I want you to try this Validation Processing, very definitely.

I am going to go over a type of processing with which you may be familiar already, but I think the extent to which this processing will go might startle you. It probably won’t startle you till you start to use it.

I will take somebody here right now who has a light somatic that has been turned on by auditing, and give you a short demonstration.

There is evidently a thing called theta. Theta gets enturbulated — gets mixed up with too much MEST and so forth — and becomes entheta. And theta has a very funny manifestation: A little bit of theta will attack entheta and try to drive it out. They are opposite polarities.

I’m not going to have him lying down because we are not out for blood.

Entheta will try to attack theta and drive it out. This is actually a death mechanism we are working with, but it is also a survival mechanism.

LRH: Where is this somatic?

If a fellow comes around who has a lot of free theta and sees things badly disorganized, his hands just itch until he can start bringing organization to it. That disorder, of course, is entheta. When it gets organized and nicely aligned it becomes theta.

PC: It’s just kind of general, all over the top of the head. I guess I’ve been doing too much self-auditing. (laughs)

Now, the amount of theta which that person tries to put into the thing gets kicked back against by the disorder, and he gets enturbulated too, to a certain degree. But theta will follow the natural law of attacking entheta. They attack each other, definitely.

LRH: Have you been doing self-auditing?

In the business of living you will very often find a theta person matched up with an entheta person; they are partners in business or some such thing. Actually, they can be joined up in several ways. The theta partner, who is well above 2.0, is providing the amount of theta necessary for the below-2.0 person to survive. But the below-2.0 person is bringing death in small quantities and failures and so forth to the upper-tone-scale person. Furthermore, you will find the entheta person attacking, one way or the other, the theta person. There doesn’t have to be any wide framework of cause or reason; there isn’t any apparent cause to it. A lot of causes are stated: “I’m doing this because . . .” and then there are twenty-five specious reasons on the part of the entheta person. But the entheta person simply will attack a theta individual.

PC: Yes, I have.

An entheta society will attack a theta subject — inevitably.

LRH: Who started self-auditing with you?

The theta comes in over an entheta area and tries to damp out and convert the entheta; the entheta will move over to a theta area and try to enturbulate the theta. There is a constant conflict going on between these two substances.

PC: I started myself with it.

Naturally, if you take 1.9 entheta and 2.1 theta, they are so close together on the tone scale that they are practically mingling. But you take 1.1 entheta and 3.0 theta, and they will really come together and try to mix up — one trying to do one thing, the other trying to do the opposite. The entheta says “Succumb!” to the 3.0, and the 3.0 says to the 1.1 entheta, “Live! Get organized, get reasonable.”

LRH: Who started it? (pause) What started it? (pause) When did it start?

Most of the arguments that you will run into could be resolved — as far as you, who are wondering why those two people are arguing, are concerned — just by looking at the two people who are arguing and at how they stand on the particular subject about which they are arguing. You will find out that it is probably theta hitting entheta one way or the other, because theta will go into agreement with theta at its approximate tone level, and entheta will go into agreement with entheta.

PC: Well, I read that paper on E-therapy and I talked to several people about it.

Of course, it will try to go just a little bit further: entheta, being entheta anyway, turns all MEST into enMEST and disorganizes everything, and it is going happily down toward succumbanyway. So theta and theta going together reinforce survival, but entheta and entheta going together, although they are in perfect agreement, agree that what we have to do is succumb. The only way they keep a balance, then, is entheta and theta going one against the other — an interactive principle.

LRH: You remember the pleasure of your reading the paper?

This does not depend on reason; it can be demonstrated. There is almost a laboratory demonstration of this possible.

PC: Yes.

Someone asked a little boy, “Do you remember somebody in the fourth grade that you liked a lot?”

LRH: Remember something else you read that gave you a lot of pleasure.

The little boy thought for a moment and said, “Oh, yeah — that Billy Jones. He’s a good boy; I had a lot of fun,” and so on.

PC: Yeah, I thought of a book I read.

“Can you remember somebody in the third grade that you liked a lot?” “No, but I sure remember one that I hated. Oh! I hated that boy!”

LRH: How about a scientific book?

This doesn’t become significant, perhaps, until you see the frequency with which it happens. You go into a deposit of theta and release a little bit of that theta and the next thing it does is attack entheta.

PC:(pause) Yeah, read the new Dianetics book.

This is Validation Processing. What you are actually trying to do is build up a sufficiently high potential of theta in the case in order to get the entheta attacked almost automatically and knocked flat. The skill involved on the part of the auditor is in letting a high enough potential build up, and in working with the preclear until that high potential is built. He can build a high enough potential of theta on the thing to bring a person right on up the tone scale, and the person will get up out of the band where he will attack entheta. In other words, instead of 3.0, the preclear can get up to 3.5 or 4.0, and low levels of entheta which are very far down and close to death and so forth can then be ignored. However, if you take a normal and pick up just a little bit of theta here and a little bit of theta there, the next thing you know, he will crash right straight into the entheta of the case.

LRH: And what about this book on E-therapy?

It is hard to keep people out of it. You watch this; maybe for the first session or two this person can run theta moments without skidding badly, and then he is liable to go straight into entheta.

PC: That was just a little pamphlet that I read.

Now, if you can build up a high enough bolt of lightning, a high enough “wattage” of theta, you can just knock the entheta on the case galley-west. But if you don’t build up very much theta, of course that theta that you have just gotten free from the case will tear right back in and get itself enturbulated again.

LRH: Hm-hm. It talked about what? Fire clearing of the left tibia?

The most ambitious thing in the world is a little bit of theta. It sure gets ambitious. And it is a funny thing, but there has to be a considerable volume of theta before it can ignore entheta. So, if you get a considerable volume of theta it actually will ignore entheta, because if the entheta comes anywhere in its vicinity, the entheta straightens out and becomes theta.

PC: No, it talked about — that probably self-auditing was all that was really necessary

Theta coming in the vicinity of a large deposit or a large amount of entheta will become entheta. Entheta coming into the vicinity of a very much larger amount of theta will become theta.

LRH: Sure. Necessary to do what, though?

The reason you have to go over an engram time after time after time is that you have so doggone little theta to invest that it takes many times over an engram to erase it. You understand that your time span is stretched when you are running an engram. If you had a lot of theta available when you started to run that engram, it would go out quickly.

PC: (laughs lightly) To run engrams out and so on.

We are getting into something which has a measurable potential. I hope one of these fine days somebody measures it. It is sitting right there. Here is a whole universe full of stuff for somebody to look over. But regardless of that, we don’t at this time have to know that much about it, its structure and anatomy, to know how to do Validation Processing.

LRH: All right. Now, you remember reading this?PC: Oh, vaguely

Most auditors go at a case as a theta unit, and what do they naturally attack? They attack entheta. The preclear looks like entheta to them, the preclear looks like engrams; they attack the engrams, the secondaries and the locks. If your auditor was up around 4.0 he wouldn’t do this. He would sort of smooth out this preclear and all of a sudden dust him off and the fellow would be sane. They used to do this with faith healing — just say, “God bless you, my child,” and the fellow would stand up and walk away. We are not that good. So it requires a considerable amount of restraint on the part of the auditor — an educational restraint — for him to build up any kind of potential at all in the preclear, because the auditor will find himself sitting there with a sixteenth of an erg of theta, and he gets enthusiastic and takes the two cents’ worth of theta he finds on the case and dives for basic-basic or a big secondary. That little bit of theta goes in there — it’s perfectly willing — and gets crushed by an overwhelm of entheta.

LRH: Do you remember reading a pamphlet like it once?

After the auditor has done this a few times he starts to get a little bit leery of what he invests. Before this time, we didn’t realize thoroughly what we were doing in terms of investment — and it is investment. An auditor has to be a very good investment banker if he starts playing around with Validation Processing.

PC: Well, I read the paper on that boil-off technique previous to that.

Your preclear starts to get the idea after a while, but at first when he starts to run through some pleasure moments — just starts to run through some pleasure moments, scanning — he will go right off the line into entheta: “No, I can’t remember a time when I was happy, but here is this time when . . .” and so on.

LRH: Now, let’s go way back into ancient history. Remember reading a book on psychoanalysis?

