Your main difficulty with techniques - continuing this on what I was saying about Clinical Procedure - your main difficulty on techniques is that they wear out, for the most part, when used on the preclear who is bad off because they depress his reality. And so you've got to have a technique which immediately enhances his reality. And you must not take the chance that the person walks up the stairs - who's got just enough reality to find the doorknob but is looking bright and cheerful and well dressed, just enough reality to find that doorknob, walking on all the automatic machinery you could possibly rack up in a whole universe - will be hit by you with a technique which will be calling you out of bed at eleven o'clock at night with the fact that somebody has a convulsion.

All right.

Now, this is not prevention for the clinic and it's not prevention for you as an auditor It's just the fact that if you have a cynical attitude against all these preclears that you're perfectly willing to have be you, too - you got a nice cynical attitude about it and you say, "They're all Step VIIs," you'll win every time. Because most of them are.

This afternoon we are going to take up that subject which has long been neglected, called Straightwire. And I'm going to show you that there exist ways and means that are dreamed of in his books, Horatio, on the subject of Straightwire.

Therefore, you won't be up against the problem, every time, of the doctor who must, of necessity, deliver some kind of an effect but who must, of necessity, associate himself with being a person. This always catches up, sooner or later, with a doctor He goes sawing and chawing and madly hacking and beating bodies; then, one day, he's sick, too. Well, there's no reason for you to do this.

The advent of Straightwire came about some thousands of years ago when somebody said to somebody else, "How are you?" and the other fellow didn't answer automatically; he really thought about it for a moment and he said, "Say, you know I feel terrible." He discovered at that moment how bad off he was and we had the therapy known as Straightwire - in its embryonic form, of course.

If you run a technique which doesn't wear out, your own confidence isn't being continually undermined. Because this one doesn't wear out because you're up against the roof on this one, on - for this universe. And it doesn't wear out by the fact that you use it. And you can use it on a preclear and he can foul up and you can use it on him again with equal effectiveness, mostly because he doesn't expect anything radical to happen. And you don't get upset because you don't expect anything radical to happen either. All you expect him to do is get into his head and move three feet back out of it, patch up his body and go home. That's all you want to have happen. So there's no strain.

In 1894, a fellow by the name of Sigmund Freud announced his libido theory, went off the rails and went into the ditch. It's an interesting thing that Sigmund Freud had a psychotherapy and deserted it. He was working with a fellow by the name of Breuer - impossibly spellable name - impossibly unspellable name - I mean, possibly spellable.

Working with one another and working into a "Gosh, are these all the problems you run into?" and "Gee, look at all this randomity," and so forth, that's not the question. But if you're operating clinically, you don't want to have that necessarily as your randomity. Why choose it as your randomity? Just - you just run a technique which steps him into his head and he knows he's in his head finally and knows he's in his head; then he knows he's back of his head and then he knows he can look and he knows his perception's pretty good and he - look over the body and patch it up where it is and then he goes home.

Male voice: Impossibly unspellable.

Well, of course, this is actually taking some of the fun out of it for you. We're not trying to make superman here, because after you've done that is when you start to work to really make superman. Now you really have to get clever.

I thought I'd key in a talking circuit like I was talking about this morning, but what it came out with and it - that's the first thing it said to say, so I did.

Of course, a thetan in real good operating condition can make himself visible. It would be the shock of somebody's life to suddenly realize that he was visible. And it would ruin this whole society and put us squarely in the hands of Bishop Shenanigan if you were to start doing this. Because you as a MEST body would never be able to explain fast enough to tell him you really weren't Christ. They've been looking for him to come back - with blood in their eyes. You know, they only got a few nails in that guy last time.

Well, a fellow by the name of Breuer had been fooling around for some time with hypnosis. Hypnosis is the work of, oh, a period of about 1835, mainly a fellow by the name of Charcot. But nobody had psychotherapy in mind; all he wanted to do was just figure out a lot of things.

So - so, it's exteriorization on up. And if you're looking for Clinical Procedure, you merely want to get the guy secure and certain that he's exteriorized and get him to patch up the body and be fairly happy about it. Of course, he'll come back and see you later and say, "I want to - I'm not stable as a Theta Clear. I got uncertain and I popped back in and a lot of other things happened and these were all undesirable," and so on. "And my wife's still mad at me," or "my parents still rack me around. And I tried to bap them the other day and I couldn't do anything about it and I - this war that's coming up with Ugohuvia, I tried to do something about that and I was very sure I was over there in the palace. And I was very sure that I'd bapped Lord Zaggah straight on the coco, but you know I picked up the paper this morning and he's still alive. So this is all very upsetting to me," and so forth.

Utterly fantastic - and has not made sense until this last year - what Charcot did in the name of hypnosis.

Well, you're op- you're into the sphere of operation. When you move into the sphere of operation, you're in a different sphere. You see? See the difference? So Clinical Procedure just continues to aim at just what it says, which is simply curing up and straightening up the guy mentally and physically so that he can be an awful damn good senior superior Homo sapiens or Homo novis or whatever you want to call this boy. That's all right, isn't it? That's good. Well, that's the technique we're hitting hard for. And you'll find out that there's a tremendous amount of data to be run after you've done that.

From 1835 - I have to look this up sometime and find out if Charcot really was 1835; it says so in the medical books and I don't believe them - Charcot had some fantastic things which he used to do routinely with hypnosis. He would hypnotize a subject and then have the subject feel the temperatures of things some distance away or discover the contents of various liquids in various bottles which were otherwise hidden from view. He would have people read nameplates on the other sides of things, which they obviously couldn't see, and went through this enormous amount of hocus-pocus, as it was thought that day, that neither he nor anybody else had any inkling about. Fabulous!

Not one of you here today is visible as a thetan. I just call that to your attention. Now, I don't say that you ought to do this. But I don't say you shouldn't. But like the rooster who rolled in the ostrich egg$ I want to show you what can be done elsewhere.

What was he doing? Well, in any hypnotic trance you can tell the person to be someplace else and if it had actually occurred to anybody to tell anybody to be three feet back of his head, in any good hypnotic trance it would have occurred. And if any hypnotist did anything else but talk, he would have found out from the preclear that there was such a thing as exteriorization. But this communication never went on.

All right. What do you do then? Here - here's just rote procedure on it, Orientation Straightwire. Preclear comes in, crawls in, gets over the doorsill. You pick him up, prop him up in the chair and you say, "Where are you?"

