We talked about auditors and uh… carrying it through. This is the second afternoon lecture, December 13th.

Second hour, Saturday night lecture, December 13.

And there hadn’t ought to be any question now about how to fail. I hope I’ve made this very clear, and those who wanna fail with a preclear can take careful note of this. You make him prove that he is doing it, you uh… invalidate him by looking very questioning whenever he tells you anything. Uh… you uh… try to convince him what’s happening and you… you figure out for him what’s occurring. And uh… then you upset him as to what he’s doing, very badly. And then you kick beds and things – kick the couch or something of the sort. Or you drop an ashtray or something, just at the right moment. Or – and this is the best one – you try to make him agree with the real universe.

Mention again here, something I mentioned much earlier, right on this point of auditing. The goal of 8-8008, and the goal of Standard Operating Procedure includes all we can do for the thetan, and goal for the. body is none. Must remember to remark on that every once in a while, so I’m remarking on it right here. Goal, then, is the rehabilitation of the thetan, and goal for the body – no goal. None.

He gets out and he says, „Well, I don’t uh… see the room very good. I don’t see the room clearly, but I do see the room.“

Now that’s laid down as an arbitrary to prevent your going down a rabbit warren that will lead you nowhere. Every once in a while I’ll audit somebody on a reverse one. Goal for the body, everything. Goal for the thetan, nothing. Even spring him, and so forth, and they go right on operating with that body, and body… care of the body, care of the body, and I slug along for hours, and nothing much happens.

And you say, „Well, do you see the ceiling? What kind of a ceiling is it? Oh? Well, I’ll tell you – you’re really in for a shock, because uh… well, no, we won’t tell you now. Just look at the ceiling.“

The reason for this is, if your thetan is up with his horsepower, or a thetan-power, he will control the body so adequately that his presence and permeation, you might say, pervasion of the body area, has a tendency to straighten the body right on out.

Yeah, this is the way to fail. This is the way to fail. Give you a good road map. But I’m more interested in giving you a road map to succeed.

The body only really goes to pieces because of its knock-down drag- out existence in a very hectic and quite inactive world. Uh… nobody uses his body; he just sort of parks it around, drapes it on things, and so forth. It’s as if he uses it as an anchor point. It’s a rather expensive anchor point, it makes him work, he has to work it so that it can eat, and all that sort of thing. So, it’s not so good.

Now one of the best ways to succeed is to do an assessment on your preclear. And this is the first entering wedge of something that should persist ALL THE WAY THROUGH EVERY SESSION YOU EVER GIVE ANY PRECLEAR. Find out what the billy-o he’s doing! And when he says something, find out what he said, if you don’t understand it. And if he tells you something peculiar that you don’t immediately grasp, find out what he told you and what he’s talking about.

So when you’re using Standard Operating Procedure you’re trying to rehabilitate a thetan. You’re not trying to rehabilitate anybody’s body. You spring this person out of the body, and they might have a hunched back the moment you spring ‘em out of the body.

You want data from the preclear. You are not a machine gun, simply firing at a preclear. The whole operation of auditing can collapse with a dull crash if you insist on a one-way communication channel from you to him. Find out what he’s doing. When you give him a mock-up, did he do it? Wait for his ‘Um-hmm’.

Sometimes you’ll tell them something like this, „Is there anything you’d like to do to fix this body up?“ That’s just so they’ll get an anchor point straightened out.

When you say, „Fill the room full of skulls,“ don’t immediately say, „Now turn them all to babies. All right, now move them all downstairs.“

They… they’ll find out, „What do you know, I got an anchor point.“

He says, „Just a minute. I’m trying to get one skull.“

And then you straighten out something in it, and they say, „What do you know! This anchor point, that is my body.“ It just helps him orient, that’s all. It’s not because you want the body straightened out.

You say, „All right, now you got them downstairs? All right, now move them all out into the street.“

Every once in a while you’ll spring somebody outside. They… as I say, got a hunchback, or… or something’s wrong with them, and you come around, and they… you move ‘em back in at the end of the session, or they stay outside, or whatever condition you finally wound them up in, and they walk away, and they don’t have that infirmity. But they’re much less likely to come up with that infirmity missing, if you address the thetan only, than if you address the body. You just spring this guy and work the thetan. Don’t do anything for the body. If anything happens to the body, okay. If it doesn’t happen to the body, okay. So what?

He says, „Wait a minute,“ he says, „I’m trying to get this one skull.“

Of course, I… with uh… with all these people going around wearing glasses all the time, they have… that’s… that’s rather strange, this… this idea of wearing glasses. Glasses are dangerous! Didn’t it ever come to you? They’re really very dangerous. And… and… I… I watch… watch people, and… and they don’t seem to realize this. It’s one of those things. Do you know what would happen to you if a bullet hit you in the glasses? Well, anyhow, enough of those serious considerations, on to lighter ones.

And you say, „Well, now, that’s fine. Now let’s take the building down at the end of the street and let’s turn it on edge and fill it all full of those babies.“

We will now take up Case Step One. Now we took an assessment on this case. The reason we took an assessment on this case was a very good reason. We wanted to know what he couldn’t do. We wanted to know where his inabilities were, and why did we do an assessment before we did Standard Operating Procedure? Well, that’s to get some kind of an idea what goes on, before we spring the thetan. Because it might be the last time you’ll ever look at the thetan’s ridges. Not because he’s going to do a bunk, as we say colloquially. Means on his way, over the hills and far away; he’s just now passing galaxy eighteen. And there lies the body. Uh… it’s not because we need him for identification; it’s because it may be the last time we look at the combined effect of the thetan’s ridges and the GE’s ridges. And we can get some kind of an estimation on where we’re going when we do some later assessments or other.

The guy is already all keyed up and you giving him load on load on load on, until he goes straight into apathy. The fastest way there is to drive a preclear into apathy is not to let him carry out what you said before you give him something else to do.

Uh… you know after a thetan has disconnected, and all lines are off, between himself and the body, you’re reading the body. You can… thetan can be in a heck of an emotional state. The body’s got its hands on the E-Meter, the thetan is over on the mantle. You’re… you’re not going to get any reading off the preclear. He’s on the mantle! So, don’t make a mistake on this. But a fellow who still has a few lines on the body, still has his ridges commingled with the body’s ridges to a large degree, will read like mad on the E-Meter for a long time.

I wish I had a bloody dagger to stick that datum home with, or something. Or I wish I could put on each one of the walls of the room you’ll use in auditing a big sign that says „For Christ’s sakes! Find out what he’s doing!“

But we don’t want to pull this one. We don’t want to have a fellow, Theta Clear, he steps outside, and he’s not connected to the body in any way. And after that, why, we stabilize him and get him up the line, and here’s an awful lot of things wrong with him. Now we haven’t got any way to E-Meter him. Unless we move him in and E-Meter him. And then he’s liable to stir up a lot of ridges, and… and get caved in on a few things like that, so you wouldn’t want to do that to him. You’ve got him outside, and you made him a Theta Clear, and you did that in two hours. Now, after that you say, „Let’s see, what can’t this fellow do?“ I don’t know! I haven’t got any idea if he’s got any quirks and foibles or not. And there’s no assessment possible.“

Don’t go writing me a letter afterwards and saying, „Standard Operating Procedure Creative Processing (or something of the sort) doesn’t work on some people. I get these nice, cheerful, quiet little girls and it seems to work all right on them, but every time I try to work on anybody else it doesn’t seem to work on them and therefore I’ve concluded after a vast piece of scientific research, fully as vast as that done in Fairhope, Alabama, uh… that uh… or the Phoenix Psychological Institute – and I’ve discovered that Creative Processing only works on young girls who are rather in an apathetic state of mind. And that it is not applicable to any other type case.“

So let’s take the assessment before we do Standard Operating Procedure. That’s all. And then remember, that if we’ve got a stable Theta Clear, you use your E-Meter on the next preclear. Not that one. And if we rehabilitate this thetan’s ability to handle power, to handle energy and so on, he’ll take care of this body one way or the other, it’s up to him. They… they stop fooling around with the body, and they just make the body work after that, and the body’s very healthy.

You could… you could draw that conclusion if you didn’t find out what the guy was doing. Because this is what would happen: You would only be able to operate with a case that was doing mock-ups rapidly – doing them right and doing them rapidly. That’s the only kind of case they work on. And that would be by great accident.

By the way, did you ever… did you ever see a… a working dog? You ever have any experience with working dogs? Uh… you know a lot of pet dogs, though, and they’re neurotic. They’re really neurotic. I had a dog one time, named Tinker, a psychotic. That dog was crazy, because every time this dog had jumped up on her master in her first few months, he had hauled off, and he would kick her, or beat her, for jumping up and showing any affection. So Tinker was convinced that nobody liked her. She’d come around and jump up on everybody and she was so rattled and so psycho by this time that you couldn’t do anything with Tinker. I mean, you… you could… You know, jump on you with muddy feet and so on.

So you see, your „bap-bap-bap“ type of processing – do it as fast as you like, but wait for that acknowledgment. And if he says something and says, „Mmwoggleemm,“ don’t say, „Well, he’s just muttering in his beard,“ and go on. No, you say, „What did you say?“

So you grabbed the dog’s feet, and you’d put them back down on the ground, and give them a squeeze or something like that. Nothing was happening with Tinker. It was… no matter how nice you were to her, or anything else. Now she was a very smart dog, obviously, she was a Belgian Police, a pretty nice-looking dog, maybe about a year old. And uh… was basically a work dog.

He’s probably trying to tell you, „Look, I just found out that I am really not in my head, and I’m getting a very clear view of this room from on the ceiling. And the funny somatic I have in my head is that I’m plastered against every ceiling of every room I ever go into.“

So I took Tinker and started to teach her tricks. And I had her do all sorts of tricks, that looked like hard work to her, but she took a great deal of joy in them. Oh, you know, jump through hoops, and over sticks, and do roll-overs, and grab things, and selected articles, and all kinds of odds and ends. The dog started to get sane! She was working. She had some use. She was being put to use. And I used to work her quite a bit.

And you’ll find out the damnedest things. They’ll all follow these laws here and these rules and observations, but you have to keep your ear open. The preclear is not noted for talking loudly or being succinct or distinct or anything else.

And when I went away, and she stopped being worked, she started to spin in again. But during the period when she was being hard worked, and under good, heavy control, she wasn’t looping. She was sane. Very sane.

And if you don’t have a two-way communication channel with the preclear – pow! He’s going to go into apathy.

Now the thetan is about as sane as… as uh… a spinning mouse, when you first get him out. He… he doesn’t know which end he’s standing on or which side’s up, ordinarily. ‘Cause you’re sitting there, and he may have some confidence in you, he’ll just sort of wait and find out what the cue is.

Now I’ll tell you what you can do. You’re not even vaguely working with hypnotism. But hypnotism is in entirely reverse vector – that’s making him agree with it all. Now make him agree harder and harder and harder and harder.

