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Thank you.

Thank you.

Going to talk to you about Creative Processes.

Want to talk to you about the future – the future. There probably shouldn't be a tape recording of this, because it is to a large degree confidential, to a very large degree revolutionary, to an extreme degree slanderous, libelous. But I'll claim it was all dubbed-in on the tape!

Cycle of action is create, create-create-create, no create.

It may not have occurred to you in the last week or so that there was any future. We have had several national catastrophes of one kind and another, including the election of a president. And we have had a couple of wars. But most important we have had some international policy outlined which puts us in an interesting position – we as Scientologists – an interesting position indeed.

Now, you say, „What happens? Where's it go?“

Probably the most important of these is the insistence upon peace. We have a condition in the world now known as "peace without communication." Naturally, that's impossible – which, I suppose, is why it's the policy. You could only have peace in the presence of broad, intelligent communication with plenty of figure-figure on the lines and lots of wait. If you just get everybody talking hard enough about their difficulties along enough comm lines with enough commissions, undoubtedly you would have peace. But you can't keep chopping things off and say that peace will prevail. It takes a lot of communication to keep the peace.

Well, if there's no postulate in the creation for its continuance, if there's no time connected with it, it doesn't go anywhere. There is no place for it to go. Now, basically, the reason why is there was nothing there in the first place, except your consideration.

A nation exists in the world today – the Soviet states, or whatever they call themselves. I forget. It's a bunch of small countries that got together and decided to pack a big stick named Stalin. Well, he died. He was holding them together very neatly, and they started to fall apart. And the first person that objected was the person who was returned to office in the United States. I consider this quite remarkable.

Therefore, if it does evolve that an individual creates over a long time, he actually has to continue the creation. He has to continue the creation. In other words, he has to create it, create it, create it, create it, create it. All the time he has his attention on it, regardless of how many vias, he's having to put it there, put it there, put it there, put it there. And what is that but a re-creation?

After every great ruler – by which is meant a cruel, tyrannical beast – the Russian nation has fallen apart within the succeeding ten or fifteen years. The Russian nation has been a nation many times, and each time has reduced itself to principalities as soon as the wielder of the big stick was dead. History is so repetitively redundant that it begins to look like duplication – and who in a State Department could duplicate?

He can say by consideration — if he has the former consideration that he can do this — he can say, „That mock-up will now stay there.“ But remember, he had to have the former consideration „When I say a mock-up is going to stay there, it continues to be created.“

The Russian nation is again doing this same trick. It is busy falling to pieces. First, there went Poland; then there went Hungary. And for some reason or other somebody at the last moment decided that Hungary – in the Kremlin, they decided – that Hungary would have to be assaulted and (quote) "put back together again as a Red Satellite," which they succeeded in doing with such bad press and publicity that now the word communist is becoming a curse word in Europe.

Now, that's what survival amounts to in almost everybody's bank. It says when it lives it lives; when it goes on living it goes on living, and that's the postulate and that's it.

They're doing a wonderful job of disintegration – none better, gorgeous job. There went Poland; there went Hungary. Now, because of their savageness of attack on Hungary, refugees rushing out of Hungary into other nations can be counted upon to stir up revolutionary activities there. And here we go! The Russian nation has always "went" just this way. I wish to God somebody could read history and find out that this is the case, and just leave it alone and stop talking to them to quit! I don't want them to quit! I want them to fall apart.

Well, create, then, is a common denominator of many things. Why does one have to create again? He has to create again because of the postulate time. And that is the fact that we have a different universe every given instant. So we have to create something in this new universe at any given instant in order to have anything there in this new universe.

There's a difference. Left alone, in my humble opinion, talked to pleasantly, ignored as to all the bad things they're doing, patted on the head at proper intervals, big commissions arranged to discuss the peace, more communication lines, "millions for cables but not a penny for tanks" and the Russian nation would just go bidrromm – blob!

In any given instant, then, we mean that we have a disappearance. Well, we don't have a disappearance. We have a nonexistence. People ask the question, where did the mock-up go? It didn't go anywhere. And that is what is so puzzling. See, it didn't go anywhere. What happened to yesterday's universe? Well, it didn't go anywhere. It is not waiting anywhere at all. It was put there to last for a certain period of time and this, then, didn't require it to go anywhere. It's only going to last as a consideration for a certain period of time. Therefore, it no longer lasts. It just isn't there. It doesn't go anywhere. To go somewhere infers that it's continuing to last elsewhere. And every case you'll ever process has a louse-up right on that point. Where did yesterday go? Well, it didn't have any place to go to. Yesterday quit.

But no, we've got to reprimand them. We must give them an external enemy, observably an enemy, so that they can reunite in the face of this great external force which threatens them. It's too bad. I expect any moment hero medals, one quart or two quarts of hero medals, to arrive over here in Washington.

„Where am I going to store all these mock-ups I made yesterday?“ Well now, a fellow can start doing that. And therefore, every time he creates today he has to create yesterday too.

About the only way you'd keep it together is give it an external menace and start rapping it on the knuckles and reminding it that it's a nation. It's almost forgotten.

I spoke to you yesterday about the time track. In every given instant the time track has to be re-created all over again. Because yesterday didn't go anyplace, we have this interesting mechanism, then, of storing it. Storing yesterday via a time track. When you look at it again you have to create it.

Here is a singular bad piece of policy, because it means war. But war is something that cannot be fought in the world today. It can't be fought because there is a "weapon" (quote, unquote) which is not a weapon (underscore). And that weapon is the atomic arsenal: the atomic missiles, the H-bomb, the Q-bomb, the buzz bomb – whatever we want to call these bombs. They'll have a new name for them next week.

Anything you are looking at was created in that instant. Got that? Anything you are looking at was created in that instant that you are looking at it. The illusion occurs this way: We create by vias so that we think we are looking at something that was, that became a now. But we have vias that mock this up.

Atomic fission or fusion is not usable in war. Just as you would not issue rifles to your troops which would blow off their breechblocks in every private's face, so you would not engage war with an atomic missile. When you fire one of these missiles, it backfires.

Now, we speak a lot about the destruction of engrams. All that an engram is, is a re-creation of an extant situation by a certain pattern. But the pattern is just by a series of vias which exist in now. It's the most fantastic testimony to what a thetan knows and doesn't know that he knows, that he can create things he knows nothing about all over again and then find out things from them that amaze him.

Now, it's all right for them to play around with these things and make reactors and install them in submarines, so that you can give a big contract to some electrical company and get a kickback – in spite of the fact the submarine doesn't work. You can do all kinds of interesting things, if you want to, with atomic fission. There are lots of progressive activities that could be engaged in, but not amongst them is a weapon. It's not a weapon, any more than poison gas is a good weapon. It's not a good weapon. It's only a good weapon against civilians crowded on roads, where your troops are not scheduled to advance. Then poison gas gets to be a pretty good weapon.

So this thing called a time track is to a marked degree a trick. That which you perceive was made at the instant you perceived it, to this degree: One's perception is more limited than the creative sphere. And that's another little law that has to go down there. Perception is usually less than the created sphere and is never more. Got it? It's usually less than the created sphere.

But not fission. Fission is a bad weapon because it isn't a weapon and pretends to be a weapon. If you threw enough atom bombs at this moment at Russia to paralyze Russia, it's a hideous fact that the atmosphere of Earth would become so polluted that the citizens of the United States would not thereafter be able to survive in any condition of health. And if Russia bombed the United States with not a moment's thought of any retaliation, the Russian citizen would be in like condition. What kind of a weapon is this? It's not a weapon at all.

In other words, because you can see Keokuk does not mean that you also didn't create Los Angeles and New York. Just because you're only looking at Keokuk doesn't mean that you left Los Angeles and New York out of your creative action. You created Los Angeles, New York and Keokuk and only looked at Keokuk. People think of that happy day when they were children and only thought that the home front yard, they say, was there; and there was nothing beyond that front yard at all. But you tell them where Germany is, and they say it's over that little range of hills. Why do they think it's so close? Well, that's because in failing to create it properly, they create it in the wrong place. It's quite interesting though, if you took them to Germany they would see Germany. See, that becomes fascinating. That's the bug. How come they can see Germany?

Just why we have to have an H-bomb testing program is a little bit difficult to establish, since I was convinced a long time ago that bombs would go off. I'm sure you've gotten this idea, too. And that is about all there is to find out. That is found out: bombs go off.

Therefore, a thetan tells you one thing while he's doing something else. This is obvious.

Well, you don't have to keep shooting bombs off to make sure that bombs go off. We all know that bombs go off. There must be some lingering doubt in the atomic physicist's mind concerning this point. Maybe he's surprised every time when they explode! Fascinating.

Now, what — what do we find as a common denominator of processing, then? Creativeness. Creativeness. Creativeness has a scale which begins with lies. Lies are the lowest level of creativeness.

