This afternoon I want to know how many occluded cases we have in this group.

The motion of the society is the tolerance of the group moderator - whatever you want to call this thing that sits over the top of the society, on which they're all agreed, which is why they make a society, which is just a piece of automatic machinery. (These giant brains these science fiction writers are always writing about that run the society - that's quite actual.) That is - the society's motion is its tolerance rate. Well, this all boils down to effort. The amount of effort people are willing to handle. And if they won't handle very much effort, you see, their randomity tolerance is very low.

Female voice: You want to know what?

But this is a test of the thetan. This is not a condition of the body. I'll go over that again. This is not a condition of the body; it is not a condition of the society itself. It is the condition of the thetan. Now, that's very simple; it's too simple because you missed this in a thetan.

Now, what are you calling an occluded case? You mean now and then it all goes black?

You just watch the speed. I don't care - there's no reasonable factor. There is no rational factor which enters in which excuses why this person doesn't move that fast. We can't say, "Well, this person is on crutches, but he has a high-speed thetan." No, no, no, no. This person is on crutches, see? And that is the randomity tolerance of the thetan.

Male voice: All the time.

This man is blind and you say, "Well, that's why his thetan has slowed down." No, no. No, let's not say effect is cause and follow the pattern of the MEST universe and the medical societies and so forth, that effect is cause, always. "The reason why," see, is just the statement "Well, what's cause? Well, it's effect, of course. And the reason why it's effect is because we don't know anything about cause, we only know about effect because we can only be an effect." See?

Yours goes black all the time?

So, why is this little child lying in bed as a bedridden case of wumpgitis? Well, you could say, "Well of course, the child has wumpgitis. That's why the child is bedridden." No! That is not why the child is bedridden. The child is bedridden because the tolerance of the child as a being is "bedridden."

Male voice: No, no, it don't go black all the time.

Now, it's just - you'll never go wrong as an auditor if you know that. You'd never go wrong. You'll never fail to estimate a case, put it on the Tone Scale or handle it if you know that cause creates effects.

It is black all the time.

The being thinks of himself as an effect. Whether that effect is being a communication particle or being no space or whatever other condition you want to assign to him, he's - he thinks he's being an effect and that he can't cause anything. But he's all the cause you're going to have anything to do with in the case. And if you think there's anything else in the case you're going to have to do with which is an actual, good, valid cause, you will flub the dub with the case. You'll mess the case up because you're just playing the preclear's game.

Male voice: It stays.

Now, the preclear's game is "Look at poor me; I'm an effect." And he's saying, "I am a gay, happy, cheerful thing but I have been burdened down by all of this MEST, and I can't move it around and it is just too much for me”. And you, as an auditor in Dianetics, you could say, "All right, that's true. So we'll just kick some of the burden off." Worked - worked, up to the point where an auditor wasn't rapid himself. And when an auditor was slow, too, the auditor was all too happy to play this same game.

Okay, now what - what situation has altered here in processing with regard to the occlusion itself? What situation - what happened this morning in this morning's process of pulling in those anchor points?

Hence, Scientology. Scientology makes it impossible, if it's followed, for the game to be played. And the second we break this game up, why, we're on the highroad. And the game we're trying to break up is "Look at poor me. I - I'm - this horrible thing that's happened to me, and now I can't move around the way I used to." And that's the game.

Male voice: Mine stayed blacker when I was working outside. It seems to be blacker when I try to shoot around outside than when I...

The only cause and the only therapeutic factor on the case is the being himself or you, as an auditor, if you want to tackle it that way.

What are you doing? Working - are you exteriorizing?

Now, if you're really, really a tough boy as an auditor, if you're really tough, you will have a great deal of success, even though you will leave a very confused preclear. You can always knock out a ridge for a preclear - always. And thereby mystify him and make him less certain and less confident and make him subject to more ridges than previously. Because there's an unlimited supply of ridges. There isn't an unlimited supply of being. I mean by that, when I say no - an unlimited supply of being, beings aren't quantitative. That's the thing you're working with. And as long as you work with the person to make the person handle his own problems, he'll come up Tone Scale. And the second you start handling his problems for him he will go down Tone Scale. That's about all you can say about it.

Male voice: I have decided that I am and I'm sticking with it.

Well, when you first confront the case, watch the case walk in the office and listen to the case talk - when you first confront the case. You're at a party; you're going to process somebody who's a stud, you fool. All right, just watch the amount of animation of the case with regard to the party. See? That's all you have to do.

Urn-hum. All right, what happened while I was running that exercise this morning?

What is the tolerance of the thetan for randomity? When we say tolerance of randomity, that - it simply means motion. And when the person is very moral, look what they've bought. They could cut all this randomity down to about ten percent by saying, "Ninety percent is bad," and therefore they can't have anything to do with it, you see? Ha-ha.

Male voice: Mine turned purple and red.

Well, in one fell swoop, we cut down ninety percent of the randomity which we had to deal with formerly. Look, this body potentially could go out and go on big parties and run around and drive fast cars; it could do all these things. And the body is good looking and it could get into lots of love affairs and things like that. Oh well, that's hm-hrr-arr-umpah! Look at all the motion that would take.

Got automatic as hell, in other words - got automatic.

Now, we don't want all that motion, so we've got morality. And just as the state - just as the state cuts it down, so does the individual. That's why I took up states first.

Male voice: Yeah.

Okay, so we got ninety percent gone. You're going to all of a sudden tell this fellow, "Morality is bad." You're going to say, "Morality is bad, little thetan, and therefore you better unbuy it and - because it's not exactly what you need."

All right.

And he'll say, “All right."

Male voice: ... turned it around to black.

"Okay, we'll run this process and we'll knock out morality and we will adjust our values and ethics." Uh-uh.

Okay. What happened to your occlusion this morning while you were doing that exercise? Somebody else. What happened to yours?

Un1ess you change the randomity tolerance of the case, you're not going to change anything. That's just all there are to it. Unless you change that randomity tolerance there isn't anything that's going to change. And the randomity tolerance simply changes on the ability of - increasing the ability of the thetan to handle higher speeds of motion. And when the thetan can handle higher speeds of motion, his randomity tolerance changes. And he handles higher speeds of motion when he can handle more effort. And he can handle more effort when he can look better. And when he can look better simply by increasing his speed. There's what's known as the "tolerance level" of the - the "tolerance level" of the preclear.

Male voice: I got so damn groggy, I couldn't hardly sit here.

And you're going to make this preclear just that much better and then you're going to spend hours. And where you've got a preclear that has a margin, you've got your quick case with old processes; he's got a margin and you took all the slack up out of the margin. See? I mean, he could run if his randomity tolerance was just a little bit better than what he had. He'd gone into a minus randomity situation with regard to the body, and so therefore he, actually, was just a little better than this. So you could just move it up. That's a fluke, and that is found in the young - the very young.

Okay. What happened to you?

From twenty-one on you get another condition; you get the fellow nearly always with too much motion on his hands and he's going to use processing to cut it down. And the reason he came to see you was wondering whether or not you couldn't cut down some of the motion in this body. Because it's just a little bit too much for him - see, his goal. So if you play in with his goal, he comes in and he wants it cut down.

Male voice: I got a nice purple. I felt like I was getting a nice rise in tone while I was running it.

Now, the thing for you to do is to play him a horribly dirty trick of speeding him up as a thetan, not as a thetan-plus-body. Just speed him up as a thetan; the body will take care of the rest of it; I mean, everything will take care of itself. It's one of these easy problems. We've got the solution to the problem; all you have to do is apply it. The thing is to make the fellow faster. That's almost superelementary.

Male voice: Oh, so did I.

But let's find out why you have to make him faster, and why you often don't. And that has to do with automaticity, nothing but automaticity.

Female voice: I did too. I got quite - the body got quite complete...

All right. We get a case up to a certain period and then all of a sudden the fellow feels terrible; he feels like he's going to fly apart at the seams. You're going to have to feed him a lot of B1 and get him over a nervous fit. You take some psycho and you tell him to feel the wall. Well, it's just like a tough boy walking in today into France. And this fellow could lay around him and hang people and do everything you could think of and have guns and the - at the ends of the streets, and drive the workmen to work with whips. And what do you know, he'd get the same confounded motion that he had before. All he'd succeed in doing is just confusing the devil out of it. Because what's wrong with French culture right today is that it sits on a plain that can be invaded from every quarter. And it's like every plains people; they eventually get into a horrible situation. It takes mountain people to keep a race hardy. Here you have these people sitting on a plain; they're in a big dispersal. And you're going to - just going to hit them harder and all you're going to do is disperse them more. That's about all.

Anybody's occlusion turn off? Well, that's just a little test. Did yours?

But you could change the culture by changing its ideal. By ideal I mean its standard of motion. How would you do that?

Male voice: No. I may have gotten an anchor point, though, whereas I know before I never have.

Well, there'd be a lot of ways you could do that, but just look at theta processing. You're going to make its ideal move faster. You're going to make this fellow, as an idea, as a being - you're going to make him move faster - as a being. Well, "move faster" simply means he's going to be able to cover more space and be in more space than before. Now, if you just do that and that factor all by itself, you're all right.

Hm.

The problem of automaticity comes in and it looks something like this. I showed you that - moving that lamp, or that, pardon me, showed you moving that microphone in an earlier lecture - last lecture. And I said you mock it up and put it together and mock it up and unmock it, brrrrt, mock it and unmock it, and a fellow after a while gets laggardly about unmocking. And this leaves him in possession of vast quantities of energy.

Male voice: Something black appeared out there.

See, he mocks something up and then he doesn't completely unmock it. So he just leaves more energy and more energy and more energy.

Okay. Well now..

