Continuing now these lectures on SOP 8, SOP 8-L, we want to cover specifically Steps I, II and III of SOP 8.

Lecture number eight You’ve actually had an extra hour of lecture today. And I wanted to talk to you something about – giving you some idea of anchor points in the first hour. This is lecture number eight – is Short 8. The lecture will be the same length as other lectures. Ha-ha.

A little later this afternoon there will be a demonstration on Acceptance Level Processing. The reason for this is several people have asked me how you did it.

Now we have in SOP 8, really, a tremendous number of techniques. I’ve actually given you SOP 8-L, and I’ve given you a way to break down SOP 8. You can use SOP 8 just as written. The only change that you would make on 16-G is when it comes to Step IV, you would waste and accept in brackets.

And now, it’s too simple. Did you find anything very complicated about Q and A when I gave you a demonstration on it? Very uncomplicated. Well, Acceptance Level is just a little more complicated than that.

You know what a bracket is? That’s for self, and another for himself, and others for others. And that’s a bracket And you would get the preclear to waste himself – something like waste peanuts, and he wastes peanuts by throwing them in the mud and so forth, and then he has somebody else waste peanuts, and he has this person – this person throws them in the mud and so on. And then he gets other people throwing them in the mud for other people, and that would be wasting peanuts.

People have a certain thirst for complication. Very often, steps such as I, II and III will be complicated by an auditor, either in his understanding or in his application.

Maybe he has an allergy to peanuts. This, by the way, would be the way you’d work it out. You find out he can’t eat peanuts, that’s because he can’t have peanuts. There’s a basic law concerning that, and that is that a person maybe can have what he has and is protesting about, and that he has to waste what he can’t have before he can have it. He has to waste.

These three steps are actually all of a kind. Any case that exteriorizes or is going to exteriorize, will on these first three steps in a very short space of time (twenty minutes, fifteen minutes). I give myself about five minutes on these first three steps. Just a quick rundown. I’ll give them Step I, give them Step II. If they’re not out, I give them Step III and, generally, if a case is going to be rather easy, he will be exteriorized almost immediately.

This tells you – this isn’t a workable process, but it’s just, this particular little thing I’m telling you just this minute – that you can actually cure a chronic somatic, because he’s on a maybe about whether or not he can have it and whether or not he can’t have it He feels he has it, but he doesn’t have it, and so he keeps talking about it. You could run it, really, by wasting it a little bit and by accepting it a little bit and wasting it a little bit and accepting it a little bit.

If he’s going to be very rough, you’ll find that he will have a variation. And he will flick through Step IV and Step V and he’ll have to have this and that. You’ll find out that if he’s not out of his head with a good auditor in about twenty minutes, half an hour, then he’s going to plot a curve of exteriorization and then he can’t get out. And then he exteriorizes again and then he can’t get out again. The reason for this should be obvious to you: it’s that he has enough energy starvation so that he is incapable of putting out energy without restimulating something in the body. You see how that is. And the second that this occurs, then you’ve got to remedy energy starvation one way or the other.

An easier way to do that is just run it Something or Nothing, and an even much easier way to do it I demonstrated the other day, which is Q and A The answer to the chronic somatic is the chronic somatic. The answer to the question of „What is this somatic?“ is „This somatic.“ And so, that is the easiest way to do it.

So that here he is, the first time you ask him to get out – first time you ask this fellow to get out of his head – of course, everybody has made this very difficult by planting the phrase liberally in the bank, „You’re out of your head.“

But on Step IV wasting should be added into the material on 16-G. Wasting in brackets, and the other one is is when he’s move – Exteriorization by Scenery – is just keep him pulling things under him, no matter how long it takes, until he actually pulls the thing under him. He’ll start in by pulling facsimiles under him quite ordinarily, and he’ll pull more and more facsimiles and more and more facsimiles and more and more facsimiles and more and more. He can keep this up for a long time, and then all of a sudden he reaches for this other facsimile, which is Saint Paul’s Cathedral, and, galp, he’s got it. This is very startling to him.

„No, I’m not out of my head.“ You know, Dianetics still works.

But this, then, Exteriorization by Scenery, comes up here in Short 8. And you’ll find that an awful lot of your people will simply exteriorize, and quite a few of them will just pull under facsimiles. Well, the ones that are pulling facsimiles under themselves will just have to keep on pulling facsimiles under themselves. So we could take Short 8 here as written, just as written in Issue 16-G. But as written, it requires a little expansion. And I would vary it a little bit and have been varying it on groups as I’m going to tell it to you here.

The readiest means of testing, if you want to know, pant, right this minute, whether or not a person is going to exteriorize on those first three steps, you just – I mean, rather quickly and without any energy starvation remedied, you just ask him, „All right, now I’m going to snap my fingers.“ (snap) „Did you hear that?“

The first thing we have: next-to-the-last list in Self Analysis. The reason we give this is this is still one of the slippiest methods of breaking a neurosis of which I know. After all these years, every once in a while, somebody is working a preclear and he doesn’t – the preclear doesn’t improve and doesn’t improve, and nothing happens and nothing happens and nothing happens. I come along and say, „What’s the matter with this preclear?“ – like in a Foundation or something of the sort „What’s the matter? We aren’t getting anyplace with this case.“ And I say, „Well, let’s start in on this case now and let’s find out where this case is,“ and instead of going into SOP 8 – supposing, you see, that the person has been worked in various techniques, I always start in on a technique which everybody else seems to have forgotten about or never used or something of the sort And that is, „Now, let’s have you remember something real.“

„Yes.“

Gee, isn’t that old?

„All right, hear it again.“ He says, „Yes,“ he’ll be out of his head in three steps, if not one.

„Remember something real.“ That’s old. „Remember a time when you were really in good communication with somebody.“ „Now, can you recall a time when you felt some good affinity for someone?“ And you just ask them those questions; it’s the next-to-the-last list in Self Analysis, and you just go over it easily, pleasantly, quietly.

Why? The sound which first told him that there could be such a thing as sound, evidently, on the evolutionary track, came to him out of an explosion.

But the very funny part of it is, is when I – all too often I have run into a really rough case that the auditor was having an awful time with. Calls me up at two o’clock in the morning and says, „Ron, I don’t know what I’m going to do. This preclear has been over here since one o’clock this afternoon, and I can’t seem to get this preclear anyplace.“

And if he can receive and recall sounds easily, in recall, and get the same sound back, he is not worried about an explosion. And if he is worried about an explosion, it’s because he’s pulled in all the explosions in the bank in order to drain the energy out of them.

And I say, „Well, can the preclear hold on to the phone receiver?“

See how simple that is? That’s a simple test, and it simply tests whether or not the person has sonic. If a person has sonic he’s not locked up in an explosion. This doesn’t say he won’t be anxious about explosions, it doesn’t say that explosions couldn’t be run on him with profit, but if he has sonic, why, he’ll get out those first three steps.

„Yes. Okay,“ (sigh) auditor says. No responsibility right there, see.

Now, if his sonic is very dim or conceptual, we immediately can plot this curve [drawing on blackboard] of his case: He’s in his head and he’s out of his head and now he’s feeling better and now he’s feeling horrible and now he’s feeling much better and now he’s feeling not quite so horrible and now he’s feeling… And he’ll go over the humps on lids for some weeks, really, until he’s finally feeling fine. He can get to that state, but he gets to that state on a basis of remedying an energy starvation.

And I say to the preclear without asking anything further, quite often, just, „Can you recall something real?“

All right, let’s look at the mechanics of what happens then. We’re breaking SOP 8 into two pieces; we’re breaking it into Steps I, II, III and Steps IV, V, VI, VII. You have two distinctly different types of cases.

The fellow says, „(pause) Mm. Yes.“ And I might as well not even ask the rest of the questions, because something happened.

They’re on a gradient scale and we could break it as handily at Step II, but it would not be the same, true.

Cases advance when run on old procedures (not necessarily these new ones) on sort of little energy jumps. They actually sort of – something goes click. The case keeps jumping up Tone Scale, and they do these little jumps, and then they’re a little better, and a little jump, and they’ll do a little better, and a little jump. And you won’t hit these jumps in them very often, because these jumps are dependent upon energy accumulation.

We have two different types of cases – always have had. There’s the occluded case, and the case who has recalls.

But it’s just like something arcs, or suddenly something is just a little tiny bit brighter. This, by the way, is a complete cure in Self Analysis, any one of these jumps. But these are subjective techniques, and that’s the way a subjective technique works.

Now, actually, there’s three cases, but this other one is a sleeper. We have the occluded case as an intermediate case. And up above that, we have a case who has good recall in terms of perception. And then below that level, we have the case who recalls with vivid perception things that never happened. And this we call, sarcastically, the wide-open case.

And every once in a while you ask somebody, you say, „Can you remember something real?“ And all of a sudden he realizes that he can’t, and then he does. And then there’s a little arc, and he says, „Well.“ He feels better, he feels a lot better. It’s a shocking difference.

The wide-open case is very often found at Levels VI and VII. And by the way, you’ll find Step VII cases who can exteriorize or who are exteriorized but who are mad as hatters, inside or outside. You’ll find some cases, by the way, that they present a perfectly sane aspect and then you say, „Be three feet back of your head,“ and they’re roaring mad. They start to take off for Arcturus. Such a case – such a case: they just start off into space and they’re gone and they’re not going to come back, and the body – this person has never heard of exteriorization or anything of the sort They are marked by people who tell you how bad things are. This is the single characteristic of that case: it’s how bad things are. Now, they’ll tell you bad occurrences and horrible happenings, and so forth. And as soon as a person has, as his constant chatter, „Well, I saw this… When I was a little child, I was told that ants got into the skull. And I never believed it, but the other day I saw a person that ants had crawled under the scalp and had eaten the whole brain away.“ Or „I knew a fellow that when you touched him on the shoulder, all of a sudden the whole shoulder caved in, because he’d had cancer for years and hadn’t known it, and he died the next week.“ I don’t know why it is, but in farming districts you’ll find this type predominating. Well, very well.

