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.

Okay.

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 main difficulties that the auditor has is to force somebody just to give him a little attention. That's the first thing. So, that becomes part of an auditor's skill, then, is to attract attention.

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.

How do you attract attention from your preclear? Well, one of the easiest things to do is to be what he is for a moment and do what he's doing. Imitate him, in other words. Mimic him somewhat, a little bit. In other words, agree with him. "Yes. Yes. Yes. Your mother beat you. Yes. Yes. Your father beat you. Yes. Your schoolmaster beat you. Yes. Well, all schoolmasters are pigs. Yeah, they're all dogs. That's right. Yeah, they beat you and it was your early life. I know it's the tendencies toward homosexuality in the school that did it all. Yes, yes. Mm-hm. Oh, that's very — that's a very, very unusual case. Oh, very unusual. In fact, you're probably the most unusual case I have had since half an hour ago. Yes. Yes. Mm-hm. Mm-hm. Mm-hm. Yes. Yes. Yes. Well, what was that again? Oh, you meant — you meant that was your mother and father that beat you. Oh? Oh, yes. Yes. Yeah, it was your mother and father that beat you. Now, the rest of the family, they kind of mean to you too? Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Well, where was your family located?"

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

You've got him! You see, you've just changed his course just a little bit — changed the course of his plunge on communication and you've agreed with him and he has the full secure feeling now that he can be you at any moment. That is an underlying something or other. He can be you at any moment, you see. And then, imperceptibly, you just reverse the poles on him and you have him be something else.

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.

Do you explain anything to him? No. You just ask him how good he is at this sort of thing. You just want to check up and find out how bad it all has been. And you give him the processing, and you can let him wait in vain to be processed. You can go on testing him and checking him for many hours. Interesting, isn't it? That's something that's quite interesting.

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.

An inanimate object is the best for you to use, particularly inanimate objects that inflict injuries and so on. You'll find that he very occasionally gets somatics as he runs these things. That's because the objects which you have run him into have hurt him.

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.

Do you let him hold on to these things and get sympathy for them and that sort of thing? No, you just have him be something else. You find out he can't be something as a whole, then find him — have him be parts of it.

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.

Now, he's afraid of turning into things. So don't — don't scare him. Don't bother to scare him. The rest of the world is busily engaged in scaring him. You don't have to, too. He's afraid of turning into things. And the funny part of it is, he will go ahead processing on the sixth dynamic completely unaware of the fact that he has really fallen into your net beautifully. He'll go ahead on this. At any moment you're liable to get down to the more serious things in his case, but you just want to check him first. Any moment you're going to address this horrible problem of the fact he's liable to turn into Papa, see? Any moment you're liable to go into that. But this gives him an anxiety. That's right. It gives him an anxiety to go on and be these things. Be these innocent, mild, quiet things.

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.

Now, that is, actually, not particularly covert. But it just happens to be handling his wits. There isn't any reason why any human being, once you've got this down and once your own case is up along the level, should ever disagree with you again as long as you live.

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.

Now, nonadmiration for these MEST things, toward him, has put him into a level where he believes he is no good. But he'll get proud of himself after a while for being able to be with such expertness. So give him some praise. Give him some praise. Work it on the praise basis a little bit. All of a sudden he says to you rather interestedly, "You know, you know, golly, that chimney — boy, I really am a chimney. Yes, sir!"

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.

And you say, "Well, boy, you're pretty good at this," something like that. Just lead him along.

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.

The reason you want two terminals there is so you don — really don't go into agreement with him at all. And that was why we have suddenly sprung two terminals in here, amongst other reasons, but why it suddenly becomes not just mildly a good idea. You sure better had. If you're going to agree with him verbally, mentally, you sure better not have him as a physical object there to agree with, too. Or you'll get in the same shape as a poor psychiatrist I saw one day. Walked into his office and he was imitating everything. Every-thing. Anything that came to his view.

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.

Now, you're going to find that there are patients that as soon as you tell them to be something, they start to operate as it in their muscles. Don't worry about it. Just remember that wherever you're processing people, reduce the number of items which can be broken to a minimum in the environment. That's all.

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.

Now, don't start worrying about the fact that he goes off of the couch and is on the floor, and while he's busy being an automobile he keeps banging his elbows against the floor. Just take note of this and next session have a mattress down there.

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.

I have actually seen a preclear practically beat himself to pieces this way. And you say, "That's horrible. He should never have been permitted to have been processed without some kind of a mattress or something of the sort. Look it. He fell off the couch and he did this and that, and he got a big bruise on his forehead." Ah, he's lots better. So 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.

It's better to process him, in other words, than to worry about the rest of him. That is another reason why you shouldn't process late at night. You tell this fellow, "All right, now be a train." This guy has looked perfectly sane to you up to this moment and he says . . . And there he goes. You're out! Lease broken because they heard him three blocks away.

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.

Now what happens to sonic? Well, you have him be a voice. It's easy. And any time it comes to your mind, flip in something hidden for him to be. That is, don't say, "Be something hiding in the coal cellar," or something like this. Don't worry too much about getting that broad about it. But slip in something like "Be a sound wave. Be a light ray." See? "Be night over London."

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.

Oh, he liked that. "Gee, yeah. That's good." See?

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.

Now, differentiate. Don't get a consecutive story going. Differentiate very well.

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.

Beingness is perception and so he's going to be able to perceive better.

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.

Your role as an auditor, then, is not being expressed near so much in terms of how adroitly you can handle 865 new techniques which I just invented which you were beginning to wonder if that wasn't your role as an auditor. Your skill really doesn't have to lie in that direction. Your skill lies in handling people. What is the adroitness? What level of case can you reach? That's how good you are. And what shape are you in? That's how good you are.

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.

