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All right. Now, I want to talk to you about something you may find of some use. Going to knock off all this stuff about, you know, theory, so forth, and teach you something that's useful.

Thank you. Now, you may not have recognized it – you may not have recognized it as such, you see – but you are attending tonight a PE Course.

Let's take these Mimicry Processes and take a very good look at them.

But a couple of little notes before I go on.

Mimicry of the body is probably the only pure body process — probably the only pure body process. It really separates the mind from the body. It establishes pure thetan control of the limbs and actions of the body, which bypasses the mind utterly. If kept up long enough, if properly done — since it is not an easy process... It is not an easy one to understand and administer and, in many cases, not easy to do. The level of entrance on this is sometimes amazingly low.

This PE Course is a very international affair, truthfully, very international. In fact, tonight as I stand here, I want to call to your attention that the international character of it is somewhat sullied, however.

It is really stripping the minds control away from the body as a used via by a thetan. A thetan is using the mind as a via to control the body. There's no reason why a thetan should do that - - no reason at all. It's self-criticism. He says, „I can't control all of that“ — self-criticism.

You remember the king that was King of England when the United States revolutionized? That was George III, and if you look here carefully, I've brought back his head.

I've never seen anything quite as effortful as a thetan exteriorized trying to lift one of the body's little fingers. Of course, that's a very simple action. Too simple.

Well, the main difficulty that we're up against in teaching PE Courses is exactly that – their international character – because there are certain various things which intervene between public interest and sanity.

By the way, the War Department has finally arrived — finally arrived. They've abandoned G-2 completely, and they are using ESP now and are studying ESP so they will know the Russians' minds, so they can find out what Russian leaders are trying to do. I think we have got the case-entrance level of a general.

Now, I wouldn't mention any names, I wouldn't mention any cults, I wouldn't mention any activities at all.

Individuation is an interesting phenomenon, but when an army forgets its own G-2 and buys a bunch of mystics or other psychiatric schools of thought, it's really wild.

However, the Roman Catholic church is an organization which has a great many people in its membership. And when we teach a PE Course to a large class that contains almost totally members of the Roman Catholic church, if we go heavily on the Roman Catholic church and give them a poor time, what happens? Next week we have no attendance, not because the people don't want to come, but because they've been told that they will be excommunicated and go to hell if they do! This makes it much more attractive, but they stay away.

Order of complexity.

Now, this international character is observable in small districts, in small countries and in big countries. And the handling of an international activity on a blunt, this-is-the- way-you-do-it basis is almost impossible because it does not take into account the randomity in existing areas.

Now, there's some evidence, however, that some fantastically complex feats of handling bodies have been accomplished and observed. Poltergeist: There was a young boy, not six years ago, was being a great puzzle to a Catholic church because he was sending his body sailing sideways, and so on, along the floor and under the beds and tables, and under the chairs. And the rug gets near him and the rug would sail under the bed and so on. It was quite remarkable. Quite ambitious... It was too much motion for them.

Now, it would fascinate you to know that today Scientology is active in nineteen separate countries. You don't hear much about that. In some of these countries numerically the activity is very small, but wherever Scientology has gone it has continued to flourish. And particularly since PE Courses have been introduced, they have cut a swath that nothing else has ever cut, including early Christianity.

Now, that would be obsessive motion, very obsessive motion. Thetan has gone mad. He's able to accomplish this much complex motion but not on his own power of choice; got it completely reversed and upside down.

The mere fact of teaching a PE Course is evidently one of the most civilizing activities that has been conducted here for a couple of thousand years. Now, that's quite fascinating to know that.

If we'd asked that little boy to have raised his little finger while exteriorized, he wouldn't have been able to do that. Wouldn't have been able to do that at all. Very great probability that a simple action, premeditated, would not have been accomplishable. That's a premeditated action, simple, has a direct end and goal; it's being observed critically. You're sitting there waiting for him to do it. He wouldn't be able to do that; that's too simple. But he could send his body, swish-swish- swish, all over the floor and sailing under beds and through doors and out into halls and down stairs and up again without touching the floor, and this was being very upsetting.

So let's start right out at the beginning of What is the goal of a PE Course?

So they were trying demon exorcism on him. And they were being, I'm sure, very upset. It may or may not be known to that particular branch of black magic that a total exorcism would leave a dead body.

Internationally the goal is to bring about a superior civilization in which peace can exist on earth. The modus operandi by which this is done is education in the actual, simple facts of existence. And a PE Course is equally welcome to the government of Ireland, it is welcome to the government of England, to the government of France, and oddly enough to an Arabian government and the Israel government. It is welcome to the British nation and to the Indian nation. Wherever you look you'll find these people ready to tear each other's throats out and both sides accept a PE Course, the data of which is contained in Scientology: The Fundamentals of Thought. And they both accept these tenets as good roads and good weather, and here we are.

Do you know that christening ceremonies contain the phrase „Get thee away, thou evil demon.“ It's right in their prayer books. Quite amazing. Thetan that got in would leave. I imagine they have had casualties.

The Republicans, the Democrats, the Communists, the Socialists might also accept this, not then on a national basis, but a political basis.

Now, when — that's enough of this criticism; I shouldn't get off on those subjects. That's bad taste as far as I'm concerned. We all know they're rats and dogs, and I shouldn't keep belaboring the point. And I should be kind to them, even though they are rats and dogs, you know?

However, I'm afraid that I have to report that we're not too successful in educating commissars. We are not too successful in educating high priests – and other psychiatrists. We are not too successful in educating people with a pitch. Get that.

Now, the main point here is that the mind and the use of a mind derives from an inability to control or recall directly. But that inability must be an imagined inability or a postulated inability for it to occur.

The people with a pitch conceive that you are going to subtract from their particular MEST – which is what people are to them, MEST – some of their vacuum lines. And I always tell them quite frankly, "We're not even vaguely interested in disrupting your control of your congregation or your populace. If you were to come and study this, you would see exactly how it is not likely to disrupt your control." And they fall for it and they come and they get all confused.

Someone coming along and telling Joe that he can't remember now is not good enough. The only thing a person can do to Joe is restimulate Joe's own postulate that it's not good enough. That's the only thing we can do to Joe.

Scientology today is an effective mission in the Western world, highly effective. And the effectiveness of it is on the level of populace which, in the workaday world, runs the actual wheels of industry, commerce, agriculture and loafing in the various nations of the world.

Now, when we look this over, we see with what clarity — with what interesting clarity — that the handling of a body is a simple operation, but the handling of a body via machinery, facsimiles, brain, nerve centers, neurons, rubber bands, Ex-Lax, becomes difficult. It's a self-criticism; says „I can't do it. I need help.“ It's a complex action.

We have an enormous appeal to the general public, an enormous appeal. But if you think we have an enormous appeal to intelligentsia, then your PE Course is going to fail. All right, let's not generalize on this, let me settle this problem once and for all of vested interests and pitching the substance matter of a PE Course so that people with a pitch won't start pitching at you.

