This is November the 20th and the first morning lecture, and this morning we're going to talk about duplication.

This is the afternoon lecture, first part of the lecture. November the 20th. This afternoon I want to give you a little rundown on plan of auditing.

If I start lecturing you in French in a couple minutes, don't be surprised, just click your own French ridges in and we'll carry on!

That isn't plan of auditing here, this is auditing plan, which is to say, that process or communication system which we can utilize in order to resolve the problems which we have essayed to resolve in ourselves and amongst — and in others.

The processes which you have learned to date you may regard as introductory or elementary. I have simply been wheeling up the sixteen-inch guns and letting you have large explosive shells in the belly. Because we're dealing with the essentials, we are not dealing with the fundamentals. We are dealing with the very stripped-down workability, we're not dealing with the theory. We're dealing with intense practicality.

The problem with which we're confronted is a very simple one. What is complex is the communication system which has been erected on these simple fundamentals.

And as far as you are concerned, we are dealing with the way you open a Case — yours. And even though we are using it so that it is — amounts to — although these groups are very small, we're using it, essentially, just as a group type of process.

For a long time, I've had a very interesting time of it trying to understand a case level like V, VI, VII. A IV, III — oh, I could understand these somewhat. But looking at the complexity which was presented by a Resistive V was somewhat baffling. To know exactly what was wrong with him and not be able to state it in terms which were comprehensible to him, and not be able to hand him a process which he could handle with ease — this was difficult. This was the difficulty. So we find as we progress along that we handle with great ease Step Is, and then worse and worse cases being handled better and better.

But that doesn't mean that you can escape individuality in processing. But individual processing comes about on a Step I. The shape most of you people are in, it doesn't matter. I mean, these processes will just keep gunshotting and they'll just keep working, you understand?

Now, the progress of what we're doing is an evolution of techniques which handle an even more resistive case than we have handled before. Well, if they had just been in that direction only, the oddity is that we would have had very slight increase — we would have had very little better results — even on the occluded cases. If we were just trying to do that.

Well, let's get it up to a point where you can unmock the body and be elsewhere. You get that — what we're trying to do? Now, let's just get to a point where the body vanishes, and you can put it there and not put it there and put it there and put it — not put it there, and where you can handle your own bank: where you can put it there or not put it there, or put it there and not put it there. And then certainly you are free to be where you please without the interruption of flows or anything like it. And that's what we're trying to achieve.

So the emphasis has actually been in quite the opposite direction and has been reaching the resistive cases simultaneously. Which is, how do you make an Operating Thetan better in his operation? And the more you could learn about that, you see, why, the happier one and all would be — within the certain limits that, of course, if you turn loose too many good, functioning Operating Thetans in a society in a universe which is entirely conditioned to religion, you have an almost immediate opportunity for slavery on the part of one and all — almost immediate.

From there on an individual has to have some individual auditing. But you can get up to that point without individual auditing, because the same doggone thing is wrong with every single one of you. The same thing, straight across the boards. It's wrong in varying degrees. But the variance of those is so slight as to be almost undetectable.

The whole machine is rigged, in this universe, in the direction of religion, superstition and so on. Well, it gets a certain distance, you see, and then unscrupulous, very uncleared, extremely fouled-up characters can come along, and unless you can produce quite a few — quite a few — Operating Thetans fairly easily, you just have no business triggering this figure-seven trap that is already set to trigger, called religion.

Practically anybody here, except those that are already Step Is, will find themselves flicking in and out of blackness as they're processed. Bing-bang, bing-bang. On go the lights, off go the lights and so forth.

There's a fellow, for instance — fellow a long time ago — evidently appeared to the multitudes (and everyone is supposed to speak at that moment in a very reverent state of voice); the guy was a pretty good Operating Thetan, see. If you see it in that bracket, you all of a sudden understand what could happen. All right.

Well, we're dealing with the essentials. Why does this happen? Automaticity.The machine. Which is, at the same time, "no further responsibility for thatmachine," which in itself is the definition for automaticity. Something set, up automatically to run without further attention from yourself; which means immediately that you've selected it out as a randomity. See, you're not any longer predicting its motion, so therefore, it's predicting your motion. So it's unpredictable as far as you're concerned.

This fellow shows up, pam-pam, he's able to do all sorts of weird things, such as take the body along with him after he's let somebody mess it all up. And gee, it sure was surprising. They hadn't had a live god around, probably, since the days of Homer.

And as you run this, these randomities click in and out, become uncon­trollable and so forth, and then controllable again. You make a person do what the randomity is doing, and make him handle it and he takes over ownership of it, it ceases to be automaticity.

And "when 'Omer was smoting his bloomin' lyre," it was a pretty routine and ordinary problem, didn't stampede anybody. But they managed to set up enough temples and get the thetans around to accept an identity sufficiently so that they were damping out anything resembling an Operating Thetan. And then all of a sudden this wild one pops up in the Middle East a couple of thousand years ago, and the net result of that visit has been an uncounted number of dead. An uncounted number of dead. An uncounted number of broken thetans.

Now, understand this: Anything in your environment which has apparently been out of control, itself had a tendency to set up as an automaticity. You understand that? The sea, for instance, sets itself up as an automaticity. Why? Because men don't control it. You see what other insidious ways there are to set up an automaticity? We won't go into those particularly, because that's not important. Men feel they don't control it because they have gone down to it in ships and have raised other barriers and limitations upon their control of the sea. The actuality is, is they have to put the sea there to sail upon it.

Let's take just one incident: the Crusades. Now, this was very colorful and made a very nice game, as long as you had on an iron suit. But all the boys who went to the Crusades didn't have an iron suit on. But not even an iron suit was good enough, since in the Crusades, fever, bacteria accounted for casualties on the ratio of about ten to one over battle casualties. That's just one little short period.

Now, here we have our problem. Everybody — everybody who is alive and can perceive anything, is sitting on the postulate "survive." But how do we state "survive"? We state it: "Something, to survive, must resist all effects." So everybody is sitting on this postulate: "Resist all effects." And that's the highest limiting barrier. All other barriers are junior to that barrier. Because that in itself is survival.

Let's take now the activities of a fellow known as Torquemada. I know of a book on him, in Latin, which is bound, symbolically and truly enough, in human skin. (And it's in the library at Pacific Groves, near Monterey in California.) This fellow accounted for Lord knows how many victims by fire, stake — all in the name of what? In the name of an Operating Thetan who was unwise enough and ambitious enough to suddenly show up, hand out some technology — just that, no more — which was the inverse of self-determinism, and pull the house down. Real nice operation — it was not!

Now, it also means that there must be a conflicting postulate in there that other things which one has to combat in order to survive must not resist all effects. And everything is set up to resist all effects.

Right now, today, that machine has accounted for wealth and riches and maimed and dying — just as an automaticity, a machine, something to carry on, a symbol, something to carry forward in the society, to the support of its worst elements and its most despicable ends. It is a despicable end to tell men that they must continually repent, repent, repent, that they are evil, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. This is despicable. It is beneath contempt. Because it speaks of a craven terror on the part of several — many — degraded thetans and their fear of others such as themselves.

And so you wonder why, when you've been processing a preclear, he kept sitting there like a log of wood. He's got to resist all effects. But because he was resisting your auditing effect, he became a randomity to you because he was not controllable. You see that? So the reason why your Scientologist finds himself a different kind of case is because he has set up another "resist all effects" machine.

Nothing I am giving you here is blasphemy — it's truth. Because you can look back through the history books at two thousand years, and find out that evidently an Operating Thetan, or something of this variety, appeared suddenly in the Middle East, accomplished a few miracles — a handful of miracles — it didn't take very much. No more actually than showed his face, let his body be nailed up, and two thousand years resulted — the first part of which saw the slavery and degradation of the greatest empire on Earth and replaced that empire with a rule by slaves for slaves, where "dirt" was the biggest motto they had. Dirt, disease, starvation, despair could have well been the mottoes of the first few hundred years after the appearance of this Operating Thetan.

The pc is sitting there resisting all effects. So he has "auditing, resist all effects of." And he's had these pcs in front of him who were resisting all effects, and this of course, keys in the bank on change of ridges and mental attitudes. And because we've been shooting so high into this stuff, we, of course, without triggering out that postulate, throw things into restimulation which just simply stay in restimulation to some degree.

How many and how much — how many lives and how much suffering is one man willing to create? One being — just how much is he willing to create? Well, if he's awfully degraded, he will create an awful lot, with a tremendous amount of statement as to how he isn't doing it. Let's take Adolf Schicklgruber as an example: it wasn't his fault. He was angry because everybody had gotten upset with Germany, and Germany really had to do this, and it wasn't his fault. He wasn't doing anything. If you want to read his private conversations, he had good reasons why. And the reasons he had were because everybody was so degraded and so depraved — you see, everybody was so degraded and so depraved that they had to be conquered by supermen. Well, that's fine, that's a nice mockery end of the Tone Scale.