So if you’re processing a group, you could be absolutely certain if you recruited this group from all over the map, all over town, and so on, and there’s a fresh group, and you set them down and there they are, you can be sure that here and there in this brand-new group, you’re going to have somebody that this will happen to. Well, don’t miss that effect. Don’t throw away all of the bright colored lights. Just start in with that and give them that next-to-the-last list. „All right Let’s recall something real.“

Where it comes to your exteriorize-and-run-away case, you’ll know this case, because – it might be a pretty girl, by the way; don’t take an exterior manifestation. Might be a pretty, sweet-looking girl that something has gotten hold of. And it isn’t the girl you’re talking to, by the way; it’s the something that got hold of. This girl isn’t in the possession of a demon like they used to think of; she’s the demon.

Truth of the matter is that you could just keep on hammering at this whole crowd of people this way, just, oh, I don’t know, fifteen minutes, twenty minutes, an hour, and they’d all feel fine at the end of the time. It’s fantastic, but quite true that this does have this effect.

Might be a very nice-looking, pleasant young man. Very handsome. He hasn’t had time to mess this body up yet very badly. In a few years, the girl and the boy, they won’t be in such good shape; they’ll look pretty bad.

Auditors have a tendency to avoid „Remembering something real“; that’s why I bring it up at this time. And that’s why it’s in Short 8.

But you get young people, and you’ll quite often run into this, and you say, „All right, be three feet back of your head now,“ and all of a sudden, pow. They’ll just go completely limp, just like a rag doll. They just slump forward in the chair – silence. That’s all you know about it, see. I mean, they sat there and they were chattering away and they were telling you how their great-aunt Rebecca had the mumps when she was ninety and it rotted her jaws away or something. They’re engaging in some pleasant conversational topic. And somebody says, „Be three feet back of your head,“ see, pam, and they go slack or they get stiff. Well, they’re gone.

Now, on this rendition of Short 8 in Issue 16-G of the journal of Scientology, we’re going to forget about the time that was given in this write-up, and we’re going to leave it up to the auditor strictly how much time he gives the audience on any one of these steps. And that is very easy for him to establish if he will look. I’m not going to go into despair about auditors who won’t look. I’m not going to stand up here and rant and rave, and so forth, about auditors that won’t communicate with preclears. Matter of fact, I don’t feel any emotion at all about it!

And I know of one case where an auditor – this is a bad moment for an auditor, a real bad moment for an auditor. It’s your own darn fault for telling such a case, you see, to be three feet back of their head when they obviously were nutty as a cuckoo dock. Because the thetan, uninhibited by the body, really takes off.

But an auditor processing a group is actually processing an organism. And the group, to some degree, responds as an organism. And it’s quite different than individual processing in the respect that you don’t get so many individual differences as long as they’re members of that group. But you process a group of people, and they’re – we went into this, I think, in Science of Survival. Doesn’t it mention the fact that the group itself sort of has a life of its own? And it’s terrifically hard to destroy a group. You actually could subtract people out of it and add people into it, and so on, and it still goes on living. I know, I’ve tried to knock flat two or three of my own mock-ups, like Wichita. And they just don’t knock flat; I’m too good at it now. Boy, do they kick back at me, too; they really bite. Well, anyway.

So this one auditor pleaded with her. He said, „Think of your little child.“ „Think of your parents.“ „Please come back.“ „Life isn’t too terrible to live, life isn’t too awful. Please come back.“ Just slack, see. The body is just sitting there in a complete slump. No twitch. „Well, if you come back I can do a lot for you, and life will be much better than it was in the past.“ Still slumping. Finally, this fellow, after a half an hour of pleading, came out with the line, „Think of your poor auditor.“ And it brought her back.

Really, this is the truth, if you set up any unit anyplace and it perseveres. That’s one of the most beautiful lessons. In spite of what the public might think, that’s one of the most interesting things I’ve learned in the last three years, is that an organism and a group have a great deal in common to the point where a group actually becomes an organism, and although you keep on subtracting people from it and adding people from it and to it, all that sort of thing, it’ll go right on its own aberrated way. And you try to machine-gun it, and you’ve set up something horrible. Truly, you have. Because there’s nothing to shoot! There’s strictly a hidden influence.

By the way, she was entirely sort of blasted at the time this occurred. She returned into the body and was just – all was revealed, you know. She was really groggy. It took the auditor a lot of Straightwire, and so forth, to just straighten her out a little bit so that she could navigate. That’s rather typical, no real damage. So there’s a corpse left around; the thetan didn’t want it.

You have this company or you have this body of people or this Boy Scout troop or something, and if you really sat down as an auditor and breathed the fire of life into it as a group – if it had the various things, even a few of the things necessary to a true group, the chances of it falling flat are very, very faint. So you want to remember that in Group Processing you’re forming a group. And it isn’t true that a person separate from that group necessarily responds as he did when he was part of the group. So you’re actually having a good time with Group Processing.

This person can be expected to assume a rather different attitude toward existence just through that one exteriorization. Well, that type of case, of course, is normally delusory. But it isn’t a problem in energy so much; it isn’t a problem in anything I know anything about except they just can’t reason, don’t reason, they’re antisocial, and so on. And it’s mainly a question of postulates and downright cussedness. But what you’ve got to straighten out is the thetan. The easiest way to process the thetan is actually when exteriorized. You just get the thetan to change his mind, and the thetan is being very resistive and saying, „Well, I don’t want to change my mind. I want to think things are horrible. The devil with it.“

You see, you’ve processed this group and everybody is fine, everybody is going along fine, and you get a lot of – two or three miracle cases turned up, and everything is swell. And the next day after the last meeting that you had, one of the fellows in it comes up and says to you, „See, you so far rahhr, and I think ruff-rahh-rrwmww. Ggrrrr-rrmmm.“

Well, that’s just a being you’re talking with; you’re talking with a person. Only this person can now talk with you safely, because this person is many feet away from you, and you can’t find out quite where they are in the room. And they can use this body as a Communications medium, and so they talk real brave and they tell you the truth of the matter: ‘To hell with you.“

You say, „Gee, is that the temper of this group?“

Now, this is a problem that a demon exorcist in the early Middle Ages would probably have written up as a highly significant something or other, and it would probably now appear as one of the… The person who exteriorized her would probably now be canonized at least, if not shot. Now, three… You didn’t like that pun. All right.

No, no, no. You’ve got the whole idea wrong. This guy couldn’t exist separate from the group very well. And as long as he’s part of the group, gee, life is wonderful, you see. He isn’t thinking like that when he’s part of the group; he’s thinking he – going right along, everything is fine. It isn’t that he’s a slave to the group; he’s just part of a bigger organism, and he feels comfortable about it He feels that’s real good.

„Be three feet back of your head.“ Please tell me why nobody ever said this in the last ump thousand years. This is fantastic. Because 50 percent, at least, of the people who come in and sit down, I don’t care what their age is – something like this – you say, „Be three feet back of your head.“

People sometimes will run into prenatals and stick in prenatals, just because at one time they were part of another organism. It’s a certain level of dependency.

Sometimes you get the reaction, „Why?“

But you can’t expect Homo sapiens to stand alone, because he can’t stand alone. Try sometime, and going out in the middle of Sahara Desert, completely out of contact with any food supply of any sort or any water of any sort, and live for a few weeks. You won’t do it.

„Well, it might be more comfortable outside.“

Well, these fellows that are running „I’ve got to be the only one“ ought to have an experience of that for at least two or three days. The first Homo sapien they ran into, I don’t care if he was an Internal Revenue tax collector, he would throw his arms around his neck and kiss him fervidly. „A human being!“

„Might be more comfortable outside! You mean people are inside their heads!“

The warmth with which human beings greet each other on the frontiers of the world when they meet is, to a large degree, prompted by the tremendous scarcity of it, the realization that if one is a human being, he sure needs human beings. And it’s when a fellow feels he no longer can have human beings and human beings don’t need him anymore that a Homo sapiens starts to fall apart.

You would be just amazed how often one gets that reaction. One girl I know was given 125 electric shocks because the psychiatrist found she was outside of her head. Too sane for him.

You just tell one Homo sapiens, „Look, you can help him.“ This Homo sapiens over here might be crazy, you see, but he says, „You can help this Homo sapiens over there.“

Anyway, let’s look at the mechanics which we can theorize at this time – evidently works; it works out in theory – but let’s look at the mechanics of why a person doesn’t easily get out of his head, and why, after he’s gotten out of his head two or three times, and so forth, he all of a sudden stops getting out of his head and sticks or something.

„Gee,“ he says, „can I?“ See, because he feels that he again is necessary, which means that he himself can receive and contribute, so we’ve got an interchange of anchor points. But if a fellow is trying to stand by himself, his interchange of anchor points falls to zero.

We have inside this person’s skull a lot of energy deposits. It’s very real energy. It’s there, it’s measurable, it has quantity. If you don’t believe it, look at some of these very solid people. That’s nothing but this type of energy.

Well, this fellow who complains to you after your group session, comes around to you, and he can’t talk with you. He can’t make a group of two. He can make a group of twenty, he can be part of a group of twenty; this is about right And he doesn’t feel like that, he feels fine when he’s part of the group. And he gets off from the group and he starts worrying about it Well, that’s mainly because he really doesn’t feel this group – he belongs in it too well, except when he’s in it, and he can forget that Then he walks away from it and he knows he doesn’t belong to it, so he goes around to the group leader and complains like mad. You see how this would work.

Now, the thetan is in the midst of all this, see. And the first time you ask him to put out a beam, you get this kind of a situation, you see. Here he is, and you ask the thetan inside the head to put out a beam. So he puts out a beam against the front of his forehead and lengthens the beam. And the second he puts out a beam and lengthens the beam, it’ll just back him right out of his head. Therefore, „Be three feet back of your head“ is much better than „Push yourself out of your head.“

So, this is one of the things you will observe in Group Processing, that your group behaves as a group, and they actually will move on up Tone Scale as a group. They will also change radically as individuals within the group. But you’re running the same process on a group of people, you’re going to get a response which is tremendously interesting, but which is a different manifestation than individual processing. So you want to watch for that difference.

