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Thank you. Thank you.

Okay. Well, now just on the off chance that you were restimulated in any degree about a discussion of radiation... You see, radiation is quite restimulative. People don't understand it. Heh-heh. It consists of invisible particles. It is a hidden influence. Naturally, this says you can't understand it.

Well, it does seem that another Thursday night has come around and again, unfortunately, I don't have anything to talk to you about. But I'll try to think of something as we go along. And I think it'd be very good if I gave you one talk about nothing much – sort of a third-dynamic sort of talk – and then I talk to you about the latest developments in processing in the last hour. You might like to hear about that. So I'll talk now about nothing much.

It consists of filling in space. And there's the space and yet there's something of menace in it and one can't quite tell what it is. Well, if you recognize a thetan in that, why, you've gotten awfully close to it. Many people can't stand to conceive a static. That consists of looking at nothing. They have to conceive a nothingness, and their concept of a nothingness, of course, makes them nervous. Just the idea of having to view a nothingness or look at a nothingness – they get very, very nervous.

And speaking of Eisenhower...

Well, all right, if they get nervous looking at a little nothingness, a nothingness that can do something to them is practically totally unviewable. Well, this of course accounts for the fact that nobody becomes aware of it, because by definition it is not something of which somebody becomes aware, except by diverse means such as a Geiger counter or something of the sort. You see?

The facts of the case today in the world give us a very new perspective on Scientology. Scientology has taken a very new role. It was the role it always had previously, but many people did not see enough emergency or need for anything to take that role and so perhaps they did not view this role to the degree that they might have. But as I say, the role has always been there.

By the way, this material I'm giving you is not really a very complete preview of the congress which will be held in December, but it's an inch up on it. And I want to tell you tonight that we have this problem pretty well licked. It's not even a very difficult problem now.

In Science of Survival you read of a world without war, without crime, without insanity. That's very interesting. Huh! That was our hope, but something new has been added, and that is a governmental atomic program which has as its end product a world without people. And this is something which then changes our view and changes our perspective. I don't like to back up the hearse – I leave that to the insurance business. They do very, very well at that.

We have it licked in the first place from a stopgap point of view. We have something which does some strange things with radiative engrams. An individual who's been in a radioactive area for quite a while reacts very weirdly to a potion which we have concocted and called Dianazene.

I recommended to an insurance man one time... You know he comes in and he says to the widow, "Now supposing" – the to-be widow, you see – "supposing your husband died. There you would be with the house payments, all of the children to support and no job, and so on. Well now, here's a policy. Sign on the dotted line." This was his favorite method of selling, you see. And he'd go around to some fellow and, "Supposing your wife died. There you'd have all these children left in your hands and all the expenses of the funeral and so forth, and sign on the dotted line."

Now, I won't try to tell you that the administration of a drug or a vitamin or something of this sort will cure somebody absolutely of having any slightest effect of radiation, but I will tell you that in the absence of processing it would definitely have a beneficial effect.

So, I was in his office one day, and I heard him back up the hearse to one customer too many as far as I was concerned. So I said, "Say, you know, why don't you hire one of these old horse- drawn hearses and just drive around town with your insurance address painted on the side of it?"

If you didn't have anything else at all, you could at least run a fellow a little bit flat on this sort of thing. And if somebody had descended, because of cumulative radiation, down to a point of where he was continually nauseated, you could give him some of this Dianazene and he'd at least change to merely being continually sunburned. If you gave him some more, he would even run that out and maybe only continually have a little headache. And then you'd give him some more and he would get back another type of nausea or maybe a feeling of exhaustion for a while, and then that would run away. You could change these symptoms around and, to a marked degree, eradicate them in their severity. In other words, you could make him functional. You got that. You could make him functional.

And he sat there for a long time and finally he said, "No," he said, "I don't think I'll do that." He said, "It would be too flashy."

Now, I'm not saying you would do his personality curve any benefit; I'm not saying that you would raise his IQ one iota, because the contrary has rather proven to be the fact. You get rid of rather nagging, upsetting manifestations and you inherit a slightly lower profile. Got that? I mean you pay in terms of some personality factor for the loss of a headache.

So that almost anything I say now, no matter how dreary, would, in essence, be much too flashy compared to the possible future of the human race.

Now, here is what's peculiar. After, however, you have given somebody some Dianazene, you can give him some processing of a particular kind and repair his havingness. And when you repair his havingness, his IQ goes up above where it was. In other words, the potion, compound – or however else the Food and Drug Administration wishes to classify it, because that it is involved in doing this very moment – regardless of how this is classified, the truth of the matter is it could not do otherwise than reduce havingness.

