This afternoon I want to know how many occluded cases we have in this group.

Now, we have two subjects with which you are indifferently acquainted and one of them is called randomity and the other is called automaticity. And this week, more or less, we're going to take up processes in general, we're going to take up automaticity and randomity.

Female voice: You want to know what?

One of you people just got himself in trouble a few minutes ago - asked me a question he hadn't answered himself. Well, that's the best kind of instruction on anything like this. He says the PC is motivator hungry - why, by mocking up acts happening to him we've got what you do about it.

Now, what are you calling an occluded case? You mean now and then it all goes black?

And so I had him - had him give me eight ways of remedying motivator hunger. If we'd had a little time he would have given me eight ways to remedy overt hunger. And then, I would have given - had him - if this was - if you were really up to the end of the three weeks, I would have had him give me ways in which a person could make himself motivator and overt hungry in order to get some randomity. So that's what we're going to take up here.

Male voice: All the time.

Now, first we're going to take ... Who's got an AP&A, anybody? First we're going to take up randomity. Now, there are some people who think I call this "Randomity" just to confuse and confound people and that it's an overt act on my part against society. Well, that's mainly because they have so much trouble with it, they can't understand it - very simple, isn't it?

Yours goes black all the time?

They have so much trouble with it, it's so much on the exact modus operandi of living that they have great difficulty with it. And let me give you a principle right now which you cannot do without. You cannot do without this principle.

Male voice: No, no, it don't go black all the time.

Actually, in trying to process somebody you can do without it a bit but in trying to instruct somebody, by golly, you can't do without it. And that is that the fellow won't look at what he won't look at. Now, that's a principle and it's a wonderful principle. And if you have this principle, you will save yourself God knows how many hours of gum-beating on the subject of thisa and thata and something else. This class is being instructed along the lines of that principle.

It is black all the time.

Been trying to give you experience with subjective, objective processes. Tried to make you look at some of the operating principles of the mind by experiencing them, by leading you to look at them through processing rather than trying to make you a bunch of dictionaries.

Male voice: It stays.

Well, we could make you a bunch of dictionaries. Suzie had a happy thought this morning. Apparently had a very good night's sleep, something of the sort, and she got very bright this morning - says, "You know, I had a dream last night and all of a sudden my university education has come entirely clear to me, exactly what happened to it and exactly what I did with regard to it." And this was very revealing to her.

Okay, now what - what situation has altered here in processing with regard to the occlusion itself? What situation - what happened this morning in this morning's process of pulling in those anchor points?

I've kidded her many times. I said I was going to write a letter of complaint to the University of Texas complaining about them having committed an overt act against me by giving her her diploma because she got it in science. And she's a very smart little cookie but, as I said before, you ask her, "Now, what is Ohm's Law?" and she says she didn't take up law.

Male voice: Mine stayed blacker when I was working outside. It seems to be blacker when I try to shoot around outside than when I...

And so she finally found out what she was doing and she had mocked up a circuit which then absorbed the education and spat it back. And this circuit had been most beautifully educated. But she unfortunately blew it. And this explains four years of German and not being able to order a cup of coffee in Aachen. This explains this Ohm's Law, explains a lot of things. Anything she was actually interested in, and so on, she learned about it from the MEST universe; she didn't learn it in school.

What are you doing? Working - are you exteriorizing?

Now, if you've - if you've had the ardures of being backward or something of this sort in school - if you were bright enough to be completely stupid in the school - you had this sort of a thing happen. There was - there was this Mamie Glutz and she got all these A's. And she got A in Spanish when you were in high school, particularly, and one day you passed her on the campus and you said "Buenos dias," and she looked at you and thought you were making a pass at her in pig Latin. And you come to find out that all these A's that she got in Spanish were based on exactly no reality as far as Spanish was concerned. And this must have been very disabusing to you or confusing.

Male voice: I have decided that I am and I'm sticking with it.

Well, what you had there was a classroom circuit in operation. Now, why does a classroom circuit go into operation so easily? It's because it has a limited space and so it's a natural to set up a circuit. There's that piece of space. All this society does is provide the material, which is to say the anchor points necessary to set up a circuit, and then sets one up.

Urn-hum. All right, what happened while I was running that exercise this morning?

This type of education which is not associated with experience and which doesn't lead immediately to experience - one doesn't see what he's going to do with it in the real universe at all - is not worthless. Don't ever make that mistake. It is savagely ravaging; it's not a worthless.

Male voice: Mine turned purple and red.

The incidence of suicide on the part of college students immediately prior or following examination time or in the summer which immediately follows is no accident. It is immediately coordinated with examination time. The incidence is high. You never hear about it. What you hear about colleges in this country is football stadiums. The definition of a college is "a small number of professors entirely surrounded by a football stadium." And when it comes to anxiety in your preclear, you want to look at education and do something about it; there are a dozen, dozen ways of doing something about education. The simplest is just lock-scan it. Lock-scanning in brackets, by the way, is a fascinating technique. (Good old Science of Survival - way back; pull it out of the tomb.) It's not a very high order of technique but, I mean, you could at least do that.

Got automatic as hell, in other words - got automatic.

Here's somebody that's had his space nailed down; he's in a condition of fixed space And the society has set up a Circuit for him. Well, why could this circuit be set up and why was it set up as far as the society was concerned?

Male voice: Yeah.

Did the society actually and honestly believe, at any moment, that it would be better off if it had more educated people in it? No, not since the beginning of time has a society ever supposed that it would be better off because people were more able to utilize skills. This is the last thing a society thinks of - the first thing it should think of and the last thing it does think of.

All right.

A society is as good an it has able, skilled workmen. It's just that good. It - all it is, is a large organism which produces and if its production units are smashed flat all the time and inhibited, it'll go to pieces. We never had any iron work in this country to amount to anything in - before Benedict Arnold captured Knyphausen's regiment and it was interned in Boston. They kept going out of Boston into the farms and so forth. That regiment was practically composed of nothing but artisans.

Male voice: ... turned it around to black.

The king of - I don't know, what country was it? Spooferunia? He had run fresh out of peasants to sell to other people so he could buy actresses or whatever he was doing with the money, and he'd run fresh out of those and he actually sent press gangs out and he picked up artisans. And they made up Knyphausen's regiment of Hessians.

Okay. What happened to your occlusion this morning while you were doing that exercise? Somebody else. What happened to yours?

So, these dirty Hessians that we read about in American history, these dogs, these beasts that were turned loose upon our poor, brave colonials, built the damned country. Society doesn't give a doggone about an artisan! It doesn't just figure this - it says, "Well, we are going to get along as well as we have what?"

Male voice: I got so damn groggy, I couldn't hardly sit here.

Well, they just don't ever answer the question. They think "as long as we have good laws or as long as we have a democratic system." Well, boy, the day a democratic system could put any gas in a gas tank or insert a new spark plug, I never heard of it.

Okay. What happened to you?

You can take this democratic system and stand it up alongside of a diesel truck and the truck will just sit there. You can put it - you can put it up at the front end of a bread line and feed it out with a big ladle and by golly, the people in that bread line will starve to death; there has got to be bread in that bread line. And we don't get bread by passing a new set of laws.

Male voice: I got a nice purple. I felt like I was getting a nice rise in tone while I was running it.

The society has noticed invariably this strange one: When it didn't have heavy-handed educational facilities, it had too much randomity on the subject of its populace. Noticed that invariably. It noticed that its hoodlumism, rowdyism, street fights, bar brawls and so forth were at a much higher incidence.

Male voice: Oh, so did I.

And they can't send the kid to jail when he hasn't done anything, so they send him to school so he won't do anything. And you'll see this many times, you'll see - you'll see essays back when they had realism instead of Karl Marx as the prime method of running a democracy. Karl Marx is the textbook of today of the modern democracy. If you don't think so, just take poor old Das Kapital, which laughingly enough is still used as - it's been rewritten many times since - but it's used by the Communist Party today. But if you'll read an original Karl Marx's Das Kapital, you'll swear to Pete, you're thinking - you'll be - you'll just swear that you must be reading a textbook - if you didn't know it was Das Kapital you'd think you were reading something by Harry Truman or the "Running Handbook of the Democratic Party as Operating in the Latter Part of the 40s."

Female voice: I did too. I got quite - the body got quite complete...

Practically everything that Karl Marx said is taken over lock, stock and barrel. For instance, his methods - his formulas of taxation and so forth are today the formulas of taxation of the US Government. And just by rote - communist - no, I don't know what the communist is going to do. He's over too far to the right.

Anybody's occlusion turn off? Well, that's just a little test. Did yours?