They talk about "bomb-testing programs" – well, it'd be one thing if mankind was trying to find out if he could make fission "fish." That would be one thing. But not only will the United States have to carry along this whole program of exploding enough bombs to finally convince their atomic physicists that bombs go off, but now England has got to explode enough bombs to make sure that bombs go off and satisfy their physicists. And then Russia has got to explode enough bombs to make sure that bombs go off and satisfy their Atomic Energy Commission. And I suppose by that time France will have discovered the formula. But long before Russia will have completed the same series embarked upon by the United States, the air will already have become sufficiently poisoned that people will not be able to stay at work.

The next scale above lies is, of course, the creation of a thought. Just plain creation of a thought, independent of other thoughts.

This is a fantastic fact. Just who is kidding who, Lord knows. But the Public Health Department of the United States is at this time debarred from further inspection of atomic-radiation pollution in the air. The governor of the state of New York has been forbidden to permit any further monitoring of the air in the vicinity of New York. He can't find out if it's radioactive anymore. Now, this is a fabulous state of affairs.

The next level above that is the creation of a mechanic. But people run them in reverse: They have to be able to create the mechanical adequately before they can create a thought. That's just the way it stacks up.

Well, I didn't know it was personal. I didn't know that we Scientologists had the stake in this that we had in it until a very short time ago. It was all right to say that one or more elements of the A-bomb were poisoning the atmosphere and were affecting people's health. That was one thing. But nobody really has been close enough to these bombs to really be affected by them, of course, except the population of Earth. You didn't have to be near one of these bombs. Some people are more sensitive than others because some people have been X-rayed more often than others. Some people have been subjected to radiation in other ways, such as television. Television spits out enough gamma to make you spit out your teeth, if the truth be known. Takes years of sitting in front of a TV set to spit your teeth out.

The number of people who create thoughts are very few. H.L. Mencken, just before his death, wrote quite a dissertation on this. And his opinion of the ability of man to think an original thought was poor.

But if you talk to them seriously and say, "Now boys, what are you doing...?" The way you sneak up on these guys is very funny. You say, "Television actually emits radiation."

But for a man to create a thought, he evidently — if he's fairly low down the line — has to have the idea that he can create a mass or a space or something. So the creation of masses, spaces, particles, so on, is actually below the ability to create a thought.

And they say, "Ho-ho-ho, ha-ha-ha-ha-ha." You don't want to approach it that way, see. That gives them an out, doesn't surprise them.

You see, one gets starved for masses, spaces and particles and believes that these have in them a number of thoughts. They believe these things have in them a number of thoughts. And so they take the thoughts out of these masses. They remove the thoughts already extant in the masses of yesterday. Of course, they have to put them there to remove them, but that's perfectly all right. They believe that these thoughts came from the masses.

You say, "What are you boys doing now about the gamma radiation from TV tubes?"

They develop philosophies. Man is fantastic. He develops a philosophy like dialectic materialism. He says every thought comes from the collision of two forces. (Two or more forces he should have said.) By the way, that's not even scientifically well written. You know? I mean, it has extraordinaries. Like why two forces? Why not three forces? You know? That kind of nonsense.

And they say, "Well-l-l-l, as a matter of fact, we're getting there. Uh... we've got it pretty well licked. Uh... we're going to try lead glass on the front of the... What am I talking to you for?" This is quite amusing.

Of course, somebody with a scarcity of masses treasures the masses. And he says, „These masses are really something.“ And he rather deifies them. And he says, „When you bump these two masses together, of course, you get a thought out of them; that shows you that they're God.“

It's such a tiny quantity that by itself it probably would never seriously affect anybody's health. Probably the entertainment itself would be more effective in destroying them. But the funny part of it is that it is there, and it does add to the already- existing gamma-type radiation and particles in the air at this time.

And the only difference between Roman Catholicism and nuclear physics is that the Roman Catholic has an easier idea getting some thoughts into space. In nuclear physics we get thoughts into space by banging together masses. But there's no less deity involved. There is no less a worshipful attitude toward these masses that give up these beautiful reactions.

Now, down in Arizona they put an H-bomb nine feet below the ground and blew it up. Why? To find out if it'd lift dust? Well, it certainly did! It had the entire Southwest counting, so that anybody who wanted to go uranium mining was in a delirium of happiness over the tremendous number of mines he discovered. They were under every piano and back of every bar. Everybody and everything in Arizona counted after that. You took a Geiger counter and it'd go birrrrr, dit-dit-dit-dit-dit. Well, gorgeous, gorgeous. Guys went around in a delirium of happiness before they suddenly realized this, saying, "B-r-r-r-r, I got a mine. B-r-r- r-r, I got a mine. B-r-r-r-r, I got a mine. B-r-r-r-r. Hey, that's me!"

Every once in a while they turn around and tell you, if they're not watching themselves too carefully or if they've had a drink, „Isn't God wonderful!“ You know, they turn the reactor on and let it react for a while, and they turn around to you, „Isn't God wonderful!“ Now, they got tired of having God in space and put him back in idol form. That's the truth of the matter.

Now, wherever we go on earth, then, we're going to encounter air or space which contains radiation at a considerable count. It is not really, at this point, where it would be noticed completely by the individual. It is right on the threshold of that.

Any race does this eventually. It gets tired of looking into space and ruining all of its havingness and puts their gods into masses. Actually, probably idolatry is much more healthy from a standpoint of body masses than a spatial religion. You got something real solid, you can walk up to it and lean on it, you know, and you can say, „Oh boy. Yeah, I know God heard me now; there he is.“ See?

Just exactly what this had to do with last week's activities, I would not be able to guess. But people under a bombardment of radiation start to go down tone; they start on down tone.

Savage people worship rocks, and so forth. And that's pretty low- toned and pretty barbaric when they get down to worshipping rocks. But when you get down to worshipping rocks you can't see, you've got the modern atomic physicist.

Now, all of this has a considerable bearing on us. We are, at this time at least, citizens of earth. We do have a playing field. It is quite one thing to confront a playing field being blown up, bang! and that's all there is to it, you know? But some chap wrote a poem one time, and he says the world won't end with a bang, the world will end with a whimper. And evidently that is the case.

So anyway, these boys actually are copartners in the creation of any given instant. And the instants which were, just aren't. It's too simple though, of course, you see? It's — have to make it more complicated. But the instants which were, aren't: They didn't go anywhere.

The threat of war will probably culminate in no war, but it will catalyze various nations to reassure their physicists by exploding bombs, and the more bombs that are exploded, the more atmosphere saturation there will be. And I don't know that they will stop it, because at a certain point sane reaction is not noticeable. You can get just so much radiation in the air and after that you do not get sane, rational reactions. You get reactions only.

Now, if you understand this clearly, then you understand what is wrong with your preclear is his ability to create. Ability to create thoughts, his ability to create particles and masses in terms of the bank and certainly, observably, he is very deficient in being able to create walls that are as big as and solid as the room walls.

Now, I'm not backing up the hearse to you. The only reason I'm talking to you about it is because we can do something about it. We can do several things about it.

I told a preclear one time — just making an experiment — something that would appall you, I'm sure. You speak of the Auditor's Code, a break this bad, you see, malice aforethought, can happen in the world of research but you actually have to add about four or five more clauses onto it before the break can be conceived to be big enough. You see?

We find this intimate at this time because we believe, to some degree, that we have evidence which tends to point in the direction that this condition has been going forward for about nine years. All right. If this is the case, has it had any bearing on what we've been doing in Dianetics and Scientology? Evidently it has. The reactions of cases at large – the reactions of cases at large – between 1947 and 1956, carefully reviewed now, does appear to have altered. How?

He was making mock-ups, and he was doing rather well. I was testing the action of mocking up barriers. And he kept saying he was mocking up barriers, and he kept saying he was mocking up barriers. And I finally said to him, „You're sure you're mocking up barriers now?“ I said, „Where are you mocking them up?“ And he pointed to a line out in the middle of the floor and so forth. And I walked over and patted the line and felt around it and passed my hand through it and so on. Pulled Steves's trick that he pulled back there in '53. Kept telling preclears to mock up a Coke bottle, and then say, „I can't see it.“ You know? This was to encourage them to make more solid mock-ups. And I told this preclear I couldn't feel that wall. I couldn't feel it. I didn't think he was doing well. Asked him if he was sick or something. And got him to struggling to make the walls thicker and heavier and thicker and heavier. And I finally said, „You know, I don't think we better go on with the session. Maybe you need some rest. Maybe you should go take a rest and we might try this again tomorrow.“

In 1947 it was very easy to run an engram. Even in early 1950 it was still fairly easy to run an engram, but it was a little harder. By the end of '50 it was getting difficult to run engrams. In 1951 we had to beef up our processes like mad in order to run an engram cleanly. By 1952 we were beginning to run into nothing but whole track. Nineteen fifty-three, we just had to look for other processes than engram running. And we had to look hard, and we looked into exteriorization. In '54, in '55 and in '56 we have actually been researching further and further, into more and more powerful techniques. Why?

