Well, you’re very lucky people, that’s all I’ve got to say. This is the first lecture of the afternoon of Saturday, December the 13th.

But this is uh… December the 13th, first hour of the evening lecture.

By the way, who kept a good set of notes? Anybody keep a real good set of notes on this? You got a real good set? Good. We’ll be looking into that.

Now on this matter of new little gimmicks and so forth, you could expect them to occur every once in a while. And sometimes they occur early and sometimes they occur late. I mean, you had the preclear a week ago that could have used it and he’s… he’s dead now.

This afternoon I would be very happy to tell you all about Standard Operating Procedure. And uh… will. In fact, I will here for several days.

But uh… you can expect from here on, undoubtedly a little bit of refinement here and a little bit of codification there. Basic theory of the information on which you are working, however, is of one group of data and it’s not likely to do much varying.

But, very interesting that Standard Operating Procedure is actually so easy. Uh… I really don’t know why I’m talking about it. It is so easy.

It is highly likely that you will get codifications of mock-ups, however. You will get something that says „This mock-up is better than that mock-up,“ or „This system of mock-ups apply to that,“ or something of this sort. That’s totally very possible.

Now you may or may not believe that. I really don’t care what you believe, because the best little handy, jim-dandy convincer of which I know is simply to take Standard Operating Procedure and take three, four people and spring it on them. If you took five people, at least two of them will become theta clears in a very short space of time using Standard Operating Procedure.

I don’t want you to get upset and say, „All this information now is invalid,“ simply because you see something that a codification of assessment is now done this way or „Although it was stated that this was the limit of Q it is now found that this following modification can take place.“

And the other three would fall on down the track, on down the steps and you’d probably get… you might or might not get in that short a series, a couple of uh… Fives – pardon me – one Five. Probably wouldn’t get a Five on that short a series. I think a Five runs about one in fifteen, or something like that, cases. Uh… but you might get a Five.

Because a live science is not a static science. A live science grows.

You might get one of these cases that’s nailed down, sealed in, uh… bracketted, wicketted, uh… grouped, smashed, occluded. You might get all sorts of things. But uh… it’s very doubtful. And if you did get one of those cases, what would you use to solve it? Vitamins? Um… something very „Well, it must be an unusual case. He… every time I ask him to do one of these things he just doesn’t seem to be able to. Maybe we ought to try diathermy. No – it doesn’t work. I don’t know. Couldn’t have been anything said in the lecture about a case this tough must have something unusual. Nah-uh.“

In 1894 an old guy that was doing a lot of work on this, a fellow by the name of – not on this; he was just doing work – Freud uh… announced his libido theory. The electronic data which has now led to all kinds of electronic equipment, the formulas that have led to modern electronics, the A-bomb – whether or not these are an advantage, they do demonstrate an advance – were in existence in 1894.

You won’t find anything unusual, I’m sorry to tell you. Adventure is dead. You just go on and use some more of it.

Coincidentally in 1894 then, was the science of electronics and its basic theory. And, in the field of mind, the libido theory.

And if you just get plain downright desperate on this Step Five case, you just get terribly desperate about the whole thing, then you could sit down for a couple of hours a day or make him sit down, or have somebody else sit down with him for a couple of hours a day, and just run off SELF ANALYSIS using its lines to create illusions. In other words, to do mock-ups on the lines that are contained in SELF ANALYSIS – not to recall incidents. It says „recall incidents“ – „Can you recall a time that…“

And in 1952 in that field, just taking that as a field of development, we have the atom bomb and we have the libido theory. No advance. That is not healthy.

And the way to use that book now is simply to say, „Can you create a mock-up in which“ – you know – „you enjoyed something.“ So you put something out there and feel enjoyment for it. And then it’s got a list of perceptics down at the bottom of it and you try to – and one of them says „external motion.“ So you see this thing moving. And another one says „sight.“ So you get a good look at it. And another one says „sound“ and so on.

Now you’ve watched… you have watched the sudden fusion of Western – mathematical thinking, organization, logic and electronics, suddenly fuse with – not Sigmund Freud, or the Greek philosopher – fuse with the data which was left in India about 8200 years ago, and which lay dormant and which was figured out this way and confused that way and was relatively unanalyzed. It was from that body of data that Christianity came; it was from that body of data that many other things occurred. But it was a tremendously valuable mass of material.

Well, it doesn’t matter too much if uh… you can’t see these things or feel them very much. A fellow can get some sort of a vague idea they are there. Vague, no matter how vague. So he could just go ahead then and uh… go on down the list no matter how vague it is. And if he starts boiling off like mad, have him see him behind him. You’ve just excited too many flows in one direction.

All right, it lay there unevaluated and, of course, was a field of tremendous richness from the standpoint, not of investigation of ‘it’ – more men have gone mad per square inch trying to investigate ‘it’ than any other thing I know.

So, just put him behind him and that stops boil-off immediately.

I was sitting there tonight trying to pretend that this had been a very brave voyage of adventure because it had been so dangerous and there’s so many men fall on their faces doing this. As a matter of fact it has not been a very dangerous voyage. But uh… the point is that an awful lot of men have fallen on their faces in the last century trying to hit this track. Uh… amongst them were Nietzsche, and with him the German nation. Amongst them were Schopenhauer; uh… amongst them were Allistair Crowley. They were all trying to hit this track and they were overshooting, undershooting, round and round; because they were looking at it as ‘It’ and trying to analyse ‘It’ as itself. And trying to apply to ‘It’ its own peculiarities of logic and formulation. And it had no such evaluation.

That… that… you could get down to that level of uh… uh… incredible uh… apathy about case and it would still work out if you did that. That is the last… last ditch. You won’t have to go any lower than that. You either use the techniques you’ve got, or if you just throw in the sponge and give up and all that sort of thing, why you’ve got SELF-ANALYSIS as a drill. And he’ll be out in a month, six weeks – I don’t care how long it’d go – it wouldn’t matter. It wouldn’t matter how long it would go.

Needs a dichotomy to work something out. Two things must come together to work something out.

And as you start processing people with Standard Operating Procedure Issue Three, you will be occasionally tempted to dive into the incident which presents itself, oh how nicely! Nah-uh! No! And you will get ahold of cases that insist on diving into the incident that presents itself – use a club. You don’t want any truck with a real, real convincing facsimile or any part thereof.

So there was that big body of data and all of a sudden we ran into it with electronic material and Western logic, plus the Western belief that it could be done and it wasn’t complicated.

And don’t get the idea that because he turns on somatics while running mock-ups that the two have to be connected. They don’t have to be connected. There doesn’t have to be any relationship between a mock-up and what’s wrong with the preclear. In fact, it is the upper crust of flippancy if he’s got a bad foot to run mock-ups on his left ear. Just make sure that you use all geometric patterns and designs and the reason why you use all geometric patterns and designs is simply to give him complete coverage so he’s avoiding nothing.

I ran in ahead of the data this business that all things are basically simple, and had this background of other material. And then I completely neglected that other background of material except where it would cross accidentally once in a while.

And as you begin to process your preclear you will occasionally find out he gets much worse. Oh, boy! He can get worse with a vengeance. I don’t think you can make him as much worse as you could on a misuse of some old techniques. But you could ruin him – if you don’t know what you’re doing. And even knowing what you’re doing, you can still ruin him.

And I knew these two fields I… I don’t know anybody else in this century or the end of the last one who had these two backgrounds; background in mysticism and uh… occultism – metaphysics, theology, hokus-pokus, voodoo, mumbo-jumbo, magic, spiritualism uh…and so on, who took a rigorous course of Western orientation. You study civil engineering and it is about the roughest discipline there is, clinically because it says it’s there and it’s there and that you will only solve it if you recognize that it’s there and so on.

Number One, don’t have any qualms about ruining somebody. That’ll ruin far less.

And that put one on the track of agreement and a lot of other things. So these two things crossed: This tremendous body of information in the Eastern oriental sphere and this tremendous body of collected information in the occidental, the Western world. And those two bodies of information had never been studied one to the other. I don’t know why nobody from that area about which I have any knowledge whatsoever, in India or the studies thereof, ever thought it worth his while to step out of that field and try to study something else. And I don’t know anybody in engineering who would do anything but get down and swear and spit and get very thoroughly upset at the slightest mention of the word ‘mysticism’.

And Number Two, if you found out he was ruined – oh, of course, lots of preclears come back and tell you they’re ruined. Yeah, that’s to get more processing. That’s the old gag – if you don’t give them more processing, they go… then they go around and tell all the neighbour they’re ruined. And then if you still don’t give them more processing, why they even get up to a level of practically physical attack.

You go into Bell Labs now and the toughest, terriblest curse that they can lay on anything is „That has something to do with the spirit or ‘mysticism’.“ It sounds mystical to them and so forth. That is their ultimate for imprecision.

Of course, their method of saying „Please process me“ is to ruin you and your reputation sometimes.

Now, all of a sudden these two bodies of knowledge went together with a dull crash; monitored by something above that then, it was possible to codify in terms of MEST the capabilities of theta. And that is the trick here: How do you codify in terms of MEST a capability which really is only a small part MEST? And that’s been quite a trick putting it together and codifying it.

But so – so the preclear is ‘ruined’ by your processing. It’s as I say, Number One – So what? He was ruined by the MEST universe before you got your hands on him.

And that codification continues. It continues very definitely. So we’re going forward at this moment from… with a… with a very workable process. This process works; it works fast. If you were to suppose that you were in a static with regard to it, completely, you’d be making an error, and would be demonstrating an ignorance of a live science. A live science is one which can still change. It has not reached the end of the cycle of action.

