We have some new material. You've heard me say that before, I think. But here we have a booklet which was knocked together just for this congress in order to give you Clear Procedure and the processes in this book I will discuss here in this lecture and some other material. But this booklet has been put together just so that you would have the bulk of the material for this particular activity; I know you'd be interested in having this material.

Hi ya! Welcome to the congress.

It was very much of a flat-out proposition knocking this one together in a hurry, so you will forgive its minor omissions and so forth. But I think that all three of these books were just delivered from the printer the day after Christmas – or the two days after Christmas just before the congress started.

Now, we usually start these congresses off with a bang. But we've seldom attempted a production as great, as earthshaking, as reaching into history, as today.

Here's another book that is compiled from lectures and so forth just so you'll have The Mechanics of SCS and Control. Now, that's rather interesting to you because that is supplementary to this red booklet here. SCS is something that is very important to run on Clear Procedure and how it is run is covered in this book, of course, but it is additionally covered, and more material on it, in this one.

Now, you think you're at the congress, don't you? No, you isn't. You is at Cape Carnivorous und ve foreign scientists vat help der American government is going to launch der first unsuccessful saterilite. Now, I vill have to have a bit of assistance. I am ashamed to say I have to have an American to help me, but there's somebody – somebody has got to do something here. Now, ve – our able assistant here, who is de entire – der entire technical staff of Cape Carnivorous and 'ere she goes!

Now this book here has very little to do with the lecture in hand, but I think you will find invaluable in handling people in the field – handling people in your own area – because it is The Field Validation, Hubbard Apprentice Scientologist Training Course Manual. And here for the first time in a very workable form we have all of the TRs and they are all brought up to date, they are not the same TRs that you were sent right after the last congress; they are almost, but there are some very important little changes in here. This furthermore gives you a "form sheet" so that you can run an HAS or a field validation course right straight out of the booklet, writing the student's name on the booklet and carrying him through on it. And I think you'll find that is very, very handy. I am sure that you'll appreciate it.

[Noises, laughter – see introduction]

Now, Clear Procedure of course, is what our attention is on here at the moment.

Vell, now there ain't nothink goink around the air. Ve – ve foreign scientists vat help America get der heads cut off, ve – ve very disappointed, but ve can put up sputnik anyvay. Now, dis is the first unsuccessful launching of an American satellite, and punks like Eisenhower and these other Americans, you don't vant nothing to do with them, because look vat ve can do!

Now, SCS – Start, Change and Stop – these are the mechanics of control, and we find an interesting state of affairs with processing today, a very interesting state of affairs. Although there are some brand-new elements mixed up in processing, it includes as it should the old, the best of it – included in this.

Vell, der ve is – der ve is. And now ve know. Ve got it down, too. That's better than de Russians. Now, all kidnik aside, this was a great invention. Dat it vent wrong had nuttin' to do with American scientists.

Now, you – we had some processes known as the CCH Processes, and they're quite the thing.

The funny part of all of this rocket parade that you see – the very amusing thing about rockets and American science in general – is that people tell you it's losing. And I'll tell you something very funny: It isn't losing; it's way ahead, but it hasn't yet had a chance with the government. I mean that seriously. It hasn't had a chance with the government yet.

We don't do like the medical boys. They take a series of two, go up to the Philadelphia Medical Conference and say, "We have finally achieved the complete cure for joppabulus. I've run this process," they'll say, "or shot two patients with this and it cured both of them, except they both relapsed, and this is the cure and I've sold it to the Abbott Drug Company for a billion bucks." That, I'm afraid, is being very critical, but if anyone cares to look over the transcript of proceedings of the medical boys or the psychiatrists, he will be very, very interested – the few cases tested in each case, and that we have been fairly wary of in Scientology. We have not just said, "Well, it worked on that case and that case."

I don't know why, but the government seems to be a little bit overwhelmed from abroad. And maybe one of these days they'll turn around and notice they have some scientists here in America that can do a few things. But if that day doesn't come, we have still launched a sputnik.

Because I learned the bad lesson in the late 40s and early 50s that a series, if you please, of a hundred persons did not really constitute a reliable series for Dianetics or Scientology.

Well, I'm very glad to see you here at this congress. We are actually bigger than our last year's mid-year congress. Thank you all for coming. We have so much material to cover at this congress that I am very – I get a funny thing when I start to cover material. I mean, I get the idea that there's so much of it that I better kind of drag it all out, you know?

Well, we have to actually wait until we have a tremendous amount of evidence to hand before we finally arrive at certain processes.

The truth of the matter is, there are three programs here in three days. You've seen a fourth program that wasn't scheduled until almost before the congress began. But there are three programs here that we have to take up, and the first of those today is simply Scientology and Project Clear; there's quite a bit of data on this. And tomorrow there's another project which is of considerable interest. And the next day, there is another project which you will find probably of even greater interest and which is represented by the big question mark which you see up on the signs. So, we actually had better get on with it.

Now, another book that looks like this, the ACC Preparatory Manual, carries in it broad findings through the field on the part of auditors working by themselves. "The Summary Research Project." You should look those over. That's a very interesting book that ACC Preparatory Manual because, mainly because it does carry the "Summary Research Procedure." What processes worked? What was terribly workable? What was very efficient and effective in the hands of an auditor working by himself? They vote overwhelmingly for certain processes and we have not forgotten these processes in Clear Procedure but Clear Procedure had this interesting adventure:

We are, organizationally in Scientology; we are only really about four years old. Dianetics and its organizations were as uncontrolled as any preclear you ever had your hands on. That was quite an interesting sputnik in itself; it was an interesting rocket. But the truth of the matter is that it did not represent solid growth; it represented spontaneous enthusiasm.

I swept ahead on something I knew could be done by a good auditor and I had to modify it right in the organization itself; it never even got hardly further than the staff before we had to really look it over, reverse it, straighten it out. It was good what we'd handed out. And then I called for all of the test files, looked over the CCHs and found we were getting variable results with these processes called CCH. If an auditor is a good auditor, and he is in good shape as he runs them, they are terrific. If he has a headache that day, which an auditor is never supposed to have, or if he wasn't too hot in the first place, we got a great variability; yet, the CCHs do reach down into the unconscious preclear area – processing of unconscious persons – and they're very effective; we know of nothing else that is, so they are important processes. But now we're talking – we're talking about Clear Procedure.

I want to give you a little idea of how far we've come.

Now, we assume in Clear Procedure that we're going to take somebody that we can talk with and clear him. That's the first thing we're going to do. And it is simply aimed at a case we can talk with. Well, you could use the CCHs to bring him up to a point where you could talk with him, and then you would probably find your most swift results would come from Clear Procedure just as it is here.

The first organization that I controlled was called the Office of L. Ron Hubbard. It was in Phoenix, Arizona and it was opened up in the early part of 1952, and it carried on mainly trying to reorient the situation. It had mainly Dianetic business and at that time a fellow had decided to wipe the organizations out one way or the other, and he was busily doing so.

CCH 0 is usually something that has to be worked almost to death on some preclear who didn't want to be there and didn't want to be processed in the first place, but was only being processed 'cause Papa or Mama or husband or wife or Uncle Joe wanted the preclear processed. You have to get him some goals, but in order to get him some goals you have to get him over the idea that he can be helped.

