The final lecture here*Note: This lecture ended the first twelve hours of lectures of this series given by Ron from Monday, 23 March to Friday, 27 March 1953. is devoted to technique — how you do it — and Standard Operating Procedure.

The genus of computation, then, is: "Is there a hidden influence or isn't there a hidden influence?" In other words, "I don't know and I'm not sure." And the way to — and the way to set up, then, and run out all the computations in the bank would actually be to run up this doubt. "Is there a hidden influence?" versus the doubt, "Is there a hidden influence?" Double Terminal, in other words, as thought. "Is there or isn't there?"

Actually, what I'm going to give you at this time is really your basic material in terms of Scientology whether operating in terms of groups or operating on individuals.

The darnedest things will fall out in the fellow's lap because you've just pulled the bathtub plug on every circuit he's got. Every circuit he's got is based upon that thought: "Is there a hidden influence or isn't there a hidden influence?" And what do you mean by hidden influence? That — it means communication, then, that means beingness. "Is there, in that blackness, a beingness I do not know about?"

The techniques which we have here are group techniques or individual techniques. A big step forward, isn't it? And they will do more, you will find, than any other techniques that you've lined up.

Now, I'll tell you about blackness. You have a lot to do with blackness, a lot of worry about blackness. Why? Because blackness is hard to tell apart; therefore, it identifies with each other.

They do so much more that you've got to readjust your perspective on how many hours of processing you give people.

You want to know why you want an identity? Why you're carrying a face around? You know a face is a terrible liability, like fingerprints — bad liability.

But you understand that Standard Operating Procedure 5 or Standard Operating Procedure 3 remain much as before, and I will do a short rundown on Standard Operating Procedure 5. It will appear in a class book for the professional student because it's an intensely workable technique and an array of techniques and people are getting into beautiful shape all over the place with these techniques.

The soul doesn't have a face; it doesn't want one. You don't even want to concern yourself for two seconds with this idea of an identity, "My name is Jones," and yet you think it's terribly desirable. You actually have this feeling, an enormous desire to have an identity.

However, at Level V, at Level VI and at Level VII there the auditor is in difficulty; he's got a long haul. Now, the — actually at IV, the auditor is a little bit in trouble, so you either simply use Standard Operating Procedure 5 and take what I'm giving you now as the solution to IV, V, VI and VII or you just use it for the whole technique.

What happens to a man who is trying to get famous? You know, for a long time I've been scared stiff that somebody someplace or other would really nail down this work. And sure enough, once in a while it kind of starts to happen this way. And that's because they might as well take you out and shoot you.

In other words, what I'm going to give you here is Standard Operating Procedure Utility, and it just goes on all steps and any condition.

Identification is solid, immovable, not fluid, has nothing to do with motion. I'm very fond of motion. I like to move around. And what do we find here when we — when we get identification? We find no motion.

You will find most psychotics, if you could just even vaguely get in communication with them, they love this game. Now, the best part of this is this is fun, a lot of fun.

Well, why would you want to saddle yourself with this? Why would you want to saddle yourself with this identity? And what is this thirst for identity, and what is this thirst for fame? And what is this ambition "I've got to amount to something. I've got to be something."

But individuals that you set out to processing themselves with this technique quite often do it for a few minutes and then skip it. The reason why, it's too effective. That is to say, they want to think about it and they want to fool around with it and they want to be logical about it or something of the sort, because they want to fall back into the training pattern of agreement with the MEST universe. In other words, they want to go according to the lines of observe and learn and guess and figure, and what they're doing is dramatizing agreement with the MEST universe, which is get logical and get it all down and figure it out, and so on.

Was it something somebody implanted in you? No, it wasn't. You did it yourself.

So your individual who is below Step IV on the Tone Scale — the individual who is below Step IV — you won't find doing this for a very long span because it just takes him right straight out of what he's in. If he just kept going with just this, why, he'd just land there, that's all. It's not too long a process, either, but on the way he'll get into restimulation the fact that he has to be logical and he'll have a tendency to just knock it off. Whereas, as a matter of fact, it's the only route toward knowing.

You could say this: The whole thing is done by mirrors. It's all done by mirrors. You'll find your preclear, by the way, sitting around with mirrors around him. If you wanted to really startle your preclear, you say, "Look to the left and right and tell me what you see?" And a lot of your preclears will suddenly say, "You know, I see a . . . There is a mirror sitting down on the floor, and I am reflected in it." He'd say, "I never noticed this before. Why, there's one out in front of me! Why, there's one behind me."

The only real route toward knowing is being. You want to know what that ashtray is, why, just be the ashtray for a second and you'll find out what it's all about. Not that it has any hidden influence or fingerprints on it or anything of the sort. You'll just find out what is the composition of molecular structure in glass, that particular kind of glass, and you'll find out its brittleness and its coldness and warmth and a few other things. You — very perceptic. Now — and you'll also find out how stupid it is.

There sure is. Now, I've never mentioned this little phenomenon because it worries people to death and I couldn't give you an accurate rundown on how to use it or what it was. That's the way you kind of double-terminaled things, once upon a time. Mirrors rub things out. Instead of using a felt on the blackboard, all you do is use a mirror on the facsimile and it rubs out. You can mock up mirrors and make mirrors and they'll do this trick. People think they can't make these mirrors anymore; therefore, they've got to have the facsimiles. They — it sounds very incredible but they are — these mirrors sitting around.

Now, in a book — British author T. H. White wrote a book called Sword in the Stone, a very charming book about, allegedly, the early days of King Arthur. Merlin there is the teacher of the young king, and who is known in the book affectionately, I think, as "The Wart." And one of the educational processes was to take the young Arthur out and let him be things. Of course, Merlin mocked them up so that he could be them, and he had the experience of being a carp and being a few other things that were very interesting; a very fascinating literary passage.

Now, the one thing that a mirror could never differentiate very well was something black because you didn't want to put the mirror up to it because you didn't know quite where the blackness started and where it ended and how deep it was, or anything else. You couldn't tell about this blackness!

But it is very peculiar that it doesn't take any great magic on your own part to go through this same experience, and that is about all the experience you can go through. Any other experience line is apparently down, and that experience line is up and out. And that is being.

Furthermore, you're continually liable to this: Something is liable to reach out of the blackness and grab something that's yours — no good, no good at all. So this stuff blackness is something you stay away from.

What you're doing with this technique in any way this technique is used, the technique will be as effective as these two things are followed: You are getting the preclear to be things in order to overcome his fear of becoming things. And as long as your target is primarily the MEST universe, sixth dynamic . . . I'll say more about that in a moment.

And if you face blackness and push against blackness, you are a mirror, you see? In essence, you are a mirror. So what's it look like? It looks like if you push against the blackness, the blackness is pushing against you. And if somebody can sell you on the idea — just overbalance it slightly — that the blackness is pushing against you, you will then fight evil. You will fight blackness and fight evil and that will mean a closure of terminals with everything bad. That's all anybody has to do is come along and say, "There's something bad about something or other" and immediately somebody will start fighting it. And then he'll wind up with it.

Now, your modus operandi of how you become something or how you get something under control is a very simple one. It's so simple it could be completely bypassed. It has to do with agreement. You get something — you agree with something, and agree with something in order to get it to agree with you. And when it agrees with you then you change its status of agreement slightly, and you change it some more and some more and some more on a gradient scale until you can control it utterly.

Blackness, blackness. Why does your preclear have blackness sitting above his head? Well, one of the things is he's liable to put blackness above his own head. Why? He wants to be a hidden influence, that's what. He wants to be a hidden communication line and he'd just love to operate as he's operating, and go right on and somehow or other survive it, although he knows there's bad liabilities to it. And he's put the blackness above his head to protect himself. Against what?

You'll see this in interpersonal relations. This is a salesman's technique. But it is an actual technique. It — you're — let's not practice the shadow. Let's take a look at the — how you would handle this in mock-ups. Now, that is actually the way you'd get to be things so thoroughly you are entirely in control of them. Let's not pull our shot on this.

Against a mock-up that has been used on him: God. "Now I lay me down to sleep. I pray the Lord my soul to keep. If I should die before I wake, I pray the Lord my soul to take . . ." and a kid starts screaming quietly inside him-self and he says, "My God, I thought things were bad enough in this universe, but now, by golly, something's going to reach down out of the night sky and pick my body up and cart it off and I'll never get it back, and I like this body." That's the way the kid interprets that sort of a nonsense.

You just agree with it and agree with it and agree with it, until you've got it sort of coming your way, and then you've got it coming your way, you put two x's on it, you put one x on you and two on it. And then it thinks this is all right so you put four x's on it, and right then it's yours.

And the Devil — the Devil is down below. All religions, primitives and so forth — there is Yamalek a queen of the underearth, and so forth. This devil has this approximation just everywhere! Oh, you've got this devil as a standard idea all over the place, and he always lives under the ground. And he's liable to reach up out of the ground and grab you and drag you down into the ground so you'd better put a lot of blackness under you, and then he won't find you. So you see, blackness is desirable; it hides one.

You see, that would be the way that it was done. Now, you have to remember this in processing; that's — isn't that a terribly brief statement? It's really most ghastly important.

From what? From hidden and mysterious influences. What kind? The kind you can't be sure whether they are there or not. So to control people, to get them to computing, to nail them down, to pin them in one place and so forth, you just give them some kind of a fancy stock story about "There may be a hidden influence there; there may be not a hidden influence there."

There's a little bit more to know about this. One of the ways you do this, you see, being like something and agreeing with something and sympathizing with something are the same thing. Moving with or moving like: sympathy.

It's a very strange thing that the Western civilization at this particular time is fixed upon a particular god who is kept in a trunk. But it's a funny thing but they just don't even have a good identification for this particular being.

