Today, the last lecture day of the conference, we have been taking up SOP 8 and we’re going to take up Six Steps to Better Beingness, a technique I’ve been calling Triple SA. I find out it isn’t quite as apt to call it Triple SA as Six Steps to Better Beingness, so I find myself – keep calling it Six Steps to Better Beingness. That’s because, for heaven’s sakes, it is not entirely relegated to self-auditing. But it can be used, this technique, or this combination of techniques, for that.

This, the last hour of lecture of the congress has as its title, „The Uses and Future of Scientology.“ It should begin with a little bit of time track; that is to say, a little bit of past.

Now, as a preamble to this, let me assure you that any of these techniques – SOP 8, SOP 8-L, Six Steps to Better Beingness, Short 8 – are more or less fortunate combinations of techniques. These techniques were evolved in an effort to bring the preclear’s (and this is the secret of all of it; listen very carefully) – to take the preclear’s attention off of his body and put it on the environment.

The use of Dianetics was, at optimum, the resolution of problems of existence. This is a goal of Scientology, but Dianetics stressed problems and you will find people who favor problems rather than action staying with Dianetics; they broke it off right there, and I left them right there, mostly because we are interested in a science which returns motion and action to existence.

Introversion: the preclear’s attention on his body, in his body; extroversion: his attention elsewhere.

These cultures and societies do not have to be as dull as they are, where everybody is forced down into a supercontrol mechanism, compressed to a point where he doesn’t dare wiggle. It doesn’t mean that a return of motion in a society is a return to viciousness. You will find that viciousness, unethical conduct, rapaciousness, cruelty, so forth, are the product of a low tone, not a high one. You’ll find that people in high tone get into trouble mostly because they aren’t really specializing in how to hate.

All that’s wrong with anybody is that they get too introverted. Now in this wise, we use the word introvert simply to mean – gee, what does that word mean? Let’s break it down and give it a nice meaning. Paging Mr. Webster. „Vert“ would be a line, direction, so that you have a direction into, would be introvert And in our sense here, and in the sense it has always been used in what has laughingly been called „psychotherapy“ in the past… Very often they didn’t laugh though. I shouldn’t say that. Many of the patients who have been through past psychotherapies are in bad shape. They can’t laugh anymore; they have broken jaws or things like that.

You can make quite a deal out of how to hate, and when it winds up, at the end of it, the person who’s doing all the hating is putting himself into a nice, solid piece of MEST.

So anyway, „look into,“ so a person looking into self, that’s introversion.

Now, where we talk about, then, broad „love,“ this mawkish horrible concept of: „You’ve got to love your neighbor, you son of a gun, or we’ll beat your ears in and fry you for an eternity.“ No, let’s not worry about love that dose to hate.

A person looking out from self to the environment would be extroversion.

Admiration betokens in itself a kind of respect It borders on liking, admiring – it’s a much, much better word than love. Love all too often is a compulsive passion which devours the very young, and they go and starve to death and blow their brains out and pine and sigh and learn ridiculous dances. And this is love.

All people are on a gradient scale of extroversion-introversion. It is optimum in this society at this time to have, I would say, about 80 percent of the attention on self to see that one behaves socially and 20 percent not further than two or three feet from the nose. And if one can assume this rather impacted state, he is then considered extremely acceptable socially because he’s in apathy and can be handled by the environment.

They don’t even see the person to whom they have attached their sentiment They don’t even know that person is there. They’re „in love!“

Don’t think that a 50 percent introversion and a 50 percent extroversion is optimum. Just because it’s happy to break these two words down (they’re two words so we break them in half), don’t think that’s Optimum; it isn’t We want a maximum of about 2 percent introversion and about 98 extroversion.

Admiration, a heavy level of admiration, betokens a sort of respect If you really admired somebody – if you really admired somebody, you’d have to have some understanding of existence and some understanding of him or her. And believe me, it would have a lot more pleasantness and a lot more duration than this thing called „love.“

You want the fellow to keep enough finger on the body so that it doesn’t run away. Bodies are very obedient. People have been made to obey and made to survive so much and with so much force that they’ve gotten the idea that they have to work very hard to make their body obey. Papa and Mama did, didn’t they? They had to work very hard to make this body obey, so therefore people think they have to work hard to make it obey, too. And they also think they have to work very, very hard to survive. And they don’t have to work hard to survive. As a matter of fact, the harder they work just to survive and nothing else, why, the less they’re going to survive, and that’s a certainty – the less happy they’re going to be about it All right.

And I used the word love just as it’s used in the society today and also as it’s used by the Christian church, whatever might have happened to that in the last few centuries.

A technique, then, is at optimum, according to this definition, which produces an extroversion in the minimum amount of time. And by extroversion here, we mean an extroversion which is stable.

Admiration: to admire existence, to find interest, pleasant interest or pleasant excitement in life itself, its motion and action; to be able to respect and admire livingness in a thing rather than to trap and cage that livingness for possession. And that would be the difference between love and admiration.

Of course, you walk up to anybody who has been processed, hit him in the face with a baseball bat, he will introvert. He will look at where he’s been hit with the baseball bat, and that is the process of introversion. It isn’t people standing around saying, „You ought to look at yourself; you ought to put your attention on yourself.“ That’s what they’re saying all the time. Mama says, „Now, don’t touch that iron and don’t do this and don’t do that Think of what it might do to you and you don’t want to get hurt,“ and so forth. This is all another way of saying, „Put your attention on yourself.“

A thing which is loved has to be trapped and caged, and a thing which is admired is a thing which you would like to see free. There’s all the difference in the world, then, between a top-scale emotion like admiration and a bottom-scale emotion like love. Love is down there with hate, so dose to it that they flip like a gambler’s card. Passionate devotion – very, very passionate devotion – where it does not include observation, is love; devotion, where it does include observation, would be admiration.

In most arguments, people start in logically and end up personally. They start in saying, „Well I’m a Democrat because…“ and then they finally finish up (something logical, you see), „… and you’re a dog!“ Not because of anything, you see. That is the course of an argument.

There’s nothing wrong with loyalty, there’s nothing wrong with honesty. Very strange thing, but in most men’s minds today, they wonder how it is that anybody can see any advantage in honesty or decency – any of these things. It doesn’t pay. One gets it, to be colloquial, in the neck for honesty, decency, fair play. If, in this society today, you go out on the line and you say insistently and continuously, „Let’s be honest Let’s try to carry forward as best we can. Let’s help our fellows and let’s keep going and give the best service we possibly can give to everyone,“ you wouldn’t think that that attitude would be questioned or fought.

Well, the course of the argument of a life form and the MEST universe is just that course. He starts in and he has his anchor points way out, and the MEST universe starts to work on him. And it gives him the idea that his anchor points are in closer and in closer and in closer and in closer and in closer and… „What anchor points?“ That’s the end of it „What anchor points?“

Too many men know that that sort of an attitude is immediately received by a slap back. People who are low on the Tone Scale are in cruelty, and so on. They’re so thirsty, so hungry for admiration, for space, for anything, that they take someone who is acting like that, and they chew him up and spit him out if they can. The whole answer to the problem – believe me, the whole answer to the problem is just be too big a mouthful!

Now, the eight dynamics – never more useful than right now – the eight dynamics carry forward an expanding perimeter. Dynamic eight just happens to include all the space of the MEST universe! That’s all the space of the MEST universe.

Now, when I say that a person has to be able to have control of force and to be able to use force in order to be responsible, please don’t interpret that, that a person uses force. You have to be able to. To go up through all the dynamics does not mean that you have to be and run and address and consider every facet of every dynamic You just have to be in a state of mind which is willing to be.

Well, you know that your anchor points aren’t reaching out there now, even though you probably have some anchor points out there someplace.

Force is sitting there at about 20.0 on down. You get up above force, you don’t need force. The second that you get into flows – you start running concepts and things and ridges and energy in its raw masses – you’re getting into flows. And when you get into flows, you become the effect of flows, just as a person getting into too many engrams becomes the effect of engrams.

Dynamic seven is anchor points into the ultimate or absolute of life, and of course includes spirits and all that sort of thing, and that’s dynamic seven.

An effect is not cause; it is the thing upon which cause operates. A little while ago, I picked up a glass and moved it over here. That glass was effect It was responding perfectly and completely to a cause. It was the most effect that you can get, just about.

Dynamic six, again, is the MEST universe. And it, however, is the MEST universe in a little more specialized wise, since it includes all the energy and motion and matter and forms of the MEST universe. It just doesn’t include dynamic eight, which is all the space in the MEST universe.

