This is a discussion of an auditing procedure which is based upon various data which has been assembled, and which I've been discovering, putting together, testing out and so forth, during these professional units, mostly on this basis: What have people been getting big results with, you know? What's causing a change of case?

This will take any case that has hung up and is having difficulty and will move him up through successive tone levels swiftly. One should not suppose that a case will not move on the scale. Auditors have been known to have had the goal, in an auditing session, of a good, quiet, orderly preclear. I never have had that goal particularly, but on the other hand I have scrupulously avoided techniques which merely produced an effect and did not produce a result.

Now, if we were to put all these things together, one after the other, then we would have a process which we would simply call something like "Effective Procedure," or something of that sort.

Well, here we have a technique which produces an effect and produces a result, because when you get through with this, somebody's communication level has been raised.

Well, this is actually no effort to do that. One of these days I'll probably come up with something like that – I mean, which is just a summation of processes which are effective at various case levels, string them all out from the worst-case level forward to the best-case level and call it a procedure.

When you've done Opening Procedure by Duplication for any length of time above a half an hour you will see a change of tone in the case. Now this can be the change of tone of the G.E. (Genetic Entity: A composite of all the cellular experience recorded along the genetic line of the organism to the present body. It has the manifestation of a single identity. It is not the theta being or "I".) The G.E. can change tone, the thetan can change tone. But where we have a G.E. changing tone we can then be prepared to have a little bit of a skid in tone when we've been doing Opening Procedure by Duplication.

But this is, you might say, a selected procedure out of selected procedures. And this would be a very arduous discipline, as a process. This doesn't say there are many procedures that don't work, and maybe some per preclear would work better than one of these. But this particular procedure certainly has two characteristics: One, it produces results, it produces an effect – different thing, you know, a procedure which produces results and one which produces effects. Did you ever realize that's not necessarily related at all?

Let's say we did it for one hour with considerable pyrotechnics. We laid off at that time and did not do it further. We did something else. The fellow seemed to be in fairly good shape. We can expect a few days later to have some semblance of all of this in view again, because the G.E. is in revolt, at which time we would simply do it again. This does not mean that a preclear slumps because he's run on this. He never returns to the same state he was in, but the condition deteriorates slightly which you attained if you did nothing else in the session but Opening Procedure by Duplication. So we shouldn't consider Opening Procedure by Duplication a finished and final thing with a case until we've done it several times.

I have to laugh at somebody, they got ahold of a piece of Scientology and call it Bucksology or Hexogomy or Purselectolomy or something, and just because something creates a tremendous effect, you see? And then they call this a procedure. And you as an auditor will run into this – well, it's just something that goes along with any push in a society – and you'll find out that the procedure created an effect, it didn't create a result.

It goes this way. We get into communication with the preclear. Naturally if your preclear is extremely low scale, getting into communication will require mimicry and other such activities on your part – anything that would be communication. We get into a two-way communication with this preclear, and we talk to him enough to keep up the communication and to get some idea of some sort of a present time problem – we see whether he has any.

And so you have a long, continuing, boggy sort of a thing, usually, or very spectacular. Of course, shooting a guy with a shotgun produces both effect and a result. It kills him, and removes him from the environment. This, of course, is both combined in one.

That is mostly in the interest of: you're interested in him and you are in communication now about something which is real to him.

We are not interested in that type of therapy because it has already been taken care of by Mr. Winchester. He has it patented. We shouldn't be concerned with that.

Having proceeded that far, we would then tackle this problem bluntly and head-on. We would tackle any possibility that this individual was unable to duplicate a command many times. And we would go into Opening Procedure and we would do Opening Procedure just as such very lightly for a very short time. We would have him go over and put his hand on the desk, and locate something that's real in the room and go over and take hold of it, and withdraw from it, and we'd march him around the room for a very short time. I do mean a short space of time, because what we're getting down to is the reason he won't be able to perform Opening Procedure very easily.