Because of these things you could look around in life, you can under-stand it a lot better. Therefore you can do a lot of things. You don't have to sit down, then, and hold tight to some knowledge. You can relax. You can relax, get yourself into fine shape and you will certainly be able to understand people. If you don't know how to understand people, something of the sort, that's because you don't want to be people. That's all there is to that.

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.

I'll give you a little rule of the thumb about personal relations. You — sometimes you wonder about personal relations. You wonder, "Well, how in the name of common sense can I tell anything about personal relations?" And "I don't understand men" or "I don't understand women" or "There's some-thing going on." Preclears will be saying this to you. There's a piece of advice to give them on that that actually permits them to differentiate up to the time they get up to a level. They can differentiate amongst people and be perfectly happy about it if they can do this. They take three categories. There are good people, which is to say only people that are friendly to them, you know, interested in them — they're interested in. That's — we'll call good people, merely meaning they're good for the preclear.

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

And then there are the people who have a pitch, a colloquialism meaning they want to gain something by the association. You can count on the fact those people are going to use hidden influences and control mechanisms. They got a pitch, they're always figuring, so forth. And they start — and how can you identify them? They will almost instinctively start to work this "sympathize" angle. They're always the guy with the pitch. Sympathize: "You poor fellow, you work too hard." Oh, there's a thousand categories. "I am a good friend of yours." But what is the main characteristic of this fellow with the pitch or this woman with the pitch? "Others don't appreciate you but I do." That is the main — the main approach. That always is the approach. And sympathize about your hard lot. That's the guy with the pitch.

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.

And the third kind is guys who aren't interested and women who aren't interested. They're not interested. All right, if they're not interested in their job, they're going to leave something undone. You get uninterested around MEST sometime or you get around somebody who's not interested in you some-time and, boy, you'll wind up in more wrecked cars and under more pieces of broken glass, and so on. They're just not interested. That is the total test. They're not very interested. That means they might be very interested in other people, they might be very interested in other things, but to you they're just not interested. They don't interest you; you don't interest them.

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.

So they fall apart into these three categories. There's only one of those categories that's even vaguely workable, and that's the people who are good for the preclear. That is a friendly basis, no pitch. They're interested in what happens to the preclear.

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."

If he insists on associating — people who are not interested, you as an auditor can fall flat on your face simply by dramatizing this one: trying to interest people in life. And there's hardly a person here who hasn't fallen on his face trying to keep people going and get people interested in the future who aren't interested. And it'll break your heart. In the absence of good, solid, reliable processing you don't do anything for them. You can process them and do something for them, but don't try to do anything else for them because they're sick. They've failed so heavily with MEST that they're no longer interested. And I don't care what kind of a manifestation they're putting on — they like to be insouciant or something of the sort about it all and offhanded about the . . . They're licked. In processing you can do something for them.

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.

Well, many an auditor goes by the boards in getting a preclear who isn't interested and trying to interest him in Scientology. Many an auditor, he just winds up in the soup. They're a problem in accessibility and therefore they're a case. All right, they're a case.

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.

So, I just make those finishing remarks on the basis of interpersonal relationships. You don't have to beat the drum very hard. But you should concentrate upon your personal presence. And your personal presence depends upon your ability to be anything. And that's all personal presence is. You concentrate on that level, get your own case up the line. You know this process and you know why it works. You can go back and at your leisure understand and know a great many things here about human behavior, stimulus-response mechanisms — all this various things. What is the associative restimulator in the environment? All this material is interesting, quite interesting. But the vital material of you as an auditor is to know and put into practice conscientiously this simple process of Mock-up Beingness, be able to carry it through, stay interested in it and in you as an individual. You as an individual are very — then very important to the process. Always the individual has been important to the process because he establishes better levels of accessibility. This is very easy.

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?

You can use this now in groups. And as a group of auditors you can be processed by this a certain percentage of the time. You can process each other on this and you will find out your cases will come right straight up the line and you will walk right on out.

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.

Now what about SOP 5? Just as good as it ever was. And you had better know SOP 5 simply because it tells you the various things the thetan can be expected to do in the vicinity to his body and himself.

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 here's double terminals — were standing in your road. And the old man double terminal: Thetan steps out of his body, he snaps back in or he can't get out of his body at all. That's because the second he's out of his body, he's a double terminal. He might be able to get out of his body if you suddenly say, "Be on the moon" or "Be — be in South Africa." But if he steps out any-where in the vicinity to that body he's a double terminal.

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?

So some very rough cases if you suddenly say, "Be in South Africa," they'll be in South Africa, suddenly, out of their body. That's far enough away so they don't get a double terminal.

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.

But any difficulty you have with Theta Clearing is then the difficulty of the double terminal. It is not solved by double terminals particularly. It is solved by the ability to be many things. If the person keeps on having trouble with the double terminal, keep mocking himself up in front of himself. You can put that down. That's a good one for you to know. That's — you can go into that a long time. You keep mocking the fellow up in front of himself, mocking his body up in front of him, mocking up his body in front of him. And eventually the body will be sitting in front of him, he'll be sitting behind it. It's a long process, however. You just keep mocking up his body with its back to him, mocking up his body with its back to him, mocking up the body with its back to him. Just keep putting it there and if he does that long enough and he can stand the somatics — he'd get lots of them, he'd get lots of them, believe me — why, he'll eventually get it to a point where he can hold the body there and himself here. How simple? Nothing to that!

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?

So, Scientology got very simple. What I'm giving you in these lectures, complemented by your understanding of self-determinism and whatever other things you had in those early Axioms, this other material — what I've given you in these lectures should be known to you and practiced by you. I can guarantee that we can't get much simpler than this in the standpoint of technique.

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.

However, there are some further data which, simple as it is, integrates with the earlier data which is necessary for you to have, really, before you can go into what we call Standard Operating Procedure.

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.

