A talk to you this morning about manifestations, variations of Procedure 30. I think you've already had a few manifestations. In running this process, now, why, we've had a veteran Scientologist – after fifteen minutes, something like that, of Opening Procedure by Duplication – get up and walk out of the room and say he was leaving Scientology, and so forth. And his auditor was not a part of this unit, who did not hear the lectures, called up to find out "What do I do now?" And he was told in good standard American, "Go out and get him, you son of a b – – . Get him back and finish it off!" Remedy of process.

That lives which is validated. A body is dependent upon granted beingness. It is dependent upon granted beingness. It itself does not grant very much beingness.

Now, when it comes to running a procedure, when you don't know really the total liability of the procedure, you can get into some interesting situations. For instance this auditor had completely missed what I was telling you yesterday, which is that you can run this procedure in such a way as to, shall we say, upset a preclear – sometimes even an auditor. It is nothing to have a preclear threaten to leave a session, but to have one actually get out of a session, the auditor, I guess, would have to be in a boil-off or something of the sort. Because you can always stop a man before he reaches the door. You can always tackle him around the knees or pick up a club and say," All right. Get that book now."

Now, a thetan after a while could also become dependent upon granted beingness. And let's tie this back in to license to survive, approval, applause, all these other factors that we have struck from time to time, and we see that that individual who objects to the granting of beingness by other individuals, of course, is immediately going to deny his body the right to be. A horrible little backlash. If the body is dependent – this body, this mock-up that he picked up is dependent – upon endowment from the environment, and the thetan objects to endowment from the environment, we then see that the body is being denied the very substance on which it lives.

This will take any case that has hung up and is having difficulty, and will blow him up through successive tones. So don't expect that a case will remain static. Now, some auditors have the goal of an auditing session of a good, quiet, orderly preclear. Never have had that goal, particularly, but I scrupulously avoided techniques which merely produced an effect and didn't produce a result.

Here is eating; here's applause. People get below the level of accepting applause, by the way – accepting praise, accepting applause, applause – people get way below this level. At that time, why, they could only be appreciated if they were paid in money, or appreciated if they were fed. They would recognize this as appreciation, but would not appreciate praise or applause. And when you would give them praise, you would upset them. Above this level, a concert pianist might very well feel, after a good, solid round of applause, like he'd just had a full meal. He would feel very good. He would have a glow about him. He's been granted beingness.

But here we have a technique which produces an effect and produces a result, because when you get through with this, somebody's communication level has been raised.

Well, maybe he as a thetan hasn't been granted beingness, but certainly his mock-up's been granted beingness, see. And this demonstrates itself very peculiarly.

When you've done this Opening Procedure by Duplication for any length of time whatsoever – above a half an hour – you will see a change of tone in the case.

Now, you understand, in that, it can be measured in the physical universe. You understand now that we are not talking about a philosophic concept. I hope we're being very clear on this. We're not talking, in granting of beingness, about a philosophic concept; we are talking about a totally mechanical, measurable concept.

Now, this change of tone may be the change of tone of the GE. The GE, you see, can change tone. The thetan can change tone. But where we have a GE changing tone, we can then be prepared to have a little bit of a skid on this tone.

The experiment which backs this up is this beep-meter experiment: You've got this beep meter and you have somebody hold it to his cheek, and then you go off someplace and you turn on the beep meter. By doing what?

When we've done, let's say, Opening Procedure by Duplication on this person, what we were doing was changing the GE's tone. We did it for one hour with considerable pyrotechnics. We laid off at that time and did not do it further; we did something else. Fellow seemed to be in fairly good shape and so forth. We can expect a few days later to have some semblance of all of this in view again, because the GE is in revolt – at which time you would simply do it again.

By looking at him and connecting the guy with the electrode. Over a distance with a beam from you to him? No, just by seeing that there is a connection between the body and the electrode, and at that moment you'll get a beep, and the meter up to that time has been completely silent.

This doesn't mean that a fellow slumps because he is run on this. He never returns to the same state that he was in. But the condition deteriorates slightly which you attained by running Opening Procedure, if you do nothing else in the session but Opening Procedure by Duplication. So we shouldn't consider Opening Procedure by Duplication a finished and final thing with a case until we've done it several times.

This is the granting of beingness, and it is a measure of the ability of an individual to endow. And this is in direct coordination with the ability of an individual to heal, and this has a lot of other indexes that go right along with it. But we're talking together now not so much as therapists or philosophers or a "Gee whiz, I hope" sort of a thing. What we are talking to and talking about is a very mechanical arrangement, such as we would discuss electric lights, or something like that. I mean this field of granting of beingness is of that order of certainty. It is as certain as that.