Now, let's look at this action in simplicity. Fellow walks down the street, so he stands his body up and he moves the legs of the body and makes it walk down the steps and walk down the street. And you say, „My, that's a lot of actions.“

You have to take the materials of Scientology and carefully edit them in your lectures so as not to start tromping on toes in the immediate front yard of some dinosaur or mammoth or overgrown bulldog.

I don't know why he's employing actions. Why doesn't he just stand the body up, hold it a couple inches above the floor and sail it smoothly down the stairs and down the street. Well, that's too simple an action. He uses gravity to hold it there while he's pushing it along.

You run it, then, good roads and good weather. Everybody's in favor of those – good roads and good weather.

See, if he really did a simple action to move a body he wouldn't use any assistance.

We don't, then, start talking in Ireland about the eighth dynamic, nor do we talk too much about the seventh dynamic.

Now, let's get back further. He is using the assistance of the genetic line to mock up a body to move — which is a fascinating feat. This is an interesting thing for him to do. Fabulous thing for him to do.

Every night at 69 Merrion Square South in Dublin, Eire, somewhere between twenty-five and sixty Irish assemble and are taught a PE Course. Good roads and good weather. There is the first PE Course. That was the first point of origin of PE Courses. It originated because an HCO – a Hubbard Communications Office – was being established in Dublin and it had a great deal of extra space.

What's the matter with him? Why can't he mock something up? Well, because that's a very simple action. What do you do when you mock something up? You have to have or make the space in which you're going to mock it up, and then you have to say „It is there and it is observable.“ And that's all there is to a mockup. You don't say, „It is now composed of energy with a specific gravity of ____, the density of ____, by the square root according to the arithmetic book, something.“ No, you just say „It's there!“ — Bang!

At first the government was very wroth, it was very upset, it was very mad that anybody should come in. And then it sent one of its "best" investigators – some fellow way below minus zero – and boy, he thought that course was wonderful. And he went back and he told his superiors that, and several of them came too. The course had the cleanest bill of health that was ever written up on a pratique. The government loves it.

Now, what is there? What you say is there. Well, how do you do that? Do you draw it all up on plans and architect it? No, that's a complex action. You'd simply say „Pretty girl“ Bang! Dum. That's all there is to it. Person would have a body.

People come from far cities in Ireland into Dublin and spend the whole week just so they can go evenings to the PE Course. For a little while the course staggered. Its administration was far less than optimum. The teaching was good, everything was good. The recruiting was wonderful but the administration was so poor that a person walking in the front door could not get registered. And if he did get registered, the registration card got lost. They lost more people there.

Now, why is one handling the body at all, in its final essence? Why are we picking it up and moving it down the steps and so on? Why don't we just tell it „All right, walk down the steps“? Well, that again is too simple an action. You have to have a certain amount of complexity to have a game.

I went from Ireland down to Spain, and during the ensuing ten weeks the entire PE Course fell to pieces, until we sent over a very fine, bright young man – a young Englishman – to take over and take charge of it. And he had it back up into solvency and so on in a matter of three weeks.

You ever see these strongmen on the stages and circus and so on? They pick up these huge weights and struggle and stagger and... Man, is that place rigged up. I mean, people are handing them cloths to wipe their hands off and mop their faces, and they bring a small truck out carrying the weights and so forth. At the end of the act, by error, the pageboy boots all the weights into the wings, you know — swit, gets the stage clear. It's mocked-up effort.

We found many things. We piloted this course from its tiniest beginnings on through and developed various things about it. We developed it in such a way that it would continue to reach in to the workaday world of Ireland.

There's an interesting process — not a therapeutic one but terribly interesting. There are lots of these. „How much effort could you employ to lift that?“ It's quite fascinating, some of the answers you get. „How much effort could you employ?“ which is making more game, in the direction of more complexity, you see?

Some of our Instructors, for instance, on occasion have talked to business colleges in Ireland – just gone over and given them a part PE Course, and then sold a number of Advanced Courses. They've even received pay from business colleges of a guinea a lecture to talk to the students of the business college. Very great interest, very great interest.

And sometimes a fellow says, „Oh, that's easy. Pick it up! Use every man, and so on, to pick that up.“

Ireland realizes that efficiency is desirable, it has so little of it. It really does have very little of it. The way an Irishman is accustomed to seeing a post filled adequately and its efficiency raised is to put five more Irishmen on the same post. That's their standard method of operation. And as a result, the American College of Personnel Efficiency – which is the name of the Irish operation – is a tremendous success. It is a financial success. It pays its own payrolls. It takes care of its own activities very nicely.

„Oh, no, no, no, no, no. How much? You can do better than that.“

It is running now in a direction which quite interestingly forecasts a change in the Irish civilization. I'm not now just drawing a longbow, it's already being felt. If a taxi driver around town hasn't heard of the American College of Personnel Efficiency, other taxi drivers would think he was stupid, which he is.

Scientology, of course, is an Irish science developed by an Irishman. That'll inevitably become the legend. Probably it was a fellow by the name of Saint Patrick who drove all the psychiatrists out of Ireland. That's the way these things evolve.

Preclears, if they're run on this for a while, will tell you something like that. Yeah, that's perfectly true too because that's where most of the effort goes.

But it is factually so that the civilization of Ireland, if it changes radically, will have changed because of the PE Course.

The Wright Whirlwind engine of the old days — you poured the gasoline one end and poured the air in the other... You poured the gasoline in to create heat, and you poured the air in to create „coolth.“

What we are doing abroad today is much greater than what we are doing in the United States of America. We are bidding up toward the principal goodwill American activity abroad. It's very fascinating. Because we don't talk about being an American activity. We talk about being a local activity, accidentally associated with an American of – I don't know, pick your country – of Arabian descent. I have acquired more ancestors! My only European ancestry actually, however is, actually – just to be absolutely factual about it – French, Scotch, English and Irish. Anyway...

I don't know why you're laughing at that word. I guess you are not a member of the Society for the Rehabilitation of Neglected Positives. It's a good... Huh? Well, there's this word kempt — kempt: people are well-kempt.

The truth is that the only thing you can export with success is an idea. It has to be a good idea, and you can't export the idea that the only country on earth is the country exporting the idea. A chap by the name of Schicklgruber tried this and there were several bodies lying around at the end of the trial. We can't teach the Scot – I think you'll recognize this as an impossibility – we can't teach the Scot that the English is a superior beast. We can't do that. The Scot will not buy this.

Couth. A lot of these. It's an old society.

Neither can we teach the Englishman that the Irishman is the superior entity. We can't teach the French that the only good ideas there are, are Irish. Now, France might be able to teach the rest of the world that the only place there are any fashions are in Paris, but this is a different thing. That's simply teaching a single facet of superiority. No country buys the total superiority of another nation.

But you've got all of this tremendous additive. And every time you add something, you get a consumption of more energy, so you have to consume more energy and you have to have more energy to consume. And you get it running around after a while, and you got the War Department. They got the totality of G-2 now listening to a couple of swamis. These boys must be really asking to be destroyed.