He says, „Why? What's the matter with you?“

In 1947 the techniques we had were good enough! In 1950, spring of that year, they were practically good enough. Why haven't they stayed good enough?

I said, „I can't feel these walls. I don't think they're there.“

People haven't changed, have they? Not at all. We even see a difference of techniques which, run two or three years ago, don't work very well today. This fascinating panorama has just unfolded before my view as a distinct possibility. And it may or may not be true, but it is certainly a distinct possibility, and there is a coordination here between the amount of radiation in the atmosphere and the difficulty of auditing a preclear.

He went into an awful decline. Isn't that odd? I was trying to find out why he went into a decline. He intended to pick an agreement and he picked a disagreement.

So, I started to look forward a little bit further, and I found out something quite interesting: An individual who has an invisible particle nipping at the body, reacts. He doesn't know what it is. It is a hidden influence. It is a hidden menace of some sort or another.

So he came in the next morning intending to pick a disagreement. We had a wonderful fight, and he felt much better. And we got on, and his mock-ups got right back to where they ought to have been. You see? I was trying to damage his mock-ups so that I could improve them again, and succeeded in doing so. I had him with mock-ups there that were fabulous, for him. He never saw such mockups. But he kept making them, by the way, on the basis: „Of course, you wouldn't think this is very much, but...“ Now, what is this whole mechanism of creation in terms of masses and spaces? It is conviction of existence. Conviction of existence. There are a number of postulates which go into this action of putting up a mock-up. But the basic postulate, of course, is „There it is!“ The next one is, is „I perceive it.“

So what's he do? He tries to fill up the space around him. What's he got to fill it up with? Huh! A bank! He starts pulling in a bank to fill up this space. He starts inspecting things, saying, "Is that it? Is that it? Is that it? Is that it? Is it my Aunt Chloe? No." And, all the time, it's an invisible particle which has a reaction against the body which makes the body ambitiousless and ill. Wow!

Now, if you go around having a preclear saying, „I perceive it, I perceive it, I perceive it, I perceive it,“ why do the walls get stronger to him and heavier? Now, that is, then, a reverse perception. He was on an inversion. See, he'd said „I perceive it, I perceive it, I perceive it“ so hard and so furiously, so factually, he tried to be so convincing about having perceived it, that he started to drop out of the bottom on this whole basis of having perceived it. And the harder he says „I perceive it“ now, the less he perceives it. Why?

What would this do to auditing if between 1947 and 1956 we had a progressive pollution of the atmosphere which caused people to do this more and more and more, and made auditing rougher and rougher and rougher? This would be a fantastic thing for an auditor to confront, wouldn't it? That'd be a very interesting thing to be looking at and not knowing you were looking at it. It'd be demanded of you, in any given month, that you run more arduously than you did the month before. To some slight degree you would have to be more on the ball with a preclear. You would have to do more and cause more and be more alert, and you'd have to be better and better and better. Your techniques would have to be better and better and better to produce more or less the same result.

The mechanism didn't work. He has lost on this mechanism too many times. He said, „I perceive it,“ and then nobody else agreed with him. He said, „I perceive it,“ and then something happened to it. Somebody else had a mock-up in front of it. Somebody was playing a joke on him or something of the sort. You see? Mix-ups of perception. But the perception was basically „I perceive it.“ However, your preclear doesn't go into all of these delicacies. He simply wants to put something up and see it. And this he does, and he needn't make an articulated postulate in order to do it.

Now, the question is, has that happened? It is not necessarily true. But it's a strange thing that we have followed this exact course. According to the records which are lying around, people are harder to audit in general today than they were. And I don't care what people these are: a carpenter pulled off a project, milkman, anybody. We don't care who it is.

A thetan doesn't go around thinking „Now I will think a thought: Mm. I have thought a thought.“ No. He says — he doesn't have to think „Now I am going to put up a mass,“ and then put up a mass. He just — Mass. See? That's all there is to it. He doesn't really think „Now I am going to move my body's arm,“ and then put a postulate into the body's arm which then moves the body's arm, see? It's perfectly easy to make the postulate the action. See, not to confuse two things; I mean, that's the postulate, see? You could do that just as easily as the other way.

Health level: In order to get a full insight into this, one would actually have to inspect the Public Health Service records, if they are available, on various subjects between, let us say, 1920 and 1930, and 1945 and 1950. Would there be any difference in these records? What would be the prevalence of certain illnesses? Are there more illnesses today than there were then? Is the public-health level lower now than it was then? Is there an incidence of insanity today much higher than then – and could we actually depend on these figures as not merely a press release by the APA to get in more appropriations? Is there any other supportive evidence?

You can get a guy so that he doesn't know whether he's walking on his head or his hands by simply asking him, „Just what do you tell your legs to get them to move?“ Of course, this is a lie! He doesn't ever tell his legs anything to get them to move. He simply says „Action,“ and he has an action.

Well, all of this will have to be looked over and carefully weighed. But for the time being, we can hold the fort. We have processes that overreach the condition. We gained a bit. But we have something more important: We have a biochemical means of converting, evidently, this restimulative type of case into an easier-to-audit case. Now, I just say evidently we have that. I am not trying to press you with a great, big stable datum that win maybe tomorrow become an unstable datum. I'm merely offering these things. And if they turn out to be true, they're true; and if they're not true, they're not true. That's all.

Now, because he has to tell other people something before they do anything, he gets this confused with himself. And he believes he should tell himself something before he does something. And this is not at all true.

But all sorts of random data comes through, data which has been a wild variable. You know, a good investigator, a good scientist, actually doesn't pay much attention to stable data. He doesn't look into the field of stable, won data; he looks into the field of variable data. He looks into the field of wild variables to try to find out if there's anything there.

So therefore, any instantaneous reaction in front of his face in the engram bank is liable to surprise him. He doesn't consider himself capable of it. He doesn't say, „Now I am going to get an action,“ and get an action in front of his face. Instead of that — that isn't what happened — he simply has an action in front of his face which can exert considerable influence against the body, and this surprises him. He doesn't know that he's capable of this.

Well, this has been a wild variable for me, and I've lived with and suffered with this phenomenon of worsening cases. That is to say, at any given instant, the cases presented to me to be audited were worse than the cases that had been presented. What was this dwindling spiral I was confronting? Wow! What's going on here?

Well, I don't know why he keeps this hidden from himself, except that it makes more game. But the funny part of it is, is an engram appears in front of somebody's face on the same basis that he moves his arm without telling it to do so. You might say it's a mass postulate. Quite amazing.

For a long time I've suffered with this, because... "Have I gotten my observations completely wrong? What's going on here? Now, let me see. It took about so many hours back about '48. Let me see. I'd run out so many engrams and only rarely would somebody present an early engram. It'd be mostly later stuff. And everybody I'd seem to run into ran these things rather easily."

Now, you can actually get somebody making these mass postulates, and he can get into much better shape. You can ask him such a question as „How much effort could you exert in moving that desk?“ You just run this as a process. „How much effort could you exert in moving that chair?“ „How much effort could you exert...?“ Not how much less effort, you know, but just how much effort, which makes him really go in the direction of more effort. „How much effort could you employ, now, in holding yourself to the floor?“

In 1950 1 started to run into some black cases – cases that were harder to audit. "Well, maybe they were around before," I'd say. "Maybe we're running into a further strata of populace. Maybe the auditors I am teaching just don't know how to audit at all?" But I'd throw that aside because obviously they did. You see, all of this data, weighing it, coming along the line – one would be rather anxious if he'd had this much random data thrown at him, you see, to instantly throw in a good stable datum like blaming it all on radiation. We must resist that temptation. There is no sense in succumbing to it at all.

Now, he'll think he's running out things. He isn't running anything out. He is exercising his ability just like the strongman exercises his ability to appear interesting in front of this huge audience. A strongman takes a five-hundred-pound dumbbell and — although he, after the show, picks it up and just tosses it lightly on the truck — in front of the audience, he picks up that five-hundred-pound barbell with the grunts and groans that would give a giant a hernia. Man! And sweat runs off of him, and he trembles, and he poises himself just so. And finally gets it up to a half-lift and then finally shoots it to a whole-lift. And boy, this is really dramatic! It's easy for him to do it. Now he's trying to make it harder to do so that he'll get more appreciation.

Just continue to examine it. There might be something else entirely at fault here. Something else might be occurring. However, this one does seem to fill all characteristics. National health at this time is much poorer than it was. Service in the United States has fallen off in the last year very markedly.

There isn't anything in the universe that is hard to do. But nothing that is easy to do gets applause. So the communication formula enters into the basis of „if you want attention you'd better make it difficult,“ and that is where we get our basic complexity. That's why things must be more complicated. The strongman effort.