You see, be in another location, don’t move to the other location. Moving is energy and use of. And being is, of course, just another geographical location. He doesn’t have to use energy to be from one of these places to another.

And remember when you are processing a group – just as long as I’m throwing this sort of thing in – remember when you are processing in a group, that if your anchor point is here, you look at them over the top of your little book, there isn’t the same advantage to the group, nowhere near; because they’re rendered unconfident of you, because you aren’t confident of them. Why? It’s because your anchor point is up too close.

This is fantastic material which has been discovered here and I don’t blame people at large for wincing about it Fortunately, an auditor doing SOP 8, SOP 8-L well delivers a tremendous conviction in terms of the public with which he’s surrounded, simply because he can change over 50 percent of the people he processes from dark to light in a very short space of time.

If you’re processing a group, doggone it, reach back to the back of the room and drop an anchor point in that corner and an anchor point in that corner and own that space. And it makes the difference between light and dark in the results that you will get with Group Processing.

He could take, for instance, a juvenile delinquent, see, and he’d say, „Be three feet back of your head.“ „Now, why are you being a bad boy?“ „Okay, can you change your mind about that? What do you have to pick up to be more agreeable to your parents?“ „Oh, you don’t want to be agreeable to your parents. Well, what makes you unwilling to be agreeable with your parents and the society at large?“ „Oh.“ It’ll be some kind of an answer. „All right, well, change your mind about it if you can. Can you change your mind about it?“

I won’t mention it, because a couple of people who are here present in the audience have written to me that Group Processing failed. They didn’t know that they told me all about themselves as an auditor. Everywhere I’m getting from this chap and that chap and from this part of the world and that part of the world: „Yes, this happened and that happened, and we’re getting along fine. And the group all came back and then half the group disappeared and the other half came back the next time and we’re all set and we’re going along fine and this group is continuing.“ These reports coming in. And then all of a sudden, pang, right in front of my face: „Group Processing fails.“

„Yes.“

Well, I’ve made a couple of inquiries concerning how Group Processing was conducted, just to check up and keep my records. Now, I can tell you what it is. I didn’t find this out in the inquiry, but this is the fact of the matter. It’s just that the auditor was not auditing the group with an anchor point at the back of the room. That’s all. All you have to do is put up a couple anchor points.

„Well, shift your postulates, then.“

A speaker, by the way, doing what I am doing right now is somewhat confounded by a room which won’t re-echo. See, the back of the room should kick to him a little echo. If it does, his voice has an anchor point back there. Now, I’m talking about a routine lecturer or speaker. And if he can’t hear his voice, he’ll gauge it soft, and he’ll gauge it this way, and then he’ll gauge it a little bit louder. And then he’ll talk like this (talking loudly) trying to get his voice to come back and hit him. And if the room is so designed as this one is where there’s no slap-back – the back of that room is just exactly zero, that’s because of an asbestos ceiling – why, he goes kind of apathetic; he gets worried.

All right, he does. But he looks around at the same time, and he sees he’s not the body; been kidding himself all this time. He looks around and he sees what the situation is in relationship to this body. He suddenly becomes interested in the fact that he has a couple of anchor points out, and the body is depending for its electrical current on this and that, and gets tremendously interested.

Well, of course, I don’t do that; I’m not doing that As I’m talking to you here, I’ve just pinned a couple of anchor points back in the back corners of the room back there, and I know how far my voice is going out And one of the reasons I know how far my voice is going out is nothing esoteric. It’s just the fact that I watch the neck tension of the people in the rear row. That’s a very simple thing to do. You just coast over once in a while and take a look at the neck tension. And there are some very beautiful girls we have in this audience, and so we keep a voice monitored. But if I don’t watch it, the GE will start dropping the voice right into the center of the audience, because there’s where the slap-back comes from, because of this ceiling.

You’ve given him a brand-new world. After that, he hasn’t got time to be a bad boy. And after you’ve finished this very short session, he goes home and he says, „Hiya, Pop.“ And he’s always said „Hm!“ And so we have an altered behavior pattern. How much processing? Five or ten minutes.

I’m not telling you this just to be interesting. I’m telling you this so that you can process a group. How do you expect a fellow in the rear row to follow your processing commands if he can’t hear your voice? And if you’ve got a parlor voice, and you’re talking like this (talking softly) to people all the time and so on (whispering), it’s a fact that a fellow won’t know what he’s doing. A fellow won’t know what to do when you tell him, „Remember something real.“ He won’t know. That’s because he isn’t being reached by your voice.

You see, you could do that often enough, if you care to; you could do that often enough to carry a tremendous impact on the people around you.

Now as Homo sapiens, he doesn’t know anything about anchor points or any esoteric, mystic connotations connected with this sort of thing, but he does know whether or not he can hear you talk!

It doesn’t require anything superspecial in you or for you to hold your breath or put your feet in a certain proximity one to another to generate enough energy to give them enough force and power to back up out of their heads. You’re just wasting your time. You just communicate with them, you want them three feet back of their heads, and a very large percentage of the people you run into simply will be.

I’ll tell you how you should arrange a group if you ever have any trouble with it And if you don’t want to strain your voice, always tailor-make your audience formation by taking all the people who look like they have a hearing strain around their faces and put them right there, and put the kids way back in the back end, and you’ll reach your group much better. But a better way to do it is simply to hang up an anchor point back there, to hang up an anchor point back there and take in that much space.

And, of course, those people who are being difficult about it get more time from you, which is probably why they’re being more difficult about it Because you see, they get hours’ worth of attention whereas the other fellow only gets a couple of minutes. This guy is in good shape, though, and he’s happy and there’s a lot of adventure waiting for him and the other fellow, he’s just going around getting the beautiful sympathy of being very aberrated. All right.

Well now, if you haven’t processed yourself very well, and suddenly as you start to run a group, you suddenly hang up an anchor point back there and an anchor point there, you’re right into Step III of SOP 8, and does it process!

So he puts out this beam here, and pushes himself a little bit the second he puts out energy, or he does it inadvertently as he moves out of his head. And the second he does that, this… [drawing on blackboard] There weren’t any agitated deposits in the vicinity of his head when he did this the first time, but you’ve shifted him somewhat on the time track. And the next thing you know, this is the picture which his skull represents, and this material may be of a gluey consistency or something of the sort, and it goes into restimulation and he gets the idea that he’s fixed in his head.

You’re standing there processing the group, see, going like this, getting your head knocked off by old facsimiles and things that are peeling on through. So, I would very, very seriously advise you before you’d do this to at least sit down and find out what will happen if you put out two anchor points. It’s a word of warning. All right.

Really, there’s no reason at all why an occluded case can’t be ten yards, eight miles – and very often, by the way, they will be a couple of hundred miles away. They will exteriorize if you just say, „Where would you like to be?“

Now, you include the whole group, but you will find that your average will go toward a mass response. You can tell when the group is responding in its majority.

„Oh,“ the fellow would say, „I’d like to be home at dear old Gladolia Manor.“

You’re always going to have four or five slows in a group of twenty or thirty, always very slow. You’re going to say, „Remember something real,“ and they’re going to go (pause). Now, that isn’t the person for whom you are operating the group. And it’s just too bad that you have to operate faster than that So you operate, not according to your stopwatch, because that puts your anchor point here, see. You don’t want this anchor point up here. You operate according to the expressions on the faces of the people. That gives you some sort of an index. You say, „Remember something real,“ and you will see these people going around like this.

„Okay, be in the living room at Gladolia Manor.“ And they will actually, completely exteriorize with a great deal of certainty into the old homestead, something of the sort, and look around there and take a good look and see that the place isn’t the same as it used to be. And they’ll get interested in this and so on.

„All right. Remember a time when you were in good communication,“ and so on.

Then you start to operate them dose to the body and you’re operating them dose up to where the energy patterns are and the energy lumps and blocks are, and so on. And this energy goes into restimulation. And the next thing you know, it’s all sticky and they get the idea that they can’t move because of course you can’t move if you’re surrounded by stickiness.

What are you reading? You’re reading faces. You say, „Remember something real,“ and their face will be – you know, they’re sitting there listening to you. And you say, „Remember something real.“

And so, this condition changes to this condition. Well, normally the change isn’t as marked. If this condition is going to be present at all, it’s at least present to the degree that a person doesn’t have any sonic recall, because all of this is based basically on an explosion. All right.

And they say, „Yeah.“

Therefore, Steps I, II and III may have to be repeated if it takes you too long to do it. If it happens immediately, pom, you’re not going to have to worry about this case very much. Of course, there is this about the case: This case may have to do a lot of work outside his body.

And you say, „All right Remember a time you were in good communication.“ You watch them; they’re in action, they move.

Such as one girl, she was apparently in apathy. She exteriorized beautifully, she had a great certainty on exteriorization and so forth, and she didn’t change in aspect very much after she exteriorized, which always makes one somewhat suspicious.

It’s a very astonishing thing when a person really starts to watch other people, when he starts to look. He finds they’re all different and they all have certain character manifestations. It’s quite an adventure. Look sometime. Anyway. But look particularly when you’re a Group Auditor. You can’t audit out of a book.

One’s suspicion, by the way, is quickly answered if some preclear tells him, „Yes, I am up there.“ Oh yeah? Because his immediate response would be – is „My body is down there.“ That’s his viewpoint That’s where he is. „My body is down there.“ He doesn’t think of where he is. When you get people talking about „my thetan,“ that sort of thing, you, all of a sudden – you know this is not true. But it doesn’t matter too much whether it’s true or not, the person’s… But this lady didn’t change; she was obviously exteriorized. She’d say, „Yes, I’m here.“

You actually impress them most by giving them material, and so forth, without looking at it; that’s very impressive. The singer and so forth always holds his sheet music down here, you see, and warbles at high C and so on, never looks at the stuff. This impresses an audience actually more, because having something in your hands like that looks studious and learned. So it’s all right to have it in your hands, but don’t read it all over and move your lips at the same time.

