Thank you.

We have some new material. You've heard me say that before, I think. But here we have a booklet which was knocked together just for this congress in order to give you Clear Procedure and the processes in this book I will discuss here in this lecture and some other material. But this booklet has been put together just so that you would have the bulk of the material for this particular activity; I know you'd be interested in having this material.

We got a congress yet?

It was very much of a flat-out proposition knocking this one together in a hurry, so you will forgive its minor omissions and so forth. But I think that all three of these books were just delivered from the printer the day after Christmas – or the two days after Christmas just before the congress started.

Audience: Yes!

Here's another book that is compiled from lectures and so forth just so you'll have The Mechanics of SCS and Control. Now, that's rather interesting to you because that is supplementary to this red booklet here. SCS is something that is very important to run on Clear Procedure and how it is run is covered in this book, of course, but it is additionally covered, and more material on it, in this one.

Good. Have you got a congress yet?

Now this book here has very little to do with the lecture in hand, but I think you will find invaluable in handling people in the field – handling people in your own area – because it is The Field Validation, Hubbard Apprentice Scientologist Training Course Manual. And here for the first time in a very workable form we have all of the TRs and they are all brought up to date, they are not the same TRs that you were sent right after the last congress; they are almost, but there are some very important little changes in here. This furthermore gives you a "form sheet" so that you can run an HAS or a field validation course right straight out of the booklet, writing the student's name on the booklet and carrying him through on it. And I think you'll find that is very, very handy. I am sure that you'll appreciate it.

Audience: Yes!

Now, Clear Procedure of course, is what our attention is on here at the moment.

Good. Are you here?

Now, SCS – Start, Change and Stop – these are the mechanics of control, and we find an interesting state of affairs with processing today, a very interesting state of affairs. Although there are some brand-new elements mixed up in processing, it includes as it should the old, the best of it – included in this.

Audience: Yes!

Now, you – we had some processes known as the CCH Processes, and they're quite the thing.

Good. Are you here?

We don't do like the medical boys. They take a series of two, go up to the Philadelphia Medical Conference and say, "We have finally achieved the complete cure for joppabulus. I've run this process," they'll say, "or shot two patients with this and it cured both of them, except they both relapsed, and this is the cure and I've sold it to the Abbott Drug Company for a billion bucks." That, I'm afraid, is being very critical, but if anyone cares to look over the transcript of proceedings of the medical boys or the psychiatrists, he will be very, very interested – the few cases tested in each case, and that we have been fairly wary of in Scientology. We have not just said, "Well, it worked on that case and that case."

Audience: Yes!

Because I learned the bad lesson in the late 40s and early 50s that a series, if you please, of a hundred persons did not really constitute a reliable series for Dianetics or Scientology.

Well, good. Thank you.

Well, we have to actually wait until we have a tremendous amount of evidence to hand before we finally arrive at certain processes.

We have here some material to be covered in this particular lecture that I think all of you will find of great interest. And that material – let us start right out here in high gear – has to do with a thing called a Clear. You've heard about this for seven years and it has a considerable history.

Now, another book that looks like this, the ACC Preparatory Manual, carries in it broad findings through the field on the part of auditors working by themselves. "The Summary Research Project." You should look those over. That's a very interesting book that ACC Preparatory Manual because, mainly because it does carry the "Summary Research Procedure." What processes worked? What was terribly workable? What was very efficient and effective in the hands of an auditor working by himself? They vote overwhelmingly for certain processes and we have not forgotten these processes in Clear Procedure but Clear Procedure had this interesting adventure:

Clear. What is a Clear? Well, I refer you to the first book, a chapter titled "The Clear," because we have not, at this moment, exceeded it one single bit in its terms there or escaped it or quibbled with its definitions or done anything else with it. And that, in itself, is a little modest piece of success -is to turn up here with something that auditors can do. The first Clears were made totally by myself and the effort wasn't duplicated very often.

I swept ahead on something I knew could be done by a good auditor and I had to modify it right in the organization itself; it never even got hardly further than the staff before we had to really look it over, reverse it, straighten it out. It was good what we'd handed out. And then I called for all of the test files, looked over the CCHs and found we were getting variable results with these processes called CCH. If an auditor is a good auditor, and he is in good shape as he runs them, they are terrific. If he has a headache that day, which an auditor is never supposed to have, or if he wasn't too hot in the first place, we got a great variability; yet, the CCHs do reach down into the unconscious preclear area – processing of unconscious persons – and they're very effective; we know of nothing else that is, so they are important processes. But now we're talking – we're talking about Clear Procedure.

And we had this subject being one of the most questionable subjects of Dianetics: What is a Clear? Well, I'm not going to give you ad infinitum, the Book One definition, but I will describe one to you, in quite real terms. A Clear is somebody without psychoses or neuroses; no held-down fives, in the parlance of Book One. An adding machine is crazy if you have one of its figures held down, and if you held down five in every addition, the addition would be wrong. If you held down five in every multiplication of a multiplication machine, the answer would of course be wrong. Every subtraction would be wrong, every division would be wrong, if one of those figures was always held down, no matter what else happened. That's what happens in the human mind.

Now, we assume in Clear Procedure that we're going to take somebody that we can talk with and clear him. That's the first thing we're going to do. And it is simply aimed at a case we can talk with. Well, you could use the CCHs to bring him up to a point where you could talk with him, and then you would probably find your most swift results would come from Clear Procedure just as it is here.

Something is held down. "Republicans are all bad." No matter what other data is entered on the machine, "Republicans are all bad" is entered into the computation. And even though some of us might agree with the fact that Republicans leave a lot to be desired, we do not add them into every single computation we make, fortunately. But a held-down five does. That's, right there, added in, subtracted, multiplied, divided. Every time any work is put on the thinking machine, the figure five is held down: "Republicans are all bad."

CCH 0 is usually something that has to be worked almost to death on some preclear who didn't want to be there and didn't want to be processed in the first place, but was only being processed 'cause Papa or Mama or husband or wife or Uncle Joe wanted the preclear processed. You have to get him some goals, but in order to get him some goals you have to get him over the idea that he can be helped.

We say, "Well, I think I'll eat some supper" We add this up on the machine and it comes out, "All Republicans are bad because I'm going to eat some supper" "I would have more supper to eat if Republicans weren't so bad," might be reasonable, but it really doesn't belong in every computation that's on the machine. Do you see that clearly?

Now, we discover this astonishing thing: that individuals fall off the ability to help and be helped, and when the society at large is having a very rough time it contains a preponderance of individuals who cannot help and who cannot be helped; they will not be helped, they say.

All right. This analogy, the held-down five, actually comes from I think Harvard or MIT or some such place; I've forgotten the grade school it was developed in. But they had a big machine – they had a big machine, and the machine was crazy. Any time you fed data to it – a machine comparable to the UNIVAC, ENIAC or Atomic Energy Commission – other machines – and every time you put a problem into the machine, the machine gave a crazy answer. Every time. And they started tracing through the machine and they finally found a drop of solder had fallen across two leads so that no matter what problem you put on the machine, the figure five was entered into the result. Do you understand that?

The hardest person in the world to live with is somebody who can't be helped, who won't be helped. We have almost deified this characteristic in this great United States; we have called it "independence." "A man ought to stand on his own two feet!" You know – thud! And grow from there on down.

Now, the mind has this peculiarity, that if you keep adding a single datum, no matter what the problem is, it's crazy. So that we get something that looks like this: We get a person, let's just envision a bank here as a series of mental image pictures. Here's some mental image pictures, one kind or another, and the pc says, "Well, I think I will go to supper." His going to supper's modified by these two pictures, or one picture, or six hundred, see? He says, "I think I will tell her I love her," and his decision is modified by these two mental image pictures. They're always there.

Now, it's all very well in a frontier society where a man is liable to be alone or a woman has to be very self-sufficient – to be self-sufficient, to be independent, but please not as a dramatization. You'll find there are – the person who doesn't want to be audited isn't saying, "I don't want to be audited at all." The person who says, "I don't want to audit you," isn't saying, "I don't want to audit you."