You say, “Let’s remember something pleasant now.”

PC: Yes, I’ve read some of Freudian psychology.

“Well, all right.” So he goes along and builds up a little more theta, and then he crashes into the entheta again.

LRH: Did you enjoy it?

You take a case that is pretty low on the tone scale and you have a terrible struggle. In the first place, it is an awful struggle trying to find what was considered to be a pleasure moment; that is a tough struggle right there. You will play around with just giving the guy the idea of what you want, and if you give him the idea that that’s what he wants, he will invest that thought. It’s not even his own theta, but he will invest it!

PC: Yes, right much.

You never saw such profligate investment in your life as what a preclear will make when he is fairly low on the scale.

LRH: All right. Well, lets see. We’ve got to make up our minds what we’re tackling here. Are we going to cure you of self-auditing or are we going to cure this headache?

You will occasionally run into somebody who has terrific engrams on the manic level about being happy, and you start to scan pleasure moments and the whole thing will reverse on you. You will find yourself scanning over stuff that you shouldn’t be monkeying with. You are really scanning entheta that has represented itself as theta, and you scan this for a while and the preclear gets unhappier and unhappier.

PC: We started off with a headache. (chuckles) What ever you want to do, either one. I can probably cure myself of the self-auditing now that I have a little more . . .

So entheta can be in many guises.

LRH: How could you do it?

Validation Processing is called so for another reason. There is a principle of postulating a reality with creative imagination: That reality will come to pass which is most agreed upon and postulated for the future. If lots and lots of people agreed that something was going to happen in the future, the chances are it would happen. This is not very esoteric. If we suddenly agreed that the great thing to do would be to paint the front of the Foundation a bright purple — if we all agreed on it — one of these days I suppose that it would be bright purple. That is postulating a future reality.

PC: Well, I figure it probably was this: You talked about phrases having something to do with it in the engram bank. I have some manics about It’s up to you, Gary — that sort of thing — and probably I felt that I wasn’t making enough headway, quite, and the Foundation — some of the new techniques didn’t seem to be quite enough, and that probably it was up to me to explore — help explore these other things, do a little research work on them.

Now, if you postulate a creative reality for the future, there is a better chance that the future will have in it a creative reality. If you postulate gloom, unhappiness and bad tidings or war with Russia for the future, chances are that is what is going to happen. If everybody in the United States agrees that the future isn’t worth living anyhow and so on (this is lower-tone-scale stuff), they are of course 0.5 and they are agreeing that the thing which is going to happen is death.

LRH: Hm-hm.

You as an auditor are really practicing and playing with this principle. You can say if you want to, and seem to feel, that your preclear is going to be sane, happy, cheerful and well and so on, and then all you do — doggone it — is pay attention to his reactive mind! You seem to be agreeing that sanity is what you want from your preclear, but what you are validating is his reactive mind.

PC: I felt that I was stable enough that I could risk the possible dangers of it; I realized it was dangerous.

Of course, you are playing the same trick of attacking entheta — theta attacking entheta — and you naturally attack the entheta and try to disenturbulate it.

LRH: It isn’t dangerous, just uncomfortable. Of course, trained auditors are kind of scarce, but out in the society it is not looked upon as being particularly reprehensible for somebody to spin somebody.

There is nothing wrong with doing that unless the amount of free theta on the case is too slight to be invested. So Validation Processing actually occupies the sector up to about 1.5. Above 1.5 it starts to lose efficaciousness; it isn’t as effective above that level. You don’t get this sudden chain lightning response.

PC: Yeah.

With very low-tone-scale people and people that are hard to work and so on, you really have gold in your hands with this Validation Processing — if you have enough restraint yourself to work it out. It requires restraint.

LRH: All right. Give Us a flash now; give us a flash: Is there a chain on which this headache is located? (snap!)

For instance, the fellow starts running into theta moments but then he says, “I’ve got a terrible headache.”

PC: Yes.

Your immediate training-pattern response is to say “Who said that? (snap!)” But that is also your mechanical response as theta, tackling the entheta in him.

LRH: What is the name of this chain? (snap!)

Now, on upper-tone-scale processing you have enough theta between you to really do something about the case. The preclear and the auditor, together with the group theta, can process the devil out of this case and just really roll it along. But down in the lower band of the tone scale, frankly, the amount of theta which has to be brought into being before you can do some good, effective processing is considerable.

PC: Birth.

So what do you do? You validate the analyzer. You refuse to have any truck with anything which is not accepted as good reality by the preclear. You validate the analytical mind, you validate the reality level. You don’t want reality which the preclear does not accept as reality.

LRH: Do you have any children?

You notice in the lower bands of the tone scale that when you snap your fingers at him and he repeats a phrase he is not hearing this phrase. He does not even have a sonic impression on it. It just occurs to him, he repeats it sort of weirdly and maybe it turns on a boil-off, maybe it does all sorts of strange things, but he doesn’t know where it came from. You can get a file- clerk response from him and he will say, “That’s Papa,” but that is not reality to him. So, in using Validation Processing, you maintain a level of reality no lower than that which is readily accepted as real by the preclear. You maintain this level of reality — ”Does it seem real to you?” “Lets go to a moment that really seems real to you now,” “Let’s contact something which seems very right, that you know happened” — and he will start giving you things that he knows happened. Sometimes he even comes up to the point of knowing he is sitting on the couch. Sometimes that is where you have to start! “Let’s find something real.”

PC: No. I’m not married — none to speak of.

When processing present time for a very low-level, well spun-in case, you sometimes have to look around the environment and check various items in the environment until you find one item that seems real to that preclear. All of a sudden he is liable to say, “Why, yes, the light switch seems real to me. The wall doesn’t, but the light switch — that’s real.”

LRH: When was birth run?

You start from there. At that moment you have picked up a theta line, so you follow it through. “What else is real?”

PC: It’s one of these section deals. I’ve run it for fifty hours, I guess.

“Well, your suspenders. You’re not, though.”

LRH: How long has the headache been with you?

Now I’m talking about the extreme case; this is Present Time Processing. Don’t plunge this case into something which he can’t credit as real himself, because the case will stay static or get worse; doing that, you are just stirring up the entheta and making more and more entheta.

PC: Oh, off and on for the last several days.

Your ARC with the preclear and the theta body which you compose as a group have been forgiving you a large number of sins. ARC — the theta of the auditor and the theta which is attracted into that group — has been masking by its existence a number of sins on low-level cases. In other words, you had quite a bit that you could get away with without recognizing that it was a wide latitude and that you were getting away with something.

LRH: The last several days, huh?

If you really want this preclear up the tone scale, however, you just assume that this ARC is there and then operate as though it isn’t — which is to say, you want levels of reality, levels of affinity and levels of communication which he knows were affinity, which he knows were real and which he knows were communication.

PC: Yeah.

Understand that seeing a light switch is a communication. If he is really seeing this light switch — it seems real to him, there is something between him and this light switch — it is probably representative of some pleasant environ in his past and therefore is duplicating itself to him. So you have picked up just that much of some former theta incident in the present time environment and you start building up a potential.

LRH: All right. Shut your eyes. Let’s go back to a pleasant moment just a few days ago, before this thing turned on.

One of the interesting things about this is your preclear is liable to break out in tears or something when you run it. You give him just a little tiny bit of theta and then with great ambition it goes right into the entheta, and he starts to cry.

PC: All right. (pause) Want me to tell you about it?

Now, you have seen where you can’t get the secondary off a preclear and he just sits there and so on, until you take him back to the time when he was really happy with Papa as a little boy. He has Papa’s death sitting there on the track and you are not able to approach it. But we start running theta moments about Papa and we run more pleasant incidents about Papa and more about Papa, and all of a sudden, without any command or anything else, we go right straight into the entheta of Papa’s death. It is almost a lead-pipe cinch that that is going to happen.

LRH: Sure.

There is an example of this which you have seen, but believe me, that is a very limited scope compared to what this processing will do. You actually will have the feeling, after you have processed somebody for a while, that you really are fighting with the case a little bit, because this guy starts wandering all around Robin Hood’s barn. He starts getting into entheta and you keep trying to pull him out of it.

PC: I’m in Hagerstown, Maryland, with two other people that I audit with there.

