This newsletter concerns itself with the training and skill of auditors.

I have had considerable experience in training auditors, but I only occasionally check up on auditors who have been trained in the various schools. Ordinarily the results are quite good in these schools, but now and then the results are so sour that I wonder what could have happened. Naturally, under a policy which trains anyone who comes in, one is going to get duds. But if one gets a dud he should certainly let the old man know about it, for sooner or later I get involved in some kind of scramble concerning this dud and some cases messed up.

According to the letters I have been receiving SOP 8 fell like a minor bomb in some quarters: and all the letters are reporting the sudden resolution and dissolution of cases which had previously been considered very difficult. Some of the letters reflect the fact that none of the materials of Scientology had been available because the auditor had been out of touch. But the main thing which is being reflected is the sudden understanding of what I’ve been trying to do in Scientology. It had not occurred to many that the effort to treat the reactive mind was lengthily unnecessary if one could actually separate out the analytical mind and bring it up to a point where it could handle any reactive mind. Where we want the strength in validation is of course in the analytical mind. I went into this pretty thoroughly in Issue 1 5-G of the Journal of Scientology released a short time ago, and it is wonderful and beautiful to me (l) how auditors everywhere completely missed the point and (2) how I had overlooked telling them what the point was. It is very gratifying in some quarters that this realization alone makes us all friends again.

You would be surprised at the amount of traffic of this character I have had in the last three years. Generally it is based upon just one thing: the dud didn’t even vaguely know what Dianetics or Scientology was. Quite commonly, he had been trained thoroughly in metaphysics, mysticism, psychology, or booja witch doctoring.

I am also getting some early reports on groups and some suggestions concerning the handling. One of the suggestions is of very great interest. After one has a group formed and is group processing it, it is very well worth his while to take the names and addresses of his group members and make a personal call around on these people, without any formal appointment, and ask them how they’re going along and if the group processing did them any good and so forth. This all by itself seems to produce the personal contact necessary with some to ask for private and personal auditing. This is a pretty easy thing to do after all. One simply makes sure that he gets the names and addresses of everyone who comes into the group and then one calls around on them personally after they’ve been there a time or two and finds out how they’re getting along. The same auditor also remarked that most of his preclears came from the vicinity of preclears where his results had been successful, and that he did his best acquisition of preclears by writing to all of his old preclears at regular intervals and asking them how they’re getting along. In other words, after he’d processed a preclear, he made a point, about a week later, of writing him a letter asking him how he was getting along. About three weeks after that he wrote him another letter. About a month after that he wrote him another letter. And then he let a period of about three months elapse and wrote him again. This quite often produced an additional intensive run and it certainly produced, in the vicinity of the preclear, new preclears.

When he was trained in whatever school, he received the information with no conviction whatsoever. Occasionally this lack of conviction is traced to a lot of wild rumors about my own character which then disabused him of any idea that he should accept these “opinions.” Training which is done with this color is rather detrimental. I don’t happen to care very much what people think about me, but where it enters into the skill of an auditor, and where it will continue through to mess up a preclear, it becomes quite important.

I have also received the comment that hardly any auditors ever took me at my word when I said that one could simply go out on the street and stop people who had things obviously wrong with them, make an appointment and process the person and get paid for it. Every auditor who has tried this has found that it was a successful method of getting the word around. One simply stopped somebody on the street, inquired after his health, asking him how he got that way. Then he simply tells him he’s going to give him some processing. An auditor who has a professional card on him with a definition of Scientology printed on the back of it, can give the person a card, but he should not count on the person to make any advance because that person is out of communication. If a person has anything wrong with him, that person can be reached but that person will not reach. Therefore it’s up to the auditor to do the reaching. If he sits and waits for the public to come to him, the public who has anything wrong with it cannot and will not come to him simply because they cannot reach out away from themselves and communicate, but they can be communicated to and can be reached, and are actually quite obedient to anybody who reaches to them. This is such a workable method of getting a practice going that we are considering installing it as a necessary act in professional training.

Germane to this I spent the other evening on the phone — literally that, about two hours-with an auditor who was busily processing a preclear who had suddenly gone into a large maybe about continuing processing. Mentioning no names, this preclear had previously had a mystic master of some note and renown and this mystic master had come to me and had informed me that this neophyte in his cult was being processed by one of my auditors and had informed me that this auditor was paying no attention to the fact that this girl through concussion or some such thing had only half a brain.

I received a letter not long ago from an auditor who had gone around the manufacturing plants and had pushed his way in to see a big enough name to get action with the proposition that he cut down the loss of work hours of the company by giving emergency treatment to absentees who were just then costing the company money. He also stated that he was able to walk through plants and pick up the names and addresses of people who were absent and then tell the management he was going to send them back to work, which he did. This was intensively productive of interest, and was quite remunerative.

This auditor phoned me and, frankly, I have never seen a longer communication lag in anyone. It was from ten to thirty seconds, and the answers he gave me and the data he gave me were all salted down with “maybes.” This auditor, by the way, had not been granted certification but was practicing more or less professionally. His attitude toward me was extremely challenging. He referred to Dianetics and Scientology as “your stuff.” A review of the student record later demonstrated that this man, during the entire training period, had been subjected to considerable marital difficulties and during the training period had missed, day after day. Further investigation revealed he had been trained in mysticism and in psychology. He had proceeded to go through an entire period of training and what had leaked into his head as Dianetics and Scientology, as disclosed in a long and arduous cross-questioning by myself with this communication lag intervening, bore little or no resemblance to anything taught in any training school. He did not know nomenclature, he did not know techniques; he knew how to run an engram, perhaps, but Matched Terminals were called Double Terminals by him; brackets were unknown to him. He claimed he had fished around in “your stuff” and, while he had found that nobody could possibly be “exteriorized” (his own case was never opened and he himself had no interest in opening it) and had evolved a “technique” in which he “fished up” the anchor points of the preclear “just like you said in your stuff’ and then Double Terminalled them (while he was actually only getting two of them up whereas a Double Terminal gets four of them up) and so achieved some effect upon the preclear according to him.