Now, modern Euro-Russian psychology didn't know very much about these mental image pictures. Knew something about eidetic recall; it said morons and small children often recall things by seeing pictures of them. This comes under the heading of obnosis; these fellows couldn't observe very well.

The first person that doesn't want to be audited is really saying, "I do not want to be helped. I cannot accept help. Help is not possible." Hasn't anything to do with Scientology; it merely has to do with the person's ability to help and be helped. And boy, you can mark that down in your book, because you can crack 'em up if you know that little datum. That you can do. That is important – this help factor.

Truth of the matter is, if you ask any citizen on the street to close his eyes and look, ask him what he's looking at – you will get one of these answers: Nothing, blackness, an invisibility, or a picture. And the more numerous answer will be "picture." Now, if you were to persist in asking this question, "What are you looking at?" the fellow who says "nothing" at first would then say "blackness" or "a bunch of rockets" or he would say a lot of things, but he'd stop saying "nothing."

Now, you know – you know a girl comes in and sits down and says, "Well, everybody and so on and I will have to do something about it, I suppose, but there isn't anything you can do. I – I just have to drink this quart of rye every morning!"

A fellow who sees invisibility, of course, anything he sees is invisible, and he takes a little more doing. The fellow who sees only blackness actually has something wrong with him. The fellow who sees an invisibility has something wrong with him. The fellow who sees nothing has something wrong with him. This is factual; if you graph these people on APAs and so forth you will find that's the case.

Now, the funny part of it is she doesn't want any auditing. You try to clear her up on rye and you are going to get no place. You try to clear her up on Scientology by telling her how good Scientology is, you are not going to get anyplace because the button she's sitting on is Help, and she's saying, "Help isn't possible." And if you start to clear the Help button with CCH 0, just two-way comm on, "Who could help them? Who they could help? If anybody could be helped? If people could help people?" Clearing up this – these series of ideas about Help – if you would clear those up you'd get an entirely different response.

The bulk of the people you'll ask this question of will tell you they are looking at a picture. The crazier ones will tell you that they are always looking at the same picture: Mother beating Father, or something. They always have this picture. It's always there and visible.

But your first response from somebody that was drinking a quart of rye every morning would be a cognition that they could be helped by being given a quart of rye. Now, you can't clear it up on alcohol for the excellent reason they don't know they're drinking! Drink is a substitute for Help, so is phenobarbital, so are medicos, and god help 'em, so are psychiatrists! They are substitutes for Help. You understand that?

The ones that are much crazier than that can't see the picture at all but it's all there and in full effect on 'em. They've got a screen between themselves and the picture and some kind of a black field here, and the picture modifies everything they do. That doesn't mean everybody that has a black field is being modified, but it does mean that this picture is present and is exerting its influence on the individual. And we get this analogy of a held-down five.

It's almost this: That if you could totally clear the Help button, you might arrive with a total Clear – it's never been done because Help is something like a high-level interchange or communication, very high level.

In other words, this picture, and it is just a picture, no more than that, like modern advertising or anything else, it's always there. You think – you say, "I have a small headache." If modern advertising had its way, your small headache would immediately make you think of Bufferin, and they buy pictures for billboards and they dramatize this thing. And they draw pictures for billboards and pictures on the TV and pictures everywhere encouraging you to think of Bufferin every time you have a headache. The only trouble is there're several other advertising firms that want you to think of Anacin, aspirin and other compounds. So the net result is that when a person has a headache, he thinks of confusion.

Now, to get somebody to participate in anything in a society as it falls apart becomes very difficult. Even the psychologist recognized this. He said, "You should be able to get these people to participate." He considered a mark of lunacy the inability to participate.

Now, when this fellow here that we're looking at has several pictures, one right after the other, and they're all stacked up, no matter what he does he sees the whole conglomeration, he's got that many held-down fives. And you have here a picture of a person who isn't a Clear.

Funny part of it is, participation has very little to do with it because it doesn't crack up on the button Participate; it doesn't crack up on a doingness process like, "With whom could you participate?" That doesn't work as a process.

Now, where do we get this term "Clear"? It's off the button on an adding machine that says "clear." That's the very, very, very esoteric source of the word; the extremely mystic and romantic source of the word. If you look on most adding machines, there's a little button over here and it says "clear" on it. What's that mean? It means something very, very elementary: It's simply when you press the button, the picture on the adding machine, if it's in good shape, turns from this over to simply the guy. In other words, the held-down fives would all clear. A Clear can clear his thinkingness, and his thinkingness is clear. It is cleared of these mental image pictures. Now, there isn't anything else in the mind but mental image pictures. I hate to have to say this, but that's the truth. The mind is composed of various assortments of mental image pictures accompanied by postulates saying they will do so-and-so and such-and-such and combine in such-and-such a way. Of course, there are those of us who have run into machinery in the mind, big machines of one character or another. These machines are, again, simply influencing devices.

But Help, cleared, brings them into participation. So we find people being "only ones" on the highway. There they go down the highway and there's cars passing, you know, both sides, they're all directions, they're over the top and bottom part. They wouldn't know the difference.

Now, whether you say that all there is in the mind is the picture, we still have this question – well do you consider this machinery that handles the pictures part of the pictures? I'm afraid that you'd have to, to some degree.

Before the society started to fall out of communication with itself, as you drove along the road you waved at everybody. You were in communication with other drivers. And now only certain drivers driving certain model cars communicate with one another. And they communicate according to a protocol and etiquette.

But an elementary look at this – and I've shown you this trick at other congresses – I'll show you again in the hopes that you will use this on groups.

My grandfather actually dragged me around this country before it had any roads. He was driving a Model T Ford; it had the most wonderful ability to go totally cross-country. Somebody nailed, I think, a half a dozen signs up on trees – tin signs – saying "The Lincoln Trail" and so forth out west and that was supposed to be a road. It was quite interesting.

Works like this: What is the mind? Well, what is this thing called the mind? Well, there're only a few factors with which we are dealing. The first factor is the material universe, and if you look around you I think you will find the material universe. If you feel around you, even close up, you will sense something of the material universe. Now, why don't you do that; why don't you just look around and see the material universe.

He'd run across motorists that had been there for two months waiting for a wagon to get back from town, some freight outfit or something, to bring back a carburetor or new tire or something. You went thirty miles to a blowout, that was usually what it averaged. Good tires in those days; must have been made by the same guys that are making our Vanguards and things.

All right. Now, that has to do with the material universe. Ordinarily, this is covered by the sciences of physics and chemistry. They're not covering them so well these days, but they're doing all right.

Anyway-they were, by the way, they were foreign tires all of them. Now, I understand the US government is going to sue us for maligning foreign scientists in the country. Boy, have they been overwhelmed.

I got a frantic wire the other day from a scientific congress that was occurring in, I think, Boston, no, pardon me, Boston, [accented] and they wanted to know if I had any proof I could offer that thought created matter. They'd suddenly stumbled onto some mathematical proof of this one way or the other, and they wanted to know if I had any proof of this at all, and I sent 'em back a wire telling 'em that, yes, we'd had somebody mock up large mock-ups and stuff 'em into his body and increase his weight thirty pounds in a few weeks and then, by getting the reverse flow, to reduce his weight back again. We've actually made that experiment. That's quite an experiment to make, by the way, because it takes a devilish lot of auditing and the fellow has to be awfully good at solid facsimiles and mock-ups and things of that character before you can perform the series.

Anyway. You know what Oppenheimer said under an investigation up here? Somebody said, "You sound by your tone, Mr. Oppenheimer, Dr. Oppenheimer, you sound by your tone that you are contemptuous of Dr. Teller". And Oppenheimer said, "No, no, no, no. I think he's a good promoter." Anyway, we take this pc way back when everybody was willing to help everybody. In an old car if you saw somebody else stopped alongside of the road, you stopped. Now you snarl and go by. Well, this was participation in the game of motoring; participation in living. People participated.