How - how did Charcot do these things and what is this all about? Well you, today, working with a preclear wide awake, knowing exteriorization and the other phenomena you will encounter in the mind, will be able to do exactly the same things, and much better, that Charcot was experimenting with a hundred and fifteen, hundred and twenty years ago.

And he says, "I'm four feet back of my head. I haven't been able to get in my body all day."

It's interesting, isn't it? Because that technology was so thoroughly lost that in modern books of hypnotism you don't even vaguely discover anything resembling the work of Charcot. In books printed in 1890, you discover nothing of this character. Books of 1890, 1880, on the subject of hypnosis had lost it already; books just about a little bit earlier than that still had it; and any hypnotist could have done it and done it with accuracy.

You're all set. You go on from there. But it's very, very few people in this society that will so inform you, in fact there are practically none who will tell you this because it's not the condition. They don't know where they are.

If we had two bottles, both of them black bottles - they're tightly corked one of them contains alcohol, the other one contains water. We hypnotize the person and ask him which bottle contains water and which contains alcohol and he names them correctly.

So you ask him, "All right. Now, do you know where you are?"

We start to deal cards and we ask him what the next card coming up is. And then we go off on some wild monkey business about reading the future and prediction, as Rhine is doing. Only subjects which have eyelid flutters work on this prediction stunt which depends, essentially, upon the person being well enough exteriorized to see the bottom of the card before it is turned over and is visible to the operator.

He's liable to get insulted. He'll say, "Of course, I know where I am - I'm right here in your office!"

You get what impossible combinations have been worked out by lack of observation and lack of communication on this subject. Nobody knew about exteriorization and so they go around and put people to sleep and put them under drugs and do all sorts of things with them and call it psychotherapy and fumble. And then all of a sudden, peculiar things would happen. And they had no clue to engrams, they had no clue to facsimiles and they'd just promptly go get lost. And the techniques themselves would turn up and become lost again. Same way with Straightwire.

And you say, "That s good. That's fine. Now, where aren't you?"

Simple questioning - as done by medicine men for thousands and thousands of years - making the patient recognize something of his own difficulties, has been the only actually workable psychotherapy on the whole time track. The rest of it ended in something else than psychotherapy.

"Oh I'm - I'm ... I never thought of that before. You know, I'm practically anyplace."

And so it was with Breuer and Freud. They were using hypnotism and they had already lost the work of Charcot or didn't know it well. And they were putting people in a trance and then asking them to remember things. Just exactly why they had to go into a trance to remember something is a little bit difficult to figure out because they were trying to make the person... Well, the goal of the work of Breuer and Freud was ... It isn't really fair of me to put a goal in there, is it? Well, I tell you, the truth of the matter is they never said, and I wouldn't go so far as to say they didn't know. But it was a lot of fun, anyway.

"Well now, let's not go into that - let's - too far. Let's not worry about it. Where aren't you in the past?"

But what they called, later on, free association - if you will excuse the phrase, verbal diarrhea on the part of the patient - was nothing more nor less than a concept built upon the much earlier idea of physic, from which we get the word physician. And these people were dramatizing - as Freud adequately demonstrates in his work - a prenatal constipation engram. And they thought by relieving this constipation by - I'm sorry that it goes this way, but it's just as grimy as their work really is. This verbal diarrhea was supposed to cleanse.

"Uh, practically everywhere, I guess..."

Even their terminology, when taken from the original language in which they were doing it, and so on, is the exact duplicate of just that. They had reversed around the idea and they thought that the mind needed a purge of some sort. Well this is the idea they came to. And do you know they never had any success from the moment they came to that idea on forward to 1954 when it's still going strong. This is what's known as free association; and other phrase, and so forth, came up with it.

"Well, where aren't you in the future?" you say.

But their original work was nothing more nor less than straightwire while the patient was hypnotized. We don't know why they had to hypnotize the patient; that's something else they added. But the original work was just Straightwire. And then they slid from Straightwire into this idea of mental catharsis. See, instead of - instead of giving him physic physically, why, they gave him physic mentally after that. And they were getting desperate and the tremendous quantities of material which they uncovered were written down carefully on paper. And we had this fabulous dramatization take place when these people were right on the verge of actually accomplishing something.

"I don't know, I guess I'm most everyplace. Gee, that's funny. I never thought of that before. You know, I'm not certain where I am." just like that, you see?

Today, physicists who are working in the field of modern nuclear physics treat the MEST universe more or less in the same fashion: They give it a shot of voltage in order to make the MEST universe regurgitate some data. In fact, you've kind of got this dramatization all the way up and down the track. Well, it's the wrong way to go about something. Now, we were doing that in 1950, but that was kind of in agreement with everybody else that had been doing that work.

So what do you do? What do you do? Well, there's this one little trick of, "Are you certain that everybody can be certain?"

Well, it wasn't until we pulled cleanly out of that - then we started to make some progress. When we started to take a look at the factors involved and got away with [from] the idea of physic, why, we started to make a lot of progress.

"No, I'm certain nobody could be certain."

Freud was making progress as long as he was working with Breuer and hypnotism and stopped making progress the second he got into this same idea of physic: The preclear has got an awful lot of things in him and we're going to administer this mental catharsis and get them out.

"Well, then, you're certain of something, aren't you?" Well, that's kind of turning it in on him and that isn't too good but can be done.

Now, we were doing that with engrams. If we could just run enough engrams out of the guy, why, he'd be in good shape. True enough, it worked many, many times - many times over.

The other one is, is "Who's dead?" And we're right back to Book One. "Who's dead?"

But let me show you something about this. With a few Straightwire questions ... Once one student here - I mentioned this earlier in the course - came in the office, one day, at 42 Aberdeen Road. Had a headache, I think it was. I asked him a few questions in Straightwire. The headache disappeared. Then I showed him there was an engram under it simply by lowering him back into the engram and the engram reappeared. Remember that? Very interesting. I think he had the headache for days afterwards. But I'd gotten rid of it by Straightwire.

All right. He answers you rapidly and he says, "Grandma." That was the last death on the chain.

What is Straightwire? It just means stringing something from a present time consciousness to a memory. Like stringing telephone lines. So we get communication open between the past and the present. And that, in essence, is its definition. That's why it's called Straightwire rather than recall or something of the sort because there could be so many kinds of recall.

"Who else is dead?" if he answered that very rapidly. "Uh-oooooh, my father."

