We talked about auditors and uh… carrying it through. This is the second afternoon lecture, December 13th.

But this is uh… December the 13th, first hour of the evening lecture.

And there hadn’t ought to be any question now about how to fail. I hope I’ve made this very clear, and those who wanna fail with a preclear can take careful note of this. You make him prove that he is doing it, you uh… invalidate him by looking very questioning whenever he tells you anything. Uh… you uh… try to convince him what’s happening and you… you figure out for him what’s occurring. And uh… then you upset him as to what he’s doing, very badly. And then you kick beds and things – kick the couch or something of the sort. Or you drop an ashtray or something, just at the right moment. Or – and this is the best one – you try to make him agree with the real universe.

Now on this matter of new little gimmicks and so forth, you could expect them to occur every once in a while. And sometimes they occur early and sometimes they occur late. I mean, you had the preclear a week ago that could have used it and he’s… he’s dead now.

He gets out and he says, „Well, I don’t uh… see the room very good. I don’t see the room clearly, but I do see the room.“

But uh… you can expect from here on, undoubtedly a little bit of refinement here and a little bit of codification there. Basic theory of the information on which you are working, however, is of one group of data and it’s not likely to do much varying.

And you say, „Well, do you see the ceiling? What kind of a ceiling is it? Oh? Well, I’ll tell you – you’re really in for a shock, because uh… well, no, we won’t tell you now. Just look at the ceiling.“

It is highly likely that you will get codifications of mock-ups, however. You will get something that says „This mock-up is better than that mock-up,“ or „This system of mock-ups apply to that,“ or something of this sort. That’s totally very possible.

Yeah, this is the way to fail. This is the way to fail. Give you a good road map. But I’m more interested in giving you a road map to succeed.

I don’t want you to get upset and say, „All this information now is invalid,“ simply because you see something that a codification of assessment is now done this way or „Although it was stated that this was the limit of Q it is now found that this following modification can take place.“

Now one of the best ways to succeed is to do an assessment on your preclear. And this is the first entering wedge of something that should persist ALL THE WAY THROUGH EVERY SESSION YOU EVER GIVE ANY PRECLEAR. Find out what the billy-o he’s doing! And when he says something, find out what he said, if you don’t understand it. And if he tells you something peculiar that you don’t immediately grasp, find out what he told you and what he’s talking about.

Because a live science is not a static science. A live science grows.

You want data from the preclear. You are not a machine gun, simply firing at a preclear. The whole operation of auditing can collapse with a dull crash if you insist on a one-way communication channel from you to him. Find out what he’s doing. When you give him a mock-up, did he do it? Wait for his ‘Um-hmm’.

In 1894 an old guy that was doing a lot of work on this, a fellow by the name of – not on this; he was just doing work – Freud uh… announced his libido theory. The electronic data which has now led to all kinds of electronic equipment, the formulas that have led to modern electronics, the A-bomb – whether or not these are an advantage, they do demonstrate an advance – were in existence in 1894.

When you say, „Fill the room full of skulls,“ don’t immediately say, „Now turn them all to babies. All right, now move them all downstairs.“

Coincidentally in 1894 then, was the science of electronics and its basic theory. And, in the field of mind, the libido theory.

He says, „Just a minute. I’m trying to get one skull.“

And in 1952 in that field, just taking that as a field of development, we have the atom bomb and we have the libido theory. No advance. That is not healthy.

You say, „All right, now you got them downstairs? All right, now move them all out into the street.“

Now you’ve watched… you have watched the sudden fusion of Western – mathematical thinking, organization, logic and electronics, suddenly fuse with – not Sigmund Freud, or the Greek philosopher – fuse with the data which was left in India about 8200 years ago, and which lay dormant and which was figured out this way and confused that way and was relatively unanalyzed. It was from that body of data that Christianity came; it was from that body of data that many other things occurred. But it was a tremendously valuable mass of material.

He says, „Wait a minute,“ he says, „I’m trying to get this one skull.“

All right, it lay there unevaluated and, of course, was a field of tremendous richness from the standpoint, not of investigation of ‘it’ – more men have gone mad per square inch trying to investigate ‘it’ than any other thing I know.

And you say, „Well, now, that’s fine. Now let’s take the building down at the end of the street and let’s turn it on edge and fill it all full of those babies.“

I was sitting there tonight trying to pretend that this had been a very brave voyage of adventure because it had been so dangerous and there’s so many men fall on their faces doing this. As a matter of fact it has not been a very dangerous voyage. But uh… the point is that an awful lot of men have fallen on their faces in the last century trying to hit this track. Uh… amongst them were Nietzsche, and with him the German nation. Amongst them were Schopenhauer; uh… amongst them were Allistair Crowley. They were all trying to hit this track and they were overshooting, undershooting, round and round; because they were looking at it as ‘It’ and trying to analyse ‘It’ as itself. And trying to apply to ‘It’ its own peculiarities of logic and formulation. And it had no such evaluation.

The guy is already all keyed up and you giving him load on load on load on, until he goes straight into apathy. The fastest way there is to drive a preclear into apathy is not to let him carry out what you said before you give him something else to do.

Needs a dichotomy to work something out. Two things must come together to work something out.

I wish I had a bloody dagger to stick that datum home with, or something. Or I wish I could put on each one of the walls of the room you’ll use in auditing a big sign that says „For Christ’s sakes! Find out what he’s doing!“

So there was that big body of data and all of a sudden we ran into it with electronic material and Western logic, plus the Western belief that it could be done and it wasn’t complicated.

Don’t go writing me a letter afterwards and saying, „Standard Operating Procedure Creative Processing (or something of the sort) doesn’t work on some people. I get these nice, cheerful, quiet little girls and it seems to work all right on them, but every time I try to work on anybody else it doesn’t seem to work on them and therefore I’ve concluded after a vast piece of scientific research, fully as vast as that done in Fairhope, Alabama, uh… that uh… or the Phoenix Psychological Institute – and I’ve discovered that Creative Processing only works on young girls who are rather in an apathetic state of mind. And that it is not applicable to any other type case.“

I ran in ahead of the data this business that all things are basically simple, and had this background of other material. And then I completely neglected that other background of material except where it would cross accidentally once in a while.

You could… you could draw that conclusion if you didn’t find out what the guy was doing. Because this is what would happen: You would only be able to operate with a case that was doing mock-ups rapidly – doing them right and doing them rapidly. That’s the only kind of case they work on. And that would be by great accident.

And I knew these two fields I… I don’t know anybody else in this century or the end of the last one who had these two backgrounds; background in mysticism and uh… occultism – metaphysics, theology, hokus-pokus, voodoo, mumbo-jumbo, magic, spiritualism uh…and so on, who took a rigorous course of Western orientation. You study civil engineering and it is about the roughest discipline there is, clinically because it says it’s there and it’s there and that you will only solve it if you recognize that it’s there and so on.

So you see, your „bap-bap-bap“ type of processing – do it as fast as you like, but wait for that acknowledgment. And if he says something and says, „Mmwoggleemm,“ don’t say, „Well, he’s just muttering in his beard,“ and go on. No, you say, „What did you say?“

And that put one on the track of agreement and a lot of other things. So these two things crossed: This tremendous body of information in the Eastern oriental sphere and this tremendous body of collected information in the occidental, the Western world. And those two bodies of information had never been studied one to the other. I don’t know why nobody from that area about which I have any knowledge whatsoever, in India or the studies thereof, ever thought it worth his while to step out of that field and try to study something else. And I don’t know anybody in engineering who would do anything but get down and swear and spit and get very thoroughly upset at the slightest mention of the word ‘mysticism’.

He’s probably trying to tell you, „Look, I just found out that I am really not in my head, and I’m getting a very clear view of this room from on the ceiling. And the funny somatic I have in my head is that I’m plastered against every ceiling of every room I ever go into.“

You go into Bell Labs now and the toughest, terriblest curse that they can lay on anything is „That has something to do with the spirit or ‘mysticism’.“ It sounds mystical to them and so forth. That is their ultimate for imprecision.

And you’ll find out the damnedest things. They’ll all follow these laws here and these rules and observations, but you have to keep your ear open. The preclear is not noted for talking loudly or being succinct or distinct or anything else.

Now, all of a sudden these two bodies of knowledge went together with a dull crash; monitored by something above that then, it was possible to codify in terms of MEST the capabilities of theta. And that is the trick here: How do you codify in terms of MEST a capability which really is only a small part MEST? And that’s been quite a trick putting it together and codifying it.

And if you don’t have a two-way communication channel with the preclear – pow! He’s going to go into apathy.

And that codification continues. It continues very definitely. So we’re going forward at this moment from… with a… with a very workable process. This process works; it works fast. If you were to suppose that you were in a static with regard to it, completely, you’d be making an error, and would be demonstrating an ignorance of a live science. A live science is one which can still change. It has not reached the end of the cycle of action.

Now I’ll tell you what you can do. You’re not even vaguely working with hypnotism. But hypnotism is in entirely reverse vector – that’s making him agree with it all. Now make him agree harder and harder and harder and harder.

Now one might say that one has gone on the line in curves; that there was a 40 t… 0 to 0, and a 40.0 to 0 in this fashion.

And if you… if you were to do this with a hypnotized subject, if you were to say to him, „All right, now uh… let’s have both of your arms rise in the air. Now cross your legs,“ do you know what’ll happen to the fella? He’ll go straight into a complete squirrel confusion – just immediately. Because he doesn’t have the capacity to carry out two actions at once. You wait until his arms are up before you tell him to cross his legs.

(Why don’t you guys that are coughing mock up some explosions?)

A hypnotized subject can do anything under hypnotism as long as he’s permitted to carry out the orders given, one at a time.

You could say this 40…

So, find out if the guy did it

Did somebody cough in your face?… When did they cough in your face last?… Come on.

You could err on the side of being too fast, but you can’t err on the side of being too slow.

Student: (I haven’t any idea) Well, mock up a doll out there coughing.