A person has to be somewhat an effect in the universe in order to be here at all. It’s when a person is afraid to be an effect that he’s starting to get into trouble. And so, in using the material of Scientology, the first step would be to get up to a consideration where one has a willingness to be, not that one has to be. He has to be willing to be.

Now, we go back from that, we get five. Here is all the life there is in the MEST universe.

There is a high level of tolerance. This can easily be mistaken at the bottom of the Tone Scale for abject surrender. When one wants to see life in a happier and higher state, it doesn’t mean that he’s propitiating all existence. He can admire the struggles that are going forward – appreciate them – and on the computation of the eight dynamics, try to resolve the problem in terms of the maximal survival for the maximal number of dynamics. And that’s an optimum solution and always will be.

We get four, all the man there is; three, all the group there is; two, all the sex and continuation as children that there is and one, all of you that there is.

And it doesn’t consist of very much hating; it consists of a lot of admiring. When you can honestly say you love human beings – not compulsively have to – you will heave quite a sigh of relief about the whole thing. They’re bad, they’re wicked, they have dirty noses, they carry diseases around, they fight back at you. You try to patch up a gaping throat that somebody has cut, and the first thing the person does whose throat you have patched up is to get up and bite you. Again, be too big a mouthful; that’s the only answer.

Now, if a person were all the way up on all of these dynamics, he would naturally have an enormous perimeter.

Life acts like that It fights. It has tremendous strength and potentials. It is an enormously – enormously wonderful manifestation. And when one can see what it is doing, he can understand what it is doing – all he has to do is look at it.

But you notice that you can fall off on each dynamic. In other words, a person could fall off on each dynamic, so he still had a little bit left of each one. Each dynamic has a reducing perimeter.

By golly, once in a while you’re walking down the street, and you see in this dirty coal-strewn walk, you see some green grass growing out through the crack, and you say, „For heaven’s sakes, life, how did you ever get there?“

Now, this is an interesting thing. What I’m giving you here doesn’t happen to be a theoretical explanation. You can ask a preclear how far he can reach from himself, and if he’s – very, very terrible condition, he can’t.

Well, once in a while you see something that has made good on a struggle of that magnitude, and you sort of want to reach in there and pick it up and put it over to a place where it can grow a lot better. That’s actually the boat to some degree, I find myself in with man. He can sure grow a lot better. He sure can.

A fellow – he told me the other day about a lady who couldn’t sweep, couldn’t work, couldn’t dean up anything. And the reason why: she couldn’t touch anything, couldn’t touch a broom. So her hands were sore all the time. Gee, she was in interesting condition, wasn’t she?

When some fellow who is all full of ginger – he’s all set to go in life, and he’s all ready to make a tremendous success out of things in all directions. And all of a sudden the army grabs hold of him and puts a rifle in his hands and tells him to go over and shoot a fellow he’s not been introduced to – and he lives in the mud And he gets out of the army, and he’s so used to people saying, well, „squads east“ and „squads west,“ that he doesn’t know what he’s doing. Here they’ve put all the youth of America today up against becoming-all the young men – up against becoming soldiers when they’re eighteen. They’re not good soldier material. Soldiers are born, and they’re not in the highest percentage in the populace.

And he was sharp enough to see that this person couldn’t touch work; anything connected with work was untouchable. Work, an ability to handle effort, in other words, is a common denominator.

And there are many fellows who get a tremendous thrill out of being a soldier. They just love this idea of being a soldier; they like to obey orders. They go around – as long as this is running this way, fine – they like to be disciplined, punished. Doesn’t matter to them. They’re being a soldier, and that’s what they’re supposed to be doing. Nowadays, you only find that in the Marine Corps.

In this society, we have work and play mixed up. The handling of effort which gives one some pleasure is play. Right here on Earth there are much older cultures than the United States of America which find the handling of effort, in what you would call work, a great deal of pleasure – cultures where this is uniformly held to be true. They’re in good shape. So there’s something special and peculiar about the language or cultural pattern of the United States which saves labor, condemns labor and won’t have any labor, and has to work forward toward a retirement, which is actually the center pin of what is, if anything is, destroying this culture – just effort, the unwillingness to handle effort.

When you look at life, you realize that a certain amount of discipline, a certain amount of punishment, a certain amount of agony is bred to life – it’s randomity. But when you have given your allegiance to a species or a culture, and it comes up against bumpers on the track, and it’s slowing down, slowing down, slowing down, and it’s starting to lose its sense of direction, you’re sure entitled to do something about it.

Well, as the willingness to handle effort dwindles, one comes at last on the reduced perimeter which he finds in a psychotic who has his attention not even out as far as his nose. You ask a psychotic, then, to reach a couple of feet from him and you will begin the course of his upward line.

You’re sure entitled to disturb what it is laughingly railing self-determinism – you sure are. And that in essence (perhaps not too well thought out a concept because it isn’t something about what you think), that’s more or less what I envision a Scientologist is doing: getting the wheels turning, getting the show on the road and keeping a culture from falling on its face.

There is a direct relationship toward amount of space embraced by the individual and the alertness, ability to move, ability to act, react, think, create and sanity – there is a direct relationship between the amount of space that a person can occupy with his anchor points. The amount of space he can occupy is tremendously important, so important that one could phrase the effort of low-toned people in trying to take space away from other people. Low-toned people try to take space away from other people. They’re „space hungry.“

I’ve written down here a few things, it should be very, very exaltedly written in beautiful English or something of the sort, but it’s not It’s just a few things that I thought of in connection with „What is a Scientologist?“

Here you have an entire universe completely chockablock space – more space than you could comfortably walk over for a long time and actually more space than you could comfortably throw a dollar across. And yet, here they are, fighting madly to take each other’s space. Well, this is merely because prepared space is so much more desirable than space which has not been prepared – which is to say, space which has mock-ups in it is better space than empty space. But nevertheless, these people are just „space hungry.“

I would say he was somebody who brought light and humanity to man and his sciences because man neglected to bring humanity in when he brought in science.

And you see somebody who can’t handle space, he is certainly – at a certain level of the Tone Scale on down – he is certainly trying to take people’s space away from them.

There’s nothing at all wrong with physics, chemistry or mathematics, electronics or anything else, until some little slap-happy guy who doesn’t even know he has a next-door neighbor, decides that the machine is far more important than men.

A psychotic in a very manic, emotional, mad state, simply acts mad and moves a great deal and moves frighteningly and horribly, in that last frantic effort to get at least a couple of cubic inches of space off the nurse or something.

And when he decides that, the Scientologist, of course, has a perfect right to shoot him. Anyway… (laughter)

Space is treated by an individual as a commodity, and when a person thinks he’s running out of space, he gets in bad condition. This explains the New Yorker. The New Yorker has an awful time – your taxi driver up there and so forth, they have an awful time the second that they really confront and begin to think about the amount of space. And up to the time when they don’t consider that their space is anything remarkable or that space is, they don’t feel pushed around, why, they’re perfectly happy, because it’s ample space for them. They own all the space in New York. Then somebody comes along and says, „You don’t own all the space in New York.“ One of the ways they do that is to run into them. Another cab runs into this cabdriver hard enough and this demonstrates to him that he hasn’t got as much space.

A Scientologist is a trouble-shooter – a trouble-shooter. Do you know that people get into trouble they can’t get out of, with great… Suddenly, life’s going along, they’re doing all right, and suddenly the gates sort of drop across the time track, and they just can’t get out of that much trouble. Well, nobody in the past could get a person out of that much trouble. Here’s a fellow, he’s going along all right, the baby is born, his wife has, all of a sudden, dizzy notions that she ought to kill the child. He’s in too much trouble. His life for the next thirty, fifty years is going to be a burden to him.

The cooperative ownership of space is really the only solution life can have because the individual ownership of space is a very difficult thing.

Well, a Scientologist can very well do something about that But that isn’t all. What about the fellow who just thought it was wonderful to go around and have big adventures and, all of a sudden, found himself falling into the traps of criminality? Nobody would let him have any adventure. And he found out he couldn’t have any adventure, and he finally sunk down to the level of being a criminal.

Little children own space cooperatively with everybody in town. You have them go around, and they’ll talk about „my city hall,“ they’ll talk about „my this“ and „my that“ It’s – all belongs to them because they’re not thinking in terms of ownership.

What right does this society have to keep men in cages? Well, I’ll tell you what right it has. None! A Scientologist can do something about that, very definitely.

