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

Now continuing the third lecture, December the 13th, continuing assessment and the use of Standard Operating Procedure, you’ll notice that an assessment, just at the beginning of the case, will not show up as much as an assessment taken a little bit later in the case. Run the case a few hours, and take another assessment.

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

The reason for this is, is you’ve shifted the values of the preclear and as we saw once before, you take off an effort band of some sort or another, and an emotional band will show up and so forth.

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

Now, you are assessing against a cycle of action. As you well know, a cycle of action is from 40 to 0.0 on the tone scale, but is… any area of it can be a small cycle with the same names. Whether you’ve got the broad cycle, the grand scale… Well, you’re really just assessing against the grand scale, so you don’t have to worry anything more about that.

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

In your textbook you’ll find the cycle of actions… the cycles of action are listed. There’s Start, Change, Stop. Creation, Alteration, Destruction. Be, Do, Have. Space, Energy, Time.

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

These are some of them. And you could really carry forward an assessment using each point of each cycle of action, if you wanted to. You could take all the cycles of action and then take every noun of which you had any possible knowledge. You could feed these things through and it would… you see, you could expand this assessment out. It isn’t a finitely small or a finitely large thing.

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

Really, what you’re trying to do is… you could take this very simple assessment, such as I gave the preclear the first day here – you take this relatively simple assessment, you just keep going over that assessment.

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

Or you can take a great big assessment, that’d be every point of our cycle of action, and every cycle of action, against every noun that you could collect anyplace. Be interesting, wouldn’t it?

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

That… that… oh, boy! You could probably take up – if you gave these things fast, you could plot this all out, you would have quite an assessment on your hands.

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

Now it’s probable that I will get down and build you a chart for assessment. Build you a big chart for assessment, so that your… your chart could be worked rather automatically and it’d give you the obvious mock-ups which you had to care for. But you could build that chart yourself without any trouble by simply taking cycles of action played against all available objects and nouns.

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

Now to go any further than this walks one into abstraction. You really needn’t go much further than this to get a good assessment of your preclear. Once you’ve gotten the assessment, find out what he can do.

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

For instance, we didn’t have an assessment on a preclear here and so a preclear’s hands started to disappear on an E-Meter.

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

What should you do? The preclear’s sitting there and he’s changing postulates or something of the sort, and all of a sudden he says, „My hands are starting to go cold.“ Well, you find out what postulates he just got through changing. Just go back over this and find out what postulates he’s changing.

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

Uh… if you hit one, why, let’s find out if we can’t do some mock-ups that make this. He hit a postulate, „I don’t have to die,“ and his hands started to turn cold on him. Oh, boy! What do you do? You just run the living daylights out of dying. You have him dying and his relatives dying and so forth.

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

Well, if you were doing an assessment at the time, or if you just had him on an E-Meter, you could just mention – let’s see, „Mother dying; Father dying; Grandfather dying; Grandmother dying; women dying; men dying; children dying.“ All of sudden, you hit ‘children dying’ and maybe the machine goes Booooooom’. Well, you’d save yourself a few minutes of time there by just selecting out and having children die. Do you see how that would work?

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

By working with assessments – whether they’re done formally, or you stop in the middle of a session, sort of, and just ask him a few odds and ends of this and that – why, you find lots of material.

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

Well, this preclear’s hands went cold on him. Nothing was done about them, because no check was made on the… no check was made on what postulate he had just been working with. And if that hadn’t been immediately discovered… Of course, the obvious thing is just start him handling ‘hands’.

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

Now anywhere in any mock-up that you can possibly slide it in, slide in electricity, ribbons of energy, sparks and beams. Any place you can slide these in, on a mock-up.

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

You’re working ‘hands’, well, let’s put sparks on the toes. You’re working ‘bodies in coffins’, let’s put some blue light and some red sparks and things like that, top and bottom of the coffin. Let’s go ahead with this, in other words, and uh… and uh… work it out – IN TERMS OF FORCE. And that, to a thetan, is force, flow, electronics, and so on.

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

Now if you’ve run into very heavy flows of course, you can run hoses or firehoses or something. Or you can simply go on working with objects. You’ll be surprised. You see, I’m having… it’s a little bit difficult communicating… communicating a simplicity to you. I get questions which tell me that you want a… you want a highly regimented uh… ‘I don’t have to think’ variety of thing. And to tell you the truth, you can’t process somebody without thinking. Uh… of course, you can just be an E-Meter and just sit there and be an E-Meter. But I’ve never seen an E-Meter make anybody well yet, unless there’s somebody reading the meter. It’s a very necessary piece of equipment to an auditor, but uh… unless he’s willing to look at the needle and find out what it’s doing and why it’s doing it…

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

All right, now some preclear – as I said, we… we suddenly start to get drops on everything across the boards. Well, the best can be said for this preclear is this preclear drops on everything. And some other preclear, we get nothing but indecision, indecision, indecision. Well, for heaven’s sakes! Know something about the anatomy of ‘maybe’. Of course your preclear is going to be very indecisive about creation and destruction and everything else if this preclear’s sitting in a lot of big ‘maybes’.