So we have this highly specialized kind of recall and it's this simple level of processing: The preclear is in present time and in contact with present time and we simply ask him questions which restore to him certain memories. Now, that was the original definition of Straightwire. But that is not the best definition for Straightwire. You can define something, really, only when you know what it is doing, and if you know what it is doing then your definition, when known, should make it possible to relieve or work with what is defined, That's an action definition. All right. We haven't had an action definition of Straightwire until this past year.

"Well, who else is dead?"

Straightwire is that process which restores the self-determinism of the preclear in placing incidents and relationships precisely in space and time. That's Straightwire. But that's also the definition of everything we're doing.

"My sister." You needn't ask him. He's giving you - this is the earliest death is the sister's death.

It tells you that probably the best process under the sun would be just that process - Straightwire. I don't tell you right this minute that it is, but it sure lines up with exactly what we're doing. Because in the present time he locates himself in other times and places (past), and same time (present), and future (future time). He just locates incidents in himself, negatively and positively. And what do you know, you key out, banish and blow up practically every single engram in the bank - if you know how to do it.

"Who else is dead?"

The first Straightwire that we had required a cleverness which was diabolical. Fortunately, our present Straightwire as we are using it in Scientology - we've never used this word before in Scientology, I call to your attention; we used it in Dianetics - in present time, as we're using it in Scientology, it is not being employed with diabolical cleverness. You had to be pretty slippy sometimes. But all you're doing - all you're doing, in essence, is taking over other-determined spaces and making self-determined spaces out of them. That's all. By what? By making the preclear look. All you have to do is make him look. And he'll find out two things immediately: He isn't there and it's not important. These two things he finds out immediately.

"Well, my baby brother. Uh oooh."

The only reason the preclear is not in his body - I've been hitting this now all this time we've been here - the only reason you can't exteriorize him easily is he's not there. He's on inverted dynamics. What inverted dynamics are there? There are eight dynamics; any one of them can become inverted. Well, how do you reinvert dynamics easily, fast? Straightwire is the answer.

"Who else is dead?"

All right. You lead him to look. And the less duress you have to place on him to lead him to look, the better off you are. But remember this: that there's an optimum duress under which you put a preclear. And that's always, always - I repeat: always - plus-duress for the preclear. It's always more duress than he is accustomed to, whether from terms of speed or pressure or otherwise. You have to add your potential to his potential to push him anyplace. Now, I don't mean by that you get inside his head and look for him. But he's got to know that he's being shaped up there and stood up and made to act.

"Nobody else."

So let's lose the idea right there that Straightwire is a permissive technique. We are not interested in permissive techniques any more than we are tremendously interested in brutal techniques. There can be too much duress, always. But the only place the auditor fails is in too little - too little duress.

"Who else is?"

He said, "Well, do you remember that?"

"Well, my grandfather died when I was three."

And the fellow says, "Well, no. Well, no, no, no”.

You've just about exhausted it. Aside from the fact that he's dead just before he was born, which is what he's having a rough time with. But you don't - needn't upset the American public with this one right off the bat.

"Well, all right. We'll go to something else now," obviously.

"What - what's this? What are you asking him this for?"

What's the matter?

"Well, where did he die?"

Male voice: That's awful strange.

"In Oklahoma."

Yeah.

"What part of Oklahoma did he die in? Were you in Oklahoma at the time?"

Well, you see there rather quickly that - that you - the best place to have the auditor is in present time. That's the best place to have the auditor. What's the best place to have the preclear? Ditto!

"Uh - um, well, my mother said - uh - my father - no - was my mother - she said that I was at the time. But, you know I don't seem..." See that's good certainty. That's all you're looking for, see, certainty.

If you could get all of your preclear into present time, you'd say, be three feet, be fifty feet, be a thousand feet hack of your head and on the other side of the moon and he'd come buck and hand you a couple of beams of stardust as a present - if you really had this licked, see, nothing to it.

And you say, "Well, were you in Texas at the time?"

Now, preclears who have been processed by older techniques in Scientology come up against this little pat-a-cake, light feather-touch, hit-on-the-head technique and stumble and fall on their faces. What is it? It's just Straightwire. Well, it's very funny that somebody who's been processed and processed and processed and you suddenly come up to them - and they feel a lot better for having been processed and all that sort of thing - and all of a sudden you do this technique.

"Oh, no!"

Now, we're going to call this technique "Orienting Straightwire" - differentiate it from Dianetics Straightwire. And you do this technique called Orienting Straightwire and you'd just be flabbergasted.

"Aaaaah."

The first thing he's liable to say to you is - like I was telling you the other day about certainty; these lectures are very consecutive here (more luck than plan but they are) - and he tells you, oh, he's here and he's there and oh, you've just been having a good time and you've just been chasing him all over the universe and you just got everything all keyed out - you know you did, and so forth - and he's in good shape and he looks better and he looks not even vaguely human, he looks like something alive. And you say, "Gee, we're getting someplace." And you say, "We've asked him if he was certain of this and certain of that and certain of something or other."

See what you're doing there? He can't look at the charge because the charge - it's just an energy mass - and it's going "woooooo" right at him and every time he puts an attention unit on it, it sparks and throws his attention off to the side. So you've got to take enough charge off of this thing to get his attention over somewhere close to it. So where do you go? You go to the rooms next door to the operating room where he was operated on and the room next door to the funeral parlor, the building across the street from the funeral parlor; you go next door to the childhood home; you go in the next state if you have to; and my God help you, you may have to go into the next continent. But you're going to get someplace - on what? A specific time.

Now, that was that little stumbler there the other day and I saw you stumble on that one: How certain is certain? There were two or three cases in the class that just - made kind of miserable about the whole lecture. How certain was certain? Well, how certain can you be that the preclear is certain? Well, then, how certain am I? You know, that kind of a thing? You'll say, "Now, are you certain of that?"

That's the only reason you want to know who's dead. And you just sort that out and you'll unstick him. Because what are we dealing with here? We're dealing with fixed attention or dispersed attention. And we're making it possible for him to direct his attention, at will, through his ridges and engram banks. Okay? So simple. That's all we're trying to do is cause him to command his own fixation or dispersion of attention. And we do it with Straightwire.

Honest, you would swear, this preclear is functioning; he can go all right, not crazy, nothing. See, we aren't just onto something else, we're onto the center pin of what we're dealing with. This prelogic about the function of theta; it's locating things in space and time and creating space and time in which to locate things. And if you don't bail him out of spaces and times in which he thinks he is, he's not going to be able to create a thing. He's just as young as he ever was so that not even age is a bar to this process.