„Where is here?“

So, the reason why we break down a group, as a caution here in Short 8, by a show of hands on the slows and fasts, and so on, is just to keep an auditor from riding roughshod over a large portion of the group. Because, believe me, if you have somebody who can’t get something real in that group and you’re going to proceed, if there are very many of those people in the group, you’re going to be in a tough situation.

„On the lamp here.“ Still sad, still apathetic, so forth, until I came out with Cycle of Action Processing. This was the one mysterious case. This case wouldn’t seem to shake out of apathy. Exteriorized, good perception and so forth, wasn’t really stuck anyplace – mysterious case.

If an auditor’s acceptance level, however, is such people, he’ll have a tendency to close terminals with those people and neglect all the other people. So, a very good way to settle it is group process with two rooms and have a colleague in the matter. And get a show of hands, make whatever tests you like, to get these slows and then move them over into another room. They do not predominate in groups, unless you are processing in a mental home or something.

I came out with Cycle of Action Processing whereby the preclear simply mocks up the end of all the cycles of action he has tried to start You realize that people hang up in the middle of a cycle of action.

This is terrific, by the way, for mental homes. You wouldn’t realize how much it is. You get a whole bunch of patients in a group, and they behave much better than they do individually. All right, so much for that.

Let’s say a fellow is seventeen years old and is just about to receive the rank of captain of his company, and he is stopped dead in his tracks. He never finished the cycle of action. He didn’t get there. The fellow who is on his road someplace and suddenly runs into a truck, doesn’t get to his destination.

Now we have here, examining and comparing two similar MEST objects or spaces and tell the difference. Now again, we neglect the time. Just neglect all the times through here. Give this until people look bored with it. They get the idea – “Get the difference between these two microphones.“ (pause) That’s long enough, you see. It gives a person a difference. So you turn around then and you say, „Well, get the difference between the two legs of that table.“ (pause) „Now get the difference between the end two lights over on that side of the room.“ (pause) „Now get the difference between the two extreme corners of this platform.“ (pause) „Now get the difference between my two hands.“ (pause) „Now get the difference between these two sheets of paper.“ (pause) „Now get the difference between two stripes on that flag.“ (pause)

And this girl started finishing off cycles of action, things which she had wanted to do in her life and had never been able to do. And we find out that exteriorized or not exteriorized, she was still heavily in the complete conclusion and conviction that anything she started to do, she would be stopped because her parents continually stopped her from doing anything she wanted to do. It was enough for her parents to discover that she had an ambition, to immediately throw it away.

Extreme, isn’t it?

And this girl sat around by herself finishing off in mock-up form all the cycles of action, and she worked for two or three days by herself and she got up to the age of five. And she went on, and the next time I saw her – it was about a week later – she was bright, she was cheerful, she was a Theta Clear; there wasn’t any doubt about this whatsoever.

„Get the difference between two stars on that flag.“ (pause) „Now get the difference between this corner of the microphone and that corner of the microphone, just from where you sit“ (pause)

But you see what hung her up. She was exteriorized, all right, but all she was convinced of was the fact that she would be stopped in any action begun, so she started to get well. And the first step of it was Step I, „Be three feet back of your head.“ She could do that, but of course, she couldn’t finish any further action. We had to get her out of the conviction that she would be stopped in all actions before we could achieve Theta Clear.

Now, what happens to people while they do this? There is something interesting. A lot of your people start in by running class of difference. You ask them to get the two differences of the corners of the platform, and they’ll start to get the difference of the class of two corners of platforms. And they actually will not look at the two corners of the platform at all.

Well, this condition, when it does result, will require from the auditor a considerable amount of processing. If it takes longer than half an hour to make a Theta Clear, get ready to slug. Those you make in fifteen, twenty minutes, half an hour are going to be stable and stay that way for quite a while with this slight exception: They will rush around and get into adventures and be too ambitious and get very upset about this and so on, and get an explosion and blow up in that, and they get adventurous, you see.

What are you doing here? You’re just providing a beautiful method of getting people to look and at the same time are getting a little charge off of the MEST universe, because you’re match-terminaling. It’s the universe match-terminaling. And the universe, when it gets too much charge on it, the preclear thinks it just keeps collapsing, so he finds out that it’s holding itself apart. And he’s going through this tremendous strain of holding everything apart, you see. And it’s doing it; he doesn’t have to aid this any, and it can form a considerable relief to him. So that’s the process, that’s its goal and aim. All right.

And you’ll see this fellow every once in a while, and he’s looking real sad, and you’ll say, „What’s the matter?“

Now, you’d only keep that up actually long enough to hold the interest of the audience, but again, it brings people up in tone. But its maximal effect is probably, on an audience, three, four, five minutes, according to my more recent experience, because I actually have measured some people on E-Meters with regard to this. And they get a maximal effect on this three and a half, four minutes, something like that – short period. And after that they’ve come up as far as they can come up on that particular test at that time, until some more energy or some more things show up. You run out what is in the immediate vicinity of their minds in three or four minutes with that technique, and they’ll show a little bounce.

„Oh, I’m back in my head.“

Now, as far as running wasting, Step C, is concerned, then accepting, and so on, a heavier process is getting them to waste work in brackets. Don’t bother to do any other one on that one round. The next time you come through, get them to waste fighting, just one time through on a bracket waste fighting for themselves, waste fighting for other people, waste fighting of other people fighting other people. Just one time round, and one time round on work. Now, that won’t bog somebody down, just hit like that in one bracket, and it might produce a little bit of relief on some of your people.

„Well, what’s happened?“

If you start them wasting admiration in a bracket – I haven’t tried this; this is too adventurous, because many people are just hanging on the trigger on admiration. And you suddenly say, „All right, let’s waste some admiration,“ and pam, there they go. All of a sudden, a whole valence wall will go to pieces in their heads or something will explode. Darnedest things happen. Or suddenly they see the walls going this way. It’s not that the technique is tremendously powerful, you see, so powerful that you just couldn’t help but use it in auditing, it’s that the technique is treacherous.

„Oh, nothing much. Going down the street and it occurred to me to be very curious about what was happening, and there was a five-alarm fire across on the other side of town. And just as I got there, why, all the gasoline drums inside the storeroom started to burn up, and it looked pretty, so I went in to see and,“ he said, „I got apathetic about it after a while and…“

I wish I could define for auditors for all time the difference between a technique which simply has an effect, and a technique which makes the case take a turn for the better. Nearly every squirrel I’ve had any trouble with out across America has concentrated only on techniques which make an effect but which don’t make anybody any better. Well, that one will make somebody better if continued out too long.

What has happened is he’s been in too much contest he sees the MEST universe making all this terrific explosion, and he himself can’t make explosions that good, so he figures out he’s no good or something of the sort Or he just gets an explosion in his face and by mechanical energy decides he’s been blown up. It’s something he decides.

The only dangerous spot we have in Short 8 is right there: C. So if you feel at all upset about your audience, omit C. If you feel at all worried about your audience, omit C.

Now, this is where postulates enter in, and this is where postulates belong. Changing postulates on a Case Level IV, a Case Level V, the devil with it. It isn’t postulates that’s worrying these people, it’s energy, and I know of no method of changing postulates in them that doesn’t immediately increase their force potential. You see that?

Now, the next thing you do would be, of course, run next-to-the-last list of Self Analysis for five minutes, if you have run C. If you’ve done this wasting proposition, then you’d better run the next-to-the-last list of Self Analysis for a little while, and get these people back to battery again. But if you feel that your audience is not that adventurous, they’re not that high-toned or something, if there’s any possibility of something going wrong with this audience, why, you just omit C, which of course means omit D, because that’s why D is there. All right.

Immediately the fellow begins to feel very forceful. You change this postulate – he feels fine for three minutes, four minutes, half a day. And he’s got his force potential up, he’s still inside the body and he starts to emanate energy and he starts to excite the whole bank and so he sticks. See, every time he gets a little bit tougher, he starts exciting the energy deposits in his vicinity. At least, we can explain it this way. And there he goes. So you change the postdates in a IV or V or VI or run concepts on them, it doesn’t matter what you do to them; they’re not going to alter very much, because they just get more force and then they get their energy deposits upset, and then they decide that they can’t And so you bring them up again and they get more forceful, and then they excite these energy deposits again and they quit again. And they’ll just run this cycle and you can just go on up the line, only it’s a very flat curve when you’re doing this. They feel better, they can think better, all kinds of things. But they know that there’s a place to get to on the Tone Scale, and they know they’re not arriving there.

The next one would then follow, if you omitted C and D, would be the two similar MEST objects or spaces. It would follow with Duplication. And that’s a natural. That would follow straight through. You start them in getting two corners and so on and two microphones, two pieces of paper. And then you would say, „All right You see this microphone?“ „All right“ „Mock up a duplicate.“ „All right.“ „You see this microphone?“ „Mock up a duplicate of it.“ „See that blackboard?“ (This is a dirty one, by the way.) „Mock up a duplicate of the blackboard.“ „See that figure on the blackboard?“ „Mock up a duplicate of the figure.“

So Step I, of course, is something that is accomplished in just a moment or two. You say, „Be three feet back of your head.“ The fellow is three feet back of his head. Now you go through the rest of the drill of Step I, which is asking him to be in various places. You’ll do better if you don’t ask him to immediately look at the body. You’ll occasionally get a Step III that looks at the body and immediately pops in again, who will act as a Step I till you ask him that question.

How do you mock up these duplicates? They look at the figure, and they put right alongside of the figure – alongside of it over here, the mock-up, right where the figure is, at the same distance from them. And if it’s just almost impossible for them to do it, still have them do it, no matter how pale, how thin, how scrawny this mock-up may be.

You say, „Look at the body now.“ And the second you say, „Look at the body,“ it startles him so to see the body there that he gets very upset, or he can’t see the body or the body’s black. And this upsets him and he’s done, he quits. So don’t ask him to look at his body. Just ask him to be three feet or six miles, whatever you want. There isn’t any mystic significance in three feet, it’s just a handy distance. It’s better than one foot Six miles is better except you lose track of your preclear.