We started to swing into Scientology in the late fall of that year, and Scientology started getting underway. We still had some Dianetic business. And then we get up to the next year: I was abroad for a whole year; there was very little done. We get up to 1954. There you see the decline of Dianetic business and the starting of Scientology business. They are different, believe me.

Now, we discover this astonishing thing: that individuals fall off the ability to help and be helped, and when the society at large is having a very rough time it contains a preponderance of individuals who cannot help and who cannot be helped; they will not be helped, they say.

In other words, from the moment that we really began to work with Scientology, we were a success, and we have continued onward and the curve has been steep. And at this moment, across the world, there are more students in training in Scientology, there are more auditors in practice in Scientology, and there are more offices and actual businesses engaged upon in Scientology than there ever were in Dianetics by about a factor of five.

The hardest person in the world to live with is somebody who can't be helped, who won't be helped. We have almost deified this characteristic in this great United States; we have called it "independence." "A man ought to stand on his own two feet!" You know – thud! And grow from there on down.

But it's quiet growth, very orderly growth, very stable, very steady. And this curve which we see here has nothing to do with whether or not we're making money. We're not making money. Every penny we get is expended at once into research and projects of one kind or another, or into the running expenses of the organization. This is quite interesting. The organization is not busy making a profit. Every time it can get ahead a penny, it immediately starts something new.

Now, it's all very well in a frontier society where a man is liable to be alone or a woman has to be very self-sufficient – to be self-sufficient, to be independent, but please not as a dramatization. You'll find there are – the person who doesn't want to be audited isn't saying, "I don't want to be audited at all." The person who says, "I don't want to audit you," isn't saying, "I don't want to audit you."

But what do we see here? Not a sudden spontaneous explosion, which then tapered off – and which took about three or four years to damp out entirely – but we see beginning with 1955, this steady growth. You get the picture? And all organizational activities are going on that curve. It's a steep curve and every bit of that growth is honest and sturdy and has no real liability. Now, that's what I mean by building an organization; what I mean by building a subject.

The first person that doesn't want to be audited is really saying, "I do not want to be helped. I cannot accept help. Help is not possible." Hasn't anything to do with Scientology; it merely has to do with the person's ability to help and be helped. And boy, you can mark that down in your book, because you can crack 'em up if you know that little datum. That you can do. That is important – this help factor.

What have we had to do to get ahead with this? It's quite interesting that a new thing in the world, it would be a marvelous miracle if a new thing could be launched in the world without any enturbulance at all. You know, you just launched it and everybody said, "That's fine," took it and it grew, and that's all there was to it. Ooh, no! No, no. That isn't the way it goes. It goes Boom! Crash! Thud – apathy, enthusiasm! serenity! apathy, apathy – 1.5 – 1.1. Fascinating. It's just a rolly coaster. Well, that rolly coaster was in progress for the first three years of the seven we have been in existence, and that rolly coaster was a rough one. Any old-timers here know that. That's been rough; and I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart for staying with it.

Now, you know – you know a girl comes in and sits down and says, "Well, everybody and so on and I will have to do something about it, I suppose, but there isn't anything you can do. I – I just have to drink this quart of rye every morning!"

What do we have to show now? What do we have to show for all this time? We have a lot of things to show that you wouldn't really suspect were assets. And I know you didn't come here to listen to some dull lectures on the subject of economics. You want to find out about you, and so forth. Well, the best thing I can tell you about you is that you're a success, and I'm trying to right here now: You are a success. Because if the organization prospers; if you prosper the organization prospers, and if the organization prospers you prosper. It is merely an indication of whether or not we're disseminating. It's merely an indication of whether or not we're getting out.

Now, the funny part of it is she doesn't want any auditing. You try to clear her up on rye and you are going to get no place. You try to clear her up on Scientology by telling her how good Scientology is, you are not going to get anyplace because the button she's sitting on is Help, and she's saying, "Help isn't possible." And if you start to clear the Help button with CCH 0, just two-way comm on, "Who could help them? Who they could help? If anybody could be helped? If people could help people?" Clearing up this – these series of ideas about Help – if you would clear those up you'd get an entirely different response.

Now, you sit in one little place and you talk to this one and he says, "Well, that stuff, my mind. I know nothin's wrong with my mind. I generally keep it home on the piano." We talk to this fellow, we talk to that fellow, we talk to another fellow; one right after the other, and they all say, "Nyah-nyah." Our parents say to you, is "Are you crazy, fooling around with something like that? What's the matter with you? Why don't you leave all this betterment stuff alone? Be happy like us." We lose all our friends; we make a lot of enemies, and fortunately, we make a lot of new friends that were worthwhile this time.

But your first response from somebody that was drinking a quart of rye every morning would be a cognition that they could be helped by being given a quart of rye. Now, you can't clear it up on alcohol for the excellent reason they don't know they're drinking! Drink is a substitute for Help, so is phenobarbital, so are medicos, and god help 'em, so are psychiatrists! They are substitutes for Help. You understand that?

I'm reminded, by the way, of several conversations I've had with guys in the organization, gals – very amusing – their accounts of going "out there," away from the organization, away from their group and away from their Scientology friends. It's always a sad story. Only Edgar Allan Poe could have done it justice. Very amusing.

It's almost this: That if you could totally clear the Help button, you might arrive with a total Clear – it's never been done because Help is something like a high-level interchange or communication, very high level.

I did it myself once. First time I ever went away from the Foundation or the organization – totally outside, you see, and totally out of contact – was for a period of only a few days in California. And I just left and I was rubbing elbows with the – what Roosevelt called "the forgotten man." Only he didn't, and he didn't forget him enough. And I was busy doing that and I drove back toward the Foundation at the end of this period – this visit – and all of a sudden, all of a sudden I began to cheer up. Until that time, I hadn't realized that I was miserable. It wasn't – it wasn't that people were just talking the same vocabulary I was, but they were alive; they would answer when spoken to. When they said something, it was generally worth listening to. There was communication; there were people; the place was alive. I felt like somebody that'd walked out of a cemetery.

Now, to get somebody to participate in anything in a society as it falls apart becomes very difficult. Even the psychologist recognized this. He said, "You should be able to get these people to participate." He considered a mark of lunacy the inability to participate.

So I know, I know what a person does when he goes out from an HCA class or something like that, and he goes out and sits down in the middle of Milwaukee or someplace. He's had all this tremendous communication, all these new friends, and he walked off and he left all of them, and there he is in the middle of Milwaukee or someplace.

Funny part of it is, participation has very little to do with it because it doesn't crack up on the button Participate; it doesn't crack up on a doingness process like, "With whom could you participate?" That doesn't work as a process.

It's a great tribute to Scientology that he doesn't commit suicide in the first week. Some people succumb. Some people succumb; others organize a group and they're still with us.

But Help, cleared, brings them into participation. So we find people being "only ones" on the highway. There they go down the highway and there's cars passing, you know, both sides, they're all directions, they're over the top and bottom part. They wouldn't know the difference.