So that if, for instance, in interpersonal relationships, you were to degrade something slightly to demonstrate that it needed admiration and that you sympathized with its needed admiration, what do you know? You're in co-motion with it. Now, you're sympathizing with it, now you change it slightly and therefore, after that, you can control it.

It's fabulous, fabulous. You go from religion to religion and everybody says, "This is a Christian religion." And every one of them tells you something different about this hidden influence.

Men and women do this to each other all the time. It's one of the oldest, moth-eaten methods. They don't quite realize in what they're doing. So I give it to you in its — in its perfect form. You don't have to guess about the method; it's very precisely that. You just tell somebody he needs appreciation, then you sympathize with the fact that he needs appreciation and then you've got him agreeing with you on this basis and then you just put four x's on him when he isn't quite — you just, gradient scale, the next thing you know, you could control this person's whole life utterly.

"Is it a good influence or a bad influence?" Well, people will argue about this, and argue and argue and argue. The whole civilization — throughout Europe and America — went mad over this, and have been crazy on the subject for a long time. They're not near as mad as they used to be.

Now, that is the modus operandi of control. It's also the modus operandi behind this process. You find, in this process, then, that you have several levels of attack. The first one is simply this: this processes in many forms; there are countless combinations.

But two thousand years ago, twenty-five hundred years ago, you wouldn't have heard much of this sort of thing. You'd have heard much more about — arguments about whether or not — whether or not the bird flying overhead was carrying a message from some spirit.

You know about double-terminaling things. The process, then, could be utilized in its simplest form. You just — this is permissive, easy. You just keep telling the preclear to be things. Now, I provided a list there. It's a very limited list and so forth, but it's quite representative as a list. And it's merely a list of words, nouns in English, which are suggestions — just suggestions, just things to be. You'll find an awful lot of them are MEST universe things.

You would have heard a lot about that. But you wouldn't have heard about a mysterious, outright hidden influence.

All right, things to be. And you just tell the preclear "Be — be a floor," "Be a mop," so forth.

In other words, I want to impress upon you that this is a new idea. It is a new idea! It is not an old idea, and it is not held in common with the greater part of the peoples of the earth — that God is something that exists every-where and is above your head. That's a new idea. And that the Devil — the Devil is always underfoot and is about to grab you. That is not an old time-worn idea. But primitive peoples will cook this other one up.

At first, he's — he gets them way out there someplace, but gradually, little by little, without you forcing him or anything of the sort, why, the first thing you know, he's a mop. He's perfectly happy to be a mop.

Well, what do these ideas come from? Why do we have, though, this kind of an idea of influencing spirits above and below and on every side — these hidden influences? And what's this got to do with you wanting an identity? Well, if you have an identity, then such a god could get you, couldn't he, if you have an identity. So therefore you don't want an identity but you have one, and you have a desire to be identified.

Now, you could just go on like that, by the way. At first he'll tell you, "No, I — " and he'll tell you there is something bad about this mop, and he'll tell you there's something bad about something else and something bad about something else, and it's bad over thataway and it's bad over thataway and it's bad over thisaway and it's bad right here, and he's liable to remark this considerably; he wouldn't want to be a mop; he wouldn't want to be a rock; he wouldn't do this.

Is it something anybody did to you? No, it's a mistake I'm afraid we all made, a very simple error. What this — you see, a person could be extremely religious and not buy this particular deity. It's a very funny thing, but you don't have to buy this deity at all. He's a highly specialized deity. As a matter of fact, oh, I'd say something on the order of three-quarters of the people on earth don't happen to believe in this kind of a god today, so it's specialized.

And gradually he can be still things very easily. He'd say, "What do you know, I don't mind being a mop; I don't mind being a floor," so forth. Now you just step him up one and you introduce motion. "Let's be a mop in motion; a floor with something in motion on it; let's be all these things now with some motion taking place."

But, all deities and all devils and all spirits have this in common: They're liable to come in from somewhere and grab you. And then what — then what we're arguing about is — when we argue about deities and devils and so forth, we're really talking in terms of somebody trying to make a physical actuality out of something which would never present a physical appearance. Isn't that odd?

And now, after we've got him completely settled on that, let's let him be all these things where some collision is taking place. One thing is hitting another thing or something is blowing up or something unexpected is happening in each case. "All right, now let's be a car and have its motor blow out of the hood." That's all.

In other words, you do not have to call yourself "irreligious" simply because you don't happen to buy a materialistic god or devil. You'd say, "Well, I don't believe God or the Devil is made out of matter." That makes you more religious than the guys down the street because they claim that materialism is bad, and yet they have a materialistic God. Why? Well, he can grab you. He'd have to have something with which to grab you.

A guy wouldn't like to be that right off the bat but you'll find if you've worked on a gradient scale, that he is very happy about this.

This is interesting; you can go around and around on this one. I'm only stressing this at this time; I'm just threading this in sideways. You're much closer to a religion than man has ever been before.

Now, how far do you go with just that simple, stupidly simple process? To be something would be to perceive something, and also to perceive from its viewpoint. Isn't that right?

All right, let's take this hidden influence. All right, it can most easily hide in blackness, can't it? So you've come along, time after time, you see this blackness and you don't want to get your mock-ups close to it, because it's — you're liable to get your mock-ups stolen. You don't want to put anchor points into it because they're liable to disappear.

Furthermore, you're going to specialize more in mock-ups than you are in actual objects. You're not going to say, "Be that sink," "Be that flower." It'll be "a sink," be "a flower" — mock-up things. Now, you're not even going to care much whether he's in the real universe or whether he's mocking up what he's being.

By the way, don't think it's peculiar that a fellow has blackness around him. You know, you can have black anchor points, blue anchor points, yellow anchor points, clear anchor points, orange anchor points — any kind you want. And black anchor points is routine.

But the truth of the matter is that his ability to be is his ability to perceive. So he tells you after a while, "Well, I don't know what a pump feels like." This tells you one thing. This tells you he is opening up to the point — you have never informed him of this — but he's actually getting up to a point of curiosity, "I wonder what a pump does feel like?"

But you'd want a black anchor point to sort of shoot into that cloud of blackness and then bring it back and find out if there was anything in there. Let's penetrate that cloud of blackness and find out, because otherwise we couldn't perceive in there.

Well, it's not up to you to tell him how a pump feels. You just tell him to be a wash basin, and be a bird and be a weather vane and be something else and be something else and something else and something else. And he'll say, "You know, I don't think that a weather vane is this cold." Get the idea?

What are you doing when you do that? You're saying, "Who are you?" "Who are you?" And of course, you always fail to find out because he isn't anybody. Because 99 percent of the blackness has nothing in it, so therefore you continually fail with this question "Who are you?"

And you'll notice something else happening. At first, if he's being the things right where he is — right where he is exactly — he will have a very limited view because he'll be right where he is.

And then you say, "Well go ahead and be something. What is this blackness?"

But then he will begin to gather more and more environment. And he'll catch on to more and more environment and more and more environment and more and more environment, until he is a weathercock but he comments to you upon the view of the countryside, not on the quality of the weathercock. In other words, he's getting big on these things, see?

People talk about coming into the MEST universe. Their first warning about the MEST universe is the fact that a whole lot of blackness came over them and they were quite upset about it, and so they were scared. "Who are you?"

Now, you don't double-terminal that or anything else. That's this process in its simplest form, and all you have to do and all you have to know is that you specialize in the MEST universe objects, only this — it's all perfectly all right to have him be anything else. That list is pretty good, except that list doesn't have communication objects in it. It's missing on all its communication objects. I don't know whether this is bad or good. You don't even particularly have to have those in.

Now, if you asked this question and failed to find it out long enough, you'd finally wind up starting — asking yourself, "Who are you?" "Who are you?" "Who are you?" You'd go nuts, in other words, and you'd want an identity.

But a lot of people are unwilling to be letters; they're unwilling to be telegrams, for obvious reasons. See, it doesn't matter because that's adding too much idea into it, so let's not worry about that.

You'd get an identity to demonstrate to the blackness that it should have an identity — there is only a kind of a reason there. But you're acting as a mirror. You're acting as a mirror. So the questions you ask of the blackness, if you fail, you will ask of you. And you'll say, "Who are you? What are you trying to be? What are you going to be?" Anything like that. And from that genus you get into the error of wanting desperately an identity, and wanting to be something! Because you want that blackness to be something, not to be that black nothing!

Just take that list, two hundred basic nouns as represented in basic English — which list is available anyplace — the nouns in the eight-hundredand-fifty-word basic English. And you just go over those and any variation you happen to think of going over those.

And that anxiety, you find a little child, he's going out "Who's in that night outside?" Show him the dark and he takes a look at that darkness and he says, "Hm, no! No, there's things in it."

The preclear is sitting down, you've got somebody else there, you're giving it to two people simultaneously (much better, two processes for the cost of one). You're going to pay attention to the preclear, but the other guy can do it too. That's very good, by the way, that's very smart of you as an auditor. Get two terminals there; that they're both doing the same thing, that's wonderful.

And if you observe a child in a primitive culture, if he has to walk abroad at night, "Who's there?" he will say around the corner of the roads and so forth. "Who's there?" And he might eventually wind up in this pure fright and he'll say, "Well, I'm here anyway." Well, then he'll start asking himself "Well, wait a minute, who are you?" Why is he asking himself that? It's merely because he asked out there. He doesn't care who he is.

Well, you can do this to thirty people, see, just as well. Simple process.

It's to his advantage not to have any identity. Identity is a liability.

First you want them stationary, and next you want them in motion, and then you want them in preferably destructive condition or action or in motion destroyed — in motion destroyed — an old mop on a dump heap. All right.

