Thank you.

Well, all of you probably have a great many questions concerning an awful lot of things. I probably would have the same questions, only I've got a few of them answered.

Well, here we approach the next-to-the-last lecture of the thing. And let me tell you something. We could probably go on for days. I could probably tell you all about this Goals Problem Mass. By the time we finally finished up you would probably all be OT or something — or totally plowed in — who knows which one.

What we're doing these days — what we're doing is a highly concrete pro-gram, probably the most positive program we have ever had — undoubtedly the most positive program.

Let me tell you that the running of 3D is interesting, fascinating and excruciating! We don't — we don't pull any punches on this.

It runs something like this. Right at the present moment, key figures of Central Organizations have been to and come back from or are at Saint Hill being very thoroughly and arduously trained. A great many field auditors are at Saint Hill being trained very hard. Throughout the world and in Central Organizations at this moment, including FCDC, you have auditors pushing forward right on up to Class II, working rather arduously. For instance, this week I will be down at the organization just checking them over one way or the other and making sure that that Class II is firmly in hand. And the upgrade is strictly and straightly through Class II. This is classification of auditors.

There is no particular reason for you to believe that processing has suddenly become very easy; it is not. As you step up the velocity on the overwhump of the mind, its aberrations, you get the reactive mind. You start overwhumping this thing; you are going up against every fighting valence that you've ever 'ad, every apathetic one and every one that 'urt like 'ell. You fortunately, however, don't run them out pain by pain. In Dianetics, 1950, you ran it out pain by pain. Scientology, 1962, you run it out scream by scream.

There's auditors Class I, Class II, Class III. It has nothing to do with their certification — doesn't matter what credentials or certification an auditor has. These are not certificates. This is classification for allowed processes.

Frankly, you won't be able to take it — be too much for you. It's almost that — too much for me.

Class I can use any process that we have had that worked since 1950. He can use any of these things. There's no limiter on it — he can do every-thing that he was ever trained to do, that's for sure. But if he's very, very wise, he will go on using those things and working like mad to get his Class II classification. If he is very wise. He will make far less mistakes. Let me assure you, he will save far more auditing time.

I used to be able to as-is engrams by inspection. First time I tried that with a valence, it spit back. It is fascinating.

Now, that's Class I. Therefore, any certified auditor regardless of the class or grade of certificate is a Class I right as of this moment. That's it and he's got it.

Do you know that no command or process that we have had over these many years fazes a 3D Goals Problem Mass except 3D processes. You might as well just skip running anything else but the exact process that is pre-scribed for 3D. I spent two weeks going over the processes we had had over a decade, trying to take them apart and find out which one worked. There was only one series ever worked on 3D and that is using the Prehav Scale as solutions to problems. The Goals Problem Mass is a series of problems; the valences are there as solutions to problems and problems alone take apart this lot.

Now, since he received that certification and so on, we have had new skills brought forward which are simply intensification of old auditor skills. And it is just an effort to get them to do these old skills exactly perfectly — absolutely perfectly. With — using a good E-Meter, Mark IV, doing an absolutely proper and exact Security Check, being able to do a Problems Intensive, being able to carry forward and prepare cases for assessment and 3D. Very precise. Now, it takes a — quite a while to prepare cases. It takes a long time to prepare a case for a 3D assessment.

Now, there are many ways you could take apart a problem. There are many ways you could go into this. There are many ways the situation could be ameliorated, alleviated and your life could be made easier. The first and-foremost way to have life made easier for you is to have an expert auditor. That is something that you really should have. You deserve that. I am trying like crazy to give you that — like mad — and I am succeeding very, very well. I am very proud of the auditors we are turning out these days, very proud of them.

If you — some of you, in some cases, particularly cases that have been audited a lot, you could get a hold of one, you could assess him, you could find something that resembled a package, you could probably even check out — everything would be fine. But before you went very far or ran any part of the package, you would wish to heavens that you had prepared the case before you started to run it. That's all, see.

And don't let it make you feel that all of those years of training is wasted. Let me tell you — we take somebody who was trained yesterday and we try to teach them how to do this sort of thing and he just hasn't got the background necessary to resolve the case. It takes you with all of your fits and starts and fallings on your head and seeing which way it's wrong and the experiential pattern of the past background, and knowing how many mistakes you can make, and knowing how screwy pcs can get and knowing that all cases are rough cases. Knowing practically everything that you know makes it very much easier to take apart the things that we are taking apart. Although 3D is a very finite activity, it is a very precise activity. And though it apparently could be learned by anybody who could hold an E-Meter balanced neatly upon their map [lap], who knows what they would do if anything went wrong.

So it doesn't matter whether you'd do it before the case is assessed. You're going to have to do it anyway, even though the case is assessed, before you can run the case with any safety. Otherwise, there's going to be a terrific liability because there's all this stuff of present lifetime, present time problems. I'll tell you, it's no time to get a present time problem when you're in the middle of a willow wand in the wind, you know.

They wouldn't understand any part of what was going on, they really wouldn't. So don't despair over the great amount of training you have had which you don't need now.

You've busily got the willow wand in the wind and you're handling this beautifully and then all of a sudden the wind shows up and it's a very windy day and so on. Well, you'd be perfectly prepared to run that out. But you get a problem that has absolutely nothing to do with anything but your present lifetime. Here it is and it hasn't anything to do with the Goals Problem Mass and you're all upset about this thing and the boss is threatening to fire you — or you're the boss and threatening to fire somebody else — you're very worried about all this and you're very upset, you're very excited and life is going on and "Oh, it's just bluh-bluh-uhh-wuhh-wuhh-wuhh . . ." You had no business worrying about that in the middle of a 3D, let me tell you. You'd better have your life pretty well neated up by the time you start into this rolly coaster.

Let me tell you something. One thing alone stood in the road of your ability to audit — one thing alone — not you. Oh, people audit a lot better when they get a 3D run and that sort of thing but we are clearing a world with auditors who aren't cleared. Do you realize that we couldn't clear a world with auditors who were Clear — not because Clear auditors couldn't audit — but who would ever clear the Clear auditors so that they could clear people? You'd never get anybody Clear — isn't that right?

So, the exact line of preparation — and I know that there are auditors right this minute who doubt this very much and who know all about 3D and who will be ... They — there are always auditors who know better than I do about some of these things.

If everybody had to wait until all the auditors were Clear — I've had various schemes, various schemes proposed to me such as "Let's all knock off and not do any more auditing and then you clear one person and then teach him how to audit, and then he will clear two people and teach them how to audit, and each one of them will clear two people and teach them how to audit and then they clear them and dhuh-dhuh-dhuh-duh-duh-booh-dhuh-dhuh-boohbooh-booh-booh-duh — I think German General Staff, circa 1914, is called a schema. Ever hear — it's spelled "schema," pronounced "shayma." It's idiotic progression.

Anyhow, and then they learn — they learn as much as I do about them and then they come into line very nicely. But that period — that period where they're trying to adjust to that is sometimes hectic.