But we have done it, taking thought alone, without increasing somebody's diet, and increasing his weight and decreasing it. So, I sent 'em this data and I got back a highly enthusiastic wire saying that my data, as sent to them, had been of great assistance, so I hope they were all edified. That's all I've heard about it.

Now, when they feel they can no longer help each other they stop participating. Do you get this? The way it lines up is – sounds like I am really straining at it here quite a bit – but the truth of the matter is the way it lines up is quite interesting. They don't fall out of participation because they stop participating; they fall out of participation because they become certain that they cannot help or be helped. Now, that in itself is quite a discovery on the part of Scientology this last year It's a rather interesting thing because it tells you, to some degree, how you could create a third dynamic.

But that's the material universe. Now, it's generally solid and it has spaces in it and small fragments of particles drift through it and various phenomena occur, all upon a rather standardized agreement. You have things like gravity and all that sort of thing. Those are the laws of the physical universe. Now, man understands these fairly well. He doesn't understand the source; he doesn't understand a lot of things about it. He's made the mistake of saying, "conservation of energy." It's rather interesting; I don't know that anybody has actually really carried out a proof of conservation of energy. In other words, you burn up a piece of paper and collected all its component parts, you have the same piece of paper again in terms of weight and mass, because I don't think it'd be possible to do that. To collect the heat, take the heat, the smoke, the ash, and recondense these things again. I know if I could burn a piece of paper and then recondense all the things released from the piece of paper, I'd consider myself, well, not a genius, but pretty good.

In Dianetics we said anybody can audit anybody. Still true, still true. Results might be quite variable, but it's still very true.

I don't know if they've ever done this, but it's nevertheless an accepted fact; and it is the foundation on which the material universe is built – conservation of energy – in the scientific mind. His stable datum for physics, chemistry and so forth is conservation of energy. Always is here, always was here, never went no place, ain't never been no place, never will cease, ain't not begun. You get the sort of an idea? I state it grammatically like that so that you will get the degree of respect I feel for it.

But h-o-o-o-o-w the great universities wept, ah, how they cried! They had to install additional rain spouts, sewers and gutters I think at State – Seattle, Washington, at the University of Washington when it said actually that somebody could help somebody! And the psychology department went nuts! And it went on the air with paid advertising saying how Dianetics was no good! They knew that nobody could help anybody and anybody that said so was a traitor and a dog! Isn't that fascinating?

What it is is actually a total apathy of defeat that says, "You can't do anything about it," and maybe some people can't, but I'd consider myself invalidated if that were the case. Anyway ...

In other words, there are elements at work in the society that tend to forbid you to help! Any slave master operation then will include in it this element: "You must not help." Do you see that?

The material universe, then, is quite a subject and it lies out there and it's all full of elements and certain laws. And you could see that, so that's real interesting, but something that practically no scientists have ever done I'm going to ask you to do now: That's to locate your body. Now, if you – do you notice you have a body there?

So finally they spend more time preventing people from helping than they do helping anybody, and you then have a society of only ones and you've really got one then. You follow that?

Audience: Yeah.

Now, participation in the session is covered here in Clear Procedure and I want to point out to you that the kingpin, the main cogwheel, the center of participation is Help, and this is cleared in CCH 0 and that's the one that takes the stress.

Well, now, that body is an interesting thing; it's an interesting thing. It's an automaticity of one sort or another which carries on according to certain laws and so on and is composed, they say, of cells and so on. It enters into the field of biology, biophysics, medicine; these are the various fields that cover this body. I notice that they never mention art, but I have seen some bodies that I considered fairly good works of art. In fact, I've whistled at a few, and I think you girls have seen some young men that you considered works of art. So art enters into the body considerably, and also experience enters into the body. Well, a body is a mobile unit and it obeys certain laws.

Now, you think goals would take the stress because we discovered goals long before we discovered this other button, but the button I am telling you about now and the reason I am talking about it strenuously is just because most of you know that goals is paramount. Well, by actual test goals isn't paramount; it is surmounted by Help. There is more to Help than there is to goals, because you have to keep the preclear in-session.

Now, we had some idea of what was going on out here in the physical universe. Well, when we take the body, now we're not on solid ground at all. And the best we can say about it is, "You have a body." Well, just notice it and you'll agree with me. I've had people do this; the first time they ever noticed.

How do you keep him in-session? By maintaining a conviction on his part that help is possible. And if the session breaks apart and he thinks you're being mean to him, all he is saying is Help has breaking – broken down here and you can't help me anymore. Do you understand that? When the session falls apart or he begins to be annoyed, or he begins to be upset, he starts to go anaten, his toes start wiggling, he is going out of session, in other words, and he is no longer with you in an auditing session, the button that has gone to pieces is Help. His belief in your desire to help him has broken up and that's what needs repairing.

Now, the laws and rules that this goes along on are many and extensive, and we used to think they were very pertinent to Dianetics. They really aren't. What we were handling in Dianetics had an influence upon the body, and may have been very well some of the stuff of which a body was built, but we didn't have to worry as much about a body as we thought. The body really belongs in the field of pure creation or religion or medicine or library science, but it belongs somewhere. But the point is, you've got one, and you can experience the fact you have one. Is that right?

Participation in session is therefore – and it's not covered in this book – is therefore more important than any other thing. And participation in the session by the preclear is accomplished by maintaining ARC, but ARC simply maintains this other button called Help.

Audience: Yeah.

His confidence in his ability to be helped, in your willingness to help him and his desire to help you is what maintains, actually, the session. And the funny part of it is that's really all you increase with ARC: desire to help, willingness to be helped, desire to help you, this thing increases.

All right. So much for the body. We've knocked off, now, two parts of the problem with which we are concerned: The problem of the universe and life in it. Two elements here we've disposed of. We could count 'em. And this that I'm doing, by the way, was never done before Scientology; nobody ever said, "Well, there're this many elements and you have to study 'em in order to know about it."

You possibly have said to yourself or somebody has said to you, "There is something terribly wrong with me because I want to help my fellow man." Hardly – I think there is probably hardly a person here who hasn't had that question in his mind. "What is the matter with me that I want to help all the stray dogs? What is the matter with me that every time I see this, this guy at work getting a headache or something like that that I want to give him some help? What's the matter with me, I'm always sticking my chin out? Yeah, what's the matter with me?"

All right. We got the material universe and we got a body now, okay? All right. Now, here's the third one: The mind. The mind consists of pictures, combinations of pictures, and they can be fixed or not fixed or they can be fleeting or they can be purely imagined or they can be copies of the physical universe. They can be all sorts of things. They can be hallucinatory pictures that never existed but you think they did, all sorts of combination, but the final result is that the mind consists of pictures; pictures in their action and interaction against each other. And the action of these two elements we have just named, the physical universe and the body, their action upon the pictures.

As long as you have some desire to help your fellow man, you're probably well and when you lose it you're sick. It should be translated every time in, "What's the matter with me that I no longer wish to help my fellow man?" That is the make-break point of a case! "I no longer want to help."

So, here's two elements and we get to this third one, the mind. All right. Can you get a picture of a cat? Do so. Get a picture of a cat. Got the cat?

Well, we see in the natural course of human events – some organization, let us say the X Club, let's say the X Club is building a tremendous number of rockets and doing all sorts of things. And the X Club, to get this thing done, needs the help of certain people over here. And then the X Club says to these people, "You're saboteurs, you belong to the wrong organizations and you can't help us anymore!" That's what they say. First thing you know these scientists over here will start to fight the X Club.

Audience: Yeah.

"Russia is not willing to help the United States, and the United States hasn't said a word about helping Russia for a very long time, so we can conclude they will inevitably go to war." Simple as that.

All right. Good enough. Now, that, in some small form, is the mind. Now, if you didn't see a cat, you just saw some blackness or something like that, you probably still have the idea of the cats on the other side of the blackness. You've still got a picture of a cat. A lot of people have got very good cats, some of 'em got very bad cats, and some cats are behaving and some cats are misbehaving. But the point is, they're mental image pictures of cats, right?