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

So let’s get an object here and then an object there. And let’s work until we can tell if an object is one place or if it’s another place.

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

The first thing about a ‘maybe’ is that it’s confusion of location. It’s a confusion of beingness, a confusion of doingness, a confusion of havingness. And it’s too badly balanced to resolve itself. In other words, it’s all balancing everything, balancing everything else, and the fellow just can’t make up his mind about it.

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

Well, the way to do that is to differentiate. And the way you differentiate is to put things… one thing in one location and then a thing in another location and then another thing in some other location. Simple, simple – nothing to it.

So, find out if the guy did it

Take the first Q, Q-l. If one can do that, one can differentiate. If he can do that, he can start and stop at will. See, all those cycles of action proceed out of Q-1 – very intimate. And it’s much more important in processing to make something change in location or to unmock some real universe thing than it is to indulge in a lot of speculation about it.

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

This is action processing if there ever was one. Keep things moving, if you possibly can.

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

And in an assessment, you don’t have to be very particular, because the points necessary to be gotten on the case will show up with exclamation points with great ease. You won’t have any trouble locating something on this case. You’re going to get a drop. And if you just ran over all eight dynamics on „Are you willing to create?“ And the fellow says, „Under what circumstances?“ Or „When would I create it?“ Or „What am I going to do about it?“ He’s nervous about creating it, that you can bet your bottom dollar. He doesn’t want to take the responsibility for creating, so he’ll create it for somebody else. Get the idea?

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

So, we’ve got an upset about creation. And what’ll solve that upset about creating things? Just creating mock-ups, that’s all. Just let him go ahead and create ‘em. Then take another assessment and find out what specific things are standing in the road.

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

This person says, „Destroy. Well, why would I destroy it? Why shouldn’t I destroy it? I don’t know whether I want to destroy it.“ He’s nervous about destroying it, isn’t he? He doesn’t want to take the responsibility for destroying it. Therefore he can’t handle the force of destruction concerning it, and it becomes a very, very simple thing, then, to process him or to assess him. You just get him to a point where he can at least make something disappear. You’ll find out that he’s most willing to destroy a worthless object. Get some object he’s utterly certain is completely worthless to everybody and everything, including himself, and then he’ll get a clean destruction on it, Let’s take a chewing gum wrapper, or let’s take some chewing gum, let’s go find some chewing gum under a theater seat somewhere. And then let’s very carefully take this chewing gum and make it get smaller or bigger. Or drop it someplace else, so that it will never be in the ken of man again. Well, that is next door to destruction, see? And by this gradient scale work it on up.

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

So, as I say, you could do the Grand Scale assessment, or you could do just a little assessment. But you certainly better ask him about these things: the lists of relatives and associates as contained in the HANDBOOK FOR PRECLEARS and the list of body parts contained in the HANDBOOK FOR PRECLEARS. I’ll get around to writing all these things up for you.

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

You should ask him about these things. You should ask him about the dynamics, his body and peoples, that are at the trouble, more or less, with everybody. And you’ll run slam bang into the computation of this case immediately. „Would you create Grandma?“ Wham! „Oh, you mean you wouldn’t create Grandma?“

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

„I felt bad ever since Grandma…“

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

What it’s dropping on is just ‘Grandma’, see? „I felt bad ever since Grandma departed this life.“

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

What do you do? You didn’t have to go any further than that. We’ve got him stuck right away in an assessment on Grandma. You can go the rest of the way, if you want to assess the rest of the case, but you discovered a HECK of a DROP! That’s all you’re looking for is a WHALE OF A DROP! And all you see is little, tiny drops.’ And you want that thing going off the pin!

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

And by the way, I’ll… I’ll give an assessment just as long as the machine is still in working order. But when it starts to be threatened as to its working capabilities, why I’ll drop the thing and start processing. That’s a good rule to follow. Just don’t… don’t be… don’t think you have to snoop in with a magnifying glass into the preclear’s life. What you’re looking for is probably as obvious as this MEST universe.

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

Now how do you fix Grandma? Gradient scale of Grandma. We finally get to a point where we got the… a sidewalk that Grandma once walked on. He doesn’t know she walked on this sidewalk, but he supposes she might have. And what do we do to it? We mark it all up or we do something to it or other. And then we get something else that Grandma might have had something to do with, and we vaguely walk in until we’ve finally got an old, very used, third-rate shoelace that is all worn out. And Grandma’s thrown away, and we’ve got something to do that to. And uh… we can start it and stop it and change it.

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

And what do you do with these items? You put them in front of the preclear, behind the preclear, above the preclear, to the sides of the preclear and below the preclear and put them at a distance and put them up close. That’s what you do with ‘em. And you change them in color. And you change them in size. And of course you change the object from one object to another object. You change the sidewalk to a cow path. And you change the cow path to a boulevard. And you change the boulevard to an eight pass, super- duper highway which you change back to a cow path which you change back to a sidewalk. Just keep altering this, changing it around, shifting it around. This is really too easy to worry about it.