That's always the comment I make to a communist when he tries to sell me on communism; I listen to him for a little while and then explain to him very carefully that communism is far, far too far to the right for me. And he looks at me very alertly and scared, probably because he knows what he has run into; he has run into an anarchist. So he has to spend the last part - he has to spend the last part of his dissertation trying to convince me that there should be law and order in a government. Oh, dear. I am not, by the way, an anarchist; that's far, far, far too far to the right. Anyway.

Male voice: No. I may have gotten an anchor point, though, whereas I know before I never have.

When we look - when we look at a big social organism we'll see this tremendous effort to maintain a certain randomity within its own tolerance level. And it has decided, one way or another, that its tolerance level for randomity was so-and-so, and then everything it moves in is just to adjust that.

Hm.

But the hideous part of this universe is, it is very seldom that anybody ever decides he has minus randomity. It's all plus randomity, plus randomity, plus randomity. Germany - the one European nation that periodically considers that it has minus randomity and it starts raising hell - it says, "There's just not enough randomity in the rest of Europe; we'll make some." And they do. They go out and blow everything up and get motion in all directions and so forth and get blown up themselves.

Male voice: Something black appeared out there.

And then we think that will teach them a lesson. Well, what did you think they were trying to do? Teach them a lesson? No, it merely confirmed what they were trying to do in the first place. They have their randomity; they get it every twenty years; couldn't do without it. It's like you have to feed a baby every two and a half, three and a half hours.

Okay. Well now..

All right. We have, then, a culture - a cultural speed, you might say. And when somebody comes in and exceeds this speed that's real rough.

Male voice: If it was an anchor point, I don't know,

Well, the early boys who came into the United States were trying to get away from reasonable and rational people. And they had a rough time of it because they had been kicked out of everything; they were minus randomity people. And they finally came over here, and boy, they - did they find plus randomity like mad. The wolverines and coyotes and bison and Indians were quite a bit. And these boys were real hard and they were real tough.

Now, this is what I call scraping bottom if you want my candid opinion This - title of this lecture this afternoon is "How far south do you have to go?" Well, I can tell you: you have to go south till that thing he just spoke about happens with a pc. I just tested that this morning as a Group Process wondering whether or not it could be processed on groups.

And they - early groups were subscribing up in the New England states to a chap by the name of Calvin. Calvin always called himself the "maitre." I don't know what he was the maitre of the maitre d'hotel or something of the sort. He was the guy that had, every time anybody thought anything, why, Calvin's only answer to this was "Hang him." But not spectacularly - please! Hang him quietly.

Now get this, get this straight: occlusion is two things, in the final analysis - two things. It's no space and no space, and this comes about because a person has no anchor points, naturally.

And Calvin's reformation took that renaissance that was just starting and threw it into a nearby cesspool. And all was evil, as far as Calvin was concerned. I guess he figured it out on the basis of all was sex or something because he had been in connection with too many Catholic priests. And so he decided that the best way we had better handle this whole situation is just give everybody zero randomity.

The process which relieves occlusion is exactly the process which I gave you this morning, but it is carried out with a knowledge of certainty. Now, how far south did you have to go? It is not a case of an unsolved case or a strange case or a preclear that doesn't yuckguddle or something of the sort. It's just a case of how far south do you have to go to get a complete certainty on an anchor point, its appearance and disappearance, and self-determinism over same. If you think I'm being very new and very novel and very strange, I point out to you Black Spot Control Processing, 8008. And I point out the data to you on those tapes. The only reason - I never went into it at that time to the degree it can be gone into. That's typical of this subject: you can start swimming out in all directions and you just go forever. But I'd - having cases get somewhat straightened out, and then finishing them up with Self Analysis just on getting a black spot.

Well, the Puritan and so on came over here and they had already imbibed this poison. And what's made this country remarkable is the fact that it's running on a zero-randomity goal with the country itself just raising hell with them all the time and giving them plus randomity. And between the two of these you've got a perpetuation and a persistence the like of which nobody ever heard of do you see? You got plus randomity enforced upon the people with a tremendous, tremendous desire for no randomity by their own creeds. And it has just made a very exciting playground for an awful lot of thetans.

How - what was Black Spot Processing? Let's go into that right away. It was getting certainty on having put a black spot on a wall. Total certainty. Putting a black spot on a wall with the preclear's eyes wide open or shut, as the case may be. It did not matter, as long as he could put on the wall a black spot, which would then remain stable, and turn it off and turn it on again at will.

Anyway, you get the history of any new country. And no new country on Earth in recent millennia has done this incredible thing of being utterly sold on minus randomity, and then going in suddenly into a country that had the plusest randomity there was on the face of Earth, See?

Now how big did the spot have to be? You must understand that there's a question of mass. People have agreed with the MEST universe to a point where they think mass is terribly important. And so when you want something big and they have to have something big, then they know that gravity's going to gobble it up and so they can't hold it up, so they have to get a lot of effort into it. This is sheer balderdash. But the point is the case "knows" this. He's real certain of this.

So you'll get the tremendous strength of early ordinances; they - for instance, the - one of the first ordinances was enforced - they hung a man for stealing a chicken, see? And the code of laws which were imported into early America are very fine, they - but they don't show anything even vaguely resembling mercy or a feeling that anybody was human or should move. It was just this strong.

So let's go into it on a basis of a tiny, tiny, microscopic spot and from this tiny, microscopic spot let's drill or move something on the wall from one point to another point on the same wall, until he knows he can - he can create it, destroy it and move it. We just go up the gradient scale of certainty on his ability to handle a black spot.

Well, the little red schoolhouse was an immediate effort to keep the boys from running taverns and things, and having patrons.

Well, why are we doing this? We're doing this so that he can eventually handle an anchor point, that's all.

And you'll get all up and down the line, you get religion, use of. In 1805 there was a fellow writing over here in Philadelphia; he published a very lovely history of the world - very brilliant book. Nobody has ever heard of him - I happen to have his book, however. It was published in 1805, you can imagine what kind of shape the book is in,

There's no sense in going through drills with somebody. I can tell you - tell you that outside of Self Analysis it has that single, sole virtue of you just plow on and on and on and eventually the mock-ups get a little better and a little better and a little better and a little better and eventually things straighten out. We won't even say how eventually. But that is one process that does this.

But he gives there all the way through what the thinking world - what the world of letters and arts really felt about government and religion. And the people who were running the societies at that time, what their honest opinions were. Because he - at that time the lettered men - people - hadn't gotten them in school. They had read law or they had been bred as a gentleman or something of the sort. And they were just sort of hatted in the tradition that they were supposed to be polite and before you ran somebody through you said, "By your leave, sir," and ran him through. In other words, they had politeness.

But it is almost senseless to process a case without finding how far south you have to go to give the case a certainty.

And he gives there the use of religion in handling the masses. And it is a method of control by which it is represented that there is a supreme being who can punish after the courts have ceased jurisdiction.

Now, I was beating a case around the other day, madly beating this case around, and I found out that the case had no certainty of any kind on anything the case was doing. And yet the case was exteriorized.

And you need this extensional method of control when the action of courts of law have no penalty sufficient here to restrain the amount of evil which is being done, you see? It's very simple.

How many cases are you processing that are like that? They're outside, they can see the scenery, maybe, but only to a certain distance. And do you know, actually, that this case doesn't have a concept of what reality is? And yet they are working, somehow, some way, and they're getting a little bit better, painfully slow. These processes will beat them through with a club, practically, one way or the other. But why, when the one thing the case hasn't got is the one thing the case needs? Certainty, that's all, That's all it needs. That's all it's got to have.

I mean, if you - if hanging and torture... You figure this out, see? They figured out, well, all right, we're putting people in jail; well, that doesn't restrain them. All right, we'll start killing them for doing that crime; doesn't restrain them; we get more of that kind of crime. Therefore, we will torture them and kill them. And that doesn't restrain them, so the next thing you've got to have is religion which says, "Look, fellow, we'll catch up with you after you're dead. And you'll burn forever."

Your preclear says, "Yes. Yeah, I can see the body." The hell he can! He's got an impression of a picture of a body. It's even clear to him sometimes. It's even brilliantly clear, it has tremendous color in it, and everything else. Sure he can see this picture, so he tells you, "Yes." Well, don't ever ask him, "Are you sure it's there and it's yours?" because he'll immediately, "Well no, we needn't go into that." Is it really there? Well, according to his gradient scale of reality - now this is where some of the cases here possibly get utterly shattered - according to his guarantee of what's been real to him all his life, it's real. And according to what certainty has been to him all his life, it's certain. But let's not stock it up against any other certainty he has because he's got a certainty on the body.

If you tell him this hard enough, why, he comes into the belief that there is some kind of a coalition between God and the state and he'll obey some of these laws.