One has to be willing to confront a great many things in life in order to live it, and as he is willing to confront so he is then willing to cope. If he can confront something, he can cope with it. If he's unwilling, or if he finds it impossible to confront something, why, then he will not cope with it.

If you've got five hundred very beautiful sunburns, if you take Dianazene, you'll lose them. Anything is better than nothing according to a thetan, so one sunburn is better than no sunburns and five hundred is five hundred times as good. But a body, of course, doesn't function with five hundred sunburns. When you remedy his havingness, however, he is perfectly willing to take some other mass in exchange for sunburn. See that? He's perfectly willing to give up a significant or painful engram in return for some nonpainful mass.

And man today is in a state of having developed something it cannot confront: atomic fission. It can't confront it. You go into a theater, they show the motion pictures of Bikini or something of the sort, and you will find people toward the rear will sneak out of their seats and will walk out into the lobby. You find other people will duck their heads. Interesting phenomenon.

You watch a little kid playing on the floor, you get the same manifestation. Little kid pulls your .45 out of a drawer, and he's busy cocking it and snapping it and so forth. And there's no bullet under the chamber, they're just in the clip. No bullet in the chamber, they're just in the clip. And it's not a safe thing to watch, so you take a toy pistol and you hand him the toy pistol, and you take the .45 away from him, and you're all right. He's then happy, cheerful. He goes on snapping the toy pistol. He's perfectly all right. He's set here, he's not upset at all.

I had to study this phenomenon because I wanted to know whether or not it'd do any good to release a manual on civil defense. And we found out that there was no point in it. Nobody would have read it. In other words, at that time we were interested mainly in the dissemination of Scientology, and we wished civil defense to front for us a little bit on some of the things we could do. (That was only two or three years ago.) But we did not publish the manual.

Now supposing, however, you simply took the .45 away from him and you didn't give him anything back at all. He'd be unhappy. He'd mope. He's liable to say, "Look what you did." He would assign cause, in other words. So, what's the right answer? Of course, it's to give him another kind of mass.

The manual was a very factual manual of material taken out of the technologies used by military governments in war-torn areas. A very realistic view of the situation. It isn't all going to be the way they say it's going to be in the civil-defense (quote) "manuals" (unquote) which are issued by the government. These civil-defense manuals of today start this way, "You will have to get used to the idea that after the dropping of an atomic bomb, you will be on your own. There will be nobody to help you."

Well, you give somebody Dianazene, it takes away the loaded .45 that could kill him. But only processing would return to him – because Dianazene burns up these old engrams, that's all – and you then have to give him some other kind of mass. You have to let him possess other mass before he is happy about the whole thing again. But because he's not in pain he can work and he can function – because he's not in pain.

Well then, who's – what they sitting there for? What is this thing? Oh, I get it. It's some sort of a racket by which you can collect some salary from the government before the bombs go off. Must be, because their manuals are...

All right. Where we look over the human scene, we find that if people could not understand what was happening to them, you could give them something that would get them out of the apathy, exhaustion, vomiting or inertia of a physical condition and get them to functioning again. So on a broad, mass-administration basis, we do have something. But having handed it out, remember, we will have dropped the profile on people, and then they'd have to have auditing. Inevitable.

Now, you think I'm just kidding you now, drawing a longbow. I've had people tell me many times that they thought I was drawing a longbow and being very exaggerated or something of the sort.

Well, we're more honest than other people because we don't have to be dishonest. That's the only reason I really can think of for being honest, is if you don't have to be dishonest you can be honest and you're all set, you see? I don't know of any real difference between honesty and dishonesty than this: that people who cannot confront honesty have to be dishonest.

One chap who went over to Ireland told me this. And he said, "You know... you know, all through my HCA Course I thought you were exaggerating things a little bit. But you know the other day I looked up this fellow Wundt." And he said, "That's impossible, but it's true!" He said, "I didn't think such a man existed. I just thought that was one of your jokes." Mr. Wundt did invent animal physical psychology in 1879 in Leipzig, Germany, and threw away all earlier psychologies. And this HCA student thought this was just my way of saying that it was kind of bad and we ought to do something about it.

So here we have this problem and here we have this compound that we're calling Dianazene. Well, actually, it's composed of several old-time compounds that themselves were sold freely across drug counters, and it doesn't contain anything very dangerous. But one of these compounds was mis-described. The description of that item in there was wrong. You look up in a pharmacopoeia and it tells you that nicotinic acid is toxic, and if taken in excess, will turn on flushes.