Actually, the final definition of processing is that you are trying to get all these attention units up to present time. You are trying to get everything up to present time — that is, in the way of good, clean attention units. You don’t want any entheta out of the bank up in present time, you want all this theta up in present time. How are you going to get it there? You have to pull it up, scrap by scrap, erg by erg, and you will finally achieve it. That, really, is processing. You can redefine processing with that definition: trying to get all of the theta attention units in present time.

LRH: All right, when do they mention birth?

If you are able to do that, by the way, you will notice some remarkable manifestations. Have you ever come into present time after blowing up a large amount of entheta and suddenly taken a look and had everything seem very bright to you? That is ARC up; your ARC is on much more heavily so your communication with the environ tunes way up. It gets very bright.

PC: I don’t recall them mentioning it.

That is the way the world looks to a little kid. That is just simply the matter of having enough free theta in present time to make the proper connections. It is that simple.

LRH: Do they mention it at all?

If you tackle processing from this angle on low-tone-scale people, you will find yourself collecting some dividends. How far this will go, I don’t know. I can’t tell you that. I only know that it produces results. How many ways this principle can be used, I don’t know. I do not have large numbers of completed cases to show you on this, so I am offering you this — it is in advance of other methods — merely because it has proven very useful on low-tone-scale people.

PC: Oh, yes. I had preciously run a section of birth in which I rocked back and forth Very heavily from one side to the other and it didn’t

I am not giving it to you as a technique which stands head and shoulders above this and that. Our new line of technique development may go out along this theta-entheta principle line, and it may not. But handling low scale people has been a terrific problem.

LRH: Was it interesting?

You can evidently damp out engrams in restimulation using Validation Processing without ever looking at the engrams. That is a nice trick. Of course, it requires from you an enormous amount of restraint. For instance, you are running a preclear on an analytical-incident chain about cars and he says, “Oh, I’ve got this terrible backache.”

PC: It seemed strange to me; I didn’t realize that you would do that. And one of the men said, Oh yeah, mine was the same way. I ran a section the same way.

And you say, “Let’s go back to the last time that you had a nice ride in the car, and so on; you’re enjoying the scenery.”

LRH: Hm-hm. All right. Are those people with you now?

“Yeah, I see one.”

PC: No, they’re in Hagerstown.

“Remember the time you kissed the girl in the car?” “Yeah! Yeah, gee, I was happy that day!”

LRH: They are?

“Now, remember the time you got the new car?” “Yeah.”

PC: I’m looking forward to seeing them again.

“Remember the time you gave a car to somebody, or gave them a ride.” “Oh yeah, I remember that time.”

LRH: Well, let’s run over a few pleasant moments with those people there — I mean a few analytical moments. Okay?

“Where’s your backache?” “Gee, I don’t know!”

PC: All right.

You don’t either! But I will tell you this: You could really fix him in this backache. You are running him on theta moments when all of a sudden he starts to get this backache, and you say, “What’s the phrase connected with this backache? (snap!)’’

LRH: All right. Did you see them after this?

So he says, “Ah, ‘I have to go back.”’ “Now, who’s talking?”

PC: Yes.

“Oh, I don’t know; it’s a phrase.” “Well, just go ahead and repeat it.”

LRH: All right. Through any analytical moment that you were with them after this conversation, begin scanning. (snap!) (pause) What’s happening?

Then he repeats himself into a heavy boil-off that lasts till the end of the session. You are running him at zero reality level and he will probably have the backache from there on out! He might not have; it might go away and merely leave a great big lock on the time track.

PC:(laughing) I just kind of get little bitsy flashes of different things that I enjoyed with them. I barely just skimmed once.

So check your cases sometimes and find out how many of these enforced boil-offs have left locks on the time track, which, when your preclear runs through them, will boil again.

LRH: Hm-hm.

You may think you are producing a tremendous amount with a tremendous amount of boil-off, but you may just be littering up his track, too. If the case is pretty entheta and you keep insisting on running entheta, there is no theta present to knock that stuff off the track and disenturbulate it, so you just deposit it in various portions of the track. You just keep placing it here and there on the track and spread it around and get the backaches on and the headaches on and the chronic stomach somatics on and so forth. You can keep that up for a long time.

PC: (pause) I guess that’s — I sort of went back beyond that time, too, with them . . .

Now, two things could actually be happening on this Validation Processing; maybe both of them happen, maybe only one. You are searching for a tone level which is above the tone level of the somatic, and you manage to finally, one way or the other, establish the tone level. That is one explanation. That tone level is above the sympathetic vibration level of the engram. This engram could have a 1.1 tone, and your preclear is in its sympathetic band of 1.1 so he gets the backache. But if you can somehow or other bump him up the tone scale by running theta moments, he will just climb out of the resonance area of that backache and it will stop.

LRH: Hm-hm.

The other thing that may be happening is that the theta is tackling the entheta and actually knocking it flat — actually kicking it off. One or the other is happening. I am sure that one of these fine days somebody will be able to stand up and say with certainty which it is. These are two perfectly good postulates and two perfectly good explanations for the same manifestation.

PC: Earlier times with them.

It so happens, though, that the alertness level of the person comes up. But this could also be explained by the fact that you are turning on analyzer rather than turning on reactive mind.

LRH: All right. Tell me when you’re all the way up the line on this.

What you are doing with Validation Processing is invalidating the reactive mind. So the guy has got phrases, so he has got engrams, so he has got secondaries, so he is sad — so what? We want to know how well he can think. All we are interested in is his analyzer, his good health, his agility, his cheerfulness, his happiness, his effectiveness, and that is all we keep asking for and talking to him about, and the only things we will buy off him are these things. The analyzer waxes fat on this; analytical power turns up and he climbs up the tone scale.

PC: (pause) All right, I’m up now.

That is validation. Behind this is a very definite principle: That state of being comes into being which is demanded or commanded to be by the auditor. The auditor can call into being any state of being he wishes in the preclear; that would be another way of saying it. It may be too generalized — the auditor can’t make him into an angel — but it is pretty much true.

LRH: All right, let’s go back to the first time you met them and scan through a lot of pleasant moments with them. (pause) Tell me when you’re there.

In interpersonal relationships, if you validate the orneriness, crabbiness, meanness and ugliness of another person consistently and continually, he will be what he is validated to be. And you know that by experience, I know.

PC: (pause) All right.

If you validate that he is happy, that he is cheerful, that he is sunny, that he is in wonderful shape and so on, those portions of his being which are those things will begin to manifest themselves. It doesn’t necessarily mean that you have knocked out the other portions, but you have called into being and made predominant those things.

LRH: Present time?

This could be explained simply and plainly on the postulate of resonance. You have just lifted him up the tone scale to a point where the lower-tone-scale manifestations simply don’t resonate. The lower levels of the tone scale are very harsh and ugly and a lot of other things, but you don’t pay any attention to those; you just keep putting out a vibration level which is in the upper band of the tone scale and asking for things which are high on the tone scale. The first thing you know, you have the upper tone scale in resonance, the fellow’s analyzer goes on, he thinks and he is effective and happy.

PC: Yes.

That could be a full explanation for this, except for one thing — a manifestation of theta which you see in using Validation Processing. You try to keep the preclear on pleasure moments and you get just so many of them, and then the case dives.

LRH: Okay. All the way up in present time?

You start this Validation Processing, getting up theta, and the fellow starts up the tone scale. You work him for two or three sessions, he keeps coming up that tone scale, and all of a sudden you have a 3.5. The next session you bring him up to 4.0, and for a whole hour after the session he is 4.0. Then all of a sudden he dives to the bottom; he goes down to his normal 0.5. That is no exaggeration; you can watch this happening.

PC: Yes.

The fortunate part of it is that if he starts out at 0.5 and gets boosted by Validation Processing, session after session, clear up to 4.0, when he does his dive he will come back to about 0.6.

LRH: All right. Open your eyes. Has this headache changed any?

Then you boost him all the way up to 4.0 again, and he spins again, but stops at 0.8. You finally get him up to a point where he will be covertly hostile toward you!

PC: Seems a little lighter. I still have it. It wasn’t very strong to start with.