The chance that he has in coming to you and recovering from, is so… was so slight, it was one in hundreds and hundreds of hundreds of trillions. His good fortune in coming to you is such that you needn’t ask him for any license to survive, and you needn’t apologize. You have complete liberty on the thing.

Now one might say that one has gone on the line in curves; that there was a 40 t… 0 to 0, and a 40.0 to 0 in this fashion.

How anybody could feel strange about charging the price of the moon or feel that he’s compelled to help somebody, when all these people exist to be helped, or is compelled to try to convince somebody that what he’s doing is efficacious – convince somebody with discussion or proof or anything of that sort – I’m sure I don’t know. Because the use of Standard Operating Procedure Issue Three, and a complete good grasp of the theory behind it brings about this kind of a fortuitous condition. You’re cause.

(Why don’t you guys that are coughing mock up some explosions?)

And any time you think you have to go below the level of cause in action, you’re gonna fall on your face. You’re Cause. And the second you start squirming around, apologizing and trying to prove it to somebody, and being all upset because he got worse or something of this sort, you’re just making a big, dramatic statement „I’m NOT Cause.“

You could say this 40…

You get your case in good shape and your frame of mind in good shape, there isn’t anything can phase you – nothing, including a 16-inch gun going off straight in your face.

Did somebody cough in your face?… When did they cough in your face last?… Come on.

And in that frame of mind, the funny part of it is, it isn’t anything esoteric. Your preclear looks at you and he doesn’t see an apologetic look on your face, and he doesn’t see you all ready to get down on your knees and say, „Oh, yalla, yalla, yalla – AMA, AMA – please accept us, please accept us,“ or whatever that old German freak song was. „Hooble-Goobla! Please accept us!“

Student: (I haven’t any idea) Well, mock up a doll out there coughing.

Uh… he says, „This guy can’t do anything for me. Something has to be done for him.“ He just looks at you and your attitude and your tone of voice and he knows immediately that you’re going to do something for him. And you’re going to do something for him – it’s just inevitable that you’re going to do something for him. Why, he goes ahead and lets it happen about ten times as fast.

Student: (Okay) Go on. Mock him up.

But he looks at you and he sees doubt and uncertainty and request to survive and all that sort of thing written all over the place, and then he’ll hold it up for ten times as long as he should have.

Student: (Yup)

It’ll happen! I’m just talking about his havingness – the duration of his havingness of aberration extends somewhat in the face of your apology for being able to do something for him.

All right, mock him coughing real worse than that. Oh, very much worse than that.

And when I say you can ruin him utterly and completely, I’ll tell you just exactly how and what will happen any time you figure you utterly ruined a preclear. You got scared. You put your courage in your hip pocket and you ducked away on that low-level mockery on the tone scale which mocks the upper part of the tone scale. On that level of the tone scale it said, in so many words, it said down there at the bottom, uh…“I am afraid to hurt anybody.“

Student: (Uh-huh)

You ever want to manage an enterprise, don’t man it – if you really want it to go, if you care about it at all – don’t man it with somebody who’s scared to hurt somebody. Because he’ll wind up by butchering them – just butchering everybody – inevitable! His effort not to hurt will result in murder!

All right, get him going into… into spasms of coughing. Now put him behind your back. Have you got him behind your back?

Let’s just look at one manifestation of that. He holds apart and doesn’t mention something, and he lets it grow and he lets it grow and he lets it grow and he’s holding it apart. And he’s holding it apart. He’s found out that somebody in the shipping department annoyed him. And instead of knocking it into line on the floor of the shipping department, going right to it and saying „I don’t like this, and why are you doing it?“ he just lets that annoy him.

Student: (Yeah)

And the fellow in the shipping department finds out that something is going on along this line, and we get this further and further hold, hold, hold. What have you got? A condenser action. And sooner or later it’s going to go „Ka-paw!“ and the poor guy in the shipping department might never really have understood what was wrong at all. He wouldn’t even have had any inkling, until one day the condenser charge is built so great that the resultant shock knocks him flat on his face, knocks him out of a job, knocks the shipping department into a cocked hat. All because of what? It’s because your manager, the first moment he was annoyed about something that was going on in the shipping department, was too damned cowardly to go into the shipping department and say so. So he chalked it off against this fact: He says, „Well, I don’t want to hurt his feelings.“

All right. Now have a… have him do a… a… a epileptiform seizure – just heels crashing down on the floor, back arching as he coughs and wheezes. Got it?

That is the biggest curtain of all. The guy brings that down and he doesn’t tell himself what’s true: „I’m too cowardly to do anything about it.“ So he substitutes that for: „I don’t want to hurt his feelings,“ a big rationalization. He doesn’t go in there, the shipping department doesn’t know what It’s all about and then one day „boom!“ A lot of guys get blown up in the resultant. And the operation might just blow up too.

Student: (Yeah) Now take a big can of pepper…

Why? Because all sitting around the operation you’ve got this sort of thing of back-off, back-off, let it build up, build up, don’t say anything… we don’t want to hurt anybody, until all the lines in the place are going so haywire that a fellow never has a chance in there. That’s all. He never knows whether he’s right or whether he’s wrong. He knows the boss won’t tell him. And he knows if he goes to the boss and the boss says, „Oh, yeah. That’s fine. You did a good job, that’s fine,“ he knows he… he hasn’t any security at all of the fact those words are true.

Student: (Yeah) and sprinkle it on him so he coughs harder… Now put him over to the right… Now bring him over the left.

Same way with the auditor. Any time he s… knocks off of a case, or any time – this is a very funny one. That I can take any of these cases that are… that I suddenly see going „Zing! Zing! Zing! Spin! Spin! Spin!“ And I’ll say, „What happened?“

Student: (Okay)

„Well, we got into this, and we did this and we did that“ and so forth.

Now take all this huge amount of sneeze powder and put it on him. And just make him go into just fits. Now change him into a dog doing the same thing.

Number One, it’s usually a Step five auditor that does it. And Number Two, we find out that the auditor didn’t finish the technique. In each and every case so far examined where anything happened, the auditor didn’t finish what he started out to do. He was insufficiently cause to produce an effect.

Student: (Okay)

And he got halfway through and the preclear was starting to scream or something of this sort, so he says „I mustn’t hurt them, so I’ll knock off and do something else.“ Oh, Christ!

Now change him into a cow and stop the coughing, and start the cow chewing cud. (Yeah) Now put the cow behind your back. (Uh-huh) Now have the cow moo gently in appreciation. (Yeah…) Now put her in your time span of last year.

Supposing doctor – doctor had a… had a… had a body out on the ta… bodies aren’t important, but just to mention it – suppose he had a body out on the table and he… he had the spine half out or something of this sort, and uh… uh… the ether started to wear off and it was obviously hurting the patient. I suppose he wouldn’t do anything more about the spine because it might hurt the patient further. No, just let him die.

(Okay) All right.

Courage could be summed up in, one, being willing to cause something and, two, going ahead to achieve the effect one has postulated against any and all odds. There doesn’t happen to be any such thing as failure. There just doesn’t happen to be any such thing.

Now here on the line… here on the line we have actually, what could appear to be 40.0 to 0.0 – 40.0 to 0 – 40.0 to 0.0 as we come down the line.

But of course, you all want to agree there’s such a thing as failure so that you can have a reason to fail, so you won’t have to be cause. Tha… that’s… that’s another thing – but there isn’t any reason to fail. There’s no excuse for any failure that ever occurred anyplace in history, except this – except this. There was just not quite enough carry-through and push- through. You can mark the high tide of any empire or of any army in any period in the history of homo sapiens, and you’ll find out somebody, someplace on that track was deficient in guts. And when he was, he lost the whole track. There isn’t even such a thing as carrying on too long in one direction toward the postulated effect. There isn’t even that. There isn’t even such a thing as there are too many odds. That doesn’t exist. Nor… there isn’t such a thing as saying „Well, what I postulated was unreasonable and therefore I have to abandon that goal now because it was unreasonable,“ and so forth.

The reason I put these things up here is you could say that these are the echelons of something. And what you could do, then, is put up here uh… 40.0, 20.0, underscored at 0.0 as a Grand Cycle; or this cycle or this cycle or this cycle.

No, you have to have a consent to track along in a certain degree of agreement with a whole lot of ‘things in order to sit down someplace on the track and saying, „There are too many for me.“ Let’s just take… let’s just take the simple matter of… in the first place, you found out irrationality at the bottom of the tone scale is becoming MEST with all these rationalizations. And one is MEST at the bottom of the tone scale.

Here was homo sapiens – only we call that 4.0 to 0.0; and here we had thetan plus body – 40.0, thetan is separate from body. And we have the separateness being the top of the scale: The thetan has suddenly gained a lot of space, you see. And at the bottom of it you’ve got a thetan plus body that’s in pretty good shape. And that’s Theta Clear. So we can call this here ‘Theta Clear’ at this 40.0 with a dotted line under it. And we have here this black ‘40.0’ – we have ‘Homo sap’ as a 40.0 with a dotted line under it. And up here at this highest ‘40.0’ – I mean this now – existing black ‘40.0’ here with a whole series of crosses under it, we would have an ‘Operating Thetan’. And up here at the top of the Grand Cycle, God knows how far up, how many 40.0-0.0 stages up above that one with the x’s under the 40.0, we’ve got what? We have got Cleared Theta Clear: Theoretical absolute… a theoretical absolute sitting up there.

Let’s go up to the top of the tone scale and take a look and we find out it’s causation is by postulate. Is there any reason there? No – no. No consecutive logic at all.