You won't understand this, your preclear won't understand this completely until he double-terminals blackness — matches two black terminals, two black patches, each one asking the other one "Who are you?" And that is a technique right there; that is one of the things which you must do in this process is double-terminal two patches of blackness, each asking the other, "Who are you?"

Your preclear, is he going to get them in this order? Most of your pre-clears will. But very often you will get somebody who feels quite hectic about life, and they will get them in motion — in hectic motion first — uncontrolled, hectic motion. Do you interfere with that? Do you change it? Do you do any-thing else to remedy this? No, not a thing. Not a thing. You see, that's your big test of how alert you are.

And the fellow will say, all of a sudden, "You know, I've been trying — trying to get an identity all these years, and I don't want any identity. I don't know what this is that just came over me, but I really don't want an identity!" Well, now, he doesn't have to understand this mechanism. That's what will happen to him. All right.

Now, his perception will observably get better and better and better, but not just on his mock-ups. This has an immediate reaction and influence on his ability to perceive with his MIEST beingness too. But we mustn't overlook a couple of things with regard to this. By throwing him into these things, one right after the other, we're going to clip on incidents, aren't we? We sit down and process any of them? No, we do not. It's real tough; we just don't.

Then what's Standard Operating Procedure here? It concerns itself with primarily clearing up the thetan rather than stepping him out of a body. You are clearing him up and clearing up his universe. And that sounds very funny "clearing up his universe," but his universe is sitting right there — he's in it. He's sitting right there, and it happens to be in confluence with the MEST universe. And you're trying to square him around so he's got a recognition of his beingness.

Where do we want these objects, in the past or in the present? We want them in the present. The greatest certainty of object will be a mocked-up object. Is he certain that he mocked it up? And is it his that he is being? That is the best object.

Of his identity? No, you want a high level of "I am" and a very low level of "I am Joe." You see?

But in your processing of this individual or individuals, you're going to find that you're going to open up an awful lot of doors. And the fellow is going to want to tell you all about it. And you just tell him to be a mop.

And you want all that blackness out of there and you want all those anchor points under control.

Because what he thinks about it doesn't amount to a whoop and a holler and a tinker's damn. I'm sorry, but what he conceives about the beautiful methods by which you perceive shoe leather while you're in shoe leather and how he can see, actually, that this is why the tanner does what he does and all that sort of thing — that's all interesting. Don't cut his communication line to a point where you're pushing him in the face all the time but he's dramatizing if he starts telling you what he thinks about it. He's dramatizing logic and it's what you're running out of him, so of course expect it to go into restimulation. Logic, learning of that character, is directly counterpointed against beingness.

Well now, the best ways to do this, you can get him out of a body, and so on. So therefore, the first step in this Standard Operating Procedure would be identical with the first step you have been using right straight along.

Learning about something by some other method is entirely different than being it, you see? Learning about it — over here there is some other method, being it. So just remember that, that his logic is going to go into restimulation.

You just tell the thetan to be a couple feet back of his head, and operate him from there.

And if you as an auditor spend any time whatsoever listening to what he thinks about logic, you might as well spend your time going out and watch somebody pitch horseshoes or break glasses or something of the sort. Any kind of action, you don't — it's of no importance, because that's what you're running out of the guy.

Now, do you run him with Double Terminals? Yep. You have him double-terminal things.

This doesn't mean that a fellow shouldn't be clever or that a fellow shouldn't be smart. He should be. But boy, he'll get so much smarter you'll hardly know him. If this fellow starts out being very logical and very smart at the beginning of the process, his IQ is going to go out of sight but rapidly, you see. You're not destroying any of his memory. But logicizing on this could sure slow you way, way down. Just let him be.

Do you operate him in locating himself throughout the universe in various dangerous places, and mocking things up to be them? Yes, yes.

Now, supposing he had a weak heart. Well, if you're not pushing him into things to be, you're not shoving him into everything, if you're letting all this take care one way or the other, you'll find out that he will get into a much easier frame of condition. Why?

Now, your second step that you would do would have to do with "mock-up of beingness." Mock himself up as this and that — double-terminaled. And you put him on an E-Meter, you'll find out what he's afraid to be. Then you have him make a double terminal of it out here until he's perfectly willing to be it. Now, you get that as a technique?

What's tension? Tension is a collapsed communication line. This thing they've been talking about called "tension." Once a time, there was a guy by the name of Spoonerduff or something who lived about thirty years ago, had a technique known as "relaxation." I think a fellow laid down with a hot water bottle across his middle or something of the sort and got well.

Give him a run on the E-Meter and say, on the E-Meter — and he says well, one thing he's awful afraid of is, boy, is he scared of being Pop! "Ohhh! no, I don't want to be my father!" Well, if he doesn't want to be his father, he isn't going to step out of a body. The reason he isn't going to step out of a body is because he doesn't want to be something. The second he doesn't want to be something, you're going to get a double terminal setup that collapses terminals.

Two hundred years ago, two thousand years ago, they used to take mineral baths. Relaxed them and they got well. They used to hypnotize people and it relaxed them and they got well. And the doctors give them phenobarbital and it relaxes them and they get well, and so on.

If a person doesn't want to be something, he's going to become it. So therefore it's necessary for you to double-terminal Pop out here; double-terminal Father that he is trying to be so different about.

Any relaxation, then, of a communications line will make a person well to a somewhat slight, limited degree in over three or four percent of the cases treated. All right.

He doesn't want to be Father, so you want to get the people in this lifetime — for Step II — the people in this lifetime he doesn't want to be and just double-terminal them. He doesn't want to be Sister, he doesn't want to be Papa, he'd kind of like to be Mama. Well then, if he'd kind of like to be Mama, you going to double-terminal Mama? Skip it. He wants to be Mama, doesn't he? Therefore, Mama isn't particularly aberrative.

Why is it, then, that changing an environment will make somebody well? Why is it that just by educating him, even by the old creaky standards, would very often improve his beingness and his state of mind? Why is it? Why, change his environment and the fellow gets better?

He should want to be Papa, he should want to be everybody! He should be completely relaxed about it.

See, there are three valid therapies — there were, there aren't now — there were three valid therapies. You processed him or you changed his environment or you educated him. Well, now, there's one of them because you're doing the same thing. When you start changing his beingness around, you're certainly going to change his environment, and when he gets to be being various things, he'll certainly become educated about them in the finest possible way.

Now, that would be Step II: is clean up the personnel that he doesn't want to be.

So we've lumped these three possible processes into one thing because the environment — of course, you've changed his environment, you've changed his communication lines. He didn't get any more yap from his mother, or he didn't, so on. You changed his environment, in other words, and it went out of restimulation, you see. So you change his communication lines; if you change his communication lines, you change his level of beingness. You've educated him. You've fed him in a nice, calm smooth communication line; it changes his level of beingness. I mean, that's easy, easy to see. All right.

And by the way, Step II, I point out, is the step you would enter automatically. You see, it's a very light step; this is not an important step. It's thetechnique you would use in an office on an individual who has some worries.He comes in and he says, "I'm worried." Well, if you want to gunshot out all those worries get him to double-terminal his wife facing his wife and just hold her there. He's a man; he's trying not to be a woman. The obvious part of his trouble is that. There's something he doesn't want to communicate with.

This, then, is the simplest, the simplest of the simple, and that's just Mock-up Beingness. You take a group and you can just go on by the hour on this stuff. Your imagination can have them be automobiles running into trains and all that sort of thing. You'll find out that it's very interesting the number of things that you can do in a variation of this. And they'll get a lot better and they'll get a lot better and they'll get a lot better and a lot better and a lot better.

You can spot it on the E-Meter what he's particularly upset about communicating with. It will usually be an opposite-sex member, because he can't be them, therefore he has to stop their motion, and he's failed to stop their motion so he therefore doesn't want to be them. So if he doesn't want to be them, then he's going to have trouble with them. He doesn't want to communicate with them, but he has to communicate with them and this upsets him. So just double-terminal somebody like this. All right.

But this isn't all the technique there is to this. You can just put this one down as something that you can just reel off by the hour.

Let's go into Step III of this. And Step III is an important step and is consecutive with Step I. If he didn't step out on Step I, do Step III. And Step III is simply this: Make him double-terminal postulates; make him double-terminal the feeling of doubt against the feeling of doubt. Make him have — double-terminal the feeling of "I don't know" against the feeling of "I don't know." Get a feeling of "I've got to keep my pictures" against "I've got to keep my pictures." I've said this, you know, as being very aberrative — pictures.

Now, the manifestations, as I've told you, will crop up and anything you know about auditing anyplace is liable to show up. Anything is liable to show up on something like this so don't be dismayed and be quite ready to send for the fire brigade, namely you, and put out the fire.

And they've got to — various things. And if you just look at him, you'll know that's — he's worried about something. You just ask him what he worries about.

Because if you take some fellow that's pretty red-hot and pretty neurotic and you start him being a lot of various things, you're liable to hear some wild chatter. You're liable to say, "You know, you know, I know what's the matter with me. I've got another thetan hanging on my ear who is trying to get into my head. And now I know what's wrong with me." Yeah, that's all it took. A nice hidden influence like that. It — that's all it took. Believe me, it'll really trigger him.

"Well, I worry 'cause I don't know, I think all the time. I worry all the time. I think all the time. I worry all the time."

What do you do in a case like that? Do you pay any attention to this? No. You invalidate it if you pay any attention to it. You shift off his beingness into something else.

Well, you could even go so far as to just get himself facing himself worrying all the time. But just get the idea "worrying all the time" versus the idea of "worrying all the time." To a large degree, he'll stop worrying.

Well what happens to this guy eventually? This is why this shouldn't be uniformly in the hands of a professional auditor, and shouldn't be handed out very much. This guy is going to start to be the things around in the room. He'll be the things out in the street. He hasn't any fear of being these various things now. And he'll start to be these various things and it's very happy he is. You've got a Theta Clear on your hands. You better remember that.