Go ahead and get a subjective reality on auditing after it's all been run out. Go ahead and try. You won't know what it's all about. If you were perfectly audited and there was absolutely never a flub on the line, there was nothing ever went wrong, it just all went out very smoothly, you'd say, "How easy this is!" And then you would learn how to audit and you'd go through your Academy and everything is very fine and you learn everything very fast and get to learn bulletins — pschoop — and there's nothing to that. And you say, "Well, E-Meter, I don't know why anybody would have any trouble with that — pschoop." And you would get all that. And it is all set, and everything's fine, and you say, "This meter, oh, this marvelous meter, yes and so on." "So it's very easy; it's very easy."

Anyway, the best thing to do — it takes anywheres from seventy-five to two hundred hours of Security Checking on all known varieties of Security Checks to get the pc's havingness in the present lifetime up to a point where the pc's havingness can stand the strain of running a 3D. So it takes seventy-five, couple of hundred hours, something like that. All depends on how long it takes a person to get through that.

And you sit down and you're all set to do an assessment and so forth. And the pc has a dirty needle — "scratchy needle" the students at Saint Hill are calling them. It goes zzzz-bzzz-zzzz-zzz-zz-zz-zz-zzz-zzz-zz-zz. And you say, "Cats, rats, kings and coal heavers" — it doesn't matter what you say. The needle goes zzzz-zzzz-zzzz-zzzz-zzzz-zzz-zzz-zz-zzzz-zzzz-zzz-zz. You say, "Mother-in-law." Zzzz-zzzz-zzz-zzz-zz. No reaction. You can't find any reaction on the needle of any kind whatsoever except zzz-zzz-zzz.

Now, included in that is, of course, something that you call a Problems Intensive. That gets away all the present time problems and straightens it up. Actually, you could run and flatten old 1A on the pc during that period with profit. There was nothing wrong with a routine called 1A. It's "What problem can you confront," roughly. And that does people a lot of good, too.

I think about that time you'd say, "Well, the textbook is wrong and let's find a pc that's much easier." So you got to find a pc that is much easier and you get started with the assessment and you are just going fine. You've got all the goals and you found the pc's goal rather easily and you found the opposition terminal rather easily, and you have found the opposition goal rather easily and you found the modifier. And the — and the needle goes bzzzzzz-zzz-zzz. And then you would say, "Ron — Ron said, all you had to do was repeat the modifier — repeat the modifier to the pc several times and the needle would start to read and the whole package would start to read. That's good." Bzzz-zzz-zzz-zzz-zzz-zzz-zzz. You say, "Jump." (That's the modifier.) "Jump! Jump! Jump! Jump!" Bzzz-bzzz-bzzz-zzz-zzz-zzz-zzz-zzz-zzz. You say, "Well, that — that — that pc — that pc is — that — that — that — that — something wrong with that. It doesn't follow the textbook, see. So let's find another pc." Bzzz-zzz-zzz-zz.

But you get them up the line, you get rid of their scratchy needle going tzz-zzz-zzz-zzzzz all the time and you straighten them up so they haven't got present time problems all over the place and you kind of pull the thing together, and that's the way it is. And by that time, why, there'd be quite a few auditors around who are Class II and are permitted to operate as Class IIIs.

What? What was the matter? Well, you see, the fellow couldn't remember anything and he came in to get audited — he came in to get audited so that he could remember where his door key is because he's been locked out for several weeks. He came in to get audited. He has troubles. He is not interested in who he was last life; he's trying to find out who he is this life.

See, a Class II is only permitted to operate as Class III for quite a while before he's actually awarded a Class III. And that means he can Handle any-thing. But a Class II Auditor who is trained in it could actually assess, providing there is a Class III Auditor so classified around to check all of his results before he does anything with them. That's the way that works out.

Of course, some old-time auditor taking a look at this would say, "What do you know. I wonder what this is all about." You see — say to the pc, "Whatcha do? Whatcha been doing? What's going on? What's going on?"

And by that time, why, we'll have some Class III Auditors around. Actually, there are five of them returning to FCDC in just no time at all — show you the program is very well advanced. And here is the upgrade of the situation. By that time, why, you can go and get an assessment and plunge into it and you're on your way — on your way through. The slang phrase for it is "into the knothole." The way out is the way through and the way through a Goals Problem Mass, well, it's like a fighter. You wouldn't expect him to go to the championship fight of the world unless you give him a little pretraining. And that's about the way it is. By that time you will have had enough pretraining along this line to handle it.

"Oh, nothing."

But there are quite a few form Security Checks and these are very precise Security Checks. They are laid out in HCO WW Policy Letters; they are exact and precise Security Checks. And there's a whole string of them and all of those Security Checks should be gone through. You'd be surprised what you would get out of a childhood Security Check. You'd be absolutely fascinated — it's a marvelous Security Check.

"Yeah, well, what's it look like?"

And other Security Checks of that particular type, you go all the way through those things to the bitter end, you get a Problems Intensive, maybe flatten IA, something like that. You get up to a point where you can cope with the situation pretty well.

"Well, it's about that long and about that wide and I hid it under the mat and it's not there anymore."

Actually, at that stage of the game, you will never have felt better in your whole life. That is the most winning type of auditing there is. There is no processing we have ever had that is better than this processing and I think there's some amongst the crowd right this minute that will say this is true. Really sets you up.

And you know factually, I'm not kidding you now. Anybody that hadn't been over the jumps to any degree at all — I can tell you how auditors will be trained in the future. They will be trained by starting them in on Book One and having them audit engrams — probably take us ten years to train them. Their postgraduate course will be this congress. These poor people that came up because Ron always gives something simpler in a PE, you know. I mean — I have been having a ball this congress. I'm sorry, folks, really. You come in July and I'll make several lectures — several lectures even more incomprehensible.

If you get some good Security Checks and get your overts off and so forth and you feel right with the world and you go out — you walk out the front door, you know — you walk out the front door, you don't slide out and look up and down the street first. You're looking for the engram police that haven't been after you, actually, for a long time. But you've got that keyed out, everything is very nice. And then into 3D and on through.

Here's — the point is that you wouldn't know what the ramifications or limits of the mind were. How wrong can the mind go? I can just see some-body starting to run a 3D who knows nothing about past track and he all of a sudden says, "Hey!" I can see it now. I get a telex — telex comes out of the machine, you know, and the paper keeps coming out of the machine and climbing up the wall, you know. And, "We're terribly worried. We had this preclear and he saw a picture. And the picture was himself as an executioner and we've been trying to run this picture so that we could get on with it and all we get to register on the whole thing is an executioner, but he claims that it isn't his valence. And we can't get 'executioner' to register on the thing and the case is all balled up and we don't know what we are doing."

Now, I've been accused of playing down 3D. Actually, you haven't heard too much about 3D. This is kind of new to you. Routine 3D, what is this thing? You know, what is all this? Well, actually, I have kind of played it down. But this is rather interesting because 3D all by itself is getting more results just by assessment than we have ever before had in processing. A 3D run correctly gets more results just by assessment.

And I would send them back a nice understanding telex. I can always be counted on to do this sort of thing and I would say, "I agree with you completely. You don't know what you are doing." See, that as-ises the situation.