We're very fond of believing that in America – that the exportation of the superiority of the American is a possibility. We believe that is a possibility. Actually, Americans are very acceptable abroad – well, not American government officials. I mean Americans. There is a difference. Don't think there isn't a difference. The people who hang around the embassies and – or the commercial attach�s, and so forth – actually only function in many foreign countries simply by the grace of American businesses in those countries. They would never have a commercial report if it were not for the local manager of the Ford agency. He has all of the lines.

I received a letter this morning which informed me confidentially that the atom bomb will land this fall, by the way. Guy has got it right straight from the Pentagon. If I hadn't have heard this report on ESP and so forth, why, I would have put some credit in it; I would have put some faith in that. But in view of the fact I hear that they're finding out the plans of the Russian leaders, you see, by ESP and a fellow writes me from Wichita (whose name I never mention — Purcell), that the atom bomb is due to land this fall, and he got it straight from the Pentagon... I can figure out even more vias; I can figure out even more vias.

The American government is too big. It has too many guns. It has too much money. It's a colossus. It's something to be afraid of.

The bomb is going to land because the Russians are going to invade. You see, and the Russians are going to invade south Georgia, and this will frighten the Russians so that they will be forced, you see, to bomb the United States. See, we can get more additives in there; we can add that up even further.

South Africa, for instance, could not ask a reasonable favor from the United States of America, because there would be strings attached, they say. But man, can they ask favors of an individual American. Now, that's an interesting difference, isn't it?

And if we start out with something stupid like ESP to begin... You know ESP is a dramatization of an inability to read minds. Any fellow that would sit around and get into a fog or a hypnotic trance in order to find out what somebody else is thinking about, needs to have his thetan examined. And he tells you ordinarily; if he's in that state, that's the case.

So an American abroad today has a tendency to be – well, he's Gary Cooper or somebody, you know. They know who Americans are. And the American government, however, that's something that lives on another planet.

By the way, that's a very low-order manifestation, in case you ever run into it. That's a very, very low-order manifestation. It's just a hair above psychotic. Fascinating.

Give you some kind of an idea of the impossibility of exporting the superiority of any one being – give you just a little idea of this: A bunch of friends of mine up around Coppermine, Lord knows where up to the north; you go just a couple of feet further north than Coppermine and you bump your nose flat against the North Pole. There are Eskimos who occasionally descend – despite the cautions of the Northwest Mounted Police – into cannibalistic activities. And of course the police up there are fairly reasonable about it because they realize a man that far north gets hungry.

Yeah, you'll find this. I've drawn a coordination on it lately. It's one of those lower harmonies that make you ashamed to get in somebody else's head to find out what he's thinking about. Well, that's the simple one. Look at his facsimiles. What's the matter with you? You need thetan glasses? I mean, what do you want to do it with ESP for? You're going to add space, and you're going to get waves, you know, and all kinds of vias-vias-vias-vias-vias to find out what? To find out what facsimile is now in reaction against his cranium. Seems to me to be awfully additive.

But these chaps used to use a word which was of some interest to me. I won't try to pronounce it for you because Eskimo is much more complex than any other language I know of on earth, and I don't think there's a white man alive that knows it. He knows some of it, but he doesn't know the language called "Eskimo."

You get this complexity, though, to make a game — more effort, more vias, more terminals, more comm lines. And then we have to have more comm lines to make more comm lines in order to make more comm lines so that we can have the terminal in the first place really confused now.

And they rather protect this language by its complexity, and so on. And I'd hear them using this word that was something like glumb-bu-glm-glumb-bu-glm, and "That fellow over there, he's glumb-bu-glm-bu-glm," and so on. And I finally got curious because I noticed they were pointing to people who loafed and who did nothing: people who didn't hunt, people who didn't support their families, people who did nothing, who had to be waited on if anything happened at all.

You know how, by the way — large organizations which are falling all over themselves — do you know how they solve communication blocks and upsets? They have just one solution — all other solutions subhead under this: add more personnel, put in more hours. That's the only thing. It's more work, apply more work. And you get down here, you find out a government department isn't working well; well, somebody immediately goes up and gets an appropriation and hires Lord knows how many more employees to put into that department. The reason it isn't working well, of course, is because it had too many employees in the first place.

And so I said, "What does glumb-bu-glm-glumb-bu-glm mean?" And they said, "White man."

In the HASI, London, we discovered this with great ease. One day we found out we were way above budget. Going to run suddenly on 60 percent of our income; pay off some of our bills with the remaining 40 percent. Second we did that we looked around and of course they took the outside workers (not Scientologists) that were in the organization, and they sorted them out. And they took two or three of them and shot them from guns; fired them. That's all they could do to bring the budget down.

We have done something very, very successful. This talk is not about, you understand, the international overseas activity of Scientology. I'm just pointing out something to you. We're doing something very successful. We are not exporting the vast superiority of the American or an American technology. We are not using any of the controls which would normally be expected to be used by an American organization to impress other people how great and mighty and wise it was.

Business manager next day said, „What's happening around here? It's so quiet. I've gotten my work done this morning and here I am with nothing to do at 2 o'clock.“ We looked it over and found out that all he had been doing was undoing the boo-boos which were being made by people on the communication lines. That was all he had been doing. When we removed the people from the comm lines, at once the comm lines began to flow smoothly. Everybody in the organization had been put up to taking in everybody else's washing to such a degree that the organization's work mainly now consisted of the organization's work — only it wasn't doing any work; it was just doing the work being made. You got the idea?

Our people abroad and your fellow Scientologists abroad are of the nations, for the most part, that they inhabit. I admit that I have to tell these people every now and then to be loyal to their own governments. I have to tell them, "You're not a citizen of Scientology. You're a citizen of Lebanon." It's a difficult thing for them to get through their heads. They say, "All right, we'll act that way if you say so, Ron."

Almost any organization or constitution is liable to get into that circumstance. And we're looking straight at the mind. Now, everything I've described to you so far is good parallelism for the action of the mind. Very good parallelism.

But it is a test of a PE Course. It's a test, a terrific test. In America today we are being very careful not to permit ideological teachings to be broadcast far and wide. We confine them exclusively to our best schools. We teach communism practically nowhere outside the university. We are not a people bombarded by a great number of ideologies.

You restimulate facsimile A in order to restimulate a series of locks, B to 18. Then you take cross-association 62; that goes into the lower left-hand pocket, starts up a small cellular reaction at that point. The cellular reaction generates a certain chemical which goes into the glandular system which comes back and restimulates facsimile A which you restimulated in the first place; you take your attention off of that and start to think. See the circuitry that's added there? Now, that is what we mean by circuitry. That is circuitry.

It's very, very fascinating that foreign nations are not in this category today. The vast sums appropriated by the Kremlin to teach people communism would stagger you. They have agent provocateurs and educators and experts afloat in all of these countries who are doing a terrific job. They're terrific trained men. They have literature, they've got the know-how, they know all of the appeals, they've got experience. After all, they had a tremendously successful revolution once. They're still swell- headed about it. They're still appropriating money for this educational program the length and breadth of the world. We don't let them in here, but that doesn't mean they don't exist abroad.

