This is the Tuesday morning lecture of the Third Unit and I believe the date is the 5th of January 1954. And this morning, we are going to chew right into it and cover, I hope, sufficiently elementary theory, sufficiently elementary so that we do not have very much brain strain before we get some auditing in.

And this is January the 5th, 1954. And today, right away quick here, we’re going to give you an example of Opening Procedure, just so that you know what it is and if your auditor does something else, why, that’s what your auditor is doing.

I don’t mean that sarcastically. The truth of the matter is that people in Scientology, as in Dianetics, become a little bit slap-happy with data. What you might call data-happy. And you have to get them audited and counter-audited and so forth and audit tapes out of them and so on.

You got that now? That’s what your auditor is doing, that’s the answer. Because any such technique is very often varied a little bit, here and there, for randomity.

Well, that’s all very well, but when you fill a preclear up with too much data, he knows what to expect and, as a consequence, auditing becomes more difficult.

The worst fault in varying a technique is making it more complicated. The only reason you vary a technique is to vary the monotony. You say it another way, you do something else or you throw something else in, not to startle a preclear but to keep him from going mad with boredom.

That’s a tough thing to face, isn’t it? Because you as a student are getting audited at the same time. It will probably take you roughly three times the number of hours if I fill your ears too full of data this early in the Unit, so we’re not going to do that.

Now, the funny part of it is that if you’re going to handle boredom, don’t handle it by being a boring auditor. You just start in and handle duplication.

As a matter of fact, right now I could give you enough data to stagger you the rest of the day, just not even be complex about it, just tell you about the theory of communication and duplication and differences, identification and differentiation in the MEST universe. And we’d be allset, we would be all set for days - casewise. Because you’d sit there and you’d watch this stuff show up, because you’re talking about some of the greatest fundamental there is. And you sit there as an observer. So instead of a preclear, we make an observer out of somebody.

And how do you handle duplication? Well, you just do Step VIII of SOP 8-C and you just do it and you do it preferably in a monotonous tone of voice and you do it in the same place and you don’t vary it at all. And you just do what you do and you keep on doing it and the fellow begins to say, “I can’t do it anymore because if I do it one more time I just...”

It must have been very remunerative to psychoanalysis - with which we are not running a dichotomy or a comparison, but it must have been very remunerative, as an example, for Freud’s books to be available to the patients. It must have been very remunerative to the psychoanalysts because now they could put in five times as much time. The stuff didn’t work anyway and it was all on the Second Dynamic. And what it would do, actually, was bleed the bank of sensation (which was really all they were really doing anyhow) and when they got finished, why, we had a fine restimulation job on the Second Dynamic, that’s all we had.

You say, “Duplicate it again.”

But any slightest chance of hitting the magic button would have gone up in smoke. So you found analysts being analyzed ten years at a time. You just never got an analyst out of analysis and yet the answers to their problems were very simple and just before their faces.

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For instance Walnut Lodge - they don’t see any humor in that name as a nuthouse - Walnut Lodge just outside of Wash., DC. It is, by the way, the institution in the country which takes schizophrenics and the way they define that is anybody who is transferred to Walnut Lodge is a schizophrenic.

The first thing you know - the reason why the fellow cannot stay in one place, the reason why he is stuck on a place on the track is because he’s afraid he’ll remain on a place on the track. You see that? What he fears, he becomes. What he resists, he walks into. All of these things add up to the reason why he’s stuck on the track and why he has to change space hectically in life. It’s why he can’t remember, because if he can’t stay in the same place, he certainly can’t get the same datum again. It’s why he has to be entertained and amused. It’s why he finds life uninteresting and all the rest of it. And it all remains to the fact that he conceives it dangerous to repeat. He conceives it both dangerous to repeat and to be repeated.

And I went over this and over this with the head of that organization and several of the staff, trying to find some chink in their armor somewhere, but they just sat there placidly and thought that this was the very most reasonable thing you could possibly have heard of: that a person who was a manic-depressive at Saint Elizabeth’s, when transferred to Walnut Lodge became a schizophrenic. And a person who was suffering from dementia praecox in Georgia, when transferred to Walnut Lodge became immediately a schizophrenic.

Duplication is to get rid of boredom. And we don’t use auditing to get rid of boredom, because that just restimulates it. If you’re going to get rid of boredom or if the case gets frantically bored or he gets very upset or he doesn’t want to do it twice or he doesn’t want to repeat the technique or he has a lot of protest against repeating the technique, why don’t you get smart and just shift to Step VIII, SOP 8-C and do it. Now, how can you do that visibly with a body? And you say, “All right. Choose a place and put your finger on it.” Okay, he does that. You say, “All right. Choose another place and put your finger on that.” He does that. After he’s done this fifty times, he’ll be running out of places, without standing up, to put his finger on and he gets that same frantic feeling.

Why? And they’d go over this with me, over and over. I just never got it even vaguely run out. They would look at me and they would say, “Well, that’s because at Walnut Lodge we handle nothing but schizophrenics.”

Now, you can do, in other words, duplication with the body by just making him duplicate the same act again. You could theoretically take a preclear and have him stand up and have him take his hat and have him put his hat on and take it off and then put his hat on and take it off and put his hat on and take it off. And you would begin to hit right straight toward the center of one of the ugliest, nastiest sensations an individual can get and you’ll run it right straight through and on out. And all of a sudden, he’d be perfectly willing to stand there and put his hat on and take it off, not because he’s an idiot, but because he conceives all of a sudden that repeating a motion won’t kill him. He gets happy about it.

They saw no humor in this, there was no ... Well, they sent a boy down to observe in Dianetics in 1950 when I went down there with... Well, I went down there just before the First Book was really sweeping very widely. It was within a day or two after it had left the publisher’s desk to get out to the distributors and I went down there because that is the hotbed of psychoanalysis. I believe the American Psychoanalytic Association as well as Boy Scout headquarters are in Washington, DC.

The only reason people are afraid of repeating the motions, the only reason why they have to have everything new, the only reason why they can’t enjoy life (which actually isn’t composed of a lot of new things but is composed of pretty much the same thing)-the reason they can’t enjoy life is because they don’t have enough new things or enough drama or something, that’s all. Can’t remain in the same place. That’s because places get dangerous, which means the preclear is no longer dangerous to the environment, the environment is now dangerous to the preclear.

And there are a lot of these boys and they’re real good boys down there and twenty-one of them came in to a series of basic lectures and I had, immediately, I had eighteen proposals from all of them to treat them? No. Treat their wives. Because everybody knows that nobody can do anything for a psychoanalyst’s wife. And we know now by Acceptance Level Processing why an analyst’s wife is nuts. That’s his acceptance level, of course. So this is a problem which is very elementary but is very difficult for them, so we had immediately these proposals.

And so, he has to run and he has to go away and he has to come here and do there and out with that. And he’s off of this point and onto that point and around the block and somewhere and he’s got to leave and he can’t stay. Well, that means, also, he must forget. He can’t remember, because remembering is bringing something to yOu and forgetting is putting it away from you. So if you have to resist forgetting something, then you remember it and when you have to resist remembering it, you have to forget it and - you know, I mean, it just gets too unutterably scrambled. All from what? The fellow can’t be in the same place.

In fact the dean of psychiatry on the East Coast (that is not a dean of a university; in psychiatry they’re sort of a - their organization calls for deans and things like this), his wife was pipelined up to me a very short time after I went back to Elizabeth, for training.

Now, when we get to the Second Dynamic, we find out that this goes so far as inhibiting the individual from procreating or enjoying the sexual act. And it goes even further than that, it inhibits him from enjoying children. Children, to him, become too much motion, too much noise, everything, everything, everything. But actually, basically, it’s just “can’t duplicate.” He can’t have a kid. So the kid is a very upsetting child. He just can’t have a child. So he wants to stop the motion of the child, which is to say, kill the child. What’s the gradient scale of killing a child? Stopping its motion, stopping its noise. Do you follow me very closely there? Now, that all comes from duplication.

Well, the organization at Walnut Lodge, by the way, to get back on the subject, sent me down a young fellow to observe and to report to them what Dianetics was. It was very fascinating. The young man was in trouble, he wasn’t even vaguely in trouble. As we’ve just coined a new state of case, we did have a “What wall?” case, we have this worse one now - а “What fog?” case. And this bird was a “What fog?” case.

And what, basically, is duplication? It would be making the same space twice, that would be duplicating. Or in any other way, the same geographical setup twice.

And all he could do was sit there and he’d do this big long communication lag, you see. And then he’d - big long lag, you see - and then he’d come up with a “Nooo.” See? And then you’d say something else and then he’d get this long lag and then he’d say “Nooo.”

And a man who has been taught to run away, then gets all sorts of squirrelly notions. They become very peculiar and he becomes very peculiar in his thinkingness. Because he can’t remember what he wants to remember and he can’t forget what he wants to forget.

I’m not giving you the lag we got, by the way. By the way, in a communication lag, all we’re talking about is slowness of response or brightness or dimness of reception. These things are all the same package - it’s communication. And when we say an extreme communication lag, we’re talking about three to five minutes for a response.

The biggest trick there is, if you’ll look over 16-G, you’ll find is, “It’s so bad over there.” Well, people start him running - he thinks - by telling him it’s so bad over there. Well, if he can’t stay in the same place, he can’t duplicate. If he can’t duplicate, you haven’t got the eight dynamics.

And it goes like this, “How are you?” [pause] Now, there’s no reason to burn this much lecture, see? Three minutes later we get “Okay.”

So what happens when this individual starts to get frantic and bored? This is all we’re talking about right now. We’re not talking about anything else but your preclear in the sessions which you’re about to commence upon, we’re talking about your preclear being bored.

And they’ve never noticed, in spinbins ... The only reason we’re talking about spinbins this morning is we’re trying to get over to an extreme of “What fog?” so that we can superexaggerate a few factors here so that you can be alert for them in sane people where they’re not that observable. All right. The only reason we’re interested in insanity is it’s a good zoo. That’s right. Because half of the guys there have already departed, it’s a flock of GEs walking around.