Only the people who were under the bombardment of atomic bombs in Phoenix (they were only 250 miles away) became ill in London after the discharge of Russian bombs. These boys and girls really became ill, by the way. I mean very ill – wham! Russia released some bombs that were almost total raw gamma. They didn't know how to get a bomb into an economical state at all as far as gamma was concerned, and these bombs were quite deadly. And when they released them, there were a certain number of staff in London went down like tenpins. And I thought, "Well, somebody would get sick. It's that season of the year. It's probably just flu." But nobody else got sick to any degree.

For instance, I upset a pediatrician, just yesterday. I told him, „You handle children extremely well.“ A wave of pain went across his face. I'd come close to tapping this one: It is fantastically easy for him to handle children. Everybody considers that this is very difficult. And in two or three years in his career, he will have made it more difficult. But I tell him that he does it well, you see? I have already crossed him up a little bit. Just malice aforethought. Just my pointing my fangs at the medical profession slightly.

And then we had a congress and these sick people were actually called upon to run the congress – myself amongst them, by the way. We were actually called upon to run this congress. And somehow or another we stumbled through it. We got it done. We had it made finally. But before the congress, I was thinking neatly to myself, "I really ought to call it off. Rather than expose a crowd of people, many of them strangers even to Scientology" (an English congress being different) – "rather than expose them to an obviously epidemic illness." I ran them on some processing that made them sick. You know, they went this way a little bit on a couple of the sessions, but, by golly, they didn't get sick from what the staff had.

Of course, I probably should have gone one better. I think now I should have asked him, „How do you go about handling children that well? Just what do you do that...“

Therefore it required a little closer look. And that closer look showed us that it was only that staff which had been in Phoenix which was now ill in London. Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah. It was an interesting thing to observe, wasn't it? Wasn't that an interesting thing to observe? Nobody else got sick! People were sniffling a little bit or something, but the people who were really sick, right down sick and stayed sick for weeks, were the people in Phoenix who had been exposed to the Phoenix radiation.

I told him this because he made a strange remark to me. He asked me if I ever read the book called Peter the Fisherman, or something of that sort. The little children, he'd pick them up and they'd stop crying. That was how he explained his ability. I think this chap will be needing our assistance one of these days, because he's got himself all mocked up into the saint bracket. He must be eight yards, invertedly, back of his own head. You know?

Now, you think of this atomic radiation as something that floats through the air with the greatest of ease, blown hither and yon by the winds of the world. Therefore, it requires a long time for it to arrive, and the distribution of these particles are entirely dependent upon being wafted hither and thither. They all have to do with fallout, "which is being carefully watched."

If a thetan can't stop a child from crying he ought to quit. It is very easy. But if you think it's difficult, and you get a big regimen for doing it and so forth, you'll find it's hard to stop children from crying — quite difficult to stop children from crying. As a matter of fact, the more you insist that they stop crying, the more they cry. Isn't that peculiar? Hm? You say, „Now, you haven't got anything to cry about; what are you crying for?“

We used to just almost laugh ourselves hysterical in Phoenix. "We don't understand why there is any public hysteria, because the fallout is being carefully watched." Nobody seemed to add up, in the test grounds and so forth, that we didn't care who was watching it; we cared what it was doing!

It's an interesting thing that if a child has skinned his knee, for instance, and you tell him, „That is nothing. That is nothing. What are you crying about? You shouldn't pay any attention to that,“ and so forth, you can actually observe the bruise develop much more rapidly. Because he actually is holding a bruise up to you. See? Well, something is putting the bruise there. The body, without assistance, wouldn't hold the bruise. It has to have the assistance of a mental image picture bank in order to hold that bruise.

By the way, there was an epidemic of measles (which was noninfectious measles) which broke out immediately after the most serious series of these. Measles, by the way, has an inoculation today which contains gamma. In other words, you can prevent measles with a little shot of gamma. It's quite interesting. Measles and gamma are quite closely connected; so are some other definite illnesses, most of which are respiratory illnesses and all of which have to do with the cave-in of bones.

So we get this whole thing of making it more difficult. If you want to get attention you make it harder. Got the idea?

Now, I didn't say "infantile paralysis," did I? You didn't hear me say that, did I? Because the Infantile Paralysis Foundation makes a lot of money, and nobody must say anything about the Infantile Paralysis Foundation. And it's such a good thing that we have Salk vaccine, which only increased infantile paralysis seven or eight hundred percent. I mean, it's a good thing to have around. Or did the Salk vaccine increase infantile paralysis in its rate across the country? Was it the fact that we had a president of the United States who suffered from infantile paralysis that popularized this with little children who weren't alive when he was ruling? You suppose this widespread popularity of infantile paralysis, being a respiratory disease which attacks bone structure, has anything whatsoever to do with it? You don't suppose this sudden upsurge of this little-known disease covers exactly these years I am talking about, about toughening cases!

Now, if you've got somebody who has this kick, all you have to do is ask him to make it more difficult. Now, you can process an incident this way: You can say, „Tell me something worse. Tell me something worse than that. Come on, give me something worse than that. Give me something worse than that. Something worse than that. Something worse than that. Something worse than that.“ And it's an interesting thing that the incident will process under these lines: You just make it worse, make it worse, make it worse.

Oh, unfortunately it does. Unfortunately it does, very definitely.

Actually the alternate question — „Invent an individuality that could cope with it,“ and „Tell me or invent a worse situation“ — is a killer. That blows engrams. That's a real fine process. One and two. One and two. One and two. „Invent an individuality that could cope with it.“ „Invent a worse situation.“ „Invent an individuality that could cope with it“ — just some specific incident.

Are there any other random data like this kicking around? Start checking people's health – just stop them on the street and start checking their health. "How well did you feel, when?" They give you fascinating data on it. Some young person is liable to tell you, "Well, I felt all right while I was in college, but I haven't been feeling well since. Getting out of college has upset me.

All right. Now we have this, then, workable in other factors, and one of those factors is effort. And most everybody around has difficulty with effort. They have difficulty because of estimation of; they don't measure the resistances of other things. See, they don't measure this. They get one-sided about every effort problem. They don't measure the resistance of the door; they measure their resistance in opening the door. You got that?

"Oh, yes! When did you get out of college?"

Now, what is wrong with their ability to experience is the ability to experience effort is poorly developed. You got it? If you cannot measure the effort of the door at the same time you're measuring your effort in opening the door, you won't open the door smoothly. Now, this is the answer to that peculiar riddle: Some people do things very clumsily and some people do things very smoothly. Some people go down and run a piece of machinery on and on and on, and nothing bad occurs. Somebody else starts running this same piece of machinery and everything bad occurs. Well, that is because the individual running the machinery is measuring one of two things, or both.

"Oh, uh... I got out of college in '48 and, uh... I haven't been well since."

Now, somebody could actually only measure the machine's effort. Or somebody could only measure his own effort. It requires somebody to measure both efforts. He has to be sensible of both efforts in order to do a good job of handling. Follow me?

"Well, what's been wrong with you?"

In order to speak, it is not enough to control the body and the voice tones in front of an audience. Oddly enough, you also have to have in some small grip the audience's ability to listen. See that? There's two sides of this.

"Oh, nothing, I've just been tired."

Now, pan-determinism is the term we assign to handling both sides of a situation, two or more sides. And self-determinism is the definition we assign to handling one side.

"Oh, you've just been tired, huh? Nothing seriously wrong then?"

Now, it's awfully good for a person to handle just one side. That's awfully good. That's wonderful if he can handle one side. Few people can do that. He can handle one side of it perfectly, so we say he's a self-determined individual, and this is a compliment.

"Oh, no. I take it easy. I get along all right."

But the funny part of it is, if he were really good, he'd handle both sides: He'd be pan-determined. He would have the rock's effort to stay against the ground and his own effort to lift the rock so measured and calculated that his effort to lift the rock would be minimal. Unless he was trying to make it difficult.

This isn't the type of public illness which runs at once to the doctor.

Well, the way you make it difficult is to make that rock decide all by itself how much it should stick against the ground. And in that there's nothing there to decide, we of course get a heavy rock. See this?

Are there any other coordinative data? Now, I don't say these things all have to add up to fission. They might add up to Martian rays being played against earth as far as that's concerned. But they certainly are a number of data to stand totally isolated, aren't they? What is this all about?

All right. Now, we look this over and we find out, then, that a preclear is making his case more difficult. He does not go easily in the direction of simplicity of case. He makes his case more difficult. His case got him attention; in order to get more attention, he's got to have more case. Got the idea? Case got him attention. More difficulty: more attention. See?

Why is it that when we audit people we occasionally discover (if they were ever out to Phoenix and worked in the Phoenix organizations) that they have stuck views of Phoenix? Nonsignificant views – they're just standing, looking down a street in Phoenix. There's nothing engramic about that whatsoever! We've never had anybody get stuck in this kind of an engram before: quietly walking down the street, and that is an engram! They run like engrams. What is this all about?