That even makes it worse, doesn't it?

Now, when you get into running this you could then conceive, as I told you, the complexities of it could very well weigh down the entire case. In other words, you could make this so complex that a case would simply get lost in these interchanges, because these interchanges are very complex. It isn't just in eating or in sex or in other things that we get this interchange. We get it all through existence. Everywhere we have a third dynamic, we have beingness being granted to some degree. And so we of course have a terrifically complex system.

Here we have our poor preclear and we have processed him for an hour and a half on Opening Procedure by Duplication. We had him picking up a pocket comb and picking up his hat, one after the other, two dissimilar objects. And after he had done this for an hour and a half, examining minutely each one, back and forth, why, he was evidently in pretty good shape. It was a horrible grind; he has emoted all over the place. We find out he's in pretty good shape now; we let it go till the next day or the day after, and we discover that he has deteriorated a little bit from the state we did get him into. You see, we got him into a markedly improved state. All right, this markedly improved state will coast along for a little distance and then will deteriorate somewhat. It doesn't go all the way south.

And you could draw this society, if you had that much patience, for any given moment on its complete current hookup on the granting of beingness. You could, if you had that much patience and you looked far enough and so forth. You could get who was granting beingness to what and where and so on, and you'd just take it all. And it would just be like wiring graphs.

So we pick him up and we do it some more. Well, this time we get him into pretty good shape.

Curious, very curious, but certainly not as curious as electricity. Get that: This is not as curious as electricity. Electricity is studied from this assumption: The first postulate one must make to study electricity, it says right in the electrical textbook, is that nobody knows anything about electricity.

I didn't want to tell you all this in earlier lectures, because I didn't think you should have all the bad news at once. But we do it some more with him. We find out that this time he emoted more rapidly and he really got even more bombastic, but he came up to a point where he seemed to be higher than he was previously. This state will not deteriorate to the degree that the first one did.

Well, we're not starting with that postulate. We can see very clearly that this occurs, much as we see an electrical current occurs, and as we exteriorize and so forth and begin to know ourselves a little better, we can see it actually happening and we can do it. In other words, there is no beingness, we can create beingness. And beingness can come into existence simply by our own postulate that it can come into existence. So we know the genus of the thing. The genus of the thing is a postulate. This postulate goes into an agreed-upon communication system, and results immediately take place. And we can consider it from this angle, and we'll be very successful in processing.

Now let's say we let him go a day or two, something like that; we find out that this tone that we have brought him to has deteriorated to the top tone that we reached in the first session. I mean, he has only come down that far.

Now, you could use a tremendously complex process to process this. Oh, man. You could use some kind of a Straightwire process, for instance. I don't say that you should, but I say you could use such a Straightwire process that would run something like this: "Now name three people that you wouldn't mind granting some beingness." "Now name three people that you wouldn't care if they refused to grant beingness to you." "Now, name three people it wouldn't matter if you denied beingness to." "Name three people you wouldn't mind granting beingness to." "Name three people, now, you wouldn't mind taking beingness away from." "Name three people you wouldn't mind if they took a beingness away from you." And we could go on down the line, and if we got this with certainty each time, why, we could do ourselves quite a job here.

Well, we could do it again, couldn't we? But would you actually have to do it longer in order to produce the same result, or shorter? No, you would do it shorter. You wouldn't do it the same length of time, the same grind, because you are not trying to attain an end-all in this procedure. This is not a finished, final, ending procedure which fishes up all of the stuff in a case and throws it away, for this reason (now let's look at this very bluntly): A thetan who is exteriorized shows a great proclivity for going out and looking at a grain of sand. He will stay there and look at it for just hours. He will find more and more interesting things to see in this grain of sand. He doesn't have a tremendous thirst for randomity because, mainly, he doesn't have any tremendous pressure in the business of living. His body might, but he's now separate and he feels fine and there's nobody going to bawl him out if he doesn't get up, or nobody is going to bawl him out if he doesn't wash his face; he hasn't got a face. He's in pretty good shape, so his pleasure is in studying something, looking at something, getting interested in life.

The only trouble with that process on the granting of beingness, is it doesn't possess sufficient certainty to be processed. That's all that's wrong with it. Otherwise, it's a fine process.