And what do you do if your preclear is getting too frantically bored? You get more repetitive - calm, gentle, nonargumentative, as far as you’re concerned, but yet repetitive. And the crudest thing you could do is to get repetitive and then forbear and say, “Well, this is getting too much for him. After all, I haven’t got the right to bore him like this.” Well, that’s just you not wanting to get the restimulation of boredom yourself. So you’re just not looking, you want to run away too.

Now, we get over here and we find that we say “Good morning” to this fellow today - and they’ve just really never, never tallied this or put it on a scale or written it down or noted or taken notes on it, because it would have told them something fabulous. It would have given to them on a silver platter the gradient scale of communication - if somebody had just started noting this. It was the most easy thing in the world to note.

So one of the first things you’ll solve in all cases present and what you should really try to concentrate on in Group Auditing is just that.

So we go way over here and we said “Good morning” to this fellow on Monday and, on Saturday afternoon, he sees us and he looks at us and says, “Good morning to you.”

By the way, there’s an old Chinese legend - just to get colorful here this afternoon, a little bit - there’s an old Chinese legend which is an interesting one. It has to do with a young man who decided to learn ... We’ve kind of turned cycle on this here, just for an instant, on this one point. There’s a lot more to duplication, where it goes and so forth. But there was a young man and he was raised on a farm in China and all years of his early life, he wanted to be trained by a great philosopher. He’d heard of this wise man. And this wise man was at some distance away and the young man, by much pleading, finally got his family to let him go and study under this very wise man.

And we get no connection between what we did on Monday and what he said on Saturday, but there is a definite connection. It took that long for that message to route through this person’s circuits and come back with the answer. And all it tells you is how much excess communication line is unnecessarily strung in this guy’s bank and that’s the only thing it tells you. It tells you that this is a bypass circuit. Any straight communication line is instantaneous because thought itself is instantaneous.

And when he got there, he introduced himself and the fellow took him over to the forge. It was a big blacksmith shop and there were all kinds of pupils there and so on and they were all doing blacksmithing of one kind or another. And so the teacher, the philosopher, took him over and put his hand on the bellows cord. And, by pulling this cord, you kept air going into the forge. And he didn’t say another word to him and he just motioned him to continue pulling the bellows cord. And a year went by, the young man was still standing there, you know - he was just doing this until he could get a chance to speak to the great philosopher. And he started to say something and the philosopher waved him back to the bellows cord. And in such a way, although he tried every few months, he just never got a word in edgewise and he spent seven years pulling this bellows cord up and down. At the end of that time, why, the philosopher came over to him and he says to him, “Young man, you have now learned the greatest lesson that Man can know and that is patience. You are now graduated.”

So any time we add time into communication, whether artificially or otherwise, we are stringing additional circuits which are bypass circuits and the longest one I have an accurate record of is now ten and a half years. A fellow asked himself a question and ten and a half years later got the exact answer to that question and wondered why, in the middle of listening to an opera, this confounded answer came up and was so hauntingly strong and was so familiar and seemed so right and it had nothing to do with the opera. And it worried him for several days, until he suddenly remembered asking himself the question ten and a half years before - in the same opera house.

Right. But there’s one thing about that I want to call your attention to very much. 6 (You're not pulling parallel, don’t think I’m giving it to you for that reason.) I want to point to you a hole in the philosophic structure of Earth, Galaxy 61. And i just want to point to you a nice big hole in its philosophy: you have to learn patience, which is learn repetitive motion on an apathy basis.

Now, that is what we know as a bypass circuit. The MEST universe adds time to a communication - the thetan doesn’t. So we have as much time being added into the normal communication as the person is bad off. Got a direct index. Just gorgeous.

Obviously, a repetitive motion is something you have to force yourself to put up with. So that makes you fight a repetitive motion until you yourself discipline yourself until you will endure it. And this is the exact curve in how somebody gets into endurance and into the effort band - he learns patience.

It’s the most visible thing and the most condemnatory thing and the most wonderfully diagnostic thing that you could possibly run into is this communication lag. And it is important to you, like water to a fellow walking in the middle of the Sahara Desert. Because it tells you that: one, the step level of the case. It tells you, two, how fast to audit the case. It tells you, three, what is relatively wrong about the case. And it tells you, four, whether or not you’re improving the case. And it gives you all these answers. And what is it? It’s communication lag. And if we were to draw SOP 8 on a scale, we would go over from SOP 8, Step I and we would put letter A. SOP 8, Step II and we’d put letter B. And SOP 8, Step III, we’d put letter C and so on, right down: А, В, C, D, E, F, G. And G would be your Step VII.

The hell with learning patience! Get the big difference here because you’re going to get this with the preclear and you’re going to find this in the preclear’s bank. You’re going to find some semblance of the story I just told you. If he’s in the effort band, sometime or another, he has busily learned patience.

You see now that SOP 8 is a scale of case difficulty with techniques aimed in the direction of resolving the difficulty. You see, it is a pattern which we’re now using for numerous other patterns. So it is the basic pattern. Each step has a name. Each is a type of case that this step best fits and so forth and it’s a very smooth package with regard to this. But if we moved over to an А, В, C, D, E, F, G scale, that scale would only be a communication lag scale.

You don’t even vaguely care about his learning patience. What the devil has patience got to do with being able to duplicate on eight dynamics prolifically, endlessly and in all directions, huh? Not a thing. And so, we’re right on the center booby trap of all religious and philosophic training of Earth, Galaxy 61. Here we are. That’s the major thing that has - really has interrupted philosophic progress. You had to have patience to study philosophy, which enforced patience upon you by its verbosity. You had to have patience to learn and wait and watch and observe. You just had to discipline yourselves until you could endure enough training or enough experience and endure long enough so that you could then live.

And let’s take then - it doesn’t run a straight line like this but it’s just an example: if it took one second to get a reply for an A level or a Step I, on the same question (all things being equal), if the case were a Step VII, it would take a seven-second interval.

And all perfection in all schools of thought begin with patience. And so, you’ve got your poor preclear - anybody in this room, to some degree, slightly, is going forward toward self-perfection. Out of the enormous volcano of criticism leveled against him, down through the ages, he has come to believe that he has to do something before he can engage upon something else. That’s the biggest lesson he’s learned. He has to prepare to go.

Now, that’s not the way it goes. It just shows you, though, that you could say that it’s at least seven times as long on a Step VII. As a matter of fact, it isn’t. It’s closer to seven hundred times as long or seven thousand times as long. So it gives you an idea, though.

The Boy Scouts of America and the UK have the motto “Be prepared.” Boy Scouts are a wonderful organization, the fellow who chose that motto for them ought to be kicked. Their motto ought to be “Live!” not “Be prepared to live,” because they’re right there in the middle period of their livingness. There’s the most vivid imagination, there is their biggest action, there’s their most joy of eating - here’s everything suddenly turned on full and somebody says they’ve got to be prepared. To what? Live. So they keep expecting W they’re going to live sometime or another. Well, they never get started living.

Now, you want to know, what is the step problem? As we go down these steps, what’s the problem? Very, very simple. We simply go into the communication lag of the case.

So the biggest philosophical booby trap is “Well now, all right, we’ll teach you how to live someday, but first you must learn patience.’’ E-c-n-e-i-t-a-p. You learn to spell it backwards. You learn it so well that you know it backwards or forwards.

Well, a communication lag also tells you how well the fellow sees. It also tells you how much he knows - really knows. He can be an awfully smart fellow, you know, with a potential knowingness of (arbitrary figure) eight thousand, potential knowingness figure eight thousand and of this potential eight thousand, he knows ten units. And he could still be a smarter fellow than any you’d find out on the street who had potential knowingness of two hundred and knew one unit’s worth.

I don’t know if any of you know of many of the cults of Earth, as such. But all their trainings go in toward a self-discipline which is some effort to put the individual into some kind of a state (without kind of telling him about it first, see) in which he can be

Well, our problem in communication lag is a problem of diagnosis and this should be very plain to you. And it ought to be consistently before you and it ought to be the thing, as an auditor, you eat with and sleep with. And as an Instructor, it ought to be something that you pay a great deal of attention to, as far as your instruction is concerned. Because if you hand people too much data that overrides their communication lag, what are you doing? Well, you’re setting up an echo circuit that echoes itself and your guy’s going to do nothing but sit there and spin.

• relatively easily controlled and they give to him the goal of self-perfection.

And now, as an Instructor, let’s take a look at communication lag. And I come up to you this morning and I say, “All right. Now let’s take up this data. All right. Now in the subject of communication we have point C, we have a line and we have point E. Now, at point G, we put in a causative impulse and at point E, we receive an exact duplication of the causative impulse.”

“Now, I want to show you that a thetan, therefore, is trying entirely and continually to vary the causative impulse at the receipt-point and is trying to differentiate in such a way as not to become an exact duplication of what is put in in Causation and he does this for the sake of randomity. The definition of randomity is the ratio of predicted to unpredicted motion.

You see that? We’ve got self-preparation, self-perfection, and these things are learned by expressing, in one way or another, long study, which is another way of saying patience.

“Now, let us take up automaticity this morning and go into that strongly and show how it works in the field.”

So we’ve got patience.

Where are you people?

Or we’ve got endurance all mixed up with survival. And the cases that are in the effort band are enduring. The only reason you find a communication lag there is because the fellow has learned to wait. He’s learned to think twice before speaking once. He has learned all sorts of odds and ends of bric-a-bracs which mean slow down, slow down and when he slows down enough, he’ll be dead.

Male voice: Back there.

Now, what we’re trying to do is speed up, speed up, speed up enough so that a guy will live. And if you have any confusion in your mind, as an auditor or preclear, which direction we’re going, let’s resolve it right now. We’re going on opposite vectors.