But it makes a new world; and that's the first thing we should really realize. It doesn't just "make somebody better and cure his sciatica and...” and do something like that. What it does is make a new world! And we see a world that way. We, we see the group that we associate with in our own area, we see these people, we talk with them, we group process them, we work with them; and the next thing you know, why, they're all talking and you're very glad to talk to them and everything's going along well. If you're unlucky, why, you don't start a group and it doesn't hold together.

Before the society started to fall out of communication with itself, as you drove along the road you waved at everybody. You were in communication with other drivers. And now only certain drivers driving certain model cars communicate with one another. And they communicate according to a protocol and etiquette.

But you have actually created, to some degree, a new world; a world that people are alive in, a world where people answer when spoken to, a world that is very very definitely a good world to be in. Now, maybe some of the people in that have faults; maybe we're catty and say, "Well, you know, confidentially, confidentially, she always talks to the preclear when she has him on the backtrack," you know? And we say, "Well, he's all right, but I sure can't stand the way he runs 8-C." A healthy, critical world, you could say.

My grandfather actually dragged me around this country before it had any roads. He was driving a Model T Ford; it had the most wonderful ability to go totally cross-country. Somebody nailed, I think, a half a dozen signs up on trees – tin signs – saying "The Lincoln Trail" and so forth out west and that was supposed to be a road. It was quite interesting.

But pity the poor fellow who joins a group and goes down and works in the insurance company and comes to the group once a week, and goes down and works at the insurance company and comes back to the group once a week. I wonder if it doesn't drive him slightly mad; just the contrast, one way or the other.

He'd run across motorists that had been there for two months waiting for a wagon to get back from town, some freight outfit or something, to bring back a carburetor or new tire or something. You went thirty miles to a blowout, that was usually what it averaged. Good tires in those days; must have been made by the same guys that are making our Vanguards and things.

I heard somebody say recently, "If I could just find out what their level of communication is, if I could just find out what they would talk about, if I could just get down to their level somehow or another, I wouldn't mind being with 'em!"

Anyway-they were, by the way, they were foreign tires all of them. Now, I understand the US government is going to sue us for maligning foreign scientists in the country. Boy, have they been overwhelmed.

It would surprise that person to know there is no level. There is a slightness of effect. You could always say, in a whisper: "I think the weather's going to be all right tomorrow." The person would probably look at you and say, "Is somebody talking to me? This has never happened before!"

Anyway. You know what Oppenheimer said under an investigation up here? Somebody said, "You sound by your tone, Mr. Oppenheimer, Dr. Oppenheimer, you sound by your tone that you are contemptuous of Dr. Teller". And Oppenheimer said, "No, no, no, no. I think he's a good promoter." Anyway, we take this pc way back when everybody was willing to help everybody. In an old car if you saw somebody else stopped alongside of the road, you stopped. Now you snarl and go by. Well, this was participation in the game of motoring; participation in living. People participated.

Now, very often, people get an odd idea of all this. They say, "Well, I was perfectly happy. There I was, back there in the 40s, I was perfectly happy. Nobody ever bothered me; I never bothered anybody. I just went along in my own way; I wasn't at all worried about the mind or anything about it. I was happy. And look at me now! Ruined! I used to be able to live with my family. Now, I wish I could kill 'em! I'm ruined; I've been in Scientology too long."

Now, when they feel they can no longer help each other they stop participating. Do you get this? The way it lines up is – sounds like I am really straining at it here quite a bit – but the truth of the matter is the way it lines up is quite interesting. They don't fall out of participation because they stop participating; they fall out of participation because they become certain that they cannot help or be helped. Now, that in itself is quite a discovery on the part of Scientology this last year It's a rather interesting thing because it tells you, to some degree, how you could create a third dynamic.

But, fortunately, he stays right on in Scientology, when he finds out that earlier he was too apathetic to care what was going on around him. Like a log or a piece of wood drifting in the stream, he was living a life without feeling, without communication. Well, if you're going to live a life without sensation, feeling, communication, ARC, understanding and a few other minor quantities, why live?! Why live? Why not just be a – just take the cog out of the machinery that one is and just go out and lie down in a field someplace and expire, because there's no point in it; because the things I've named are the pay you get for living; and there's no other pay.

In Dianetics we said anybody can audit anybody. Still true, still true. Results might be quite variable, but it's still very true.

The pay is communication, sensation, ARC, understanding, cooperative endeavor, enthusiasm over goals, activity; the feeling one is going someplace and doing something. These are the only payments that can be made to anyone for living. There are some things that try to substitute for them: mink coats, Cadillacs, and big bank accounts. Person says, "Well, if I could just make a couple of million, then I would've been paid for it." Well, you and I know the answer to that. We see some of these fellows that slaved through it for 20-25-30 years, let everything go by the boards but that first couple of million, or something like that, and there they sit in the preclear's chair with ulcers. They were paid, apparently; they were apparently paid; paid in cash – but they weren't paid in communication, sensation, understanding, feeling of a job well done, ARC. These payments they didn't get, and it made them sick! So the – is something real about living, and that something real is life. Not MEST, although MEST is a good substitute for reality.

But h-o-o-o-o-w the great universities wept, ah, how they cried! They had to install additional rain spouts, sewers and gutters I think at State – Seattle, Washington, at the University of Washington when it said actually that somebody could help somebody! And the psychology department went nuts! And it went on the air with paid advertising saying how Dianetics was no good! They knew that nobody could help anybody and anybody that said so was a traitor and a dog! Isn't that fascinating?

Now, the funny part of it is, that if you can get paid in the commodities which I have just mentioned, you usually get paid in cash, too; and there's certainly nothing wrong in having a few hogsheads full of cash.

In other words, there are elements at work in the society that tend to forbid you to help! Any slave master operation then will include in it this element: "You must not help." Do you see that?

A bunch of my friends in India when I was a kid used to tell me of the horrors of material possession. I would sit there stuffing ice cream in my face in a restaurant, you know, listening to them tell about the horrors of material possession and how bad it all was, see? And I used to say, "Slurp, slurp. This guy's nuts!"

So finally they spend more time preventing people from helping than they do helping anybody, and you then have a society of only ones and you've really got one then. You follow that?

But wherever we look in life; wherever we look, we see people who have kind of ceased to be people. They're a cogwheel or a thing. Most people are small islands of grief surrounded totally by subapathy. These men who lead lives of quiet desperation. It's said, you know, that most men – married men, lead lives of quiet desperation. Don't wake up because it would be too painful. Well, if they don't wake up let me ask you this question, "How are they going to get paid?" See, how they going to get in communication and how're they going to get any sensation and how're they going to get any understanding or cooperation or some goals up the line or a feeling of working together. How are they going to get any of these things if they cannot experience them? And if life makes you drop down to a point where you cannot experience so that you can bear it, then you have experienced the worst trick that life can play upon you. The worst trick life can play upon you is not getting shot, otherwise people wouldn't sit and watch these TV plays. I think the total plot is: Fellow walks on scene, somebody gets shot. Fellow walks on scene, somebody gets shot. It's an interesting plot.

Now, participation in the session is covered here in Clear Procedure and I want to point out to you that the kingpin, the main cogwheel, the center of participation is Help, and this is cleared in CCH 0 and that's the one that takes the stress.

But nobody would turn on TV if getting shot was so horrible that nobody could stand it. You get the idea?