Remember and do not forget that in the building of a practice and its continuance, one is dealing only with people who can be reached but who will not reach. These people are dramatizing “must not reach,” but only a few of them are dramatizing “must not be reached”; and all of them can be reached but it is up to the auditor to go out and do the reaching. Any occluded case is actually dramatizing to some degree “must not be reached.” An auditor who is an occluded case is liable to take himself out of the general swim and wait for the lame, halt and blind to come to him. The lame, halt and blind do not come to him for the simple reason that they are waiting for him to come to them. They do not know he exists.

In the first place, he had no idea of what an anchor point was — he thought it was a person; in the second place, he had jumped Standard Operating Procedure “because it was a drill,” even though he had never tested it to find out if he had gotten results by it. He had developed a “sensitive insight into preclears, and was able to evaluate for them their troubles,” and yet was unable to recall ever having been told by an instructor or on a tape that evaluation for a preclear was verboten.

Many of you would consider it brassy in the extreme to go from house to house down one block after another and ask at each door if there were anybody chronically ill in the household; then explain what he was there for and say he was going to straighten them out and make an exact statement that his fee was so-and-so. An auditor who would not do such a thing actually is going to have a poor practice. An auditor who would not do such a thing is suffering from stage fright. Under new techniques which you will know about, this auditor should simply run the concept in brackets: “Audiences exist” “Audiences do not exist”, and not fumble about any uncertainties but simply run the positive and negative of the fact that audiences do and do not exist. This stage fright will turn on and off and go away; and after that he can go out and procure preclears. He can run in concepts, mock-ups or in brackets “People exist” “People do not exist” and without touching any in-betweens discover, after he’s done quite a bit of this, that he’s capable of reaching people. In order to have any kind of a practice it is necessary for the auditor to reach people because the practice which he will build will be built out of people who must not reach. Anybody who has anything wrong with any part of his body simply cannot get into communication with it. This means he cannot reach that part of his body. If a person cannot reach a part of his body how can he reach another person? And how can he reach an auditor? An auditor who waits for people to come and apply to his group for entrance, who waits for preclears to come and knock at the door, is liable to sit there for a very long time. He must practice on quite a few people in any given area before the word starts to get around. All he has to have is a few successful cases and the word will begin to get around and people who can reach will be bringing around people who can’t reach. But even so, this is a slow way to go about it.

Careful and arduous cross-questioning determined that this individual had processed this woman with Matched Terminals, yet he did not know the difference between a limited technique and an unlimited technique, which was old news in the school where he was being trained. Although it had been said to him probably no less than twenty times, he did not realize that a limited technique was one that you employed until it was proven to be very uncomfortable upon the preclear, at which time you went into an unlimited technique — which is to say a very positive contact with-reality technique — and carried on with the latter until the preclear was upscale enough to carry on again with the limited technique. Expanded GITA, Matched Terminalling, Double Terminalling, running of concepts are all limited techniques, just as the running of engrams will eventually lead into the depths if continued too long. Very, very close questioning against a considerable communication lag elicited the fact that this individual of all things was not sufficiently up on his business to know that the next-to- the-last list in Self Analysis in Scientology (or Dianetics) existed. He had never heard of the technique whereby the individual was asked to remember something that was real to him. Not only that, but it had never occurred to him to apply Standard Operating Procedure to the preclear with half a brain, which would have led him directly into Step VI whereby this was indicated.

The number of hours of auditing which preclears need is steadily reducing and an auditor could actually start building his practice in terms of very short sessions, seeing a great many people for a very short time rather than seeing one person for a long time.

If he had used Standard Operating Procedure, he would have discovered in the first 15 minutes of auditing that his preclear was a neurotic; he would have discovered also that this preclear’s case would not have advanced an inch until the next-to-the-last list in Self Analysis had been run. As it was, he had used about 18 hours more or less of processing on a neurotic who had a physiological infirmity and had succeeded in hanging the person up on a maybe.

It has been observed that a lot of auditors impede their practice by standing around trying to explain what Scientology or Dianetics is to somebody. A patient doesn’t want to know what Dianetics or Scientology is: he wants to get well. The auditor is most successful with new preclears who simply says, “I am a consulting Scientologist; we handle all sorts of human difficulties and malfunctions. Now what’s yours?” And sails on from there to get results. By explaining there is something new in the world he is immediately bringing the preclear into the state of uncertainty of “Will it work or won’t it work?”

In addition to this, it was somewhat amusing to note that the auditor’s name, which will go unmentioned, was the kind of a name which lends itself to an engram phrase. An example of this would be (an actual case) where the individual had severe asthma and was named Sneezy and had lost his asthma simply because a professional auditor asked him one day whether or not he was trying to live up to his name. An individual (a thetan) is trying to be something rather than nothing and he will try to be the literal meaning of his own name and try to dramatize it. Well, a thetan can never be. The auditor in this case had a name which lent itself peculiarly to failure and this had never been touched in the school.