How do you do it is, if he can't look at it, you make him look near it. And it's all on the basis of where he is. And if he isn't someplace for certain or wasn't someplace for certain, why, there was a place where he was not for certain - every time. But many of them will simply come right in on "Well, I've - I'm not in - I'm not in Washington, DC, in the past because I was never in Washington, DC." Something like this, see, pam. He's not too bad off.

Well, all right. When we've got this preclear sitting there and he says, "Can anybody be certain of anything?"

But the person who says, "Just nowhere in the past," he thinks he's all through the past - then you ask for a specific incident. If he has any trouble whatsoever, you come up with this gimmick, "specific incident," and then make him look to the buildings around it until it itself is let go of. Because he's holding on to it and it's holding on to him.

And you look at this preclear. This preclear's been doing Change of Space and doing hurdles across the moon and has been three feet back of his head and everything and all this has been going on and you all of a sudden ask him that question and he suddenly bogs like that. Well, can you be - can anybody be certain of anything? Don't be silly. Wide-open case, see, wide-open, some wide-open case - you run into him and you say, "So-and-so and so-and-so."

To make him let go of it, you show he can shift his attention without all of the world falling in on him, which is exactly what he thinks will happen. "If I shift my attention off of this thing, I will have my head taken off I know this. Matter of fact, one time I was being audited on old techniques," he says, "and so on, and practically half of my head was lopped off by an explosion just because an auditor dropped his cigarette case or something." He'll - he'll give you a lot of that.

And they say, "Well, it's as much reality as I have on anything." How much reality is that? Well, one small candlelight burning in a vast and dark desert, badly needing snuffing: that's how much reality they've got. This tiny, tiny little flicker.

By the way, that's true. You can take anybody who's in real bad shape and you've got what is known as Distraction Processing. If you really want to fix them up and make them let go of the whole bank... I'm sure psychiatrists would love this technique. And if it weren't for the fact that they were - they were - we would have to undo afterwards the damages they had done with it, we'd give it to them just for the hell of it!

What do you ask them? And here we gimped in on the technique itself.

You put a flashbulb up there in the corner of the room; you put another flashbulb over here in this corner of the room. All, you see, ready to go, with reflectors pointed straight at the preclear; then you put one over on the side of him. He doesn't know where these are; he's in a totally dark room. We flash this bulb, we flash this front bulb, we flash that bulb over on the side and just as he's recovering from that we drop about twenty glass bottles immediately behind him.

Well, what do you say to such a thing, "Can anybody be certain of anything?" You think you're going to hear this seldom. You think this is something that's very peculiar, that we're going to dig up this case out of the ragbag and hold up just one case on this and say "That's how tough they can get." No, that's routine. You say, "Well, then ..." What do you say? "Are you certain that nothing can be certain?"

What do you think will happen to him?

"Yes."

Male voice: He'd come to present time.

"Then you're certain of something, aren't you?"

Female voice: On the first one.

Trapped! And that's what I mean by too much duress. Because that's the way this technique is run. You don't hammer him with the fact that he is certain but you handle him into a certainty. He right away becomes more certain. Now you say, "Now, are you certain that you're not here?"

He would either be taken out of there on a stretcher or he'd be in present time because you've made him let go of practically everything in the bank. Real violent.

"Yeah. Kind of certain I am not here, either. In fact I'm pretty sure I'm not here, but I'm not very sure."

Now, instead of taking his attention off suddenly like that, you take his attention off slowly. You're trying to make him look at present time. He can't look at present time because he's looking at the past in the form of energy: ridges, old machineries, automaticities he's set up in the past located in geographical areas which he knows better than to inhabit since, because the cops are after him and the one thing he's sure of, that's it. He's wanted - but not the right way. That's what's known as inverted appetite. The Police have a terrific appetite according to some preclears. So we don't violently yank his attention off with a flashbulb, we just get him to put his attention over on either side of the thing.

"Well, where aren't you in the past?"

Now, the other thing you ask him, if he's got a psychosomatic ... Do you know Dianetics? Well, you'd better know Dianetics. Because without running it, you should be able to look at the guy and guess what engram he's in. Then you can thank your stars you know Dianetics on this Straightwire. I mean, you can thank your stars you've run some engrams.

"Well - well, I guess I'm pretty much everywhere in the past."

You know a guy that's stuck in birth? You know a guy that's stuck at two? Guys that are stuck here and guys that are stuck there - in what kind of engrams? The guy keeps going, "akh, akh, akh," something like that, "akh,” something's pushing his chest out madly. Probably birth, if it compares with his physical beingness. Or he's in some kind of a fight or something. But something's pushing the wind out of him and that's all the kind of an engram it is. And you can fish around and ask a couple of questions; you can get what kind of an engram it is. But you don't even need to be that specific about it. But you know he's stuck on the track. I've kept telling you right straight along: Remember they get stuck on the track. And if you free them on the track, they're all set.

Oh, oh. Somebody's buttered all over the universe. Not very serious because you can bail him out of it awfully fast. Theta can be everywhere. Nothing to that. All right.

Well, they get stuck in grief charges. There are fifty ways to free somebody on a grief charge. One of them is just Change of Place Processing to the home where the person died, the funeral parlor and the grave. And you just run that back and forth and back and forth and back and forth and the engram has a tendency to key on out. Well, there's more specific Straightwire ways to going about it: You make him look at the house next door to the funeral home, the roof and so forth, by asking him what? "Well, are you on the roof at the funeral?"

You say, "Well, all right now, where aren't you in the future?"

"No."

"Well, I don't know. I guess I'm pretty much everywhere in the future."

Of course, the average preclear coming in will think you mean his body. Don't disabuse him of it! Because this is the only certainty he's hanging on to. You've got an inversion and an inversion. And the one you work on first is, was his body in these places? Now, he remembers that and now you get him, as an individual, whether he was in these places or not. It may entail a little explanation on your part but the less you explain to him the better off you'll be. You can orient the body into finally orienting him in his own head and then out back. That's the best way to do it.

"Isn't there one place you're not?"

Now ask him all over again, now that he's out back, Orientation Straight-wire because now he's operating as a thetan. Only he's not operating - he's limping as a thetan.

"No."

Okay? So, you ask him "Who's dead?" And you'll get the same kind of a reaction. But maybe this is too tough a question. Might be, you know. Person looks all shaky when you ask them and they're not in the past; they start looking real shaky. Ask them something very light. You say, "When was the last time you cut your finger?"

"Oh? Well, where aren't you in present time?"