And quite ordinarily, when he moves out, gee! He… he knows he’s there, and he shouldn’t be there, and he hasn’t got a good orientation at all. So you have to start in working.

And if you… if you were to do this with a hypnotized subject, if you were to say to him, „All right, now uh… let’s have both of your arms rise in the air. Now cross your legs,“ do you know what’ll happen to the fella? He’ll go straight into a complete squirrel confusion – just immediately. Because he doesn’t have the capacity to carry out two actions at once. You wait until his arms are up before you tell him to cross his legs.

Let’s take the GE. Let’s compare the GE to the dog. Good level of comparison. The GE is definitely an animal. And the GE has been pampered, and petted; this thing couldn’t get along and have chocolate ice cream sodas and rides on street cars and Rolls Royces, and fur coats on its back, and not have to grow any fur, and uh… so forth, unless it had a smart thetan in there pitching. And it’s goofy. It’s really goofy. And… and… and you… you just get waves of insanity coming off of the thing when you first start to fool around with it at all, if you start to look it over. It’s just nuts. And uh… the thetan feels very propitiative because he stole it. That’s the open and shut of it, he stole it! Of course there isn’t any such thing as STEALING anything in the MEST universe. Anything that’s made out of MEST that you didn’t make isn’t yours – anything, including your body. There isn’t anything anybody can own in the MEST universe that isn’t… except what he himself makes, what he himself builds, out of his own space and energy. It’s all stolen goods.

A hypnotized subject can do anything under hypnotism as long as he’s permitted to carry out the orders given, one at a time.

But a guy gets this sort of a proposition, it’s not stolen goods, the guy’s really had it foisted off on him in a BIG way. So he’ll feel this guiltiness toward the GE, and the second you spring this guy out, the most remarkable things will happen. He’ll suddenly start to feel terrific propitiation for the GE. Oh! The poor body! Oh my! Propitiation, propitiation, propitiation. And your main trouble in Step One is to back him – out and bring about some sort of an orderly relationship here, ‘cause the truth told, if he suddenly said to this body, „Act, jump, work, be,“ body’d all of a sudden start to purr, get very happy, and very sane, and go to work. It’s just as simple as that.

So, find out if the guy did it

There isn’t any vast process has to be done on the body with this processing. But if he says, „Poor body, poor body, I’ve got to feed it, and I’ve got to pet it, and I’ve got to pamper it, and I’ve got to do something for it, and I’ve got to cure all these dispersals, and I have to smooth it all out, and all that sort…“ Oh boy! The body just disperses here, and the ridges pop up there, and the entities are flaming in some other department, and it talks back to him, and it balks and it won’t move, and it’s… he’s having a terr… tough time with it one way or the other.

You could err on the side of being too fast, but you can’t err on the side of being too slow.

There’s only one way to treat it. And that’s on the… the Be, Do and Have and Don’t Have level. Just direct command, with no explanation. And only in that way does a body work well. And I’ve told you before, earlier in lectures, if you simply – no theta clearing or anything else – if we just do this – we’re willing to take this body out, and suddenly start driving it in the direct direction that we knew would be its ruin, and then drive it three times, four times, or ten times as hard as anybody had ever driven one in that direction, boy, you’d just suddenly start to shine as smooth as silk! Oh yes! ‘Cause the big control mechanism is: „Don’t work it too hard. Take care of it. Make it a valuable article,“ and all that sort of thing, and it doesn’t respond.

Now there’s always some one-way route of error in some subject or other and – in surveying there a couple of them, one of them is, there are only shortening errors in surveying. I needn’t go into this as to why this is, but you take a chain, you put it between a couple of stations and the only error that you can get is shortening. Your chaining is always less than your actual distance. It may only be 7/8ths of an inch a mile, but it’s always less – it’s never more. In other words, there aren’t any compensating errors; you can’t overmeasure and overmeasure and overmeasure.

All right, the GE that takes that attitude toward the body immediately will stop the dis… I mean the… the thetan that takes that attitude toward the body immediately stops the GE’s dispersing. And he stops this entity reaction. And so on. Not by stopping them, but just by refusing to acknowledge they exist. And by assuming his right of command and control of this organism.

All right, it works that way in asking for mock-ups. You can err only on the side of being too quick; you can’t err on the side of being too slow. You can make things dull, but that’s better than to have them too fast.

I explain that to you because I don’t want you at any time except on a, quote, just for the devil of it, unquote, reason, to use as a general approach, getting the thetan out of the pc so you can do something for the body.

I’m not telling you to poke, now, or monkey around about it. I’m just telling you that the error that you will make is a shortening error – trying to shorten the process.

Now it’s much more popular out with the crowd. Out amongst the homo sapiens, to do something for the body. And if you’re going to say something or other about it, why bother with that philosophy that I’ve just given you? – This is your philosophy as an auditor. And this produces the results you want it to produce. But uh… don’t pull this one. Don’t just move the thetan out so you can do something for the GE. Because you’re dramatizing, if you do that. You’re propitiating your own GE, and GEs in general, if your sole concern is to get that guy out of the body just so he can do something for the body. See how nonsensical that is? And you would be terribly concerned about your GE.

This process is so short now, it’s like greased lightning. And you just take a little more time and ask him to do it a couple of more times. And ask him to do it again a couple of times, and uh… only ask him to do one thing at a time. And you’ve got it.

Well, in view of the fact that everybody in this society has agreed wholeheartedly to this care of the body, care of the body, care of the body, just for variation, care of the body, care of the body, care of the body. If you were to take a little kid, and let him eat when he wanted to eat, and sleep when he wanted to sleep, and let him stuff all the candy he wanted to stuff down his gullet, and go and come and act and not sleep, and come in with wet feet and go out with wet feet and roll in the snow, boy! He’d probably be as healthy as they come. That isn’t what makes them unhealthy. It’s „Now Johnny, take care of yourself. You will catch cold.“ Continual running fire of „You’re weak, you’re weak, you’re weak, you’re weak, you’re weak. You can get sick, you’re surrounded by danger, don’t have any self-confidence, don’t have any self-confidence, don’t have any self-conf… you can’t control that body, I have to control it“ here.

It’s really very simple, but find out what the preclear’s talking about.

Maybe to some that doesn’t sound too familiar as the modus operandi. But uh… Johnny is a lot safer being permitted to walk the high-tension power line in his bare feet, than he is being coddled about wearing his rubbers and carrying his umbrella to school. If he carries an umbrella to school he’ll probably get half-killed by the kids down the block!

I checked three auditors on this and I found out that in their hands, six cases had gone into slumps and had had to be bailed out, by those same auditors, at a cost of another total of 35 hours of auditing. They’d gone into slumps. Why? Because the auditor had never bothered to find out what they were talking about.

All right. So, in Step One, you’ve got the uttermost, outermost simplicity you possibly c… it’s just: „BE three feet back of your head.“ It says in the book ‘move’ or ‘step back’. It’s not right. It’s ‘BE’. They’ll get out there better, if you just say ‘be’. Not… not ‘move’, but ‘BE’ three feet back of the head. Three feet’s a better distance than two feet.

The preclear said, „Yup-yub-wub-zub-zoob-thub.“

Now in order to accomplish this – you could make it complicated if you had the back of your preclear a foot from a wall. So you move the preclear out more than three feet from the wall. You want him to have at least five or six feet of leeway between himself and the wall, and between himself and the two side walls. And you do not want him lying on a couch. You want him sitting in a chair. And you want the back of his head above the level of the chair. Why? Guy doesn’t want to move into all that MEST; he’s got an idea about it.

And the auditor raced on over it and he says, „All right, now let’s see. Let’s put that… throw that elephant out the window.“

Matter of fact, you can feel through a bed. You can put a beam down through a featherbed and feel around. It doesn’t feel good. And then you ask the guy to move out, if he’s sure he couldn’t go through a wall how could he be three feet back of his head? Most of them all of a sudden will start going through the wall, and then not notice it’s there, then say, „Oh, gee, there was a wall there. Huh! I got to agree with that.“

And the preclear says, „Wub-lub-zub-zub-zub.“

Now the whole… the whole thing on Step One is just, „Be a couple of feet back of your head.“ We’re gonna assume the guy did and break down this processing step by step, each time assuming that the preclear landed there. Now what do you do next? Do you say, „Look around the room now… oh, you’re not seeing it all. Oh? Um… well, uh… are you sure you have all the objects in place? Now carefully locate all the objects in the room. Now move back in your head, and see where they really are.“ Do you say that? No. We’ll have you up before the Grand High Thetan!

And the auditor says, „Well now, that’s difficult. Well, turn him upside-down.“

And unless… unless you could prove adequately and utterly that you had done it for randomity, you’d probably be convicted of mopery and dopery. Because this is one you should know. So that if you do it, you at least know you’re doing the wrong process. We’re not laying an injunction on you and saying, „Under no circumstances, or at any time, louse up a thetan.“ This is not an injunction which is being laid down. I know a flock of them that could be… stand lousing up from here to the end of eternity! No. I’m not laying down injunctions as to an ethic that you should follow. But you’d better know the right process. That’s a crime, not knowing the right process, see? The doing isn’t. The knowing – the lack of knowing – would be the crime. So let’s… let’s… let’s know that that’s the wrong thing to do, and the right thing to do would be any one of many things, which would enhance his ability to handle space and energy.

And all this time the preclear’s trying to tell him, „I’ve got a facsimile of my mother and it’s stuck right square in my face and I can’t get rid of it.“

If he can handle space and energy adequately, he’ll be able to perceive perfectly. Oh, boy, you talk about perfectly! You could talk about selective sight! Fellow could look at the top of this manuscript and then read through page by page without turning anything over. Selective depth of sight. He could see a molecule deep into this wall, two molecules deep, six molecules deep, clear through to the other side of this plastic, look in and see this side, back side of the plastic. Look in a little bit… plaster… look in a little bit deeper and… and see the… the rafter uh… the lathe uh… look to the other side, and see the… the uh… lathe, and uh… plaster sticking in there, in the brick. All of that stuff. He c… he could see the whole works. Selectively.

And all he gets piled on top of that facsimile is confusion, confusion, confusion, confusion. So he has to bust himself loose from the communication line and handle the situation gruesomely, sometimes, enough, by himself. And he parts company with the auditor right there.

Or he could look at this wall, and through to the next building, and the next wall, and through to the next building and the next wall. But he isn’t going to do any of that if he has to agree with the MEST universe so hard that he doesn’t dare have any force of his own. So that’s what the MEST universe is telling him, „If thou art, I shall not be,“ says the MEST universe. So, you better not be, fella. If the thetan becomes, the MEST universe un-becomes. And so the more he’s agreed with it, the less force he has, and the less force he has reduces his perception. And the reason it reduces his perception is because perception is done in terms of recognition of energy forms.