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

But you’re going to say, „Well now, look: In postulates there are various abstract computations.“ And actually, everything above the level of action would be in terms of… everything above the level of action would be in terms of abstracts. And so your abstracts are very, very much to the point. And objects, to shift around, aren’t abstracts. You shift balls and horses and cows and chewing gum and so on. But what about things this preclear says he can’t remember, he can’t forget, he can’t do this, he can’t do that? And this is all abstract.

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

The only thing wrong with this preclear is the MEST universe; let’s not forget that. You find him here and he’s agreeing with it.

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

Your first level of abstraction immediately above… this isn’t the highest level of abstraction. This is the one that’s a merger between objects and thoughts. That’s the first level of abstraction. Up to this moment you’ve got cows and horses and chewing gum and ice cream sodas. Well, what is the first thing you move into, into the field of language, is an abstraction? It’s ‘forget’ and ‘remember’.

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

If you were a deaf-mute trying to teach a child, how would you teach the child the meaning of the word FORGET and the meaning of the word REMEMBER? All language is based on objects. Language is symbolized object or condition or state of being. That’s… that’s all language is. Of course, its condition could be an action condition or a static condition.

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

There’s quite a dissertation on this in SELF ANALYSIS. It’s in one of the later acts; it talks about uh… the… the fish in Lake Tanganyika. It’s almost the middle of the book. It’s not in the test itself; it’s in descriptive, I think, of Act 11 – not Act 11, but list 11 – something like that or List 9. It’s quite late in there, but it talks about language and what language is and what the first level of abstraction would be. We had this nailed down for a long time.

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

‘Forget’ and ‘remember’. How do you make somebody forget? How would a deaf mute make a little kid remember. He doesn’t know the word REMEMBER. Every time the kid tries to throw something away, the deaf-mute would give it back to him. Every time the kid leaves something behind, the deaf-mute would give it to him again. And finally, the kid would go into apathy about it and have the object.

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

And every time the kid wanted something or had something and was trying to hold on to it you would teach him to forget, simply by taking it away from him and not letting him have it.

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

So ‘forget’ is ‘not let have’ and ‘remember’ is ‘must have’. Now these reverse on each other low on the tone scale and cause a very bad mental confusion. The guy has been given something, he’s got to remember it and he’s got to remember it and he’s got to remember it. In other words, he’s got to have it, he’s got to have it, he’s got to have it, he’s got to have it. Until, at length, he just goes into apathy about having anything. He really won’t have it and he won’t take care of it, and he really doesn’t remember either. He’s just fading out into MEST. Same way with ‘forget’. He can have things ‘forget, forget, forget’ drilled into him until he gets daffy.

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

Now here’s something very funny. If you just demonstrate this to a preclear, very often a large sphere of his thinking will suddenly open up and become very clear to him for the first time, because he’s been taught on the level of abstraction, and never on the level of action.

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

„Now you must forget that.“

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

He didn’t know what ‘forget’ meant. And he says, „What’s ‘forget’ mean, Mama?“

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

And she says, „Not remember, of course.“ And she goes on washing the dishes. Smart, she is. He doesn’t know what ‘remember’ is either, see.

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

So he digests this and he thinks this over and he’s got this figured. And he worries about it – probably for days. All of a sudden he comes up with a clarification: „Ha! This is worrying me because I don’t know what ‘remember’ is! I wonder what that funny other word is.“ He says, „What’d you say ‘forget’ was, Mama?“ „Well, it’s ‘not remembering’ of course.“ „What’s ‘remember’, Mama?“

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

„Well, Willy! How stupid you are. Why that’s… that’s ‘not forgetting’, of course!“

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

Nyeeowwww! And he stays in that spin from there on.

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

The essence of handling memory is ‘forget’. and ‘remember’ at will. That’s the essence of thinking processes, is have or not-have, and that’s why thinking processes seem to get plotted up against time. And why the great – author George Q. Swishbottom uh… takes 180 years to write this book, and therefore it’s a great book. But when you read it, you won’t be able to find anything in it. That’s because he’s so lashed down on the time track on ‘forget’ and ‘remember’ that he thinks words are objects. And the reason he thinks they’re objects is because he’s so fixed and so squirreled on the subject of forgetting and remembering.

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

Boy, he’s really had to remember and he’s really had to forget. This boy has been subjected to more force per cubic inch than anybody else you want to hear of. So it takes a long time, therefore it was a valuable thought. There’s no relationship. A thought is of a wave length and above a wave length. And it can be as instantaneous as the dickens. You get some of these people start thinking when they’re outside and all of a sudden, and they think themselves four or five years worth. Back out the back of their heads and think for the next two three years and then move back in again. They’ve been gone that long and worked out very complicated problems. All right.

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

Now then, forget and remember is your lowest level of abstraction. If that’s the lowest level of abstraction, what is the highest level of abstraction? You could straighten that out with a preclear. It’s just on the basis of having him handed things and having him had things taken away from him. That’s your first mock-up sequence.