Now there’s always some one-way route of error in some subject or other and – in surveying there a couple of them, one of them is, there are only shortening errors in surveying. I needn’t go into this as to why this is, but you take a chain, you put it between a couple of stations and the only error that you can get is shortening. Your chaining is always less than your actual distance. It may only be 7/8ths of an inch a mile, but it’s always less – it’s never more. In other words, there aren’t any compensating errors; you can’t overmeasure and overmeasure and overmeasure.

Student: (Okay) Go on. Mock him up.

All right, it works that way in asking for mock-ups. You can err only on the side of being too quick; you can’t err on the side of being too slow. You can make things dull, but that’s better than to have them too fast.

Student: (Yup)

I’m not telling you to poke, now, or monkey around about it. I’m just telling you that the error that you will make is a shortening error – trying to shorten the process.

All right, mock him coughing real worse than that. Oh, very much worse than that.

This process is so short now, it’s like greased lightning. And you just take a little more time and ask him to do it a couple of more times. And ask him to do it again a couple of times, and uh… only ask him to do one thing at a time. And you’ve got it.

Student: (Uh-huh)

It’s really very simple, but find out what the preclear’s talking about.

All right, get him going into… into spasms of coughing. Now put him behind your back. Have you got him behind your back?

I checked three auditors on this and I found out that in their hands, six cases had gone into slumps and had had to be bailed out, by those same auditors, at a cost of another total of 35 hours of auditing. They’d gone into slumps. Why? Because the auditor had never bothered to find out what they were talking about.

Student: (Yeah)

The preclear said, „Yup-yub-wub-zub-zoob-thub.“

All right. Now have a… have him do a… a… a epileptiform seizure – just heels crashing down on the floor, back arching as he coughs and wheezes. Got it?

And the auditor raced on over it and he says, „All right, now let’s see. Let’s put that… throw that elephant out the window.“

Student: (Yeah) Now take a big can of pepper…

And the preclear says, „Wub-lub-zub-zub-zub.“

Student: (Yeah) and sprinkle it on him so he coughs harder… Now put him over to the right… Now bring him over the left.

And the auditor says, „Well now, that’s difficult. Well, turn him upside-down.“

Student: (Okay)

And all this time the preclear’s trying to tell him, „I’ve got a facsimile of my mother and it’s stuck right square in my face and I can’t get rid of it.“

Now take all this huge amount of sneeze powder and put it on him. And just make him go into just fits. Now change him into a dog doing the same thing.

And all he gets piled on top of that facsimile is confusion, confusion, confusion, confusion. So he has to bust himself loose from the communication line and handle the situation gruesomely, sometimes, enough, by himself. And he parts company with the auditor right there.

Student: (Okay)

I know one case… one case in addition to that that had, I don’t know how many arduous hours of auditing and travail piled on the top of this case by this incredible one: THREE TIMES THIS GUY WAS OUT OF HIS HEAD LOOKING AT THE ROOM CLEARLY, TOLD THE AUDITOR SO AND THE RATTLE AND BANG OF COMMAND WHICH CONTINUED TO HAMMER AND POUND HIM WAS SUCH THAT HE COULDN’T MAKE HIMSELF UNDERSTOOD! And he was STILL getting another process that had NOTHING to do with what he was doing!

Now change him into a cow and stop the coughing, and start the cow chewing cud. (Yeah) Now put the cow behind your back. (Uh-huh) Now have the cow moo gently in appreciation. (Yeah…) Now put her in your time span of last year.

Now boy! Take that to heart. He went into apathy finally about getting out of his head or going anyplace or doing anything. He finally just laid down and quit. That’s a wonderful recommendation, isn’t it, for… for an auditor.

(Okay) All right.

Three times he was! With full visio and full perceptic. And the last time he got out of his head, and he was finally hauled out of his head, he was hauled out just by main strength and awkwardness, with practically no perception, tone down at the bottom – everything shot – and he would… just crawled back up the line with one hundred and fifteen hours of auditing to straighten him out.

Now here on the line… here on the line we have actually, what could appear to be 40.0 to 0.0 – 40.0 to 0 – 40.0 to 0.0 as we come down the line.

Why? This dumb yupwell of an auditor didn’t have enough sense, when he said, „Mup-wup-wub-wub,“ to say, „What did you say?“ And he would have found out the guy was having difficulty making his jaws work because he was out of his head.

The reason I put these things up here is you could say that these are the echelons of something. And what you could do, then, is put up here uh… 40.0, 20.0, underscored at 0.0 as a Grand Cycle; or this cycle or this cycle or this cycle.

Boy, it… it… it just takes COLOSSAL GENIUS to be that dumb! It’s a two-way communication line and always will be a two-way communication line. The preclear wants something to do and wants cooperation in what he is trying to accomplish.

Here was homo sapiens – only we call that 4.0 to 0.0; and here we had thetan plus body – 40.0, thetan is separate from body. And we have the separateness being the top of the scale: The thetan has suddenly gained a lot of space, you see. And at the bottom of it you’ve got a thetan plus body that’s in pretty good shape. And that’s Theta Clear. So we can call this here ‘Theta Clear’ at this 40.0 with a dotted line under it. And we have here this black ‘40.0’ – we have ‘Homo sap’ as a 40.0 with a dotted line under it. And up here at this highest ‘40.0’ – I mean this now – existing black ‘40.0’ here with a whole series of crosses under it, we would have an ‘Operating Thetan’. And up here at the top of the Grand Cycle, God knows how far up, how many 40.0-0.0 stages up above that one with the x’s under the 40.0, we’ve got what? We have got Cleared Theta Clear: Theoretical absolute… a theoretical absolute sitting up there.

There’re certain things which he can’t do. The auditor, by his auditing, makes it possible for the preclear to accomplish those things. If there is something happening to the preclear that is strange and peculiar, like he keeps getting frying pans in his face or something of the sort, just streams and streams of the damn things. Just… and… and every time he tries to get a mock-up, my God! Here’s all these frying pans keep hitting him in the face.

Now here were your bodies of knowledge as they move forward. Dianetics, BOOK ONE, homo sapiens. Boy does he agree with that! But if you use very much of Book… if you used BOOK ONE, you can pretty much maintain homo sapiens. You are well within the field of a therapy for homo sapiens.

The auditor that doesn’t find this out isn’t going to solve it. And he might be so appalled by all these frying pans that he doesn’t communicate it very well and he’s in a sort of a groggy state of being knocked flat, and… and he can’t call ‘em frying pans. He calls them „scllznglumps.“

You start up the line, however, from BOOK ONE and we get into the never-never land of the early days of Scientology. Well, you’ve got overt acts and motivators, and the second you start to run these things out, something else start to happen. And the GE line suddenly opens up and you start to run that a little bit more and the theta line opens up. And… and you’re just on a whole bunch of tracks and don’t quite know where you’re going and where you’re going to wind up.

Now, the auditor doesn’t have to insist on a very intelligible communication, as far as words are concerned, but he wants the idea transmitted. If he wants to continue the preclear coming up the line, he will insist upon knowing what it was – not by asking angrily or ornerily or annoyed or anything like that, but just by asking patiently what it was. He’s got to accept the responsibility of his not having heard it. Not make the preclear feel like the preclear is responsible at all times for being super intelligible.

Until all of a sudden we get to Standard Operating Procedure, Issue One. It’s now Issue Three. And what’s that produce? That produces a Theta Clear.

Now one of the ways that the auditor accomplishes a rise in tone in the case is you get the guy with frying pans running madly into his face – these frying pans are smashing him and so on – is, let’s take the whole confounded universe full of frying pans and tie pink bows on their handles and then put five handles per frying pan. And let’s just make more of it and more of it and more of it and more of it and more of it. Change the frying pans into other things and change in color. Give him more of it until he finds out, „My golly, these things aren’t going to hurt me no matter how many of them there are.“ And he says, „The dickens with it,“ and uh… he… then he’ll handle one frying pan and then he’ll throw the frying pan away.

Now if you were just studying this midground, just to Theta Clear right now, if that’s all you were studying, this could be a very short course, because we can make Theta Clears in an awful hurry. But you’re not studying that. You’re studying at least 40.0 of the Upper Scale – or Operating Thetan.

And you get the idea? He’s got a condition he can’t handle because there’s too much of it? Make MORE of it.

So your goals have advanced. Thus when I give you this material I am demonstrating to you that the button-up is complete up to that middle 40.0, Theta Clear. Every time you get a higher echelon, though, these lower things become more easily done. But when you do them from a higher echelon, you get a higher goal. Here is cause and effect, cause and effect. You cannot make a better homo sapiens, actually, with any other process than DIANETICS: THE MODERN SCIENCE OF MENTAL HEALTH and SCIENCE OF SURVIVAL. You use anything above that level and we start operating on homo sapiens with techniques above that level, we no longer get a homo sapiens. We go into ADVANCED PROCEDURE AND AXIOMS and the fellow starts to fly apart. And he does. We get something… something different. He isn’t acting the same way any more. He isn’t going on the same motivations, he isn’t the same bag of tricks.

Because why? The preclear’s been trying practically half his life to slow this thing down and stop it. Naturally, speed it up. Speed it up. Start it. Make him start it. Now he’s got it started, make him do it again. Now make him increase it.

Now uh… whether… now when we get up here, Theta Clear – we take Theta Clearing techniques and we apply them anyplace to homo sapiens and you are going straight on toward Theta Clear. Now you could take these – and techniques down here at 40.0: DIANETICS: THE MODERN SCIENCE OF MENTAL HEALTH, homo sapiens, and you could re-evaluate those techniques… oh, just re-evaluate them and fix them all up and then use them, and if you expected still to get homo sapiens you’d be very much surprised. You’d not get homo sapiens any more. You’d keep getting a Theta Clear.

In other words, your situation is to take what is… the preclear is unable to do and make him more able to handle it. And handling it consists of placing it in time and space and making it follow a cycle of action – any one of our many cycles of action. Terrific complexity if you wanted to add this up and memorize each command that you would give to a person – terrible complexity. Oh, man!

Here’s Cause and Effect at work: You postulate what kind of an effect you want to achieve, you have to take it from the level of Cause that will produce that Effect.