Now here were your bodies of knowledge as they move forward. Dianetics, BOOK ONE, homo sapiens. Boy does he agree with that! But if you use very much of Book… if you used BOOK ONE, you can pretty much maintain homo sapiens. You are well within the field of a therapy for homo sapiens.

So you say, „All right, now we’re going to reform the habits of the Philadelphia Police Force and change the force utterly and completely.“ Not „we are“ – you can say, „I am.“ Don’t bother to set any time limit on it. The havingness in this case is simply the Philadelphia Police Force. And the amount of time consumed is the amount of ti… amount of havingness of that police force. And you just go ahead and do it! And if you’re strong and tough enough you would simply postulate that it was going to happen. And it would occur.

You start up the line, however, from BOOK ONE and we get into the never-never land of the early days of Scientology. Well, you’ve got overt acts and motivators, and the second you start to run these things out, something else start to happen. And the GE line suddenly opens up and you start to run that a little bit more and the theta line opens up. And… and you’re just on a whole bunch of tracks and don’t quite know where you’re going and where you’re going to wind up.

And down scale from that you would have to go into action and make it happen – and it would occur. And down the f… scale from that, you would say, „I wish it’d happen“ – and it wouldn’t occur. And down scale from that you’d say, „We’ll, somebody ought to.“

Until all of a sudden we get to Standard Operating Procedure, Issue One. It’s now Issue Three. And what’s that produce? That produces a Theta Clear.

You see, taking responsibility for something that has occurred is balderdash! So it occurred!

Now if you were just studying this midground, just to Theta Clear right now, if that’s all you were studying, this could be a very short course, because we can make Theta Clears in an awful hurry. But you’re not studying that. You’re studying at least 40.0 of the Upper Scale – or Operating Thetan.

Now let’s uh… just look just a little bit further and uh… we find out there was one was wrong and one was right. From whose viewpoint? How can you be wrong from your own viewpoint? There isn’t a single instant anywhere down the last 74 trillion years, really, that you did not at the instant you acted, act to the best of your ability, and actually try to carry through the effect which you postulated one way or the other.

So your goals have advanced. Thus when I give you this material I am demonstrating to you that the button-up is complete up to that middle 40.0, Theta Clear. Every time you get a higher echelon, though, these lower things become more easily done. But when you do them from a higher echelon, you get a higher goal. Here is cause and effect, cause and effect. You cannot make a better homo sapiens, actually, with any other process than DIANETICS: THE MODERN SCIENCE OF MENTAL HEALTH and SCIENCE OF SURVIVAL. You use anything above that level and we start operating on homo sapiens with techniques above that level, we no longer get a homo sapiens. We go into ADVANCED PROCEDURE AND AXIOMS and the fellow starts to fly apart. And he does. We get something… something different. He isn’t acting the same way any more. He isn’t going on the same motivations, he isn’t the same bag of tricks.

And you kept falling back from it and falling back from it and falling back from it. Sure – falling short of this goal and short of that one. But you were still trying – until somebody convinced you that it was fashionable not to try. The whole sickening, what we would laughingly call ‘morale’ of the Armed Services in World War II is just some of this – just some of this. It was ‘fashionable’ not to. It was fashionable not to be brave, it was fashionable not to be bright. It was ‘fashionable’.

Now uh… whether… now when we get up here, Theta Clear – we take Theta Clearing techniques and we apply them anyplace to homo sapiens and you are going straight on toward Theta Clear. Now you could take these – and techniques down here at 40.0: DIANETICS: THE MODERN SCIENCE OF MENTAL HEALTH, homo sapiens, and you could re-evaluate those techniques… oh, just re-evaluate them and fix them all up and then use them, and if you expected still to get homo sapiens you’d be very much surprised. You’d not get homo sapiens any more. You’d keep getting a Theta Clear.

A man could get himself thrown out of practically any officers club by suddenly being brave.

Here’s Cause and Effect at work: You postulate what kind of an effect you want to achieve, you have to take it from the level of Cause that will produce that Effect.

I know one officer that was reprimanded for taking on a submarine three times the size of his ship and sinking it – a Japanese submarine. And he was called in and reprimanded. That doesn’t sound possible, does it? No, we had a… we had a… we… we had a big, big vogue, we had a big vogue of ‘Let’s all fall back and not be responsible’.

It should tell you something, then, about processing where you’re not making a Theta Clear. You start using mock-ups and that sort of thing to any very vast degree, you’re going to head toward making a Theta Clear. But you can use them without theta clearing somebody. You get somebody who has a bad shoulder, or something of this sort, and you go on and give them a… give them a push forward.

Whereas the horrible part of it was that practically any man there, had he assumed responsibility or assumed or believed in his ability to cause an effect, he probably could have shortened the hell out of the war. And if he’d assumed it a little earlier, there probably wouldn’t have been a war.

But if you were to run a low level of this middle 40.0 to 0.0 theta clear goal, somewhere in that area you’d get something like brackets on responsibility and irresponsibility. And the second you start to run brackets on responsibility and irresponsibility, if you start very long… you keep at it very long – Ka Boon! The guy’s going to be out of his head looking at himself. That’s… I am sorry, but it just… just… just happens.

There’s just one guy, you see. We’re not… we’re not talking now in terms of… of… of ‘We’ve got to have vast numbers of people’. We don’t have to have, operating in any level to get an effect. It just gets a little more random and sometimes more interesting when you start pouring people in there by the thousands and the millions and the billions.

Now you say we want this effect. We work toward this effect and we have the ritual necessary to produce this effect. And the funny part of our ritual is – never make a mistake about this, by the way. There are guys running around the bush in loin cloths uh… in Colorado Springs and places like that, who think they know something about this business. And all they ever studied is how you give somebody a super-control operation. And they’ll tell you any time you postulate that a fact exists, why a certain number of people will believe it and somebody or other’ll get well.

But where the auditor stopped, is the first question I ask a preclear who’s in bad shape. „Where’d the auditor stop?“ And we get ahold of the auditor, and we say, „What happened between you and that preclear you was with last night? What happened?“ „Well, I tell you. Every t… every time he went into it, he would scream. And… and it was just the pain was too much for him – that was all. And he would… he would… I’d give him a mock-up on this and he’d start screaming. And… and so on, and he just couldn’t stand the pain.

The guys read this in a Christian Science Handbook or Medical Association, or someplace. He… he didn’t get this anyplace else. Because it doesn’t happen to be even vaguely true, when applied on this level. You get the ritual which works spontaneously without education in it, you’ve got natural law. That is really the definition of ‘natural law’. An engineer and a train do not have to be educated in gravity to start running like hell down a ten-percent grade on a railroad track. You put any engine and any engineer on that ten-percent grade on a railroad track and they will start running like the devil down the track. That’s natural law; that’s the natural law of gravity.

And he’d s… start – and then he finally got so he’d start to scream and then he’d go out unconscious. And uh… naturally, I had to change the technique!“

All right, you get any preclear out here, you get anybody off the street – the guy that runs that… that fiend that runs that streetcar up and down – you get him in here and you start working with what? You just start working with mock-ups, just plain mock-ups this way and that way and the other way and so forth. And all of a sudden it goes ‘zzzzzz-wham!’ and you work on it too long and he’ll be standing there looking at himself.

Ahhhh, why didn’t the auditor just tell me the truth? „I’m yellow. I didn’t want to hurt him“ because I was afraid it would hurt me.

You run Responsibility and Irresponsibility and he’ll be standing there looking at himself. I don’t care if he’s a streetcar conductor. It’ll work.

Do you know that creative processing carried out any distance at all will land a person into such things as a complete conviction that a cannonball is travelling right straight toward their middle, and that it is going to land any second. And they can practically feel the… the… the… the wind of its arrival. And they’re just certain, and sometimes they’ll look at you rather sadly and say „Well, my body is about to blow up and I hope you’ll take care of things a little bit for me. I hope it won’t get you in trouble.“

All right. That’s natural law. Probably in the framework of engineering itself, there exists much better discovered laws than have so far been discovered.

And what do you know? It never does: It just never happens. This expected instant doesn’t arrive. You might know that you were within a split inch of it, but it just doesn’t get there.

What I like about the guy is he runs down the track, see. And he gets down the track and then he picks that streetcar up and he runs back up the street and runs it down the track again.

Now you can just stop and leave him with that expectancy and say „Oh, well, I will stop processing now because I don’t want to hurt you any more. I just can’t stand seeing you squirm and writhe.“

Well, anyhow… there are probably better natural laws. And maybe we have some… some of them in this bulk of knowledge right here. So far as physics is concerned. They probably will get readier agreement with the universe, or with MEST, than we have so far found out through the science of physics. That doesn’t matter: You take fulcrums and balances and horsepower and so forth in the framework of physics and you’ll find out that it’s any hill… any hill on Earth obeys the laws of physics. Any ditch, any drop of water.

Uh… what you do when he gets into that sort of a situation? Do you suddenly change the process you’re using? Umm-umm. That’s not the time for change. Do not change process in the middle of a stream… in the middle of a scream. If the process which you’re using, got him there, the process which you used will get him through it. When you’re using creative processing or postulate processing.

And any preclear works on these bases.

This doesn’t happen to be true of processing real facsimiles and flows. When they’re coming along, yes, you still chew on through. You’ve got to use those. But you can come… it can get a lot easier on the preclear and he doesn’t get any better. I mean, you can start and turn over to reality and say, „Well now, all right. We’ll process the real incident and that’ll ease it all up and that’ll take that cannonball out; that’s just a few… just a few passes at effort processing.“ Yes, it’ll take it off – um-hmm. And leave him stuck right there. Because you got him in there with one route and you’re trying to take him out with another route – it won’t work.