Believe me if you stood him up and gave him a hell of a slap in the face, he'd be sure you slapped him in the face, And actually you could process this rough. All right, the fellow says, "Yeah, that's real. Sure, sure, got that. Yeah, got that. Got something else. Throw it away. Sure, put it in the right pocket. Here we go, nothing to it, good communication, and so on. That's the room, that's the wall .." He sits there and wastes your time by the hour because he doesn't know he's going anyplace! He doesn't know he's seeing anything because he can't bring it up to the level of comparative certainty that he would get if you suddenly grabbed him by the throat and punched him in the eye. And if you did that and then you said, "Now, are you sure I punched you in the eye?" he'd say, "Yes, goddamn you, I'm sure." You'd say then, "Are you that sure of your mock-up? Oh, you're not. Well, then let's get a mock-up you're that sure of."

Problem of reduction of plus randomity. That's all it is.

Now, this would utterly shatter his reality, actually. Well, what is the difference between one of these characters doing a good job of being here and being there and having - having points to view, and oh, everything is just going along grandly? He's got all this and he's still psychosomatic and he's still bogged down, and you don't quite know where he's going and where he's coming from and so forth. As far as you - he gets up out of the session and he says, "let's see now, there's the door," and so forth. But he was real sharp, he was.

Well, this modern society here doesn't have the vitality or the philosophy anymore that it started out with. And furthermore, it isn't being faced by the rigorous problems. This society has gotten down more and more and more into a - toward minus randomity. In other words, the boys that started it out are ending the cycle of action and are actually succeeding. See, they're ending the cycle of action. Their goal was no motion and they're getting there, this late.

What's his level of certainty? Well, please, let's find something of what to the preclear is real and let's make it an anchor point. And let's just start in processing as of today, this afternoon.

And you get the institutions and so forth of education - they actually set up a circuit which could be educated. There isn't any other plot there, they just want a circuit to be educated and this circuit will thereafter run the person.

In the first place, the case that is badly occluded doesn't even have his body anymore for an anchor point. He's more sure of that wall than he is of his body.

You know, if they can reduce his randomity sufficiently, the law won't have any trouble with him They've gone on the misconception, rather constantly, that the reduction of randomity reduced crime and overt acts against the state.

If you don't believe this, run this exercise on him: "All right, now feel a body. Now don't feel a body. Now feel a body. Now don't feel a body. Now feel a body. Now don't feel a body. Now feel a body. Don't feel a body. Feel a body. Don't feel a body. Feel a body."

It doesn't! It makes it impossible for an individual to join the society. That's what this punishment does. The fellow - he gets the idea that he can't join the society and as soon as he can't join the society he can't have any of its anchor points, can he? And if he can't have any of its anchor points they're not his so he has got to steal some. And he doesn't care what happens to them. Blow them all up - they're not his, are they?

And he'll all of a sudden say, "Nnnnh, no!"

Well, that's the - in the final analysis is the result of superpunishment on the part of the state and the family. People just wind up with the concept of they are not his.

And you say, "What's the matter with you?"

Well anyway, we have in any preclear that you'll process here in the United States: we're into a problem of minus randomity. This is not necessarily the only problem there is. There is also the problem of plus randomity, but you're not likely to run into it very often but you must remember that it can exist.

"Well, I don't know."

It's generally too much unwanted action and not enough wanted action - desirable randomity. Well, the second we add a big consideration into it, we have - the second we have added consideration into it we have a problem here of what's good and what's evil?

I did this on one fellow and after we'd done it for a little while, then he looked at me very fixedly and said, "You know, I think I'm a Phoenician." He was getting surer of being a Phonician than he was a body. Why? He's never been outside this body and looked at it. See, he never took a look at this body. He's just sort of feeling it on a basis of looking in the mirror and fooling around with it and so on; he never gets a viewpoint of it. And now he's got a negative anchor point as far as it's concerned. Other people have ignored it, and they - he doesn't seem to have any force, and he doesn't - people don't walk away from him when he spits at them, and he's not dangerous to his environment. He's got all these things beautifully proven. And one fine day - one fine day, if you ask him real quick before he had a chance to put out some comm lines and find out if it were so or not, you'd say, "Are you in a body?" No, he's just a thetan kind of standing there and there's nothing around him and this is very upsetting to him indeed. Is - does he have a body?

Well, you find out if you run "wasting" in brackets that you don't have a problem of good and evil - that is a specious problem. There is no such thing as a bad or unwanted sensation and no such thing as a good or a wanted sensation. What there is, is sensation.

Well, gee-whiz, that tells you immediately the guy's - if he doesn't have a body it's on an inverted 1. Ask him this right off the bat: Ask him to feel the desk in front of him. Now say, "Now just sit back. Now, does your body feel as real to you as this desk? Can you at any moment turn on feeling as real in the body as you felt the desk?"

But now, people evaluate and evaluate and they figure out just to reduce randomity that some sensations are good and some sensations are bad; that's the first trick. That's the first trick. Some sensations are good, some are bad.

He'll rack all around through himself and he'll finally say, "You know, yes. I got some feeling in one toe, one toe." First thing he's liable to tell you is "Yes, the chair."

That, of course, reduces randomity by at least half. You've got an immediate reduction of randomity by 50 percent the moment you introduce morality. So morality is the first state trick to bring down the amount of this horrible, intolerable thing called motion.

You say, "Hey, I said 'the body.'" He'll begin to assess this one out, and he'll find out, yeah, he's feeling the chair. He's not quite sure with what he's feeling it. Where he sits, the sphere he occupies is less certain to him than the most trivial MEST object in view. See how this could be? He's never looked at himself.

Now we can just plain knock it in half. We'd say all these actions over here are bad. Now they say, "Gee. That word crime - look how well that worked. Let's just label all the rest of these actions as bad, too. And if we can do that then we'll get our goal of no motion." And so they come down to a basis of people believing that 99 percent of the motion, sensation, looking-ness, feelingness, effort, thinkingness, is bad, see? Very simple, they get 99 percent is bad and only 1 percent is good. And then they won't even tell them what the 1 percent good is. Well, this is the way you reduce randomity on a state basis.

Well, why is this? Well, why should he get so nebulous? Well, it's because he has interfered with the GE's automatic mock-up system. He's tried to make something else out of the GE than what it was intended to be, namely a man or a woman. And so he has - having more horsepower - has messed up the automatic mock-up system of the GE just as though somebody had gone into a refrigerator and stuck a monkey wrench in its ammonia pump. And now after that, unless something else supplants this, he's in a bad way.

Well, one of the methods of reducing it is education if it's done in this fashion. You understand that anybody who has been educated on a circuit basis, which is to say, the little red schoolhouse at nine and you get out at three, and on and on and on and on and on - I don't know, how long do they educate them now in this country? Thirty-five years or something of the sort? It keeps going up. No, that's 1980 when they will graduate when they're thirty-five yeah. They now graduate normally when they're about twenty-four. It used to be when they were sixteen, earlier than that when they were twelve earlier than that when they were ten. They had more education, too, by the time they graduated when they were ten. Don't think that there's more subject matter being forwarded; that's not true, just more time is put in.

Now, the point in question there: Can he make any part of any body appear and disappear? Could you coax him up to that? If you first were able to get him to do that, he would find out that people do feel their bodies and there is enough there as a body to get out of. He is sitting on a relatively low-grade - relatively high - a low-grade zero. You see, because he doesn't look at the body he doesn't know what to mock up.

I, one time, asked a bunch of mothers why they didn't shorten the school hours and so forth and make it a little bit easier on the kids and so forth. And they were shocked. And I very carefully cross-questioned them and discovered that uniformly these ladies had no idea whatsoever of their child being educated - that there was any advantage whatsoever in learning how to read or write or do things in school, but boy, you sure had a lot of free time there with no kids underfoot!

Now, he can mock up Bill or he can mock up Joe or he can mock up Bill's mother or his own mother and if you were to start taking him apart as an engram, you'd find out he was mocking up piles of bodies, you'd find out that his face probably was superimposed by some other face on backwards. He's got all this weird - weird thing. Well, why is he doing this? Because he doesn't know what to mock up. Somebody's got to mock up the body or it's not going to be there, believe me.

Now, that's a brutal statement, but that's why they put the kids in school; school is a wonderful method. These people, by the way, had children in the third, fourth, fifth, sixth grades. And they were - they were flabbergasted that I would be interested in whether or - what the child was being taught and what good it was doing the child.

And yet you're asking him to be three feet in back of his head. This guy is more real in his own head. He can at least feel a desk, but he can't feel a body because it's not being adequately mocked up by himself.

Well, finally I beat it down: they had - just by the cross-questioning: "We're going to talk to the principal about it," because it had occurred to them that the child was not being taught anything useful. This had finally come through to them. There was nothing useful in the curriculum.