So when I'm saying that we laid aside the civil-defense program or when I say the civil-defense program of the United States is not realistic, I'm actually not telling you a joke. And when I tell you that they start their civil-defense manuals by saying "This is all very well up to the moment a bomb is dropped, but after that you're on your own, 'cause nobody's going to help you." And if this is the basic, primary statement of civil defense, it says at once that there isn't any. Because civil defense would be the prevention of ultimate disaster to a civil populace by reason of a bomb having dropped. This would be the only reason you'd have civil defense, you see? So if they say there's nobody going to help you, they say they aren't even there.

Well, whoever wrote this wrote a masterpiece of understatement. That's a masterpiece! Only a biochemist in the last stages would have ever written this particular description of nicotinic acid, because what kind of a toxicity is it that only turns on the patterns of bathing suits? That seems like an awfully strange toxicity, doesn't it?

Well, I read in this morning's paper about a multibillion-dollar program. It was the most beautiful headline I ever saw. It just... boy, was it meaningful! I said, "Man, somebody's got on the ball here. Somebody's going to get in and pitch. Somebody's right there." A multibillion-dollar program proposed by Icky... Ike, pardon me. I gave him the Russian pronunciation. And he says he's going to have shelters. They're going to have civil-defense shelters built all over the country, and they've lately been taking all sorts of surveys amongst industrialists to find out if they had enough concrete and iron and reinforcing materials, and so on, to build these shelters. And Icky – Ike is going to ask the Congress for a multibillion-dollar bill or appropriation in order to start this air-raid program.

That was where I connected with this particular item. I found out that nicotinic acid turned on the pattern of bathing suits and I thought wasn't it interesting that this very toxic drug which turned on flushes, and so forth, would leave white on the body where the straps and trunks of bathing suits were customarily worn. So therefore, I adjudicated that it didn't have anything whatsoever to do with the toxicity of the drug, but the drug was reacting very solidly against sunburn engrams and had an affinity for them and ran them out. And that proved to be the case.

And I thought it was the most wonderful thing. And I read down the line: "Next year," it said, "only a few million dollars would be expended, more or less piloting the project. Just how long it would take this project to get under way, of course, is a matter for future decision. But many government experts believe this, and many government experts believe that..." An expert in what? What are these experts?

Well, we dropped it in 1950. Didn't pay too much attention to that because nobody is much bothered with sunburn, and didn't pay too much attention to it. But as the years rolled on and when recently we needed some other answer, I all of a sudden cognited with a long blue flash that there was something which affected one type of radiation, namely sunlight; something that affected the radiation of sunlight on the body. Something caused an effect there, and that was nicotinic acid.

Well, they must be experts in being unaware, because if anybody is going to start on a civil-defense-shelter program that is only going to spend a few million dollars next year to find out how to build them, these boys aren't living in the world of today.

Well, there it was. So an experiment was run, and it was found that nicotinic acid today, after six years of public exposure to fallout and other things, reacted differently. It had a different action. Now, what sort of a drug is this that in six years changes its toxicity? See, I mean it isn't quite straight.

I'm not saying the atomic war is going to happen at all. But I'm saying that from a government viewpoint to leave a target wide open is to invite an attack. At no time when you're boxing do you ever – particularly in championship fights – drop your gloves to your sides and say, "You see, I can't hit back. Got a broken arm," you know? At that moment your opponent says, "No kidding?" Pow! See?

The observation here was that first it ran out, with some prickliness (which possibly was radiation at the time, since there'd been many years of radiation or radiative atmosphere up to 1950, so some of it would have run out), but that dominantly concentrated on sunburn; six years later concentrated a bit on sunburn but with such things as sunburned livers, sunburned kidneys, sunburned lungs. Oh, no. No, no. There's something wrong here.

So, to leave a country wide open with no planning, no adequate status for the populace if there is an enemy attack, is to ask the enemy to make an attack. The least they could do is to advertise the selection of another city as a second capital, a second command post. Instead of that they're burrowing into the West Virginia hills. There's a government department here and a government department there.

So we looked it over a little bit further and we found that many people came up with stuck views of areas that were known to be radioactive. They were blowing bombs off down in Nevada when we were in Phoenix two hundred and fifty miles away, like kids firing firecrackers on the fourth of July, with just about the same amount of responsibility. They were just blowing these bombs off. And the atmosphere used to get so hot around there that you couldn't put a Geiger counter away. It'd bother you all night. It'd just sit there and whir.

