that one to exteriorize one of the toughest, meanest cases I ever ran into. And I have used that several times on preclears with considerable success. I never turned it over to another auditor before, obviously, in its component parts, because these component parts work in other combinations with other things, they certainly work together. As I say, I’ve used this, I haven’t handed it out. All right.

It’s just a routine: “resentment of present time.” Well, that merely tells him resentment, antagonism-you’ll run into apathy about present time. You’ll be very happily running the bracket and, all of a sudden, you’ll find out these two people he’s put out in front of him-he can make one of them make the other one resent present time but, by golly, this one who is making the other one resent present time is himself in apathy.

So you want to watch this one because there are various emotions on ridges. Resentment is a flow and so it drops, of course, into ridges and the ridges are apathy, anger, boredom and these are your ridge levels. So these three things turn up.- apathy, anger and boredom, when you run resentment. What you’re trying to do is get the live flows out of the way-they’re all that bother him. And then added to this technique is anything you can think of in the line of granting beingness and being sorry for it.

“Well, I granted the MEST universe beingness and now I’m sorry for it. I granted that mountain beingness and I’m sorry for it.”

The fellow said, “Wait a minute, I never did grant that mountain beingness.”

“You did now!”

“All right. Let’s grant that mountain beingness and now be real sorry you did it.” "Now be glad you did it.” “Now be sorry you did it.” (Just pursuing our lecture of yesterday on that.) That one added in there is very efficacious.

Actually, there’s so many ways today to crack cases it’s just-I could keep going on here for an awful long time trying to give you new combinations and so forth. But that combination I have used with great success.

Now, why do we run this ideal person in there? It’s because the guy had an ideal somewhere, in some past life, and he’s stuck in it. And he’s trying to make the body he’s in right now compare with the body he had before and he’s not satisfied with the body he’s got now. He’s trying to live in the year ten hundred and five, he’s got an ideal person. You can do that one with mirrors or you can just do it with a mock-up. Have him stand there and grant beingness to this ideal person, have the ideal person grant beingness to him and you’ll get the kind of character he has misfittingly been trying to be.

It’s very funny to see a very good-looking guy, for instance, who’s nice and muscular, he’s got a lot on the ball and so forth, trying hard to be a-well, to be a girl. This is weird. Well, why? Why would he be doing this? His ideal person, the best body he ever had ... Now, these things don’t get wiped out, I mean, they might as well have been yesterday. The body you had in the year minus-five thousand on Arcturus might as well have been at eight o’clock this morning. I’m not trying to jam your track on you, just don’t get this old idea that “it all wears out because time goes by.” You granted something beingness on Arcturus and you’re still sorry for it, well, you’re still sorry for it, that’s all.

It’s all very well for you to mock-up the fact that you’ve forgotten all about that life and that life isn’t in there anymore and all that, but it just isn’t going to be effective.

Well, the damnedest one I ever ran into was the fellow who was holding on to a beautiful blind girl. Boy, was she pathetic. Case occluded, couldn’t see. Why not?

“Well, when did it go off?”

Well, when he lost his wife. Ha! Oh!

“Now wait a minute. Perceptions before that were good?”

“Oh, yes.”

“Yeah, oh fine.”

What the hell is this all about then? Nothing else was cracking through. Guy perfectly sane, everything was fine-couldn’t see, though.

And I broke through on this kind of a process: the ideal person was really parked on the track. And the ideal person was a gorgeous blind empress. This was a long time ago I ran into this process-even wrote a story about it once.

But my golly, I never had the processes which would have undone it swiftly until fairly recently. I undid it at the time I ran into it, but the total significance of the fact is this business about the ideal person. This was the ideal person. My God, a gorgeous blind empress. Talk about havingness-whole planet. You talk about appeal, everybody was very sad for this empress, oh, just terrifically sad. It was a very gorgeous piece of stuff.