Have you ever seen somebody whose presence suddenly kind of blazed at you? Did you ever see some terrifically (quote) self-possessed person (unquote)? You know just - they're very rare in this society, but once in a while you see one of them. They sort of hit you between the eyes. It isn't that they're putting out any beam or so forth, they're accurately mocked up. See, accurately. They're putting themselves back there every time.

Now, did the - after the child comes home is he - does he shine his shoes better? Does he know how to wash an automobile? What's the child being taught? See, I just started using all of the household operations that these women - these women had to do themselves and would like to have done. And they suddenly realized that the state was doing them out of labor. Which of course it is; it's trying to cut down the labor market. The only reason you have child labor laws is just so you cut down the labor market. Anybody that goes around, "Poor little children. They have to work and slave and they work their eyes out," and so forth. Balderdash! Dirtiest trick you can do on a little kid is to keep him from working.

You would be amazed what you would - you could process for hours by a mechanical technique, hours and hours and hours. The fellow would get over some psychosomatics and rearrange some energy and he'd be very happy about it. And he'd get on - he'd go away and say "Scientology is very good and you're a good auditor."

You make it uniform that no little child can have a job, you've immediately consigned him to the prison of an orphan asylum. See? You've immediately consigned him to the onerous contribution of Papa and Mama where he can contribute nothing back. You've made him, artificially, into a parasite.

But you know that you could achieve a much greater result if you simply made him certain of one thing. Just one thing, I don't cure what it is. You would achieve a better, higher result with him mentally. So you just make him certain of anything - the room, walls, anything he's looking at.

And the goal of a government, but not the goal of the people, where the government and people fall down and fly at each other's throats eventually is right at this point - and they really fly at each other's throats eventually - is the government tries to create, actively, indigence on the part of its populace, so that the populace will depend upon the government utterly and fall then into a slave status. And the people try to create work as long as they're healthy. They try to be independent, self-determined and support themselves individually and support their organizations individually.

You know, people are so used to looking at the walls and that sort of thing, that when they start to audit, their attention will go out to the walls rather than to a body. They seldom concentrate on the body. That's why we have an extroversion-introversion technique system - extroversion and introversion.

And the difference, for instance, between the government of France today, which is shot through with... You know, a very funny, loose word - one day I'm going to have to find out what modern communism is. I - last time I looked up it was a military aristocracy. And that's not a bad form of government - military aristocracy. It's rather workable, if it's ever done right. That is, if you have any people to govern with it - that's the main thing. The Russians are kind of hard up there.

Ever occur to you that introversion was as important as extroversion? Well, what do we mean introversion? Well, let's put it on this basis. If a fellow is part of a scene and he's in a MEST body, it's as important that the body be mocked up as the scene. Follow me?

Anyhow, the military aristocracy is used today in Spain; it's quite successful. But communism - God knows what this is - is being used in France. And free enterprise is being used in Holland. So we have all of these model societies running different ways. Well, how are they running?

Now let's take - let's take George Doakes. And George is sitting in the middle of a room and his automaticity is going along at a mad rate mocking up this room, and other people are mocking up this room and other people see the room and he agrees they all see the room and he's very happy about this. But here's George Doakes in the middle of the room and he isn't anywhere near as clearly mocked up as the room. MEST looks more solid because it's more solidly mocked up.

Well, in Spain - in Spain, the people are still good enough so that the government can go take a flying leap into the Mediterranean or the Atlantic, whichever direction it wants to go - period. I mean, they're still good enough. Little kids work in Spain. Everybody works in Spain - old ladies; see some old lady that's supposed to be - in the US, she would have been for the last fifteen years in an old ladies' home. Anyway, she's working hard; she's a laundress. And you see this little six-year-old kid, who in the US would be in an orphan asylum and so forth, he's the grocery store runner. He's very cocky, ornery little fellow, He really buckles down and works, though. In other words, everybody is working, they've never lost their ability to work. So it doesn't matter what kind of a government they've got. If the government gets in their road, they buy them off and send them the other way.

If you want somebody to get out of a body very easily, why, you'd better get a solid mock-up for him to get out of. That's about all it amounts to.

The revolution, we think that's terribly important because it would have been very destructive in the United States. Actually, all it did was take away from Spain about thirty years of continual political turmoil which wouldn't let anybody finish a job. And this one finally settled it and it's got enough guns to keep off other political pretenders.

What's this go back to then? This would go back to certainty immediately. And what's this go back to? Well, he's in a negative space on 1 - a negative space. The body's a negative space; him as a thetan, he's about negative 8, or something of the sort, minus 8. He's seven times inverted, and the body is an inverted 1 and it's not being well mocked up and it's not very solid, and he's not - he's not there at all; and yet the room's there. Well, he's kind of in competition with the MEST universe one way or the other.

And whether it's good or bad is beside the point. It's just tough enough and rough enough right now so that no other political pretenders come up and upset the public calm. And Spain goes on working. It's picking itself up remarkably.

But let's take a good, close look at this boy and we realize that his problem is not the problem of some tricky technique you're going to attempt. And it's not the problem of you suddenly reaching out and grabbing ridges off of him. It's not any one of these problems. He's handled this whole problem automatically for so confounded long, he has depended completely upon automaticity to take care of everything. And then one day, you ask him to do it himself. Aaahh! Actually, all he has to do is be certain.

But France? Well, France is still striking and it's still doing this and it's still doing that; and everything is on a bureaucracy paper chain and there's too little work. Why? Because it's all being done by the government, everything is being done by the government, everything is broken down. There's another rule, you know, is if everybody owns something then nobody owns it. It'll just fall to pieces, nobody will take care of it. That's a socialism at work. Nobody owns the state so it goes to pieces. And nobody owns the tractors standing in the fields, so they don't run. That's Russia today.

He has to have, then, his space inverted on a consideration - side certainty. But to have a body and to have the MEST universe back and to see it back again, he'll have to put it there. In order to be certain that he's seeing it, he will have to be certain. This is one of those horrible truths. "The way to cross a river is to cross a river. The way to eat duck is to eat duck."

All right. Here you have France running on a total communism, practically today, as far as the government is concerned. Nothing happens. You can't send any baggage across France. You stop and try - there's a couple of American gasoline companies in there, so you can buy gasoline; the service pumps are generally serviced and full. But there's extraneous duress being put on the country to get efficient in some department or other.

A tribe of Indians, all of their maxims went this way, true as can be: "The way to shoot a deer is to shoot a deer." This passed for wit, humor, philosophy, logic and everything else with this particular tribe, up the Hudson someplace. Okay?

Everything else is just pooey! Nothing is functioning - bing. It feels like you're in the middle of a small hurricane that just is - everything is just being tossed up in the air and let fall where it will.

Certainty, Unless he's certain, nothing is going to make him certain. How are we going to have him become an effect so that he will - do you get that all right? That's just - the problem's unstatable. And yet everybody's trying to state this problem. They're living proofs of it. If he's inverted far enough on enough dynamics, you've got to turn them around.

Holland is total free enterprise; the government is getting in nobody's road. The government has been bought off in so many directions by so many American capitalists and Dutch capitalists and so forth, and has been so nullified in various directions that it doesn't know quite whether it's in Holland or "Lithuabia." And free enterprise - that's the motto they're going on; total and unlimited. It's not free enterprise as defined by the Republican Party of the US which is "the right to have sole monopoly of." Get - that's a real limited free enterprise. No, it's just free enterprise where everybody has a perfect right to get in and form a business with minimal taxation and minimal legislation and obstruction. And my gosh, Holland - you just have to sort of be very careful when you walk in the streets because everything is running and it's not just running well, it's also running fast. There's all kinds of equipment and goods and well-fed people and food and so forth, all the way around. Minimal government. The government, well, once in a while somebody happens to think there is a government. But that's about all it is. There's so much traffic in the country that the government has all it can do to eat up its customs taxes; it lives on its customs and so forth, as things come over the border. Lots of American Cars - country is full of Cadillacs and so on. No other country in Europe has this, but there's free enterprise for you. In other words, the state takes its hands off - all I'm trying to show you is that the state takes its hands off somewhat, as in Spain, and the country will run. The people can get going.

What are they turned around on? They're all turned around basically on just one thing: space. What do you got to have to have space? You got to have anchor points to have space. If a fellow can't be sure of an anchor point, believe me, he can't be sure of any space, and until he can be sure of some space he can't be certain of very much else. So we get in, down the line, to this one thing: an - a - a - a anchor point. You only need one to start with and then you can get two and three and four.