Where ownership enters – the whole connotation of ownership – where this enters, a person has immediately begun to believe that somebody else can own space. And the second he buys the idea that somebody else can own space then he realizes that to secure his space he has to own the space which he already has. And so you get barbed wire fences – you get barbed wire fences in the end of the state of Texas. People are starting to nail down space.

He’s a trouble-shooter for the individual, for children, the family and the political and economic group. He knows what life’s about; he knows whether it’s on its rails or it’s off the rails. He knows whether a corporation is failing or not failing, simply by estimating its level on a Tone Scale. How simple. What’s the state of internal communications of a corporation? Well, if you just look at that, „What’s the state of your interoffice communications around here, boss?“

Up to the time when the barbed wire fence moves in, a country is much freer. And after the barbed wire fences moved in – people begin to worry and worry and worry about more – more and more about space, space, space. And then, finally, somebody starts putting in county lines and roads and road markers, and they start surveying out small plots of ground-forty acres and so forth – and the tone of the country is coming down, coming down. And then they get to a point where they have towns and cities and big buildings, and the tone of the country is dropping further and further and further. And when the tone has come down to a point where they establish a university, they’re gone.

„What interoffice communications?“

Anyway, the little red schoolhouse is the big space robber. They take the whole big beautiful outdoors away from this little kid. You know, they speak of – they should be ashamed of taking candy away from the baby. Ah! Take all the candy you want away from a baby, but don’t take the space away from a kid by putting him in school. He’ll become like us.

You say, „Well, I’ll give this company about six months.“ That’s about it It’ll drag along that way. Here will be a lot of guys out of work, suddenly. Here’s management not taking its responsibility like it should. That’s the economic group.

By the time you have put somebody in a limited space for an awful long space of time (that was a terrible picture, by the way), by the time you put somebody in a limited space for a long while, he’s getting more and more fixed, more and more fixed, more and more fixed in his space relationships. But don’t do this to him: don’t put him in limited space and then make him suppress all white because he will eventually vanish out of existence what anchor points he has.

And what about a political group? Well, there isn’t too much you can do about political groups because they come and they go. But, there is one thing about the world today which is intensely interesting, is that the two parasitic groups of the world are at war, one with the other. There are two parasitic groups in the world today which are at war with each other, and which are causing more commotion – everybody’s so flabbergasted, they don’t quite know what’s happening. And one of them is communism, the other is capitalism.

So don’t put him in the position of small space and suppress white because if he gets into that kind of a situation, he’ll become normal. That’s exactly what you do when you read. You suppress white and let the black come in.

Communism is a military aristocracy which depends upon the worker, and capitalism is a money aristocracy which depends upon the worker, and the guy who is going along and – is the manager. The manager, the worker and the people who service the managers and workers – that’s the society. Those are three groups.

You can run after an explosion – if you suddenly had a big explosion out here in the street, you could run out in the street and just listen to what people were asking each other, and they would say, „What is the significance of that?“ That’s all blackness is. And that’s all the mystery there is, is „What is the significance of that explosion?“

Everything just goes along fine; there’s the manager – the entrepreneur, the fellow who manages things, the foreman. And then there’s the fellow who’s really got his hands on the tools and who’s building things. And then there’s that vast class of tradesmen and wives and motion-picture-show operators, and all these other people that service the worker. He won’t get anyplace servicing managers, there aren’t enough of them.

The first space was formed by explosive anchor points. Now, we see how this is. We see, then, that we get a dwindling spiral because the more space suppression there is, the more a person has to think about it because he can’t have the other space, he can just think of how it looks. So you get more and more suppression, and you get more and more thinkingness, and as you get less space, they think more – and less space, they think more and more and more. And then they figure, figure, figure, figure, figure, figure, figure, figure, figure and they’re – become a stockbroker or something. Figure, figure, figure, figure, figure. They become a philosopher.

So you have these three operating groups, and they’re just going along splendidly until a military aristocracy comes in and says at the point of a pistol, „We are now going to sit down and you’re going to feed us, on account of we can shoot, and it’s in the law that we can shoot and you can’t.

Every once in a while somebody says to me – somebody says to me, „What makes you think up all this?“ Well, as a matter of fact, I don’t think up all this. It’s one of the remarkable things about it. There is no think-up, actually, in connection with this. If this were going on a figure, figure, figure, it would have taken an – many, many years and years and years and years and years – oh, I’d say another hundred years or two, to have gotten all this sifted out, if it was going to get sifted out at all.

And the other one is the fellow who says, „I control all the buying power of the entire community, therefore you are all slaves.“

But that isn’t the evolution of it The evolution of this is: You know what it is, and then you don’t know the language in which to express it, and then you don’t know how bad off people are, and then you don’t know how all this goes together. But here we have what? We have highly specialized applications and highly specialized communication systems.

Those are two political groups today that aren’t letting us do too well on the world at large. Our income taxes today are directly attributable – this big mock-up between these two parasitic forces, capitalism and communism.

So looking at it from freedom of space at a constriction of space, the problem is solvable. But believe me, and if you don’t believe anything else I say, at least listen to this: Trying to solve a problem from constricted space to find open space is impossible, and that’s why the problem wasn’t solved in universities. They sit in constricted space and try to imagine what wide space is. It can’t be done.

Who cares about either one? Karl Marx blew up capitalism in 1870 and unfortunately raised the standard of communism at the same time. Now, we read about it in the newspapers every morning. I’d rather read a good column of jokes.

If they really had wanted to solve the problem of the mind, they would have gone off and sat on Pikes Peak for a while. The Hindu does that I learned that when I was a kid, the terrific effect of suddenly going out into the wilderness and talking to nobody and seeing nothing for just days and days and days and days – fourteen days. And your anchor points keep going out, out, out, out And after a while, you don’t see any significance at all in life. There just isn’t You’re animate; you’re happy.

The Scientologist can remedy and rectify conditions unfavorable to the survival of desirable life forms – conditions unfavorable to the survival of desirable life forms. He has to make up his mind what’s a desirable life form. Well, he always has things that he’s siding with. Right now, you’re siding with man, therefore flies aren’t desirable.

Well, that is the direction from which we’ve been trying to solve the problem – at least, has been from outer space, trying to look into a constricted space and find out what was going on.

And he remedies and rectifies conditions favorable to the survival of undesirable life forms – favorable to the survival of undesirable life forms. They tell you if you had mosquitoes all over the place here or had them all over Jersey, it’d be a pretty good project to go out some Sunday with some kerosene cans and throw some kerosene on those ponds and, boy, the mosquito population would suddenly take a nose dive. That’s well within your purview, because it’s part of the contest of man and life against the environment of the MEST universe. And some forms of life have taken it into their minds that they must be the only thing that eats. And when you get a form of Me which takes that into its mind – that it’s the only thing that’s going to eat, and it’s not going to let anything else eat, anywhere – that’s bad, that’s real bad. What’s bad and what’s good? Well, that happens to be bad.

And this has been a problem, mainly, of communication. You will find, for instance, lectures in 1950 that talk about the reducing perimeter of the dynamics and so on. Well, it wasn’t intelligible – insufficiently intelligible for application and insufficiently understood in application, as far as I was concerned, to make it intelligible.

When the capitalist says, „I am the only one that can have two Cadillacs,“ shoot him. (chuckles) If a guy running a machine press down there is producing good stuff, and so forth, let him have a Cadillac, too. What’s the matter with that? Nothing. Not a thing. But it wouldn’t be a distinguishing badge that somebody could wear as he drove down the street.

This is mainly a problem of finding out what anchor points do or don’t, but mainly – is there anything desirable in constricted space? Yes, yes, you can constrict space, but for heaven’s sakes, as a person, as a being, don’t get into a situation – don’t get into a situation where you see everything as a constriction, and where everything has to be constricted or it has no value at all. If you get into that sort of an idea about life – that it’s all got to be close up – you’ve got to have a small office; you’ve got to have a small classroom; that you have to be in a car all the time in order to move through space at all and so forth, watch out, because you’re really hitting the roily coaster.

Understand, I’m not beating the drum for either of these two insanities; I’m just trying to talk about something that’s pretty good sense. And neither one of these are good sense, I assure you. I know both of them – and they’re just not good sense. I’ve been up to my ears in CPs and capitalists both. Tck. Too high; I almost drowned.

Every once in a while, why, take a look and find out how far away it is to something or other, but look all the way to something or other. Try to go out sometime and look at the stars. And just take a look at the stars and then put an anchor point alongside of one.