But what's at the bottom of that pile of worry? Is: "Is there a hidden influence or isn't there a hidden influence?" Now, you just face that thought facing that thought. Well, what could you do? You could say, "Is there a devil or isn't there a devil?" And he'd say, "Well, I don't worry about God and the Devil anymore. I used to do that when I was a little kid. But I remember I used to have nightmares about it, but I haven't worried about it for years. Ha-ha." Oh yeah?

Everything you know about Theta Clearing is right there. It means that he can change his beingness by changing his postulates, and it means this and it means that and it means so forth. And all the data which you can scrape up on this subject applies.

Well, if this fellow can't get out of his body, he's got a big, black, weighty patch right on the top of his head — pow! He put it there. He figured it out when he was a little kid. "Let's see, God's going to get me and grab my body. The best thing for me to do is to put a big, black patch over the top of my head and make myself invisible from above. I'll try anyway." It's silly — silly.

But the fellow, if you keep at this long enough, he'll just simply go on out of his head, that's all. Not the right way, which is to get an electric shock and be driven out of your head — everybody knows that's the right way to do it — but the wrong way; that's by using Scientology! So, that should be remembered.

So you would terminal, "Is there a God or isn't there a God?" "Is there a devil or isn't there a devil?" Just double-terminal this idea — this question.

Now, why is it — why is it that you're going to rehabilitate the sixth dynamic? Why the sixth dynamic? Everybody knows it was Mama and it was Papa and it was so forth. As a matter of fact, on the surface it apparently is those people. Those people happen to be in the level of sympathy with the preclear. In other words, they're about the same height, same size, same environment, and naturally he's going to be in sympathy with them.

So that if you're dealing with computation, what you want to do is double-terminal questions. You see that? The questions he's demanding all the time.

Now, you can take Double Terminals on these people and you can do wonderful things for a preclear; just wonderful things, you see, by processing these people. Well, why then the sixth dynamic?

So that tells you immediately that you take the bottom of the Chart of Attitudes on your Double Terminal questioning. You say, "Who am I?" versus "Who am I?" Or you'd get a patch of blackness saying to a patch of blackness, "Who am I?" versus "Who am I?" Just take the Double Terminal postulate idea on the Chart of Attitudes right there at the bottom. Bottom of the chart, bottom of the columns — those are very easy to run.

What's wrong with your preclear? The ability to estimate effort is the ability to use force, and the preclear who has an engram bank that's liable to cave in on him or who can't handle things in existence or who's pinned down in beingness is unable to handle force. If he cannot handle force he can't destroy anything. If he can't destroy anything, he's stuck with every memory he's got right up tight.

Or any kind of a question you want or think of or anything this fellow tells you — worried about — you tell him, "Just put it up on the wall and make it face that."

Furthermore, cause and responsibility are intimately associated with force. And what's force? Force is the sixth dynamic, the MEST universe.

Now, you're going to take care of what we've been calling V Level Cases — we're not calling V Level Cases anymore. We don't care about classification of cases anymore, beyond this classification: You tell somebody to step out of his head; you work him there. If you tell somebody to step out of his head and he doesn't work there, you just work him where he is and then tell him to step out of his head. We really don't even need a step to tell you that he has to step out of his head.

Furthermore, because everybody "knows" it's Grandpa and Grandma and all these other things, it obviously must be and couldn't possibly be any-thing else! Anything that is that well known isn't so! And that's that. It must be something very insidious, and it is.

All right, your next step on the line after you've handled some postulates and so forth like that, you'll find out this — you'll find out that you bet-ter do, then, a mock-up of people grabbing his anchor points and so forth. And the technique is a very simple one. You just get people picking him up and dragging him away — double-terminaled, in the form of mock-ups. And then people pushing him back to himself again, in the form of the mock-ups.

My God, what do you think would happen if you stepped off this top step out here and didn't step on the rest of the steps? That's space and gravity waiting for you right there. You — can you see gravity? No, you sure can't see gravity.

Just get them dragging in and pushing in — dragging out and pushing in his anchor points. And he has his anchor points. He's pushing in and dragging out anchor points. And then get him to work anchor points. And you'd call this step, the full step, the "work anchor points step" — you see, work anchor points.

Well, how about sound? You can't see any sound. Well, how about — how about all these other things, these other manifestations of MEST universe perception? What about those things? You can't see them, can't feel them, but really, through the MEST body, they're sort of there and, well, that's a mystery as long as force itself is something the individual won't touch.

And now, number two of that, of course, is very trivial. You don't care anything about mocking up members of the family — you can omit it. But it's a nice one to have around, because it's a good workable technique and people really react on it rather rapidly. And you're not interested in that technique, then, so much — number two.

And if you want to rehabilitate force, you don't rehabilitate anything but.

But boy, are you interested in this fourth one I just gave you. Boy, you're really interested in that. And your — could be interested in it to this degree: When your preclear shows up, you start running this in all of its varied forms. Anything you can think of being taken away from him on a double terminal basis — anything you can think of.

You'll find out — the sixth dynamic — you'll find out, for instance this: The fellow will tell you, "Well, this happened in my life and that happened in my life, and something else happened in my life." And then, what do you know, you find out that his decline was coincident with that automobile accident. Maybe all these things were wrong, you understand, and you could process them and make him much better, but you find out it was that automobile accident which marked the moment of his actual decline. He didn't feel good after that accident. He kind of felt funny about life. And you'll find out that — you'll find out that this fellow, oh, all these various things occurred in his early childhood, and his dog did this and they stole this and that and he was taken away by the gypsies and they turned him into a horse, or anything you want. Something horrible was wrong with him.

And what do you call this whole step, this fourth step now? It's the resolution of loss, fear of. And that, of course, is the resolution of ridicule and betrayal. Loss, ridicule, betrayal — they're all done there in Step IV. And how do you do this? You just have people on a double terminal basis or things on a double terminal basis, any variety of things you could think of.

And they keep telling you, fifth dynamic, fifth dynamic, fifth dynamic, merely because the fifth dynamic is the one they're in best communication with. You want to process something with which people are in good communication? No, you certainly don't. You want to get something that'll get their communication level up! Well then don't take their best level of communication and beat it around. Take their poorest level of communication!

You see, I don't have to lay down a pattern for this because you could just take a dictionary and start running through a dictionary. You could take anything that gives you a list. And they pick up and take away from him an anchor point and hold it out there. Or they take it out there and they laugh over it or they wreck it or they do anything of the sort on a double terminal basis, you see?

Poorest level of communication happens to be MEST. The thetan can't see it. Tells you that it's awful bad! That tells you that's really bad, and he can't see it, not worth a darn. Even Step I's get out and they say, "What room? Huh?" And they'll tell you cheerfully, "Sure, I know I'm in this room, I guess. Ha-ha. I hope."

Any kind of a thing, whereby here's your preclear, and they pick up his body or his wallet or his cap or his automobile or his wife or his cow, or any-thing you want to think of in terms of — anything a person could possess, and they carry it away.

Well, that is simply force. That is force in the MEST universe. They're so afraid of being hit by force that they're not going to perceive force and they just cut it off and protect against it and all that sort of thing.

And you know what you want to do as the roughest part of that step — and hold your hat on this step, and don't hit this step into a preclear who is bad off — is remember that the sixth dynamic is the main target. Take planets away from him and give planets to him. Planets are surrounded by blackness and planets are bright. They are apparently faces, and he has faces so tied in with planets that his interpersonal relationship is horrible.

What are their anchor points? Their anchor points are force; force in the MEST universe.

For instance, he sat here and looked at the moon just for ages. There was the moon up there, see? And it's got hidden influences every — all over on Earth here primitive people such as the US Department of Agriculture believe in the hidden influences of the moon. You have the entire sexual cycle running on the hidden influence of the moon.

You stand around a machine which is running at a very high rate of speed sometime and be calm. And ask yourself this: "Can I be absolutely certain that it's not going to fly off its flywheels? Can I be?" The second you've asked yourself that, you sort of feel "Hm. Nnnyeow! I don't want any-thing to do with that machine." You find yourself backing up toward the passageway, or something. Not noticeably, you understand, because we must all be brave.

You know what you do with the moon? You just have people take the moon away from him, and people giving him the moon, and people taking the moon away and giving people the moon — double-terminal, you understand, either side — two people always, two moons always, in and out.

And another thing is, is people have a terrible fear of becoming MEST, which is so bad they don't even express it. They say, "I don't want to die." They think they become MEST if they die, you see.

Now, the first thing you know, he'd say, "You know, my — I — all of my sexual experiences . . . I just recall a whole lot of things. And you know, I think we've kind of solved this whole case because, you know, I can see the whole Freudian imputation and comfloration on the left-hand side of the ruddy rod here. And I've got it all figured out, and I'm just delighted and now that I have solved uh ..."

The idea of being buried in the cold, cold ground and becoming so much mud, that's a favorite idea with science. The leading scientists of this age all know completely that man came from nothing but mud, and he's going back to nothing but mud, which proves he's wrong, utterly wrong. Any time you get the leading scientists of the world agreed upon something, skip it.

And you say, "All right, now. Get the moon and have them drag it out here."

Now, their whole attitude demonstrates, then, that they must be fixed on something. They talk about mud and more mud and so on. And they must be kind of fixed on something.

"No, no! I've got to tell you about this."

Well, not so long ago, they were fixed on another thing entirely and everything was explained in terms of an unseen, unknown, unknowing but all-knowing God, who had a Devil mixed up in it somehow or other; but we never mentioned him, you see, never mentioned the Devil. And there was no communication, except maybe there was, and everybody was safeguarding the communication line, which maybe it existed and maybe it didn't. Boy they ran that thing out. Of course, they got into science eventually.