Now, that has been, to some slight degree, the danger in this. I knew this factor existed, but to find an easily communicated process which would in itself care for it — easily communicated — I could do this, have been able to consistently here. But how to get that down so that we could really communicate it and say, "These are the essentials we're working with." All right. That's what I'm telling you in these last few days and just giving you those essentials. I don't expect you to understand them even vaguely, just use them. Because by using them, you will understand. And you'll understand the whole gamut of human behavior.

We're not interested in conquering things with supermen. But we are very definitely interested in the fact that we don't want supermen popping up before we can uncreate that astonishing scarcity of one superman. You have to be able to uncreate that scarcity. That means that the cultures and civilization of this game called Earth could gradually evolve into a higher game, a better society, a better civilization and something very well worth doing and being.

There it is — "survive" which means "resist all effects." Which means, at the same time, you must reduce all other effects which are contrasurvival. An individual, to survive, must, in every portion of his beingness, resist the bulk of the effects. He feels, at last, that he has to have effects from somewhere else on the DEI cycle. See that? He's inhibited other effects to a point where other effects have inhibited him, till a point where he started to cave in. Acceptance Level Processing is wonderful. You'll find an actual thirst for such things as excreta, disease and so forth. An actual hunger is built up for this simply by inversion of the enforcement. It gets down to inhibition and then, pang! here the fellow goes. He's got a hunger for this stuff and you'll be amazed what happens.

My viewpoint on this may be very far from the best viewpoint on this. I know it would collide head-on with the (quote) "wisest" (unquote), and (quote) "sincerest" (unquote), and (quote) "authoritative" (unquote) opinions on the face of Earth today.

But, by the way, Acceptance Level Processing does not get you there. It is an educational process. Comes under SOP 8-L. You want to teach somebody about life, you run all these odds and ends which are demonstrating things, you see. It's not a good process for a class to use, because you're right straight up into the stratosphere, kicking in postulates continually on "resist all effects," until the case gets rougher and rougher, you see. So we just have to turn it around this way and process straight on its heaviest essentials.

It is an amazing thing that the very ones who talk the most about "peace on Earth, goodwill to men," carry forward actively themselves the seeds of war, starvation, marital unrest and all the other ills which have made, really, life pretty untolerable on at least one planet. It's remarkable, isn't it? That those people who should have been, and who talked the most about, doing these wonderful things for all these people are actually carrying, clutched to their bosom, you might say, but ready to hand out on every hand, the very germs of chaos.

Now, you don't have to process the public that way. You can go out to the public, you can match-terminal this and run a concept and et cetera, and things happen. But the funny part of it is, is they get down into exactly these same strata when they're real bad off. They've triggered everything in on "resist all effects."

You start to lock up and shut up the second dynamic and hide it from view and make it scarce and then wonder why the divorce rate of a nation starts soaring. You wonder why — you make MEST itself scarce in its prettier forms and wonder why you have an incidence of criminality so great that the major activity in the United States is a business known as "cop." It's wonderful!

And you'll find some girl who is having a terrible time on the second dynamic — oh, just real rough — and you'll find out she's in the middle of a second dynamic "resist all effects," but she must have the effect, but she can't have any effect and here we go!

How do you go about making these things come to pass? Well, you go about making them come to pass by taking some mockery of the Tone Scale and saying, "It's the real thing," you see? Some debased, cowardly thing and you say, "Now this is it. We want peace on Earth, therefore everybody must be abject." It doesn't follow. You've never had any peace from an apathetic man. Never. The only time you really have any peace is when you're amongst strong men.

You don't have to worry even about the anatomy of maybe. You don't even have to worry about the anatomy of a ridge. You don't have to worry about anything like this. Let's just take these essentials: Survive is resist all effects; but then you've got to make an effect on other things which are resisting all effects, in order to keep them from existing. You get how this is? It's a tug of war between a set of postulates which resist all effects and which must cancel other effects, against a set of postulates which themselves must resist all effects and cancel other effects. We get persistence out of this. But we get persistence which is automatic.

Justice is an invention, according to the Greeks, wherein the weak are able to reduce the strong. That is the invention of justice, according to the Greeks. They probably knew what they were talking about. And if it only ended there, that would be all right. That happens to be the mechanism of the perpetuation and creation of "weak." It's real great, isn't it?

Now, what is responsibility? Responsibility is the — not necessarily the action of operating something, but the feeling that one can operate something. If one feels that he can handle or operate something he has responsibility for it.

It isn't that men should have certain rights safeguarded by powers and forces stronger than themselves. That is — doesn't happen to be the question. It's, are men worth being safeguarded?

So where is the responsibility of your pc going? It's going down the drain into automaticity. Because he has delivered over some function of his life and beingness into other-responsibility. Of course, it's still his responsibility, but he has said, "It's other-responsibility." And so this goes into a dwindling spiral where, at last, an individual feels he can't be responsible for anything and he has to start assigning "other cause."

And when the incidence of insanity, criminality and sexual depravity of a whole planet gets to the level of this one, I think that almost anybody has a perfect right to take a hand in the game. The wrong way to take a hand in the game would be to suddenly arm, with mysterious and wonderful appearances, an entire Earthful of organizations, any one of which is all ready to take over and capitalize on a miracle. You better make miracles real unscarce. They're real astonishing at first — be able to follow them up.

What is the actual "other cause"? What is the villain of the piece? Himself. He's the villain of the piece. And the "other cause" that he is combating is his own automatic machinery. And that automatic machinery has, underlying each and every portion of it — every ridge, every type of training which he has, every piece of energy which he's hoarding, has under it — "must resist all effects."

Well, I've been trying to do that. If we couldn't solve cases uniformly up to a much higher level of Operating Thetan than ever before, well, we'd certainly better keep our mouths shut about it. At the same time, we had better reach down for the lowest rung we could reach in terms of workable processes. These two things actually would come about concurrently — the high and the low. They would, naturally, because they're both based upon a simplicity.

This is survival. This is how he keeps going. He has a feeling like he is moving along a time track because he thinks of himself as a communication particle. He is not a communication particle, he is actually motionless. The particles are moving. He is not, and never will move.

Now, for a long, long time I was willing to sit around and listen to all the reasons why Vs, VIs and VIIs "couldn't." I just — so on. I give you a warning on this, if you're ever being processed by me. The last preclear who said to me bluntly, "I can't do that," got a book right in his chest. He didn't even know it was coming. Horrible thing to do to a preclear — complete violation of the Auditor's Code. But I've listened to it so much that I won't take it anymore. And the technique which I was using on this preclear — the book just happened to be on my desk and it was a good, heavy book — and the preclear had his eyes closed. "I can't do that," he said in an apathetic voice. And bang went the book! And while he was suffering from that shock, I said in so many words, "Don't you ever, when I am around again, don't you ever tell me you can't do something. Just do it." And I'll be a son of a gun if the preclear didn't! (audience laughter)

There is no such thing as a progress through time on the part of the thetan. But time progresses past the thetan. And you can get the sort of an idea of you with a bird's-eye view of an enormous number of particles which are shifting and changing continually. You don't shift and change ever. But you can sure shift and change the location of the particles with relationship to you. But the particles never change you. You never age. There is no age. But the particles age. Why do they age? Because you say they do. This is simplicity itself.

I don't advise this in any way. I was just showing you how thin my patience had worn, finally, in listening to all the "cant's." Because the funny part of it is that they can. They can. Level of necessity was what jumped up in that case. All right.

Now we've got the cycle of action which is the cycle of action of a thetan, which is create, persist and destroy. Now, that cycle of action is cared for — when we say, "Resist all effects," we've cared for exact middle of it. And any­body who is alive or conscious is running somewhere in the middle of that band — close to one end or close to the other end, but he's somewhere in the middle — which is, "survive; must resist all effects." Of course, he gets along the line, he mingles that up. "Must cancel all effects which are leveled against me" is "resist all effects," you see?

When you have something that will fish people out of any rung they happen to be on, as long as they're vaguely in communication, you'll find out that anybody can do it. It takes some a little longer than others.

So let's get over here to create and find out what's there. And create is the ability to make a postulate. If you can unmake postulates, you can make postulates. So we've gotten over here to destroy. So we've got both ends of it there immediately in the same statement. In order to make postulates, you certainly must be able to unmake postulates. But unlimited making of postulates, without unmaking any postulates, is chaos — that's you!

Now, as far as the lower rung is concerned, exactly the lower rung — exact mechanisms that are inhibiting the lower rung are those inhibiting the Operating Thetan from being higher himself. You follow that? It's the same mechanism, up or down. There isn't any more difficult mechanism in that. And if you think next week I'm going to suddenly turn around and tell you that the answer is something different, you're going to be very surprised. Because I listened too long to the reason why they couldn't. I listened much too long. But it was very, very good that I did, because I kept working for what they could do, consistently and continually working for what they could do, and in that direction.