The most relaxing experience that a preclear (who had, by the way, been utterly psychotic, had been completely raving mad) had ever had in his whole life was when I got him exteriorized, which I did almost by mimicry. What I did was make him move back of his body as a body. You see, I got him to – he could get mock-ups. He was utterly mad but he could get mock-ups. And I had him stand his body up against the door, you see, and then move back from his body standing up against the door, leaving a mock-up there. See, we did this several times. In other words, we had him stand at the door, had him put a mock-up exactly where he was as a body, you see, and then move out of the mock-up as a body.

There's a little rule of thumb here: A process which will not obtain certainty, with the one exception of Havingness… Anybody can pull in havingness; he's certain there's something coming in. He does have a certainty of that. He may not be certain what it is or certain whether it has form, but there's where certainty belongs in the Remedy of Havingness. You're absolutely certain it's there, and so forth. You challenge him like this, why, he might not be, but there is something coming in and he does get certain of it.

Did this two or three times and he said," Well, I can move out of the body." Nothing much to that. So I got him exteriorized, started chasing him around here and there, and he got out to, of all oceans, the Indian Ocean. Got out to somewhere in the middle of the Indian Ocean and he found out he had a lot of lines on him, of one kind or another. And he called them by various names. So he dropped these lines into the water to let them cool off. Well, his body was simply parked right there, you see. And I could stay in communication with him if I wanted to, but I asked him how he was getting along and he said he was getting along fine. I asked him if he wanted me to do anything as an auditor and he said no, he was doing all right; soon as he got these lines good and cool, why, he'd feel better about it.

Actually, the Remedy of Havingness is the thetan's operation in granting beingness to the body. He grants energy masses to the body by mocking up things and pulling them in on the body, which is in essence granting beingness to the body. And so the body will eventually get well as you continue this process.

So I simply left him in one of my rooms and went on about my business. Didn't pay any more attention to it, and I expected of course that he would get up and go home sooner or later – he'd re-interiorize, something of the sort. It didn't matter to me, we had obviously broken his psychosis. And if he got along all right, he'd get along all right. But he was certainly in much saner condition than I'd ever seen anybody in. (I was working at that time in a foreign country whose home secretary and I had a little bit of quarrel.) He was real sane, and I left him there.

All right. The common denominator of processes which determines their workability is, do they bring about a condition of certainty on the part of a preclear? If a process does not bring about or cannot be worked with certainty, then you haven't got any business using it on the preclear as an auditor.

And that night after supper it suddenly occurred to me, I wondered whether or not the fellow had taken his hat and so forth, because you know, sort of looking around, I felt there was something a little bit vague here. And I looked out in the hall and here was his hat. So I said, "Well, that's real peculiar. There's the fellow's hat. He has obviously left his hat." And I looked around a little further and I said, "By golly, he has left his mock-up here too."

What processes should you work on a preclear? Those processes which can be performed by the preclear with certainty. Certainty, knowingness, recognition, so forth – all the same breed.

And I went upstairs and went in and talked to him, and he said," Hello." "Hello. What you doing?"

So, that tells you then that you could work somebody for a hundred hours without paying any attention to this whole thing of certainty. The preclear would possibly like to call it reality, he'd like to call it a lot of things, but you could work a hundred hours on this preclear and get no advance on his case – I mean, just practically no advance on his case. You see why you could do that? The little factor there of certainty. You didn't get him anything he could do with certainty, which is to say, you never increased his knowingness. Never forget, that's our target. We have a synonym for knowingness: certainty.

He said," Well, I got them pretty cool now."

All right. In selecting processes to work on a preclear, or any kind of procedures, you have to keep this in mind, and you have to keep it in mind very solidly. And when you don't keep it in mind you go awry.

This was six hours later. He had just stayed in one place for six hours about a foot above the Indian Ocean, which was mighty calm at the moment – no sea running to amount to anything. And there he was, cooling off some lines. Wasn't even interested in his environment, see, as far as the body was concerned or anything like that. But he wasn't even looking hard at the Indian Ocean; he just set himself a job to do. Well, he felt real calm and he felt real pleasant about the whole thing.

Some of the people in Scientology who have been trained over a long period of time now (one or two of them along the line haven't done too well) may have learned one thing – because that one thing has been pounded on and pounded on and pounded on – and that is you must attain a certainty on the part of the preclear on the process being done. And when those people have learned that, they have learned a tremendous thing. That is a big thing. That, omitted, makes processing unworkable, and that, included, makes processing workable.