Now, you think goals would take the stress because we discovered goals long before we discovered this other button, but the button I am telling you about now and the reason I am talking about it strenuously is just because most of you know that goals is paramount. Well, by actual test goals isn't paramount; it is surmounted by Help. There is more to Help than there is to goals, because you have to keep the preclear in-session.

Now, here we have – here we have then a situation where an individual shrinks back from experience; he shrinks from experience of any kind, and after that he can't be paid anything. There's no way to draw his pay, no way at all. If you can't experience, you can't be paid. And if you can't be paid, you can't live. And that's about the way it is.

How do you keep him in-session? By maintaining a conviction on his part that help is possible. And if the session breaks apart and he thinks you're being mean to him, all he is saying is Help has breaking – broken down here and you can't help me anymore. Do you understand that? When the session falls apart or he begins to be annoyed, or he begins to be upset, he starts to go anaten, his toes start wiggling, he is going out of session, in other words, and he is no longer with you in an auditing session, the button that has gone to pieces is Help. His belief in your desire to help him has broken up and that's what needs repairing.

How does an individual get into a state where he can't be paid? By not getting paid. Isn't that weird? I mean, I – you think I'm just making a joke here and saying, "Well, that's a cute epigram or something of the sort, the way not getting paid is not to get paid," but the funny part of it is, that's all there is to it. That is all there is to it.

Participation in session is therefore – and it's not covered in this book – is therefore more important than any other thing. And participation in the session by the preclear is accomplished by maintaining ARC, but ARC simply maintains this other button called Help.

If you're not paid long enough, you can't draw your pay. That's the rule. It's funny, but that's the only rule there is. If you go for a long enough period of time without experiencing anything, the next time you experience something, you will find you can't experience it. It's a havingness on the subject of experience and that's all it is. Havingness and experience.

His confidence in his ability to be helped, in your willingness to help him and his desire to help you is what maintains, actually, the session. And the funny part of it is that's really all you increase with ARC: desire to help, willingness to be helped, desire to help you, this thing increases.

One of the cute tricks to play upon a thetan who is saying, "Oh, isn't it dreadful because everything is so painful! Everything that happens to me is painful. I go out in an automobile, accident, goes over a cliff: I get hurt. I – every time I turn around, I look up in the – have to pass by the hospital, and I realize all those people are in there suffering and experiencing this terrible pain." And he talks about pain, "And my mother, the pain she suffered when I was born. I know; she told me every day."

You possibly have said to yourself or somebody has said to you, "There is something terribly wrong with me because I want to help my fellow man." Hardly – I think there is probably hardly a person here who hasn't had that question in his mind. "What is the matter with me that I want to help all the stray dogs? What is the matter with me that every time I see this, this guy at work getting a headache or something like that that I want to give him some help? What's the matter with me, I'm always sticking my chin out? Yeah, what's the matter with me?"

It's very amusing to get this fellow and put him in a preclear chair and have him do old Expanded GITA on pain, SOP-8 1953. Very, very amusing. You have him waste pain. Just – it's a little trick you could pull on one of these guys that's protesting about hurt. You just ask him to invent a way to waste pain, or "Tell me a way to waste pain" – it doesn't much matter how you run it. You don't even have to audit this well.

As long as you have some desire to help your fellow man, you're probably well and when you lose it you're sick. It should be translated every time in, "What's the matter with me that I no longer wish to help my fellow man?" That is the make-break point of a case! "I no longer want to help."

The individual says, "Well, waste pain. Give it to me; I don't want it. Yeah."

Well, we see in the natural course of human events – some organization, let us say the X Club, let's say the X Club is building a tremendous number of rockets and doing all sorts of things. And the X Club, to get this thing done, needs the help of certain people over here. And then the X Club says to these people, "You're saboteurs, you belong to the wrong organizations and you can't help us anymore!" That's what they say. First thing you know these scientists over here will start to fight the X Club.

"Another way to waste pain."

"Russia is not willing to help the United States, and the United States hasn't said a word about helping Russia for a very long time, so we can conclude they will inevitably go to war." Simple as that.

"Well, you'd inflict it on all the dead bodies in the graveyard." That's quite a standard response. He'd go on and on telling you ways to waste pain, ways to waste pain. All of a sudden, a little thought's liable to occur to him. How do you waste pain? By not experiencing it! Dreadful thought.

Now, when you can break life down to a simplicity that becomes understandable, you can certainly break an auditing session down or an international situation. That preclear who no longer believes in this help interchange, and in whom the help interchange is not improving, is a preclear you are eventually going to fight with. And that's the anatomy of the breakdown of ARC in sessions.

You have him waste pain a little bit further and you finally come up with a real 35-cent cognition, and he'll say, "You know, there's nothing very wrong about pain." And after a while, why, he comes through and he says, "Well, frankly, I know now why I have a bad kneecap. It's the only way I can hurt myself satisfactorily." And after a while he says, "Pain, pain slurp, slurp pain; oh, wonderful, wonderful; pain's wonderful; pain is just great; pain is the best. There sure isn't much of it in this society, is there?"

Years it's taken to find this out. And that's why I say one of these days, they'll say, "You're stupid, all you know are these simple truths of Scientology."

Mother tells you not to get hurt; the schoolteacher tells you not to get hurt; the cop tells you not to get hurt; the Careful Driving Association tells you not to get hurt; not to get hurt, not to get hurt; nobody's getting hurt. Gee, the good old days when nobody ever warned you, that you could just fall down steps, and everybody didn't think anything wrong with it at all. He said, "Well, he fell down steps." Nobody was critical about a thetan furnishing himself with a nice, quiet little pain spree.

In other words the breakdown of the dynamics is on the button of Help, and those people who are actively sabotaging help are sabotaging the dynamics. Those people who wish to pass laws saying that you cannot assist your fellow man have no ax to grind at all for their own advancement or anything else; they're dramatizing the primary engram of the dynamics – help: "no help," "must not help," they don't even wish to benefit themselves when they pass laws and say "you mustn't help anybody."

Now, what I tell you here is true, and actually you – you should run it on somebody if you have any doubts about it, because it's one of the more fabulous mechanisms.

One of these days I expect to see mothers suddenly dragged off to jail because they administered some lemon and honey to the kid in the middle of the night when he had a cough, dragged off to jail, fined a thousand dollars, put in prison for ten years. "She dared help somebody!"

People don't experience pain for so long that pain becomes painful. They can't have it; they don't want it; they tell you it is very bad. The funny part of it is, if you let them waste pain for a long time, why, they come around to the point where they can have some pain. It's very fascinating. In other words, there's nothing wrong with pain; except not having any.

Course it isn't at that point yet, but you know that a liberal interpretation of the medical laws for instance in the state of Texas tell us that we would have to drag every mother off to jail who said, "Johnny, your forehead is hot." Did you realize that? She'd be practicing medicine without a license.

In other words, if the person doesn't have pain for a long enough period of time, then pain is something they can't have. If pain is there in abundance, they can have it.

Now, therefore all auditing is based upon that fact, and when you find an individual who can't be helped or doesn't want to be helped, you're not going to get any auditing out of the session at all. Amusing, that we strain so hard at it and it's so simple.