And we get over here to destruction: the unlimited effort to unmake postulates without making any. That's a real rough one. And that is a sort of a frantic state of trying madly to knock all the mest to pieces, when all one should do is knock the postulates to pieces. That's terrifically simple in the final analysis. All right.

The only place today that requires any real slippy, clever auditing is on a Step I who has gone so high toward Operating Thetan — oh, they're real complicated way up at the top, they're not complicated down low. They're real complicated where the guy is afraid to let go of any more automaticity for fear he's going to be bored for the next eight or nine billion years. And you have to remedy that. And you remedy it by having him build up automaticities and forget about them until he is very able in it; and then he loses this fear.

So to solve the problem, we must solve that proposition on postulates: "Must resist all effects." You don't have to handle any other postulate than that, you see. Survive, persist, must resist all effects, must retain effects — all of these things come under the same statement and heading. You state it in various ways, any way under the shape of the sun that you want to, but it's still that postulate "survive," which is "must resist all effects," which is "persistence," which is "no effects must have any effect upon me," "nobody is cause but me," "everybody is trying to be cause but me and I have to resist their causes." You could just go on and make a dictionary full of statements and it would become the English language — or the French language, or the Russian language.

But sometimes this requires a little bit of clever auditing. Because, in the first place, when a person gets up that level you actually don't have any real business auditing them with the spoken word. It's too slow, it is just endlessly slow. But he won't look at many things which he should look at. He is not in a state of motion he should be in yet. And yet he believes if he goes into any — if he lets go of anything more, or releases any more havingness in terms of postulates, he believes that he'll be stuck with it, because he's had the experience of being stuck so many times. So he's got to resist all effects on the subject of "He mustn't be stuck with boredom anymore."

Where we have a preclear, we have these problems. And where we have persistence — because nothing does endure and because there's nothing but a postulate — we have the other one: duplication. There isn't a single particle in that ashtray that endures for a split second. No endurance. So one has to set up postulate machines to make postulates, which postulates will say, "Exist. Exist. Exist. Exist. Exist. Exist. Exist. Exist. Brrp-brrp-brrp-brrp."

These things sometimes require pretty fast communication and pretty fast operation on the part of the auditor. But that's the case that requires fast operation. Guy out of his body — body in pretty good shape, not terribly interested in the body — perfectly able to take over another body, perfectly able. Along about that time if you started to push the case any higher, we get into a slight bog.

And you start running this sort of thing and a person very often feels the mest universe going all out of plumb, himself all out of plumb and his head disappearing and his body disappearing and this going this way and that going that way. So what? He can put it all back together again.

Give you an example of that. I had a fellow one time, he was troubled with gout. So I had him turn some gout on in one of his feet, and then turns the gout over to the other foot. (He was exteriorized and he was — pretty good shape, see.) He could only turn on just so much gout. You know, he wouldn't turn on a real case of gout.

You're always, at every moment, with these processes we're using right now, dealing with an echelon which a person can handle. A psycho can handle this if you can even vaguely get in communication with him, just vaguely. Of course every — every time you make him duplicate anything to parallel a machine of any kind, you've put him more in control of his automaticity. His somatics inevitably — although they'll flare a tiny bit — they inevitably progressively get less.

So every time he would turn it on, all that I would — could make him turn it on, I'd have him blow up another machine which reduced pain or reduced something — another automaticity which reduced something. I'd have him mock it up, duplicate it, duplicate it, duplicate it and blow it up and blow it up and blow it up and blow it up. And then mock it and unmock it and mock it and unmock it and unmock it — and each time, why, I could tell him then, "All right, turn on gout in this foot," and it would come closer to real gout, until we finally turned on the most splendid case of gout you ever saw. And he turned it on and off at will. And he turned it on and off so that the flesh was swollen, discolored, and then the flesh was not swollen or discolored. See? Pang-pang, pang-pang! Oh, it was real gorgeous. And he went down to his doctor, foolishly, and turned it on for him and turned it off again so he could thumb his nose at the doctor. In other words, the doctor was his randomity. This was real good.

Now, you can fully expect them, however — because you're knocking out various types of machinery — that if you don't hit somewhere close to the machinery they're actually trying to make resist all effects, if you don't get somewhere close to that, it's going to key, but heavy. So sometimes you want to ask somebody what he's been doing, you know? And if he's getting into trouble with highly generalized techniques, just ask him what he's been doing. Get a specific account of what his primary interest has been in this lifetime, and you'll find it's been this or that or something of this sort.

But look at that — automaticity stood in the line of his further increase every time. He could turn on just so much gout, then we had to handle so — little more automaticity on the subject of pain, gout, sickness or something of the sort. We had to handle a little more automaticity. Some other kind of mechanism he had built in. We'd blow that out, and he was more able to handle automaticity. Now, he'd become, somewhere up the line, unwilling to handle automaticity, see, because he says, "Well, if I handle any more automaticity I'll just expose my whole hand of cards right out here on the table." And then Lord knows what will happen to him. So you remedy that automaticity simply by making it possible for him to make things automatic.

You find out he's been a painter — and boy, has he been trying to get paint to resist all effects. And then he's trying to keep paint from resisting all effects. And then he's finally decided it was bad for business for his paint to save the surface and save all, because he could paint more often and that'd be more work, so he doesn't want paint to resist all effects. Basically, paint must resist all effects. That's why he starts to paint the walls and so forth. And then afterwards, changes the postulate around — just the dwindling spiral — so that paint must not resist all effects. And then it gets into, he must resist all the effects of paint. You see how that is? So he's gotten down to the bottom.

In other words, you make him build machines that work — machines that really work. It's this kind of a machine: "All right, let's take a machine that will mock up — anytime you want to mock up anything, it will turn it green and then black, in spite of anything you do about it. All right. Now, let's make the machine. Let's hide it. Let's bury it. Let's forget about it. Okay. Get it really forgotten about. Now mock up a bird."

And here you have some fellow's been standing on scaffolding for twenty-two years, something like that, and you're processing him and his primary automaticity — the one that's really live and sitting there ready to trigger — has to do with paint. So you just have him start putting up paint. If he can only get blackness, have him put up black paint that must resist all effects. Or black paint which must not resist all effects. Or black paint which mustn't affect him. And you just keep putting it up.

"Yeah," he says, "it's going to go green and turn black."

But how do you put this up? Well, remember duplication. You've got to have a machine going pocketa-pocketa-pocketa — you think. You don't. But you think you've got to have a machine going pocketa-pocketa-pocketa, duplicate-duplicate-duplicate-duplicate. So let's take over the essential elements of automaticity. Now, we do that by creation and destruction, or by wasting the machinery itself and, of course, saving, accepting, desiring, being curious about the machinery, and duplicating it. Duplication is the essence. Duplication, because Step II is automaticity, falls right under Step II — pang!

"Drag out the machine, blow it up."

Unless you permit a continuous duplication on the part of the preclear, why, you're going to — the case is going to come up just so far and it's going to level off, see? You're going to wonder why the case leveled off. Well, it leveled off just because you were letting him let something persist, and then he sits there and lets it persist, see? You tell him to match-terminal something, and he puts up two beings and they stand there. He'll do this very happily if he's down around the level of V or VI, and you're solving him with these I and II level processes. Ooh! He'll put up somebody, he'll just leave it there. He puts up a black curtain, he'll hold on to it.

Okay. We keep making this machine, he keeps forgetting about it and so forth, and you think he had that in his mind all the time, till we finally get a machine out whereby he mustn't forget about machines. This machine following after it, taking precedence over all the machines he must forget about, see? But it never worked. His machinery being at cross-purposes with itself — his automaticities being at cross-purposes with other automaticities — has failed him. These things have failed him many times. And he is unable to make one machine unwork while he made another machine work, and so he's put in counter-machines.

I made a test on this one time, and one of them was perfectly agreeable to hold a black curtain for five hours. In other words, obey its postulate that it must persist. Well, the second that you make him obey its postulate, his case does not progress, does it? You see, he's obeying the mock-up.

Then he's forgotten the counter-machines he's putting in, and he's gotten in the most dreadful complexity and hotchpotch of machinery you ever wanted to look upon. Well, of course, all these machines come apart in the same way. All of his postulates come apart in the same way. They must resist effects, and they're there to produce or inhibit effects. The machine must resist effects, and the machine itself must produce or inhibit effects.

So let him put the postulate in there and put a black curtain that "must persist," and then immediately put up another one that "must persist forever." And then put up another one that "must persist forever." Put up another one that "must persist forever." Put up another one that "resists all effects forever." Put up another one that "must persist." Another one that "mustn't affect him." Another one, that "must resist all pain." Something on this order. You know, this person's . ..

Well anyway, we kept doing this to him and finally he made a machine and actually forgot about it, and it startled him half out of his chunk of space to see a mock-up turn green and then black. And he looked at me rather pathetically and he says, "I got a black mock-up. What are you doing?"