Now, a Scientologist is a counselor for problems of culture. Isn’t that a nice broad statement? Well, the funny part of culture is, culture consists of the productivity, the art forms. Here’s where you would enter that immediately. You might know of a Broadway stage starlet who was doing fair – just fair, you see, a little too self-conscious. You go to a show, you see this little girl; looks like she’d do all right, but she just isn’t up there anyplace. You got to have enough brass to go back of the scenes and pull her up the Tone Scale and make an actress out of her. You’re helping culture when you’re doing that.

You know, traditionally, you’re supposed to look at the stars in this fashion: You’re supposed to look at the stars and realize how insignificant you are. No, you look at the stars and put out a couple of anchor points.

You would be amazed today, for instance, that there are forms of culture out across the world which are astonishing in their beauty, which still survive over many centuries, so on. Somebody’s helping them along. And they’re really all that’s left of an entire flourishing race – these forms of art are still there, and practically nothing else is. If you want to deal with survival in the raw, deal with art forms.

In the matter, then, of Six Steps to Better Beingness, we have a technique which doesn’t entirely – its design doesn’t entirely do this, but which will probably be changed somewhat here and there, and will do this – which alternates the attention from the mind to the environment, from the environment to the mind, from the mind to the environment In other words, we invite an introversion and then go into an extroversion, see, and in such a way, try to knock off the things which are keeping the preclear from being well extroverted. You see, there’s the modus operandi which should be behind any such technique.

Another thing a Scientologist could be is a counselor for those responsible for the conduct and planning of political and economic groups. You know, there’s an awful lot of fellows around that are carrying a terrific weight on their backs. They just don’t think there’s anything at all could possibly help them out.

And you can just put this down as the basic technique of techniques – is „Put your attention on yourself now.“ „Now put it on the walls of the room.“ „Now put your attention on yourself.“ „Now put it on the lamp.“ „Now put your attention on yourself.“ „Now put it on the sun.“ See, that would be the technique, I mean, that’s…You know, I talked and talked and talked for three years trying to boil that down to a sentence, and I just did it.

If they really thought you could help them out, your first interview with them would be, well, no, they didn’t want any of that „What is it? Soap?“ If they really knew you could help them out, boy, boy, you’d be right in there. These guys need help.

Well, that alternation then pulls loose a person’s attention units, both where they’re stuck out there (remember they are stuck out there, you see) and where they’re stuck in here.

Somebody said one time, „The world is carried on the backs of a few desperate men.“ Very probably true. If you find any of these desperate men, why, give them just a little more back.

Now, the one thing a person won’t have – you know, you go around and you say, „I have been betrayed. My parents betrayed me and others-people betrayed me.“ You know, people will talk about being betrayed, but they don’t talk about being ridiculed. Just put that down very significant to the whole problem. You have people all around who have their anchor points so close in to their noses that they can’t see you. And these people would then perforce – not because it’s the dwindling spiral or necessarily the operation of the universe – these people would much rather have their anchor points in dose than way out there because they know they haven’t got force enough, they think, to guard an anchor point way out there. Well, what’s that say then in terms of thought? They’re more afraid of ridicule than they are of betrayal Ridicule is much worse than betrayal, infinitely worse.

A Scientologist would be a teacher of doctrines useful in the tasks of survival – things like concepts of the eight dynamics, the basic drives of existence.

That’s why your preclear doesn’t laugh, that’s why he doesn’t line charge. He can’t laugh. Laugh is a symptom of ridicule. Laughter gets perverted and ground down and smashed in and a few other things happen to it and has a nasty habit of becoming a ridicule. And this – he’ll just lump this whole thing together. There’s good, wide, healthy laughter and all that sort of thing, but he can’t see anything in a laugh, let’s say, but ridicule.

I had a fellow tell me one time – is, „You know, you have no idea what the impact of that first article was.“ He says, „I was in bed. I’d been sick for a long time, and I read the first article and I got out of bed. I said to hell with being sick.“ He didn’t get any processing. He just suddenly integrated life, and there he had something. He understood it better and he got well.

Now, if you want anybody to get the emotion of shame, embarrassment or being ridiculed – shame and embarrassment, that’s the result of having been ridiculed – all you have to do is get him with the idea that somebody has some possession of his and is holding it out many feet away from him and won’t let it come back. You can just get a preclear to get this idea, and after a while he gets terribly nervous, and shame and embarrassment and stage fright and all sorts of things turn on as a consequence.

The doctrines all by themselves have a potency which you shouldn’t neglect Somebody comes in and sits down, you process them for a little while and they go away. They think they know what Scientology is. No, they don’t know what it is. It’s a codification of an understanding of existence which is assimilable by man.

You take somebody who actually has his anchor points way in – he tells you immediately that he has a terrible vulnerability.

A Scientologist would be a social catalyst dedicated to the mission of raising the standards of happiness of man and bringing him to recognize his brotherhood with the universe.

But the reverse situation could theoretically occur, but I do not know that it exists. Theoretically, there could be the person who has his anchor points so posed that he won’t have one in. You see, he wouldn’t have an anchor point up close to him. Now, that person might exist; it might be the symptom at the bottom of the very, very thin person. He won’t have an anchor point up dose to him. Might account for the lankiness of Texans or something of the sort Now, I haven’t explored that, but you may find that to be the case.

A Scientologist would be a leader in man’s conquest of his environment, and that’s about the summation that I would care to make of it.

Well, he obviously is much fonder of ridicule than he is of betrayal. Betrayal is worse to him than ridicule, and you’d find that in his makeup. But betrayal is usually the favored one. They will talk about being betrayed, but they will not talk very much about being ridiculed.

That’s a lot of things. It’s very easy – very, very easy to be or do many of those things. Let’s look at the eight dynamics, and we find out that as soon as one is much more willing to be the first dynamic – much more willing – he gets interested in kids, he gets interested in groups, so on. And the truth of the matter is that this universe is a tremendously interesting place. One has to talk about it being a mean place once in a while simply because nobody will agree with him about anything else.

Now, how do you get a person to feel the emotion of having been betrayed and everything connected with that emotion? Just get him to hold his anchor points insufferably dose to him or get him to feel that they have been driven in on him hard.

One can make – is capable of making a universe of his own, certainly. That’s para-Scientology, that’s something that’s a little bit out of our ken when we’re dealing with this universe alone. We needn’t worry about that Because you’ll find that you probably (and probably the majority of your preclears) will come upscale in motion – in terms of motion alone – up to the point where you are no longer able to stay disinterested. It’s a tremendously interesting universe.

You wonder why a society which was moving fast over rather insecure roads would eventually become relatively paranoid and run into the „only one“ computation easily. A society which is moving around in large vehicles which do not themselves necessitate putting out any anchor points, rather than a glance at a road sign once in a while, would have a tendency to run into the „only one“ computation.

You get into motion; you get into action. You can remember times when you were a kid, when life just looked too doggoned deliciously beautiful to be left alone. So you could feel like that again if you worked at it And what do you think will happen to you when you find life is just too good to be left alone? You’ll start living it Wherever you suddenly moved into that phase and stayed there, you’ll hit it a few times and then miss it A little more processing, and you’ll start to hit it more constantly and away you’ll go.

Why? Well, every town is coming up on them this way – every new landmark, every new circle, every signpost is coming right up to them, up to them, and if they claim those as their anchor points, it’s apparent to them that their anchor points are being driven in.

And all too many with this knowledge will just sort of forget about it and go into complete motion and the dickens with it They won’t say very much about it – all too many. But a great many of them will.

You find somebody driving a vehicle who cannot easily keep his anchor points up ahead of him about a mile or two. That is to say, he can’t include all the space in front of him. If this – you find this person unable to do that, he is getting in the direction of a bad driver. One of these days he’ll have an accident That’s just because of this smash-in of anchor points. They aren’t his anchor points, and he owns all of them anyhow, but he’s restricted by the road. And the road is a great evaluator, believe me; it restricts a person into one channel.

I don’t advocate at any time that a person spend the rest of his life working other people through processing. This would be a poor prospect, to spend the next fifty, ninety, two hundred years (however long you’re going to live, we won’t go into that just now) spending – nothing but sitting down-processing somebody who is sitting down. That would be real rough.

Every once in a while you’ll find a preclear who has, up in front of his nose, some kind of a long stripe. It goes way out in front of him. He’s got this idea, see? I shouldn’t say this is common; it’s very, very rare – not over 90 percent of people have it (laughter) And this long stripe, if he’ll just unroll it, is a road; that’s all it is. It’s not an electronic or anything else; it’s just a road from this life. It’s all the points off of all the roads that he’s been trying to stop.