One could postulate that what is happening here is a very simple thing: The preclear is simply climbing up the tone scale and getting a big preponderance of free theta, and his present time environment is absorbing it all. Then suddenly in goes a valence wall, out goes a circuit. In other words, you get too much free theta on there and the fellow goes around feeling grand and everything; you have actually, by being very patient yourself, built up lightning in this person’s skull, and all of a sudden it goes crash! What happens is that a whole circuit or a whole series of circuits will collapse and he just goes down because he is suddenly flooded with entheta. All of his thought processes go unclear, his analyzer shuts down and the reactive volume goes way up.

LRH: All right. Shut your eyes. Is there a birth chain of locks succeeding your own birth? (snap!)

With Validation Processing you don’t touch circuits and you don’t touch valences. You don’t ever tell him to get in valence because that would be to infer that he could get out of valence.

PC: Yes.

The preclear keeps saying to you, “But I’m way out of valence.”

LRH: Are analytical moments available on this chain? (snap!)

You say, “Okay, that’s fine. Let’s go to the time you had an all-day sucker.” “Well, I can’t even taste the thing!”

PC: Yes.

“All right, all right. Let’s go to a time when you could!”

LRH: Can we pick up an early one?

There is the sequence of events. You can see this sort of thing happening, you can watch this sort of thing happening, and believe me, you can really get a preclear going over the roller coasters. Actually, with Validation Processing, you will see more changes in a preclear than you see in standard processing, and yet you apparently aren’t hitting any entheta. You are trying to keep away from that.

PC: Yes.

If you get too much theta up there and the already existing valence wall gets this tremendous amount of free theta up against it, all of a sudden that valence wall crashes. (It has been a lot of trouble to you as an auditor, because every time you sent the preclear back down the track he went into a dog’s valence and started to bark like a dog.) But all it is now is entheta; it isn’t a valence any more. It is simply the entheta and everything connected with it, and it just floods. The preclear gets terrifically depressed; a lot of this theta suddenly enturbulates. But there was enough potential to knock apart the valence. So what you have now is a person who is just kind of occluded instead of supervalenced. Now you start back up the tone scale until you get him up to somewhere around 3.0. You can’t tell when one of these things is going to explode either. They explode very remarkably.

LRH: Tell me when you’ve contacted it.

Validation Processing requires an even lower level of authoritarianism in auditing than entheta processing. This is processing theta. It seems to set up a sort of an automatic cycle.

PC: I don’t know where I am. (laughs)I keep saying yes. Sometimes I . . .

Frankly, I would like very much to have worked many more cases than I have worked on Validation Processing before giving it to you. I’m giving it to you here because it is valuable, not because it has been tested out to the degree it has. As a matter of fact, it has not been tested now on more than about fifteen cases that I know of, which is a very small series, particularly since those cases were not carried through a large number of hours.

LRH: All right. Let’s see if we can contact an early analytical moment relating to the subject of being born. I don’t want the physical pain engram of birth.

But we know what it does to some degree, and we also know that you can really improve a case. For instance, take a preclear who is in terrible shape at ten o’clock; he gets Validation Processing for an hour, and at eleven o’clock he is sitting up and taking nourishment and ready to go. That is a heck of a thing to be able to do to a human being.

(pause) Tell me when you get an early incident there — anything about birth that’s pleasant. A birth, a picture of a baby, anything like that.

A person, to do good Validation Processing, has got to know and keep in mind more about Dianetic mental structure than otherwise. A person could do it blind; he could actually fumble through somehow and do it blind. But unless he knew thoroughly the behavior of locks, secondaries and engrams, unless he could be prepared at any moment to pick one of these things up and discharge it in some fashion, and unless he could do something for this case, he really should not play around too much with Validation Processing because it is chain lightning.

PC: (pause) All right.

It is not a process that you would turn over to a book auditor for the simple reason that it would perplex him so. He wouldn’t know what he was fooling with! He starts auditing his mother on it, and he runs this and he runs that and he runs something else, and “Mama is so happy now after I’ve done all this, and isn’t this fine, and look how happy Mama is!” So he goes out to the other room and says, “Hey, George, come in here and see how happy I’ve made Mama,” and she is sitting there with tears streaming down. You wouldn’t be able to put this processing across to somebody who didn’t know his basics. It is very important to know them.

LRH: All right. From there through all such moments to present time, begin scanning. (snap!)

For instance, if you ever find a preclear who has suddenly dived into a secondary automatically and is busy running the thing, you had better run it out. If you can get tears off the case, real tears off the specific incident with the preclear going into it automatically, you run it out.

PC: (pause) I get kind of a funny feeling like I don’t see anything much; it seems sort of round and dark — kind of queer.

I’m talking now just about tears and terror and apathy as three types of secondaries that I would really dive for. If the preclear walked into one of those things automatically and he was there in the incident, believe me, I would run it! Because there is where you are going to get a lot of relief on the case quickly. That is really why you are fishing with Validation Processing.

LRH: Hm-hm.

But just because a guy goes into some yawns, just because he goes into boil-off, just because he goes into some other manifestation, or because he is merely angry is no reason to go after the entheta.

PC: (pause) I’m in present time now.

For instance, the preclear is sore as the devil, and the more of these theta moments you run, the madder he gets. And he can’t tell you what he is mad about; you are not even asking him what he is mad about. He is obviously not sitting in a specific incident because he is not talking about a specific incident or specific thing.

LRH: All right. Can we contact an early analytical moment on the subject of being born?

As you build up more and more theta, though, you might get him to say, “Well, Uncle Bill was a dog — that’s all there is to it — when he beat me with that club!”

PC: Yes.

So you would say, “And where did he hit you?” and you would run off this anger secondary. But the thing would be there and obviously ready to be run. You wouldn’t have even asked him to go to the incident. If he will go to the incident automatically, if he is there, if he will run it automatically, gorgeous! You sit there then as a good auditor and audit it. You don’t just let it sit.

LRH: All right. Tell me when you’re there.

Sometimes you will get line tears; don’t mistake line tears for incident tears. You are running pleasure moments and this person can’t tell you what he is crying about or anything and yet he is just crying. You are getting a grief line charge, and it will come off as a line charge; it will come off as tears.

PC: (pause) All right.

I have tried to explain this several times and I have watched auditors work after it has been explained to them. They run pleasure moments, pleasure moments, pleasure moments, pleasure moments, and then all of a sudden the preclear gets an earache. Immediately the auditor says, “Where does it come from? How old are you? (snap!) Is there a phrase that goes with this? (snap!)”

LRH: All right. You tell me the moment that you slide off into anything unpleasant on this chain, okay?

That is wrong. You don’t even run pleasure moments. You are used to running pleasure moments. Now change your mind about that. What you should be running is analytical moments. This gives you a tremendous scope of incident. You are running analytical moments, and you are running them by Straightwire, as single incidents, and as chains of locks; those are the three ways to run them.

PC: All right.

You will find, after your preclear gets up to the point where he can lock-scan, that you will get the most free theta up the quickest with Lock Scanning. But on a lot of preclears down at the bottom of the line, when they start up that chain they just crunch into the entheta.

LRH: All right. From there forward to present time, begin scanning. (snap!)

It is very interesting how fast they will stop on that. For example, take somebody who was ordinarily and daily beaten unconscious by Papa, and just start scanning Papa. We don’t scan Papa doing something to him, because he is not sure that Papa ever did. Let’s just scan the times when he knows Papa was there or he has some sort of an idea it was Papa — anything analytical about Papa: any time he was thinking about Papa, any time he saw Papa, any time he went on a trip with Papa and so on. What you do is just take the theta tied up in Papa and put it back into this incident and it will try to run itself. Now, how do you get him out of that? If he is too low on the tone scale he will latch up right there with Papa beating the devil out of him unless you can find some more Papa. If you go on and find some more analytical moments about Papa, this may merely dissipate as an incident and seem to just blow of its own accord. Only you have never gotten him spanked. This depends on your finding some more about Papa.

PC: (pause) A moment just then.

But if you get this fellow too low on the tone scale, his free theta/entheta ratio is such that he will actually hang up in the incident. Then you have to go looking for somebody who looked like Papa or you have to go get something that is vaguely associated with anything: “Let’s take a look at your house when you were a boy.”

LRH: Hm?