All you have to know is, you take any item of any kind and make it follow any cycle of action in such a way, on a gradient scale, that the preclear’s able to make it do it.

It should tell you something, then, about processing where you’re not making a Theta Clear. You start using mock-ups and that sort of thing to any very vast degree, you’re going to head toward making a Theta Clear. But you can use them without theta clearing somebody. You get somebody who has a bad shoulder, or something of this sort, and you go on and give them a… give them a push forward.

Now on this communication: If you don’t find out what that preclear’s doing, you’ll be led into some of the weirdest rat traps you ever heard of. „This preclear,“ you’ll say, „this preclear is just sharper… sharper than a well-honed carpet tack, and here he is. Why, my goodness! Look at those mock-ups. Why, he’s just doing wonderfully.“

But if you were to run a low level of this middle 40.0 to 0.0 theta clear goal, somewhere in that area you’d get something like brackets on responsibility and irresponsibility. And the second you start to run brackets on responsibility and irresponsibility, if you start very long… you keep at it very long – Ka Boon! The guy’s going to be out of his head looking at himself. That’s… I am sorry, but it just… just… just happens.

You’ve given him mock-ups and you’ve given him this, and he says, „Yup, yup, yup, yup, yup, yup, yup.“ Can’t feed them to him fast enough, „Yup, yup, yup, yup, yup, yup, yup, yup.“

Now you say we want this effect. We work toward this effect and we have the ritual necessary to produce this effect. And the funny part of our ritual is – never make a mistake about this, by the way. There are guys running around the bush in loin cloths uh… in Colorado Springs and places like that, who think they know something about this business. And all they ever studied is how you give somebody a super-control operation. And they’ll tell you any time you postulate that a fact exists, why a certain number of people will believe it and somebody or other’ll get well.

And you all of a sudden say, „Where was it?“

The guys read this in a Christian Science Handbook or Medical Association, or someplace. He… he didn’t get this anyplace else. Because it doesn’t happen to be even vaguely true, when applied on this level. You get the ritual which works spontaneously without education in it, you’ve got natural law. That is really the definition of ‘natural law’. An engineer and a train do not have to be educated in gravity to start running like hell down a ten-percent grade on a railroad track. You put any engine and any engineer on that ten-percent grade on a railroad track and they will start running like the devil down the track. That’s natural law; that’s the natural law of gravity.

„Well, I’m just… concept of it, let’s see. All right, now, go ahead.“

All right, you get any preclear out here, you get anybody off the street – the guy that runs that… that fiend that runs that streetcar up and down – you get him in here and you start working with what? You just start working with mock-ups, just plain mock-ups this way and that way and the other way and so forth. And all of a sudden it goes ‘zzzzzz-wham!’ and you work on it too long and he’ll be standing there looking at himself.

And you say, „What the hell? Let’s… let’s get that mock-up and let’s put it out in front of you.“

You run Responsibility and Irresponsibility and he’ll be standing there looking at himself. I don’t care if he’s a streetcar conductor. It’ll work.

„Oh, I can do that?“ he’ll say.

All right. That’s natural law. Probably in the framework of engineering itself, there exists much better discovered laws than have so far been discovered.

„Come on, let’s put it out in front of you. Let’s make it.“ A mock-up is a thing. It isn’t something somebody thought up as a concept, or imagined it or assumed that he could.

What I like about the guy is he runs down the track, see. And he gets down the track and then he picks that streetcar up and he runs back up the street and runs it down the track again.

And you’ll very often find these cases that just… just get illusions just like mad. They haven’t even asked themselves, „Have I got an object?“ No, they haven’t got an object. It is not located in space and time; they’re in proximity to them. Here’s communication, then.

Well, anyhow… there are probably better natural laws. And maybe we have some… some of them in this bulk of knowledge right here. So far as physics is concerned. They probably will get readier agreement with the universe, or with MEST, than we have so far found out through the science of physics. That doesn’t matter: You take fulcrums and balances and horsepower and so forth in the framework of physics and you’ll find out that it’s any hill… any hill on Earth obeys the laws of physics. Any ditch, any drop of water.

So you get bewildered as the devil sometimes. You’ll see some case that’s down there around 12 or 14, step 15, and they’ll just be doing wonderfully. „Brrrrrrrrrrrr!“

And any preclear works on these bases.

You know, you say, „That’s just great! That’s just great! That’s just great!“

All right. Some day or other, somebody can take a look at physics for this and fool around with it. We’ve made a few gimmick-ahoojits in physics that are quite interesting. Uh… I mean they’re pretty upsetting things. They’re… they’re very upsetting. They’re… they’re… they seems to be disobeying natural laws. You might say they’re disobeying a grosser manifestation of a law. They are not disobeying a finer law. There’s a law that undoes the bigger law every time.

Unless you ask this one question: „Where is the mock-up? Where did you put it? What are you doing with it?“ Oh, maybe the preclear can immediately do these things, but they haven’t been doing ‘em. You’ll find out they’ll slow right on down – grind. And they aren’t going „Yup, yup, yup, yup, yup, yup, yup,“ anymore. They’re going „Yes. Hmmm yes. Yes. Hmm yes. Hmm.“

All right. Let’s look this over then and recognize that if you’re going to insist on homo sapiens being homo sapiens, you’d better not use any of the techniques about which I’ve been talking. I mean, that’s sad. But if you use the techniques about which I’ve been talking here, as such, know that they lead to that, not because you postulate it, but just because it happens that way. That’s to help you postulate results which you want… to know that.

It’s about that time you pitch in and say,“ Well, only make it turn half a turn.“ You don’t give ‘em a chance to find out they couldn’t make it do a full turn.

Now know this, too: That if you make a theta clear, it’s cruelty not to permit this individual to go up here to an Operating Thetan.

And you’ll find out it’s an entirely different atmosphere settles down. And they’ll probably start what’s apparently down scale and start gettin’ mean and ornery and nasty and… and uh… vicious in various directions and… and they’ll start picking up some somatics and other things will start happening. I don’t mean slow ‘em down, I mean make them get what you’re asking them to get. When you tell them to do something, then find out if they did it.

What’s an Operating Thetan? An Operating Thetan’s a guy who can handle MEST without beams and travel without energy. And uh… that’s not too hard to achieve. We have those techniques. We’ve talked about this sort of thing.

If you were conning a ship and you didn’t get a repeat from the steersman, you’d be on the rocks sometime in your career – probably in the first year or so of your career – because you would have said, „Right standard rudder.“ There’s a big freighter coming down the channel, pocketa – pocketa – pocketa, and you say, „Right standard rudder.“ And you’d say, „Well, that’s good. We’ve now got…“ and the freighter is getting bigger and it’s getting bigger. „Well, I SAID ‘right standard rudder’.“ Finally you rush into the wheelhouse madder than hell! „What right standard rudder?“ you will find. Too late then. The Marine Insurance Company gets rich.

So, right here, right now oh the discussion of Standard Operating Procedure, we have to make a designation, a definition of Standard Operating Procedure to do what? This Standard Operating Procedure makes a Theta Clear… to this – Theta Clear… 40.0. You see those cycles within a cycle?

Yeah, if they didn’t have accidents, you see, they wouldn’t get rich. Wouldn’t have accidents, nobody’d ever insure anything.

Now a Theta clear is stable outside of his body, even though the body is hurt. Or he does not snap into a body just because that body is injured, no matter the suddenness of the injury. That is a Theta Clear. In other words, you have made a thetan trap-proof. You have not made him an Operating Thetan yet. He’s just trap-proof, that’s all. He can’t be trapped by a body; and he can still operate in conjunction with or in control of bodies.

Well, anyhow, uh… didn’t that ever occur to you before? Well, anyway. Yeah, that’s why you can’t get an automobile campaign to stop automobile accidents in the United States. You can’t. It’s a billion buck business. If you didn’t have any automobile accidents, nobody would ever buy any insurance. They’ve got insurance up at the roof now. Brother, it’s really at the roof!

Now an Operating Thetan and the techniques leading to an Operating Thetan have also been covered in this course. And that, you might say, is just more of… more of the same type of processing above the level of stability.

I think they have five thousand dollar deductible, or something like that, and the car costs you two hundred dollars and the insurance costs you eighteen hundred dollars. And if you have an accident, you pay the company five thousand – or something like that. They’ve got it really worked out real good,

Your problem then, and focus your range on this, is not to make a Five into a Theta Clear as the toughest problem there is. But your problem is making relatively, sometimes very unable and almost falteringly weak thetans, strong enough and tough enough so that they can operate as a thetan and not as a body at all.

Uh… now, communication line with the preclear… communication line with the preclear consists of an outgoing communication from the auditor and a return communication from the preclear. Deal in certainties; deal only in certainties. When you have a communication with the… line with the preclear, find out if you have a communication line with the preclear. And deal in certainties.

Now what’s a thetan have to do? He has to be able to comnunicate. He has to be able to travel, and he has to be able to handle MEST. He’s got to be able to communicate with other thetans, and he has to be able to communicate with bodies in order to be an operating thetan.

If you are dealing with a preclear who can’t communicate with you very well, make it possible for them to do so. If you will just give some person who can’t talk adequately, a switch on a little light lamp or a flashlight or something so that they can say ‘blink’ and ‘blink-blink’, or – fix it up so they nod ‘yes and no’, or… or… or some sort of a system like that…

I don’t know how close you’ll hit that line. I know that as you look at that, I think very few of you just intend to be a Theta Clear. I think very few of you would say, „Well, I’m just going as far as that Theta Clear. That’s good enough for me.“ I have never heard one say this yet. So you are going up to Operating Thetan to work…

Or if they’re deaf and they can’t hear what you’re saying, you can do an awful lot of auditing with ‘em with SELF ANALYSIS by just sitting there and putting your pencil on the lines until they say, „Um-hmm,“ or when they say, „Hmm-umm.“ Then have a little note pad there right alongside of you so that you can give them a modification of what they couldn’t do. You get the idea?

Remember, however, that it’s just an application of ‘more of’.

Communication is a two-way proposition and is never a one-way proposition. And when it gets into a one-way proposition, it’s very bad.