When you've got your whole 3D package, the first package that will run, never in your life will you ever have felt any better. You — oh, man, that is there, you know. It's — the fresh air, the sunlight, you know, you kind of know which way it sets. You know now why you've got these stripes across your back. And everything is gorgeous and then they assess you on the Auxiliary Prehave Scale that was put together especially for 3D, and one bracket later, you have never felt worse in the last hundred trillion years. But you're happy about it. And there it is. That's into the knothole. And from there on through it is ghastly in a sort of a happy way and you come out at the other end and you have actually attained a higher level of stability and so forth than was ever available for — before in Scientology._

Every once in a while somebody calls upon me to do a complete education on the subject of Scientology in one short letter, see, and that would be very easy. It isn't that these things are important, but these things exist and a person who has never seen that these things exist — a person hasn't a clue that they exist — will keep running into them and he would find himself called upon to go back over the whole thing anyhow and it would all look like strange worlds to him. They'd have these great big trees in it with these branches that would look like they were coming down, see, and all of these paths that go through and every once in a while wolves jump out with these night bonnets on.

Yes, I haven't had too much to say about this sort of thing. I've been too busy doing it to tell you about it. But that is the course as it runs.

And they pick up this thing about Freud because that's all true too and then they get everybody running out — running out their desires for eating sausages or something, you see. And then they decide that, well, actually the best thing to do is sit down and contemplate your navel and there goes Scientology. Don't you see what would happen?

Now, auditors who expect to be able to get along this route and so forth — there are several routes open. The — no special courses are going to teach clearing now. They're all going to teach Class II, so don't you downgrade Class II. Class II is a high upgrade. There are very few auditors could pass

Do you realize there are a lot of phenomena in the mind? There are a lot of things — there's a lot of gimmicks, there's a lot of whatnots, there's a lot of buttons — there's fantastic numbers of things. Some valence you've got right this minute parked with those eight hundred thousand other valences latched on top of it that wouldn't even assess out — some valence that you have never dramatized, you had paid no attention to, that has never bothered you at all — has more aberration cooked up in it, more aberration and twisteroos in it (this is one that you wouldn't even handle) than Freud ever met. That's right, just one of these little valences.

Class II. I don't know of any that could just off the cuff pass Class II, see. That's a pretty high upgrade.

All of this came about, by the way, by an understanding of this one fact. You know these profiles they've been having you do? You know, you go in and you find out if you are still abreacting your hostilities, you know? And you write down — you fill out all these forms. Do you know what you're testing? You're testing what valence you're in because the resulting graph is a picture of the personality of a valence.

Now, if those of you who are waiting, waiting, waiting till everybody gets back from Saint Hill and it's all ready and everything is all taped out and so forth before you start on your program in any way, shape or form — you're just going to be left behind because you're going to take seventy-five to a couple of hundred hours to get that early stuff out of the run anyhow. So you just go ahead and get it now. Flounder through; get it straightened up.

Now, you can change that valence — that's possible — and so you get a change of graph by changing the valence. That's possible. But there is some-thing much more possible about the thing that you would be far more interested in. How about changing the valence? We audit the person, we change the valence.

And if you're going to come to Saint Hill, it's an awful good idea to get it straightened up, too, because Saint Hill alone — that's regardless of auditing — going through the Saint Hill course itself at the present time, the way it is progressing, is probably one of the heavier endurance contests that have been dreamed up on Earth.

Well, do you realize that's your big graph changes? Your big graph changes all stem from having run out a valence in which the pc was in, that was giving him a lot of trouble. And there it went with its somatic packages and everything else. He didn't necessarily get another valence right on top of it as seriously as that.

And if you were brave enough to do this, I don't think you would regret it. Wouldn't be too rough. But it is not an easy sprint, and the only thing that keeps them going is auditing. They get lots of that, and you can see them falling on their faces in the driveway and another schoolmate picks them up and runs it out rapidly and they grab the bus or something and go to town and get a bit of dinner or something like that. Or somebody stumbles and is in a state of collapse someplace or another but an Instructor comes out and says, "You're due to audit somebody," and they go up and audit him.

But you're sort of potluck — what valence picture are you running out?

Actually, most Scientology courses are rather rigorous, but I've never seen a course with higher morale or higher esprit and I'm actually very proud of these people because they — when they come out at the other end — the common thing is, is they arrive, they fall in the front door, we patch them together with sticky plaster and then proceed to do something with them. When they go home, their friends don't even know them. That's right.

All right, we got one way up here at the top of the scale — yeah, that's way up here, you know. You get up and you look up like this to find this valence, you know, serene, sweet, full responsibility, critical — never! And there it is, you know? It'd gone up higher except you ran out of paper. And you say, "Boy, how ideal that is, see — how marvelous that is."

As everybody meets them — meets them at the airport, something like that, why, you know, kind of "Who's this?" you know and "Gee," you know. And we get tremendous numbers of letters come back, "What did you do to him?" you know, "Isn't this marvelous?"

That valence folds up — you have to get over and get inside the lines on the graph paper, you know. And you look down there and way down there someplace — way down there, it says, "Too vicious, no responsibility, always loses, can't have nothing." I'm trying to find it on this "critical" scale here. It says, "There's no use damning them — damn them!" And you say, "Well, I sure ruined that pc." No, you sure ruined this valence._

Anyway, the congress draweth to a close and your very fine attendance here has been something to really warm my heart. My, were you certainly dead in your chair on the first day, brother! I came out here and I took a look at you and I said, "Boy, I've been gone too long, you know."

This valence was the escape valence — that is the — that's not a technical term — it's just what the person became, see, after they were the head sacrificial priest, you see. That's this bottom valence, you see. And when they — when they finally — finally got absolutely convinced at that time that they just couldn't stand their arthritis in the hand, you know — the arthritis pains in the hand. Every time they picked up the sacrificial knife, you know — these arthritis pains, they'd go on, you know. And they just couldn't stand this anymore, and so forth, and know — slitting the blood of the victim and all that sort of thing, you know — slitting his throat and all of that kind of thing. They were just getting to a point where — hands too shaky, you know — arthritic and shaky. They couldn't stand that anymore, see, so they couldn't hold the post anymore. So they took the next best thing, see, which is the left ear of the starboard incense pot, and boy, is that incense pot serene. It's being fully responsible — but it never does nothing — but it never criticizes a thing. And, of course, the incense pot turns around and comes in at the bottom and you find yourself with a priest on your hands.

Audience: That's right.

Well, in 3D it goes this way. Well, that — you did that in ordinary auditing — it wasn't that the fellow picked up the next somatics of the valence — nothing crude as that. In 3D this is what happens: You get the thing all packaged out and you find your pc up here at the top. And you're running this very nicely and everything is fine and all of a sudden, after you have run it for a long time, why, you come on at the bottom and the pc has never had arthritis in this lifetime. And the pc wakes up in the morning with full-blown arthritis and tries to eat breakfast, you see. And they put down their fork and their knife and they say, "Come on, I better get hold of myself here — I better get hold of myself here." And they decide they don't want any breakfast and they phone you and they say — and you expect a complaint — but they say, "I feel awful! Boy, have I got horrible somatics!" The guy has been living all of his life, you know, in a vacuum, you know — no feeling. He lights a cigarette, forgets to put out the match, you see; and about the time his finger burns away up to the second joint, he notices it. See? It's a big change to this guy to be able to put his hand down on a pin and hurt, see, or to feel any pains in his fingers at all. It's marvelous to behold.