Well, I ran some – working at that time, first time I was working with duplication. You saw it, by the way, in Six Steps to Better Beingness. Of course the hard run that duplication was getting doesn't reflect in Six Steps to Better Beingness, but it could. You could just run Six Steps to Better Beingness duplication too, you know? One object and then another object and the first object and the other object.

And here we are right there on this business of certainty, which we say is knowingness. Does he know that he knows this now? Does he know that that is the case? Is he certain that's the case? The same type of words. You see, we're not processing words, so we can use any kind of words that will convey our meaning to the preclear. Our only difficulty is, just exactly what do we mean by these words? Well, what we mean by this word certainty: Is he sure? Is he certain? Is he positive? Does he know? Is it real to him? See? It's all those things under this heading of certainty.

Well, you know, this fellow was in good communication, and he was able to stay in one place, and he was just able to just do fine. And he was trying to pick himself out a mountaintop so he could stay there for a while. Well, he thought that a couple of centuries would be enough, kind of rest him up a little bit and, you know, let him think over the situation somewhat. And his measure of time was quite fabulous. His idea of being bored wasn't with him anymore because he had of course licked the barriers. All boredom is, you see, is just the threat of a barrier.

All right. Then it follows that if this granting of beingness could be worked by a Straightwire with a great deal of certainty on the part of the preclear, hurrah, fine, wonderful. Work it. Only you won't find that's a bulk of your preclears. You could throw it in just to find out, and if it worked that way, why, wonderful, boy, would you – you'd be going right out along the line. Your preclear already would have a pretty good certainty, though, wouldn't he? And he'd be pretty high toned. He'd probably be a thetan exterior to begin with. And so your Straightwire: "Who wouldn't you mind granting beingness to?" "Who wouldn't you mind taking beingness away from?" "Who wouldn't you mind somebody giving beingness to?" "Whom wouldn't you mind receiving some of your being-ness?" "… receiving your mother's beingness?" I mean, we could just go into the most tremendous category here of Straightwire questions, which if they could be answered with certainty, would certainly resolve beingness in all directions.

Pulled him back close to his body again, he reactivates the GE. Zoom. The GE starts to go into a flat spin, one way or the other.

But you as an auditor are up against this: Certainty and knowingness are not a dichotomy, they have no comparative line. It says in the Logics and Axioms there that a datum must be evaluated by a datum of similar magnitude. And when we have the problem of certainty staring us in the face, we don't have data of similar magnitude to compare it with. Certainty is certainty, and it's an unfortunate fact that it doesn't have another certainty with which to compare it. See that?

We found out that we had to audit his body just as such. (This is a very early experimental process.) We had to audit his body as such. This was the condition. The preclear as a thetan wasn't crazy, but the body was. And every time he started pouring a little energy in the direction of that body, whatever ridges it had that would go into insanity would simply go insane. Now, he could control this body if he tried hard, but it meant that he had to approximate it. And we had quite a problem on our hands, and we did a lot of thinking this thing over, until we finally decided that it would be a very good thing to drill this body very arduously until whatever force it had in it that was kicking up would itself go into apathy.

Now, there could be two kinds of certainty, and you could try to get out of it this way. I have tried. You could say there's subjective certainty and objective certainty. And you could compare the subjective certainty to the objective certainty, and you would have something like that. And you start to run this in on a preclear and, by the way, he practically goes through the roof or dives down a manhole.

Well, we did just that, and boy, that body went into apathy – believe me – and went down through apathy into a controllability.

By the way, awareness is a viewpoint of dimension of alertness, of alive-ness, of this and that, and could be included in this package of being certain. "Are you aware that your mother has granted some beingness to something?" You could ask them, see, "Are you aware?" "Are you certain?" "Do you know?" "Does that seem real to you that she could grant some beingness to it?" Any one of these questions would produce the same thing.

What happens to a body when you run too much Opening Procedure on it, however? What happens? You're bringing the body up scale as a thetan. How long will it come up scale as a thetan? Till it's damned restless.

Now, we don't have a dichotomy here, merely because he is under this suppression: If his subjective reality equalled his objective reality, he wouldn't know where the hell present time was. Present time is established by this fact: "What's the realest thing you can contact?" And if that's an engram, he's got high certainty on the engram, God help him. I mean, he's got high certainty on the en-gram and no certainty on the wall, you're looking at a psychotic, see? This engram is really real to him. In an auditing session this can take place: the en-gram is tremendously real to him, and of course the environment at that moment is not real to him at all. But you could have people walking up and down the streets all the time where this is taking place: The alligator that's following along wearing the alarm clocks and snapping at the fellow's heels (shades of Peter Pan) is a certain thing, but the sidewalk is not.