The state is in there a hundred percent on everything and everything breaks down and everybody is miserable, as in France today. And there's no government at all (I mean, gradient scale), there's no government at all, practically, and everything is running full out at high velocity. But it's plus randomity by the time you get up to that; that's full out, high velocity, terrific traffic, lots of goods, lots of food, lots of employment and terrific amounts of money in circulation, of all currencies. It's to a point where nobody cares what you're spending. They - you give them a mark, a mark is good; you give them a Belgian franc, a Belgian franc is good.

Well, I was processing somebody this morning. I was processing to learn something from him. As long as I had this person handle little black balls, this person didn't get anyplace at all. But I put a couple of flags up. I made this person make a cube of space by making - by saying, "Put up eight anchor points. All right, pull them in. Eight anchor points and pull them in..." You know, very foggy, very dull, just no, no effect on this - anchor points. "No, I just - they're doing it all right and..." If I hadn't called the freight on it and suddenly said, "This train stops at this station here," they'd probably have been doing it yet and because - blame me or something of the sort - expected somewhere or later by nuclear physics or necromancy (there not being very much difference between either subject), they would suddenly become Clear or better or be able to see better or something of the sort.

When we find the state willing to let happen what will happen natively within a people, we get lots of action. But we get more action, actually, than can be easily cared for by a bunch of cops standing on the corner with guns; we just get lots of action.

Nah. I fished around with spots. Well, I couldn't get a spot. See, he doesn't see a spot. Wasn't anything about spots. But we got an American flag, by golly. Now, she was real sure of that American flag so we put them on staffs and we stuck them in the ground, one to the right and ahead of her and another one to the left and ahead of her, one behind and to the right, one behind and to the left until we had a cube of space made out of what? The top and bottom of a flagstaff - real good certainty. And we had those things snapping in at a mad rate and the eyesight on the case improved about 100 percent.

Because it's a very silly thing, the thought that one-sixth - oh, I don't know, there's one-half when we take in the armed services of the United States and the police force of the United States - what do you have? And the government employees - what do we have, one-half the populace? But you could go to that extremity. You wouldn't even be able to get - if you had - if you went to that extremity you could keep all the randomity out of the society, by force of arms; great ease. One police officer per taxpayer; you could keep it up. But boy, if you let Homo sapiens run at the speed he will run and if you don't inhibit him in any direction whatsoever, the government hasn't got a chance.

And then it started to fall off. Why did it start to fall off? Well, I asked her to put them out too far. Asked her to put them around the solar system and at that moment her certainty on the flags themselves fell down to zero, because it was too something or other that they would be out there around the solar system. And it just seemed to her that they were around the solar system at the moment and then she said to herself, "This is incredible." And then she invalidated and pulled off of it like mad. In other words, I carried her along too fast. And the increase in vision of the case ceased instantly. She steadied then at exactly the point I had left the last certain mock-up and her communication went off.

This is not saying whether or not Homo sapiens has a chance. This says the government doesn't have a chance. You take one one-hundredth of its populace involved in police activities, they would just stand by and look at the blur That's right - they wouldn't have a chance.

Now, what was I asking her to do? I was asking her to (quote) "pump space into herself." Put out these four flagstaffs and snap them into herself. Put out these four flagstaffs and snap them in, four and snap them in, four and snap them in, four and snap them in. After a while she says, "You know I don't have to pull them in, I just tell them to come in and they come in."

In other words, what do we get here? I've just been talking idly, trying to put it up on the third dynamic so that you could look at it rather than in a preclear. We get controllability as the coincident factor with randomity. And the reason one wants a minus randomity, if he does want it, is so that he will be able to control. Now, the randomity which he can tolerate is then - and you can put this down as a law - the randomity which he can tolerate is the randomity in a thing which he is able to control without straining his attention.

I said, "That's fine."

Now, that is the amount of randomity and that's what we know as tolerance. Tolerance - speed tolerance or randomity tolerance. You can tell immediately what the randomity tolerance - it's a good, good factor, I don't know of any other way you would state it. Undoubtedly we could think of thousands of ways to state it but actually this is a new thing in thinkingness. It's been there all the time but it's just a way of thinking about this.

She says, "Well, I'm not doing wrong with that?"

We'll take a preclear who isn't in good motion at all. He won't go into motion. He won't go out walking; he won't go more than - more than a few miles from the house; he won't go out to movies and he won't move himself around one way or the other. Well, he has reduced the randomity in the body itself and in his - in his business of living, he's reduced the randomity down to a tolerance level.

"No, you're not doing wrong with that." But at that moment I should have realized there was something wrong. There was a question in her mind. See? Something had happened there that gave her a questioning attitude. She was wondering about something that wasn't quite right to her.

What is the tolerance of the thetan? The randomity tolerance of the thetan is directly observable in what the thetan tolerates in the motion and action of the body. Now, just strike out of this whole thing "bad" and "good"; let's just look at motion. Regardless of the valuation of motion - no consideration to it at all - just look at motion.

Well, I had passed over the limit of the mock-up. I'd obviously put it too many places or worn it too thin or I'd done something with it. We don't care what I did with it. The only thing that's important about it is, is that particular set of mock-ups became less real to the preclear. She went up against what? She went up against a big ridge, didn't she?

We find that this fellow spends most of his time sitting around and thinking about it. Well, that's not a symptom of thinkingness. That thinkingness won't give you the index. That's why Dianetic processing every once in a while falls on its face with some preclear. We start to treat his thinkingness. And that's a wonderful opportunity of him to have just his randomity tolerance. And if he then can, with this idea of being processed in thinkingness, adjust his randomity to just thinkingness, he's happy.

And you know, I think the least certain person I ever met was a fellow being hit between the eyes with a bullet. He wasn't certain at all, but the somatic was. That bullet was awful certain, lie wasn't. He was getting awful uncertain.

Is he going to get any better? No, sir! You've handed him on a silver platter the randomity which he as a thetan can tolerate easily in a body. And he's real cheerful about it now. And you'll find people that will - would actually just go on for just years and years and years, lying to the auditor, trying to figure it out one way or the other so that they can go on out and tripping over and falling under something so they'll have to have another engram run out and the case is just being extended forever. Because he is running at his own speed factor which he finds very agreeable. And that speed factor happens to find processing by a slow auditor very desirable because it's another opportunity too.

You want to go down here to the accident ward if you want to see some real uncertain people. Boy, they're in a fog; they're in a real daze. They've just been hit by cars and run over and hurt and so forth.

So this is why, now - he doesn't have to argue back with the society. Society tells him all the time, "You ought to run a little bit faster. You ought to get out and do something. You ought to make something of yourself." Society has been telling him that.

Now, you give them a short time, give them a short time, though. They'll come up and perk up on an artificial certainty. They'll have a euphoria a short time later They will have taken the place of the somatic, normally - taken the place of the impact and the impact is very sharp and very certain and they're very happy about it; and this will wear off within three days. And it's a sort of a euphoria. They're glad - you can explain it any way you want to.

Now he has a good reason why. And his reason why is, is he's not able to because he is being processed. How long will he be processed? Well, there was one case like this. I won't mention any names; it was J. W. Winter. And this was a case, strictly, of having found his tolerance level. And he wrote in a book on the subject (he should have known the subject before he wrote the book) but he wrote in a book on this subject that he had had somewhat was it? Sixteen hundred hours of processing.

By the way, an old-time auditor was in the office this morning and he was trying to analyze this case. And he was analyzing this case entirely from the subject matter of thought, of what the case wanted to do or didn't want to do. And he was very condemning of the case, you see, by that: analyzing it by thought. It was what he was thinking about the case, you see? It wasn't a matter of "she didn't have any space." You could say that about any case, but this girl really had no space.

Well, by the way, between the time he heard of Dianetics, and the time he was - that meant that he had to have been processed at the rate of four hours a day up to the time the book was put in the publisher's hands from the moment that he first heard of Dianetics. We have to embrace all of that time, and we find out it still means that he was on a couch four hours a day, seven days a week and holidays to get that many hours of processing in. I won't say this is a lie, I'll say the fellow is a medical doctor.

Every time you started to snap in new space you got a new inversion on some dynamic. Of course, this case was changing radically, and then ran square into the ridge. See? She'd gotten up to that certain speed, and then she'd gotten to that speed - and they don't have to do this you understand, but they very often will, and ran - she ran slam-bang into the automatic machinery. She ran into the ridge.

Anyway, he's used to making statements which sound very profound. When you have to - if you can't cure a patient you sure get to be an expert at profound statements which are kind of impartial about the whole thing. If you can't do anything you sure have to alibi for it all the time and you get into a habit of doing that.

All right. The ridge started discharging at her something on the order of the guy firing the bullet. You see that? She sure was uncertain. How'd she get uncertain? Well, the ridge started firing at her. Well, she was being carried away by a flow which was more powerful than herself. So she couldn't handle the flow so she couldn't handle anything. So she was uncertain, so her mock-up became uncertain.