Also we have this other factor coming in alongside of it. We have more communication. There are more things to communicate with. He has a greater complexity of communication. He knows better than to break off communications; this is always painful. This he knows. So we ask people questions like, „How much effort could you use in lifting that chair?“ „How much effort could you use in lifting that rock?“ „How much effort could you employ?“ „How much worse could you make that situation?“

Well, a number of data adding up is enough for us to take precautionary steps. That's all the data adds up to – enough for us to take precautionary steps and to study the situation further. And you have every reason to have the information that we are doing just that. We are not suddenly taking off into the blue from a stable datum that everybody is poisoned to pieces by atomic fission.

That is sort of an insulting sort of question, but I've had it work many times during an emergency. Somebody is running around in a small circle, and I've stopped them and asked them, „Now, let's see, how much worse could you make this situation?“ They take a double-take, and then they kind of laugh and actually do something effective. See, it snaps out the exactness of their action.

I don't know what the roentgen count has to be in the atmosphere in order to actually make somebody ill. I do not know this. Unlike many of our learned fellow men, we in Scientology do not use human beings on a vivisection basis. We're not accustomed to doing that. So we haven't exposed people to radiation just to find out how they felt. We haven't stood them up and given them a good solid bath of gamma so as to find out if they died or not. We leave that up to Hitler or to the APA or to the Atomic Energy Commission. We leave that up to the paratrooper division during the war who let paratroopers walk through the Mojave Desert without water to find out how far they could go before they fell down and died. I mean, we have a different standard of things which is above the animal standard.

People are too prone to think of thought as without force. You can think a thought called a lightning bolt if you really know that lightning bolts are really simply a thought thought. See, lightning bolts are just a thought thought. Think a thought, crash! See? People articulate their thoughts. People think a thought and tell something else to think this thought and so on. Get the idea?

So all we can do is to use our reason on the thing, investigate the evidence presented, and if it fits, all right; and if it doesn't fit, okay, we'll find something else.

People postulate. That's just a little bit different than an action thought. They say it will happen; it is going to happen, so on.

But we are taking precautionary steps. And at this time, based on what we learned of what we used to call "Guk" back in the old days – Dianetics and Scientology is well old enough now to have "the old days" – we recalled that some odd manifestations occurred when nicotinic acid was delivered to individuals. It was very peculiar.

There is the thing of just happenstance. You know, it happens. You mustn't overlook this because you'll run into it in auditing.

Nicotinic acid is advertised in the pharmacopoeia as turning on a flush. It says so; it says it's toxic. But it's a funny flush, isn't it, that in 1950 displayed nothing but bathing-suit patterns on the body. I never saw such neat flushes. They were! They were very neat. And it was very peculiar, if this stuff was toxic, how an overdose of it eventually turned on no flush at all. And the more you overdosed it the sooner you didn't get any more flushes from it.

More game — more difficulty. As a test I have sat and asked a preclear for five solid hours, „How much worse could your case get?“ „What could happen to you?“ I've asked him. I didn't ask him that as a repetitive auditing question; his case couldn't have stood it. See, I asked him that question but I asked it in so — enough ways to get into communication with him. „Well, you say your health has been pretty bad. How much worse do you think it could get? Mm-hm, hm-mm. Could it get any worse than that? Uh- huh, well, you say your lungs. Well, could they get any worse than that? What's the worst you know about concerning lungs? How bad off can lungs actually get?“ Of course, he runs down to the very unsatisfactory zero of dust. You know, dead, dust, so on. That's a nothingness. He doesn't like that. So the lungs, of course, he concludes, must survive in a badly decayed condition for a very long time. See, because they really don't get worse when they die. Body goes and makes some better lungs; he knows that. Follow this as an action?

Now, we flattened several cases in those days so that they didn't have any more sunburns to run out, and they felt pretty good. And I remembered this suddenly three weeks ago – something on that order – and I said, "Do you know that sun that sits up there and goes wog-wog, you know, that everybody says "Ra" to? Well, the sun up there is pure fission – no better example can anywhere be found than sun."

Now, creation, then, gets branded with a number of significances. These significances are what the individual thinks are good and what he thinks are bad. And these are regulated by „How much attention can I get? How much attention can be delivered?“ or „How much communication would I have to get up if I got rid of something?“ Even an engram is something to communicate with in the lonely little shell of a head that the thetan has, you know? Even an engram is something to communicate with.

Ohhh? What is sunburn? Eh-eh-eh! Now, wait a minute. If nicotinic acid would run out sunburn, which is fission of a sort, would it run out radiation? Well, you know me. When I go out to test something, I test it! I go find somebody like Breeding.

Now, you essentially, as an auditor, use these principles continuously. You use these principles all the time. You say, „What more could I communicate with around here, for this preclear?“ You say, „All right, now we'll have him communicate with the wall. We'll have him communicate with the floor, the ceiling.“ Why? That's to give him enough communication.

No, actually the kids around are terrific. They're absolutely terrific. If I use myself on an experiment, I practically get shot. Everybody argues with me. I'm not supposed to have this particular type of martyred glory. I received more phone calls from London from madder people, because I hadn't tested radiation on them when I got sick last February on some tests on this. Gee, they were mad!

Now, if you give him enough communication, after a while you can call it to his attention that you are breaking communication. Now, you can call that to his attention roughly or smoothly. You can say, „Break communication. Break communication, break communication, break communication.“ And he'll collapse. I don't know, nobody has ever taken it past the point of death, so we don't know whether a thetan has ever gotten well from this process or not. Might be a wonderful process, but nobody has ever survived it. We get them down toward feeling woggy and out of communication, and they stop running the process. And we really don't have any way to keep them running the process. So we assume that breaking communication or breaking ARC or stopping ARC is at once a fatal activity for an auditor to engage upon.

So anyhow, Don came up and immediately volunteered to start throwing nicotinic acid down the throat at a mad rate. Well, within a day or two he had all our hair standing on end. I thought he'd go at it conservatively, you know – he'd take fifty milligrams every day or something like this, or a hundred or something like this. So he started taking, I don't know, a hundred on the hour every hour; or every three hours he doubled the dose, or something like this.

Now, this goes further than that. It is a very arduous thing to run processes which are broken-communication processes. It's hard to do this. In addition to that, they are not very therapeutic, which tends then to kind of rule them out. Doesn't it?

And he went and looked it up, and he even took the new form of it. There's a new form called niacinamide, and it does everything (it says in the pharmacopoeia) that nicotinic acid does, but does it better, you know, without the side effects. It's an absolute dud; it's completely null. I mean, it doesn't do anything. How it bears any relationship to nicotinic acid I wouldn't know, but it evidently does according to the pharmacopoeia. So it's just old- time nicotinic acid.

But there is one break-communication process which stands in an isolated state; Not-Know Processes. Now, those are broken- communication processes and theoretically should make a guy worse. But because it's an automaticity that's being overcome, the worseness of it is improved by the gain from taking something off automatic. The earliest version of this is „Something you wouldn't mind forgetting.“ A later version is „Look around the room and find something you would not mind forgetting,“ since not-know doesn't communicate well. You tell them, „Look around the room and find something you would not mind forgetting.“

Well, he started throwing this down his throat at a mad rate. And he turned purple and pink, and started scratching and itching, and people could toast marshmallows on him there for a while, and so on. And it started to run a little bit flatter. And started some other people on this – more people began taking it.

Now that, of course, is essentially a break-communication process, isn't it? Evidently the automaticity that is overcome permits the person to gain more. His havingness actually increases on the process, not decreases. So he's really getting more communication all the time. It's quite amazing. In other words, there's a trick involved with that process which makes it the peculiar way you can get him to break communication. But don't try to get him to break communication in other ways; it doesn't work.

But what do you know? What do you know? The stuff doesn't now run out sunburn. It'll run out some sunburn; there are some sunburns that it turns on but it's now running where people don't wear bathing suits. It's running where people have themselves beautifully neat and decent as well as where they don't. Fantastic! They run all over. The most interesting, prickly sensation you ever wanted to feel. They turn on hives and red flushes and prickly sensations, and their faces get it most often. I wonder why that is? The face is exposed all the time. Of course, the face gets sunburned more often. But how about a case that had all the sunburn run out by nicotinic acid in 1950, and for years afterwards is totally null on the subject, starts to run out face flushes, all with visios of Phoenix? Must have been facing in some direction when something flashed. Got it?