Well, there's our point. There's where your Opening Procedure collapses a little bit or comes back. Therefore, it isn't an end-all process, is it?

And that is this difficulty: Subjective and objective reality are then a gradient scale of certainty, and we again do not have a dichotomy. Present time is where the greatest certainty is at that moment. That would be the time the fellow had. This is no reason he couldn't be in five times simultaneously and be certain of all of them, but he'd certainly have to be able to differentiate like mad in order to pull off that trick.

You could actually, evidently, run Opening Procedure long enough on a body to finally exteriorize the body GE from the body, if you can get that kind of a complexity. But however you run it, everything the body has been revolting against is liable to come to the surface immediately and intimately and abruptly. That's liable to be quite violent. What's the body doing? The body has been threatening these revolts for a long time. The thetan quite ordinarily has the body in indifferent control. And the body, of course, runs up through these things, blasts through some of its ridges and the thetan discovers that he can handle the body regardless of what it is doing – and that is what the thetan discovers.

There are a lot of people, by the way, who think they can only see or concentrate on one thing at a time. Curious thing. Fellow showed up (Burke was telling me) at the Freudian Foundation who knew absolutely well that everybody could only contact one thing at a time. And the auditing command was "Hold the two back corners of the room." And the fellow knew this was impossible because you could only hold one, of course. And Burke solved this and he began to do himself a fairly good job of processing afterwards. Burke solved it by asking him to be aware of his right ear and his left ear and his right ear and his left ear, and then asked him "Now, well, do you know you have two ears?" And the fellow of course was certain of both ears simultaneously, so naturally he could know two things at once. And this solved it. He could grab ahold of the two back anchor points of the room.

And that's why your Opening Procedure is effective. It is more effective with the thetan exteriorized than interiorized – much more effective. But if we ran it long enough on the body itself and if we addressed the body itself, to run it, we would probably get some weird manifestation of some new thetan showing up or something weird happening. We wouldn't quite be prepared to say exactly what would happen.

Well, to some degree or other this scarcity of concentration, which is a scarcity of attention, is in itself the dwindling scale of the condensation of attention. As the individual's attention becomes scarce, he begins to get masses of attention which he mocks up. That's machinery. He starts setting up machinery, because he knows he can't keep attention on this many objects. Therefore, he sets up something to covertly get attention from him while he's doing something else. And that is a machine. A machine is a covert mechanism by which to put attention on more things than the preclear feels he can comfortably put attention on. And so we get machinery and automaticity coming into view with the dwindling spiral, scarcity of attention. Scarcity of attention.

First place, it's not a possibility to audit this straight on the body. The body itself is an animal. On a stimulus-response level it has some intelligence, but you start to drill that intelligence in any way, shape or form and it has to come up through too many strata. Well, so much for that. There's no reason to belabor the point.

Well, attention and beingness are not quite the same thing. You see, you could have a bored attention, an inactive attention, a vague attention. See? You don't ever have a vague granting of beingness. It's not a vague thing. I mean, a person is either – well, of course he'd say," Well, I'd just as soon the police of New York City would live, I'd just as soon, I…"This is an apathy. It really isn't a bored attention. It's granting of beingness in apathy. So attention and the granting of beingness just don't quite come a par, because granting of beingness has a different consideration to it.

The main point I'm trying to make is: (1) Opening Procedure is violent. Opening Procedure by Duplication is violent. (2) The condition attained after an hour and a half or so of Opening Procedure by Duplication can be expected in the next day or so to deteriorate, but not to the level where the preclear's body was originally, and would have to be done again to that degree in order to pick up and stabilize the tone.

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Now, I've done it three sessions running, each one about five days apart. See, that is to say, three sessions: Run a session, then five days later run a session, then five days later run a session. And on the last session there was a stability attained simply by this process.

An auditor went out of here with his right foot pestering him. It was moving when it wasn't moving. He could sit still and he knew his right foot was moving, but if he looked down at it, it was planted very solidly on the floor.

But this is not an end-all process. This process gets the case into shape so the case will do a good job of following your instructions and will do a good job of communicating, and picks up the communication tone of the individual.