Well, here is a case of having met his randomity - sixteen hundred hours of processing? Yeah, we'll allow him sixteen hundred hours of processing. How about adding in about five thousand more hours of processing on top of it? Sure, this is a way of life all of a sudden.

Now, it was up to me at that moment to find a new certainty for her. What thing could we get now of which she was certain? We'd gotten the limiter on that, now let's build her certainty someplace else. Well, I had been doing an introvertive technique, hadn't I - space. So the second she came up against that ridge we had to let that ridge go on by if it tore her head half off. So the thing to do was to put her intention on the outside environment. Put it on the walls and so forth. See?

Well now, the problem we're taking up, see, we've moved out of the third dynamic and now we're looking at the first dynamic (and we're really looking at the first dynamic) we've got a problem there of what is the randomity of this preclear? He has hit his tolerance; he can tolerate no more physical randomity than he has. Actually, he can tolerate no motion or randomity on the part of those around him. None. It really upsets him when people move in his vicinity - just move. He Can give you lots of reasons for it, but if somebody were to reach over and pick up something, a preclear like this will get upset. He can - he can cover it, you understand. But overt act-motivator - an overt act has been done to him; therefore he now has a motivator. So he's going to flick back at you in a short or a long time, more or less on the same basis. What was your crime? You moved. See that?

And we got what? A vision increase, we got a vision increase that increased again and it went up to another limiting factor. And all of a sudden she was uncertain of the walls again. See what we're doing?

Now, his own randomity adds up into just this static state of lying as a corpse, you see, and being run on engrams. This doesn't - requires no physical effort; you kind of get a chance to chew up energy. Well now, there is where Dianetics was falling on its face as a science because it would keep running into these cases - they aren't few; there's lots of them. But these cases in the normal run of a practice don't walk up to your front door. They'd have to really be pepped up to drift in. And I, unfortunately, pepped up people. And after that my entire practice picture changed. And I started running into these people.

So I gave her a little more space. And this time I had to give her something else of which she was certain. See? Certainty versus the ridge, this drama could be called - certainty versus the ridge.

Well, they are in insufficient motion. And they're in such insufficient motion that I'd never ordinarily see them; neither would you, do you see? Because they're not in sufficient motion, which means they're not very observable.

And where a fellow is caught in forces he conceives to be stronger than himself although he himself actually was the author of the force here, it doesn't do him any good to console himself with the fact, "Well, I put it there myself, therefore I'm to blame for it." Being to blame for that is another situation entirely, you see? That is having put it there yourself and now being the recipient of its kick. That's being to blame. Being responsible for it is putting it there yourself and recognizing it. But at the moment you don't happen to be receiving any kick from it, therefore you can be fully responsible for it.

So, there was Dianetics. It suddenly pulled these people in and gave them a good reason. It's no accident that psychoanalysis takes two years. They take a year; an analyst takes two year - a year, at four hours a week, to find out if he can do anything for the case. And then the second year to just let the patient discover that he can't. Two years! Imagine that.

What do you need on a case then? You need an anchor point. What kind of an anchor point? I don't care what kind of an anchor point. That tells you something else. You can take four chairs and put it around somebody and say, "Well, you got some space now?" This, by the way, will produce some interesting effects on an individual. You just take it out of the environment.

But you get the level of randomity. What kind of patients does he get? Well, he at least gets patients that will come to his office. Anyway - which is probably higher than ordinarily exists. I imagine around in the houses and so forth you have the really minus randomity cases. Well, they're tolerating on the first dynamic.

I've had people practically kicking their toes into a broken bleeding mass against walls, and so forth, until they themselves were certain of the wall. I'd keep asking them if they were certain of the wall and so forth. And the fact that I'd keep asking if they were certain had a tendency to shake their certainty.

Now, let's take France. What is the randomity tolerance of France? Zero! It's letting the government do everything; nobody wants to do a thing. The railroad workers all strike; every time you put anybody on a job they've got to have a union so that they can strike for shorter hours and longer pay. See? I mean, just going to - going down there quick. This is their main concern, is no motion, no motion.

And you would have thought they would have wound up in a horrible screaming mass, but after a while, having been persuaded from one point to another of what was the realest thing in the room, what are they most certain of in the room, they finally could accept the whole room.

All right. What's the tolerance, then, or you might say, the (quote) "group thetan" or the spirit of the French people? See, what's the tolerance of it? And the tolerance is "We've had too damn much motion around here. There have been a lot of people around here throwing bullets around, and we are awful tired of it and we don't want any motion."

What were they doing? Going around handling lamps and everything else. I've had people actually get up and crawl around the walls of the room with the most astonished wonder in their eyes. Just feeling the wall and so on and so on. People who could see perfectly well, feeling the wall and so on. They never knew what certainty was before. Just never knew what it was. This caught it on a gradient scale and built the gradient scale of certainty up to a point where all of a sudden they actually could contact the wall. It's very simple, isn't it?

How long is it going to take you to learn? You know, if you knew that lesson well there wouldn't be an occluded case here? Because the exercise to knock out occlusion is put up eight black anchor points around a guy and knock them back into his head, that's all, in brackets. That's the technique.

I don't know, I think there've been a couple of people here who've had occlusion turn off and on, just running the exercise. How many people have had occlusion turn off and on running that exercise? Well, there's one, there's two. Who else has had it turn on and off? Three. See, it'll turn it on and oft but it'll certainly turn it on.

I've turned it on. I've turned blackness... But every time this has happened that I know of I just tried to make a group process out of it to give you an example of how it's processed - I've had results only with the preclear who knew what he was doing. He knew what an anchor point was. He knew he had an anchor point, he knew he had anchor points, he knew he had space. Nothing was worrying him. This problem had been to a large degree resolved with this preclear.

Well all right., let's get him then - let's get this preclear to a point where he knows he's got an anchor point. I don't care how small it is. Now let's get him to a point where he can destroy it. I don't care how many times he has to duplicate it. And now let's get him to a point where he has to move it. He can do that by having him look at the wall, by having him mock up a mock-up, by having him do all sorts of things. Feel his body, feel a chair, take over an anchor point from - MEST universe anchor point, and so on. Just go over this until he's sure he's got an anchor point and he can move it. I don't care if he has to pick up the chair and carry it across the room after he's sure it's there. He's moved it.

Now, you can actually take a piece of paper, build him up to a piece of paper, although that's kind of a bad one - and have him tear it up to bits and do all sorts of things to convince him he can knock one apart. See? It's very simple.

But he didn't create the piece of paper and he knows he didn't create the MEST universe. Boy, if there's anything he knows, he knows he didn't do that. Balderdash. If he didn't create the MEST universe he couldn't use any part of it as anchor points. If he didn't have a show in all this or a hand in all this he wouldn't be in it. And you can hate the MEST universe all you want to; you can cuss it and kick it around and do anything you want to it, but, by golly, don't try saying to somebody that it's not yours, because it is. It's the combination of home universes. It's co-anchor points. It's co-machinery, co-systems. There isn't a one of you that hasn't left his tracks all over this universe and hasn't made an awful lot of energy and poured it into the universe.

Do you have to make something for it to be yours? Well yeah, in this case you do because you make it all the time.

Where is the past? Boy, it's sitting on the thinnest strata you ever saw. It's sitting right on the present.

Where's the future? Boy, same thing. You can make up energy and say it'll appear in the future.

The idea that nobody can destroy your anchor points and the idea that you cannot destroy MEST are coincidental.

Your first overt act is against MEST, against MEST anchor points. And one of the darnedest inversions you ever saw is the inverted 6. And what is an inverted 6? An inverted 6 says, "I didn't make the MEST universe. I don't own the MEST universe. The MEST universe is not mine. I cannot use the MEST universe for anchor points." Yes, you can.

Certainty - we want to give him certainty. If we don't give him certainty on an anchor point we're not going to give him anything. He'll wind up with nothing, I don't care what the certainty is. This is a very low level of certainty in the - and then you have to be able to let him win. How simple.

Now just checking over occluded cases here, has anybody ever drilled with you and worked with you to a point where you were absolutely certain you had a black spot? Were you finally certain you had a black spot? And then what did they do with it, forget it?

Male voice: Not for a while.

Well, some people never do get the two and two to go together to make four, that's all. Because you can see immediately if you're certain you've got one black spot, then you can move that and create it. Then the next thing we've got to do is get a couple of them. Then the next thing we've got to do is get three or four or five of them. And then let's get eight of them, and then let's get these eight up in space. And if we can move all these things around and we're certain of them every time, boy, we'll be certain of every ridge we got. And you yank - start yanking those in simultaneously in brackets, and the occlusion goes poom.