I know one case… one case in addition to that that had, I don’t know how many arduous hours of auditing and travail piled on the top of this case by this incredible one: THREE TIMES THIS GUY WAS OUT OF HIS HEAD LOOKING AT THE ROOM CLEARLY, TOLD THE AUDITOR SO AND THE RATTLE AND BANG OF COMMAND WHICH CONTINUED TO HAMMER AND POUND HIM WAS SUCH THAT HE COULDN’T MAKE HIMSELF UNDERSTOOD! And he was STILL getting another process that had NOTHING to do with what he was doing!

One has to be able to command energy in order to perceive. Anybody wearing glasses, by the way, is afraid of light beams passing in and out of the optic nerves. And if you just scan him up and down the optic nerve a couple of times, and around… have him look at the optic nerve even while they’re in their head, they’ll find areas dispersing, or they’ll feel lumps of energy in there, that are all gowed up. So there… they don’t… they can’t handle that much force that are on these optic nerves. And uh… uh… they… they just aren’t handling the energy, the photon flow that comes in their eyes. So simple.

Now boy! Take that to heart. He went into apathy finally about getting out of his head or going anyplace or doing anything. He finally just laid down and quit. That’s a wonderful recommendation, isn’t it, for… for an auditor.

Lack of perception equals lack of force. Force’s simply composed of energy and objects. To rehabilitate perception, rehabilitate the preclear’s ability to handle force. What kind of force? Electronic force. You know, all roads lead to Rome on that one. Somebody comes along and says, „What’s the matter… what’s the matter with this preclear, not getting along so-and-so and so on and his ridges keep caving in, and his bank keeps falling in, and… and I hate to have to dig him out of his head all the time, and he can’t lift a finger, and he can’t do… what uh… what’s the answer to it? He hasn’t got enough energy. So his energy needs rehabilitating. Any process then, that rehabilitates his concept of his own energy is a valid process to cure that. And there are dozens of these processes in creative processing. You mock up two figures, and… and have them on a… put them on a… just a… mock up a little wire, and stretch a little energy from the fingers to the wire, and back and forth, and have little beams going out in various directions, and sparks. And put the sparks together, and take them apart. And have ribbons of sparks… anything that has to do with energy.

Three times he was! With full visio and full perceptic. And the last time he got out of his head, and he was finally hauled out of his head, he was hauled out just by main strength and awkwardness, with practically no perception, tone down at the bottom – everything shot – and he would… just crawled back up the line with one hundred and fifteen hours of auditing to straighten him out.

Now where’s responsibility fit in this? Responsibility is the experience manifestation of the taking on command of energy. That’s all. Responsibility is force. Willingness to be, use and have, utilize and own energy and objects sitting in space – that’s responsibility. What is responsibility? It’s the willingness to handle force. If you get a person who’s not even vaguely willing to handle force, you’ve also got a person who is not capable of responsibility.

Why? This dumb yupwell of an auditor didn’t have enough sense, when he said, „Mup-wup-wub-wub,“ to say, „What did you say?“ And he would have found out the guy was having difficulty making his jaws work because he was out of his head.

If you get a manager who’s afraid to hurt somebody, in other words use force on somebody, you’ve got a lousy manager. And that’s the end of it. A fighting ship might have an awful lot of men on it who just hated the hell out of its captain. Might hate his guts from the word go. And follow him to their deaths. Why? He used force. A person using force isn’t trying to be liked. He goes way upscale to get liked. Not way downscale into MEST to be liked. Entirely different thing.

Boy, it… it… it just takes COLOSSAL GENIUS to be that dumb! It’s a two-way communication line and always will be a two-way communication line. The preclear wants something to do and wants cooperation in what he is trying to accomplish.

Responsibility and force are the same thing. Perception and force are the same thing: Energy. Inability to handle energy would mean an inability to perceive. Inability to perceive would mean inability to handle energy. He gets outside and he looks around the room, and he sees nothing. He’s got some vague idea that there might be a body sitting there. It’s kind of dark. Everything’s sort of dismal. But he knows he’s out of his head. He knows he’s back of his head. He’s got some vague look at a couple of hairs. They’re clear. But nothing else is. This condition can occur.

There’re certain things which he can’t do. The auditor, by his auditing, makes it possible for the preclear to accomplish those things. If there is something happening to the preclear that is strange and peculiar, like he keeps getting frying pans in his face or something of the sort, just streams and streams of the damn things. Just… and… and every time he tries to get a mock-up, my God! Here’s all these frying pans keep hitting him in the face.

What do you do? Well, let’s try to rehabilitate a little space, by asking him, „What are you afraid might be there?“ Not sarcastically, but so he’ll… can mock up something there.

The auditor that doesn’t find this out isn’t going to solve it. And he might be so appalled by all these frying pans that he doesn’t communicate it very well and he’s in a sort of a groggy state of being knocked flat, and… and he can’t call ‘em frying pans. He calls them „scllznglumps.“

„Oh, I don’t know. My mother’s the first thing that occurs to me.“

Now, the auditor doesn’t have to insist on a very intelligible communication, as far as words are concerned, but he wants the idea transmitted. If he wants to continue the preclear coming up the line, he will insist upon knowing what it was – not by asking angrily or ornerily or annoyed or anything like that, but just by asking patiently what it was. He’s got to accept the responsibility of his not having heard it. Not make the preclear feel like the preclear is responsible at all times for being super intelligible.

„Okay. Put your mother where your own body’s head is. Now move her way out in front of your body, now let’s put another body of hers, now let’s just start filling the room full of Mama’s bodies. Let’s really fill this room full of Mama. Let’s fill every nook, corner, and cranny, full of Mama.“

Now one of the ways that the auditor accomplishes a rise in tone in the case is you get the guy with frying pans running madly into his face – these frying pans are smashing him and so on – is, let’s take the whole confounded universe full of frying pans and tie pink bows on their handles and then put five handles per frying pan. And let’s just make more of it and more of it and more of it and more of it and more of it. Change the frying pans into other things and change in color. Give him more of it until he finds out, „My golly, these things aren’t going to hurt me no matter how many of them there are.“ And he says, „The dickens with it,“ and uh… he… then he’ll handle one frying pan and then he’ll throw the frying pan away.

The guy’ll have a tendency to kind of draw into his head. This is why it’s a good thing to have an assessment before you do that. Because right there, Johnny on the spot, you already know he’s scared stiff of Mama. So if he said, „I’d hate to see Mama there,“ you know he’s pitching. Because you got that on an E-Meter on the assessment already.

And you get the idea? He’s got a condition he can’t handle because there’s too much of it? Make MORE of it.

He doesn’t want to find in that space those things which he’s afraid of. Those things he’s afraid of really are those things he got a drop on when you did the assessment. So he moves out of his head and he can’t perceive very well. Do you have him start looking at the head, you have him start doing this, doing that, monkeying around? He can’t perceive well. That’s number one.

Because why? The preclear’s been trying practically half his life to slow this thing down and stop it. Naturally, speed it up. Speed it up. Start it. Make him start it. Now he’s got it started, make him do it again. Now make him increase it.

Now you can, of course, unmock things, and mock them up again, and so on, but there’s certain things that are standing right in his road. Now a preclear works best out of his head. He works best not in the body. Because as long as he’s in the body he kicks up ridges. He kicks up flows. Ridges’ll cave in on him. He’s got poor orientation. He could be worked for hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of hours in the body, without bringing him up to the state he really would… should attain, in a relatively few hours outside the body. That’s why these processes suddenly have done this shift over. The test data, resulting from these consistent experiments of how much better people got out… working outside the body, compared to how much better they got working inside the body, establishes without much question that a person working outside the body is mainly shifting postulates, it is not much influenced by energies, objects, ridges and that sort of thing.

In other words, your situation is to take what is… the preclear is unable to do and make him more able to handle it. And handling it consists of placing it in time and space and making it follow a cycle of action – any one of our many cycles of action. Terrific complexity if you wanted to add this up and memorize each command that you would give to a person – terrible complexity. Oh, man!

So, even if you’re having some preclear that you know can get out of his head, mock up, just for the heck of it, move him out first. It’s a good precaution to observe. If you’re going to do some work on yourself, move out, and do it, if you’re just sporadically in and out of the head. So what do you have this fellow do? He can’t perceive, rehabilitate energy by rehabilitating fear of what he might find in space in terms of objects. Objects are much less dangerous than actual liquid flowing molten energy. An object is fairly safe.

All you have to know is, you take any item of any kind and make it follow any cycle of action in such a way, on a gradient scale, that the preclear’s able to make it do it.

So he’s willing to see an object. An object is a condensed piece of energy. As long as it’s a condensed piece of energy, you’ve got to be able to handle energy to really handle objects. But the object is the easier thing to handle. That’s why people want things from solid objects instead of fluid objects.

Now on this communication: If you don’t find out what that preclear’s doing, you’ll be led into some of the weirdest rat traps you ever heard of. „This preclear,“ you’ll say, „this preclear is just sharper… sharper than a well-honed carpet tack, and here he is. Why, my goodness! Look at those mock-ups. Why, he’s just doing wonderfully.“

All right, so we get him outside his head, and he looks around, and he can’t see well, or the space is all knocked to the devil, and you don’t know what on earth he’s looking at. He said, „I’m just back of the chandelier.“ And there’s no chandelier in the room. Now don’t think he’s kidding you. And don’t think he’s kidding himself. He knows he’s out and he is out. But a thetan depends on the body to orient him in space and time because the body furnishes a present time set of anchor points. And he gets outside and he loses his present time anchor points, and he doesn’t know where the devil he is.

You’ve given him mock-ups and you’ve given him this, and he says, „Yup, yup, yup, yup, yup, yup, yup.“ Can’t feed them to him fast enough, „Yup, yup, yup, yup, yup, yup, yup, yup.“

Furthermore, space is caved in on him again, so he’s got the room out of his nursery when he was a baby uh… and the bed he sees there is the bed he saw in his barracks during the war, and the girl who is standing in the corner and keeps lookin’ at him is one of his nurses. Lord, God! He… he’s… he’s all fouled up, and he knows it. You let him worry about this? Not for a second.

And you all of a sudden say, „Where was it?“

You say, „Okay, you see a nurse over in the corner, that’s fine. Turn her dress pink. Turn it blue, turn her upside down, put her in another corner of the room.“

„Well, I’m just… concept of it, let’s see. All right, now, go ahead.“

He says, „Well, for heaven sakes, there she goes! Ha ha ha ha ha! Well! I guess I wasn’t seeing spooks after all!“

And you say, „What the hell? Let’s… let’s get that mock-up and let’s put it out in front of you.“

And you say, „All right, now take that chandelier…“

„Oh, I can do that?“ he’ll say.

He told you he was behind the chandelier, so you don’t say there is no chandelier, you say… he’s… he says, „Behind the chandelier.“

„Come on, let’s put it out in front of you. Let’s make it.“ A mock-up is a thing. It isn’t something somebody thought up as a concept, or imagined it or assumed that he could.