Now, in Dianetics, we would have directly tackled the problem, which was why we very often didn't get to first base on a person who was bad off. They couldn't look at the problem. And there is the case you couldn't make look and run the engram.

Remember what I said about getting buttered across half the universe on an inverted dynamic - inverted 7, inverted 8, that's what you've walked into: religion. It was Bishop Shenanigan that was at the bottom of this one, Lord knows how many spirals ago, when he was a devil for which he's now atoning.

We used to get around this by running light engrams before we ran any heavy engrams and we found out eventually running heavy engrams was pure murder, on sonic preclears. Screamers are just an example of that. There's no reason why a screamer should ever scream. All you have to do is make them look on both sides of what they're stuck in. You got an E-Meter to tell you where the guy's stuck; you've got dates that will tell you where he's stuck.

You say, "Where aren't you in present time? Are you over in the corner of the room?"

How do you handle it? You make him look on both sides, above and below and in back of it, earlier in time and later in time, until he's got the thing completely spotted. And when he's got it completely spotted, he can take his attention completely off. So when he can take his attention completely off of it, it's done.

"I guess I am. Well, I'm there just as soon as you mention it."

The wrong way to go about it is wear out the mass of energy on any preclear so bad off that he can get stuck. And the only reason he's come to you is that he's stuck. If he's so bad off that he's going to get stuck, he's having trouble with energy. If he's having trouble with energy then you could, theoretically, work lightly enough on running engrams to get him someplace. But that'd be a real long job. So let's just turn around to Straightwire, find out where he's stuck, make him look on this side of it, that side and the other side of it.

Uh, oh. Well now, there's a way to take this one up and I'll give it to you in a moment. This is a very specific way to take it up, but this is not the time to take it up. And this, my children, is what I'm trying to convey to you: Sometimes the simplest techniques are the ones you ought to be handling; and the wisest and shiftiest techniques are very effective but sometimes you're just overshooting the course. You're something like on the order of Galli-Curci singing to the coyotes.

Well, all right. If he looks too bad off to really be tackled on exactly where he's stuck, let's take a type of lock. We find out he's stuck in a tonsillectomy at the age of seven. Nothing to this. Clinical Procedure, see? Let's just find this out, not run it blind. You just ask a few questions. This makes him feel comfortable too; it gets him into communication and so forth.

This is a wonderful technique, you see; it's just gorgeous. It has color, flash, dash, daring; and you as an auditor are just tremendous. And you turn it loose on this preclear in a sparkling cascade of pure starlight. Throw a few sunbeams in, wave your hand magically through the air so that the preclear is now Clear, and he says to you, "Well, I can touch all the walls in this room. I've always been able to do that."

All right, you get him... By the way, you take his assessment sheet and you look for the operation he didn't put down. You see, what you're looking for is what he's not looking at. So, you're at cross purposes with him; and therefore, you had to - have to add a little duress in order to process at all. If you don't add a little duress he'll never direct his attention to anything.

In your great adroitness, you say, "All right. Now, how about some mockups?" And you dash your preclear through this vast and romantic and colorful parade of mock-ups, so beautifully, with such deft voice, with such tone - such beautiful tone. And when you've finished all this - he did all of them - you say, "All right. Now be three feet back of your head."

Let's take the kind of lock that would be on top of such an engram. Tonsillectomy. "All right. Let's get the last time you saw somebody choked." Well, this is - this is using unburdening; the old-time technique, unburdening. Take the lock of it off and have him look above and below and behind and in back of this area, this area in this time. Well, you say this took place... You know that you can actively and accurately spot to a micromillimeter on the time track, the exact instant when the thumb went into the throat, the exact instant when he came into the doctor's office? Remember, too, that you'll recover as you do this - if you keep it up, if you wanted it with that in mind - you can recover full perception on the incident in which he's stuck by making him look over it instead of look at it. And you'll eventually get him to a point where he's looking at it. But you're not interested in getting him to do that. You just want him to be free enough so he knows it's present time.

And he says, "What head?"

Well, this has the virtue of being a fast technique. How many questions does it take to free somebody up out of a tonsillectomy? Darn few. Fifteen, twenty - something on that order - frees him up well enough so that you can go on with your processing.

He did all of these mock-ups but he seems to be getting worse! In other words, what you're doing is trotting out - you're just plain trotting out artillery and everything else and you're shooting at something that isn't there yet. That's just your anxiety as an auditor. You put on a beautiful show in an auditorium which is completely empty.

How long would it take if you tackled it directly with Mock-up and Creative Processing? Aw, at least fifteen, twenty times as long. Even with Creative Processing. Very lengthy. Because you're tackling it directly by making him look at symbols.

Well the trick is, if you want to put on a good show (and you ought to as auditor), make sure you've got an audience - namely a preclear.

Why does Creative Processing work? Evidently, simply because you let him look at the symbol until he's totally accustomed to looking at the symbol and is no longer frightened of the symbol; and then he looks at the thing and it keys out. That's the theory of creative processing. But there's something more than that: You're making him disagree with its command over him. And so, you're making this individual - as you process him with Orientating- Orienting Straightwire - making him disagree, to some degree, with the hold the past, present and future have on him. Geographical area. Simple, huh?

And the way to get an audience is to start in on Straightwire. Now, I've just given you a case - given you this case. And today we're talking about him; we're opening up the gun on Clinical Procedure Step I. Clinical Procedure is different than Standard Operating Procedure. Standard Operating Procedure is something we hand out to the folks,

All right. Our next step is to what? Make him put, with great certainty, into the past, things which aren't in the past, things in the present which aren't in the present and things in the future which aren't in the future and make a whole flam-damn liar out of it and by this time you've completely disagreed with the MEST universe.

Clinical Procedure is - and well take this up far more lengthily but just in passing - is that technique which is to be used in a clinic to maximum result with minimum time on the worst possible preclears. And on the assumption that anybody who comes near you is "What room?" You just assume that.

He thereafter, in mock-ups, oddly enough, can make water run uphill and gravity work backwards and any other darn thing happen. See? Because the - his agreement with the MEST universe is totally dependent upon the fact that the MEST universe has put him in space and time so often and so accurately that he has faded away in his competition with the MEST universe and he no longer wants to have anything to do with it. He knows he's lost; therefore, he has attention stuck all over the place.

They walk up the steps, you say, "They don't know anything about the room." In other words, we're going to enter it on sub-Step VII. We're going to enter it at Step VIII. And Step VIII is going to be every case we look at.