It’s not near as hard to process a number of people at the same time. That’s a fact You can process a lot of people much easier than one person. That’s why I say groups are very good. Yet one might very well find, for years to come, a great deal of interest and satisfaction in processing individuals. That’s all very well, too. But remember there’s a lot of other things that you can do. And if you start concentrating all the time upon the unable and the sick, you really won’t be in there pitching hard for the culture at large. You should be pitching an optimum solution, and that’s not working continually in favor only of those who are incapable.

Now, when a person has an accident, he has already decided he’s going to go down this road, and the road reevaluated for him; it stopped him. He stopped before he arrived. Then you’ll find this person later on unable to get in a taxicab until it’s actually there. You’ll find them unable to get ready until the time has arrived that they should be there. You will find them unable to keep an appointment; they will always be late for the appointment Why is that? They can’t arrive. There are people who cannot start and people who cannot finish.

The society is running because of capable people. There’s a lot of things can be done for it – tremendous numbers of things can be done for it I have found man relatively deficient in imagination as to what to do, but it’s a case of case, again. I found people unwilling to go out – most people are unwilling simply to stop somebody in a lobby or on a street and just say, „Come to my office or come to my home tomorrow. I’m going to give you some Dianetic processing. I’m going to give you some Scientology processing,“ either one.

And the common one in this society, because of its transport problems and so on is people can’t arrive. They’re tremendous starters but terrible finishers. They can’t get there.

You’ll be surprised what happens. You should do it They don’t bite. They’re tame dogs. Their motion is practically stopped. They can’t even snarl.

If, for a few days however one – this rights very easily – if one just for a few days made up his mind to be there every time, he’d find his whole mental aspect shifting on him. His whole idea is he can’t arrive, that’s all. That’s because he can’t get there geographically.

You say to them – here’s this fellow, he’s a road foreman. And you see him out there, and he’s been trying to build roads for a long time. Believe it or not, the fellow is scarce. There aren’t many of the people that can do that kind of a job or stand up to it, and so on. Where, if you were to take that fellow and sit him down and run him through Six Steps to Better Beingness and a few other things, snap him back up to it again, boy, what a difference it’d make to his crew. And what a difference it would make to the continuation of that road, because they start fighting a road hard enough so that they stop them in building, eventually. You see how that could be?

Also, if he can’t arrive, he can’t return, and, oh, it gets very complex.

It depends to a large degree upon initiative and imagination, but you have the tools with which to bring yourself to a level of such initiative and imagination if you do not have it already. Therefore, life at large, is actually waiting for you with open arms.

Now, you see, then, what our goal is here. It’s just to give the pc more space. Or sometimes, theoretically, you’ll run into a preclear who has too much space and he can’t withdraw from it But if he has that computation, the one where he doesn’t have enough space is there, too, and is the more significant one.

And who will thank you? You will thank yourselves; that’s the only person that can thank you. As soon as you run Admiration Processing for a little while, you’ll find out the horrible thing of it is, is you expect admiration from this environment MEST happens to be incapable of delivering admiration, and most men are so dried out when it comes to admiration that there isn’t any flowing. And women specialize more in pulling their anchor points in than pushing them out That’s because of the nature of the construction of the body.

Everybody, to some slight degree, is in this computation. He can’t withdraw from a certain piece of space. Somebody has something of his.

Where are you going to get admiration from, from man anyway? From your own bank You’re your own paymaster and you always will be. And yet it’s a lot of fun at the same time to mock yourself up, complete with the MEST mock-ups, of being thanked. That’s all right, as long as you don’t suddenly start to feel you have to have it And that’s like the drunkard who has to have another drink And believe me, all he ever becomes is an alcoholic. An admiholic, I guess you would call somebody…

The fellow whose emotions shut off the day the girl jilts him should be no mystery to you now. Somebody has got one of his anchor points, and he’s occupying too much space in connection with it And when you’ve got too much space, you can’t have an emotion. An emotion is actually a condensation of looking, and looking requires space. So he can’t get his lookingness condensed enough to have an emotion because somebody has Bertha over in Hog County.

So, on the uses and future of Scientology, one can look at an entire universe, but he looks at a universe not of speculation but of action. You don’t have to think twice or give notice to people who are thinking about it People who are thinking about it are not dangerous. They don’t handle guns, knives; they don’t run fast; most of the time they don’t even talk bitingly. You could sit and think about it for fifty years, and neither you nor anything else would be any better for it.

You see how that is? That would apply to a girl. She fell in love when she was sixteen, this fellow went off with his wife and got an anchor point She’s lost an anchor point, one that was very significant to her. Now, she’s got that space stretched there and so can’t turn on an emotion again.

So when I talk about Scientology and its uses, please don’t think about it – just do it Dianetics was what you could think about.

You get these people who have no emotion. In spite of every protestation, the E-Meter there will tell you that they have had a love affair which came to a very, very sad end, and they got their space stretched and now they can’t get it back together again, so they have (quote) no emotion (unquote).

Now, what do you mean by action? Action is just motion. Any motion is better than no motion.

So we have these two conditions, as I say, again. The predominant one is – the favored one, the one people like best is betrayal – anchor points driven in – and the one they like least is ridicule – anchor points out.

When I was a young writer they used to tell me, „Never under any circumstances write action for the sake of action. Never.“ Ah, if that professor weren’t dead, and if I could find him today – I don’t know where he is, he left no forwarding address. Thetans are discourteous that way. Boy, oh boy, I’d certainly like to give him something, because they teach an artist to work with restraint Rarrrraw. The one thing art isn’t, is restrained, if you please. It is directed motion, which means a certain amount of discipline has to go into any motion an artist makes. But is that restraint? I’ve never seen Katherine Dunham make a restrained motion. And yet at the same time, I think you’ll agree she’s an artist All right.

So you see, space is terribly valuable, and yet people can’t have space, because if they had space, they’d be ridiculed. This is elementary.

What is, then, the optimum use of what you know? One of it is teaching it so that others can know. But how would you teach it? By going over it little by little? No, you could best teach it by example. You can give the rudiments, the integrative data which suddenly sparks another mind. But it would be unfair of you if you did not give him, as well, the techniques which, having moved him into thinking, would not again move him out You see? Action.

Six Steps to Better Beingness includes in it nothing, really, more or less than what we have covered in SOP 8 and SOP 8-L, but is a technique designed and is light enough to be used by the individual upon himself, with this one little admonition. And that is don’t give a person way, way, way, way, way down the Tone Scale – neurotic’s range – Ten Minutes of Nothing. They go psewwv.

The difference between a young man and an old man is an old man knows he can be hurt, and the young man doesn’t care. And the difference between a young girl and an older woman is essentially the same thing. When it comes to matters – esoteric matters on the part of a young man or the young woman of beauty, and so on, do you realize that animation always arrives at the finish line, while beauty is thinking about it I have been at embassy balls and dinners, time after time, to find the belle of the ball a young girl? Oh no, the young girls were over there against the walls hoping somebody would ask them to dance. Some old gal who really had a beautiful line, she understood and knew life. And all the desirable young men weren’t over there by the wall. There was beauty, and here was charm.

Now a person at first, when he starts to run this, gets an interesting manifestation. Give him Ten Minutes of Nothing, and it takes him quite a while, several sessions or several trials – in other words, several passes through Six Steps to Better Beingness – before he finally, all of a sudden gets nothing. The first moment he really completely gets nothing, he’s really quite surprised. It’s very, very satisfying to really get nothing. Before that, he’s had something along with the nothing each time.

What is charm? Charm is the ability to reach out, be and admire. Your personal appearance, outside of the fact that the society objects to a dirty shirt, doesn’t mean very much when it comes to charm. Anything you build up on charm in way of a mock-up is that much more gratifying, of course. But you practically with an idea, with knowing what you are doing, with certainty, with poise, with the ability to laugh or the ability to be dignified, each in its place, you, to go out into this society… You don’t know it sitting here; it’s fantastic that people don’t know this, but life out there is so far gone.

Now, you can run Q and A on Ten Minutes of Nothing. „Get all the nothingness around the body.“ „Now get that as a question.“ „Now get the nothingness in the body as the answer.“ And you’ll peel a guy down, layer by layer, to a point where he can get nothing very easily.

You just start walking through it, and it just goes apart like grass. There’s nothing – nothing interrupting your line of motion. Nothing. It’s fabulous. But life today has no great resistance in this society. Its pioneer period is at end. The vitality of the country is very definitely on the wane. There’s no opposition.

Or you say, „Now get the solidity of the body.“ „Now get how solid it is as the question.“ „Now fill in all the space around the individual solidly as the answer.“ And you have, of course – you have immediately the situation which he is heading toward – his anchor points all just completely pounded in solid around him.