I was out on a long trail one day, and I came to a, you know, sort of dead end. And beyond that there were a couple of foxholes and so forth. And it said, "Defense Area." I thought this is an interesting place to be until I realized that I was probably looking at a new government department. They're being scattered down the length and breadth of the Appalachians and probably up and down the Rockies. You will see, undoubtedly, within a few months, some senator present a bill to get an emergency Senate, possibly in the Senate and House of Representatives. And he will propose that it be stashed away in Vermont or someplace.

Some chap invented a Geiger counter that only "geigered" when it was actually confronted by radiation. In other words, it turned itself on and began to tick, and these became very embarrassing items because they just ran all the time and ran themselves down. You could find a uranium mine in any piano. People were filing on orange groves, filing on the courthouse, and filing on everything down there – filing for uranium claims because everything was hot, everything counted. Radioactive materials had impregnated into almost the totality of the atmosphere.

This government is not acting to provide itself with a second command post. It is dispersing. And we have enough trouble in Scientology trying to keep communication up between downtown and the Distribution Center out in Silver Spring to realize quite adequately that if you were to put the White House someplace around West Virginia... There's two or three towns down there that are very, very good places for the White House. One of them is Harlan County. Harlan County. That's a very good place – they shoot everybody.

Now, this is a very, very curious thing – very curious – that these people got a different reaction than people who had not been in that area. Very peculiar, isn't it? And that four of these people transplanted to London, England, after the Russian H-bomb explosion, became violently ill and continued to be ill right down to the moment that they began to take Dianazene, when they started to get better and be able to function.

And you have the White House there and the State Department is stashed up around Pittsburgh someplace, and then the communications office of the War Department is down in Georgia, and so on.

In other words, some of our people who had gone to work in the London office were working amongst people who had not been so intimately exposed, and only the people who had been exposed in Phoenix became ill of a strange virus infection, and that strange "virus infection" (quote, unquote) turned off only when they started to take Dianazene.

This will then be a government? Huh-huh! No, indeed. Couldn't possibly. There isn't enough communication centralization there in order to maintain its command of any given situation.

Now, another case. It runs out X-ray contamination. A little baby, X-rayed before it was born, was discovered to run out, on administration of Dianazene, the X-ray. And it ran out and ran flat, and that was the end of it – very curious mechanism. X- ray, you see, and gamma and so on, these are more or less the same breed of cat.

Give you an example: Right this moment, a secretary of state is in Key West. His second-in-command is in New York. There is an assistant to the assistant to the assistant down here, Herbert Hoover, Jr., who is holding the fort in Washington. And British and French representatives have for some days been trying to get in touch with the State Department in order to discuss some solution to the strained relations. And they can't find anybody anyplace.

Now, all America sits in front of television sets and these television sets exude, I am sorry to say, a considerable amount of radioactive material. It's not huge, you know, but it's enough so that people who have made a habit of watching TV, on taking Dianazene, get the TV radiation. In other words, it picks out all kinds of radiation, and of course that includes sunburn. The reason I put this together was quite interesting. I found out that the sun burned people. And what do you know? The sun happens to be fission. That is why the sun keeps lighted. It's a fission item. And if it's a fission item, then we're getting some byproduct of fission as that, and that does cause sunburn. We get ultraviolet burns and other types of burns, but these things are basically radiation burns.

The ambassador goes up to New York, but that fellow up there doesn't have any real authority. So... The ambassador hasn't got time to go to Key West so he comes into Washington thinking he'll talk to the president himself, but the president is in Georgia.

All right. Now, we look over this Dianazene in a very critical eye, very critical (you should be very critical of anything like a drug because it's something else doing it), and we find out that it does something new and strange. It turns on and magnifies all of the effects of having received too much radiation, and a person discovers that he can confront them. And discovering that he can confront them, he becomes less afraid of them, and you get a mental side effect on this which is quite interesting. People begin to feel contemptuous to some degree of radiation. They have done something to themselves which caused the radiation reaction to be more severe than it was. In other words, they've done a process, haven't they?

This situation just occurred. The premier of Australia was just, within the last twenty-four hours, very grossly insulted by not being able to talk to the president and was forced to talk to a couple of clerks down here. And he went off in a huff, believe me.

By the mere act of taking a handful of pills and throwing it into their mouth and throwing it down the throat – knowing very well that this was going to turn on flush, flash and all the rest of it, and still confronting that and saying, "Well, we'll have to go through it," – their morale on the subject of radiation picked up quite markedly. And this is quite interesting to note that this is the case.

Now, there is an example of trying to do business on a dispersed basis. It's very difficult to do so – extremely difficult.