And here was this guy being a blind empress, but he couldn’t be a blind empress, but he had terrific potentialities and possibilities in exactly what he was doing. He was an airline pilot. An airline pilot-think of it, surrounded by all these gorgeous hostesses and subservient crews and with all of Earth swishing by underneath you and, oh, terrific things to do and be and so forth. He was a blind empress, he wasn’t an airline pilot.

Well, when his wife left him, this was a key-in of the loss of that body and he just stuck in its death. The truth of the matter was he didn’t give a damn for this wife at all. She was a little girl that was very pathetic all the time. But of course, she keyed him in and there he was, so when he lost her that keyed-in the past death.

Well now, the funny part of it was, is he knew all about it After a little bit of Straightwire-I was straightwiring him to “people his wife reminded him of.” And I was beating it around and it was really no mystery. The bird had it, he knew about it! He knew he knew about it all the time, but he couldn’t think about it any of the time.

Now, have you ever had the funny feeling in auditing like-well, you just hit this lock, you knew that all the time. You knew you were trying to mimic your dog. That was why you kept trying to scratch yourself behind the left ear with your right foot and figured that was the only really satisfactory way to scratch your ear. You knew it was the dog, but you didn’t know it, you see?

In other words, this terrific panorama is sitting right there in front of the preclear and he’s never looking at it Well, that’s the way these things come up and that’s the ideal person.

And you’ll run that on an “integration of character” and if we could call this integration of character, and be very technical about it, why, we would be far off because we would be more technical than it deserves, which is the guy wants to be something else than what he is and he can’t be anything but what he is. See? Can’t be anything but what he is. So life has him trapped. He’s resenting present time, lots of reasons why.

There’s a process that’s run on that that is questionable but is-on a case that is too far down-is butchery, but you always have to run this on a thetan exteriorized: “Be the past.” “Be the present.” “Be the future.” “Be the past.” “Be the present.” “Be the future.” “Be the present.” “Be the past.” “Be the future.” Actually, Change of Space Processing, because he’s got space mixed up with the past because, of course, the past is in some other piece of space.

And you’ll find out he has the past to the right of him and the present above him or, oh, some damned foolishness. It’s usually that, by the way: the present is in front of him, let’s see, the future is to the right and the past is to the left. That’s because of the way people read.

He also has prediction machines in the future, telling him he shouldn’t know the future, and he has machines in the past, telling him not to know anything about the-or not to model it. “Don’t be a model of me,” the past is saying. You don’t care what the past is saying, the past is saying what it says.

Well, there’s another ramification of that, is your probabilities are that he’s got a duplication-mustn’t duplicate cross. You know, he’s got to duplicate and mustn’t duplicate. Well, that is-I say, the probabilities are that is basic in any case and it’s usually applied to time. He mustn’t duplicate time, he must duplicate time. He must duplicate the time he was the blind empress. He mustn’t or can’t duplicate the time he was the blind empress and so he hangs up on a maybe, “Can I duplicate or can’t I duplicate?” And this goes off into the Second Dynamic or the Third Dynamic or God knows where. That’s basic on any case. That’s the most fundamental one we’ve got, by the way: must duplicate-can’t duplicate.

Male voice: Knowing that he knew already and wouldn’t look or wouldn’t think-any more on that button down there?

Oh yeah, well there’s all of that-there’s a whole battery of buttons from Know down to Sex.

Male voice: Finding real covert ones, you can get a resisting being you would.

Well, I gave you one there one day in just resisting knowing, resisting being, resisting looking, resisting emoting and that would run out the whole darned band. That works in terms of flows. You’ve got somebody in the auditing room there, all you do is want him in present time. He’s usually not in present time, because he’d hate to be in a point of the past, but he’d love to be in a point of the past and between these two things, why, he’s hung up in two pasts which he’s trying to dramatize in his present. And you think you’re looking at somebody who simply is right there and who will exteriorize and you know they should be there but they’re not and that’s the whole problem with them.