All right. Some day or other, somebody can take a look at physics for this and fool around with it. We’ve made a few gimmick-ahoojits in physics that are quite interesting. Uh… I mean they’re pretty upsetting things. They’re… they’re very upsetting. They’re… they’re… they seems to be disobeying natural laws. You might say they’re disobeying a grosser manifestation of a law. They are not disobeying a finer law. There’s a law that undoes the bigger law every time.

So you start creative processing. The preclear’s bright and cheerful and sunny – happy and everything else. And you’re just doing fine. And then you say, „All right, now get a tricycle. Now you’ve got the tricycle? Okay, now let’s have the tricycle, start doing an orbit around you clockwise. Let’s have it go around you. Now let’s stop it. Now let’s start it in…“

All right. Let’s look this over then and recognize that if you’re going to insist on homo sapiens being homo sapiens, you’d better not use any of the techniques about which I’ve been talking. I mean, that’s sad. But if you use the techniques about which I’ve been talking here, as such, know that they lead to that, not because you postulate it, but just because it happens that way. That’s to help you postulate results which you want… to know that.

The guy says, „You know, I feel terrible.“

Now know this, too: That if you make a theta clear, it’s cruelty not to permit this individual to go up here to an Operating Thetan.

And you say, „Well now, all right. Just keep the tricycle going around – just change it in its orbit and… so it goes backwards.“

What’s an Operating Thetan? An Operating Thetan’s a guy who can handle MEST without beams and travel without energy. And uh… that’s not too hard to achieve. We have those techniques. We’ve talked about this sort of thing.

The guy says, „You know, I think I’m going to throw up.“

So, right here, right now oh the discussion of Standard Operating Procedure, we have to make a designation, a definition of Standard Operating Procedure to do what? This Standard Operating Procedure makes a Theta Clear… to this – Theta Clear… 40.0. You see those cycles within a cycle?

You say, „Well now, just pass the tricycle on around. Now turn it red – turn it green.“

Now a Theta clear is stable outside of his body, even though the body is hurt. Or he does not snap into a body just because that body is injured, no matter the suddenness of the injury. That is a Theta Clear. In other words, you have made a thetan trap-proof. You have not made him an Operating Thetan yet. He’s just trap-proof, that’s all. He can’t be trapped by a body; and he can still operate in conjunction with or in control of bodies.

„My God! he says, „You know I can’t stand this!“

Now an Operating Thetan and the techniques leading to an Operating Thetan have also been covered in this course. And that, you might say, is just more of… more of the same type of processing above the level of stability.

And you say, „… And turn it pink, and turn it lavender. Now turn it upside down. Now put a little dolly on it.“

Your problem then, and focus your range on this, is not to make a Five into a Theta Clear as the toughest problem there is. But your problem is making relatively, sometimes very unable and almost falteringly weak thetans, strong enough and tough enough so that they can operate as a thetan and not as a body at all.

The guy says, „Oh, God! If you only knew how I felt! You wouldn’t make me go on with this!“

Now what’s a thetan have to do? He has to be able to comnunicate. He has to be able to travel, and he has to be able to handle MEST. He’s got to be able to communicate with other thetans, and he has to be able to communicate with bodies in order to be an operating thetan.

And you say, „All right, now run it between your legs and run it over the top of your head – that’s right. Now let’s have it going around again.“

I don’t know how close you’ll hit that line. I know that as you look at that, I think very few of you just intend to be a Theta Clear. I think very few of you would say, „Well, I’m just going as far as that Theta Clear. That’s good enough for me.“ I have never heard one say this yet. So you are going up to Operating Thetan to work…

Of course, you’re talking to empty air by this time. He just passed out. So you kind of wait till he comes to a little bit, and you say, „All right, now take the tricycle and put it into orbit around you. Now turn it red – now turn it white – now turn it green.“

Remember, however, that it’s just an application of ‘more of’.

He can keep that up for some time. He can just keep passing out and all sorts of things. And every time he gets a little bit conscious, pass the tricycle around him again.

But this process, Standard Operating Procedure Issue Three, is specially designed to make a Theta Clear. And you have attained that goal when you have reached up to the point where the person knows he is outside, and does not return into the body if the body is injured. Or would not snap into a body if the body became hurt. He’s outside; he knows he’s a thetan, not a body; and he doesn’t suddenly snap in, inexplicably.

Are you interested in what’s, quote, ‘really happening’? No, you’re interested in what’s actually happening. This is a subject we’re going to have to take up at some length, some length: What’s actually happening and what’s really happening.

Now that’s just a little bit further and just a little bit more than you think. Because as your process w… w… to make a thetan exterior is fast. That… about 50 percent of the people you might as well say 10 minutes, Theta Clear. Only it’s not a Theta Clear. It’s ten minutes to thetan exterior.

What’s actually happening is what the preclear would determine. And what’s really happening is what the MEST universe would LOVE to tell him what’s happening. And you don’t even vaguely know why it is. Was it because his tricycle was run over by a street car when he was young? Was his tricycle, because it was taken away from him, does it remind him of this and that?

Now just as we’ve had a tone scale, a tone scale for homo sapiens, so do you have in the lower reaches of this thing, so do you have a tone scale for the thetan. Now I’m very sorry that these tone scales had just homo sapiens injected in here, but that’s kind of the way it is. So we’ll take over here Position ‘A’, down to Position ‘B’. And down here at Position ‘B’ we have minus 8.0. And here at Position ‘A’ we have… doesn’t matter. Probably 20.0. And this range which I will describe here with a zig-zag track down to, is the range of thetan tone range necessary. The thetan tone range necessary to stabilize.

You might find this astonishing fact: You’re dealing with wheels, and wheels have to do with some kind of electric… electronic implant way down the track someplace. You don’t care where it came from. The guy can’t face a wheel. He’s facing wheels though, isn’t he? Push him through. The guy’s unexcited about the whole thing. Just keep him going through – keep him handling it. And then the first thing you know, why, what… what do you think happens? If you just left him at that point where he says, „I… I know I’m going to throw up,“ and everything, do you know that you could actually just knock off at that point and… and this can happen: He could go home and then go to the hospital for an operation or something. You know you could do that? Just so you didn’t hurt him, you could butcher him. Just because you were afraid to hurt him, you could kill him.

Your thetan has to be jumped from the extreme low of minus 8.0 which is necessity to own and protect… he isn’t himself; in order to be at all he has to have a body be for him, so he’s below tone scale. And this 0-0-0, as we notice here, is ‘being a body’. And below this level he is… anywhere on this level he’s less than a body – anywhere. From 0.0 down to minus 8.0 he’s less than a body. Not only does he not know he’s there, he thinks all that’s there is a body and he has to own it and control it and protect it. And of all things, he goes on this horrible computation „The body needs me.“ This is something on the order of „That table needs me“ – about as important as that.

You start him into a sequence where he’s feeling bad and then you say, „Well, it’s late now“ and you knock it off. And he figures he’s all right. Doesn’t look too bad. He gets up the next day and boy, is he in apathy – in horrible shape and so on. He didn’t handle what you set out for him to handle.

You just spring a lot of preclears and they will say, „Oh, yes“ – propitiate, propitiate, propitiate – uh… „The body needs me,“ and „Poor body. What would it ever do without me?“ Believe me, what would that tin can ever do without its spinach?… any difference? And then the guy moves out one day and he says, „You know,“ he says, „this thing really doesn’t have any real decent life in it at all, except for me.“

I’ll tell you uh… I… I did this one time to a girl and uh… I’d processed her for about three hours. And right at the end of the three hours, I’d – you see I’d made… I’d omitted doing something I should have done. I didn’t intend to process her very long. She was scheduled for a hospital and I got her over it somewhat and got her worry over about it, to postpone that. And I was just working on that – getting careless in re antiquity. I didn’t give her an assessment. I didn’t take the E-Meter and add up on a slip of paper the can’ts – ‘create and destroy on the dynamics’. I would have picked this up, bang, if I’d given her an assessment. She couldn’t do anything to Mama.

That’s right: The GE is so low-order and so weak and so on as to practically not be there at all, and as a consequence when the fellow moves out, the body ceases to have enough umph to do any functioning on its own. It too has become… has a dependency. It has become so dependent upon a thetan that uh… it can’t really function at all without one.

Instead of picking it up on an E-Meter, I picked it up in processing. That’s really, if you want to know the truth of the matter, you can gauge your cases. But that’s the wrong place to pick it up. You want to pick it up on the E-Meter and then you know it’s there. You know that she can’t do anything to Mama;

GE is that bad off.

Right at the end of the session, why I suddenly found out that I’d said, „Now have your mother come in.“ I was just going through this and that and nyeowwww! Well, I straightened her out on it and sort of scanned it out and passed it over. It’s not too unreasonable. After all, it was two thirty in the morning, and I’d only intended to process her for a half an hour, and I’d been at it for about three hours.

