Thank you.

Today we have some very interesting material - material that has a great deal of meat in it. To pick up all the material you're going to get in this hour's lecture is probably humanly impossible, but who said you were human?

We are now going to take up - we could take up many things, you know. There are a few things to take up. We're now going to take up states of being.

All right. Title of this lecture is Scales.

I've already talked about scales. There's a great deal of information which has accumulated over a period of time concerning states of being. Now, you've heard of Clears and Operating Thetans and Releases and so forth. Well, what basically are these things and how are they achieved?

Now, it's all very well to anatomize, compartmentize, legalize and lawfulize and dissect life in all of its parts.

Historically, the first Clears were produced in 1947. And lacking the tremendous amount of data since gained by which to evaluate it - there wasn't even language to talk about it, you see? One couldn't even call these things what they were. Called them Clears, but just what was a Clear?

Along with Scientology there's a spirit of advance, of liveness, of doingness, of hope, of future.

A tremendous amount of observation has been necessary over a long period of time to find out what was the important thing that was done early in order to make one. What was the common denominator of this and what basically did happen?

And when you are studying these bare bones, remember that it takes a certain livingness to clothe them. It takes an intelligence to use them, but above that it takes a livingness to clothe them.

Now, that's not basically an apology for the thing. Actually, it's only taken a few years and a lot of people have been trying at it for a very, very long time and they haven't done it and we've just taken a few years and we have done it. So, that it's been a bit of a struggle - there's been a little randomity here and there - I don't think should be subject to great criticism.

All things proceed from livingness. This is very true of scales. A scale, intelligently used, is a wonderful yardstick. But like arithmetic, you must remember that two apples plus two apples may equal four apples, but the fact itself is not going to do anything for anybody. You have to apply these scales to cases, to people, to things.

But we do have to and we do find it very necessary to have a very clear view of what our goals definitely are with relationship to a human being.

Now, I told you that the livingness aspect of Scientology is very great. As a matter of fact, that is tremendously true. When we break down a Central Organization or a clinic into too much straight doingness, without order, we have a confusion, right?

Now, in 1947 the first process was Confrontingness. This was the first process. And it was used in a gradient scale. You know a great deal about gradient scales. You should know a lot about gradient scales. Things happen little by little, not all at once, as the total effect people would like us to believe.

But similarly, we can actually order the thing practically out of existence. That's something to know, you know?

The individual who could not confront anything was brought into an ability to confront. I don't even think the word was used in those days; better you - word here has come up - little locks. Just locks.

You could get so much order into an army that it would never fight. That's true. When battle is joined, it is only the individual's initiative which whips the enemy from the point that battle is joined. Good planning, good foresight, a certain amount of generalship and organization and logistics and so forth all go into the winning of that battle. But once it is joined, the order goes to pieces. It's only livingness that brings about victory. It's the will to do, the will to apply, the will to use. Don't you see?

Now, what's a lock? A lock is a mental image picture which derives its force from anunderlying engram. Actually, a lock probably derives its force from a secondary, which derives its force from an engram, but I can't say for sure that all engrams accumulate secondaries.

Similarly in business, you can do anything you want to in business to guarantee a wonderfiil order and success and proper invoicing and that sort of thing. But basically all a business consists of is the willingness of people to work.

Secondary is an emotional charge or a misemotional charge. Engram is a mental image picture containing pain, unconsciousness and exteriorization. You are studying Scientology, not Dianetics. Dianetics is pain and unconsciousness. Scientology is pain, unconsciousness and exteriorization. That's what it takes to make an engram.

When people are no longer willing to work, you don't have any business anymore. When people are no longer willing to be citizens of a nation, there's no longer any nation. The moment slavery enters - the moment total slavery enters, you haven't got anything - just nothing. Because with slavery, why, the willingness goes out totally.Now, I want you to remember two things: that these scales are true, that they do apply to life. And unless you clothe them with some sensibility, unless you can use them while you're processing somebody, unless you can intelligently apply them and know where they begin and where they end and know enough to use your own good sense too, why you'll find them very useful - otherwise you won't. They're just nice mathematical arrangements that are very pretty.

And a lock is just any old picture, and a person's any old pictures stick around because they've had big, forceful, hidden, not-even-vaguely confronted pictures of pain, unconsciousness and exteriorization, see?

Now, these scales were gained from an observation of livingness. And the first scale was the ARC Chart of Human Evaluation that you find in Science of Survival. And that chart is just as true today as the day it was written.

Now, this person was brought to confront what he could confront. And I have had somebody go to a door and walk in the room and then sit down in the chair and then confront the resulting picture - resulting mental image picture of having walked in the door and sat down in the chair. And I'd get somebody to do this until he could do it.

It's a fabulous thing that we have so many constants. It's a rather surprising thing. When people go around and tell you that we change our minds all the time, those people don't know, they really don't know what we haven't changed our minds about. And we really haven't changed our minds about any fundamentals.

What I didn't realize is I was asking them to confront a wall on a via. That's why 8-C works. You get them to confront a wall - bang!

We are still trying to crack the same problems that were observed years ago. And we're only advancing in the direction of a simplicity of application. How do we handle those things? And it might surprise you that the ARC triangle was formulated in July of 1950. It was in fall of that year when that Chart of Human Evaluation was written. There's never been any reason to change any line of it anywhere.

But by getting them to go through this operation, time and time again, I never found out there was an occluded case. See? This was being victimized by being too good.

That's been with us a long time and it is the primary yardstick that you use to evaluate not only preclears, but processes. When processes violate the ARC triangle, the definitions of ARC, the inter-relationships of ARC and when they do not improve a preclear up the ARC scale, they're no good. A process that doesn't do this is worthless.

There wasn't enough randomity showed up. There wasn't enough nonsense ever came out of this.

Now, ARC is a triangle, interrelated, and to move any part or corner of this triangle, it is only necessary to move one or two of the other parts of the triangle. To change any corner of the triangle, you need only change any other corner of the triangle.

Well, I didn't - I was fortunate. I didn't have to explain it to anybody. I didn't have to talk about it at all. And I found out that an individual did this and then he could look at other pictures, and then we could erase them. He would look at them until he no longer saw them. In other words, I was actually bringing him by gradient scale into a state of beingness where he could as-is a mental image picture by looking at it, not some substitute for it. You see?

Therefore, to change human beings, all you really need to know, to know whether you've changed them or to know how you've changed them, is that ARC is the basis on which they operate.

And gradually he would look at rougher and rougher and meaner and meaner and more and more painful and more and more unconscious pictures; the next thing you know, why, he'd look at a heavy picture and it'd say, whooh!

Now, I can give you some brand-new rules with regard to communication, some brand-new rules with regard to reality, a brand-new Reality Scale, new definitions of affinity. These things all exist, but none of them violate this basic concept of ARC. It is very stable and very standard.

Well, we hadn't seen that until we started to run engrams last - in '58. We didn't see it again, really - look at an engram and it'd go whooh - until '58. That's how long it took between.

A is affinity. Affinity - a lot of people think of affinity as love. Well maybe it is, but affinity also includes hate. You might say it is any attitude, particularly emotion. Affinity. It is monitored by the consideration of distance, it's monitored by identification. Two things occupying the same space are generally considered to be in affinity. Total affinity. But that's a total identification, isn't it? And you find that a fellow in jail does not like being in jail. So it isn't the final criteria of likingness to be occupying the same space as.

Well, I won't give you a big buildup on how - what a tremendous auditor I am, but I was evidently doing things right. But I didn't know what of the things I was doing I was doing right. And I didn't know what of the results were right because there was no way to evaluate this at all.

There are many considerations which monitor this thing affinity. Affinity probably even at this late date is the least known of these three corners of this triangle.

I just kept on doing this and it kept working, and then I started to explain it to people. And then I started getting scientific and then I Qed and Aed, you might say. I answered up - when other people got concerned about a problem in the subject of what was happening, why then, I got concerned about it too and I tried to explain it all and I tried to get it all set one way or the other. And it was very difficult.

Probably still the least known. A tremendous amount is known about it, but more could be known. And that probably will be the case for the next few millennia so we're not going to strain at it. We know so much about it now that we can use it easily and that's all that counts.

And I wound up thinking the engram was the thing, not the ability to confront it. And began to define Clears as people that didn't have any, rather than people who could confront them. You see? Now, a person who could totally confront engrams doesn't have any! You see the natural conclusions here. I was led astray, only for a few years.

Now, under the heading of affinity, we actually have the emotional tones. Why do we call these things tones? Tones had to do with physics, they had to do with vibration, they had to do with corresponding vibrations -things like this in the physical sciences. And from this we sort of get the idea of tone. It's as good a word as any other word, but it merely means a condition.