Now, what's this tell you? Another one was "resist all tiredness," or something like that. You can get terrifically specific. But, by the way, you can get far, far, far too specific. You can think too much with this. If you just obey this fundamental material — duplicate it, get it so that it resists all effects and keep putting it up — you've got it licked.

I said, "I'm not doing anything." I said, "Throw it away." I said, "Throw it away. And get a mock-up that isn't black."

The essential difference between your own universe and the other fellow's universe and the MEST universe is that you're making yours. And that part of it which you're doing a good job on is the mest universe, and that part of it which you're doing a lousy job on, you see, is your own universe. And then you try to go into competition with mest. Oh! How can you go into competition with you? You'll only be on two sides of the chessboard. As soon as a person starts to go into real arduous competition with mest, he goes into real arduous competition with himself, of course. And so he's defeating himself all the time, because the best thing he's doing is the mest universe. And the worst thing he's doing is what he's calling still his. It's just a problem in automaticity.

"All right," he says, "I'll get a mock-up that isn't black." And he got a white nurse and mocked her up. Pang! she went green and then black. And he started to get real mad at me. And then he dug it up and threw it away.

You can tell somebody, "Be the mest universe. Be your own universe. Be the mest universe. Be your own universe," and he'll go, "Rarrrwwhh!" Not a recommended process. All right.

A person had to be willing to fool himself in order to be interested. And the one thing he's got a machine set up for is a machine that will prevent him from fooling himself. He's got truth machines. These truth machines are so terrifically workable that everybody uses them. Everybody insists everybody tell the truth. What the hell is the truth? Well it's simply: "Let's establish an agreement that doesn't go out of line all the time" — that's with the basic machine. And the basic machine is, "I don't want to establish an agreement which is so wide from other people's agreement, that then I'd have no interpersonal relations."

Now let's take this and see how duplication affects this. Remember that to have an ashtray here, over a period of time, requires this matter of duplication, see? You got an ashtray, you got an ashtray, you got an ashtray, you got an ashtray. Every one of you who can see this ashtray as I hold it up has got a machine saying, "There's an ashtray. There's an ashtray. There's an ashtray. There's an ashtray. There's an ashtray."

Now, a person to whom this happens — it happens most often to a person who considers himself at a level where he will have no association with the techniques which he can do with anybody else. He's convinced at two levels that a group — one, upper level, he's convinced that a group is not attainable. An Operating Thetan gets upset about this. No interpersonal relations as an Operating Thetan — he gets real upset — which leaves him wholly at the mercy of his own automaticity. That's his only randomity, see, and no others to play a game with. And then down scale, a person is so convinced that others are going to do him wrong, that he moves out of the group. And two things happen there: He becomes perfectly willing to be a group of two, because he can still control this group to some degree, but he won't be part of a group of five, because he doesn't think he can control five.

At what speed is it saying it? Boy, that's really interesting: the speed is one over c. That's real fast. That's just gorgeous. But, of course, that isn't fast unless you say it's fast. You can speed some preclear up remarkably, so that he'll consider that slow. You can actually speed somebody up to a point where he, out of his body, can watch a photon going by. "Well, it's gotten five feet now." It's very interesting, you see, he just doesn't consider it's fast — he can run at any speed. All right.

You try to audit somebody outside of a group who is like this, and he gives an auditor a bad time until he has been audited with enough others — a group larger than he thinks he can control — to a point where he actually caves in his own aberrations on himself and has to handle them. See, he's not in control of the group. There's where Group Auditing pays off. See, he can be in control of one auditor, but not in control of a group. This is a basic mechanism.

So this ashtray here has a persistency which depends upon duplication. So persistency depends upon duplication. You get that? You don't put up something and then it just persists. If you put up something and then it persists, it's because you're saying, "Duplicate. Duplicate. Duplicate." So there's essential part of the machinery you're not taking control of, which is "duplicate, duplicate, duplicate," see? So you must duplicate it in order to take over an essential part of the machinery. Because the essential part of automaticity is "duplicate." All right.

But upstairs, they're scared of being lonesome. They're just frightened to death of being lonesome. No randomity and so on. Well, they don't realize how far down Tone Scale they had to go to get to a point where they worried about being lonesome. Quite something else — they didn't realize how far down Tone Scale they'd have to go to be afraid that they were unable to produce anybody else for randomity.

Now, let's get an idea here of what this is. Now just look at this wall and get the idea of your putting it here, and you can blink your eyes or something of the sort, and just get it here, duplicate it, duplicate, duplicate, duplicate, duplicate. You keep that up very long, the walls start to wobble on you — which is, of course, upsetting to people because they haven't taken over the basic controls of duplication.

But the point is, is people coming up in this wise solve their own problem — they are more willing to go up on an operating level if there are going to be others at that level. Doing it the "only one" way is almost an incredible thing — very, very bad. Earth with fifty or a half a thousand Operating Thetans, you'd still be startling the yokels, believe me. But there'd be enough so that the pastors that got out of line and said, "Well, this is the second coming of Yahweh; and drop your insurance policy and your front plate in the collection box .. ." as a result — they wouldn't get very far. But here, let's put it on a basis of — where you've got, oh, I don't know, twenty-five thousand. What you get then is a better society, see? Follows, doesn't it? All right.

So let's go about it this way, which is not even vaguely uncomfortable:

What's the parallels then? The techniques had to wait to a point, actually, where you had an opportunity to put out a mass operation, not a single, "only one" operation. In the first place, the single, "only one" operation is one on the lower scale which fights against any improvement, and on the upper scale, simply moves in terror that he's going to cut all personal relations. It's just no good.

Let's put some sadness in this wall up here.

So you could get, theoretically, some guy who would play the "only one" computation as a low-level thetan and who would go around and bemuse the multitudes instead of just trying to make some more Operating Thetans. And, of course, a guy who would do that wouldn't have very much understanding of what was going on. He probably didn't understand himself very much. He had a flair for the dramatic and he played it out and had a good time about it.

Now let's duplicate it.

And now, in some quarter of this universe, you have the Assumption as the prime modus operandi of providing bodies with souls. Don't care how you call this — no reason for you to keep on wincing at the use of "spirit," "soul." Except a lot of people — a lot of people, you have to waste ghosts before they're willing to be a thetan, you see. Waste ghosts and waste spirits. They're so scared of ghosts and spirits, they're scared of themselves.

Now let's duplicate the sadness.

Anyway, this . . . Well, just — now, just let me give you the best example I can give you of this:

Now let's duplicate the sadness.

Get an idea of a cross up here. Get a cross up here.

Now let's duplicate the sadness on the side wall over here.

Now nail a body on it. Nail a body on it.

Now let's duplicate the sadness over on this wall.

Throw it away.

Now let's duplicate the sadness in the ceiling.

Let's put a cross up here now and nail a body on it facing the cross. Reversed crucifix.

And let's duplicate the sadness in the floor. Possibly much too fast for some of you, but there's the process. See? And this is "chronic sadness machine." And you're just shooting it to pieces.

Now throw it away.

Now, there's people who have "chronic apathy machines." Are they actually in a state of apathy? No. They have a machine which duplicates their apathy. All right. Now, if they've got a machine which duplicates — remember that the basic machine is always some kind of a simple postulate rig — but other people have come along and used the machine later, so there's all sorts of locks come flying off of these machines. But don't think for a moment that those locks belong to anybody but you. You have to have a basic agreement with your basic postulates with the rest of the universe, or you wouldn't see it at all.

Now let's put a cross up here, nail the body on it backwards.

So let's tamper with the mechanism with a pc slowly and give him assurance. Don't make his whole body vanish — just say, pang! "Make your body vanish" — because he's actually liable to. He's liable to — body gone — and all of a sudden say, "Oh, my God, it's gone!" And now you've got him all upset, and some auditor has to come along and spend an hour or so with him trying to get him over this fright.

Throw it away.

Yeah, some fellow mocks up some terrific mock-up — he just gets going just fine — and some auditor then says to him, "Well, all right, now mock up a big robot walking towards you." He does. See? And he does have a big robot walking toward him that's going clank, clank, clank. Ohhh! Well, somebody will have to work with him for maybe two or three hours, see, to get him out of this startlement. He was told to make a robot, and he didn't believe he could still make robots like that, and by gosh, he did! And, of course, he immediately had to say — at the instant he made it and it surprised him — that "it's somebody else's robot." Why? "Because it scares me."

Put a cross up here, nail a body on it backwards. Make the body black. All right.

So, you see the essentials of this?

Now turn the cross into a baby.

Now, we can put this down very simply. You put emotions into mest and into mock-ups. You can put it in in brackets. And as a matter of fact, today you'll start putting it in in brackets, and duplicate it. Now, we don't, then, today, from here on — now that we've gotten our — the tip end of the large right toe damp with this, let's go into a point where it'd at least cover the nail of that toe. Which is, whenever you put up something, duplicate it in all the walls and in any other part of the scenery, exteriorized — I mean, outside the building. You know, a person can be in his head, by the way, and do that outside the house — it's quite fascinating. Lot of times — whatever you've got there, put it out a lot of times. And then put it out in a bracket — each time, several times. See?