So, get this, get this set-up here: From down here at ‘B’ this double zig-zag line here is the range that you are going to have to put your preclear up – somewhere in that bracket. And your very ability on theta clear will be from 20.0 up to about 40.0 to stabilize him. But he won’t begin to be stable at all… see, there are varying degrees of being stable on; he won’t be stable at all below 20.0 on this overall range. He just won’t be stable at all. He’ll snap in and he’ll snap out. And you’ll process him and he’ll be fine, and, „Oh, yeah! Can you stay out there now?“

And uh… the next morning she was truly, truly spinning – in apathy. Didn’t want anything more to do with Scientology, didn’t have any hopes of anything ever occurring, uh… was furious with her old auditor, was doing a bit of an hallucination about what evaluation I had made out of her old auditor, was very certain I’d been very scathing about the other auditor she’d had – making trouble, see? And… and all of this – and she was in terrible condition. When she left there she was all right – she was quite high. But the realization she ‘couldn’t do anything to Mama’ brought up in processing had sufficiently depressed her.

„Oh, yeah. I’m just doing fine. I’m out here. I’m on the balcony,“ or „I’m on the roof and everything’s going fine.“

Now that is inadvertent. I was just unwilling to sit there beyond two thirty in the morning. But get this: I had made a mistake. At the time I did it there wasn’t enough data to really say these things were or weren’t mistakes. But this was about the second or third time it had happened. So I started to check up on it and I find out this is about the worst mistake you can make.

You say, „All right, now let’s have another session tomorrow afternoon.“ And he will come around and he will have this… „Where are you?“ „I am in my head.“ „Whatcha doing?“ „Well, I don’t know. I am just in my head.“ „Well, let’s move out.“ „I can’t.“ And you will say, „Oh, for God’s sakes! What’s gone wrong here?“

You sail into this case, and you don’t do any assessment. And then you start giving them creative processing. Nooo! You don’t know what you’re running into at all, what can’t they create, what can’t they destroy. You’ll find out all sorts of things.

Well, what’s gone wrong here is several things; the guy fooled around; the guy jumped out while he was in the middle of a restaurant. The guy went across and all of a sudden took… he decided to take a trip to the other side of the galaxy or some such thing and he’s gotten caught in an explosion. Uh… he’s uh… he’s made up his mind that he won’t get out until… until his wife gets out and uh… so on. Or he has a heck of a lot of postulates he has to hold on to, and for some reason or other he’s not going to get rid of any of these postulates. On and on and on and on and on. So you work. And what do you know? It doesn’t take quite so fast to spring him… it doesn’t take quite so long to spring him this time, and you balance him up and get him a little bit more able to handle force.

So, the next morning, she’s in apathy. Takes this other auditor about 24 hours of talking to her very quietly and me talking to her and so forth to square her around. And all the other auditor did immediately was just push through Creation-Destruction mock-ups of ‘Mama.

And you understand the only thing that’s snapping him back in is lack of force, and fear of things which are forceful. And the guy might be just doing fine until he suddenly sees two automobiles hit in the pavement in front of him, or something of that sort, and he looks at all that force. And he says to himself, „Oh, no-no-no – it’s a force universe, here I go in my head and I’m not going to come out. Not me!“ and uh… his concept of force is what’s doing it to him. There isn’t a single facsimile anyplace in his bank; there’s not anything in his bank, really, that will answer up to force, other than just go by the hoards. I mean, force – if he’s got enough force, there’s nothing in his bank can disturb him. Nothing can talk back to force because what that bank is, is composed of things he’s mocked up out of energy. So if nothing there… is there… there except energy things, his ability to control energy, of course, controls all that.

Bang! She snapped right out of it, up scale. This was after this girl had been out of her body, too. Interesting, isn’t it?

You says this preclear is in dispersals and he keeps getting blown out of his head and blown into his head again. Yes, you can work dispersals, you can get him to mock up on dispersals, you can do all sorts of things until you are black in the face; but if any more direct principle of the utilization and use of force, rehabilitating his belief in his ability to create and handle force came forward, you would use that. That would be an improved technique. So don’t say you aren’t warned if you get something that creates or raises a person’s force faster. There are things that do that.

Well, there’s a case of not wanting in courage, but just being bored. I was frankly bored with the case. At two thirty in the morning, I had better things to do. And she didn’t look in bad shape. I hadn’t assigned any goals for this case beyond ‘Well, let’s snap her out of it so she doesn’t have to go to the hospital.’ She didn’t have to go to the hospital – .she went into apathy.

So your task is to get a thetan from minus 8,0, e… or 4, minus 4.0, up to this middle range, 20.0 – not to a homo sapiens’, and so on. You already saw this homo sapiens’ scale. I just call these cycles of action at different scales. This 40.0 I’ve got marked here is 4.0 to 2.0 to 0.0; you see that, don’t you? But I’m telling… trying to emphasize that you’re looking at 40 to 0.0. I’m trying to emphasize it’s a whole body of knowledge. I’m trying to emphasize right now that this is a whole body of knowledge up here between this second Theta Clear 40.0 and 0.0. It’s a whole body of knowledge. How do you get a thetan out of the head of a homo sapiens and keep him there? – keep him out? That’s… that’s quite… quite important, see. That’s a whole body of knowledge, right there.

You can do the same thing any time for any reason for any cause that you suddenly back up from a ‘can’t’, evidently. You start them into a ‘can’t’ and then you back up.

We’ve got another, which you already have and which we know a lot about right now, with Q-1. See, we had 40.0 Theta Clear before we had Q-l. Now that you’ve got Q-1 you can get an Operating Thetan down to this p… this upper 40.0 here to the 0.0, Operating Thetan range. You’re operating… doing different things. So, 40.0 Theta Clear, Standard Operating Procedure. You’ve got to get him up there to where his force is good.

All right, when they start running mock-ups, they’re running mock-ups of a certain kind, and the next darn thing you know, why, they… they’re telling you, „My God! Under no circumstances could I possibly mock up this or that or something or other.“ And you started in on a gradient scale.

I’ve been doing a little testing on this – minor, but it pointed up something I already knew: If he can handle his body with force, he never afterwards does anything but handle his body. Let’s make a special condition out of this: He’s trying to handle a body, isn’t he? And his idea of himself has gotten very weak because the body has to pick up things and put them down for him, isn’t that right?

Well, after they’ve mocked it up for a short time, they start to get sick or… or they feel electronic thunder bursts going on around their heads and something…

All right, let’s make him be able to pick up what picks up things and puts them down for him. So we get Standard Operating Procedure to Theta Clear; it is… it says… Theta Clearing – let’s supplement the whole thing all the way down the line, just as you find it there, let’s supplement it with a drill. No… n… we can standardize the devil out of this. You won’t see this thing change. I… I’ve been doing this now for months, by the way, with people. Uh… it’s the routine I told you about which we will call ‘Body Lifting’ – a good, simple term. We do Standard Operating Procedure and then as soon as possible we merge right over into Body Lifting. You do Body Lifting very simply: You have him pick up a finger with energy. And have him move it aside and put it down again, and pick it up again. And then have him mock up a hand – no matter how big or how small. You do a mock-up of that exact activity and make it a much more powerful action that he can do. Then you pick up another limb – then you pick up another finger; you pick up his whole hand now. He picks it up from outside, standing over the hand – not from inside the body. He’s outside the body; the hand is sitting flat on a desk or some such thing as that; and he comes over the top of the hand and by putting out anchor points and lines or by putting out a tripod of energy and lengthening its steps with a tractor beam on a finger, he lifts the finger. He does it with energy beams.

What fixed them up? More of it. And if you’re running out of ideas, just grab SELF ANALYSIS and feed ‘em those mock-ups, give them that mock-up and then place it in the various vicinities and handle it and turn it upside down and turn it in colors around the body. That’ll do it too – that also will work.

And then you… you then have him mock up doing it. Or you have it mocked up first, if he can’t conceive it. Have him do a mock-up. Have him build a mock-up, lift its finger and drop it. Build a mock-up, lift its finger and drop it a few times. Vary the mock-up; shift the mock-up around a little bit. Have him come back and pick up a little more hand.

Now what is the missing ingredient here? It isn’t lack of courage in all cases. It’s just not going through to the effect which you desire to produce, that’s all. You just fell short and decided there was something else that you ought to go off on.

Then have him do a mock-up of lifting whole hands, and then have him lift his actual hand. And then have him do mock-ups of lifting whole arms, and move those around, position them here and there in space. You see, you’re keeping him from agreeing too badly about… with the MEST universe by these mock-ups. That’s why the mock-ups are in there.

Did you ever hear of a rabbit dog, did you ever hear of a bird dog that couldn’t be broken of chasing rabbits? Well, there are such things. And eventually in dispair, they really fix ‘em up, Guy’s got a quail… this dog he’s been trained to hunt quail and they’ve got out there and that dog’s going out and hunting quail and he’s chasing quail and flushing quail. And all of a sudden he finds a rabbit went across that road and he takes around, right after that rabbit, just zingedy-boom! To hell with the quail. And you don’t happen to want quail. You don’t want anything to do with quail, but uh… the dog – oh, pardon me. He doesn’t want anything to do with quail all of a sudden and you want the quail. You don’t want anything to do with rabbits.

Then you have pick up his whole arm and throw it up in the air. And then you have him go over to his other hand and pick it up a finger at a time, and then mock up picking up a finger at a time. And then pick up the actual hand. And then mock up picking up arms, and then pick up his left arm. Then pick up his right and left arm up simultaneously and throw them into the air. Then have him pick up… have him mock up picking up ankles or feet, and then have him mock up picking up uh… have him pick up both feet or have him pick up a foot – whichever you can get him to do. Then mock up picking up bigger legs and all that sort of thing. Then have him pick up his actual legs.

Well, you cure that dog by suddenly taking the rabbit, or a rabbit, and tying it around his neck and letting him walk for days and days and days with this decaying rabbit around his neck. And he’ll finally get so apathetic about rabbits, that after that he will hunt only quail.