But the point is that it just happens that sex was so hidden and misunderstood and not understood, that you get the principal hidden influence of night when sex mostly took place, and it's all locked in together. And is sex important in that regard? No! Not even vaguely.

A science is closer to an agreement with the MEST universe than a worship of God any day of the week. It's far more debased and also much more practical.

What is important? The moon has gravity; it causes tides. A person actually can sense a change in his own body of gravitic influence. Anything that's got as strong a pull on Earth as to hoist twenty-eight feet of tide up in the Bay of Fundy — the — picks up the whole bosom of the ocean, lifts it into the air feet every time it goes by. You think your preclear sitting there isn't going to notice this? He's just been noticing it for a long time and he doesn't think he notices it anymore.

You see, actually, man has been playing a very interesting race here. It's a quite interesting race of "could you get that low?" Could you be as low as a physicist? Could you get that low and risk it and somehow or other, reach into the lion's mouth and pull out the answer before you got caught?

And you get planets in general, and the whole system of planets will start to unwind. And he'll start again a new yak. He'll tell you, "My golly, what do you know, I'm sure that I have crashed on a planet sometime or another. And he'll start to tell you all kinds of incidents of this and that.

And he did. They got brave enough to get as low as going to school and becoming engineers. And it paid off, but not very — it paid off, but it had no business paying off. It's a fact.

And do you listen to these? No, you don't. Don't double-terminal crashing on a planet; just double-terminal up planets being taken away from him and planets being given back to him again.

The guys who go out and build an atom bomb aren't on the way up. Boy, they've agreed with MEST, and they are in a level of uncertainty where they know nothing.

Now, hold your hat and don't run that on a case that's about to spin, because he'll really spin in on you. Now, that's the resolution of anchor points under that Step IV. Now, you could even call these techniques rather than steps and get away with it.

Talk to one of these atomic scientists. He is just walking around saying, "Let's see, protons, molecules on the fusion side. And I hope that last equation I had was all right. But I was not certain about that. And when the bomb goes off — I'm not quite sure about that. And let's see, the number of fission units per erg — I'm ..."

Now, there's another one with that same step. "Throw two anchor points up to the ceiling and hold them there." And it's all part of the same step. You find out this person doesn't easily let things be taken away or pulled back or anything of this sort. Well, he's out of present time. You can give him some time on just putting up a couple of anchor points and holding them there. That's all under anchor points — that whole technique.

You say, "What are you talking about?"

Then what's V? V would be double-terminaling the body and doubleterminaling — guess what? The MEST objects which the body is ordinarily surrounded with because these are much more aberrative than the body.

And he'll say, "Well, I was just thinking about my work this afternoon."

He is in the body because he is protecting himself from walls, sofas, chairs, vases. I just demonstrated this a little earlier. We got action on doubleterminaling MEST objects, so number II is quite a different step than number V.

He's on an uncertainty. In other words, he's come to the parting of the ways. Everything was perfectly all right up to the moment he got there. And now he finds out that this stuff has an intolerance for being together to such a degree that if he pushes it just a little harder, it blows to pieces. And he would like to put a smooth face on and tell the university president — who is president of the university, see, because he's a good football coach or star or something, or he's a good promoter of stadiums or something — and he hates to go around to the president of the university and say, "You know, old man, I don't know what the hell I'm talking about." There are very few people who will do this by the way. I don't think I would — although I do all the time. And so he gets — he gets himself really bogged down.

And number V is down there in logic because he's so mixed up in gravity and so mixed up in hidden influences and so mixed up in this other stuff that you've got to double-terminal the living daylights out of an awful lot of MEST objects before this person is even vaguely aware.

Physics right now is in a whole flock of maybes that are just going off in all directions. You talk about scattered chaos! Really, you're looking at it when you're looking at nuclear physics. The mathematics they go by is put together with matchsticks. So anyway, this is your exact science. Anyway, you get — MEST is the most dangerous thing. It can't be predicted, can it? You're not quite sure; you're never quite sure. Well, anything you're never quite sure about and utterly dependent on, oh, look out, look out.

Your scale of ARC is the scale of how much MEST has entered into the eing. A person behaves like MEST low on the Tone Scale and behaves like a thetan high on the Tone Scale. So there's your Tone Scale. The Tone Scale is the gradient scale of the amount of MEST which has been entered into the beingness of a person.

Now, what do you do with this MEST? You walk out here and you step off the edge of a cliff and you'll fall two hundred yards, and you go down into the bottom of the canyon with a squash. Now, of course, you get up at that moment and you take a stick and you beat the canyon. Or do you?

MEST, of course, runs backwards. It does. And very low on the Tone Scale you'll find this. You start — tell him to start to put out his anchor points. And he says, "You know, the more anchor points I put out, the harder facsimiles push in against my face." Why is this? Planets, that sort of thing, have so often overcome his own concepts of height, gravity, control and so on, that at last his own anchor points are beginning to work backwards.

Can you ever punish this stuff? What period was it in your life — and by the way, you probably have a recall on this if you fish around a little bit — what period in your life was it that you found out it didn't do any good whatsoever to kick a rock back? Hm?

When he says, "Out with the anchor points," they come in. When he says, "In with the anchor points," they go out. And he's gotten very upset, so he abandoned the use of anchor points.

Well, that was a — one of the biggest moments of defeat that you had in your life. That was really the biggest moment of defeat.

How do you cure this? You just throw them out and bring them in a few times, and he says, "They were running backwards." So what's that mean? He goes up the Tone Scale the second he recovers this control and handling of anchor points.

You found out that this rock would not listen to reason. Well, don't look around for something that's capable of reason such as animals and man to establish the most effective method of aberration, look at something that won't reason. MEST won't reason.

So this level of step — this V Level of step — you could call the resolution of MEST. You've got to resolve MEST. Then it is for a low-level case. You've got to resolve MEST, that's all, or you're not going to get anyplace with this case.

So let's look at that sixth dynamic, and when we're doing beingness and so forth let's specialize on that fact. You know, one of the first things your preclear will start getting, "You know this stuff is treacherous! I've — I'm this — I'm this tire and boy do I feel treacherous. You know, I'm just sitting here, just waiting to explode at the wrong moment," and all these various things that he's happily put out of sight.

This case tells you he can get computations, he can get ideas. Don't — don't bother to run those very much. Try and double-terminal up some MEST for him. Get him — see if he can't get — see if he can't get a chair facing a chair, a black spot facing a black spot. Spot control is right there on that level — only you want two spots, not one.

Now, he goes unconscious when the MEST gets too rough. In other words, he just resigns. The thetan who really can't go unconscious has actually got it figured out so he can go unconscious. He's that bad off with regard to the sixth dynamic.

Any one of these techniques will apply, actually, to any case. You've got to resolve MEST before this fellow gets very happy about it. MEST has kept betraying him.

Now, of course, man does become an engineer of punishment along these lines in which the sixth dynamic is applied, but remember that he's using something in which the individual is thoroughly trained: When you punish a child, you are using his thorough training and the thorough training of his body that force is applicable.

Now, that's — leaves you another whole case level, and this is for the neurotic person. How do you solve a neurotic person? ARC Straightwire, next-tothe-last list of Self Analysis. And he just goes over it and over it and over it.

And you're using the fact that when force is applied, that he can't doanything about it. See, he knows that. So in the face of great force, he quits.Your individual has quit to the degree that he will not face force. And your individual is sane to the degree that he will not use force on man. But he's crazy to the level that he will refuse to use force.

And then you continue on with the list of mock-ups of Self Analysis, that's all. Simplest technique imaginable. In other words, you've got the whole technique in a book.

That sounds a little bit chaotic, doesn't it? It really isn't.

You say, "The person can't get mock-ups; he can't get anything; he can't figure anything; he just wants to think; he just wants to do this" — ARC Straightwire. You get him to remember something real, some time when he was in communication, and so on. So he finally says, "Look, I have lived."

An individual who will go out and han — know all about force and be able to handle force and then turn around and attack life with it is really nuts. See, he's really, really — he's really raving. He belongs in the Pentagon building or someplace.

And then from there you go on to making him make up mock-ups. Well, you can make him make up mock-ups for quite a little while, but all you want is just stability out of him. You want some kind of stability and then you just start over these other steps.

Now, whatever you realize about processing, you'll see this one coming true. And you — therefore, you're going to see a lot of engrams come in and a lot of somatics come in. Your job as an auditor is plow on through.

Where do you enter these other steps? Anyplace. What are you trying to achieve? You're trying to achieve a lot of beingness for this thetan — as a thetan. You want him to get back his own facsimiles; you want him to be able to handle his own anchor points perfectly. That's what you're trying to achieve.

Now, let's go at the rest of this very, very rapidly here. Now, let's take this as a professional addressed-to-one-preclear process. This is a real fancy one, and you will see more, more aberration go by the boards faster than you've ever seen before. This isn't just the slug, slug, slug, go on and be, be, be.

And I could stand here, and it would be very nice if I could just go on and talk about this for a long time and give you a complete blow-by-blow. But you know something? We have entered a level of technique where you can't go wrong. What do you know?

Now, there is a variation of the slug, slug, slug, go on and be, be, be technique and that's to double-terminal everything. You can vary it that way or you can always put it out here in front of you.

Because you start playing around with things being taken away from and brought back to, and so on, this individual, he's going to start telling you, "There's something very strange around here but you know, I'm really not me. I'm not . . ." so on. In other words, he'll start telling you.