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

Just mock up two bodies out there and have one give one something, and have that one that’s been given something, give it back. And if the guy can’t mock up, of course you go into black and white processing. If he wants to straighten out language, straighten out that first level.

„Oh, I can do that?“ he’ll say.

Now there’s an upper level of abstraction. Your top level of abstraction is Interest. Now when I say ‘top level of abstraction’, I’m talking about thought impinging on the MEST universe. And your first border of impingement is Interest-Desire… You can write that down, if you want to, but I told you all about this yesterday. Desire, Enforce, Inhibit. So it’s way up there – Desire. Gotta have.

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

Well, what are we studying then? We’re studying forget is inhibited having, remember is enforced having, and your highest level of abstraction is a created desire to obtain.

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

And of course, no thetan who even got vaguely – go ahead and write it down, it’s all right – uh… no… no thetan ever needed, for his interest or anything else, anything in this universe.

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

So the top level of abstraction carries with it some other factors of abstraction – the dynamic level is Desire and the other levels of abstraction, in the order of their importance in processing, are Conviction. And conviction, and conviction. Because the modifying and qualifying word for each item is, for any desire, the fellow WANTS, he has to be convinced of an EXISTENCE. In order to want a thing, he has to first be convinced there is a thing. So your conviction is right there next door to desire, all the way around. That’s uh…

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

You know, if I were going to give a lecture, somebody said, „Uh… what is the entire anatomy of thought in this universe?“ I would say, „Conviction – thinking processes.“

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

You know, one of the neater techniques… one of the neater techniques, by the way, is uh… trying to convince people is the same as trying to move them around. Trying to convince them they’re solid or not solid, is making things solid and not making things solid, or making them unsolid. And conviction is a demonstration of existence and a person who is convinced, has been convinced, of course, in this universe, of a trickery. Because the universe doesn’t have any existence except the capability of a thetan.

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

And the capability of the individual thetan to perceive, to do, to create space and to handle energy and objects in that space. And uh… he probably wants to convince others that the space exists. But that’s the big trick – it doesn’t.

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

So you go fishing around all you want to for creating an actual space, you can do all you want in that line, you won’t find any ‘actual space’.

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

There’s an agreement on the actuality of space, and that agreement took place out of desire to be convinced. So a very neat process comes out of that. Well, it’s moving people around. That’s your level of… highest level of abstraction is Q-l.

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

Of course, the joke is that nothing exists to move them around in, and they don’t exist to be moved around, except as you mock up something to move them around in and to move them around. That’s why the process works.

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

Lowest level of abstraction then, is Inhibit and Enforce. And then up at the top we get Desire, and of course we get people convinced they desire. Well, how do you handle that? Well, you handle that by moving objects around.

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

One of the neatest mock-ups you can run on a preclear – this really will stagger him – is make him make a piece of space and then make it solid.

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

„Get a sheet of space – now make it solid. Now get a cube of space. Now pack it down into a solid object. Now you got a solid object? Make it into a cube of space.“ Neat. Why? Because that’s conviction.

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

And he… if you were to run this in. flows, which you’re not going to run it in, you’d just run ‘trying to convince people’ and ‘people trying to convince him’, and ‘others trying to convince others’. Now that is… is a terrific process. And the reason why it’s a terrific process is very obvious. It’s because it has such tremendous abstraction in its content. It takes in Q, but if you didn’t understand what Q-1 was, you’d get upset about it.

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

But uh… the guy exists, he’s got to convince people he exists. Existence is, if nothing… if not force, force making objects, so if he does not have force, people are not convinced he exists. And if he does have force, people are convinced he exists. So when he tries to convince people that he exists, one of his later answers is to smash hell out of him. They find out he exists.

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

Now when he can’t use force, that answer is denied to him, so his inability to use force is a demonstration he doesn’t exist.

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

All right, we get invalidation of him is done by force. Convincing somebody is done first by a thought and then by force. Invalidation is: „You don’t exist,“ and convincing somebody is saying, „I do exist,“ or „You do exist,“ or „They do exist.“ And it’s best done by force.

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

I swear to Pete, if you were to go out here on the sidewalk and you were to take the first guy that came along and simply back him up against the wall and batter him until he finally admitted he saw a green toad – (I… the green toad doesn’t bear any resemblance to Purcell, I mean – that was not a dirty crack) – uh… a green toad, the guy would eventually, even if he were practically dying, probably come through and tell you, „Yes, I see a green toad.“ He’s convinced!

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

And what do they… what do they finally pull – this language is wonderful stuff – what do they finally do to someone who thinks he is outside law? They convict him, don’t they. And when he goes to jail, he gets a ‘conviction’, and he is a ‘convict’. He’s been convinced. That’s their method of conviction, is to contract time and space. They’re trying to make an object. And object is all that is convincing.

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

Now when you walk up to this wall and hit your hea… hand against it like this, you see? You’re convinced it’s there because you can feel the solidity of it. And if you didn’t feel the solidity of it you wouldn’t be convinced it’s there. So when you start doing unmocking, hold your hat, because mock-ups of one’s own universe and unmocking the real universe, laughingly called, produce some singular results.