Well, what's the score of this fellow who tells you that life is too ugly to be lived? What's the score? What about this fellow who says, "I cannot live because life is too painful." What's he telling you? He's telling you that he hasn't lived.

I saw an auditor on staff one day clearing Help with a preclear who was a wino, who was a bad-off boy if there ever was one; and this staff auditor was clearing him on Help. And for two hours and a half the fellow said, "Well, I guess I could help myself with some medicine if I was going to help anything. No, you couldn't help me!" And finally very surly, "No, you couldn't help me! No, I couldn't help you! No, that's not possible!"

Now, I don't say that you ought to go and smash yourself up three times a week and twice on Sundays, but if you do, at least be aware enough to experience it nicely. Don't just waste it.

This was going on for two hours and a half. Finally, finally the auditor kept on plugging with this Two-way Comm, and he finally got it up to this remarkable point. "Yes," the fellow said, "there is a way you could help me. You could get a couple of fifths of scotch and we could get a couple of Frauleins and go out and have a wild time, and that would help me."

Of course, you can get so skillful that you don't hurt yourself anymore. I got into that horrible state one time. I was riding motorcycles cross-country out in Arizona; a little light, quiet sport I used to indulge in to shake the engrams – other people's engrams out of my head. And one day I said, "I think I'll run start, stop and change; start, change and stop, SCS, as a process on this motorcycle.”

But you understand that we did break this button, we did break this fellow through to that point – fascinating.

It's lots of fun out there, you know; wide-open country and there's nothing in it to hurt you but the cactus and gullies and sharp rocks and snakes and scorpions and things. And anyhow, you would just start out across country and don't know if you ever heard of this sport or not, but it's – I'm sure you have. You open up the throttle – you used to play a game called straight line, and you start from here and go to top of that hill, way over there, in a straight line with no deviation. Of course you can't see what's in between (or you pretend you can't) and you just go straight to the other point with a minimum deviation. Makes an interesting game.

All right. Starting with that where do we go? The first thing we have to do is to get the preclear conversant with his body, and his body under control so that he has to – some confidence in his auditor and some confidence in his body's sitting there or staying put while he is being audited on other things, so that he can take his attention off of it a little bit.

So I said, "Well, I could win this game every time if I would take this motorbike out here in this flat space and run SCS with this motorbike." So I did. I just ran the motorbike around. I had an auditor, and he was giving me the commands. All of a sudden, a terrible disappointment came over me; awful disappointed feeling. I realized that I had the motorbike under such excellent control that it was not only improbable but impossible to have an accident with it! No slightest chance of experiencing pain. It's very funny. I didn't ride for two or three weeks.

Now, there are various interesting factors involved here, but the main one that you're interested in is that the body under control means the bank under control. If we get the body under control, then we can control the facsimiles of the preclear. If we do not have the preclear's body under control and if the preclear himself doesn't have his body under control, then we do not and cannot venture upon facsimiles or handling pictures. And this is why the old-time Dianetic Auditor had a rough time: he couldn't get the preclear's pictures totally under control, so he couldn't ever be sure that he was erasing the right picture.

After that, why, I'd got so that I could let the air half out of one tire, you know, and slip one of the chain sprockets there a little bit, you know, so it might chip off and took to riding a motorcycle again. I had audited a motorbike up to minus randomity, as we used to say.

And so you get the preclear's body under control, get the preclear to get his body under control, and after that you can control the bank to some degree.

Well, now you could audit your body up to minus randomity too. But the only reason you'd be upset about minus randomity would be if you were running down your ability to experience. And if you depend on a body utterly to give you experience, why, then of course you will always have randomity with the body. You will never bring a body up to skillful management and if you totally depend on one to give you all of your sensation and experience ...

Now, where do we go if you get the bank under control? Now, what do we do, do we run engrams, do we do anything like that? No, a great – another horrible simplicity has occurred.

The "only one" is in a terrible situation. He has only his body. Get the idea? He's below experience, then, isn't he, because his own body is under control, very thoroughly under control perhaps. Other people's bodies however, are not under control. So a person who is in communication and who is living is surrounded with randomity. There's all kinds of bodies around him that are not under control. If he can experience them in any way, if he can communicate with them in any way, then there's lots of experience. And if he continues to have lots of experience – experience doesn't have to be of a smash variety. That's only when a thetan, you know, becomes so anxious about experience the only experience he thinks of is being able to shoot a cop or dump a car over a cliff. He thinks that is terrific experience. If he – you know, he's on his last legs.

We know now – for the first time I found out this – this is actually an earthshaking discovery and it's very hard for me just to tell you just like this with no dramatics because it's – it's the end of the road for Dianetics and to just tell you right out like this – I probably ought to write it on a piece of gold paper or something like this, because it's something that we really worked for! See?

But the individual – the individual who is in communication with others of course has tremendous quantities of experience, and gradually his tolerance of experience rises and rises and rises; and eventually he can tolerate almost any kind of an experience.

What is a mental image picture? It is a piece of knowingness. How does he see it? He doesn't. Except probably by telepathy. How do you see the wall? Probably by telepathy. But that isn't the important discovery.

What is the first sign you see of a break-up of an individual? He ceases to be able to experience bad luck without breaking up.

As far as mental image pictures are concerned, no matter what they are of; the preclear mocks them up himself; always.

I saw a fellow one time; he wasn't too old and some banker or other had grabbed this fellow's bank as part of a chain bank. And it was robbery; there was no doubt about it, the fellow had been robbed. Everything he had in the world had been grabbed. He went into a nervous breakdown shortly afterwards. He was a young man; he had a stroke; and he hung along in that state for about 20 years and then kicked the bucket – died, I think the people in this society call it. He banged out of his head and went elsewhere.

Why he can mock up facsimiles so tough, so hard and with such pain and pressure in them, they practically kill him! What skill that takes. So we learn this other factor: that a person's ability never diminishes, but that his willingness and his knowingness do.

Well, this one experience of losing a possession had occurred in a zone of minus experience, you see. He didn't have enough experience, and all of a sudden he got this tremendous experience of loss and he went all to pieces. Just cracked up complete. I consider that very interesting. And at the time I was talking to him and first heard about this, I couldn't understand what he was protesting about! He was very skilled in handling people as a banker. It wasn't he who had failed; the bank had actually passed out of his control at the time it failed, and it was just his stock that suddenly became worthless. Broke him, but he could handle people. His friends and his personal life were all intact; he had lots of skill, he had lots of ability. I would've thought it would've been a wonderful time to go join the French Foreign Legion, or something. What a beautiful excuse to go have some experience.

Everyone is as able as he was billions of years ago, his ability never diminishes, but his willingness diminishes and his knowingness can be monitored.

Instead of that, he had had so little experience in his life that he just sat there and went to pieces. That was about a quarter of a century ago, and I couldn't understand it when it happened. I just couldn't – I couldn't sit where I was sitting and understand thoroughly what had happened to this other fellow. Why did it affect him so much as to tear him to pieces?

Now, that's – those are important factors.

