Now, we've been running on these cases some Admiration Processing and we've been giving a lot of explosions.

The only reason... Actually, the most interesting case is the Step I case. This is the most interesting case, immediately. You get the Step I case - pain! - out they go, and the person becomes quite interested in life and it's interesting processing - it's very interesting processing and so forth. It's very razzle-dazzle. You take a Step I, exteriorize him, then you run the rest of the steps.

Any of these - in the business of trying to achieve a technique effect on a preclear - business of trying to achieve an effect upon the preclear - I refer you to The Factors.

But the funny part of it is, is - that's - that's interesting but a Step I, actually, has just got a little more life in him. He's a little more closely into life in general and existence in particular, and he has a considerable amount of spare energy. That's what's happening in his case.

Somebody who is dead again Scientology said that "He seems to attach considerable importance to this, although we can't figure it out ourselves." I dropped him back a note. I said, "That isn't all you can't figure out about it." But anyway, the - yeah, that's right, and didn't mail the note.

Well now, this case is quite interesting in that any process will work on it - any process, it doesn't matter. Even Freudian psychoanalysis occasionally will work on it. Psychology and so forth, when they've gotten any result at all were working on this case. Of course, they didn't differentiate between person and person. They were - there was no breakdown or examination. Nobody had looked. That was essential in the observation of the mind - for somebody to look. And possibly if I've done anything at all, I came along and took a look. And that's about all.

I was quite struck by the fact that people who are very afraid of effects being created upon them, and so on, seem to be very afraid of The Factors, into the fact that they don't understand them and so forth. Actually, it's very clean. There's been no alteration in The Factors. I mean, that's The Factors. And these were The Factors simply because they are the components back of the things preclears start running into. And I put them together like that, figured them out and let them roll.

But the biggest piece of work as far as a therapy is concerned that's been done here in the last twenty-five years is a classification of cases. There was a fellow by the name of Craplan - I mean, Kraepelin, excuse me. He was a German. He put into existence the only category of insanities. He just - so you see how low scale this operation was: we put into existence a category of insanities but didn't put into existence a category of human beings.

Now, you have cause and effect and the cause is trying to achieve an effect and the effect is simply attention, so that you have attention in between the cause and effect there. You can't achieve an effect on anybody unless you get their attention. That's an interesting fact, if you look around, a very simple fact. But attention belongs in there really, but there isn't any reason to have it there; it says it later in The Factors. Just call to your attention the fact that an effect cannot be achieved without getting somebody's attention.

Well, anyway, this fellow Kraepelin-K-r-a-e-p-e-l-i-n - up and did the most remarkable interlocked classification of cases you ever wanted to see; it's just fabulous. That thing, it goes on, there's just box after box into which you could slip this category or that category or cross-category. And goes on for page after page of descriptions of what these categories are. And the last category on the thing - the last category on the thing is "other classifications." It's like the secretary who kept an excellent file system - she kept excellent file system - except all the drawers were empty except the one marked "miscellaneous." And that is exactly the state of insanity classification in the world today: all the drawers are empty except "other classifications."

Well, all right. Let's take a preclear with his attention scattered all over the place and let's try to cause an effect on him. Now, a person actually diverts and disperses his attention so an effect can't be caused on him. Works both ways.

Male voice: Did you read about the latest meeting of the Psychiatric Association where Menninger recommended that they abandon all those classifications and only classify them as to the intensity of the insanity?

So here you have - an effort to raise the attention or awareness level of the preclear is fought immediately by the fact that the preclear does not want his awareness level picked up. Because when you pick up his awareness level you make him more liable to an effect being caused upon him, right? You bring up an attention level, he thinks immediately that you're going to increase pain on him. Oho!

Oh, really?

Feeling is condensed looking. If his attention is very dispersed and he is very condensed, he feels pain very, very sharply and extremely. But if he does not have this factor of condensation, he does not feel the pain as his awareness goes up; it's awareness of looking, not awareness of feeling. And he becomes less and less liable to pain the more and more aware he becomes. Your preclear doesn't know this and you needn't tell him. But that is your preclear fighting feeling.

Male voice: Yeah.

Fighting feeling is very, very strange. Anybody starts fighting feeling, they start condensing looking. They only start fighting feeling when they find their looking getting condensed. So the first thing they did was start to fight looking and then they started to fight feeling. And after they'd fought feeling for a little while, they started to feel pain.

Have you read about the one about the stockyards? Have you read about that meeting out in the stockyard? They got a bunch of pigs in from Iowa and they had - they had a fact that they had to be hit over the head faster.

It is the preclear's energy itself, which, by resisting the incoming condensation of particles, causes the pain - the sensation known as pain. The resistance of the GE causes the pain. That's the preclear, as far as you're concerned with Homo sapiens.

Male voice: Yeah, that's right!

If the GE didn't resist, he wouldn't feel any pain. That's the old trick of the MEST universe. You get somebody fighting something, he fights them more and more, he gets more and more condensation; and the first thing you know it can hurt him. He starts (quote) "feeling bad about something." And would you believe it, that very low on the Tone Scale you can actually give somebody a piece of news or you can give them some slight remark, and they get the actual sensation of pain. This is because they are down to a point where feeling is moving into thinking, and their thinking is getting condensed. And when thinking gets too condensed, it is a painful thought.

That's about the same deal, isn't it?

Now, if you can conceive of a juggernaut moving in on somebody: At first it's at two light-years, and so on; it condenses a little bit. And after he [it] comes in a ways, why, he can (quote) "feel the juggernaut." And when the juggernaut comes in very, very close to him, indeed, he would start to get a very solid sensation and when - he'd feel the effort of the approach of the juggernaut. I beg your pardon, let me put the inner step in there. He'd - as it came in, he would start feeling emotional about the juggernaut; he would be upset and afraid about the juggernaut. And then as it came in closer he would feel the effort of trying to push the juggernaut away long before it touched any object from which he was operating, and we get in this wise emotion and effort. And then we get - what do you know - as it pushes on in we get thinking. After the juggernaut ran over him, he would sit there and think about it for a while.

Male voice: Yeah. Well, don't - don't misunderstand me, now. Nothing was done; it was tabled.

Now, when he first starts looking, he is totally capable of thinking about juggernauts very freely and they probably don't worry him very much, except as their aesthetics might impinge themselves upon his lookingness. He is capable at that extension of mocking up a sensation. But in starts the juggernaut and from just looking we get into a band of emotion about juggernauts, and from emotion we get into effort about juggernauts, and from efforts we get into physical pain - and we're going down into the second band now about juggernauts - and when we get into physical pain we then get into thinking about juggernauts again. And there is what's known as "circuitry": low-toned thinking. What kind of thinking is it? Well, it lies under pain.

Wonderful. Wonderful. Well, they wouldn't know an insane person if they saw one, unless they looked in the mirror. But they...

There is, by the way, a whole series of these possible as you saw in the Doctorate tapes. There is thought-emotion-effort, thought-emotion-effort, thought-emotion-effort, thought-emotion-effort.

Male voice: Time article - that's Time magazine data.

And actually, there's a tiny, tiny gradient scale of effort lower than thinking about the juggernaut. There's also a little emotion lower than thinking about the juggernaut, you see?

Yeah. Well, that's their best - that's their official journal: Time magazine. They don't have another one. There's one up in Canada that's published and it says it's the journal of the American Psychiatric Association but it's just up in Canada. It doesn't do anything. It won't print any data. Any article sent to it and so forth kind of gets tabled, too.

Pain, as we experience pain, lies at about 1.8 on our Tone Scale. So you see where most of our preclears, when we first pick them up, are liable to be operating below the level of pain. So you start turning on their awareness and they have the sensation that if somebody yanked something away from them, it'd hurt badly.

Well, regardless of their undoubtedly sincere efforts, they have modified this Kraepelin school of classification and brought it down to a point where the other classification is slightly bigger. And their - this was - this was the way they were looking at human beings.

Well, all right, let's get somebody carrying something away, and we get the sudden stretch of condensation and it starts stretching this band. And so from thinking about it he goes into an effort about it which goes into an emotion about it which goes into looking at it. As something traveled away from him and stretched his lookingness, then this is what would occur; he would go through those bands as he started on up the Tone Scale. There isn't any real reason why he should go up Tone Scale by stretching the bands - no. But that's why your preclear hates to give up anything and your psychotic is dismally, morbidly afraid of giving up anything.

Now, the other way they were doing it was with IQ; they classified everybody according to IQ. We've made an interesting finding on the subject of IQ. We talk about IQ because out in the public, people know what you mean when you say IQ, they think. They think you mean somebody that's smart. Well, they themselves know when people are smart and know when people are dumb and so when they say high IQ, they're taking the immediate tabulation of the mind with regard to IQ.

As you watch a psychotic deteriorate or as you watch a very neurotic person deteriorate or a normal - you watch them going on through life, they get in worse and worse shape, they become more and more concerned with pain in their body. And after they get down so low they go through various bands of it. They get down so low they are concerned about actual physical pain, and then they get concerned about being hurt emotionally, and then they get concerned about - afraid to think a thought because it's so painful. This is - then they're afraid to let go of anything because they know the hell of a time they had getting that condensed. They know this. If there's anything they know, they know that if they uncondensed, it's going to have to go back across the time track again; you're going to have to go back into the past, naturally.