Now in — you know there's been Standard Operating Procedure 1, Standard Operating Procedure 2 and so forth for Theta Clearing. Well, the reason why we had Issue 1, Issue 2 and Issue 5 and so forth is because we knew we were progressing up to a point where we could get a highly stable Standard Operating Procedure. And so it's true. And we — so we can call this, now, Standard Operating Procedure. And to differentiate between it and Standard Operating Procedure Issue 1, 5, so forth, you just say Issue 1, 5 for the others and this is Standard Operating Procedure, which puts it over the top of these other procedures.

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.

Now, first and foremost in all this, you have, of course, the eradication of postulates — contrasurvival postulates from the mind of the person. Now, you understand at this juncture that we're not interested in the human mind. Funny, isn't it? We're not interested, really, in the human mind. The human mind composes and resolves problems for the survival of the individual. We stopped being interested in the human mind some time ago. We are interested in that mechanism, that beingness, which is capable of being anything and knowing it instantaneously. We're interested in that capability. We're not interested in thinking about it. The second we're no longer interested in thinking about it, we're not interested in this thing called the human mind, which is at best a rather good electronic computer. And the second we cease to be interested in it, at that moment we have recognized that we are not studying something which has to survive but something which knows it will just go on surviving from here on out. Now that was your border.

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.

A preclear or an auditor had to be able, then, to come up to a very thorough understanding of that factor. He had to be able to know, without any slightest doubts, that it was a matter of mort — immortality. He had to know, in other words, what he was composed of and what beingness he had and how he went on from there.

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

When we had a technique that could tell him this, and tell him this not from the standpoint of education but by processing, we were there. And we're there.

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.

Now, I'd like to call to your attention the mechanism which is known as thought. It's a very funny thing, you'd think it would take a couple of encyclopedias to run this down. It's probably going to take me years and years to write up anything on the subject and cover the subject adequately — behavior and thought. It's a big field. It's a big, complicated field. Skip it! The mind is something that poses and resolves problems. It observes data and poses and resolves problems relating to survival. That's all. It'd take years to really boil that down, and I'm going to do that. I'm going to take a little time off and go down and sit on a rock or something of the sort, and write all that up.

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.

But that's not very germane to an auditor. An auditor isn't even re — interested in this. Isn't that fascinating? He ceased to get interested in this at the moment when he had a technique which would take any postulate, computation or circuit out of the mind in a few seconds or a few minutes, selectively and at will, without restimulating the preclear. The second that he had this technique, then he could simply look at somebody and say, "This person has the postulate — he's running on the postulate, 'I've got — I've got to be helped' " or something of this sort. I mean, he could add this up, you know, just look at a preclear and say, "I wonder why this fellow is acting the way he is. Well, he's acting the way he is . . . He keeps telling me — he keeps saying all the time he's talking to me — he keeps saying, 'I want to be helped. Now, you've got to help me. And nobody ever has helped me. And somebody's got to help me. And you've got to help me." And we've listened to this about eighteen times in his conversation, and what do we do about this?

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.

Well, we double-terminal — we match-terminal the postulate. That's a killer. That technique, that's just a killer.

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.

We can shoot a circuit, then, out of the mind with the — a much greater ease than shooting fish, because you have to have a gun to shoot fish. And all you need is some space out in front of the preclear, and he's saying, "I think I need help. I just know I need help."

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 say, "Well, how about you putting the thought over here to the right in front of you — putting the thought 'I need help,' and then facing it over here from the left, we put the thought again, 'I need help.' We put the thought 'I need help,' facing the thought 'I need help.' "

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.

How far apart? You don't care how far apart he puts them. Eight miles, eight feet or eight inches. You just tell him put those two things facing each other, and what do you know, we have reality. Reality is agreement. We have two terminals. Then we have an idea agreeing with an idea, don't we? We have two terminals facing each other, so eventually and finally, my God, the fellow's gotten reality and agreement on the subject of needing help.

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.

Only he doesn't figure this out. He doesn't even vaguely figure this out. He just sets up these two thoughts — one thought facing the other thought — and these two thoughts face each other and they just sit there. Well, they'll sit there for two seconds or they'll sit there for two minutes or they'll sit there for twenty minutes. He just keeps putting them up there as long as he cares to put them up there. And you just go on making him put those thoughts up there. Of course, he'll — at first he'll get the idea he's got them up there, then he'll get one of them thinking this, then he won't be able to get that one thinking this but he'll get the other one thinking this, then he'll get the one thinking it again and then he'll have neither of them thinking it and then he'll have one thinking it. All you do is you say, "Just keep putting them up 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 what happens in the misbehavior of any terminal pair? If you get a pair of terminals that misbehaves? They want to go around in a circle, some-thing like that or they want to jump up and down, they want to do this. They want to do that. What do you do with these terminals? Your preclear abandons them and puts two new terminals there. Every time a terminal misbehaves, abandon it and put two new there. Simple, isn't it?

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.

Now, where the fellow was unable to get any kind of a mock-up or any-thing of this sort, he had to be able to handle things in terms of concepts, didn't he? You've heard — there's a lot of V's, VI's around. They can get a concept but they can't get a mock-up. Is that right? Well, they can put concepts up on the wall and solve their case. And the next thing you know, they're getting mock-ups like mad. Right away, I mean very soon.

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?

So what kind of mock-ups would you use? What kind of postulates would you try to run out as an individual? What kind of postulates?

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.

Well, I mentioned one the other day. Unfortunately, it's not the most workable postulate in the world. But you could put up, for instance, "Postulates must endure. They must have duration." Now, you could put that up facing that thought.

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.

Is there any picture there with these? No, there's no picture. No picture at all.

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.

So this would be running postulates. And you'd better run them this way, because they just evaporate. The whole chain of them evaporates. As long as the person's had these, they just evaporate. That's all. Of course, he'll get to worrying about it and he'll find out they won't stay up on the wall and he — or they won't stay up on the other side of the wall or wherever he's got them and they keep disappearing and he keeps putting them back and he — they say it to him but they don't say it to them.