Burke Belknap wrote in to say that one of the first things he did with a preclear was to run concepts on the basis of auditors were no good, the thing wouldn’t work on him, nothing would ever change. This is very excellent. Under present techniques this could be run in this fashion: “Nothing will ever change” “Everything is going to change.” One runs this in concepts, mock-ups, brackets, and runs it until he has a preclear that’s going to change. It doesn’t take very long to do this. He will immediately discover that the preclear isn’t changing because the preclear’s afraid that if he starts to change, everything will go into complete confusion. When the preclear discovers it doesn’t, he is then willing to change. You could work the most beautiful techniques in the world on a pc who was trying madly to stay stable, and produce nothing if you did not first shake loose the fear of change. You are trying to change this pc’s communication lines, therefore it’s necessary for you to hit the case on the basis of change. Another thing: you want to make your pc more aware; he will get as well as he becomes aware. If you want anybody to become aware, you have to raise their communication line. If a person is madly holding onto communication shut-offs, how can he become more aware? The test as to whether or not a case is getting well is whether or not that case suffers a communication change. The communication lag index is the most important method of telling whether or not a person is sick or well. A person who answers quickly (and rationally) is in much better condition than a person who answers after a long consideration. A person who’s being impartial, conservative, etc., is hung up on a maybe so hard that it would take tugs to get him off.

Evidently what had happened in this case was that the auditor had absented himself continuously and when present had sat in the back of the room and had never obtruded into the instructor’s notice. He had then failed in his examinations and, instead of continuing on at the school until he could pass the examinations, had simply drifted out into the public and had represented himself as a certified auditor more or less and so had gotten things into a beautiful snarl.

One old-time auditor has written in to tell me that auditing still remains an art and no matter how hard I try to teach it as a rote, it will still be an art. This has some truth in it. Therefore, if an auditor wants a pc to get well, the auditor had better be a shining example of something that is well. This in itself inspires certainty and confidence. More important than this, a person has to have a very high level of communication before he can indulge in art. One is actually to date creating new people rather than repairing old, broken down homo sapiens. Creation is the work of the artist. In order to do very well, run “Something can be created” “Nothing can be created” on himself until he recovers all those artistic impulses of his youth. True enough, it will help his auditing.

Many auditors, however, who go through schools come out with something less than certainty on the subject of Dianetics and Scientology. They are pounded with whole track and other uncertainties, have no subjective or objective reality of these things and may have sat for weeks clinging hard to the fact that God was good and that all was illusion, and yet might have assembled enough glib information to pass an examination. Such people are liabilities. You can’t avoid them and I can’t avoid them, but we can do all we can to prevent this happening.

I recently had an interesting example of how case level influences the numerousness of a practice and the number of results which an auditor got. Two auditors were in the same area. One had had a lot of successes and had a good practice; the other had had several failures and had a very poor practice, and was, in fact, thinking of chucking it all when SOP 8 and the Group came out and revived his activities. The second auditor was an occluded case. Now, with these techniques which take apart an occluded case, there isn’t any excuse for an auditor to be occluded and be low in tone. By the way a trained Scientologist can to a marked degree audit himself. This isn’t possible for somebody who isn’t trained in the subject because that somebody runs across all sorts of computations and circuits and starts to figure, figure, figure, and almost drives himself mad because he’s into so many maybes. A person can stay in the field of certainty and audit himself. He’s got to have enough training and enough sense to stay in the field of certainties and not wander off into uncertainties and speculations. Anybody who starts self-auditing should audit to technique which is laid out in front of him. Anything I am giving you in the way of technique in this bulletin can be done by an individual on himself. However, he should be very careful not to stray off. The technique starts exciting circuits into action and the auditor starts doing figure, figure, figure, which is very far from certainty.

It is essential that an auditor leaving the school leave with a certainty that the materials he has been presented with work. He should leave with the certainty that he can produce an effect with the materials he has been taught, and that moreover he can produce an effect with them as they have been taught and as they are represented. It is peculiar that the only failed auditors, the only rebel auditors, we have are those who never learned the techniques with which they were presented.

In Issue 16-G, which may be a bit delayed, I am laying out this whole subject of Scientology as “Science of Certainty.” Scientology deals now in nothing but certainties. Those things which are uncertainties, such as metaphysics, spirits, other worlds, space opera, whole track, GE Line, are all being put into the bin called para- Scientology. The auditing we do is directed towards the establishment of certainties, and in itself works only with certainties. Prenatals, engrams and facsimiles — anything which anybody would consider uncertain does not belong on the main line.

This poses a peculiar teaching problem. It is first a problem of getting the student into the classroom, not just as a body but as a mind; and it is dependent secondarily but very importantly, upon (and read this twice) processing out of him in terms of Matched Terminal Brackets every certainty he has had in the past that some process of the mind did or did not solve all of his problems. In processing this individual the instructor will put himself very far ahead by making sure that the student’s co-auditor knows that the first duty in a school where an auditor is being trained, is to get rid of the plus certainty and the negative certainty on current lifetime subjects dealing with the human mind or the human body. This is a very simple thing to do.