The amount of energy a case has hanging around and so on is to a large degree an index of the ability of the case. If he's got to have lots of energy around he doesn't have much confidence in himself. He's still got automaticity like mad all over the place.

Male voice: If it was an anchor point, I don't know,

Well, in this universe - I really hate to give you this, tell you the truth; I do, because you - very apt to use it as a point of resistance; you're apt to start in resisting randomity and you would do it by resisting automaticity. Actually, you're always going to have some automaticity. Automaticity isn't bad. It's extreme automaticity, where a person no longer - what you'd call plus automaticity - it's where a person no longer has any slightest ability to tap already existing automatic machinery. Where he no longer - where he no longer has any idea that he ever could tap such a thing. That's automaticity gone bad. But this again is like sanity; insanity is always some exaggerated part of sanity.

Now, this is what I call scraping bottom if you want my candid opinion This - title of this lecture this afternoon is "How far south do you have to go?" Well, I can tell you: you have to go south till that thing he just spoke about happens with a pc. I just tested that this morning as a Group Process wondering whether or not it could be processed on groups.

Well, when we say automaticity, we'd better say plus automaticity when we mean real, real vicious automaticity. What's the speed? What's the automaticity tolerance? Well, the automaticity tolerance should be this: well, we've set up this and we can get a surprise out of it. And if we forget about it, why, we can open it up one day, absent-mindedly, and a jack-in-the-box will jump out. And you'll say, "Gee!" And this or that happens and that's very good, very nice - surprises.

Now get this, get this straight: occlusion is two things, in the final analysis - two things. It's no space and no space, and this comes about because a person has no anchor points, naturally.

You take away the preclear's ability to surprise himself and you have taken apart his, really sole, in this universe, route to being interested in life; you take away all, all of his surprises if you could just strip that out. Of course, you never will be able to do that, fortunately. But you could hammer on it and tell a preclear how bad automaticity was and if you started to run him on surprises in particular, he'll balk and he'll stop because he's afraid you're going to take away from him his right to be surprised. So therefore automaticity is not evil but it's the root of slowdown and it's the root of speedup.

The process which relieves occlusion is exactly the process which I gave you this morning, but it is carried out with a knowledge of certainty. Now, how far south did you have to go? It is not a case of an unsolved case or a strange case or a preclear that doesn't yuckguddle or something of the sort. It's just a case of how far south do you have to go to get a complete certainty on an anchor point, its appearance and disappearance, and self-determinism over same. If you think I'm being very new and very novel and very strange, I point out to you Black Spot Control Processing, 8008. And I point out the data to you on those tapes. The only reason - I never went into it at that time to the degree it can be gone into. That's typical of this subject: you can start swimming out in all directions and you just go forever. But I'd - having cases get somewhat straightened out, and then finishing them up with Self Analysis just on getting a black spot.

Let's look at a horrible thing. Let's look at something bad that this universe is doing. You get your preclear up to a certain speed and then all of a sudden he feels like he's going to fly apart. You ask him suddenly to turn on sonic. And he turns on sonic and he feels like he's going to go mad. What happened? Is it because of the reasons are too much for him to bear? No, sir. It's you just asked him - you just suddenly, because you were using a very fast technique - you suddenly turned him up as a body higher than he could tolerate it as a thetan-plus-ridges.

How - what was Black Spot Processing? Let's go into that right away. It was getting certainty on having put a black spot on a wall. Total certainty. Putting a black spot on a wall with the preclear's eyes wide open or shut, as the case may be. It did not matter, as long as he could put on the wall a black spot, which would then remain stable, and turn it off and turn it on again at will.

Remember, thetan-plus-ridges, thetan-plus-body are two different beings, really, in their forward presentation. They're the same being plus his ridges and the same being plus his body. You see, thetan-plus-body - that's Homo sapiens. Thetan-plus-ridges-plus-body is really something else. Because Homo sapiens isn't aware of the fact that he's running on any ridges, but he is aware of the fact that he has a body. So we're dealing already with a new being when we say thetan-plus-ridges - thetan-plus-ridges-plus-body. Oh, you're dealing with a new being.

Now how big did the spot have to be? You must understand that there's a question of mass. People have agreed with the MEST universe to a point where they think mass is terribly important. And so when you want something big and they have to have something big, then they know that gravity's going to gobble it up and so they can't hold it up, so they have to get a lot of effort into it. This is sheer balderdash. But the point is the case "knows" this. He's real certain of this.

Well, what's he done? He's slowed down. The cycle of this universe is down to decay each time. Creation to destruction, creation to destruction, creation to destruction, creation to destruction, over and over and over and over and over on this same cycle.

So let's go into it on a basis of a tiny, tiny, microscopic spot and from this tiny, microscopic spot let's drill or move something on the wall from one point to another point on the same wall, until he knows he can - he can create it, destroy it and move it. We just go up the gradient scale of certainty on his ability to handle a black spot.

Okay. What do we find responsible for this funny phenomenon of speeding the fellow up and he feels like he's going to go to pieces? He actually will turn on all kinds of weird somatics and nervous upsets. He'll sit there and his hands will shake, and he'll - he just rrrrh! He just doesn't want to sit there anymore and he doesn't want to be processed anymore and he gets real upset!

Well, why are we doing this? We're doing this so that he can eventually handle an anchor point, that's all.

Well, is it because he just simply wouldn't face something that you wanted him to face? Well, in the aggregate, yes, but that isn't the explanation.

There's no sense in going through drills with somebody. I can tell you - tell you that outside of Self Analysis it has that single, sole virtue of you just plow on and on and on and eventually the mock-ups get a little better and a little better and a little better and a little better and eventually things straighten out. We won't even say how eventually. But that is one process that does this.

What should you have done? Should you have gone on and processed him on this course, forced him through? No. Because it'll aggregate nothing as far as you're concerned in a processing gain; it just won't gain in processing. Because you've bucked him into a ridge which was operating automatically and he couldn't take it. Why? This is the horrible fate of the thetan you are dealing with. His ridges, when he looks at them, start to run faster than his tolerance for randomity.

But it is almost senseless to process a case without finding how far south you have to go to give the case a certainty.

Now, a thetan can run at any speed and there are many solutions to this. But let's just look at the mechanical fact that your thetan running a body very nicely, your preclear, your thetan is sitting there and he's running this body nicely, and all of a sudden you've suddenly turned around, you've asked him to face something that the second he energizes it runs faster than he does.

Now, I was beating a case around the other day, madly beating this case around, and I found out that the case had no certainty of any kind on anything the case was doing. And yet the case was exteriorized.

You understand that nothing runs at all unless he glances at it and looks at it. But its potential of cave-in is much greater than his potential of keeping it from caving in, according to his present consideration. You see? His automaticity in this universe is always greater than his current speed. So when you try to undo automaticity, you're undoing something that's running faster than the preclear. And there is his randomity tolerance and there is his automaticity and in between those two things he's hung.

How many cases are you processing that are like that? They're outside, they can see the scenery, maybe, but only to a certain distance. And do you know, actually, that this case doesn't have a concept of what reality is? And yet they are working, somehow, some way, and they're getting a little bit better, painfully slow. These processes will beat them through with a club, practically, one way or the other. But why, when the one thing the case hasn't got is the one thing the case needs? Certainty, that's all, That's all it needs. That's all it's got to have.

What causes him to have, as a thetan, this tolerance for randomity? We get the key-in of ridges - the use of old automaticities. Now, he says, "I am the effect of these automaticities."

Your preclear says, "Yes. Yeah, I can see the body." The hell he can! He's got an impression of a picture of a body. It's even clear to him sometimes. It's even brilliantly clear, it has tremendous color in it, and everything else. Sure he can see this picture, so he tells you, "Yes." Well, don't ever ask him, "Are you sure it's there and it's yours?" because he'll immediately, "Well no, we needn't go into that." Is it really there? Well, according to his gradient scale of reality - now this is where some of the cases here possibly get utterly shattered - according to his guarantee of what's been real to him all his life, it's real. And according to what certainty has been to him all his life, it's certain. But let's not stock it up against any other certainty he has because he's got a certainty on the body.

These ridges are big machines; they're set up to think, spit, drive automobiles, do all sorts of things. And in what condition was he each time he learned one of these? He was usually running faster and had more randomity than when you are asking him to use it. You see that?

Believe me if you stood him up and gave him a hell of a slap in the face, he'd be sure you slapped him in the face, And actually you could process this rough. All right, the fellow says, "Yeah, that's real. Sure, sure, got that. Yeah, got that. Got something else. Throw it away. Sure, put it in the right pocket. Here we go, nothing to it, good communication, and so on. That's the room, that's the wall .." He sits there and wastes your time by the hour because he doesn't know he's going anyplace! He doesn't know he's seeing anything because he can't bring it up to the level of comparative certainty that he would get if you suddenly grabbed him by the throat and punched him in the eye. And if you did that and then you said, "Now, are you sure I punched you in the eye?" he'd say, "Yes, goddamn you, I'm sure." You'd say then, "Are you that sure of your mock-up? Oh, you're not. Well, then let's get a mock-up you're that sure of."

All right. He's - he learns how to - he learns how to drive a car. He's fourteen years of age when he learns how to drive the car; he's fifteen, something like that. Zoom, zoom, zoom, zoom, zoom, zoom, zoom, zoom, zing, zing, zing. Yeah, if the old man isn't showing, why boy, he really burns the tires on the corners. Does all sorts of things; shifts too fast. He's above the tolerance of machinery; tears it up and throws it away, practically. It isn't that he's doing it well, he's just fast. But his competence on the line of putting that car between a couple of telegraph poles and putting it between a couple of trucks and that sort of thing is greater because he can nail down a point better, perhaps.