The first thing that happens to them is this thing gets tremendously solid. If they’re really bad off, this really gets solid! (I don’t mean bad off – if they’re having a hard time with mock-ups.) Pam. You say, „Mock up this microphone,“ and instead of getting one here, this one goes sprrungg. Why is that? It’s because they’ve got the idea that the whole MEST universe is thirsty for energy. And their stuff goes straight into the MEST universe objects, because they’ve got the MEST universe object mocked up here, so two of their mock-ups are out here; not one, two. And of course, they just go together, ptock.

You know, Dennis, the Director of Instruction in London, he’s quite a fellow, and he didn’t have any great reality on Theta Clearing for himself. All of his reality was completely objective, because he himself was an occluded case at the time. And one day he says to a fellow, he just starts through the rote and routine of, I think, Standard Operating Procedure 5, and he says, „Be back of your head,“ and the fellow didn’t say anything. And Dennis says, „Well now,“ – to himself – „I think I’ll have to do some mock-ups.“ So he says, „Well, let’s see, Ron said that very often where a person is stuck exactly on the track, he’ll have the facsimile he’s stuck in.“

Well, you have a person do that for a while and the first thing you know, it’s the strangest thing, he can start to get a duplicate. So that one you can keep up for a long time. But as long as you keep it up with MEST eyes, which is what – it’s most favorable for groups, it’s just with MEST eyes; you just do this, that’s all. You say, „All right. Look at me.“ „Now put a mock-up of me alongside of me.“ „Look at the curtain – crease in the curtain back here.“ „Now put up a mock-up alongside of the crease.“

By the way, you occasionally do that. You say, „What do you commonly see?“

Now, you’d better explain to people exactly what you want them to do, to the end, you see, of going out here and saying, „Right alongside of this, put another mock-up.“ That’s the optimum point. You point for the group, you make gestures; don’t be afraid to move. All right.

And the fellow will tell you quite cheerfully, „My grandfather’s face lying in the coffin.“

The second part of it would be to get them to dose their eyes and then start to point to things as far as you’re concerned, which you are fairly sure exist in the neighborhood. You say, „All right, now with your eyes dosed, and we don’t care how you do this,“ you tell them, „we don’t care how you do this, with your eyes dosed, why, take a look at the ceiling. Now put a mock-up alongside of the ceiling, your mock-up alongside of it, of the ceiling. Put it alongside of the ceiling.“

„What do you see?“ That’s where he’s stuck and you can just move him off of that. If he can still see it, he can be moved off of it.

Then you tell them, „All right. Now put a mock-up of the spittoon out in the hall alongside of the spittoon outside in the hall, see, with your eyes closed, sitting right here.“

Well anyway, he thought this, and he said – the fellow said, „I – well, I don’t know, back of a girl’s head.“

„On the building next door, put a mock-up alongside of the building next door like the building next door.“

„Well,“ Dennis says, „that’s fine.“ He says, „Well, let’s move into it now, and let’s move out of it“

This is as covert as you can get as an auditor. This is a wonderful process; it is just dreadful what happens, because you have given him a certainty every time. The certainty is his mock-up. He doesn’t know that he’s looking at the building next door. You don’t have to have any certainty on that at all. But you tell him to put a mock-up alongside of it, just like it Well, he’s certain of the mock-up. He knows that mock-up is there. And so you’ve covertly introduced Certainty Processing on exteriorization. And if you’ll just keep this up and keep this up and keep this up, he’ll be out there in the street looking at the taxicabs and mocking up taxicabs like them, and so forth, and being very confident and cocky, because you haven’t asked him for an impossibility at any time. He can always mock up a taxicab.

And the guy did. He said, „That was kind of tough,“ but he did it.

And this is, by the way, the best method I know of curing somebody who, in Exteriorization by Scenery, keeps hauling facsimiles under him instead of the actual objects. If you started doing that, there’s – the long way to do it is keep hauling facsimiles under him. The easy way to do it is just keep running Duplication. You show him things that – so on.

And „Well, what do you see now?“

„Now, take a look at the Washington Monument.“ You just get further and further from home, see. You could take a whole group this way.

And he said, „Well, I see a train coming.“

„Put up the Washington Monument now.“ „All right“ „Now put a facsimile – pardon – a mock-up of the Washington Monument alongside of the Washington Monument“ „Okay.“ „Put a mock-up of the Capitol alongside of the Capitol.“ „Now make that mock-up real good. Make it as dose as you can get it“ It’s a dirty trick.

„Yeah? Well, now what do you see?“

Now, let me go in a little deeper into this. Why does Duplication do what it does? And what is duplication an index of? The ability to duplicate is an index of the willingness or ability of the preclear to return to geographical areas, it’s not that by duplication you’re sending him into geographical areas where he’s been. Now, don’t get those two things confused. It’s a person has to be as superoriginal as he can’t go back anymore where he was at.

And now he said – the fellow said, „Wait a minute; there’s another train coming now.“

If you really wanted to make a very, very original writer, instead of a guy like me – I ran out of plots very early and kept writing the same story a lot. The only time I ever got original was a story I wrote called Fear. That’s so original, they tell me, it’s still putting them into insane asylums, so I probably should include psychotics in work, so that overt act would get undone.

All of a sudden Dennis got a terrible suspicion. And he says to the preclear, „Where are you?“

But it’s interesting that Fear was written immediately after a rather horrendous accident. Poom, bang big impact, see. And a very short time later, I was maundering around and I thought of this lovely story called Fear, that Dostoevski should have thought of and done a good job on, and I wrote it. And the mood passed entirely away with me. I often had wondered what that transient feeling was of having to be terrifically, horribly original. That’s it I couldn’t go back to that accident. It was just a big facsimile that was kicking my teeth in. All right.

And the fellow said, „Sitting alongside the railroad track on one of the ties.“ And he said, „Gee,“ he says, „these trains,“ he says, „these wheels are terrific.“

There (if you’ll pardon the introduction of the personal note) is the essence of what happens to people. They’re at parallel 62, longitude 81 east, and something goes boom. Now, they don’t know where it went boom quite, because they went unconscious right there. So they’re kind of hazy as about where it is, so they just say, „I’m not going back to the Western Hemisphere anymore.“ It’s a point they’re trying to escape from, and to make sure, they just escape from this tremendous area. You see how that is? So impacts not only add energy to the bank, but they drive a person away from having been someplace. And someday we will integrate those two facts, I’m sure. But he can’t be there anymore.

Dennis goes, „Ulp,“ and called him back very quietly and gently into the room. He had put him in and out of an actual girl’s head and Dennis simply – he was very green at this at the time; the techniques had only been out a few days when he was trying this. And Dennis went around after that telling everyone, „Be sure and communicate with the preclear and get him to tell you what he is doing.“

Now, you ask him in Dianetic reverie to return to the time when… Oh, no. Not him. He can’t duplicate. A person who gets terribly bored all the time, who is nervous and fidgety by doing the same thing… It tells you, by the way, Spain is in beautiful condition, because they have bullfights over there which are just the same bullfight They have six of the same bullfights the same afternoon. They’re just not the same bull, that’s all; he doesn’t live that long. And they just keep having this same bullfight, and it has its little innuendoes that change. They’ve just been doing this for ages, and the audience is enthusiastic, and everybody’s happy – boy, can they duplicate. You get what I mean now by duplication?

This could be accepted by occluded cases as very, very difficult phenomena to assume, very difficult But it’s not difficult phenomena the moment you start working with it, because to see some fellow walk in who has had four years of psychoanalysis, who has even been pitched down Tone Scale with anatypical procedure – somebody who has been really abused and so forth. And you see this fellow walk in, nothing’s ever been done for him, you know, and you say, „Be three feet back of your head.“

In America, how far would you get putting on the same vaudeville act five times for the same show and running it for five years? You’d go broke very, very easily. And yet, England tolerates this continually. They’re in fairly good shape over in Great Britain. They really haven’t got as much country to duplicate as we have.

And he says, „All right.“

But the point is, we have here a system whereby we’re at the lowest gradient scale of going back to where we have been. And a person is only trying to avoid, with his aberrations, being in a geographical area where he was hurt. So duplicate, and the person you – “Microphone, and we’ve got a big beautiful basket of flowers up here, with a white stand, and a waterfall of roses going off one side of it“ And that was a duplicate of the microphone. The person will say, „How artistic I am to have made that“ No, brother, how scared you are of a microphone. You never want to go back there again.

And you say, „Now let’s be across the street there where the sun is coming in.“

I dare say you’ve probably been in front of a microphone sometime or another that was talking to a large and visible audience or something. Brrrrrr. No dice. If you’re really completely relaxed about microphones, you could build the identical microphone right there, pam. And if you were all the way up Tone Scale, you would put another microphone there, and it would shock the sound man endlessly. So you see what we’re doing with Duplication? And that’s why it’s really such a terrifically leading technique, because it’ll exteriorize with the greatest of ease without somebody realizing it.

„Yes.“

You’ll want your preclear to get to a point where he can duplicate perfectly any place he has ever been before. That is your wide-open case. Your wide-open case is delusifying, because he can’t belong where he was ever again, anyplace. He has run fresh out of all geographical areas. And so he has to dub in geographical areas, and there he’s off on a compulsive level of building his own universe that he doesn’t know he’s building. He says, „This is the real universe, this is the MEST universe I am building.“ He’s crossed the two utterly. And you see what delusion is? The guy can’t go back, so he has to mock it up. A guy can’t have a place, so he has to build it in his mind. That’s the first effort of mock-ups. All right.

„Now there’s a garbage can over there; now let’s be in the garbage can.“

Now, the next one – the next one kills them quite frequently. Sometimes you have an ambulance standing by, you will avoid the more hideous consequences. (No kidding, this next one is horrible.) It’s have the preclear or group close eyes and locate the corners of the room behind them, and keep interested in those corners and not thinking for several minutes. Have any of you tried this technique?

„Well, yes.“

Male voice:… for about forty hours.