And — kind of made me guilty of an overt, you did. And things were — things were grim. Then you got going. I began to see you a little bit more plainly. You looked a little better, felt a little better and I hope the congress has done a little bit of something for you one way or the other.

Well, he just gets used to these somatics as a priest and he's accustoming himself to these things, you see. He gets maybe a whole session or three or four sessions or maybe — maybe if you are going slow and got the rudiments out and you should have studied a little harder — eight, ten, twelve sessions. He's got these somatics, you see, and he's still going, you know — up like this a little bit, and he says, "Lookit, you know. This is quite interesting, you know. That's a priest — ever — you know? Every time I do that — pick up the knife, you know, and cut peoples' throa — thuh-thuh-thuh — throats."

Well, I felt I owed you some sort of a report and I came over here in the middle of winter which is a very, very poor thing to do, you know. But then you came up here to Washington and that's a poor thing to do, too, so we'll forgive each other on that.

And he just gets used to this, see. He gets so he can live with this thing — he gets so he can live with this thing. And he is lighting a cigarette one day, "I wonder if that would burn? I wonder if that would burn? Suppose that would burn? I wonder if this'd burn?" And you go back — you can't find this valence anymore and you've got the next valence, and you are getting — it's a temple burner downer. And of course, the lower harmonic of a temple burner downer would of course be an incense pot of being burned down all the time, wouldn't it?

Frankly, I had no — even hardly any business at all leaving Saint Hill, you see. Got lots of cases rolling, lots of people coming up the line, bursting out at all sides and a lot of stuff hopping in all directions.

Well, it doesn't go a — quite according to that plan or anywhere near that evenly, but I put it in that guise just to give you an idea of what it is. These things upgrade and downgrade and they do all sorts of weird things, and if you had to run out every single one of these valences, why we would just never get around to it.

If you don't think it is a rough go in that particular quarter — it is.

Actually, there are only four, five, six packages that have any real bearing on the case and these packages are all of them handleable to a greater or lesser degree. They are all handleable with fantastic somatics — don't kid yourself.

If you plan to go to Saint Hill sometime in the future, you actually ought to go to the Central Organization or get your local field auditor and go through all the Security Checks. Go through the lot, from one beginning to the other. Go through the information letter Security Checks — those are not official checks, there's just more of them — and get those cleaned up. Get a Problems Intensive. Even get 1A flat. Square yourself around one way or the other.

But the triumph — some fellow says, "Man, I thought I'd had somatics before but the back of my head is absolutely coming off. Yes, sir, it's sort of . . ." you know, there's a certain pride in the matter. "I bet the back of your head never came off like that, you know. Do you want to see the back of my head? I'll take it off and show it to you."

Read all the books you can lay your hands on. Get your extension course completed up, something like this. Get the thing squared away. It doesn't matter how much of that you get done because the more of it you get done, the easier it will be on you. Because I tell you, going in — you haven't cracked a bulletin for a long time and Mike says, "Is 1.5 on the tone arm more dense than 5.0 on the tone arm?"

That back there — that's a hoplite. Do you know what a hoplite is? Do you know what a hoplite is? A hoplite is a Greek soldier and they have disci, you know. They keep throwing — you know, in the Olympic games they have these disci, you know — you've seen these disci. Actually that was a war weapon — this guy will tell you, see. That was a war weapon and you took them like this, you know, and you went like this and finally pshew! See? Dang!

You say, "1.5 — 5.0 is a higher number and so forth. Well, obviously." And you answer erroneously and you say, "Well, 5.0 is more dense."

These tin helmets — they really were made out of tin. After you smacked a guy — I'm sure that's what that is — I'm sure that's what that is. That's a pretty close approximation of what that is.

It isn't so much that you flunked that one. It's the scorn he gives you across the desk. We've got him there simply because his oppterm is a sadist and we refuse to audit him.

Anyhow, we are running a hoplite, that's what we are running today. Yeah, that's — greaves, you know, so forth — chestplate. You can feel it now, as a matter of fact. Do you know what happens to you when you get cold with a metal chestplate on? The guy is quite an authority on this subject and about the time he's really a good authority on this subject and he really knows all about it, why, it's gone; it's gone. He — mysteriously non sequitur — why you're now running a court lady.

Well, what it amounts to — what it amounts to is you'd come up and make Class II almost at once, you see. It wouldn't take you but a very short time to make Class II.

And he says, "Have you got any idea," he says, "how you are supposed to act in court? Hm? You are supposed to act in court? Have you any idea of the deportment of a court lady? Any idea at all? There are seventeen ways you back away from a throne, did you realize that? All of them dangerous."

You'd have to be all straightened out in your auditing. You arrive knowing you know all you want to know about how to do it. It wouldn't take you very long, however, to find out what you didn't know and to be oriented, straightened out and made to look something like an auditor. And then get your examinations finally on Class II and be an auditor and then you could spend and concentrate the bulk of your time on making Class III.

Well, now if it were just pictures of valences that we were interested in and characteristics of valences and so forth, it might be rather dull, but that isn't what we are interested in at all. Every one of these valences is in a fight. It's agin things that are agin it. The pc's attention is never on the single beingness of it all. As a matter of fact the beingness of it all is very junior to the doingness, and the doingness of it is absolutely fantastic. The doingness of it — what it is doing it to, and so forth.

Because frankly, the difference is, if somebody just got out of an Academy and were to come to Saint Hill, if he were accepted, would have this kind of a problem: It would take him the next two and a half or three months to make Class II because he has no background. All weekend and every day of the week. No chance to sleep, you see, because he's so busy trying to catch up. Well, you could take that much weight off yourself.

And for the first few runs of the thing, why the opposition terminals are rather vague. Well, they're — they're over there and you — we don't have much to do with them and so forth. And then we finally run into a full-blown collision with these things. But the point is, the warfare of life is represented in these problems and every one of these beingnesses is part of a problem. And the only reason it's suspended in time is the beingness is there, still charging flat out toward the opposition beingness.

No training is ever thrown away. Everything we know, we know. All our past discoveries and activities are all ours and we haven't forgotten those. And they all serve in good stead. And similarly, the data which leads on up to Class II is the data which makes a Class II Auditor. And it's time well spent to get your — all the Security Checks done on yourself and get what reading and bulletins you have all disposed of — take that much weight off of you when you get there. That's the best possible advice that I could give you in the matter. Because, boy, there's an awful lot to learn when you get there without crippling yourself with trying to learn it over that withhold with that girl last year.

You have the willow wand in the wind. There's a willow wand and it's leaning hard up against the wind. And there's the wind and it's blowing hard against the willow wand. There's the water buck and the tiger. And the tiger versus the waterbuck. These are the packages and they are called packages because the single valences could not exist unless they were suspended in time against other valences, and that is the whole trick. The reason they are suspended is because there is another valence. It is a two-terminal universe.

