When you look at a broad field or area it is quite overwhelming to have to find a small sector that might be out.

An omitted anything is an out-point.

The lazy and popular way is to generalize “They’re all contused.’’ “The organization is rickety.” “They’re doing great.”

This can be an omitted person, terminal, object, energy, space, time, form, sequence, or even an omitted scene. Anything that can be omitted that should be there is an out-point.

That’s all very well but it doesn’t get you much of anywhere.

This is easily the most overlooked out-point as it isn’t there to directly attract attention.

The way to observe so as to find out what to observe is by discarding areas.

On several occasions I have found situation analyses done which arrived at no WHY that would have made handling possible but which gave a false why that would have upset tilings if used. In each case the out-point that held the real clue was this one of an omitted something. In a dozen cases it was omitted personnel each time. One area to which orders were being issued had no one in it at all. Others were undermanned, meaning people were missing. In yet another case there were no study materials at all. In two other cases the whole of a subject was missing in the area. Yet no one in any of these cases had spotted the fact that it was an omitted something that had caused a whole activity to decay. People were working frantically to remedy the general situation. None of them noticed the omissions that were the true cause of the decay.

This in fact was the system I used to make the discoveries which became Dianetics and Scientology.

In crime it is as bad to omit as it is to commit. Yet no one seems to notice the omissions as actual crimes.

It was obvious to me that it would take a few million years to examine all of life to find out what made it what it was.

Man, trained up in the last century to be a stimulus-response animal responds to the therenesses and doesn’t respond as uniformly to not-therenesses.

The first step was the tough one. I looked for a common denominator that was true for all life forms. I found they were attempting to survive.

This opens the door to a habit of deletion or shortening which can become quite compulsive.

With this datum I outlined all areas of wisdom or knowledge and discarded those which had not much assisted Man to survive.

In any analysis which fails to discover a WHY one can safely conclude the why is an omission and look for things that should be there and aren’t.

This threw away all but scientific methodology, so I used that for investigatory procedure.

Then, working with that, found mental image pictures. And working with them, found the human spirit as different from them.

Any things, events, object, sizes, in a wrong sequence is an out-point.

By following up the workable one arrived at the processing actions which, if applied, work, resulting in the increase of ability and freedom.

The number series 3, 7, 1, 2, 4, 6, 5 is an altered sequence, or an incorrect sequence.

By following up the causes of destruction one arrived at the points which had to be eradicated.

Doing step two of a sequence of actions before doing step one can be counted on to tangle any sequence of actions.

This is of course short-handing the whole cycle enormously. But that is the general outline.

The basic outness is no sequence at all. This leads into FIXED IDEAS. It also shows up in what is called disassociation, an insanity. Things connected to or similar to each other are not seen as consecutive. Such people also jump about subjectwise without relation to an obvious sequence. Disassociation is the extreme case where things that are related are not seen to be and things that have no relation are conceived to have.

Survival has been isolated as a common denominator to successful actions and succumb has been found as the common denominator of unsuccessful actions. So one does not have to reestablish these.

Sequence means linear (in a line) travel either through space or time or both.

From there, to discover anything bad or good, all one has to do is discard sterile areas to get a target necessary for investigation.

A sequence that should be one and isn’t is an out-point.

One looks broadly at the whole scene. Then discards sections of it that would seem unrewarding. He will then find himself left with the area that contains the key to

A “sequence” that isn’t but is thought to be one is an out-point.

it.This is almost easier done than described.

A cart-before-the-horse out of sequence is an out-point.

Example: One has the statistics of a nine division org. Eight are normal. One isn’t. So he investigates the area of that one. In investigating the one he discards all normal bits. He is left with the abnormal one that is the key.

One’s hardest task sometimes is indicating an inevitable sequence into the future that is invisible to another. This is a consequence. “If you saw off the limb you are sitting on you will of course fall.” Police try to bring this home often to people who have no concept of sequence; so the threat of punishment works well on well behaved citizens and not at all on criminals since they often are criminals because they can’t think in sequence — they are simply fixated. “If you kill a man you will be hanged”, is an indicated sequence. A murderer fixated on revenge cannot think in sequence. One has to think in sequences to have correct sequences.

This is true of something bad or something good.

Therefore it is far more common than one would at first imagine to see altered sequences since persons who do not think in sequence do not see altered sequences in their own actions or areas.

A wise boy who wanted to get on in life would discard all the men who weren’t getting on and study the one who was. He would come up with something he could use as a key.

Visualizing sequences and drills in shifting attention can clean this up and restore it as a faculty.

A farmer who wanted to handle a crop menace would disregard all the plants doing all right and study the one that wasn’t. Then, looking carefully he would disregard all the should be’s in that plant and wind up with the shouldn’t be. He’d have the key.