I'll tell you a signal failure: You ask an individual, „Break communication with the ceiling.“ He finds that not too hard to do because he hasn't got hold of the ceiling. „Break communication with the wall behind you.“

I don't even tell you now that nicotinic acid runs out radiation. But it's running out more than it ran out in 1950 and that's for sure. Of course, there are people around that start to take it who believe it runs out nothing, it just puts them into complete torture and that's that, and it's just a new mechanism of accomplishing this thing. They're just sure that this is just a new Inquisition they have just run into, where they are being burned alive without even the benefit of a stake. But here's what's peculiar: Pieces of engrams that didn't run before, odds and ends of track of the last few years and so on, start to go out on this stuff.

He says, „That's all right. I can do that. I'm not looking at it anyway.“

Now, I didn't do too much research on this because I don't believe much of the data on which existing information is based. You have to be very careful in the field of research where you go for sources. Sources must be reliable. And you get a bunch of sources that are under confidential classification or secret classification and this and that, and you take the odds and ends and scraps which are escaping out from underneath this basket – this bushel which is hiding the light – and you often don't get the complete, straight story. So I hadn't paid too much attention to these various things.

„Break communication with the side wall. Break communication with the other side wall. That's fine. Break communication with the front wall.“ He's still able to do these things, you see?

But we found out quite independently that the administration of dicalcium phosphate, the administration of B complex and the administration of ascorbic acid are all actually necessary to the administration of nicotinic acid. One of the first data that turns up on a little research on this, demonstrates that something they're calling – I don't know, they'll call it something else tomorrow; they're calling it, now, strontium 90 – actually replaces calcium in the bone structure. Fascinating. We found out that it was a necessary adjunct some time ago. All right, if it's a necessary adjunct, how come strontium 90 also does it?

And you say, „All right, now break communication with the floor.“ You say, „Go ahead, break communication with the floor. What's the matter?“

Now, I didn't know positively how this whole problem went together. I don't know how this problem goes together, exactly, beyond this fact: An individual seems to throw into restimulation, engrams, to reassure himself when he is being hit by a hidden menace which he cannot see. Then he gets something he can see. A thetan is having something happen to his body that he himself does not experience. The thetan doesn't experience it. The body more or less gets the reaction and gets the experience of being bombarded by gamma or other things such as strontium 90.

He says, „What's the matter?“ he says. „I've broken communication with the floor.“

All right. The body being bombarded – that it is being bombarded is out of the ken of the thetan. He knows he has not been around any atomic-energy plants or anything of the sort. He doesn't suspect the possibility that the entire ionosphere flashes every time one of these bombs go off and that everybody on earth gets a 360-degree flash, don't you see? The entire thing goes flash! Very possibly this happens. We don't know that.

„I don't know. You still got your feet on the floor.“

But brother, do we know more than the guys who are monkeying with it! See, we're in college and they're in kindergarten as far as reactions and the history of this thing is concerned!

„Oh, you want me to break my body's communication with all these things. Well, I can't.“

We know, for instance, that every time gamma has appeared on a planet, no life on that planet has been the result, according to the experience of the genetic-entity line. An investigation with an electropsychometric testing, and so forth, demonstrates that the appearance of gamma is synonymous, to the genetic entity, for no more line, end of track. He stops growing, stops procreating, stops pushing on, because there hasn't been anything before which stopped this menace.

„Well, let's start it all over again now. Let's break communication with the ceiling. Let's break communication with the back wall. Break communication with the right-side wall. Break communication with the left-side wall. Break communication with the front wall. Now break communication with the floor.“

And what do we find? We find that radiation directly affects procreation, the development of cells; it directly affects the procreative mechanisms. It hits straight at the second dynamic. Leukemia, nonproduction of bone cells, nonproduction of corpuscles, nonproduction of various body cells of one kind or another – stops.

„What are you trying to do to me?“ Down the scale he goes.

Now, here we have, then, the mechanism of "No further reproductive activity. End of track. This is it, boys. Hit for the moon. Go someplace else, because this planet is doomed." And we find that story on the track with an electropsychometer or in auditing a preclear or in running Over and Under on engrams – we find that this is what is part of the genetic-entity blueprint. And that is why it has such a tremendous effect upon the body. The body goes at once to pieces. It says "Who cares? How can I possibly go on? What's the reason to raise any children? What's the reason to do anything.? Because this is end of track! Sooner or later some madman is going to take this stuff and he is going to throw it around thoroughly enough, and that'll be that." Maybe none of these things go up with a bang, because I don't find any bangs on this end of track. I just find end of track. There isn't an atomic war there. Those worlds ended with a whimper. Well, is this one?

Give him a subjective process. „How many people could you go out of communication with?“ „Is there anybody around that you wouldn't mind not talking to?“ Any of these processes. These are all killers!

Now look, we know more about the mind, we know more about the track than man has known before. Maybe we know more than has been known for a lot of planets back. That doesn't mean that we couldn't know an awful lot more; it merely means that we know more than man, in his ignorance, knew. We could know a great deal more than we know right this minute. And part of that is, that we can get a reaction between a vitamin compound and sunlight – we can get a rather violent reaction on a body on sunlight – that we probably can get a considerably profitable action between a vitamin compound and gamma and strontium 90 and the rest of these compounds.

Now, they appear to be good processes, and therefore you could sit there obviously obeying the Auditor's Code and kill your preclear. I won't say that there aren't some preclears that deserve it. But I will say that it's not therapeutic. It just isn't. Why? Since obviously the world and the universe is breaking off the fellow's communication every instant.

And we also have underlying this, if we learn how to audit it – which I have been trying to find out for ten solid months – how to get a person capable of actually having, without destructive consequences, these particular particles. Now, that would be the answer; that would be the answer! I have been looking for that answer for a long time now. I almost killed myself in the process of the quest, but I haven't lost complete hope in doing that.

There goes the time track, pocketa-pocketa-pocketa-pocketa- pocketa-pocketa-pocketa-pocketa, lost communication, lost communication, lost havingness, lost havingness, lost havingness, lost havingness. He'll eventually try anything he can do to stop this continuous loss. He never asks himself this question: Is it lost? Is it lost? Did it go into wasn't? Has it disappeared into any ain't? Or have you still got it? We're obviously merely dealing with a trick. The individual, then, isn't breaking communication with every given instant on the track.

By the way, I'll tell you something very amusing. We went off the whole line of it completely last February. Said, "Oh, to hell with it!" Just threw in the sponge as far as this line of trying to proof up a body against being affected by all of these things. We just said, "That's all. That's the end; I mean, the devil with it. I mean, I blew my skull and that's that."

He could look the other way and find out that the time of the future as it becomes the time of the present gives him something new to communicate with in any given instant.

So I said, "Let's see what is the silliest line of processing that I could dream up? What is the silliest thing I could say that would remedy this situation of a quarrel with atomic fission? What's the silliest remedy?" Well, that everybody could mock up a body adequately enough, so that as fast as bodies got knocked off, you'd still have a body mocked-up that you could talk and walk and be seen with. That's pretty silly, you know? That's a good remedy. That's a thorough remedy.

You can actually turn his attention on this. You can say, „Shut your eyes. When you open them up find a brand-new world. Open them up. All right. Shut your eyes and when you open them up find a brand-new world. Open them up. All right. Shut your eyes...”

I proceeded along that line of research and everything we have learned for the past ten months, tremendous things, have fallen out of that hamper. "How do you go about mocking up a body that everybody can see, that you can use to talk with?" And the more we go along that line, the more profitable and productive the answers have been. It looks like we can't go in any direction without winning; we go in any direction and we win something.

And all of a sudden he says, „What's going on here? You mean I'm getting a new universe every second? Of course, I can't count on it! Whoever that is, Skirt the drummer, may stop drumming at any moment.“ One of the more civilized theories of what keeps the universe running. It's somebody's dream, and the person will lie there and dream as long as his drummer keeps drumming; but someday the drummer is liable to get tired. And then the dreamer will wake up, and Earth is gone, and the world is gone, and the universe is gone. That's much more practical than most scientific theories on the subject. Now, merely because it's romantic is no reason to denounce its practicality.

Actually, of course, the actual goal of this is probably not at this time attainable, because it would absolutely ruin the game. See, the game would just go poof. But, nevertheless, trying to go in that direction has produced answers.

All right. Well, the common denominator of all this is conviction. Funny part of it is, it doesn't process worth a nickel. Must be something wrong here if it doesn't process any better than it does. Must be, then, that a thetan really can put a universe there and perceive it. Just look over that statement. He really can put a universe there and perceive it. It must be a fact that this can happen. It may be that this is not simply a delusion. It may be that he actually can put a universe there. Got the idea now?

All right. We have new answers and new activities in view. Undoubtedly, if we keep going along these processing lines, we will wind up with some sort of an answer to fission – handling it and so forth.

Now, what is this? This is just the grading of a consideration. This minute grading of a consideration. People who cannot create or do Creative Processes are people who are convinced that there isn't anything there even if they create it. People who can't create are people who are convinced that there isn't anything there even if they did create it.