Well, this procedure we're talking about, that we're going to call, just for no really good reason, Procedure 30. Just going to call that Procedure 30. Of course, there is a radio significance to this, but the less significance there is to a title the more likely it is to stay around, so we'll just call this Procedure 30 and let it go at that.

Now, how would this procedure go, and to whom would it be addressed on, and a bunch of other questions: Well, let's take these things up in order of importance. What will it do and how easy is it to use? Well, it'll produce a Book One Clear out of a Resistive V. That's what it'll do. And how easy is it to use? Well, it'd probably do this in maybe less than twenty hours – maybe – if you were using really Procedure 30. That's a slight difference, if you were really using Procedure 30.

We're going to find two locations in the room, and we'll have an object in that location.

Now, this procedure to date has been addressed, actually, only to very difficult cases. That's the only test series that the procedure has had. It has not been applied to Step I's. Why? Well, one assumes, rightly or wrongly, that a procedure which works well on a Resistive V, of course, would improve the case of a Step I.

We will have a book on the table, and on another side table or windowsill or some-thing of the sort we will have another object, preferably a dissimilar object. We might have a hat, or an ashtray – any kind of object. One object on the table, one object in some other location in the room – dissimilar. Don't use two books, for instance.

Now, this may or may not be true, and it may or may not work out this way. That's up to you. Why don't you look it over and find out if that's the case. But I think you will discover that is the case. I think you will discover, too, the reason why a Step I comes up just so far and then moves no farther up, is another case of having hit this particular set of buttons.

Now we ask the preclear to go to the first object, and we ask him to pick it up, and we ask him to describe it. We ask him its color, its temperature, its weight. Then we have him put it down. Of course a repetition of "put it down" looks possibly not good, being a sort of repeater technique in itself (Repeater Technique: This refers to the Dianetic technique using repetition by the preclear of a word or phrase in order to produce movement on the time track into an engram containing that word or phrase), but the fact is that that command will work out in this process as the case proceeds.

What we were doing really seems to be, we were making people well, within this perimeter. In the absence of this particular process, the inherent recovery of the individual was being tremendously consulted by the auditor.

So we have him put it down, and then have him go over to the window and pick up object two, and have him look at it, describe it – we have him describe it to keep him in two – way communication. We have him describe it verbally and have him feel the weight of it, and have him get its temperature, and then we have him put it down right where he picked it up.

The potentiality of recovery of the case was a monitoring factor in the auditing. You see that? So we had a condition which might be over into a condition of no return. And we had that rather easily and rather soon. We'd been advancing that into the dark unknown – and I do mean dark unknown – of the point of no return on cases quite readily.

And then we have him go to object one, and we have him pick it up and describe it and feel its weight and feel its temperature and have him really ascertain this. We want to make certain that he did ascertain this, and that's the one thing we hound him about through this process is make sure that he really feels the weight of it you see, that he really gets what temperature it is, that he really tells you what the colors are and the appearance of the object is. And put it down, and go over to position two and pick up that second object and get what its weight, its color, and its temperature is, and we have him put it down in the same place he picked it up from – be very insistent on that – and then have him go back to position one.

Well, now this procedure does seem to go way in past the points of no return, you see. But it also, more importantly, seemed to be sitting as a roof on how high cases would go. And if these elements weren't handled in the case, then the case would simply get as well as the case could get within the potentials of the case to get well.

How long do we do this? We do this until he can do it happy as a jaybird for about ten minutes without a single upset, until he can do this time after time and be just that cheerful about it.

Now, up to this point, you see, then, a case was sort of bound down. Well, what would happen if you as an auditor were able to monitor how well this case could get? See, that's a new look. You see, the case wouldn't be getting as well as the case could get; the case would get as well as you could make the case.