Thetan says to himself „You know that's a nice cat.“ And something says „I don't like cats.“ Bing! Bing! See? He says „Well, maybe I don't like cats.“

You would be amazed at the number of political philosophies and educational philosophies being taught in Spain, for instance, a very great country.

Now, all that added circuitry ever does is stop things. It appears to change things, but what it succeeds in doing is stopping things. The delusion in it is flow; things apparently flow in all this added circuitry.

Communism is taught as an everyday occurrence. At least half of the people are full-blown, dyed-in-the-wool, utterly convinced communists. They have anarchists, completely different from communists. Communists only depend on anarchists to get a foothold. They have republicans – the popular, modern philosophy of Spain since it won. And they have this and they have that, and they have this and that. And you never saw so many things or so many people that were so anxious to teach people about things.

The truth of the matter is, is terminal A to terminal B is a very short, quick distance. The flow is intended to go from terminal A to terminal B. Now if we add circuitry on this, the flow is actually stopped between A and B while it is going through the circuitry.

And in that kind of an atmosphere a PE Course is the one that wins! Now, if that isn't a test of something, I'd like to know it! We're even doing better than the Irish National Educational Program. They insist that everybody learn Irish, the native language. They insist they listen to Irish on the radio. They insist that they sing Irish songs and learn to play harps. Suzie bought a harp for me because she wanted me to be in practice if I got knocked off! But when we looked at the harp very carefully we found it had been made in Wales and there were no harps available for sale in Ireland. It looks to me like that government program wasn't so good.

Now, apparently we're looking at change, aren't we? But it's not change. The actual course of the communication should be from A to B. It is not going from A to B directly, all during the time it is passing through circuits in order to get to B, don't you see? It is going to other terminals and, therefore, the final analysis is a stop. Now, that's stretching it a little bit, but if you look that over carefully, I think you'll see what I mean.

And yet millions are spent on that program by experts in the government. And how many pounds get spent on the PE Course down at 69 Merrion Square? Oh, about fifty pounds a week is its total payroll and outlay. And it's successful, and these others aren't.

The communication line between Agnes and George, consisting of letters between New York and San Francisco, apparently consists of the mail department and airplanes and a fast delivery. That's the communication line; that's the communication.

Now, I am talking about countries that are a long way away from the United States, and each one of them has its peculiarities and each one of them has its problems.

Now let's add circuits: Agnes has to get her mother to read the letter before she sends it. Her mother has to get the advice of the minister. The minister is quite disturbed about this and wants to look it up in his book of regulations as to whether or not — this would be a Catholic church, of course — whether or not the baby should be christened in the Mohammedan faith or not, you know. This would shake the whole empire up. And it goes round and round and round, and wanders around the neighborhood this fashion, and it finally does what? It finally gets on the communication line again, but it has been stopped all the time it was not going directly to the other city.

But these things are a long way away from America. I wonder what it is in America that a PE Course (1) has to step around, and (2) can help. I wonder if these things vary from district to district and area to area. And I wonder if it might not be true that Americans are slightly less observant of the exact problems on which they're sitting in their own particular district and the things which they themselves have to avoid to keep from stepping on toes. I wonder if that could be the case.

So circuitry is 1.1 stopping. They can't stop it so they shunt it. There it goes. Goes off on a wild tear — freeway cloverleafs.

It's very easy to look a long way and see much. It is sometimes hard to look right here and see anything. This has a great deal in it. Because it's an oddity that Scientology and PE Courses are going better abroad than they are at home.

You see? You see the facts of the case?

Now, it'd be very easy to assign this to the peculiarities of the American nature. Be very, very easy to do that. You'd just get rid of the whole thing, dump it in the ditch and you wouldn't have to worry about it anymore.

It doesn't slow it down, because it is not making any progress between A and B. Have you got the idea? It isn't being slowed down; it's stopped as far as A and B is concerned, and it's stopped for a period of time. And the hope is that it can be put through enough circuitry so that it will never go between A and B.

I'm afraid though, that isn't true. The only thing peculiar I find out about the American nature is how peculiarly similar it is to any other human nature. The only peculiar thing I find out about America as a whole is the fact that its natural resources and ability to produce have far outstretched other nations, at the expense perhaps of some of its culture. At the expense of some of its culture.

This is the total operation of a court of law. If they can just find enough prosecuting torts to attorney to, they'll be all set; they'll never have to try the case.

You find in Spain, for instance, oddly enough, better worker morale, better general morale than you find in America, just in general. Nobody ever retires in Spain. If you were to tell somebody that they had to retire or something they'd think you were crazy. "What's this new idea you're trying to import?" We wouldn't even be able to sell it in a PE Course. Spain has never been indoctrinated with the idea that there's a virtue in loafing. Now, that's a great peculiarity because we – close to the Latin countries – rather believe in this oddity of the Mexican with his hat down over his face, sleeping against a wall as a national symbol because we see it on everything. Boy, that's not Spain.

Somebody says the U.S. court calendars are so overloaded that courses of justice are impossible to execute without a delay of about two years. Court calendars are awfully overloaded. Well, the calendar might be overloaded but how about the court? The court isn't overloaded but the court's circuits are. (This is not just because there are „circuit“ courts!) But I'm afraid that circuit courts evolved because of somebody's observation of this who knew Scientology a few hundred years ago or something.

It's quite amazing you know. You've got your cookery, you've got your saddle harness, trappings, most of your ideas of conveyance, all from Spain. You can't even buy pepper in Spain. It's very difficult; a specially-imported item – and you're peculiar because you're trying to buy pepper. It has no ... Spain hasn't anything in common with Latin America. I don't know how come we ever tied them together. They don't even both speak Spanish. You ever hear any Argentinean? Yeah, it's a real interesting language, but it's not Spanish.

Now, where does it all go? I was part of an action whereby a couple of individuals were being tried, and I was being actually immobilized as a witness. You see, I was supposed to be a witness eventually when this got tried. And I kept wondering why this wasn't being tried. It kept coming up but it never got tried. Well, that's because deputations had to be sent off in various directions to get this-a and that-a by the so on and so on. And you just never saw so many lines running that meant so little.

Anyway. Here's the Spanish nation: it hasn't learned yet that it shouldn't work. Here's the Italian nation: the same thing. The French nation is exactly on a reverse polarity: they've never heard of work. The Irish nation have heard of it too well, and the English nation are willing to learn about it if there was anybody in the management characteristics that would steer them in that direction.

And, actually, the U.S. court calendar may be full only because it never tries any cases. You see, every time something is delayed they have to appear in court. And if you had nothing happening in the court but everybody appearing to get delays, you would of course never get any trials, so of course you'd have a full court calendar.

And what happens is in all of these countries the various activities are varied from the American view, of course, but not at all dissimilar. Not at all dissimilar, their variations. But you haven't wild differences.