Now, when you can break life down to a simplicity that becomes understandable, you can certainly break an auditing session down or an international situation. That preclear who no longer believes in this help interchange, and in whom the help interchange is not improving, is a preclear you are eventually going to fight with. And that's the anatomy of the breakdown of ARC in sessions.

Audience: Right.

Years it's taken to find this out. And that's why I say one of these days, they'll say, "You're stupid, all you know are these simple truths of Scientology."

Huh? All right. Now, you have the mind there in its simplest form and combination. Now, in Dianetics and Scientology we could show you some things to do with that picture of a cat which would astonish you. Put another cat in front of the cat you just mocked up; put two cats out there and hold them rigidly, facing each other.

In other words the breakdown of the dynamics is on the button of Help, and those people who are actively sabotaging help are sabotaging the dynamics. Those people who wish to pass laws saying that you cannot assist your fellow man have no ax to grind at all for their own advancement or anything else; they're dramatizing the primary engram of the dynamics – help: "no help," "must not help," they don't even wish to benefit themselves when they pass laws and say "you mustn't help anybody."

You get an interaction between the cats?

One of these days I expect to see mothers suddenly dragged off to jail because they administered some lemon and honey to the kid in the middle of the night when he had a cough, dragged off to jail, fined a thousand dollars, put in prison for ten years. "She dared help somebody!"

All right. You get all sorts of weirdities of this character in the mind. But the mind basically is just this picture that I've asked you to put out there. Got it? This really is this sort of thing. Now, you can let go of the cat if you want. But if we had a picture of a cat here, one way or the other, and this cat was always here, we would say to ourselves – we would say to ourselves, "Well, I think I would eat dinner," and we'd have a slight, tiny, little feeling that we ought to say "meow." Or we'd say, "Well, I think I'd go to bed," and the thought would occur "after I put the cat out." "I think I'll go for a drive in the car; I hope no black cats cross my track." This cat, see. Always a cat, a cat, a cat, a cat, a cat. That's the held-down five, you get the idea?

Course it isn't at that point yet, but you know that a liberal interpretation of the medical laws for instance in the state of Texas tell us that we would have to drag every mother off to jail who said, "Johnny, your forehead is hot." Did you realize that? She'd be practicing medicine without a license.

Well, the mind enters this picture into thinkingness; you got that? Now, that is the thing we're talking about. It stores memory, it has lots of uses, but when it is a totally fixed, never banished, pc-not-aware-of-it-at-all picture of a cat, it actually enters a cat into the thinkingness of a person. So that's very elementary and it could be much more complicated than this, and has. But the basic element of the mind is this picture of a cat. We've disposed of three elements now: The material universe, the body, and the mind. What we mean by mind, when we say mind: Picture of a cat.

Now, therefore all auditing is based upon that fact, and when you find an individual who can't be helped or doesn't want to be helped, you're not going to get any auditing out of the session at all. Amusing, that we strain so hard at it and it's so simple.

All right. Get the picture of the cat back, now, or put another one there. Got that picture of a cat again?

I saw an auditor on staff one day clearing Help with a preclear who was a wino, who was a bad-off boy if there ever was one; and this staff auditor was clearing him on Help. And for two hours and a half the fellow said, "Well, I guess I could help myself with some medicine if I was going to help anything. No, you couldn't help me!" And finally very surly, "No, you couldn't help me! No, I couldn't help you! No, that's not possible!"

Audience: Yeah.

This was going on for two hours and a half. Finally, finally the auditor kept on plugging with this Two-way Comm, and he finally got it up to this remarkable point. "Yes," the fellow said, "there is a way you could help me. You could get a couple of fifths of scotch and we could get a couple of Frauleins and go out and have a wild time, and that would help me."

All right. Now, we ask you the sixty-four dollar question: What's looking at it? All right. You are, hmm? Well, now we have to do with thought and a thetan, and that's it. Four elements. The thing that's looking at the cat; the cat; the body and the physical universe. Those are the four elements of study, because the thing that is looking at it can also think. It doesn't need any assistance, we have found; it can create. It doesn't need any assistance in creating. It can register, it can remember, it can forget, it can forecast, it can do all sorts of things. But you could experience it right now just on the basis that it can see a cat because you can see a cat; you got the idea?

But you understand that we did break this button, we did break this fellow through to that point – fascinating.

Now, what is this thing? Well, the first thing we know about it is it isn't a thing. Because it could handle or create masses, meanings and mobilities, it isn't a mass, a meaning or a mobility, unless you mock it up that you call yourself Joe or Ann. You could mock up an identity that goes along with you, but this youness which looks at the cat, which influences the body, which lives in the physical universe, is the total scope of our study. Socrates would die of no work. And Aristotle would have died of horror. Herbert Spencer would've had to have taken up something else, and Spinoza, oh, yes, Spinoza.

All right. Starting with that where do we go? The first thing we have to do is to get the preclear conversant with his body, and his body under control so that he has to – some confidence in his auditor and some confidence in his body's sitting there or staying put while he is being audited on other things, so that he can take his attention off of it a little bit.

Spinoza would've had a few things to say about this. He said, "You have neglected one thing, and that is the creator of all this." And I would've said to Spinoza, if we'd been on speaking terms, I would've said, "If you can find anywhere in this picture of the thing that looks at the cat, the cat, the body that surrounds all this, and the physical universe (the walls), if you can find anything else in here to experience that these elements cannot experience, I will accept whatever you have to offer as an addition. But so far, you have offered an idea, a creator. That's an idea. And this is capable of ideas, so therefore, we don't have any proof." And Spinoza would've had a fit. Or he would've said I was an heretic and had me burned at the stake.

Now, there are various interesting factors involved here, but the main one that you're interested in is that the body under control means the bank under control. If we get the body under control, then we can control the facsimiles of the preclear. If we do not have the preclear's body under control and if the preclear himself doesn't have his body under control, then we do not and cannot venture upon facsimiles or handling pictures. And this is why the old-time Dianetic Auditor had a rough time: he couldn't get the preclear's pictures totally under control, so he couldn't ever be sure that he was erasing the right picture.

Anyway, the point is that our sphere of interest does not have to include any factor we cannot experience. Now, we say, very well. Well, our destiny may be guided by gods, demons, devils and everything else. Sure, there are gods, demons, devils; nobody ever said there weren't. You run into 'em every once in a while, but that's in the realm of experience. Wake up in the middle of the night and have a demon breathing down your neck, why, you know what a demon is. Particularly after you've had too much to drink.

And so you get the preclear's body under control, get the preclear to get his body under control, and after that you can control the bank to some degree.

The point I'm making here is we – it is not vital that we include the factor of a creator; see, it's not vital that we include this in this experience computation.

Now, where do we go if you get the bank under control? Now, what do we do, do we run engrams, do we do anything like that? No, a great – another horrible simplicity has occurred.

Now, you can go out further than that if you wish to and believe in one. But why do you have to believe in one? Now, listen, you don't believe in this stage up here; it's here. You get the idea; there is no solidity of belief in this other thing. Now, I'm not saying there is one or there isn't one, and I'm not even speaking from my viewpoint on this. I'm merely saying that these four elements of the thing that looked at the cat, the cat, the body and the physical universe take in that which we take in and work with. And, get this, we have not found any further elements necessary to the solution of the finite human problem.

We know now – for the first time I found out this – this is actually an earthshaking discovery and it's very hard for me just to tell you just like this with no dramatics because it's – it's the end of the road for Dianetics and to just tell you right out like this – I probably ought to write it on a piece of gold paper or something like this, because it's something that we really worked for! See?

Now, that is quite remarkable. No other elements have been necessary than these elements, or elements of this kind or class, to the solution of the finite human problems. Well, that doesn't necessarily solve everything of all time; it doesn't tell us a lot of answers to various things. But as far as we're concerned, it goes as far as we need to go to attain this thing called a Clear.