How long is it going to take you to do this? Fifteen hours? Well, of course you realize that an individual knows he would die if he were asked to do this for fifteen hours, and that the auditor would shoot himself long before that time! You realize this to be the case, and then go right ahead and do it for fifteen hours if necessary. The shortest time in which I have been able to do it effectively has been one hour.I got the preclear all the way from apathy, tears – real tears (real apathy too by the way), a horrible stomach ache, feet fell off at one point – preclear was absolutely sure of this - through rage, antagonism, contempt, boredom, apathy again, fear, anger, antagonism, contempt, apathy, grief, fear, antagonism, enthusiasm, apathy, and so on up again to the first time the guy had ever been on the first level of the Know to Sex Scale, to sexual excitement, to symbols, to anger, to laughter, to apathy, to sex again, and eatingness showed up there just as plain as could be. "Well I suppose I could eat the book. I suppose that's what you want me to do now. Eat it. Well I won't eat it, so there." And another time – the other object, "I suppose I'm supposed to use this for sexual purposes now. That's what you want. Isn't it!" These various manifestations – until finally the case simply booted right up on the tone scale and stayed up there. He went through sex, and he went into effort, and then he said "Well, I don't know, it's exercise walking back and forth," and went up to emotion. He began to very interested in the fact that he had had emotions regarding this process, that this process would make him emotional was now curious to him. He became rather curious about the process, the first time we'd gotten into curiosity even vaguely, and went on up to – all of a sudden – tremendously brilliant visio (Visio: the ability to see in facsimile form something one has seen earlier so that one sees it again in the same color, dimension scale, brightness and detail as it was originally viewed) turns on, and then went on further until his sonic (Sonic: the ability to recall a sound so that one can hear it again as he originally heard it – in full tone and volume) picked up, and became intolerable, and then shut down again to a tolerable level.

That enters in auditor determinism. Now, that seems to be present in Procedure 30. Now, this procedure has not been used (at this moment that I'm giving it to you) by any other auditor than myself. Thereby and therefore, it has to be used a bit to find out if it has to be altered. But I don't think it has to be altered, because I have seen its various parts and types of processes like that being used capably by auditors today.

And the longest I myself have done this on a case is five and one half hours. That's a long time. Actually, I didn't ever while I was running this have any real tendency to get awfully bored. It's enormously interesting how many kinds of reaction this simple process produces.

Now, the one thing it would require from the auditor is a tremendous stick-to-ivity: How easy is it to use? It would require a tremendous stick-to-ivity – quite a bit of patience, mostly because of its opening steps. And if an auditor has a tendency to be flighty with a case, you know, and to be upset with a case he should tend to stick to other procedures, lighter procedures – if he himself can't duplicate – until he's had this procedure run on him. Because this procedure evidently will knock out certain of the blocks that haunt auditors, such as not being able to duplicate commands, only being able to give a preclear a command a few times, only to have a certain span of attention for the case.

One of the things they ascertain immediately is that you are trying to get them under complete control. They're sure of this. They become sure of various things – all of them bad – concerning you as an auditor, if they're having a bad time of it. A case that is under good control may do this for half an hour well-controlled, emotionally stable, doing it just fine, and then go to pieces, just can't stand it any more, that's all. And so you can expect, I suppose, that the entrance to many cases would be that you've got a very well behaved preclear for a little while, he was being social, and then boy did he go anti-social.

The attention – span of attention – of an auditor is a factor with which we have to deal. And the span of attention of an auditor sometimes is very short. I know of one auditor who is – oh, is he good for the first twenty minutes, and for the remainder of a two-hour session, he just fixes up the poultry business and creates an enormous abundance of eggs.

Now this procedure, of course, utilizes duplication to an arduous, wicked extent. Duplication is an essential part of any communication, and if you want to get in communication with your preclear, you'd better get him so he can duplicate. This process does two things. It produces an effect, you can be sure of that, but it also produces a result, which is the only reason we're using it, and produces that result faster than any other process I know of.

Well, for those first twenty minutes, boy, is he hot! What's this? His span of attention is very short. Well, we'd have to have something, then, that would increase his span of attention, wouldn't we, to really be getting there?