Now, I'm afraid this is one of the main reasons why we have a full court calendar. There's nothing very complicated about a trial itself as such. But boy, its circuits are certainly complicated.

There's nothing peculiar about an American. There's nothing really strange about his ideas of work. He just has ideas on the subject. But there is something strange about his ideas of education that are so strange it's a wonder any of us can read and write. It has become the most peculiarly complicated subject about which nobody knows anything in the world.

Actually most criminal trials these days are settled in the prosecuting attorney's office; they don't even come up in court. The attorneys meet. Defendant's attorney meets prosecuting attorney, and they talk it over: „Well, we'll make a little deal here. We know you've got to get a prosecution record and so forth. And well, we'll plead guilty on a misdemeanor level. And if you slap us with a felony, why, we won't plead guilty; we'll plead innocent,“ and so on.

We have educated with such ardure, with such thoroughness, at such a fantastic tone level, that our children today come home from school and ask us how to spell "cat." They're only, you see, in the seventh grade.

And these guys, not even in a courtroom, got this thing all taped. Then it finally moves in, in front of the judge, and the judge says, „Well?“

Look at their writing. Schoolboy writing I thought was bad enough, but in the last decade it no longer compares favorably with copperplate writing of 1860. It no longer compares favorably with that. In fact, you can't read it at all.

And the fellow says, „Well, I'm guilty.“

We do have, temperamentally perhaps, no wild difference between ourselves and the nations which gave us our genetic lines. But we do have some oddities on the educational line, and it may be these more than anything else which hold us up a bit in PE work.

We have been made to resist school, and in foreign nations it is considered a privilege to go to school. Go to school, go to jail: that's about the same thing to an American boy, not much difference. And you ask him to come to "class" to take a "course" and he doesn't respond in droves. He's been there.

„Well, your Honor,“ the prosecuting attorney will say, „Here is the tort, retort, brief, that has been prepared on the defendant's plaintifficating and here you are.“

So I would look forward to a longer program of civilization in America than in Europe, mostly because of this training factor and no other.

And the judge looks at it, and he looks sort of defeated; there's no trial going on here at all. The fellow has pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor and that is that. So he says, „Well, thirty dollars or thirty days, or“... and manages to spend a long time doing this, you see? And then he adjourns everything for a couple of hours and... Id like to know if there's any justice in this; the prisoner wasn't present while the attorneys were getting it all taped.

So it means that a PE Course in the United States would be successful, but not as successful per capita unless we carefully review the exact conditions of the environment in which we are working, and discover (1) what factors we should avoid, and (2) what we can really help. And maybe we've never studied those in America. Maybe with a long view I see them much more clearly in Ireland or England or Lebanon. Maybe.

So if we just get enough of these circuits and delays, we don't even have any justice. See, then it's — no justice necessary. Everybody has it all running perfectly.

Maybe there are things that we should avoid in America that we're too American to avoid. Could be, could be. But there's possibly something in this.

I have actually listened to a couple of hours of argument about postponement in a court, most fascinating thing you've ever heard of. They weren't even arguing about the case. They weren't even arguing about laws that applied to the case. They were arguing about a paragraph that had been inserted, and they had to have time to take the paragraph out. That was all they were talking about. It was whether or not anybody had the rights to take the paragraph out, and they went on for a couple of hours and so on.

I think the PE Course in America has to be tailored up to fit the American scene like nothing has ever fit it. I think that is still, in the main, to be built as a technology. I think we're starting from scratch. But I know what our entrance-point is. Our entrance-point is the education of educators. I know that is our entrance-point. The education of educators.

I imagine the U.S. court calendars are crowded — just like most preclears' minds.

Until they are educated it is highly unlikely that a long- distance program of American education would be entirely successful. So in the interim – in the interim – we have to dub in another program, at the same time educating educators.

A preclear's mind is trying to achieve (under the direction of the thetan during optimum operation), adjudication of action — trying to establish the right action to be pursued. And if this is all being done by circuits, then the preclear himself is never adjudicating; he's depending on circuits to turn up all the evidence which finally result in.

I don't know if you realize it completely, but the first Logics - - The Logics, actually, all of them, of Dianetics – are the science of education. Those are the axioms of education. With a few more that immediately define education, no more than that, we have it made. No difficulty should accrue then; we do have this business of education down.

Now, the more circuits he has, the less ethic he has. The more circuits he has, the less ethic he has. The more circuits he has, the less honest he is. Why? Because the only thing that is capable of ethical adjudication there is a thetan. And so the more it gets passed out from underneath his hands by him into bypasses, circuits and so on — because it's all too much for him to handle...

But the trouble with education in America is it entails the word school. And it's very probable that an individual would take much more kindly to something that avoided this, avoided school. It's very probable.

They used to tell me that the armed services ran the way they did because they were too big; they had now grown too big. I never could quite connect this up, you know? I used to come forward with the idea „You know, big ships are easier to sail than small ships?“ Somebody'd look sort of whipped. I was objecting.

But if you're going to avoid school, how will you run a PE Course? Because it's a training course. I don't stand here and tell you I've got this problem solved. I tell you we're just at the entrance of a whole series of problems.

Thetan says, „This is all too big. This is all too complex. And I have to do it all complexly but it's too big. I just can't handle all this.“

Our people can at least read. That isn't true of many of the people taking PE Courses outside the United States. Well, if they have this, that's quite an advantage. That's quite an advantage. We should make use of it.

What is this all about? He's put everything over into the prosecuting attorney's office and he's waiting for an adjudication to come from there, when he is the only person capable of adjudicating.

Exactly how we get over this hump of you say, "Come to school," and the fellow backs up at light speed, I don't know. It may not even be true that people are avoiding school. It may be true that they only avoid a certain type of school. If we found this out exactly, then we would know what school they were avoiding and not be it.

He gets adjudications on the future from little choo-choo trains that come over the horizon of a ridge and if they display a green flag, why, that means yes, and a red flag, that means no. If they don't display any flag that means worry. This is for true; this is the mind in action.

If we would look over the enrollment figures of adult education and find out what subject was most heavily subscribed to in polytechnical colleges, adult education in adult night schools, adult high school – if we got the most heavily attended class and said the PE Course was that, we'd have it, temporarily, as long as we didn't say "class" too loudly.

Did anybody ever write a book called „The Mind in Action“? That's a very, very nice title: „The Mind in Action.“ I've heard Language in Action. Boy, could I write a sarcastic broadside on the subject of the mind in action. I've watched the mind in action. It doesn't produce anything but it sure makes an awful confusing motion while its trying to.

I have even thought of coaching people so that they would know how to go to school. That's a quiet entrance-point: Run a coaching course so that they could study something.

All right, why am I running down the mind? We're supposed to be studying the mind. That's because I've studied it.

But it is an entrance level. Now, we could take the United States, now that we've come home on this – you know, we've been looking abroad, now we're looking at the United States – we could take the United States itself and consider it to have certain problems which were common denominators to all the United States. And then we would have to look at the individual areas statewide.