What is a mental image picture? It is a piece of knowingness. How does he see it? He doesn't. Except probably by telepathy. How do you see the wall? Probably by telepathy. But that isn't the important discovery.

To say that we don't need to know a great deal about the creator, the supreme being, or lots of other things to get the problem into workable form is actually quite a milestone, because you'll find that early philosophy was totally involved with trying to guess the identity of something they could not sense, feel, measure, experience, and they lost themselves entirely in this morass of speculation and religious argument – ecclesiastical commotion. They finally started burning each other at the stake because they couldn't get an agreement on the subject, and when man starts burning himself because he can't agree with something of this sort, why, I'd consider he was a bit adrift, wouldn't you?

As far as mental image pictures are concerned, no matter what they are of; the preclear mocks them up himself; always.

I don't say that it's dangerous ground to speculate in it, but you don't have to. Now, you can go ahead and have God and all the rest of it; nobody's arguing with this at all. Not even trying to say, "You must not," but neither saying, "You must." Big difference there.

Why he can mock up facsimiles so tough, so hard and with such pain and pressure in them, they practically kill him! What skill that takes. So we learn this other factor: that a person's ability never diminishes, but that his willingness and his knowingness do.

There is an organization, I think they have a place over – called – I've forgotten the name of the place; it's someplace in Italy, I think. And it tells people they must. And any time you solve things with telling people, "If you don't believe, we are going to get you excommunicated," you don't have a science folks, you have a hoax. If a man cannot be persuaded by the reasonability of a thing, it ain't. As far as he's concerned, it isn't. So, why bother?

Everyone is as able as he was billions of years ago, his ability never diminishes, but his willingness diminishes and his knowingness can be monitored.

Now, you can show people this: The material universe, they've got a body, they've got a picture of a cat and they look at the picture of the cat. It's the first time they've ever seen the four elements. Of course, you've seen all this trick before, but these four elements laid out in that nice parade and we say, "Well, those are the things we need necessary to handle this particular problem of human beingness or human livingness, and we need no further elements than this."

Now, that's – those are important factors.

Now, it's necessary to know that in order to keep looking in the spheres I've just outlined for all the other things we think might be there but can't be sure about, and we'll find each one of them falls into a class.

Now, I didn't go so far as to say the physical universe around you is something you are mocking up. We've already said that. We don't care what the physical universe is at this state, because it is not included in this particular sphere – the Clear.

A Clear, then, is a person who can have a universe – this would be the ultimate definition – around him, you see, and have a body. No more than this; not a good universe or a clear perception of it or anything else; that was never said with regard to a Clear. Nothing said about really the condition of the body beyond this, that he had no psychosomatic illnesses. In other words, mentally caused illnesses; these were gone. No other condition of body; he wasn't – he didn't grow horns or wings or something of the sort. He had a body. And now, the important thing about the Clear: He could have a picture of a cat or not have a picture of a cat, but if he had the picture of a cat, according to our later observations here, he would have to mock it up, but it would be a good picture of a cat; you've got the idea? He doesn't have any residual automatic pictures. He's Clear. In other words, there are no pictures that jump up and modify his thinking. He has taken the responsibility for his own thinkingness. He does his own thinkingness, and this isn't done with anything but him.

It takes, I would say, using this procedure here – using this procedure here, at a safe guess – this is a guess now because it isn't an average time – this is probably somewhere between fifty and three hundred hours to Clear, varied by the auditor, varied by the state of the preclear.

Now, he could modify his thinkingness if he wants to, but he doesn't have to. He can resort to pictures to tell him what to think, but this is kind of odd because he knows everything that he could make a picture of; anyhow, if he's no longer holding on to pictures. So he could do this sort of thing. He could say, "I wonder what I read in that textbook," mock up a picture of the textbook and read the textbook. But of course this is funny because the truth of the matter is he read the textbook and something about him persuaded him that he had better forget the textbook. And that thing was a picture. He had a picture that told him it was better to forget the textbook than to remember it.

The shortest look I have seen at it so far was about thirty-two hours, something on that.

Well, a Clear, in our very modern definition here, would have to a marked degree the power to forget and remember at will, but that is not included in the basic definition. A Clear is simply then a thetan who can have but need not have pictures and who knows that he's mocking them up, who doesn't then, therefore, have neuroses, psychoses or psychosomatic illnesses, which would be illnesses caused by pictures. Do you understand that? It becomes a terribly elementary thing. It doesn't even mean he's outside his head. That's a special kind of Clear; that's a Theta Clear. There're two types of Clears that've been discussed in the past. One is MEST Clear, the other is Theta Clear. Theta Clear is outside of his head and a MEST Clear is still in his head.

We have these exact processes, and as he runs these processes on mental image pictures he's creating mental image pictures and he creates mental image pictures and creates them and creates them and betters his ability to create them. I won't tell you that sooner or later he will be able to create one good enough so that everybody can see it. But we don't care about that.

But here's the main thing; here's the main thing that you'd associate with this definition, is the individual doesn't have obsessive data fed in all the time by mental image pictures that he is aware of but not aware of; you get the idea? His own thought patterns are not modified by pictures of experience, and that is a Clear.

He merely creates them better and better and better. All right, let us say we audit this individual for two and a half hours, and before the session we have him go back here to this point when he was eighteen years and we have him look at a picture of the garden. All right, we bring him back up to present time – this is the test that you can make, any of you can make. The beauty of Scientology is that its results don't vary when you start testing and looking for phenomena from auditor to auditor and person to person. It isn't like physics. Physics are getting very variable on -.

Now, how do you create a Clear? Well, boy, that's so easy today. To think how hard we worked, how we slaved to create Clears, and how many techniques and processes we've gone through on this Project Clear. We even sort of went into apathy about it about 1954, and I don't think you've heard much mention of it until all of a sudden I brightly and alertly and suddenly sat up and said, "Project Clear, let's go!" It was without – it was a change of pace, that's for sure.

You take him back up here to present time, and you audit him, making him create mental image pictures; create them and create them and create them in different ways and do certain exact things with them. Took a very long time to find out what were the exact things you did with a mental image picture to bring it up to tremendous improvement. There's a certain ladder you have to climb with regard to that, and it's – the steps are given in that book. All right.

This one we didn't need. We didn't need to say anything more about Clear. Everybody was getting along perfectly happy; they'd forgotten it, forgiven it. They'd forgiven me for getting the idea, which I think was darn nice of 'em, by the way. But I hadn't forgotten, and I'd been lying in wait, stealthily. Waiting, waiting for a moment to pounce.

As we work with him, he can see that his created images are now better, and at the end of the 2 1/2-hour session we take him back here to the age of eighteen and show him the garden.

Now, truth of the matter is, Scientology has never bloomed and blossomed with a brass-band approach since 1952, 53; just never has. Fifty-three was when it was really in swing. Simply because I never let it. Now, this is an interesting confession to make, right here in front of you and God and everybody. But, boy, I had a curb bit on that thing that tight, and I'll tell you why: Because a sudden and sweeping popularity of this subject, such as Dianetics experienced, would have interrupted, as Dianetics did, the sedate and even course of investigation and compilation of data and the discovery of what really made things tick. And if Scientology had ever been let out of hand so that all of a sudden there were brass bands going on at every corner, selfishly I can tell you I wouldn't have gotten my work done.

Now, in old Dianetic days, if we'd shown him the garden twice, it probably would have gotten a little dimmer the second time; and if we showed him three or four times we would have been erasing the garden to some slight degree every time we took him back there. So I'm just throwing this in because it's not an influencing factor.

That's about what it amounts to. Because I knew approximately where we were going, and I knew we weren't there. I knew that we were better off than man had ever been off on the subject of the mind; we knew more, we were doing more things, we were more able, we were learning all the time new things, we were progressing regularly and well; but we weren't there. We just weren't there. I couldn't give you and rattle off to you in 30 seconds a definition of exactly where a person was going. I could've said, "Well, he's a Clear," but that was not an action definition. That is a state, not the way to get there. That was the location in space, not the road map of how to arrive.