But these tests that have to do with IQ are quite fascinating. The highest IQ cases that were discovered - British schools - it was found that they could not mock up anything they hadn't seen. Now, here was - here's something very interesting. We had a high IQ case of a - here was a boy and he could mock up the teacher and he could mock up a glass of beer, because he'd seen both of those; but he couldn't mock up the teacher drinking a glass of beer because he'd never seen that. This boy's grades were very poor and his IQ was very high. And if you look through American universities you will find this relatively uniform. You'll find continually - you'll find always the dean has these IQ cases on the carpet saying, "You had a very high IQ according to your psychology department tests and so you haven't any good grades and so we know you're not studying." And this is routine.

Why? Because these things are going to stretch and they will stretch from thinking (circuitry), into effort, into emotion, into looking with all those little gradients. You see, it goes down scale. It goes look - look belongs in there - look, emotion, effort, think; look, emotion, effort, think; look, emotion, effort, think. That's the way it looks on - as you graph it.

Now, IQ by their classification has nothing really to do with figuring out a single problem. What it has to do with is eidetic memory. Now, although eidetic memory is the index of intelligence quotient in most cases, you've got a gradient scale of it.

Well, all right. You pull out anybody's anchor points and it hurts. One thing they're afraid of is ridicule. So loss actually does terrible things to somebody, because you yank out the anchor points and what they do is to go through this think - thinkingness of thinking they have been pulled back out again. And this, of course, makes loss painful.

In the tests, by the way, just in passing, if you don't think it is eidetic memory, you know these comparison levels: "Find the square that is the same as the other square"? You know, that's one of their standard questions. The fellow has to carry the image of the square across to the other square. So you have just a momentary eidetic proposition; they're still measuring an eidetic situation.

All right, this is very obvious to you, but you have here a problem of attention. Nineteen fifty we were talking about attention units: too many attention units lost in the bank. Well, the person gets too many attention units pushed in on him. He's given attention units; they've been pushed in. And as these are pushed in they come back to a heavy, heavy condensation, and when that condensation gets really condensed, they get fresh out of units.

There is no test anywhere that says, "Look. What is this?" See, "What's this?" There isn't one where you have a pig - picture of a pig or a picture of a psychiatrist or picture of a dog, anything like that - and it says, "What is this?" and you write down "psychiatrist" or "dog" or "pig" or whatever it is. There's no such test. You have to carry from one side of the column to the other side of the column - you have to carry a picture over to the other side and compare it to some other picture. And, of course, this is not necessarily the way people think at all.

Do they at any time ever get an attention unit really trapped anywhere in the bank? No, they don't. Not one. But they're afraid to have any out there.

Now, psychology, although it uses this as its sole medium - it's whether or not a person can remember what the model they satisfy applies to and all that sort of thing, and you study a chart that gives you the parts of a heart and then they give you another piece of paper and you mark down the parts of the heart on the other piece of paper. This is intelligence - real real real rare. And when it's not that, it's arithmetic, which is essentially the same thing: it's how well a person can hold an eidetic picture and re - misidentify it with another one or something.

Now, you could take a low-toned preclear and he will actually be able to emanate attention units. He can throw flitter around like mad; I mean, I don't even care if he's occluded, you could still get him to throw out flitter. You just say, "All right, start throwing it out," and he'll throw out flitter. You can throw it out for a long time. Of course, that isn't the important flitter. He already knows that because every time he throws out this flitter... Flitter are these little gold sparks that comes off thetans. All right. You can call it flitter. In Hollywood they call that stuff gold powder that goes on hair wigs and sometimes they even use it on stationery and so forth - that's flitter. All right.

This gorgeous system is completely cancelled by the statement of psychology itself in its textbooks, and it says in these textbooks that eidetic recall is possible in children and morons. And although they have - they have in two or three books - rare books, hardly ever used in psychology departments - they... And remember that you can find an awful lot of stuff out across the world - you can find a lot of Dianetics, you can find a lot of Scientology in terms of a sentence here and a line there.

This flitter, as it emanates, restimulates old lookingness (because they've kept that old lookingness handy, because it's been pushed in on them), and they resisted and something resisted them. And the thing that resisted them they weren't taking any responsibility for because they were standing and looking at it as it came in. And they were - wanted an effect from it! And by wanting an effect from it, they, of course, were able, then, to be an effect of it. They wanted the effect of long-range looking; they wanted to examine it and its aesthetics.

What is the main line of action? And you won't find books which contain this sort of thing kicking around in these departments. You can always find a rare book someplace that's got a line in it, but is this the book that's being used? That's something else. Just to prevent this from - sort of thing from getting too confused, by the way, I took the last psychology textbook - University of Illinois - off the press. And it went off the press immediately before Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health. The last book of that issue went pop! pop! through the board machine of the American Book Company and the - immediately, the first book of Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health went through the hardboard machine. In other words, these two editions -the last textbook on psychology and the first textbook on sanity and reason - followed each other through the printing presses of the American Book Company.

All right. As it jams up on them, and so on - because they basically - the first postulate is they want the effect on it - it basically goes right on down Tone Scale. It isn't true that all thought is caused by impact per se; it is thought - it is a fact that all aberrated thought is caused by an impact - primary impact. All right. An impact would go through that gradient scale.

Well, in view of the fact that I knew in a few years psychology would have "known it all, all the time" and would have had it mixed up, I took care to pick up the last textbook that went off the press immediately before Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health, then. And I have that textbook today.

Well, let's look at this for a moment and find out something from it. Let's find out, then, that subjective running goes just so far because you're doing an introvert, you see? You're - introvert, introvert, introvert, introvert, on and on and on and on and on with very little extroversion. And so after a while the body gets sort of - it gets - it gets pretty, pretty bad off. You keep throwing things into restimulation and not throwing them out. Even though you're burning them down, you're operating in close to the GE which is the level of pain or at least emotion, and certainly effort. But as far as the GE is concerned, you start throwing him into these various restimulations.

Very interesting thing. Said man must adjust himself to his environment - that's the first thing it says. And it goes on and on and on. And they're all slavery tenets: All talent immediately derived from neurosis. Oh, it's just an incredible book. I mean, you wouldn't put a bad book like that in people's hands and yet that was psychology.

Now, Admiration Processing and explosions, each one, will have this effect upon them. This is your subjective technique which is also called the limited technique. And this material, then, which has turned up and which is banished, one way or the other, has this secondary effect. If you're a Step I, you care to shift your wavelength around, you will be able to perceive ridges. These are very interesting. The GE is so dependent upon his own network of ridges, upon his own network of old communication lines, in order to get stimulus-response and training patterns back into action again, the thetan, in handling the GE, is so dependent upon these ridges that both the body and the thetan start to go into apathy when too many of them get dissolved.

Psychology today is getting deluded. So is medicine. I don't care what they're calling Dianetics - it's starting to pop up all over the place. You get Reader's Digest now, three years after the fact - two and a half years after the fact - carried a medical article on prenatals. You've got - oh, there are numerous, numerous examples; there's no reason to go into it. Well, this just demonstrates how you can poison a whole culture with reason. All right.

How would you like to take a great big tractor and start burning down all of its control buttons? Just start shorting out its control buttons so that it had - the driver then had to find another way to control the tractor. The tractor, of course, would for a while drive much less easily although its machinery was still all intact. Its control buttons, its ridges, its stores of fuel and so on, all these things are being tampered with on close-up auditing. This doesn't say that it will hurt anybody over a long period of time to chew up some of these ridges.

Here's eidetic recall, though. Nobody added up eidetic recall or classified eidetic recall beyond saying it was a part of idiots and morons, and somebody had made some tests on eidetic recall and found out people could recall things that they had heard or seen.

But after you've - if you could stand up above a preclear and watch Admiration Processing or explosions be run on him, you would see that it's chewing up ridges. It's going to make a mess out of him sooner or later. This isn't going to hurt him any. That stuff will blow away. He could actually put it into other space - yesterday, something of the sort; just other space - and he would be rid of it. But the trouble is, he is a machine which is running almost exclusively upon just this factor and no other factor: the ridge. He depends on everything from this ridge.

Now, they tried to apply something like psychoanalysis - they applied it as a gunshot. They did not classify - they did not classify any case according to manifestation. Now, that's great, isn't it? They classified the case according to - I don't know - cribbage or something of the sort; it was that weird.

Ridges are very amazing. Now, sometime you want to make this experiment. You ask a preclear to be out somewhere in front of his body; he'd have to be a pretty good Step I; he'd have to be pretty well run in order for the fellow to do this. But - because people don't like to get in front of their bodies - they think they've blown through them and this is upsetting to them. They've gone all the way through. This scares them.

They'd give him an examination. He was supposed to write things. There's something known as the "Szondi." It's about as close as it comes to "looking" as an IQ test. The Szondi is terribly interesting because they have a picture of - I don't know how many - it's several sets of insane people. And the patient is supposed to look over these sets of insane people and find out which one he likes best - of course, he doesn't like any of them - out of each set. And then this is classified and marked on a little scale. And then the next day he does the same thing. And the next day he does the same thing. I - it's more complicated than that, of course. I mean, it's which one he likes best and which one he likes least and you take the three that are the intermediate and - I don't know, it's real weird.