Yeah. All right. What have I done? Have I (quote) “slapped you with too much knowingness”? No, no that isn’t what I’ve done. Is, I’ve given you data hammered at the wrong communication lag, that’s all. There isn’t a single thing I said there - you see, not a single thing I said that isn’t immediately decipherable if you take a look at it. And if you had drawn a note in your notebook and you looked it over, you could take those exact sentences, you could take them apart, you’d sit there and look at them for a while. You could walk around the building a few times and sit out on the street and figure-figure for a while and look-look for a while and, all of a sudden, differentiation and identification would be extremely plain to you and what a thetan’s trying to do and why duplication fits in and all that. But that’s - what’s the matter?

And when you suddenly “glom on” (to be colloquial) to some datum in Scientology and you say that this is a parallel to something other, be careful that you aren’t getting a ф parallel a hundred-and-eighty-degree-different direction. And you examine things from that standpoint and you’ll have a much closer grip, both on what you’re doing and on beingness itself. Can you see that? We’ve got a hundred and eighty degree vector.

Well now, it’d be very nice if I could say that. And you would set up a circuit which would simply regurgitate what I just said, word for word. You’d put it down on an examination paper. That’d be cute too.

We say, “Live!” And we’re trying to go toward more life, more motion and a greater ability to create energy and the substances of games. We’re not trying to go in the direction of creating a big control setup so the game can’t be played quite so fast so that we can keep up with it too.

That’s the way they do in universities. And I’m not being facetious now, they really do do that in universities.

That’s a sort of a little kid attitude, you know. Let’s get the game a little slower so we can play too. Well, there have been too many disabled players around talking to us for some time, trying to get us to run a little slower, so let’s run a little faster!

6 I had a course once that - if I ever meet the instructor of that course again I’ll give him a handshake he’s not liable to forget. Because I learned judo after I took a course from him. This dog set up Materials of Construction as a summer course. And, of course, I did my education at a hammer and tongs basis and it was a summer course. And he set up the book Materials of Construction to be memorized. Honest, to this moment I could just stamp my feet in rage at this guy. Did you ever hear of anything more asinine!

Well, it may mean that we come out at the top running more or less our own game. If we don’t concentrate on it and keep it in mind a little bit, it might mean that we’ll completely run away from an awful lot of the broken pieces which we set out to set to rights. And all of a sudden we’ll have a game and we’ll be using those broken pieces in that game with perfect aplomb. Well, that’s too bad. But it’s time some livingness entered the universe again. Or it’s time some universe unentered this universe or it’s time something happened, in other words.

And do you know that no civil engineer got out of that course who knew a damn thing about concrete? They knew all the mixing formulas of concrete. And these boys - and I looked at these and, boy, at that time the American college student and I just parted company, right in that course.

This change of survival is actually a change of pace. And so, we’re not trying to indoctrinate our preclear toward an endurance of anything that comes up, to harden him so that he can be indifferent to life, so that the things which are said to him in anger and meanness will not affect him anymore. No, we want them to affect him a lot more. We want things said to him in anger and meanness to affect him right straight up like you’d affect a pile of cotton, soaked [in] gasoline. We don’t necessarily indoctrinate him as to how it should affect him, but we want to give him, at once, the ability not to be affected and to be affected at will.

The first place, I hadn’t had the tradition of going to school consecutively since I was small, to that period. And I had for quite some time, before I’d been in the university, had been Mr. Hubbard. And had dropped back to “Hubbard” (which is the US university method of addressing a student, you see, bong! You!) with great reluctance.

So this hasn’t anything to do, then, with training in some kind of a protective screen, does it? It doesn’t have anything to do with this screen business whereby we fend everything off. That hasn’t anything to do with “Let’s protect ourselves, we’re all delicate. If we’re very careful, we won’t die.” And neither does processing or duplication have anything to do with patience. I told you that story because it’s a classic. That’s in its earliest form. That form appeared approximately forty-eight hundred years ago in Tongshan. All right.

And the point I’m making is, is this man had no concept of educating anybody in terms of anything. He was a damn phonograph record. And the students I was with were such sheep that they immediately voided my self-respect for me for being with them - much less them. Respect for them - we won’t even talk about that. But that they would actually sit there and tolerate a course which ran like this:

Where are we going then, with - we get duplication. Because one of the first things 9 you’re going to do is hit monotony. Monotony is a great study, it outranks algebra. The thing to do with it is don’t play with it. The thing to do is to run it out when your preclear starts to show the stress and strain, he begins to sigh a little bit and he feels that this session is awfully damn dull. And, really, during the session, you as an auditor have tried to be entertaining, you know? And it’s pretty dull. What’s he running into?

“The moisture content of concrete when manufactured in spring in April in Michigan is normally .665. Whereas, the moisture content of concrete manufactured in Georgia in June is .772. Quiz: What is the moisture content of concrete manufactured in Georgia in January?”

Well, during the war, an awful lot of young men had a lot of fun. They went around carrying guns and shooting people and getting shot at and a lot of them didn’t consider it a lot of fun. But whatever they considered it, they were in a high state of motion. There’s nothing like getting threatened with death at least three times a day to keep somebody in present time. But then, all of a sudden, nobody is threatening you with death three times a day. Nyarrroww. The guy is out of gear.

And we were supposed to know something about how to build when we got through that? We were supposed to know materials of construction when we got through that? Oh no, we didn’t.

You wonder what’s wrong with a veterans hospital down here? Well, add it up that way. Add it up just this way and you’ll have pretty well the right answer. Why is it the right answer? Not because I say so, because it works. And that is, the same phenomena as noticed on a battlefield. The infantryman is shot. He’s dragged back to a first-aid station, a first-aid man looks at him, notices the bone is clipped, notices he’s in pretty bad shape, loss of blood and so forth. And yet, he throws a pint of plasma into him, he winds him up, he bandages him up, he sews him up and, by golly, there’s such a heck of a roar and push on that they just can’t even maintain, really, the perimeter of the first-aid station.

And do you know I run into these poor young civil engineers kicking around and I say, “Hey fella, let’s lay a concrete walk out in front of that” or something of this sort. And the fellow says, “Well, let’s see, what... what... what’s your normal temperatures around this area? Let’s see ... let’s see, we ... I guess - have to have a pretty wet concrete here. What hardness level do you think we ought to have on the surface of it? And ...”

And this infantryman, completely forgotten about, goes into the action again. He’s right back there swapping bullets, left and right. Bang! Bang! Thud! Crash! Grenades, charge, counter-charge and bombings. And about two months later, somebody picks him up and says, “Say, you should have been sent back to base hospital, it’s here on your record.”

You say, “No, no. You’re not talking about the same thing I’m talking about. Let’s have a concrete walk out in front of the building here.”

Well, he isn’t doing too well, but he’s doing all right. He was doing okay, he was carrying his pack - one of his pals helped him out a bit and he kind of got himself dragged over the mud and he got himself fed and he did a lot of fighting in that period. But they look him over and, by golly, the wound is healed and he has no-as the Freudians used to call it-“psychic trauma.” He hasn’t had one. What happened to it?

“Yeah, but let’s see.. .um.. .uh.. .what have we, uh.. .mmmm.. .uh ...”

Well, all right. Now, let’s take this fellow: he comes in, he falls over the doorjamb of headquarters while carrying a hot-water bottle for the captain and barks his shins. He is immediately rushed over to the first-aid station and they put a bandage on the shins. There happens to be an ambulance going out at that moment so they throw him into the ambulance, take him back to base hospital. Base hospital - he’s there for two months. He has developed an infection of the shin, although it’s been wrapped in clean bandages, and he has a slight (quote) “psychic trauma.” What’s the matter with this boy? What’s the difference between these two cases?

You say, “For, Christ’s sakes, are you or will I go in and pick up the phone and call the Concrete Auto Mix Company and have it delivered?”

This, by the way, is - I’m talking straight out of clinical records now. I’m not talking out of hazy this or that. This has been the most astounding thing to medicine.

Now, one young chap after another fails professionally because he hits a tremendous 7 communication lag. Something interposes between his getting something done and his being told that something has to be done. And boy, something has already interposed between his seeing that something has to be done and doing it.

Why is it nobody went crazy during the Battle of Britain? Everybody had every reason to go crazy and nobody went crazy, nobody took time off. Also the suicide rate dropped to nothing. Well, it’s just we had enough commotion to suit anybody’s palate. And we didn’t have anybody studying for self-improvement, all we had was action. And we didn’t have anybody able to lie around the base hospital and study his shin - never had a chance to. So here he went. Nobody went crazy.

You know, what you’d call “top-crust initiative” is a fellow walks in, he hasn’t got any authority, he has no badge, he isn’t on the payroll, he suddenly sees that something is wrong, he walks into the proper people that have those particular departments, calls it to their attention, orders the proper supplies, puts it across the proper line, it comes down, so forth. The foreman comes in five days later in order to figure the job out and it’s all done. And that’s what’s known as high decisional level. The fellow who will do that, in a few weeks in this society at this time, will own the whole company, believe me.

Well, there patience has entered into it. Endurance. And no duplication.

Because he practically doesn’t exist. He is being spoiled - by what? The interposition of a communication lag.

Do you actually conceive that there is a great deal of difference toward jumping up on a stone wall and firing a rifle at four o’clock and jumping up on a stone wall at six o’clock and firing a rifle? Think there’s much difference between these two things? Do you think there’s much difference in being on Green Beach One and throwing a flock of grenades into a pillbox and being on Green Beach Two and throwing a flock of grenades into a pillbox two hours afterwards?

Now, you thought I was way off far afield didn’t you? And here we are right back. I surprised you - randomity.

No, there sure isn’t. There’s nothing like the monotony of being shot at. It’s very monotonous. But it’s terrifically attention - getting and your attention comes off of the things which just shot you, very rapidly. That is to say, you know, if somebody shot at you and now somebody else is shooting at you. Well, you just don’t have time to invest this attention. And attention isn’t particularly scarce, it gets more and more plentiful, really.