We take him back here after 2 1/2 hours of this drill in which he has bettered his mock-ups and the facsimile of the garden will have been bettered to the exact degree that he bettered his mental image pictures.

Imagine me, I was sitting back here all this time, drawing this road map like mad; we already knew – there, see? Working like mad to finish a road map. Well, if Scientology had ever started to boom beyond control so that it would've overflooded every boundary and border of orderly progress, I'm afraid I would've been the first one to sit down and scream, and said, "No! Let's not be foolish here. Let's have a few things in the bag."

And so we get something that looks like this.

These things we have to have. We have to know how to train an auditor. We have to be able to take anybody, even a psychologist – . You think that's a joke, but anybody that's been in the Academy knows that it's a horrible fact. He has been untrained as a Scientologist so that we have to really bring him back up to a human being and then train him. But we had to have things that would train even him, otherwise we'd throw away the bulk of the people interested in the mind in the United States. That would've been a hell of a loss, wouldn't it have.

Next session we do the same thing. We take him back, show him the garden at the beginning of session. He'd say, "Ah, yes, yes, it's just like it was yesterday afternoon. Yeah, lots of space here and so forth and the roses and everything's fine." And we run him 2 1/2 hours, we take him back and show him the garden again; he's liable to tell you, "Yes, it's just the way it was before. The way it was before, yeah, you can feel the loam in your hands and the roses are all smelling beautifully and so forth, and you can hear birds singing over there."

Of course, there're a lot of us say, "No loss at all." But we needed to know how to train people. Well, we didn't have that until 56 – middle of 56 started to really get our teeth into it and get going well. But we were still learning like mad in the middle of 57. We're still learning, but the pressure is off. I mean, we know that, worst comes to worst on almost any point, we've got five or six different answers that we can throw into the breech. You know, if anything goes entirely wrong, or something like that, with a student, we can do something.

Next session, we run him back to the beginning and have him take a look at it. He tells us the same thing he just told us. We bring him back up to present time, for 2 1/2 hours we improve his mental image pictures, take him back and show him the garden. And he can say, "Yes, yes, it's very nice, it's like it was before and so forth. You can walk around the house, see the street going by and see what's going on down in the next block and notice all the aphids crawling on the rose bushes," and bring him back up to present time.

Here's the interesting thing, then. If we couldn't train a Scientologist to audit and audit well and successfully along the line, then it wouldn't matter what he knew. What he knew would've been a dead loss.

In other words, in every case tested it has been found that a person's bank, engrams, mental image pictures and all the rest of it improve to the degree that his own ability to mock up improved, and that was the little tag that was sticking out sideways that solved the puzzle.

Now, we had to train in such a way that we didn't make a little martinet that went through a certain number of answers. We had to train him in the fundamentals that he was built with, his own fundamentals of beingness so as to expand that beingness and ability; and if we could do that, we had an auditor who could think, who could learn and who could operate.

Give you an idea. Go into an insane asylum, you'll see people lying in prenatal positions doing prenatal things. You'll find patients lying around like babies. Undoubtedly you would find somebody going through a sperm sequence. A psychiatrist never identified that, you know, where the body just fishtails on the bed, you can't even bend your hand that way. The body just bends like this, back and forth on the bed, obsessively and nervously – sperm sequence – that's all on record.

All right. Well, we've got the mechanics of that pretty well straightened out, but how about an organization, huh? You think I was gonna sit in there forever with these big piles of – I'm a martyr! Most people are martyred after they've done something, you see, but I've been martyred here for years by piles of paper that high, paper, paper, paper. Dispatches, letters, reports.

Nobody asked where all these pictures came from or why this behavior could take place, and evidently the psychiatrist thought that it was totally causeless, nothing was causing this behavior, so, of course, he never solved any part of it.

Somebody comes in – used to come into the office to see me and I'd part the papers like this and look out of the peephole at him, and so on. On business matters, if you please, on any kind of activity that you could name except research, I never minded research papers; that was my job. But business, you know, buying desks and nonsense of this character. Ah, we didn't have organization down, not even vaguely.

We found out what was causing it. It was the picture influencing the body. If you dispensed with the picture, you dispensed with the influence. Now, we've gone further than that. We have a method of remedying an individual's making the picture in the first place! You see how far we've gone. We get a different type of being out of this rather entirely.

Now, you look at this Washington organization now; if you were to go over to London and look at London, and London's just had a little recent upheaval. We changed Association Secretaries, which always causes randomity of some sort, but you'd find a pretty smooth-running organization sitting over there in London right this minute, and I haven't been there for a year. You get the idea? Almost a year; I was back there in April, a little while. But I haven't been there to work at it since October of 1956, and it's running just fine, fine. It's doing its job; everybody's doing his job well.

Now, this does not say that a Clear has a thousand IQ – it doesn't have too much to do with his IQ. Another great step that we took here recently – not great because I say so, but I think you'll agree with me – is we discovered what was at the bottom of intelligence. What's intelligence? Well "intelligence" is what the test measures – one fellow classified it as – with some truth. But how could you improve IQ at will? How could you improve IQ?

Well, why is this a triumph? You say, "Well, General Motors's been doin' it for years! General Electric, Prudential Insurance, they all got it licked!" Listen: None of those jokers could've licked a Scientology organization. Now, you think that is a funny statement, but it happens to be a very true one, because their organizations look like about three kids' blocks piled in a row compared to a Scientology organization. Scientology organization is about the most complicated thing you ever had anything to do with. It is so complicated that only a good auditor survives long on staff. It's complicated.

Now, we've known that we could improve personality or improve IQ and we sort of took either/or. And we did this test during the last ACC. It was done on staff and it was told to the last ACC but I want to tell you about it.

I'm not trying to impress you with the fact, but we run about 15 businesses at once, and practically anybody in the organization has got to sort of pitch the answers straight up.

That is withholding – the ability to withhold – the ability to keep something from going away – is intelligence. Naturally, if an individual feels that his memories can leave him, which is rather odd, he can then forget them, can't he? Well, if he has a high ability to keep things from going away, which is to say "withholding them from things" which is the same thing, his intelligence goes up.

Now, how do you run such a thing? What is the pattern on which it operates? You probably aren't convinced, but in most organizations, the post of shipping clerk is supposed to be a very lowly post; and the shipping clerk walks over and he picks up an invoice, looks at it, reads the number off of it and goes over here, takes the item off the shelf; brings it down here, wraps it, puts it through a postage meter and goes out to mail. He goes over here and he takes his inventory books and he sees he's short on this many items and he orders 'em. And his job's done.

Improve an individual's ability to withhold and you improve his intelligence without impairing his communication because he's now withholding sensibly. He can understand what he is withholding. He knows what he is withholding. Before he just obsessively withheld it, and got it plastered all over his face.

He doesn't manufacture the books, or see to their manufacture, or have anything to do with that. He certainly doesn't manufacture tapes. He certainly doesn't buy all sorts of commodities of one sort or another, and he certainly doesn't keep check on people's memberships. He doesn't double in brass in a dozen other capacities like a Scientology Shipping Clerk does. And it isn't because we are simply organizing it sloppily. Actually, it's about the neatest-looking shipping department you ever had anything to do with. But it's just got so many things that happen in the shipping department, for lack of any other place to have them happen, that the guy's gotta be a confounded raving genius to run the joint, just the shipping clerk. So it has to really have a pattern.

Now, therefore, IQ is to a marked degree, a solved problem – in other words intelligence. The biggest gain that I think that we have had, if I remember rightly, the biggest single gain that we've had was somebody at the Academy and I think we had a jump of seventy-nine IQ. Now, that was, I – as far as I know, the biggest gain, but that is in no wise an extreme; we have done almost this well in other people, if I remember rightly.