What is the level of awareness which we will accept as being a level of awareness? It would be: Can a man stand looking at a tree and know that he is standing there looking at a tree, or if he is blind, can he stand there and feel a tree and know that he is feeling a tree? This man is sufficiently aware to be considered for our purposes fairly sane. Awareness goes from there on up into expanding certainties. How aware is awareness? It is as aware as it is certain. What is knowledge? Knowledge is certainty. Is data knowledge? No, data is not knowledge. A certainty is knowledge. Therefore knowledge depends upon perception. Is certainty an absolute? No, it is relative. What are the two ends of the spectrum of certainties? Here you’re looking straight at the theta-MEST theory. There is nothing, there is something. Here you have the nothingness of the static and the somethingness of all motion. Now, what are we considering, then, at the bottom level of all acceptable certainty? It is a certainty when one is standing looking at a tree and one sees a tree; or, if one can’t see, having no MEST vision, one can feel a tree: that is certainty. And that is the bottom level of certainty that we’re going to accept as a certainty. What’s the top level of certainty? Well, we’re not interested in the top level of certainty because it goes too high to observe. In the last bulletin I talked about three universes. There are numbers of viewpoints of these universes and one is as certain as he is certain of these three universes. But one can become more certain than that to the degree that he is aware. Communication establishes awareness as a mechanism. The three universes give us something of which to be aware. Therefore, this perception is in itself certainty and this certainty is in itself knowledge and thus we can achieve what we would consider an acceptable certainty. What is an acceptable certainty? It is a certainty that the three universes exist in terms of perceptions: one’s own universe, the MEST universe and the other fellow’s universe. When we have established these, we will find that an individual can assume viewpoints which are not dependent upon the body and can perceive these universes as an analytical mind directly. We don’t ask anybody to be certain of this until it happens. Thus from these three certainties with MEST eyes, we go into these three certainties on a direct level. What we will call a “stability” for want of a better word at this time and to replace the word “clear” about which there is a tremendous amount of confusion, would be one who can, without the assistance of MEST eyes, perceive with complete certainty the three universes from many viewpoints. We reach this state with a person by leading him up the gradient scale of certainties, taking him at the certainty level where we find him, wherever that is — even if it is psychotic, neurotic or normal level — and raising him on upscale until he is certain of his own universe, the MEST universe and other people’s universes.

It is a very easy thing to understand what is wrong with somebody who cannot be trained in Dianetics or Scientology. This somebody has been trained in medicine, in psychotherapy, in psychology, in mysticism and has gone through exactly this cycle. At first, with high hope, he has assumed that the materials being taught to him in medicine or whatever, were absolutely, completely and ultimately the last word and would solve all of his problems. He finished the course or went out into practice with the realization that those things which he had been taught were so much buffoonery. Now between these two positive and negative certainties, that the thing did work and then that it did not work, lies a tremendous maybe. It is this maybe alone which produces first the uncertainty in study and second the tremendous communication lag of such people. This is the reason they cannot be trained easily in Dianetics and Scientology. They have in the past been very certain first that something worked and then have been very certain that it did not work. The resultant maybe impedes all further training.

You have observed the phenomenon of people who were theta exteriors getting back into the body and not being able to get out again. This is because they were actually insufficiently aware and because they ran into this one single aberration: “They must not reach away from MEST.”

This is the student who gives the instructor a great deal of trouble, who asks non sequitur and senseless questions, who involves the class in endless arguments which are not germane to the subject, and who spoils the entire atmosphere of a school. This individual has collapsed communication lines. He collapses upon the instructor and utilizes precious minutes in utter balderdash. I repeat, it is because he has first had a certainty on some subject such as medicine or psychology and has then afterwards had another certainty; and the first certainty was that psychology would solve everything and the second certainty was that psychology would solve nothing. This is the anatomy of maybe in terms of intention and concept.

If you think for a moment that it is the purpose of Scientology to produce something intensely spectacular like a ghost that can move cigarette papers or mountains, you have definitely gotten the wrong idea. We are interested in well men, we are interested in people with well bodies who think straight and who co-operate on optimum solutions. We are not making magicians. There are a great many things which a thetan or the analytical mind can do, but all these, until you are certain of them, belong in the field of para-Scientology and are only interesting data. We have no interest in their truth or untruth. If you start filling your pc full of an education about the whole track and electronic incidents and other doubtful things, you are giving him more and more uncertainties and he’ll start on down tone scale. By giving him a gradient scale of certainties, you will surely and securely bring him up the line to stability. The actual horrible truth of the matter is that an individual below the level of what we are calling “stability,” will continue throughout the remainder of his life going on down tone scale. We can make a 4.0 in Dianetics by very arduously swamping up via negative-gain processing the reactive mind, and he will remain relatively stable and with greater longevity, and is as defined in the first book; but we have not put aside the normal course of ageing in the body nor have we completely proofed this individual against the shocks and upsets of existence which would come from new incidents of pain and unconsciousness. It has been completely overlooked that the first “clear” was a relative thing and definitely not an absolute thing. It was an intensely hard thing to gauge. An auditor had to be a very good expert on the subject to produce anything like a 4.0 because the uncertainty in the auditor himself about what he was doing would introduce uncertainties into the pc and so would impede the processing. I fought this for a couple of years before I got it through my own head that pcs reacted to my certainty, got their recalls back simply because I was certain they would, and were content to drill never beyond their own depth but always in the level of what they could reach when they could reach it. A few auditors achieved this but they were all certain people. Even so we got lots of clears, but the bashfulness of the beast dropped him out of sight, for everybody insisted on making a circus curiosity of him and everybody was so uncertain about his state that they very often took an uncertain clear and turned him into an aberree again. I have had this thing happen to theta clears. Man is not exactly kind to his fellow man. Man is basically good, but, believe me, he has a long way to travel up the tone scale to reach that basic goodness. If you don’t believe that Man can be slightly unkind, look what the more aberrated amongst us say about yours truly.