The psychotic, by the way, is nearly always out in front of his face looking back. A neurotic occasionally is too. Every once in a while you'll find a perfectly sane thetan out there too. This thetan is in front of the body. The thetan is high Tone Scale. He isn't operating inside the body, but he walks out in front of the body, and he keeps hauling the body along, see, if the thetan is in a hurry and the body is pretty slow, and so on. The thetan will get over that and he'll eventually get back of it.

He does this day after day, see. And then you know how they adjudicate this at the end? Well, they find out which face he most favored. And this face, of course, is a type of insanity because these pictures were taken in German asylums. And this type of insanity, then, is evidently - you would say immediately that's what he's got. No, that isn't the case. You'd think it would have something to do with that. But it doesn't. It depends upon the sensitivity of the operator.

A thetan, by the way, really trying to control a body wouldn't control it from the back, he'd control it from the front. So - but, nevertheless, low on the Tone Scale they get blown out front and they don't know they're out front of the body and they're very puzzled about the whole thing. They're out front of the body looking forward through a circuit which goes back around like a couple of loops, enters the body's head and looks forward again through the eyes. Therefore, you have the picture of a man looking through himself continually. This is the case in some occluded cases, but not all of them.

They spend years training a Szondi operator and then the classification then depends upon his sensitivity. I can't quite find out what the Szondi test has to do with the adjudication on the part of the operator. And I've looked in vain in the textbooks. I've tried to find out what the pictures had to do with it and I can't find out. I keep asking questions - embarrassing questions like "Well, now, let's see. If he uniformly favored schizophrenic faces, would he then have schizophrenia?"

The occluded case is trying to look through his own head, which is an occlusion. He's looking through the body's head on a circuit, which is then looking through his own head. And he gets his re-perceptions, and so on, simply by looking out in front of himself, which goes on a big two - double curve loop, which goes back through the body's head, which goes back through the optical nerves. He's got to have eyes! He knows this.

"No, it would show an index of inclination toward a certain type of introversion manifested by a petrograd over on the other side of the billywomps."

All right. This is not true and don't immediately assume that your own case, if you happen to be an occluded case, naturally falls in this category; it doesn't. Although some occluded cases become very, very funny after a good, solid process is run on them or something. They'd say, "My God! I'm looking at my own eyelids. I've been looking at my own eyelids for a long time." Or "Of course it's dark in here." Just that. "Of course it's dark in here. Nobody ever wired it up with electric lights or anything." They're very funny.

And you say, "No, no, no. No, no, no. We're - I hope we're still talking in English or German or something. Now, let's go over this again slowly." Doesn't matter how many times you go over it slowly. Looking at all these tests is just like talking to a gibbering idiot. Nobody got in and looked at classifications of cases. Because nobody had a process, I guess.

Now, a preclear yesterday was telling us about globs of energy drifting by, and so on. A fellow gets in the middle of a whole bunch of impacts and part of this material gets dissolved, part of his ridges get dissolved, and then he never puts them into yesterday because he knows they're valuable and he needs them. This is a postulate that's on this ridge: "I've got to have it." And he doesn't let go of this energy. He just keeps it around, keeps it around, keeps it around. But all of this is computational information that he keeps it around and why he keeps it around and that he isn't responsible, but he is responsible; that he wants to be helped, but he doesn't want to be helped. That's all computational circuitry. What we're interested in is the fact that he is in mechanical trouble; he's in a mechanical difficulty and nothing else.

But the idea was - the idea was that you could transfer to a piece of paper - now, get this - you could transfer to a piece of paper certain reactions on the part of a person and then by some other system take the piece of paper and make it tell you. See? You get the unreality of this? In other words, we had to go into symbols before we could look.

And that mechanical difficulty is - stems from the characteristic, basically, of explosions and the characteristic of space. Space first and then, being space, these explosions start entering. Well, he gets this stuff adrift and he doesn't want to get away with it - rid of it and he doesn't want to throw it away. And he's had some explosions in his own life and after that his visio wasn't so good or something like that.

The bog-down of psychology, the bog-down of language, communication and everything else, is an emphasis on symbols to make them more important than anything real. The symbol becomes reality. And the symbol then is reality. And you'll go around and find that doctors will very, very - they'll look at you and think they're saying something intelligent. And they will say, "Well, this person has erysipelas”.

But remember, this fellow is still in pretty good shape; he can see with his eyes; he can drift around. And having been scared once, he doesn't want to be scared twice - another computational datum. What he's really afraid of is getting those anchor points stretched out again, oh brother. Oh brother, he doesn't want those anchor points stretched out again. Every time you run into blackness you've got pain - every time. And when you start to dissolve that blackness, you start to bring that pain into view. And this becomes an interesting thing. You start to dissolve blackness, you'll run into pain.

And you say, "What is erysipelas?"

When you get an old (quote) "Fifth Invader body" - a Fifth Invader body composed of nothing but blackness, and this blackness is extremely difficult to handle. Why? It was used covertly. You can take a black piece of energy and blow it up in a black vacuum in such a way as to destroy somebody else's mock-up and then you can say, "Me? I didn't do it. What happened?" Cute, huh? It's a dramatization of the explosion.

And they say, "Erysipelas is a disease."

You get that? It's a dramatization of the end of the explosion. You blow somebody up with black energy in a black explosion and then they don't know quite what happened. See that?

"Well, what does it do?"

Male voice: Oh yeah!

Well, they can tell you more or less what erysipelas does.

Okay. What do you run on an occluded case?

But you say, "Well, all right. Now that we've got the classification of what the thing - what is the rest of the treatment?"

Female voice: Black explosions, perhaps.

"Well, he has erysipelas."

Ah.

You say, "Wait a minute. What are you going to do for him now?"

Female voice: Explosions.

"Oh, I don't know. Some rest, something of the sort, and so on."

How long do you run it?

But this fellow was working and these clinics were working and these technicians all down the line with radiographs and everything else were working to find out what was wrong with a human being. And then they finally came up with the fact he had erysipelas and then they forget him.

Female voice: Whew! Poom!

That tells you a very fascinating manifestation: They want to find out the significance of something and then they've got the significance of it the second they have a name for it. All they got to have is a name for it. If you've got a name for it, that's by labeling.

How long do you run it?

Now, you very often find this in a case: A person has been given a name and so now he's solved. You've solved something by giving it a symbol. Well, that's really to bog it down madly.

Male voice: Two years.

Now, just look at that. Your case that you look at in the auditing chair: the first thing that's wrong with him, of course, is that he's bogged down with symbols. And as he has been bogged down with symbols, in direct ratio to the amount he's been bogged down with symbols - direct ratio - why, the further down the number of steps he is. And so by looking at the manifestations of how they were trying to classify insanity itself and the modus operandi of psychology and medicine, we could come around with that; and looking, we could find on the one hand that we had symbols as the main difficulty. And then we found out that people were buried deeper and deeper into symbolization. And as they are buried deeper and deeper into symbolization, they become less and less alive. That's really about all you can say about it.

Male voice: Ten or twenty.

Now, your - actually, your Step I case is not very deep into symbolization. But your wide-open case, which is below the occluded case by a long distance - dub-in and so forth - is completely bogged and almost gone on symbolization. In other words, this eidetic quality reechoes at the bottom of the scale. So don't make a mistake about it. Don't make a mistake.

Why - why do you - why do you want to compare time with it? You run it till he's Clear. Isn't that simple? Who cares how long it takes? The fact of the matter is it doesn't take very long.

If this person is giving you all the manifestations of "Well, I don't know," or "I guess you could say that," and they can't work, and they're - they don't work and they operate in various ways low on the Tone Scale, such as a slow communication lag (that's the most reliable index we've got - I'll tell you why in a minute). As we go down the line, why, we find this person is slower and slower, less and less able to move. They're getting down into symbols but in earnest. And a word to a psychotic is like a block of stone. You ask them about a word - poom. Another thing that goes wrong with them is their sense of humor.

Now he, by the way, is apt to become a little bit interested in his daily work or interested in going someplace and being something else for a while. He gets a little bit disinterested in keeping his appointments. If you have to run this more than two or three sessions, he gets downright worried about this because this stuff hurts. If he's a really heavy, rough job of an occluded case, it's painful.

We get this person going down scale, and if we could weigh words - wonderful phrase to appear in a bank - if we could weigh words, we would find that the word of a Step I had very close to zero weight - very close to zero, probably one microgram; a word probably was one microgram, maybe less than that. But a Step VII, a word weighs at least two or three hundred pounds. See? Now, just - just notice that as your cases go down the line. Now, that's really the only thing that sanity has in common.

Because of course you run at the same time the last moments of all explosions. You start running black explosions and you'll start running the last moments of white explosions. And they really hurt! And so do the black explosions; they really hurt, too.

But there is a curve on the track. Of course, there always would be. There is a real curve on the track that has to do with occlusion. And the occluded case is not necessarily a step of a case. Occlusion is a condition. So that you could have a Step I with a broken leg and you could have a Step I with an occlusion. Same - same deal, see.