What's this got to do with randomity? Well, it's sure got plenty to do with randomity because it's just randomity that has chased him out of all these places.

Guilty until found cleared!

What was his cycle? He got curious about something, he went in there, he chose something out as randomity and then it - then he inhibited - he resisted it and then it resisted him and then he wanted it and then he went down - because then somebody else saw that he had it and they chased him out of there. Just about the same cycle. And it went over and over and over always downhill. So this means he's forgetting everything because all of this got keyed in on automaticity in the first place. So he doesn't remember his past, be doesn't remember anything. You talk about restoring memory! This Orienting Straightwire will restore more memory in less time than you ever heard of. How fast is the process? It is a faster process than any you have used to date if you use it well.

You prefer not to unstick him on the track directly. You prefer not to and you only go into that when he obviously is getting hung up. See? But if he slows down too much and you just can't do too much about it, why, you - you unstick him very directly. But remember, for heaven's sakes, this poor guy is stuck all over and to find his first area - it's out of direct recall, and it becomes almost impossible to find his first area.

Now, how do you increase his perception? Same problem. You know you can take somebody who has popped back into his head and he himself... By the way, you don't have to take him, he can do this himself; and you'd better know this technique.

He's always asking himself "Let's see, where am I?" and then he can't find himself. This happens to a guy every time he turns around in this universe because he's going on letting everything be his anchor points without having actually claimed these things as anchor points. He's got to make a good out - forthright claim on everything in sight as anchor points - not on a basis of ownership, but just on the basis that they're perfectly legitimate anchor points - before he feels happy about it. See? So, how does he get himself oriented? He says, "Well, let's see where I'm not." That's one for you to remember: "Let's see where I'm not. See, I'm not - I'm not over there in those Venetian blinds; I'm not..."

This is after he's been fairly stable outside and he gets into an automobile accident or something happens to him and he gets scrambled. This is a self processing technique, by the way. "Let's see, I'm not - you know I wasn't sure I wasn't in that Venetian blind. Oh dear. Let's see, well, where am I not in the past? Well, what's happened to me? My goodness, I don't know. I'm sure I wasn't somewhere in the past."

He has experienced what is known as key-in. He slammed back into the body, a body ridge caved in; he's got some kind of a key-in which has taken place there and it is now in restimulation and he's stuck slightly at a new place on the track. This is going to happen to somebody who hasn't run randomity exercises after being well and clearly exteriorized. Because he still has chosen and still has space and energy as his randomity. As long as the fellow has chosen just all energy, all space as randomity, which most thetans have - I mean even the thetans right now, right here - the only reason you're having a bad time is, is that you've just chosen those for randomity so you've forgotten things on the whole track and the rest of it.

What's the best way to resolve it, however, when the person is confused about it? Just this process: "Where am I not in the past?"

"Let's see, where am I not in the past? Okay. Let's see, I'm not - uh - I'm not - uh - not - uh - not in Kentucky. Let's see, Louisville, not in Louisville. Never been in - yes, I was in Louisville once so I'm not in Louisville. Gee, am I that bad off today? Huh. Let's see, 1930, was I in Louisville in 1930? No. I wasn't in Louisville in 1930, I was in China! I wasn't in Louisville in 1930. Let's see, where else wasn't I in the past? Where am I not in the past? Washington, DC, Washington, DC, Washington, DC, no - I don't know - I was down there pretty often. Let's see ... In the White House, yeah, I know I'm not in the White House." See? Bong! Here we go.

All of a sudden he's in present time and then, "Where - let's see, I know I'm not in that corner." And then he's totally certain he's not in that corner and he's totally certain he's not there and he's not there and he's not there and he's not in his feet and he's not in his knees, and so forth.

And all of a sudden he realizes he's been standing there with a big, gobby ridge - he's four or five feet from the body - and what he did was exteriorize suddenly or something of the sort and he ran into this ridge and he went (quote) blind (unquote), because energy is still his enemy. MEST universe energy is bad energy, as far as he's concerned, because he feels he can't go into competition with it. So there he's - there is his blindness. And that's why he didn't know where he was. And he suddenly straightens out and his perceptions come right on up.

Off and poor perception is simply - just look right straight at the Factors - viewpoint. If you don't have viewpoint, you don't have anchor points. If you don't have anchor points, you're dead. So let's find some anchor points and find that they're not our anchor points so that we can find some anchor points that are our anchor points; and having found those anchor points, then, let's find us as a viewpoint seeing very well.

Now, nearly everybody who exteriorizes, after a short space of time, gets the feeling that what they're looking at isn't quite as bright and clear as it might be. They have the experience of looking happily and quickly around the room and seeing all the ashtrays in the room or something like that, all the beautiful red ashtrays, and then they open their MEST eyes and the damned ashtrays are glass, white glass. "Aaaaaah, I'm not seeing," they say.

One - one fellow who will probably be listening to this tape in a few weeks from now, and so forth, so I won't mention him by name - this fellow had an interesting experience with regard to that. He practically ruined a preclear. By the way, this is - this was the early days of Theta Clearing in England and Dennis never - very - he was never very slow on the draw and anything bad like this - some of the damnedest things happened to him - but if anything bad like this showed up, believe me, it never happened again and he came around and told you about it rather quick so nobody else would have it occur.

But he told this fellow - he had him exteriorized and the fellow had the ceiling of the hospital and, oh boy! Did he have that scenery scrambled and jammed up, and he said, "You're in for an awful shock," he said, "now be careful when you open your eyes because you're in for an awful shock as you look at the room." And of course this practically ruined the boy. When he came back in the body and opened his eyes, and so forth, he saw he had not been observing the room correctly and therefore, his what? His anchor points were wrong and he was uncertain, then, of his anchor points.

Well now, what would we do for that preclear'? This, of course, happened in days when we didn't have a very happy, fast patch-up, see? What would you do for him? He'd been made uncertain of his anchor points. We didn't go to Step VII or VI or anything of the sort. Invalidation is only being made uncertain of anchor points. All right What do you do? What did I just say the process of Orienting Straightwire is?

First, you find some anchor points that he can be certain of and then find they're not his anchor points. This is the formula.

And then you find some anchor points of which he can be certain and then he finds they're not his present anchor points.

And then some anchor points of which he can be certain and then find that they're not his present anchor points. Until he finds his present anchor points. And you just go through that invertive cycle and you are inverting the dynamics every time. It's a continuing cycle. Well, how high up can a thetan go on this? Believe me, he can go aw - plenty high. He can go plenty high.