When any student continues to collapse communication lines upon the instructor, which is to say, talks a great deal to him, comes up to him after class, questions and doubts, upsets other students, this is what has happened, and this is what must be processed in the student. The first moment the student shows up with this manifestation, the instructor should know instantly what is wrong with this student, and he should assign to another student the task of “certainty processing” which is nothing more nor less than matching terminals of “I am sure psychology works” “I am sure psychology doesn’t work.” Then somebody else as a matched terminal saying “I am sure psychology works” “I am sure psychology doesn’t work”; and then others saying to others “I am sure psychology works” “I am sure psychology doesn’t work.” By running the certainties only and by never touching the uncertainties, this individual is at length given freedom from the circuit which is generated by these two certainties, for he is holding on to the certainties in the face of all the uncertainties which lie between. (Now read all that again.)

Now you have some sort of idea about what I mean by a positive-gain process. A positive-gain process is a positive-gain of certainty; a negative-gain process, although it eradicates engrams and alters the pattern of behavior of the individual, actually makes that individual at times more uncertain than before, for he has been plunged into things he didn’t know were there and in fact has been made wrong. If you keep on using negative-gain processes such as erasure, remember to back them up right away with positive-gain processes. Otherwise you’ve not brought the pc up toward being a “stability.”

The instructor is continually being subjected to the uncertainty of students. Thus the instructor has to enter into a convincing attitude. He has to start convincing students of the existence of engrams, of the existence of this, the existence of that, against all these doubts. He has to continue a convincing attitude. This is not good for the instructor, but it is not particularly harmful. His first step should be to get rid of via the above processing the students who require all this convincing. The next thing he should do is to run the Certainty Processing on himself to the effect of “Dianetics is the solution” “Dianetics is not the solution,” “Scientology is the solution” “Scientology is not the solution.” He should also run “There are engrams” “There are no engrams,” “There is whole track” “There is no whole track,” “Hubbard is right” “Hubbard is wrong,” each in matched terminals, which is to say the idea or the person with the idea facing the same person with the same idea in brackets until he himself is free. The instructor might also do well to run “I need processing” “I don’t need any processing,” “There is something wrong with me” “There is nothing wrong with me,” again in matched terminal brackets, and each time anything is run in Certainty Processing it is run with the feeling of certainty, and in matched terminals, that the opinion is correct.

Now in the last bulletin I told you I’d resolved this problem and sent to most of you SOP 8, “The Factors” and Short 8. I sent those along so you could get acquainted with them, not because they contain all the basic information you should have to work them. There is a philosophy and goal behind that modus operandi which must be employed in order to produce the results which are expected. And you don’t have the final technique on this, for that requires the essay which follows. There is a whole process which is devoted to and dedicated solely to cases of Step IV and V. This we call SOP 8A. SOP 8 solves these when they are not too bad, but SOP 8A should be immediately employed the moment it is discovered the pc’s very uncertain of his own mock-ups or if he is occluded. The IV and V steps work in SOP 8 but there is a much faster way of going about it which blows the occluded case. Within these faster processes and SOP 8A we also resolve at one fell swoop special kinds of trouble; any pc who steps up with a special somatic or a special worry is run on SOP 8A. It then is actually an office technique and in 10 or 15 minutes produces quite marked changes in the individual. I will not say how many hours it takes to resolve a completely occluded case, since some cases are more occluded than others, but it doesn’t take very many hours. All this got shockingly simple, and if you don’t do it simply, you’re simply working yourself unnecessarily, putting the pc through a lot more things than he should go through.

In the case of the student whose case will not move it will be found that the student is under the compulsion not to let anything happen, and this is resolved by “I must not let it happen” “I cannot prevent it from happening” and “I must maintain control” “I must lose control,” for this is a compulsive case. A little lower on the tone scale the student will be found to respond to “They are preventing things from happening” “Nobody can prevent things from happening.” The general subject comes under the heading of “Things happen” and “Nothing happens,” which last is, of course, the gunshot on the case; the others are the compulsive and inhibitive factors.

In the first place, in the use of SOP 8A, we omit any explanations to the pc. If he happens to know Dianetics or Scientology, that’s tough, but it is included in the techniques of SOP 8A. These things can be self-audited, but remember, auditor, that they can only be self-audited by a trained Scientologist. These buttons are hot. It is not even a dramatic statement to say that one had to walk along the edge of hell to find these techniques and that these techniques lie straight through insanity itself. Thus, when one is auditing a pc, he can expect momentarily, even in one he has considered very sane, fantastic reactions.

Training is essentially picking up the communication speed of the individual by utilizing techniques which break up old communications systems. If in training auditors these things are followed, we will find that we will have less trouble in the field with preclears. Further, we will find that we have less rebellion, for we have a condition in many people whereby they must produce any effect as better than no effect. The foremost reason behind life is to cause an effect. A person gets too far down the tone scale, and he becomes desperate about causing an effect. Hence you get your very rebellious auditor who is unwilling to utilize knowledge of somebody else to produce an effect, but must design something to produce any kind of an effect. The result of this, due to the lack of training of the “originator,” can be very harmful to our general forward motion.

An auditor recently mentioned to me that everyone around a certain area considered anything I had labelled as “unlimited technique” and a “positive-gain technique” as a necessarily faint or weak technique. Just because a thing could be done forever seemed to indicate also that it was weak in its operation. The matter of two anchor points to the back comer of the room and holding them there was considered by the auditors round the area to be a faint technique. Actually that is about the hottest technique you ever threw a pc into. To understand this you will have to understand that “reach” and nothing but “reach” is in itself the basic center of the hurricane called insanity. You have somebody reaching with theta energy to the comers of the room. He is not supposed to reach away from MEST. You could run simply the concept of must not reach away from MEST and produce some very interesting results in an individual. When a person has been told to hold the comers of the room in this fashion as in SOP 8, an auditor should expect repercussions, if not during the session, certainly during the next day or two. The technique has to be done over and over because there is an enormous amount of material which it sets loose. The individual is made thereby to let go both sides of the engram. He is holding the engram in to him and not knowing that he is doing so and he feels the effect of doing so and holds it out from him. You’re asking him simply to let go and reach MEST. He’s reached MEST, he’s not supposed to reach away from it. Certainly all of his old holds on the bank will disappear and the technique is very effective and it can be done for long periods of time. Do not think for a moment it is a faint technique; it definitely isn’t. Any of those unlimited techniques are powerful above and beyond running engrams as the Empire State Building is bigger than a doll house. So make up your mind to the fact that you have a handful of dynamite. You have to use it for a little while to discover this and then use it for a little while longer to be certain that, carried through, it brings about the desired result.