You say, „All right, take the chandelier, and exchange it for a statue standing upside down. Now put the statue right side up, wrong side up, make it float horizontally, put it over on the south wall, put it on the north wall.“

And you’ll very often find these cases that just… just get illusions just like mad. They haven’t even asked themselves, „Have I got an object?“ No, they haven’t got an object. It is not located in space and time; they’re in proximity to them. Here’s communication, then.

Now don’t get him shifting things around in relationship to his body, because he’s not in his body. And don’t get his shifting and relating things before and behind him, because he probably doesn’t quite know which is ahead and behind him, and you get a thetan looking both ways simultaneously, he’s capable of seeing at three hundred and sixty degrees. And he’ll put the right-hand wall and the left-hand wall on a superimposition sometimes. And sometimes he’ll see a chair standing over there on the right-hand wall, over on the left-hand wall. Or he’ll see its back on the left-hand wall and its seat on the right-hand wall. Why? Because he’s looking with three hundred and sixty degrees sphere… spherical vision. So of course he mixes up his dimensions and crosses them. Until he’s got space under control he may continue to do this.

So you get bewildered as the devil sometimes. You’ll see some case that’s down there around 12 or 14, step 15, and they’ll just be doing wonderfully. „Brrrrrrrrrrrr!“

So don’t worry too much about this. You just give him general directions about walls. And if he’s spooky about walls have him put some walls in. And now say… now say, „Put a north wall in.“ He says, „Which way is north?“ „Make up your own north.“ „Okay, that’s north.“

You know, you say, „That’s just great! That’s just great! That’s just great!“

He’s way out back of his head, someplace, probably, holding on to a couple of molecules against the wall for dear life. And you say, „All right, that’s north. Now right there, take that statue you just mocked up, and uh… turn it right side up, and put it against the south wall…“ and so forth.

Unless you ask this one question: „Where is the mock-up? Where did you put it? What are you doing with it?“ Oh, maybe the preclear can immediately do these things, but they haven’t been doing ‘em. You’ll find out they’ll slow right on down – grind. And they aren’t going „Yup, yup, yup, yup, yup, yup, yup,“ anymore. They’re going „Yes. Hmmm yes. Yes. Hmm yes. Hmm.“

In other words, take the items of this room that he perceives and turn them into something else. Then shift them around. And if you’ve got E-Meter assessment data, have him fill the room up, and start handling from where he is, the things which he can’t handle. ‘Cause he’s actually afraid those things exist in the space where he is existing. He’s stuck on the time track, in other words, and the way you get him unstuck on the time track is to put into the time he thinks he’s finding, mock-ups of the position on the track, until he can handle them and until he says, „Well the heck with this time, I’ll move to some other time.“

It’s about that time you pitch in and say,“ Well, only make it turn half a turn.“ You don’t give ‘em a chance to find out they couldn’t make it do a full turn.

Now there’s another system you can use to bring him up to present time, which is nowhere near as good. That is to say, you can say, „Pick up this room when it was constructed and move it on forward to present time, then move it right on forward into the future.“ He’s liable to hit that on any of five tracks, and it doesn’t lead to a certainty. What’s the test of a good technique? The test of a good technique and the gradient scale of the goodness of techniques would be the gradient scale of certainties.

And you’ll find out it’s an entirely different atmosphere settles down. And they’ll probably start what’s apparently down scale and start gettin’ mean and ornery and nasty and… and uh… vicious in various directions and… and they’ll start picking up some somatics and other things will start happening. I don’t mean slow ‘em down, I mean make them get what you’re asking them to get. When you tell them to do something, then find out if they did it.

So a technique which leads to a certainty is superior to a technique which leads to a partial certainty. So scanning the room through he might hit any one of about five tracks. So that’s not as certain as the other. But you can still do it, and it’s still a good technique, and once in a while in desperation, do it! And once in a while, just for the hell of it, do it! Find out what happens.

If you were conning a ship and you didn’t get a repeat from the steersman, you’d be on the rocks sometime in your career – probably in the first year or so of your career – because you would have said, „Right standard rudder.“ There’s a big freighter coming down the channel, pocketa – pocketa – pocketa, and you say, „Right standard rudder.“ And you’d say, „Well, that’s good. We’ve now got…“ and the freighter is getting bigger and it’s getting bigger. „Well, I SAID ‘right standard rudder’.“ Finally you rush into the wheelhouse madder than hell! „What right standard rudder?“ you will find. Too late then. The Marine Insurance Company gets rich.

All right, you get two preclears, and you scan them up through this track, by the way, and they both arrive in present time again, and they’ll have a heck of a fight. One went on the imaginary track, and the other one went on his own facsimile track; they didn’t go on the same track when you scanned them up through the history of the room. One says the room is going to burn up in two days, and the other one says it’ll be here in the year 2006, at which time it’ll be destroyed by an atom bomb. That’s future havingness. That’s going to be established by somebody.

Yeah, if they didn’t have accidents, you see, they wouldn’t get rich. Wouldn’t have accidents, nobody’d ever insure anything.

People are changing havingness all the time, within the agreements of change. So the will-have is not certain. But the has, present time, has – present time, of course, can still exist from the past. That’s a static. I mean, that’s a lump. That’s just a… it’s… ‘cause you see, it’s easy, ‘cause that’s just a mass of illusions, and they’ve agreed they do have, and then agreed they don’t have.

Well, anyhow, uh… didn’t that ever occur to you before? Well, anyway. Yeah, that’s why you can’t get an automobile campaign to stop automobile accidents in the United States. You can’t. It’s a billion buck business. If you didn’t have any automobile accidents, nobody would ever buy any insurance. They’ve got insurance up at the roof now. Brother, it’s really at the roof!

All right, so we get him up the track. How do we do it, then? We’re trying to find present time. That’s what we’re trying to do. We’re trying to put the thetan in present time with some space in present time. We’ve moved him out of his head, and he couldn’t see well. Boy, that is the most average case you’ll get. He moved out and he couldn’t see. Or what he did see was all haywire. So just have him take all the objects he sees and change them into something else, doesn’t matter how ridiculous, turn ‘em upside down, plaster them around the neighborhood, move them, change them in position and time, and con… color, age, and size and throw ‘em away.

I think they have five thousand dollar deductible, or something like that, and the car costs you two hundred dollars and the insurance costs you eighteen hundred dollars. And if you have an accident, you pay the company five thousand – or something like that. They’ve got it really worked out real good,

Ask him once, „Well, what do you see now?“ „Now.“ or „Now how does it look to you?“ Very, very strange, because he will not take this usually as a check-up on his perception and really what you want to know, when you say, „How does it look to you,“ you only want to know this: What else have we got to mock up around here?

Uh… now, communication line with the preclear… communication line with the preclear consists of an outgoing communication from the auditor and a return communication from the preclear. Deal in certainties; deal only in certainties. When you have a communication with the… line with the preclear, find out if you have a communication line with the preclear. And deal in certainties.

You’re not looking around, by the way, to find out what there is in the room he has to change. Uh-uh. You’re looking at what he’s looking at. You don’t care what’s in that room. The second he lost his body he lost his orientation point, because there went his havingness. So his time went shot on him. If he hasn’t got his havingness, of course he’s all fouled up on time instantly. And he has an insecurity on his havingness now because he suddenly realized he’s not that body. That body owns things, he doesn’t. He knows all sorts of things.

If you are dealing with a preclear who can’t communicate with you very well, make it possible for them to do so. If you will just give some person who can’t talk adequately, a switch on a little light lamp or a flashlight or something so that they can say ‘blink’ and ‘blink-blink’, or – fix it up so they nod ‘yes and no’, or… or… or some sort of a system like that…

So the second his havingness is upset, that is to say he no longer has a body, he’s all out of gear. But as a thetan he was kind of out of gear, too. He was sitting inside this dark hole looking at a flock of facsimiles that came in, and… and he wasn’t quite sure where he was, but the ridge said 1952, Philadelphia. Well, he’d buy this, better than anything else. He knows that when it all… when a doorknob appears on that ridge he can work a certain set of bars and things like that, in a kind of a hopeless little prisoner way, and the door knob will turn and open; he doesn’t run into something. He’s… he doesn’t know he’s there, and he doesn’t want to be there.

Or if they’re deaf and they can’t hear what you’re saying, you can do an awful lot of auditing with ‘em with SELF ANALYSIS by just sitting there and putting your pencil on the lines until they say, „Um-hmm,“ or when they say, „Hmm-umm.“ Then have a little note pad there right alongside of you so that you can give them a modification of what they couldn’t do. You get the idea?

So, you can just count on it that he’s not in present time, that he’s not perceiving well. And if you suddenly find him perceiving perfectly, boy, stand by to be stunned! Because that almost never happens. A thetan that’s… would have enough power… would have enough power to see perfectly, it’d be kind of doubtful if he was in a body. ‘Cause if he had that much power, he could use power like mad in all directions.

Communication is a two-way proposition and is never a one-way proposition. And when it gets into a one-way proposition, it’s very bad.

So, you drill mock-ups. And then get him to drill mock-ups of beams. And get him to mock up beams before you make him use beams, for the good reason that once in a while you’ll move out an invader force, and he will get sick as a… sick as can be. At the thought – he’ll start to use energy, and then all of a sudden a feeling of terror and degradation will come over him, of such magnitude that it will cause you a lot of trouble. He’ll start to use it and all of a sudden he’ll say, „Oh, my God, I’m…“ and he’ll recognize and he will remember what he is and kind of know where he comes from and so forth, he’ll dive right back into the head – splash! And he won’t come out again.

If I never listened to, for instance, to what difficulty auditors were having, and if I never assessed what auditors were doing, boy we would really be drifting off in a dream castle with these lectures. If I never observed what was happening. If I pulled a Howes on you… or a… any other dull character and just go off into an airy cloud of ‘Let’s pretend’, you wouldn’t have enough information to bother with. This wouldn’t even vaguely fit the MEST universe.

So don’t ask him to use energy, really, unless you run down to the lower steps. Then… so you make him feel degraded. You can handle that.

I could give you the theoretical data that would fit any universe – sure, sure. Yeah. I could give you a theory by which you could go to work, maybe, and find out what was going on.

All right, you move him out, do mock-ups on handling energy, do mock-ups on being hit by balls of energy, do mock-ups of things appearing in the space which he has, put out spacation, that sort of thing, until you’ve moved his perception up the line a little bit. Now you have him knock apart… he… you s… every time he’s talked to you he hasn’t seen the body. He’s… the lot… he’s lost. It’s there someplace. Or every time he starts to look at it, it’s black. It’s just a black lump.

The reason why this subject’s gotten as far as it has and we’re getting the results I have, is because I have a two-way communication line. You’d be surprised what kind of a communication line it is sometimes. It’s quite often not a talk or letter communication line – of recent months particularly.

Well, you have to start mocking up the body, and knocking it off. And mocking it up and knocking it off. And then you mock up the selective parts of the body. The arms, the legs, the hands. Everything you can, and you just start.