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?

Now, do they say it in words? No, you're not interested in words. He hap-pens to be this lifetime and he is speaking this lifetime, let us say, English. If he's speaking English in this lifetime, believe me, he hasn't spoken English forever.

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.

So what do you do? You get the concept and the feeling together so as to combine the thought there as it would have been felt or known as a thought rather than as a language.

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.

Now, for instance, we could put the words — you see, don't get this down into repeater technique. You can run the whole first book out of a guy. I mean, you can run — take everything in the first book and shoot it out with this Matched Terminals Postulates.

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.

All right. We get here then "It's very bad" — by the way, that's a good one to run: "It's very bad" or "I must be agreed with" or "Nobody approves of me" or something like that. Anything like that. And you could say that in words. But let's take "It's very bad." Now, what — how would you say "It's very bad" without using words? Well, you — there are a lot of ways. You could say, 'Ah-ah-ah-ah." Or you could say, "Neeooum-um-um-um-um." Or "Uuhh!" See? I mean, there's lots of ways you can have that thought "It's very bad" facing the thought "It's very bad." See how you would do that?

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.

Now badness is blackness. And so therefore, if you got two black patches — one black patch facing the other black patch — you'd learn an awful lot of interesting things. Then the preclear would say, "Well, I don't know if those are my black patches."

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.

"Well, to heck with the ones you've got there, then. Put up a couple more black patches."

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 don't know if those are mine, either."

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, put up a couple of new ones."

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.

And finally he'll say, "Yeah; those are mine."

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.

Of course, well, how can you tell a black patch from another black patch?

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.

Well, the point is, you can't. So you just put them up there until it's dead certain that they must be yours. Nothing else would have been putting up blackness up there except you.

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.

Well, all right. Now, you could code it like this: You could put up the symbol zero there with a black patch facing the symbol zero with a black patch. And you would have what? You would have "It's bad to be nothing." You see?

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?

Now, you can work this out in any one of a thousand ways. It isn't even particularly germane how you work it out. But I'm pointing out to you that they are not words that you're putting up there. But you can put up just the phrases. But you could put "ah-ah-ah" facing "ah-ah-ah." And sure enough, the first thing you know, why, you say, "You know, my mother wasn't a bad person" — the fellow would be telling you.

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.

Now, that's shooting out postulates because postulates are essentially made up of these two things: concept and a feeling. Of course, a postulate is even clearer or higher than a concept or a feeling, but you can get them at that level and they are only aberrative at that level when they get into concepts and feelings. So you can — you can put a concept and a feeling together, facing a concept and a feeling together. Is there — is these things visible? Do you have a picture? No, you don't have a picture and these things are not visible to the pre-clear. He can do this out of the blackest darkness you have ever heard of. He can just blow. Now, you see? So this is what's called matching postulates.

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

What is the genus of thought? You know — we haven't much time to finish all this off, but we can say, "Well now, let's see, we're going to take the next eighty thousand years and talk about nothing but thought." Well, let's take the next eighty seconds and describe it completely and adequately.

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.

Thought derives in this fashion. We have the idea that there is such a thing called a hidden influence. One dis — understands there's a hidden influence the first moment he discovers there is other-determinism. Other-determinism must then be a hidden influence. He never completely understands that there's anything around except his own — his own anchor points. So every-body else is his anchor point. Isn't that true? And all houses in this world and all planets and everything under the sun and under the stars and under the galaxies and under the blackness and under the roof in general would be just anchor points of his. They're nobody else's. But all of a sudden he finds out they move unpredictably. The second they move unpredictably he concludes there must be a hidden influence.

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.

Now, worse than that, he has the idea that an anchor point has moved but he doesn't know whether or not it has moved. So right away he's on an indecision. Maybe there's a hidden influence there and maybe there isn't.

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.

You want to shoot the human mind to pieces and the mind of the pre-clear so the preclear becomes very happy and very cheerful, all you have to do is find out the first time that he ran into one of these big maybes. One of these real big maybes. And you will find the genus of his own computation.

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

And this is what is known as computation. Shooting the computations out of a case is very interesting. Shooting the postulates out of a case is a little bit different than shooting the computations. I point that out to you. A computation and computing, in general, is aberrative and you will find the preclears who are worst off do the most of it. All right, let's then find — they, by the way, they get to a point where they do figure-figure-figure-figure-figure and they're not figuring on anything. They're just disassociating utterly on their figuring, only they know they've got to figure. And they just get awfully disturbed on it.

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.

What is this? This is the manifestation of trying to find the hidden influence which will resolve the maybe. "Was it my anchor point or wasn't it my anchor point?" or "What did happen to it?" or "Did anything happen to it?" or "Is it still there?" Now, that's the — all those various things. In other words, we're talking now about something you heard about in Technique 80, which is, simply the overt act — motivator mechanism.

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!

Of course a person does overt acts and gets them back because he thinks he's done them to his own anchor points. He's been fighting the battle of his own anchor points ever since he was around. He has not been fighting an interpersonal relation battle, because he has never admitted to himself there was any other determinism than his own.

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."

Why? Well, he could be anything, couldn't he? So therefore, anything he could see, he could be. And anything he saw, he was. By definition, anything he saw, he was. Because that was space. He could be space because space was beingness, and if he really got some space out there and he was that space .. . So naturally everything he saw was his own anchor point, isn't it? Now, that's very — as a matter of fact, that's the way he figured because that's the way he's built.

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.

All right. He gets to something: "Was it mine? Wasn't it mine? Is there a hidden influence? Isn't there a hidden influence?" So he comes along one fine day and he finds out that — as he walks in the house his mother suddenly slams a drawer. And he says, "I wonder which one of my anchor points she put in that drawer. I wonder what she put in that drawer. Did she put anything in the drawer?" We don't get a chance to look for about twenty minutes but — and by that time Mama's been in that room all the time and one goes in and he takes a look in the drawer, finds out what happened in the drawer. No. No, there's nothing in the drawer. "Well, what did she do with it? Did she put anything in the drawer? Didn't she put anything in the drawer? I don't know whether she put anything in the drawer or not. But certainly — she certainly acted rather secretive. I wonder what she was up to." He doesn't know.