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

An auditor telling me last night, he… he’d had a guy unmock… unmock a part of a pinhole in the back of his head, and move this pinhole back and forth – a hole back there. And make it a little bit bigger and a little bit bigger and the guy was finally sitting there looking at the chair back. I heard this story a little earlier. The fellow said uh… „I seemed to be in this forest, and then the forest turned out to be the green back of the chair.“ He was looking out through the back of his head at the back of the chair.

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

That’s unmocking the back of a head. Well, the second you start to unmock, ALL of a preclear’s experience on the track tells him, „No, no, no! It exists! It exists! Look – be convinced! Please be convinced! We’ll do anything if you’ll just be convinced!“ And he really gets scared that if he unmocks, thoroughly unmocks a table or unmocks a chair – you don’t have to educate him as to what to think about this. He’ll… he’ll say, „Maybe I better not do it.“ And you say, „Why not?“ „Well, I don’t know, I just got a feeling maybe I’d better not do it.“

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

And the next thing you know, don’t be surprised if hard, solid objects and all sorts of things seem to sort of hail in on him. That’s all the times when somebody backed him up against the wall and said, „There’s a green toad there, isn’t there?“ He finally became convinced.

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

Now his immediate and foremost desire, of course, centered on the home universe. And the home universe might have merged over into this one. So his active desire was directed toward the home universe, and then became crossed over into this universe. And many people have never discovered that there was any transition. They still think this is their universe.

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

They… every once in a while they’ll gun around and they’ll talk about everybody being their puppets and everybody looks like… they haven’t discovered yet that it’s a group action. They… they think they made everybody here. And that’s just uh… an inability to differentiate between universes. Their own universe and somebody else’s. Well, they can start to unmock this universe and rebuild their own; they get cured of this very fast.

It’s just as irrational as that.

But uh… they will start breaking convictions they have had in the past. And when they start breaking these convictions, one after the other, why these convictions are mostly driven in and upheld by force and they themselves have tried to drive in and make… make other people convinced by using force.

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

Oh, this gets to be gorgeous after a while. A preclear… a preclear is a… you start to unmock and mock things up after a while – umocking particularly – he’ll run head-on sooner or later into a feeling like he’d better not do it. It’s… it’s uh… „What if it all – umm-umm,“ because it’s on the thinnest of gradient scales of agreement.

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

One of the things you do is to make him go through the action of convincing somebody that something’s solid. Make him pick up some empty space and convince somebody that something is solid about it. And he’ll get the weirdest sensations. See, the joke is, he’s done just that. He gets the essence of making a… a gimmickahoojit. You… you… you’re going to have a game and you… you have to agree with somebody and so on. After a while, if you’ve got a lot of solid objects on which somebody’s agreed, you can pick up one of them and hit him over the head with it.

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

So behind every conviction lies a little pool of treachery. And don’t be surprised then if you, as you unmock and mock things up in your preclear, or if you look on the assessment, you will find that there’s a big charge on treachery, trickery – being stabbed in the back, and so forth. This table is treachery, trickery and being stabbed in the back in some… in some category. And is desire in another category. And it’s all at once, desire, trickery, treachery. Because there’s nothing there to be desired. But he wants something there so that he can desire it. And it’s trickery and treachery. And boy, has he got an educated perception level! And you start to break through that educated perception level and he just does wonderful things.

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

Then you’ll run… run this for a little while and you’ll start getting charges on the E-Meter on ‘It wasn’t there’. He’ll start going down… don’t worry about this, just keep up the process. He’s walked downstairs and he started to walk out through the front door. And got his hand through the door… before he remembered he’d better take the doorknob. That’s upsetting! That’s upsetting, for instance, to come over here and pick up this coke bottle, and really have to make a little postulate about it. „Well, it’s going to be solid and I can pick it up.“ Otherwise your fingers close on each other. Fascinating.

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

Well, don’t let your preclear get into that state. ‘Cause we want this universe in good shape, because you’re going to run slam-bang into these manifestations.

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

Now what’s… what’s wrong with your preclear is as a little kid he tried to convince people of this and that. In school everybody tried to convince him of this and that. And he’s been trying to convince other people of this, and they’ve been trying to convince him of this. If you were just to run ‘conviction’ and just tear it off…

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

Now if you start running around trying to convince people Scientology works, you’re walking into the biggest trap of all. Of course, Scientology works. It doesn’t have to convince them. The… the reason it works…

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

Oh, by the way. I didn’t make a gag very clear last night. I said I’d pop anybody if he kept talking about my ideas on this subject. Because what we’re talking about is the anatomy of the physical universe. And I’m damned if this physical universe was my idea.

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

So if you were a little bit shocked or missed the point on that, I hope I made that very clear. What you’re doing is accusing me, you see, of being the author of all this universe, and that’s no good.