“Well, I . . . you know, I never can see the inside of this place.”

PC: I slipped off into a moment . . . I went by something just then.

“Okay. I’m not asking you to see the inside. Let’s just take a look at the shrubbery.”

LRH: All right. Just through analytical moments now.

“Well, all right. Sure, I can see some of the shrubbery. There’s a tree. Yeah, an old tree over there I used to crawl up in.”

PC: Yeah.

“What did the front door look like?” “Oh, so-and-so and so-and-so.”

LRH: Better name each one that you come to.

“And where were the water taps located around it?” “Oh, such-and-such, so-and-so.”

PC: Well, I was thinking . . . I started as a child talking with my sisters — you know how kids will when they start finding out about where babies come from, that sort of thing — new information on the subject. A number of incidents of this. And I come on up to the children around the neighborhood; and my sister has a baby, several years ago. Brother has a baby, last year.

“How many chimneys did it have?”

LRH: Give him a lot of pleasure?

“Well, so-and-so” and so on. The first thing you know, the fellow is saying, “Yeah, and there was oatmeal paper in the living room, and Papa used to sit in that rocker. Say, its a funny thing, Grandma used to sit over in that rocker too.”

PC: Yes. Pretty good kid.

Of course, there is just the empty rocker sitting there, and he wouldn’t put Grandma in it — not now!

LRH: Okay. Continue on.

He goes on, “Yeah, and here’s all the times I had to haul wood for the fire. And my father used to say to me . . . Boy! He was mean to me. Gosh! he’s a . . .”

PC: I take pictures of this baby here a few months ago, and again I try to take more pictures of him.

“Now, who else used to sit in the rocking chair?”

LRH: Hm-hm.

He is starting right into the entheta; you have just gotten up that much theta. Of course, he looked at that house many times when he was cheerful and pleased and so forth, and you get him to describe the confines.

PC: Looking at the pictures. They come out fairly good. And I’m on up to present time.

If you find, for instance, that your preclear is unable to approach a telephone conversation which told him some bad news or something of the sort, just start running telephones. Get him to spot where the phone was in every house or office he ever had. You don’t run anybody talking on it; that is too dangerous. What you want is just where all the phones were.

LRH: Present time?

Obviously these are analytical moments; you don’t consider these pleasure moments. They are analytical moments of where the phones were. We pick up these phones, we pick them up two or three times, then we try to pick up a phone bell. Even if he doesn’t have any sonic, we pick up “A phone bell rang there; and one rang there. Oh yes, I had a funny phone bell over at this other place,” and so on.

PC: Yeah.

Then you say, “Do you remember a time when you were a little boy and talked on the phone?” — sneaking it in.

LRH: Open your eyes. (pause) How do you feel?

“Yeah.”

PC: I feel pretty good.

“Do you remember two or three other phone conversations?”

LRH: How is your head?

“Yeah. There was the time Aunt Mamie told me to come out to the farm, and — gee, my head feels awful bad!”

PC: It’s just a little faint headache still. (laughs) It was real faint to start with.

You would make a mistake at that point if you just started to grab for what you were after, because it has just come into view; the theta is too ambitious. You can make that as a rule; theta is going to jump before it is ready to jump.

LRH: Is it fainter or is it stronger?

So pick up some more phone bells, and pick up some more phone calls. If you do it well the incident will disappear and you won’t have to handle it anymore.

PC: It’s — the last time it was fainter, now I believe it’s a little stronger. (laughs lightly)

The avidity with which a little tiny bit of theta will spring is tremendous, and that is where you have to exercise great willpower and caution about what you pick up.

LRH: Shut your eyes. All right, let’s return to the beginning of analytical moments concerning headaches. (brief pause) What did you get at that moment?

You work with the file clerk and, in the absence of a file clerk, your own good sense on this. You don’t start picking up stuff which is obviously on the aberrated line. You can be very selective with Validation Processing.

PC: I don’t have headaches. Talking as a child with people complaining about headaches, and me being happy that I never have them. (laughs) Different people saying, I’ve got a headache, and I think, Oh boy, I never get one! (laughs loudly) I’m glad I’m not like you, ‘cause you’ve got a headache all the time. (laughs) That would be awful. Sometimes when I’m sick I get a little mild headache, but it doesn’t amount to anything. Oh, mostly this comes up when people say (laughing) I’ve got a headache, and I think, Oh boy, I don’t get them! (laughs) I used to go with a girl that had headaches all the time (laughing), and I’d think, Oh boy, I don’t get headaches. Oh, poor thing. I remember a fellow who had migraine headaches. He told me about it and I was Very sympathetic, but I was glad I didn’t get them. (PC and

There is a patter which goes along with this. If you have a file clerk that you can work with, you ask, “Is there a chain ready to be run? (snap!)”

LRH: laugh) Then, I remember ... I don’t hare somatics very heavily, usually — I didn’t used to — and I had a headache one time in Dianetics so bad I thought I’d (laughing hard) drop down into apathy. And I was kind of glad of that ‘cause it really raised my sense of reality about Dianetics. And I’ve been running a preclear that has headaches all the time.

“Yes.”

LRH: All right. Do you remember something pleasant about this preclear?

“What is the name of this chain? (snap!)”

PC: Yeah.

“The cat-whisker chain,” or something of the sort. This is just straight patter.

LRH: Something real pleasant? Something analytical that you appreciate about this preclear.

Now, ordinarily you would take off from there with Lock Scanning. You would simply take off from there and start to run all the entheta on that chain. Not with Validation Processing; you run everything on that chain which is analytical and which he knows has a good level of reality. You just scan, in other words, the analytical side of that chain.

PC: Well, she’s pretty nice but she’s in awful shape. (laughs) I remember one time when she improved a little bit after I was running her. I thought that was pretty nice. She talked real rational, just seemed like her old self again. She’s a neighbor, and I really felt Oh boy, I’ve done something there now. (pause) She’s a neighbor. She used to be very good to me. I’d go over and she’d feed me cake and milk and stuff. I used to go to see her pretty often.

You could postulate that, although this chain looks to you like a straight line of incidents, actually the chain probably is two broken chains of incidents. One line would be reactive areas, and the other one would be analytical areas.

LRH: Uh-huh.

If you keep paying attention to the reactive one, you are just going to bring him further and further into reactive-mind reaction. He is going to get more and more reactive about this unless he has enough theta available to run it, at which time he will run it right on out and desensitize it and feel much better for it. But that means he has to have enough theta to do it.

PC: She was telling me some of her pleasure moments and interested me very much. She was telling me about going to Wisconsin, going swimming, and I lose to go — I lose to swim, and I practically relived her pleasure moment. She was — with her she had one of my favorite school teachers who I hadn’t seen for a long time, a very pretty girl that had been a school teacher, and recalling her to mind was very pleasant.

So, on a low-scale case, if you start chewing away and plowing away at this reactive side of the chain you will latch him up. Keep him over on the analytical side of the chain and start turning his analyzer up further and further, and some of the incomprehensible problems on the chain that were incomprehensible before to a tuned-down analyzer will try to resolve themselves and try to pull over into the analytical side of the chain.

LRH: Tell me when you’re in present time.

Your stunt as an auditor is to keep him over on the analytical chain and not let him go into the reactive chain. Willy-nilly, sometimes he will boil off; very often he will boil off. You let him boil off. Very often he will shed a couple of tears; he doesn’t even tell you what the tears are all about, but he just sheds a couple of tears or he gets a little scared as he is running the thing. It is just line charge that you are getting; it is not from a specific incident.

PC: All right. I’m in present time.

You just start working with that, and he boils and he does all sorts of standard manifestations and he comes out of it. You don’t put him into what he was boiling from. You don’t ask him “What are you boiling off about? Where is this incident from?” You don’t do any of that.

LRH: Open your eyes.

All you do is keep him over in analytical moments: “Are there other analytical moments in this chain?”

PC: (brief pause; laughs) It’s still there.

Now, the reactive mind can get validated up to the point where the whole case starts to look enturbulated and it does not start to rise up the tone scale. But, actually, you can start working on the analytical side of the ledger and the case will come up the tone scale. Day by day by day you can watch the difference.

LRH: Is it as heavy as it was right straight through?