Throw it away.

Now, here'd be an example: "In all four walls of this room, floor and ceiling, put sadness," see? Then, "Somebody else putting sadness, all four walls of the room, floor and ceiling." See, they do that one after the other, not just put it all in there because that's just one time, see? We want a duplication. We want some sadness in that wall and sadness in that wall; and we have somebody else putting some sadness in the back wall and sadness in the front wall. All right.

Take a cross, nail a black body on it, and turn the cross itself into a man.

After he's done it a number of times, we have somebody doing it for somebody else: "Have somebody put some sadness in the walls for somebody else. Have them put it in the side wall, front wall, back wall, top wall, bottom wall and so forth, for somebody else."

Throw it away.

Now, "Have somebody else putting some sadness in the walls for you." And we, again, run this front wall, back wall, right side walls, left side wall, floor, ceiling.

Take a cross, nail a black body on it.

Now, "You putting it in the walls for somebody else." And again, sadness — "You putting sadness in the side wall for somebody else, sadness in the other wall for somebody else, sadness in the back wall for somebody else, sadness in the front wall for somebody else, sadness in the ceiling for somebody else, sadness in the floor for somebody else." See that?

Turn the cross itself into a man with his arms spread out, with a black body nailed on the front of the man's body.

And those of you who are still having a fearsome problem with occlusion, you know, that one is solved with a bracket with black panels.

Throw it away.

Now, although we're still working squarely with the MEST universe, you'll find out that some of these work with their own universe much more easily. That's quite all right, because they built their own barriers. Their barriers are, to them, more remarkably strong than the barriers of the mest universe. And so, when you run brackets on them remember to run it in their own universe and in the mest universe. Each one with a bracket. In other words, get a mock-up — a black mock-up — and duplicate it and duplicate it and duplicate it.

Now take a cross, nail a black body on it and turn the cross into the body of a man. Now turn it into the body of a baby.

Now, there's an exercise for just straight blackness which is quite remarkable — you just put it up in a bracket. You put up about five, six, eight, ten — doesn't matter how many — for each part of the bracket of five, a black panel that must persist and resist. Get the feeling of effort to persist and resist in it. Now, they'll get the — they get the postulates into it more easily with a feeling. You know, they make it feel that it must resist, instead of think that it must resist. And boy, you'll have more blackness and somatics flying around than you care to run into for a long time. You keep making it persist, keep making it persist, you see? All right.

Throw it away.

And you do it in this fashion:

Do you like that?

All right. "Have you put up a black panel for yourself that must persist. Put up another one. Put up another one. Put up another one."

Audience: (various responses)

Now, "Have somebody else put up a black panel for himself that must per­sist. And have him put up another one." (And, of course, they'll just get the vaguest and foggiest notion that there's somebody else doing it, but that's all you want.) "Somebody else putting up a black panel. Somebody else putting up a black panel. Somebody else putting up the black panel. All right."

What do you suppose that is, that we're doing there? You know that almost any person who's pretty badly off that you run into, is out in front of his face? Every once in a while it shocks a thetan half to death to find himself out in front of his face. Why should he be so startled at being in front of his face — his body's face? Why? Why? Why?

Now, "Let's get somebody putting up a black panel for somebody else. Now have the panel resist. Get him putting it up resisting. Have him put it up resisting all evil. Have him put it up resisting all effects, resisting all evil. Okay."

Audience: Assumption.

Now, "Have somebody put up a black panel for you. All right. Now put up another one. Now put up one that resists all evil. One that resists all effects. One that resists all pain. One that resists all tiredness. Okay." (You vary it enough to keep up their interest, but you're — what you're doing is duplicating a black panel.) All right.

Let's put up a cross, nail a body on it and turn the cross into a man's body.

"Have you put up a black panel for somebody else now. Now put up a black panel that must persist. Another black panel that must persist for some­body else. Another one that must persist for somebody else. Another one that must persist for somebody else. Okay."

Throw it away.

"Now get you putting up a black panel for yourself." And here we go, see?

Are anybody's teeth hurting them, by the way? Did I ruin anybody's teeth there? Okay, good. All right.

"Now let's put up this black panel with some effort in it. All right. Put up another one with some effort in it. Put up another one with some effort in it. Another one with some effort in it."

Why do they use that symbol? This couldn't be — possibly be tied in with the outfit that sends people down here. This body couldn't possibly just be tailor-made on this same basis. That couldn't be a religious implantation, that between-lives implant, could it? No, nothing like that! Hm-mm.

"Now have somebody else putting up a — black panels for himself. Have him put up one with some effort in it. Another one with some effort in it. Another one with some effort in it. Another one with some effort in it."

That symbol isn't around all through the society to get your Assumption in restimulation, is it? Oh no, nothing like that! This isn't why dentists have such remunerative practices, is it? This isn't why people's teeth cave in, is it? No, no, no, no! This isn't why your thetan has a rough time perceiving, is it? Why we're having a hard time exteriorizing him? Certainly not. Never!

About this time some member of your group suddenly says to you, "Gee, I keep stringing these things on a row of beads. I don't know," he says, "they keep stringing on a row of beads."

I wouldn't say that that cross — that cross is used in this universe from one end to the other. The Christ legend is used in this universe from one end to the other. You find it as an implantation in preclears a million years ago. It just keeps happening. But who do they hire, for what pay, to kick this thing off every time? Who hires, for what pay? I wouldn't do that myself. Just the general idea.

You say, "Are you getting rid of any of them?"

Now, you'll find people who are in pretty poor condition — they've gotten messed up with something they're calling "the Hierarchy" or the "They," some group of alleged thetans and so forth. Well, I can tell you without going into space opera or whole track or anything else, but just going into the pure field of spiritualism, that you wouldn't spit on them. They have to be so damn degraded — get the idea, get the covertness of this operation and then mark them on the Tone Scale. Get the covertness of an operation which brings about the Assumption — get the terrific covertness of it — and then hides everything there is to do about it, and then takes no responsibility for it, and then blames it all on space.

"Well," he says, "they're on this row of beads and it flies off into the far distance."

Where do you suppose the people who would dream up something like that, where do you suppose they're sitting on the Tone Scale? Well, they're sitting just there. No kidding. They're on an almost 100 percent defense operation. That's real, real interesting. The area in which this is done is 100 percent defense area. Zero attack. It can be gunned out anytime anybody wants to knock out one of its installations — it's just sitting there like a duck. Could just go in and blow it out. No opposition. They're so sold — they've sold this so often they're terribly sold on it. And this is, actually, your between-lives operation.

You say, "Well, after this, see if you can't make them fly off into the far distance after you've mocked them up."

Now all that, of course, is incredible. It's just as incredible as the fact that you don't become visible when you're three feet back of your head. That's incredible! It speaks of a refusal to show oneself, for reasons one doesn't quite understand, of really remarkable magnitude. That's remarkable! Now that's what's remarkable, not that you're in a body! So what are we shooting for here, huh? Being in a body is now very easy to solve, see? Well, that other one isn't hard to solve now. It isn't hard to solve, but you have to be much slippier to solve that one.

Now, you can just stop in that particular unit — should, perhaps — and handle this individualized problem of automaticity. Because there is your automaticity. And boy, it shows up on black panels the like of which it never shows up on anything else. You can have mock-ups flying all over the room and kicking up their heels and jumping over the roof and so forth. It's never as — quite as much as what happens, really, when black panels start to break up and the automatic machinery for them starts to key in. They'll fly away to the right and fly away to the left and string themselves on beads and pile themselves up as mattresses and change themselves into doll carriages and do all sorts of things — zing, zing, zing! And unless your pc has triggered that very automaticity and so forth, he hasn't done too much. But remember, you're doing a process which undoes automaticity, so the tenure of the automaticity should be very brief, it should come under control rather easily.

Somebody was trying to make an Operating Thetan the other day and unfortunately, in trying to get this person to speak in a room, you see, without a body — without using the body's voice — had this pc chasing around the neighborhood and so on. And the fellow — he made a noise all right — all the auditor wanted him to do was make a tiny noise that just he himself could hear, if that was all he did. He made tiny noise, using waves and so forth. It was like the squeak of a mouse. He got a mouse squeak. That's about all the noise he could make while he was outside. And he, from what I — the way it was told to me, the second he did this — he did it outside and he did it right near another person. And the other person went into a state of shock and fright. And the pc popped back into the room; it had to be audited out of him and squared around and straightened up, and then he was run into it some more. And he could make a little noise like a mouse squeak — you know, "Eek!" Yeah, well, that's remarkable — the fellow's lost his voice and we're trying to give him his voice back.