You know, that's — that just adds just a little bit too much to it.

And the reason why you are baffled is while you are busy being a hoplite, you keep adjusting your hair and backing away from thrones. And no hoplite would do that quite that way and you are never quite satisfied if you are looking at it from a life point of view. Every time you think of being a soldier,you fix your hair. Well, you could rationalize that out and you can figure that all out, "Well, of course, a soldier wouldn't fix his hair and let's see in a battle it's a long — a bad thing to have long hair, because enemy soldiers can grab you by the hair and pull your hair out and slit your throat and so forth. So it is a bad thing to have hair, and I guess that's why — that is why I am always concerned about hair."

Now, as far as — as far as your auditing in the immediate future, I'm going to ask you — I'm going to ask every auditor . . . You won't have instantly a British Mark IV in your hands. You'll be dealing with meters which are not necessarily operative meters. And they certainly are not operative to the degree that a Mark IV is. For instance, Ray came here believing that you could salvage American meters and he was thinking in terms of building them and so forth. And he got his hands on a Mark W — he's gone over it just _ since the congress and he says, "Ha-ha." Wrote me a despatch, he said, "My advice is scrap them. There's just all that difference. You'd never bring the American meter up to the Mark N."

Actually, all the time he was a hoplite, he was very worried about his hair. He didn't have any — shaved head. Because the flavor of the opposition terminal to the hoplite, a court lady (this was the war which was going on between the valences), those characteristics are impressed across. And if you got him into the valence of a court lady, which you could very easily flip him into, you see, why, this court lady is always fixated about fixing up her breastplates, see — always hitching up her breastplates. And you call to her attention, "Now, listen, a girdle is slightly higher than that. That should be up here." But she keeps more or less hooking up her pants, you see. And that's her breastplate, see. It's confused, see? It is a real interesting hurdy-gurdy.

All right. Get a Mark IV as fast as possible. They are available. They can be shipped. We do have them. This was not a condition which was true just sixty days ago, you see.

The waterbuck — he'll tell you when you first find him as a waterbuck — he'll say, "Well, now . . ." You see, the package is waterbuck and tiger and you first find him as a waterbuck. He'll tell you, "Well, I was a different kind of waterbuck, actually, I wasn't the average run-of-the-mill waterbuck like those other waterbucks. I was a striped waterbuck. It was — there must have been a peculiar type of waterbuck on some planet or another that — well — some planet, someplace — you probably wouldn't have heard about it, because — waterbucks also had claws. They didn't have hoofs, they had claws. It was a very peculiar breed and they had horned tigers. They had tigers there and they ran around and had long horns and they didn't have any stripes. Oh, yeah, come to think about it, they had hoofs and they went like this, see, and when they walked they went like this, you know. That's right. And the water-buck had long, straight tails that went like this. Yeah, I've got it straight now, I think."

But if you're using an offbeat meter and so forth, don't let it stop you from auditing, but please do this. Please do this. And even in the early days of auditing, even on a Mark IV, introduce this question into all Processing Checks that you are doing on a pc.

"But I was a very peculiar kind of waterbuck and all I could think of was killing waterbucks, and that was my goal as a waterbuck." The pc will tell you this, wide, open-eyed, you know. "That was my goal as a waterbuck — was to kill waterbucks. Yeah, I was a peculiar kind of waterbuck — I did nothing but kill waterbucks."

At least every five questions that you clear on the pc, introduce this question: "Have I missed a withhold on you?" And end every session similarly, "Have I missed a withhold on you?" And keep that cleaned up. And if you're missing them left and right, do it every question. But certainly if you did it every three or every five, then you wouldn't be upset and if you're an auditor, your pc wouldn't be upset because of missed withholds because this is all that upsets a pc.

"And the opposition terminal, a tiger — thirsty, all the time thirsty. And the tiger-the tiger's goal — you want the tiger's goal, tiger's goal, the tiger's goal. Well, that's very simple. The tiger's goal was to drink water. And the modifier is and swim if I can't, all the time. I think that must be it. The tiger's goal is to drink water and swim all the time." The pc will look at you very bright eyed — doesn't see anything wrong with this — perfectly logical to him — and very often will tell the auditor, "Well, it makes sense to me anyway!"

You do the beginning rudiments. You say, "Are you withholding anything?" is that beginning rudiment. There it is, bang!

And after you have run it for a little while, the pc has this terrific cognition — terrific cognition. Of course, you didn't run it without straightening out the goals, you just sort of hung him with the goals straightened out. You said, "Well, now just to test this we will run the waterbuck with the goal to drink water and swim all the time. Now, just — just-just-just-experimentally." The pc will look at you, you know, and all of a sudden he will say, "Hey! Hey! Hey, auditor. Hey! Stop writing it all down there for a second. I got an idea! You know, I think that is the goal of the waterbuck. And you know, I think the — I'm no dummy. I think the tiger's goal is to kill waterbuck." Not every-body could figure that out, see. Because I will tell you frankly there is nobody more stupid about his terminal and package combinations than the pc. It just all seems to make sense and nothing makes any sense, and it's just one horrible confusion.

And you say, "All right. Do you have a present time problem?"

Well, after a while — you are running it for a little while — and the pc will have this terrific cognition and he'll look up suddenly bright eyed and he'll say, "You know, that's the tiger!" Actually they make very intelligent cognitions. As soon as they get — as soon as they get this straightened out one way or the other, they will say, "You know why a tiger has to have a tail?" And then they give you the anatomy of tigers and why tigers have to have stripes and why tigers have to have tails and how you build tigers and why tigers are and the basic purpose of tigers and where the first tiger came from, and so forth. And then they'll all of a sudden say, "You know this — the waterbuck, not the tiger. This is the tiger. Got it all straight now. Got it all straight now. Must be flat. Awwrf — must be very flat. I think it's flat now — pretty flat, isn't it? Flat."

See, the rudiment is, "Are you withholding anything?" and you miss it. Bang! You see? It may not happen. Anything may not — nothing may have happened. And you go into the bulk of what you're doing in the session, regardless of what you're doing. Let's say you were running Routine 1A which is quite permissible for a Class I Auditor to run, see. It's all those problem commands. Generalized problems. Getting somebody used to confronting problems and so forth. Perfectly valid.

And the auditor says, "Well, I think we better run this a while longer if it's all right with you. And we'll reassess it on the Prehav Scale and so forth." "Well, all right, if you say so — pretty flat though." About the third command, the solution to the problem is roar! "Yeah, how would a tiger solve the problem?" "Well, the tiger would solve the problem by roaring." And about that time he says, "Hey, you know, this funny bass voice that I've always talked with and thought it — that was a tiger's voice; that wasn't a waterbuck. That wasn't a waterbuck's voice. That wasn't the waterbuck's voice. Oh, that — that's — that's the waterbuck's voice." Yeah, he goes, "Tiger's voice, you know, and the waterbuck's voice. Oh yeah, well ... No wonder I have never been able to talk."