Take some admiral. You know what an admiral is, don't you? They still have them. They've gotten rid of all their ships, but they still had the admirals. And they have to have somebody to consume gold lace. And anyway, you take an admiral that's been sitting on shore base. See, shore base, shore base, shore base – years and years and years and years and years – and you all of a sudden send him to sea. He'll look at the little bit of randomity of a boat bobbing around and he'll start to get queasy at his stomach.

Now, I didn't go so far as to say the physical universe around you is something you are mocking up. We've already said that. We don't care what the physical universe is at this state, because it is not included in this particular sphere – the Clear.

One admiral I suddenly took to sea one day – I think he'd been on the beach for the last 20 years or something like that – he was an admiral from the Spanish-American war, I think. Anyway, this old boy, this old boy kept sending me notes in the navigation shack, trying to find out whether or not the storm was getting worse. Well listen, he was on a corvette and a corvette feels like a storm if it's going through a millpond. The boys used to paint hinges on the deck and little signs "Don't stand here or your ankles'll get broken." The engineer – the engineer had been known to say, "There is no reason why we should punch holes in the hull to take cooling water into the engines. Why not just continue to dip it up with the funnel?"

It takes, I would say, using this procedure here – using this procedure here, at a safe guess – this is a guess now because it isn't an average time – this is probably somewhere between fifty and three hundred hours to Clear, varied by the auditor, varied by the state of the preclear.

The last years of service of this old admiral had been spent in a great big battleship. I'd swear, one battleship could hit another battleship and neither battleship would ever find out about it. Only time I ever saw a battleship really taking water over the bows was down off Cape Horn once. And then I only saw a picture of it, but she was taking water over the bows. This old boy, in other words, had had no experience of motion, so the little bit of motion we were making going through the Southern Sea was nothing, and he was worried about it; he thought it was a storm. It upset him. Didn't have experience, couldn't stand it.

The shortest look I have seen at it so far was about thirty-two hours, something on that.

I wonder if that isn't what's wrong today with the bulk of America. I wonder if they haven't got it all ironed out so. I won't say that the FBI is sitting so well on crime because I think the amount of crime is on the increase. But if you have to stoop to crime just to have experience, boy are you a poverty-stricken experiencer.

We have these exact processes, and as he runs these processes on mental image pictures he's creating mental image pictures and he creates mental image pictures and creates them and creates them and betters his ability to create them. I won't tell you that sooner or later he will be able to create one good enough so that everybody can see it. But we don't care about that.

But I think they've got it all ironed out so that the per capita experience is very poor. Vicarious experience by television; about the best they ever get. Therefore, a little bit of something happens and it seems to be a mountain. This little bit of confusion occurs over here and it apparently is overwhelming. Somebody sneezes; major incident of the day. You get the idea? They're low on doingness because they haven't been doing.

He merely creates them better and better and better. All right, let us say we audit this individual for two and a half hours, and before the session we have him go back here to this point when he was eighteen years and we have him look at a picture of the garden. All right, we bring him back up to present time – this is the test that you can make, any of you can make. The beauty of Scientology is that its results don't vary when you start testing and looking for phenomena from auditor to auditor and person to person. It isn't like physics. Physics are getting very variable on -.

Now, you could expect a change of pace in any society to bring trouble, and it has been a change of pace. There has been a change of pace in America. Gee, for a while there we had Injuns and grizzly b'ar and we didn't even have rifles to shoot them with; that was the fun, you know. We used to have – you know, a grizzly bear has a reputation of being able to stop fifteen or sixteen bullets, two or three or seven straight through the heart or brainpan and still keep on charging. Nobody told you what kind of bullets. But a grizzly bear was nice and formidable. You didn't have a good sound roof over your head; even though you had a professional roof, you spent most of the time carrying pans up and down to the attic.

You take him back up here to present time, and you audit him, making him create mental image pictures; create them and create them and create them in different ways and do certain exact things with them. Took a very long time to find out what were the exact things you did with a mental image picture to bring it up to tremendous improvement. There's a certain ladder you have to climb with regard to that, and it's – the steps are given in that book. All right.

I mean, there's – things were going on. You had Injuns and floods and epidemics and above all that, you didn't have enough communication so the government could keep any law and order. The government was helpless. Government sends a letter out to the Dakota Territory saying "Wild Bill Hickock will cease and desist," you know. They just didn't do it; they were just in apathy about it. They couldn't experience all the experiences in the country, so they didn't try to govern them.

As we work with him, he can see that his created images are now better, and at the end of the 2 1/2-hour session we take him back here to the age of eighteen and show him the garden.

And everywhere it was a near thing. Life was a near thing. You heard me say that the human body is geared up to barely miss death three times a day, and it is. It's over a long period of time. But life in America in the early days was a near thing, and now it isn't even a thing. What experience – what experience do you think that somebody has – oh, I don't know, doing something in an office? One week to the next, week after week after week, there're very few experiences, very little change of pace. What's the final result of this? A change of pace throws him.

Now, in old Dianetic days, if we'd shown him the garden twice, it probably would have gotten a little dimmer the second time; and if we showed him three or four times we would have been erasing the garden to some slight degree every time we took him back there. So I'm just throwing this in because it's not an influencing factor.

Now, it isn't really that we have to have tremendous quantities of experience, but we do have to have a bit of change of pace. Here was America living high and dangerously, then they got Roosevelt. You can't even starve to death in the country today! See, here was everybody on his own, free enterprise, get in there, do or die, millionaire today and a bum tomorrow, bum today and a millionaire tomorrow; office boy to president, president to office boy. Randomity.

We take him back here after 2 1/2 hours of this drill in which he has bettered his mock-ups and the facsimile of the garden will have been bettered to the exact degree that he bettered his mental image pictures.

Here we went. Game, lots of it, and all of a sudden and then, now it's in this nice low plane: sit and look at TV. That can be a deadly thing.

And so we get something that looks like this.

But what if the reverse happens? We're going along here, looking at TV and all of a sudden something happens! It's too much change of pace – too much change of pace. And as a result, it is debilitating as plus to minus, minus to plus. Here over a long period of time, nothing happened. Then all of a sudden, something happens. Guy doesn't go up here, back onto that new emergency plane; he goes lower. Sort of dangerous not to let your population have any excitement. 'Tis. Sort of dangerous to prevent everything everywhere from happening.

Next session we do the same thing. We take him back, show him the garden at the beginning of session. He'd say, "Ah, yes, yes, it's just like it was yesterday afternoon. Yeah, lots of space here and so forth and the roses and everything's fine." And we run him 2 1/2 hours, we take him back and show him the garden again; he's liable to tell you, "Yes, it's just the way it was before. The way it was before, yeah, you can feel the loam in your hands and the roses are all smelling beautifully and so forth, and you can hear birds singing over there."

In the old days, a Dianetic Auditor actually wiped out experience in the preclear. All right. It was very efficacious. But as far as the general morale of the preclear was concerned, he was looking for experience in his mind because he didn't have it in his environment. Therefore, the auditor was performing a service which was distinctly different from therapy. He was letting the guy dig up some old experience just so he'd have something like his idea of how much experience he ought to have. Do you get the idea?

Next session, we run him back to the beginning and have him take a look at it. He tells us the same thing he just told us. We bring him back up to present time, for 2 1/2 hours we improve his mental image pictures, take him back and show him the garden. And he can say, "Yes, yes, it's very nice, it's like it was before and so forth. You can walk around the house, see the street going by and see what's going on down in the next block and notice all the aphids crawling on the rose bushes," and bring him back up to present time.