People keep asking me – people keep asking me all the time, „Medicine – why doesn’t medicine – why don’t these things attack you?“ Ha-ha-ha! This is something I can’t answer, because they don’t realize it’s like looking at a table. Why doesn’t the table attack you? The answers to this – the couple of times that they have chopped in my direction, and so forth, I have written such tremendously courteous letters about their own habits of sexual perversion that they’ve unchopped quick.

But Ten Minutes of Nothing, a person just lets go of everything. It is not ten minutes of no room, not just ten minutes of no body; it’s ten minutes without thought, too, you see? It’s just nothing. And you’ll find your preclear or yourself, if you’re self-auditing this, will achieve Ten Minutes of Nothing after several passes through if he doesn’t achieve it the first time.

And there isn’t any fight All that has ever fought me are people whom I have brought up Tone Scale far enough so they could fight.

On some cases, not neurotic, you will find the preclear in the belief that he has just been ignited with a bomb or something of the sort because he just – boom. Ten Minutes of Nothing and he just suddenly lets go of everything. He gets somatics all over and so on.

So don’t expect anybody to fight you out there. You’ll get bored after a while because nobody does. You may even wind up by going around processing a doctor so he’ll be a little spunky.

Now, that doesn’t mean that he’s neurotic, because a neurotic, if you ask him to get Ten Minutes of Nothing just on the thought of the word, ‘Ten Minutes of Nothing. Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no!“ He’s got to have something. He’s just got to have something. And it’s so obsessive that the thought of getting nothing is very upsetting to him. So you can monitor that technique. Actually, you won’t get in a lot of trouble. So the fellow goes crazy, I mean, you can pull him out of it. Nothing to it.

That’s all I want to say to you about the uses and future, beyond a word or two about what I’m doing, which you might find interesting. I’m going to open a clinic And in the first weeks of that I’m not taking any paying preclears of any kind. I’m trying to train some auditors way, way, way up. Because I found out that whenever I trained an auditor well, when he walked out into the society, there was a spreading pool of light going from him. In other words, more and more and more people knew what they were doing.

Well, that’s step number one in this. If you were to do this, you know, every one of these little techniques in Six Steps to Better Beingness, taken all by itself and just run – just run nothing else but this one little technique, and it’ll finally produce the desired results. But you’re not getting that introversion-extroversion shift, and that is a desirable thing to get because it changes the aspect of the case if done in that way.

One boy, who was just well-processed and well-trained, appeared in a part of the country, and from that part of the country to date there have just been dozens of letters – dozens of diem. These people are flabbergasted. This couldn’t have happened to the boy. And the last time I saw him, he looked like he was still in terrible shape, but he looked like a flaming beacon to these people.

Now, all of the techniques in here can be found elsewhere except Ten Minutes of Nothing and I think, also, the Opposite Pole. But the Opposite Pole is an extremely, extremely too simple explanation and activity of Q and A. And you’ll recognize in Opposite Pole just what I’ve been talking about in Q and A. That’s all that is.

And so we have a possibility by, you might say, supertraining some of those already trained, to bring about this condition in several parts of the country or the world.

Now, as we go down the line here with this, we find Step II is Duplication. And I described Duplication to you yesterday – how you duplicate. Well, you have the preclear do it the same way. You just say, „You see that table? All right Let’s make a duplicate alongside of the table. Let’s make another table alongside of the table.“

As far as the clinic itself is concerned, I hope to go on and process children in the main and process lots of them, in the direction of someday putting together a children’s hospital somewhat different than any existing today. And the only reason that I am calling it a hospital here is so you will understand what I mean. You can think of what a hospital would be that used Scientology. It would be a recreation center – well, where kids could get well and get oriented.

Now, if he makes a very, very fancy table, if he’s not able to make the same table, why, he needs a lot of this. Or other way to – if he can only make the same table, having looked at it, he’s in an obsessive duplication, you see. He’s compelled to duplicate. He can’t do anything else but duplicate. Well, you want him to be able to change things like that.

I hope to go out for a conference on the other coast, probably the last week in December. It may be after that time that I will do some lecturing out there, but that is very much in the future. Right here – the first six weeks after this congress – I am devoting to the training of a handful of auditors, trying to bring them way up and over the top. And the pressure of that has been sufficiently great that it may be necessary for me to start in another six weeks at the end of this six weeks. I will have to see how that goes.

You find a lot of little kids in school, they look at the table and they can only make a table. Now you say, „Make the table bigger,“ gnng. They can’t because they have to have the model to do it Well, we’re trying to cure people of needing a model is what we’re trying to do here. And we’re also, in this wise, trying to make it possible for them to go back to places where they think they can’t go anymore.

But what I am going toward is better dissemination of information and better auditors – that even might mean fewer auditors.

Duplication goes right into reestablishing the ability to enter a geographical area. Do lots of Duplication, all of a sudden the fellow isn’t any longer afraid of geography. This is – you work out why that is. A fellow can’t go back, which is he can’t return, means he must be something different.

In the past, I have been occasionally disappointed at the results people were getting. But believe me, I am responsible for those results. If the techniques wouldn’t bring the auditor up, then I should have been thinking harder and working harder on the subject.

He can’t be the same thing because he can’t be in the same place. See how it works out? He can’t be in the same place so he can’t be the same thing again. And this gets up to a hectic level where – do you know, people will not go down to the same movie time after time after time after time? Because live theater is so superior to that stuff on celluloid – people will go and see a stage play time after time, but then they know the stage play is different every time they see it, so they’re led along a little bit by that And then stage plays are usually well-written and so on, unlike movies.

And so I hope, in the future, this problem will not exist with us, as it has in the past, of an auditor who is incapable of processing people properly. There isn’t any point in it now.

Of course, movies are getting better these days. They have to; they haven’t any audience. If they’d only gotten better about ten, fifteen years ago, why, everybody would be a lot happier. But remember ten or fifteen years ago, Hollywood was giving us G-, H – or R-, S-grade pictures or X-grade pictures, something like that All ran on the same formula. They had this little guy and he was a tough guy and he was a nice guy and he had a girl and he went through some motion and so on. And it all broke down to this chase in the automobile, and then the villain got it, and that was that You know, and they just kept filming this. Well, they didn’t film it artistically or well. They filmed it very poorly, and people got excessively tired of it. They got retchingly tired of it, not just wretchedly.

Here and there through the country, where you have areas where there are auditors who have drifted away, it might be tremendously beneficial if you, as a little project, might go around and dig them out from underneath the rocks and put them in a group and process them, because honest, some of these people have practically slid under the rocks, here and there – poor guys. They got in there, and they beat their heads against preclears harder and harder and got their engrams more and more restimulated and started down Tone Scale. They got no processing, no processing, no processing, and eventually kind of went into apathy.

And Hollywood would just have to have a tremendous lot of steam on the ball right now to try to even vaguely pick up above TV. And TV is horrible! So Hollywood really smelled to lose its audience like that And of course, TV doesn’t require anyone to put out an anchor point There sits the handy little jim-dandy set right in the house, and it keeps putting out anchor points at you. You haven’t got a thing to say about it; it just keeps smashing home.

There isn’t any reason for that It’d be a very easy thing for a Scientologist to pick up and process such auditors. He can still find people who know where these people are; he can still find lists. Old bulletins and things like that of 1950, and so on, still carry lots of names and addresses. If he wanted to really do a good service to Scientology, he would simply get in there and browbeat – not argue about para-Scientology, you’re not there to teach them anything – just get them together and process them, that’s all Give them Six Steps to Better Beingness over and over and over and over. You might have to hire a gunman to go out and round them up for the second session, (audience laughter) but it’d be a very worthwhile project because, then, nobody would be arguing in your area against your auditing, and that would be optimum.

Now then, some parents – I’ll tell you, some parents are really peculiar. I’ve known some people in my time who were very peculiar – they let their children sit there and look at it for hours. Do you know people really do that? They let their children sit there in front of that television receiver.

There isn’t any such thing as a scarcity of preclears. The streets are full of them. The hospitals are full of them. All you’ll have to do is reach out and take them by the ear and put them down in the chair – everybody’s a preclear. Nothing to it You get most men to talking about their problems and they don’t talk, they avalanche on you. They all got problems. And you can solve those problems. You should know a great many things about Scientology, but if you don’t know that great many things, you still hold in your hands, even if you don’t comprehend all of it, the answer in Six Steps to Better Beingness.