I ran a preclear, one time, who had been a very successful gunman-brother! A space opera gunner, but a gunman. A lot of space opera-what they were dramatizing here out in the Old West was just space opera, evidently. Fast on the draw and that sort of thing. Boy, there’s lots of that in space opera.

Man, this guy’s reputation-he was not on the side of the law-but his reputation was so tough, from one end of the system to the other, that the police were terribly polite to him and, boy, was that successful. And he hit the Old West back in the ’80s and, boy, was he successful, but this was just a lock on it. And we try to give this boy anything-no, he was regretting this past dangerousness. You know, he wanted that past dangerousness again and he had no dangerousness where.he was. And between these two things-in the past he was dangerous, so he was in the past, he was not in the present.

You mustn’t continue to go-and just as a parting word on this, by the way-you mustn’t continue to go forward on the idea that it is normal and usual for a thetan to be in present time. It is not normal or usual. Staying in present time is like walking a tightrope. Because present time is going by pocketa-pocketa-pocketa-pocketa-pocketa - each one of them is present time. Any moment of the past has been at sometime present time, of course.

And it’s quite a trick staying in present time, quite a trick. What’s the automatic machine that keeps him in present time? Well, when he depended upon an automatic machine to keep him in present time, it ordinarily broke down some time or another and skidded him out of present time.

That’s why holding the two back anchor points of the room is very beneficial. It takes ahold of this old machine that kept him in front of present time, you see, and it just runs it out. He’s keeping himself in present time now. See how that is? He’s just taking over that machine and the actual benefit of “Hold the two back anchor points of the room” is putting out of the automatic category, staying in present time, and the fellow gets it on to the other category.

If you ever want to see a preclear really stopped ... Preclears every once in a while tell you “they’re reaching for the bottom of the bucket,” you know, they just reach and they can’t go any further south. Yes, they can. I’ll tell you how far south is, computationally. And that is, the preclear sits there and at each instant-there are techniques, very simple ones, designed on this, by the way-any instant is lost and he’s at a dead stop. Every instance that goes by is lost, utterly. No new instant gives him something new. He doesn’t look at it like that. The motorcycle is really taking this guy down the road.

Every instant finds him stopped. And he goes through a consecutive period of stops: stop-stop-stop-stop-stop-stop-stop-stop-stop-stop-stop-stop, that’s the way he feels. And it’s all unreal and the havingness of present time-all of it is exceeding him and the fact that it has arrived is simultaneous with the fact that it is irreparably and forever lost.

He isn’t necessarily psycho, which is the oddity of it, psycho isn’t the bottom of the bucket. Ю Psycho is just a lockup on must-reach and can’t-reach, must-withdraw and can’t-withdraw. That is an emotion. Psychotic attitude is-it is an emotion, it’s a feeling. This other is the real bottom of the bucket. The fellow can be perfectly sane and be in this bottom spot, but that is the bottom spot; is every moment as it goes by is a lost moment and he counts them as lost moments, pong-pong-pong-pong-pong. But he is at a dead stop and he’s sort of jerkily going from stop to stop to stop to stops to stops to stop to stop. It’s the most fantastic sensation.

I got into a pc’s head that was going through it once, just for kicks (a very strange remark to make, but that’s the truth), and examined exactly what was happening and that was what was happening.

For about a year now, the reason I haven’t ever-I didn’t used to ordinarily, but I did once in a while-pay attention to (quote) “my own case” in order to give you data. Well, for about a year, it hasn’t been very necessary to do this. All you had to do was, you know, pop into somebody’s head and match wavelength and feel how he felt, look over his facsimiles. That’s mainly why we’ve made a tremendous amount of progress. It wouldn’t have anything to do with basic knowingness or anything like that. Well anyhow, we must investigate.

Where your preclear is concerned, let’s just go over this again. He may be an emergency situation and when the emergency situation occurs, the thing for you to do is to be very efficient.

Now, some time or other in your life, you may have run into somebody who was terribly efficient when you wanted to be terribly nervous about the emergency and there was no more maddening person than that. And you may be unwilling to be that very maddening person, so let’s get that one remedied and you don’t have to be that person. That person was merely expressing a manifestation which you can express too.