You are not doing the spectacular, you are only doing the important. That is a nice differentiation. It is terrifically spectacular to get a screamers screaming, but it is not good processing.

PC: It’s shifted a little bit; it’s more toward the back and not as much . . . it was more all over and then now it’s kind of shifted, like it’s back here.

If anybody is going to scream, they really have got no business running engrams. You will do better, according to tentative conclusions so far, to keep them out of and beyond their aberrative areas, and just try to pick up theta. Now, when I say aberrated areas, I mean simply chains of aberration. For instance, if we take somebody and we know that he is pretty loopy on just one subject, we stay away from that subject if he is low on the tone scale; we won’t even pick up analytical moments about it. In other words, we get him out and away from the obvious entheta areas.

LRH: Okay. Now, shut your eyes. All right. What’s the name of the next chain that we should run for this headache? (snap!)

PC: Says Headache.

LRH: Is that the name of the chain? (snap!)

PC: Yes.

LRH: Can we pick up an analytical moment about headaches early on the chain? (pause) Yes or no? (snap!)

PC: No.

LRH: Can we pick up an analytical moment about your head feeling good?

PC: Yes.

LRH: All right. Let’s contact that as early as possible.

PC: All right.

LRH: All right, from there forward to present time, through all such analytical moments, begin scanning. (snap!)

PC: I’m swimming. I dive in the water time after time when I — I like the feel of the water.

LRH: Hm-hm.

PC: It’s cool. And I come up to times in groups when I feel very raised up, very stimulated and very clear — clearheaded.

LRH: Hm-hm.

PC: Now I’m up to present time.

LRH: Okay. Should we scan this chain again? (snap!)

PC: No.

LRH: How’s your head?

PC: It’s lighter.

LRH: All right. Has it changed position any?

PC: A little bit. It kind of went from way towards the back; it’s sort of right in the middle now.

LRH: Okay. Now, what is the name of the chain we should scan now? (snap!)

PC: It says Headache.

LRH: All right, could we pick up an early analytical moment on this chain?

PC: Yes.

LRH: Tell me when you’re there.

PC: I’m there.

LRH: Now, who has the headache?

PC: Says I have it.

LRH: All right.

PC: Not there. I’m diving in the water, down to Quiet Hole. The water is cool on my face.

LRH: Feel good?

PC: Yeah. Feel it cool across the face here, not on top so much.

LRH: Hm-hm. All right. Come on up the chain contacting moments, analytical moments, when your head felt good, now can you do that?

PC: Yeah.

LRH: All right. There forward to present time, begin scanning. (snap!)

PC: Wind blowing in my face. (pause) I think of (laughs) kissing a girl, and her face against mine and dancing.

LRH: Hm-hm.

PC: I think of a lot of times when I’ve been dancing with girls. (pause) All right, I’m . . . times when the pillow felt good when I go to sleep.

LRH: Hm-hm. (brief pause) Tell me when you’re in present time.

PC: (pause) All right. I’m in present time.

LRH: Okay. How’s your head now?

PC: It’s still kind of . . .

LRH: Where is it?

PC: It’s very faint, but it’s kind of like this.

LRH: Where is it? (brief pause) What does it feel like?

PC: I don’t know. It’s just like that. I don’t believe I’ve had one just like that. It’s kind of in the — across inside, like, here.

LRH: Uh-huh. All right. On what chain is this headache? (snap!)

PC: Headache, it says.

LRH: All right. Is there a specific type of headache? (snap!)

PC: No.

LRH: Is there a specific thing which causes this headache? (snap!)

PC: Yes.

LRH: Can the name of that flash?

PC: No.

LRH: All right. Are there more analytical moments on the headache chain?

PC: Yes.

LRH: Can you contact those?

PC: Yes.

LRH: All right. Contact the first one. Tell me what it is.

PC: I’m thinking that’s not. . . I’m talking with people, a friend of mine that I like. But he’s telling me about his mother having — this doesn’t sound so good — taking headache powders an awful lot, making her get in trouble. I guess again I think I’m glad I don’t have headaches. (laughs) But I like the — the association with the people at the time was very pleasant. They’re radio amateurs. I’m in high school.

LRH: Does the location of that headache shift any as you go through this?

PC: Yeah.

LRH: Where is it? What does it do?

PC: It went a little bit farther back. Some of it has dropped out now.

LRH: All right. Continue on forward through all such analytical moments. (snap!)

PC: (pause) I think of Jerry Parsons telling me about his migraine having gone away, and Jill Drummond. And I think of a friend of mine back home that had a lot of trouble with migraine, and I’m going to tell him about this when I see him. And I do see him, call him up on the phone rather, tell him about it, but he has gotten them fairly well under control. Think about my sister Jenny telling me about how she has had trouble with headaches, but she has gotten straightened out.

LRH: Was there a moment there when you were glad somebody had a headache?

PC: (pause) No. But I’m glad I didn’t! (laughs) And I’m glad something can be done to help them not have them. (pause) Maybe there is a moment like you asked me for. This girl I used to go with used to fly off the handle pretty quick, and then she’d get a headache. I guess sometimes I thought it served her right! (laughing hard while talking) If she had controlled herself a little better she wouldn’t get the headache. (pause) It seemed to have gone down (laughing) a good deal with that. It went down quite a bit. (pause)

LRH: Very good.

PC: It went down quite a lot when (laughing) I started laughing then. (pause) I guess this headache is really longer than just the last few days. I started this self-auditing several weeks ago and it was pretty effective at first (laughing) but it’s got worse. I ran quite a bit of stuff at first and felt a lot better about it; and then it got so I noticed my room kind of would be messed up right much. (laughing) So I wondered why that was. I figured I was trying to get this stuff run out and then I would straighten it up. (laughs) And I didn’t seem to be able to do some things that I thought I should have been doing, like some writing and letter writing and so on. (laughing) I’d keep putting them off all the time and dig into this self auditing pretty heavy. I’d still run good Standard Procedure, though. Didn’t bother me any. In fact, four to six hours a week, but then it just seemed to kind of bog d own, like I didn’t seem to be getting as much stuff off (laughing) as I was at first. And I thought, Well, I don’t know whether I’m getting too far with this now. I have to figure out some more things about it. I got a letter from a friend of mine who said that he had been (laughs) — he didn’t know much of anything about self- auditing, he had just read the book and drilled it a little bit. But he’s a very high, analytical person, and I got a letter from him just a short while ago in which he said he would tell his selector to contact obscure incidents at night when he’d go to sleep and refile it in the standard memory bank. Gradually over a period of several months he has become much more efficient, his problems seem to be solved before they become problems. He told me to throw away my Compost model and get the latest development (laughs) I had figured that might work (laughs) for him, but it doesn’t work for me like it does for him.

LRH: Does he have a car?

PC: Yeah.

LRH: You might write and ask him what condition his car has been in lately.

PC: Okay. (PC and

LRH: chuckle)

LRH: Okay. Tell me when you’re in present time.

PC: I’m in present time.

LRH: How is your headache?

PC: It’s better; it’s definitely better.

LRH: Well, where is the ache particularly now?

PC: It’s still just very faint and right — kind of in the center. . .

LRH: Hm?

PC: It’s not around anywhere, it’s right in the center.

LRH: Remember a time when it felt good to have something on your head in that area.

PC: (pause) No.

LRH: Remember somebody rubbing your hair and it felt good.

PC: Yes.

LRH: Who is it?

PC: Sister, Wendy.

LRH: What is she doing?

PC: She was just rubbing it, or massaging it.

LRH: Did you like that?

PC: Yeah.

LRH: Did she do it another time?

PC: Yes. Had an aunt do it several times.

LRH: Hm-hm. Do you like the aunt?

PC: No. Oh, a little bit — one of these changeable things.

LRH: Hm-hm. All right. Remember somebody else who touched your head that felt good.

PC: Yeah. (laughs)

LRH: Now remember another time when you had a good head sensation.

PC: Yeah. I used to have an awful lot of trouble with dandruff, and a couple months ago it went away. That was very exciting.

LRH: How’s your head feel?

PC: It feels better.

LRH: Now, is there any somatic there at all?

PC: A wee little bit, yeah.

LRH: Where is it located?

PC: It’s the same place only it’s just fainter.