But I get it from preclears, I get it from auditors. I get successful usages in the strangest ways. I find out whose bank balances are what. Yeah. I find out who’s being very successful about it.

Now you can still read this preclear on an E-Meter, you understand, if he didn’t have good perception, because he’s hooked to the body by communication lines, and he’ll register and reactivate the ridges with what he’s thinking. So he’s still sitting there with this E-Meter on him, you just run each one of these mock-ups until he is stable on it. You’ve got an assessment there, you see, anyhow. You just run that assessment. If you haven’t got an assessment there, just start filling the room up, and tearing up things, and changing things, and so on, and using energy.

I find out the boys that are being the most successful about it, from a standpoint of bank balances out as practicing auditors, and so on, are putting up with the least nonsense. That’s fascinating, isn’t it? They’re putting up with the least nonsense. They’re being cause. They’re not agreeing with anybody worth a damn.

Now, when he gets up to a point where he actually has some perception, he can see the body, you mock up the body and knock it off, until at last he realizes the body isn’t the powerful brute he thought it was, and he’s willing to look at it, it doesn’t emanate all this energy at him, and so forth. You just go right straight in, to lifting exercises.

And I find out all the boys that are running around saying, „Well, I’ll prove it to you if I can,“ are broke. And I find all the boys that are running around and saying, „We’ve got to have the acceptance of the American Spoodle-Pad Dog Cleaners Association.“ That’s one of the earlier chartered names of the AMA, I think – uh… they’re broke, too. They’re broke too.

By ‘lifting exercises’ we mean you get him to a point where he can move around without snapping back in, and stand above the hand. If he can’t do that yet adequately, we mock him up some more on handling energy, handling forms, move… positioning things in time and space, putting out anchor points, and occasionally unmocking things. In other words we just go through this drill, and we’re working up to get his perception on. We’re getting this perception on by handling energy. And when we get his perception on, then we just get him… perception on to a point not where he can count every slightest thing, but where he can lift one finger. And he will get the strangest sensation, he’ll start to lift this finger and it’ll slide sideways or something like that.

And the characters that are running around saying, „Well, Hubbard’s no good. Hubbard’s no good. And what’s wrong with Scientology is Hubbard“ – they’re broke. And furthermore, they’re much more thoroughly hated than I am. They don’t realize the people they’re talking to happen to be agreeing with them for politeness’s sake. But a lot of people they talk to then immediately and automatically decide that Hubbard must be wonderful.

And up to that time it’s halfway imaginary to him, maybe, that… that… that he’s outside. It’s kind of imaginary and it flicks on real and real, he kind of knows he is, he’s willing to say he is, and so forth, and – he’s perceiving all right, but not too good, and you get him around here and he’s working a hand, but it’s possibly a mock-up too, that he can’t quite control. He’s got that little uncertain feeling on the thing, and then he’ll all of sudden, he… he feels this finger pull out like that without any energy.

In real fact, neither one of them have a sound opinion of the matter. It just goes on opposites.

Now you know how that feels, if you were to… it’s just… you… you can get the feeling yourself, if you’ll just reach over, just put your hand down, and just suddenly move the finger over with your other finger. You can tell very immediately, you see, that you aren’t moving the finger internally. Now make the finger move like that, without shifting it from outside. You’ve got an entirely different sensation there.

So if you could have a hundred thousand people going around saying how horrible Hubbard was, you could just absolutely count on the fact that I would have a couple hundred thousand friends in practically no time at all. They’d say, „Who is this Hubbard?“ „Well, he’s the fellow that invented the Goodyear Tire formula – a fine fellow. Must be something in Goodyear Tires. Let’s buy Goodyear Tires.“

All of sudden he’ll recognize this sensation, „My God, yes, I am.“ „What do you know! Oh, gee!“

It’s just as irrational as that.

He’s liable to fly immediately inside, at which time you coax him out and rehabilitate him again. You rehabilitate him by being… getting him cuffed with hands, or anything else. Get him outside again. Bring him around – – here to get him working on that finger again. Or you can work on that finger by stretching up a couple of anchor points.

Now two-way communication line. Well, you’re sitting here – you’ve got a subject. It’s uh… been kind of a rough deal, but it was gotten on a two-way communication system. Not just one – you observe. See, communication is, in essence, observation. You want somebody else to observe, they want you to observe. Or they don’t want you to observe and you do, and you don’t want them to observe and they do.

„Hang two anchor points on the ceiling. Got two anchor points there? Okay. Now look at those in relationship to the finger. Now pass a line from one end, around the finger and up to the other one. Well you got that? Okay. Now, push the anchor points apart.“ Finger comes up. You got that?

Any way that you want to rig it. It’s observation. And when you think of communications ordinarily, you think of it in symbolical terms: Letters, talk – that sort of thing. That’s not a communication line. A communication line has to do with perception, and the essence of perception is observation.

Or, you have him build a tripod over the finger. That’s not nearly as good, it makes him feel like a grasshopper. Which he’s not. And uh… there are a lot of angles you can use – that one with the two anchor points Nibs was chewing around with – and it’s very very interesting.

And then people that communicate the worst, you can automatically say about them people, that they are observing the least. Or what they’re – observing, they’re observing wrong. Or they’re afraid they will observe it wrong. Or they’re afraid they’ll observe it right and therefore don’t dare observe.

Of course, if you take two anchor points up here, above his head, and pass ‘em down to the finger, and postulate that they’re holding on to the finger, and postulate that they’re okay up there and now that the line won’t stretch, you move the anchor points apart, further, and naturally the finger’s going to lift up. Matter of fact, when you start to pick up a whole arm or something like that, you can just slap those anchor points apart, simultaneously, and it’ll lift that arm up in the air like it’s in an express elevator.

So you get the idea: It isn’t just what your preclear’s saying. It’s what he’s doing. Honest to Pete! I’ve seen auditors… I’ve just stood with horror and watched a session going on. Preclear… eyes begin to turn red and they’re watering, you know, and the preclear’s in horrible condition. And he’s getting… terrible condition! And the auditor is insisting on going ahead in some entirely different tack, you see. And he’s just passed right over the subject that he was just on, and he’s off on some other subject.

Okay. You’re working up toward that, no matter how slow, or by what gradient scales you work toward that. You do lifting exercises until he can at least adequately lift a couple of fingers and drop them again. And you don’t leave the lifting of fingers until he can lift and drop with fair rapidity. You let him fool around with fingers until he’s really confident. And he drops them, picks them up, cuts them loose, picks them up, cuts them loose, picks them up, cuts them loose.

He said, „All right,“ – now he… he’s just got through saying, „Take your mother now. Now stuff her into the stove. Okay, now take grandfather and stuff him into the stove.“ And all of a sudden the auditor’s eyes are completely red as fire – pardon me, the preclear’s eyes are as red as fire – and the auditor is just going on with another type of mock-up entirely. He hit something. He hit something and it’s just about as observable… it isn’t… doesn’t take any fine insight. Uh… all… all it takes is, „Don’t sit there and look at your own shoes!“

Generally, somewhere along the line, he’ll say, „You know, I think I can lift two or three.“

Sometime – I mean, these signs are strictly red paint. They… exclamation point! Bells like… You know these fancy, great big pinball games that cost a quarter to play? Did you ever see one? Well, I just invented ‘em. They’re ten times as big as any… any pinball machine imaginable, and they not only have bells, but they have gongs and sirens on them. And if you fancied a uh… machine up like this and had its lights flashing and sparklers going and firecrackers going off inside of the things, and big searchlights and small men hitting huge gongs with hammers, the way London Films runs, uh… you get some kind of an idea of, really, the picture you’re looking at. I mean, it’s this active. It isn’t just this… this thing sitting there. It’s moving. It’s… it’s emoting. It’s acting. It’s got… conditions are happening.

You say, „Try two.“

If… if in a single session you don’t kind of watch this preclear’s face change five or six times, you’re not getting anyplace. You haven’t done a good assessment.

And he’ll pick those up and drop them, pick those up and drop them, and it’ll be very interesting to him. You keep up that exercise, and get him moving around with the hand, the arm, the other hand, the arm, and the next thing you know, you’re going to have a guy’s concept of his own power upstairs very quick. And I’m sure, much, much faster, much faster, than by any other method I know at this time.

But if you’ve done a good assessment and you’re giving just routine mock-up processing, you’re really watching something happen. And then you’ll get off into a monotone. You’re still watching something happen from a preclear – monotone. He starts saying, „Yeah – yeah – yeah – yeah. Yam.“ No relief. You missed it. You missed picking up a ‘can’t’. He couldn’t do something and didn’t indicate it to you. And his perceptions start to get worse and worse and worse and the mock-ups get poorer and poorer and poorer. You just missed the boat utterly. He got… he sank into kinda a boredom. Because he missed something.

But you understand, clearly, that these lifting exercises, you address the quote, actual, unquote, which means the preclear’s mock-up, and then address the quote, unquote REAL, which means the MEST universe, hand that he owns. You’re beginning your lifting exercise. You know he can see his hand, he finally tells you that, well that’s time to begin him. Have him mock up another hand, and handle this mock-up, and monkey around with the mock-up, and position it in time and space for a while. And then mock up the finger, and then make it bigger and bigger as a mock-up until it becomes utterly incredible.

At least every 20 minutes your preclear ought to laugh – at least every 20 minutes in a process. He ought to… he ought to giggle or feel relieved or something of the sort. If you’re not doing that, you’re not hitting close home. And you’re missing ‘can’ts’.

„Now let’s have a hand the size of Philadelphia, and now let’s get a finger that weighs eight billion six hundred and seventy-five thousand tons, and now let’s just say, „Up finger!“ and have it lift… Okay, you got that? Drop it back again.“

You told him, „All right. All right now, you take your dog – got your dog now? All right. Put him in front of you there. All right, now make him bark. Now pick up the sound of that bark. Now make him bark sadly.“

He’ll say, „It smashed the Penn Station.“

And the guys says, „Uh… yeah – yeah! Make him bark sadly. That’s right – ha-ha! He’s saying, ‘Wuff.’„

You say, “Okay, – okay, now put all that in last week.“ And now we’ll address the… his hand.

You say, „All right, now make him bark with great enthusiasm.“

And he’ll feel very powerful the first moment he does it, he’ll say, „Well that’s all right, I can do that I guess.“

„Yup.“

And now all of a sudden nothing happens. And nothing happens. And he’ll fool around with this, and you’ll say, „Come on, put a tractor beam on it, and pull it on up. Now, that’s right, wrap it around there.“ He can’t do it yet, have him mock up a hand again. Do it to the hand. Keep his confidence up by getting him to operate the mock-up properly, until he can lift his body’s hand. Then from there go on to all the fingers, the hand itself, the forearm, the arm, the other fingers of the other hand… you just go back to lifting one finger again, when you shift over to the other arm. Then the hand of that arm, then the forearm, each time practicing particularly on a fast disconnect.