Now, this would utterly shatter his reality, actually. Well, what is the difference between one of these characters doing a good job of being here and being there and having - having points to view, and oh, everything is just going along grandly? He's got all this and he's still psychosomatic and he's still bogged down, and you don't quite know where he's going and where he's coming from and so forth. As far as you - he gets up out of the session and he says, "let's see now, there's the door," and so forth. But he was real sharp, he was.

Now he gets to be forty years of age and he drives automatically and you're going to change a driving habit with him? No, you're not going to change a driving habit with him. Why can't you change a driving habit? Because the ridge which he uses to direct his driving is at higher speed potential than the preclear!

What's his level of certainty? Well, please, let's find something of what to the preclear is real and let's make it an anchor point. And let's just start in processing as of today, this afternoon.

What is effect? Effect is a slower speed. What do we consider is a relative cause? A higher speed. So what's cause and effect? Relative speeds. A thing which travels at a slower speed is always the effect of something traveling at a higher speed, ratios of mass being equal. See that?

In the first place, the case that is badly occluded doesn't even have his body anymore for an anchor point. He's more sure of that wall than he is of his body.

So we've got this fellow - all around him he has all kinds of ridges that were learned earlier on the track. Well, why do you get a descending spiral in this universe? People only go about thirty-four spirals in this universe, something like that. And you start picking up your preclear and you'll find out that he's on spiral twenty-three. Well, these spirals are getting shorter and shorter and shorter. Why? Because each one was set up as an automatic ridge.

If you don't believe this, run this exercise on him: "All right, now feel a body. Now don't feel a body. Now feel a body. Now don't feel a body. Now feel a body. Now don't feel a body. Now feel a body. Don't feel a body. Feel a body. Don't feel a body. Feel a body."

Why can't he remember a past life? Nothing easier. The past life's running at a higher speed than he can tolerate. The second he energizes the ridges, he's got the idea that this thing is going to fire at a higher speed than he can take, and so therefore he's the effect of it.

And he'll all of a sudden say, "Nnnnh, no!"

All right. We taught him how to play the piano. He learned how to play the piano in 1785, only it wasn't a piano, he played a clavichord or something of the sort, see - pangety-pang, boom, boom, and boy, he could really roll that thing, you know? He did beautiful, beautiful job of it. Now, as the years roll along and the lives roll along and in 1941 Mama says to this fellow, "Well, I've always wanted a son who could play a piano and that is the best reason I know why you're going to learn how to play the piano." And the boy goes into a decline; he gets sick, he can't learn notes, he can't read music, he can't sit at the piano bench. And if he's forced to do it he'll wind up by not even being able to carry a tune. And he's a n-n-n-nervous wreck the whole time - he's just in horrible shape the whole time. Here's also your child genius on the piano. At the age of nine he's playing his own compositions with the philharmonic, something on that order, when at nineteen, he's a dead duck.

And you say, "What's the matter with you?"

Well, you - all Mama did or Papa did in that case, or the teacher did, was just tap an old ridge. That's all he did and you've got your child genius. In other words, he got this ridge to work on this body while this body was still able to move. Why? The body has less mass and therefore can, by mass ratio with the velocity, assume the velocity of the ridge. He really could play the piano once, now he's just a child genius.

"Well, I don't know."

When his body mass starts picking up - when his body mass starts picking up - he gets older, he gets bigger, he's running slower and he's agreed with the society more, that ridge has just caved him in. It'll drive him mad, actually; he'll become neurotic and other things. See?

I did this on one fellow and after we'd done it for a little while, then he looked at me very fixedly and said, "You know, I think I'm a Phoenician." He was getting surer of being a Phonician than he was a body. Why? He's never been outside this body and looked at it. See, he never took a look at this body. He's just sort of feeling it on a basis of looking in the mirror and fooling around with it and so on; he never gets a viewpoint of it. And now he's got a negative anchor point as far as it's concerned. Other people have ignored it, and they - he doesn't seem to have any force, and he doesn't - people don't walk away from him when he spits at them, and he's not dangerous to his environment. He's got all these things beautifully proven. And one fine day - one fine day, if you ask him real quick before he had a chance to put out some comm lines and find out if it were so or not, you'd say, "Are you in a body?" No, he's just a thetan kind of standing there and there's nothing around him and this is very upsetting to him indeed. Is - does he have a body?

We've just got this descending spiral. Now, it is not necessarily true that this has to take place. It is - I'm only showing you, not even for - not even so that you can go out and whip all the ridges there are, but just to show you this operation. What is this automaticity? The machine which lets him play a piano; he set it up going fast and now it runs him while he's going slower. See that?

Well, gee-whiz, that tells you immediately the guy's - if he doesn't have a body it's on an inverted 1. Ask him this right off the bat: Ask him to feel the desk in front of him. Now say, "Now just sit back. Now, does your body feel as real to you as this desk? Can you at any moment turn on feeling as real in the body as you felt the desk?"

Why does some fellow who has lived in Bavaria and "Spuberubia" and so on - you've got your preclear, you put him on the E-Meter - has he ever lived in Rome? - bong! the E-Meter will go and so on. Well there's a lot of ridges out there. The second you attract any attention to that ridge of any kind whatsoever, it'll answer. That's not because it's alive. There's big, automatic machinery sitting up there composed of facsimiles in various fashions - thinking machines. And the second you tick them and a little energy goes into them, they get alive.

He'll rack all around through himself and he'll finally say, "You know, yes. I got some feeling in one toe, one toe." First thing he's liable to tell you is "Yes, the chair."

Why can't he remember Latin? In the first place he probably wouldn't be able to talk fast enough or forcefully enough in order to talk Latin. He's in the - well the American - the American scene today and people, well, within reason, don't talk to you - you're supposed to be ah, ah... See? The time he was talking Latin, "Hiya, Bruno. Oh, I'm feeling good. Fine. Where are you going? Well, that's good. Well let's both go together" - conversation.

You say, "Hey, I said 'the body.'" He'll begin to assess this one out, and he'll find out, yeah, he's feeling the chair. He's not quite sure with what he's feeling it. Where he sits, the sphere he occupies is less certain to him than the most trivial MEST object in view. See how this could be? He's never looked at himself.

Somebody today gets you on a telephone long distance - oh brother, oh, oh, my God! You've just got a telephone line that's just there, you see, and it just is there. The subject, predicate, object - all of this material - is just forgotten about. What was the conversation about? What were you supposed to do with the conversation? What did we decide about the conversation? The only reason to have a communication is to have some sort of either aesthetic interchange or exchange and agree upon decisions.

Well, why is this? Well, why should he get so nebulous? Well, it's because he has interfered with the GE's automatic mock-up system. He's tried to make something else out of the GE than what it was intended to be, namely a man or a woman. And so he has - having more horsepower - has messed up the automatic mock-up system of the GE just as though somebody had gone into a refrigerator and stuck a monkey wrench in its ammonia pump. And now after that, unless something else supplants this, he's in a bad way.

Now we get the same damn subject talked about and talked about and talked about and nobody makes a decision with regard to it. I know people pick up these tapes here by - once in a while they go through a book like 8008 and they say, "Well, it seems like you could take that section of that and if you would just stay with that, instead of just snowing us under, you see, and if you just blew up that one little section there and made a book out of that, why, that would be very..." Why? All the data is there; it's been said!

Now, the point in question there: Can he make any part of any body appear and disappear? Could you coax him up to that? If you first were able to get him to do that, he would find out that people do feel their bodies and there is enough there as a body to get out of. He is sitting on a relatively low-grade - relatively high - a low-grade zero. You see, because he doesn't look at the body he doesn't know what to mock up.

Well, this Latin ridge is a crisp bunch of very complicated syntax and so forth, and it requires for tremendously precise consideration and decision. And this fellow can use that ridge? No.

Now, he can mock up Bill or he can mock up Joe or he can mock up Bill's mother or his own mother and if you were to start taking him apart as an engram, you'd find out he was mocking up piles of bodies, you'd find out that his face probably was superimposed by some other face on backwards. He's got all this weird - weird thing. Well, why is he doing this? Because he doesn't know what to mock up. Somebody's got to mock up the body or it's not going to be there, believe me.

You put this little kid in school and say, "Well, now you're going to take four years of Latin, you little dummy." And he fails, and he gets sick, everything else. You've just gone through the operation of letting his own tigers loose on him. And he's got it carefully set where each time he'll go slower than the ridge he set up; he's got it set that way. Don't think you have to remedy this with any long, drawn-out process.

And yet you're asking him to be three feet in back of his head. This guy is more real in his own head. He can at least feel a desk, but he can't feel a body because it's not being adequately mocked up by himself.

An automaticity always has a speed or force (you can say that) potential greater than the individual using it. Otherwise it won't work on him.

Have you ever seen somebody whose presence suddenly kind of blazed at you? Did you ever see some terrifically (quote) self-possessed person (unquote)? You know just - they're very rare in this society, but once in a while you see one of them. They sort of hit you between the eyes. It isn't that they're putting out any beam or so forth, they're accurately mocked up. See, accurately. They're putting themselves back there every time.

Now, we'll take Joe here, and Joe is being confronted by Bill and Bill weighs 220 pounds and he's in good shape. And Joe over here is 110 pounds and in terrible shape. And when Bill hits Joe, Joe goes through the wall.

You would be amazed what you would - you could process for hours by a mechanical technique, hours and hours and hours. The fellow would get over some psychosomatics and rearrange some energy and he'd be very happy about it. And he'd get on - he'd go away and say "Scientology is very good and you're a good auditor."

Now we'll reverse it. We'll take Joe and he hits Bill and Bill has got a conversation (he's talking to Mabel) and he says, "Well all right, Mabel, I'll see you down at the theater there." And all of a sudden he'll turn around to Joe, he'll say, "By the way, did you hit me?" And we don't get any attention on the matter.