LRH: Oh, I see. Well now, what did you used to like to do with your head?

PC: I used to wrestle some. I used to like to bridge’ and then turn over.

LRH: Hm-hm.

PC: And actually, I guess that kind of creased on my head right there.

LRH: Was it fun?

PC: Yeah. I was pretty good at it.

LRH: Pretty good, huh? Remember somebody saying you were pretty good at it?

PC: Yeah.

LRH: Hm. Do you remember the way the place looked?

PC: I remember one incident, and several times I’ve done that.

LRH: Felt good?

PC: Yeah.

LRH: Okay. Now lets recall a recent incident when your head felt good.

PC: (pause) Lying down on the pillow last night, I was pretty sleepy. It felt good.

LRH: Felt good?

PC: Yeah.

LRH: All right. Tell me when you’re in present time.

PC: I’m in present time.

LRH: How does your head feel now?

PC: It’s much fainter.

LRH: Where is the somatic?

PC: Well, it’s a little bit on top of the head where I was bridging.

LRH: It’s changed a little bit in location?

PC: Yeah, yeah. It has drifted up toward the top.

LRH: All right. Then what is the name of the chain this one is on? (snap!)

PC: This is wrestling.

LRH: All right. Remember the time when you won a bout?

PC: Yes.

LRH: Remember a time when you really wanted to wrestle.

PC: Yes.

LRH: Now remember a time when you gave somebody else a good fall, solid.

PC: Haven’t got that.

LRH: When you gave somebody else a fall?

PC: Yes, I remember pinning him.

LRH: Hm-hm.

PC: The term fall is confusing to me. What do you mean by that?

LRH: Did you pin him?

PC: Yeah.

LRH: What were they doing when you pinned them?

PC: I had a three-quarter on him, I think they call it. No, I forget the name of it.

LRH: How did you feel when you did this?

PC: Good!

LRH: Feel good?

PC: Yeah.

LRH: How is your headache?

PC: It’s better.

LRH: Has it shifted any?

PC: Yeah, it has spread out. It’s faint, very faint, but it’s right on top and it’s very little.

LRH: Uh-huh. What’s the name of the chain this is on? (snap!)

PC: Wrestling.

LRH: All right. Do you remember the way a wrestling ring looks?

PC: Yeah.

LRH: Remember how it smells?

PC: Yeah.

LRH: Do you remember a guy that looked real good when he was wrestling?

PC: Yeah.

LRH: How about a real good fall you saw, I mean somebody pinned, and a real good job of work was done on it.

PC: Yeah.

LRH: Hm?

PC: This same fellow.

LRH: What is the realest moment that you can find on that chain?

PC: (pause) Wrestling with Bosley, I think.

LRH: Hm?

PC: Wrestling with Bosley.

LRH: Yeah?

PC: He was a varsity wrestler. And I guess this is (laughs) — it’s sort of a little bit painful, but I was enjoying it. He had a scissors’ on me and he couldn’t make me give up and yet he was a Southern Conference wrestler.

LRH: Hm-hm.

PC: I was sort of proud of being able to stand up against him.

LRH: What is the greatest affinity you felt on that chain?

PC: I used to be very fond of this one other boy; we used to wrestle an awful lot.

LRH: What is the best piece of communication you can find on that chain?

PC: (pause) I have trouble finding this. (pause)

LRH: Oh. How about some good advice about wrestling?

PC: (pause) Yeah. Well, I have a piece of it I guess.

LRH: Hm?

PC: I have a piece of good communication.

LRH: You have a piece of good communication?

PC: Yeah.

LRH: All right. How’s your head?

PC: It’s very good, but . . .

LRH: Very good but what?

PC: Well, just a wee little bit here.

LRH: Just a wee little bit. What is the name of the chain that is on? (snap!)

PC: Says Wrestling.

LRH: All right. Is there a particular moment — analytical moment — you can now remember that will lessen it further?

PC: Yes.

LRH: When I snap my fingers it will flash. (snap!)

PC: I’m weighing in on scales.

LRH: All right. When I snap my fingers again another high-reality moment will flash about wrestling. (snap!)

PC: I’m getting ready to wrestle a fellow named Rolsen. He looks a lot bigger than I do.

LRH: Hm-hm. All right. Let’s have another moment on that chain. (snap!)

PC: I’m out wrestling, out on the grass, several years later, wrestling a fellow who weighed — he had wrestled 165 and he weighed a good deal more than I did and he was a varsity wrestler. And I pinned him, which made me feel very good because I hadn’t forgotten how to do it.

LRH: Hm-hm.

PC: I remember him throwing a (laughs) — somebody throws a watermelon out in order to divide it up. We didn’t have a knife, so we just threw it and it broke up and we went out and picked up the pieces and ate it that way. It’s a picnic, is what it is.

LRH: Hm-hm.

PC: It’s a meadow with a stream of water going by.

LRH: All right, what else do you recall on the subject now?

PC: I remember being out at the park with a girl, showing that I could do this turning again.

LRH: Hm?

PC: Showing this bridging business again.

LRH: Uh-huh. How about another one, another incident?

PC: In college, I’m showing some of the boys about wrestling. There are a couple incidents of this, once in the dormitory and several other times up in the gymnasium.

LRH: All right. Is there another chain?

PC: Yes.

LRH: Now, what’s the name of it? (snap!)

PC: Headache, it said.

LRH: Hm?

PC: Headache, it said.

LRH: Headache chain. Now, can we remember some analytical moments on the headache chain?

PC: Yes.

LRH: Let’s contact the earliest such moment that we can recall. Tell me when you’re there.

PC: I keep getting this same incident that I had before.

LRH: Okay. From there forward through all such moments to present time, begin scanning. (snap!)

PC: (pause) It seems hard to pick up analytical moments around this headache ‘cause I have it a lot myself, and we’ve been talking about it so much I keep thinking about me having headaches now all the time.

LRH: All right. Let’s remember analytical moments, just analytical.

PC: It’s hard to think of any like that.

LRH: Do you remember when you dumped this fellow on his head?

PC: I remember turning people up on their head — that one position through the crotch, like.

You stand them up on their head.

LRH: Hm-hm. All right. Remember the next time you did that?

PC: Yeah, I’ve used that often and I knew how to work that pretty well.

LRH: Uh-huh. When were you very glad that you dumped somebody on his head?

PC: (laughing) I don’t seem to be glad anymore. I just — this thing just seems to close down on me, like.

LRH: What’s closing down on you?

PC: Well, all I want — this headache business just seems to be more times like when I have headaches.

LRH: All right. Let’s remember the time you stepped on this wrestler’s head.

PC: (laughing) I didn’t step on his head.

LRH: Remember this guy that they know

PC: I keep trying to . . .

LRH: Trying to what?

PC: I keep trying to get times when somebody — when they had scissors on my head, squeezing it.

LRH: Now, let’s be analytical about this. (LRH: and PC laugh) Now, do you remember a time when you threw somebody into the goal post with great satisfaction?

PC: No. I don’t get satisfaction out of hurting people.

LRH: Do you remember a good shower you took once after being wrestled?

PC: Yes.

LRH: Pleasant...

PC: Very clear.

LRH: Pleasant, cheerful shower? Do you remember talking with somebody in the shower room one time?

PC: Yes.

LRH: And when did you get some new wrestling gear?

PC: Oh, I just wore one pair of pants all the way through. No, I got a pair of sweat pants, that’s right. That was new.

LRH: Hm-hm. When did the coach really compliment you about wrestling?

PC: (laughs) I don’t remember the coach complimenting me; I remember some of the other boys.

LRH: What did they say?

PC: The coach said I should get mad. The other boys said I was one of the best, one of the strong — I remember towards the end of the season — said I was one of the strongest wrestlers.

LRH: All right. Do you recall the particular boy saying this that gave you a lot of pleasure?

PC: I can’t get his name but I have a very good impression of him in appearance. Dawson, I think his name was — yeah, Dawson.

LRH: Hm-hm. Now, what are the realest moments you can find on the wrestling chain?

PC: (laughing) It’s not a pleasant moment It doesn’t seem very — none of it seems pleasant anymore! It just — I just . . .

LRH: Well, do you recall this time when you had a good rubdown — rubber rubbed you down?