And there's many a person got audited just to have some experience. See that? Many a person got audited for that reason alone. Somebody came in London one day and – "I'm perfectly all right. I've had about 125 hours of auditing and I'm in very good shape and I don't have my illnesses anymore, but I keep hearing about this thing called an engram." She'd been audited by Scientology and she was in good shape, but she had never run an engram. And actually, made a big sales talk with the Director of Processing over there, just to be permitted to lie down on a couch and have an engram run. And she did for about nine or ten hours have this engram run, and she was happy as could be and went out and she was very cheerful about the whole thing. She didn't need it for her health; she just wanted this little additional experience, don't you see?

In other words, in every case tested it has been found that a person's bank, engrams, mental image pictures and all the rest of it improve to the degree that his own ability to mock up improved, and that was the little tag that was sticking out sideways that solved the puzzle.

Well, we look over our national life, we could see what would happen in the face of a sudden cataclysm, a sudden emergency descending upon the country at large. Those people who had been sitting around doing nothing (minus experience) to a point where they wanted no experience at all, would not be able to handle themselves or the cataclysm. They would go down, they would go under; and we would be left with some shattered, nervous wrecks. But other people, who had a different idea – and after all, everything is basically ideas – another person who had an idea that a few cataclysms he could use, he probably wouldn't go under; he'd probably start living. You get the idea? So some of the populace would go down and some of the populace would come up.

Give you an idea. Go into an insane asylum, you'll see people lying in prenatal positions doing prenatal things. You'll find patients lying around like babies. Undoubtedly you would find somebody going through a sperm sequence. A psychiatrist never identified that, you know, where the body just fishtails on the bed, you can't even bend your hand that way. The body just bends like this, back and forth on the bed, obsessively and nervously – sperm sequence – that's all on record.

We have it in our hands, in Scientology, to determine which part goes down and which part comes up. An interesting responsibility, let me assure you. Since if we don't take responsibility for it, probably get us, too. But let's take a – let's take a look at this, in terms of plus and minus experience in life. You say, "I can't understand why this – why this dear old lady went to pieces. After all, she led a very sheltered life, none of these criminal influences or insane influences ever came near her, and all she did was sit in her kitchen. And then later on, when she got lots of help, she did nothing but sit in her sitting room and knit, and so forth. And nothing happened, and all of a sudden she went crazy!" Yeah but remember, that nothing happened is somebody else's evaluation; somebody else's evaluation. Maybe according to her, something fantastic happened. Maybe her best china teacup got knocked off by the dog, see? And this appeared enormous to her in contrast with the life she'd been living. Her operating climate was so low and slow that she crashed when she hit a blade of grass, do you see?

Nobody asked where all these pictures came from or why this behavior could take place, and evidently the psychiatrist thought that it was totally causeless, nothing was causing this behavior, so, of course, he never solved any part of it.

Now, somebody else was just doing fine; he was flying low and slow in another fashion. He was flying dangerously indeed. He was skidding around economic corners the like of which nobody ever heard of It was always a question on Monday whether or not there would be any groceries by Saturday. He was operating on the – on the idea that the lower the income the higher the finance, and boy – his was high. He had about three girls on the string, including his wife. That kept him excited, too. There was nothing immoral about it; he just hadn't ever quite made up his mind. He had managed to infuriate his rich uncle, who was delaying for him at every corner and had made pals out of some bums that he didn't like.

We found out what was causing it. It was the picture influencing the body. If you dispensed with the picture, you dispensed with the influence. Now, we've gone further than that. We have a method of remedying an individual's making the picture in the first place! You see how far we've gone. We get a different type of being out of this rather entirely.

And one fine day, we put him in the parlor and tell him to knit, and he goes nuts! Don't you see? Here he is, living a tremendously exciting, rah-rahrah life and all of a sudden, why, we say, "Sit there and knit, brother." He goes pshoooo! We say, "But nothing happened to him; we tried to make life easy for him. We tried to take care of him. I'm sure he was better off I'm sure that he was better off not having all those horrible worries that he had before." Who called them worries? They might not have been worries to him.

Now, this does not say that a Clear has a thousand IQ – it doesn't have too much to do with his IQ. Another great step that we took here recently – not great because I say so, but I think you'll agree with me – is we discovered what was at the bottom of intelligence. What's intelligence? Well "intelligence" is what the test measures – one fellow classified it as – with some truth. But how could you improve IQ at will? How could you improve IQ?

So as we look at life, it is very hard to determine what is a good life and what is a bad life. As far as I could say, a life is mostly determined by enough activity to suit the individual and not too much change of pace from that activity. Well, if the fellow's a trapeze artist in a circus or a test pilot or something like that – why, that's the amount of activity which he really should continue and maintain.

Now, we've known that we could improve personality or improve IQ and we sort of took either/or. And we did this test during the last ACC. It was done on staff and it was told to the last ACC but I want to tell you about it.

We find in this that we have one tremendously destructive idea in the country today called "retirement." How we must hate our older people to want to kill them off; because that is the surest way to do it. This fellow's living a busy life and all of a sudden we say, "You should think about retirement. Someday you ought to retire; someday you ought to retire; someday you ought to retire." After this, he says, "Yes, someday I ought to retire; someday I ought to retire." He's groggy on the subject and one day he retires, and we get him – very much lower yearly level of average life expectancy of retired men, don't you see? Change of pace killed him.

That is withholding – the ability to withhold – the ability to keep something from going away – is intelligence. Naturally, if an individual feels that his memories can leave him, which is rather odd, he can then forget them, can't he? Well, if he has a high ability to keep things from going away, which is to say "withholding them from things" which is the same thing, his intelligence goes up.

So, I suppose the one thing that you would try to achieve in life would be enough activity to suit you and to maintain that change of pace; maintain that pace, because it itself is a change of pace.

Improve an individual's ability to withhold and you improve his intelligence without impairing his communication because he's now withholding sensibly. He can understand what he is withholding. He knows what he is withholding. Before he just obsessively withheld it, and got it plastered all over his face.

But the funny part of it is, is we're living in a world today that is changing its pace at every turn. All of a sudden our old enemies of death in old age and starvation and so forth, they're gone and nothing else is particularly replacing that. And then we have inflation, deflation, economics and pretty soon we're all worrying about the government or something like that. But we ourselves are not as active as we were once, on our own economic fronts. We'd sort of fight the government partly at the same time, too.

Now, therefore, IQ is to a marked degree, a solved problem – in other words intelligence. The biggest gain that I think that we have had, if I remember rightly, the biggest single gain that we've had was somebody at the Academy and I think we had a jump of seventy-nine IQ. Now, that was, I – as far as I know, the biggest gain, but that is in no wise an extreme; we have done almost this well in other people, if I remember rightly.