But you know that you could achieve a much greater result if you simply made him certain of one thing. Just one thing, I don't cure what it is. You would achieve a better, higher result with him mentally. So you just make him certain of anything - the room, walls, anything he's looking at.

So the ridge is always, apparently, tougher, stronger than the preclear And you ask somebody to handle his ridges in one... You get somebody out of his body that you can coax out of his body and you say, “All right now, let's handle a line. Let's do this, let's do that." All of a sudden, boom! He's in apathy; a ridge blew up on him. Well, the ridge automatically is set up with the postulate that it has command value and it has more force and it has more everything than the preclear. Now, this is real silly, isn't it? The fellow sets up this ridge and tells it, "Now, you've got more force and power than I have. And now, after that, why, I have to obey it." See? You see that? So the thetan's always playing this game on himself of setting up all these things around him which have more force and power than he has.

You know, people are so used to looking at the walls and that sort of thing, that when they start to audit, their attention will go out to the walls rather than to a body. They seldom concentrate on the body. That's why we have an extroversion-introversion technique system - extroversion and introversion.

Now you ask him to remember a past life. Bong! Right in the teeth. You ask him to recall... You think this is very funny, why, "Everybody knows they haven't lived before, they couldn't have lived before." It must have been the between-lives wipeout and it must have been this or that. No! It's just all that automatic machinery that went up all the - made up all the skills of a past life.

Ever occur to you that introversion was as important as extroversion? Well, what do we mean introversion? Well, let's put it on this basis. If a fellow is part of a scene and he's in a MEST body, it's as important that the body be mocked up as the scene. Follow me?

Look at the dwindling spiral of a civilization; that gives you a good one. And you look at that dwindling spiral of a civilization. What are the relative speeds of workmen? What are the work hours? Ah, let's be very precise. Let's pretend we're all psychologists for a moment; let's be very precise. The work hours ratio during the declining centuries of the American Empire demonstrate conclusively that the curve is retiring toward zero. We'll discover that in the last lifetime of any preclear the work hours were longer. Well, let's just say then that it's automatically that. The whole civilization was working at that ratio, so we have to assume immediately that there was more force being expended by the individual.

Now let's take - let's take George Doakes. And George is sitting in the middle of a room and his automaticity is going along at a mad rate mocking up this room, and other people are mocking up this room and other people see the room and he agrees they all see the room and he's very happy about this. But here's George Doakes in the middle of the room and he isn't anywhere near as clearly mocked up as the room. MEST looks more solid because it's more solidly mocked up.

Well, what are these fellow's training ridges? Well, they had to be greater than himself as a workman in the last life. And now he's less than himself in the last life and we're going to ask him to go back and remember how to make steel. Well, it would practically blow him out of his shoes if we never informed him as to this.

If you want somebody to get out of a body very easily, why, you'd better get a solid mock-up for him to get out of. That's about all it amounts to.

Well, you know you could take the production factor of an individual; that is to say, let's find out the subject which doesn't jar on the E-Meter and then let him have that for an avocation or a vocation. But if you - going over this - how you do aptitude? We'll spend three minutes on it.

What's this go back to then? This would go back to certainty immediately. And what's this go back to? Well, he's in a negative space on 1 - a negative space. The body's a negative space; him as a thetan, he's about negative 8, or something of the sort, minus 8. He's seven times inverted, and the body is an inverted 1 and it's not being well mocked up and it's not very solid, and he's not - he's not there at all; and yet the room's there. Well, he's kind of in competition with the MEST universe one way or the other.

Professional, avocational aptitude for an individual would be determined by the lack of reaction on the E-Meter And the way you would do this is you would get a dictionary and get all possible professions everywhere and you would just start reading it off. And after you'd gone a few pages you would have found one that was utterly flat but which he showed some interest in; the needle rose. "Okay," you'd say, "well, that's for you." And it would be. Wouldn't have to clear him or anything else. I mean, the fellow would be perfectly happy about it. Well, that's professional aptitude, and after this, in company with all other professions you could be "professional aptitudinists." And I'm very glad to be able to teach you this because it's four years at the university to learn how to do this and we only have a couple of minutes this morning.

But let's take a good, close look at this boy and we realize that his problem is not the problem of some tricky technique you're going to attempt. And it's not the problem of you suddenly reaching out and grabbing ridges off of him. It's not any one of these problems. He's handled this whole problem automatically for so confounded long, he has depended completely upon automaticity to take care of everything. And then one day, you ask him to do it himself. Aaahh! Actually, all he has to do is be certain.

You get how you do that? You just take all professions, all aptitudes, all skills, and just start reading them off. And every time you get a minus charge, every time that needle drops, you've hit a ridge; you've hit an ancient automaticity. Avoid it because if the boy goes into it he'll get - he'll be very good for a moment and then it'll cave in on him; he'll be finished. That's just your average workman.

He has to have, then, his space inverted on a consideration - side certainty. But to have a body and to have the MEST universe back and to see it back again, he'll have to put it there. In order to be certain that he's seeing it, he will have to be certain. This is one of those horrible truths. "The way to cross a river is to cross a river. The way to eat duck is to eat duck."

Now, how can you, as an auditor, defeat that? You defeat it by getting him up to speed with several processes, and - as a thetan - to a point where he can handle all ridges. Now what do you know, he'll all of a sudden be able to handle a piano and juggle and do all sorts of weird things that - by simply postulating for a moment, and then unpostulating it afterwards that he is now the effect of this ridge, that he's now the effect of that ridge, that he's just the effect of some other ridge - whee! But he mustn't forget to cease to be the effect of the ridge. See, he just mustn't key the thing in and just keep carrying it around. That's what most of your preclears have done. They're all keyed-in and none's keyed-out.

A tribe of Indians, all of their maxims went this way, true as can be: "The way to shoot a deer is to shoot a deer." This passed for wit, humor, philosophy, logic and everything else with this particular tribe, up the Hudson someplace. Okay?

Now, that's professional aptitude and vocational ability and avocational ability. If somebody's going to take up a hobby - you're going to prescribe a hobby for somebody because he's - has too little randomity and you'll have to be worrying about that one of these days, why, you just go across the meter and you get a hobby that doesn't duck but that rises slightly, and you've got it, You've sorted his ridges out.

Certainty, Unless he's certain, nothing is going to make him certain. How are we going to have him become an effect so that he will - do you get that all right? That's just - the problem's unstatable. And yet everybody's trying to state this problem. They're living proofs of it. If he's inverted far enough on enough dynamics, you've got to turn them around.

Very well. This, in processing, tells you why a fellow gets up to a certain speed and then drops, and then gets up to speed and drops, and gets up to the speed at a little higher speed and then drops again. And it explains that wavy, upward curve that processing takes And with this - it explains it; I mean, it gives a reason for it. But it's a good geographical location. You can put your hands on it, you can eat it - sort of a reason, see; good substance in it. You're not - you're not shadowboxing with anything on one of these ridges.

What are they turned around on? They're all turned around basically on just one thing: space. What do you got to have to have space? You got to have anchor points to have space. If a fellow can't be sure of an anchor point, believe me, he can't be sure of any space, and until he can be sure of some space he can't be certain of very much else. So we get in, down the line, to this one thing: an - a - a - a anchor point. You only need one to start with and then you can get two and three and four.

Any preclear, then, that is occluded has busted square into one of these doggone ridges and is still being the effect of it. I would say, normally, that it was probably several thousand years' worth of spirals or a spiral earlier that he'd run into; they're really beefy. This preclear may be a bearcat; his speed tolerance may be very high and yet he may be occluded as hell. Well what did he run into? He probably ran into space opera or he ran into the ability to do something or other. Maybe somebody made him a pilot in the war. And he was just fine till somebody made him a pilot in the war. And then my golly, everything seemed to sort of cave in on him at once. He just went like a bullet in all directions. And he just made himself a terrific name but by golly he finished it up, he was in bad shape.

Well, I was processing somebody this morning. I was processing to learn something from him. As long as I had this person handle little black balls, this person didn't get anyplace at all. But I put a couple of flags up. I made this person make a cube of space by making - by saying, "Put up eight anchor points. All right, pull them in. Eight anchor points and pull them in..." You know, very foggy, very dull, just no, no effect on this - anchor points. "No, I just - they're doing it all right and..." If I hadn't called the freight on it and suddenly said, "This train stops at this station here," they'd probably have been doing it yet and because - blame me or something of the sort - expected somewhere or later by nuclear physics or necromancy (there not being very much difference between either subject), they would suddenly become Clear or better or be able to see better or something of the sort.

Well, it wasn't this life's randomity catching up with him, anybody can put up with this life's randomity - anybody. I don't care where it is. So it's not in this life.

Nah. I fished around with spots. Well, I couldn't get a spot. See, he doesn't see a spot. Wasn't anything about spots. But we got an American flag, by golly. Now, she was real sure of that American flag so we put them on staffs and we stuck them in the ground, one to the right and ahead of her and another one to the left and ahead of her, one behind and to the right, one behind and to the left until we had a cube of space made out of what? The top and bottom of a flagstaff - real good certainty. And we had those things snapping in at a mad rate and the eyesight on the case improved about 100 percent.

You'll find that a couple hundred thousand years ago or something like that, he was a pilot in the "Gooferunia" navy or something of the sort, and he was someplace. And at that time, why, the - you had to fly continuously the equivalent of about thirty-six Earth hours, and the object of combat and so forth was do this and that, and a combat ordinarily took this many rounds of ammunition. In other words, it was a big war and there was big automaticity involved in doing everything. And he had to set himself up so that he was trained as a bombardier; and you find out the pilots in that war were trained for fifteen years or something of the sort. And you just get this idea of this enormous mass of ridges that this guy's got set up.