But this process, Standard Operating Procedure Issue Three, is specially designed to make a Theta Clear. And you have attained that goal when you have reached up to the point where the person knows he is outside, and does not return into the body if the body is injured. Or would not snap into a body if the body became hurt. He’s outside; he knows he’s a thetan, not a body; and he doesn’t suddenly snap in, inexplicably.

If I never listened to, for instance, to what difficulty auditors were having, and if I never assessed what auditors were doing, boy we would really be drifting off in a dream castle with these lectures. If I never observed what was happening. If I pulled a Howes on you… or a… any other dull character and just go off into an airy cloud of ‘Let’s pretend’, you wouldn’t have enough information to bother with. This wouldn’t even vaguely fit the MEST universe.

Now that’s just a little bit further and just a little bit more than you think. Because as your process w… w… to make a thetan exterior is fast. That… about 50 percent of the people you might as well say 10 minutes, Theta Clear. Only it’s not a Theta Clear. It’s ten minutes to thetan exterior.

I could give you the theoretical data that would fit any universe – sure, sure. Yeah. I could give you a theory by which you could go to work, maybe, and find out what was going on.

Now just as we’ve had a tone scale, a tone scale for homo sapiens, so do you have in the lower reaches of this thing, so do you have a tone scale for the thetan. Now I’m very sorry that these tone scales had just homo sapiens injected in here, but that’s kind of the way it is. So we’ll take over here Position ‘A’, down to Position ‘B’. And down here at Position ‘B’ we have minus 8.0. And here at Position ‘A’ we have… doesn’t matter. Probably 20.0. And this range which I will describe here with a zig-zag track down to, is the range of thetan tone range necessary. The thetan tone range necessary to stabilize.

The reason why this subject’s gotten as far as it has and we’re getting the results I have, is because I have a two-way communication line. You’d be surprised what kind of a communication line it is sometimes. It’s quite often not a talk or letter communication line – of recent months particularly.

Your thetan has to be jumped from the extreme low of minus 8.0 which is necessity to own and protect… he isn’t himself; in order to be at all he has to have a body be for him, so he’s below tone scale. And this 0-0-0, as we notice here, is ‘being a body’. And below this level he is… anywhere on this level he’s less than a body – anywhere. From 0.0 down to minus 8.0 he’s less than a body. Not only does he not know he’s there, he thinks all that’s there is a body and he has to own it and control it and protect it. And of all things, he goes on this horrible computation „The body needs me.“ This is something on the order of „That table needs me“ – about as important as that.

But I get it from preclears, I get it from auditors. I get successful usages in the strangest ways. I find out whose bank balances are what. Yeah. I find out who’s being very successful about it.

You just spring a lot of preclears and they will say, „Oh, yes“ – propitiate, propitiate, propitiate – uh… „The body needs me,“ and „Poor body. What would it ever do without me?“ Believe me, what would that tin can ever do without its spinach?… any difference? And then the guy moves out one day and he says, „You know,“ he says, „this thing really doesn’t have any real decent life in it at all, except for me.“

I find out the boys that are being the most successful about it, from a standpoint of bank balances out as practicing auditors, and so on, are putting up with the least nonsense. That’s fascinating, isn’t it? They’re putting up with the least nonsense. They’re being cause. They’re not agreeing with anybody worth a damn.

That’s right: The GE is so low-order and so weak and so on as to practically not be there at all, and as a consequence when the fellow moves out, the body ceases to have enough umph to do any functioning on its own. It too has become… has a dependency. It has become so dependent upon a thetan that uh… it can’t really function at all without one.

And I find out all the boys that are running around saying, „Well, I’ll prove it to you if I can,“ are broke. And I find all the boys that are running around and saying, „We’ve got to have the acceptance of the American Spoodle-Pad Dog Cleaners Association.“ That’s one of the earlier chartered names of the AMA, I think – uh… they’re broke, too. They’re broke too.

GE is that bad off.

And the characters that are running around saying, „Well, Hubbard’s no good. Hubbard’s no good. And what’s wrong with Scientology is Hubbard“ – they’re broke. And furthermore, they’re much more thoroughly hated than I am. They don’t realize the people they’re talking to happen to be agreeing with them for politeness’s sake. But a lot of people they talk to then immediately and automatically decide that Hubbard must be wonderful.

So, get this, get this set-up here: From down here at ‘B’ this double zig-zag line here is the range that you are going to have to put your preclear up – somewhere in that bracket. And your very ability on theta clear will be from 20.0 up to about 40.0 to stabilize him. But he won’t begin to be stable at all… see, there are varying degrees of being stable on; he won’t be stable at all below 20.0 on this overall range. He just won’t be stable at all. He’ll snap in and he’ll snap out. And you’ll process him and he’ll be fine, and, „Oh, yeah! Can you stay out there now?“

In real fact, neither one of them have a sound opinion of the matter. It just goes on opposites.

„Oh, yeah. I’m just doing fine. I’m out here. I’m on the balcony,“ or „I’m on the roof and everything’s going fine.“

So if you could have a hundred thousand people going around saying how horrible Hubbard was, you could just absolutely count on the fact that I would have a couple hundred thousand friends in practically no time at all. They’d say, „Who is this Hubbard?“ „Well, he’s the fellow that invented the Goodyear Tire formula – a fine fellow. Must be something in Goodyear Tires. Let’s buy Goodyear Tires.“

You say, „All right, now let’s have another session tomorrow afternoon.“ And he will come around and he will have this… „Where are you?“ „I am in my head.“ „Whatcha doing?“ „Well, I don’t know. I am just in my head.“ „Well, let’s move out.“ „I can’t.“ And you will say, „Oh, for God’s sakes! What’s gone wrong here?“

It’s just as irrational as that.

Well, what’s gone wrong here is several things; the guy fooled around; the guy jumped out while he was in the middle of a restaurant. The guy went across and all of a sudden took… he decided to take a trip to the other side of the galaxy or some such thing and he’s gotten caught in an explosion. Uh… he’s uh… he’s made up his mind that he won’t get out until… until his wife gets out and uh… so on. Or he has a heck of a lot of postulates he has to hold on to, and for some reason or other he’s not going to get rid of any of these postulates. On and on and on and on and on. So you work. And what do you know? It doesn’t take quite so fast to spring him… it doesn’t take quite so long to spring him this time, and you balance him up and get him a little bit more able to handle force.

Now two-way communication line. Well, you’re sitting here – you’ve got a subject. It’s uh… been kind of a rough deal, but it was gotten on a two-way communication system. Not just one – you observe. See, communication is, in essence, observation. You want somebody else to observe, they want you to observe. Or they don’t want you to observe and you do, and you don’t want them to observe and they do.

And you understand the only thing that’s snapping him back in is lack of force, and fear of things which are forceful. And the guy might be just doing fine until he suddenly sees two automobiles hit in the pavement in front of him, or something of that sort, and he looks at all that force. And he says to himself, „Oh, no-no-no – it’s a force universe, here I go in my head and I’m not going to come out. Not me!“ and uh… his concept of force is what’s doing it to him. There isn’t a single facsimile anyplace in his bank; there’s not anything in his bank, really, that will answer up to force, other than just go by the hoards. I mean, force – if he’s got enough force, there’s nothing in his bank can disturb him. Nothing can talk back to force because what that bank is, is composed of things he’s mocked up out of energy. So if nothing there… is there… there except energy things, his ability to control energy, of course, controls all that.

Any way that you want to rig it. It’s observation. And when you think of communications ordinarily, you think of it in symbolical terms: Letters, talk – that sort of thing. That’s not a communication line. A communication line has to do with perception, and the essence of perception is observation.

You says this preclear is in dispersals and he keeps getting blown out of his head and blown into his head again. Yes, you can work dispersals, you can get him to mock up on dispersals, you can do all sorts of things until you are black in the face; but if any more direct principle of the utilization and use of force, rehabilitating his belief in his ability to create and handle force came forward, you would use that. That would be an improved technique. So don’t say you aren’t warned if you get something that creates or raises a person’s force faster. There are things that do that.

And then people that communicate the worst, you can automatically say about them people, that they are observing the least. Or what they’re – observing, they’re observing wrong. Or they’re afraid they will observe it wrong. Or they’re afraid they’ll observe it right and therefore don’t dare observe.

So your task is to get a thetan from minus 8,0, e… or 4, minus 4.0, up to this middle range, 20.0 – not to a homo sapiens’, and so on. You already saw this homo sapiens’ scale. I just call these cycles of action at different scales. This 40.0 I’ve got marked here is 4.0 to 2.0 to 0.0; you see that, don’t you? But I’m telling… trying to emphasize that you’re looking at 40 to 0.0. I’m trying to emphasize it’s a whole body of knowledge. I’m trying to emphasize right now that this is a whole body of knowledge up here between this second Theta Clear 40.0 and 0.0. It’s a whole body of knowledge. How do you get a thetan out of the head of a homo sapiens and keep him there? – keep him out? That’s… that’s quite… quite important, see. That’s a whole body of knowledge, right there.

So you get the idea: It isn’t just what your preclear’s saying. It’s what he’s doing. Honest to Pete! I’ve seen auditors… I’ve just stood with horror and watched a session going on. Preclear… eyes begin to turn red and they’re watering, you know, and the preclear’s in horrible condition. And he’s getting… terrible condition! And the auditor is insisting on going ahead in some entirely different tack, you see. And he’s just passed right over the subject that he was just on, and he’s off on some other subject.

We’ve got another, which you already have and which we know a lot about right now, with Q-1. See, we had 40.0 Theta Clear before we had Q-l. Now that you’ve got Q-1 you can get an Operating Thetan down to this p… this upper 40.0 here to the 0.0, Operating Thetan range. You’re operating… doing different things. So, 40.0 Theta Clear, Standard Operating Procedure. You’ve got to get him up there to where his force is good.