That pace has changed. The world is facing probably one of the greatest cataclysms she will have known in the last few thousand years in the next – probably immediately upon us – war, which will change the lot of the survivors from a civilized state to barbarism. That probably will be the main effect; you'll probably go back to carrying water in a pail, if you're still there. A change of pace can occur here again. There's been changes of pace from savage America to civilized America. Now, there'll probably be a change to something, for a while at least, that'll have made it very well look like Stone Age America. And the final thing is that we aren't trying ourselves to arrange any pace in life. We're trying to increase the adaptability of individuals so they can meet what comes, and so, of all things, they can live more.

But "IQ" would be – an ability to pose and resolve problems is the best way that we could think of to define it, and you'll find that in The Original Thesis. A little more complicated definition of that, but more or less just to pose and resolve problems.

An individual who cannot live can't be paid. An individual who can't experience changes of pace successfully can't live. So our mission is to increase the livability of people, more than anything else. That we have been doing now for several years. In the next couple of lectures I'll be telling you how we are doing that successfully right now with Project Clear.

Now, what about this fellow who has "the problem mechanism"? As an individual gets a problem, you will find the problem, even though it is out here in the material universe, will have a mental image picture someplace near his body. This is quite interesting.

Thank you.

You can ask people this and they don't even tumble to the fact you're asking them anything very strange. You say, "You have a problem?" The fellow says, "Oh yes, oh yes, a very bad problem. A couple of fellows I know are very mad at each other and so forth." You say, "Where is that problem located?" And the fellow is liable to stutter a little bit to tell you, but he'll finally tell you, "Well, out here."

Isn't that a funny thing for him to say? Doesn't occur to him that it's a funny thing for him to say, but he will, he will tell you the problem is out here. It's located in space, it is an energy mass, it is a thing. It isn't something out here in the physical universe so much as a thing.

Now, the funny part of it is if he poses a solution to that problem it comes closer to him. And if he poses another solution to the problem, it comes closer to him. And if he poses another solution to that problem, this little energy picture, mass comes closer to him and he becomes the problem. In other words, every time he solves a problem, he collapses the problem on himself.

That tells you, then, that there is a physical sensation involved in the solving of problems if you have not licked this mechanism of problem closure.

The government down here could no more solve a problem than they'd stand up and get themselves shot, because it must hurt. In other words, as long as they just keep that problem out here and don't do anything about it and don't solve it, and let it drift and get complicated in some other fashion, it'll stay out there, but the actual mental mechanism is that if they solve it, it'll snap in on them.

Well, don't you worry because your solutions are so unpopular in the plant or the office, because people say, "Oh, you've just got another solution." That solution hurts them; it snaps the problem in on them. That is the mechanism of "obsessively keeping it from going away."

Because a solution does away with a problem, they lose the problem. They become upset or anxious about losing that problem, so they just snag it closer to them. Do you understand that? They never really do solve the problem, they just bring it in on themselves, in some fashion. That is the normal behavior with regard to the solving of problems, unless you've got this other mechanism licked.

Now, if you can keep things from going away, and you are experienced in withholding things – keeping things from going away, in other words, pulling things in on yourself if that is no longer on automatic – then you can solve all the problems in the world. No liability at all. So, of course, your IQ goes up. You get it?

If there's no longer a big liability in the solving of problems then you can have a high IQ. If there's an awful liability and actual physical pain in the solving of problems, you'll be sure that you continue to be stupid! See that, and it all hinges around withholding or keeping it from going away. This is a mental mechanism; it has to do with mental image pictures, image masses and so forth actually snapping in on the individual's body.

Here is the old mechanism which was learned in psychoanalysis: "You treated somebody's headache and you got the headache." You know that gag.

Well, an auditor who doesn't have "Keep it from going away" licked, gets the preclear's somatics eventually. See?

So a Clear could have almost unlimited IQ with no liability, but an individual who doesn't have this mechanism licked, whipped and squared around (I'm not saying "solved"), has a liability for every solution. So he helps his fellow man, and he says to Mr. Joe Blitz, "Well, Joe, all you have to do is wiggle your right ear, and wiggle your left ear in rotation and you'll no longer have an earache." And Joe finally says, "By golly!" he says, "That's right, no longer have an earache." And-bing! the fellow who gave him the hot dope having solved it now has the earache. Problems are scarce and individuals who obsessively are pulling things in on themselves snap in all of these pains and somatics.

We have – this is dramatized in one entire field of healing called faith healing. Individuals lay on the hands and take the pain into them – their arms. You know that one? A whole field of healing that goes like this.

Now, here's the length and breadth of this Clear project then: To change a personality it was necessary to reduce one down to his basic personality. Now, his basic personality was pretty good, and it wasn't a reduction because all that could happen to an individual's basic personality, it could be worsened, so to find out who himself was, he had to unburden himself. Well, what was he burdened with? Mental image pictures, so you had to knock out mental image pictures and the message which they carried along, the held down fives and you got an individual then able to think without penalty – pardon me, able to act without penalty. He could behave without penalty. And when he could behave without penalty and punishment, oh, boy, how the slave masters hate that one. They think, "Ohhh! What! You mean you're not going to punish everybody all the time?" Completely overlooking the fact that the more you punish somebody, the more of a criminal he is.

When he is capable of acting then without immediate liability he actually acts to the benefit of himself and others. But when he acts with the idea that he "must act that way, he has to act that way because horrible things will happen" they always do.

Now, IQ is exactly the same way. An individual who can think without penalty can think. And you have a Clear then able to act or think because it is the right thing to do or the good thing to do.

It is a very good thing for us, and quite by accident that man is basically good, because when you get him swamped-up he turns out to be a good fellow. Before he's swamped-up, he's liable to do most anything. I don't think anybody could have ever been implanted into being good because an implantation is bad for him.

Thus, this whole thing about the mental image picture, where do they come from, has been solved. It was a good thing for me that I didn't still have a mechanism whereby all the things snapped in on me because then I would have gotten everybody's mental image pictures, right? And the other thing, what is IQ, and how does it mechanically operate and why, are both wrapped up. Not only that but we have the processes which wrap them up.

But the whole basis of clearing could happen only because of one real discovery which is the definition of where we are going. The definition of where we are going is "Operating Thetan." There's no sense in processing toward Clear as a goal because it is not an action goal. A Clear happens as you process toward Operating Thetan.

Now, what is an "Operating Thetan"? By definition he is a person who can remain knowingly and willingly at cause over life, matter, energy, space and time. Which means that an aberrated person is a person who is unwillingly or unknowingly at effect with regard to life, matter, energy, space and time; and thus any obsession, idea or upset a person has can be readily and immediately traced. He can be put onto cause with regard to that idea or it can be sprung into sight and become known, and he can be cleared up of it in a hurry. So aberration itself is no longer a particular worry of ours because of this definition of "Operating Thetan."

Now, it's a very high goal and people have asked me for years, "Why don't we say more about this goal of 'Operating Thetan'? What do you mean by an 'Operating Thetan'? What is an 'Operating Thetan'?" Well, that is an "Operating Thetan": A person who can be at cause knowingly and willingly over life, matter, energy, space and time.

The old mystic says, "Well, that's nothing new to me." But, yes it is, because let me clue you, an Operating Thetan isn't anything else, see, we just narrowed the definition down to that definition. It has no further ramifications.

So that an "aberrated person" is unwillingly and knowingly at effect with regard to life, matter, energy, space or time.

So thank you very much. I'll see you tomorrow.