And then it started to fall off. Why did it start to fall off? Well, I asked her to put them out too far. Asked her to put them around the solar system and at that moment her certainty on the flags themselves fell down to zero, because it was too something or other that they would be out there around the solar system. And it just seemed to her that they were around the solar system at the moment and then she said to herself, "This is incredible." And then she invalidated and pulled off of it like mad. In other words, I carried her along too fast. And the increase in vision of the case ceased instantly. She steadied then at exactly the point I had left the last certain mock-up and her communication went off.

Now all of a sudden you put him in a cockpit and he goes oft boy, he's a good pilot; he seems to know what he's doing and so on. But he's getting more and more nervous and he's kicking in more and more somatics and all of a sudden he's totally occluded and he doesn't know what he's doing and he gets himself shot to pieces.

Now, what was I asking her to do? I was asking her to (quote) "pump space into herself." Put out these four flagstaffs and snap them into herself. Put out these four flagstaffs and snap them in, four and snap them in, four and snap them in, four and snap them in. After a while she says, "You know I don't have to pull them in, I just tell them to come in and they come in."

Well, they just didn't do this little trick with an E-Meter. See, they didn't have an E-Meter during the last war here. They're very ignorant here on Earth - not very far advanced. And they made pilots out of people who showed immediate pilot aptitude. How dull can you get? To give a guy a test of immediate aptitudes which are tailored to a profession which he will then be trained in. The only way you could know is to train him or put him on an E-Meter. Because if you start training him, physically, the ridge will cave in. But that would have shown up on an E-Meter anyhow. But you start training him, he may go all the way through into combat without anything caving in and then all of a sudden, boom! He's sitting in the middle of this horrendous big ridge, totally occluded, very upset because he's learned to do things another way and this ridge is bigger and tougher than he is. He's the effect of this ridge, you see. And there you are.

I said, "That's fine."

How do you remedy this? Get him up to speed; get him up to speed as a preclear. How do you do this? Several techniques - several.

She says, "Well, I'm not doing wrong with that?"

The simplest of these techniques is have him mock up something and make it disappear, in brackets. And when he can't mock it up and make it disappear immediately, you give him enough of them and duplicate it enough times so that he'll get rid of one, because any ridge is valuable - any ridge. So you have him mock up a - mock up the machine that - he complains to you that his family wanted him to be a gentleman. He isn't complaining about his family, he's complaining about a ridge somewhere. So you have him mock up a machine that makes other people gentlemen, then make it disappear. And then have somebody else mock up machines that make him a gentleman and he makes one of those disappear. The exact rote on it would be a bracket in which he would mock up a machine that would make himself a gentleman; and somebody else would mock up a machine that would make him a gentleman; and other people would mock up a machine to make other people gentlemen; and other people would mock up machines to make him a gentleman; and he would mock up machines to make others a gentleman.

"No, you're not doing wrong with that." But at that moment I should have realized there was something wrong. There was a question in her mind. See? Something had happened there that gave her a questioning attitude. She was wondering about something that wasn't quite right to her.

Now, you want to watch this process because when you have others mock up a machine to make him a gentleman, and then ask him to make the machine disappear, you'll stick him unless you've eased into it very, very carefully and he can do that, too. And it'll just never occur to him to be stuck. So you want to use that one as the last part of the bracket. Now, there's a machine to do anything. And where automaticity is concerned, where you're directly fronting and are going to directly process automaticity - which, by the way, is a limited technique because you're asking the man to fight all of his ridges; and when you ask a man to resist his ridges, anything you ask him to resist he will get involved with tremendously. So, you can - this is a limited technique. You can take this fellow apart selectively but it's much better simply to put him up to speed by Change of Space Processing. See, put him way up to speed where he can handle any kind of a ridge. See? There are other ways to do this, but that little one with the machine is very, very, very effective.

Well, I had passed over the limit of the mock-up. I'd obviously put it too many places or worn it too thin or I'd done something with it. We don't care what I did with it. The only thing that's important about it is, is that particular set of mock-ups became less real to the preclear. She went up against what? She went up against a big ridge, didn't she?

Now, you can run it this way: "All right, now mock up a machine for yourself which cuts down your vision. All right. Now duplicate it, duplicate it, duplicate it, duplicate it, duplicate it." The guy still looks like he's under strain, see. "Duplicate it, duplicate it, duplicate it. Oh, duplicate it some more. All right, now make the last one disappear. Yeah. Make the next to the last one disappear. All right, now duplicate it five more times. Now make the last one of those disappear. Okay, now let's make them one by one disappear. Done? Fine." Until we get the original disappearing. Now he's happy.

And you know, I think the least certain person I ever met was a fellow being hit between the eyes with a bullet. He wasn't certain at all, but the somatic was. That bullet was awful certain, lie wasn't. He was getting awful uncertain.

So we have, now, somebody else mock up a machine to cut down his vision. We can apply this to anything - a machine can do anything. It's a lot of fun; preclears like doing it. A machine which makes you a lady. That, of course, is the family.

You want to go down here to the accident ward if you want to see some real uncertain people. Boy, they're in a fog; they're in a real daze. They've just been hit by cars and run over and hurt and so forth.

Well, these things kick out remarkably well because of this thing I was showing you the other day: you have to mock up and put back in place something every time it's being moved. And you're doing this at the rate of 1/c, but your preclear has lost the ability to do this because he has walked into a higher motion ridge. And every time be energizes anything he gets more motion than he can have. He's got residue on things he used to do this with. The whole flam-bam society, actually, has got just - they've got more of these things that they have in common. They only have them in common, not because they made them but because they've agreed that they existed. So therefore, a society hangs together and so the motion of particles is in agreement, too.

Now, you give them a short time, give them a short time, though. They'll come up and perk up on an artificial certainty. They'll have a euphoria a short time later They will have taken the place of the somatic, normally - taken the place of the impact and the impact is very sharp and very certain and they're very happy about it; and this will wear off within three days. And it's a sort of a euphoria. They're glad - you can explain it any way you want to.

Did it ever occur to you for instance that space opera may be on a different mock-up circuit? It might be completely coincident. At this moment there might be space opera that here on Earth taking off in a spaceship we'd never see. You see how it would be? You'd have a society there in agreement on a different period of mock-unmock on particles; so from society to society they wouldn't be visible. And this is how you get other universes of the MEST type and many of them are coincident. People are just simply agreed that they're mocking and unmocking particles, changing them in space at this speed and that gives you a universe which everybody sees in common. This is stupidly simple, by the way, this factor.

By the way, an old-time auditor was in the office this morning and he was trying to analyze this case. And he was analyzing this case entirely from the subject matter of thought, of what the case wanted to do or didn't want to do. And he was very condemning of the case, you see, by that: analyzing it by thought. It was what he was thinking about the case, you see? It wasn't a matter of "she didn't have any space." You could say that about any case, but this girl really had no space.

All right. You can make a machine to do anything, anything you can dream up, it doesn't matter; just do it in a bracket though. And the essence of it is making him make one disappear so that he's certain it disappeared. Now, this is creation and destruction all over again.

Every time you started to snap in new space you got a new inversion on some dynamic. Of course, this case was changing radically, and then ran square into the ridge. See? She'd gotten up to that certain speed, and then she'd gotten to that speed - and they don't have to do this you understand, but they very often will, and ran - she ran slam-bang into the automatic machinery. She ran into the ridge.

And it's much more important for a preclear to make something disappear that he's certain disappeared than it is for him to be able to create something because he's got the idea that he has to get rid of a lot of things before he can create any new things.

All right. The ridge started discharging at her something on the order of the guy firing the bullet. You see that? She sure was uncertain. How'd she get uncertain? Well, the ridge started firing at her. Well, she was being carried away by a flow which was more powerful than herself. So she couldn't handle the flow so she couldn't handle anything. So she was uncertain, so her mock-up became uncertain.

Now, as far as these machines which mock and unmock is concerned, a thetan can fly around and find other ridges that he has no connection with or which indirectly connect with him and which belong to somebody else, and he can unmock them. Just like that - boom.

Now, it was up to me at that moment to find a new certainty for her. What thing could we get now of which she was certain? We'd gotten the limiter on that, now let's build her certainty someplace else. Well, I had been doing an introvertive technique, hadn't I - space. So the second she came up against that ridge we had to let that ridge go on by if it tore her head half off. So the thing to do was to put her intention on the outside environment. Put it on the walls and so forth. See?

Now, it isn't that every thetan can go around and upset everybody else's skills. But it is that as he starts on up the line, anything which he even vaguely has in common, without even stepping out of the guise of this universe at all, anything he vaguely has in common with any other organism under the sun is alterable, on a high echelon.

And we got what? A vision increase, we got a vision increase that increased again and it went up to another limiting factor. And all of a sudden she was uncertain of the walls again. See what we're doing?

That's what you as auditors are really trying to do with processing; you're trying to adjust these darn - this darned equipment and machinery so that it'll run a little smoother. Well, one of the ways you do it is by experience.

So I gave her a little more space. And this time I had to give her something else of which she was certain. See? Certainty versus the ridge, this drama could be called - certainty versus the ridge.

You say to somebody, "All right, now let's... " This preclear has had a terrific amount of trouble with constipation. "All right, now let's mock up a machine that controls your elimination processes." And of course, he'll get Mama and Papa and the nurse and everybody else showing up there. Very fast process, by the way. You don't pay any attention to those; all you pay attention to is just the machine and you have him make it disappear, brackets; mock it up and disappear - brackets. He'll get a couple of somatics in his innards and he probably will suddenly be in possession of his elimination capacity; digestion - same thing.