Now, you can tell these people, you just say, "You got a black field?" or "Is there any - do you have any blackness or any trouble with blackness?" "You ever been afraid of the dark?" or a few dozen other questions like that. If they start telling you "Yes," well, you just start running some black explosions on them, but for God's sakes vary it with Six Steps to Better Beingness. Now, this is a faster technique than you've been using. It's faster. Okay.

It doesn't mean that that Step I's words weigh more. Now, we aren't departing from our system. You could restore to an occluded case - you could restore to him his sonic and visio, something like that, and then look around promptly - you know, I mean, you get away with this blackness, you get the blackness out of the road and you all of a sudden find out that he's occupying VI. Or you could all of a sudden find out he was occupying I.

The occluded case will discover some interesting things when he starts running black explosions. Where do you put them? Oh, you just throw them out there the way you do any explosions. Close? Well, if you want to. Do they explode for any reason? No. Do you run them in brackets? Yes, you run them in brackets. You get this explosion - black explosion - in brackets.

The gradient scale is the gradient scale of the reality of recall. The gradient scale of the reality of recall is the gradient scale of the weight of words. So we start from a Step I and recall is very good and very sharp and very unnecessary; to a Step VII, where recall is so important that it is more important than present time, which puts him in the past.

Now, it's quite variable. You'll find out from various times that he's got different black things exploding because there's a large characteristic - there's a large class of this characteristic energy.

Now, this is a scale not directed toward - SOP 8 scale is not directed toward classification of cases. We didn't put it together for that. It is a classification of techniques to resolve cases. And because of this curve on the track, it isn't a perfect comparison. The curve is simply blackness.

So let's - let's look at the large class. What is it? First we start out with screens. A protective screen is quite ordinarily black. It's something you can hide behind. The fellow - you can make black energy; anybody can make black energy. You just say it's black energy and there it is.

The blackness is not - get this very plainly - the blackness is not, no time, an index of the IQ, the recall ability, the operation or the level of motion of a case. It's completely unreliable. Because there are black-field cases that are just high up and raring to go. And there are black-field cases in the insane band. And there are cases which, the second you get rid of that occlusion, they exteriorize - bang! And there are cases which, after you've exteriorized them they operate beautifully, but remain occluded when they're in their head.

All right, so this fellow is standing there innocently with a protective screen and he doesn't want to be shot up at the particular moment. Some other thetan thinks this is a wonderful joke and so he blows up the guy's screen. He just puts some power and force into the middle of the screen and it goes kapam! And there is a kind of black explosion.

So, don't keep falling across occlusion as the monitoring value. I'm just trying to - trying to give you that because the occluded case will impress upon you harder than it's worth, see? This occlusion is taking a greater importance than it has. And if we wish to understand a clear path on the gradient scale of sanity, it isn't occlusion that is part of that track. You understand? Occlusion is a manifestation.

There's various other ways that black explosions are made, but you want to watch your preclear. You'll get the most real reality there is by taking a small black piece of something or other and putting it out there - making a black piece and making it explode. See? I mean, you put the blackness there and then let it explode rather than just have black explosions all over the place. This runs out various things. Runs out screens and so forth. You could do that in brackets, and you can do various things with it. Or you just run black explosions and let him make them any way he wants to.

Now, we'll take a Step I and we will take some black tar or black paint and we will paint his face with it. Now, when we've done this, does this alter his IQ? Does it? No, it doesn't alter his IQ.

Now, you've got to do some of that running of "he just makes black explosions the way he can make black explosions." And you don't have to worry about what you do, at least - you'll find these black explosions quite often with an occluded case only half explode. So you want to occasionally run no black explosions. "Now get a no black explosion out there." Of course, his immediate suppression turns on and the explosion goes poom! You see how that is? His suppression of the explosion when it happened to him was sufficiently great that he could start stopping these explosions. But do you really have to worry about that? No, you don't, because if you just ran enough explosions, why, that suppression would go too.

Well, this occlusion is just a foolish kind of energy and you can find it turning on suddenly on almost any case and turning off suddenly. And what it is, is a manifestation of energy which is not necessarily a absence of anything - it is itself. Get that very plainly. It is itself. It is another perception; it is another kind of energy. And just because we don't see very much black energy traveling down power lines is no reason why energy can't be black. That would be the dirtiest trick of all: to invent a black energy which would make somebody invisible in space. That would be the real slippy one. Or an energy which would blind somebody's mock-up in an awful hurry and he wouldn't even know it was arriving until it hit him. And that energy would be filled full of all sorts of things: occasionally lots of pain, occasionally lots of tiredness. In other words, there are various kinds of blackness. So we're looking at just another piece of energy.

Now, you'll get some beautiful somatics doing this and your preclear will get very, very - I mean, you get out of the preclear some beautiful somatics. You'll get some very interesting manifestations of physiological structure which your preclear was quite sure were part of the anatomy of the GE. He'll have big sheets of stuff parked in various parts of his body. This stuff starts to curl up and go this way and go that way. And the stickiness which he's been haunted with for some time starts to get quite soft. And then you'll think you've got the preclear all beautifully - because you've got the field clean for a change, and then you turn around, having cleaned the field beautifully, and he hauls in a lot more black space which you now have to blow up again.

Now, your wide-open case, or your - or your Step I, alike, don't even - the wide-open case often does, but the Step I almost never - they don't wince at a white explosion. But brother, they would certainly be upset at a black one. And that's why it's something you mustn't look at, is because it's a very painful type of energy. And it's just another piece of energy.

Now that you've started going on this, and he's found out there is a method by which it duplicates, he's going to be pretty sure that he doesn't have any more of this stuff in the bank. That's the only thing which makes it occasionally a lengthy project. Well, let's not worry too much about how much black there is in the bank; let's worry more about this: Let's get him by gradient scales to get sufficient reality on black explosions that he becomes confident of his ability to handle a black explosion. When he gets a certainty that he's handling a black explosion well, he then and only then is willing to stop pulling in pieces of black space to blow up. He stops running on the computation of "I've got to get it all," and so on.

Now, white explosions carry the immediate blackness which succeeds them as just simply an after-absence - an after-absence of light. And it looks intensely black. But this would lead one to believe immediately that there was no such thing as a black energy, that it was just an after-absence or burned-out particles. Well, - to explain it to people, I have often said, "Well, that's the case." But I'm telling you, for your edification, that there is such a thing as a black piece of energy which is not a burned-up particle; it's real live and it's real hot.

Now, the number of computations that come out of black explosions, and so on, are just countless. There's more reasons than you can possibly imagine. You'll find that he says, "Well, I got this body in an old Fac One which is two hundred thousand years ago," and he wants to tell you about this. The dickens with it. The dickens where he got that particular body and so forth. It might do him some good, but a couple of more black explosions deintensify any further interest in it.

See, it's not - just because we have the sun around all the time and we're looking at the sun and this particular part of the universe has an awful lot of white glowing energy in it, we overlook this black glowing energy. Oddly enough, you can see almost as well with black energy as you can with white energy. You get some kind of an idea: if you had a black radar beam which would yet register on a screen, it would still give you the outline of the oncoming ship or plane. It wouldn't matter what color the radar beam was as long as it could go out and reflect.

See, the covertness and the beautiful utility of the black explosion, and its intense superiority over a white explosion which discloses your whereabouts, makes this blackness to be exploded on the one hand quite valuable and on the other hand quite dangerous. So he both is holding on - and he's holding on to this thing because it's valuable, and on the other side of it he can't let go of it because it's dangerous. And so he gets caught between the devil and the deep blue.

So what it is, is motion of particles we're interested in in terms of energy, not the color of the particle. Get that very, very, very sharp; we're not interested in the color of the particle. There's red colored particles and green colored particles and blue colored particles and black colored particles and yellow colored particles, and they all alike perform like particles.

You'll find any preclear has got this. Now, so let's remember - let's remember when processing black explosions that the preclear is going to run them until he gets a good certainty on "Can he do it?" If he can have a black explosion at any time and it's a good black explosion, and boy, it really, really knocked things around, he thinks this is real good. Now, chunks of his own occlusion for the first time will start crumpling up on him.

The black in this universe becomes frightening because a person gets accustomed to seeing with white. So you move somebody who is accustomed to black energy suddenly into this universe and he becomes reaccustomed to seeing with white, and then all of a sudden he'll realize he's got a lot of blackness around and he gets very puzzled and confused and he doesn't know what to do with it. Because the after-image of white - a white flash ... People say, "What is the significance?" Well, it doesn't follow that a black particle only comes when you have a flash. It doesn't come only after the flash. Now, we'll go into that in a moment.

Now, you could run white explosions long enough - you read PAB 12. PAB 12 is explosion processing. And in PAB 12 it says run them backwards. See, that's a big joke. If you run an explosion backwards, it goes from nothingness to a black somethingness to a white somethingness to nothingness. That would be a backwards explosion. Well, some of these explosions would have blackness in them, start with whiteness, but this isn't true of all of them. There's just such a thing as nothing but a black explosion.