In addition to all this, it is extremely important — I repeat, extremely important that the auditor knows, and knows that he knows, how to do all those techniques listed as effective procedures in the Appendix of SOP-8. He should know these things backwards and forwards and in his sleep. If he gets out of a school without learning them, then you have an opponent, and I have an opponent, and that opponent is uncertainty. The public perceives this man, this woman, as having gone through a school. They do not perceive any result except rebellion, upset, a low-toned case, and we are damaged accordingly.

It is definitely none of my business how you apply these techniques. I am no policeman ready with boards of ethics and court warrants to come down on you with a crash simply because you are “perverting Scientology.” If there is any policing done, it is by the techniques themselves, since they have in themselves a discipline brought about by their own power. All I can do is put into your hands a tool for your own use and then help you use it.

With existing procedures, there is no real excuse to let a student go through school in a very low-toned state, and there is certainly no excuse to recommend certification for such a student. One should be pretty tough on a student concerning his knowledge of fundamentals. What we call fundamentals are those things which are listed as effective procedures in SOP-8. If an auditor can do these things, he will produce effects; if he can produce effects, the society will alert; if society alerts, our goals of sanity for man can be accomplished.

Now one further comment: There is a further issue of “The Factors” which contains two or three new lines. The basic motivation and the reason behind the decision to be is the desire or curiosity, the enforcement and inhibition of production of effects. Don’t mistake it for a moment and think this is not the center button. It is the reason behind beingness: the production of effects, the enforcement of effects, the nullification of effects. All the pc is trying to do when he first comes to you is to produce an effect upon you; don’t forget this. He is using sickness to produce effects. Any effect is better than no effect. Anything is better than nothing. Any sensation is better than no sensation. Any circuit is better than no circuit. And as far as badness and goodness are concerned, these things are evaluations, determined by viewpoint. So anything bad is better than nothing. This should explain human behavior to you as nothing before did. What is your pc trying to do? He’s trying to produce an effect. How sick is he? He’s as sick as he has to be in order to produce an effect. If he’s sick at all, it means that he hasn’t been able to produce effects without being sick. If you try to take away from him the modus operandi of producing effects, i.e. his service facsimile or his sickness, you’re in for trouble. Thus you have to rehabilitate in him the belief that he can produce effects and that he could obtain good effects from others. His goal is to produce effects upon others and obtain good effects from others; that’s all his goal and that’s why he’s being what he is being. That is the reason behind the decision. You’ve many times asked what is the reason for all this? The answer is to produce an effect. What is the basic mechanical operation of producing an effect? It is reaching, pushing and pulling. Reaching is the keynote of this. What is the basic certainty? The basic certainty is dual; there is a positive and a negative certainty; there is no in-between certainty: there either is an effect or there isn’t an effect, so the basic certainties are “There is an effect” “There is no effect.” The next basic certainty to that is “There is no beingness” “There is beingness.”

Alert particularly to this manifestation of collapsed communication lines. Collapsed communication lines simply denote a complete lack of admiration in the life of the preclear. Admiration Processing will get the person who has severely collapsed lines into trouble, but nevertheless Certainty Processing on the subject “There is admiration” “There is no admiration,” “There is applause” “There is no applause” can do wonders for such a case. This is the case that is giving us a bad time; an instructor should be hard-boiled enough to turn around to a student and say, “Look here, if you want to get your certification, I have a task for you, and that’s to uncollapse these collapsed terminals on this student.”

I am not going to try to give you very much in this bulletin. There are other bulletins to follow. I want to know whether or not you want these bulletins. Thus I am writing down here the basic heart of SOP 8A which follows:

The entire process of auditing has to do with withdrawing communications from individuals. This is based upon the idea that communications are harmful and that the body cannot handle communications. It is an excellent technique that “The body can handle communications” “The body cannot handle communications” in matched terminal brackets. The frailty of the body is almost a cult in this society; if any cult exists, this is it. By communication we mean anything from talk, through letters, through sex tactile, to bullets. This process of withdrawing communication finds the auditor going downscale if the auditor has not had resolved in his case reach and withdraw: the two primary actions of putting out and bringing in anchor points. This is resolved by “I can reach (an any dynamic)” “I cannot reach (an any dynamic)” and “I can withdraw (an any dynamic)” “I cannot withdraw (an any dynamic).”

By the Auditor’s Code, if he follows it, he is inhibited from reaching into the preclear with a communication but must withdraw communications from the preclear. We already know how much this can do for a case. Let’s consider the auditor’s case and realize that students will become auditors. Thus in students the entire category of reach and withdraw, as above, including desire, enforcement and inhibition of reaching and withdrawing, should be resolved in the GE; otherwise the GE is going to grab hold of the thetan; and the auditor, one day, even if he is a theta clear, will not again be able to get out of his body.