Lord Dunsany is very, very fine — he's a gorgeous writer. He's a gorgeous writer. You may like him, you may not. Very fanciful. Of course, he's of other days.

I myself have lived in Connecticut. A young writer, I lived in Connecticut. And I know the (quote) "Connecticut native" (unquote) is quite different from the Arkansas native. I know that for sure. There's quite a difference. The ferocious independence of the Connecticuter and the professional indolence of the Arkansaser are not compatible. Both however have their very good points and their charm. Therefore, it probably would not be possible to lay down something that would be good for all districts and areas of the United States. It may be, you know, that the United States is actually a number of nations held together by common transportation and television.

But he wrote one story about „The Day the Monastery Fell,“ which is exactly parallel to this proposition of the human mind.

And the first thing that I would teach anybody who was going to start a PE Course would not be to Q-and-A with what I did. I looked abroad and went abroad. But remember, I organized and taught PE Courses abroad.

The monastery was going to fall and everybody was very sad. It had been long predicted that the monastery would fall on the umpteenth of Swaugust. And it was going to fall and that was all there was to it. And all the surrounding farms that had held it in awe and paid it their tithes and so forth were quite interested in this fact.

Now, what I'm asking you not to Q-and-A with is this: You're in San Francisco, and you model a PE Course exactly for Denver and teach it in San Francisco. Now, I'm not going to model a PE Course for Dublin and try to teach it in New York, because there would only be the New York police force that would attend it.

And there was one farmer who decided he'd walk up there to the monastery because it was going to fall today. And he found the people at the gate were in a hell of a turmoil, and they didn't notice what he was doing. So he walked on through, and the people in the courtyards, usually on guard and so forth, they were all over leaning against the wall weeping. And he went on through to the inner room of the inner room of the inner room of the inner room of the inner room of the inner room — nobody stopped him; everybody was in grief or apathy — and he saw the place where the holy of holies was kept and where it was and so on, and the dark curtain surrounded it everywhere, and he went up and he pulled the curtain aside; there was nothing. And on that day the monastery fell.

Why is this?

This story is very sooth. It's very sooth. After you've gotten through wracking through all the facsimiles there are, when you've looked them over very carefully, when you have examined all their phenomena and significances, their circuits and so forth (we will admit that you wouldn't be comfortable until you had, until you knew subjectively and objectively that this was the case, and I don't ask you to take this on faith at all; I just ask you to look it over), you have a situation where when the curtain is drawn back you have an empty stage. There isn't even a thetan on it — not as far as the mind is concerned. The mind as itself is a complex associative mechanism, and we are probably the only people on Earth at this time who know enough about it to make any kind of a statement concerning it. That's for true. That's for true.

It's because there must be a common meeting ground in the R of the ARC triangle before A and C can take place. There must be an agreement between the course and its area, its administration and the administration of the area, before it can occur as a communication medium. There must be.

Well, if that's the case, then what are we doing studying it? Well, because we know all about it. Why did we study it in the first place? We didn't know a thing about it. Neither did anybody else — particularly anybody else.

We almost emptied a course in Ireland on Tuesday night because on Monday night we had a young English girl – a very, very brilliant auditor – lose her head while lecturing. And having been cautioned very carefully not to mention the Roman Catholic church, she promptly explained to everybody that they ought to be "Angelicans" because she was one. Have you got that? And we emptied the course. I mean, that was that. That was the end of that week.

You're going to find that nobody will believe this. Actually you don't want anybody to believe this on faith. You don't want anybody to believe this on faith. It'd be a very fatal thing for somebody to merely take that on faith and say that's that. He better take a look; he better take a look. He better find out about facsimiles, chains of facsimiles, engrams, secondaries. He better find out about circuits, associative restimulators, restimulators, how these things are put together, how the body makes pictures of everything in an effort to overcome time. He better discover for himself that the totality of the passage of time as interpreted by the mind is significance and significance only. He had better discover that the mind only loses in this universe significances; it never loses masses — except, of course, by saying it owned the mass and somebody else took the mass. But the mass isn't gone. Time does not sweep away masses; it only sweeps away the significance of masses, the peculiarities of form and juxtapositions.

Well, the funny part of it is that when you're teaching a PE Course, if you don't ever mention the fellow becoming a Scientologist, it becomes inevitable. You're not superman, then, asking somebody else to be you. You're asking somebody else to be better what he already is. And when he learns how to do this, he is of course a Scientologist.

It sweeps away the fact that that wall is there and white and is adjacent to that wall across the room which is there and white. In a little while enough students will have run 8-C in this room to make that wall black along a certain band. Be enough upset in general to flake some paint off the wall. But we know already the paint isn't gone, and that the blackness on their hands was somewhere else before it got on the wall.

Now, I can tell you some of the blunders that can be made. And one of those blunders is to continue to appeal to the intelligentsia – to publish in intelligentsia media.

Then please tell me how anybody lost or gained anything except the significance of it. And significance includes location.

You publish and disseminate to people who do things. The intelligentsia only talks about people who do things. That's the definition of the intelligentsia. They're people who talk about people who do things. You got it?

The significance of your car keys when they're not there is tremendous, simply because they are not there. But the significance of your car keys in the ignition of your car or in your pocket where you know they are is also tremendous.

Now, this is very interesting. Many people consider themselves intelligentsia who aren't. That's just a difference of definition of intelligentsia.

What is significant about significance? Position, and the knowledge of. So that we get this situation looking rather peculiar here when we study it for a while.

Scientology already contains a very top strata of brilliance. I know some Scientologist who is very low on the critical level looks around and he says, "Oh, no. My God, don't tell me that I am looking at the most intelligent upper five thousand of the ten thousand most intelligent people in the world. Don't do that." Well, I won't do that. I won't say it. Don't have to, because it's a fact. It happens to be. It happens to be.

We say, „What? We've got all this mechanism to overcome the loss of objects which aren't getting lost except as to knowledge of whereabouts.“

And amongst Scientologists there are many who have thought of themselves quite a bit as members of the intelligentsia. They have thought of themselves in this category. They are the smarter people, and so forth, and they look around.

You know, it's a heck of thing to tell you this, but every jewel you have ever been buried with, every sarcophagus you've ever been laid away in, or at least the parts thereof, still exist. You just don't happen to be able to hock them, which is a significance. That's all.

But I'll tell you a singular difference. Their friends, and so forth, aren't doing anything. Their friends aren't Scientologists. They merely talk about it. That's true, isn't it? This rather singles them out of the pack, doesn't it? It certainly does.

So it is actually a brutal lie that time is costing us things by passing. It's only costing us significance. And when a fellow has a tremendous amount of significance — you might say, a vested interest in significance, or vested significance — does he experience this phenomenon of lost time? Passage of time doesn't cost him a thing.

I don't tell you this for any other reason than that I consider it factual that the Scientologists today do represent a terrific upper strata.