It's not a hard problem. It is such an easy problem that it's very hard for people to convince me, no matter how aberrated or occluded they act or get or how much they grope for doors that this is a problem. It hasn't been a problem for some little time. There are several things that remedy it but that one really remedies it.

You can turn occlusion on with it. You can take any case that's wide open and can see beautifully and you can make him blinder than a bat just by doing that technique. And if you were to leave him right there, just hang him up, pull in the eight anchor points and pull in the eight anchor points, and the guy says, "Yi! Hey, it's all black."

And you say, "You poor fellow. Well, I guess I did the technique wrong and there's no remedy for that at all," and you simply went off and left the case; he'd stay as occluded as you ever heard of anybody being occluded. And he would eventually burn his way out of it if he was feeling real hot or something of the sort someday, possibly. But you actually can occlude a case, so don't tell me you can't unocclude them. You can occlude yourself just by doing this technique. Of course, it's always best to have black and heavy anchor points, real heavy anchor points. Eventually the guy'll come in and get them to explode.

Another thing is get a drill on certainty of explosion. You were running an awful lot of explosions on a mock-up process we had not too long ago and that explosion was called, for mock-up purposes just, Perimeter Processing. It isn't very good as a technique. It does what? As you did it, you observed that the fellow sort of came in on his space. In other words, this kind of had a tendency to sort of feed space to the guy. Nothing much happened in the process. It's a better process than other subjective processes, but still no good. Why? It doesn't feed space in fast enough. You can get space into the fellow faster than that and you could take space out of the bank faster than that just by yanking in eight anchor points.

You see, there's more to talk about with regard to this but there's no need, really, to talk about it. How certain is he of his space? He's as certain of space as he's certain of his anchor points. If he doesn't have any anchor points he doesn't have any space. We were going into this a week or two ago. What's uncertainty? Uncertainty of anchor points is the way you make somebody uncertain.

What's invalidation? The way to invalidate somebody is to make him uncertain of his anchor points. Well then, by golly, the way to validate somebody is to make him certain of his anchor points. Isn't that interesting? Not very hard.

You want to sit down with a preclear and you want to go round and round and over and over until he just despises this damn word called certainty, until he's... You don't care how far you have to run this technique. Of course, this fellow's parked right up against a ridge or something like that. You know, you can very often ask the guy, "All right, mock up a machine that makes uncertainty." Very often he'd get the damnedest, clearest, realest machine he ever walked into.

Sometimes you ask a fellow to get a little explosion or something at some distance from him. My God, he got one! Now don't make him lose immediately simply by turning around and get a bigger explosion that he can't handle. Just have him get the same kind of explosion he got, until we get a security.

Most auditors, when they handle this, will get a fellow certain of one thing, see, and then they won't do anything with it. It's like they're scared of it. They get somebody very sure of a black spot. Doesn't occur to anybody that space is a viewpoint of dimension, and why do we want black spots? Well, it's my fault to a degree, I didn't say so.

But here's the point, is you can't ... What's certainty? Certainty is a state of mind. Certainty of something would be a certainty of anchor points. That's about all we can get around to, and when we finally get down and boil the whole business of sanity and insanity down, it fits into that problem of certainty. What is this problem of certainty? It's simply: Is it there or isn't it there? Is it there or isn't it there? That's what certainty is

Now, a thetan is capable of greater certainty level than that. But truth itself is simply a certainty.

Now, you work with a gradient scale and you work gradually and you work carefully. You say - a couple here said, "Yes, we finally got black spots," but what do you do with these black spots? Well, what do you want a black spot for? You want a black spot simply so you can put up eight black spots, that's all. What do you want eight black spots for? Well, the truth of the matter is - you know a lot of fellows put up anchor points and so on, they're fuzzy and they're foggy and they're two-dimensional, hasn't any depth in it.

So there's probably one other thing you should drill on a certainty. There is one other thing. I'd better mention it, seemed to be kind of obvious too. After you've got a black spot you'd get a black sphere. Well, that's part of those lectures. You get a black sphere. What do you want a black sphere for? What good is a black sphere to anybody? It's an anchor point, that's what it is. And what do you do with it? Well, you put it up and you put eight of these black spheres up and give them a yank and you got it.

The fellow's lost out in life and he's lost through doing this. Of course, he's gone down on inversion, inversion, inversion, inversion after he's had this happen, so, of course, he doesn't sometimes come up very fast.

But I gave you a little simple drill. I gave it to you as a group and I didn't even bother to get you certain of anything before I gave you the drill, and I handled it very, very grossly here in the group this morning. And yet you said - I'm sure that you had some slight alteration in perception as a result of it. I don't care whether it was plus or minus, there was an alteration in perception. That's all we're interested in, is altering perception. If you can't do anything else with a preclear, get an effect.

I found a very curious thing - you've seen this case. I meant to report on this case days ago, by the way - fascinating case. The case had broken every auditor's heart that's been around this case. And I wanted to see what was so fussed up about this case that nobody could make any headway with this case, besides the case being almost dead. But that's no bar, just because the case is almost dead. That shouldn't be a barrier.

So what do we get? We get a case of blindness, and this case of blindness is coupled with an inability to see exteriorly. And you say, "Well, gee, that's easy. That's easy. There's nothing to that, the person can't see inside or outside." Well, all right. It's not quite that easy because the auditor never looked. The case has a continuing - had an anesthesia and then a terrible sensitivity right across the eyelid, eyeball and brow areas. Case continually being hurt, face being hurt continually. Every time this case tried to get out of her body, she got stuck on the eye ridge and the limiter of the eye ridge - and the way they fix up these - way you fix up these ridges so they won't bother you again is you put pain in them and if anybody tries to turn them off they really get hung up like mad. They're sort of theta traps. You have to obey them because they'll hurt you if they don't. Which is a very good way to get a body to obey, believe me. That's the way everybody uses it, we know that; so the ridges are composed from all kinds of facsimiles where that's done.

Well, all right. This case, then, had a ridge sealing off the vision. In other words, impacts across the eyes. Even had had, recently in Phoenix, a broken nose. Fell down and hit her face. Well, what do we get out of this? We get an anesthesed eye area and we get a broken nose and we get a heavy, heavy, heavy ridge across the front of the eyes. Now, we ask this person to exteriorize and the second we ask her to exteriorize the natural consequence is "If I'm exteriorized, what can I see?" And we get an immediate reaction of the ridge across the eyes turning on which turns on the cycle of "snap into the head." Now we try to move her out of the head and we turn on the ridge in the eyes, and the second that threatens to turn on, of course, she has to come in again because that means blindness itself. There was a blinding pain there; a blinding flash has taken place there. And this case is not in communication with the eyeballs and the eyebrows and the end of the nose and the cheeks.

How can you process a case's eyes on if the case is not in communication with the optic nerve? Should be very elementary. See? Look - you ask them to look through these nerves, and they can't feel. Well, my God, if they can't feel they certainly can't look!

There are some cases that can think, but they can't exert any effort. Now you're going to turn on this case's lookingness all of a sudden? That's silly.

You've got to do some sort of a certainty drill to get them up over the bumps. You've got to blow up a few machines on them, you've got to blow up a few anchor points on them. You've got to do a few drills of one kind or another, see? Build up their certainty.

And we'll get to a point - you see the only reason the thetan is really sure that he's exteriorized is because he's hauled some anchor points along with him. He really doesn't exteriorize himself and get his certainty off the room. You've suddenly given him his own anchor points back, and he then knows he's in his own space, so he's certain of where he is. And when you've suddenly exteriorized somebody and turned on a hell of a dose of reality, that's what's happened. He's carried some anchor points out with him of which he's sure. He's recognized some old friends, some anchor points. And now he's got the distance to the body because he's got the distance to the anchor points, and the distance from the anchor points to the body. How simple.

All right. Where do we work on this case then? What would you do? You can't get the case to process. You get flags, and the reality goes up just so high and then this piece of automaticity goes into operation, and we get a whirr-clank and a swish-clip and what are we - what are we to do? Case of very, very bad verbal communication.

How do you get a ridge that's out - sitting on somebody's body someplace? Well, how do you knock it out? Well, you'd have to knock it out by the process of perception or force, somehow or another. You can't persuade them just to knock it out.

I had the preclear reach and withdraw her own hand from her own eyeballs while closed. And you know, the first few times she put her hand up there she couldn't get her hand within four or five inches of the eyeball which is she thought she was touching them?

This is not disorientation. This is being lost completely. The preclear puts her hand up to touch her eyeballs and touches the top of her hair. Puts her hand up to touch her eyeballs, has readjusted and touches her upper lip. What's certainty? Certainty of location and certainty of something. She couldn't find her eyeballs and yet the auditors who audited her kept expecting her to look through them. Well, how the hell could she look through something she didn't know where it was, huh?