And you will finally get him so he is throwing that body around the room like a sofa pillow. There is no…

Now that is the best method of breaking them which I know.

You worry once in a while. You’ll think there’s a deception involved here. You think there’s real big deception: „He’s kidding himself. He’s actually working it from inside and so forth.“ Oh no, he isn’t. You can’t work a body that fast from inside. There aren’t muscles made that can work bodies as fast as you can from the outside.

Now. I am sure that none of you want a screaming preclear tied around your neck because you… But the truth of the matter is some auditors just get obsessed on going some other direction, diving off the track and going in some other way. They start a process and then they never finish it. They start it and they never finish it and they start it and they never finish it.

Now what you do with all this is practice. And this is the essence of it. Never let him get away with a ‘can’t’. Always make him lift it. And don’t assign such big jumps that he will have difficulty lifting it.

See, it’s easy to start things in this universe and it’s damn tough to conclude them. And a guy gets into a habit of never finishing anything. Don’t let that one show up in your processing of preclears.

Furthermore, the drill is intended to let him pick it up and lay it down suddenly. When he lays hold of the body with a beam, have him then cast it loose suddenly – up and down with a beam. How fast can he turn that beam off? If he isn’t turning it off fast enough, have him get out and throw something… a loop of energy over his cigarette package or something, and then put it on there, turn it off; put it on, turn it off; put it on, turn it off; put it on, turn it off; put it on, turn it off. You get the idea? Until he’s really got speed in turning that thing on, turning it off, particularly on turning it off. Much faster to be able to turn them off… much better to turn them off fast than turn them on fast, because he can be swept into a body or into something or other because he can’t shut a beam fast off… fast enough… off the beam.

If you are alert to the fact that you’re doing this, well, for heaven’s sakes! Under no circumstances should you set, then, big pieces of havingness in terms of an effect. In other words, don’t get yourself great, big goals. Get little tiny ones. Put yourself on a gradient scale with the preclear. „Now I’m going to finish this. Now I’m going to finish that. Now I’m going to finish something or other.“ Get yourself accustomed to finishing something.

All right, so we have him pick up… pick up the body piece by piece and turn… turn off the beams and drop it. Pick it up, drop it; pick up a finger, drop it; pick up a finger, drop it; mock up a finger, drop it; mock up a finger, drop it; pick up a finger, drop it.

And when your preclear starts sparking and sparkling and the… the… the uh… stuff starts to scream along with the E-Meter diving in all directions because shocks are passing through it and you’re all upset and going around in circles, just give them more of what you’re doing to them – because it’ll work – in mock-ups.

All of a sudden he’ll say, „Why that’s easy! Nothing to that!“ Well, you go right on through until he’s throwing that body around like you’d throw around a volleyball. You think a MEST body can move? Piffle! Phooey! You’ll never know how fast a MEST body can move till you’ve been outside the thing and snapped it around. And it snaps quick! How fast could… how fast could you throw your arm up in the air? How fast could you move a finger up in the air? That fast from inside? Well, you’d have to jar your hand all over the place in order to get any real fast action out of a limb.

And that is about the… You see, the process is easy. The process won’t fail you, but you possibly could back up in view of the fact that you hate to hurt preclears. You say, „Well, we’re hurting him so much, we’d better stop.“ Nahh! Butcher them.

From the outside you can snag a tractor on to the thing and have that hand up over your head faster than an eye can see it move. Of course, it practically tears the arm off, but who cares ?

By the way, if you go in with sort of the motto, „Well, let’s… let’s give him creative processing and then ruin him,“ you never will. Reverse vectors of the MEST universe.

Now you make him hurt himself doing this… you make him hurt himself every once in a while. If he hurts himself, don’t say, „Well, you poor fellow. You’re getting tired now. Oh, yes! Well, probably using up a lot of energy.“ Because he will keep telling you all the way through this thing „I’m so tired. It’s tiring me out!“ How the hell can anything that runs on postulates get tired out? It’s just because he supposes because fingers get tired that he gets tired – simple? So he doesn’t get tired out. So don’t let him beg off on that. Just keep him at it, little bit at a time, little bit at a time. Make him win every time in lifting it and he’ll be able to throw his – body around like mad.

If you say, „All right, now let’s go in here with Creative Processing and uh… make him feel light and cheerful and airy,“ you’ll probably butcher him – reverse vectors, you see. What’s your intention?

Now you’ll be surprised how big this makes him feel. He says, „Bodies?“ Before that he thought he was way outside of a body and he was pretty big anyway, but after… after this he’s been in through and he’s out and he looks at his body and „Bodies?“ He’s liable to reach over and say, „How are you, Joe?“ Spat! Spatter! Now, that’s concept of size, and that gets a person up to Theta Clear. He can handle that body around, he’s not going to snap into bodies. He’ll use bodies and he’ll continue to use bodies, but he won’t snap into them.

Well, the better intention is d… just „Well, let’s see if we can kill him.“ That’s right. Or, „Let’s see if we can make him utterly decay before our very eyes,“ and he’ll fool you. The process itself carries right on through.

He can turn beams off and turn them on and he can handle bodies and he’s good and forceful, and so on.

Well, you set up what you’re trying to do and you set it up on a good assessment and you carry it through with enough persistence to get you through to the end and you never blink. The guy says… let’s… starts letting out piercing screams that you’re sure can be heard blocks away – they probably can be. Probably the police will be there at your door in a very short space of time. And you’ll do well if you just tell them – don’t tell them you’re a Scientologist; tell them Dianetics. They’re used to complaints about that.

So as soon as you get him out and even vaguely stable so that he can perceive that he has such a thing as a hand, you start this exercise. When do you start this exercise? When you have him out and he knows it and he is able to perceive a hand. That’s the very precise moment that you start this exercise. And then you just go right on with that. There’s no use you doing much else with him. Because that’s what he’s been trying to do all this time.

And uh… give them your attention to carrying forward the process which made them that way – because you’ll be doing Creative Processing or Postulate Processing, one or the other. And he’ll just get that way and that’s the way they are. And then they get right on through it.

Now you do other things with him, but then we’re going on up from 40.0 to operating… 40.0 Theta Clear to 40.0 Operating Thetan. How do you get him up there? Well, I hate to tell you this. And as a matter of fact I’ve talked to you too much and you’re probably not too interested in a lot of this data, so I think we’d just better close over that. And I’ll just go on with this other… (Nooooo!) What’s the matter? Can’t I even pull a scarcity racket on you here?

It’s fantastic to see somebody coming in and he’s – you don’t know what’s wrong with him. You put him on an E-Meter and you can’t find anything he can create and you can’t find… you can’t find a… anything he can destroy. You just… he’s just naauu – he just keeps falling off the meter and he can’t create anything and he can’t destroy anything, and he can’t be and he is not and uh… he’s a shaking wreck, he’s trembling and… and he’s got twitches and uh… y… you’ll just say, „Oh, no! Oh, what did I do to find this on my doorstep this morning?“ And so…

Now, actually, what you do is… what do you think? He’s used to handling bodies, isn’t he? But you’ve got Theta Clear and you know what its goal is, and there’s the technique I finally decided gets you there.

How do you handle the case? You sit down and you say, „Well, let’s see. Ron didn’t tell me uh… what you did with one of these extreme cases. It’s just uh… person apparently completely out of line. I can’t understand it. Don’t know what we’ll do about this.“

I’ll tell you what authority that technique rests on: Me. I’m not an authority, so you want to be very careful in using it, and do it very precisely and so forth.

No, you don’t do that. What you do is find out how good he is at the creation of mock-ups and then start him at the lowest level of his abilities – I mean, his… the level that you can attain, where you’re absolutely sure that he is doing what you’re asking him to do. And then keep checking up on him, and uh… you just carry it through from there. That’s all. you could do about it. And you will come out all right in the end.

How do you get up from there? Why, sure… he’s not going to duck in and out of heads . He’ll… you’ll cure him of ducking in and out of his head which is the worst trouble you will have with a preclear. As far as I’m concerned, after that, the amount of ducking in and out that he will do, he’ll consider this as absolutely nonsensical, ducking into this head.

You see, my mistake was not in, really, on this girl, uh… omitting the assessment. If I’d had unlimited time, I would have plowed right straight on through that. But here was a great big bug sitting there on the track, ready to bite. And I didn’t have time, I thought, to carry through with it. So I lost the next 24 hours. It wouldn’t have taken me another 15 minutes to have her in the condition where she was chewing Mama’s head off, really.

What possible protection could it be? Your technique that goes up from there specializes in unmocking and mocking. He goes out and selectively unmocks MEST objects, particularly bodies. And it can carry along from there – unmocking and unmocking. And how do you unmock? You create a big space with anchor points with plenty of MEST objects in it, and find absolutely nothing in it and pass through it in all directions, and find nothing in it whatsoever. That’s unmocking. And then into that space you put up your own mock-ups. Just as you tear down a tenement before you build a palace, unmock the objects that are there.

Now uh… another thing you can do… now that’s – of course, there’s always these two crimes in processing. You call them the ‘tion’s’: Invalida-tion and Evalua-tion and, one which I will cover a little later, Convic-tion. Those are the ‘shuns’ as an auditor. Leave them alone.

Now you carry forward this unmocking, and it goes hand in glove with mock-ups of handling bodies by postulates and so on. Just more Creative Processing and more Postulate Processing. More Creative Processing.

It’s all very well. Every once in a while I bust my own rules. You’ve always got the privilege to say you’re busting rules. Every once in a while I bust my own rules, and every time I do, I’m sorry. I can bust all kinds of rules in processing end never get in serious trouble. But when I start busting the ‘tion’s’ I generally get a little bit sorry, one way or the other – something will happen.