Now, you could still make a Clear today this same way. And because I was interested in them being more and more capable of confronting more and more duress in mental image pictures, I skipped listening to text in those early cases. And I didn't find out about whole track, actually, until Mary Sue and myself sat down with an E- Meter and plotted whole track, I think, during the whole of 1952. We just did nothing but plot the track. What had man been up to? I mean, what pictures did exist, and so forth?

Now, the Emotional Scale really belongs under the heading of affinity but is best located by communication and reality, the other two corners. But we can directly express this Emotional Scale and, as time has gone on, it has achieved things above and below its level.

Well, undoubtedly, undoubtedly some of these early preclears had been looking at space opera and all sorts of things on the whole track. But it seemed to be all right with them, and I didn't see any particular reason to enquire too deeply and I wasn't concerned with that. I was merely interested in their ability to handle their mental image pictures. That was all I was really basically concerned with.

The original scale had at 4.0, which you'll find in Science of Survival, enthusiasm; at 3.5, conservatism; 2.5 you'd find boredom, 2.0 you found antagonism, 1.5 you found anger, 1,1 you found covert hostility, but at 1.0 you had fear. At 0.5 you had grief and at 0.1 you had apathy. Zero of that scale is death.

When I started to explain it then the mental image picture became the bogey. It became the beast. And it was the thing that had to be attacked, not the pc.

Now, it's tremendously interesting that looking at the center of the scale, that there was more scale to be looked at. There's a zero Tone Scale. A thetan can go down scale from being a body. Now, we said zero -meaning death - that's actually body death. And a thetan can very easily go below body death.

Now we're right back to where we started again. The thing we're trying to improve is the person. That's all we're trying to improve. And the person is a thetan. And we're just trying to improve a thetan. And that's all. We don't care about his pictures, text of.

He goes off into forgettingness when he goes below this level very far. But as we go over these levels (there's a correction on that scale, that's 3.0 at conservatism according to the old books) when we go very far here, we discover that a person can very easily be below apathy. And this was a great discovery in 1954 - a very great discovery-because people would get apathetic under processing and we thought we were making them worse. We weren't, we were making them better. They had to come up to apathy. And there are many engrams and many incidents that you run on a pc that he'll run like a little piece of wood.

Now, the wonderful conditions which result from these pictures could be a terrific study in itself. Oh my, the story, the drama, the puzzles that occur as a reason on the whole track for a person being crazy.

And you just run him, you know, run him, run him, no emotion, no emotion. You should realize where he is. He is either clear up at the top or he is below apathy. And this wooden response of the pc is something you must beware of. Any individual who is woodenly responding, with no change on the Affinity Scale, is not improving. You have made a mistake. You have chosen the wrong terminal. You have done something incorrect. Because all change in a pc is monitored against this Chart of Human Evaluation, the ARC scale.

No, the reason a person is crazy is he can't confront his pictures. This little oddity was the thing which tipped everything over. Some individual would have some terrific, some fantastic amount of aberration - Oh! He'd been shot and beaten and shoveled up and left for dead and so forth. And he'd be walking around happy and sane.

Now, let's go below 0.0 here and take a look. In Scientology 8-80 we find minus 0.2, being other bodies. Well, we'd say at once that's out of valence. Another identity than his own; being another body. He's in one body and he's being another body.

And this other person had had a real tough life, you know? Gotten up to the age of 12 and on three separate occasions had stuck a pin in the finger and had actually had a bad cold at the age of 13 and had flunked a subject in college and had to repeat it. And we find him in the insane asylum.

Minus 1.0, punishing other bodies - that's a big game. Minus 1.3, responsibility as blame. Minus 1.5, controlling bodies - total fixation on just controlling bodies, lots of them and so forth. We saw this in Hitler's regime and so forth. The total anxiety was just controlling bodies - no reason, just a big anxiety about controlling bodies. You know, they're liable to do anything or fly out - arms are liable to fly off or something of the sort.

Well, there are two reasons for this. Individuals on the whole track are not the same, one thetan to the next. They're not all the same. You had to take a communistic attitude, or some highly identified attitude where everybody is the same as everybody - some communistic or other great religious significance. Communism is a sort of a religion, you know? I'm not running it down.

Minus 2.2, we have protecting bodies. Minus 3.0, we have owning bodies, minus 3....

The individuals are not all the same. Man is not equal - he's not created equal, evidently. But certainly on the whole track we don't even have to prove that, we don't even have to look at it.

- that's old body in pawn and that sort of thing - we find that sort of thing. Minus 3.5, approval from bodies. Minus 4.0, needing bodies and minus 8.0, hiding. And from there on down, it's hiding.

Certainly on the whole track this individual in this lifetime went mad sticking a pin in the finger, might have had some tremendous duress in past lives, don't you see? But there was all of that experience which was out of view. And one didn't know, really, what had happened to the person. He could only see the consequence of expenence in this lifetime. So that made a very disproportionate view.

Now, all of those states occur below death. A thetan can be alive below body death. That's what you should realize and when you reach most of the aberrations on cases you'll find these people below body death.

I found out that it didn't matter, out of some people, how many engrams we erased. Just nothing seemed to work very good. Now, I finally found out that it was a question of how real this engram was.

So let's add in our very latest Tone Scale here and we find that we have minus 1.3, responsibility as blame - is what it says here. There is an emotion, there is a new emotion at that. There's also another emotion at 1.0, another emotion at 0.2 and another emotion at 0.0 which you can spot since we're running processes today and you'll be running processes in this course which turn on these peculiar and particular emotions.

And some fellow would go avidly through an engram from one end to the other and swear to you it was real, and it wasn't until very recently that I discovered that "real" is a one-terminal proposition, as I've already told you. There's no comparison.

And we've for a long time known about shame, blame and regret. Shame, blame, regret.

Realer than what? It was very real to him. You say, "How real?" Well, as real as this room. Well, how real was the room to him? And we find out it was a vague, floating fog that nobody had anything to do with. It was a nowhere. So he went through this engram totally on nowhere.

All right, at 0.0, we have failure. It's an emotion. It's just a little bit below apathy. It's a realization that one has failed. And you know that's awfully high for some people around? They'd have to go way up scale to realize they failed. You'll notice this in processing. After you've processed a terminal with him for quite a while, they will - it'll come up as a big cognition. They'll say - even you will - you'll say, "Well, I come up to - I realize now that I failed. I failed to help my mother or I failed somehow or another." And it's a sort of a feeling.

So it became very necessary to develop up realities. In other words, we needed processes which developed up realities, and therefore we had to study what made unrealities and what it was that pushed a person down scale into unrealities more rapidly than other things.

All right. Blame is a very interesting thing, it's simply punishing other bodies. You find that one at [minus] 1.0 blame. And it's not just a state of postulate. There is an emotion that goes along with blame - one feels blamingly at something. It's part of the Emotional Scale, these - man hadn't well spotted these things before.

And all these years - we started again to make Clears toward the end of '57. That was ten years, almost, after the fact, where we could go for the goal and arrive there with some prediction. But there were auditors during the period of 1950 to 1957 who did make Clears and who were successful along the lines.

Now, minus 1.3 is responsibility as blame which we get as regret. There s a great deal to know about regret. Regret is what inverts the time track. One wishes it hadn't happened and so he tries to collapse the track on the point. This is an old observation. Actually, overt acts collapses the track, but the emotion of regret is experienced at that level and it's an actual emotion.

But nobody could totally predict getting anywhere positively with each case, don't you see? So that made a random subject - a random clearingness. We could always improve somebody, so let's get down to a lower state now than Clear.

Now, how about minus 0.2, which is being other bodies? That's shame. There is an emotion of shame connected with being other bodies. One is ashamed to be oneself. He is somebody else because - and when you start to get him to be himself, he's ashamed of it.

You can take somebody with Dianetic processes or with your more elementary Scientology processes, who is suffering from a chronic illness (psychosomatic illnesses comprise 70 percent of man's illnesses and probably the remaining 30 percent of his illnesses are predisposed by mental attitudes). You know, the fellow was very excited so he went out and broke his leg. You get the idea?

Now, these little emotions here - regret is the lowest one we have as a true emotion, as minus 1.3. The next one, blame, minus 1.0. Minus 0.2 is shame and 0.0 is failure.

That these individuals, without ever realizing anything - cogniting, you know, we call it - without ever cogniting, without ever waking up to the fact anything was happening, could be made to get over these illnesses.

Somewhere in the vicinity of 0.1 to 0.05 - that's a zone - is apathy. There's another emotion here at 0.375 -these are arbitrary numbers but they give you the multiples and harmonics of the thing - is making amends, which is propitiation. You very often get a preclear up to propitiation. He tries to give you his house and his car and tries to give you this and that. Well, you want to watch out because day after tomorrow, he'll want them all back.