And one doing the process should recognize an automaticity when he sees it and just duplicate it — make it a little more so, is all he has to do. And all of a sudden it's under his control. Somebody really starts bogging down with a terrific automaticity, just turn around and fix them up in the group. But a man should be able to just — if he sees a lot of purple dots all of a sudden, they're swinging around in front of his face, have him throw a few more in there. And all of a sudden, why, he — got that under control.

Now, anytime you try to play this thing out on, "Let's see, now, the important part of this problem is how do I get out of a body" — see, that's real dumb. I mean, that's like a fellow sitting down and saying, "Let's see, the important thing about this apple" — which is right in front of him and he's kind of hungry too and he'd just love to eat that apple — and he says, "the important thing about this apple is the box it came in. Now, if I just knew more about the box this apple came in, I could eat this apple." I mean, just as circuitous as that, you see. And you have this fellow sitting there studying for a long, long time trying to figure out what kind of a box it was that the apple came in before he dared take a bite of the apple. Real nutty.

Now, what's the rest that you should do with this blackness? All right. Here's your next drill on it:

What we're interested in — we're not going to crack all these problems in three minutes, by a long ways, with any one pc. But the point is, what we're interested in is good operation; be here and be there at will; be able to be free; be able to put in enough automaticity and so forth, and really make it work, to produce sufficient randomity to make life worth living; to be able to recover a visibility, if you please; to be able to speak in the open without the use of vocal cords; and to be able to generate energy, which is unquestionable energy, which would register on any meter or short out any light bulb or start or run any light bulb. Or which could put sufficient calories into a body to make it go on pocketa-pocketa-pocketa without eating, particularly. General Foods won't love us for that last one. The electric light company certainly won't love us for generation of energy of that character. You get the idea? We're flying in the teeth here of a lot of things.

You make the front wall black with effort in it.

Now, I don't say that there's even any vague possibility of your ever being able to do that as an individual. Possibly only one or two of you be — after carefully coached and audited by myself endlessly, might possibly be able to get up to a point where you weren't scared to show yourself, but of course, didn't. (audience laughter)

The side wall black with effort in it.

And there's where we're headed, busy loafing around — it's just where do you put the emphasis on a problem? And that's the most important thing in auditing: Where are you putting the emphasis on this problem? You're putting the emphasis on the problem, right now, as we have perforce had to in the past, on this: a body — being in a body. There's something very wrong with being in a body, because one doesn't easily get out of one, you see? And as long as we hang with that as the most important thing we have, why, we of course have a little trouble with the thing because we've said a part of the problem is important which isn't important. So we're bound to have trouble with it.

The back wall black with effort in it.

Now, what we're trying to talk about now is, after you get out of your body, we can get to work. And it's somewhat on the order of — anybody who is Step I-ing around and in good shape and so forth has sort of this attitude about it, and you'll see that attitude sooner or later: "Well, that's all very well, that's fine." But it's sort of the attitude toward — that possibly Pop has about a school — high-school kid that isn't getting up in time to get to first class, you know? I mean, about the same level of — well, you don't — you can understand it, you know, but "Well, come on, get up Johnny. Drag out, get dressed, beat it, get to class. Let's get going so you can . . ." You know, it's just incredible — there's the kid lying in bed.

The other wall black with effort in it.

To a Step I, it's there's this thetan lying in this body: "It's really weird — what's he doing in a body? He says it's hard to get out of the body." Well, a Step I starts to get kind of upset about this after a while, and he starts to get impatient about it. And any moment he feels like all he ought to do is just mock up a hand and reach over and take ahold of the guy's shoulder, see, and reach into his skull, like you do for a goldfish in a bowl, and go flip! He'll get people out that way. You can always get people out that way — pang!

The ceiling black with effort in it.

The guy says, "My God, where am I?" Now he is lost! And you have to take him and straighten him up and keep your eye on him real good, and straighten him up and now say, "Change your mind about seeing, and blow up some machinery. Oh, he's got some automaticity over here," so you blow up some automaticity on the guy. He's getting loster and loster. And you say, "What's the matter with this guy, he's so darn lost?" And he's just having a worse and worse time of it. So finally, you actually do take hold of him and shove him back into his head again and turn him around so he can find what he happily considers he should look through — the optic nerves. He orients himself. He's very dazed. But he knows something has happened, and after that he treats you with such abysmal respect that it's disgusting. Doesn't do him any good.

The floor black with effort in it.

That's why I was telling you that story about this other pc there this morning. The only reason I'm processing this pc: one, rather interesting pc and two — or one, I had to go a long way south on this case and, two, rather interesting person. That's the reason I'm processing him. No other real reason. But I do something for the pc which is a little bit out of line, to just say I flip an energy beam around there and try to clear up an intolerableness in the pain, and the pc slumps. Works every time. I mean, it's great surprise to me that this happens. The limits — no, really, the limits of being able to do something for somebody are quite finite. You can do an awful lot for somebody as long as you don't exceed the bounds of making it very, very difficult for him to help himself. And the second you exceed those bounds and begin to make it difficult for him to help himself, he's injured rather than helped.

And each time with a feeling "it must persist." Effort. And they all of a sudden realize effort is the postulate you've put in about a persistence. That's what effort is. All right.

A government, for instance, which steps in to help a populace plant enough crops so that they can thereafter be self-supporting people is a good government; because they will be self-supporting people. But a government which starts in on the basis of corn, games and WPA will inevitably cave in the people because they're helping them in such a way to make it almost impossible for the fellow to help himself.

That's your next stage. Now, you vary this with a person who is running it by throwing in, every so often, something about emotion. And you duplicate it each time. Any kind of a basic emotion like tiredness, effort — it's not an emotion, of course, but you just have them put effort in these walls without any attention to blackness for a little while.

Let's take WPA. Fellow could get on the job at WPA — you know, during — back during the good old Depression. I learned about a lot of things in the Depression, including stupidity — it was the first time I ever encountered it very heavily, and it was real stupid. And these people who got on WPA, works projects of one kind or another: Do you know that as long as they were on WPA they couldn't lay off of WPA for a week to take a part-time job or any other kind of a job? It was impossible for them to do so. They — in England they were permitted to do so; here they were not. And once they took another job to help somebody out, or got a little pay on the outside in addition to the WPA, they were out as far as WPA was concerned. In other words, the government would only help them as long as they were continuing to be slaves.

Now, there's another drill that comes in there: Have the walls of the room telling the preclear where he isn't, and refusing to tell him where he is. Very specifically, it works best when — have the walls of the room refuse to tell him where he is. You run that right now:

The immediate result of that was when they — was trying to get boys for the army in 1940, and which brought down on our heads, finally, the thing which is humorously called Universal Military Training. I don't know why they call it Universal Military Training — they're not training a single guy from Mars. I know, I know! I looked around through the armed forces and those things I thought were from Mars were second lieutenants! (audience laughter)

Have the front wall refuse to tell you where you are.

Anyway, the problem there is they help a person to a point where his self-determinism caves in. And that is help him to a point of no return, or toward a point of no return. If you boost a fellow too far toward a point of no return, why, he doesn't come back.

Side wall refuse to tell you where you are.

What is the point of no return on helping somebody? It's a nice question, isn't it? Freudian self-analysis answered the question with a wrong bracket — they said the way to help somebody is to get him to transfer completely. I'm not quite sure what they ever meant by transference, and I would be ashamed of that if they knew — they don't happen to know what they meant by transference either. I know because I've heard too many arguments on it. Now, these people helped people to the point where they would transfer and identify with the analyst. That was helping them too far.

The back wall refuse to tell you where you are.

One boy walking three miles — he doesn't have any cash at the moment, but he's got an appointment with his analyst — he walks three miles just so the analyst won't be put out with him. No, no. The analyst is there to help the boy, the boy isn't there to help the analyst that way — it's different. So that's helping them too far.

The other wall refuse to tell you where you are.

Well, how far can you help them? You could help them as far as giving them good sound auditing of the kind I've been giving you. Because that auditing, every single piece of it and every five minutes of it — except occasionally when a guy gets red-headed and hits him in the head with a book or something of the sort — is assisting his determinism. Every second of it is assisting his determinism. You're not helping him at all. You're making it possible for him to help himself, which is entirely new definition. It's real interesting, isn't it?

The ceiling refuse to tell you where you are.

Now, where do we get — how far south do we go to bail out a case? Well, we bail them out and then we get busy auditing. That's about what it amounts to. Do you know that every single drill that we're doing on low-level cases right now . . .

The floor refuse to tell you where you are.

Do you know we're not interested in psychosomatic illnesses right now? Not even vaguely interested in a psychosomatic illness. People's glasses come off in the normal course of making an Operating Thetan. You just run the "seeing eye dog" on them enough. You have them set up an automaticity so they'll — you just get them to set up seeing eye dogs. "Now set up blind seeing eye dogs. Now set up more blind seeing eye dogs. More blind seeing eye dogs." You just do this and the guy — "Now let's waste sight by letting a body look for you." Crash! Glasses? You do that a few times, glasses come off. But you're not doing it to take his glasses off. It just tells you the state of the case. The case is not up to that break point. The case is not perceiving itself well enough, because it's still having to have something perceive for it.