Of course, he's in town A and then he goes to town B. You might say he loses town A. Doesn't that seem rather peculiar to you? I mean, he doesn't lose town A. But he comes back to town A after a while and he finds that it's all changed. What's changed? The masses? No. The significance of the masses.

Of course, I could say about myself like Fred Allen said about himself right after the war. He came on his program and he explained that due to the war all of the great comedians had fallen away, so as to leave him on a pinnacle. Maybe that's the case with Scientologists, you see. It could be. It's undoubtedly the case with me, you see?

So on this alteration of significance he loses town A. This is a fantastic thing, you see? He loses it; it's not his town anymore. It's all changed and he can't fit himself back into it again. Oh, yeah? What's the matter? Is he skidding? He lose his charm or something? Something is wrong there. People are just a little older and a little more complicated than they were when he last saw them; that's about all. The building structure is a little more complicated or a little more absent, as in the case of wars. And it's terrible to tromp on it with this amount of ferocity, tromp on the sentiment, the beauty of yesterday, the glories of childhood, the affection of parents. It's just bad to do this, I know.

Because as far as mathematics are concerned, I can remember some old boys way back when, see – in terms of logic and extrapolation and a few other things – that could think so many rings around me, I felt like I'd been played a game with by being ringed with pretzels, you know? It was just, wow! You know, whoa! I haven't seen them around. I just haven't seen them around lately. It isn't that I'm seeing fewer people. Something has happened, somehow.

But when you're looking for truth you sometimes get all messed up by sentimentality. Somebody is likely to tell you that his car travels very, very well, when he knows that it travels horribly badly. It's sentimentality that attaches him to the car; he likes that car.

And maybe something's happened that leaves us, not on a pinnacle, but certainly a plateau. Got the idea? Evidently something has. I wouldn't know or attempt to plumb the exact chemistry and reaction of human beings throughout the world today, but I do know that as we look around, we find the strata of leadership less and less apparent. What they would call a wise action today would have been considered a rather stupid one a decade or two ago. You see, there's something at work here.

Well, it's not true that the car itself is still here after it's gone to the junkyard and been smashed up. Some bit of the car though is still contained in that car which just passed in the street. They smashed it up and used its steel; it's in another car now.

And we, being the brighter people, knowing more about it here and there, have a great tendency to confuse brightness with class. And you find the brighter people are not necessarily members of one or another class. Remember that. That's a very important thing.

So all this amounts to is, then, the identity, which is the significance. There has not been a loss of mass as far as the universe is concerned. There has been a loss of assembled or organized mass.

You will not get all of your PE Course attendance from the lowest laboring level or the highest social strata. You will get the brightest ones in the lowest and the brightest ones in the highest. You get the brightest ones.

You meet Joe, you like Joe, you're happy with Joe for a long time. One day he walks out and steps into a bullet, and that's the end of Joe. The worms get at him and convert him, as a body.

The people who simply sit there and read your ad are not as good as the people who sit and read your ad and wish they knew more about it.

Well, the weird part of it is, we happen to know now that nothing happens to Joe. This is quite fantastic, nothing happens to Joe.

The people who sit there and read your ad and wish they knew more about it are not as good as those who sit there and read your ad, wish they knew more about it and call you up. Those people are capable of reaching a bit.

Well, what does happen to what?

But they're not as well-off as the people who sit there and read your ad, wish they knew more about it, call up, make an appointment, come down and see you and go through the course.

The individuality called Joe and the attendant mass, which are both significances in form, have disappeared or altered. This makes a different pattern of the game, then — totally different game pattern. But it doesn't mean a loss of havingness; the universe is still here. Now, I tell you that with great confidence, because the basic postulate in that stuff up there is that it's sacred and you mustn't touch it. It'll be here for a long time.

That is a mechanism of superselection in itself. That's quite a mechanism. And it means that you eventually wind up with the brighter ones, no matter what social strata they're from. You always do, by the way. The brighter ones and the braver ones.

When we get to auditing a preclear, the first place he dives is into a little back bay called significance. And if you audit him very well and with sufficient significance, giving him more game, he'll eventually come up and give you the common denominator of all cognitions. Common denominator of all cognitions: It does or does not have significance.

So there really isn't any hope of running through a PE Course at once a totality of any given section of the population. It would almost be catastrophic if you did so. The people who will reach that far are capable of leadership, and when you're through with them, they're fitted for it. Got the difference? They're capable of it and they're fitted for it. And that's why it goes rapidly.

And the super-cognition of this is „Significance is additive.“ And boy, if there's anything a thetan does well it's add significance, because he's all that's around that's adding any significance to anything. And an awful lot of people in this world at this time have lost the power even to add a significance.

But I feel that there must be some small flaw in the way we have begun to approach it so far in America on this selectivity, because we have not followed such an exact pattern. But already we have learned that it does no good in America to advertise. It doesn't do any good to advertise.

You put an idea up here within a hundred yards of Capitol Hill... This sounds funny. You think everybody gets ideas and everybody pounds Capitol Hill on the back and so forth. But you just put an idea — a good clear idea — within about a hundred yards of Capitol Hill and it'll go tsshup! Mass is tailor-made to absorb ideas and forms; that's why it is there. Naturally it absorbs ideas, so naturally there are lots of ideas stuck in a thetan's head.

We get everybody we get by word of mouth. You understand, I'm merely talking on percentiles. Something like three out of fifty or three out of twenty-five come in because of ads. That is our average for all over the country.

Every time he thinks, the mass goes tsshup! That's all. When the mass has gone sufficiently tsshup! he has a mind.

We must then, to start a PE Course, do this: We must find a strata of people who can reach, reach them, get them to reach, and then know that they will reach others. And then we will be a success. And that is in essence the formula of recruiting a PE Course. And if you avoid the pet blasphemies and bugaboos of an area – discover them and avoid them – and if you find out what in an area is most in need of help and has the most interest centered on it in an area, and parallel that, your PE Course will be a tremendous success.

Yes, a fellow has to look this over, though. A fellow cannot take this on faith for the excellent reason that he couldn't that suddenly validate himself with that much simplicity. „You mean I'm doing all this?“

America ran out of frontiers a long time ago, until we found another one, America.

Yes, you're doing all this.

Thank you.

A court exists because of the authority of its judge. The prosecuting attorney can go back and try the case privately with a couple of the defendant's attorneys simply because of the authority of the judge. As the authority gets further and further stretched from the judge, the end product is no authority anywhere; but there's not even a case tried by that time. When no cases are being tried of any kind, all authority is gone, which means there's no judge: somebody exteriorized. Somebody will always act in the judge's name as long as there is any idea of a judge left there.

Very amusing in the eighth, ninth and tenth centuries to find people acting in the name of the Roman Empire. They actually were signing orders and mandates and sending them out to the far parts of the world out of no more empire than a cat has. And yet the ghosty notion of empire still auraed around Italy. There it was, and people could still use that shabby fragment of an idea to put on documents and do things with, and sometimes somebody paid attention to them.