You can do that today. He doesn't necessarily get another illness, but he doesn't necessarily find out he's well, either. The auditor has for a long while been in a tremendous position in the field of healing and has not taken very much advantage of it.

At 0.5, we have grief. At 0.8, we have a higher propitiation. He - at 0.375, making amends, why, he just can't withhold anything, you see, but he can selectively give things at 0.8. 0.9 we have sympathy, 1.0 we have fear, 1.2 we have an emotion called no-sympathy. "I'll not give them any no - any sympathy," you know? "Rurrrr; rurrrr; rurrrr." It's an emotion and it goes along with this. 1.5 we have anger, 1.8 pain, 2.0 antagonism, 2.5 boredom, 3.0 to 3.5 is conservatism, 4.0 enthusiasm, 8.0 exhilaration and clear up at 40.0 we have serenity of beingness. And you'll find a lot of people who are serene apparently and after you process them for a while, they start regretting it.

You can take some girl that's going wog, wog, wog; process her, get her to do the processes and all of a sudden she gets over asthma or whatever it was she had. And after she's all over the asthma, she tells you she never had asthma. And that's very discouraging.

Now, this brings up the subject on this particular Emotional Tone Scale, it brings up the subject of harmonics. And these numbers are here more or less to give the space apart these emotions are or to give an index to their possible vibration because they are a motion. A motion - motion and emotion. They are a motion and that is why I suppose they are called an emotion. They're a little wavelength. They have a certain flavor and a taste. And people get all confused on these things because they'll hit the lower harmonic, and they think they're on the upper one. So that a person can very often - this you'll discover often in processing people - they finally will find out what boredom is.

The auditor in this case was demanding too much of the preclear. He was demanding of the preclear that the preclear find out what was going on. You can actually monitor a body, as an auditor, into a state of good health without the being in that body finding out about it.

They always thought boredom was apathy. When they felt apathetic, they felt they were bored. But they get up scale and they eventually get to 2.5 and they say, "Well, I know what boredom is. Boredom is - well, that's a new emotion," You see, they haven't experienced that before and they thought that apathy was boredom.

This sounds very extreme but it is nevertheless quite true, and has served to break the hearts of more auditors on the subject of healing than any other single thing I know of.

Similarly there isn't too much difference between anger and conservatism, Anger is a really no move out, no move in. True anger is a sort of a hate hold, you see? And we get up to conservatism and we don't get anybody doing anything for us either.

Got the fellow all over chronic earaches, got him all over his ulcers, straightened him all out in all directions and the fellow just grumbled. Well, an auditor has been in a position for a long time to overwhelm the goals of a preclear. Preclear wants to be sick; the auditor comes along and makes him well. Pc's never finds out that he got well. As a matter of fact, if he did find it out he'd be quite angry with the auditor-if he never [ever] found it out, don't you see?

True anger, no real action happens. Anger is a dispersal, It doesn't make much sense but it's a ridge.

Now, nevertheless, if we could regard this simply as the field of being a sawbones or a medico, and we just took them as they come and straighten them out physically and operate totally in the third universe of the body, oh, we'd win. We'd win hands down. We've been able to win that way for just years and years and years. So don't overlook it.

Hate we call it when it's a total ridge and we move just a little bit above 1.5 and just a little bit below 1.5 and we get a dispersal of some kind. We either get a violent implosion or explosion. But at just exactly at 1.5 we have a total ridge which is hate. It's solid.

Now, for a long time, however, it was necessary to restrain the enthusiasm of auditors. Every time they saw a malformed finger or something like this, they would do nothing but process the malformed finger and we were trying to make Clears. So I myself may have discouraged them during the period of about '53 to '55 from going all out just to heal everything in sight. Perhaps I did that, perhaps not.

And so this whole scale goes between ridges and flows. You've got to know a great deal about ridges and flows because you'll be working with them.

Perhaps it just naturally evolved. People found out that if you didn't make the person better you weren't doing anything, so why heal them?

What is a ridge? Well, I don't know; what's a wall? It's a standing, apparent motionlessness of some kind or another. An apparent solidity, an apparent no outflow, no inflow, you see? That's a ridge. And a flow, well, just think of a trickle of water flowing along and you'll get a flow. Flows have direction, ridges have location. And you'll find that some of these are flows and some of them are ridges. Some of them are very fixed, some of them are very fluid.

This got so bad that a person walked into an HGC the other day, had a crooked arm, wanted the arm straightened out. They processed the person up into a better state of communication and wouldn't directly process the arm. Pc got very angry and quit the clinic. Person had just one goal, to get the arm straightened out. Nobody would Q-and-A with this goal and they were going all out to make Clears. And this person didn't understand anything about Clears but she sure knew she had a crooked arm. Get the idea?

Fear, for instance, is a very interesting thing. A person in fear is doing a terrific inflow and is trying to get out. That is the emotion of fear.

Perhaps the greatest reality to people in this modern age - I call to your attention, each age is modern - is sickness. You get into streetcars and so forth, you see ads for contribution to cancer and contribution to the blind, contribution to this - in other words, evidently people will contribute to very bad illnesses where they won't contribute to very fine awarenesses. It's very, very amusing. It's some interesting commentary.

Now, that may sound to you for a moment a little bit technical and far beyond it, but you'll see all these manifestations in a preclear. You'll see him sitting, rurrh, and then you process him for a little while and he's talking again and he's hearing you again and then after a while, he goes hmnn. And he's just going up scale between ridges and flows.

But there's nothing wrong with. you going on healing people because we're looking here at the lowest realm of the state of beingness. Without changing a person, by processing you alter his body from sickness to wellness. You can do that without his even rmding out. So that is obviously the lowest state of being that you would care to attack.

Now, the lower we go on this scale, the more condensed things get. The closer they are together. It's a sort of a geometric progression, you see? So that you can be into the apathy area and have other emotions sort of apparently turning on. You're getting down so low here and things are so close together, that various little aspects of apathy turn on, and there are probably a great many of them. I had one..... somebody say one time, "the anger of apathy." He was apathetically angry and he was boredly angry and so forth. He - in other words, these things can become compounded but they're only compounded very low on the scale.

Now, some people are so bad off and some bodies are so far beyond the state of no return, that you have to have something of a medical attitude, even though you're not practicing medicine in any way, in order to cope with the situation.

Well, that's because we're working downhill toward a total identification. All emotions are no emotion. If you go into an insane asylum and shop around, you'll find that the biggest complaint is that nobody can experience any emotion anymore. That is the biggest single complaint of people who are psychotic. Can't experience emotion.

You must realize that a dog that is stinking in the sun, dead for three days, is not something you can coax any thetan to pick up. You just won't be able to manage that. Get the idea?

Well, all emotions are one emotion. It's all kind of solid and it's all kind of flowing and it's all kind of nothing and they don't feel anything from it and it's pretty wooden. Now, that's their biggest complaint.

Now, less - less formidably there is a state of no return. An individual has been ill for a very, very long time. The body is all crumpled up in some way or another, it's been going on practically forever. The person maybe has an age factor or something like this interfering with it and it's just not something that is easily healable -just isn't easily done.

As we go up scale we get greater and greater fluidity. And if you think that a person at - is going to get stuck at 4.0 and will after that only be enthusiastic, you have another thought coming. As a person goes up scale he becomes looser and looser on the scale, don't you see? It's only people low on this scale who are totally stuck.

It would require more hours to heal it than to straighten up the person and let them get another body. That, by accurate definition, is the point of no return: that point where the only thing we can do is straighten the person up so he can get another mock-up. That's a serious goal for an auditor.

Now, you try to process an apathetic preclear sometime and you'll find out that he's very hard to get out of a total apathy. It'll take you an hour or two of hard slugging to move him anywhere at all or get anything - you throw in a big ARC break which triggers some apathy. Something like this and then you try to get him out of this.

Oh, yes, we're talking in a little bit of an ultra-modern way now. We've got care of the body, care of the body, save a life, save a life, nobody must die, nobody must die. This is going on and it's just an endless tape in this society. That's going on all the time. That's the way this present mid-twentieth century society operates.

Oh, it's real grim, real grim.

A much clearer view is, that if an individual is just too far gone, you still can do something for them. You can still straighten them up so that they can go find another body. And that's definitely a processing goal.

What's he doing? What's the matter with him? Well, it's because the lower he goes on the scale, the more fixed he gets, the less likely he is to change. So that your toughest case, of course, is low on the scale and as you start getting a person up the scale, he changes more and more readily. The upper part of the scale is quite flexible.