„All right, now put him behind you and uh… make him wag his tail. Now get the feeling of the tail slapping from side to side. Now actually feel that tail hit as though it’s something solid. You got that?“ „Yeah.“ „Now, all right. Put him below you. You got him?“ „Yeah.“ „Put him above your head.“ „Yeah.“ „Put him on the right of you.“ „Yeah.“ „Put him on the left of you.“ „Yeah“.

And get a fast lift on both arms before you go for the feet. And when you get down to the feet, make the toe of one foot shift. And then finally make the ankle turn one way or the other, and then finally start picking up the leg. You’ll have this guy flying through the air in no time s… And you finally pick the body up. And it’s a great shock to them when they do that.

Uh-umm. You missed the boat somewhere! He hasn’t got that dog, that’s all. If you were to ask him suddenly, „Have you got the dog?“ she’d say, „Yes.“ That isn’t good enough.

Well all the time, this guy’s concept of his own energy is best stabilized by the realization that he is handling something which he has been having trouble handling. And the dispersals in the body get very quiet, and the entities shut up, and everything calms down. You’re rehabilitating energy. And of course his perception turns up when you do this. He gets to be very tough. He’ll get to be nine thousand six hundred and forty-two feet tall in this process.

You say, „Where?“

Now, after you’ve handled the body in this fashion, after you’ve handled the body very excellently and adequately in this fashion, you make some tests of the body. Have him stay outside, and you’ll find out while he was handling the body he had a tendency to snap in whenever he hurt himself by lifting too hard on a finger or something of the sort. He had a tendency to snap back into his head. So you just skip that, and uh… uh… I mean, just so, you just have him do it again. So he’d snap back in, just move him out again, and start in again.

„In front of me. He kept on standing in front of me and I kept putting on… oh, now I’ve got about four dogs around here, but I’ll get ‘em assembled any minute – any minute now. And I finally figured out that they’re facsimiles of the same dog in front of me, and they’re just memories of this dog in front of me. And I…“ He… he really did that. So after a while, then he’d sud… if you just kept on he would say, „Well, I didn’t uh… quite uh…“ He just didn’t make the grade and uh… he just went into apathy about it and now he’s got a little shadow or something that… he’s fooling around with this little shadow.

You make sure that even though the body’s hurt, that is to say clip it on some of its nerve centers. Uh… there’s these… did you ever have the doctor pound on your knee with a little mallet? Well, pound on his knee with a mallet. Get some nerve reactions. Uh… so forth. Don’t mangle him particularly, but see if he has a tendency to move in. And that’s what you mark. The tendency. It isn’t hurting him badly and having him move in. If you snap him just a little bit, or he’s nervous about your snapping him, and he gets a little bit closer to the head if we’d… if when you start to snap… nuh-uh. He’s not a Theta Clear. You have him out there so he just leans up against the wall and says, „Well, okay, bash its head in.“

Now he’s told you everything’s black. All of a sudden he said, „Everything’s black.“

Now if he continues to be nervous about the head, of snapping back into the head every time you start to tap him, or something like that, or pinch him a little bit, there is another drill. And I don’t know how far to advise you on this other drill. Uh… and I’m just going to say it in passing, and leave it up on a test basis. Because I would not go so far as to advise you to get anybody to handle somebody else’s body. It should be adequate for you to just have him throw his own body around some more. Until he can really throw that body around. That’s from outside. He’s picking up the body from outside. And that is, you would go up along the level of taking ahold of somebody’s ear down the street and making them turn their head. Make attention, or get the attention from the outside of another body. Legitimate test. Though I haven’t tested it out too much.

You say, „All right. Get a black spot, do this with it, do that with it, do something or other with it. Handle it this way.“

I would go from there to monkeying around with other MEST objects, that were intimately his, and so on. And fool with them, develop some more energy. When he finds out that he can lift something else besides his body, he will feel then that he can attract somebody’s attention; you’ve solved a problem: How does he stay in communication.

And he’ll go, „All right. Yeah. Fine. Fine. Fine.“

But I seriously doubt that this individual will be very upset about coming back in, if he’s handled his body by lifting exercises. As I say, if he is, why there’s two ways to go about it, and that’s rehabilitating a little bit further up toward an operating thetan. Which we will cover, at some length. Or make him fee… handle objects so that he can more closely rehabilitate himself. Make it so he’s fairly sure he can communicate when he gets outside, or he could attract somebody else’s attention.

And you say, „All right. Now put something out in front of you. Now put something else out in front of you. Now put it behind you.“

Now one of the things that’ll set back a „One“ is the fact that he goes around and long before he’s got much horsepower he’s ready to do anything, he’ll start helping somebody else or pulling their ridges off, or – doing some darned thing. He’s liable to have a ridge blow up in his face. He’s liable to get sick, body’s liable to get sick. He hasn’t increased his horsepower any… to amount to anything. He starts fooling around, and he’ll start going here, and going there, and doing this and doing that, before he is stable outside of his body. And he’s just causing the auditor more trouble. So the time of auditing that goes in on this ought to be fairly rapid. If you get a guy „One“, or you get a guy outside of his head, and he knows he’s outside of his head, any time you’ve got that condition, move right on through with the alternate mock-up and lifting exercises, until you’ve got the guy stable outside. If you leave him too long, or just let it drift too long or something like that, he’s gonna go out and get himself in trouble.

He’s a little bit puzzled, but he’s going ahead and doing this. Find out what he’s doing. You… he’s changed. I mean, you don’t have to have a whole flock of theta perceptics on him. You’ve either got a meter on him and the meter suddenly started to knock around, which is the easiest way to see changes, or you simply look at him, and he’s all of a sudden got a… a big twitch, like this, you know? Something… something not quite easily observed.

Now what do you do with somebody who has a persistent and continual perceptic shut-off on some particular selective thing? That means that he has an unwillingness to handle force on that one thing. If it’s sound, he’s generally worried about explosions. Because out in space and places where a thetan has been, the only time he heard sound was in the middle of disaster. And that was when energy hit him, and the energy acted as a conductive unit of sound instead of air, air being a specialized kind of energy. This is raw energy. Something blew up, went Kapow! See? And the only way he could have heard the kapow in the airlessness of space, was when it was conducted by the electricity of the kapow. So a sound, or a sudden sound, is to him a blow. And this blow is an invalidation. He becomes convinced that he can be hurt by sound, which is a no good conviction at all, because he can’t be hurt by sound, unless it’s a specially rigged supersonic.

And you say, „What’s the matter? What… what are you doing there? Did you get it behind you all right?“ „Well, yes.“ You say, „Well, how did you get it behind you?“

How do you do this? Have him mock up wet firecrackers and things exploding.

„Well, I’ve developed a system for doing this.“ „Now what sort of a system have you developed for doing this?“

Now anywhere along here creative processing can im… apply. But you’ll find out that you’ve got some specialized cases, and you should have gotten in the assessment; if you’ll just go through these parts of the body, and the dynamics, and relatives, on your assessment, if it’s as thorough as that, you’ve got his disabilities. And if you’ve got a lot of these ‘can’ts’, you’ve got a lot of material to work on. And you can work these can’ts up to the time when you’re able to enter in and begin the lifting exercises. And he’ll come up to the point where he can lift, or get up to the point of lifting exercise, if you work out his can’ts with mock-ups.

„Well, the system I’ve just developed for this, is when I move them behind me I found out I had a lot of trouble getting the thing from there to there. So what I would do is I would recreate one behind me and drop a black curtain over the one in front of me.“

See, you’ve moved him out, he’s out, now what do you do? Now you don’t let him immediately try to solve all the problems of the world. These are a terrible shock to him. You take your list of can’ts, you take his condition of perception, you start filling up space with… the space around him with objects he doesn’t want there, or if the space consists on being full of objects he doesn’t want there, you fill it fuller for him, by just telling him to put more in, and more in, and more in, and more in, until he says finally, „The devil with it,“ and starts kicking them out.

Here’s the source of this boy’s occlusion. And you look around and you say, „Hey. Reach over now in front of you and lift that curtain. Now find another black curtain and lift that.“

You answer up to his feeling of scarcity about bodies by having him mock up and handle the various bodies of people that he’s been upset about in his past, and particularly his own body. Mocking it up and cutting it to pieces.

My God! He’s looking at every mock-up you’ve given him. He’s still got ‘em all sitting in front of him. He needs to be drilled on time, in other words. He’s drilled on putting things in yesterday and getting rid of things once he has them, making them disappear. Just drill him on it – on a gradient scale.

Well, there’s your level of operation. And all the time his perception is getting better and better and more and more certain. You’ll find the disabilities. Remember that… that uh… he will have these, and these are important to you, because by these you rehabilitate his ability to handle energy in space, and his can’ts or things that he would hate to find in space. If he’s not willing to create and he’s not willing to destroy something he’d also hate to find it in space. He might like pussycats, and think they’re just wonderful. But if you process him long enough on the things, there’ll be only one thing he can think of. And that is destroy the dickens out of ‘em. Because it’s a big overt act he’s probably most of the time dramatizing. If it’s elephants that he’s afraid of, he’s probably done an overt act against elephants, and so forth.

„Just put up. something and put it in yesterday.“ And he says, „I can’t.“

All kinds of things that you can find, then, in can’ts are used, and if used will improve perceptics. And every time you’re running these can’ts, slip in some energy. Some raw energy. Ribbons, flows of water, raw energy manifestations. And when you… when the guy… when the… when the preclear has a body out there and you have this body dissolve, every once in a while have it dissolve down to a pool of raw, crackling energy. Just having it swell out and the… then roll up into big balls of blue lightning, which you turn red, and turn blue, and then roll them out the window and have them explode outside or something of this sort. Just rig in there someplace, every once in a while, as much as he can take it, some raw energy. And then, as I say, he’s heard these explosions and that sort of thing, so every once in a while, why, mock up something like a wet firecracker blowing up or something on this order. Make it big and rough at first. They’re really charry of these explosions. The dispersal parts of the band are tough for the guy you give them to.

And you say, „Well, put up something smaller and less significant and put it in yesterday.“ And you finally get something so worthless that he can part with it.

Go into the lifting exercises, you generally will have a Theta Clear who’s quite stable outside of his body. If he isn’t, bring him upscale a little bit higher. And there, we handle ‘One’. Really nothing to ‘One’. That’ll be fifty percent of your cases. I’ve given you a formula for handling him. That formula will work for you, providing you do one thing: Listen to what the preclear’s telling you. It’ll work particularly well if you have a goad E-Meter assessment. Very well, if you have a good E-Meter assessment.