You're running something like this and all of a sudden the pc is looking at you and there is pure hate in his eyes. And you're not aware of having done anything and he will tell you you just dropped the ashtray. Well, maybe you did. So you try to clean up the ashtray.

Because these things are just mishmashed one in against the other by solid context — continuous. Now, you are aware of the old principle that when you fight something you start partaking of its characteristics, you know. If you want to be overwhelmed by something, resist the living daylights out of it. If you really want to overwhelm somebody, why, just sit there and say, "Okay, now, everything I tell you about Scientology, just resist. Argue with me. Now, I don't believe in a man who will just sit there quietly. Argue with me. I like an argument!" And then tell him this, that or the other thing and make him argue with each one of the things.

And then you say, well, I wonder if he has a present time problem just now. And then you run the ARC break process and you run present time problem processes and then you say, well, maybe there's something wrong with the room. And then you try to orient that. And this whole session has become a cow's dinner — not a dog's breakfast, a cow's dinner, see. Wow! Wow! Wow! See? All kinds of randomity, ARC breaks, arrarrrwoor.

What do you think has happened to the poor psychologist? What's going to happen to the psychiatrist up the track someplace? They'll be in a valence package called "Psychiatrist versus Scientologist" except the two actually don't make a good package. I can say more about that in a moment. But I'm just giving you some kind of an idea.

One hour to one hour and a half before this ARC break occurred, you missed a withhold. That's all. That's all that happened.

These things are in pairs and so you get what is called the story. Routine 3D has the colloquial phraseology of having a package, which is to say, what I showed you yesterday, which is a goal-opposition goal, opposition terminal, the modifier and the terminal. And you have the terminal with modifier, using the modifier, usually not the goal, against the opposition terminal, and you get quite a roar between these two things and quite a squeal going back. And they are terrifically intermixed, so that you have your inter-mixed package here toward the bottom. There'll be a package here and that is this one into this one, see — is your waterbuck and the tiger, and this gradually upgrades as you run it. But down through the millennia the characteristics of the waterbuck have continued throughout all of the pc's own terminals and the characteristics of the tiger have continued throughout all of his enemies. You know, you could always recognize his terminal and you can always recognize the opposition terminal, once you know any one opposition terminal or any one — any one terminal. You can always recognize these things.

I'll give you an example. Pc sits down. Maybe — maybe you're chewing gum, something like that, see. You're chewing gum, pc sits down, you start auditing him, take the gum out after you started the session, throw it in the ashtray, see. Hour and a half later, your pc has a screaming ARC break about "You have repeated the same command twice instead of the next command." All busted up about this. Chewing you to pieces. Check it back and you will find out that at the moment that he saw you were chewing the gum, he objected to it and didn't tell you. And that is the withhold that wrecked the session because on top of that microscopic grain of sand of a withhold, other withholds and unkind thoughts started to build up, build up, build up, build up and finally it builds up to an atomic explosion. And that's what an ARC break consists of.

So you've got another package just above this and it has the five elements in it, and these lower packages are appended to the upper package. And then you've got a bigger package and you know — I showed you yesterday. These are just all fantastic numbers of problems solved one way or the other and these are upgraded gradually as you come up the line here. You've got packages, packages, packages, see — terrific numbers of these things — and each one of them is this way.

If you wanted to put it crudely, every out-rudiment results from withholds. That is all. Now remember that a withhold reduces havingness and reduced havingness alone is what keys in and makes immediately dramatized and functional the valence package of the pc. Reduced havingness is what pulls these valences in. And withholds reduce havingness. So, if the pc has withholds, the inevitable consequences is he will dramatize the valence in which he's sitting.

When you first see them, however, there is no vector or direction in them at all and some very clever fellow must have figured this out.

But he's not ready to assess on 3D. He's got to be prepared for 3D. And you don't even know what the valence is. So the only way you can keep the valence out and keep the pc running and get the pc free enough so that he isn't always keyed-in on this valence is to keep his withholds pulled. Keep those rudiments in, keep his withholds pulled.

I don't think anybody could have figured it out — nobody human certainly. Anyhow — I mean I wasn't talking about me. Do you think I was talking about me? I'm not talking about me, I was talking about the fellow who dreamed it up originally.

There's a process technique known as short-sessioning. You start a session, you run the beginning rudiments, you run a few questions of whatever you're doing — Security Check or whatever and so forth — and then you run the end rudiments and end the session.

Now, you've got . . . These things are sort of dehydrated electronic standing waves that are totally drained out and completely black. And as you run the things, the pc can't see anything, he can't feel anything, he can't hear anything except "It hurts like hell!" And where the somatic is coming from and what's giving him the somatic, he hasn't a clue. You know? And if you are nice to — you are used to a nice time track, you are used to a nice time track that goes on and on and on and on — beautifully smooth time track — there is nothing to this time track at all. A beautiful time track, you know, incident after incident, picture after picture.

You give him a break, you have a cigarette, something like that, and you start the session. Do beginning rudiments, run straight on through, a few more questions and you end the session. You could do this three times in one auditing period. That's known as short-sessioning. If you did it three times in one auditing period, which is a bit extreme — ordinarily, in two and a half hours you would do it twice. That is to say you would have two sessions in one two-and-a-half-hour auditing period. And if you did this that way, you'd get four cracks at the rudiments.

"That was me going to school. That baby picture is me lying on a bearskin rug. And this is Aunt Hattie the day of the picnic." You know, you are used to a nice orderly time track like the old family album, you know. "This was me when I used to be a rocket jockey." You know, except you really don't show them to anybody. You have stopped doing that. I think — I think it's a custom that should be revived, you know. You are used to this kind of time track.

Well now, that's routine and that is stable, regular auditing today. You do that kind of thing. But look-a-here. Because of bum meters, because here and there an auditor's going to skid, I don't want you people upset. I want you coming on forward. I want — I don't want you getting ARC broken, all upset in an auditing session or something like that. I want you carrying on forward and making your gains. Making them good all the way.

Well, look. The time track is around the fringes of these things. This whole thing is a time track and this whole thing is a time track. And here's a whole time track and here's a whole time track and here's a whole time track. Here's a whole time track and here's a whole time track and here is one and here's one and here's one and here's one. Of course these things just keep going on, on upgrade, you see — bigger and bigger ones, bigger and bigger. Each one of these things has got a complete time track and all the time track is in a grouper. And you also got valences all over the sun, moon and stars. You've got valences all over the place that sit outside the Goals Problem Mass that have never troubled you in the least that have a nice, beautiful, laid-out time track.

And here's another way to do it in addition to handling your Model Session and rudiments. Audit by Model Session, by the way. There's a new one just out, December 11th.*Editor's Note: reference to HCOB 21 Dec. 61, MODEL SESSION SCRIPT, REVISED, which is now cancelled and replaced by HCOB 11 Aug. 78 II, MODEL SESSION. The changes to the end rudiments mentioned above were also issued in HCOB 14 Dec. 61, RUDIMENTS MODERNIZED, which is in the Technical Bulletins Volumes. And it is so booby-trapped, the pc could get away with nothing, man. Marvelous set of end rudiments in it. And that's every-thing that everybody's ever been having any trouble with. And you pick it up there in the end rudiments.