And that goal probably belongs immediately above the goal of healing. Now, those - speaking of healing, now, and just winding up that one particular subject - those illnesses which are strictly and totally communication illnesses - communication illnesses are the last things to surrender in a case, so they're not the first thing for you to pick out. Do you hear me?

Now, there's the mockery of harmonics that you must beware of, just as I've been explaining to you here. You're all out to make the human race better. Perfectly worthy action, a perfectly good, clean fourth dynamic. And then you see some spinning psycho who is out to save the human race. He's a sort of a total criticism of everything you're doing.

This individual is wearing glasses. Well, it doesn't mean he's crazy, it doesn't mean he's in bad shape. It may mean that he just has had a blast in the face or something like this and he's got an optical distortion of some kind or another but it's a communication difficulty. Do you hear me?

I had a horrible experience one time. I was already involved, actually, in doing something about a governmental program. The government had asked actually for a suggestion and I was involved making a suggestion. And a psychotic walked up to me, totally non sequitur, but possibly hitting some kind of a harmonic of what I was thinking about because if there's anybody in telepathy it's a psycho. People who are in total telepathy are either the total bottom of the scale or the total top of the scale, you understand? At the top, they don't make mistakes; at the bottom, they don't know who's talking to them. That's the difference. And he walked up to me and he was all set to save that particular nation and government and he was going on and on how I had to do something for him so he could save it all. And you know, I felt as cheap as a broken up ha'penny. I just - I just felt, you know, I must be nuts thinking

Now, there are old Effort Processes - you ask somebody, "Get the effort not to see" and you'll change his eyesight around. Just tell him to look at something and make it blur. You know what he's been doing all the time. He's been trying to make it sharp, trying to make it sharp, trying to make it sharp. Well, get him to do the opposite and you'll find that there's a dichotomy. The effort to get well is faced with the effort to get sick. And you get him to look at something and make it blur - see it badly, see it unclearly - and you're using a different set of muscles and a different vector than the vector he's always using. You can get something to jump, something to happen, something sudden to occur. Now, don't be disappointed if in the next couple of days his eyes go back the same way they were.

I could help this government and so forth and it took a little while for me to kind of shake it off. It's a mockery. It's a mockery. You have to watch that because there is no emotion or state of mind that is sane that cannot fixedly and singly become an insanity.

The communication difficulty is the last difficulty to surrender. Form is next most difficult. You see you've got a twisted spine or something like that. That's quite difficult to put back together again. Means such a total overwhelmingness from some engram or quarter.

All insanity is, is a specialization of, and a total exclusion of all else, of just one point of sanity. You might say every insane person is totally sane to such an extremity that nobody can stand it. Now, there is no sane manifestation that you will not find in an insane asylum. And every person you find in an insane asylum is manifesting something that maybe in another environment, another place would be totally sane.

Next to that is germs, as my old friend Louis Pasteur used to call them. Now, you get a person who's chronically sick. You can change him around this way and that but he has so many overts on the line of creating little things that nobody could see that would eat people up, that it's pretty difficult to shift around germs.

See there are no special characteristics which are insane characteristics. This is the lesson that psychiatry never learned. And so they could never diagnose. And it stayed as a total barrier across all of their diagnosis and assessments of people.

So we get down now to the easiest thing to alter, which are simply conditions - which are constant conditions. And if somebody's got a fever, you can do things to ease off the fever and so forth. You just do an old Locational Process. Just get him to look at walls for a while and you're liable to change his fever and so forth. But to cure him and make him totally well is more difficult - because he is ill at the time you're processing him and therefore, further down scale - than it is to take a chronic difficulty such as asthma or ulcers or gallbladder trouble or diabetes or one of these conditions, these chronic conditions that medical science just tears its hair out over - it just can't do anything for. And those rank amongst the easier targets.

They thought there was a peculiar thing called insanity and a bunch of states of mind which were insane. No, there are a bunch of specialized sane states of mind which, sufficiently specialized, drive a person straight around the bend. Got the idea?

Now, an ache or a pain, of course, is the easiest one. But migraine headache requires the resolution of a whole engram like the Halver or something of that sort, and although you can move a person around in this migraine headache, if it's quite severe it usually takes a little while to undo.

I'll give you an idea. This individual is sympathetic. Now, there's nothing wrong with being sympathetic but this individual is totally sympathetic. He is 100 percent sympathetic and he is only sympathetic about earthworms. Of course he's crazy. Get the idea? And all you have to do is superspecialize a sanity, compartment it and totally fixate it. Get all the intention [attention] units of the person totally fixed on this one point of sanity and you have an insane person.

But it's so difficult for an individual to maintain a bad body condition, that it surrenders much more easily than you would suppose.

Similarly, you can find - you can find an insane person almost anywhere on this scale if he's totally fixed on the scale, but if you look at him carefully, he will be on one of the lower harmonics of the scale. You see, he falls away from the sane expression and he goes down scale and he only expresses an insane version. Got the idea?

Now, how a person can maintain asthma is very difficult, since it's probably in the middle of an engram track which merely suppresses his breathing or something like that. Tree fell on him and he couldn't breathe so now he has asthma. You get the idea?

Don't look for a special thing called insanity. Just look for totally fixed sanities and you've got it, you see? Naturally, the fellow who takes a piece of paper and puts it on every door knob that he opens and won't touch a door knob, is doing a sane thing - maybe in a leper colony. But he's doing it everyplace, don't you see? And you say, 'Well, that fellow's pretty batty." You're absolutely right, the time and place is wrong. But a person who is totally fixed has no time and place, you see? And that's how he can be so insane.

Well, there's a tree lying across his chest and it'd have to be caught right in the middle of that engram at that precise point and have to maintain itself there as an engram - it'd have to remain there exactly for this person to go on having chronic asthma. And you almost snap your fingers and you'll move him off of it, you see? It's just no trick at all because all you've got to do is move him a bit on the time track and he has something else, you see?

We get into the whole subject of attention units, the whole idea of attention units. A person's total attention is on one thing or on a very few things. And he can't span his attention easily. He has no breadth.

He'll have whatever other condition there is there that's right adjacent to it, see? Maybe out of one tree falling on a man you'll get thirty or forty different medical diseases. Maybe the tree fell on him and he cut his foot with an axe, you know? He had a hard time standing there while the tree was pressing against him and he was gripping the ground with his feet. That's arthritis, That's his hold, you know? It'll - you're liable to just move this engram around, you see, and get all these other conditions which are associated with the engram. But you could certainly get rid of the asthma!

Now, I talked about the dynamics - his attention withdrew off the various dynamics and inverted on them and became very fixed. Similarly, with this Tone Scale his attention can be fixed along with these various emotions. And he gets one emotional response: everything is bad. Or, the way to do everything is to protect bodies. See, he's just totally fixed. He's just going to protect bodies.

I don't know how a thetan expertly holds one of these chronic somatics in existence. Now, you're going to find out, much to your own amazement, that changing one of them with anything like - well any communication process you can think of almost, you know? Like the fellow has a bad hand. Well, somebody the other day told me, "I have a very bad finger here. Very bad finger, been hurting all day."

You'll find that if you work this out yourself, you could work out quite an insanity that a person could go through simply protecting bodies. You know, he could insist that everybody stand in the middle of the street very still with concrete walls around them. Then the body would be totally protected, you see? Try to make this into a law, or something like that. You'd say this fellow would be totally batty.

And I said, "Good. Now, do you mind if I process you for a moment? Thank you." I said, "Now touch the table, touch the ashtray, touch your head - all with this finger now, go on - and touch your hand. Touch your other hand. Touch your chest, touch the table."

Well, actually people in societies have gone totally batty on the track with this and we call it bodies in pawn. They put everybody's body in a can and put some preservative fluid in on top of it. Quite interesting. You run pcs back down the track. I am responsible for what I have seen on the track and where my responsibility exists, it exists. But I'm darned if I know why anybody would want to be responsible for setting up bodies in pawn or even carrying mock-ups of it around.

And he said, "That hurt!"

What you find on the total track is not necessarily what you were taught in the best academic textbooks of this century. Man has been a lot of wild things. You'll find it, but you'll find various insanities, whole cultures practicing insanities which are just sanities carried to a total extreme - low on this Tone Scale.

"Well fine, that's good. Now touch the dish. Touch your chest. Touch the top of your head. Touch your nose. Touch your other hand."

Thus, you have a good method here of understanding. And ARC always adds up only to understanding. Did you ever hear an angry man tell the truth? I don't think you ever did. Well, his reality is very poor.

"Ow!" the person said.

Now, it falls away from an angry man down into the lower parts of this thing. What do you think the reality of somebody is lower on the scale than an angry man? Well, it's pretty poor And the reality goes right along with the A. The emotion he experiences is hand in glove with the reality he conceives.