Now have the upper corner of the room there refuse to tell you where you are.

It's pretty hard to orient a person who is very, very accustomed to being only a body until a very short time ago, to the turn of reasoning that: "Well, when you get out of the body we'll go to work — on you. Not your body. On you — we'll go to work, now, we'll fix you up so you are again." Because the guy is a terrible case of "ain't." Real interesting case of "ain't." Anytime you can't look up with mest eyes and see a thetan, that's a bad case of "ain't" right there. I mean, with mest eyes, not imagining you're seeing him.

The lower corner of that room refuse to tell you where you are.

Do you imagine, for instance, that you see that ashtray there? Well, that's — that'd be about as solid as the thetan ought to look to you. It's not any faint thing, if you're going on up the line toward this.

Now have the upper corner of the room refuse to tell somebody else where he is.

Well, I don't know how long it takes you to get to that point of willingness and unwillingness to be perceptible and so forth. Auditing each other, I can tell you you can kick it on up there, though. It's a very finite number of hours. We're not even going to pretend to get up to that point here in the next few weeks if you — unless, however, you really get down and work.

Of course, you'd go on through the corners of the room with that and then go into: "Have the upper corner of the room refuse to tell you where somebody else is. And refuse to tell somebody else where you are."

But there's where the slippy auditing comes in. "Why ain't you visible, fellow? What's the matter with you — you ashamed? You got warts? You got theta warts, huh?" That's the way it goes.

That would be your total bracket. Got that?

So, although we get this apple in a case, the less we worry about the case in which the apple comes in — which is, I think, why they call it a "case" — and the more we worry about the guy, the better off we are. And if we just change the emphasis of our auditing to: "Say, fellow, that's very curious — you're not visible today. What's the matter, you ashamed? Did you have a date last night? What's the matter with you?" You get the idea? Well, that's — that as a point of view permits you to solve a lot of cases.

Well now, you vary that with your V level or occluded level case. You vary the processing, because he gets pretty flighty.

The other one is, "Let's fix up this body's legs." I have occasionally, lately ... I, by the way, knew this very, very early in the business — knew it very, very early — that if you started to work a chronic somatic and only a chronic somatic, the case made practically no progress. You might get rid, temporarily, of the chronic somatic, but the case itself, if you concentrated on a chronic somatic, made no progress.

Now, if somebody who has a great deal of occlusion starts to get too flighty, for heaven's sakes, remember that I read you an Abbott company piece of advertising that said that Bl did something for blackness and occlusion. And that it said specifically, "When the preclear becomes very restive and his legs start to jerk," it said, "according to Dr. Hubbard, who insists now that he be called Mr. Hubbard," it said, "you must feed him with Abbott and company's handy jim-dandy little b1 pills to the amount of about 200 cc, preferably 200 cc" — well, yes, that would be a little bit, wouldn't it? Well that was their misprint. (audience laughter) Two hundred milligrams and some calcium in milk probably. If you can take them in milk it's much better — couple of hundred milligrams. "Somebody's occluded," it said in the folder, "somebody occluded starts to get jumpy under this, why, pump it in."

You'll find tapes clear back to 1950 which are stating this. It's a very observed thing. And it's the same way today. That's because you're validating the barrier called a body, and you're not paying any attention to a thetan who needs a barrier called a body — his own barrier. He must be able to make a barrier to stop light so as to be visible. And as long as you validate the fact that he has a barrier, he's not going to work to make one.

But there's another method which I can give you now which is just as good, and that's put franticness in the walls. But if you're going to start putting franticness in in brackets for a case that's down the line and fresh out of space, boy, you just make sure if you're doing the auditing at that moment, or you start to get groggy and somebody else starts doing the auditing at that moment in the unit — boy, you make sure that you beat that to death, you understand? I mean, don't start in on franticness and then skip it. You understand that? Because it'll actually throw a pc — some pcs — into convulsions. And they'll run right on out, just as nice as you please, if you just keep on duplicating the feeling of franticness in the various walls. See that?

Have you ever been down and seen somebody that had a hundred million watermelons in his front lawn who would buy a watermelon off of you? No matter how good a watermelon you were trying to sell him — you trying to sell him a much better watermelon than any watermelon he had — he isn't going to buy it.

Now we have a specialized one. And, of course, this is still under Step II. Put up a body to resist all effects of auditing. Put it up a couple of times, in brackets. Now, boy, don't forget that. That's for everybody. That's for everybody. Putting up a couple of bodies, in brackets — as I say, run it in a bracket, each time two bodies up there — to resist all auditing. All of your pcs will blow up and disappear, and you'll feel so much better, you'll wonder how the devil you ever got to feeling bad about it. You understand that?

Same way if you find somebody who has a super-ridged, hydraulically impeded, rigged and distorted barrier to stop and reflect light that — boy is it a barrier and boy, it's good, too. It'll stop the front bumper of an automobile for a moment too. Do all sorts of things, this barrier will — a very interesting barrier. And now you're going to sell him a barrier called a body. Why, you're not liable to, as long as you keep on validating the barrier.

Now, you could vary that. And there is a different method of varying it which is very simple, is "resist all effect of engrams." But remember, "all effects of auditing" is the main one. Resist all effect of engrams, resist all effect of other people's thinking, resist all effect of other people's control mechanisms — you can go on and on with that if you want to, but the one which is closest and most pertinent to you is this matter of auditing.

But the only trouble is, the barrier he's got is not quite his. He's depending on a lot of other things to make a barrier for him — he thinks. And out of these great duplicities and so forth, he has no responsibility for his body. Until he'll build a body, he'll never own one. Until he himself creates a body, he'll never have one. And, of course, it'll keep going wrong, and things will keep getting wrong with it, because it's not his body. He stole it.

Yes, "must persist." Now, you must remember to put that up there, "the auditing must persist," to you. Because you've gotten a lot of — you've got a lot of that down into the effort band. All right.

Did you — I mentioned earlier in this — to this class the matter of the condition of a pirate vessel after it's been used by buccaneers for a month or two. Did you ever have an automobile stolen? Did it ever come back to you in good condition? It's a very funny thing, but it always comes back wrecked. Why? The fellow who took the automobile obviously needed transportation. The best way to get to someplace was simply to keep the machine intact and arrive at the destination. That's true, isn't it? But the machine's always wrecked. There's always something all ruined about the car. Made enMEST out of it. There's what happens to whatever object a person knows, basically and truthfully, he doesn't own — it gets to be enMEST.

What is duplication?

What care, really, do people take with these bodies which they really don't own? They don't take any care of them at all. Because they don't patch them up and don't rebuild them fast, these bodies grow old, deteriorate, become unbeautiful and die. That's a hell of a condemnation of a being. You mean he can't maintain and keep going a body? This guy must be nuts! He must be crazy! And you mean that he has to steal a body? Why, if he has to steal one to have one, gee, he's bad off! The poor guy. What a terrible case of "ain't."

Male voice: It's like — duplication is continually mocking up what you have, over and over again.

Now, you're going to work on a chronic somatic in this body, huh? Well, how can he repair the chronic somatic in this body? He doesn't own the body. That's the one thing he hasn't got — a body. He's borrowed one, kind of. His personal relations — interpersonal relationships with the rest of his family are based upon that fact. He stole a body off them. He kind of tries to start running away at the age of one. He starts falling down when he's running away, and not getting away very well when he's two. He manages it two or three times when he's three. By the time he's five, they've got him broken. He'll leave the body there and sort of pretend he's using it, meanwhile saying it's using him. You're going to work a chronic somatic, huh?

Well, you mock up something new over and over again, but you just say you're duplicating. Yeah, that's very good. Very good. Why do you do duplication?

Another thing is you're going to just validate a new barrier — the barrier of pain. Anytime you start validating the barrier of pain, you're setting up something which must resist all effects. What's going to resist all effects in this case? Pain is. Faith healers get in that bracket; doctors get in that bracket — they start resisting pain, resisting somatics, so forth. And eventually they get sick — of course, poor guys. All right.

Male voice: Because you have automatic machinery which keeps doing it and you want the preclear to assume control of the automatic machinery.

Where are we trying to cut in on a case? Where are we trying to start a case? We want an invisible being whose attention is not so distracted, and we want to make him visible. That's where we start in on the case: making the thetan visible, not making him sane. We're not even vaguely, vaguely interested in what he's doing with his present body. Because as soon as he learns to mock and unmock with great rapidity, that body will change around and shift around and alter — oh, much more radically, I suppose, than changing your lumberjack jackets and shirts and Hollywood sports clothes and business suits and . . . See? I mean, that's very easy.

Good. And how does the automatic — what's its prime functional operation?

There's where we're trying to enter the body. And that's why we want to — the barrier we want to validate is the barrier of his own creation. So we needn't really try to validate other barriers which he doesn't believe himself to be created.