What had happened here? This individual was carrying around a considerable amount of granted beingness in his body, see, he's carrying around a big mass. He might, you might say, have two bodies. One is his physical-universe body. See that? There's his physicaluniverse body. And with this body he has another body, and this other body is a mass of granted beingness or stolen beingness or something of the sort. But this body could be coincident with his physical-universe body, and he as a thetan could be in contact with his grantedbeingness body, not his physical-universe body. He wouldn't have any sensitivity of being able to touch his forehead, but he could touch a ridge which was sitting somewhere where the forehead was.

Therefore, the length of time you care to run this as an auditor is markedly shortened from the degree that you're running it now. If it was an end-all process, which itself went for broke, this would be the way you would run it: You would run it an hour and a half, or something like that, or two hours. You would wait a day, two days, three days, something like that; you would run it for another hour or two. And you would go three, four days, something on that sort, and you would run it again on the preclear for a half an hour or an hour. And you'd go a few more days and you would run it again on the preclear for fifteen minutes or a half an hour. And then you would have attained a stable state and you would have improved his condition. Run in that fashion it is an end-all process, but not run really in the fashion which you yourself intend to run it with Procedure 30.

There you get your occluded case. He's packed in tight. There you get your person who, when he exteriorizes, exteriorizes as a body. That body is made out of granted beingnesses. He wouldn't have that body unless he objected to other people granting beingness. He's just as mobile as he doesn't have one, by the way. His mobility is reduced to that degree where he's packing around objected-to beingness.

It is quite a process: simply Opening Procedure by Duplication, simply running this on a preclear, just as I've scheduled it there. We ran it five sessions on a preclear, the first session two hours long, the remaining sessions an hour long. We would attain more with the GE and the preclear than with many other processes, and we certainly would have put the preclear into excellent communication.

How mobile is a thetan? How able is he to exteriorize? He's as able as he doesn't have large energy masses held in suspension – standing electronic ridges, in other words, massed around him as a thetan. And that's how mobile he is. The more he gets of these, the less mobility he has – the less he's able to be certain too, the less he's able to fix himself in space and so forth.

Now, that would be a way to run it. And if you were going to run nothing but that – if you were going to handle a psycho, for instance, you would run nothing but that over that length of time. But this is the way you would run it. It isn't the kind of a process which you would do today and then say, "This preclear is now in good condition and will remain in good condition forevermore." He won't. It would be a process which you would run over a period of two or three weeks, giving overall auditing time during those two or three weeks, maybe six or seven hours, maybe a couple of hours worth of it the first crack and then an hour per session on the remaining sessions. And you would have yourself a stable result.

Now, these beingnesses will talk to him, and we get voices. These being-nesses will dictate him questions and answers, and we get machinery and the whole stimulus-response activity of the mind and body. Now, there's where this thing goes.

But let's look now at how it is combined in Procedure 30. It is in Procedure 30 to get the preclear out of his incipient explosion so that it won't get in your hair as an auditor. And just consider Opening Procedure by Duplication – although it in itself is very therapeutic – just consider Opening Procedure by Duplication as something by which you, the auditor, are going to monitor the preclear so that he really will be able to do what you say.

All right. If that's the case, then we certainly ought to tackle this thing and tackle it at that level of certainty which we have. In Issue 1 of Procedure 30, we have this process used: "Give me somebody you feel it will be safe to have grant some life, some beingness, to things." They select somebody out. They get the least objectionable character, sometimes. Sometimes they get somebody – they're perfectly free to get this person. And now you ask them what they're willing to have this person grant some beingness to. And you fish around and find out if they're doing this with certainty. Are they absolutely certain that they're willing to have this person grant this beingness?

Now, if a case were to find it consistently difficult to communicate with you, if a case were consistently seeing everything black, if the case consistently was occluded and consistently twisted your orders and so forth, you would simply have to – you would have no other choice but to sit down and grind with Opening Procedure by Duplication on to this case until he was actually out of the woods on it.

Now, you follow through with your questions: "Something else that you would be willing to have this person grant some beingness to" and "Something else you would be willing to have this person grant some beingness to" and "Something else," each time ascertaining if this is certain, you see, until you've got enormous areas.

Now, why do you say any lapsed time is necessary between sessions? Well, actually, it isn't. I'm talking now about a professional practice. This is how you would schedule these things optimumly. You would make just a little less progress by doing it a couple hours a day for two or three days. You would invest maybe 30 percent more auditing time because the case hadn't had a chance to settle out, but you would get there just in two or three days, couple, three hours a day. I mean, the time period is not really necessary in there. But you can save some time for yourself in a professional practice by scheduling it over a period of three, four weeks, you see, and letting the fellow settle out.