"Fine, fine. Go on. Touch the table. Touch the ashtray." I said, "How's your finger?"

So if he's in total propitiation all the time at 0.8 or can't hold back anything of any kind from anybody - he's just above apathy - what do you think his reality on almost anything is? It's almost gone. It's nothing that you would call reality.

"It's fine."

Now, fortunately for us, his communication level follows the same course. The communication level follows this same course of the reality and the affinity. And you get this triangle, A-R-C, being all in a plane. A-R-C, at any given level. And if you can find what a person's reality is independently on things, you would know, of course, what his affinity is and you can estimate his communication.

The finger hasn't hurt since. Get the idea? It's quite a trick holding a mock-up - which is what a facsimile or an image picture really is - that fixed in exactly that position. And you apply almost any kind of communication to it and it's liable to just go.

You listen to a person's communication, you will know - that is, whether he can or can't, how he handles communication - and you will know at once what his affinity is and what his reality is.

Of course, communication is, in essence, time, too, you see? You move the person on the track - one of the least things you do and, of course, at least that pain goes.

And that's just about the biggest doggone fact that you'll run into in estimating cases. It is so tremendous that a Scientologist practiced at this can talk to a person for about five minutes and slap him on the Tone Scale and predict his future behavior just zip.

Person wakes up the next morning with a horrible head. We don't know what the engram was when we start one of these - we just shotgun the process, don't you see? But almost any communication applied to these chronic illnesses...

A wonderful exercise is take the Chart of Human Evaluation out into the society, call on a bank, call on a greengrocer, talk to a policeman, stop a casual pedestrian.

So basically, the condition of being well or fairly well would be the first state of beingness we would look to because we don't have to change this person's mental makeup to achieve the wellness. Got that? So you can make a person well of these chronic illnesses and so forth.

Listen to the communication and look at them on the Tone Scale; see about where they are. You won't have to go into very much examination of their past, present and future life to know what they're doing, what they think, what they react to, what they like, what would be their solution to any given problem.

Every once in a while you get quite upset. You'll find out that some Scientologist or a bunch of Scientologists someplace or another are suddenly developing an illness that is going around. That's quite unusual, by the way. For instance, there were certain flu virus that some Scientologists - a lot of Scientologists got, which was very startling to everybody in Scientology because they weren't used to being sick.

Until you do this knowingly with this ARC triangle and the Chart of Human Evaluation, you sometimes have a very bad time. And you have a very bad time because somebody is talking. Obviously this person is talking. You ask him a question and he answers it. And you say this fellow is all right. But if you were a little more experienced when you asked the question, "Now, Mr. Jones, how many feet is it from the top of the monument there down to the walk?" and he said, "Five hundred and seventy-five" promptly, you could make the mistake of merely saying, "Well, this fellow knew his business. The other fellow didn't know. He's not in too bad a shape."

Well, this was - must have been a brand-new kind of an illness that came around. It must have had brand-new factors and so forth for everybody to get flu like this. It was quite amazing. Staffs of various organizations, field auditors and so forth were getting quite upset about this because they weren't used to being sick. And they were processing each other like mad and still went on and had three-day flu.

Now you ask Mr. Smith, you say, "Well, Mr. Smith, what is the distance from the top of this monument down to the pavement?" "Well, now, let me see. Uhmmmm, I think - huhmmm - well, uh-huhmm, hummm - I don't like to be inaccurate about this, but uh, well, it says somewhere in the guidebook here... Why do you want to know that?" Fellow's sane but he's not in very good shape.

That means, as my old pal Louis used to say, that there are "cherms." And bodies seem to be obsessed with multiplying them. And here's another factor. But a body had to consent to get ill from germs before it got ill from germs, and most of the time on perfectly ordinary, routine germs. Scientologists have got over being ill by them and they don't get ill, but once in a while they get ill. And then it's very embarrassing. Their friends say to them, "Well, I thought you were a Scientologist. Thought you could cure this sort of thing." And so on.

Now, what if you said to Mr. Snide, you said, "Mr. Snide, how far is it from the top of the monument down to the pavement?" And he said, "Hmmmmm. Very few cats wear green ribbons." You'd know you were dealing with somebody who was batty.

First time I'd been ill in a long while - it was a few years ago found out I could mock up radioactive mock-ups. Well, I happily went on and mocked up some radioactive mock-ups - find out what you could do about curing people of radiation sickness. I didn't notice my body was close to the mock-ups. I did in a couple of days, however. Bottom practically went out from underneath me. I got very ill. And this was extremely embarrassing, let me assure you. Extremely embarrassing.

But it escapes your attention when they are almost on the line.

The news was all over the world, just bang, you know?

"Mr. Georges, how many feet is it from the top of the monument down to the pavement?"

"Well, Hubbard's mortal." Of course, if they'd asked me in the first place I could have told them. This body's been dead three times in this lifetime.

"Hmmmm, that pavement is terribly hard isn't it?" It's almost an answer. And you listen to people talking to people sometime and you'll find the one in the - in the group that causes the most trouble, answers the least directly and is the most non sequitur. The communication isn't hitting.

Well anyhow - practically the only reason I'm alive is Dianetics, by the way. "I am alive" - Q-and-Aing with the society. This body's alive.

Now, here's an example where you can see the communication showing up the reality factor directly. What's the reality factor of Mr. Georges about the monument? That you fall off the top of monuments, of course. That's his reality factor on monuments. That's kind of a funny reality factor, you come to look it over.

Look at this then as an original early state, then, just the state of being moderately well. Now let's get up above this state and have a person be moderately comfortable mentally so they're not worried all the time. You see that as an interim state?

Some students in some classes, time to time, have gone out and talked to people on the street and have asked them certain questions just to test their communication lag and so on. One of them ran into a very well known commentator one day.

There's no name for this particular state, but it's just - he's just moderately comfortable mentally. And there's a little state that is just above this which is much more important. It's called a Release.

Student hasn't read his column since. The guy's stark, staring mad. He couldn't talk, he couldn't answer questions, he was over the hills and far away and actually in direct contact, he knew from nothing. This is quite interesting and yet this fellow very wisely informs a large part of the world what to think on political subjects. It's all chop, it's all very snide, it's all very mean, but it's obviously information. But having talked to him and listened to his communication level, we don't know what his reality is on all that now. We just haven't a clue. And we - you'd dare say that his information is usually false. There's something wrong with that information. Reality level is too poor to actually pick up an observation because as the communication goes out, with difficulty, so it has difficulty coming in.

And that is about the first one when you run in on the Clear chain. A Release is a person who won't keep going downhill. He's at a point where he knows he won't skid from there on out.

And we run into another scale and that is called the Effect Scale. Now, the Effect Scale is about the briefest scale there is. Now, although I've just gone over the ARC scale, don't you go forgetting it. And in Science of Survival there's that Chart of Human Evaluation. And the use of that scale directly in processing is with a modern process, if the worst PC you has doesn't raise one tone level totally in ten days of auditing, boy, are you losing.

Oddly enough, you could obtain a Release with a process which is on the last page of the book Self Analysis, published in 1951 in the fall. That's been around that long.

A good PC will raise one tone level on the Chart of Human Evaluation in about one or two days of auditing - the whole behavior of the pc. You understand? They're very important. That's how you evaluate success - the emotional tones and changes. And they change in just that order, not some other order.

It's ARC Straightwire. It's almost - it is relegated today to training drills. When you do this process, you're doing it with a student merely to show him cyclic aspects on the track and so forth.

All right, so let's get on to this Effect Scale. This is a way of gauging the ARC scale - its gauging the pc and measuring how much effect you're having on the pc. But when you start to measure how much effect you'd have on the pc let's not you make the mistake of being yourself upside down on the Effect Scale. The only people who never produce any results in auditing are haywire, upset, all out of gear, mishmashed on the Effect Scale.

But this process carried on - carried on, oh, nothing horrible - week or two, something like this of processing, certainly. It's an unlimited process - will, all by itself, make a Release.

What is the Effect Scale? Very handy scale. At the top of the scale, the individual can receive or give, or not receive or not give an effect, at will. So it's an effect.

Somewhere along the line the fellow will say, "Wheeww!" And you'll say, "What's the matter? Have a cognition or something?"

Now, as we go down scale, the individual becomes more and more anxious about producing an effect, and more and more leery of receiving one.

"Yeah, I sure did."

Now, look at the reductio ad absurdum here. A fellow could get to a point where he's totally anxious to produce an effect on that curtain or wall. Totally anxious to produce this effect, but after he produced it, he himself, unwilling to receive any effect, cannot tell whether or not he did produce an effect on the curtain or wall. You see that you'd have to observe, in other words, be willing to receive the effect of observation, in order to know whether or not you'd produced an effect. You understand?