Now we've all known that Opening Procedure was pretty good, but what part of Opening Procedure was really hot, since you could run anything in 8-C, any step of SOP 8-C could be run by Opening Procedure. You could make a fellow move around and do whatever that step was. It would take a little figuring on the part of the auditor to get this done, but that's a fact. Well, duplication is tremendously important. It just can't be over-emphasized in a case.

Well, sure enough, this Procedure 30 does that if it doesn't do anything else – it increases the span of attention.

And when Opening Procedure ran into Duplication we got an enormous effectiveness and where it was not used to level out duplication, but was used to produce random activity, it was not as effective, anywhere near. So we have this procedure built up this far now. We have: Two-Way Communication, find out if there's a Present Time Problem, then we could do just a little bit of common ordinary Opening Procedure of 8-C, you know, just to get them used to the idea of moving around and not being embarrassed because they're doing something kind of silly – they often think that – moves around the room, puts his hand on the table – and so on into Duplication by Opening Procedure with two objects, picking them up, feeling them, describing them, putting them down in the same place, picking up the second object, describing it, putting it down in the same place, and so on.

Then, too, somebody ought to be able to say," I can turn on sonic and visio with this technique because, what do you know, it improved, or turned on, my sonic and Visio." See, so therefore he has a lot of hopefulness about the case.

What happens to a body when you run too much Opening Procedure on it? You're bringing the body up scale as an entity. How long will it come upscale as an entity? Until it's very restless. Well, there's our point. There's where your Opening Procedure collapses a little bit, or drops back, therefore it isn't an end-all process, is it? You could probably run Opening Procedure long enough on a body to finally exteriorize the G.E. from the body – if you see that kind of a complexity. But, however you run it, everything the body's been revolting against is likely to come to the surface immediately and intimately and abruptly. It's likely to be quite violent. What's the body doing? The body has been threatening these revolts for a long time. The thetan quite ordinarily has the body in indifferent control, and the body, of course, runs up through these things blasts through some of his ridges and the thetan discovers that he can handle the body regardless of what it is doing. That is what the thetan discovers and that's why your Opening Procedure by Duplication is effective. It is more effective with the thetan exteriorized than interiorized – much more effective. But if we ran it long enough on the body itself, and if we addressed the body itself to run it, we would probably get some weird manifestation, some new phenomena showing up – something weird happening. We wouldn't quite be prepared to say exactly what would happen. In the first place it's not a possibility to audit this straight on the body. The body itself is an animal. On a stimulus-response level it has some intelligence, but if you started to drill that intelligence in any way it would have to come up through too many strata.

Well, I give it to you now, without any further window dressing, simply as it has been worked out, and don't in any way assure you that this will be a final form. This is Procedure 30, Issue I.

But the point is: (1) Opening Procedure by Duplication is violent. (2) The condition attained after an hour and a half or so of Opening Procedure by Duplication can be expected in the next day or so to deteriorate, but not to the level where the preclear's body tone was originally, and would have to be done again to that degree in order to pick up and stabilize the tone. I have done it three sessions running, each one about five days apart, and on the last session there was a stability attained simply by this processing.

It goes this way: We get into communication with the preclear. Naturally, if your preclear is psycho, getting into communication will require mimicry and other such activities on your part – anything that would be communication.

But this is not an end-all process. This process gets the case into shape so that he will do a good job of following your instructions and will do a good job of communicating, and it picks up the communication tone of the individual. Therefore the length of time you care to run this as an auditor is markedly shortened.

But we get into a two-way communication with this preclear, and then we sort of talk to him, you know, to keep up the communication to get some sort of idea of some sort of a present time problem, if he has any. You're interested in him and you are in communication now about something which is real to him.