And where a fellow is caught in forces he conceives to be stronger than himself although he himself actually was the author of the force here, it doesn't do him any good to console himself with the fact, "Well, I put it there myself, therefore I'm to blame for it." Being to blame for that is another situation entirely, you see? That is having put it there yourself and now being the recipient of its kick. That's being to blame. Being responsible for it is putting it there yourself and recognizing it. But at the moment you don't happen to be receiving any kick from it, therefore you can be fully responsible for it.

Now, this is a technique senior to overt acts and motivators, because the overt act-motivator sequence is dependent solely upon the phenomenon that the old ridge runs faster than the preclear's present ridges and therefore when he does something to somebody else he energizes its like in ridges. He has set up every ridge so that it will go into action on logic; any similarity will put it into action. And it's about the flimsiest piece of cloud castle that you ever started playing around with; they just go to pieces boom! And it's just the easiest thing to process in the world.

What do you need on a case then? You need an anchor point. What kind of an anchor point? I don't care what kind of an anchor point. That tells you something else. You can take four chairs and put it around somebody and say, "Well, you got some space now?" This, by the way, will produce some interesting effects on an individual. You just take it out of the environment.

Another thing is, is ask him to take a look at some of the machines that make him do things and have him run comm lines from them to him. Of course, he's made the machine his, immediately he's short-circuited it and it'll blow up. Duplicate it and blow up the residue.

I've had people practically kicking their toes into a broken bleeding mass against walls, and so forth, until they themselves were certain of the wall. I'd keep asking them if they were certain of the wall and so forth. And the fact that I'd keep asking if they were certain had a tendency to shake their certainty.

All right, there's your technique for automaticity, because that immediately comes into this: when a person loses his ability to unmock things, they then can command him. And he's put in every one of these darned automaticity machines the idea that it can't be destroyed; that's a basic postulate of the machine.

And you would have thought they would have wound up in a horrible screaming mass, but after a while, having been persuaded from one point to another of what was the realest thing in the room, what are they most certain of in the room, they finally could accept the whole room.

Now, why did he ever set a machine up in the first place? It's because lie got bored. He was doing something and doing something and doing something, and he finally got it so that it was - he was getting depended upon by a lot of other people. A lot of other beings and a lot of other equipment and machinery started impinging sideways on what he was doing and there were a lot of people depending upon him. It wasn't that he had to be loyal to this or anything of the sort, but because these people were, they were insisting that he continue. He had lost interest in it to some degree, so he set it up as an automatic continuance.

What were they doing? Going around handling lamps and everything else. I've had people actually get up and crawl around the walls of the room with the most astonished wonder in their eyes. Just feeling the wall and so on and so on. People who could see perfectly well, feeling the wall and so on. They never knew what certainty was before. Just never knew what it was. This caught it on a gradient scale and built the gradient scale of certainty up to a point where all of a sudden they actually could contact the wall. It's very simple, isn't it?

It's lots of fun to know how to drive in a car, a new piece of equipment and so forth, but there isn't much fun to go on learning how forever. So a fellow, when he's lost interest in driving the car and only then, sets it up as an automatic function.

How long is it going to take you to learn? You know, if you knew that lesson well there wouldn't be an occluded case here? Because the exercise to knock out occlusion is put up eight black anchor points around a guy and knock them back into his head, that's all, in brackets. That's the technique.

So that you can run these machines this way: you can have him mock up the machine that makes him a gentleman and then have him mock up losing interest in it, at which moment the machine will appear much more clearly than before. You just get the idea that he's lost interest in something, then the automaticity shows up. Do you see? I mean, it's not, "Get a machine. Now get interested in it." You've just gotten the first part of the ridge if you've done that. But if you've got "lost interest in it," you've got the last part of the ridge - lost interest in it. "Now let's take some interest in it. Now let's lose interest in it."

I don't know, I think there've been a couple of people here who've had occlusion turn off and on, just running the exercise. How many people have had occlusion turn off and on running that exercise? Well, there's one, there's two. Who else has had it turn on and off? Three. See, it'll turn it on and oft but it'll certainly turn it on.

Now, he'll have difficulty making these things go away - some cases have terrible difficulty in making these things go away. That isn't any reason - I heard a postulate just that moment flick in the room, "That's for me." Terrible difficulty.

I've turned it on. I've turned blackness... But every time this has happened that I know of I just tried to make a group process out of it to give you an example of how it's processed - I've had results only with the preclear who knew what he was doing. He knew what an anchor point was. He knew he had an anchor point, he knew he had anchor points, he knew he had space. Nothing was worrying him. This problem had been to a large degree resolved with this preclear.

Here you have - here you have this factor of when he was no longer interested in something, he made it all automatic so he wouldn't have to pay attention to it, so he could be interested in something else. It no longer surprised him; there were no surprises left in this activity. And when there are no surprises left he'll set it up automatic, not just to surprise him, but so that...

Well all right., let's get him then - let's get this preclear to a point where he knows he's got an anchor point. I don't care how small it is. Now let's get him to a point where he can destroy it. I don't care how many times he has to duplicate it. And now let's get him to a point where he has to move it. He can do that by having him look at the wall, by having him mock up a mock-up, by having him do all sorts of things. Feel his body, feel a chair, take over an anchor point from - MEST universe anchor point, and so on. Just go over this until he's sure he's got an anchor point and he can move it. I don't care if he has to pick up the chair and carry it across the room after he's sure it's there. He's moved it.

See? So there's two types of automaticity. He sets up the first type just so it'll surprise him. Well, that's just a game. Any thetan plays this game. Any dog plays this game. Dog hides a bone then trots by and will sniff sniff sniff You can see dogs do this, they all of a sudden think "Gee, a bone!" You know he set it there just a few minutes ago. He's in a very bright frame of mind when he does this. Anybody will do this.

Now, you can actually take a piece of paper, build him up to a piece of paper, although that's kind of a bad one - and have him tear it up to bits and do all sorts of things to convince him he can knock one apart. See? It's very simple.

Well, that, in essence, is what starts the person getting interested in automaticity, but a little bit different than you would think there. We'll cover some more of this later. But the point is that he is interested in setting up something so it would surprise him. Well now that gives him, then, a quality to automaticity which is a betrayal of himself by automaticity. In automaticity, he loses interest and sets it up automatically. And that's the only kind he ever has any trouble with.

But he didn't create the piece of paper and he knows he didn't create the MEST universe. Boy, if there's anything he knows, he knows he didn't do that. Balderdash. If he didn't create the MEST universe he couldn't use any part of it as anchor points. If he didn't have a show in all this or a hand in all this he wouldn't be in it. And you can hate the MEST universe all you want to; you can cuss it and kick it around and do anything you want to it, but, by golly, don't try saying to somebody that it's not yours, because it is. It's the combination of home universes. It's co-anchor points. It's co-machinery, co-systems. There isn't a one of you that hasn't left his tracks all over this universe and hasn't made an awful lot of energy and poured it into the universe.

But he begins to believe that he shouldn't tamper with this stuff because he might disclose all the surprises he's set up, which is strictly an automaticity to be interested in something. And the other is an automaticity because he's lost interest in something. He gets the two confused together and so he won't touch automaticity at all for fear that he'll blow up all of his interest in life. See?

Do you have to make something for it to be yours? Well yeah, in this case you do because you make it all the time.

So, the process involved here is the one I want you to have some fun with today. But today I want to unocclude some of the cases around here that have been occluded, so forth. And let me take the next three or four minutes to see if we don't do something with this, okay?

Where is the past? Boy, it's sitting on the thinnest strata you ever saw. It's sitting right on the present.

Any - anybody can do this, and do this very exteriorized if possible. I mean, be away some place or another. Some of you have already done this. But I want the occluded cases to pay very close attention, anybody who has any remaining occlusion.

Where's the future? Boy, same thing. You can make up energy and say it'll appear in the future.

All right, let's set up a black anchor point someplace. Now pull it in.

The idea that nobody can destroy your anchor points and the idea that you cannot destroy MEST are coincidental.

Set up another black anchor point elsewhere. Pull it in.

Your first overt act is against MEST, against MEST anchor points. And one of the darnedest inversions you ever saw is the inverted 6. And what is an inverted 6? An inverted 6 says, "I didn't make the MEST universe. I don't own the MEST universe. The MEST universe is not mine. I cannot use the MEST universe for anchor points." Yes, you can.

Set up a black anchor point behind you. Pull it in.

Certainty - we want to give him certainty. If we don't give him certainty on an anchor point we're not going to give him anything. He'll wind up with nothing, I don't care what the certainty is. This is a very low level of certainty in the - and then you have to be able to let him win. How simple.

Put two black anchor points up in front of you. Pull them in.

Now just checking over occluded cases here, has anybody ever drilled with you and worked with you to a point where you were absolutely certain you had a black spot? Were you finally certain you had a black spot? And then what did they do with it, forget it?

Two black anchor points behind you. Pull them in.

Male voice: Not for a while.

Four black anchor points in front of you. Pull them in.

Well, some people never do get the two and two to go together to make four, that's all. Because you can see immediately if you're certain you've got one black spot, then you can move that and create it. Then the next thing we've got to do is get a couple of them. Then the next thing we've got to do is get three or four or five of them. And then let's get eight of them, and then let's get these eight up in space. And if we can move all these things around and we're certain of them every time, boy, we'll be certain of every ridge we got. And you yank - start yanking those in simultaneously in brackets, and the occlusion goes poom.

Four black anchor points behind you. Pull them in one at a time.

It's not a hard problem. It is such an easy problem that it's very hard for people to convince me, no matter how aberrated or occluded they act or get or how much they grope for doors that this is a problem. It hasn't been a problem for some little time. There are several things that remedy it but that one really remedies it.