There is another level of Postulate Processing above that level, and that level consists of using the dichotomies as rising scales. You’ll find out in here that there’s an awful lot of dichotomies listed, and you’ve probably wondered what these… why we should worry about dichotomies if we’re not going to run flows. Well, I put it in there because it is pretty important to have dichotomies listed. And if it’s important to have them listed, there should be a reason for them. So I finally figured one out: Uh… now actually this is Rising Scale and you’ll find it on page 35 of your textbook. And it says „The dichotomies are…“

All right, persistence then is of the essence, leaving reality alone is of the essence, and handling actuality only. That is, when I say ‘actuality’ I mean the preclear’s universe. And remembering that he’s only a preclear. Quite important. Don’t put an overevaluation on your preclear, because, you see, when it becomes serious and important you’ll do a kind of a MEST level job on him. It’s not serious and it’s not important. If you weren’t there, this person would do what everybody else would have done. It isn’t scheduled and there was no law passed that you had to be there and you had to help. No law’s been passed to that effect. That’s not scheduled on the MEST universe time track, you won’t find it in any annals, you won’t even find it in the predictions of Nostradamus. This thing isn’t on the list, it isn’t on the docket, what we’re doing here. There’s a lot of things that are on the docket that won’t ever happen because we’re doing this. In other words, we junked the docket. And then, therefore, whatever your fate line of Mr. Preclear is, or whatever he might have expected to have done and gone to his grave and become eaten by worms and uh… never know anything anymore – now that’s scheduled. So that you are there, is fortuitous. You’re doing him such a hell of a favor, you never have to ask for his license to survive. You never have to ask him to be permitted to survive – never.

And if you’ll merely consider these… the top figure, the top of the tone scale, and the bottom figure, the bottom of the tone scale… You see, an infinity of tone scale would be the whole emotions, all the emotions. Survive, Succumb, Communicate, Not Communicate, Agree, Disagree.

If I impress anything upon you, you don’t have any duty to help him out. And if you do a good job, the only one that’s going to pat you on the back is you. Not your preclear, not his family, not me – that’s wrong! I will. I always feel just as pleased as the dickens.

Of course, these are not set as dichotomies, and naturally, Agree is the bottom of the scale and Disagree is the top of the scale. It’s toward the top of the scale for Number Three… Four. Stop is at the bottom of the scale, and so on.

Every once in a while some auditor will call me up, two, three, four o’clock in the morning, saying, „You know! I just finished this session and this guy walked in and he had a club leg or a… a cauliflower ear or… or his brain had been reversed in his head and was now in his left foot“ or something of the sort, „and uh… I just got through working him him for 12 hours solid. And you know, you couldn’t tell the difference. And he went home, and he just called me back, and his wife didn’t recognize him when he walked in!“

But you can use these dichotomies to make sure. That contin… continues, by the way – your Chart of Attitudes are in this thing, see. But it’s got more of them.

Good! I just get cheerful as hell about it! It’s wonderful.

You ask, „What’s… what’s your general… what’s your general postulate about propitiation? The difference between propitiation. I mean, what’s your g… general postulate about it?“ „Well, so-and-so should propitiate so-and-so.“ „Well, raise that to as high as uh… you want to go… a little bit higher idea, a little bit better idea what you should propitiate, or what you shouldn’t propitiate or should you or shouldn’t you.“ And the guy will kick it up just a little bit more, until he gets up above to Sympathy. Sympathy’s above Propitiation.

But as far as appreciation of your good works is concerned, the main reason you got into… first time you really ever got into trouble was when you thought that you appreciating you was bad. That’s typical of this universe. You’re not supposed to like you, you see. And you go around and you say, „Excuse me for being me.“ The use of the first person is very much frowned upon, although you find in the very vital societies of the past, the very strong ones, the ones which nothing was ever able to run down – the guys used to walk out customarily and say, „Well, I’ll give you my opinion and it’s the opinion of the wisest and best and smartest man anywhere in this tribe.“

Well, you can use that, then, as Rising Scale Processing. You probably will never need it, but it goes from minus 8.0. Now that’s over here on minus scales. (Your minus scale’s over here someplace in this book somewhere.) Uh… minus scales are uh… minus 8.0 is Hiding. Minus 4.0 is Needing. Minus 3.5 is Approval from Bodies; minus 3.0 is Owning Bodies; minus 2.2 is Protecting Bodies; minus 1.5 is Controlling Bodies; minus 1.3 is Responsibility as Blame – Blaming Bodies; minus 1.0 – Punishing Bodies; Minus .2 – Being Other Bodies.

Ohh! How would that sound? How would that sound in England or America today. No, no! And yet – the Germanic tribes were still going forward, by the way, had just made another push. And the Roman legions that had them buttoned up have all been dead, lo! these many centuries.

You see, after… after a guy is being his own body, then he doesn’t quite know what body he is, so he goes around and he ‘be’s’ other people’s bodies too. And he develops their mannerisms and characteristics.

The Teutonic knight method of conversation was the subject of great ridicule to the Romans who were trying to conquer him, because the knight would ride forth to the banks of a stream which was being held by legionnaires and he would tell them that he was the best doggoned knight that ever existed. And he could lick them all single-handed and uh… that was his opinion. And in view of the fact that it was his opinion, then it must be true.

So, you take that whole range and just find out what a guy is sitting on. Actually you should know this more than use it, because generally the fellow will shift his own postulates.

And boy, the Roman legions have been in there and out of there and chewed them up and thrown them over the side. And they still have that kind of a streak running through them.

Now it’s quite interesting that this thing I was talking to you about this afternoon, this uh… conviction comes in there. Being convinced that this stuff agrees, disagrees with him, upsets him and doesn’t upset him.

When I say ‘vitality’ I mean force, strength and so forth.

Now we have a formula which you better put down, because it isn’t down anyplace, on the, subject of Rehabilitating a Thetan as a thetan. And the formula is: Take the behavior of space, energy and objects. You know what I mean? The general behavior in the MEST universe of space, energy and objects as they interrelate to one another, and run mock-ups on their doing the wrong thing. You run mock-ups on their doing the wrong thing. In other words, you have planets which repel with their gravity; you have space… space that the more you put in it, the smaller it gets; you have uh… uh… water uh… which dries things. Just look at all the MEST manifestations. Light, that when it shines out, turns everything dark, and when it shines in, lights up everything – everything haywire about this.

Now, they shouldn’t be held up as any kind of a model, but do you remember a time when your self-confidence was very high, when you had a great deal of confidence in yourself. You… you knew what you could do. You had good self-confidence. You remember such a time, or is it too long ago?

And off of this will come postulates on the conviction of the observable behavior. You will actually, by doing this, all of a sudden locate the postulate the guy made. „Well, what do you know? These planets do hold you down!“ „What do you know? Particles do stick together! Now I’m convinced!“ That’s the only way a fellow could ever perceive matter, you see. „Particles DO stick together! I’m convinced now. Yeah, that… that’s right.“

Well, if you can spot such a time in your life, just try and answer this next question. This next question is simply this: How many times since have you told people you didn’t have any self-confidence? And how many times have you been very careful not to have any? How many times have you falsely and needlessly sought for somebody’s opinion on something? You go around – you know that you don’t want their opinion but you go around and say, „I would like to have your opinion of this“ – you want their approval of this or, „We’re looking for this“ or „We’re looking for that with regard to this.“ Ha-ha! Phooey!

All right. And you take mock-ups on this: You mock up in brackets. Now you know what a bracket is? That’s what happening to the preclear and what the preclear’s doing to somebody else, and what others are doing to others. You mock up brackets on all the things a person should and shouldn’t do, perceive and be. There’s one more in there: Have. All the things a person should have, should do, should perceive and should be. And mock up brackets on the things a person shouldn’t have, shouldn’t do, shouldn’t perceive and should not be.

Yeah, you can’t be a homo sapiens and be right. And one of the best reasons there is in all that line is, is you can’t have any self-confidence and still be polite. MEST universe. Don’t think it has anything to do with politeness. It’s a big control operation.

You know, this… your mother was always doing to… this to you. „That little girl that lived down the block: Now she’s a nice girl. Why, if you could just act like her my hair wouldn’t get near as grey.“ Or, „That little boy“ – that you couldn’t detest – „he… he“ – you just… I mean, you might think this… this guy… this – horrors! He gives you horrors every time. „He’s a nice little gentleman. Why can’t you be more like him?“ Now there, he’s a model for behavior.

Do you know what would happen if you would customarily say to your preclear, „You know I am probably… probably uh… the most skilled practitioner in the field of any of the arts of healing, anywhere, on the East coast.“

What is behavior? What should it be like? You should be polite. Take a pattern of what behavior should be. If one should be polite, one should be wrong, one should be propitiative, uh… one should ask for things, one should accept things, one should give things that he doesn’t want to give, uh… and so on. What are all these behaviors? Well, you look it up and you find out that in ev… everybody’s code there’s a bad one… oh, a bad behavior manifestation of some kind or another. Like… like he… he has a terrible compulsion to take his hat off in an elevator. E… actually a compulsion. He couldn’t stand there with his hat on if a lady stepped into the elevator.

You think… you… you’re immediate reaction is, they would go away and they would say, „That conceited jackass!“ That’s what you’d think they’d say. But that isn’t what they say when you say that to them. They say, „Well, he’s pretty cocky – well, he probably is. Of course, he’s no… I mean, he’s hell to talk to,“ or something like that. But uh… he probably is.