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

Now… you can do a better job any day in the week. I mean this… this… this… look at that reverse flow as a trap, „I agree, therefore I’ve got to have. But if I agree – I mean – If I agree to have, then I run into ‘can’t have’.“ „That on which I work hardest, I will have.“ Energy devoted to, becomes havingness.

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

So Lord help somebody who insists on working only on the insane. Obviously he’d go nuts! It’s inevitable. What he devotes energy to, he will have. That’s one of the most fundamental rules there is. In order to have, you have to devote energy to something too. This universe has got that all nailed down.

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

That, by the way, doesn’t happen to be entirely true. You can just upset the agreement level and do that.

„Yup.“

Now to tell you the truth, before I did very much about this convincing and conviction and all that sort of thing, I was very careful about it. I was, I was quite careful about it, because I… actually you start working with this and you just feel these walls kind of go ‘creak’. You say, „Now, wait a minute.“ And it wasn’t until very recently that I was thoroughly enough convinced that it would take more than two or three people working hard in this direction to cave it all in suddenly.

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

But the whole thing of the process of Spacation – good old spacation – done: You put out anchor points, see? Now let’s put out anchor points while you’re lying on the couch and let’s unmock the couch. In other words, put out anchor points and put something of your own creation below the couch – but inside your own space. Put out anchor points out here – you’re lying on the couch and put a… a mock-up of your own down there. And then unmock everything else but the beingness of you, the anchor points and that mock-up.

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

In other words, unmock the real universe.

You say, „Where?“

What’s the… what’s the cure if your preclear suddenly… all of a sudden decides his head is going to be blown off, or… This is liable to happen if you do that, you see.

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

Oh, you just unmock some more things. Just unmock some more.

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

You see, the essence of unmocking is that if he’s really practiced at unmocking things, even if he’s still in his head, one day he unmocks his body. And for him… you see, his unmocking is done carefully within his own frame of reference. He doesn’t unmock for other people. He’s kind of careful about that at first, and then he gets a little less careful. And uh… so, of course, unmocking leads to a fellow just sitting there and no body. He doesn’t feel any body. Naturally then he can move around, and he actually will move around on that unmocking. He’s quite unwilling to do this.

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

But what’s he run into? He runs into having to be convinced there is a body there. And he thinks of all the hard times that he’s had trying to convince himself of the existence of something or other. He’s been up to – woof! – way back some time… havingness. He’s tried to convince himself something doesn’t exist, and something does exist. And he’s tried to convince himself and get himself SOLD on the idea that there IS a universe there. And he thinks of the times when his WANT has been stirred up, his INTEREST has been commanded to this degree that he wants the object which has been described. And then he sits there and his desire makes him want the solidity and he gets space to come in together and he thinks of all the trouble he’s been through to go to all this sort of thing and to convince himself. And the thankfulness he felt when somebody walked up to him and handed him a real object. Handed him a piece of the MEST universe. He didn’t know the rules by which you made something, but yet this other was real because he could be convinced by it. And how could he be convinced? Because it could hurt him. And because it could give him interest and pleasure and because it had color in it and all that sort of thing.

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

So as your preclear starts on this track, he’s liable to put on the brakes. But that is very aberrated, because, you see, at any moment you can re-mock up it.

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

The essence of mock-ups is the essence of perceiving illusions. And when he perceives mock-ups better, he perceives this universe better. So all that becomes very simple.

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

So there… there is a level of abstraction which is at the upper spectrum of all abstractions. You… when the mathematician says, „A equals alpha“ or something, he does it with a conviction. He has decided that there is a convincing actuality in that relationship. And the reason he can say that is preceded by, not mathematics, but a conviction or a convincing of the existence of a beingness.

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

And before beingness there must be a convinced… convincedness about beingness. And your lowest level of abstraction, of course, is easily solved because that’s ‘forget’ and ‘remember’. Now, don’t forget those two because the preclear’s memory is as good as he can receive and retain objects; and it is as useful as and as workable as he can give away and let go of objects. And between these two things, then, you get the whole range of what is laughingly called ‘the abstract’.

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

Now, objects, then, positioned in space, increased, decreased, made to disappear, made to appear again and so on, are handling from a level of Q-1 the entire span of abstraction as it applies to this universe. And let no one kid you otherwise.

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

Mathematics are symbolical manifestations of number, quantity and quality, and… applied to this universe.

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

You go outside the universe and make up a mathematics ‘1 equals 8’ and then don’t ever worry about proving it. Because that’s the next thing that people ask you to knock you down scale and make you buy things, or make you give up things – you’ve got to prove it. And of course you can’t prove something that isn’t there. So a man goes into the doggonedest, most long-winded dissertations and most idiotically, logical, wholly absurd – well, just get this: Now do you see, the reason why you work is so that you can eat. Nothing more logical than that, is there? That’s real hard-rock stuff.

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

Now just a minute. If you didn’t… weren’t so convinced it was work, you would probably eat better. All right, we’ve knocked that out just a little bit. Now let’s go up the line. Whatcha eating for? Well, you’re eating for the sensation. Well, if you could mock up flavors which were better than you could buy, you certainly wouldn’t bother with what was called ‘real’ stuff, would you? So therefore you wouldn’t be eating for the sensation.