Communication lags are built up by data, data, data, data, data. See? And then you have to get the swamp through the lag lines. So you see how that would work? Hm?

There’s nothing more aware than a combat soldier. Now, he gets all geared up to where he knows where every driver on every automobile is within five blocks of him - he’s really geared up. In other words, his knowingness has had to step up. Here’s necessity level. He knows all over the block.

You just keep shoving too much data to be referred to, in the bank, until at last, there’s too much data to consult in any finite instant. So the fellow consults the data instead of the situation.

Why is it that the last forty soldiers of the regiment become unkillable? This is also a clinical fact: they become unkillable people. Why? Well, they know where the bullets are, of course. I mean, let’s not be obtuse about the answer, let’s just throw that one in as the answer. Well, they know where the bullets are going and they aren’t there, [laughter] Well, that’s obviously the answer, because they’re unkillable!

If this room was one-quarter full of molasses and three-quarters full of air, you’d still breathe. That right? If it was half full of molasses and half full of air, you’d still breathe. If it was seven-eighths full of molasses and one-eighth full of air, you might possibly get some breaths in. But believe me, if it was 99 percent molasses and 1 percent air, Homo sap’s GE wouldn’t function very well. Why? Because he consults the molasses every time he thinks of air.

And yet, you throw in with these forty guys who started out in 1914 - you have thrown in by this time at least twelve thousand men as replacements that have gone through this regiment and you’ve still got the forty. One of them has dropped out because he’s been made a captain. This is the kind of silliness that goes on.

And there, in essence, you have aberration. The guy is hungry and instead of consulting the nearest drugstore, he consults the bank on these aberrations concerning hunger. And here we have the percentage of molasses. See how that is? He consults his pocketbook, he consults this, that, the other thing, his diet, what his doctor said, whether or not he shouldn’t wait for a little while and merge it with supper. He’ll spend the rest of the afternoon trying to figure out whether or not he can afford to eat when, as a matter of fact, two alternatives immediately offer.

“Well, his training level came up.” They call them all sorts of things - “survivor types.” It’s an awfully good phrase, by the way, it came out of Poland - a survivor type. Anyway, what’s the difference, then, between one pitch of existence and another pitch of existence?

If he just does a fast run downtown to any salesmen ad that he sees in the paper, he can always get five dollars. That’s first expedient. He’d go out and sell a few magazines, too. (This is all during the time he’d be figuring out whether or not he should eat on his economic budget.) It’s a very, a very simple solution. He can always get five dollars in applying for a job or something like that, or get a job. I’m not talking about if he does it honestly or dishonestly, we’re not talking about ethics, we’re talking about expediency or whether he eats.

Well,I hate to have to give you this answer, but it’s the pitch of existence. That’s what’s the difference. And the individual who is unable to change from one pitch of existence to another pitch of existence is actually unable to duplicate. You see, here’s the - now that sounds non sequitur, doesn’t it? But what a person resists, he gets trapped in.

And you’ll find eatingness has very little to do with ethicness. Because in essence, it’s a breach of ethics, it’s a breach of confidence these poor little hens and pigs have in you. The other one is, is go swipe it. I mean, if he’s really up against it and nowadays there is what you might call the law of hunger.

So if a person resists duplication like mad, eventually he gets into obsessive, compulsive duplication of something, doesn’t he? So that puts him into a state where he can’t change. Why? He’s got to duplicate the last minute that happened and he’s got to keep on duplicating minutes and duplicating minutes. Well, you can move him artificially in there by making him patient. You can get him into a state of mind where he will not duplicate by his own volition but will duplicate obsessively, just by teaching him carefully that he must learn patience and endure and wait. And if we teach him these things, then we’ve got him in a state where he can’t change his level of survival.

I think the cops who will be very, very tough on somebody who is starving to death and steals some food, I don’t think they exist in the US. And if you were talking to a convention of police officers and you wanted to describe a tough cop, you would describe him in that extreme form. It’d be somebody that would throw somebody in the clink because they’d hooked a couple of bananas off a fruit stand when they were starving to death. That would be a real tough cop, even to cops, see? This guy would be an extremist.

Well, the only difference between the soldier in the first-aid station and the soldier in the base hospital is the soldier in the first-aid station wasn’t even vaguely asked to change his level of survival. Now, it sounds dramatic that this was happening, but we always look at the dramatic and avoid the important.

Well, what’s your molasses got to do with it and what’s food got to do with it and so forth? It’s just straight line - is the decision line - the data line into the molasses, into the consulting whether or not one’s diet should be so-and-so and so-and-so. All of this is a lot of data, data, data. And all of this data interposes and the data as it interposes comes around finally, usually, to a poor state of decision.

The soldier in the base hospital who is assigned there for guard duty does all right, month in and month out, and when wounded in the base hospital by a nurse dashing out of surgery with scissors in her hands, recovers quite normally and uniformly, right in the base hospital but wouldn’t even vaguely be able to recover well in that first-aid station up there at the first lines after having been wounded in the base hospital.

Here’s your other law - there’s a law in this, two laws, and let’s not make them stated 9 like laws, let’s remember they prelaws. And one is: The case is as well off as it has communication speed. And let’s state it and we’ll just make a nice clumsy statement out of this - I mean, a nice simple statement - let’s remember it’s a law. I don’t care whether you state it in those words or not, just remember that this is a thought and that this thought then goes this way: A case is as bad off as it has communication lag.

Just look at this two ways, now, instead of looking at it dramatically the way it appears in the army medical record books. The army medical record books only cite the case of the soldier in combat who is wounded and is then shipped back to the base hospital and then doesn’t heal up. But the soldier wounded in combat pitched up in the first-aid station with practically the same wound and shoved back into combat again survives very Well and lives and doesn’t develop any (quote) “psychic trauma.” They don’t give you the other case.

The other point that we’re into here is what is communication lag? And we answer that - is “How red is a red bicycle?” Here’s another case where you could take a great deal of exception to engineering. We could say into engineering training - one way and the other, we could say, “ Well, let’s see, how red is red? Well, it’s the number of photons which bounce off a Koenig photometer when running at wump-pump-lump, res-rif-ref, umph-ump. And this, when all reversed down and looked up on the table, shows that the temperature of the color is 3-4-0-0 К on a Kelvin color scale” and so on. And if you worked all this backwards, you’d find out how red the red bicycle is when any kid down the street. ..

The soldier wounded in the base hospital... They could state it this way: the soldier wounded in the base hospital - you know, he’s wounded by a nurse’s shears or he drops his gun butt on his toe standing out at the gate as he hastily starts to salute a new second lieutenant (knowing how vicious they are about salutes) and they throw him in an ambulance and ship him to the first-aid station next to the front, to recover. Well, they don’t cover this case. Mostly because they don’t do it. There’s no flow going from the base hospital to the front. It’s all from the front to the base hospital. So they just completely overlook the matched data.

You say, “How red is that bicycle?”

So make sure you don’t start overlooking matched data too, change of survival level. It tells you that these people have had their survival pitch-pace - let’s call it a survival pace, huh? Д11 right. He’s had his survival pace changed on him radically. Whether he was shipped from the calm base hospital with hot-and-cold-running nurses to the front or from the hectic front back to the base hospital, either way, he’s had his survival pace shifted at a critical moment. And this shift, at the critical moment, has of course wound him up with a (quote) “psychic trauma.” Because somebody, at a moment when he’s rather unable to, has asked him to change pace. Now, this sudden moment when he can’t change pace, it’s been demanded of him that he change pace, he can’t change pace. Well, that’s survival pace.

And the kid will say, “Oh, it’s awful red.” Or “It’s not very red.” And you know how red a red bicycle is. You get the problem? How red is a red bicycle? Well, you know how red it is or how red it isn’t, because consideration, in essence, is the final consideration in all problems. Consideration is the consideration. How red do you consider red is? You see?

So a person, and your preclear, will obsessively go on at the survival pace he’s going on at if duplication isn’t solved on him. He only has a survival pace because he obsessively is duplicating exactly what has happened before. You see, it’s an obsession with him that things have got to be the same. This is his training. It sometimes becomes an obsession with him that while he is busily maintaining things just exactly the same, he’s talking all the time about having to change things. And that is your average preclear. He’s working madly all the time to retain the same survival pace, while talking about shifting it. He wants a change of existence and so forth, but he’s keeping on at the same survival pace he’s been on for years. He isn’t going to get any change of pace. Why? Well, because you, by changing his pace, are risking him. You’re kind of shifting him back to the hospital one way or the other.

Now, we look around here and we don’t find anything terribly red, maybe outside of my hair and that’s not very red. Alphie’s got a tie there - that’s kind of a red, an inoffensive sort of a red. Oh, we’ve got a red shirt back here. Now, you see, none of that’s very red. Let me see if there’s anything . .. Well there, give me that packet there. All right. Now we’re getting red, see? You know how red that red is. Yeah, and we’ve got that red there and so on.

The one time when you will lay a trauma into a preclear - and that is when you get him in a moment when he’s a bit down (in other words unconscious or something of the sort) and suddenly change his pace or change the process you’re using on him suddenly and without explanation. And you’ll leave him hung right there and I’ll come around afterwards wondering why this guy has run into the wall three times while he’s trying to leave the classroom. And we will go straight back to Change of Space in auditing rooms and we’ll suddenly find out that the auditor has gotten him three-quarters unconscious and has suddenly changed auditing pace. That’s all that’s happened to him. There’s nothing more deeply significant than that about a case hung up in an auditing session. Or the auditor started to explain something to him. Well, see, the auditor’s - it doesn’t matter how you change the pace.

Now, as we go into this problem of redness - yeah, there’s a red dress back there - when we go into this problem of redness, we find we don’t have any very reds here. See there’s nothing very red. But if somebody came in with a terrifically red something or other, boy, you’d all say, “Gee, that sure is red.”