Here and there amongst us somebody has flinched. It got too much for him, and he stopped halfway through a course of it because that was all, brother. He didn't want to go through that again. Well, the joke is the next dose he took would probably turn on practically nothing because, again, this is a strange drug, this Dianazene. It doesn't turn on the same toxicity a second time. It runs another one. And they're all slightly different and they're all burns, and drugs don't act like that, see? You take arsenic, you get arsenic poisoning. Well, not Dianazene.

Now, it would be difficult enough if you were doing business on a dispersed basis in some fairly, only-half-caved-in organization such as our own. See, we're eight times as good as any other human organization, and we're just shot to hell. And you get downstairs to a no-organization thing like the government and how is it going to even vaguely govern if it's dispersed all over the country?

So, you get these different reactions. And actually one never quite knows – it's quite adventurous – one never quite knows just what reaction he's going to get.

In the first place, an atomic attack would then invite the government to do a dispersal and cease to be the government, instead of having a centralized command post somewhere else in the country, or two or three of such.

After somebody has been on it for a couple of weeks, it is quite amusing, very amusing, that he says, "Well, I've got that all flat, you know? I've got that one flat. I ran that out and I'm in good shape now, and maybe I've just got to run a little exhaustion off or something." (You know, you feel exhausted or something. You have to take some more of it and then you don't feel exhausted.) And he'll say, "Well, I've got to take some more of it," and he turns on a brilliant lobster flush, you see, that was twice as bad as the first one, and then that runs flat and there he is.

In other words, that's an invitation to attack.

Well, where do all these burns come from? Well, that is a subject which I think you will find the answer to in What to Audit or The History of Man – same book. Radiation has been with man and with man's genetic line for a very, very long time, and you run them out way on down the track.

They say, "Well look, all we have to do is knock out Washington and we will then be in, because the government will be so dispersed from that point there on that they will not be able to marshal adequate defense." That's an interesting invitation.

Now, how much radiation you can run out of anybody, I wouldn't even guess. But I know that after a while you take the stuff and it doesn't jolt you anymore. Well, that's a funny thing, isn't it? You take the same amount of something every day and after a while it gets without jolt. That doesn't work that way with alcohol. You take a pint of alcohol every day, you will eventually get twice as drunk. You also get hobnailed livers.

But there's no city in the United States equipped with air-raid shelters. There's no city in the United States with food or medical supplies outside its city boundaries. There's no city in the United States which has sufficient hospital supplies to care for one-tenth of its population if they were all hit at the same time.

I went to a W.C.T.U. lecture one time and the principal speaker there discussed only hobnail livers. I thought this was one of the more interesting things. She had pictures of hobnail livers. She had great big ones! I mean they were that big. And then the lantern slides came on. These were just prints, you see? And then the lantern slides came on, and these were hobnail livers, too. And boy I certainly saw enough hobnail liver, and it would have made a complete teetotaler out of me except for one thing: I saw her out back after she left the stage and she opened her handbag and took a drink.

And if the United States were to be hit in the dead of winter, 50 percent of its populace would die, not of radiation but exposure. This is a fascinating view.

Well, here's this peculiar, peculiar reaction. Only a Dianeticist accustomed to running lots of engrams would actually realize how many engrams there can be and somebody can still be alive. But when a person is being confronted continuously with an engramic situation, such as roentgen count in the atmosphere, he could expect every few months to get, not the same violent reaction, but some reaction from something like Dianazene. He could expect to get it.

A military-government officer trained in World War II looks at this, and he says, "What children are playing here? They must be kids!" But it isn't a matter of that at all. It's a matter of an inability to confront the magnitude of disaster posed by an atomic weapon. They can't confront that magnitude of disaster, so they are not aware of it, and they don't do anything about it at all.

If they stopped exploding H-bombs and so on, why, obviously this would wipe out and there would come a time when there wasn't any further need for such a thing. In other words, the fallout would be so slight in the air that nobody would pay any attention to it again.

I'll tell you a juicy little item that just appeared in the papers here about three days ago. The Strategic Air Command – about which we have seen great, colossal, technicolor pictures; which has been played up as this terrific thing that is going to drop bombs on the enemy – is right there: "Boy, we'll retaliate! We'll show them if they drop bombs on us! That's the way we're defending the country. We'll threaten to blow them up." Of course, they're dealing with a suicidal enemy, and his entire intention would be to get blown up. But they disregard that.

But here's the essence of such a thing: It reduces the actual amount of energy mass in the body. It isn't that it causes anybody to reduce, it simply reduces the mental image pictures. And a thetan likes these, and they get burned up. Now, if you were to process somebody up above and beyond needing anything like this – which today I think is possible – he of course wouldn't have to take any such assists at all. There wouldn't be anything to this. It would be an easy, calm attitude toward all of this radiation in the air, and he wouldn't really be bothered with it at all. In other words, he could handle it.