„All right, now let’s sit down on top of one of those passing cars.“

Well, the funny part of it is, I got a report the other day on somebody who had refused to go into the morass of a lot of things he didn’t understand, namely these new techniques. He’d memorized enough techniques and he just put on the brakes, and he said, „All I’m going to do is hold up the corners of the room.“ Now, two or three people I know of have done this. They just sort of put on the brakes, and they found out that one was a workable process, and they’re just hanging on to it And whenever they process themselves, all they do is sit down and find the two corners of the room and get interested in diem and don’t think.

„Sure.“

And according to reports, this one fellow that was doing that, he looks about eight, nine years younger. And he looks in beautiful shape, and he’s been doing nothing else for a couple, three months.

„Wait a – what are you doing?“

You say you’ve been doing that for forty hours?

„Oh, I don’t know; it was very funny. I made the bus driver scratch his ear.“

Male voice: That’s right.

„No, no, I said on top of the car.“

Feel any better for it?

„Well, all right“

Male voice: I used to do an awful lot of stiff, but I don’t think it has quit coming yet.

„All right. Now let’s be over where they run their light plant You there?“

Yeah, that’s right, hasn’t quit coming yet.

„Sure.“

Of course, that has the limitation – you’re making space, so it has a slight limitation on its technique. You’re making space. But it’s all right. If held long enough, it would run out all the bank – if held long enough. What it’s really trying to do is get somebody into present time. And the usual course of events is, if a person is being audited individually, is that the preclear exteriorizes. He not only holds on to the corners of the room but he eventually finds himself sitting up in one of the corners of the room, looking, wondering what that silly body is doing down there. Has that happened to you?

„All right Let’s sit up on top of the generator housing, listen to the generator.“

Male voice: Yeah.

„Sure.“

Exteriorization takes place. I didn’t think you could go that long without it.

„All right, now, let’s step into the generator.“

And here, you see, we’ve followed two methods: We’ve gone into energy with SOP 8-L, and we’ve just beefed up the bank, to be colloquial, to get enough energy in the bank so a person doesn’t stick. The other one is just to get away from that particular bank. Just move out of it, move out of its vicinity and area. And of course, it doesn’t matter whether it’s thirsty or not It just doesn’t matter. There is no mass to a thetan in terms of this universe. Doesn’t say there’s no mass to him in terms of all universes. All right.

„Okay. Gee, this is fun!“

That is quite a technique, and if you’ll notice that is SOP 8, Step III, really, on the group. A group every once in a while will get restless after a little while, and when too many of them start to scream, why, knock it off and go to the next step.

„All right, that’s fine. Now let’s go over and stand in front of one of the arcs on the switchboards that’s snapping.“

Now, if I were rewriting this again, I would give them a little more Self Analysis after that process because some of them might have really come adrift. But it isn’t tremendously necessary; just go on here to move MEST scenery under them.

„Yeah.“

Now, this scenery will be, for most of the members of the group, will just be facsimilies – mock-ups, but it’s a beautiful way of getting them to mock up because this person is on a delusive sort of a mock-up basis. But don’t let them start raving around invalidating each other concerning it, because you know darn well that a lot of what they’re mocking up is just – I mean, a lot of places they are going are just mock-ups. You’ll occasionally find somebody that you exteriorize, and so forth, and he knows he can’t see. Things are so scarce that he has to mock up what he’s looking at This is fascinating. He’s exteriorized, but he looks at the floor and he knows he can’t have a floor, he knows he can’t see a floor, because it isn’t there, because he can’t have a floor, and he knows he can’t have a ceiling. So he’ll mock up a floor there and he’ll mock up a ceiling there and he’ll mock up a room there and he’ll mock up people there, and so on. What he’s doing is translating an impression. You get the idea? He’s translating a perception impression of his environment.

„Bother you?“

Now, quite in addition to what he’s doing with this sense perception is to get himself oriented cautiously. He probably isn’t even in the room looking at it; he’s probably way out in space someplace taking another viewpoint in the room, just to be safe. And he puts in all kinds of old rooms and all that sort of thing, and scrambles up his scenery, and so on. Well, don’t call him to task for it, he’s just trying to get used to it Just have him do lots of Duplication, and so forth, because there’s lots of places in this universe where he doesn’t dare be. And he doesn’t remember where they are.

„No. Used to. Doesn’t now.“

Give him a chance to find out Send him around in various places until he all of a sudden really starts to flinch. And you’ll say, „Well, mock it up a few times,“ and then when you’ve mocked it up a few times, he can go in there. You see how you would remedy that and you see that manifestation.

„All right Now let’s be in the center of the Sun.“

Now another thing is, is there isn’t any reason under the sun why he ought to see as dearly as the MEST body. He’s not as convinced of MEST as the MEST body is; he’s not that convinced – really, conviction on some of these things. But he really does see when he is seeing well. When a thetan is really seeing well, he’s seeing much, much better and in much better color than with MEST eyes. Oh boy, real visio shows up and the things are quite real.

„Yeah.“

Of course, he’s got to see something before he can move it around. Once in a while you’ll – people will occasionally do very bad tricks with Theta Clearing. It isn’t proofed against the occasional wickedness of a human being. But at the same time – at the same time, it’s proofed in itself so that it doesn’t just slide sideways on you as you’re using it It’s fairly safe to have around.

„Okay. Now let’s be up in the corner of the room.“

But the level, the comparative level of abuse of SOP 8 would be striking the preclear, see. So that we can guarantee SOP 8, just as we can guarantee people’s conduct right up to the point where people occasionally strike people.

„Sure.“

Once in a while, somebody will do something to a thetan like – they do it all the time in this universe. I heard of a case last night of somebody who hid things on a – exteriorized a girl and then started hiding things all over the house, and having her go and find them and then invalidating her. And she just went and kept going and finding these things, and it was a lot of fun at first and she found several of them, and then they fooled her on a couple of items, I guess, and all of a sudden invalidated her, and she was too shaky as a Theta Clear to go on, and she just went back in her head and stayed there. What a mean trick. I mean, just challenging a person, and so forth-setting it up so this person would fall flat on her face immediately. So you can’t do anything wrong. I mean, these techniques won’t slip. The knife won’t slip in your fingers.

„All right Now put yourself where you’d like to have yourself in relationship to the body.“

If you’re real mean, however, if you’re real ornery and you reach over and cut the preclear’s throat without even giving him a basin to bleed in, why, of course, neither I nor anybody else can put out a technique that is proof against it You see that.

„Okay. Gee. Well, you know, life’s pretty good, and so forth, and that stuff you’ve got there is pretty fine. As a matter of fact, it’s been very good, and I thank you very, very much for the session.“

But in Dianetics – rrrrrr! Oh, that could be real mean. The auditor can sit there in Dianetics – I’ve seen this happen; it really got me pretty discouraged after a while. I’ve seen an auditor sitting there pretending to help this preclear. I had a whole clinic one time that suddenly started – unexpectedly started to do this, „All right, what is that phrase? Roll that phrase again. Now, what did you get out of that phrase? What do you think about it?“ Ohhh. And I tried to tell these people that that was not the way to run an engram, and so forth.

He doesn’t realize this guy has changed. All of a sudden his face is animated, he’s got good color, he’s got circulation, he no longer has arthibumpis or something.

„Well, it does them a lot of good“ – all their preclears walked around in apathy, see.

Or when you get him back there, if he has some psychosomatic ill, this – in Dianetics we used to slug and slave and sweat over trying to get out this chronic somatic, and he’d come back Tuesday and he’d have it again, and you’d run out another engram and you’d eventually get him so he didn’t have it, but boy, it was work. All right, you say to this fellow – he has lumitis or something or persilosis, some disease. (That’s my only disease.) So we get him to reach over and touch the affected limb or area of the body, and he does, and you say to him, „All right, now, do you see any pinched nerves or anything there you’d like to straighten out?“

Oh no, the preclear is a bit too much at mercy of somebody running an engram. But boy, a preclear isn’t at mercy with SOP 8. He gets meaner and meaner, a preclear does. And the auditor starts to go wrong, why – and so on. It is not a technique which would be favored in Colorado Springs. It doesn’t put anybody unconscious. All right.

„Yeah. Yeah, you know, this is real interesting. I always heard doctors of anatomy talk about this sort of thing, but I hadn’t ever realized it was like they said. Gee-whiz, look at all these tendons. And, yeah, there’s a nerve, yeah.“

Again, we’re putting in the next-to-the-last list in Self Analysis, mostly because we’ve just been running with Step G a somewhat limited technique.

„Well, straighten it out“

Now, we come back and run a couple of present time objects, compared, again, as in B.

„Well, I just did.“

And here is another one which is very interesting. This is the only group step of getting a slant on somebody else’s universe. Now, you can have somebody go to a window and look out in one direction or another, and just tell the group collectively to get the idea of what he’s looking at Or you can say, „Now“ – to the group – “now get the idea of how the room looks from this microphone.“ Or „Get the idea of how the room looks from that light.“ „Now get the idea of how the room looks from the middle of the blackboard.“

„All right. Now let’s get…“

And you know what this breaks up? This breaks up almost immediately – or goes into, for some cases, and doesn’t break up, so that you have to straighten it out – this one: „I don’t know how that microphone thinks about things.“ You see, a viewpoint, or looking at something would be thinking to a lot of your group. And if you’ve got a person going to the window and looking out, and then you want the group to get an idea of what that person is seeing, a lot of the members of the group will say, „Well, I don’t know how he’d look at things. I don’t know how he’d look at life. I don’t know how he’d think about things.“

„There’s another little black piece of energy on here; let me get that off.“

You have to explain to them, preferably not with a very great and patient air, „We want to know what objects his eyes are seeing.“ People think of this for a long time. And you’ll have always several people in a group who will say to you, „No, I – but I don’t know what he thinks about it“ Thinks about it That’s their whole obsession.

„Okay, you got that, that’s fine. All right, now let’s straighten out the joint a little bit, and see if that’s going along fine.“

They don’t realize that the only thing that’s important is that every person walking around this universe, in its finest level, looks and sees, looks at and sees the same things.