It seemed to inc this case has got no business being here, got no business being in my office. All an auditor had to do was just take his two fingers like this and start tapping them around on the eyelids at irregular intervals or something of the sort to find out... We've got a complete amnesia there as far as "How do I look?" And we've got a complete anesthesia all around the area of the eyes, and the second that there was any gesture in the direction of the eyes - every auditor that's processed her, by the way, that I know of, has noticed this reaction - is she would shrink back into herself, close her eyes tightly and shudder while holding her head well back in a protected position. Really a convulsion, you see? Get those eyes, get that nose, see, out of the road so that it can't be seen - total thought of the case. Every time you say anything to the case, any time an auditing command had any effect on the case she's been doing this every hour, about ten times every hour she's been processed since the first time any auditor touched her.

What is this? This is a protection of the eyes. What can an auditor do for a case if he can't look, if he won't look? Well, just run it all automatically? Every time you hit anything hot, every time you really got in communication with the case, the case ducked her chin, slid back in the chair, humped up her shoulders and shuddered. Doing what? Quite obviously protecting the face.

I mean you could have had signs all over her saying, "I am protecting my face," and it couldn't have been more obvious. Complete anesthesia - first couldn't locate them with her fingers, next couldn't locate them even vaguely, as far as feeling was concerned. And then all of a sudden feeling came on and she let out a small, dull scream. Why? Because it hurt like hell every time a finger touched the cheeks, the brow, the eyelid or the eyebrows or the temples: wince, wince, wince, wince, wince. What was the magnitude of blow that was causing her to wince? Well, it was just this, it was just like this ... And this felt to her like she was being jabbed with needles or hit with hammers.

And you wonder why this case couldn't see. Every time they would try to look, they would look somewhere through this vicinity and that would energize this ridge, and then the ridge would kick back and then immediate reaction would be that the automatic machinery on the thing, the automaticity of seeing had to turn off. And then what did we have on it? We had an immediate sensitivity of the area which threatened to appear, but of course never did.

The second the threat of the thing appearing appeared, the case would immediately shut off vision so that she would get momentary flicks. This is pretty elementary. And of course, being so concentrated on seeing, every time the thetan tried to extend the beam outside the back of the head, she (the thetan) keyed in this thing on the body which restimulated the body. How fast does a preclear come in? If you haven't stabilized him well outside, and you suddenly hauled off and kicked him in the shins, he's right back in the body, right now.

Well, you've got the same reaction. She tries to exteriorize and it threatens to turn on pain, so she comes right back into the head.

Do you suppose this is any different from her and any other preclear that won't exteriorize? Let's just get the coordinated factor there. You kick somebody in the shins. Why are we interested in the pain test? (Don't forget that we still have the pain test on clearing.) Why are we interested in it? Well, it's because the person goes out and at any moment of threat to the body or something like that, he thinks he can only control it from within so he has to be inside the body and handle it and control it from inside the body. Right?

If the person is not well stabilized outside, you'll just touch the body and he'll fly back into the body. You just - in some case that's just been exteriorized, if you just reach over and threaten to touch the body, well, the case is right back inside immediately - pam! - real quick. Why? It's because of the pain and because of the tremendous number of communication lines which are still wrapped up around the body, still all around the body, you see'? And these become energized and when these become energized, in comes the preclear- boom - automatic response mechanism.

So you ask this Mr. Blow to move out. And what is the connection between an anesthesed nose and a nonexteriorizing preclear? Means he's got a ridge up there in the front of his face, somewhere. Well, I don't try to apply this case to every case, but it's a good model - anesthesed nose, anesthesed chin.

I had a preclear one time, didn't have an anesthesed nose, didn't have anesthesed eyes, didn't have anesthesed ears, and yet when he went out and into the body he looked like one of these little kid's balls they use where they got a rubber on the ball and they got a little bat. Well, boy that - she comes straight back in just like that - bingo.

And I finally found out she was wearing - I'm sorry I have to - I have to say it because it was a - it was a girl that did this. It was kind of hard to tell the sex though because what she had under her chin was a hussar strap, you know - that wear the shako. Well, she'd been a hussar in the Napoleonic Wars, and she'd gone underneath the limb of a tree in a battle at a dead run, and it had just kind of naturally taken off the shako, but it had also taken off and broken her neck. It was quite an impact. She still was wearing the imprint of this shako and still had the mock-up of that body being made madly. Body's being mocked up better, really, to her understanding - better than her present time body.

So, here we get this mock-up going like mad, and here's this preclear and you ask this preclear to come out. What happens? She just energizes this ridge underneath here and underneath the chin, big automatic ridge. That was only one part of this ridge, by the way, just the shako strap; there were a hell of a lot of things on the ridge. Bang - in she'd come again, just - you energize a beam and it shortens, that's all. It's just as simple as that.

I mean, it's like, if you light a - one of these funny smoke snakes that they have for fourth of July, it lengthens. Well, if you energize a tractor beam, it shortens. And they're trying to hold on to the body. The thetan has tractor beams on the body, and when these get energized by pain or any other stimulus, of course they shorten. So you are trying to lengthen a thetan who is still using beams, he exteriorizes and - pang - he goes back into the body because the tractor beam energizes. Well, he's got a ridge sitting there, he isn't bothering the ridge any while he's in the body, he's feeling perfectly all right. But one fine day you ask him to be back of the body and of course you energize the screen. And he gets back of the body, and he bangs back into the body.

Well, it happens so fast, the fellow who doesn't think he's exteriorizing actually exteriorizes every time you tell him to and comes back into the body so fast he doesn't know he's been out. The period is so quick and you just lengthen that period a little bit.

Now, after a fellow's been at this for a little while he gets some kind of automaticity keyed in. Very often they get outside and then they come back into the body and then they don't want to leave anymore. Well, scared or something of the sort, you can say. What's happened is, is they've run into a piece of automaticity.

Now, we've got that technique I gave you this morning of mocking up the machine. Good technique, but believe me it's just as good as they're certain they've got a machine there, No better than that.

All you have to do is find an anchor point of which somebody's certain. They're very often more certain - put this down in letters of vitriol: A preclear is very often more certain of some other location than that one in which he presently is located. If you'll merely start searching around as to where it is, he'll be absolutely sure he's someplace or he's certain he's looking at something. He's more certain he's looking at something than that he's here. Whole thing is a problem of certainty and space. And the way you get certainty of space is to get certainty on an anchor point. Elementary, my dear Watson.

The best technique up to that, if you've got somebody who's having a hell of a time with certainty, is back him up into a closet or something of the sort and have him hold the back two upper corners with his hands while balanced on a chair. You'll find out he'll be very uncertain they're there after a while. Then he gets certain they're there, then he'll get uncertain they're there. Have him - much less precarious exercise is just make him go down like a puppy or something of the sort and stick his finger into the corner by the baseboard of the room. And if you've got a little closet or something of the sort, make him hold those two lower corners. Now what are we talking about when we say hold? In that case, you'd really make him hold them. Just keep banging them every once in a while to make sure they're there. Not think, just hold.

It's really remarkable. I ran this technique on somebody one time. I thought this character was going to go insane before he finally shed enough automaticity to permit him to sit in a chair and hold the two back corners, see, he was below that level. I had him sit in a chair and hold the two back corners of the room and know they were there.

How far south do you have to go? Well, you have to go as far south as you have to go in order to make the preclear certain of something. And when he becomes certain of something then he finds out that he hasn't been very certain of something else. And he did - maybe didn't know that before. Well, this in itself is terrifically revelatory to him. This guy says, "You know, I've never been certain I had a body here. It's all kind of beautifully unreal to me." Thousands of processes.

Now, Change of Space Processing only breaks down on you when you break down the certainty of where the fellow is and whether or not he's seeing them. Now, when that certainty breaks down, the process breaks down. And when any certainty breaks down on any process, the process breaks down because they're all monitored by just one thing: certainty. If you know that, understand it, know it thoroughly, you're doing all right. But let me assure you that the only cases here that are even vaguely having trouble are the only cases here which are uncertain.

Now this afternoon's auditing session from here on, let's just test this one out: How far south do you have to go? You're going to be surprised! It has taken me three years to find how far south you had to go.

Take a preclear - they haven't changed any, preclears haven't - let's just get something up to a point where the preclear's certain.

And you could just do this: Get something he's certain of. Don't keep asking him "Are you certain?" Tell him pick up this or that or put him on an E-Meter, and get something that's charged or something he gets a rise on, or just a black spot. And when he's finally drilled through with a black spot, believe me, make him make polka dots out of all the walls before you let him go with a technique.