Do you know that the Strategic Air Command has just within the last three days flown its first mission? It was in the papers the other day. B-52s can now fly sixteen thousand miles. Two B-52 planes have just flown sixteen thousand miles. It is not said how often they were refueled in the air, but they have just flown these missions.

Now, evidently this is the case. In other words, somebody could be processed up above being affected by it. Because it seems to be the case that the body experiences these particles going through it. And the body is capable of experiencing these particles going through it, and in that experiencing, it suffers a sense of loss and tries to hold on to them and puts up an active resistance then to radiation particles – and only then stacks them up.

Oh, no! I don't know what censor let this get through, but some War Department censor was certainly – or air-force censor – was certainly sitting there with black goggles on. He's just said that although we have all these B-52s, we have no guarantee at all that they can take off from the United States and land in Russia without refueling.

Now, I'll tell you why this is fascinating. It takes the cooperation of a thetan to get radiation poisoning. He has to cooperate by resisting it. He does. He has to cooperate madly.

During an atomic war, I can imagine... I can imagine how easy this is, you see: You just send one of the B-52s out to the middle of the Atlantic with a cargo of fuel; and then you send another one three-quarters of the way to Russia with another cargo of fuel, and it waits there, you see. And then another B-52 gets over Moscow with a cargo of fuel, and it waits there. And then the B-52 carrying the bomb flies to the first one, refuels; second one, refuels; third one, refuels... And I'm sure they would consider this a practical plan, although they haven't considered how those three first B-52s ever get home.

And you could actually talk to a population on the subject of radiation and its dangers to a point where you would have everybody awfully sick, even if there was no radiation in the present-time environment at all. They would resist it on the backtrack. They would resist the X-ray machines and the television sets, and so on, to such a degree that they would stop the stuff.

Now, that is the most marvelous view you ever saw. And yet that is in a calm air-force despatch. It reads very nicely, and they're so proud that a B-52 has finally flown the Atlantic and come home again only being refueled – well, it didn't want to say how many times. It was at least twice. Now, there is defense.

Because here is the spooky thing about it. I gave this a lot of study last year, and the first thing I came up with is this imponderable: gamma rays can go through anything. That's right. They can go through anything. Concrete doesn't slow them down much. Well, isn't this peculiar? If a concrete wall a couple of feet thick won't stop a gamma ray, then what are you doing, less than two-feet thick and merely flesh, stopping a gamma ray? Uh- huh. And that was the first significant fact that fell out of the hamper of this research.

And I don't know who is supposed to be aware of these things, but has it ever occurred to you that maybe there's nobody supposed to be aware of them? Maybe this level of awareness is at a level that nobody notices it except people who are well schooled into being aware. And that would only leave us guys. Well, that's a dismal view! I'm no hero. I expended all my heroism in the last war. Expended all of it – trying to confront paymasters, and so forth. I mean...

What the dickens is this all about? How come the human body stops one of these invisible particles? You can't see them. It can't see them. But it can experience a secondary reaction. And gamma, not resisted, would never harm anybody.

Look-a-here, this is an interesting thing. We people in Dianetics and Scientology are aware of being aware and aware of the component parts of awareness. Well, this follows – it follows both ways: if you make somebody aware, then you can also make him confront. Although he might be very unhappy as he runs halfway through the engram, do you know that he's smarter and better off run halfway through birth and left, than he was not to run it at all? Now, that is a fantastic fact but is a matter of the most solemn and careful tests – that these vicious things called engrams, as hard as they can bite...

But if a person has a fear of the unknown, of a hidden influence, he then, every time he experiences one of these rays going through the body, the body then, on a secondary reaction, braces itself and makes a picture of the ray passing through. And the ray never stops. But the picture does. And Dianazene then does not burn up gamma rays or X-rays or any other kind of rays, because there aren't any in the body. And the joker – excuse me, I mean the honored, revered, scientific personnel of the Atomic Energy... Some joker down here on some low salary has dreamed up the fact that strontium 90 supplants calcium in the body. This is a very cute theory, but I suspect it thoroughly.

You run a fellow halfway through an automobile accident. He got through this automobile accident three months ago, and he's still gimping around, sort of crippled up. And you say, "Well, it's quite obvious that he's still stuck in that automobile accident. He has a mental image picture of it, and he's gotten into it, and somehow or other it's restimulated." But he's not aware of it, is he? Well, the funny part of it is, he gets better if an auditor sits down and says, "All right, start at the beginning of the accident," and runs him halfway through, up to the moment of the crash, pats him on the head and walks off.