We've detoured for a moment by talking about this level of case. I'm just trying to show you that a person's recall in black, theoretically, is as much as a person's recall in white energy. You got it? You got a big difference here.

There was a shell in the Civil War which when fired from a field gun, blew up in the air and made a black puff of smoke. You find the Civil War in restimulation on most Fifth Invader cases. The Civil War is standing there as another lock on the case. Boy, those are valuable explosions. See, that's just wonderful. You could get out there and blow something up and the cops could never get near you - the engram cops.

I said to a fellow one time, I said, "Now, get a black in a coal cellar shoveling coal at midnight."

Male voice: Ack-ack fire in World War I German ack-ack fire.

And he said, "You know," he said, "that's the realest thing I ever saw." This case was what you'd call a Fifth Invader, just as a classification of cases. They all respond to this classification, that's the only reason we say that case was a Fifth Invader case. There are Fourth Invader people and Fifth Invader people. This is just E-Meter stuff we're using; we don't care anything about the history of the Fifth Invader Force and its first incursion into the MEST universe, Galaxy 12. That's just history and we're not interested in history; we're interested in conditions and the remedying of conditions - what a big difference.

German ack-ack fire. Again, black mushrooms.

You don't have to know anything about history to remedy a condition. For instance, you don't have to know anything about the history of the city hall to blow it up. Well, when you're really on the line with a good technique, you don't have to know anything about a preclear to blow his case up. That would be the optimum technique, wouldn't it? You'd blow his case up and leave him with good recall and the ability to handle energy and happy and unfettered. Well, swell. That's the way to go about that if you could just blow it up in some fashion or another so that - see? See, that'd be real, real good. You wouldn't have to know his history, would you?

Male voice: Mm-hm.

Well, many people bog down upon Fifth Invader, Fourth Invader, the past lives and so forth because they're more interested in history than they are in condition.

I imagine if you found a pilot that had been mixed up in that, if he had a Fifth Invader background, boy, is this guy thick. He's really got a pile of them.

Now, they very often will bog down on these things when their own condition starts to get solved. Now, you'd think, by the way, that a person would be more concerned with the past early in his processing than late. But there is a time as you go forward when a Step I becomes intensely interested in his track. Well, you have to sort of nurse him through that. The dickens with his track. It's left grief charges and every other doggone thing strewn around on it and it's quite important to him and one shouldn't just sneer at it and negate it, sure. But the same way, you're trying to blow up certain energy manifestations which are antipathetic to the optimum survival of the preclear. All right.

Well, all right, so we see that war and violence leaves its mark upon man. But it was not without fun early in the track - not without fun. Okay.

When we get down to the problem of classification of cases, we are going to run square into this: You, and your tendency, will be to say, "He is an occluded case and therefore Step V and therefore his sanity is so-and-so." You're very liable to do that, see. And that's - that's not - not right. His case solves at the fifth level.

Now, remember this is another subjective technique. It's a real good one. But it is another subjective technique, therefore should be varied with Six Steps to Better Beingness. But please don't pull this one; please don't do this: Don't run black explosions on a case on and on and on, getting better and better certainty on them, and more and more data and he's happier and happier about things, and go on and on and on, session after session after session running black explosions and Six Steps to Better Beingness and black explosions and Six Steps to Better Beingness, without sometime or another asking him to be three feet or three miles back of his head or be someplace in the universe where he'd like to be. Because after a relatively - after a relatively small amount of black explosions, a man may be able to exteriorize with great ease. And you'll find out that this blackness will turn up on Step I's.

Now, SOP 8, then, from I to VIII as it was - I to VII, rather. An additional technique we won't worry about; that's when they're dead - calling the dead back. I've just left it there, you see, waiting for a good, easy technique that might do this. Anyway, I'm - I think in - I wrote a story one time called "The Case of the Friendly Corpse," where a fellow brought a fellow halfway back to life. It was very messy because he kept rotting. Anyway. All right.

A Step I starts ramming around and making himself felt through the universe, and then all of a sudden he decides to be a little bit prankish or something, and it suddenly restimulates his index of black explosions. And he'll (quote) "Pull in a big piece of the black universe," and here we go. Now, you can get rid of it by running white explosions, too. But not anywhere near as fast as that much, much more valuable thing called a black explosion.

Now, don't use, then, for your pure classification of cases - if you must have a classification of cases, do not use SOP 8, Steps I to VII as the classification of cases. It is simply an approximation of techniques at various case levels. See? That's all it is.

Now, the thetan that went in for black explosions, I call to your attention strongly, was already at a level of no responsibility although he was probably in a level of high humor. Not only would he take no responsibility for the form of having randomity and blowing things up, but he wouldn't take responsibility for having blown something up.

Let's instead draw another set of case levels and call them A, B, C, D, E, F, G. And this would be the gradient scale of sanity. And it would be the weight of the word and the communication lag. You - it would be the plot of reaction time.

All of a sudden a fellow had a few screens sitting up there in front of some mock-ups. All of a sudden they went boom! boom! And then over his head another black explosion occurred. This very sympathetic thetan says, "Oh, I'm sorry. What happened to you?" The fellow says, "You did that to me!" "No, I didn't do that. Did what? It's probably because you put up those screens in such a way that they - the construction was imperfect or something like that and the screen itself blew up. Yes, if you'd built them better they wouldn't have blown up, of course."

It would be also the plot of symbols. Because the handling of the symbol is the communication index. How fast does the person handle a symbol? And if the symbol is heavier and heavier and more and more powerful and important to him, he of course handles it slower and slower.

Or a fellow sitting up in space minding his own business and all of a sudden there's boom! and he flies all over the place and he hasn't any idea exactly what happened to him because he didn't see a thing.

Therefore, I give you two scales. There's SOP 8 - Roman numerals: I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII. And there's gradient scale of sanity: A, B, C, D, E, F, G. These aren't completely comparison- comparable. You don't go from the SOP 8 over here to this gradient scale.

Furthermore, the point that throws out a black explosion is not disclosed. If there was no flash to gunfire, generals would be much happier. You locate machine gun nests and field guns and ships at sea simply by the explosion of their guns. They go "flack, flack, flicker, flicker, flick, flick, flick." All of a sudden somebody drops a barrage on them.

Well, let's look at the gradient scale. And we've already got this gradient scale and it's in the Tone Scale and that's been out since Science of Survival. And there's your gradient scale of sanity, which is the gradient scale of communication lag, which is the gradient scale of how heavy symbols are, which is the gradient scale of how far we've departed from looking.

So the thetan had to be in a situation already where he wouldn't claim his own explosions. So this gives us the interesting fact that if you find an occluded case and try to run Responsibility on the occluded case, the occluded case will not run Responsibility. Responsibility - he won't be cause. So therefore, we can say many things about blackness. It is symptomic [symptomatic] of no responsibility. It is symptomic [symptomatic] of not being cause. It is a desire to be effect. It is a lot of things, because all of this material was in the thetan early on the track.

Now, let's classify a symbol. A symbol is that thing which exists as a substitute for that thing which is. Now, you could then mess around and say, "Well then everything is a symbol." No, a symbol has this highly specialized classification: It is something which stands for a thing which is real.

And this particular crew of thetans with which we're dealing right now call themselves "Fifth Invaders," but that's kind of a silly one. There was no real Fifth Invader Force, but there was a Fourth Invader Force. But the Fifth Invader Force came along and it kind of got pulled into the whole deal.

A symbol is also a communication substitute for a real object. You cannot send the Empire State Building over a telegraph line. And so you would send the words Empire State Building - the words Empire State Building. That's real tricky. But don't - don't omit this. The very best way to do it would be to send it over a television line And you would send a picture of the Empire State Building.

There isn't any reason again, though, to worry about history, because what I'm talking to you about when I say Fifth Invader and Fourth Invader and so forth, I'm talking about para-Scientology. All we're interested in is getting somebody to get a certain kind of black explosion.

Ideographs are themselves very sane languages. Ideograph's a tremendously sane language. It's just a symbol which almost is the object, you see. It - they just send a picture of the object as near as they can manage it. Now, as that ideograph begins to decline, it begins to specialize. Now, you can trace in the Chinese language - if you've ever studied Chinese, and some of you may have - you can trace the word man. And the word man began with a picture of a man and then it be - had a dot, a slash, an inverted V at the bottom and a crossbar. And that today is written with just a little more stylization and is still the picture of a man.

Remember, it's a subjective technique. It should be interspersed with other techniques. And remember that you'll run into white explosions. And remember that you run black explosions in brackets and you'd better run a very full bracket. That is, one doing it to himself; somebody else doing it to themselves and other people doing it to other peoples and then another person doing it to the preclear and the preclear doing it to another person.

This makes the difficulties of something like three hundred thousand characters rather than a working language of - the college student uses in this country of; I think, three to five hundred words. And the college student uses three to five hundred words; a truck driver uses about fifteen hundred words; janitors use about twenty-five hundred. You get it? Anyway, the task of learning three hundred thousand words is a very difficult one.

And you start running this on a case and all sorts of stuff throws up and gets into view and all that sort of thing. It's terribly effective. Really grim! So we find out that explosions themselves are effective.