If it were an end-all process, which itself went for broke, this would be the way you would run it. You would run it an hour and a half or something like that, or two hours, you would wait a day, two days, three days, something like that, you would run it for another hour or two, and you would go three or four days, and you would run it again on the preclear for fifteen minutes or a half an hour. And then you would have attained a stable state and you would have improved his condition. Run in that fashion it is an end-all process, but not run really in the fashion in which you would run it as an Opening Procedure.

Well, having proceeded that far, we would then tackle this problem bluntly and head on: We would tackle any possibility that this individual was unable to duplicate a command many times. And we would go into Opening Procedure and we would do Opening Procedure, just as such, very lightly, for a very short space of time.

But let's look now at how it is combined in a procedure to get the preclear out of his incipient explosion, so that it won't get in your way as an auditor. And just consider Opening Procedure by Duplication, although it in itself is very beneficial, as something by which you, the auditor, are going to monitor the preclear so that he really will be able to do what you say.

We would have him go over and put his hand on the desk and locate something that's real in the room and go over and take ahold of it and withdraw from it. And we'd march him around the room for a very short space of time – and I do mean short space of time. Because what we're getting down to is the reason he won't be able to perform Opening Procedure very easily. We're going to find two locations in the room and – let's just codify this – and we'll have an object in each location. We will have a book on the table and on another side table or window sill, something like that, we will have another object, preferably a dissimilar object. Oh, we might have a hat or an ashtray or any kind of an object like that. One object on the table, one object in some other location in the room-dissimilar, whatever they are. Don't have them, two books.

If a case were to find it consistently difficult to communicate with you, if a case were consistently seeing everything black, if a case were consistently occluded and consistently twisted your orders and so forth, you would simply have to, you would have no other choice but to, sit down and grind with Opening Procedure by Duplication on this case until he was actually out of the woods on it. Now how about the necessity for lapsed time between sessions? Well, actually it isn't absolutely necessary. I'm talking now about professional auditing.

All right, we've got these two objects. Now, we ask the preclear to go to the first object and pick it up, ask him to describe it, ask him how much it weighs and what its temperature is. Then we have him put it down. Of course a repetition of "Put it down" is possibly not good, being a repeater technique in itself, but believe me, that command will work out as the case proceeds. So we have him lay it down. We have him put it down in the same place, by the way – this first object – that he got it. He'll have a tendency to put it in some other place. We want it put in the same place exactly, to the millimeter.

This is how you would schedule these things optimumly. You would make just a little less progress by doing it a couple of hours a day for two or three days. You would invest perhaps thirty percent more auditing time because the case hadn't had a chance to settle out, but you would get there. Two or three days, a couple or three hours a day. Letting the fellow settle out gets him matched back against his environment and saves you time in the long run.

And then we have him go over to the window and pick up object two and have him look at it, describe it. Why do we have him describe it? That's to keep him in a two-way communication system. See that? We have him describe it verbally, and have him feel the weight of it and have him get its temperature, and then we have him put it down right where he picked it up.

He goes back into his environment, he gets restimulated, then he comes back for an auditing session and he blows that. He goes into the environment again, and you actually, day by day, are getting another type of environment which you're running out of the preclear. It would be an end-all process if you did it this way. It would be an answer in itself, just Opening Procedure by Duplication. That's all you'd do with the preclear.

And then we have him go to object one. And we have him pick it up and describe it and feel its weight and feel its temperature. And having really ascertained this – we want to make certain that he did ascertain this, and that's the one thing we hound him about through this process, is make sure that he really feels the weight of it, you see, that he really gets what temperature it is, that he really tells you what the colors are and the appearance of the object is. And put it down. Then go over to the position two and pick up that second object and get what its weight, its color and its temperature is. And we have him put it down in the same place that he picked it up – be very insistent on that – and then have him go back to position one.

Well, it's a fantastic process in the way it will blow a case. If a case explodes or blows under this – there is no other process known which will break loose a covert communication line which is twisting a process. If a case blows that means the case had a tendency to twist a process, because he can't duplicate entirely, and so he was sliding out of your hands, and as long as he can slide out of your hands as an auditor, he then will alter a process every time that process gets him into going which is too rough for him and he's got to go through that rough going.