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

Let’s go over into some better reason for this. Now let’s see. A fellow’s in a body so he can be identified. Oh, you mean you can’t make an identification of yourself show up so that people can see this? It’s coming down to an inability of some sort, here.

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

Come on, let’s… let’s prove why you have to work. Well, I have to work, I have to – well…

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

And that is the way with any proof there is for anything – proof or ‘pruff’ – in this universe. It just goes around in a squirrel cage. It’s just… it’s just nonsense.

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

That’s true of space, energy and time, you see? I mean, they had space, energy and time – each one evaluated in the terms of the other two, and nobody outside this rat race. So if we could never get outside of this rat race, we could never find anything that would solve time. We move over here to Be, Do and Have and we move back there to look at… „Well,“ we say, „to heck with that. We’re out of that rat race.“ Well, we’ve just consistently moved up the line and moved the product of Be, Have and Do is space, energy and time. All right, Be, Have and Do are conditions which can be set up by postulates which then, if everyone is convinced thoroughly enough, exist as space, energy and time. And you work from this upper abstraction of Be, Do and Have, and you get space, energy and time.

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

But you get something else, too. You don’t just get space, energy and time. You find out that postulates can be made about almost anything.

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

Now the first time these postulates begin to get very set and matter begins to be unmovable and people become to be very unhappy and the game stops being a game and becomes very, very hard work, is when everybody has to prove it all the time. They’re proving something that isn’t true, no matter what they’re trying to prove.

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

Now we’ve taken apart an anatomy here, an anatomy of many levels of conviction which have resulted in many levels of desires and enforcements and inhibitions, resulted in many levels of conviction, many levels then of affinity and agreement and communications. And what we’ve done is, in the – language of this, backtracked right on up the line until we had reconstructed this. And we followed the track back and all of a sudden we test it and now go up track or down that track again or get off that track and go over on some other track and do something about that.

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

And uh… it’s up to you to establish a reality along this level. It is awfully tight as a level of application. I mean, you’re not very far off any grooves. You… you’ve got postulates… you’ve got Q-1 and then you’ve got postulates. And then you’ve got Be, Do and Have and that gives you Start, Change and Stop, Space, Energy, Time. Therefore it can give you any kind of an abstraction, so-called. It can give any kind of an object or any kind of a condition.

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

And you’ve just got all of that, just nearly fitted together in sort of a little telescope. And you can pull it out and look at it lengthily and drag it out endlessly or simply snap it together real close and start asking about the highest level of abstractions you can. You do an assessment on this E-Meter here and look that over and you find out what he can’t do. Well, the essential things that he can’t do is can’t unconvince himself once he’s convinced. And you might say that would be one of the rougher aberrations. He can’t convince himself that he can be unconvinced, because he thinks he has to convince himself to be unconvinced. And, of course, every time he convinces himself that he has to be unconvinced, he becomes more convinced and lower on the scale, because of your reverse vectors and other things.

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

So I want to see… I want to see assessments done, but certainly not… not with… You know that before you start work on the preclear, fill up, oh, maybe ten notebooks, exhausting all this out carefully.

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

Now if you continue to run a preclear on the machine while you do this, you will see whenever he’s run up against one of these blocked convictions, he’s uh… hit a point where he feels he has to be convinced. And you run up against one of those, and it’ll give you quite a shock on the preclear. That is to say, he’s… he’s run up against where… a point where he feels – oh boy! You just run dials down on that – where if he gives this one up, the whole universe will go ‘poom!’ and he’ll get quite upset about it.

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

But uh… I’ll read you a couple of little laws about conviction, by the way. „Trying to convince is the same as trying to move people around – people or objects around; that they are solid or not solid; that they have space; that they don’t have space; that they act; that they don’t act; that they are perceived; that they are not perceived; that they can perceive; that they can’t perceive.“

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

That’s all. Total level of line-ups. And one of the rougher things is that empty space is solid. Try… try to convince somebody that empty space is solid. You get the big relief of somebody… let’s say you’re dropping somebody out of a sixteen story window or something like that. Think of the big relief he would feel if he had a solid thing put immediately under him – I mean, right under him so that he would just drop a couple of feet and touch this solid thing. Boy, he’d feel so relieved. Well, that’s… that’s pay for being convinced that a solid thing can keep you from falling. It doesn’t happen to mean that a solid object can keep you from falling or it doesn’t happen to mean that gravity can necessarily act on you.

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

This gets very, very interesting after a while. Uh… you could throw, quote ‘solid objects’ around at quite a… quite a rate if you wanted to. It’s up to you to recover that. It’s not up to you to be shown. And also when you’ve recovered it, it isn’t up to you to show anybody that. It isn’t, it isn’t up to anybody to… you don’t have to demonstrate anything to anybody. As a matter of fact, I make a very set rule against it. To hell with it.