The auditor can change the pace this way: There’s the preclear, he’s doing all right, he’s quite alert. The auditor shifts to another process, shifts to another process, does two processes wrong, goes out the wrong end of the technique, makes three errors, shifts again, comes back, stumbles, gives three commands without getting one obeyed and the preclear survives all this very beautifully.

Now what have we communicated? Here is our agreement and consideration on red. Now, there’s a red pen back there that’s getting quite red. And I imagine there are a couple of lipsticks in the crowd that are this carmine red that are pretty red red. Well now, that’s getting real red.

Well, it’s no change of pace. See? I mean, you’ve got more or less the same kind of stuff going on and he’s just slightly alert for it, but he’s aware. There’s no change of pace to him because he’s just sitting there, he’s doing these things, he is aware, he’s perfectly able to adjust to these shifts and changes. See, it isn’t anything radical that’s happened to him. No, because it didn’t surprise him or take him unawares. Now, he can only be taken unawares when he’s unaware. See? He’s unaware, so he’s only taken unawares when he’s unaware. All right.

Well, how laggy is a communication lag? Well now, don’t you go around trying to tell Ю me later on that you have figured out, for promulgation throughout the “I Will Arise Society” or something, a communication lag index scale which is based on a “pogorometer dafinibilation” which works by the fact that a string of wax, when stretched between two wheels, parts at a certain incidence when the communication lag of the preclear is something or other.

Well, let’s get this fellow to a point where he’s doping off with a comm lag which is suddenly stretched out to about forty-five seconds, which is good and plenty. And this good, long comm lag ... You say, “Yes.” And you say, “What did you say?” And you get, forty-five seconds later, what he said, the second time. I mean, he actually isn’t answering the question directly except for a forty-five second lag.

Out of your experience as a human being and my experience as a human being, we discuss human beings and we say, “This guy was slow.” And we know what we’re talking about, don’t we? And we say, “Boy, he was real slow.” We know what we’re talking about, don’t we? And we say, “He was quick and alert” We know what we’re talking about, don’t we?

And now all of a sudden ... You’ve just been processing, “Give me three people you are not. Now let’s have somebody else getting three people that he is not,” and you’re just going along like this. All right. Now we’ve got him at a forty-five second comm lag, he was quite alert for a while and then he sunk on this one. And now, all of a sudden, we say, “All right. Now, let’s put up eight points of space around you. And now let’s have somebody else putting up eight points of space around you.” And he heard you about the third time, see, that you - you’re about three commands deep.

Well, why destroy that knowingness with a flock of figures, by entering some more data into the line. Now, you thought I also departed from the communication line, but there we are right back at that.

Now the preclear is in a total state of confusion. The technique has changed on him, something else has altered and shifted on him and he’s waking up in a different world. He’s either on the front lines or base hospital, but he was in the other place just before this happened. And he’ll stick. This should tell you a lot about the human psyche. It tells you that a human psyche that is well aware doesn’t have much happen to it. And a human psyche that isn’t aware has an awful lot of things happen to it.

Data can be a pretense of exactitude. And where we have data pretending to be more exact than we need exactness, we get a communication lag.

Automobile goes by, it’s a lock. Yeah, I mean you’ll find preclears around like this: an automobile goes by and it’s a lock. He steps on a crack on the sidewalk - this is of no significance to you, but he goes home and weeps that night about it. You wouldn’t necessarily think this fellow is crazy. I mean, he might be going on doing business down at some corporation and so forth. But as a little kid, why, he just never stepped on cracks, because that was bad luck. And now he knows he’ll have bad luck and he can’t figure out the future for himself anymore so he has to depend upon omens. And he doesn’t dare tell anybody about it, because he’s just in terrible condition. You’d be surprised how many guys are walking around like that.

How much data do you have to know to live? Well, if you have to have - want to know how much data you have to know to live as a thetan, that’s one problem. Because he doesn’t need much data. He can get into and out of more trouble faster, so he doesn’t need much data.

All right. Change of pace is the keynote of what you are doing. You’re going to change his pace. Well, you won’t do it by shifting the devil out of yours. So audit at a good smooth rate and change the technique when he is alert. And we’ll save more preclears this way.

Now, how much data do you have to live, as a Homo sapiens? Quite a bit more data, merely because Homo sap can’t get into and out of trouble with such speed and he has a survival index. You see, his survival index has something to do with this. He has a narrow tolerance band. He doesn’t live well five miles up in the stratosphere. And he doesn’t live worth a doggone, ten miles deep in the ground. It’s too hot down there. It’s too cold up in the stratosphere. A candle goes out at about eighteen thousand or seventeen thousand feet and it’s very remarkable that a man will keep on breathing and functioning for five, six, eight thousand feet more. Fantastic how little oxygen he’ll run on, but he runs out of it by the time he’s gone up five miles. Okay. He has a narrow tolerance band.

Male voice: Is that equally true in Group Processing?

So how much data do you have to know to be a Homo sapiens? You need as much data as the fellow thought he had to have who eventually became the Homo sapiens. What is the agreed-upon amount of data? - is the rest of the answer.

Yes indeed! That is sure true of - thank you. That’s very true in Group Processing. If you’ve got the whole group doped-off and suddenly shift the technique on them, you’ve got the whole group stuck. It doesn’t matter what the technique was or what they doped-off on, just let them dope-off some more and keep giving it to them till they alert.

Well, that would then make up the agreed-upon amount of communication lag which would fall into this, wouldn’t it?

Now, if you find the whole group is pretty dopey and you’ve got to end the session, that’s something else. You do it on a smoothly gradient scale. You give them a little less of what you were doing and a little less - you take them on an easy ambulance trip to base hospital. Don’t give them any strain or trouble on it.

We’re using English (such as it is) and using English, it takes a certain length of time to pronounce English. It takes a certain length of time for the eardrum to get back at it again. Now we can talk English an awful lot faster than I’ve been talking English to you this morning and put the point across just as well as we have before, [said rapidly] But you get all tensed up on it. Why? It’s just not a normal speech level.

Okay. Now, our main concern here is not necessarily with the preclear. Our main concern is what you ought to be watching for when you’re training auditors. So you keep your eyes open as you see this go along and you’ll see where duplication and survival pace fit together, because they fit together very intimately. They aren’t cousins, they’re brothers. Just figure it out this way again: if you resist that wall hard enough, you’ll become the wall. You got that? If you resist the wall hard enough, you’ll become the wall. If you resist duplication hard enough, if it’s always got to be change, change, change and you’re resisting doing the same thing, resisting doing the same thing, resisting doing the same thing, you know, we mustn’t have monotony, we mustn’t have monotony, why, we eventually wind up with a survival pace which is unchangeable, practically.

Now, you do tricks with speech. You say, “Now, I want you to listen very, very carefully because I have something terribly important to tell you.” [said slowly] You make the guy wait, so as to hold him in time, so to speak, and then you reduce his havingness in terms of words and so he’ll stick on the time track.

Why? Because we’re going to get an obsessive duplication and that is usually the state you find the preclear in. And that is, incidentally, the state you find your auditor trainee in, to a large degree. He has been going along at a certain pace level and he’s been doing a certain combination of errors in auditing. And now you’re going to try to shift him out of this rack of errors, into at least a few less or something of the sort. Well, you’re trying to change his survival pace.

You see that trick? That’s an easy trick isn’t it? Well, essentially, that is the reason why the fellow started to speak slowly and have a long communication lag in the first place, is he wanted to impress and stick others on the time track and so he does. Do you get that?

And, again, he’s doing this. You know, let’s take some fellow and teach him how to fly an airplane wrong. An awfully good test. We teach him how to fly an airplane wrong. We teach him that the seat of the pants is the main thing to watch and that the ammeter doesn’t mean much and that the seat of the pants, uniformly, should have a little less pressure on the left side than the right side.

So you can say to any case, “Who is the slowest-talking fellow you knew?”

Well, you know, by golly, you’ll pick up that fellow two or three years later and, by golly, he’ll still be flying the airplane that way. Not because he wants to but because he fought doing so and he finally noticed he was doing it wrong and he fought it hard enough so that now he does it.

Fellow says, “Ooh. Oh.. .ah.. .ahem.. .let’s see ...” He’s dramatizing it right there, he’s stuck. That’s why he answers you that way.

What’s a habit pattern? That’s why it’s unbreakable. See, the fellow fights it and then he closes terminals with it. And then he’s in it and it’s him, so of course he does it. He obsessively has to be it.

“Who’s the slowest-talking fellow you know?” And you can just feel your own brains go down to a kind of creak, creak, creak. “Let me think.”

Well, with a preclear you’re trying to change his survival pace. You try to pick him up to a point of where he’ll live, where he’ll breathe and everything. That’s what you want, you want him way up. And so your problem is to change his survival pace upwards.

Well, I can tell you immediately the slowest talking person you know with whom you had to associate intimately, familially - famille, not just some casual friend - but the slowest-talking family member was the most aberrative person in your bank.

Well, every time you change pace on him suddenly while he’s doped-off, you’re going to change his pace downwards. So the time to change pace on him and to get speedier is when he’s alert and awake. That’s when you shift pace. That’s when you start giving him new razzle-dazzles and giving him terrific mock-ups and big complications and once in a while, slap him with a failure, not because you want to, but just because you just overestimated what he could do and so on. That’s the time to do that.

So how do we just settle out this preclear and knock him appetite over tin cup and know his case inside out and solve him all up and run him down and know when he’s better and so forth? Communication lag. And why is it that we don’t have to take for truth this fact out of this case? See there’s one we don’t have to take for true:

The time to get real careful is when you start seeing him goharrr, rawrrr, rowww, rowmv, in slow communication lag.

We say, “How do you feel now?” We only want to know how long it takes him to answer, we don’t want to know the words.

Now, how fast will they go into this kind of a thing with SOP 8-C? Well, boy, it’s about the most beasty, butchery technique that you can get into.

And when you can train an auditor to not giving a damn what the preclear says in terms of words, you’ve really got the boy trained. Because he’ll be a happy auditor. The only thing he wants to know is how long did it take the preclear to answer? Real cute, isn’t it? This will tell him, immediately, whether he has done anything for the case. That is his first index.