Now, we could go in two directions there: We could go in a governmental direction, which would consist of public appeal and so forth, or we could go in research direction. And I'd just as soon go in both – just as soon.

Now, let's just accept as factual that a thetan can create something and perceive it. Let's just accept that as a fact. You got it? That he has to continue to create or he doesn't continue to perceive.

If you find a bunch of idiots playing with a loaded, cocked .45, you have tendency to want to take it away from them, you know? And I don't say that we want to take away the atom bomb or any part of that, but we do feel – we do feel – that no weapon should expose the population of earth to annihilation long before it is employed. We feel this would be wrong. We feel somebody would have made a miscalculation. Therefore, we should do something to discourage these people a little bit one way or the other.

An easy example of this: If an office boy fails to create his job newly in any given hour of the day, he soon finds himself without a job. He thinks he is holding a job. Nobody ever holds a job; one creates a job; one has to continue to create a job.

Now, in this other line of research, we have in it two divisions: one is mental and the other is physical. And the funny part of it is that we probably are in possession of, at this moment, 85 percent of the answer on the physical approach. We call this compound Dianazene, after Dianetics. It is a compound. You do have to have the various parts of the compound to get a balanced dosage. We're learning more about it all the time. Wow! Does it give an effect! I mean, that alone justifies its use.

And this one, fully explained to a PE class over a course of a couple of hours, will cause some of the doggonedest reformations of attitude toward work you ever cared to measure. You don't hold a job; you don't get a job and then hold it. You have to create a job and keep it created.

I'm at this moment engaged in seeking to persuade any government agency that is in charge – because I find out now that the Atomic Energy Commission is no longer in charge of atomic energy; I think that's quite interesting – but any agency that's in charge of this sort of thing, to send us some "wictims." Well, they're proud men; they'll send us some victims. They'll send some fellows over – "Look what we did. Ha-ha! tsk!" You know, that frame of mind. They'll send us some people over that have been overexposed, that they know have been overexposed. And when we get our hands on them, brother, you could probably toast marshmallows on them, because we'll start slugging them up.

Now, the ability to create goes over into an unknowing creation. And this unknowing creation could be solid or it could be not solid. But this is beyond this realm of discussion. It may be true that a thetan can create a universe. After all, you perceive one, don't you? Well, it may be true that it can be created. It may be true that it is not a delusion. It is maybe true that it is not a chimerical universe. But it's certainly difficult to create a universe that you can't see. Ah, that's difficult.

Now, we do have some cases of known exposure, and where those cases of known exposure are met, we get much more violent reactions than we get with cases that have only been normally exposed to the atmospheric radiation. Cases which have been assisted by lots of X-rays and other things – which contain, of course, gamma and so on – are peculiarly liable.

He scares himself half to death whenever he does this: He creates particles like gamma rays that he cannot see, which yet have a terrific effect upon his universe. Boy, what a game that is! What a wonderful game that is! Creates these things and he can't see them, and he doesn't know when they're present except by reading the action of a needle. Well, the needle can perceive them, a body can perceive them, why can't a thetan perceive them? That's just because he says he can't. Everything else can perceive them but he can't. That's one of the silliest things you ever ran into in your life. He's just decided that he can't perceive them.

All right. Now, we're going to get ahold of these fellows and we're going to shoot them full of Dianazene. Some we will take a rational course of just a normal, natural dosage, and some we will slug up and some we will underdose. This we will do for sure. And we will get more data on this subject, and we will learn a little bit more about it. We will balance up our ration a little bit more. We also have to get equipment that measures the amount of count in an individual, you know, so that we point the equipment at him, and it goes b-r-r-r-r and measures the amount in there.

So you see where we're going here? We're not talking about gamma rays; we're talking about mock-ups. Now, the rays are there. Needles can see them, meters can see them, bodies can see them, health charts can see them, but a thetan can't.

And our next action will be compounding everything we know about a mental assist in this particular type of case. Now, if we are successful this far... And I don't think you will doubt but what we could be successful that far. This is easy; we've already got all this already. We could always find somebody that has been irradiated. I could put an ad in the paper that simply says, "People who have been overexposed to radiation should report to the Foundation for examination." They'll turn up.

Well, it must be that he can't simply because he's decided that he can't. And that is the single decision which stands between being able to get a mock-up and not being able to get a mock-up. That's the single decision. You can get a lot of contributory decisions, but it's certainly a clear-cut decision when you finally hit it. He has decided that he can't see mock-ups.

All right. We'll get our series complete here, and so forth. And then we'll start rolling up our sleeves. We'll take Dianazene, which by that time will be unrecognizably complicated...

When did he decide this? Well, you don't care. There are two ways to wear it out. Simply make him mock something up until he can mock it up. That very often works, but it's not a panacea or you would hear more about it as a process. You could have him look around and find things that weren't making mock-ups. This is effective. Effective. It does something. But if you look around and have him find things that can't see them, you're liable to solve that, right now.

It isn't, by the way, just nicotinic acid. That I assure you. It really isn't just nicotinic acid. We've already found out that it needs the other materials to really give it a good, hard punch. People taking nicotinic all by itself have run longer and unnecessarily arduously. But that's all right; we are all "wictims" in the same cause. What have we got to lose? If we didn't pursue this, of course, we'd all be dead anyhow, you know? That'd be that. The only thing we got to lose is the mock-up and earth.

See, there are several things that would work. There are several triggers on the line that should work. But the test is, the one that does work. The one that does work. Having a person spot things which can't see mock-ups will run out an awful lot of auditing. See why it would?

All right. So we look along this line and we discover, then – what do we do? What do we do with all this information when we've got it? – when we know the dosages, when they're exact, when they're right down to the smallest milligram. We'll get scientific about this and probably won't get anywhere near the good results. We will probably be weighing the fellow and figuring how many milligrams of this and that per kilo. I can see somebody up the track a hundred years from now measuring these things with a type of assay balance, you know, that measures a thousandth of a milligram or something like that. It's even enclosed in glass so the air won't tilt it, you know – measuring it carefully so as to get the exact dosage it says in the handbook, you know?

Now, if you ask Joe to put up a mock-up and he put up a mock-up and then you convinced him it wasn't there, like I convinced that preclear under a test (that guy wasn't a — he was a test case; he wasn't a preclear) „Put up a wall. Put up a wall. It's not there. I can't feel it. What's the matter with you? Are you sick? Why don't you go home and get some rest?“ I keyed that boy in across the boards. Ruined him; invalidated him; upset him, so forth. How come he got mock-ups the next day? (I didn't tell you.) Well, he got mock-ups the next day because I had him spot things that couldn't see mock-ups. Got it?

Anyhow, we'll take handfuls of this stuff and throw it into people and see what happens. And when we've done that – when we've done that – we will, of course, issue a very complicated manual on the subject which will befoozle anybody. The most complicated manual: It'd be "The Care and Treatment of Radiation." And it'll just have a whole bunch of stuff on a page. And when you get to the bottom of that page... and it says, "And see your local auditor." And then we get a whole bunch of stuff on the next page, and at the bottom of that page – and an asterisk this time – it says, "See your local auditor." And on the next page, why, well... Very complicated on that page – unpronounceable. By that time we get the "pyrobenzo-amino- phyllaline content of the Dianazene is the primary booster which takes care of strontium-boof-woof 90 1/2 – a very little-known element." And we get to the bottom... We get to the bottom of that page and it says, "By all means, see your local auditor and pay the bill, too." Anyway we'll have a manual on the subject.

Now, an individual who can no longer see mock-ups does this interesting thing: He mocks them up and otherwise perceives them, otherwise experiences them, but doesn't any longer see them or forthrightly, in a high knowing category, perceive them. And he feels haunted. He feels pretty upset.

But the point is, it does require auditing along with it. I don't think anybody could clear himself up all the way along the line without some auditing. It doesn't seem reasonable, since bodies never have in the past. Our stable data to this date is that bodies left to their own devices don't fare too well in auditing.

Now, an individual who can't make one is something else entirely different. This category we have to enter into and inspect, one way or the other. This individual is having trouble with effort. We always call him the trouble-with-effort case. And the funny part of it is we really can't get him to postulate it. There is nothing wrong with his ability to make them except that he won't. So therefore, we cannot consider him a clear-cut case. „The reason Joe does not have mock-ups is because he can't see them.“ That's not exactly the proper statement.

We have run people on freewheeling for five years without running them Clear. Actually, there is a case on record of somebody running for five years on freewheeling on Guk. You didn't know that, did you? He isn't Clear yet. Feels fine; he never felt better, but he isn't Clear. Got a very good report on it the other day.

There could be two things wrong. It may be that he won't put them up. And this would be something on the order of a fellow who wouldn't lift his arm.

So, there is a mental assist necessary. So that requires, besides Dianazene, an intensive.