So, our whole problem in classification of cases is how far the symbol has gotten from the reality. But that's only for classification, it isn't for therapy. The mistake is to process symbols. You start processing symbols and you get further and further and further away from it. Now the very, very lowest you can go - just get this fairly clearly: to get a case to advance rapidly, you can't go into the symbolization of words as a practical measure as a process, if you want fast results. You can on very slow results.

Now, here is a peculiar explosion, and it seems to be the genus of the occluded case. The genus of the occluded case has been traced occasionally, on an - occasional cases, to something very remarkable to something else that's very remarkable.

Now, you can get a thought or a postulate. And that is the lowest level of thought - postulate. That would be about as far south as you could go to get fast results.

The guy is tearing like mad through space - more space opera, see - tearing like mad through space and he collides with something. And this fellow gets restimulated by driving fast at night. And he's got all that black space in front of him. Well, this isn't a case with a black explosion. You just start running this out, just the idea of going through space. Some of these cases you just throw them onto the E-Meter and you ask them something or other about where they are, and the next thing you know full recall turns on on the last between-lives. And the next thing you know the fellow has complete color, visio, sonic in full recall. We've had - we've had a very few cases who did this. Very fascinating, it happens so quick.

We're way above Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health which went into the processing of symbolization. Did a good job of it, too; took a long time. And only made, when you got through, Homo sapiens. And of course, Homo sapiens kept realizing he could be more, so a person after he'd had Dianetic processing would keep trying to charge up the line higher and higher and higher. And he's in better shape than any other Homo saps around him, but this isn't good enough. And he's just got to get out and get free and be exteriorized and go around and have a good time and not have a lot of the bad things in the society knocking him around that could. In other words, he wanted to get out of the level of - and the swim of agreement.

Well, all right. When you run thinkingness, then, you're running the extreme level of condensation - painful thinkingness. When you're running emotion - painful emotion - you're running another - another close-in level. So let's just move out to good, big violence. And let's move first into the most covert, good, big violence that we can move on an occluded case. And let's run black explosions because that's a covert violence at some distance.

Well, the number of people who want to get out of the swim of agreement, much fewer than the number of people who want to stay in it. Most of these people walking around down here, they don't know they're in any trouble. They haven't got any idea; you'd have to educate the hell out of them. They know they're going to die and go to hell and this isn't trouble - this is just what you accept. And this is - this is it. And they're trying like mad to agree with their neighbor. They think they're out of agreement with him or something. Of course, the harder - the harder they try to agree with him, the further they're going to get from him. And they're going down a dwindling spiral; it's just going to diminish with very great rapidity.

Male voice: There's no regulation against running this on unoccluded cases, is there?

Well, all right. Let's take, then, as what we have here - rather than wander around on it any further, let's just take a look at the gradient scale of sanity (this is not the gradient scale of processing); and find out that we have in it, as an index of the gradient scale of sanity, the gradient scale of motion - first index. Second index: gradient scale of space. Third index: gradient scale of symbols. Fourth index: the weight of a word, which is to say, the communication lag in this society of the person. The communication index - the weight of the word.

You're going to find that most cases run into an occlusion.

But that's a little bit different than the lag. If you fool around with many preclears you will find out that some of them get these words out by backing up... They get - they call the van and storage company and they get the truck backed up and they get several movers and each one of them grabs hold of a corner of this word and they get blocks and tackles on the thing and they get it out there one way or the other and knock the stairs to pieces and so forth. And when they get down into the truck, why, they pack it up very, very carefully and get their bills of lading on it and so forth. And then they ship it across the room to you and the back of the truck is opened and they get it out. And it's - it's really wonderful. They actually get down to where they're actually handling the most heavy objects you ever heard of.

Male voice: Ah.

Therefore, they specialize in an automaticity. They get some kind of a channel going, which is the moving van setup, you see, and they've really substituted a very, very heavy assembly line in its place - pardon me, an endless - belt system or something - and they've put this endless belt around permanently on people, and these words slide on down. You'll find out the words are just chatter. They're very, very light; they mean very little. And so this chatter serves as conversation.

We've been having a good time using this word "occluded" case, because occluded cases get so proud. But you get a Step I running around someplace, sooner or later he's going to run into a black theta trap whether you like it or not. He's going to run into some black energy someplace in space or he's going to find somewhere on the track that he had a big use for it. You get him into sorting through facsimiles.

You go into the insane asylum and you'll find out that they will just go endlessly over and over and over a certain line of chatter. That's because it's endless - belted and can go out to everybody; but they couldn't handle a real word. They've just got a ridge set up there and it just keeps chattering. They dramatize, in other words.

It's very interesting. You take a - take a Step I, and you start asking him for facsimiles. (We're not yet ready to talk very much about Step I.) You start asking him for facsimiles and he'll have whole stacks of facsimiles, and he'll say, "That's a funny thing. Here's a stack and it's all stuck together with blackness. I hadn't ever noticed that before." Well, he's got a black explosion in there he's saving. And it's covert and it makes him feel covert.

Now, the words they're really getting rid of are not communication. And when we say "communication," we have to have a meaningful interchange which has an understanding on both sides, and that's a communication. A person is out of communication many times even when he is operating with a barrage of words. Have you ever kept on talking sometime and realized that you were completely out of communication with who you were talking to?

Now, let's go into the last thing I think that you really ought to know about this is, condemn it, a black explosion case becomes much more covert when you start running black explosions. He can think of more things to do and more reasons why he's not responsible, because you're restimulating these - all these moments of irresponsibility on the track. And he could tell you more fairy tales about what he is doing. You just start running black explosions and it generates all this because this is in the bank. All this covertness is in the bank.

Now, the concern over communication deepens as the A, B, C, D, E, F, G level advances - concern over communications. Communications get terribly important. Too - and then they get too important to pass on. They're just getting heavier. You'd think they had real mass.

So you start running a black explosion on an E-Meter and you'll be a happier auditor. When the explosion goes off; the needle will jump. You can always see an emotion on the needle.

It gets fascinating what will happen in comm systems where you slide in people at various levels of the Tone Scale. And what do you know, this is an actual operating comm system that has little pieces of paper with words on them going through it. And you put on the various posts - I've made this test - you put on the various posts, people who are measured up against the Tone Scale, and sure enough, the communication system operates at that point just like it says on the Tone Scale.

Now, in running explosions, if you want to get a much, much happier reading on the E-Meter that gives you lots less action on the E-Meter - you want just the explosion on the E-Meter - you'll set the sensitivity knob down. On the old AR-50, I mean old-the old HR-53, I think I used to run that at 5. Yes, I used to run the sensitivity needle at 5 and a little bit below 5 for explosions. And then the needle would just twitch a little bit and you could just sit there happily watching the needle twitch. And all other manifestations just go through the machine; they're unrecorded.

I made this as not an arbitrary level at all. I just noted how a communication system was operating and then had somebody else classify the people in the communication system without having observed how it was operating, and the two of them merged. One is a carbon copy of the other one. In other words, the behavior of the communication at the various relay points in the communication system depended upon the position on the Tone Scale of the people who were handling those communications. And both of them were separately assessed and they both made a blanket over each other. They just went together.

There are a lot of things that happen with regard to black explosions, a lot of things that happen to the guy's bank and internally and so forth. But watch out that this doesn't happen to you: that a demon comes up and you get interested in the demon rather than in continuing the case. As I said, many interesting things show up. This is the black witch doctor from Haiti who is running the preclear; he's black. He's got a black body and there's this black demon that has always been hanging on the preclear's ears, and then there's this black demon that has been sitting on the preclear's head. All of these things are talking demons and all of that. Well, those are things for which the preclear can't be responsible so, of course, there are ridges of black energy which can't talk - pardon me, which can't - about which the preclear can't do anything and really can't talk most of the time because these things assume considerable power. All right.

People who were 1.5, they just stopped the communication cold. Lots of reasons why they had to. They stopped it for this and stopped it for that.

The preclear, then, will very often start telling you about a demon who has just shown up. Fortunately, the technique is sufficiently fast that two explosions later the thing is gone.

At 1.1, they would just shoot any communication that came in to them off in the wildest directions. They actually ignored, and would sometimes just let go through without even observing, any routine or good news communication. They'd go right on by or they wouldn't pay any attention, see, to this. This 1.1 wouldn't pay much attention to the communication lines till all of a sudden a communication came by which was from 1.5 down. They paid a lot of attention to 1.5 communications, a little less attention to 2.0 communications. But the second that that came in they would just shoot it wildly, see? It didn't matter if this was going to Poughkeepsie - it was scheduled to go to Poughkeepsie and they would shoot it down to St. Augustine, Florida. It was just a wild shot. Well, there you're looking at a dispersal case.

Well, that's about all there is to say about this. There's a lot more data you'll learn as auditors. But I give you those words of caution, particularly the old - that old demon deal.

And the grief communication would just sit there. Communication would come in. Good news communication, bad news communication - no differentiation, but the - except that the good news communications must have something bad about them. This meant that all was lost. Everything that came in meant "All is lost." Well, watching this behavior of communication systems is very revelatory.