Dennis pulled another one, by the way, while I'm just talking about it. He himself was having a rough time with his case. So a preclear came in, just walked - somebody walked in off of the street more or less, and he says to him, "All right, be three feet back of your head," and the preclear didn't say anything.

And Dennis says, "Well, Ron said, that every once in a while a preclear was looking straight at the facsimile in which he was stuck; so I'll just ask this fellow to look and see what he sees."

So he says, "All right," and he says, "Now, what do you see?"

Fellow, "A train."

Remember that one? And he - he had the guy - no he had the guy in and out of a girl's head and sitting down on the train track and all over the place, the poor preclear, and Dennis thought he was right in the room and was running Creative Processing. It'll take Dennis a long time to live that one down. But he told it on himself. No one else would have known about it.

Well, we look at a preclear, then, as somebody who is disoriented. And first he's disoriented on the MEST universe anchor points and then he's disoriented on his own anchor points and we have to run it that way. So he's disoriented on the MEST universe anchor points, so we orient him on them. And then we disorient him on them by showing him he doesn't have them - by this same Straightwire - and we keep unbaling it until he realizes, suddenly, that he doesn't either have or need MEST universe anchor points.

Well, at this stage you could say to him, "All right. Now put a terrible operation in the year 1946, June the 1st."

"Yes, sir!" And what do you know, he could even show you the facsimile and the somatic. See, terrific certainty. "Yeah, it happened." Because the process is to make a liar out of the MEST universe. Make a real liar out of it. If you do that real good, why, fine. You made it agree with you and only after you've made it agree with you can you start handling MEST.

If you wonder why these poor thetans come out and you say, "Move that match." You might as well say, "Move that match, you weak namby-pamby little bum," because that's just about the way he feels after he tries to move the match and then he's sure he moved the match and then he finds out he moved a facsimile of the match. Well, of course his automatic mock-up machine is simply automatically mocking up matches and he can move his automatic mock-up without a match moving because other people don't agree with him. He agrees with others, he - they don't agree with him. You get the difference? The command value of this preclear over the MEST universe is, then, very slight.

Well, there's no use in - in giving you any false ideas concerning this. It is essentially a tricky technique. But an auditor doesn't have to be anywhere near as smart as he used to.

The preclear's attention is stuck at a point where he is being dispersed from. If you can untangle that, you see exactly what kind of a fix he's in. So you get him to look sideways from the place and find out he's not over there, and that he's not over there; and then you get him to look at the place he is and he knows he's not there. You've got him out of that. And so you bail him out, and you can bail him out all over the universe.

Now, you can take any process - I mean, pardon me, any Change of Space area and you can go over it the same way. But it's not a good pay-off. It is - does not pay the auditor to run this technique exhaustingly and exhaustively to exhaust every position in the MEST universe in this fashion. Doesn't pay off. Because he only needs to run it until he gets a very thorough, beautiful exteriorization. And this does not depend upon the MEST universe having been run out. But the perception depends upon it because a person can't view if he doesn't know where he's viewing from. And the only thing that will tell him where he's viewing from is what he is viewing.

So we've apparently gotten into something very wicked and that's around and round and round: "If I can't tell where I am unless I can see something and then I can't see anything then I won't know where I am, so I'll never get out of this squirrel cage." That's what he thinks.

Well, the truth of the matter is, is you've got him on a level of think before you have him on a level of effort and you free him, then, with thinking. And so you've freed a completely collapsed case. And you've gotten him beautifully exteriorized - he's certain he's exteriorized at last - now you can really start to run him because you're not running into, constantly, his automaticities. He's out of the body's area of automaticity and so he runs rapidly. Now you can run any doggone thing on him that suits you. Anything you please you can run on him. Postulate changing is what it all bakes down to, finally. But this is probably the first thing that you will run on him after you get him into this next position.

Straightwire, you got him out of his head. You sneaked him out. Now, the next thing you find is wrong with his case is, of course, he thinks of a place and he goes there. Well, the remedy for this is very simple - I did this morning - it's a very simple remedy. Better mention it to you while I’m thinking about it because these things kind of skid. Once in a while I forget that this can be so idiotic.

You have the fellow mock up a machine with a postulate. in it and a good working machine. You find out, every time he thinks of a place he goes there. Mock up a good, workable machine and then have him hide it and - which sends him any place he thinks of - and then have him hide it and forget about it and then say, "Where are you?"

"Huh!"

"Where are you not?" you say.

And he says, "I'm no place but just here. I'm no place else than here."

That's all right, This is acceptable. Except his perception at this stage of his clearing is not acceptable to you or him either.

"I'm no place but here. I know that."

"Where are you not?"

"I don't know."

"All right, let's think of a place."

"Oh, I don't know. North Pole. South Pole. Yeah," he says, "I have a tendency to go there."

You say, "Well, blow up the machine."

And you say, "All right. Now think of a place and don't go to it."

"Mexico City."

"What do you get now?"

"Oh, I get a little picture of Mexico City now. I mean, I don't go to Mexico City; I get a picture of Mexico City."

"All right. Mock up a machine that gives you pictures of every place you think of. Now blow it up."

You can do the same process, see? Mock up and then forget about it, and hide it, and so forth, and now think of some place and demonstrate to him that the machine works and then blow it up again.

Then have him mock up a machine which sends him places and then forget - having forgotten about it, have him mock up a machine which stops him from going places, as though he were impatient in the first place at this, you see? Mock up the machine that stops him from going places. Of course, this locks him up solid. He doesn't know what the hell is happening to him by this time.

Well, oddly enough, you have to do this to him several times. You have to have him mock up - make actual working machines, thetawise, that he then hides and forgets, which send him places, which give him pictures and which keep him from going places, and so on. And it's a very short technique; it doesn't take very long. And when you've done this several times he can then think of a place and not go there. This is his worst malady. That's all that's wrong with him. His old automaticity is shipping him all over the universe, see. He's between this place and that. He also has automatic machines which are giving him pictures of things instead of looking at the things.

It's very remarkable. A thetan gets so wary that he'll put out some flitter, out - like across the street there, and then he drags... Well, what do you know, it's - it's true! I brought it down and put it on my own MEST eyes. A window across the street over there just got - it's very dusty, it needs dusting, like mad; I just brought a facsimile of it across the street. I demonstrate too well sometimes. Very sneezy window. A girl in there too. Well, on with the lecture. So what was I talking about?