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

And you — therefore you can sum up any hidden influence or any computation simply under that basis: It is founded on "I don't know." A person is computing in order to find out, therefore the basic on any one of those things is "I don't know."

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.

I don't know what? Well, one of the things that theta does is tie — tend to locate energy, matter, in time and space; tries to do that all the time, wants to do that. Certainty, it thinks, depends on his ability to do that and as a consequence, it — also, by the way, its highest function is the creation of energy, matter, in space, and creation of the space and location in that. Therefore, when something is not located, the — a thetan becomes very upset. It's not located, and when you — when he's got to locate it, but he doesn't even know whether it was there to be located or not, believe me, it — he doesn't know. So the first thing on the line is the hidden influence. Well, why — you can find out, as an auditor, "All right, let's see, when's the first of these hidden influences that showed up in your life?" You don't have to call them a hidden influence — "When's the first time something happened in your life you found out you didn't know?"

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.

The fellow says, "Oh, I guess I was about fourteen. No, no, wait a minute, I was about ele — no, I was about sev — no, well, you know — I — I — here's . . . You know, I was in Sunday school one time and they kept telling me about — no, there's an earlier one than that."

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.

In other words, he's running on the easiest — the easiest hole to fall into. It's the hole of: is there something there or isn't there something there?

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.

And all those things are riding right in present time. Why are they riding in present time? Because they have never been solved. So nothing has ever been put anyplace, nothing's ever been located. And he didn't know if it was there to be located and he's still trying to solve this. And that is the basic of a circuit. And the circuit continues on and accumulates data and accumulates more data and things keep falling into it. And is this another hidden influence or isn't this a hidden influence? Well, you can ask about any circuit.

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.

All right. Supposing it were true. Supposing it were true that your mother put away something. What are you unwilling to be? You see, it just would fall across in those two categories. He's afraid of something about this because he's afraid to be something. He doesn't want to be something. What doesn't he want to be? He doesn't want to be a betrayed person or he doesn't want to be a ridiculed person. A betrayed person is one who is — suddenly has all his anchor points smashed in, and a ridiculed person is one who has all of his anchor points stretched out and held.

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.

And if you want to get yourself a beautiful reaction from a preclear, you just have the preclear mock up somebody — and this is a technique — mock up somebody walking in and picking up his body (mock-up) and walking way away into the darkness and holding it there. And boy, will that preclear get upset! You just — if he doesn't the first time, have somebody do it again. Have this same person. Have his mother come in — and, by the way, run this on double terminals — have Mother come in from the right and left and pick up the preclear's body. See, two bodies, two mothers. And they go away more or less in the same direction walking parallel to each other. And take these bodies way out into the dark and hold them there. And the preclear will start to get pretty doggone nervous! He's trying to get this — he's got the idea of these many times in his life when he tried to get something back that he'd lost. Of course it goes dark. Of course it goes dark when one has lost something. In order to see something there has to be something. Isn't that true? There has to be space and there has to be something in the space to observe, which is an anchor point, which makes any object he beholds, whether a large object or a small object, an anchor point. So there has to be something there and all of a sudden there isn't something there so it must be dark there, mustn't it? Then there must not be any space in that area so naturally, you just get the idea of having lost something, get the preclear with the idea, "I've lost it." And everything will go black in front of his face. He'll just pick up all these times when somebody has carted away his anchor points. What did he have to look at? He had to look at anchor points. If somebody took away his anchor points he didn't have anything to look at, so naturally it was black.

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?

Furthermore, he actually has a whole mechanism of anchor points. He has billions of them that he generates. Now, Homo sapiens has forgotten these and he pulls these around and still uses them, but he's forgotten them. And your Operating Thetan, the person that you're trying to fix up and so on — what you're trying to create — uses these things almost wholly for his perceptions. He uses these things, he works them to death. And what are they? They're like a whole mass, like a whole cloud around him. He can manufacture them, he can turn them any color he wants to. There are just billions and billions of them and they're all little tiny anchor points or big anchor points. And he can throw these out to any distance and perceive in that space that he's thrown them out to. And after he's thrown them out to a distance he can pull them in and hold them close to him again. In other words, he can arrange these or adjust these in any way, shape or form.

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.

If you want a V to be really surprised you just tell him, "All right, now let's put out your anchor points and pull them in 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.

"What do you mean?"

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 ..."

You say, "Well, there's a little cloud of particles all over you. And just get that idea. And you push them out and you bring them in."

You say, "What are you talking about?"

And he says, "You know, I can do that. That's very peculiar." He says, "You know, I can do that. My God, there's visio around here." And then he isn't very surprised at all, he says, "Yes, I can do that," just as though he could do that all the time.

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

You see, he's playing a joke. It's a grim game. He's playing a joke. He's just pretending he's hiding so that somebody won't come along and pick up his mock-ups. He won't pick up those beautiful scenes he's got around. And he's saying, "Look how old and shabby and no-good I am and look how — look how thoroughly entrenched and dug-in I am. And I am so thoroughly entrenched and dug-in that I haven't got any facsimiles for anybody to steal. I've got no pictures. Not me! Mm-mm."

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 you tell him to put them out and in, he gets a feeling of fear. And you tell him to put these anchor points out and in again and he'll get another little feeling. He'll say, "Well, all right, it's not so bad. But I can't put them down." Of course he can't put them down. His anchor points have been stopped by planets time after time after time. So he puts them down and brings them back up again and what's he got? He says, "Yeah. I can put them down. What do you know, I can put them down."

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.