Now, hardly anybody here is without business experience of one kind or another. You know that a hospital is very easy to run. Well, you know, a hospital's hard to run, okay. But what's it consist of? Well, it consists of some doctors and some nurses and some rooms and you put people in, you have administration cards and a filing system and you have a laboratory, vestments, and it all goes on these routes and it's – . Boy, if we only had to run just a hospital. Gee, wouldn't that be lovely? If there was no more activity involved in the organization than the hospital -. A hospital-type organization would compare to the HGC, and the HGC has almost as much administration as a hospital. And if it blew up any in size so that we were getting 40 or 50 preclears a week, it'd be far more complicated than a hospital, because patients in a hospital are not permitted to have opinions.

But "IQ" would be – an ability to pose and resolve problems is the best way that we could think of to define it, and you'll find that in The Original Thesis. A little more complicated definition of that, but more or less just to pose and resolve problems.

We have all the administration and so forth, in the final analysis, in embryonic form, in the HGC; but that's running right alongside of the Academy, which has all the administration that any school has to have. Now, you just start adding this up. A research department, a testing department, a this department, a that department; and the first thing you know, you're looking at one of the most complicated businesses. And we didn't find out until recently, until we had it licked, that it was one of the most complicated businesses that anybody ever looked at; and that was why, whenever we have brought in a good businessman from the outside, the guy has just sunk. He's just gone down, and there was a little bubble on top of the water with the words "glug" coming out of it.

Now, what about this fellow who has "the problem mechanism"? As an individual gets a problem, you will find the problem, even though it is out here in the material universe, will have a mental image picture someplace near his body. This is quite interesting.

He actually has – we've had some very good ones, and they've really just gone by the boards: They just couldn't face it.

You can ask people this and they don't even tumble to the fact you're asking them anything very strange. You say, "You have a problem?" The fellow says, "Oh yes, oh yes, a very bad problem. A couple of fellows I know are very mad at each other and so forth." You say, "Where is that problem located?" And the fellow is liable to stutter a little bit to tell you, but he'll finally tell you, "Well, out here."

So we thought that we were being complicated and peculiar. We thought that we were being odd, you see; we just thought that we didn't know our business. And we worked and worked and worked to get some sort of organizational form that'd function, and when we finally got the whole thing organized, we found out that we were running one of the most complicated businesses in existence. Man, it's complicated and if we hadn't had that complication licked and if we had gone and experienced a tremendous wave of popularity, we would've gone down with the most resounding crash you had ever heard of. We couldn't have stood the traffic. In other words, we had to have the organizations organized in such a way that everybody had means of handling things.

Isn't that a funny thing for him to say? Doesn't occur to him that it's a funny thing for him to say, but he will, he will tell you the problem is out here. It's located in space, it is an energy mass, it is a thing. It isn't something out here in the physical universe so much as a thing.

Now, people in the organizations have hats. A man can actually be relieved off of a post and take over another post, and somebody can take over his post without causing very much randomity. In other words, it's pretty smooth – smooth-looking picture now; it's easy to handle.

Now, the funny part of it is if he poses a solution to that problem it comes closer to him. And if he poses another solution to the problem, it comes closer to him. And if he poses another solution to that problem, this little energy picture, mass comes closer to him and he becomes the problem. In other words, every time he solves a problem, he collapses the problem on himself.

But it was a complicated business and we didn't even know it. We were running more darn separate functions and finding each function necessary. Why? Because we're an embryonic civilization. We don't look at things or do things the way the civilization around us is looking at things and doing things. So therefore we have to take unto ourselves those functions which cannot be performed for us, and these are legion.

That tells you, then, that there is a physical sensation involved in the solving of problems if you have not licked this mechanism of problem closure.

So, what do we have here? What do we have here? A tremendous number of technologies that had nothing to do with research and investigation had to be developed before we could get anywhere. Now, all of these or the major ones have been developed and patterns exist for their continuance, so only now it is safe to do something in the form of research and investigation and say, "Well, here we are." See, it's only necessary to be up to snuff so that we don't have any huge backlog of research to do; tremendous numbers of unsolved problems that we will suddenly confront and go appetite over tin cup with in the middle of a tremendous popularity. It would be fatal to get a tremendous popularity and find out that nine-tenths of the people of the United States had lopsided epicenters. We may have only collected the people who didn't have lopsided epicenters. Maybe you're the only people in the world that don't have lopsided epicenters, see? You can actually get into some peculiar ones.

The government down here could no more solve a problem than they'd stand up and get themselves shot, because it must hurt. In other words, as long as they just keep that problem out here and don't do anything about it and don't solve it, and let it drift and get complicated in some other fashion, it'll stay out there, but the actual mental mechanism is that if they solve it, it'll snap in on them.

Now, you think that's funny. I didn't know anybody in the whole world had a black field. The total innocence with which I engaged upon Dianetic processing. I actually handled a tremendous number of cases, from 47 to 49, lots of cases, cases, cases, cases and nobody ever walked up that had a black field or an invisible field. They all had a field. They could all see pictures. And some of 'em were afraid of their pictures and some pictures were dim and some pictures were sharp; so I simply educated them to have good pictures, audited 'em and found out later on that I simply gave them tremendous confidence with regard to their pictures, the pictures blew and they didn't have pictures anymore and I had Clears!

Well, don't you worry because your solutions are so unpopular in the plant or the office, because people say, "Oh, you've just got another solution." That solution hurts them; it snaps the problem in on them. That is the mechanism of "obsessively keeping it from going away."

And then, the spring of 1950 – sounds incredible, but that's why I say, you may be the only people in the world that don't have lopsided epicenters. Spring of 1950 we got practically nothing but dub-ins and black fields. Hmm.

Because a solution does away with a problem, they lose the problem. They become upset or anxious about losing that problem, so they just snag it closer to them. Do you understand that? They never really do solve the problem, they just bring it in on themselves, in some fashion. That is the normal behavior with regard to the solving of problems, unless you've got this other mechanism licked.

We had one fellow that – we'd keep asking him to – what he was looking at and tell him to get a picture of something or a picture of something else, and he kept saying, "Yes," and he said, "Yes" for a week and then we finally found out we were talking to a circuit and he hadn't seen a picture yet. So of course he hadn't had any alleviation – nothing had been erased.

Now, if you can keep things from going away, and you are experienced in withholding things – keeping things from going away, in other words, pulling things in on yourself if that is no longer on automatic – then you can solve all the problems in the world. No liability at all. So, of course, your IQ goes up. You get it?

Imagine. Well, if we had in the future a possibility of this sort of thing occurring to us, if we hadn't taken care of such random factors well in advance, then we would not be at liberty to be very popular. Do you see that? We could get a sudden sweep, and we weren't up to it with research, we'd never covered it; we could get wiped out, see?

If there's no longer a big liability in the solving of problems then you can have a high IQ. If there's an awful liability and actual physical pain in the solving of problems, you'll be sure that you continue to be stupid! See that, and it all hinges around withholding or keeping it from going away. This is a mental mechanism; it has to do with mental image pictures, image masses and so forth actually snapping in on the individual's body.

So, every time you engaged in a tremendous popularity of the subject, you were also flirting with the destruction of the subject, as long as it wasn't well formed. Do you get the idea? Just like building castles in sand, till you get a little mortar mixed up in 'em so they set right, why, don't let any waves near 'em.

Here is the old mechanism which was learned in psychoanalysis: "You treated somebody's headache and you got the headache." You know that gag.

Now, where do we suddenly ease off? Well, it's sort of like watching a continued picture, you know: You finally get to the place where you came in. And that place is of course this magic word "Clear." You came in with Clear, I hope you don't go out with one.

Well, an auditor who doesn't have "Keep it from going away" licked, gets the preclear's somatics eventually. See?

Now, here – here we have attained this rather easily. I run a fantastic risk, by the way, with any of this material, and so do you. You're liable to go along for years being the people who know all about it; but what you've finally turned out is sufficiently simple that people turn around and look at you and say, "Oh, is that all you know!" We're not in that position yet, believe me.