Now, if you’ll notice the Congress there, I was auditing - and don’t hold myself up as the perfect model on this, by any manner of means, because standing up in front of a big group of people, you’re pacing against that group, you’re not necessarily making a tape that will be good for all groups for all time. But if you’ll notice, there’s confoundedly little change of pace. Darn little change of pace. But if you were to play the first Group Auditing tape and the last Group Auditing tape side by side, you would say, “My golly, what a different pace!” See, there’s a big difference between those two paces.

So he says, “Well, now that we’ve had the session, how do you feel now?”

Well, now after everybody was awake and they’d gotten kind of line-chargy and so forth, I woke them up a little bit further by giving them something funny to do and a little postulate shifting and moving around and so on and gave them some animation. But I woke them up by moving. See, I moved myself. And I moved myself slowly and did it preparatory to the move and then started moving a little more rapidly and then finally got animated. My voice, while I was moving, was the same change of pace and then they finally swung into it and the whole audience woke up and brightened up quite a bit.

The fellow says, “My God, I never felt worse. Do you know every time you get into this sort of thing, I just get terribly intolerant of the whole subject.”

You watch this sort of thing happening. You don’t think there’s any particular calculation behind it. As a matter of fact, you do it, not on a feel or a half-sense thing, you just say, “Well, this is what I’m going to do” and you do it. There isn’t anything calculating or hard or arduous about anything. You just pace what you’re doing against who you’re doing it to.

The auditor says, “Fine. Okay. Well, I’m sorry you feel like that, Mr. Binks” - being polite and so on. “We’ll take that up during the next session.”

Now, every once in a while, somebody will give you a good, smart crack. It’s - “Well, what they’re doing is auditing techniques, not auditing the preclear.” Pick out a gun - preferably one of the slower muzzle velocities, you know, that tear big holes slowly - and drill him good, [laughter] Because that’s his most inadequate statement I have ever heard, it describes nothing. “Audit the technique instead of the preclear.” This is just dopey. It seems to infer that people who know techniques, thereby, in some strange fashion, aren’t auditing the preclear. That’s actually what it adds up to. Or that if you do a technique by rote, it doesn’t audit the preclear.

“Well, I don’t know whether I’m coming back or not.”

So let’s put it this way: let’s audit, with techniques, the preclear. And we’ve got a better statement of it. Because there’s an awful lot of hidden machinery sitting back of any of these techniques that cover an awful breadth of span. Well, that doesn’t say to you, “Don’t touch. Don’t monkey with them.” But normally, they’re monkeyed with, to your sorrow, as an auditor.

“Well, I’ll see you next session, see.”

The thing which you shouldn’t be watching right now is, however, the mechanic of a technique. You shouldn’t be watching this. What you should be watching is your performance as an auditor as measured against the other fellow’s survival pace as a preclear.

And the auditor says, “What do you know, I sure kicked that son of a gun around. Ha-ha, ha-ha, ha! Busted that right across the middle,” he says. And when he can sit to himself and be happy with his own decision, he also is in very good shape because that is a good definition of what being in good shape is. Be happy with your own estimate of the situation. Don’t need any other G-2 than you. (G-2 is American for G-2. Yeah, I’d forgotten that all-G-2 has become famous through all the gangster - war pictures - the gangster war, type of picture.) Anyway ... He’s got the answer.

You’re going to change that survival pace upward. If you don’t change it upward, you haven’t done a thing. Anybody can change it downward.

Now, as you go along day-to-day in this, you’re going to take a small pair of opera glasses and look around to see if there isn’t a better one, see? That’s fine. It’s okay. Going to take a big-power pair of field glasses and sit around and look if there isn’t some kind of a better way to know whether a preclear is well or sick. And that’s fine, go ahead and do that. And take a telescope and look all around the horizon. And then go out to Mount Palomar and look and you sure let me know - and I’m not telling you not to look - but you sure let me know if you find a faster, quicker method of telling whether the preclear is sick or well or whether you’ve bettered him any.

I can show you how to change the survival level of a preclear downward much more easily than standing up here and talking to you and giving you examples about auditing. He walks in the auditing room, you hit him over the head with a club, you changed it downward, [laughter] Well, that doesn’t take much learning - easy and fast.

Now, that datum - let me give you value: throw the pearls and rubies away because they’re trash. That’s the value of that datum.

Now, thereby and therefore, you should get some kind of an idea of what’s a good job of auditing. What’s really a good job of auditing? Well, there’s probably something mysterious about it, you know? Maybe you wave a magic wand, kind of a thing, at the end of the session or at the beginning of one. What’s this terrific job of auditing?

If you ever let an auditor forget it, you’ve done a bad job of instruction. If you ever forget it yourself, it’s because you don’t want to look at life.

Well, I’ll tell you what a terrific job of auditing is. I can tell you very, very simply. A terrific job of auditing is a higher livingness in the preclear. And that’s all a terrific job of auditing is.

Communication lag index. And somebody sooner or later, up the track someplace, is going to dig himself out to a point where he finds this and he’s going to decide that because we’ve said communication lag index that there has to be an index. Somebody is going to decide that and someday this may get taught this way: in January and in July in Georgia, the moisture content of concrete ... What is it in Michigan in August?

And if you can do it better by being graceful, by being soft - spoken, by being pleasant, by being peppy, by being snappy, by being very clever, by feeding him randomity, by interesting him in life by the tremendous number of phenomena that you could suddenly yank out of his brain and parade in front of him - however you do this, you do it. Now, it doesn’t say that there’s anything mysterious about doing it, because the parts of the machine are lying right in front of your eyes.

And nobody ever will find out whether a preclear is well or made better or sicker. Everybody will be looking at “lagometers” that they’ll be carrying around, these little lagometers. And that turns on the preclear, you see, you turn this lagometer on the preclear and it shows the “radatrons” of the “comanomes” or something as they pour off the preclear or if they fail to.

Here’s an individual. You’re trying to change his survival, what we’re calling now survival pace. Okay. You’re trying to change this survival pace without wrecking him. And the way you change his survival pace is give him more awareness. And the only way you’d really give him more awareness is providing his greater awareness doesn’t produce more pain. You know? You know why people are unaware? It’s because they’d hurt if they were. See that?

Follow me closely on that because that’s the datum I hope you will cherish and hold to your bosom, because it will act as armor plate against more doggone disrelated data. It operates against this disrelated data:

So they cut down their awareness and they get tired of looking. There’s a whole host of processes which dedicate themselves just to the rehabilitation of lookingness. You can take off people’s glasses with them, do all sorts of strange things with these processes. They’re not necessarily a part of any technique.

“Well, I don’t know frankly. I., .1 tell you, I’ve thought this over for some time and it seemed to me that my.. .well, my wife ought to come in and have a session with you. And, uh.. .um, you know, she’s a.. .well, I guess.. .it’s kind of funny. Um, she uh.. .she never was sick much, but after we.. .after we got married, well, she keeps saying I probably ought to have uh ... But there’s really nothing wrong with me.”

Now, I’m not asking you to throw a technique away or I’m not asking you to be slavishly obedient to a technique, either way. I’m asking you to do a job. It’s much easier, from experience which has gone by already, to do that job with such a tool as SOP 8-C. It’s easier to do it. That’s why SOP 8-C if itself. It’s a “developed by experience and test and by theory” process. It’s awfully close to theory. I mean the technique itself is awfully close to theory itself, right on down the groove. So therefore, the closer practice comes to theory and the more accurate the theory is, why, the better things go.

And you’ve answered the process right there - who do we process? What’s wrong with the case? Well, that’s one of these big obvious ones and you wouldn’t ordinarily look for that one. I noticed I just made you - made some of you people just squirm, groan. Horrible, isn’t it? Well, it’s how you stretch time into a case and get a communication lag.

So we’re making the theory more accurate and closer and better stated and the process more closely approximating the theory and suddenly starts to unwheel in front of your eyes.

All right. Now, how important is it? Well it’s important enough for you to pay attention to, at the minimum rate of once every eight minutes and the maximum rate of about once every two minutes. And the reason why I’m giving you those all-of-a-sudden finite minutes on the thing is because that happens to be the length of time. Not because we thought it up.

All right. We’ll talk about techniques, we’ll talk about the deeper significance of all this. Right now, all I want you to really get is just get yourself kind of oriented about whither thou art going. Quoproperopueri? And it’s just a nice thing to know that there is a point of arrival, even though you only want to know so you mustn’t arrive there.

In a case that’s going at a heck of a rate of speed, see, brrr-rrrr-rrrr, you’re just rolling this case - the case exteriorized. And you’re drilling him this way and you’re saying - you’ve gotten the case up to speed and it’s gone too far and too fast for you to keep up with verbally. Because a thetan goes above that level, we do something like this, we say - one guy was doing this trick, there’s a dozen tricks - he’s saying, “Now be in Spokane, now be in New York. Okay. Now when I tap the table this way, you’re in Spokane. Go to Spokane. And when I tap it this way, go to New York. Okay? Have you got that now?” Okay. (Now, I’m not sending anybody here by the way.) “You got that now?” Now, look at the - look at my finger rate if we use English. All right. Spokane, [tap] New York, [tap] Spokane, [tap] New York, [tap] Spokane, [tap] New York, [tap] It’s too slow.

You could say a lot of clever or snappy things about cases, about preclears and so forth - go ahead, lots of fun. But remember this: basically, underlying all of this, you’re simply trying to change somebody’s survival pace. Well, you can change it in eighty thousand departments if you want to, if you start selectively. Well, let’s get the department that is the closest level of change. And you’ll find out those categories ... When you’re pitching the hottest, you’ll be pitching on duplication. And next to the hottest, on truth. And on next to the hottest, on ownership.