You've got one over here — beautiful laid-out time track — it isn't against anything, see. And you run the preclear on the backtrack and you — he runs down the time track and he can pick up these facsimiles and he can run them out. All that's lovely so long as you don't come near this mess.-

Use that Model Session. And in addition to that — in addition to that, if you're running Processing Checks, for heaven's sakes, about every fifth question invest some time: "Have I missed a withhold on you?" And watch that meter with sensitivity 16. No matter what meter it is. And use soup cans. Don't use little electrodes on your meter. Get some battery clips and use soup cans. And that's about what you will have to contend with and it will be tremendously alleviated. That is to say that what you're contending with is missed withholds, auditing with rudiments out and that sort of thing, and it's making a poor show all the way along the line.

And all of a sudden one day your foot slips running a nice smooth time track. "This was me as a baby in cave days. This was me as a man. This is the marrying customs which were utilized in cave days." You know, clank! "And here's a nice picture of Uncle Ben that time of the famine when we had to practice cannibalism; we are not very proud of that one, so I have always — have trouble running it." And you're showing somebody off this way — you're looking them over, see. And look, watch now, watch the trick, see? "This — this is a forty-foot-high tiger, this one here, see, but it's all squashed, see. And we've been very, very careful — we've never come near that one. And here is a picture of a small saber-tooth tiger. I wonder what's the matter with that corner of it. I wonder what's the matter with that co — there — that corner of it doesn't seem to be quite right. Oh, Ow! Ow! Ow! Ow! Where's my beautiful time track? Ron took my time track away from me!" Ah, he may drift out of this. Of course, he sooner or later would have run into the thing anyhow. That's for sure, he would have run into it. He has in the past. He'll run into it again and he'll fall into it and fall out of it.

All right. Let's counter that and let's square that up by making sure that we get ahold of these missed withholds all the way up the line. Sound like a good idea to you?

Now, whatcha do when you clear a man? When you clear somebody, 1961 type Clear, what you do is key this thing out and you set the fellow up with a consecutive time track. Here he is — a consecutive time track that is pretty nicely laid out up here someplace. It isn't likely to key in to that. And he's perfectly all right until someday, tomorrow, next week, next year or in the next century, he all of a sudden says, "That's a funny looking airplane. The left wing of it is all black." There he goes and he becomes very unhappy about the thing. That's key-out — clearing by key-out.

Audience: Yes.

Now, fortunately for us this whole Goals Problem Mass is hung together by no more than a few dozen pairs. And after that it disintegrates and these things straighten out and go together again.

All right. I'm trying to hold you — keep it going and keep you coming on forward until we're right there with the marines landed. Okay?

It is a fantastic accident that you get an exact balance in any game. It's a fantastic accident. It is almost unthinkably an accident. A person starts out and he's going to be a self-respecting priest. Now, he has been a priest before and he'll be a priest again, he thinks. But in this particular instance he becomes a priest with the exact electronic output of the priest, comes up against a type of problem and becomes a priest thoroughly and wholly which — no pun intended — and is backed up against a valence opposite to it of exactly comparable magnitude. And he — every time he tries to solve this problem — chugs into the other valence and it reacts against him in almost exactly and equally the same amount of force. And when he does this often enough — he gets in this fight often enough — it's something like this:

Audience: Yes.

Let's say the United States and Russia went to war. And they kind of quit because nobody won, and then they went to war and they kind of quit because nobody won, and they went to war and they kind of quit because nobody won, and they went to war and they quit because nobody won and they went to war and they quit because nobody won. The next thing you know, the air between here and Russia would be in an awful mess. It would all be scrambled up. Now, we'd have problems. And you'd start having Americans around who would — who would — well, they'd have this — they couldn't quite understand this but they couldn't drink anything but vodka, see. And they couldn't fight anything but Russians and a Russian wasn't a Russian unless he had a portable radio. And you'd find out that their uniforms had flip-flopped; the American troops are wearing Russian uniforms; the Russians are wearing American uniforms, always. Only this has flip-flopped again until eventually they are dressed exactly alike and battles are very difficult because you can never tell who's friend and foe. I'm just trying to give you some wild example of a Goals Problem Mass in its accumulation.

All right.

Well, it has to be very, very accidental and it has to be very well balanced and it has to be terrifically — you know, "there it is." And in auditing it, all you have to do is unbalance it. And when you unbalance it, this half is held in place by the volume and magnitude of this half and this half is held in place by the volume and magnitude of that half. And all you have to do is unbalance either one and it starts going into shredded wheat. All you do is upset — not the balance of nature — but the balance of beingness, and the problem starts ceasing to be a problem because a problem is mass — countermassmass — mass. And if they're not exactly in balance, they don't stand well balanced on the whole track.

And I'd like to thank every single one of you for coming here this winter to this congress and giving me an opportunity to tell you what has been going forward, and for me to make good the promises made since 1950 because we mean to make them good, every one.

Now, because some of these things stay in balance, other things that are not quite in balance can then hang up on one of these things that's totally in balance. And your Goals Problem Mass starts accumulating and it gets bigger and bigger! And it takes on — until at last anytime the person tries to be anything, he immediately will find an opposition terminal of some kind or another to oppose him. And this will hang up and he never can solve any of his problems. And this is life and this is the way he lives. This is the way everybody lives these days, as a matter of fact.

And now let me wish you a very happy AD 12 and let me hope to see you again in July and meanwhile, good hunting and no withholds!

You come up, you get your opposition and that's fine. And your life — you live your life and you have got a problem. Life is a problem and there it goes from there on out and it all hangs up into the Goals Problem Mass. And you have got this heaviness and these headaches and things like this and boy it really takes something to accumulate a permanent somatic. That is really a trick. I congratulate a thetan when he has accumulated a permanent mass of this particular character. I think it took some doing. It was well worth his effort, I am sure, because it gave me such a hard time trying to figure out how to take it apart. I think that would be about the end product of it. Has no value.

Goodbye.

But these packages are now beautiful "I-am-supposed-to's." As one pack-age, if it stood isolated and alone, it would — might be quite useful. But as a matter of fact, because it has partaken of all the characteristics of its enemy, it never stands isolated and alone and is therefore never useful because the second one starts to dramatize it, one dramatizes the other side. The house-wife being a housewife is a housewife right up to the moment until she meets her husband and at that moment a valence, boss, turns on. And she never can quite understand exactly why this happens. When she is away from him she feels perfectly all right and she is perfectly willing to be a housewife. And she runs into this guy and she says, "Do this! Do that! Snap and pop," you know. She actually feels like he is an employee. She keeps records and time schedules of his goings and comings. She even sort of says to him occasionally that he shouldn't put in too much overtime. This doesn't make any sense to him because he is being a police official with opposition terminal, wife.

One of my minor packages I ran into — it really made me laugh when I ran into this particular thing. The terminal is police official but I have never been able to under — to stand cops. Done a lot of police work — never approved of it. The terminal: police official. Yeah.