So a Clear could have almost unlimited IQ with no liability, but an individual who doesn't have this mechanism licked, whipped and squared around (I'm not saying "solved"), has a liability for every solution. So he helps his fellow man, and he says to Mr. Joe Blitz, "Well, Joe, all you have to do is wiggle your right ear, and wiggle your left ear in rotation and you'll no longer have an earache." And Joe finally says, "By golly!" he says, "That's right, no longer have an earache." And-bing! the fellow who gave him the hot dope having solved it now has the earache. Problems are scarce and individuals who obsessively are pulling things in on themselves snap in all of these pains and somatics.

But this whole business of Clear and clearing people and so on has been a dream of many years, and a nightmare of some of those years. Why people suddenly insisted on having totally held-down fives and nothing else, I wouldn't know. Past track: Oh, it was a terrible thing that happened in July of 1950; it was worse than spring of 1950; spring I just got all the black cases in the US; they all arrived the same day, I think. I never seen one before; I hadn't a clue – totally outside of any experience I had.

We have – this is dramatized in one entire field of healing called faith healing. Individuals lay on the hands and take the pain into them – their arms. You know that one? A whole field of healing that goes like this.

Actually, it wasn't till 55 I got this black case wrapped up. Wrapping it up's very easy: Have 'em mock up blackness in the blackness and shove it into the body. And even though he goes anaten, you keep on auditing him. Even though he goes unconscious, you keep giving the commands, he keeps doing it and eventually he remedies havingness of blackness. If this doesn't work, get some black objects and have him keep 'em from going away. It wasn't even anything to worry about!

Now, here's the length and breadth of this Clear project then: To change a personality it was necessary to reduce one down to his basic personality. Now, his basic personality was pretty good, and it wasn't a reduction because all that could happen to an individual's basic personality, it could be worsened, so to find out who himself was, he had to unburden himself. Well, what was he burdened with? Mental image pictures, so you had to knock out mental image pictures and the message which they carried along, the held down fives and you got an individual then able to think without penalty – pardon me, able to act without penalty. He could behave without penalty. And when he could behave without penalty and punishment, oh, boy, how the slave masters hate that one. They think, "Ohhh! What! You mean you're not going to punish everybody all the time?" Completely overlooking the fact that the more you punish somebody, the more of a criminal he is.

The guy comes up with some thin little things that he says, "Yeah, I guess that's a picture." And after a while, why, he puts up a cat and he says "Dyah!" And you say, "What's the matter?"

When he is capable of acting then without immediate liability he actually acts to the benefit of himself and others. But when he acts with the idea that he "must act that way, he has to act that way because horrible things will happen" they always do.

"Hyoo!"

Now, IQ is exactly the same way. An individual who can think without penalty can think. And you have a Clear then able to act or think because it is the right thing to do or the good thing to do.

You say, "What's the matter?"

It is a very good thing for us, and quite by accident that man is basically good, because when you get him swamped-up he turns out to be a good fellow. Before he's swamped-up, he's liable to do most anything. I don't think anybody could have ever been implanted into being good because an implantation is bad for him.

"Well, lllloo!"

Thus, this whole thing about the mental image picture, where do they come from, has been solved. It was a good thing for me that I didn't still have a mechanism whereby all the things snapped in on me because then I would have gotten everybody's mental image pictures, right? And the other thing, what is IQ, and how does it mechanically operate and why, are both wrapped up. Not only that but we have the processes which wrap them up.

And you say, "Tell me what is happening."

But the whole basis of clearing could happen only because of one real discovery which is the definition of where we are going. The definition of where we are going is "Operating Thetan." There's no sense in processing toward Clear as a goal because it is not an action goal. A Clear happens as you process toward Operating Thetan.

He says, "Well, a horrible monster just appeared in front of me!" He'd gotten his first picture; up till that time he was guessing.

Now, what is an "Operating Thetan"? By definition he is a person who can remain knowingly and willingly at cause over life, matter, energy, space and time. Which means that an aberrated person is a person who is unwillingly or unknowingly at effect with regard to life, matter, energy, space and time; and thus any obsession, idea or upset a person has can be readily and immediately traced. He can be put onto cause with regard to that idea or it can be sprung into sight and become known, and he can be cleared up of it in a hurry. So aberration itself is no longer a particular worry of ours because of this definition of "Operating Thetan."

Now, in the middle of 1950, this terrible thing called "past lives" suddenly showed up. From the first thing that happened – one of the first things that happened is the Foundation directors had a total blast-out on the whole subject because they wanted to pass a resolution forbidding anybody to mention them, investigate them, or look at them any further. I consider it very interesting. That was the beginning and the end of my participation in Foundations. That was an interesting thing for anybody – any board of directors of a (quote) "Research Foundation" to do, to forbid the investigation of a certain field. That was because it got over into the schools and got the students excited, 'cause everybody could get a past life, evidently, even when they couldn't get a present one.

Now, it's a very high goal and people have asked me for years, "Why don't we say more about this goal of 'Operating Thetan'? What do you mean by an 'Operating Thetan'? What is an 'Operating Thetan'?" Well, that is an "Operating Thetan": A person who can be at cause knowingly and willingly over life, matter, energy, space and time.

This, by the way culminated – you might not ever have connected the things up, but this culminated really in Bridey Murphy that you heard so much about. And everybody was saying, "Why don't we get in on the Bridey Murphy bandwagon?" And I sat back and laughed very quietly, "Whose bandwagon was Bridey Murphy on?"

The old mystic says, "Well, that's nothing new to me." But, yes it is, because let me clue you, an Operating Thetan isn't anything else, see, we just narrowed the definition down to that definition. It has no further ramifications.

Now, here's the main thing about past lives, and we ran this in the London Express: It isn't getting people into 'em, it's getting them out of them! It isn't their rarity, it's their tremendous abundance; they're all over the place!

So that an "aberrated person" is unwillingly and knowingly at effect with regard to life, matter, energy, space or time.

This fellow is sitting there looking at a picture of a revolutionary British soldier, you know; he's looking at this picture, he sees it quite often. Nobody ever asked this question because nobody knew about mental image pictures; everybody thought that nobody looked at anything, because this opinion was arrived at by people who were totally black fives. You see, we never got any psychologists in to amount to anything before the spring of 50, and a lot of these people are totally black.

So thank you very much. I'll see you tomorrow.

All right. Now here we've got this person looking at the picture; there he is looking at the picture all the time. It never occurs to him that it's a picture he made of something and that it really happened, and what that he pronounces as hallucination, delusion or imagination is too often horribly factual.

Now, you start fishing around with this just a little bit, and he is rather amazed, the first time this picture has ever been joggled, to have the British soldier raise his tower musket and blow the preclear's silly head off! That's why he had it arrested just before the point, see? All you had to do as an auditor was move him a little further on the scene and boom!

Now, where we get a thing like all of a sudden past lives, why, today it would cause us no concern at all. We've been through all that, brother, have we been through all that. Any old-time auditor can tell you more about the past track and American history and Roman history and Grecian history and Chaldean and Babylonian history and history on a planet 200,000 years ago and what they do in space opera and how psychiatrists acted 8 billion years ago and so forth; and of course the society at large, being rather stupid, would sit there with its mouth open and say, "What are you talking about?" Heh, go away with stomachaches, bullet holes in their backs, spear ... That's of course why they're saying, "What are you talking about?" They just don't like the sensation of that spear going straight on through.

Or the meteorites coming in through the windshield as you stand on the bridge. They don't like that, so they say, "What are you talking about? It's all unreal to me." And you say, if you were real mean, you'd-all-only have to say, "I'm talking about those meteorites coming straight on through the bridge shield."

And they'd say, "What do mean?"

"The meteorites coming in straight on through."

And the guy says – he'd say, "I don't know what you mean – only I now don't have a head."

Well, these pieces of randomness we are not likely to run into. We've got this pretty well taped; we know where we're going and we're at a good safe foundation in the field of search, and probably will spend most of our time now researching what's been searched.

Anyway, it's safe to go someplace with this idea of Clear, so in the next hour I'll tell you how to get there.

Thank you.