Eight black anchor points around you - as a thetan - just around you. Pull those in one at a time.

You can turn occlusion on with it. You can take any case that's wide open and can see beautifully and you can make him blinder than a bat just by doing that technique. And if you were to leave him right there, just hang him up, pull in the eight anchor points and pull in the eight anchor points, and the guy says, "Yi! Hey, it's all black."

Eight more black anchor points around you. Pull those in one at a time.

And you say, "You poor fellow. Well, I guess I did the technique wrong and there's no remedy for that at all," and you simply went off and left the case; he'd stay as occluded as you ever heard of anybody being occluded. And he would eventually burn his way out of it if he was feeling real hot or something of the sort someday, possibly. But you actually can occlude a case, so don't tell me you can't unocclude them. You can occlude yourself just by doing this technique. Of course, it's always best to have black and heavy anchor points, real heavy anchor points. Eventually the guy'll come in and get them to explode.

Eight more black anchor points around you. Pull them all in at once.

Another thing is get a drill on certainty of explosion. You were running an awful lot of explosions on a mock-up process we had not too long ago and that explosion was called, for mock-up purposes just, Perimeter Processing. It isn't very good as a technique. It does what? As you did it, you observed that the fellow sort of came in on his space. In other words, this kind of had a tendency to sort of feed space to the guy. Nothing much happened in the process. It's a better process than other subjective processes, but still no good. Why? It doesn't feed space in fast enough. You can get space into the fellow faster than that and you could take space out of the bank faster than that just by yanking in eight anchor points.

Eight more black anchor points around you. Pull in the front four first. Now pull in the back four.

You see, there's more to talk about with regard to this but there's no need, really, to talk about it. How certain is he of his space? He's as certain of space as he's certain of his anchor points. If he doesn't have any anchor points he doesn't have any space. We were going into this a week or two ago. What's uncertainty? Uncertainty of anchor points is the way you make somebody uncertain.

Eight more black anchor points around you. Pull in all eight suddenly.

What's invalidation? The way to invalidate somebody is to make him uncertain of his anchor points. Well then, by golly, the way to validate somebody is to make him certain of his anchor points. Isn't that interesting? Not very hard.

Eight more black anchor points around you. Pull all those in suddenly.

You want to sit down with a preclear and you want to go round and round and over and over until he just despises this damn word called certainty, until he's... You don't care how far you have to run this technique. Of course, this fellow's parked right up against a ridge or something like that. You know, you can very often ask the guy, "All right, mock up a machine that makes uncertainty." Very often he'd get the damnedest, clearest, realest machine he ever walked into.

Eight more black anchor points around you. Push them out slightly and then give them a sudden yank in.

Sometimes you ask a fellow to get a little explosion or something at some distance from him. My God, he got one! Now don't make him lose immediately simply by turning around and get a bigger explosion that he can't handle. Just have him get the same kind of explosion he got, until we get a security.

Eight more black anchor points, now give them a little push out so that they'll snap in.

Most auditors, when they handle this, will get a fellow certain of one thing, see, and then they won't do anything with it. It's like they're scared of it. They get somebody very sure of a black spot. Doesn't occur to anybody that space is a viewpoint of dimension, and why do we want black spots? Well, it's my fault to a degree, I didn't say so.

All right, put a black anchor point in front of you and pull it in.

But here's the point, is you can't ... What's certainty? Certainty is a state of mind. Certainty of something would be a certainty of anchor points. That's about all we can get around to, and when we finally get down and boil the whole business of sanity and insanity down, it fits into that problem of certainty. What is this problem of certainty? It's simply: Is it there or isn't it there? Is it there or isn't it there? That's what certainty is

Black anchor point behind you. Pull it in.

Now, a thetan is capable of greater certainty level than that. But truth itself is simply a certainty.

Black anchor point to the right of you. Pull it in.

Now, you work with a gradient scale and you work gradually and you work carefully. You say - a couple here said, "Yes, we finally got black spots," but what do you do with these black spots? Well, what do you want a black spot for? You want a black spot simply so you can put up eight black spots, that's all. What do you want eight black spots for? Well, the truth of the matter is - you know a lot of fellows put up anchor points and so on, they're fuzzy and they're foggy and they're two-dimensional, hasn't any depth in it.

Black anchor point to the left of you. Pull it in.

So there's probably one other thing you should drill on a certainty. There is one other thing. I'd better mention it, seemed to be kind of obvious too. After you've got a black spot you'd get a black sphere. Well, that's part of those lectures. You get a black sphere. What do you want a black sphere for? What good is a black sphere to anybody? It's an anchor point, that's what it is. And what do you do with it? Well, you put it up and you put eight of these black spheres up and give them a yank and you got it.

Four anchor points in front of you. Pull them in.

The fellow's lost out in life and he's lost through doing this. Of course, he's gone down on inversion, inversion, inversion, inversion after he's had this happen, so, of course, he doesn't sometimes come up very fast.

Four anchor points behind you. Pull them in.

But I gave you a little simple drill. I gave it to you as a group and I didn't even bother to get you certain of anything before I gave you the drill, and I handled it very, very grossly here in the group this morning. And yet you said - I'm sure that you had some slight alteration in perception as a result of it. I don't care whether it was plus or minus, there was an alteration in perception. That's all we're interested in, is altering perception. If you can't do anything else with a preclear, get an effect.

Four in front of you. Pull them in.

I found a very curious thing - you've seen this case. I meant to report on this case days ago, by the way - fascinating case. The case had broken every auditor's heart that's been around this case. And I wanted to see what was so fussed up about this case that nobody could make any headway with this case, besides the case being almost dead. But that's no bar, just because the case is almost dead. That shouldn't be a barrier.

Four behind you. Pull them in.

So what do we get? We get a case of blindness, and this case of blindness is coupled with an inability to see exteriorly. And you say, "Well, gee, that's easy. That's easy. There's nothing to that, the person can't see inside or outside." Well, all right. It's not quite that easy because the auditor never looked. The case has a continuing - had an anesthesia and then a terrible sensitivity right across the eyelid, eyeball and brow areas. Case continually being hurt, face being hurt continually. Every time this case tried to get out of her body, she got stuck on the eye ridge and the limiter of the eye ridge - and the way they fix up these - way you fix up these ridges so they won't bother you again is you put pain in them and if anybody tries to turn them off they really get hung up like mad. They're sort of theta traps. You have to obey them because they'll hurt you if they don't. Which is a very good way to get a body to obey, believe me. That's the way everybody uses it, we know that; so the ridges are composed from all kinds of facsimiles where that's done.

Eight around you. Pull them in one at a time.

Well, all right. This case, then, had a ridge sealing off the vision. In other words, impacts across the eyes. Even had had, recently in Phoenix, a broken nose. Fell down and hit her face. Well, what do we get out of this? We get an anesthesed eye area and we get a broken nose and we get a heavy, heavy, heavy ridge across the front of the eyes. Now, we ask this person to exteriorize and the second we ask her to exteriorize the natural consequence is "If I'm exteriorized, what can I see?" And we get an immediate reaction of the ridge across the eyes turning on which turns on the cycle of "snap into the head." Now we try to move her out of the head and we turn on the ridge in the eyes, and the second that threatens to turn on, of course, she has to come in again because that means blindness itself. There was a blinding pain there; a blinding flash has taken place there. And this case is not in communication with the eyeballs and the eyebrows and the end of the nose and the cheeks.

Eight around you again. Give them a little shove out and snap them in suddenly.

How can you process a case's eyes on if the case is not in communication with the optic nerve? Should be very elementary. See? Look - you ask them to look through these nerves, and they can't feel. Well, my God, if they can't feel they certainly can't look!

Eight anchor points around you again. Give them a little shove out and snap them in suddenly.

There are some cases that can think, but they can't exert any effort. Now you're going to turn on this case's lookingness all of a sudden? That's silly.

Eight anchor points around you. Give them a little tiny jerk in so that they will fly out.

You've got to do some sort of a certainty drill to get them up over the bumps. You've got to blow up a few machines on them, you've got to blow up a few anchor points on them. You've got to do a few drills of one kind or another, see? Build up their certainty.

Now mock up in front of you a machine to handle your anchor points for you. Now duplicate it duplicate it, duplicate it duplicate it, duplicate it, duplicate it, duplicate it, duplicate it.

And we'll get to a point - you see the only reason the thetan is really sure that he's exteriorized is because he's hauled some anchor points along with him. He really doesn't exteriorize himself and get his certainty off the room. You've suddenly given him his own anchor points back, and he then knows he's in his own space, so he's certain of where he is. And when you've suddenly exteriorized somebody and turned on a hell of a dose of reality, that's what's happened. He's carried some anchor points out with him of which he's sure. He's recognized some old friends, some anchor points. And now he's got the distance to the body because he's got the distance to the anchor points, and the distance from the anchor points to the body. How simple.

Make the last one disappear.

All right. Where do we work on this case then? What would you do? You can't get the case to process. You get flags, and the reality goes up just so high and then this piece of automaticity goes into operation, and we get a whirr-clank and a swish-clip and what are we - what are we to do? Case of very, very bad verbal communication.

Make the next to the last one disappear.

How do you get a ridge that's out - sitting on somebody's body someplace? Well, how do you knock it out? Well, you'd have to knock it out by the process of perception or force, somehow or another. You can't persuade them just to knock it out.

Duplicate it, duplicate it, duplicate it, duplicate it, duplicate it, duplicate it.

I had the preclear reach and withdraw her own hand from her own eyeballs while closed. And you know, the first few times she put her hand up there she couldn't get her hand within four or five inches of the eyeball which is she thought she was touching them?

Now make the last one disappear.