But let's continue with how you become something and let's carry the cycle all the way through with being processing. You see, you become some-thing by agreeing with it and that's what you're doing with be, be, be, be, be, be; it's just the general run of processing, you see? You're just making the fellow kind of agree with it, but he's kind of finding out about it, and because he's only agreeing with mock-ups, why, he's in good shape, you see? It's all right, you can agree with your own mock-ups any time you want to. They're not very dangerous.

On that level of drill, then, of regaining the control of anchor points, you have the essence of all of this. Will he get out of his body afterwards, automatically? Yes, sure. He'll get out and he'll come back in or he'll do anything he wants to with it. But you're rehabilitating an individual. And it isn't a tricky technique; that is to say, it's not going to suddenly trip you up.

Now, let's look at this, then, at the level of the whole operation. You sympathize with something; that is to say, you go through the same motion as it and then what? Change it into you, and that's it. Now, do you see that technique? All right.

When it's done on you, you will understand all of a sudden, that you're coming up to a level of knowing you know. And when you know you know, of course you know, and that's the end of that. So you have Scientology, able at last, to arrive at a level which says, "Scientology, the science of knowing how to know."

Now, you say, "All right, now be a beanpole. Okay, now you're a beanpole? Now change the beanpole into you." Whshh! "Now good. Now be a book. Now change the book into you." Whsst! "All right, now . . ." You understand that you're probably doing this — he's probably doing this out in front. You don't much care where he's doing it. Just let him elect where he's doing this.

And what's your preclear — what's your goal with the preclear? Well, you bring him up to a point where he knows how to know, that's all. And he knows he knows. And that's — and so it's very pat, isn't it? It's almost as if I thought it up much earlier and had named it just that for that particular reason, and had all this data all the time and was making all of you poor people labor along with bum data. It's one of those accidents.

Now, you say, "Now be a table. Now change the table into you. Now," you say, "be a library. Change the library into you. Now be a tree. Change the tree into you. Now be a textbook. Change the textbook into you."

Anyway, your preclear is brought up to a level of knowing how to know. Then do you have to tell him he's a thetan? Do you have to tell him how to operate? Do you have to tell him he doesn't belong in a body? Do you have to tell him what the soul is? Do you have to tell him what God is, something of the sort? No.

He'll say, "Wait a minute. Wait a minute!"

But you're going to find, as you start doing this, there's a lot of things he's afraid of, and so you have to know that if one thinks there is something bad about something — one: He will close terminals with it.

You say, "Go on now."

And anything he's doing that is bad — boy, nice little rule right here, the operating rule of auditing: Anything he thinks is bad is something he has closed terminals with against his will. Other-determinism, in other words, has entered in.

"Oh, no!" he says, "There was the funniest feeling about this. And the funniest feeling about this — is it felt like I got unglued or something!"

You're not even now trying to restore the self-determinism of the thetan. You're trying to put back into its operating condition a human soul.

And you'd say, "Well, that's fine, that's fine now. Be another textbook. All right, you another textbook? Now ripple your leaves. Come on, got that now? All right, now change the textbook into you."

Now, let's take a look, and it's . . . The soul, of course, knows how to know. There's no good in having a soul that doesn't know anything about knowing. You don't even think you're it, and it's not there and all this maybe, and a lot of other things wind up.

"Well, it happened again! It happened again! That was physics! My brains are all feeling loosened up! I feel good!"

Now, the beautiful rule here is that anything he's afraid of is something with which he has closed terminals. Anything he is doing that he thinks is wrong or that you think is wrong and so on, is being done because he thinks it's wrong too. Anything you or he thinks is wrong, is wrong. And what's wrong about it is because you or he think it's wrong. In other words, what's wrong with wrongness is wrongness. Isn't that simple? All right.

And you say, "All right, now be a bed. Be a bed. Now change the bed into you." "Yeah" he says, "that's certainly good."

So how do you get away with this? Double Terminal. It's a double terminal. He thinks black is bad, so he closes with blackness. Why does he close with blackness? Because he can't control his anchor points, not because he has to have a facsimile run out! His anchor points are going backwards!

"Now, be your office. Be the whole office. Now change the office into you."

He's a mirror and he says — somebody came along, and they said, "You know, all policemen are bad." At that moment he starts to fight policemen and he pushes on policemen. If he pushes hard enough on policemen, police-men will arrive right in his lap.

The guy says, "No, no, no," he says, "this feeling I've — always have on the end of my nose is one of the walls of the office! It just went away! I've sat in that place all that time ..."

People — criminals go around trying to find out how they can break the law. They always wind up in the wrong place. All right.

It's — what you did was complete the cycle. You completed the cycle.

Now, there's your modus operandi of aberration. It's a mechanical modus operandi. The person forgets how to use his anchor points because they start turning backwards. They go backwards because he's in this universe with heavy gravities and with MEST that can't be punished, and so forth. And so his anchor points — he abandons using them. He said, "I won't use my anch — I will never put out my anchor points again," or something of this sort.

Now remember, to become something completely, of course, you imitate it just to make it into you. And if you cannot imitate it to turn it into you, then you can't imitate it thoroughly or control it. So this has added another factor into beingness. This has added the factor in of being it and controlling it. Of course, you make it yours. You'll make it yours utterly.

So therefore, anytime he sees something that's bad, he closes with that terminal. So you've got a problem here of closed terminals. How do you resolve closed terminals? You've got two ways to resolve them. You just double-terminal them out here and let them discharge, or you simply have the preclear mock somebody picking them up out of him and carrying them off again.

That's very fascinating. This will happen in the long run, but there is your special on just an ordinary utility auditing. But there is something that you must know about and you must be able to observe. And this manifestation will occur in it. It will suddenly occur to the fellow, "Hey, now, wait a minute. You keep — I kept turning those things into me but I keep turning those things into my body. And, you know, I'm not my body!"

He's — all of a sudden say, this is silly, he'll say, "Well, I've always been scared of streetcars," and we've just double-terminaled two streetcars, see, being carried off from the preclear out here into the darkness and dumped. "Now, I can get rid of streetcars any want — time I want to get rid of street-cars. I always thought you had double terminal streetcars. I mean, I thought that streetcars were always going to fall in on you." Of course, he'd never had a chance to run one out because he only had one streetcar. And he never mocked up a second one. He didn't know that his mock-up would work better in this universe than another one. All right.

And you say innocently, "Yeah? You aren't?"

One of the main things, then, is communication lag index, and that rises and you're trying to arrive at a communication change. How do you arrive at a communication change? By handling anchor points. That's the next one. All right, now if we have a communication change in the individual, we have a change of beingness, don't we? Well, we want to change the beingness of the preclear for the better, so if we want to change his beingness for the better, then we change his communication index, which is changing his anchor points, or changing his beingness, which is changing his anchor points, because it's changing his space.

"No," he says, "what am I?"

And if we want to change the things he thinks are bad, all we've got to do is resolve the fact that he has collapsed on his terminals with something that's bad and we've done it. We've done it. And all other techniques are rococo. They're just gilding the lily. But these other techniques are valuable.

He's up against the horrible fact that he's nothing, but that he can create at will. And at that moment you'll have to stand there with that datum and be able to demonstrate that.

There's one tiny, little special technique — I give you an idea of this — special technique that comes out of this matching postulates. It's terribly interesting. It's the order lag. There's a communication lag and then there's the order lag.

"Now, create something to be," say.

When a person gives himself an order how long does it take for it to go into action? He says, "All right," and he says, "now I'll put on the brake." How long does it take him to put on the brake? Five hours or a fifth of a second?

"Oh, all right, I'll create this big tower," he'll say, without much enthusiasm. "Now be it."

Well, you know fellows have setups on certain circuits that are — have terrible order lags, so they think the order is never obeyed. That is when somebody else has handled their body for them too often and too long, and they get a terminal set up in there and a circuit set up in there so that they've got a big order lag on one subject. That's one subject, and they've got such a big order lag on this subject that they can't handle it.

"Yeah," he'll say.

Now, in other words, an order should go through immediately. You should say, "Eat," and the body eats. And yet the order lag will be "Eat." Well, the fellow goes and washes his hands and he puts on his coat, and polishes up his shoes and he walks out, and he reads the afternoon paper a little bit and he comes in and he says, "Dinner ready yet?" He's known it for a half an hour.

"Now create something else. Now be that. Now create something else. Now be that. Now this last thing that you were, change it into something else. Now change it into something else. Now change it into a soldier. Change it into a beautiful woman."

Then they get a new cook next week and that's the way it goes, you see?

He's being all these various things, and you've gotten him up on about the highest level of beingness there is. You see, he actually is doing this with-out knowing anything about it, when you just tell him to be things endlessly in just Standard Operating Procedure Utility. See, he's doing that. You're asking him to do that.

Now, that would be an order lag. He tells himself to eat and then he does eighty other things. What is this? This is a circuit, same kind of a circuit that gives you a communication lag and it's hidden on a hidden influence. There's some kind of a hidden influence about eating and he's . . . so on.

But he never really gets wise to it and he never really de-aberrates to the degree that he should. All of a sudden, understanding has not dawned upon him.

But somebody has controlled his eating for him. This is where an inter-posed control has happened. And what do you know, the hidden influence is a study of interposed controls. Hidden controls have been put in the line. He gets so afraid of hidden controls that he knows he's got circuits.

The way you'd give him understanding of this whole thing is to — he's--what he's been trying to do for Lord knows how long was an exact thing. He's been trying to make things imitate him so they would become him!

So you find out he has a habit, or the preclear has something you don't — he doesn't like to do, you'll find him going backwards.

And every now and then he met a real tartar like Papa, and he would try to be Papa and be Papa and then get Papa to be-e-e him. Now, ha-ha-ha, he wound up stuck in Papa's valence. Why?

He says, "I don't like to smoke. I'm not going to smoke; therefore, I'm smoking. I don't like to smoke! And yet I'm smoking. So I don't like . . . Oh, dear! Well, I don't think I will smoke anymore. Where's a cigarette?"