"Well, what cognition did you have?"

Well, about the last point on a scale where an individual is able to do this - actually it's 2.0 on the ARC scale or thereabouts - is the point where he departs from sanity and goes around the bend.

"What you're doing is fixing me up so that I won't skid now. I realize I could hold my own with this process."

You wouldn't call anybody below that level sane. The individual cannot perceive whether or not he's produced an effect and yet is totally anxious to produce an effect. That person's crazy. He daren't be reached himself enough even to find out if he did produce an effect and yet he must at the same time produce this tremendous effect.

Get the idea? It's just a release. That's all. That means the individual is off, or released from, the dwindling spiral.

The only person that has any difficulty auditing, and there are none present, must produce a total effect on the pc - all at one fell swoop - boooomm.! See? But never at any minute would he ever be able to notice whether or not he had.

Now, that is not a very hard one to obtain. And running an HAS Co-audit Course, if you can't obtain this in a few weeks of HAS muzzled co-auditing, in the people in the course, you better read the rule book again because you're doing something wrong. That's an easy one to obtain.

So what do we get? We get a chopping session where the PC is being sawed up, cut up, having holes bored in his head, anything and everything - and no matter what happened to him, the practitioner would not be able to find out whether or not it had happened. Do you get that very low-scale reaction?

It is much more a relief to some people than it is to others. But a Release is a state that you could assure people they could attain. It's worth knowing then, and it's a very worthwhile state.

I am not necessarily describing psychiatry, I'm not necessarily describing generals, I'm not necessarily describing governments, I'm not necessarily describing insane inmates of other institutions. But I certainly am describing just this - an Effect Scale.

Now, when you start talking about Clear and hundreds of hours of processing or something like this, you'll find a public which maybe doesn't have much money or think they don't have much time. I don't know how a person can't have time to get straightened out, because that's the reason they don't have any time is because they're not straightened out.

Now, about halfway down the scale, an individual begins to be selective about his effects. He does not like to have his head blown off with a shotgun. He's said "There is something about this which I find displeasing." So he begins to select out effects. Well, the final result of selecting out effects on self is to select them all out. That's it. You just select out all effects on self and you go down below 2.0 and you've had it.

It's a little conundrum people pose you all the time. Well, they don't have time for these hundreds of hours. They can always be told about this condition, Release. "Well, at least you won't get any worse. We can fix you up so you won't get any worse." And they'll say, "Yes?" And they're liable to get quite interested in it.

Now, you're not much interested in effects on self because you never audit in that direction. The definition of Operating Thetan, is a person or being who can be at cause over life, matter, energy, space and time. And he is processed - that's a technical definition, by the way, and when formulated produced tremendous gains in Scientology. It actually produced the lower level Clears. But that is a definition of an Operating Thetan. You'd say that's also the definition of God, that's the definition of a lot of hopefulness, but that is the technical definition of Operating Thetan. A person or a being who can be at cause over life, matter, energy, space and time.

Now, the next step up is MEST Clear. And this is a controversial state. An individual is not totally aware of himself as being a thetan. His engram bank is keyed out. At least he isn't looking at it, he isn't having to confront it all the time, it isn't worrying him. He's in a pretty good, orderly condition, He knows that - his cognition, by the way, is quite interesting. Almost all MEST Clears tell you this immediately after they reach the state. They say, "Well, I know I've got my foot on the bottom of the ladder." They all tell you this. "I know I've got a long way to go, but at least I've got my foot on the bottom of the ladder."

Well, that means he could mock up matter, you see? And that means that he could at least do something about approximating some visible livingness. You see? I don't say he could mock up a thetan, but he sure could mock up something that would walk like one. You get the idea? He could undoubtedly pump life into matter to make it look alive.

So instead of being released now, they realize that they're on their way up.

But at cause, that's the thing that we are looking at here. We're looking at cause. Well, the Effect Scale measures effects that an individual is willing to receive. And the odd part of it is, the individual who can cause anything is willing to receive anything. And an individual can cause none of those things which he is terribly afraid of receiving an effect from.

The trouble with a MEST Clear - which is attained by the steps Help and Step 6 - neither one of which you'll be using, probably - the trouble with it is, an individual comes up to an ability to postulate. He isn't totally straightened out, you see? He isn't used to this state and his postulates now are very beefy. He can make statements, you might say, to various parts of the body, like, "My ankle will now swell up," and so help me it does.

You get an individual going just so far on mocking up money. This is a very funny experiment. Now, there's an old test process on this - this is not germane to anything but I might as well mention it in passing. "Get the idea. . ." (It's one of these "Get the idea. . ." conceptuals which are not terribly effective.) It's quite amusing. "Get the idea of mocking up money so that anybody could see it." Now we shift over and say, "Now get the idea that would spoil the game and don't do it."

He's like a little kid that's just had a cocked .45 pistol shoved in his hand. And 20 or 30 percent of them blow their brains out with it. The state in some percentage is not stable. It'd be less than honest to pull the punches on this one. This state is not entirely and completely with everyone, stable. It is with some. But others run into this postulate factor and they've got enough self-destruction kicking around or something like that in the environment, that they Q-and-A with it. They don't know how to make postulates, they're not totally aware of being able to cause things. They don't believe that they themselves can cause things. They're liable to startle themselves half to death. They walk out in the street and say, "Well, if I was really an Operating Thetan I would just look at that driver and I would say, 'Well, he'll now go unconscious and run into the lamppost,"' And he would and the driver does, and he says, "Zzzzzooooooooo."

Now, the individual will actually walk upstairs toward a willingness to really - and he'll suddenly realize that it's within his capability to actually mock up pound notes or dollar bills. He'll get up just that far and then the second postulate kills him, see? He says, "Oh, man," he said, "would that spoil the game." Yes, that would spoil the game and he won't do it. He just says, "That's it!" you know? Well, that's the limitation of the process is what keeps him from going any further upstairs on this particular thing. Because he realized then he could - if anybody could mock up money, the money is of no value and so why mock it up? His rationale this way. But he is not willing to receive the effect of everybody being able to mock up money, don't you see? So, he stops himself from mocking up money.

You might just say that this individual is in a state where he can't take total responsibility for all the things he can now cause. So he cuts his power back. He shuts the throttle down. And he says, "Now, let's see. What can I keep this throttle shut down with? Can't I mock up some kind of a nice healthy engram that's kicking my teeth in and then say I didn't make it?" And away he goes back into the dwindling spiral again.

Now, if an individual's not well, it must be because he's not willing to make other people, all other people totally well.

Well, he is not going to get worse to a great extent, but he is going to hold himself down. Therefore MEST Clear can be said to be a state of being. It is reachable. We know a great deal about it and we also know that a rather large percentage of MEST Clears are not stable. They get Clear. Two or three months you see them, they won't wear their bracelet, they don't want to have too much to say about the subject.

It's a very valuable scale, this thing. It tells you how much cause the individual dare be, by measuring how much effect he's willing to suffer. If an individual is unwilling to receive certain effects, I can tell you that he is unwilling to cause those effects.

They're rather coy. They tell their friends, "No, I'm really not Clear, you know. I thought I was but I'm not, and..."

And because an individual is unwilling to receive the effect of having his head blown off by a shotgun, what do you know? His head can be blown off by a shotgun.

You know, they're in a big quandary about it. They've run into this postulate factor and they can't handle it.

But if a person were totally willing - this is where your problems of comparable magnitude that sometimes solve things on a very broad perimeter on all the dynamics. We start running somebody - we start running the husband on the subject of the wife. We don't process the wife and the wife gets well. You get the idea?

All right. Nevertheless, that has to be - because it is and because it can be created in a finite number of hours - is the first grade of Clear. This state can be obtained. E- Meters don't work on them until they key themselves back in again with postulates and so forth. And they measure up in various ways. Their intelligence is terrific.

I mean, we start in and we start operating up the dynamics with just one person. We're running into this phenomena, right - this whole package of phenomena.

Now, these, by the way, are fairly terrific people. They do all right. I'm not downgrading the people who reach this state. I'm just showing you it's not stable.

An individual who is willing to receive an effect suffers no ill from it. It's kind of amazing, see? If he can change his mind.

Now, the next up the line, and the only one we care to have anything to do with broadly in an HGC, and the only one that a smart field auditor would really now care to have anything to do with, is Theta Clear.

Now, we get this: that everything or anything, to be injured, must first give its consent. So, the Effect Scale is a measurement of how many consents an individual has given to being injured. This is how often and how many times he's consented to certain things being injurious. Got the idea?