And, suppose he couldn’t do any of these things? Give him a toothpick and tell him to throw it out the window. „Now throw another toothpick out the window. Now get a mock-up of a toothpick and throw it out the window. Oh, you’ve got that? All right, get a mock-up of two toothpicks and throw them out the door. Oh, you’ve got that? Okay.“

Now there’s one kind of ‘One’ that you must know about. And that is the ‘One’ who does a bunk. You say, „Be two feet back of your head,“ and WHAM! Gone! The body sags, it’s just a rag doll and there you sit. You say, „Hey! Hey, whoa! Where are you?“ They’re just passing by galaxy thirteen. On their way out. They think there is an out in that direction. They don’t want anything more to do with it, they generally will be running the glee of insanity. They’re feeling their responsibility is such that they just… bang. You just sit there, and you persuade them… oh, that’s a horrible feeling by the way, you… might happen to you quite suddenly, it’s always completely… so fast, you quite… don’t quite know… have any warning about it.

And you go right on up along the line and mock-ups all clear up and everything’s getting beautiful. Honest to Pete, they will do the damnedest things! You’ll think they’ve got some comprehension… a preclear’s got some comprehension of what’s happening. And he’ll all of a sudden start to kid himself.’ And then he’ll start to kid you like mad. And if you aren’t watching him, if you haven’t got him on an E-Meter, you might as well be just talking to the moon.

So you make ‘em… make the right hand move, make the left hand move… They might be, actually, unable to make the body operate from this distance, or they might be blown out, or something of this sort. This person’s… my experience, has always got the glee of insanity very heavily. So you get them to get their postulates about how beautiful… how beautiful responsibility is. And they’ll say, „It’s not. Don’t want anything more to do with it.“ You get into an argument on… with them on that when you finally get them back in.

He’ll recover from this sooner or later, he’d pick it up next session or something of the sort. But from the moment that he hits a heavy ‘can’t’ and it’s missed, from then on things get dimmer and worse. That’s one for you to put in the book.

Yeah… you can sit there for quite a while. You just persuade them to finally wiggle their fingers.

Your job is to establish ‘can’, the condition of ‘can’ in the preclear – not the condition of ‘can’t’. And if you’ve got any kind of a goal at all, that… that would be the goal! You’re establishing ‘can’. He CAN create snakes.

You don’t have to give them a big sales talk, but sometimes, sometimes, „Think of your poor auditor“ is the last ditch. „Think of the family,“ think of these various things, „Think of your poor auditor.“ The toughest one I know of came home on that. And uh… that’s a problem; don’t let it rattle you, don’t let it worry you, because this preclear will come back. Preclear won’t if you get hysterical and walk off, or run away.

And you start right out here at the beginning with an assessment to find out what he can’t, so that you can increase his capability. And you start right out at the beginning. You can give all kinds of sessions to people – little odds and ends of sessions and so forth, and maybe three- quarters of the time get away with it without giving him any assessment. Nine-tenths of the time, maybe, you can get away without an assessment.

Uh… so, what do you do? You just get ‘em to work their right hand, and their left hand and get them to work their head a little bit this way, and a11 of a sudden uh… well, they’re okay, and they’ll animate again. But boy, that’s the deadest looking body you ever saw, when somebody does a bunk.

But, like me, you’re gonna hit somebody at 2:30 in the morning and all of a sudden hit THE ‘can’t’ on the case. It was sitting right there ALL THE TIME.

Now there’s another slightly different case, that does something peculiar, that is not really much different than that. But then they have the same thing wrong with them – glee of insanity. Make ‘em mock up people going mad, and… and make ‘em mock up people being very sane, and very staid, and very responsible, and people going mad. And have people sane and responsible and with terrible weights, and people walking around with the world on their back, and then turn the world upside down, and put it in front of them, and put ‘em behind them. And then have the people who are very staid and do all this all of a sudden start to laugh with an insane laughter and so on. Do kinds of mock-ups like that, that demonstrates turning seriousness into complete insanity. And insanity into seriousness, and so on. You’ll get quite a kick out if this, by the way, it’s very amusing.

Your whole job would have been finished in about a half an hour if you’d found it first. And instead of that, you’ve processed him for three hours, then found the ‘can’t’ suddenly in processing, and then decided that you couldn’t afford any more time on it; you’re tired and you’d better get some sleep.

But uh… this other person does a bunk, unwillingly, and is still in communication, and does it by accident, they get BLOWN out of their heads. You say, „He two feet back of the head.“ It unsettles them for a moment, and they go kapoom! And uh… they’ll land in plaster up against the ceiling or something. And then they’ll be up there against the ceiling looking down at the room, running kind of glee of insanity with a… with some kind of an old body, or something of this sort, and they… they… they’re right there, in the room, and they can see you, and they’ll just jeer at you. And the body’ll… although rather expressionless, will just say, „Yeah, you’re no good, you’re not going to get me back in, what do you think you’re trying to do?“ and so forth. It’s just talking like that, there’s no motion to it.

And you will spend the next several nights undoing that one probably. You can just waste more time if you don’t get an assessment. You can just waste time all over the place. I think you could probably waste hundreds and hundreds of hours of processing in any one year – processing even indifferently. Just hundreds and hundreds of hours.

They’re up on the ceiling somewhere. You can practically feel this insanity emanate off them. You do the same thing. You can just run… run a flow if you have to. If you can’t think of anything else, with a case like this, get the glories of being responsible, the glories of being not responsible, and so on. If you get so rattled that you can’t think of anything else, remember responsibility solves it. The best thing to do is to make them start mocking up sane people who suddenly go nuts, and move those around in the room and turn ‘em upside down, and nutty people who suddenly turn sane, and people carrying the world on their back and people carrying the MEST universe on their back, and dumping it off onto other peoples’ backs. Anything that would have to do with picking up objects and being responsible for them, or acts. Any kind of such creative processing.

Every once in a while… for instance, I just found one here. I won’t mention any names but… I don’t want to disgrace anybody.

Now that’s both the same kind of case, really, they both do a bunk. But one of ‘em does a bunk and looks dead, and the other one just does a bunk and lands on the ceiling, and can’t get back into the body. Actually can’t get back into the body. They both are expressing glee of insanity. Both of them. Fruitcakes, strictly! The thetan comes out raving mad. It’s very easy to put the thetan back into a good state of operation, however, because a thetan is not so raving mad as homo sapiens high up the tone scale. But the thetan’s raving mad.

I tell you, after you’ve been processing preclears for a little while, you’ll find they break down into classes. And they’re not classes of GEs – I’ll talk to you about that right now. They’re not classes of GEs.

Well, now there’s several other things, that it mentions here in Step One, that you could or couldn’t do – all that sort of thing. You can have them repair items in the body, as it says there. You can do various things, if you want to. And the only reason you really do that is just to orient him on the body. And I don’t want to give you the idea that that’s important – what he does for the body. It’s not. You want to get him up to a state that the body stops breathing or something of the sort, so he simply will go pick up another body. Bodies are very cheap, very cheap. They have ninety-seven cents’ worth of chemicals in them.

The Genetic Entity has come up in terms of races. There’s the yaller race and the white race and… and the green race, and so forth. The number of races that have come up the track – we don’t care about these races.

And Step One is a very easy step. Do a bunk is its only liability. Fifty percent of your preclears will fall in this category. Don’t muff it, I’ve given you a very interestingly simple, very simple process by which to solve it. And if you don’t depart from that, you’ll get a case Step One, every time, bang! Okay? Thank you very much and good night.

If… the fact that somebody is trying to tell people that these races have equal rights under law isn’t telling anybody any brand-new big news – it’s darned obvious that they should have. It’s very weird here on Earth, that anybody should beat the drum about this.

Well, that throws everything out of gear and why a lot of people get racial upsets is because there are really about 15 th… at least 12 or 15 thetan races here on Earth. And they’re scattered all through these five races – which is beautiful randomity, if there ever was any.

You’ve got the GEs coming along and they fit into about five racial streams, and then… then you’ve got about… then you’ve got all these thetans.

They, just recently, on recent spirals, they were all basically more or less the same in the beginning, and then they’ve gone off and because of their separate tracks, the separateness of their histories, the differences of their history, you have, all of a sudden – by the way, they’re all about the same age. And you have… all of a sudden you have 12 or 15 thetan backgrounds which have 12 or 15 different characteristics.

And so it doesn’t matter whether you have the so-called Caucasian or the Aztec race – I think that was what… wasn’t that what that was the Nazi had the… Or was it a Caesarian… I forget. Oh, yes – yeah. The Arrogants, Uh… anyway, it doesn’t matter a doggone which one of these GEs you pick up, you’ll find out really what’s important about him is does he fall… which one of the thetan races does he fall into, in terms of processing, and actually in terms of interpersonal relationships. These guys are trained in a particular and cruelty way. And I don’t care whether you’re in the heart of Africa or any place else.

Now I don’t know too much about… I’ve processed an awful lot of Negroes down around Savannah, and I didn’t find them varying from the pattern in any way, shape or form. Not even vaguely. And… but amongst them here were evidences that you had these 12 or 15 thetan lines coming in there.

There’s the Snake Men, there’s the Invaders – I won’t bother putting them down. You’ll recognize them one of these days. I’ll have to make up a table. I’ve got to do this research myself. I haven’t picked up this research. I’ve… I can do all the job they should have done over the last 80 million years here in the last couple, but I… I… it takes a little time. Uh… not much…

But they… you’ve got your Invader People. You’ve got a crew of… well, let me tell you the classifications they fall into here.

A lot of your entertainers and uh… some of the bigger sparks that you run into are Fifth Invader people or one of the Invader Force people. These guys come in from Lord knows where; they’re picked up in certain groups, sometimes picked up for a certain capability. They’re trained in one way or another, and they’ll hit planets, and so on, sort of all at once. Hit ‘em in various and peculiar ways.

And uh… they’ve been through enough hell and high water that when they get… by the time they’ve gotten here, they’re pretty well convinced their power’s shot. And they have… the… their… they… they feel pretty degraded. They don’t feel like they’re worth a shucks. They don’t feel like they can use any energy. They… they feel like they’ve got to hold this back. They usually have a pretty good imagination. The way you treat these people is very simple: You go through a routine assessment.

Now an assessment should carry parts of the body, and with these people you will find ‘hands’ produce quite a drop. You don’t even have to know, see, why ‘hands’ produce this drop. You don’t have to credit the Invader theory. You can go ahead stumbling around like everybody else has stumbled around. You don’t have to say there are Invaders or anybody lives in space. You can assume the, what’s known as the ‘Anthropomorphism uh… Earthman Supersanitary Sentarianism of the Universeish’ type of thing, where the only thing alive in this whole universe is an earthman, and uh… the only planet which is inhabited in all these quadrillions to the quadrillion quadrillion quadrillion of stars, the only one that has any planets is Sun 12, and uh… you can assume this if you want to. I mean, people have assumed a lot more idiotic things. They’ve assumed that, they’ve assumed that wearing glasses made your eyes better.

Now… so these characters have run into the cops and… and they’ve gotten their hands bashed up. Well, you’d find out, if you were running this case, you’d find a certain series of ‘can’ts’ and if you ask all ‘can’ts’ and these races bust down automatically. You’d find out something was wrong with their hands, or they had an emotion about hands.