The body, in the first place, does strange things with calcium. The ringing of the ear is actually a symptom caused by a calcium deposit underneath the little hammer that is in the ear there, that regulates in the ear – continuous ear ringing is just a little deposit of calcium. The parathyroid gland, I believe, is the gland that regulates the amount of calcium in the bloodstream. And when the parathyroid gland goes out, then you get such things as ringing in the ears, and you get arthritis, which is a calcium deposit, and so on. Strange things happen with calcium when the glandular system cuts out.

Now, that is the subject of the most exacting testing I ever want to supervise. I hate to sit down and test and test and test, and find that a fact I won't believe persists in confronting me. You see, originally I misunderstood this. I thought that the fellow had to dive into an engram and go on through the engram and would be worse for a little while that he was going through the engramic experience, and would then get better. But this did not prove to be the case on these tests.

Cancer is not caused – never has been and never will be. It is not a caused mechanism by the external environment or some physiological activity. But certain cells of the body individuate and try to build a body when the second-dynamic genetic line is blocked. They say, "We cannot go on from here. We cannot have any babies. There cannot be any more of this. And therefore we, completely independent of the body and its activities, must create a cellular entity." And they proceed to do so. And that is cancer.

The way these tests were given might amuse you. See, I had to find in the first place some auditors that were sadistic enough and some preclears that were masochistic enough in order to conduct this series of experiments. An auditor's impulses are to make somebody better, and these auditors were being told and coached to make somebody much worse. And they firmly believed that they would be making somebody much worse if they conducted this experiment.

It always requires a second-dynamic or sexual upset, such as the loss of children or some other mechanism to bring about a condition known as cancer. This is cancer at the outset. I have examined too many cases not to have recognized this, because it is present in every single case that had cancer that I've ever examined – real wild curve on the second dynamic. And where we have helped a case with cancer we have processed such things as wasting babies and accepting babies, and mocking up babies and throwing them away, and doing suchlike and so on, and we have had a considerable change in the condition of the case. However, a person can get so far gone that he can hardly be processed or not processed at all, and when this is the case, why, the cancer gets him.

The preclear was to be given – he was to be seated at a desk, and he was to be given one of these short-form Otis tests. And he was to finish this test. And then the auditor was to run him halfway through any rough, vicious engram that the auditor could find and park him – break the Auditor's Code – and shove the second test under his nose and make him do it. Now, that was the procedure. And that was done very, very arduously.

Well now, strontium 90 may or may not do anything except inform the bone cells "This is the end of track, brother, because somebody has invented and is using radiation on this planet." Extent of message to the body, then: "Radiation has been invented. It does exist. This is the end of the genetic line. Get off the streetcar, or try to continue on in some wild or peculiar form that we will experiment with in order to make it possible to go on, which is impossible."

I finally found auditors that were sadistic enough and preclears that were masochistic enough in order to conduct this experiment. And having done so, I could not believe the results, and had to run the experiment all over again. And I wouldn't believe those results, and ran the experiment all over again. Because it said that somebody, plunged into an engram and abandoned, was better off than somebody who wasn't plunged into one. But it also said that somebody who was plunged into one, and it was run out, became much, much, much better. Don't you see? But the bettering process began at the moment I didn't think it would: halfway through the roughest part of the engram and dropped. And people got better.

Now, that's what cancer is all about. It isn't a strange sickness. It is the effort on the part of a few cells to not surrender, and to go off and make a pattern of their own in any way, shape or form they can. Therefore, you must demonstrate to somebody that it is not the end of track. And if you can demonstrate to somebody that radiation does not mean end of track, if you can break up that identification, you evidently can break up the total effect of radiation upon the human body. If you can break up that identification, you've done it. Now, it's quite interesting to be aware of this. That is a triumph in itself.

That experiment was run five years ago. And it's only been recently that I've been able to patch together what happened. Well, what happened was that if you get somebody to confront something, he becomes aware of it. And a person who is aware of it is better off than the person who had it but wasn't aware of it. Don't you see? It is strictly a problem in awareness.

Of course, then, radiation is a "causative" (quote, unquote) factor in cancer and such illnesses. Of course strontium 90, or any other byproduct, coming along and hitting the body and jolting the body is telling the body that this is end of track, there will be no more genetic line from here. Second-dynamic mutations, births of peculiar animals instead of babies, is, of course, merely the total effort of the body itself to create something that can survive in spite of radiation. And that is evidently what mutation is all about, and that is all it is about.

And intelligence itself is a problem of awareness, and that's all there is to it.