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

Somebody comes up to me and says, „Can you prove that so-and-so and so-and-so?“ It’s just… that’s been going on in this track for 74 trillion years: „Would you please prove to me that so-and-so and so-and-so? Would you prove it to me? Well, I can’t see the reason in it.“ Both of those things are just as haywire as hell. There is no reason in it. And as far as proving it is concerned, they want to be convinced and the fastest way to convince anybody would be to shoot them or something. And that’s real conviction.

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

Yeah. What’s also amusing is trying to convince people that particles have various qualities and that they are visible or invisible. It becomes very fascinating, trying to demonstrate to somebody, really prove it to him, that a particle exists.

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

You can imagine yourself early on the track, going into heated discussions about this thing, until the guy finally would groggily say, „Okay, that’s a particle. I’m convinced.“

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

After a while we’d get all these particles together and we’d say,

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

„You see that table? That’s something solid. Now look, I’m going to prove to you that that table’s solid. Now take your fist…“

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

He says, „I haven’t got a fist.“

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

„You haven’t got a fist?! Well, now look. Let’s take a particle there – now hold on to the particle. You’ve got the particle? Now hit it against this table, see?“

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

And the guy goes… „Yeah! There’s something there – not… not really too solid yet though.“

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

And you say, „Well, just a minute, just a minute. Whap! Bam! It’s solid. Okay, now you hit it with that.“

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

„Yeah-yeah. Nice and solid now.“

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

I mean, it’s just as idiotic as that. The guy isn’t convinced so you convince him. He’s already been convinced there’s such a thing as energy so he can be bapped, zapped. He’s convinced of that and uh… now that he’s convinced that there can be energy you can convince – there’s such a thing as a particle, and the energy’s got to have space to be in, isn’t there? Of course, energy’s got to have space to be in – naturally. How could there be any energy if there wasn’t any space for it to be in? So that’s space, isn’t it? Okay. Guess that’s proved.

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

All right. Now, if there’s space and there’s energy in it, you don’t want that space and that energy in motion all the time. That’s silly to postulate that it keeps changing position in space. You haven’t proved to him yet that it is changing position in space, see?

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

„Now you just move it over there in the corner. Now, when it gets over there in the corner it gets solid, doesn’t it? It’s not moving.“

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

The fellow says, „What do you know! It’s not moving.“

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

„Well, when it’s not moving, it gets solid. There it is: Solid – solid object. That will be a dollar.“

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

Somebody’s already worked the magic on you that a dollar or a pound – are worth having, that you can buy things with it that you can’t manufacture.

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

The only thing valuable about the whole thing was a piece of knowledge. If you know a modus operandi and can put it into effect without excessive labor or cost, you sure don’t need the object from somebody else, do you?

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

So it was knowledge, actually, in essence, that was above all the levels.

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

Now you will find that knowledge is something that most of your preclears will just shudder about destroying. They don’t want to, unless it’s knowledge about themselves. So, you give them… have them mock up police dossiers that tell about all their affairs and everything else, and you get that blown up and so on. Because they’ve got to take the terrible value level that they have off knowledge. Because if they had translated the word ‘knowledge’ as meaning ‘a fact’, then they have to hold on to their facsimiles. So they feel they can’t destroy their facsimiles because their facsimiles are knowledge and this is not true. Their facsimiles as records are of no great value. Present time action is of greater value.

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

The knowledge of how to get it accomplished or how to accomplish present time action is valuable, not the file in which the knowledge is contained. The invaluableness of a file does not consist of the quality of its file cards. And if the file could exist without file cards, throw it away. Keep the knowledge, get rid of the file cards.

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

Knowledge can exist if we have a very easy, good method of reworking it at any time. You don’t need it. And you’ll see that happening the moment that you suddenly realize that you are sitting with the… a formula which produces knowledge at will. And the guy will say, „Well, I know. The hell with these facsimiles.“

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

He’s convinced, too, that facsimiles are used in lieu of force. This is a horrible trap. He thinks that knowledge will always serve in lieu of force. Well, it will if you can get there with enough of it quick enough. But don’t try levels of esoteric communication when there’s a soldier on the battle field and he’s got the rifle trained square on you and the finger is closing on the trigger. That is exactly the wrong moment to try to inform him that you know more about rifles than he does, so therefore you should be able to… Oh, no. No. You’re going to lose your havingness right there.

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

Another thing is… is overevaluation of havingness. A person who overevaluates havingness consistently and continually, then he will begin to protect things that .he’s better off without. He will have things he doesn’t need because he feels he can’t ever replace them. And you get your ‘packrat’ nature of Man.

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

And he goes below that level, he feels that other people want to damage him solely because he has things; therefore he’ll start to abandon, abandon, abandon, abandon. He has no proper evaluation of the importance of havingness.

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

Which means automatically then he’d have no proper evaluation of time. And so he doesn’t have.

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

But it all starts out with a desire and a conviction and goes on down the line. And after a person’s been convicted and sentenced to 74 years… 74 trillion years in the MEST universe, that much havingness of the MEST universe, it’s time some of you bail him out. I’ll talk to you later this evening.

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

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

That’s rather typical. These are types.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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