In order to be and to produce effects one must have knowledge. Knowledge is certainty. Certainty is awareness. Awareness change is the indication of effect. One must then be able to produce changes of awareness, which is merely changes in communication, in order to be certain he has produced an effect. Certainty of the production of effects and uncertainty as to the production of effects are the up and down of lifetimes.

Perhaps it requires a lot of auditing to get an individual over the idea that he cannot withdraw from MEST, but this is dependent upon the fact that the preclear is dependent upon MEST. Those things upon which the individual is depending are those things which have a command value over him. This would include father and mother, and it would also include, more importantly, the MEST universe. That thing upon which the individual most depends is that thing upon which the individual has the greatest amount of aberration. That person who has most evaluated for the individual is that person whose viewpoint the individual is liable to have. We used to call this valence shifting. We can still call it that, but it’s actually an enforcement of viewpoint.

“There is something here” “There is nothing here” are the basic certainties of beingness. One runs a chronic somatic simply by picking out an area of the body which is painful or numb and having that area of the body alternately state to the pc by having him run the statements in that area or having him run feelings which approximate the statements in that area “There is nothing here” “There is something here,” “There is nothing there” “There is something there.” Does one for a moment ask what the something is or let the pc evaluate about the something or nothing? No, he certainly doesn’t. All manner of queer sensations, covertnesses, malice and so forth turn on in the areas; we’re not even vaguely interested in these reactions and these effects. The pc will try to pass them off on us as effects; we’re not interested in that, we’re interested in getting that area of the body alive or over its pain. Any numb area of the body run in this fashion will recover feeling; any pain in the body any place will recover a normal state if this is done.

We have, then, as primary aberration: the curiosity about, desire for, enforcement of and inhibition of, viewpoint. And we mean by viewpoint not the opinions but the actual perceptions of the individual.

To realize the full value of SOP 8A one must know something about entities. The pc has compartmented off various parts of the body for which he takes no further responsibility. These appear to be individuals operating against him. Actually these parts of the body have individual characteristics and answer up on E-Meters. These are basically demon circuits but they are the things which produce the circuits; they are the things which hold on to facsimiles, they are not themselves facsimiles. Each one of these is holding on to numerous facsimiles, and they supply these facsimiles to the pc. The pc says he’s not responsible for this. We run in each area where there is any disturbance, first in the pc and then as though it’s happening out in front of the pc alternately, “There is something here” “There is nothing here,” “There is something there” “There is nothing there.” This knocks out the entities and, therefore, automatically knocks out the mechanisms which are making the pc sick. We don’t care whether there are entities or aren’t entities; it’s simply that he is certain that something is deviling him from a certain area. He is certain of this; we can be certain of it because he complains of it. We use this technique to knock it out. The word “entity” simply designates an area of the body which has an independent point of communication.

In passing here now, let me mention the genus of facsimiles. Facsimiles are a compulsive duplicating of the MEST universe. The fact that one must duplicate the MEST universe is represented in facsimiles and accounts to us for the first time for why the low tone exists on the wide-open case. Eidetic memory is not desirable, for memory is not of this category. This is quite a wide departure from Book I, but these things which an individual re-perceives in his memory are not necessary to his memory, for we have gone way above anything like this at 4.0. The occluded case has eventually rebelled against the idea that he had to duplicate everything in the MEST universe.

Going back to the theory of epicenters, one then finds that there is a sub-brain in various parts of the body. When one is dealing with a Case IV or V, he is dealing with the reactive mind and he has to take apart the reactive mind to some degree in order to produce freedom for the analytical mind. The epicenters would be such parts of the body as the “funny bones” or any “judo sensitive” spots: the sides of the neck, the inside of the wrist, the places the doctors tap to find out if there is a reflex. These thin

In the training of students it is desirable not that the student knows so much nomenclature, but that the techniques, if he performs them, work. He cannot know this if his ears are closed, his eyes shut, and his point in time stopped on a maybe when he was 22 and had just finished becoming a Doctor of Philosophy.

I am going over to the Continent of Europe. My purpose in going is to stir up some interest in Scientology. I will be stopping at the various spas and have an idea of entering this little hot bomb of a racing car I have in a few of the all-outs in Europe. The car has a 2 1/2-litre souped-up Jaguar engine. It is built of hollow steel tubing and aluminum and weighs nothing. Its brakes sometimes work but its throttle never fails. I have also a British motorcycle which might do well in some of these scrambles. Motion has gotten altogether too slow. I think by spreading a few miracles around the spas, I will be able to elicit considerable interest in Scientology. This should come back in terms of students to the British HAS, but more importantly it might serve to do something active in the matter of war.

In Great Britain, auditors who have been trained in SOP-8 are doing excellently well and two notable cases which had hung fire have resolved on Certainty Processing.

In view of the fact that foreign exchange is what it is, my tour of the spas and the production of, if possible, a few miracles amongst the lame, halt and blind, falls directly upon American shoulders. The HAS in Philadelphia is breaking exactly even. The British HAS, due to the inability to export funds, cannot contribute to this activity, but has contributed markedly to research and investigation these last many months and should have a breather. Certification funds, therefore, are what are counted upon to effect whatever is effected in Europe. The new doctorate school in Germany will not be functioning actively for almost a year. I may have a few light moments which have to do with speed, but the truth of the matter is I sail pretty close to the wind on finance. The bulk of the money I receive goes out immediately upon testing techniques, the PAB newsletter and other services, and when I find myself with any excess cash, I generally finance some operation that happens to be limping. I was looking at my account books the other day and I find out that the money I have invested out of my own writing in Scientology is quite great. Very little of this has ever been realized back and, if one were dealing on a profit and loss sheet, one might wonder why I had ever indulged in such a level of research and investigation; but I am afraid that there are a lot of us who feel that, but who feel as well the game is worth more than the economic profit. I wish all of us felt like that.