A lot of Naval officers got broken of this during the war because an order was issued that insisted that a Naval officer should not remove his hat in an elevator because of the presence of a lady. This is one of the more important orders that came out of Washington. That’s why you couldn’t get your telegrams through, is there are so many of those orders are on the wires all the time.

You know, you should track some of these reactions, because there’s the reactions which people would like you to think happened, and that ‘everybody knows’ happened, and the reactions which occur.

Like, I was awakened one night… I was dragged out of the Copeley Plaza Hotel one day… one night… been out forever and had come back to the ship and, it was the first liberty I’d had for ages and I had to come back to the ship to… because the Officer of the Deck had received a secret message… ‘secret’, they didn’t have ‘top secret’ yet, and they didn’t even have ‘top secret super frantic hysterical’ – one of the later classifications. And so the boy met me there. Boy, this looked awful important. Looked like we’d be sailing any second, see? And we find out that it’s in such a secret code that it was only in my safe and… and, so on, and he didn’t have the keys to the inner side of the safe. He had most of the code, and we broke that thing out and we set up the board. And we worked and we worked – it takes a long time to set up one of those boards and get it all set up – and we got the message all broken down. And what do you know? Instead of orders, instead of the fact that „the Germans have just landed in Maine,“ which was about its level of rush and all that sort of thing, it says, „No dogs will be landed in Australia.“ It was too late to go back on liberty! Yeah.

I know… I know a girl who was just homely as hell. She used to tell everybody with great confidence how beautiful she really was. And it would startle them to such an extent they would think their powers of perception were bad. She had more boyfriends than you could count. She used to spend all her time telling them how lucky they were, too. Fascinating, isn’t it! What everybody knows is true, generally isn’t.

Well anyway, mock up an admiral sending out something like that. And then shoot him.

All right, then when we get down to Standard Operating Procedure, Issue Three, we find out that there is a variable in the procedure. There is a variable in it.

Now wherever you can get in a mock-up, wherever you can substitute MEST meeting MEST with an electronic punch, use the electronic punch. That’s more important than your mocking up little boys beating up little boys. Have little boys sock each other a few times just to show that this can happen and move them around doing so and so forth. And then have them get off well away from each other and just zap the hell out of each other. Because that’s what the preclear was trying to do at the time he was being beaten up. He knew there was something else he could do and he couldn’t think of it. All he had to do was back up and go „Zzzzzzapp!“, see, and the other guy’d say, „Mmmmzzzzrrrmmm“ – melt. And it’s much more efficient. Instead of that, you stand in there and get all bruised up.

Not very much of a variable, fortunately. If an auditor – because it doesn’t depend on his good sense. If an auditor will simply apply it as IT, the variable is not large.

Anyway, get the polite thing to do.

But this variable will to a large extent establish the amount of time required to apply it.

Now there are many things that one does not do, and people very often have nightmares about doing these things – such as rushing down Main Street without any clothes on. In other words, you’re looking for these inhibitions, upsets and many things he ‘doesn’t do’. And uh… you just start knocking them out and you’ll break loose from a lot of things. But much more important is what he should or shouldn’t do with objects.

And that’s the auditor. The variable isn’t in whether or not I gave you the answers, now, because you’ve got the answers. I have talked to you here now for many, many hours about theory, theory. And as I outline these operations and outline these techniques even further, you will see this theory is not just theory, that it’s very easily applied.

Now you don’t think… you don’t think that… that I’m being… y… y… you’re just… when I’m talking about behavior I’m giving you the… the ‘polite’ level of behavior… what he shouldn’t do and… manners and so on. What I’m stressing here is more important than that. When I say, „shouldn’t do, shouldn’t have, shouldn’t perceive, shouldn’t be…“ – he shouldn’t have a sun in his pocket. He shouldn’t have a planet in a sandwich. You get the idea? He shouldn’t pick up the bottom of this chair simply by having his arm lengthen and pick up the bottom of the chair. He should pick it up from the top.

Actually, I’m pulling a little bit of an operation on you. This thing has gotten so simple now that I have to make it… dress it up – I have to dress it up and give it more width and scope than it has, because it actually is just Standard Operating Procedure, Creation of your own universe, how do you do it? Spacation, Creative Processing and Changing Postulates.

Furthermore, he should pick it up to have it move. Next, this chair should sit on MEST, not sit two inches below MEST, very nicely poised there. When a coke bottle is turned upside-down, the coke should pour out of it; it should not pour out of it when the coke bottle is sitting right side up. A fellow who puts his hand in a fire and so forth shouldn’t get it frozen. Icicles which you carefully test as being icicles shouldn’t get he… more heavily frozen from flames. You should not be able to fry a steak in a refrigerator.

And we have various kinds of cases; and they fall in seven categories. And uh… you find out what category they’re in this way, and you use an E-Meter so-and-so and you find out what they can create and destroy – and you mock this up and you find out they’re all right. That… that’s really about all there is to it.

And the second you start to do these things this guy’s carefully assembled and built up postulates… and some people are just holding on to these as though they’re the most precious things in the world. They couldn’t possibly create an idea that’s better than that, and they’re just holding on to these things. They’re going out through the bottom. They’re about to become MEST, and they think the only way they can save themselves is by agreeing some more. ‘Cause they’re just on their way out.

But you, of course, in the end – result is not in question. None of these results are in questions. Even this variable on the part of the auditor isn’t very badly in question.

And so there the guy is, agreeing some more and agreeing some more and getting lower and lower on the tone scale, and lower and lower on the tone scale and you ask him to come along and say „Hey. Will you… why… why… why are you agreeing with the fact that uh… and so on… you have to feel this way?“ Well Lord! Agreeing that he has to feel this way is the least part of it. He agrees that when he stands on a platform he is supported at the height of the platform. Guys can get just sick when they first start to mock this up and realize there’s not anything under them. There really isn’t a damn thing under you; you’re just sitting in space. But boy, you’ve sure got a nice comfortable idea about it.

But you actually could be so hungry to trap thetans that you’ll do anything but use Standard Operating Procedure.

Every once in a while a pilot… every once in a while a pilot inadvertently will look sort of theta-wise down through his body and through the seat and through the fuselage of the plane at the ground below him and suddenly realize there’s nothing down there. Once in a blue moon a pilot does that and it gives him quite a turn. He doesn’t quite know why he got that idea. Or if he’s suddenly going to run into something and he wishes to avoid it, he’ll just unmock his plane and unmock everything. And of course he’s sitting for an instant in space. Then that’s no good so he’ll put his plane back and hit it. You can find instance when pilots have done just this.

There’s an incident known as Fac One. Fac One uses sound – great big machine with a big hand crank on it and it’s grind, grind, grind, grind, grind. It poured sound and waves and push-pull and that sort of thing at a body, and it trapped the thetan pretty badly in the body.

So your upper level on the thing is you get him to disagree up to a point where he can operate in the MEST universe with complete freedom. And it’s much easier than you think.

And that incident has practically been done to anybody there is around here. It’s a fascinating incident and it some… happened anywheres from a million years ago to eight hundred thousand years ago. Pardon me, eight thousand years ago. I found one three thousand years ago here on Earth. But uh… the people who did that incident were doing something that many people did all the way down the track. They’re trying to trap thetans and make them work.

But he has to be able to operate wholly without energy.

Now you’ll every once in a while find one of these people – flagrant example of this – and they are actually in the Operator’s valence of Fac One. It stands out like a search light. They’re in the Operator’s valence of Fac One. They will do and say and behave like the Operator in Fac One. They are just carrying forward on engrams. They are not sent here on any kind of a mission. We call these people ‘monitors’. And they very often will walk up to you and want to prove it all, and they stick their face in your face and… and they… they just try to pin you down.

Let’s take a break.

There’s… you’ve known quite a few of them around these operations. They’ll blow up in the operation after a while – they go nuts. Because they find out the operation is just too strong in terms of knowledge to do anything. They’re just dramatizing. They don’t know why they’re doing it. If they realized why they were doing it they’d practically blow their brains out.

They require a very cagey auditor in order to process them – very fast, cagey auditor to catch them and nail them down but mock-up processing will fix them up.

The monitor, Fac One. You’ve got to prove it, he’ll hold you down, he wants to know this and that. And boy, when he starts operating on a preclear, God help the preclear. Boy! He’ll do anything he can do to invalidate the preclear, at the same time very smoothly pretending to do a good job of processing – very smoothly pretending to. He’s usually a Five – Step Five – and he just will take Standard Operating Procedure, Issue Three, and it just won’t work in his hands, that’s all.

And the reason it won’t work in his hands is because he doesn’t do it. There’s nothing esoteric about it, he says, „Step two feet back of your head. Oh, you’re there? Well, ahh-um-hummm. You’re there, eh? You can’t see the back of your head… Oh, you can? You mean you’re detached from your body?“

And the guys says „Oh, look, I am?“ – smash! Back in he comes.

If one of these monitors operates on him enough it’ll take another auditor two or three hours to straighten out this preclear. That’s dramatizing the Monitor of Fac One.

A lot of Fives kind of have a instinctive idea that thetans are something you should be afraid of. They have enough overt acts against thetans, so if they freed the thetan, oh boy! That thetan would chew them up. „Maybe this is the guy I put in the can eight billion years ago.“ And they get a – they… they feel if they free them, they’ll be ruined.

So, the Operator in Fac One in such people do make variability – not in the technique, but there’s a variability in the auditor. But you as another auditor can overcome it with great ease. Let’s take a break.