Fac One bodies quite often are black. They keep hammering and pounding the guy with black energy; he's trying to disappear. The way they did this with a Fac One body was to hang up a black curtain and pound with the Fac One machine through the curtain at the preclear. And they pounded through and it gave him the impression he was now covered with blackness, and so he restimulated one of his old black energy levels, and so forth, and so he could operate as a demon. The preclear who is black is subzero on the Tone Scale. Uniformly they get worried about ownership and so on.

We have, then, this other schedule. Now, you have better methods right now - I'm giving them to you right now - as to how to measure where and what your case is doing. A body - GE - is pretty solid and is not necessarily an index of the position of the thetan. We've already gone into that, too.

This material is restimulated by education. Everybody has to suppress white which immediately makes education covert. The black ink comes up out of the page. So therefore, anything that explodes out of that page is no responsibility.

So our communication scale of the first chart that came out in Science of Survival is a communication of that composite known as Homo sapiens. But it had this strange double characteristic. And I think everybody in the country interested in Dianetics at that time, who was in - able to write, dropped me a note saying there was - that people double-positioned on the scale. Quite obvious that they double-positioned. They'd be operating at one level and operating at the other level almost simultaneously. Well, this is true: the GE occupies one level and the thetan occupies another level. Furthermore, the thetan occupies the level of the GE when he is thoroughly interiorized and his - he's under the duress of modified conduct because of the GE.

And people who write on scientific subjects are running the damnedest no responsibility you ever heard of because they're occluded cases writing in black and white.

Now, you exteriorize him and he starts operating at his own tone level. And what do you know! It is quite often below the level of the GE. Don't just expect this as the happy thought that everybody goes up Tone Scale the second you bring them out of their heads. No, they don't.

These boys get terrific. “According to the records which were examined by some other firm, and on the authority of the scientist I have never met, my tentative conclusion on the matter, although we have not yet added up the final figures, tend to indicate that a result is possible under certain cases at least with some investigators."

The process that addresses them shoves them, then, over into the classification band - pam! You're over into the A, B, C, D, E, F, G curve. And you'll find out that this thetan is noncommunicative, he's this, he's that and so on. And it's just been the educational pattern that the GE has - the GE itself - which has been holding this thetan up.

Of course, the chemical - biochemical houses don't do that these days. The biochemical houses are so pressed to keep up the reputation of the medical profession. The medical profession is running a no responsibility. It's turned over all its responsibility, you might say, to the drug companies.

This becomes fabulous to some auditors. This - they exteriorize this fellow and pam! This - there are two kinds of cases there: one is "leaving for Arcturus" and the other one is "on the ceiling." They get stuck on the ceiling or they just left for Arcturus.

The drug companies are having to keep up so hard to keep the public interested in medicine. The biochemists are then turning out material and they're testing it on one-series of one case, series of two cases, series of three cases, and as long as they write it up with that level of caution, they lend it total conviction.

And you'll find these are the two worst manifestations you will run into and these are the two most frightening ones to the auditor. "He just left for Arcturus" has got to be, in England, a byword for such a case. It doesn't happen often but you tell the guy to be three feet back of his head or three miles or something of the sort, and he just keeps going! This is the first time it has occurred to him - it's occurred to him suddenly he can leave and abandon this body. He can get away from his responsibilities and he's on his way! And he really is going away, right way out into space. He is heading for Arcturus. Not just the planet Arcturus, but he's going that far, that order of magnitude away from his body.

The people who read this material and believe it are able to assume a conviction only when nobody will assume a responsibility. See what happens?

And the other one, the one that gets stuck on the ceiling, is just a little bit higher on the gradient scale than "on his way to Arcturus." And this person will come out and be upside down and get stuck on the ceiling and the room will get big and the room will get small and they will get furious with you the second that you tell them to be right side up, because they will fall to the ceiling. And they've disoriented in the subject of falling and gravity.

Well, all right. Your preclear is always giving you a qualification when he's got an occluded bank: "Well, I think I feel better, I don't know."

Well, that's another manifestation. There are lots of these manifestations but those two are the serious ones from the auditor's standpoint. Now, they're handled over on A, B, C, D, E, F, G. You just reclassify. What do you do there? You shift from SOP 8 over to the scale of classifications and then shift with that back into SOP 8. Now, you've got that? It's a little mechanical trick; save you a lot of trouble and bother.

Now, this goes into a lot of reason. He doesn't dare let out white energy was the first thing that happened to him. He got hurt by letting out white energy. He found out that the black energy could be exploded too, and he's off to the races. Now he's - gets stuck in that level.

What do you do? You've got this person, this person exteriorized at III. You say, "Ah, I've got a III on my hands." They exteriorize and pam! you've got an F thetan. Pam! - on his way. Something of that sort, see.

The biochemist, as I say, writing on the white page, is jumping around and raising the devil. That's because he hasn't yet had his anchor points knocked in like the medical profession has.

Oh, boy. Now, where do you shift back into SOP 8 with the thetan for theta processing? You just shift back into Step VI, of course. See how simple that is. In other words, we're up against two classifications of case. You just go down SOP 8, singing and strewing the daisies, having a happy time of it. And you get this person down along the line and all of a sudden you got this person to Step V and you ran Step V on them and they exteriorized. After you have them exteriorized - pam! - you had a Step I. That's fine. Process them now with Step I and then go through the rest of the processes as though they were Step I. That's easy, see.

These cases of one and cases of three and so forth, fortunately, are not what we're up against here. We're talking about cases of God knows how many.

All right. But we go down the line to - on this person, singing away, and we go down to Step level VI and we - he finally exteriorizes on a bunch of Step level VI - Self Analysis "Remember anything real," and so forth.

I am beginning to believe that Scientology and Dianetics are the only sciences that have ever been researched; the only sciences in which there have been actual test cases set up and where observation has been made of results and where some attention has been paid to what was happening. I believe this. It's just getting more and more apparent to me. Because, you see, I'm basically very literal minded. And when I read something, it in the past hasn't been a matter of no significance or what is the significance, so on. When I read something, why, I think that's true. And I read that they used to do lots of cases, you see, and they used to test and prove things a lot of times. Everybody says they do, so I thought, "Gee, that's a good idea. Let's do that. Let's just send this out and let a lot of people use it and then find out what happens. And stay in correspondence with them and get a lot of test cases. And every time something comes out, why, we will announce the thing with certainty and get it around. But if it's - it doesn't bear that much freight when it gets out there to the fifth, sixth, eighth hand, the hell with it! We'll just find something else and throw it out there again and we'll get there." We have.

And all of a sudden he exteriorizes and boy! he's just leaving, that's all. You ordinarily won't find this happening, but we will say this is the test - he's just on his way. When you bring him back in again, you know what he is. You've classified him over to G, see, and you've brought him back into SOP 8 again for a process. Now, what process do you run on this person when you get him back? You run Step level VII.

There's nothing much to this. But everybody has objected to my level of certainty on a technique. Unfortunately, I can't even mock up how to be the other way. I've had a bad time trying to. I've tried to write that way. I tried to write for a medical paper one time and I just couldn't make the grade. It was impossible! I didn't know exactly how to go about being - being so, you know, undecided. It was a very interesting experience for me.

Now, let's take another example. You exteriorize this person; this person's Step II. He's exteriorized and his demonstrated communications level, as far as you're concerned, he doesn't quite know, he's real cautious about it and he goes on like this. And you get this real slow communication lag and so forth immediately after he has exteriorized. He exteriorized on Process II and all of a sudden you're facing Process V. So you just go over to G - pardon me, you just go over to A, B, C, D, E and - let's see, it's A, B, C, D, E; that's right. You go over on A, B, C, D, E and you get to E and come back into the case on V, and you process him as a V, while he's exteriorized.

So you say, "Uh-well-uh-there-uh..." I wouldn't even know how to begin it now, even to give you a mock-up of it. It's something on the order of; "Well there - the people have been saying for a long time there is some possibility - you can qualify it, of course, by the fact that there have been a great many researchers on it, so we can place some reliance upon their data. They've been saying for a long time that something possibly could be altered or changed about the mental attitude or outlook of somebody."

This answers the question, "What process do I immediately use - immediately after exteriorization?"

Male voice: Thinking about saying this.

Now, that question will be pressing you one of these days and this is a mechanical way of going about it. You exteriorized him and he suddenly was kind of different. The case behaved differently after exteriorization and how did it behave? Well, just get that good old Tone Scale to work over there and you just figure out how slow is he operating? And just take a shot at it. You don't have to be terribly precise about it, you see. How slow is he operating? How fast is he operating?

And thinking about this. Yeah.

All of a sudden he goes into terrific motion. He's real happy about the whole thing and so on and so on and so on. You say, "Well, I've put him out in the manic." No you haven't; you put him into Step I. You just going through now in Step I. He was Step V, you got him out and you just came over into Step I and ran Step I.

I don't know how to write like that. I sit down to a typewriter and I say, "Bam! Bam! Bam!" It gets out there to the fifth hand and it doesn't bam. Okay, there's always lots of bams left.

Now, what would happen with a Step III that was relatively unchanged after he got out of his body? You would just come back on Step III while he's out of his body; you'd just run lots more of it, wouldn't you? See?