For instance, Brittany and France, some other sections of France and some stuff up around Denmark that has nothing to do with modern Denmark were once issued in — I've forgotten the date; somewhere around 500 A.D. — they were issued the right to form a state, assemble armies and collect their own taxes by somebody down in Ravenna who was still running up the standard of the emperor of the Romans. Somebody issued them, but these states didn't pay any attention to them at all. They were already independent, they were already maintaining their armies and they were already collecting their own taxes.

Nevertheless, a few hundred years later, we find one of these states validating its existence with this silly document issued by somebody who was half drunk at the time and couldn't have cared less.

Now, this authority, no matter how thin, will still exist. What do you think happened to the authority of the last thousand thetans that occupied the body you have on the genetic line? Well, they're gone. They exteriorized and the genetic line went on elsewhere. But is there any ghostiness of their authority left?

Every once in a while a preclear finds himself doing something that he isn't doing. He energized a past authority over a series of circuits and got an answer to marksmanship out of the year 802, which says that all crossbows must be held at rest against the buckle before being tautened. He says, „Yes, that's very interesting.“

You'd be amazed how many generals and other characters of that level will be sitting around thinking, you know, and if you followed their (quote) „pattern of thought,“ (unquote) they would be thinking „Now, I don't know. We ought to get down this bonanza-type barrage and so forth, and all crossbolts must be tautened against the buckle. What am I talking about? Oh, well. Artillery trajectories and so on.“ He calls it thinking. He's in a sort of a dog or cat chasing its own tail down through his circuits, don't you see? And as he goes through these circuits he's picking stuff up.

Which tells us, then, that there are two levels of thetan activity: One is the production of, and the other one is the absorption of, significance. A thetan produces or absorbs significance. Now, anybody in good shape can do both, but as people go down Tone Scale during a certain band they can only cause significance, and below that band they can only absorb it. The band is 2.0 exactly.

And below 2.0 they can only absorb significance; the only reality is mass. Above 2.0 for quite a little ways, these people will obsessively originate significance. Above that they — it's a game. Above that they couldn't care less. And above that, oddly enough — where they couldn't care less — they could absorb significance, don't you see; they could, if they could absorb. So it winds up to be a causing of significance.

If some thetan in real good condition came over Washington — I mean, in real good condition, from olden times — came over Washington at this moment and made a mock-up of some religious figure... He might have had no reason whatsoever to do it; he just felt like making a mock-up, you see? He just made a mockup and he made a mock-up. He didn't add very much significance into it, but there is significance in that he mocked up a mock-up of a religious figure. He put some significance in it, but he didn't attribute any importance to the significance!

Now, you got the whole picture. Its significance (in or out) is just significance. It's the amount of importance attached to significance that makes or breaks a case. So you're not trying to audit the significance in or out of a preclear; you're just trying to audit the importance out of it. That's all you're trying to do.

So therefore, you must get very, very significant in auditing Mimicry. And the more significant you get, the more successful the process is liable to become. Terribly significant. Force the guy to be more significant than significance itself.

Now, on very low-toned cases you probably would have to invent a verbal game to go along with it, such as „What is this action supposed to suggest?“ And you say, „All right, now you repeat it, and you see if you can get what it's supposed to suggest.“ And he goes -“You embarrass me.“ You know right away he's a Freudian. Anyway...

Now, what is the way out of the trap of significance? Mimicry, on a body level, tends to strip off mental control of the body as having a great deal of importance. It knocks the importance out of the significance. Action is action, motion is motion, mimicry is mimicry, and a body can do that without attention to the reason why.

And then there'd be this whole band called the mind. And although I told you that this other is a logical step — „Look around and find something you wouldn't mind mimicking. All right, you mimic it“ — a logical step to follow dummy auditing, have you got the idea that there's a little hooker in here? You have jumped from the most idiotically simple of all processes workable on the body, to the most complex of all processes. It is the top process of top processes. That doesn't mean that somebody should find difficulty doing it. But you have just gone from the idiotic to the supersublime. There isn't even a logical step between the two. There's a word that's similar, but there's nothing else.

What do you have to do to mimic something? („You mimic it.“) Well, you do as much as you can do or postulate as much as you can postulate in order to bring about as much a duplication of it as you can. And the more successful you are, the better you are.

„A thetan can see what he can be, he can be what he can see“ is not a maxim of Beingness Processing. It's that he can be what he can see. There's a little bit difference here.

In order to see something you have to have some space between you and it. In order to see it clearly you have to be able to at least assume that you can duplicate it. And if you can do that, then — if you can do it perfectly — then you can be it. But „a thetan can be what he can see, and he can see what he can be“ doesn't include his being anything; it just says that is an ability that he could have if the other were true. And seeing includes space and being includes no space. Do you see that clearly?

In order to have a clear view of a building, perfectly clear view of a building, I am afraid that you'd have to have some capability with regard to being a building. But the first entrance of that is seeing a building, and to see it you have to be able to mimic it.

People that you cannot or dare not or must not mimic disappear. Just look that over: they disappear; they vanish. It's the darnedest thing you ever saw in your life.

If you were to look around in the real world, ask people questions, find people they didn't like that they were in association with every day, you would discover that they weren't seeing these people. They bump into them, by the way; they carom off of them; they fall through them. But they don't see them.

The most interesting thing a preclear of mine ever had happen to him in his life was one day he happened to glance in the direction of his wife and a black curtain (you know, this is real, a real black curtain) dropped quietly down from the level of the wife's head and covered her up clear on down to her feet and thereafter stood between him and his wife. And he looked with some sadness at this because he knew he'd had it. He knew he'd had it. The friction had become so intolerable that an automaticity of a black curtain had taken on, for him, physical mass and form in the empty air. His wife after that was always covered up with a black curtain. He couldn't see her features, what she was wearing or anything. No matter how hard he looked, no matter how much he worried about it, no matter how much he wanted to, he couldn't do it; an impossibility.

I used other processes, cleared this thing up pretty well on a valence-splitting basis, but the truth of the matter is that this would have fallen out on „Look around and find something you can mimic. All right, mimic it.“

Mental, emotional difficulties occur where an inability to mimic something accumulates. And that is the sovereign little law of aberration. Where and from whence does a difficulty spring? It springs from many vias, it springs from many difficulties that are compounded, but all of these difficulties are summed up under simply that one thing: One has lost his ability to mimic it across a distance with its total, complete characteristics. And when he has done that he is out of ARC with it to just that extent.

When a fellow mustn't be like Mother and mustn't be like Father, they disappear. Circuitry is added in where mimicry should exist. He substitutes all this circuitry and all these vias for actual perception.

And there you have the history of a pair of eyes, tactile, all other perceptions, kinesthesia, thermal, all these things go.

To mimic something is really something, and it's quite a complex operation. There's no doubt about it whatsoever. But you just take it easy with the preclear and he gets there after a while. Let him pick up as many of these things as he cognites on. When he's cognited on them all, he'll be able to see buildings, and he'll throw his glasses away too.

Thank you.

Thank you very much.

[End of Lecture]