So now we’re going to get a boy who is up around Theta Clear and he’s just rolling fine - and mind you now, this is Spokane [tap] and this is New York. We’re just going to clean up the whole doggone lifetime of this fellow, which was mostly spent in Spokane, and the rest of his lifetime, which was spent in New York. And we’re going to clean up all the bank on this as far as he’s concerned. Okay. He’s exteriorized see and he’s being in one place and the other, [tap-tap, tap-tap, tap-tap] And it goes like: [tap-tap-tap-tap-tap-tap-tap-tap-tap-tap-tap-tap-tap-tap-tap-tap-tap-tap-tap-tap] “Okay. We got that one. Now let’s take your naval career, [laughter] All right?”

Yeah, you’d be surprised what truth is merchandised as.

Now, it’s Change of Space Processing and run at a speed which is agreeable. But you can overreach speed with a preclear very easily. Now it’ll go up to that fast speed, but you can overreach speed with a preclear to a point where he feels he’s being pressed to the point he’s being harassed and he just doesn’t go anyplace.

“It’s true.”

But that’s no reason why you should go slower than the preclear. You always ought to run just a little bit faster. And if you always run just a tiny bit faster than the preclear - even though it’s just a millisecond faster than the preclear - you know, he always knows who’s the auditor and he never gets confused into self-auditing.

“No, it’s not.”

How do we do that? Well, we ask our next question this way. All right. He’s saying “Yup” to everything he’s doing. All right, “Yup.” (This is Scandinavian for yes.) Anyway...

“Yes, it is.”

Now, the way you would audit normally - you would think you would audit - you’d say, “All right. Now let’s duplicate your mother.”

“Now look, I’ll prove to you it’s true.”

And he says, “Yup.”

“Nah.”

“All right. Duplicate her.”

“Go on, admit it’s true.” Pow!

“Yup.”

“Okay. It’s true.”

[delivered more rapidly] “Duplicate her.”

Truth. Merchandising! Merchandising of truth is most commonly accompanied by a light tap on the nose or a kick in the shins. And if a kick in the shins or a tap on the nose is in itself truth, then we have all the truth there is in a world war. But people, unfortunately, aren’t happy in wars, they’re bored. They’re bored with being around the base hospitals when they ought to get gallantly wounded in first-aid stations.

“Yup.”

So the main thing that we’re up against then, all the way along the line, is the impact versus knowingness. People get so immersed in impacts that they begin to believe at length that impacts themselves are knowingness. They aren’t. They’re not knowingness. That’s how you put together barriers - but the fellow can at least know the impact. You see how mild it gets after awhile?

Okay. Your “duplicate her” comes in — if you’ll just condense it just to this degree, it s enough.

He’ll settle for at least knowing he was hit. You know, before that moment, he knew an awful lot about politics, but right after he was hit, he has settled for being hit on the subject. If you hit him hard enough, he’d know nothing about politics.

“Yeah.”

There’s a planet right nearby here - there’s six planets right nearby here where the practice on a criminal is to bop him, from below and above, with two electronic cones. And it certainly extinguishes him. But it’s an impact of such magnitude that he gets total amnesia - total. And he just knows the impact then, you see, he’s had to settle for the impact Well, of course, and he knows he’s a piece of energy, he’s been educated into knowing that. And he knows he’s a mass, so he can’t exteriorize from the vicinity of the impact, so he can’t regain any other knowingness than he has had. And he knows all these things now and, of course, the more he knows in that category, the more data he has, the more comm lag he has, the less he remembers, the less he really knows.

“Duplicate her.” You see, your “d” and that “p” overlap. Yup-y-u-p-you see, the conversation, it was going: he said “Yup.” And you said “Duplicate her.’ All right. You just let those two overlap. So you say “Yup.” I mean, he says “Yup.”

The fast way out of all this is exteriorization - exteriorization, Change of Space and so forth—that is, exercises in this department. And as far as concepts are concerned and up along that level, when we get knowingness, see, we’ve got a very embracive thing - we get knowingness, certainty and so on. But when techniques are concerned, those techniques that hit into truth - first, those techniques that hit into duplication, those techniques that hit into truth and those techniques which hit into ownership - (you know, it’s mine; it’s somebody else’s) are the hottest in production of perception changes. They’re real hot. They really smoke. Because truth is used as comm line material here.

And you say, immediately, that he gets out the “Yu—,” “Duplicate her.” You just knocked off the p off of his “Yup.” Now that is crushing right along the line.

You get two little kids arguing, that’s all they argue about is truth. And of course their В ideas of truth: “I’m Tom Mix. No, I am not Tom Mix.”

Now, you can make that “d” fit in closer and closer to the “p” until it knocks it out and as he comes up speed on the thing, actually, he will drop off saying “Yup” and he will just give you a little sharp nod because he’ll find out “Yup” isn’t fast enough, you see?

“Yes, you are.”

And you will eventually knock off “Duplicate her” to any kind of a code that you can assign, that is a rapid enough code to fit the communication channel. In other words, in auditing, as you go up toward Theta Clear you run out of English. And if you keep depending on English, you keep everybody slowed down to the pace of English and that’s not very fast.

“Well, I’m - I’m ...” Here we go! I mean, a big argument. The truth of identity and also true beingness and so on. Truth.

It’s not fast enough to drive a jet plane. You couldn’t articulate the number of commands necessary to a jet pilot to control a jet plane. What do you know? It’s not fast enough to run an automobile. You can’t articulate the number of commands necessary to drive an automobile. Well, what do you know? It isn’t fast enough to walk. You can’t articulate the number of commands necessary for an individual to execute to walk.

And ownership is, the guy can’t see what he doesn’t own some part of. You’ll find this out in processing ownership and there are special processes to go with these. Well, we won’t worry about these processes right now. We’ve got 8-C.

Hey, what are we getting into here? You mean English is practically motionless? Well, that’s what I mean. And that’s - essence is - the language is not at fault, really, the language is only an agreement with what the communication lag is.

Now, don’t think that tomorrow we’re all going to shift and change gears and it’s all going to be different and so forth. Now, I’ve been going over this for quite a while and the main thing I’ve been doing is just picking up, mainly, a better integration of the theory as expressed by the technique. And the theory has been sort of just sitting there for a long time now, it’s just been coasting. And for about a year, I’ve just been trying to fit the technique a little closer into the theory and add a little bit more to it. And 8-C now has been some little time in development and is pretty darn static.

We’d have a faster language. There’s a language known as speedwriting. And I wonder why anybody has ever asked to pour out the number of words or use - or why publishing companies or newspapers have to use, at the expense of our forests and so forth, the vast number of trees to make paper - the vast amounts of paper they use, when, as a matter of fact, almost every word there is can be reduced materially.

And the number of factors which I was talking about a few weeks ago to the Second Unit-1 was talking about a certain set of factors that were important factors and, actually, I was talking about four factors in terms of theory and we haven’t had any occasion to alter these things at all. I found another way to express certainty, is about all, since then—it’s just that—truth. People get certainty and truth all confused and impacts and truth all confused and then they go by the boards.

I don’t know what the ratio is, but it’s something like maybe an eight-letter word can be reduced to maybe three letters, four letters - three letters. Most two-letter and three-letter words reduce to one letter or to two letters. And in other words, that’s speedwriting and it condenses right on down. In fact, it’s a shorthand.

Well, I wouldn’t even bring it up now if there wasn’t a very fast way to run it. You just run, “It is true and it isn’t true.” “Three things that are true; three things that are not true,” in brackets. It’s the most idiotic, simple—it gets a fellow off the maybes of knowingness just by the carload lot, up to the time when the symbol truth itself wears out. And it Wears out when the impacts go. So he’s quite happy when this happens.

And this is so articulate and in view of the fact that it’s all in phonetics anyhow, I haven’t any real idea why anybody uses written English, except that everybody agrees that we ought to communicate this slow. See, it isn’t really the English imposing on anything, they would have faster Englishes if they had.

Well, let’s not belabor this too much or worry about it. Our main concern here is with auditing and my main caution on this is do the expected, not the unexpected. And don’t change pace on your preclear when he’s boiling. If you’re going to be spectacular, be it when he’s wide awake. And if he starts to get bored - and let me lay this in with a club - when he starts to get bored, you shift off onto duplication, Step VIII, SOP 8-C.

But you could say, “Well, they get accustomed to this and then they think that’s about the rate that they should think” and you are off on one of the kind of arguments which is not profitable. It doesn’t matter whether the English is at fault or wheiher that is the communication lag. It’s a cinch that English assists a communication lag and it’s also a cinch that individuals have one. And it also is true that there are other things than language which aberrate people, so we’ve got the problem pretty well boxed in.

And it’s right there, it says in the Congress Form exactly how you do it. There are other ways to do it, but these are kind of hot, those two. They’re easily done. You’ll be able to do them much better when you get a lot more theory or stuff like that behind them, but that’ll serve.

That’s the first thing I’m going to ask you to do, as far as actual alertness is concerned and observation. I’m going to ask you to look on this subject of communication lag. And you will find, very shortly, that it isn’t just a hearing communication or a speaking communication lag. It is an actual perception lag which shows up in sight and in touch.

You could run out, by duplication, this feeling of frenzy that a guy gets into, not by suddenly pulling off of it or running away from it or saying “Well, he’s getting bored.” You’d better intensify it and run it out, that’s all. Well, how can you duplicate any more thoroughly than going through the same motion?

Now, let’s take a fellow who is talking about “Well I... Mmm.” I won’t do it to you again. And he’s talking about the rate of speed there. And we get this kind of a thing on touch: Now I take this lighter and I touch the lighter, you see? Now when do I feel the lighter?

All right. Go through the same motion. If you start to do it in terms of mock-ups though, all the time, you practically spin a guy in doing nothing but mock-ups without any variation of any kind whatsoever - endlessly on the same subject - I mean, the same mock-up and the same mock-ups. You’re only hitting one universe, you’re hitting his. So let him duplicate in various fashions. Let him duplicate by touching things, by going places, let him duplicate by going through the same motion over and over. And be quite relentless.