This is, though, much closer to taking full responsibility for something than anything else I know. If it doesn't work, we can remedy it. If it worked in my hands and it worked in Joe's hands and Bill's hands, and we worked about 15 preclears on this level, and it all seemed to work out just fine, everybody seemed to feel a lot better, all right, let's let her go. If it didn't go, well, all right - tough.

This is a handy index of "What do I do now?" If you get no specific, obvious change after exteriorization, you continue to run, while exteriorized, the step which exteriorized him. If you get an obvious change slower, you go to a lower step than that which exteriorized him and run it on him while he's exteriorized. If you get an obvious change up to a faster speedup after exteriorization, you just clip off into a higher step and run that on him while he's exteriorized.

And you'll find out that the people that get most upset about this is the person who's sitting in the middle of a big black explosion. And he really gets upset. So this made me very curious and I started to look around at several of my scientific friends.

How much do you have to know, now, in order to adjudicate this? Did his behavior in terms of communication, ability to move, vary up or down or stay still after exteriorization? If it varied up after exteriorization - he'd start communicating faster - go to a little higher step. And if it was a lot faster, just go on up and run Step I on him, all over. It doesn't matter where you exteriorized him, he's all of a sudden traveling at a fast rate of speed and he has good communication and very alert and very interested in existence.

Oh brother, this is brutal! The first moment any one of these fellows gets scared of white energy, he immediately starts using himself - in himself and around himself; as far as a thetan is concerned, black energy. And then this has no responsibility on the end of it consistently and brother, he's done. He's just like matched up there on a question and answer with the MEST universe.

Now you've exteriorized him, and instead of being interested in existence as he was while he was in his body, he is really out of contact. Oh, brother - he's just having a hell of a time for himself and so forth; he gets - his communication gets slower. Well, then you'd go down in SOP 8 to a lower level. Right?

Science is "What is the answer to MEST? What is the answer to MEST?" And there's nothing more pliable nor push-aroundable - more pusharoundable than MEST is. And so that's the way science goes. Science will follow the downward curve of America - go down and - like clerking and then it will go down to the level of kind of inferior like - like - oh, I don't know -street cleaning; and it'll go down below that and fellows will be very, very - they're already getting very covert; and then it'll go down to the level to where there won't be any.

And if there is no marked change, you slide over immediately, when exteriorized, on the same process and you just do more of it. Got it? This will work. There isn't any doubt about it.

Do you know that it's an astonishing thing that this curve has already been followed in some countries of the world. America is probably the last country of the world which is beating the drum today for science. It sounds blasphemous what I say about science, but it just sounds routine in England. They say, "Yes, yes. What's so surprising about this? What's so surprising about the fact that science is not the answer to our civilization? We know that. We can't figure out why you're calling this Scientology, though, because it gets it into disrepute with the people. They know science has failed them."

Now, I've said quite a bit in here about this business about occlusion. Now, it's not necessarily a condition of sanity nor a classification of sanity. There are many factors enter into it. The GE could be occluded and so forth. Black energy, the presence of in this universe, does not promote the health and well-being of the thetan. It might very well be more handy than white energy in another universe.

Well, science goes into the irresponsibility and gets itself all messed up with its own mock-ups and there it is.

Now, some of these people can handle black energy and some can't. You get some preclears who all of a sudden, you say, "We got all that blackness?" (By the way, don't forget this can happen.) "Well, you got blackness all around you, huh? Well, why don't you just roll it all up and put it in a ball and throw it in the fireplace? Well, you got that done? All right, be three feet back of your head."

So, one more fact: When you get mixed up with a scientist, you are mixed up immediately with an occluded case. Because his tone level to be a scientist today, for him to get repute, draw Nobel prizes and things like that, is uncertainty and blackness and "What is the significance of it?"

"All right," the guy says, "I am."

What you would do for American science today if you went out and got a half a dozen of the top cookies in this business, if you swamped them up - they really are effective and they would have to take responsibility for what they were doing. You swamp them up, they'd start taking responsibility halfway up the line for science and holy cats! Because all this technology has been worked out and nobody is using it.

Don't forget that that can happen. Because all it is, is a deposit of black energy; it might as well be a deposit of white energy. In a wide-open case it would be a deposit of pictures, all of them quite solid.

The US government had to come along and take the atom bomb and subsidize it before anybody would build one. That's incredible because the amount of commercial value to an atomic bomb is so great - the capitalization of 3 billion dollars to put together a pile; that is nothing. I know of many projects that have had more capitalization than that from private industry. And they had to go to the only organization in the country that notoriously wasted everything and that was the government. Because nobody could take the responsibility of his own discoveries in the field of atomic energy.

So you see what we're doing.

Actually, there is atomic energy. Atomic energy today can be made so simply, so fascinatingly simply. Atomic bombs can be made so easily that you would actually believe somebody had to get in and made - have made several before they found this out. That isn't the case. Some scientist could have chewed away and figured this out. He could have - he could have made atomic bombs. The mad Russian scientist is an impossibility. Nobody should be afraid of this level of blackness.

Now, what happens if you run out the blackness on a case exclusively? You get for the first time something like full responsibility. And what's full responsibility? Ha! Let's say there's a war in progress and somebody starts taking full responsibility for the war. Downscale he takes a blame for the war having begun, and upscale he simply takes full responsibility for both sides. It doesn't mean that he does a thing. Full responsibility is not coincident with action. And may I point out old AP&A and its little essay in there on full responsibility.

So you asked the question many times, "Well, why does this fellow, when he becomes an Operating Thetan, and so forth, just why doesn't this fellow go over and straighten out this or that situation?" Well, this or that situation - that isn't the way you straighten out things in this universe. You start operating from a side of doing everything sweetly and everything pleasantly and so forth; that isn't the way things get worked out in the universe. Not necessarily sweet and pleasant at all. You have to throw a lot of people to the lions and you have to do all kinds of weird and horrible things. And gee, to get something done - to want to have something done about an evolving culture, in the first place, denotes an impatience with the culture.

So, you get an Operating Thetan going and he gets up the line, and you say, "Well, why doesn't he go out and..." Like the - I had to, by the way, answer the phone about six times, auditors and so forth calling me in London about Joe Stalin. That was very interesting to me. They actually thought I'd have a vested interest in doing something about Stalin. That got me to thinking, though, and I called up a couple of guys I knew were Operating Thetans, and this is the first time I really sat down and thought this over very thoroughly and completely.

These guys didn't have any interest in Stalin. And I suddenly realized I hadn't had any interest in Stalin for about four or five months. So he was dead; he was dead. Well, that's interesting. What'd he die of? It's kind of watching a little play going on, on the stage. It wasn't a matter of life and death to any of these Operating Thetans; it was a matter of life and death to people who couldn't operate. Now, do you see why?

So we get the matter of full responsibility. And then we take a high level of full responsibility such as that of an Operating Thetan, and you want him to go down and burn down the local police department in order to help out a friend of yours and so forth? Well, it isn't that he won't do it, he just can't see the point. He's just not able to digest exactly how this comes about. You try to then convince him by the fact that there is a reason for it to be done. An Operating Thetan doesn't need reasons. Only the body has reasons.

If you want to make somebody well sometime, make him do something without any reason for it, and he'll actually snap up the Tone Scale a little bit. It's the same category as you make somebody tell you a lie - another little technique. Make a guy do something without any reason. Make him go over to the window - one auditor did this and slammed the case to glory over in England. The guy, just every time he'd say do this or do that, oh, the fellow said, "Why do I have to do that?" And the auditor would explain it to him and if the reason was adequate, the fellow would then put the mock-up out there or something like that.

The auditor finally said to him rather brilliantly, he said, "Well, walk over to the window and look out." And the fellow said, "Why?" He said, "Do it without any reason at all. Just walk over to the window and look out." This man was thunderstruck! The idea of making a motion... But he didn't have any idea it was even therapeutic. There wasn't even a therapeutic reason for doing this. And he walked over to the window and looked out and pam! broke a very severe neurosis.

He suddenly realized that he'd done something without a reason. He suddenly realized the upper truth: There is no reason for action except action. The answer to action is action.

So don't expect your Operating Thetan to go out and solve all the problems in the universe. He blows up theta traps not because - not because he thinks that thetans shouldn't be trapped; he blows them up because they explode so well!

Now, this sounds sort of idle, doesn't it? It certainly is sort of a Peter Pan way of looking at things. But it's much closer to a very beautiful and comfortable way of life than anything else. It's hard for people to understand why it would be that a person becomes an Operating Thetan. It's hard for people to understand why spirits wouldn't immediately come down and start cleaning up MEST or cleaning up Earth culture and so forth, unless it was simply to get some randomity. They just don't do it, that's all.

They have to have a reason. Well, the reason they'd have to have, really, would be of magnificent magnitude. There'd have to be a terrific reason in back of it that covered a full responsibility of practically one end of the MEST universe to the other. To really get down and buckle down and think it was serious, you'd have to get above the levels of the guy's ability to look and reach. See? A man who is stopping the fighting of a war isn't looking at both sides; he's just looking at one side of the picture.

So anyway, this doesn't alter the fact that war is going to chew up this civilization and it isn't going to be here one of these days just because of that fact. Well, if you still want the civilization, you better slow the war down.