How long do we do this? We do this till he can do it happy as a jaybird for about ten minutes without a single upset – till he can do this time after time and just be just as cheerful about it!

And you won't be able to drive him through with a concept. So you have Opening Procedure by Duplication standing there as the only thing known at this time which will push a case all the way through into a good communication and an ability to duplicate your auditing commands. If you just did this for a little while with a case, you would still get an improved communication line. If you did it for many, many hours with a case on consecutive days or consecutive weeks, you would get a total improvement in communication on the part of the case. This is a certainty. But where your case blows, gets upset or excited, you can look at this fact, that you must have invested – if you audited this case by other processes earlier – you must have invested a great deal of time trying to get the case "to break through the sound barrier". The case didn't. Now why does this require a little violence? One of the things that happens is that the individual knows that he mustn't display any violence, and this technique brings him up to the point where he displays it, and he finds out nothing happened to him.

Well, how long is it going to take you to do this? Fifteen hours? Well, of course, you realize that an individual would die if he were asked to do this for fifteen hours and that the auditor would commit suicide long before that time.

This in itself gives him a tremendous confidence. Did you ever see somebody who got mad and then found out that nobody objected, and then was cocky evermore? Well, Opening Procedure by Duplication gets you there and saves you an enormous amount of time. The amount of time saved in this is probably in terms of scores of hours, if not hundreds. If you have a case that is hanging up, it might very well go right on hanging up unless you get as violent as Opening Procedure by Duplication. And if the case is hanging up to any degree, why you remedy of course his Opening Procedure by Duplication. It has its own role. It is in itself its own remedy, but what you're trying to do as an auditor is blast through places where he would hang up and which it might take you years to get him through entirely.

You realize this to be the case and then go right ahead and do it for fifteen hours, if necessary.

So it isn't just a passing thought, this process. It seems to contain in it all those elements which go to make a case stable, and therefore is quite important to the auditor. But if an auditor works this without expecting violence, if he works this without expecting he's going to have an awful time every few preclears, why he's even more of an optimist than I am, which is impossible.

Well, let's be factual. How many hours do you think it would take to get a rather bad case – I mean a pretty bad case – squared away with this? How many hours would it take, really? Well, the shortest time I have been able to do it effectively has been one hour. And I got the character all the way from apathy, tears – real tears (real apathy, too, by the way, you know) – a horrible stomachache, feet fell off at one point (preclear was absolutely sure of this), through rage, antagonism, contempt, boredom, apathy again, fear, anger, antagonism, contempt, apathy, grief, fear, antagonism, enthusiasm, apathy, and so on up again to – first time the guy had ever been on the first-level Know to Sex Scale – to sexual excitement, to symbols, to anger, to laughter, to apathy, to sex again, eating (showed up there just as plain as could be). "Well, I suppose I could eat the book. I suppose that's what you want me to do now: eat it. Well, I won't eat it. So there!" And another time, by the way, the other object: "I suppose you're supposed to use it for sexual purposes now. That's what you want, isn't it?"

These various manifestations, until finally the case simply booted right on up the tone scale and stayed up there.

I mean, they went through sex and then they went into effort and they said, "Well, I don't know, it's exercise walking back and forth," and so forth. He went up to emotion. He began to be very interested in the fact that he had had emotions regarding this process. That this process would make him emotional was now curious to him. He became rather curious about the process – the first time we had gotten into curiosity, even vaguely. And all of a sudden, tremendously brilliant visio turned on, and then went on some further till their sonic picked up and became intolerable and then shut down again to a tolerable level.

But what's the longest I myself have done this on a case? Five and one-half hours is as long as I have done it on a case. That's a long time. Of course, I have a slight advantage there: I can set the GE up automatic and go off and lean on a chimney or something, you know, and just let it run.