And the other one is, if a preclear isn’t exteriorizing, he’s not in present time (we’ve been talking about this for a long time). There are many methods of remedying this. One of them is simply “Come up to present time. Be three feet back of your head.” Rather fantastic technique, isn’t it? Happens to be workable. It’ll work, oh, maybe every fifteen or twenty preclears. The guy is an awful tough preclear and you know that, so you say, “Come up to present time and be three feet back of your head.” And he is, perfectly stable, very certainly.

You go into an insane asylum and you go down the aisles of the insane asylum, you tag every patient that goes by and every few patients is simply “Come up to present time” and they’re sane and they stay that way. Interesting, isn’t it?

Well now, let’s not go getting too bogged down about case state or what you are or aren’t doing or whether your auditor is simpatico with you or not. We’re not trying to make twins, we’re trying to make Theta Clears.

When you get your best innings in, is when you are being the most efficient, not when you’re being the most brilliant.

And when you look over the things that can be wrong with a preclear, why, they all add up to basically this “must duplicate-can’t duplicate” cross-up and that’s all over the track. That’s all over existence. You see the sunlight coming in through that window there? Well, it’s telling you, you must duplicate it and you’re saying, “Well, I can’t duplicate that, I got something else to do.” That’s existence in this universe.

And we go down the line from that, we find out the biggest barrier and why the MEST universe is a game of barriers. And the biggest barrier, of course, is the most mysterious one and that’s, of course, time. And the tightrope walk which the preclear is doing to try to stay in present time is an interesting walk, even when he’s the sanest. And we find that that’s very easy to handle if we handle it from the basis of people exteriorizing in present time.

As far as communication is concerned, your communication lag is your direct index of Tone Scale and it’s actually a very simple problem. And I hate to keep telling you, “It’s so simple, it’s so simple, it’s so simple.” It must be quite maddening to somebody who is trying to latch on to some corner of it, knowing all the time that it’s very difficult! But it isn’t.

You’re using tools. Now, you very often will add to a tool to its detriment. For instance, somebody was giving an assessment the other day of “What could a person create and destroy?” You know the old-time Create and Destroy Assessment on the eight dynamics, which is a very good assessment. He was giving this assessment and he was only doing one thing wrong about it: he was finding out what the preclear could create, what the preclear was willing to create and what the preclear was willing to destroy, but the auditor continuously asked the preclear “Why?” And this had gotten the preclear bogged to a point where the preclear was upset about an assessment That was easy to remedy-just adding too much.

And so there’s a little rule of the thumb goes along with all of it: The less significance you get into, the better. And if you have a question about significance, delete it. That is to say, if you want to know whether you should go deeper into this and find greater significance concerning it or not-if you got a “maybe” on that, see, then you answer the “maybe” by not going in.

That isn’t saying you should never plow into a significance. It’s just saying that if you have a maybe as to whether or not you should proceed into a significance, don’t. It’s better to err toward nothing than toward something. Your preclear is really better off to be run wholly and entirely on nothingnesses, if we were just going to do an arbitrary, stupid division of things, he would be better off to be run totally on nothingnesses than upon somethingnesses, if we had a choice between these two techniques.

And you will find nearly every auditor, early in the game, will run a great deal of somethingnesses and damn little nothingnesses.

Now, for instance, the most horrible person he doesn’t want to be is the nothingness person. See? “Look in the mirror now and see nothing, absolutely nothing.” Try it someday. “Now, look in that mirror and see nothing. Don’t see a face. Don’t see anything-the walls or anything. Just look in that mirror with your MEST eyes wide-open and see nothing.” You can make a preclear-more preclears will go into the bathroom and vomit on that one. That’s the horrible thing you mustn’t be, that’s what you feared you must become. You know, mustn’t become nothing, so you become nothing.

Okay. Let’s take a break.