That was just a minor package and when I passed by that thing I almost split a gut, you know. I often wonder how did I answer up when I was given a parking ticket? You know. I must have answered up in a very feminine way. That was the oppterm, you see. I must have treated every cop I ran into like a girl or something. You know, very confused, you can't quite figure out what you would have done or why you would have done it. And fortunately it has never been put to the test because it has never been used. But that's just because it's all part of this mess.

Interesting game, perhaps a marvelous game inside its own self — perhaps if you could play the game — if you could come anywhere near it — if it made any sense. Yeah, I can see me now in the Marcab Confederacy. Things have sort of gone to hell and all gone wrong and I couldn't get a job and so forth. And I go down and get the job of Chief of Police or something of the sort and then insist that everybody sweep the station house out very cleanly. I knew how to be a police official — always fixing the staff spaghetti dinners. Remarkable. And of course, "that's what you are supposed to do," and "every-body knows that," and "everybody does that," and "that is the natural thing to do."

There's a lot of guys right now driving cars that maybe have a valence of tank driver. And a tank driver, of course, always has an enemy tank driver. And they find themselves in a vehicle which is moving forward, they see another vehicle moving forward, they know what to do. Crunch! And then by golly the police come around, you know, and they act like you shouldn't have done it. That's what is surprising — the complete unreasonability of the world around you. How completely unreasonable the world around you is. They don't understand. Stupid of them, but they don't.

I can just see this police chief now, you know. The cops — they've been going along for years. They've just been, you know, throwing cigar butts on the floor and throwing old blackjacks on the floor and throwing other things on the floor and dropping their coats on the floor and hanging up everything in old closets, you know.

There was a scrub bucket in city hall once but somebody lost it shortly after the building was built, you know. I can see their lockers with their slickers and boots and that sort of thing, you know — every kind — kind of spilling out, you know. And the guns beautifully cleaned up and very handy and very ready, you know — riot guns in racks just as you pass out every door. You see, you could pick out a riot gun just like that — tear-gas bombs — everything all slicked up, you see.

And then I take over, see. Well, see, the mere fact of being a police official with an opposition terminal of "wife" would bring about this state of affairs: Every time you found you were police official, why, a great many of your characteristics and behavior patterns would become those of a wife. Naturally you can see how this game would get going. As a police official you hang about fifteen or twenty girls that have been murdering their husbands and after that you've had it, you see.

So, all right, so you move into city hall and you say, "Well, that's it." And for a few days you let this go, you don't bother with this very much, and then you sort of wake up one morning and you just — you know something isn't right. And you go down to city hall and you look around; you look around very carefully and you can't quite lay your finger on what it is, and you sit down at your desk and then all of a sudden you know what it is. You know what it is. And you send a sergeant and so forth scattering on down the street to the local hardware store and you get some scrub buckets, brother, you get some scrub buckets. And they come back up and you get that floor scrubbed. You know how to do your job.

And you get some hangers around there and you get some clothes brushes and so forth, and you get those coats and hats hung up — you get those hung up in the right places. And those old lockers and old closets and so forth, all got men's things in them, so you just throw those in the garbage can and get them hauled away very quickly. It never occurs to you that the rain gear is going to be needed very shortly, but it looks pretty messy and after all it serves them right.

And if we don't tell them about it, they will never find out about it anyway, see. So that's the right way to run a police station. There — you think, "Well everything is all right now." Except it isn't quite all right. There's some-thing still wrong in this police station; there's something still wrong in this police station. You begin to realize it looks like a den. It does; it begins to look like a study or a gun room or something of the sort — all these guns! Guns, you know, all along the wall. Guns, you know — hand grenades and tear-gas bombs and ... Well, who'd want those in a parlor? All right, so you get lockers made down in the basement, see. You get the lockers made down in the basement, only they're made like benches and there's chintz curtains hung up above them and back of them, you see. And you put all of these nasty things in these boxes, you see, and you put all of these tear-gas bombs and that sort of thing — you put them away and you lock that up pretty carefully.

Three days later there's a riot, the police force is wiped out and you don't have to worry about the terminal anymore because you're not there and what a relief that is.

Afterwards you get to wondering about this. You're sitting up on a cloud someplace and you say, "You know, if I had just cleaned the place up a little better, it wouldn't have happened." You — just — the whole logic of it is — totally eludes you; you just haven't a clue. You never find out what you did wrong.

You are being audited someday. Ages afterwards, you are being audited one day and you are sitting there in the chair minding your own business and the auditor, we hope, is minding your business. And he's got the meter — he's looking at the meter there. He's looking at the meter and he says, "What's that? What did you just think of?" "I was thinking about police official." "Ah, all right, we'll put that on the list: Police official, lawyer, judge, etc." He makes a long list of these things, goes down the list, nulls them all out and you sit there looking at "police official." "Oh," you say, "that's very interesting. Yeah, I can see how this would be; doesn't seem very important. Well, it isn't very important; it's a downgraded package but let's get it anyhow here." And you are going on. "All right, well what — who or what would oppose a police official?" "Oh, a crook, a criminal, a blackmailer, a this, a that, the city hall, the mayor, the this, that." We make a nice, long list of "Who or what would oppose a police official?" you see. Ah, that's good — that. We finally null it all out — that he did — don't null it all out and he says, "Well, are there any more?" He's saying, "No, no, I don't think there are." He said, "Well it's still ticking on the meter here."

It's what's called "bleeding the meter" for additional terminals, see.

"Are there any more?" You say, "Oh, well, if it comes to that there could be a father, a mother, a woman of ill fame. I think that's all." "All right, well good. Are there any more? There's still a action here on this Mark IV; there's still an action." "Well, well, a wife, a wife, of course — well, there's always a wife — everybody knows that." And we put that down and he nulls them all out carefully and you find yourself sitting there with "a wife." See?

You look this over, whether you run it or not, and all of a sudden: Marcab Confederacy, cleaning out the police station, clean floors — "Oh, no, that's why we lost that city! Now we know!" Of course, you're the only one that knows. The other birds had their terminals and their reasons for losing the city. But all gets revealed and it's such a relief because it has been a problem ever since.

So the Goals Problem Mass package itself introduces so many problems into life and action that it itself becomes a problem. And then everything you do and why you do it becomes a problem and that is why it turns into this horrible mess. Because problems are just added to problems, added to problems, added to problems till everything you do is a problem. You can't do anything without having an opposition terminal, without having it lock up on something.

And you try to run these — you try to run these out as an engram or something of the sort. It doesn't run. Why doesn't it run? You have to run the whole Goals Problems Mass before it's finally run out. But it discharges the other way.

That's 3D in action. I have given you too simple a look on how to run it. I assure you there can only run — be run with the greatest expertness of E-Metering. But it can be run. Auditors can run it. They are capable of running it; they are capable of learning these skills when they study them hard. And pcs can live through it. Even I. Even I. So, you, of course, could live through it — that would be much easier.

But en route you have your doubts as to whether you could live through it or not and those doubts may or may not be well founded depending on how well your auditor is trained.

Thank you.

Thank you.