You say to this fellow, „Can you lift the arm?“

Well, the fact that there are only about three hundred auditors who are real active and on the ball in the eastern United States, and there's about – let's see, that's a million... No, that's only about a hundred thousand preclears per auditor. I think that's pretty good. I think we have some possibility of doing some part of this job if we can possibly do it!

And he says, „Well, maybe.“

Well, there may be a lot of things wrong with our plans, but there's nothing wrong with our intention. And I hope you will agree with me that it's a pretty good intention to keep the race running and clean it up if we can, in any way we can, and keep a show on the road.

And you say, „Well, go ahead and lift it.“ And he lifts it. And you say, „Did you lift your arm?“

What do you think?

And he says, „Yes.“

Audience: Yeah.

All right. You say to this fellow, „Can you make mock-ups?“

Thank you. Thank you.

And he says, „Ah-mm, no.“

„Well, have you ever tried?“

„Yeah, I tell the space out in front of me to have a mock-up, but nothing happens.“

You say, „Well, put one there. Put one there. Now see it.“

„Yeah, but how do you put one there?“

„Just put one there.“

„Well, where am I going to get it?“

„Just put one there, will you?“ And this is what is difficult about the process: getting him to put one there rather than say, „One will now appear.“ You get the difference?

Now, one of the ways you do that is to get him to lift his arm, and say, „Did you tell your arm to move?“

„No, you did.“

„Oh well, I suggested to you that you should move your arm; then did you move your arm?“

„Yes, I then moved my arm.“

„Well now, then did you tell your arm to move?“

„No.“

„Well now, move your arm again. Good. Now, tell it to move.“

So he says, „All right, arm, move. Move. Move, damn you!“ Arm doesn't do a thing.

You say, „All right, now you move your arm.“ And he does.

You say, „Now, just how are you putting these mock-ups there?“

„Well, I'm telling them to appear, of course.“

„All right. We'll go over this again.“

By the way, I've spent an hour and forty minutes with a preclear just telling him to do these things before he finally caught the re — got the correlation between these two points. I don't expect people to be that stupid. But this guy finally got it. He finally got it. And he was real proud of himself and he finally put a mock-up there. He said it was very exhausting at first because he didn't know where the energy was going to come from. So I told him to put the energy there too. I was in for another hour of it.

Now, you can get a guy, actually, to clench his teeth — something he gets rather easily, particularly men; he will say it was somebody else's fist — but you can get him to clench his teeth and grip his hands together real well and strain at it real hard and make a fist appear in front of his face. Actually put a fist in front of his face. Got it? Actually do that. Men do that rather easily. Girls, it takes an open hand usually. Now, the funny part of it is, if you exercise on this very long, you can have a preclear practically breaking his own jaw with a nonexistent arm and a nonexistent fist that he put there.

There is a type of postulate which results directly in mechanics. And it isn't really a postulate at all; it's simply the mechanic. It is the fact! And if you work hard with a preclear, you get the preclear eventually to simply have the fact appear. Don't you see? The arm moves!

Now, sure enough, there may be consequences. But he's putting consequences there for the motion of his arm: His arm moves and it gets tired. „Well now, put your arm there moving without tiredness; don't put tiredness there, just put your arm moving.“

He goes, „It's pretty hard to keep the tiredness from going there.“

You say, „No, no, just don't put it there; don't put it there. Let's try that again. All right. Now, you make your arm — put motion there, put your arm moving, without putting any tiredness there.“ You say, „Now is your arm tired?“

„No, you told me not to put any there.“

You say, „That's fine.“

Now, a fellow is told that when he puts forward the mechanic of working and the use of energy he must also put forward tiredness with it. That makes it more difficult, don't you see? That gives him more game; that's more complexity. But when you tell him directly to do this without putting tiredness there and then work with him until he can, he can work just directly, just like that, with no further nonsense connected with it. It's rather fabulous.

Now, this is what you might call direct creation. You don't say, „Space will now appear,“ and then look around, as you sometimes see a preclear do, to see if space appeared. Look, he couldn't possibly — he couldn't possibly get away from knowing it appeared if he put it there. Could he? And yet he will look around for the mock-up. So you tell him to go ahead and see it. Well, this one he finds very difficult to manage sometimes.

Now, you can approach this on a covert or indirect way, such as, „Spot things that can't see mock-ups.“ See? That's a very covert way. Got it? „Spot things that aren't putting up mock-ups.“ See, that's pretty good.

Have him do something he already can do — moving his arm, or something like this — have him do it for a while and find out what else he's doing there, and just tell him to skip putting that up and just put up the motion of the arm. See? It's quite fabulous. Quite fabulous. Terribly direct approach, almost insultingly direct. You see? Awfully direct.

Now, if you get a guy straining at it, he can really put a desk here. Not on the basis that he is already putting a desk here so you're making him take over the automaticity of putting a desk here. That's too roundabout. When you simply make him put a desk here, he'll be able to experience the existence of the desk here. And his perception goes right up like a rocket. Got it? It's much too direct a process.

That's why I am teaching you learning processes. You catch? Hm? That's why I'm teaching you learning processes. Because here are some processes that are so fantastically direct that all you do is cancel the preclear's effort to make them complex. You don't even pay any attention to it. You don't say we have to run a gradient scale on this. The only gradient scale you have to run on it is the gradient scale of persuasion.

It's just „You do it. Now knock off whatever else you're doing; let's put that there.“

And he says, „Well, my energies are being all exhausted...“ And some other line of reason, reason, reason, reason why, reason why, reason... Well, skip it. Tell him to put it there and tell him to perceive it now. Put it there and perceive it. He'll scare himself half to death some of these times, by the way.

Now, I gave you another set of postulate processes which reaches this more covertly. They're very excellent, and I don't know anybody they don't work on: „All right, decide to put a mock-up out there. Decide that if you did so it'd ruin the game and don't.“ And after a while, when he decides to put a mock-up out there, he simply starts putting one out there.

Now, that we know for sure works. But once you've put this one there and you accomplish that one, you have the next one: „Decide to put a mock-up there that everybody can see. Now decide that would ruin the game and don't.“ See, those processes.

Now actually, that merges eventually with this other thing of „Put a mockup there,“ but it doesn't do so smoothly. It isn't inevitable that these two processes go together and one produces the other, and you depend on the automaticity of those two processes following in sequence.

If you do that one for a while — „Decide to put a mock-up there. Then decide that would ruin the game and don't. Decide to put a mock-up there — a big, brilliant mock-up up there, as big as that wall. Now decide that would ruin the game and don't“ — you'll get him onto the inversion. See, his effort not to put one there causes one to occur. All sorts of oddities occur because of this. You fool around with these and you see these inversions work out, and so on.

But you have this other one, and this other one follows, to a marked degree, in its wake. Now, if you want somebody to mock up a man in the middle of the room that everybody can see, he simply puts a man there that everybody can see. See, it isn't just a matter of he says, „A man will appear and everybody can see it,“ because he doesn't do this, see? He puts a man there. You get the idea, see? And he puts it there in a way that it stops light and therefore becomes perceivable. Got it? And boy, that really takes learning processes.

He has to finally listen to you. You have to really be able to audit. You have to get a communication through. And you should yourself have some very good concept of what you're doing there. You get that, of course, by moving the arm and doing other things, and saying, „Now, wait a minute. Now, I move the arm. Now I feel some motion inside. Isn't that peculiar that I feel motion in this arm when I don't feel any motion in that chair out in front of me. I don't even feel its sitting-stillness. I feel this body's sitting- stillness. Well, why don't I feel that chair's sitting-stillness?“

„I don't know, why don't you? What's wrong with you? You been sick?“

Now, people stop doing this every now and then because they think they find it uncomfortable. They see a clammy wall or a clammy milk bottle or something.

First time I ever did this with any violence, had a wax-covered milk bottle out in Phoenix — you know, one of these paper bottles — and it was sitting on the table. And somebody was giving me some coffee-shop auditing. And I put this milk bottle — I wasn't putting the milk bottle there; I was just simply seeing if I could communicate with anything else in the room, one way or the other. And all of a sudden, I communicated fully with this milk bottle. The Phoenix climate there promotes a certain clamminess on something that's very, very cold and is suddenly brought out into the room air. It was the clammiest, horriblest feeling thing I ever ran into directly.

I recoiled. Nobody could convince me that I ought to feel anything then for the next five minutes. Get the idea? You hadn't ever felt anything that far from the body — five or six feet... Feeling it, you see, just exactly as though it was the body. You know, feeling it just as though you would feel it — not with your hand, with a beam, but just experiencing its existence. And it was cold and clammy and covered with wax. Nyah!

Well now, things get more difficult; things are, in final essence, an action called creation, creativeness; and mechanics do not require a thoughtful statement. They are their own class of action or beingness. You know learning processes; you could communicate this fact to a preclear or receive this fact yourself sufficiently well that you could bring these actions or objects into existence.

Thank you.

Thank you.

[End of Lecture]