He said, „All right,“ – now he… he’s just got through saying, „Take your mother now. Now stuff her into the stove. Okay, now take grandfather and stuff him into the stove.“ And all of a sudden the auditor’s eyes are completely red as fire – pardon me, the preclear’s eyes are as red as fire – and the auditor is just going on with another type of mock-up entirely. He hit something. He hit something and it’s just about as observable… it isn’t… doesn’t take any fine insight. Uh… all… all it takes is, „Don’t sit there and look at your own shoes!“

I’ve been doing a little testing on this – minor, but it pointed up something I already knew: If he can handle his body with force, he never afterwards does anything but handle his body. Let’s make a special condition out of this: He’s trying to handle a body, isn’t he? And his idea of himself has gotten very weak because the body has to pick up things and put them down for him, isn’t that right?

Sometime – I mean, these signs are strictly red paint. They… exclamation point! Bells like… You know these fancy, great big pinball games that cost a quarter to play? Did you ever see one? Well, I just invented ‘em. They’re ten times as big as any… any pinball machine imaginable, and they not only have bells, but they have gongs and sirens on them. And if you fancied a uh… machine up like this and had its lights flashing and sparklers going and firecrackers going off inside of the things, and big searchlights and small men hitting huge gongs with hammers, the way London Films runs, uh… you get some kind of an idea of, really, the picture you’re looking at. I mean, it’s this active. It isn’t just this… this thing sitting there. It’s moving. It’s… it’s emoting. It’s acting. It’s got… conditions are happening.

All right, let’s make him be able to pick up what picks up things and puts them down for him. So we get Standard Operating Procedure to Theta Clear; it is… it says… Theta Clearing – let’s supplement the whole thing all the way down the line, just as you find it there, let’s supplement it with a drill. No… n… we can standardize the devil out of this. You won’t see this thing change. I… I’ve been doing this now for months, by the way, with people. Uh… it’s the routine I told you about which we will call ‘Body Lifting’ – a good, simple term. We do Standard Operating Procedure and then as soon as possible we merge right over into Body Lifting. You do Body Lifting very simply: You have him pick up a finger with energy. And have him move it aside and put it down again, and pick it up again. And then have him mock up a hand – no matter how big or how small. You do a mock-up of that exact activity and make it a much more powerful action that he can do. Then you pick up another limb – then you pick up another finger; you pick up his whole hand now. He picks it up from outside, standing over the hand – not from inside the body. He’s outside the body; the hand is sitting flat on a desk or some such thing as that; and he comes over the top of the hand and by putting out anchor points and lines or by putting out a tripod of energy and lengthening its steps with a tractor beam on a finger, he lifts the finger. He does it with energy beams.

If… if in a single session you don’t kind of watch this preclear’s face change five or six times, you’re not getting anyplace. You haven’t done a good assessment.

And then you… you then have him mock up doing it. Or you have it mocked up first, if he can’t conceive it. Have him do a mock-up. Have him build a mock-up, lift its finger and drop it. Build a mock-up, lift its finger and drop it a few times. Vary the mock-up; shift the mock-up around a little bit. Have him come back and pick up a little more hand.

But if you’ve done a good assessment and you’re giving just routine mock-up processing, you’re really watching something happen. And then you’ll get off into a monotone. You’re still watching something happen from a preclear – monotone. He starts saying, „Yeah – yeah – yeah – yeah. Yam.“ No relief. You missed it. You missed picking up a ‘can’t’. He couldn’t do something and didn’t indicate it to you. And his perceptions start to get worse and worse and worse and the mock-ups get poorer and poorer and poorer. You just missed the boat utterly. He got… he sank into kinda a boredom. Because he missed something.

Then have him do a mock-up of lifting whole hands, and then have him lift his actual hand. And then have him do mock-ups of lifting whole arms, and move those around, position them here and there in space. You see, you’re keeping him from agreeing too badly about… with the MEST universe by these mock-ups. That’s why the mock-ups are in there.

At least every 20 minutes your preclear ought to laugh – at least every 20 minutes in a process. He ought to… he ought to giggle or feel relieved or something of the sort. If you’re not doing that, you’re not hitting close home. And you’re missing ‘can’ts’.

Then you have pick up his whole arm and throw it up in the air. And then you have him go over to his other hand and pick it up a finger at a time, and then mock up picking up a finger at a time. And then pick up the actual hand. And then mock up picking up arms, and then pick up his left arm. Then pick up his right and left arm up simultaneously and throw them into the air. Then have him pick up… have him mock up picking up ankles or feet, and then have him mock up picking up uh… have him pick up both feet or have him pick up a foot – whichever you can get him to do. Then mock up picking up bigger legs and all that sort of thing. Then have him pick up his actual legs.

You told him, „All right. All right now, you take your dog – got your dog now? All right. Put him in front of you there. All right, now make him bark. Now pick up the sound of that bark. Now make him bark sadly.“

And you will finally get him so he is throwing that body around the room like a sofa pillow. There is no…

And the guys says, „Uh… yeah – yeah! Make him bark sadly. That’s right – ha-ha! He’s saying, ‘Wuff.’„

You worry once in a while. You’ll think there’s a deception involved here. You think there’s real big deception: „He’s kidding himself. He’s actually working it from inside and so forth.“ Oh no, he isn’t. You can’t work a body that fast from inside. There aren’t muscles made that can work bodies as fast as you can from the outside.

You say, „All right, now make him bark with great enthusiasm.“

Now what you do with all this is practice. And this is the essence of it. Never let him get away with a ‘can’t’. Always make him lift it. And don’t assign such big jumps that he will have difficulty lifting it.

„Yup.“

Furthermore, the drill is intended to let him pick it up and lay it down suddenly. When he lays hold of the body with a beam, have him then cast it loose suddenly – up and down with a beam. How fast can he turn that beam off? If he isn’t turning it off fast enough, have him get out and throw something… a loop of energy over his cigarette package or something, and then put it on there, turn it off; put it on, turn it off; put it on, turn it off; put it on, turn it off; put it on, turn it off. You get the idea? Until he’s really got speed in turning that thing on, turning it off, particularly on turning it off. Much faster to be able to turn them off… much better to turn them off fast than turn them on fast, because he can be swept into a body or into something or other because he can’t shut a beam fast off… fast enough… off the beam.

„All right, now put him behind you and uh… make him wag his tail. Now get the feeling of the tail slapping from side to side. Now actually feel that tail hit as though it’s something solid. You got that?“ „Yeah.“ „Now, all right. Put him below you. You got him?“ „Yeah.“ „Put him above your head.“ „Yeah.“ „Put him on the right of you.“ „Yeah.“ „Put him on the left of you.“ „Yeah“.

All right, so we have him pick up… pick up the body piece by piece and turn… turn off the beams and drop it. Pick it up, drop it; pick up a finger, drop it; pick up a finger, drop it; mock up a finger, drop it; mock up a finger, drop it; pick up a finger, drop it.

Uh-umm. You missed the boat somewhere! He hasn’t got that dog, that’s all. If you were to ask him suddenly, „Have you got the dog?“ she’d say, „Yes.“ That isn’t good enough.

All of a sudden he’ll say, „Why that’s easy! Nothing to that!“ Well, you go right on through until he’s throwing that body around like you’d throw around a volleyball. You think a MEST body can move? Piffle! Phooey! You’ll never know how fast a MEST body can move till you’ve been outside the thing and snapped it around. And it snaps quick! How fast could… how fast could you throw your arm up in the air? How fast could you move a finger up in the air? That fast from inside? Well, you’d have to jar your hand all over the place in order to get any real fast action out of a limb.

You say, „Where?“

From the outside you can snag a tractor on to the thing and have that hand up over your head faster than an eye can see it move. Of course, it practically tears the arm off, but who cares ?

„In front of me. He kept on standing in front of me and I kept putting on… oh, now I’ve got about four dogs around here, but I’ll get ‘em assembled any minute – any minute now. And I finally figured out that they’re facsimiles of the same dog in front of me, and they’re just memories of this dog in front of me. And I…“ He… he really did that. So after a while, then he’d sud… if you just kept on he would say, „Well, I didn’t uh… quite uh…“ He just didn’t make the grade and uh… he just went into apathy about it and now he’s got a little shadow or something that… he’s fooling around with this little shadow.

Now you make him hurt himself doing this… you make him hurt himself every once in a while. If he hurts himself, don’t say, „Well, you poor fellow. You’re getting tired now. Oh, yes! Well, probably using up a lot of energy.“ Because he will keep telling you all the way through this thing „I’m so tired. It’s tiring me out!“ How the hell can anything that runs on postulates get tired out? It’s just because he supposes because fingers get tired that he gets tired – simple? So he doesn’t get tired out. So don’t let him beg off on that. Just keep him at it, little bit at a time, little bit at a time. Make him win every time in lifting it and he’ll be able to throw his – body around like mad.

Now he’s told you everything’s black. All of a sudden he said, „Everything’s black.“

Now you’ll be surprised how big this makes him feel. He says, „Bodies?“ Before that he thought he was way outside of a body and he was pretty big anyway, but after… after this he’s been in through and he’s out and he looks at his body and „Bodies?“ He’s liable to reach over and say, „How are you, Joe?“ Spat! Spatter! Now, that’s concept of size, and that gets a person up to Theta Clear. He can handle that body around, he’s not going to snap into bodies. He’ll use bodies and he’ll continue to use bodies, but he won’t snap into them.

You say, „All right. Get a black spot, do this with it, do that with it, do something or other with it. Handle it this way.“

He can turn beams off and turn them on and he can handle bodies and he’s good and forceful, and so on.

And he’ll go, „All right. Yeah. Fine. Fine. Fine.“

So as soon as you get him out and even vaguely stable so that he can perceive that he has such a thing as a hand, you start this exercise. When do you start this exercise? When you have him out and he knows it and he is able to perceive a hand. That’s the very precise moment that you start this exercise. And then you just go right on with that. There’s no use you doing much else with him. Because that’s what he’s been trying to do all this time.

And you say, „All right. Now put something out in front of you. Now put something else out in front of you. Now put it behind you.“

Now you do other things with him, but then we’re going on up from 40.0 to operating… 40.0 Theta Clear to 40.0 Operating Thetan. How do you get him up there? Well, I hate to tell you this. And as a matter of fact I’ve talked to you too much and you’re probably not too interested in a lot of this data, so I think we’d just better close over that. And I’ll just go on with this other… (Nooooo!) What’s the matter? Can’t I even pull a scarcity racket on you here?