Male voice: Of the process or the automatic machinery?

Two ways to do it. One way: to put him in possession of every barrier in sight. You eventually get that, he'll make some barriers of his own. Don't think that unlimited space is a wonderful state of being — it isn't. That's what I told you about space opera, it specializes in hate. Hate's so lovely — it condenses and makes barriers that are so thick. Nobody — you couldn't get anybody to love anybody in space opera. All right.

Of the automatic machinery.

Have a little better understanding of all this now? The drills which you are running are those drills gauged toward the fact where you can mock and unmock a body, which means you can mock up a body. If you could mock and unmock the body you've got right there, you will eventually be able to, with continuous drill and so forth, be able to creatively mock a body and unmock it. It'll be good and solid. Do you understand that now? And you've started, right at that point, on making a thetan visible. You understand that? You make visible his own barriers and make invisible the other fellow's, as far as he's concerned, see? And you've got it!

Male voice: It's to make everything persist.

So you're starting right now, you see, on this case level of creating visibility, beingness, perception, as a thetan. And just because you're sitting in the midst of some other buddy's body is no reason why you're not working on this project. You're not really working on the project of exteriorization, you see that? You're working on the problem of visibility.

That's right. And how do you make anything persist?

So let's get going with that slight change of viewpoint and maybe you'll make a little bit better progress. Because we've got you resisting a body to the point of, you see, "I've got to get out of this body and then we can get started." To hell with resisting the body — let's just learn to mock and unmock bodies so we can have a body. That's all. Simple. Do you understand me now? Got it?

Male voice: By duplicating it all the time.

You're working on the project this minute, just with the drills you're doing. But I've just shown you that — let's not have the goal of, "I've got to get out of this body." To hell with that. Let's start working — it doesn't matter where you are, you just start working on the idea of having bodies of your own. Do they look any different when you finish up with the body you have? Boy, they sure do. But you learn how to change bodies to that degree, you could sure change your appearance.

That's right! That's right. All right.

If anybody'd been tracking with a pc or two that I've been processing now and then for the last five, six months, if anybody had really had any kind of a visio record of these pcs, he'd certainly see somebody remodeling a body. And never at any time have we talked about getting out of bodies. We just talk about making and unmaking bodies, and they don't think about it anymore. They're out of a body most of the time. They almost never get near one. But they have one, which is a good contact point and it's more and more theirs and more and more theirs to alter.

What's blackness doing?

You see, your body, in essence, is not something for you to pick up as randomity, but it is an automaticity point. As soon as you pick it up and start to resist it, the more you resist this body, the less you'll get out of it.

Second male voice: Covering me up. (audience laughter)

Okay.

What's it doing?

Second male voice: All I get out of it, it covers me up.

Mm-hm. That's all you get out of it?

Third male voice: Helping me resist all effects.

That's right. That's correct. What is blackness doing?

Fourth male voice: Helping to resist all effects.

That's right. That's right. Okay.

What does this have to do with survival?

Male voice: Well, it's just contrary to survival.

What is?

Male voice: The — having you be an effect instead of being able to control it. Because to survive, you must get it under your own control.

Go over that again. Let me make the question much more specific. What does resisting all effects have to do with survival? (pause)

Male voice: Well, it makes you wonder if you can survive while one is resisting all effects.

What does duplication have to do with survival?

Second male voice: Duplication is trying to make it persist all the time.

Mm-hm. Can persistence occur without duplication?

Male voice: Hm-mm.

That's right. You see that clearly? What is automaticity?

Third male voice: Turning it over to the machine, not having control of it.

Mm-hm.

Third male voice: Seeing that it's other-responsibility.

That's right. Why do people do this? (pause) Why do people do this?

Male voice: So they can be an effect, and not cause.

That's right. Why do people do this?

Second male voice: I've got a machine that throws away the answer every time, so ... (audience laughter)

Audience: Randomity.

Ah! That lost word — randomity. Somebody picked up this word, by the way, early in Scientology for their randomity. People have had trouble with it ever since. It's simply a way of stating the ratio of predicted to unpredicted motion necessary to interest an individual. They have automaticity to produce randomity. When a case has too much randomity, it is because he has set up too many things in automaticity. When he does not have enough randomity, he has not set up enough automaticity, or he has set up too much automaticity which cancels itself. Simple?

What are the essential parts of the process we're doing here? Just give me in — four essential parts of the process we're doing.

Male voice: We're doing a duplication. We're doing the freeing of the emotions with the full realization that we place the effect and we get — and receive it back again.

Right.

Male voice: Four. We're becoming aware of our automaticity.

Right. Let's restate that one: we're taking our automaticity under control.

Male voice: Yeah. Well, that's becoming clear to me.

Yeah. But let's take . . .

Male voice: Once you're aware of it, then you have a choice.

No.

Male voice: Well, when I said permission . . .

No, just roll up your sleeves, get your hands dirty because you're going to take over every automatic machine we can lay our hands on here. And we'll just put you in a condition whereby you could set up new ones. Okay, give me one more.

Male voice: Hm?

One more.

Awareness is not taking control of.

Male voice: No, no. You . . .

You can look at something without grabbing it.

Male voice: Yeah.

Okay. Let's go, one more. It's the one you're doing right this minute.

Male voice: Thinking machine?

No. No.

Male voice: Duplicating . . .

You've got that.

Male voice:. . . well, I am, in a way, yeah.

Come on.

Male voice: Seeing black ?

No.

Male voice: I'm guessing now.

Resisting all effects! (audience laughter)

You see how — what a sneaky one that is?

Male voice: And Ron, when you — on awareness, that was an analogy, a beautiful analogy, for me when you said — about the black curtains? Tom worked with me last night on that and in creating them, duplicating them, this morning this analogy came: the photographer puts in a black something because he's never quite ready to take the picture. And we're never quite ready to see clear. ..

Hm.

Male voice:. . . the postulate there.

Mm-hm.

Male voice: Not quite ready to see clear because the subject isn't — oh, in the form in which we'd like it.

That's right. That's right.

Male voice: That was a clear analogy, we will attest to.

All right. Now let's look at those four essential parts, what you're doing. First one: survival and the necessity if one survives, then, to resist other effects which don't want him to survive. And one puts that in so strongly that he simply says, "Resist all effects," and that becomes in the mest universe, conservation of energy. See that? Conservation of energy is just "resist all effects." There's a lot of energy around that does too. That's — asbestos — you can't burn it and so forth. But people do manage to put it out in sheets. There's all sorts of things. There — nearly everything is tailored up to resist a majority of effects. And here that is survival. Resist all effects. Which is persistence, which is why the case persists, which is why the case doesn't change.

Now, if you can start altering a piece of automatic machinery, by the way — if you start altering a piece of automatic machinery, you start taking control of it. You take control of it a little bit by changing an emotion, by changing a color, by altering the effort, and always by duplicating it. You start duplicating the machine, and the machine will stop duplicating. That's a little motto for you.

So that's the next one, is duplication. You start duplicating the machine and it'll stop duplicating. People have these automaticities and that is other-responsibility. They have these automaticities. The way they get them back is to create and destroy symbols of the automaticities. Or waste, save, accept, desire, and be curious about, in brackets, the same machinery. Or create and destroy it.

And there's another process which you will run into later on, and I might as well mention it because I use it in auditing all the time, is throwing postulates into the things and blowing them up. It's real cute. I hadn't done it for a long time, was doing it this morning and happened to call it to my attention. See that? It must persist. Now, mock up some black curtain and put the postulate in it, "it must persist." Okay. And now you put the other — another postulate in, "it must persist." After a while it gets silly that you keep putting this postulate in there. And then you can blow up one of them. Or you can blow up a postulate that must persist. Well, you'll blow up the whole darn bank.

Now, the other one, another little caution here is — remember this by the way, the next one on that little list I was giving there is just location. That's a covert one, but every time you're putting something up, you're locating. See, that's sneaking in on the process. We got a process that does a lot of sneaky little things. It slips into the cogwheels. All right.

You start doing these things in brackets, and even more will start happening than has been happening.

And wherever you employ your Steps I and II, just remember what you're doing. With Step I you are locating. You are locating. And the purpose of your doing that location is to get the preclear so high on the Tone Scale he does not have to be located and that is the goal of Step I. He knows where he is and knowingness is sufficient location for him, and when he sees location and points and so forth, boy, it all gets brighter than the — oh, it's real bright! I mean, this really gets polished. He really is certain where he is. Now, that's the goal of Step I, see? You get him up to a point where he knows where he is all the time, then his sole interest in location is locating other things with relationship to other things. It has no effect upon him. As long as he's being affected by location, he's in poor shape. All right.

Now, let's get the goal of Step II. The goal of Step II is being capable of handling and controlling, being part of or detached from, any and all auto­maticities. That's the goal of Step II.

We're going to solve these goals just like we've been solving them here.

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