It backfired. He never could get Papa to approve of him or imitate him! Now, if Papa admired him that would run out all the effort, you see? And that just wiped that out; that would say, "Okay, son, that was a good job."

Now, there you're just getting the reversed angle on this. Now, you'll get somebody saying, "I think I'd like a cigarette" and twenty minutes later suddenly lights one spontaneously and recalls nothing about having ordered himself to then. So he'll say, "You know I get — I get impulsive! I have impulses which tell me to do things. And I don't know where they came from because I don't remember back two hours."

Or, if he could have gotten Papa to be exactly like him, he would have won the other way. But he couldn't do either of the two things.

Order lag time. You've got a communications lag index and an order lag index, then, and you could measure out of any individual his capability, his beingness and so forth. What interposes this? Is just can't handle communication points over a certain period of time or in a certain area or on a certain subject. What do you do with this, then? You get him to pick up this mock-up and push it out and pull it in and push it out and pull it in, until he can at last push this subject out and pull it in at will. And the darnedest things will turn up.

And it is an effort that a thetan was trying to do all the time early on the track. And you will find as you process what the whole ramifications of that early game were because they'll just turn up and the preclear will start doing these things, that's all.

He's never able to get up in the morning; he's always tired when he gets up in the morning. He doesn't want to get up in the morning until 8:30 and he knows he ought to be up in the morning at 8 o'clock and he can't get up in the morning. And this is what he's telling you about and this is why he's worried. That's just because there is a period in his life when somebody else got him up when he was groggy, something like that, all the time. That's interposed control.

And at first he'll get awfully bored with just being this and that. Yeah, he won't like that. He'll get pretty bored with it and he'll slop off. And then he'll sort of get all kind of apathetic about it. Hmm, hmm, and then he'll get a little bit scared of it.

Now, you'll find out, he says, "I can give up cigarettes, I can give up cigarettes, I can give up cigarettes; I try and I try and I try." And what do you know, you find out that he's been punished into having an order lag so that he has to smoke cigarettes. He got punished for smoking, which gives him too much MEST universe, so that he says, "Mustn't smoke — smokes." And it's just a snapped-closed circuit just of that character, and it's just as idiotic as that.

And about this time he'll decide he wants some more processing that is some other kind of processing. He's heard about these electronic incidents and he wants to be run through these electronic incidents, and so forth. And — nah. You know why he wants to hit the electronic incident? He wants to show you that he's not afraid of it! Get the idea? He's going to dramatize fear of fear right there. "I'm not afraid of it; therefore, I want to run it. That shows you."

The MEST universe goes backwards. He's got too much MEST universe in him. When he says do one thing, he does the opposite. That's a habit. And that is not an order lag time, that is an order lag reversal or an order reversal.

Now, as far as the rest of the family is concerned and his own terminals, you can double-terminal him up against other members of the family, and you'll just discharge everything, but you'll be much better if you just take all of his possessions and double-terminal them. And that last I recommend and the first I do not.

You'll find these things are solvable in forms of communications points. The fellow says, "Put out your communication points" and all the communication points go backwards. You solve that, you've solved his habits. You've solved all these various things that he couldn't control otherwise.

Take his possessions and double-terminal them, and those possessions, as far as life is concerned, would include his pets. But it wouldn't include any older people, any adults or any friends. It wouldn't include living beings beyond the level of a pet.

That is really the subject of auditing. Now, there's a great deal that you could practice; there's a great deal that you could know. There are a lot of techniques here. I'll give you just a brief rundown.

Double-terminal his MEST possessions and they'll discharge. Or simply make him mock up the MEST possession and turn it into him. Two methods, the last is more effective than the first.

You could double-terminal anybody or you can double-terminal any MEST object facing itself and the object will discharge and run out all of its aberrative content — that's all. You can double-terminal postulates — any postulate facing another postulate — and it will run out, desensitize. That's a technique.

You want to know how to get rid of his ideas and worries? Fellow comes in to you and he said, "Well, I get so worried you keep telling me to be this frog, but I can't be a frog because I keep worrying so much because of my wife, and I keep worrying; I just keep worrying and I keep worrying and I keep worrying."

You can put up two communication points up to the corners of a room and simply hold them there. And if you'll hold them there long enough, you'll come up to present time. That's another technique.

Well, what do you do with him? You just mock him up twice facing him-self and keep him — make him put mock-ups there, make him put mock-ups there and make him put mock-ups there and make him put mock-ups there, until he can finally get himself facing himself rather stably. Or he can get his wife facing herself rather stably. I don't care which you do.

Double-terminaling MEST objects — planets, suns, walls, furniture, cars and so forth — is really another technique, because it's so effective. All right.

And then, now you say, "Get both of those mock-ups worrying." And then he'll have to put them up some more and some up some more. And he'll start worrying and this one will start worrying and that one will start worrying and then he'll start worrying and then something else will start worrying and then you keep putting the mock-ups up and make them worry, make them worry, and so on.

The double-terminal of the corners of the room is merely a technique to get somebody to present time. It is not nearly as effective a technique as the last technique I'll mention, which is simply getting his anchor points carried in and out by him and by others, on a double terminal basis.

And as soon as you get two mock-ups out there your E-Meter is going to quiet right on down. As soon as he's really got two out there. And if he gets a sudden pain, he's only got one mock-up out there. He may tell you he had two, but at the moment he got that pain he only had one. You see why that is? Because he was using himself as one terminal.

And that, at this time, is the most effective technique which I know, because it brings the person up to knowing how to know, by restoring to him the ability to handle the only thing by which he can know: anchor points. And it solves the case and it solves his curiosity, and it solves his knowingness and it brings him into present time, and a lot of other things.

See, you can play with double terminals and get away with it. You can discharge. He doesn't like one of his possessions. Why doesn't he like it? He used to like it. He doesn't like it anymore. Have him mock it up twice facing itself. Just let it sit there. He mocks it up a few times and gets it there; mocks it up a few more times and . . . All of a sudden he says, "I don't — I don't care; I like it."

Now, you can interplay these techniques, however, and interuse these techniques to get yourself out of any sudden little difficulty you'll run into.

You say, "Okay."

He comes into session and he's so worried, he's just so worried, he's just so worried; he doesn't quite . . . So you say, "What are you worried about?"

What was the matter with this possession? Do you know? No, you don't. You don't give a darn. Easy auditing, huh? Real easy.

"Well, my boss, and so on and so on and so on."

Now, you'll have to remember this to some degree. When you make them flash in and out their anchor points, make them put their anchor points out and bring them in again, a couple of times — no matter how occluded they are, and make them try to go through the effort — you'll find some hidden scenery that will tell you about where they're parked on the track.

And you'd say, "Mock up the boss facing the boss."

Now, what do you do? Do you work this out as an incident? Do you double-terminal it? Do you double-terminal the personnel in it or anything like this?

"Well, that wouldn't help because it's something I don't know, you see? I mean, I don't know whether or not . . ." and so on.

This technique would be investigation of where stuck. And boy, how invaluable this would have been a couple of years ago, and now it's just nothing. That you get them to put out their anchor points and pull them in again. "What's the operation? How do you do this?" the fellow says.

Now, you say, "Mock up the boss facing the boss."

"Well, you just kind of get — reach way out from you and pull in again, and you reach way out and pull in."

"Oh, all right. Mock up the boss facing the boss."

And he says, "I get a picture of — I get a picture of my Aunt Isabel standing in front of me looking at me."

"You got him there?"

"Where are you?"

"Yeah."

"Ha, I guess I'm in her work basket. Yeah, I'm in her work basket."

"Now, mock up the office wall behind him versus the office wall behind him and get the boss too. Get the whole scene there facing the whole scene: the wall, the chair, the desk of the boss versus the wall, the chair, the desk of the boss. Get those facing that on a double terminal basis. You got that?"

You know where he is? He's in his childhood home, and that's normally where you'll find your preclear.

"Yeah, yeah, hmmm. What am I worried about this for? What are you doing this for? Why don't we get down and do something important on the case?"

So what do you do? You work with him on gradient scales to make him be his childhood home. He's — was the whole childhood home at one time, and then he lost it piece by piece. That was the process of getting educated. One by one, he lost every fragment of it. And of course he's stuck then, locked up and he can't be any part of it. And there's where all of his childhood memories are tied up. Where? They're in his childhood home.

"Well, it's because you're worried about the boss."

Well, why can't he get to them? Because he can't be his childhood home. Isn't that simple? There's why you have an occlusion in childhood.

"I'm not worried about the boss. What are you talking about? You must be crazy!"

Well, you just mock up a childhood home and have him change it. Change it to his hat. Now, here's the technique of when he can't do this immediate beingness change: change it to his hat, change it to his shoes, change it to his schoolbooks, change it to anything personally connected with the preclear, and then gradually, more and more, more and more, the preclear.

You can take any kind of a standard reaction on an individual, and do that with it, either by thought or by terminal. Then can you alter your own mental state of beingness at will? Yes, you sure can. Can you alter a preclear's at will? Boy, you've said it.

Now, do you have it changed to a little boy? No, remember we're — goal of auditing is present time. You just change it to him as a man as he sits right there. Right?

Now, how do you process a whole group of people? You could process them with Self Analysis, mock-ups only. Or you could process them very broadly on beingness. Let's double-terminal these things, and be them double-terminal, then, and be them.

He — now is he mocking up the childhood home in terms of a facsimile or present time? You'll find out he'll start mocking it up as a facsimile and it'll be way back on the track and then he'll mock it up in present time. It's — just follow that he will do this the more times he mocks it up.

And a guy doesn't have to be able to get two terminals on these things. And you say birds and bees and fish and chairs, and be a chair and be a light, and you just keep on with this for a long time with individuals.