„Yeah.“

In colleges and other low-toned operations, they will very often try to convince people that everyone has a different viewpoint in terms of language. Where they teach general semantics, they will very often ring this in: „All things mean different things to different people.“ Ah no, that’s not true. Perfectly precise communication is possible. These microphones look like microphones to every person present, and they look like microphones. There’s no problem about this microphone; it looks like a microphone. And that’s the one thing which this technique lets a person grasp toward without you explaining what you are doing.

„Well now, is there anything else you’d like to do to the body?“

„What does the room look like from this microphone?“ „What does the outdoors look like from the person who’s standing at the window?“

„Well, I don’t know, I always had headaches and there seems to be a little patch of energy here that’s causing the headaches. Just a minute.“ (pause) „Okay.“

And you get the third universe. And these people have all avoided the third universe so long and so perversely that if you do this a little while every time you go through these steps, and so on, it’ll click here and there throughout your group. „He sees the same thing I see, hhuh-hhuh. He may think about it differently, but he sees the same thing I see.“ And it’ll come home to him as a real reality. A big reality, that the third universe isn’t mean, ornery, plotting, betraying, this, that and so forth, necessarily.

„Now, is there anything else you’d like to do?“

One isn’t emotionally the same being as the other person, perhaps, but as far as looking at things is concerned, one has identical – of course, all thinkingness comes from an inability to look, so naturally viewpoint’s the same. Your viewpoint from this microphone would be the same as a thetan, as a body and as the microphone, if you were standing right here back of the microphone, looking in that direction. So this is what you’re trying to get through with that step, and that’s all you’re trying to get home.

„No.“

Well now, the main thing you’re trying to do with all of this is just get a group to operating in such a way that their alertness and ability to look, their emotion, communication pick up. And any step that we have, in any process, then, belongs in any group process. Any step that can be applied to any group, any series of steps, because we’re just trying to do those things. So some auditor to write me in and say, „I have varied Short 8 to the point of only running ten minutes’ worth of some step or another“ – please don’t make me swear like that when I – it’s not polite to swear. I’ve been informed over and over in lectures these words, these crude words I use sometimes are very offensive to people, because – and so on.

„Okay. That’s the end of the session.“

I remember my tapes were being played at a Sunday school one time, and there was – the Sunday school principal left, or something like that. I used the name of God in vain the second time and he quit, and so on. Well, I don’t blame him, personally; I don’t pronounce the word right. But the main point I’m trying to make here is that any technique we have which is short, sweet and unlimited can be used on a group, and they can be used in any combination. And if you use a limited technique, which is to say putting them into thinkingness processes, for heaven’s sakes, follow it up exclusively, follow it up immediately with some technique which makes them look.

The guy walks out – he’s walking!

Whenever you throw them into the doubtful techniques, where they’re not certain, then immediately follow it by one that makes them look at something certain, like „Remember something real,“ that’s something certain in the past or something certain in the present.

Miracle, just like that And it’s no tougher than that, and you use exactly the patter I was just giving you: „Is there anything you’d like to fix up about this body?“

Now, I hope that you’ll be able to take a few of these remarks to heart And you can follow this list just as it is written here, and you’ll get results. Or you can trim its time down to nothing, and you’ll get results. Or you can substitute many other steps in this list and again, get results.

„Yes.“

We’re merely trying to make people more alert and to look. Now, that’s all this afternoon.

„Is there any pinched nerves you’d like to fix up?“

Thank you very much.

„Yes.“

„All right Well, go ahead. Fix them up.“

Do you say, „Now look, put out a beam and wum-wum-zum and touch the epiglottis on the spoololum.“

No, no. He knows more about his anatomy than you do at that moment, and the fact of the matter is he doesn’t have to be told; he knows how to fix up a body.

He can do weird things in fixing up a body if you don’t… He will, too.

The body operates on little anchor points around in various places, a very complex electrical anatomy. And he can make all kinds of things occur in the body that haven’t occurred before. Shocking. Boy, could he give the draft board a bad time.

So that’s processing of psychosomatic ills at its optimum. And all these 1 other steps of SOP 8 are necessary only because we can’t get this optimum operation instantly on all preclears. We can only get it on about 50 percent of them. And that’s that.

So you see, we’re actually dealing with a superior therapy. The most cases that a witch doctor, in terms of percentage, could expect to achieve an effect upon – some small, light effect – was something like 22 percent The same in practically any primitive tribe. The witch doctor, 22 percent of his cases had an effect.

Psychoanalysis achieved slightly less than that at considerable longer time. I tested it out one day. I tested out witch doctoring too, by the way. I’m a pretty good witch doctor – boom, boom, boom, boom.

I don’t know what the percentage is from country to country. The percentage is slightly lower in Great Britain than in the United States. It is a lower percentage if you’re taking certain age brackets. The percentage doesn’t necessarily decline with rapidity with advancing years, but it is fairly safe to assume that cases below the age of eighteen are much, much easier and more responsive than cases above that age. These are just figures to give you an approximation; they aren’t statistics. You can expect that somebody who is fifty years old, who walks in, you can expect there to be probably only a 10, 15 percent chance that he’s an immediate Step I. But don’t neglect the fact that he might be one. Pam, out he’ll go.

Old lady, eighty years of age, walked in on an auditor one day, and he thought, „Oh, my, I – ohhh!“ She had lumbitis with complicosis.

And he says, „Well now, be three feet back of your head.“

And she says in a sweet voice, „Yes.“

„Well, let’s go up on the roof and take a look at the city.“

„My, it’s beautiful, isn’t it?“

„Well, let’s go up a little higher, take a look at the city.“

„Yes.“

„Now let’s go down to the light plant and stand on the edge of the generator.“ Here we go, see.

Come back and – “All right, is there anything you’d like to fix up about the body?“

„No, I think it’ll be all right now.“

„Well, that’s fine. That’s the end of session.“

She got up, she didn’t have complicosis – zzzzz. About eighty years old – everybody knows you can’t do anything for old people.

So we’re actually into a field of astonishing phenomena which has suddenly turned up, pam, and which it has taken me – I am very sorry that it has taken me this long, but it has actually taken me over fifteen months to get these techniques – after the discoveries of Theta Clearing itself – to get these techniques evened out And that’s an awfully long time; I apologize for it. Well, it’s taken over three years to graduate the processing of engrams and grief charges up to a point where an auditor didn’t have to work. I’ve been trying to save labor for you. I’m following out the general American neurosis.

So don’t neglect that Step I and don’t ever assume that a case is going to be immediately very difficult, until you’ve at least gone through those steps. It doesn’t take any time to go through SOP 8: Steps I, II, III. And after you’ve gone past III, you know what’s wrong with him: explosions.

But if he’s real bad off, you don’t dare give him an explosion, you have to give him mock-ups. But if he is real, real bad off, all you can do for him is to get him to contact a little reality. And these are the effective techniques, and you go off just on that level.

Now, you can go off on tests – one, two, three, four, five. A good test is can he mock up his childhood home. If he can mock up his childhood home with great ease, he’s probably still there. One method of getting him out of there is – if you just want to cure up a thought problem with him – is get him to reach and withdraw from the childhood home, get the childhood home reaching and withdrawing from him. All of a sudden he’ll come away from home. First time he’s ever been away from home. He’s liable to look around with great surprise, find out he’s been in Philadelphia or Keokuk all these years – without being in Philadelphia.

Most of your preclears have trouble, if they are in difficulties at all below the level of III, of „not here.“ That’s another phrase that they’re helped out on. „He’s not all there.“ How true, how true; they think they’re someplace else.

Now, I’ll go over less ramblingly, immediately, why we are working with geographical location. Theta, according to Prelogic 1, places things in space and time and can create space and time in which to place things. And when I say place them, I mean place them. The precision of being able to place a point – only a mind knows what a point is – the precision of placing a point is a direct index of neurosis. A person’s belief in the place where he is, is tremendously important to his sanity. Geographical locations. This is so much the case that a person can be evaluated for only by those people who have changed his position in space repeatedly and continually.

Take a drill sergeant. The drill sergeant with his "To the rear, hup; to the rear, hup,“ is changing the position of soldiers in space to a moment and time when he says, „All right, now, charge.“ And these guys get up and walk into a solid hail of steel. They don’t do it because they’re brave nearly so much as they do it because the sergeant said so. That’s evaluation. And evaluation doesn’t exist unless change in space has existed priorly. All right.

We have all evaluation on the part of parents, then, as important And your preclear is upset about his parents, simply because they have upset him about change in space.

Now, change in space is important, because that thing which he cannot perceive he has to think about. If he can’t go to a place, he has to suppose about a place. If he can’t go to a place, he has to mock up a place to go to. See, he can’t go there, so he mocks it up as how he thinks it is.

And there is your first echelon of thinkingness, and there is your first picture, which later on begins to include and embrace all language. He can’t go there, so he’s got to think what it is – he supposes it looks like.

Now, he supposes it looks like, at level of Resistive V, to the degree where, when you ask him to exteriorize by scenery, all he does is pull around facsimiles. Well, that’s all right Let him pull around facsimiles; he’ll get tired of it after a while and actually start to pull places under him. That’s in old SOP 8, Exteriorization by Scenery.

With what ease can we show this to be a fact This is demonstrable phenomena. We take any case that’s occluded and we ask him to pull pieces of scenery on the face of the Earth under him, and the next thing you know, he knows he can’t be there, so he’s got to look at a mock-up of it. Well, you just keep him at this, and he’ll get tired after a while, because what’s he doing? Every time you say pull such a place under him, he pulls a mock-up under him, ha. Wonderful. He’s had to mock something up. He’s had to mock something else up, and he’s feeding a starved bank energy. Eventually he’ll get enough energy so he will move. See how that is? All right.