Of course they go through anything. MEST doesn't stop them. He can see through anything with these anchor points. He can match up any kind of space he wants with these anchor points. What are they? Just a cloud of particles. And he throws these things out and the second he does that he can perceive. That's the only method the thetan has of perceiving. So don't forget that.

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?

Now on your I's who have very good visio when they come out of their body are simply using these anchor points so well and so easily they don't know they're using them. And the people who see less po — less well aren't using them well. And the people who don't see at all aren't using them at all.

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?

Is this then a subject of facsimiles? Is this then a subject of visio? Is this then a subject of sun's rays, particles off the environment that are going to hit your nostrils or something of this sort?

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.

The problem of perception is the problem of anchor points. The problem of communication, as I've said in these lectures, is the problem of space, is the problem of beingness. And that, of course, is the problem of energy and the problem of objects. It's also, then, the problem of time.

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.

Now, he has a little anxiety. He's afraid he's going to throw himself out of time. If he throws himself out of time, in other words, he gets too well connected someplace else, he's afraid he's going to lose contact with the MEST universe. So your V is going to have a hard time. He's going to hold on to that body like mad. He's going to hold on to his body hard because he thinks that's the only thing that's keeping him into this universe. He's afraid he'll fly off again. And he still has his home universe. His home universe is his collection of made facsimiles and anchor points. And he's still packing it up; he's still hiding it; he's still got it in his pocket. He isn't going to let you see it and he's gotten to the point where he's hidden it so long that he doesn't want to see it anymore. Unfortunately, it was Fac One that turned this off. That's why Fac One was so hard stressed way back there. Fac One.

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.

How do you get rid of a Fac One? Well, double-terminal a camera grinding at itself. Why don't you double-terminal the people grinding at themselves? Well, that's because they're not the sixth dynamic. What you're interested in is the camera and the sound waves. Sound waves are hidden influences. They're not anchor points, nothing of this sort.

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.

Mock up the thetan facing the thetan, putting out a flow of particles, though, as sound and trying to match up as sound, and all of a sudden his sonic will turn on. The only way he ever hears is by a little stream of anchor points, not by sound waves.

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.

This universe is a big joke, but this universe was a big mystery. This universe has methods of perceiving and hidden influences in it. If it has hid-den influences in it, then it is — gives you something that has to be under-stood. And if it's something that has to be understood then you're in a bad way, because then you can only — you can think about it. It isn't something, then, you understand. It's something you can be. Can you be parts of this universe? Boy, I'll say you can.

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.

So then, what is our subject here? Our subject is how we put in and out anchor points. That's the end of it. Is it the subject of how we think? No, it's how we perceive. That's it.

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

Now philosophers dow — back down through the last few thousand years have been beating their brains out and taking hemlock and everything because they couldn't find out how anybody would perceive. They knew that if a tree fell in the woods then the barn caught fire or something of this sort. You remember that. If a horse said, "Neigh," and there was no horse there to hear him, would "Neigh" have been said? If a tree fell in the woods and there was no rabbit to hear the tree, then the tree didn't fall in the woods. Or was there a sound? No, there couldn't have been a sound if there was no ear to hear it. Now, this is balderdash. I mean, typical philosophic bunk. Wonderful.

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.

You'll find this in the books of the philosophers as they go over it and over and over and over. As a matter of fact, Bertrand Russell, who is a very good boy, in his last book is covering this whole theory of perception just exhaustively — and exhaustingly too, if I may say so — without getting any-place. He gets the idea that if you could perceive the universe, then the universe is there.

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.

That is an unjustified conclusion. That's not justified. Just because you can perceive something is no reason it's there. You put a mock-up out in front of you, you can perceive it, can't you? Well, is that any reason it's there? No. "But it is there," you say. All right, you said it was there, it's there.

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.

So what's this boil down to then? This boils down to the highest echelon of computation would be postulates. I say it's there, therefore it's there. I say there is space, therefore there is space. I say there is light, therefore there is light. Get it?

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.

And how do you say those things? You say them with words? No sir, say them with anchor points. Say it with anchor points.

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.

Now, you'll find your boy sitting around in the doggonedest collection of bric-a-brac and booby traps and theta traps and so forth. He's afraid some other thetan's going to get him. He's afraid somebody's going to come along and steal his facsimiles. He's still afraid the cops from the early track are trying to pick him up for stealing all the facsimiles he stole on the early track.

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.

And by the way, he's hiding some beauties, just but gorgeous facsimiles.

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.

Fantastic. If somebody in Hollywood could see these things and film them in Technicolor they would — they would just think, "Boy, we've really hit the top of the aesthetic band," you know?

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."

They're stolen. And they think cops are after them. Your preclear who is a criminal, who thinks the police are after him, who gets sick, who throws up at the thought of being arrested and so on, he's worried about — he's worried about the facsimile police. It's just as — it's just as ridiculous as that.

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

You give him the idea "The police are liable to raid me." Just give him this postulate facing this postulate: "The police are liable to raid me." You know that that V is liable to practically go through the floor? He's liable to get sick at his stomach. After a while he'll say, "You know, I wonder why I'm worrying about this. I'm afraid they'll find out about the facsimiles I've stolen. Nobody cares about a facsimile? What am I worried about the police for?"

You say, "Go on now."

Well, of course, there's a better reason he's worried about the police. It actually isn't that — quite that light. What they did, really, was to take, in Fac One, and just cave a guy in by making him fight a terminal. They gave him a camera for another anchor point. And of course, every time he tries to use anything like this, he starts fighting it and it'll move in on him. And it's — they gave him all sorts of odd ideas and they — he got the idea then he wasn't quite sane. That's very interesting. You run that double terminal: "I'm not quite sane" facing "I'm not quite sane." And rrrrrrr, that's laid in with Fac One.

"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!"