What's that say? This just says convert whatever he's afraid to be in such a way as to be him.

Can they single-terminal these things safely? Yes. Because they always double-terminal them. That's a joke. Of course, they can single-terminal them because they can double-terminal them. Because they're a terminal and any-time they mock one of these things up you've got two terminals there, even though one is superimposed over the other, so it's always a double terminal. But it doesn't run out very well.

How do you use this in occupational therapy? Use this in occupational therapy by mocking up the person's tools and environment, and particularly the floor that he works on customarily, and convert it, if by gradient scales is necessary, making it be a little bit and then a little bit more and a little bit more, converting them into him. Turn the things with which he works and where he customarily is into him.

So you group process in terms of double terminal mock-ups, preferably of MEST objects, and preferably easy MEST objects to look at. And you give — if you're giving double terminal stuff, give quite a lag, quite a long time after your command, that you give the next command.

He works on a drill press. Have him mock up the drill press and say, "All right." Give him as few failures, you see, as possible. You say, "All right. Now turn this drill press into uh . . ." You could say, you know, "Just turn this drill press into you." But you'll find he won't be able to if he's worked there for years.

In other words, say, "All right, now let's be a wall. Now get a wall facing a wall. Any wall." Be satisfied to let it rest for a few minutes, and give your next one.

So what do you do? You'll say, "Well, turn this drill press into your hat." "Yeah."

"All right, be a chair facing a chair."

"Turn it into your shirt." "Yeah."

Not fast is it? But desperately effective, desperately effective, and that's what you want.

"Turn it into your pants." "Yeah."

Your optimum Group Process, however, is Self Analysis for large groups (very large groups) because it'll get them there, eventually.

"Turn it into your shoes." "Yeah."

Why? Because it's telling the thetan that he can do the one thing which he can do, and that's create.

"Turn it into a pile of clothing that's yours." "Yeah."

All right. Let that be a talk on this subject. I know that you're going to have success with these techniques. And I know this is very easy.

"Turn it into your body." "Yeah. Hey, what do you know, I feel better."

If anyone should ask you what you were doing and why you were doing this, and that the thetan is so-and-so and such-and-such, and they try to draw you into a big argument; they're trying to tell you there are hidden influences around someplace that tell you you shouldn't monkey with this, or something of the sort, all you have to do is drop a real slug on them and it just knocks off the whole conversation rather rapidly, and said, "Well, you see, we do happen to be freeing the human soul, and bringing salvation to an individual before he dies." That settles the argument.

He's to stand in front of something. Any time a fellow stands in front of something that long without it changing into something else, he knows he's wrong. That's what being wrong is. "I tried to change it and it changed me." Well that's "I'm wrong."

I want to thank you very, very much for your attention.

What's this process then? Very simple process. This isn't scrambled. Now, we'll break this all down and we'll tell you, first, what's the goal of the process? That goal is present time. Find present time.

Good night.

I'll tell you the simplest way to find present time that I know of. The simplest way I know of to make a preclear find present time. This is a technique, and this is one which you could do worse than using. And this fits right in with the battery we're doing right now. It's just as powerful as these techniques.

The way you find present time for the preclear is to make him put an anchor point out in that corner of the room, and that corner of the room. Don't care how occluded he is. You just say, "Reach out and try to feel those two corners of the room." Preferably corners which are even with his head. For instance, it would be better for him to put out two that were just little bit behind him than too far in front of him. So just have him sort of reach out and feel those corners of the room, the upper corners of the room.

"Yeah, I got that."

"Feel the upper corners of the room. Feel that one now."

He'd say, "I keep feeling this one easily, but I can't feel the other one." And you just say, "Keep trying to feel it; keep trying to feel it. Now, you finally got it? You finally got ahold of it?"

"Yeah, yeah."

And you say, "All right, now hold on to them and just examine them, and don't think."

And he says, "What?"

And you say, "Don't think."

You see, that's the mechanism which tells you he's out of present time. This constant stream of consciousness; this association; this figure-figure-figure-figure-figure that says, "Out of present time, out of present time, out of present time." He is at the prey of circuits. Even if his communication lag index is pretty good, he's liable to have a circuit that will give him an answer every four or five days. And he's in contact with these things, so all right.

Let's take a look, then. He's got ahold of these two corners of the room and you say, "Don't think." He's also got ahold of your E-Meter cans, I hope, because if he really is trying this, you'll be able to read it on the needle because things will clip him. Things will go jolt, jolt, but the needle will be fairly steady. It'll be steady, more or less, with a series of jerks.

Why will it be jerks? It's because he's letting go of all those facsimiles he's holding on to in the past, you see? He doesn't realize this. And if he goes on thinking, he's still holding on to them and you'll get a gradual rise or a gradual drop on the E-Meter and it will be behaving in a very orderly fashion and there won't be any jerks present. Those little jerks — snap, snap, snap — that means pain. And if he settles down into a "bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop," oh, he's — you've really got him into a stuck one and he's in the stuck one; he isn't feeling the corners of the room.

You just want that E-Meter needle sitting there pretty quiet, except for these occasional little jumps — bop! jump! jump! Every time he jumped, you'll see the preclear jump sometimes too, because he's getting hit.

What are you doing in this case? Well, you're just throwing up a couple of anchor points out there. This is the easiest technique you ever wanted to get into.

Don't double-terminal this one by the way, but just — that's present time, see? And you just have him feel that corner and you have him feel that corner, and you just have him keep on feeling those two corners. In other words, communicate with those two corners.

And he says, "But, I have to think!" He says, "All of a sudden" he said, "a voice has just turned on just down here below my face and it's screaming!" And you say, "Just go on holding to the corners of the room." That's all. He says, "But I can't. I can't figure out what this thing is!"

And you say, "That's it. Don't think. Just to hell with thinking. Just don't think. Just no — no — no think. No thinkee, see? No think! Just shut that off."

"Oh," he said, "I just have to grit my teeth just at the thought of having . . . Yeah," he says, "it's awful to have to stop thinking!"

You say, "Go on and hold to the corners of the room." Real sympathetic, see?

And he's locating present time. It's not a bad technique; it's a good technique. It really takes some concentration — some concentration on being nothing. You're asking him to be the only thing he can be: nothing. Simple?

All right, that technique of just locating present time can be used at your discretion, but your technique of beingness, mocked-up beingness — just telling him to be one thing after another thing, after another thing, after another thing, after another thing — will get there.

Any special thing? You do any figuring about this? You try to figure out where he is or anyplace? No, you can just keep up that.

You can throw in a few things. You know where he is, but he will eventually bail out. Preferably he's thinking in present time; that is to say, he's being in present time. His concentration is coming more and more into present time as he does this.

Or you can make him turn — you can make him mock things up and convert them into being him, which is an interesting technique. And you specialize on MEST universe objects; that is to say, a car rather than a man, a rock rather than another boy, see?

He's already convinced he can be a living being. Ninety percent of his time he's trying to be very selective as a living being so he can keep out of trouble.

Now, you'll find that you'll have to run a certain amount of people. He'll just demand it, that's all. So you just go on and you run a certain amount of people.

But you have him as his father for a while and you have him as his mother and you have him as his wife and you have him as something else.

You'll quite often find a preclear who is so fixed on the idea that he mustn't be Papa that you just can't get him off any other subject.

All right, so make him into Papa. Make him into Papa's shoes and make him into Papa's this and that, and finally get him to turn around with relaxation to where he can be Papa or not be Papa at will.

Because his habits and so forth demonstrate that he has a fear of turning into things. He does. He has a big fear of turning into things. And that fear of turning into things is — turns into a fear of perceiving, of course.

And don't be very surprised if your preclear says, "You know, I got a mock-up and it was almost alive and walking and three-dimensional! Ahhh! Ohhhh!"

You see, that's just on the same line of beingness. You see, he has a lot of fear of beingness, so don't think that that is something special. Actually, I don't know of anything special that can turn up on this line.

But this fellow who has dim mock-ups of course is afraid of being these things. That's all. It's so simple.

Now, how good can a mock-up get? Well, you'd be very amazed how good a mock-up can get with such a technique.

Any liabilities to this technique? No, no more than the liabilities — certainly less liability than in any other technique we have had.

Now, what do we do? Here we've got Matching Terminals. What's about these Matching Terminals and so on? Why have we been studying them if all you do is tell a guy to be and tell a guy to be and tell a guy . . . You're trying to make a Theta Clear, aren't you? That's still your goal. This guy isn't a body. You want him to know. You want him to figure it out so he can handle things; so he can be things; so he can perceive and so forth.

Do you notice what a Double Terminal does? You have two mock-ups facing each other and they start discharging one against the other, and if one of those mock-ups disappears, your preclear starts getting somatics. You can make this test just to prove it to you.

Furthermore, you'll find a lot of preclears, they think they can't put up a mock-up, because every time they put up a mock-up it snaps into them. It snaps into them so fast they don't even observe where it's going. It just disappears, disappears, disappears.

The remedy for it is to make more mock-ups. Any time you get an impersistence of mock-ups, make more mock-ups. Any time mock-ups persist too long, mock up two mock-ups — mock up another one like it — and it will discharge and run out. Those are the remedies.

So what about this Double Terminal? Why is this so important? We're not even going to use this in processing. What the hell has he been talking about it to us all this time for, anyhow? Now, what — what's this? You've been lead astray, you've been betrayed.

I'll tell you why. You've got to know about Double Terminals for this reason: Every time your preclear tries to walk out of his body, he's a double terminal. And his body starts to interact and discharge against the thetan. And the thetan, whatever the thetan is holding on to in the way of MEST, starts to interact and discharge against the body. And what happens to those two terminals? They close — snap!