And this would be rehabilitated by Creative Processing to make them be able to handle hands. Isn’t that difficult? And uh… you’d also find out that they were pretty hepped on the subject of… on the second dynamic. They’re quivery and upset about it. When you put out a communication line, you find out it starts at the far end and leads back to them.

One of the Invader forces has this slogan that they… that the paymaster is sensation, and that’s all the pay there is as far as they’re concerned. So they’re operating in a unit, they have certain goals and plans. We’re not even interested in those. We’re just interested in this fact.

And what’s the next thing? You get the ‘can’t’, you find out that darkness is a keynote. They’re hiding. That darkness has a great value to them. They want to hide in that darkness. Very often you start to ask them to mock up a cop. „Ha, ha! No. No!“ But they’ll be able to get the badge sooner or later and do something with the badge. And what’s the gradient scale of ‘cop’? Well, a badge, and then a cap and a stick and a gun and the rest of it, until you’ve got a ‘cop’. And then you move him in and out and do things with him. Oh, that’s uh… very simple, isn’t it? This is just routine then.

All right, you take your Snake Man. Just as far as processing is concerned, there’s nothing easier. Where this becomes interesting is in terms of behavior. And you don’t care about that either. Your Snake Man’s going around… he’s very quiet. He wants you to prove everything. Prove, prove, prove, prove. And if there’s any gadget made under the sun which is mechanical that will restimulate an incident which he finds, he’s bound to find it and turn it out – somehow or other. Or make some preclear test it. Prove, prove, prove, prove.

One I know of, for instance, bought a couch that had a vibrator in it, then he stepped up the vibrator so it would automatically restimulate Fac One. He put the guy down on the thing so his forehead touched the button that the vibrator vibrated on, and uh… then he’d lie there and this thing would shake him up and it’s just feel like the waves coming in from the Coffee Grinder of a Fac One. Make people very sick. But uh… he proved it all right.

Well, his main idea is, is he will protect snakes. He’ll… he’ll – create snakes like mad, but he wouldn’t destroy any.

Another one’s the Cat People. God knows where the Cat People came from. Lord! Lord! Lord! These people are sure lost. Most of them are mad as hatters. And they have huge, huge, often slanted… they… they’ll take the GE and they will change the GE’s eyes to large and slanted; they’ll make the GE grow very thin. And the eyes will be big and quite often uh… uh… very feline. And they’re lost. They don’t know where they are. And they kinda look like cats. And they’ll talk to you about catbirds from some place or another.

But what do we find in their case? We find out that cats are a ‘can’t destroy’. And then there are other people who are similar to that that; find cats that can’t destroy that aren’t part of the Cat People, because to be a good valid cat person one of the first requisites is to be strictly fruitcake and very thin. They’re really lost. I don’t know who got hold of the Cat People or where or brought them in to the track, but they spin as quick as you look at them. You’ve known some of them, I’m sure. They’re kind of: sweet and they’re kind of anxious to help, and they’re kind of starry-eyed and they’re not very forceful – they’re very weak. And uh… all of a sudden, if – you were to tell one of them suddenly that he couldn’t possibly be of any help, you can just watch him spin right on the spot.

And then, as we go on from there, we find the guys that you would just swear to GOD had never had anything to do with thetans. You’d just: swear it! They become two types of individual here on Earth: They become the Capitalista, the Commissar, the Nazi police chief – they’re all the same breed. „Hold on!“ They’ve got to pull everything in on ‘em. And by the time you’ve started to process this character, good God! Get a building jack! They’ll pull everything in on them – just everything. And there’s so little thetan left about them, that to move them around, you’re just going to have a rough, rough time of doing anything with this case. Rough case. „Hold on… Hold on.“

But how do you cure it? By getting them to throw something away – a toothpick. You’ll find out immediately they wouldn’t let go’ of anything; that’s the first thing you’ll find out about ‘em. And that tells you immediately that they belong to that nebulous race.

Now, then here’s your Monitor People. The female of that species we’ve decided to call the Merrimacks after that ancient battle. So, these people… you want them, the test on them… They, by the way – this is peculiar to a lot of these other races, so it isn’t a singular test – these people love to wear ‘hornrimmed spectacles’. If you could let them go around with ‘spornrimmed hecticles’ on and no glasses in the… in them, they’d be happy. That’s because your Monitor wears heavy goggles during Fac One and so on. But don’t mention insects to these people because they’ll ordinarily just go off the pin. They’ve got something to do with insects. I don’t know what. These people are quite salvageable, by the way.

But they’re organizers, par excellence. And you’ll find them out in the society doing terrific jobs of organization. None of these people, you understand, are bad. This is peculiarities.

And boy, you’ll find these in the Brown Race and the Black Race and the Yellow Race and everything else. You’ll find these same characters. They came down and did a spread.

Now those are just a few… they are just a few of these.

Oh, yes-yes! Yes. There’s your wide-open case. The wide-open case, who is quite often found a beautiful bodied girl. They are very often very wide open. And you couldn’t possibly imagine how there could be anything wrong with these people. And they get a different Fac One, and they’ve got a different lot of other things, and they are almost perfect at esp… espionage; they may not realize it but they’re trained espionage people. You could s… just start giving them an examination that would be given standardly to an espionage officer and they will answer up perfectly on every line.

And they’re characters. Now on the cycle of action, although they’re wide open and very pretty as bodies, they’re sudden death. They’re right over there against death. And you try to pick them up along the line anyplace and, „Oh, no!“ They’ve evidently agreed until they’re wide open. They evidently have their perceptics on some kind of an agreement someplace or other. I don’t know where they come from, or who they’re spying for. It’s a big, big joke. I don’t know who they are.

I’d find out if they were dangerous, they aren’t. But uh… they run a different kind of a Fac One – they run it all wide open. And although their wide openness is terrific, their sense of reality is just shot! Terribly bad sense of reality. Awful! Just grim!

That’s rather typical. These are types.

What do you do with each one of these types? Give them an assessment. You’ll find out the one thing your wide open case can’t do is face any prior existence. Under no circumstances! This just throws them into horrors.

You say, „You might have lived before,“ and all of a sudden this case starts to go neeowww! Spin! Gee! They… I don’t know why that is but it’s just there.

Peculiarities – lots of peculiarities one way or the other in all of this. But you look for ‘cant’s’.

Now, you will get very shortly – if you just look at just that many – types as I’ve given you there – you’ll all of a sudden be able to shape these cases up. And you can all of a sudden look at this guy and he seems to be doing all right in a society, and uh… you start to process him and boy! He won’t let go of anything. He’s got lots of money, you find out. He won’t let go of a thing. You start to examine his ridges, he’s pulled practically every ridge he’s got right in down on top of him.

You’ll find out such nauseous details as his bowels don’t move. Once in nine days or something like that. I mean, it’s gone to that extent. He wouldn’t blow his nose for fear he’d lose something. That’s nauseous but uh… medically quite necessary.

Now you got this next boy and you’re looking him over and uh… well, how do you get that guy out of it? Personally, the biggest joke you can pull is don’t! He’s not even vaguely interested in being gotten out of it. Who are you to go around rescuing him? He isn’t interested in it, really.

He uh… wants to prove to somebody they have driven him so bad that he needs treatment. That’s about as near as he will come to wanting to be treated. He just wants to prove it. And so when he’s on treatment, then he proceeds to look worse and worse. And he’ll get worse and worse. Quite a liability.

The rest of them are pretty easy. The Invader boys present a hard case, mostly because they start feeling very degraded. And there are several crews of those, by the way. There’s not just one crew. And all of them feel more or less degraded. But the third battalion of the Fifth Invader Force is practically out through the bottom of the chute. You’d have to invent something below minus eight.

When they first find themselves turning on a small beam of energy, they just collapse. It’s a level of degradation you never heard of, yet they might be operating quite well. They’re, by the way, terribly effective here on Earth as revolutionaries. So we quite often find them in Scientology.

They’re quite effective. That’s what’s strange about it. They can’t handle any more force than that, but how much force are they capable of handling, just beyond computation, practically.

All right, when you do an assessment, well, you might ask something about this. But you’ll pick these things up. And this isn’t anything you have to tell a preclear about.

If you will take the HANDBOOK FOR PRECLEARS and if you look there in the front of it, you’ll find a list of relatives in one of the Acts – early Act – and then you’ll find a list of the parts of the body. And let’s find out about creating and destroying these relatives and these parts of the body.

And then I have here a list of nouns, which I’m going to mimeograph, which are embracive of all these various nouns. And they run any… anywheres from an angle down: watch, windows, wings, jewels, kettles, keys, forks – I’m just reading out – there’s just hundreds of ‘em here. But they’re embracive of every kind of a noun that there is. I mean, it’s an inclusive list. So we’ve got that one.

I’m going to get that and this Game Processing – I’m going to get that and Game Processing mimeographed. And we’ve… we’ve got a course book we’ve got to make up. So you won’t have the benefit of that right away.

But if you were to take a list of basic English or a book on Basic English, you can get a terrific assessment out of it. You’ll put the preclear on that and you ask him if he can create or destroy on these eight dynamics.

Now I showed you a very little example of this very early in the course. But you do that same thing and you apply every noun you can think of, every body part you can think of, every kind of a person you can think of, every relative you can think of. And by the time you’ve done this, by golly! There isn’t anything you won’t know about this preclear.

And to this you add what you see up here: three areas of track. And for God’s sakes! question him for all three areas of track. Body versus bodies – that’s the latter area of the track. That’s fairly recent. That’s the third one. The second one is thetan versus bodies and bodies – one or more bodies. That’s a very recent one. But that’s the middle ground of the track. Balls of light going into bodies, and the first one up here is the thetan versus the thetan. And that’s balls of light or beingnesses merging with beingnesses, and apart from beingnesses, and doing things to beingnesses, doing things to bits of light, putting them in cans and taking them out of cans, and so forth. And this second one is using a body on that same basis.

Bodies doing this to thetans, thetans taking over bodies. These are mock-up situations. So you use those three areas of track. And this is theoretically everything that could possibly happen to a ball of light or a – ball of light versus a ball of light. Everything that could happen to a ball of light with regard to a body; everything that could happen to a body at the hands of a body. Mock-ups. Unlimited supply.

So, you see here, we have, then, a very wide range. But it’s very easily patterned – quite easily patterned. You find of all of these things the overt acts are against one, thetans, two, bodies, and overt acts by bodies against bodies – gives you three categories of DEDs, DEDEXes, overt acts and motivators.

So don’t forget there’s such a thing as an overt act against a thetan, or many thetans. You’ll get most of the charge you get off some cases that are in bad shape, right there in that department.

Well, that’s what you do, and that’s how you do an assessment. And that’s really all there is to it. You keep a record of that and then you use it for your mock-ups.

And there was one question I was asked is: Would I be willing to create or, if under what conditions or anything else? Don’t worry about that. Just say, „Would you create…“ And the preclear starts qualifying, this preclear’s worried. Get this preclear unworried and give him some more assessment. Let’s take a break.