Now, does the preclear do this in mock-ups? Does he get pictures, does he do it in masses, does he do it in geographical areas? Well, the funny part of it is, yes he does, but that isn't what you want him to do. The less mass in the process, why, the better the process works.

This gets him matched back against his environment and saves you time in the long run. He goes back into his environment; he gets restimulated. Then he comes back for an auditing session and you do things to him and he blows that. And he goes into the environment again, and you actually, day by day, are getting another type of environment which you're running out of the preclear. It would be an end-all process if you did this. It would be an answer in itself – just Opening Procedure by Duplication. That's all you'd do with the preclear.

When you first start working with your preclear, you're right into the middle of all these tremendous masses of granted beingness. And of course, he starts doing this thing with all kinds of masses of this and masses of that and recalls of this and facsimiles of that. And he has a picnic for himself in terms of when he puts up Father – perfectly safe to have Father grant some beingness. You say, "Well, what could he grant some beingness to?" Well, he thinks for a long time and finally finds out it would be all right if Father granted some beingness to the bowl of his own pipe. He gets Papa, he gets the pipe – not in the geographical area where Papa used to load pipes; it'll be someplace else, probably very close to him.

It's a fantastic process in the way it will blow a case. Now, not hanging any liabilities on anybody, but listen, if a case explodes or blows under this, get this: there is no other process known in Scientology which will break loose a covert communication line which is twisting a process.

Well, you just ignore that to a marked degree, according to Procedure 30, Issue 1, anyway. Just ignore it to a marked degree. And you'll discover that the individual will gradually drop away from doing this. If you were to question him what was going on, simultaneously, he would find that there are energy ridges moving, there are these standing electronic waves moving. This so-called electronic gel, which I have talked about in other lectures and so forth, would be shifting quite markedly, shifting very markedly. A lot of interesting things occur in terms of phenomena – a lot of phenomena occurs, in fact. You're not terribly interested in the phenomena, and you're not really interested in anything but, is the preclear absolutely certain he would be willing to have that person he has named grant beingness to?

If a case blows, that means the case had a tendency to twist a process, you see, because he can't duplicate entirely. And so he was sliding out of your hands as an auditor. As long as he can slide out of your hands as an auditor, he then will alter a process every time that process gets him into going which is too rough for him. And he's got to go through that rough going. And you won't be able to drive him through with a concept.

Well now, if you just don't find any person of any kind whatsoever, you'd better hit it on some kind of a gradient scale. And you could hit it on a gradient scale like this: mest universe. All right, "What thing would it be safe to have grant some beingness?" And of course, you're on to the problem of orientation point at a late inversion. And above that will be a person, and above that will be another orientation point.

So you have Opening Procedure by Duplication standing there as the only thing known at this time which will push a case all the way through into a good communication and an ability to duplicate your auditing techniques.

Now, how far do you go with this, and is this the only process you have to run? Well, yes, by theory this is the only process you have to run. And in actual processing, it's the only one which is going to produce a lot of result.

If you just did this for a little while with a case, you would still get an improved communication line. If you did it for many, many hours with a case on consecutive days or consecutive weeks, you would get a total improvement in communication on the part of the case. This is a certainty.

But in practice, throw in some dunnage, because it will get very monotonous on the preclear. You can vary it this way, because you don't want him spotting, particularly, what you're up to. You say," Well, what wouldn't you mind granting beingness to Papa?" you know? "Are you absolutely certain of that? It's all right for the bowl of the pipe, now, to grant some beingness to Papa?" Okay.

But where your case blows, gets upset or excited, you can look at this fact: that you must have invested – if you audited this case by other processes earlier – a great deal of time trying to get the case to (quote) "break through the sound barrier." Case didn't.

That's not run as a dichotomy, see, but just thrown in. He seems to be hung up for a moment, he's on a little lag, he seems to be nonplused or confused. Let's give him a win. He's always willing to have something grant beingness to one of these people. He's always willing to, but it so happens these things don't grant beingness to. That's a reverse flow. So it's not processing in the direction of truth, so you use this sparingly. But he'd be perfectly willing, for instance, to have a sawed-off shotgun grant beingness to the sheriff. Oh, he'd be real sure of that, see? I mean, you get these queer ones coming up, they're reversals and inversions. So if they come up, so handle them.