This is not disorientation. This is being lost completely. The preclear puts her hand up to touch her eyeballs and touches the top of her hair. Puts her hand up to touch her eyeballs, has readjusted and touches her upper lip. What's certainty? Certainty of location and certainty of something. She couldn't find her eyeballs and yet the auditors who audited her kept expecting her to look through them. Well, how the hell could she look through something she didn't know where it was, huh?

Now make them disappear right on down till you've got the first one gone. Now let's have somebody else mock up a machine to handle his anchor points for him.

It seemed to inc this case has got no business being here, got no business being in my office. All an auditor had to do was just take his two fingers like this and start tapping them around on the eyelids at irregular intervals or something of the sort to find out... We've got a complete amnesia there as far as "How do I look?" And we've got a complete anesthesia all around the area of the eyes, and the second that there was any gesture in the direction of the eyes - every auditor that's processed her, by the way, that I know of, has noticed this reaction - is she would shrink back into herself, close her eyes tightly and shudder while holding her head well back in a protected position. Really a convulsion, you see? Get those eyes, get that nose, see, out of the road so that it can't be seen - total thought of the case. Every time you say anything to the case, any time an auditing command had any effect on the case she's been doing this every hour, about ten times every hour she's been processed since the first time any auditor touched her.

Okay. Have him duplicate it, duplicate it, duplicate it, duplicate it, duplicate it, duplicate it, duplicate it, duplicate it, duplicate it.

What is this? This is a protection of the eyes. What can an auditor do for a case if he can't look, if he won't look? Well, just run it all automatically? Every time you hit anything hot, every time you really got in communication with the case, the case ducked her chin, slid back in the chair, humped up her shoulders and shuddered. Doing what? Quite obviously protecting the face.

Make him have the last one disappear.

I mean you could have had signs all over her saying, "I am protecting my face," and it couldn't have been more obvious. Complete anesthesia - first couldn't locate them with her fingers, next couldn't locate them even vaguely, as far as feeling was concerned. And then all of a sudden feeling came on and she let out a small, dull scream. Why? Because it hurt like hell every time a finger touched the cheeks, the brow, the eyelid or the eyebrows or the temples: wince, wince, wince, wince, wince. What was the magnitude of blow that was causing her to wince? Well, it was just this, it was just like this ... And this felt to her like she was being jabbed with needles or hit with hammers.

The next to last one disappear.

And you wonder why this case couldn't see. Every time they would try to look, they would look somewhere through this vicinity and that would energize this ridge, and then the ridge would kick back and then immediate reaction would be that the automatic machinery on the thing, the automaticity of seeing had to turn off. And then what did we have on it? We had an immediate sensitivity of the area which threatened to appear, but of course never did.

Now, duplicate it, duplicate it, duplicate it, duplicate it, duplicate it.

The second the threat of the thing appearing appeared, the case would immediately shut off vision so that she would get momentary flicks. This is pretty elementary. And of course, being so concentrated on seeing, every time the thetan tried to extend the beam outside the back of the head, she (the thetan) keyed in this thing on the body which restimulated the body. How fast does a preclear come in? If you haven't stabilized him well outside, and you suddenly hauled off and kicked him in the shins, he's right back in the body, right now.

Have the last one of those disappear.

Well, you've got the same reaction. She tries to exteriorize and it threatens to turn on pain, so she comes right back into the head.

Have the remainder disappear back till the first one he made disappears.

Do you suppose this is any different from her and any other preclear that won't exteriorize? Let's just get the coordinated factor there. You kick somebody in the shins. Why are we interested in the pain test? (Don't forget that we still have the pain test on clearing.) Why are we interested in it? Well, it's because the person goes out and at any moment of threat to the body or something like that, he thinks he can only control it from within so he has to be inside the body and handle it and control it from inside the body. Right?

Now have somebody else mock up a machine to handle somebody else's anchor points.

If the person is not well stabilized outside, you'll just touch the body and he'll fly back into the body. You just - in some case that's just been exteriorized, if you just reach over and threaten to touch the body, well, the case is right back inside immediately - pam! - real quick. Why? It's because of the pain and because of the tremendous number of communication lines which are still wrapped up around the body, still all around the body, you see'? And these become energized and when these become energized, in comes the preclear- boom - automatic response mechanism.

All right, have the person who mocked it up duplicate it, duplicate it, duplicate it, duplicate it, duplicate it, duplicate it, duplicate it, duplicate it, duplicate it, duplicate it, duplicate it, duplicate it, duplicate it, duplicate it.

So you ask this Mr. Blow to move out. And what is the connection between an anesthesed nose and a nonexteriorizing preclear? Means he's got a ridge up there in the front of his face, somewhere. Well, I don't try to apply this case to every case, but it's a good model - anesthesed nose, anesthesed chin.

Now have him make the last one disappear.

I had a preclear one time, didn't have an anesthesed nose, didn't have anesthesed eyes, didn't have anesthesed ears, and yet when he went out and into the body he looked like one of these little kid's balls they use where they got a rubber on the ball and they got a little bat. Well, boy that - she comes straight back in just like that - bingo.

Now have all of them disappear right back to the first one.

And I finally found out she was wearing - I'm sorry I have to - I have to say it because it was a - it was a girl that did this. It was kind of hard to tell the sex though because what she had under her chin was a hussar strap, you know - that wear the shako. Well, she'd been a hussar in the Napoleonic Wars, and she'd gone underneath the limb of a tree in a battle at a dead run, and it had just kind of naturally taken off the shako, but it had also taken off and broken her neck. It was quite an impact. She still was wearing the imprint of this shako and still had the mock-up of that body being made madly. Body's being mocked up better, really, to her understanding - better than her present time body.

So, here we get this mock-up going like mad, and here's this preclear and you ask this preclear to come out. What happens? She just energizes this ridge underneath here and underneath the chin, big automatic ridge. That was only one part of this ridge, by the way, just the shako strap; there were a hell of a lot of things on the ridge. Bang - in she'd come again, just - you energize a beam and it shortens, that's all. It's just as simple as that.

I mean, it's like, if you light a - one of these funny smoke snakes that they have for fourth of July, it lengthens. Well, if you energize a tractor beam, it shortens. And they're trying to hold on to the body. The thetan has tractor beams on the body, and when these get energized by pain or any other stimulus, of course they shorten. So you are trying to lengthen a thetan who is still using beams, he exteriorizes and - pang - he goes back into the body because the tractor beam energizes. Well, he's got a ridge sitting there, he isn't bothering the ridge any while he's in the body, he's feeling perfectly all right. But one fine day you ask him to be back of the body and of course you energize the screen. And he gets back of the body, and he bangs back into the body.

Well, it happens so fast, the fellow who doesn't think he's exteriorizing actually exteriorizes every time you tell him to and comes back into the body so fast he doesn't know he's been out. The period is so quick and you just lengthen that period a little bit.

Now, after a fellow's been at this for a little while he gets some kind of automaticity keyed in. Very often they get outside and then they come back into the body and then they don't want to leave anymore. Well, scared or something of the sort, you can say. What's happened is, is they've run into a piece of automaticity.

Now, we've got that technique I gave you this morning of mocking up the machine. Good technique, but believe me it's just as good as they're certain they've got a machine there, No better than that.

All you have to do is find an anchor point of which somebody's certain. They're very often more certain - put this down in letters of vitriol: A preclear is very often more certain of some other location than that one in which he presently is located. If you'll merely start searching around as to where it is, he'll be absolutely sure he's someplace or he's certain he's looking at something. He's more certain he's looking at something than that he's here. Whole thing is a problem of certainty and space. And the way you get certainty of space is to get certainty on an anchor point. Elementary, my dear Watson.

The best technique up to that, if you've got somebody who's having a hell of a time with certainty, is back him up into a closet or something of the sort and have him hold the back two upper corners with his hands while balanced on a chair. You'll find out he'll be very uncertain they're there after a while. Then he gets certain they're there, then he'll get uncertain they're there. Have him - much less precarious exercise is just make him go down like a puppy or something of the sort and stick his finger into the corner by the baseboard of the room. And if you've got a little closet or something of the sort, make him hold those two lower corners. Now what are we talking about when we say hold? In that case, you'd really make him hold them. Just keep banging them every once in a while to make sure they're there. Not think, just hold.

It's really remarkable. I ran this technique on somebody one time. I thought this character was going to go insane before he finally shed enough automaticity to permit him to sit in a chair and hold the two back corners, see, he was below that level. I had him sit in a chair and hold the two back corners of the room and know they were there.

How far south do you have to go? Well, you have to go as far south as you have to go in order to make the preclear certain of something. And when he becomes certain of something then he finds out that he hasn't been very certain of something else. And he did - maybe didn't know that before. Well, this in itself is terrifically revelatory to him. This guy says, "You know, I've never been certain I had a body here. It's all kind of beautifully unreal to me." Thousands of processes.

Now, Change of Space Processing only breaks down on you when you break down the certainty of where the fellow is and whether or not he's seeing them. Now, when that certainty breaks down, the process breaks down. And when any certainty breaks down on any process, the process breaks down because they're all monitored by just one thing: certainty. If you know that, understand it, know it thoroughly, you're doing all right. But let me assure you that the only cases here that are even vaguely having trouble are the only cases here which are uncertain.

Now this afternoon's auditing session from here on, let's just test this one out: How far south do you have to go? You're going to be surprised! It has taken me three years to find how far south you had to go.

Take a preclear - they haven't changed any, preclears haven't - let's just get something up to a point where the preclear's certain.

And you could just do this: Get something he's certain of. Don't keep asking him "Are you certain?" Tell him pick up this or that or put him on an E-Meter, and get something that's charged or something he gets a rise on, or just a black spot. And when he's finally drilled through with a black spot, believe me, make him make polka dots out of all the walls before you let him go with a technique.