He’s a little bit puzzled, but he’s going ahead and doing this. Find out what he’s doing. You… he’s changed. I mean, you don’t have to have a whole flock of theta perceptics on him. You’ve either got a meter on him and the meter suddenly started to knock around, which is the easiest way to see changes, or you simply look at him, and he’s all of a sudden got a… a big twitch, like this, you know? Something… something not quite easily observed.

Now, actually, what you do is… what do you think? He’s used to handling bodies, isn’t he? But you’ve got Theta Clear and you know what its goal is, and there’s the technique I finally decided gets you there.

And you say, „What’s the matter? What… what are you doing there? Did you get it behind you all right?“ „Well, yes.“ You say, „Well, how did you get it behind you?“

I’ll tell you what authority that technique rests on: Me. I’m not an authority, so you want to be very careful in using it, and do it very precisely and so forth.

„Well, I’ve developed a system for doing this.“ „Now what sort of a system have you developed for doing this?“

How do you get up from there? Why, sure… he’s not going to duck in and out of heads . He’ll… you’ll cure him of ducking in and out of his head which is the worst trouble you will have with a preclear. As far as I’m concerned, after that, the amount of ducking in and out that he will do, he’ll consider this as absolutely nonsensical, ducking into this head.

„Well, the system I’ve just developed for this, is when I move them behind me I found out I had a lot of trouble getting the thing from there to there. So what I would do is I would recreate one behind me and drop a black curtain over the one in front of me.“

What possible protection could it be? Your technique that goes up from there specializes in unmocking and mocking. He goes out and selectively unmocks MEST objects, particularly bodies. And it can carry along from there – unmocking and unmocking. And how do you unmock? You create a big space with anchor points with plenty of MEST objects in it, and find absolutely nothing in it and pass through it in all directions, and find nothing in it whatsoever. That’s unmocking. And then into that space you put up your own mock-ups. Just as you tear down a tenement before you build a palace, unmock the objects that are there.

Here’s the source of this boy’s occlusion. And you look around and you say, „Hey. Reach over now in front of you and lift that curtain. Now find another black curtain and lift that.“

Now you carry forward this unmocking, and it goes hand in glove with mock-ups of handling bodies by postulates and so on. Just more Creative Processing and more Postulate Processing. More Creative Processing.

My God! He’s looking at every mock-up you’ve given him. He’s still got ‘em all sitting in front of him. He needs to be drilled on time, in other words. He’s drilled on putting things in yesterday and getting rid of things once he has them, making them disappear. Just drill him on it – on a gradient scale.

There is another level of Postulate Processing above that level, and that level consists of using the dichotomies as rising scales. You’ll find out in here that there’s an awful lot of dichotomies listed, and you’ve probably wondered what these… why we should worry about dichotomies if we’re not going to run flows. Well, I put it in there because it is pretty important to have dichotomies listed. And if it’s important to have them listed, there should be a reason for them. So I finally figured one out: Uh… now actually this is Rising Scale and you’ll find it on page 35 of your textbook. And it says „The dichotomies are…“

„Just put up. something and put it in yesterday.“ And he says, „I can’t.“

And if you’ll merely consider these… the top figure, the top of the tone scale, and the bottom figure, the bottom of the tone scale… You see, an infinity of tone scale would be the whole emotions, all the emotions. Survive, Succumb, Communicate, Not Communicate, Agree, Disagree.

And you say, „Well, put up something smaller and less significant and put it in yesterday.“ And you finally get something so worthless that he can part with it.

Of course, these are not set as dichotomies, and naturally, Agree is the bottom of the scale and Disagree is the top of the scale. It’s toward the top of the scale for Number Three… Four. Stop is at the bottom of the scale, and so on.

And, suppose he couldn’t do any of these things? Give him a toothpick and tell him to throw it out the window. „Now throw another toothpick out the window. Now get a mock-up of a toothpick and throw it out the window. Oh, you’ve got that? All right, get a mock-up of two toothpicks and throw them out the door. Oh, you’ve got that? Okay.“

But you can use these dichotomies to make sure. That contin… continues, by the way – your Chart of Attitudes are in this thing, see. But it’s got more of them.

And you go right on up along the line and mock-ups all clear up and everything’s getting beautiful. Honest to Pete, they will do the damnedest things! You’ll think they’ve got some comprehension… a preclear’s got some comprehension of what’s happening. And he’ll all of a sudden start to kid himself.’ And then he’ll start to kid you like mad. And if you aren’t watching him, if you haven’t got him on an E-Meter, you might as well be just talking to the moon.

You ask, „What’s… what’s your general… what’s your general postulate about propitiation? The difference between propitiation. I mean, what’s your g… general postulate about it?“ „Well, so-and-so should propitiate so-and-so.“ „Well, raise that to as high as uh… you want to go… a little bit higher idea, a little bit better idea what you should propitiate, or what you shouldn’t propitiate or should you or shouldn’t you.“ And the guy will kick it up just a little bit more, until he gets up above to Sympathy. Sympathy’s above Propitiation.

He’ll recover from this sooner or later, he’d pick it up next session or something of the sort. But from the moment that he hits a heavy ‘can’t’ and it’s missed, from then on things get dimmer and worse. That’s one for you to put in the book.

Well, you can use that, then, as Rising Scale Processing. You probably will never need it, but it goes from minus 8.0. Now that’s over here on minus scales. (Your minus scale’s over here someplace in this book somewhere.) Uh… minus scales are uh… minus 8.0 is Hiding. Minus 4.0 is Needing. Minus 3.5 is Approval from Bodies; minus 3.0 is Owning Bodies; minus 2.2 is Protecting Bodies; minus 1.5 is Controlling Bodies; minus 1.3 is Responsibility as Blame – Blaming Bodies; minus 1.0 – Punishing Bodies; Minus .2 – Being Other Bodies.

Your job is to establish ‘can’, the condition of ‘can’ in the preclear – not the condition of ‘can’t’. And if you’ve got any kind of a goal at all, that… that would be the goal! You’re establishing ‘can’. He CAN create snakes.

You see, after… after a guy is being his own body, then he doesn’t quite know what body he is, so he goes around and he ‘be’s’ other people’s bodies too. And he develops their mannerisms and characteristics.

And you start right out here at the beginning with an assessment to find out what he can’t, so that you can increase his capability. And you start right out at the beginning. You can give all kinds of sessions to people – little odds and ends of sessions and so forth, and maybe three- quarters of the time get away with it without giving him any assessment. Nine-tenths of the time, maybe, you can get away without an assessment.

So, you take that whole range and just find out what a guy is sitting on. Actually you should know this more than use it, because generally the fellow will shift his own postulates.

But, like me, you’re gonna hit somebody at 2:30 in the morning and all of a sudden hit THE ‘can’t’ on the case. It was sitting right there ALL THE TIME.

Now it’s quite interesting that this thing I was talking to you about this afternoon, this uh… conviction comes in there. Being convinced that this stuff agrees, disagrees with him, upsets him and doesn’t upset him.

Your whole job would have been finished in about a half an hour if you’d found it first. And instead of that, you’ve processed him for three hours, then found the ‘can’t’ suddenly in processing, and then decided that you couldn’t afford any more time on it; you’re tired and you’d better get some sleep.

Now we have a formula which you better put down, because it isn’t down anyplace, on the, subject of Rehabilitating a Thetan as a thetan. And the formula is: Take the behavior of space, energy and objects. You know what I mean? The general behavior in the MEST universe of space, energy and objects as they interrelate to one another, and run mock-ups on their doing the wrong thing. You run mock-ups on their doing the wrong thing. In other words, you have planets which repel with their gravity; you have space… space that the more you put in it, the smaller it gets; you have uh… uh… water uh… which dries things. Just look at all the MEST manifestations. Light, that when it shines out, turns everything dark, and when it shines in, lights up everything – everything haywire about this.

And you will spend the next several nights undoing that one probably. You can just waste more time if you don’t get an assessment. You can just waste time all over the place. I think you could probably waste hundreds and hundreds of hours of processing in any one year – processing even indifferently. Just hundreds and hundreds of hours.

And off of this will come postulates on the conviction of the observable behavior. You will actually, by doing this, all of a sudden locate the postulate the guy made. „Well, what do you know? These planets do hold you down!“ „What do you know? Particles do stick together! Now I’m convinced!“ That’s the only way a fellow could ever perceive matter, you see. „Particles DO stick together! I’m convinced now. Yeah, that… that’s right.“

Every once in a while… for instance, I just found one here. I won’t mention any names but… I don’t want to disgrace anybody.

All right. And you take mock-ups on this: You mock up in brackets. Now you know what a bracket is? That’s what happening to the preclear and what the preclear’s doing to somebody else, and what others are doing to others. You mock up brackets on all the things a person should and shouldn’t do, perceive and be. There’s one more in there: Have. All the things a person should have, should do, should perceive and should be. And mock up brackets on the things a person shouldn’t have, shouldn’t do, shouldn’t perceive and should not be.

I tell you, after you’ve been processing preclears for a little while, you’ll find they break down into classes. And they’re not classes of GEs – I’ll talk to you about that right now. They’re not classes of GEs.

You know, this… your mother was always doing to… this to you. „That little girl that lived down the block: Now she’s a nice girl. Why, if you could just act like her my hair wouldn’t get near as grey.“ Or, „That little boy“ – that you couldn’t detest – „he… he“ – you just… I mean, you might think this… this guy… this – horrors! He gives you horrors every time. „He’s a nice little gentleman. Why can’t you be more like him?“ Now there, he’s a model for behavior.

The Genetic Entity has come up in terms of races. There’s the yaller race and the white race and… and the green race, and so forth. The number of races that have come up the track – we don’t care about these races.