PC: (laughing) No, the rubber never rubbed me down. I just — I just seem to get more unpleasant times all the time.

LRH: All right. Can you recall a time when you were very glad to get a new hat?

PC: No, I hated hats. I very seldom wore them.

LRH: Do you remember a time when you didn’t have to wear one?

PC: Yeah. Oh, boy! (laughs) I had to go to — no, I went to a military school one year. When I got out of that joint, oh boy!

LRH: What did you do?

PC: No more hat!

LRH: All right. Remember when you destroyed a hat.

PC: No.

LRH: Do you remember when you said you had lost a hat but you had really torn one up?

PC: Don’t ever remember tearing one up.

LRH: Do you remember somebody feeling very sad and sorry about your hat?

PC: (laughs) When I was about four years old it blew out of the window once and we had to stop this old Model T.

LRH: Yeah?

PC: And we had to stop and go back and get it. It was Daddy’s hat. I had a big head and I used to wear his hats when I was a little kid.

LRH: Uh-huh.

PC: And it blew out the window once.

LRH: Who had to stop?

PC: Daddy was driving and he stopped. Fred, I guess, my brother, probably went back and got it.

LRH: Hm-hm.

PC: And I didn’t like to wear it then, I guess. I was just as glad it went, ‘cause it was too big for me. (laughing) Came down over me.

LRH: (chuckling with PC) Yeah.

PC: I sort of thought I had a big enough head to wear his hats but it wasn’t big enough. (laughs)

LRH: All right. Do you remember some pleasant moment about your father?

PC: Yes.

LRH: Remember a pleasant moment when your father patted you on the head?

PC: (short laugh) No.

LRH: Hm?

PC: I don’t believe he ever patted me on the head.

LRH: Remember when he bought you a new hat?

PC: No.

LRH: Hm?

PC: I never would wear hats.

LRH: Well, remember a time when he said that was a good thing not to wear hats?

PC: No.

LRH: Remember when he said you had good judgment?

PC: I overheard him say something about — it came secondhand that he had said . . . I guess Mother told me that he had said that I was the only one that seemed to understand anything about money, had any sense about money.

LRH: Hm-hm.

PC: That made me feel good.

LRH: Was your father fond of you?

PC: Yes. I feel that he was very fond of me.

LRH: Hm-hm. Remember a moment when there was a great deal of affinity with your father?

PC: Yes, I can.

LRH: Now remember a moment when there was a lot of affinity with your mother.

PC: (pause) Well, there ought to be a terrible lot here, but I’ve just (laughing) been running an AA or two and it sort of lowered it a little bit.

LRH: What happened?

PC: I just ran an AA or two not too long ago. Mother is a very kindly person, but I guess I was the fourth in the line.

LRH: Hm-hm. Well, remember a time when you felt some affinity for her.

PC: (pause) Yeah.

LRH: Can you reexperience it?

PC: The thing that came to me was pretty young. It’s a little vague.

LRH: When did you find some good communication with your mother?

PC:ah . . . talking to her about things down at the warehouse. She talks about those things very well.

LRH: Remember when she agreed with you.

PC: Yes.

LRH: Hm-hm. Remember when you were right in spite of her.

PC: Yes.

LRH: Hm-hm. Remember when you refused to take her advice and you were right about it.

PC: Yes.

LRH: Do you recall when she was very happy to take your advice?

PC: Yes.

LRH: Remember a time when you gave her some money.

PC: (chuckles) I returned some I had borrowed from her, or loaned some to her....

LRH: Do you remember a time when you gave her some?

PC: (brief pause) No.

LRH: Remember a time when you got angry with her?

PC: Just very mild.

LRH: Do you remember a time when you would like to have gotten angry with her?

PC: Yes.

LRH: Do you remember a time when she was scared of you?

PC: Yes.

LRH: Do you remember a time when she felt very sorry because of you?

PC: Well, sort of.

LRH: What was she saying?

PC: Well, when my brother and I first came back from the army it took a little while to get adjusted and I had a lot of ideas that were different, unconventional, that were upsetting to her till she got used to me.

LRH: Hm-hm. Remember a specific moment when she was feeling very sorry.

PC: Yes, I remember one time. (laughs) She stormed me out of the house. I knew if I would go she would feel very sorry about it as soon as she thought it over.

LRH: Hm-hm. Okay.

PC: So I didn’t go. (laughs)

LRH: All right. Tell me now, are you in present time?

PC: Yes.

LRH: How is your head?

PC: It feels pretty good; just a little bit. . . (laughs)

LRH: Where is this somatic now?

PC: It’s kind of on the surface, like, and . . .

LRH: Hm-hm. Has this changed around any?

PC: Yeah.

LRH: How many positions has this somatic been in since this?

PC: Oh, about six, I guess.

LRH: Well, let’s just figure out the number of positions the somatic was in.

PC: Well, it started out all over, general.

LRH: Hm-hm.

PC: And then the next thing it went towards the back here.

LRH: Hm-hm.

PC: And then the next thing it went was here. And then the next thing it was in the center of my head. And then the next thing it rose up and in the center up to the top. And then I forgot about it for quite a while (short laugh) and now it’s kind of shifted back like that, sort of on the surface.

LRH: Hm-hm.

PC: There’s one more: it was on the top right in the center and then it was on the top spread out more.

LRH: How many headaches were here?

PC: Six.

LRH: Okay. How many chains would we have to run to get all the rest of them?

PC: Ten! (laughs)

LRH: All right. Well, that has served its purpose . . .

PC: Okay.

LRH: I . . and thank you very much for being a good preclear.

PC: Okay.

There is a beautiful thing about Validation Processing: You can run things, analytical things, and you don’t have to worry about them reducing. You run analytical moments and you can hit them once, twice, ten times — it doesn’t matter. So all you do is just keep diving around on it.

I was well aware of the fact that this preclear had many headaches.

Now, with this processing you are not trying to turn perceptics on. All you are doing is trying to bring a person up the tone scale. If his perceptics turn on, that is a bonus.

You notice that a chronic somatic can quite ordinarily be expected to be a multiple somatic. It has chain after chain to which it is ordinarily connected. A real long, arduous chronic somatic, like arthritis which the person has had for a long time, is a tough one; I can’t imagine how many chains there might be wrapped up in one arthritis somatic. The auditor would just sit down and systematically take it apart, one by one by one.

You would also be very careful to note where on the tone scale the preclear hit pleasure on these chains; those would pass for analytical moments.

So what you do is just take each chain, one by one, and by Straightwire or by Lock Scanning, one thing after the other, go back and forth and just play across these chains. It is a very strange thing, actually, to sit down with someone and have his headache shift all over his head.

The multiple character of a headache would rather postulate the hopelessness of just trying to get rid of somebody’s migraine with one engram, one source, one cause. Actually a migraine headache usually stands on a long chain.

That is not to say you can’t get rid of migraines. You go down the bank and run out the migraine headache, and you have invested that much theta into running the migraine headache. Don’t now try to run the broken back. You can invest a lot of theta in the running out of a migraine headache; you can run out the chain, engram after engram. Unless you straighten up and unburden those chains afterwards, though, and unless you handle all the migraine headaches and all the headaches on the case and strip this thing completely to pieces, you are still going to tie up a lot of theta. You are going to have this case static on the tone scale, although the migraine headache is gone. And that, I am trying to point out to you, is bad.

You can turn off a chronic somatic and turn it into entheta, and it will still hang around on the case and still give the preclear trouble.

Now, you understand the technique I have been showing you is relatively experimental. I didn’t, because I didn’t want to make a long session of this, dare go any further into the wrestling chain. We had built up about all the theta there was on the chain and it was starting to reinvest itself. Did you notice that? It took quite a while for that built-up potential to dive into the entheta. He has a good endowment so it took quite a while for the thing to dive, but it was sure getting ready to.

Somebody working with that would have worked him further and further and made him pick out much more carefully more and more incidents along in anything associated with wrestling — the shower room, the crowds, people — and just followed them out along all of their lines. He could have found more and more theta and he would have gotten rid of all the wrestling aches and pains. That would have inverted.

Particularly interesting was what the preclear said about the fact that since he started self- auditing his room had gotten messy. That is entheta and enMEST.