But actually, I didn't ever, while I was running this, have any real tendency to, you know, myself, get awfully bored, or upset with it, because it's enormously interesting how many kinds of reaction this simple process produces. It's very interesting.

One of the things that they ascertain is – immediately – that you are trying to get them under complete control. They are sure of this. They become sure of various things – all of them bad – concerning you, an auditor, if they're having a bad time of it.

Now, a case that is under good control may do this for a half an hour; he may do this for half an hour – well controlled, emotionally stable, doing it just fine, and then go to pieces. Just goes to pieces; he just can't stand it anymore, that's all.

And so you can expect, I suppose, that the entrance to many cases would be that you got a very well behaved preclear for a little while. He was being social and then, boy, did he go antisocial.

Now, this procedure, of course, utilizes duplication to an arduous, wicked extent. Duplication is an essential part of any communication. And if you want to get in communication with your preclear, you'd better get him so he can duplicate.

Well, this is the kind of a process where you practically lay somebody down and chop their heads off. I mean, it's this order of magnitude. But it does two things: It produces an effect; you can be sure of that. But it also produces a result (which is the only reason we're using it), and produces that result faster than any other process I know.

Now, what do you know? It produces the result faster.

Now, we've all known that Opening Procedure was pretty good. But what part of Opening Procedure was really hot, since you could run anything in 8-C – any step of 8-C could be run by Opening Procedure? You could make a fellow move around and do whatever that step was; take a little figuring on the part of the auditor to get this done, but that's a fact.

Well, duplication is tremendously important – tremendously important. It just can't be overemphasized in a case.

Well, when Opening Procedure ran into duplication, we got an enormous effectiveness, and where it was not used to level out duplication but was used to produce random activity, it was not as effective – anywhere near.

So, we have this Procedure 30 built up this far, now. We have it built up to, first, twoway communication – find out if there's a present time problem. Then we can do just a little bit of common Opening Procedure, you know, just to get him used to the idea of moving around and not being embarrassed because they're doing something kind of silly (they often think it very silly, some fellow, that he moves around the room, puts his hand on the table; he can do that, and so forth) – into duplication by Opening Procedure with two objects, picking them up, feeling them, describing them (that makes him communicate, see, he has to describe them) and putting them down in the same place, picking up the other object, describing it and putting it down in the same place, and so on.

All right. So far so good. What would be our next step? Problems: How the preclear is being a problem. He should recognize that he's being his own problem and that he's liable to sit there and be a problem to the auditor.

His total feeling for the race is that it's in such horrible state because it has so many problems. He has never realized that every man is being his own problems, and without those problems he'd have no randomity.

He hasn't realized, for instance, that the physical universe is there to create problems, and life is there to solve them. So, when a person is creating problems, he is just to that degree (that he is creating problems) enmeshed with the physical universe. See that? That's an exact ratio; it's an exact geometric progression. It's just to the degree that he is creating problems that he is enmeshed in the mest universe. This is direct coordination.

We take some little girl, a maybe juvenile delinquent, something of that sort. You could say lots of things about why she's a juvenile delinquent, but certainly it would be this: she's certainly creating a problem. You see? And so therefore, she is being the problem, not being the solver of problems. Well, we want this preclear to be the solver of problems because that is life – where that's the person that adds up and summates ideas and problems – life, the livingness of a person.

The physical-universe part of a person sets up problems. So when our preclear has become totally an unsolvable problem, what have we got? We've got somebody who has completely closed terminals with the physical universe, you see? Can't solve the problem. Somebody else will have to solve him. There he sits, ready to be solved. And he doesn't get solved, because you don't solve him.

Now, one of the ways to audit this fellow – and psychoanalysis has made, I would say, somewhere in the neighborhood of eighty, ninety million dollars doing this – is for somebody to sit there and tell him what's wrong with him. He'll go for this. Somebody will solve his problem for him.

"Now, the reason and the trouble with you is that so-and-so, and so-and-so, and your Oedipus has crossed with your Electra. This is very causative and your reconscious has oblongated. And we recognize this, and at all times you realize that you have problems."