What is behavior? What should it be like? You should be polite. Take a pattern of what behavior should be. If one should be polite, one should be wrong, one should be propitiative, uh… one should ask for things, one should accept things, one should give things that he doesn’t want to give, uh… and so on. What are all these behaviors? Well, you look it up and you find out that in ev… everybody’s code there’s a bad one… oh, a bad behavior manifestation of some kind or another. Like… like he… he has a terrible compulsion to take his hat off in an elevator. E… actually a compulsion. He couldn’t stand there with his hat on if a lady stepped into the elevator.

If… the fact that somebody is trying to tell people that these races have equal rights under law isn’t telling anybody any brand-new big news – it’s darned obvious that they should have. It’s very weird here on Earth, that anybody should beat the drum about this.

A lot of Naval officers got broken of this during the war because an order was issued that insisted that a Naval officer should not remove his hat in an elevator because of the presence of a lady. This is one of the more important orders that came out of Washington. That’s why you couldn’t get your telegrams through, is there are so many of those orders are on the wires all the time.

Well, that throws everything out of gear and why a lot of people get racial upsets is because there are really about 15 th… at least 12 or 15 thetan races here on Earth. And they’re scattered all through these five races – which is beautiful randomity, if there ever was any.

Like, I was awakened one night… I was dragged out of the Copeley Plaza Hotel one day… one night… been out forever and had come back to the ship and, it was the first liberty I’d had for ages and I had to come back to the ship to… because the Officer of the Deck had received a secret message… ‘secret’, they didn’t have ‘top secret’ yet, and they didn’t even have ‘top secret super frantic hysterical’ – one of the later classifications. And so the boy met me there. Boy, this looked awful important. Looked like we’d be sailing any second, see? And we find out that it’s in such a secret code that it was only in my safe and… and, so on, and he didn’t have the keys to the inner side of the safe. He had most of the code, and we broke that thing out and we set up the board. And we worked and we worked – it takes a long time to set up one of those boards and get it all set up – and we got the message all broken down. And what do you know? Instead of orders, instead of the fact that „the Germans have just landed in Maine,“ which was about its level of rush and all that sort of thing, it says, „No dogs will be landed in Australia.“ It was too late to go back on liberty! Yeah.

You’ve got the GEs coming along and they fit into about five racial streams, and then… then you’ve got about… then you’ve got all these thetans.

Well anyway, mock up an admiral sending out something like that. And then shoot him.

They, just recently, on recent spirals, they were all basically more or less the same in the beginning, and then they’ve gone off and because of their separate tracks, the separateness of their histories, the differences of their history, you have, all of a sudden – by the way, they’re all about the same age. And you have… all of a sudden you have 12 or 15 thetan backgrounds which have 12 or 15 different characteristics.

Now wherever you can get in a mock-up, wherever you can substitute MEST meeting MEST with an electronic punch, use the electronic punch. That’s more important than your mocking up little boys beating up little boys. Have little boys sock each other a few times just to show that this can happen and move them around doing so and so forth. And then have them get off well away from each other and just zap the hell out of each other. Because that’s what the preclear was trying to do at the time he was being beaten up. He knew there was something else he could do and he couldn’t think of it. All he had to do was back up and go „Zzzzzzapp!“, see, and the other guy’d say, „Mmmmzzzzrrrmmm“ – melt. And it’s much more efficient. Instead of that, you stand in there and get all bruised up.

And so it doesn’t matter whether you have the so-called Caucasian or the Aztec race – I think that was what… wasn’t that what that was the Nazi had the… Or was it a Caesarian… I forget. Oh, yes – yeah. The Arrogants, Uh… anyway, it doesn’t matter a doggone which one of these GEs you pick up, you’ll find out really what’s important about him is does he fall… which one of the thetan races does he fall into, in terms of processing, and actually in terms of interpersonal relationships. These guys are trained in a particular and cruelty way. And I don’t care whether you’re in the heart of Africa or any place else.

Anyway, get the polite thing to do.

Now I don’t know too much about… I’ve processed an awful lot of Negroes down around Savannah, and I didn’t find them varying from the pattern in any way, shape or form. Not even vaguely. And… but amongst them here were evidences that you had these 12 or 15 thetan lines coming in there.

Now there are many things that one does not do, and people very often have nightmares about doing these things – such as rushing down Main Street without any clothes on. In other words, you’re looking for these inhibitions, upsets and many things he ‘doesn’t do’. And uh… you just start knocking them out and you’ll break loose from a lot of things. But much more important is what he should or shouldn’t do with objects.

There’s the Snake Men, there’s the Invaders – I won’t bother putting them down. You’ll recognize them one of these days. I’ll have to make up a table. I’ve got to do this research myself. I haven’t picked up this research. I’ve… I can do all the job they should have done over the last 80 million years here in the last couple, but I… I… it takes a little time. Uh… not much…

Now you don’t think… you don’t think that… that I’m being… y… y… you’re just… when I’m talking about behavior I’m giving you the… the ‘polite’ level of behavior… what he shouldn’t do and… manners and so on. What I’m stressing here is more important than that. When I say, „shouldn’t do, shouldn’t have, shouldn’t perceive, shouldn’t be…“ – he shouldn’t have a sun in his pocket. He shouldn’t have a planet in a sandwich. You get the idea? He shouldn’t pick up the bottom of this chair simply by having his arm lengthen and pick up the bottom of the chair. He should pick it up from the top.

But they… you’ve got your Invader People. You’ve got a crew of… well, let me tell you the classifications they fall into here.

Furthermore, he should pick it up to have it move. Next, this chair should sit on MEST, not sit two inches below MEST, very nicely poised there. When a coke bottle is turned upside-down, the coke should pour out of it; it should not pour out of it when the coke bottle is sitting right side up. A fellow who puts his hand in a fire and so forth shouldn’t get it frozen. Icicles which you carefully test as being icicles shouldn’t get he… more heavily frozen from flames. You should not be able to fry a steak in a refrigerator.

A lot of your entertainers and uh… some of the bigger sparks that you run into are Fifth Invader people or one of the Invader Force people. These guys come in from Lord knows where; they’re picked up in certain groups, sometimes picked up for a certain capability. They’re trained in one way or another, and they’ll hit planets, and so on, sort of all at once. Hit ‘em in various and peculiar ways.

And the second you start to do these things this guy’s carefully assembled and built up postulates… and some people are just holding on to these as though they’re the most precious things in the world. They couldn’t possibly create an idea that’s better than that, and they’re just holding on to these things. They’re going out through the bottom. They’re about to become MEST, and they think the only way they can save themselves is by agreeing some more. ‘Cause they’re just on their way out.

And uh… they’ve been through enough hell and high water that when they get… by the time they’ve gotten here, they’re pretty well convinced their power’s shot. And they have… the… their… they… they feel pretty degraded. They don’t feel like they’re worth a shucks. They don’t feel like they can use any energy. They… they feel like they’ve got to hold this back. They usually have a pretty good imagination. The way you treat these people is very simple: You go through a routine assessment.

And so there the guy is, agreeing some more and agreeing some more and getting lower and lower on the tone scale, and lower and lower on the tone scale and you ask him to come along and say „Hey. Will you… why… why… why are you agreeing with the fact that uh… and so on… you have to feel this way?“ Well Lord! Agreeing that he has to feel this way is the least part of it. He agrees that when he stands on a platform he is supported at the height of the platform. Guys can get just sick when they first start to mock this up and realize there’s not anything under them. There really isn’t a damn thing under you; you’re just sitting in space. But boy, you’ve sure got a nice comfortable idea about it.

Now an assessment should carry parts of the body, and with these people you will find ‘hands’ produce quite a drop. You don’t even have to know, see, why ‘hands’ produce this drop. You don’t have to credit the Invader theory. You can go ahead stumbling around like everybody else has stumbled around. You don’t have to say there are Invaders or anybody lives in space. You can assume the, what’s known as the ‘Anthropomorphism uh… Earthman Supersanitary Sentarianism of the Universeish’ type of thing, where the only thing alive in this whole universe is an earthman, and uh… the only planet which is inhabited in all these quadrillions to the quadrillion quadrillion quadrillion of stars, the only one that has any planets is Sun 12, and uh… you can assume this if you want to. I mean, people have assumed a lot more idiotic things. They’ve assumed that, they’ve assumed that wearing glasses made your eyes better.

Every once in a while a pilot… every once in a while a pilot inadvertently will look sort of theta-wise down through his body and through the seat and through the fuselage of the plane at the ground below him and suddenly realize there’s nothing down there. Once in a blue moon a pilot does that and it gives him quite a turn. He doesn’t quite know why he got that idea. Or if he’s suddenly going to run into something and he wishes to avoid it, he’ll just unmock his plane and unmock everything. And of course he’s sitting for an instant in space. Then that’s no good so he’ll put his plane back and hit it. You can find instance when pilots have done just this.

Now… so these characters have run into the cops and… and they’ve gotten their hands bashed up. Well, you’d find out, if you were running this case, you’d find a certain series of ‘can’ts’ and if you ask all ‘can’ts’ and these races bust down automatically. You’d find out something was wrong with their hands, or they had an emotion about hands.

So your upper level on the thing is you get him to disagree up to a point where he can operate in the MEST universe with complete freedom. And it’s much easier than you think.

And this would be rehabilitated by Creative Processing to make them be able to handle hands. Isn’t that difficult? And uh… you’d also find out that they were pretty hepped on the subject of… on the second dynamic. They’re quivery and upset about it. When you put out a communication line, you find out it starts at the far end and leads back to them.

But he has to be able to operate wholly without energy.

One of the Invader forces has this slogan that they… that the paymaster is sensation, and that’s all the pay there is as far as they’re concerned. So they’re operating in a unit, they have certain goals and plans. We’re not even interested in those. We’re just interested in this fact.

Let’s take a break.

And what’s the next thing? You get the ‘can’t’, you find out that darkness is a keynote. They’re hiding. That darkness has a great value to them. They want to hide in that darkness. Very often you start to ask them to mock up a cop. „Ha, ha! No. No!“ But they’ll be able to get the badge sooner or later and do something with the badge. And what’s the gradient scale of ‘cop’? Well, a badge, and then a cap and a stick and a gun and the rest of it, until you’ve got a ‘cop’. And then you move him in and out and do things with him. Oh, that’s uh… very simple, isn’t it? This is just routine then.