Now, don’t tell RCA or anybody else that I told you anything about television receivers or tried to run down television receivers because I’d hate like the mischief to spoil any sales for them. But the heavy particle coming out of them is intensely destructive, and if intensified a little bit would amount to a death ray. Well, you can take it or not or believe it or not; they’re trying like mad to correct it.

Now, typically, there was an argument in a seminar about Acceptance Level Processing. They didn’t quite know how it was used. I put on these tapes how it was used, and you can always hear them again, either in your own area or right here.

Now, I haven’t any right to say that really; it’s not been proven that a television receiver is always a death ray. This has not been proven.

But I asked this auditor if anybody tested it out in the group that was arguing about it, and nobody had. In other words, nobody looked; they wanted to think. And remember that it will solve any of your problems, any of them. If you find yourself really up against it sometime, the answer is look. That’s all.

Besides, I don’t object to the death ray part of it, I just object to the way the programs smell.

So this whole seminar could tie itself in knots over how you used Acceptance Level Processing. If somebody had just started them – they said they didn’t have an E-Meter. Well, that doesn’t matter. An E-Meter is an awful good thing to have around with a tricky preclear, but to demonstrate something like this, they would have found out all over again how you used it You just get people to accept things in brackets, that’s all And you just start down Tone Scale with the items you’re asking him to accept.

So, here again is a question of anchor points. As long as there exist places in the universe where a person can’t put his anchor points, there exist places in the universe where a person can’t be. If there are places where a person can’t be, then there are places which he can’t duplicate. And you just start running Duplication and eventually places he can’t be will start to show up, only you don’t pay any attention to these. It is an internal effort to get out the anchor points, you see – mental, internal. And this, of course, is varied the second that we go to the next technique.

„Can you accept, now, a nice bright cheerful Mama?“

We’re out again. With Nothing, by the way, you’re really out. The person – just let him go out and in. And a person is not paying too much attention to where he is, so we have that solved.

„No.“

Now, we go into Duplication; it’s internal to a large degree. Although he is looking out and putting his duplicates out, he is also processing mock-ups in his head. So this is more of an introverted technique than you would immediately suspect But then it gradually becomes an extroverted technique. That’s Duplication.

„Can you accept a very dull Mama?“

Now, we go on to good old Spacation and, believe me, that’s really getting the anchor points out with a vengeance and insisting they stay there. That’s just „Reach out of your head,“ or just „Reach now to the two back corners of the room, and get interested in those two corners and don’t think,“ and that’s all. Now, you could probably do that for a long, long, long, long time. Very interesting things happen.

„No.“

On Nothingness, by the way, people quite often get seriously sick at their stomachs. They just go into a major decline because of this, because that’s the one thing a stomach can’t have is nothing. The whole future of a stomach must consist of something.

„Can you accept a very cross Mama?“

So, we go into our good old friend here, Spacation, which is just Step III of SOP 8. Well, is there anything hard to do about it? If you did it all in running Six Steps to Better Beingness, it would really be better than just doing the one part of it But in the Six Steps, it’s sufficient to do the one part of it.

„Well…“

This is very easy. You just reach the two back corners of the room and get interested in them. Do you do anything else? Do you think about it? Do you figure? No! You ask the preclear – if you’re doing this to somebody – every once in a while, „You got ahold of those corners?“

„Can you accept a mean, vicious Mama?“

„Yeah, yeah, yeah.“ Well, you’ll watch him and if he’s really got hold of the corners, eventually his chin will start to come back. The truth of the matter is he’s coming out of his head. Watch him and his chin will come back and back and back, and all of a sudden, his body will relax somewhat. If his body doesn’t relax somewhat, he needs a lot of mock-ups of explosion and admiration to soften up that energy, because he’s stuck. All right. By the way, if he comes out of his head very easily, his chin won’t come back.

„Yes.“ That one starts going in.

Now, after we do a spacation, here is Step VII of SOP 8. Well, if you did a total spacation, you would then go from the corners of the room to building a cube of space of the preclear’s own, just like it says in SOP 8, Issue 16-G. It needs no further description than that See, if you did that totally, if you did this for five or ten minutes, holding the back corners of the room, or even for a minute or two, and then went on and had the preclear put out eight anchor points, you would have your intermediate step whereby you’ve extroverted and then run the introversion step, see?

„How about a mean, vicious, diseased Mama?“

So your next step would have to be a contact, and so it is here, a contact And this is Contact. Contact therapy is the brief name for Step VII of SOP 8, which is „What room?“ „What is the realest thing in the room to you? Reach out and touch it“

„Yes!“ That really goes in.

Now, it’s put in here not because everybody is crazy, but because it’s an exteriorization step. It’s a step which puts a person’s attention out on the environment again. So far we’ve gone out – in, out – in and out.

Yes, that’s Acceptance Level Processing. Because that’s the acceptance level of the preclear he’ll actually try to make his mother into that person as she lives, not just in a mock-up. But he’ll really work to make her that person, so he can accept her, of course. And there you have interpersonal relations.

How do you do that? You just say to the preclear, „All right You see that glass on the table? Well, pick it up. Now set it down and go back to the couch.“

But, if you have a question about something, look, for you have all the periscopes and binoculars you need in these processes. There will be other processes, there will be other developments, there will be other news, reports, tremendous codification of data necessary in terms of what sicknesses are we really knocking off? How long can a man live? How old a preclear can you process? And all sorts of things. The whole horizon is open. So there’s lots of material to be known.

And he’ll say, „That’s a hell of a step. Wouldn’t do anything for anybody.“ And if he thinks that’s the case, the glass wasn’t real to him. That’s the joker.

Male voice: What’s the record on age, now, Ron?

A person who is in real good shape would just as soon pick up a glass. A glass has sensation. And so you should ask him then if he says, „Ah, that’s no step“ – is you’d say, „Now, what in the room is really real to you?“ „Go over and touch it.“ „Now let go of it“ He’s liable to go over and touch it and let go of it and some people will surprise you. It doesn’t mean they’re psychotic; it just means they’ve gone out of present time. They’ll all of a sudden pick up the object and they’ll say, „Gee, that’s real. That’s the first MEST I’ve had my hands on for a long time.“

I don’t know. I processed a fellow ninety-six once, with success. I imagine somebody’s done better than that.

Every once in a while a person gets a mock-up like that by the way. They get this one mock-up – boy, it’s real! Boy, a real good mock-up. And then you try and make them get another mock-up. No, they want to mock up that quarter or whatever was really real to them. So you go from there to Contact.

The point is that – here’s a tremendous wealth of interesting material coming up, but it’s coming out of what? The processes which you now hold in your hands.

Self Analysis is self-explanatory in Self Analysis. If you want to improve on Self Analysis, however – you see, we’re contact out to the room; now, on this step, Self Analysis, Step V, we’re back inside the person’s head again, we’re internally storing it up – is you get him to put out two mock-ups of whatever he’s doing. If you want to improve on Self Analysis, instead of one mock-up, put out two. That’s two anchor points, don’t you see? That’s his own universe in operation.

And that is all at this time, except one thing, that I care to say about it I want to give you, here, the office address of both organizations here. The basic training in this area, which is to say tape and doctorate level training, is being given by the Hubbard Foundation; and that is 237 North 16, Phila 2 – Phila 2 – that’s the Hubbard Foundation. That organization does the training in terms of fundamentals, Doctorate Course tapes, and so on. The publications unit of the HAS is the HAS of Pennsylvania, distinctly different than any other HAS. It is the organization which gets out the Journal and booklets. And that is the HASP: Hubbard Association of Scientologists of Pennsylvania, Journal of Scientology, and so forth. And it’s at 1605 Race Street Philadelphia 2.

Now, of course, we have worked – we’re internal – introverted, extroverted, introverted, extroverted, introverted, extroverted, but where’s the third universe? Well, we pick up the third universe with the step, Opposite Pole Processing. And you could do Opposite Pole Processing exactly as I was doing Q and A in the demonstration, and it’ll come off but beautifully.

Now, the clinic where I will be operating is the HAS Processing Center and it is at 726 Cooper Street, Camden, New Jersey – 726 Cooper Street, Camden, New Jersey. And this, actually, is where my secretary will be sitting, although I have an office at the Hubbard Foundation, too. So this clinic – we’ll call it a clinic, only it isn’t – will specialize in the processing of children, but will also do very, very advanced training occasionally and clinical-type training (that’s very advanced training, that isn’t basic or fundamental).

The other person’s universe, the other person’s viewpoint – one thinks more about what other people are thinking than about what other people are seeing. And as long as a preclear is concerned more about what they’re thinking than what they’re seeing, he’s in bad shape, he’s normal. So you want to run that out, and Opposite Poles, done just as I did that Q and A demonstration, is the best way to do it That’s all it is, it’s Q and A. This is another way – simpler, less effective way – of doing Q and A.