A Theta Clear is still using a body as a communication particle. He's a long way from an Operating Thetan, but he can have or not have a bank at will and can control his postulates. Now, it's not necessarily true that he's out of his head or he's doing stunts on the chandelier and all that sort of thing, as a thetan. But it is true that he can mock up or unmock a bank.

Until we get down to bottom scale and there everything is injurious everywhere. That's a total identification, everything is injurious. It goes from just one little old thing being injurious so as to make a game, on down scale to everything and anything being injurious. Therefore he must receive no effects of any kind. Now, if he must receive no effects of any kind, he obviously must feel that there's something imminently trying to foist effects off on him, right? Well, if this is the case - this is the case, he's defending himself against things he can't see. In other words in the ultimate - the ultimate is that the individual dare not confront things because if they- if he oonfronted them, he would be receiving an effect from them just perceiving them. And he knows they are totally harmful, so therefore he mustn't see them.

He can mock up a real heavy engram and unmock it. He can make a postulate and unmake it. He's in control of his bank and his postulates. To a marked degree he is in control of a body. Now, just exactly what a Theta Clear can do with a body is still a subject of considerable investigation. His communication is good and so forth.

This Effect Scale becomes very valuable and very prominent today with the emergence of Confrontingness as a process and the terrific value of Confrontingness Process. And we can understand Confrontingness as a process if we just look over and understand this Effect Scale.

Now, exactly where a Theta Clear sits on the numerical ARC Scale, I wouldn't give you as a total fact. You get the idea? But I can say that he is certainly above 8.0.

So at the top of the scale, the individual can give or receive any effect. And at the bottom of the scale, he can receive no effects, but he still feels he must give a total effect. Get the inversions here?

A MEST Clear is somewhere around 4.0 and up, a bit. But a Theta Clear is certainly above 8.0.

Now, midway up, the individual could give or receive quite a few effects. He could cause a lot of things, a lot of things could be caused to him. And this is about the plane in which life operates. Very successful life operates in selective giving and receiving effects.

Now, people are going to ask a Theta Clear whether or not he can get out of his head and get back in, and whether he goes to sleep at night and what he does and so forth. Well, I'll tell you an awfully good answer to this, "Why don't you get theta cleared? Then you'll know all about it." That's the best way to find out. Just like somebody asks me - every once in a while somebody will ask me about God - how he wears his hat and so forth. And even if you told them, even if you knew and even if you told them, they'd never be able to see it, you see? It's kind of that way about Theta Clear.

You every once in a while will find a pc, that as long as you keep your voice loud, will not do your auditing commands. But you start to whisper them - he goes boom! He'll do them right away. Very soft voiced. Now obviously, the way to produce an effect on the world is to scream and rant and turn on sirens and blow whistles and fire off rockets and cause a lot of confusion and so forth, and we wonder why some people doing this never succeed. In fact we look around and find those people who are doing this the most, succeed the least.

There are certain things you can say, however, on testing Theta Clear. Theta Clear does not operate on the E-Meter unless he wants to. But he can operate an E-Meter. He can make an E-Meter do things. And he can throw a heavy engram in or throw some heavy mass into the line and make an E-Meter jump.

You see they can't receive an effect so they could never get paid for it, and they wouldn't even find out if they'd ever succeeded. The individual who promotes too hard can't even receive any money from his promotion. Get the idea? He can't receive any kind of an effect from his promotion and yet he's super promoter. And how often have you seen an apparently very good promoter totally broke?

I had an electronics man almost crazy about four or five years ago, by just stringing a beam between two cans, making the needle jump, you see? Took the electrodes of the E-Meter and just mocked up a beam between the two cans. Short-circuited the meter. And it'd go wham!

Well, he's just got to con - too much effect, see. He's got - nnruhh and that - right along with that goes, "I can't receive any effect" he says. "Nothing can ever come back to me."

A lot of your top Scientologists can do tricks like this. It's very simple. They're really childishly easy. If your object is to bemuse and amaze and go on the stage with trick magic, why, that's one thing. But I don't know why anybody would want to accumulate that much amazement from an audience.

This Effect Scale in auditing is best seen in the early TRs. You'll find people in the early TRs-they're in there pitching, they're in there sweating it out. And they'll say to somebody "Do fish swim?"

Now, that state of Theta Clear is attainable by the processes which you're being taught, actually, in this course. An attainable process. Had I ever carried out to its ne plus ultra the earliest clearing process, I possibly would have found the rest of the business of Theta Clear years and years ago. But when you have a hundred thousand factors to observe and you don't know which of these factors to add up to what of those factors, and you haven't even got a language to talk about itWell, we have what we call in Scientology a six-foot rear view mirror. Six feet wide and you can see the whole backtrack with great clarity. And it's got a little, tiny pinhole in front. You can look through this little, tiny pinhole and barely make out where you're going but you might not be able to, and it's kind of obscure and so on; but you look at that great big rear view mirror and, boy, do you know where you've been.

Now you get them the next TR up the line and the other person said "Good." You know, something like that. And they said, "Hm? Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh yes - yes." You get this reverse factor at work here? This is very useful, very, very useful to an auditor.

Now, this state-this state of Theta Clear is a highly desirable one. it carries with it almost incidentally certain mental attributes. These would be inevitable. It carries a certain high profile on the personality test. It carries at least a hundred and thirty- five IQ, at least. That's a rather low IQ. It carries certain definite attributes with regard to health and that sort of thing.

It goes as an explanatory note from Axiom ten of the Axioms, into the ARC triangles. So you'll see that an individual cannot have a concept of reality if he cannot receive an effect. An individual will not or cannot communicate with things that he thinks will affect him harmfully. So the more he thinks will affect him harmfully, the less he can communicate, don't you see?

But remember something: When you theta clear somebody you are theta clearing a thetan. And you're not clearing a body. And although a Theta Clear could markedly influence a body, it is not part of the condition. You are simply trying to put the individual, the "I," the person, in condition. That's all you're interested in.

Now, it also tells you that his affinity for things must get poorer and poorer and poorer and more and more choppy and more and more push-offy, and less and less anything to do with, to such an extent that he becomes what he hates the most.

Now, if an individual can mock up a bank or unmock a bank, certainly he could influence the health of a body. Now, I've seen some remarkable things done by auditors - done lots of remarkable things and seen some very remarkable things done. A little boy - oh somebody was - this was down in Arizona. There was a church, a Christian church turned in on itself during its later days, and it offered a thousand dollars reward to anybody who could show a miracle. It said miracles didn't exist and no disciple had ever pulled off a miracle and there'd never been a miracle since Christ. And it was offering a thousand dollars to anybody who could demonstrate a miracle.

It's a very low scale manifestation. It isn't broadly true that an individual always becomes that which he detests. That is not broadly true at all. But it is true that an individual going all the way down Tone Scale on something, on one thing, at the bottom of the scale becomes it. That is true, but he's got an awfully steep, long fall before he gets into such a thing.

Whow! We looked around, we had so many miracles we didn't know which one to choose. What is a miracle? Well, a miracle would be some miraculous healing of some kind or another. And one of the boys - he was on the administrative staff, he wasn't even on technical staff. He'd had a little boy and he'd run some sort of a process on this little boy who had a withered arm. And he'd made the arm grow three inches, you see? And restored the length of the arm. And he had medical proof of before and medical proof afterwards and so on, and so we offered this up as a miracle.

Go around and detest all the things you want to. That has nothing to do with it. The best way to detest something is just to make up your mind to detest it, however.

Boy, you should have seen that church just try to disappear over the horizon, quick. All sorts of arguments and so forth as to this, that and the other thing and so on.

Don't even have a reason. Just say, "Well, I detest it" you know? It gives you a game.

Well, obviously it was a miracle. Somebody had taken a withered arm and made it into a right arm, you see? Made it into a proper arm. Obviously a miracle. And they never did pay us the thousand dollars.

Now, the ARC triangle, at this long look after all these years, is still as valid as it ever was, but we see it best through the Effect Scale. An individual's fear of creating bad effects, an individual's fear of receiving them - all of these things compound into communication, into reality, and into his general attitude toward the world, which we call affinity.

The miraculous aspects of any of these states are seldom appreciated. But what people want are the workaday world sort of aspects. I mean, they want to know how they can get better in their work. They want to know how they could survive better domestically, they'd want to know how they could make themselves richer or a success or.. . And some would like to know how to make themselves sicker.

The Effect Scale is hand in glove with this. So is the Reality Scale which you will hear more about later. The Reality Scale is very simple, it just parallels the ARC scale. All of these scales are more or less parallel.