Well, they actually wouldn't buy that as well as they'd buy the statement "You are a problem, you are a problem, you are a problem" – which is what they tell little kids. This is how you get kids under control. You keep saying to them, "You're a problem."

"Oh, I get so discouraged with you. You're always creating some sort of an upset." Of course the kid is creating an upset. If he isn't permitted to solve upsets himself, he'll create an upset. And there's how he got back into the mest-universe valence.

Well then, life is winning as long as it's solving problems, and life is losing as long as it is being a problem. When life itself becomes a problem, it is itself losing. Because he just goes on, it loses sight of the fact that it's a solver of problems.

So what do we do with this case? We could handle him Straightwire. And the first question we'd ask him is "Give me some problems that you don't have to solve at this moment." "Oh, yes, you can certainly get one. Get one problem that you don't have at this moment." "All right – you don't have to solve at this moment, you don't have at this moment." And he could think that over. He'd finally find a series and he'd probably line charge on this, who knows. But he certainly would get a series of these. Now, this takes a little bit of an edge off of it.

And then you would go immediately into this one – immediately: "Well, let's see what kind of a problem you can be that would cause trouble to – – – – " (preclear's name). Preclear is named Joe. You say to him, "Now, let's see what kind of a problem you could be that would cause Joe trouble."

And there's your immediate question; you ask him this question quite a few times.

Now, you could search into this considerably more, and always with benefit, but we're trying to get, in this Procedure 30, maximum benefit. So we don't fool with it very long.

Now, we did stick with this Opening Procedure Duplication for quite a while. We stayed with it until our preclear could do it calmly – not apathetically, in an apathetic obedience, but till he could do it, you know? Didn't worry him a bit.

Our next up was to solve this business of him being a problem. Because, listen, if you don't solve that, you might have improved his communications a little bit, but if this individual is totally convinced that he is a problem, he will go on looking for you, the auditor, to solve it.

All solutions are other-determined to himself, which means all life is other-determined to himself. So he's in a horrible state. And he'll just sit there in that auditing chair as a problem till the end of time.

Now, let's just blast in and just blast him out of this idea. Well, how long do we run this? We would certainly run it until he got the idea very clearly – without our telling him any further than that – that by golly, he was being an awful lot of problems for himself to solve. But he thinks of himself as somebody else who has to solve him as a problem. And this is a very cute gimmick. And until he recognizes that other people are doing this… And that's the important one! It's really not the important one that he himself is doing it, but that other people are doing it too.

We'd find this a very conversational process, by the way. In our conversation as this goes along, we discover that our preclear is inclining more and more on the third dynamic and less and less on the first dynamic.

Of course, where he is being one thing and the problem is being something else, we've already given him an edge up on the third dynamic. There's two present: there's Joe and his problem. And he's probably being the problem.

We get him to be all kinds of things that he could be that would create a problem for Joe. Well, we could ask him, of course, amplifying the procedure, "Be something that would cause a problem for Mother," "… for Father," for this, for that. Anybody, you know – a teacher.

We could ask him these things, but actually not with the degree of profit when we actually work him out of his own bank. How do you work a guy out of his own bank? Well, that's where he is. He's in the bank.

Now, you'll occasionally find that he's being a series of pictures which cause him trouble. He's being the facsimiles, you see, and the preclear is somebody else. And this is this funny, detached thing that we get in these preclears.

And that brings us up to the piece de resistance. That at least gets our case into some degree of workability. We've gotten him over the central hubs. He's been using a computing machine up till the time when we ran problems, and after that he might think.

We get problems out of the road, he'll stop using that computer and he'll start thinking about himself. And so we've got him ready and set up in order to shoot the business to him on granting of beingness.

Now, we work that out. And, of course, when he's willing to go into granting of beingness widely, why, he is really evidently, from what I have observed, a terrifically solved boy.

Now, this is really all there is to Procedure 30.