Motion pictures and TV were spotted by a recent writer as fixating attention and not permitting it to travel. Where one had TV raised children, it would follow, one possibly would have people with a tendency to altered sequences or no sequences at all.

Sometimes in the final look one finds the key not right there but way over somewhere else.

The boy, studying the successful man, finds he owed his success to having worked in a certain bank seven states away from there.

Time that should be noted and isn’t would be an out-point of “dropped time”.

The farmer may well find his hired man let the pigs out into the crop.

It is a special case of an omitted datum.

But both got the reason why by the same process of discarding wider zones.

Dropped time has a peculiarly ferocious effect that adds up to utter lunacy.

Pluspoints or outpoints alike take one along a sequence of discoveries.

A news bulletin from 1814 and one from 1922 read consecutively without time assigned produces otherwise undetectable madness.

Once in a purple moon they mix or cross.

A summary report of a situation containing events strung over half a year without saying so can provoke a reaction not in keeping with the current scene.

Example: Gross income is up. One discards all normal stats. Aside from gross income being up only one other stat is down — new names. Investigation shows that the public executives were off post all week on a tour and that was what raked in the money. Conclusion — send out tours as well as man the public divisions.

In madmen the present is the dropped time, leaving them in the haunted past. Just telling a group of madmen to “come up to present time” will produce a few miraculous “cures” And getting the date of an ache or pain will often cause it to vanish.

Example: Upset is coming from the camp kitchen. Obvious outpoints. Investigation discloses a 15-year-old cook holding the job solo for 39 field hands! Boy is he pluspoint. Get him some help!

Time aberrations are so strong that dropped time well qualifies as an out-point.

Having attention dragged into an area is about the way most people “investigate.” This puts them at effect throughout.

When you hear two facts that are contrary, one is a falsehood or both are.

When a man is not predicting he is often subjected to outpoints that leap up at him. Conversely when outpoints leap up at one unexpectedly he knows he better do more than gape at them. He is already behindhand in investigating. Other signs earlier existed which were disregarded.

Propaganda and other activities specialize in falsehoods and provoke great disturbance.

Willful or unintentional a falsehood is an out-point. It may be a mistake or a calculated or defensive falsehood and it is still an out-point.

The usual error in viewing situations is not to view them widely enough to begin with.

A false anything qualifies for this out-point. A false being, terminal, act, intention, anything that seeks to be what it isn’t is a falsehood and an out-point.

One gets a despatch which says Central Files don’t exist.

Fiction that does not pretend to be anything else is of course not a falsehood.

By now keeping one’s attention narrowly on that, one can miss the whole scene.

So the falsehood means “other than it appears” or “other than represented”.

To just order Central Files put back in may fail miserably. One has been given a single observation. It is merely an outpoint: Central Files omitted.

One does not have to concern oneself to define philosophic truth or reality to see that something stated or modeled to be one thing is in actual fact something else and therefore an out-point.

There is no WHY.

You follow up “no CF” and you may find the Registrar is in the Public Division and Letter Registrars never go near a file and the category of everyone in CF is just “been tested.” You really investigate and you find there’s no HCO Exec Sec or Dissem Sec and there hasn’t been one for a year.

An importance shifted from its actual relative importance, up or down, is an out-point.

The cycle of “outpoint, correct, outpoint, correct, outpoint, correct” will drown one rapidly and improve nothing! But it sure makes a lot of useless work and worry.

Something can be assigned an importance greater than it has.

Something can be assigned an importance less than it has.

Wisdom is not a fixed idea.

A number of things of different importances can be assigned a monotone of importance.

It is knowing how to use your wits.

These are all out-points, three versions of the same thing.

All importances are relative to their actuality.

Mistaken objective wherein one believes he is or should be reaching toward A and finds he is or should be reaching toward B is an out-point.

This is commonly mistaken identity. It is also mistaken purposes or goals.

If we tear down X we will be okay often results in disclosure that it should have been Y.

“Removing the slums” to make way for modern shops kills the tourist industry. Killing the king to be free from taxation leaves the tax collector alive for the next regime.

Injustice is usually a wrong target out-point.

Arrest the drug consumer, award the drug company would be an example.

Military tactics and strategy are almost always an effort to coax the selection of a wrong target by the enemy.

And most dislikes and spontaneous hates in human relations are based on mistaken associations of Bill for Pete.

A large sum of aberration is based on wrong targets, wrong sources, wrong causes.

Incorrectly tell a patient he has ulcers when he hasn’t and he’s hung with an out-point which impedes recovery.

The industry spent on wrong objectives would light the world for a millennium.

These are the fundamental out-points required in Data Analysis and Situation Analysis.

They have one infinity of variation. They should be very well known to anyone seeking third dynamic sanity.

They are the basic illogics.

And while there may be others, these will serve.