Now, the dinosaur felt at the rate of about ten feet per second and eventually had to grow—in the brontosaurus - another head in his tail. Because nerve impulses only travel at about ten feet a second or something like that. That’s pretty slow. But, the fellow who wrote that figure down was a very adventurous man, let me assure you, a very adventurous man, as so many have been. People accuse me of being adventurous. Ha-ha. I at least try to find out what I’m talking about before I utter a sonorous finality on the subject.

And he duplicates much more arduously if he has to do it on count, that is to say, by unit time. Every two seconds he touches something - rrrrrrr!. That’s a desperate thing, every two seconds he touches something and withdraws from it. You know, two seconds, then he touches something and withdraws from it and now two seconds from the moment of his withdrawal, and he touches it again and withdraws from it again.

And this ten feet per second is not any kind of a testable figure in the first place. And it’s one of these wild things, this - what I’m talking about is - here is a wild variable! When do I touch the lighter and feel it? Now, that’s a communication lag. All right. I reach over here and I touch the lighter and you think that that’s an instantaneous proposition, probably. And it’s not at all an instantaneous proposition. You’ll never realize it more than when you’re, exteriorized doing just that. It’s sort of like watching the slower part of a sandlot baseball game.

If you don’t believe that’s spinbin stuff, why, try to run it sometime for a couple of hours. And by the time you’ve run it a couple of hours, boy, I tell you, about one-eighth of the way through, you’re sure you’re done, you’re going to blow it to bits. And shortly after that, you’re sure that there’s no apathy like this, see. Then you resign yourself to doing it and then you decide, well, you’ll be patient and humor it all and you’ll get through it somehow. And then you decide it’s something that you’re just going through just to please somebody. And then your tendency is to set it up automatic so that you’re not paying any attention to it again. At which moment, the auditor watches for that and has the fellow “Now decide that you’re going to touch the ashtray. Now decide that you’re going to withdraw from it.” Ahhh! And there goes the automaticity. The guy can’t set it up automatic.

You know, you wait for the pitcher to wind up, you know, and he throws the ball down toward the catcher and the batter braces himself and it’s a real slow ball [said slowly]. You know, that kind of thing. He’ll sit back with the same bored feeling that you just had in listening to me wind out these things watching a touch communication line connect.

It’s an interesting process and you’ll know much more about it when you run it. So, why don’t we? Okay?

The fellow reaches out and he touches something and then as he touches this something, the contact is made and the skin is pressed at the end of the fingers so that there is an actual force moment. Then, this goes back up the arm and reaches toward the thetan who is feeling it anyway, in this peculiar system, [said slowly] (This is a real peculiar way to feel anything, by the way, it becomes laughably peculiar to you after you’ve done it for a while.) And he finally finds out that he is touching it. So the thought impulse has to go back down the finger in order to motivate the part of the arm to pick up the arm off the thing which is being touched, [said slowly]

You’ve got your - now your short break until the first auditing period.

And what I’m just describing to you, from the viewpoint of a thetan, would be a guy grabbing ahold of a very hot poker. You know, where he apparently has touched and let go so fast that there is hardly any chance for anything. Well, boy, there’s plenty of chance, because he got burned, didn’t he?

What’s the matter with this peculiar beast that he can get his hand that close to a hot poker without immediately knowing that it is a hot poker? And what’s the matter with the beast anyway that he has to get near a hot poker to know that there is a hot poker in the room?

This is a peculiar sort of a creature this Homo sapiens, this GE. He’s real slow. He’s no-know. It describes him very well. He has to look before he knows and so forth.

All right. Communication lag. Now, there isn’t any real reason, you see, why I couldn’t just tell you all there is to know about Scientology and SOP 8-C, at this stage, in the next couple of hours and you digest it and be experts this afternoon. See, there’s no real reason, except a reason. It’s the single factor of reason. It is reason itself which imposes between thee and me in doing just that.

That’s peculiar isn’t it? We had an Age of Reason once. I invite your attention to the fact that everybody who was anybody got his head cut off in it. That was the years of the French Revolution. That was called the Age of Reason.

Now, knowingness hasn’t any data connected with it. Fellow just knows - hasn’t got data connected with it. And someday, why, you’ll get those two pried apart and when they come apart, there will be a large sort of a splashing sound, like picking a plunger off a piece of porcelain, and you will all of a sudden be flying free thereafter. That’s crude but true.

If you think, actually, that you figure something out, anything you figure out you can be sure you’re wrong about. Anything that you know, you’re right about. It sounds idiotic, doesn’t it? Huh? But it’s not, it’s not idiotic. When we talk about know, we talk about certainty. And when you’re certain of something, why, you just go ahead and be certain about it, huh?

Now this shows up in auditing this way: Preclear walks in, you’re there making a couple of notes on the last person you were auditing or something of the sort. And you don’t look toward the door, you suddenly know, in a split flash, there’s an individual with a very long communication lag who is standing there in the door and that he’s - for some peculiar reason you suddenly spot the fact that twenty-five dollars in cash is in his right-hand pocket when it ought to be in his wallet. And you know that he’s large and beefy and is wearing a green overcoat. You know all this, see? You haven’t yet looked in his direction and your concentration is still on what you are doing in taking these notes.

In order to reason with this and perceive afterwards, you would have to obliterate all of this information, mask it over, pretend that you had nothing to do with it and then fit it into the MEST universe span, look at him and wait to find out from him that he had the twenty-five dollars in - because you put him there in the first place. So you would have to mask the fact that you put him there in the first place, to know that he was there.

So it’s how much data or reason can we enter in on the line in order to get randomity? And it’s where do you want the preclear to come out? If you bring him out where he went in, exactly there, you’ve got your hands on somebody without randomity, with complete serenity who will be content thereafter to sit around and regard his navel. That’s Buddha’s favorite occupation you know, he merely sits around with crossed legs and studies his navel.

This is all very well. That’s where he’s going to park the GE. He’ll go off and do something or other in a complete state of serenity. But what will it be? It’ll strictly be a case of “cloud nine.” Why? (If you were really to do that.) But do you know that it would take a bigger trick than you can do or I can do to make somebody do that? Because they come up to 20.0 instead of 40.0 and that is the sadness of it all. They come up to about a 50 percent unpredicted motion - which is to say 20.0 on the Tone Scale - 50 percent predicted motion, 50 percent unpredicted motion and we have the guy taking off.

Most preclears go into action long before they reach 20.0. You start speeding this guy up, you try to take him out where he went in and you wind up by picking him up at the point where he’s got, oh, he’s still got 89 percent randomity in his existence. You know, unpredicted motion, things happen around him all the time.

He takes off, he gets tremendously successful, he’s going to lead a grand life and everything is going along and he’s going to tear along at a mad rate and this is he. And that’s where he leaves you. He kisses you goodbye, right at that point.

Won’t do you any good to stand there and say, “Look fella, we can make a Buddha out of you without very much trouble.” He isn’t going to be interested. To suppress the self-determinism of a thetan and convince him how the - it gets real silly. We talk about exteriorization - that a thetan can be stuck inside somebody is like trying to trap a molecule of air in an ocean of it. Trying to trap a molecule of air with an ocean of air or trying to make a jail out of the space between here and Arcturus. You know? And tell the fellow he has to be right there where you can find him between here and Arcturus.

It’s almost impossible to trap a thetan. So you just start lifting the gate a little bit and you’ll find out, boy, is there pressure on this case. Some of the pressure blows, he finds this out, he goes into action, he stops figuring and he reasons because it’s fun. He goes into action and motion and he parts company with whatever you’re doing.

Well, as wonderful as it might seem to you, as an auditor, to be a god to gods and turn out nothing but gods, see? - “We turn out nothing but gods here in our shop,” you might hang up a little sign that says - you would have a little difficulty with your product because it’d keep coming up to very good Theta Clear and vanishing on you.

And it just does this rather consistently and that’s because life is not horrible, life happens to be a lot of fun. And you just show somebody just a little bit of fun about it and that’s enough to start him off at a very, very fast rate.

You know, once in a while persuade the fellow - to say, “Hey, hey, come back and stay here a moment and let’s process you a little more.” He’ll be doing nothing. He’ll just be sitting there all the time in a sort of a vacant boredom. He’s bored with the idea of not being in action and he keeps extroverting.

Now, there’s the other thing that happens on a communication lag. Every time a communication lag breaks, you get an extroversion. Now, every time a communication lag takes a breakup - you understand, gets a little bit faster - you get an extroversion. Because you’ve taken a chunk of reason out, you get a perception in. In other words, he does some lookingness around.

He thinks about present time when you take a lot of thinkingness about the past out. Thinkingness about the past is, in essence, a communication lag. That’s how the communication lag gets in there - it’s past. There isn’t any present connected with it. And the communication lag is all past and when it gets total past, the fellow has a total communication lag and he’s totally in the past.

So what happens to our preclear? We spring him up to the point where he extroverts and then, unless we want to sit there with an electronic zap gun or something, we’re not going to introvert him again, that’s all. Because when he extroverts, he extroverts!

Now, you’ll watch this happening as a gradient scale in a case. And a case that doesn’t, will start in at first by - he first starts getting absent-minded about what he was doing. You know, you’re running him for a little while and he all of a sudden starts getting absent-minded about what he was doing. By the way, he’s kind of plowed in and blurry. You know, I mean he’s real bad off. But he asks you once in a while and he says, “Huh, what was I running?”And you say, “Well, what were you just thinking about?” That’s your proper reply, because you generally pick up some hot dope.

And he says, “I don’t know, I just seemed to have a little bit of a dream. I was just kind of thinking about something else there for a minute and I - I just kind of - things kind of - and I kind of blurred out and everything went kind of different, you know?”

And you - “What did they get, brighter?”

“No, no, no. I just - I - I don’t know, I just felt different.”

That’s about the first extroversion. Well, don’t miss that as an extroversion, it is an extroversion. You broke a chunk out of the guy’s communication circuits.