Now we're not interested in whether this stuff is credible or incredible. We're not interested in anything serving it beyond this point. Once you start to use these anchor points and process with these anchor points you are on safe, solid ground, because as far as the anatomy of a thetan is concerned, that's it. We're not even interested in what the anatomy of this universe is. But we are interested in the anatomy of a thetan. The anatomy of the thetan consists of a viewpoint with a whole bunch of anchor points. And you handle those with anchor points. You tell him put his anchor points out and in. He'll say, "I got this black all over my face."

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."

Well, you say, "Put it out and in. Out and in. Out and in."

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

He's liable to tell you a lie. He's liable to say, "I've got something or other here and it's horrible and it's very bad."

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."

And you say, "Well, put your anchor points out and in against that horrible, bad thing again. What is it?"

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

"Oh, it's black." He says, "It's very black."

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 ..."

And you say, "Well, put it out and in again."

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

"Oh," he'll say, "it's terrible. It's real bad."

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.

And you say, "Well put them out and in again. Out and in again." "Hey, what do you know."

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!"

All of the sudden the curtain of blackness — a protective coating — falls off of the thing and he's standing there looking at the facsimile of the most beautiful bird he ever saw. And he'll start to cover it up real fast and say, "Well, I'm really not interested in this." He's betrayed himself into displaying to himself the beauty of his facsimiles. Isn't that interesting?

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

Now, they — he does have facsimiles that are bad, and they do affect him. But once he finds out that it isn't a question of all facsimiles being bad, then he starts to get a little bit interested and he'll suddenly start controlling them.

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

Well, what is the basic mechanism of control? The basic mechanism of control is a present time drill. And the present time drill has to do with leading out or smashing in a preclear's anchor points.

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.

Now, if you'll give a preclear some kind of a process like this: Here we have out here an anchor point. We give him as an anchor point, let's give him a cockatoo, a beautiful white parrot. And we'll say, "All right, now that's an anchor point. Now have somebody come along and take that cockatoo and smash it into your face." And just — you just make him do that two or three times. Now, by the way, you double-terminal this. You would have two cockatoos, you see, and have two people come along and smash two cockatoos into his face. And that way he gets space, otherwise, you're working in one-dimensional space or two-dimensional space. And it's not easy to work that way. Let's work in three-dimensional space. So we get a smash-in and a hard smash-in of this character and we get the preclear with the feeling of having been betrayed.

"Now, create something to be," say.

Now, we get him — and have him (somebody) pick up that cockatoo then and hold it way out. Two terminals, you see, out there. Just hold it way out. And he gets the feeling of being ridiculed. All the rest of the emotions run off on this.

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

What's sympathy? He's getting sympathy for it automatically if he's got two cockatoos of the same size — two cockatoos of the same size in the same plane, then the cockatoos are sympathizing with each other. And if they're two cockatoos of the same size, then they're agreeing with each other. And that is reality — agreement — and that's sympathy. And he is looking at them, so that's admiration. And you have just run the whole package off by using what? Two terminals. Two terminals and having them pushed in or brought out.

"Yeah," he'll say.

Now, you'll have other people doing this to the preclear and the preclear doing this to other people.

"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."

"All right, you mock up two little boys. Now you mock yourself up walking in and picking up — that's from two sides, see — picking up a picture from the little boy and then carrying them way off and holding them." And you know, one of the most saddest feelings will come over him. Boy, that's really an overt act! He took somebody's pictures.

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.

What's the most overt act you could do then? It would be to make some-body have bad pictures and take away their good pictures. And that would be a real overt act. What's the basic overt act? Hurting somebody? No. What's the basic overt act? The basic overt act is turning beauty to ugliness or evaluating things as ugly.

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.

That says what's the most aberrative factor in this society today would be the art critic. That would be him. That's the dog, go shoot him. Go steal his anchor points. Only he hasn't got any. He's running the dramatization "Art is bad. Art is bad. Art is bad. That fellow's art's bad. Somebody else's art's bad. Somebody else's art's bad." He's just dramatizing, that's all.

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!

And the way you steal people's facsimiles is simple. Oh, there's lots of tricks. Any kind of a trick you could think of would be how one interchanged facsimiles. And so you say to this fellow, "Art is bad."

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?

And therefore he says, "Well, I guess I don't think the picture's so good. It hasn't got much sound or anything else in it." And feels sad about it. And when he gets real weak, why, then you pick it up and walk off with it. See? You get the — get the . . . That's what an art critic does.

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."

Anyway the basic overt act — and the basic is that, is the theft of the picture — and the basic . . . You know, this stuff — if this stuff were born out of theory I would say, "For God's sakes, how incredible!" But it happens that this stuff happens to be born out of empirical data gained in practice. That's what this material is here. This that I'm telling you is the workable side of it.

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.

I'm telling you what seems to be, then, from an observation of preclears and work.

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.

All right. And what's the most aberrative kind of a postulate then? Would be an opinion. The most aberrative postulate would be an opinion.

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.

And why can't somebody recall his childhood? Well, he can't recall his childhood . . . You want to — want to show a preclear why he can't recall his child-hood, you have Mama coming in from the right and Mama coming in from the left and they pick up his body and they carry it off and they hold it. And then Mama coming out of the darkness from the right and the left carrying the body of a little ugly, warty, horrible toad or something and pushing it onto one. Double terminal. Mama walks in and pushes the toad's body onto him. Then Mama picks up one and — not the toad body, that's gone by the boards — Mama picks up one's body again and walks off with it again. Then Mama — you know, in other words, this and that. Or mock up one walking into the house with a stick and having Mama say, "Hm! That's bad!" When — totally baffled, here's this beautiful stick and Mama said it was bad. And you have to get rid of the stick. Boy, that's silly. "Well to hell with this old dame!" That's the immediate reaction. To hell with her. "I'll just hide everything I've got if that's the way this family's going to be run. They're liable to get ahold of my best, nicest dreams and facsimiles and smash them, that's what! So I'll hide them."