The processing done here, however – occasionally I get requests from people to be processed. Why, this would be the processing center where such requests – which are addressed to me – would be placed, and that is the HAS Processing Center, 726 Cooper, Camden, New Jersey.

But remember that this little technique here does have its more interesting aspects. You take somebody who is quite afraid of life in general, and you start to get geographical areas saying, „I’m going to betray you.“ And him saying, „Nothing there.“ Not go into flows or anything like that, but just get the idea – just get the idea that Miami, Florida is saying to him, „I’m going to betray you.“ (No, nothing ever happened to me in Miami) „I’m going to betray you.“

A lot of you, occasionally, are very flighty on the subject of sending me a letter, because you say it isn’t going to get to me. Well, by golly, your letters even reached me when I was in the middle of Spain. They went to London, and they were flown down there, and so on. But they were so darn slow by the time they had come down there, and by the time I dictated answers and they’d gone back to England, and so forth, that I wouldn’t be a bit surprised but what you aren’t receiving replies to these things two or three weeks even from now. But I hope to speed up that communication line and I’m trying to do so, and this will be the US communication address.

The fellow was arrested or something like that in Montreal, and whether he realizes it or not, he’s really afraid of the whole geographical area of Montreal. So just get Montreal saying, „I’m going to betray you.“ Get Montreal – gets the idea, „I’m going to betray you.“ He just does this in a mock-up. And then he says, „Nothing there“ and then, „Going to betray you,“ and, „Nothing there.“ Reaching and withdrawing, reaching and withdrawing from Montreal – what you’re doing. Formula H is where it comes in. And the person all of a sudden frees up about Montreal and he’ll come right on uptone. This is a handy jim-dandy little tone raiser, because that’s what a person is really worried about, is not being things. He can only start being concerned about being things when he can’t be places. Being places is much senior to being things. He starts to be things which can be places. One starts getting dressed for the part You see, the only way you could be in such-and-such a place…

Remember what these various functions and addresses are – because people have a hard time in communicating – coming through. Basic training-basic training, and so forth, over at the Hubbard Foundation at 237 (and that’s doctorate level training, actually). All I’m giving is clinical, very, very dose training, dose up against the whole problem, and theory, investigation, axioms and that sort of thing and very intimate coaching of the individual on how to audit.

The only way you could be on that street down there is to wear clothes. Well, I notice some of you look disparagingly, but that’s the truth. As a matter of fact, it’s a police offense to appear down in that street without clothes. All right You have to be dressed; you have to be a human being in clothes to appear in the street down there.

Let’s take a break.

Another thing is to be acceptable in a hospital, you have to have a sick body. To be acceptable to the Navy, you have to be capable of twenty-twenty vision or something like that You see, there’s always these conditions.

Of course, the one way a fellow is tremendously acceptable is not to be anything, just be there. Nobody can even object to it So you have your optimum condition. Of course, it’s a lot more fun, we will admit, to wear clothes. And that’s obvious to everybody. But…

You know, people seldom – people somehow or other have kept from realizing… A lovely little button, by the way, „I don’t dare realize it.“ Another little button, the same line, „I don’t dare let it happen again.“ The same thing which is, „I don’t dare be there anymore. These as concepts and – very secondary processing, concepts. Any thought process is very secondary. A person has any one of these ideas – he doesn’t dare realize how far into a complete artificiality he and the group with which he’s associated have drifted He hadn’t any idea about it at all.

But if he were to sit down – this is therapy itself – and just start spotting complete, irrelevant stupidities (or he could read New Yorker magazine), he would be surprised because any reason that he finds anywhere will blow up. There isn’t any reason about anything which will bear the test of fact. Interesting, isn’t it? There are no reasons. A Q and A. The reason for the microphone is a microphone, unless you and I know that the microphone can do certain things and has a certain process and that this process goes forward. Once we’ve started it doing this process, we don’t have to think about it anymore, it goes on doing it till somebody turns a light switch someplace. And so we get the mind entering in the problem to the thing.

Just so in processing. The auditor’s mind can enter more problems into the preclear than the preclear can well solve in ages to come. You take some very sharp, extremely clever auditor who knows life, and he starts looking at this poor, simple, little kid that he’s going to process. Well, they got this to a fine turn in psychoanalysis; they even have words there that the psychoanalyst can’t pronounce.

But even here, this auditor, he knows so much about what is going on that he knows all these answers and reasons and problems and connections and all that sort of thing. And he’ll look at this poor preclear, and this preclear is being – being what he’s being, see? He just is – he’s real stupid. (laughter) And the auditor is completely baffled! Case baffles him; he just can’t get anyplace with this case.

Same way, every once in a while these techniques I give you, they baffle auditors. „Ten Minutes of Nothing? What’s the significance of this?“

Well, here is your very clever mind at work. But remember, the man who is being clever most of the time actually isn’t being clever out of his engram bank. You could actually beat somebody up enough so that he’ll get smart in a certain stimulus-response way. You can make a dog this way. You can get a dog so that he will jump up and jump down and jump up and jump down if you beat him around enough. But this isn’t really being clever. It takes a pretty good thetan to be very clever. And he starts tracing over the reactive mind, finding reasons for, and it’s a very absorbing problem; he’d get tremendously interested in it. That’s how he got introverted in the first place – it’s such an interesting problem. And he keeps looking this over, and he sees the connections going this way and the connections going that way.

Oh, it’s lovely! And then he looks up from it – you know, and then be – bong. He’s looking back at it again.

When a thetan first contacted a body, I swear he probably didn’t have any idea what he was doing; he just suddenly got interested in the body and more and more concentrated on the body. And there isn’t one in this room, really, that didn’t have this happen. Pang. All of a sudden he was tremendously interested in the body, and then all of a sudden, he was only a body. There he is, he’s gone, nothing; he’s forgotten how to be a thetan completely. He knows thetans don’t exist; he’s a body. This is real silly – real silly. All right.

There, in essence, is Six Steps to Better Beingness. Now remember, it’s a Group Process. It is an optimum process, really, on groups, and it goes out – in: out to the material universe, in to the preclear’s own universe, out to the material universe, in to the preclear’s own universe and then finishes up with a step which goes into the third universe.

And people will exteriorize on this, and it can be run on oneself if one disciplines oneself to simply run ten minutes of each all the way down the line, or five minutes of each all the way down the line or something like that, and continues all the way through the list.

But remember in auditing yourself, for heaven’s sakes, please, please recognize this fact that you can get so interested in the reactive bank and so interested in the computation, that you don’t extrovert again. So park this little piece of paper up in front of you, and remember that’s all that’s wrong with you is you’re introverted about the reactive mind. Just park the piece of paper up in front of you with that list. There’s a complete list here on the back page of it and it says, „Ten Minutes of Nothing,“ do that ten minutes, see? „Duplication,“ do it for three or four minutes. „Spacation,“ do it for ten minutes. „Contact,“ you’ll say, „that’s a silly one, I’ll skip that“ You look around the room after you’ve been doing this corner of the room thing, find something that’s real to you, pick it up and put it down, sit back in the seat again.

And then you pick up old Self Analysis and you just open it up at the last place you were, at random or something like that and it says, „Can you create a scene in which…“ and run over half a dozen of them.

And then go to the Opposite Pole and do just like it says here if you want to. Or put Papa’s body on and turn it around, put it on as the question, turn it around as the answer – just do that two or three times.

Then get a point out there someplace, random, and have it say, „I’m going to betray you,“ or „I’m ridiculing you,“ and you’ve got it Or just run it just like it says here. You don’t have to worry about it particularly; you can vary it And then start right on around again and get Ten Minutes of Nothing.

Now, you can go through with this with great rapidity. There are those agitated, nervous minds which would much rather do a lot of steps in a very little space of time. And there are those minds which will say – says, „Well, we’ll do Ten Minutes of Nothing for the next two weeks now, and then we’ll…“ They’re thorough. Well, when this gets to Germany – when this gets to Germany, that’s the way it will be done, (laughter) But right here in America, this is how you do it – just put it up there in front of you and run through it.

And if you find yourself coasting very far off of this technique when you’ve made up your mind to do this technique, you know what you’re doing. You’re just introverting and examining some more phenomena inside your own mind and that isn’t going to do you a bit of good, really. Going to be pleasant but it isn’t going to do you much good.

There are lots more techniques than this, but this is the handiest one to do an extroversion-introversion sequence that I know about.

Let’s take a break.