You - he'll put out some flitter and haul it hack in and look at the facsimile he made. Well, this is something like the amateur photographer, wearing a blindfold, rushing out in the street, snapping his Brownie box camera, coming back in and developing it and looking at it to find out what he could see. Very silly, you see? Real, real, real silly. All he had to do was while he was out in the street, see, was just look. Well, the thetan will very often do this and you can actually gauge the state of a case by asking him to put out a lot of flitter and bring back in a picture of something. And he will and if the picture's entirely different than the thing he was trying to take pictures of; he's real bad off. If he's taking a picture of a bird and he merely gets a different species, he's not bad off at all. It's just how wary he is. If he gets the same birds, he's merely seeing by facsimiles. And when you finally get a - in the final analysis, he ought to simply look, as a thetan, and see the bird.

So a lot of your thetans only get up to the stage of taking a very beautiful, nearly accurate facsimile of what they're supposed to be looking at rather than get blown up themselves, because they're afraid they'll - they're afraid they'll come out of hiding.

Well, how do you solve this? Well, you solve this by solving energy and space. And you have him be space attacking himself and be himself attacking space and be horrible monsters attacking him and himself attacking horrible monsters and lightning bolts attacking him and being the lightning bolts that are attacking him and being him tackling the lightning bolts; and so in other words, get him over this idea of fighting energy - because, in the essence, that's all that's wrong with him - then get him over the idea of fighting space so that at least he doesn't fight all space, so that he doesn't fight all energy. Because that, in essence, is the reactive mind at work and those are automatic machines.

So this is all you have to do with your preclear - is merely orient him and get him over the ideas that space and energy should be chosen out as randomity. And get him over the idea of going automatically to places or automatically departing from places or doing something automatically in relationship to geographical position in the MEST universe.

He either has to get into a position whereby he owns or is willing to own - not owns, but willing to own - all the universe's anchor points and all the anchor points in the universe, or, on the other side, so certain of his own anchor points that he puts those up and he doesn't even have to bother with geographical position or anything else in the MEST universe. Do you see that?

Two routes of processing - one you just start right out in high gear and you give him a black point and you get the black point in good shape and you set it up around him and he knows he's got anchor points and that's real good, see? Now by pushing around the anchor points and putting them in relationship to this and that and so forth, why, the first thing you know he's - he's there with some certainty. You've increased his certainty when you've done this. But actually, that technique belongs above, in Clinical Procedure, Orienting Straightwire. Now, we're not going to talk very much more about Clinical Procedure today, because there's quite a little bit to know about it one way or the other But we are just going to nail down and leave it that way, the entrance of the case.

Case comes in, crawls over the doormat, lifts the doormat up and says, "I want some processing."

So you put him in a chair and prop him up very carefully with toothpicks all around and you say, "All right, now, where are you?"

"Well," he says, "I'm right here."

"Well, where aren't you?"

"It's funny, You say every place I am - I - I think of, I am there. I mean, of course I am there - I think of these places."

And you say, "Well, where aren't you in the past?"

"Everywhere, I guess."

"Where aren't you in the future?"

"Everywhere."

"Well, who's dead?"

"Oh, nobody. Nobody's dead."

"When did you have an accident last?"

"I don't know. Did I ever have an accident?"

"What are you into there?"

And, "Did I ever have an accident at all? Well, I don't know. Maybe," and so on,

"Well, let's recall a moment that's real to you," is your next question.

"Oh, I don't know."

"Well, how about - how about when you came out of the elevator or when you came up to the top of the stairs?"

"Oh, do you have stairs?"

"Well, now let's look around you and find something that looks real to you, as you sit there in the chair."

Oh boy, you - he just elected himself. You've got to establish this boy as a body in relationship to some anchor points because he's lost his - not only lost himself; he's lost his body, too. He's lost his past and he hasn't got any present so he hasn't got a present time anchor point. Well now, how the heck does this differ?

The body in this case hasn't got an anchor point so you have to go, whether you like it or not, into something real in the room itself. And you simply start addressing the chair. By - you preferably have an armchair to do processing with; and the reason why is because you want to be ready for that case and you want to be ready for cases that are blind. These cases are really lost.

Get him to feel those two anchor points of that chair. What are they? Anchor points. The two arms of the chair. Feel one, then feel the other, then reach for the back of the chair and feel those two points back there. Feel those real good and then reach out of the back of their head and try to feel the wall behind them, then feel the front of their nose, then feel the wall in front of them, then try to feel the wall behind them and try to feel the back of their head. Then reach back here, feel the back of this chair; reach forward and feel the arms of this chair.

How long can you keep that up? Well, believe me, you can keep that up a long time. But if the person is blind, you'll have to start with that technique.

Now that you've gotten the body established at least as being in the room, you have to establish the body in time: Is the body here, is the body there, is the body someplace else? No, it's here. He knows it's here. You finally shred it out where the body isn't in the past. Now you've rescued the body.

Now, let's rescue the guy as a thinkingness. Is he in the past? And oddly enough, he will differentiate to some degree on that. Is he in the past anyplace? No. Finally get him up to that point.

Just reverse the procedure. But how far south do you have to go? It's always solved by getting an anchor point - always solved by getting an anchor point at least for the body.

You wouldn't bother then, by coaxing him in on Straightwire, as we used to have to do, about remembering back to the elevator and then remembering back to breakfast and then remembering - so on. Because you re hitting the wrong track. Just because he can remember it is no reason he's certain he's found it. But you can make him tap the two front arms and the two back arms of the chair, make him feel his nose and feel the back of his head and feel the wall behind him and the anchor points of the wall in front of him, the two upper corners. He will do this, even if he's practically blind. He will eventually feel that wall in front of him.

But remember, that in this ease, when he gets that low and you've gone that far south, don't ask him to look. Just remember that: Don't ask him to look. Because you know that if they were that dim geographically, why, they can't look worth a nickel. How far south do you have to go? There's probably a level of case which could only feel effort. Probably such a level of case.

Well, we'll take up such an extremity later, but this is what you would do as the first thing you would do in Clinical Processing. You just wouldn't mess around with the case in any way, shape or form.

Because it doesn't mess a case up to do Orienting Straightwire. And it does mess a case up, every once in a while to stir up a bunch of ridges and automaticity while they're still in their head, but Orienting Straightwire will boost them out without stirring anything up. Follow that?

Okay. Now don't let me have to ask you a couple, three days from now the embarrassing question as: "Why is there still somebody in this class who has not yet exteriorized with certainty?" Don't let me have to ask that embarrassing question.

Okay?

Let's call it an afternoon.