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."

Bang! There goes the whole memory of childhood. Because is there a memory there? No, there isn't. There's a lot of nice beautiful facsimiles here and there, and there's a lot of nice bad ones. The whole family has constituted itself as an art critic.

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 come in with a rock. "Oh, that's bad." You come in and company's sitting in the room — the living room and you say, "Look at these — look at these old fogies sitting around here. No motion. No motion at all. Why, these people are likely to be dead! If you walk in, they're liable to die sitting there — no motion, so I'll just turn a couple of handsprings here on the rug and show them that you can get into action around here," and so forth. And so you turn a couple of handsprings out on the rug and knock over a glass of lemonade. Lemonade's easy to come by, glasses are easy to come by, rugs are easy to come by, he can just mock them up any time you wants, you know, and there's nothing to that — and everybody's mad! What are they mad about? Well, you're not supposed to disturb grown-ups. Oh, my! Grown-ups are a hidden influence!

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.

Do you know most adults walking around today are so thoroughly parked in their childhood that they won't tell you this right off the bat, but they feel like children. They know they're children. They know they're little boys and little girls. They know they're not adults, but they're pretending to be adults. They think that's their basic pretense. Actually, their basic pretense is much more amusing. Their basic pretense is pretending they're being human. That's their basic pretense and they know that's just a pretense.

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.

Now, they'll get worried about this horrible feeling of pretense they have. Well, you can double-terminal out this feeling of pretense they have when they start running in on something like that. Or you could have "I'm pretending I'm an adult" facing "I'm pretending I'm an adult." You see? You could have "I'm pretending I'm human" facing "I'm pretending I'm human." You could have "I'm never going to put out anchor points again." And that seems to be the key phrase. That's what keeps him pinned down in the body. If he's never going to put out anchor points again, he's not going to push this body out anyplace, you see? So he's never going to get out of the body. Simple. The body's just an anchor point.

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."

Now, because of double terminals and the face — the fact that terminals collapse, then he — the thetan walking out of the body creates a double terminal situation. Now, he's double terminal collapse, you see? You can see the two terminals discharge one against the other. Two terminals discharge against the other when they're put side by side, any time. Particularly sixth dynamic terminals. So you put them side by side and what do you get out of this? You get a double terminal discharging. And you don't even have to see the discharge. But it will discharge. And you can put up Mama facing Mama and all of a sudden the fellow is no longer worried about Mama and somehow or other by himself. So he's got a double terminal proposition there: Mama discharging against Mama.

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.

Now, you get the thetan who thinks he is mocked up just like the body — in order to control it — walking away from the body which looks just like him — you've got a double terminal, naturally. So of course you get the body and the thetan collapsing and the fellow can't get out of his body. Every time he makes a double terminal out of it — bang!

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.

Well, you solve this, as I've said earlier, just by mocking up the body and mocking up the body and mocking up the body, particularly the back of the body, and just keep mocking it up and mocking it up and mocking it up until the thetan just says, "Well, what the heck!" It — there's no further discharge between these two.

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.

But you run the postulate out, "I shall never put out anchor points again," versus the postulate "I shall never put out anchor points again," and you will hit the prime incidents and hidden influences on the track which give this individual the impulse to compute instead of be.

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."

You see now what a computing circuit is. It's "How can I figure so I won't have to be." And a fellow figures as much as he isn't. And a fellow is as much as he doesn't figure. That, of course, would seem to indicate then that the stupidest fellow would be the beingest fellow you ever saw. Well, as a matter of fact, you go around very, very stupid people and they really think they are. This really doesn't have anything much to do with intelligence. Intelligence is only the ability to recall data and add it up and put it back together again and figure.

You say, "Okay."

But a thetan can figure so instantaneously, so quickly, that it really doesn't matter much, you see, about circuits or computations and so on. He can set up a mind any time he wants one, on any subject. That's no reason why he's got a set article called "a mind" which has to do, itself, all his figuring for him.

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.

The art is "to be." And the question of beingness is anchor points. So you start working with anchor points with your preclear and you're going to get there. And you avoid working with anchor points and you're not going to get very far. You'll get quite a ways, but you won't get far enough. Because you want to change this person.

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.

Now, in all other branches of psychotherapy there have ever been, they were addressed to the body, they were addressed to the mind. So are we working in the field of psychotherapy? No, we're not.

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?

I don't know whether you — then you can call this — you can't call this a religion, because a religion had to do, ordinarily, with some kind of an idol or a god or a devil or something of this sort. But it happens that we are working with the human soul. Because they've always called this thing the human soul. This is the guy. And they've called it "He has a soul" or "I have a soul" as though it's a separate item. That means he's no longer taking any responsibility for his own self. He doesn't — he isn't responsible for himself anymore. And that's his basic idea of existence. He says, "I'll be a body and then I will not any longer be responsible for myself." You see? That's a negation of responsibility which is enormous. And it's that bridge which you have to cross in processing. He's not taking responsibility. He won't perceive or use force. Hah! We again have anchor points then, don't we? So anchor point drill works that out too.

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.

But don't be surprised if in this process this preclear says to you, "I have a thetan fooling around me. He is attacking me." He's got some old mock-up body that he had which he's used and he's got that thing set up someplace or another, and he's not taking responsibility for himself anymore and he won't take responsibility for it. And you could get any kind of a human body to discharge as two terminals to a point where it would just disappear, except you're not going to get this double — this body of this thetan he keeps seeing around him. He'll tell you some of the darnedest things. That's not going to reduce until he accepts responsibility for it. Until he realizes, in other words, it's himself.

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

Now is it up to you to tell him it's himself? No, it's not. No, you just double-terminal it and he comes into the realization. All of a sudden he says, "That's the body they gave me in Fac One. I've never wanted it."

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

"Where are you?"

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

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

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, 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.

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.

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?

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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."

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.

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!