All right, you take your Snake Man. Just as far as processing is concerned, there’s nothing easier. Where this becomes interesting is in terms of behavior. And you don’t care about that either. Your Snake Man’s going around… he’s very quiet. He wants you to prove everything. Prove, prove, prove, prove. And if there’s any gadget made under the sun which is mechanical that will restimulate an incident which he finds, he’s bound to find it and turn it out – somehow or other. Or make some preclear test it. Prove, prove, prove, prove.

One I know of, for instance, bought a couch that had a vibrator in it, then he stepped up the vibrator so it would automatically restimulate Fac One. He put the guy down on the thing so his forehead touched the button that the vibrator vibrated on, and uh… then he’d lie there and this thing would shake him up and it’s just feel like the waves coming in from the Coffee Grinder of a Fac One. Make people very sick. But uh… he proved it all right.

Well, his main idea is, is he will protect snakes. He’ll… he’ll – create snakes like mad, but he wouldn’t destroy any.

Another one’s the Cat People. God knows where the Cat People came from. Lord! Lord! Lord! These people are sure lost. Most of them are mad as hatters. And they have huge, huge, often slanted… they… they’ll take the GE and they will change the GE’s eyes to large and slanted; they’ll make the GE grow very thin. And the eyes will be big and quite often uh… uh… very feline. And they’re lost. They don’t know where they are. And they kinda look like cats. And they’ll talk to you about catbirds from some place or another.

But what do we find in their case? We find out that cats are a ‘can’t destroy’. And then there are other people who are similar to that that; find cats that can’t destroy that aren’t part of the Cat People, because to be a good valid cat person one of the first requisites is to be strictly fruitcake and very thin. They’re really lost. I don’t know who got hold of the Cat People or where or brought them in to the track, but they spin as quick as you look at them. You’ve known some of them, I’m sure. They’re kind of: sweet and they’re kind of anxious to help, and they’re kind of starry-eyed and they’re not very forceful – they’re very weak. And uh… all of a sudden, if – you were to tell one of them suddenly that he couldn’t possibly be of any help, you can just watch him spin right on the spot.

And then, as we go on from there, we find the guys that you would just swear to GOD had never had anything to do with thetans. You’d just: swear it! They become two types of individual here on Earth: They become the Capitalista, the Commissar, the Nazi police chief – they’re all the same breed. „Hold on!“ They’ve got to pull everything in on ‘em. And by the time you’ve started to process this character, good God! Get a building jack! They’ll pull everything in on them – just everything. And there’s so little thetan left about them, that to move them around, you’re just going to have a rough, rough time of doing anything with this case. Rough case. „Hold on… Hold on.“

But how do you cure it? By getting them to throw something away – a toothpick. You’ll find out immediately they wouldn’t let go’ of anything; that’s the first thing you’ll find out about ‘em. And that tells you immediately that they belong to that nebulous race.

Now, then here’s your Monitor People. The female of that species we’ve decided to call the Merrimacks after that ancient battle. So, these people… you want them, the test on them… They, by the way – this is peculiar to a lot of these other races, so it isn’t a singular test – these people love to wear ‘hornrimmed spectacles’. If you could let them go around with ‘spornrimmed hecticles’ on and no glasses in the… in them, they’d be happy. That’s because your Monitor wears heavy goggles during Fac One and so on. But don’t mention insects to these people because they’ll ordinarily just go off the pin. They’ve got something to do with insects. I don’t know what. These people are quite salvageable, by the way.

But they’re organizers, par excellence. And you’ll find them out in the society doing terrific jobs of organization. None of these people, you understand, are bad. This is peculiarities.

And boy, you’ll find these in the Brown Race and the Black Race and the Yellow Race and everything else. You’ll find these same characters. They came down and did a spread.

Now those are just a few… they are just a few of these.

Oh, yes-yes! Yes. There’s your wide-open case. The wide-open case, who is quite often found a beautiful bodied girl. They are very often very wide open. And you couldn’t possibly imagine how there could be anything wrong with these people. And they get a different Fac One, and they’ve got a different lot of other things, and they are almost perfect at esp… espionage; they may not realize it but they’re trained espionage people. You could s… just start giving them an examination that would be given standardly to an espionage officer and they will answer up perfectly on every line.

And they’re characters. Now on the cycle of action, although they’re wide open and very pretty as bodies, they’re sudden death. They’re right over there against death. And you try to pick them up along the line anyplace and, „Oh, no!“ They’ve evidently agreed until they’re wide open. They evidently have their perceptics on some kind of an agreement someplace or other. I don’t know where they come from, or who they’re spying for. It’s a big, big joke. I don’t know who they are.

I’d find out if they were dangerous, they aren’t. But uh… they run a different kind of a Fac One – they run it all wide open. And although their wide openness is terrific, their sense of reality is just shot! Terribly bad sense of reality. Awful! Just grim!

That’s rather typical. These are types.

What do you do with each one of these types? Give them an assessment. You’ll find out the one thing your wide open case can’t do is face any prior existence. Under no circumstances! This just throws them into horrors.

You say, „You might have lived before,“ and all of a sudden this case starts to go neeowww! Spin! Gee! They… I don’t know why that is but it’s just there.

Peculiarities – lots of peculiarities one way or the other in all of this. But you look for ‘cant’s’.

Now, you will get very shortly – if you just look at just that many – types as I’ve given you there – you’ll all of a sudden be able to shape these cases up. And you can all of a sudden look at this guy and he seems to be doing all right in a society, and uh… you start to process him and boy! He won’t let go of anything. He’s got lots of money, you find out. He won’t let go of a thing. You start to examine his ridges, he’s pulled practically every ridge he’s got right in down on top of him.

You’ll find out such nauseous details as his bowels don’t move. Once in nine days or something like that. I mean, it’s gone to that extent. He wouldn’t blow his nose for fear he’d lose something. That’s nauseous but uh… medically quite necessary.

Now you got this next boy and you’re looking him over and uh… well, how do you get that guy out of it? Personally, the biggest joke you can pull is don’t! He’s not even vaguely interested in being gotten out of it. Who are you to go around rescuing him? He isn’t interested in it, really.

He uh… wants to prove to somebody they have driven him so bad that he needs treatment. That’s about as near as he will come to wanting to be treated. He just wants to prove it. And so when he’s on treatment, then he proceeds to look worse and worse. And he’ll get worse and worse. Quite a liability.

The rest of them are pretty easy. The Invader boys present a hard case, mostly because they start feeling very degraded. And there are several crews of those, by the way. There’s not just one crew. And all of them feel more or less degraded. But the third battalion of the Fifth Invader Force is practically out through the bottom of the chute. You’d have to invent something below minus eight.

When they first find themselves turning on a small beam of energy, they just collapse. It’s a level of degradation you never heard of, yet they might be operating quite well. They’re, by the way, terribly effective here on Earth as revolutionaries. So we quite often find them in Scientology.

They’re quite effective. That’s what’s strange about it. They can’t handle any more force than that, but how much force are they capable of handling, just beyond computation, practically.

All right, when you do an assessment, well, you might ask something about this. But you’ll pick these things up. And this isn’t anything you have to tell a preclear about.

If you will take the HANDBOOK FOR PRECLEARS and if you look there in the front of it, you’ll find a list of relatives in one of the Acts – early Act – and then you’ll find a list of the parts of the body. And let’s find out about creating and destroying these relatives and these parts of the body.

And then I have here a list of nouns, which I’m going to mimeograph, which are embracive of all these various nouns. And they run any… anywheres from an angle down: watch, windows, wings, jewels, kettles, keys, forks – I’m just reading out – there’s just hundreds of ‘em here. But they’re embracive of every kind of a noun that there is. I mean, it’s an inclusive list. So we’ve got that one.

I’m going to get that and this Game Processing – I’m going to get that and Game Processing mimeographed. And we’ve… we’ve got a course book we’ve got to make up. So you won’t have the benefit of that right away.

But if you were to take a list of basic English or a book on Basic English, you can get a terrific assessment out of it. You’ll put the preclear on that and you ask him if he can create or destroy on these eight dynamics.

Now I showed you a very little example of this very early in the course. But you do that same thing and you apply every noun you can think of, every body part you can think of, every kind of a person you can think of, every relative you can think of. And by the time you’ve done this, by golly! There isn’t anything you won’t know about this preclear.

And to this you add what you see up here: three areas of track. And for God’s sakes! question him for all three areas of track. Body versus bodies – that’s the latter area of the track. That’s fairly recent. That’s the third one. The second one is thetan versus bodies and bodies – one or more bodies. That’s a very recent one. But that’s the middle ground of the track. Balls of light going into bodies, and the first one up here is the thetan versus the thetan. And that’s balls of light or beingnesses merging with beingnesses, and apart from beingnesses, and doing things to beingnesses, doing things to bits of light, putting them in cans and taking them out of cans, and so forth. And this second one is using a body on that same basis.

Bodies doing this to thetans, thetans taking over bodies. These are mock-up situations. So you use those three areas of track. And this is theoretically everything that could possibly happen to a ball of light or a – ball of light versus a ball of light. Everything that could happen to a ball of light with regard to a body; everything that could happen to a body at the hands of a body. Mock-ups. Unlimited supply.

So, you see here, we have, then, a very wide range. But it’s very easily patterned – quite easily patterned. You find of all of these things the overt acts are against one, thetans, two, bodies, and overt acts by bodies against bodies – gives you three categories of DEDs, DEDEXes, overt acts and motivators.

So don’t forget there’s such a thing as an overt act against a thetan, or many thetans. You’ll get most of the charge you get off some cases that are in bad shape, right there in that department.

Well, that’s what you do, and that’s how you do an assessment. And that’s really all there is to it. You keep a record of that and then you use it for your mock-ups.

And there was one question I was asked is: Would I be willing to create or, if under what conditions or anything else? Don’t worry about that. Just say, „Would you create…“ And the preclear starts qualifying, this preclear’s worried. Get this preclear unworried and give him some more assessment. Let’s take a break.