Now, there are many goals and there - as many states of beingness, I suppose, as there are goals. But when we look up above at this stage of the game, Theta Clear, we meet two things. A great big unreality of view on the part of most people. They try to look at a state of Theta Clear and that's hard enough to grasp. Somebody sailing in and out of his head and able to mock up horrible engrams and unmock them at will and that sort of thing - that's bad enough. Somebody whose IQ is up there a few points above genius and is able to make decisions without liability.

The affinity scale is graduated in emotions. The Reality Scale is graduated in manifestations. Want to give you the Reality Scale very rapidly. I'll mention it later but to just show you, up here in the high emotional levels, the Reality Scale permits experience. An individual can experience a terminal, he can experience being something.

Maybe he's not spectacular, maybe he didn't get any prettier at all but he's certainly living better. This individual's in pretty good condition.

As we go down scale he can merely confront it, usually with some trepidation. He can just confront it, that's all the better he can do. That's pretty good - being able to confront something - you understand? You can go easily from confront to experience.

Well, they have a hard time seeing that one. Well, how much harder a time would they have reaching what has always been - this has had a name. And it's had a name much of the time Scientology has existed. What reality would they have on Operating Thetan? Now, what is an Operating Thetan?

Now, as we drop a little bit more down scale, he not-ises it to a point where it becomes invisible. And when he can no longer make it invisible he makes it black. And when he can no longer makes it black, he puts something else in its place. Arid that we call dub-in,

Well, an Operating Thetan by definition is cause over life, matter, energy, space and time. Now, this is - we're getting there, see? And we take anybody - we could take almost anybody and run this process of, "Get the idea of mocking up some money. Now get the idea that would spoil the game and don't do it." And the next thing you know you'll see realer and realer money start appearing in front of him, because he's running out what is preventing him from mocking up real money, you see, on a withhold. And this stuff's getting realer and realer and more and more solid and he starts worrying, worrying, worrying, and all of a sudden he quits. He says, "Oh, that's outside my reality."

And from 2.0 down, it is all dub-in. Individual looks at a wall, sees a castle. He looks at an engram, sees a rhinoceros. He looks at a small bird flying through a picture and he at once wonders desperately about a ham sandwich.

And this individual's never been able to get a picture. You can always get somebody to make a picture, I don't care, even if he's a black case. He won't be able to hold it long and it'll worry him to death. He'll go around for days trying to get rid of the thing. But somebody says, "I can't get a picture." If they say it to me too impolitely, I get them a picture. Always.

Now, the Reality Scale - there's also a communication scale, how a person handles communication. And that graduates on this same number scale. And the Effect Scale graduates on this same scale. And all it is is man's progress from the sublime to, you might say, the insanely ridiculous; and in Scientology; the measurement, the assessment and measurement of a man's progress from mud up into the clear blue sky again.

Say, "All right. Get the idea of mocking up a picture as large as that wall and as brilliant as present time. You got that idea? Good. Now get the idea it'd spoil the game if you did it, and don't do it."

And we can measure that, we can see where man is, and we can push him up scale and this is the scale he goes up on. Arid this is the ladder he climbs. It takes great intelligence on your part to evaluate cases. This doesn't make the scales different or changeable or wrong, but is something that has to be clothed with livingness in order to be a measure of livingness.

Just do this drill with them, do this drill with them, do this drill with them. The next thing you know a three-dimensional picture appears as big as the wall and as solid as present time and they say, "Oh, no." And they flinch. Get the idea?

Thank you.

That's too much too quick. Scientology can very easily override the objections of people - very easily override the objections of some little old thetan that's been zapped often enough and implanted often enough and messed up often enough to feel kind of inadequate anyhow. It's very easy to come along and tell him to do something that's on his own capability line and he does it and scare him half to death, you see?

Well, you just talk about Operating Thetan, you're liable to scare people to death. As you look over an audience every once in a while and you talk about Operating Thetan, you'll see people kind of drawing back and kind of rolling their eyes at you a little bit and not quite sure they want to know too much about this. Every now and then you see somebody in an audience like that.

And other people, boy, that's what they want to be, that's what they want to be, that's what they want to be. Usually they're the crazy ones. They got the furthest to go and they want the top at once.

Now, what an Operating Thetan could do and how you attain an Operating Thetan - we can only suppose that an Operating Thetan would proceed more or less along the same lines as you make a Theta Clear, and the process would go on up through Theta Clear and toward Operating Thetan. But when I graduated from MEST Clear, as in processes, up to Theta Clear, I found out some changes had to be made in order to attain and stabilize the upper goal. There were some other things occurred that I hadn't entirely counted upon. So similarly, there undoubtedly are some other things which intervene between Theta Clear and Operating Thetan.

Operating Thetan is a theoretical state. That a person can reach Operating Thetan isn't probably much of a question. More of a question is how would he get somebody to process him that long. Or who would he get brave enough to process him?

Because an Operating Thetan is going up toward Jove and the lightning bolts, don't you see?

Now, I don't know very much about this state, to tell you the truth, except that such a state exists. And I have seen things occur, not only in processing but after processing and so forth on people that tells me that everybody has got a piece of God in him.

Now, this is an ultimate state and I wouldn't be surprised someday to have an intermediate state between Theta Clear and Operating Thetan. There may be some other state that we don't know about - don't have vividly in mind.

We don't expect of a Theta Clear that he will do anything spectacular like make tables vanish and set roofs on fire at a glance, and things like that. This would be something else. All we expect is a very able person who is no longer dependent totally upon a body. That's more or less what we'd expect in such a state.

Now, which of these states are the valuable ones and which are desirable and toward which are we going, and which are acceptable? Oddly enough, Clear - just Clear all by itself - we have various grades of Clear and various things to get to Clear and so forth. But the word "Clear" all by itself has tremendous appeal. People seem to understand it, people understand that such a state can exist, they discuss it rather easily. They, some of them, the more craven of them, are very afraid of people becoming Clear, and other people are quite happy about it. Just Clear as a state is considerably desirable and considered very desirable by the public at large.

The state of Release is very easy to obtain and is very desirable. You just tell somebody, "Well, we get you some processing..." Don't talk to him about getting well. That's way beyond a lot of realities. Just say, "Well, you know we can fix you up so you won't get any worse?"

He'll think that over and that'll seem pretty reasonable to him. Pretty reasonable. Well, you can make that one good. That one's very easy to make good.

Healing? Well, countries have laws about healing here and there, and some people forbid you to heal and put you in jail if you heal anybody and that sort of thing. It's not true in England. But if you just did nothing but healing and you never did anything for anybody, you yourself would after a while begin to think that you had failed. Because people's goals, as beings, are too crosswise at times to be overcome. You can run up failures on the line. The individual is so bound and determined to be ill that you have to process the person, not the body. So that's not a very valid thing

- not a very valid processing goal, healing. You can do it. Oh, go ahead and do it. It doesn't matter. But it's just not terribly valid as a processing goal.

The goal of MEST Clear - well, go ahead and do it if you want to. But the odd part of it is, is it keys all the engrams out and when you start to theta clear somebody, you've got to pick up some of these engrams and use them as rehearsal points. So you've actually wasted some time by MEST clearing somebody. That's a sort of a little byroad over here and you've wasted quite a few hours by MEST clearing somebody. You would be better off to go straight toward Theta Clear.

So MEST Clear is not really a valid auditor goal now that we have Theta Clear. Oh, it was, not too long ago. But it's - in the light of Theta Clear, it's not too valid.

Therefore, we have the states of Release and what the public will call Clear and that we call Theta Clear, as being the desirable auditing goals. Now, those goals really don't come across anybody's objections. That's good roads and good weather.

Almost anybody would be happy not to get any worse. Almost anybody would be happy to be Clear.

Now, what people call Clear may not be what you call Clear. This person calls something Clear. "Clear," he'd say, "Clear. Oh, you mean totally out of this body and away from this and out of this universe and gone and not having to confront anything at. Oh boy! What a desirable goal. Gimme!"

All right. Give it to him. Perfectly all right. Give it to him. You don't care what he understands by it. He after a while will get a better understanding of it. Remember that his reality on this sort of thing is poor. Oh, don't try to educate him. Don't try to get him to know before he goes. Just get him to go.

That's your basic goal, those are the states of being. And as you process people, I can tell you very sincerely that the reaching of a state of Release is too often obfuscated by trying to reach some complicated goal that nobody cares anything about, except maybe the pc; and he really doesn't care about it either. And you could bring him up to a state of Release and make him feel fine and show that he wouldn't get any worse and he's a little smarter and everything is happier and so forth. That's very easy to do so that's a good, valid goal to go for.

And the goal of Theta Clear is terrifically valid to go for. And that's what we're going to teach you to do in this course.

Thank you.