The point is I am going around to the various spas and in the process of this I am going to get together summaries of the various things necessary to the doctorate course and make tapes and write books to summarize this data, for as far as I am concerned, cases are cracking up far too rapidly under existing processes, which includes Certainty Processing, to cause anyone much concern. I have done what I set out to do many years ago, which is to say, develop a technique. Now it is going to take me years to get this down into workable form in terms of public interest.

You see one of the examples of that in Issue 1 6-G, the copy for which has already been mailed to Philadelphia. 1 6-G is an entire book. The funds which you send away in this direction for certification and in percentage are entirely the funds on which I am operating. With these funds, I am trying to get into a highly acceptable public form the technologies which have been involved and the experience we have gained. For instance, I have to boil down and put on tape the entire subject of Freudian psychoanalysis. It doesn’t exist unfortunately in a native and fundamental form. Likewise I have to get together all co-related material where Scientology applies to the society at large. It’s going to take me twenty years to knock together everything that is to be known and which I have found out.

These funds also serve to keep auditors happy in the field. I am making it my business to try to give them a successful business. This is a new departure in policy on my part, but only because I have found it necessary. The auditor, ordinarily, lacks imagination enough to establish himself. He’s like a fellow with ten-dollar gold pieces who doesn’t know what to do with them. Thus I am continuing to service the auditors you graduate and continuing to spread the word throughout America and the rest of the world, but particularly America, on the subject of what we’re trying to do. Thus, keep the ink in your pen because I am depending on you to put in on checks to me so that we can get this show on the road.

Germane to funds, I am recently in receipt of material from George Seidler suggesting an alternative in certifications and carrying with it the news that Sequoia University would like to authorize associates to give certain courses. With all due respect to Sequoia University and the project, I have to hand legal opinion that this protection will not stay the heavy threat when levelled. I think we have a better idea and I think Sequoia University has its role and will eventually be woven through the woof and warp of what we are doing. It happens that I have under preparation summaries of psychology, psychoanalysis and so forth which your certification fees are going to finance. Now just why a large portion of these certification fees should go to Sequoia University, I am not quite sure. I do know that if a large portion of them do go to Sequoia University, I will be strapped down financially in the preparation of this material and, believe me, material costs money. I estimate that the tapes you play cost about $800 an hour. That might be a shock to you, but it is a sober fact. It isn’t because I spend money like water, it’s because those tapes are made only after a great deal of outlay in terms of testing and in terms of organization and material; and, even then, it is very cheap investigation. If this condensation of general semantics, psychoanalysis, psychology, electronic brains, etc. were being done by Sequoia University, I could see some point in this.

Issue 16-G will very soon be in your hands. It is 50 cents per copy and I am sure that continuing copies of it will be published. It contains the second issue of The Factors, an entire breakdown of Scientology, SOP-8 and Short 8. I don’t see it changing for a long time to come and in addition to existing course booklets which are still quite vital, I recommend to you that you train out of this issue as the court of appeals, for students reading it before they enroll will be disappointed if they find anything less than this level of certainty in the school. This issue has an enormous number of advance orders already. The issue was late simply because I was waiting for the test reports on the techniques and mailed the copy only when I had those. Issue 16- G is actually a complete book. It is also necessary for the student to have Scientology 8-8008, Self Analysis in Scientology (or Dianetics) and the Professional Course Booklets. Without all this material he would be lost. The first and second books of Dianetics. The Modern Science of Mental Health and, what do you know, old 8-80 has come up for a further look, for it dealt with communications within the body. The Axioms were never as valid as they are today, just as they appear in the Handbook for Preclears. Thus you can shove a lot of material at a student.

Ross, by reports, is doing very well with his doctorate school. Detroit is recovering and Ann Arbor, in the same state, is dealing with an influx of activity, possibly stimulated by the adverse publicity. According to my reports here, we have quite a large enrollment throughout the various associate areas and this enrollment, with the certainty of Certainty Processing, and the materials in its hands, can make a very large dent in America.

To repeat, I remind you that certification fees should be sent to 30 Marlborough Place, London N. W. 8, until further notice. There will be immediately returned, first a letter stating that the student whose application has been received has been certified and next the certificate of that student. Letter and certificate will be sent to the address designated by the associate, either to himself or to the student directly.

Your attention is called to the fact that man does not want to get well. He wants to produce an effect. Low on the tone scale the only effect he can produce is destruction and pain. It is also called to your attention that according to Evans Farber, a disciple at one time of Howard Scott’s, money is the attention unit of a social group, and that as much money comes in to any part of that social group as it attracts attention. Your success depends upon the production of an effect, your finance depends upon attracting interest. If you find finance faltering, you will discover immediately why if you realize that the financial system is a communications system and that communications systems are the background of what you are doing. A person who is trying to prevent communications from occurring will try to prevent money from being received. If a person finds himself diffident about money, he need only run “I can have money” “I cannot have money” and, in addition to that, the negative and positive on accepting and delivering communications. Money is not a sordid subject, it is the measure of the amount of attention you are attracting. If you are trying to prevent observation from viewpoints, you will not make money.

Things are looking up. The fears which are being voiced have been voiced for three years without materializing. The solidarity of our team, frail as it may appear sometimes, has never been better.

Three associates have written me suggesting that financial arrangements between myself and associates be changed from a flat rate for every certificate, and that a percentage of training fees be forwarded to me on the entire training incom