So Exteriorization by Scenery in original SOP 8 is very effective, but it has to be continued and on and on and on and on and on till all of a sudden it starts to occur on a really bad case. The case really isn’t going these places. And he begins to think after a while, „Well, exteriorization and Theta Clearing and so on is a technique – one of Hubbard’s wild ideas, because it really couldn’t exist, because I have established conclusively and beyond any doubt whatsoever that every time I try to pull a place under me, it’s just a facsimile. So that proves Hubbard’s wrong, and I’m sane.“ Does it? You see how this is? He’s feeding the bank, and it’s just a handy way of feeding the bank – another way of doing it.

But he has to know before he can go. He knows he can’t be in places, and one of his finest upsets is walking into a strange place. And you ask any person who is at the Level V, „Do you feel at home in a grocery store?“

„No. Every time I go into a grocery store, I sort of feel like people are going to tell me to get out.“

„Oh, is that so? Why, that’s peculiar. Why do you suppose this is?“

„Well,“ the fellow says, „I don’t know. Maybe my mother or maybe my father,“ or other Freudian reasons.

The actual fact of the matter is, it’s a place where there are things to eat, you see, and that would be one of the things he’d be kind of nervous about Anybody who is eating is sort of debased, anyway. (That wouldn’t include any of us.)

But here we have somebody expecting to be asked to leave all the time. That’s his big worry. Somebody’s going to kick him out – kick him out or hold him still.

And this person, by the way, if you start running on a very occluded case „I am under arrest,“ do you know, he’ll get a terrific bang out of this – it’s a big technique. Of course, it doesn’t do too much for the case, but it sure does create an effect He thinks he’s under arrest Of course, arrest is bad, because it means you’re surrounded by a confined space, and you can’t get out of that space, and if you can’t get out of that space, therefore you can’t have an explosion because explosions are not fixed spaces, explosions are moving spaces. All right.

Therefore your low-level case just can’t be in various geographical locations. The truth of the matter is, he’s been blown out of too many of them by explosions. Or he’s blown too many people out of them with explosions that kicked back on him. He’s been real active, and all these people, by the way, at that level are real, boy, they… I’d hate to tell you what the past and background is of a lot of Vs. I notice several fellows twist nervously in the audience. That’s all right, I won’t tell anybody. Not for a couple of minutes, anyway.

Now, there’s the whole thing. He just can’t be someplace, and so he runs out of places to be, even in his bank. You see how that is? He can’t even be on his time track looking at his facsimiles, he’s out of places to be to such an extent. There’s a scarcity of places to be, in other words, a scarcity of viewpoints; the only reason you’d want to be in a place was to look from the place.

Now, he’s run out of them in the material universe and then he begins to run out of them on the time track, and their general scarcity gets to be such that as he looks back into the past, it’s all occluded. And he’s got a tremendous scarcity of past, because it’s the one place he can’t be again, is where he has been in the past He knows that, he has agreed with the material universe to the point where he realizes that time sets it up so that he can no longer be where he has been, and that’s the past.

If he can’t be where he has been, he then has a tendency to go into the past, identifying the past with prohibited areas and spaces. But if you will send this person around in various prohibited spaces for a while, he will actually exteriorize then. And if he stays away from the body, he won’t get trapped in it again. But the body is so mocked up with lots of energy that when he comes near it again, he goes into it.

You find many of these fellows, when they exteriorize, they’re wearing black suits. They’ll tell you all sorts of weird tales. Well, who cares how weird the tale is. The fellow isn’t delusive. It’s a remarkable conceit on the part of man that he thought and believes at large that out of this tremendous solar system, which occupies a tremendous galaxy, which is one of many island universes, that Earth has the only type of culture which can be, the only type of being which can live, and knows all there is to know about any way there is to go about living. I mean, such conceit!

When we have this problem of a person who can’t move out of his body, we get all sorts of other manifestations we can immediately study, such as he thinks the room is full of lions. If you ask him real quickly, and said, „What do you think the room is full of?“

„Oh, nothing.“

„Well, are there any dark corners that you see in the room?“

„Well, that corner over there is kind of dark.“

„What do you think is in that comer over there?“ (pause) „Mother.“

He goes around all the time thinking somebody is around. Well, that’s the level of delusion on the thing. He’s too sane to know – to admit that this is the case. But here he is, then, in a state where he can’t be in various places; I mean, various places in the material universe, much less make universes of his own. See, he’s in a bad way. He can’t be places, and that’s the only thing that really is a gradient scale in SOP 8, see? Inability to be places.

A Step I? Cocky, able to be anyplace. II, ahh, not quite. Ill, well, he could be someplace if he had some space of his own, but he doesn’t doubt that he could have space of his own, and so you use Step III just exactly as given in 16-G, without any differences there at all, to have some space of his own.

And he says, „Well, if I do get chased out of some space, I’m not entirely dependent upon the MEST universe for space; therefore, I could have some space, because I can make some space. Okay, I’ll move out of my head,“ you see?

In Step II, he just has a little bit of concern, probably. Probably Papa and Mama and other people have told him he was ugly. You’d be surprised, by the way, where all these conditions are extreme in a Case Level V, that a V, he really thinks he’s pretty homely. He’s worried about his looks. He can look in a mirror, but he can’t quite trust that mirror. It might be telling him lies. He doesn’t know for sure, he has never seen himself. He isn’t quite sure. And he kind of believes he’s real ugly. That’s the extreme case.

Well, a II has this just faintly. He thinks, well, as long as he’s in there pitching and making the body make nice, graceful motions, you see, why, he’s all right But if the body doesn’t look quite right, and he’s just a little bit uncertain about how the body looks – that’s really what he’s concerned about If you just tell him to mock up the body a few times, he’ll get the darnedest feeling; he gets the feeling of ridicule, mockery.

Of course, ridicule is the business of holding somebody’s anchor points out away from him and not letting him have them back. See, you take somebody’s anchor point and then won’t give it back. Well, that’s ridiculing him.

If you have a preclear who is just – oh, boy! He’s just in terrible shape on the subject of, oh, I don’t know, he’s had a broken marriage or some other American custom; you just get the other man or the other woman – in case of a girl who has just been divorced – holding the former partner away. Just mock them up holding them away, and just let the mock-up stand there and hold. And this person will squirm, and they’ll get embarrassed and they’ll twist, and then all of a sudden they say, „So what?“ A lot of mock-ups. Their attention got fixed on one mock-up, that was their trouble. They don’t realize there’s two and a half billion human mock-ups in this world. Gee, that’s a lot of mock-ups. And more coming along all the time. All right.

We have the idea, then, of that body away from him. Well, he’s afraid he’ll be ridiculed if he does something different or strange about going outside. There’s enough feeling there so he has a doubt about exteriorization. So you just get him to put his body out there. Mock it up, mock it up. He has a slight body scarcity, too. So he gets kind of the idea, „Well, if I got this body, then I could have another body,“ so you have him mock up his body several times out there.

But don’t keep this up and don’t do it at all if the body that he mocks up is not brilliant in color – I mean, if it’s not dear, brilliant and three-dimensional.

All right, he doesn’t do Step I instantly, you say, „Just mock up your body now.“ He does. You say, „What kind of a mock-up is it?“

„I got an idea it’s there.“ He’s a Step V, skip it Go on with III anyhow, but if he’s just got an idea that mock-up is there, you’re operating way up in techniques, when you should be very – sigh and take off your coat and roll up your sleeves and pull out the couch a little bit, and get a couple of glasses of water or a few Coca-Colas and set them down, because you’re in for it, boy.

Now, the mock-up that he gets should be dear and should feel like it has some body to it And if that is the case, and there’s no great deal of blackness around or something of the sort, he’ll mock up his body a few times and all of a sudden he’ll be standing back looking at his body and mocking up maybe a body in front of it and comparing the two and thinking, „Ha!“ „What do you want me to do now?“ he’ll say. Well, don’t just go on to Step III, because the fellow will seldom tell you on Step II that he’s just exteriorized. This will seem sort of usual to him, certainly – suddenly.

You say, „Mock up your body a few times now. Now have you done that?“

„Yeah. Yeah.“

Well, don’t expect him to give you any due, because normally you’ll be processing somebody that doesn’t know what’s supposed to happen. And he’ll be outside looking at the body in a lot of the cases, so don’t miss that one. You see, you could just pick up this beautiful slab of bacon you have just brought home, and say, „Well, that isn’t bacon, it’s just a mock-up,“ and throw it away. You’ve just done your job, you see, and you wouldn’t know it.

All right, here he is: He exteriorizes. Now, if there’s a great deal of blackness around and you just kept this fellow mocking up nothing but his body on and on and on and on and on and on and on, there is some possibility, some possibility that he would get kind of spinny, because you might be dealing with a very, very low-step case. And you haven’t established it yet, see. You don’t know what you’re handling yet You might be dealing – possibly, in spite of appearances – you might be dealing with somebody that you have no business whatsoever giving any mock-ups to. You might be dealing with a „What wall?“

So just for caution’s sake, just do it a few times. If he’s not exteriorized, you say, „Where are you now in relationship to your body?“

„I’m in my head, of course. Where do you suppose?“

See, he isn’t exteriorized. Well, don’t force him any.

Your next step is to tell him to hold on to the two back corners of the room. The reason you say the two back corners of the room is this immediately hits him with everything that’s in front of him. If you put out those two corners of the room, you see, that’s holding it as his space. But if you put that back there, he’s never held that space before. And it has a tendency to completely unsettle his thinking pattern.

Well, very well, what happens, then, to such a person that simply holds on to the back corners of the room and exteriorizes? Nothing, you just keep on going with the process of putting him in various places just like a fellow who exteriorized when he was – mocked up things in front of him. You just tell him to be in various places, that’s all. That’s real simple, isn’t it?

And the therapy as far as chronic somatics is concerned is telling him what would he like to patch up about the body, „Well, go ahead and patch it up,“ and in a rare case, having him do mock-ups outside the body until he finishes all cycles of actions he’s worried about Apply Mock-up Processing, but in particular when he’s outside of his body, get him up to a point where he can get just beautiful explosions with full sonic. And boy, he’s really Clear when he can really get those, because nothing can trap him after that.

Let’s take a break.