Now, why does it require a little violence? One of the things that happens is the individual knows that he mustn't display any violence, and this technique brings him up to a point where he displays it, and he finds out nothing happened to him. So, in itself he has been permitted, you should realize, to act in a rather reactive fashion without the world caving in on him. This in itself gives him a tremendous confidence.

I mean, just throw that one in. Throw any kind of a process in. If you think you have to shift off to another person, this is probably what's happened: You haven't picked up the key personnel. You might sort through five, six, eight people before you finally had one that was really rolling on this case, where he was really getting some idea of certainty.

Did you ever see somebody that got mad and then found out nobody objected and then was cocky evermore?

I say that: You should be able to pick it up the first shot, but I can't guarantee that you will pick it up the first shot, you see? We're just assuming rather unreasonably that there is only one case – one person – who hung this person up on the track with granted beingness. And we're assuming unreasonably that the first one that you got a response from on the preclear would be the right one, see? We're making two assumptions here: (1) that the preclear will give you the right one first, and (2) that your preclear in all cases is staying right in the groove with you as an auditor in terms of imparting information. We are assuming these things, and it's not really the thing to assume.

It's an interesting thing. I met a dog one time. He was a good friend of another dog I knew. He had been pummeled around by his master about barking and so forth. And one day he went into a complete screaming rage. He was away from home, and he went into just this horrible rage at another dog, and he barked and growled.

So let's handle it loose, let's be effective, huh? I mean, we know what we're trying to do. We know somebody has granted this person, possibly when he was quite young… Young, though, you see – this is age we're talking about now. We're talking about a span of years but we're also talking about masses of energy, and so when we say "quite young" or "past," this becomes a meaningless thing. We just delete energy out of it, we don't have a past, see?

And he had put to rout a slightly larger dog (this had really nothing to do with this). But he snapped and snarled, and after the other dog had gone away, he snapped and snarled at the picket fence and the lilac bushes and the porches and the people on the walk and so forth. And he was just having a fine time snap-pin' and snarlin', believe me.

Somebody granted this person an awful lot of masses of energy which he's sure packing around one way or the other and which are hindering him in performing his proper functions. And in view of that, why, we've got a solution for him. Now, it may be that as this is audited out along the line, an auditor will find very routinely that he will have to handle a number of people and a number of geographical areas before his preclear feels real good about the whole thing.

These two guys standing on the street there, they took a look at him and they laughed and they said, "He's really feeling his dog biscuits, isn't he?" And they were sort of pleased with him, because he was such a ferocious-looking dog all of a sudden.

If that's the case, all right, we handle it that way. But in Procedure 30 we're handling the granting of beingness in this direction, and this is the goal of that section of 30: To make the preclear happy to have other people – beings – grant beingness to the society at large and to himself. And when he's totally willing to have this happen, you will have a saint on your hands, and who knows, he may even have a halo back of his head, because it's quite an unlimited process. But that's our goal.

And this dog looked this environment over and he decided he could get mad. He was never the same dog – never was. Before that time he had walked with his tail never any higher (this is tone scale on the dog) – never any higher than horizontal, and after that he sort of tickled the back of his head with it.

Now, how we arrive at that goal, I give you one choice of auditing commands. There may be many.

Here's part, then, of Opening Procedure and any such process where your preclear actually can get mad. If you demonstrate to him that he mustn't get mad at you, and mustn't get mad at your presence, you'll depress him. What you do, you see, is just let him go on getting mad, let him go on getting into any state he wants to get into and keep on putting him through the process. Frees him up in all directions.

But Opening Procedure by Duplication is used in Procedure 30 to put the case into the best possible condition that you could get him in, in order to go on auditing him. Saves you an enormous amount of time. Now, the amount of time saved in this is probably in terms of scores of hours, if not hundreds.

Now, if you have a case that is hanging up, it may very well go right on hanging up unless you get as violent as Opening Procedure by Duplication. And if the case is hanging up to any degree, why, your remedy, of course, is Opening Procedure by Duplication.

It has its own role; it is in itself its own therapy. But what you're trying to do as an auditor is blast him through places where he would hang up, and which it might take you years to get him through entirely.

So it isn't just a passing thought, this process; it seems to contain in it all those elements which go to make a case stable, and therefore is quite important to the auditor. But if an auditor works this without expecting violence, if he works this without expecting that he's going to have an awful time every few preclears, why, he's even more of an optimist than I am, which is impossible.