It says, "We can't survive the way we are. The way we are has proven to us that we are so dopey, so stupid and so incapable of thought, planning or organization, that we have permitted ourselves as a race to come into the hands of a bunch of bums who are using radiation. And therefore we cannot survive in this form. Let's all be gophers," or something of the sort. Don't you see?

This isn't necessarily true that a person gets smarter because he's given a dreadful experience, don't you see? That's different. He's smarter if he's given a dreadful experience and then it is attacked by Dianetic or Scientology techniques. Then he gets better. But because he finds out that he can confront such an experience secondhand through an engram, he discovers, at the same time, he needn't be quite so afraid of such experiences and so he is willing to be more aware. And that is his IQ. That, to a large extent, is his profile, although other factors enter into a profile.

It means that there must be a violent change of line. And, of course, the genetic line doesn't confront; it simply says, "End of track," you see? It goes into a wild dispersal down here someplace, and then finally admits that's the end of track and just quits. So you get this wild dispersal. And the wild dispersal area on the part of nations, individuals or groups, as they individuate themselves and separate themselves from others under the impact of radiation; and the effort of the cell to separate itself from other cells and do something different than they're doing, is in itself an individuation. That's all cancer is, malignant growths, other such things.

All right. Here, then, we are confronted ourselves with this oddity that nobody is willing to look at the state of the world today. And it would be a very different thing for me in 1850 – if this were 1850 right now here in Washington – and I were telling you, "The world is going to the dogs. It is going to the devil. Ladies and gentlemen, it cannot possibly survive."

All right. As we look over this, it's interesting that we know this much about it. That's how much has already fallen to our lot in examining various radiation cases and materials and so on. So there is some hope. So there is some hope.

Well, you could listen to that. You say, "The man is an alarmist," see. "Nothing to that." It's easy.

Well, if there was just that much hope and we had Dianazene we'd still be all right. But we've gone on from there. Wow! Right on upstairs.

But in 1950 it was not yet even visible to me that the cycle had already been entered. I already knew something was a bit awry and probably should be readjusted, but what else was discoverable?

And we have found how you go about taking any case – I won't tell you how many hours, because this is a long look now – you take any case and you walk it upstairs along a certain new scale. And walked upstairs on this scale, you bring him into a condition where he can confront space or invisible particles in it. And when he can confront space and the invisible particles in it, radiation neither bothers himself or his body. Neither one is bothered now by radiation. He couldn't care less when a couple of cosmic rays go whizzing through.

Well, in 1956, we take a look around and we find that there was a side effect going on all during these years resulting from the explosion (test explosion only, as well as the wartime explosion) of atomic-fission weapons which was putting into the atmosphere unknown concentrations of deadly radiation.

So what? So it's just a cosmic ray. He is not stopping this stuff anymore; he is not worried about it; he is not trying to avoid it, and as a result, it simply passes on its way. There is no stopping of it and so no consequences because of it.

Now, they are guessing when they say how much radiation a person can stand. They do not know this fact. They haven't any clue. They do not know this.

Well, then it becomes this contest for the auditor: How do you put somebody in a frame of mind that he can look at space, invisible particles, hidden influences, and say, "So what? I could confront it if it's there. I am aware that it exists. I don't have to be at all." How do you put somebody in this frame of mind?

Modern science, as rough as it sometimes is, does not have the liberty of properly exposing people to this sort of thing and then observing them before and after. They are looking for... Now, this is the – this will... I could say about the whole subject, "This will kill you." But this is an amazing fact.

Well, you possibly could put somebody in this frame of mind by educating him into what happens. That is a method of giving him awareness, isn't it? You don't cut somebody to pieces because you teach them something. Never get the idea that you do.

The medicos (the pill boys) and the nuclear physicist (those people that are now drawing pay as nuclear physicists but graduated from English courses) believe alike that the upset is mainly due to, and effective upon, sexual activities and results. In other words, it's the sexual sector of life that they think atomic fission attacks. I think they've been reading too much Freud. They're afraid of mutation. Mutation has practically nothing to do with it. We don't care anything about this mutational angle. Good heavens! A man has to be shot to pieces with, I don't know, fifteen, twenty, thirty roentgen up close in order to have any mutational effect, and then it only lasts five or six days. Get that. It's one of these little mild effects. For only five or six days after exposure do they get two-headed babies.

Never worry about telling somebody about birth and tonsillectomies and so forth. So they come down with measles three days after you've talked to them about measles engrams. You said, "Do you know when you were a little kid and you got the measles? Do you remember that?"

No! The effect is quite different! And they have not studied it at all, and yet it's right in their textbooks staring them right in the face. And I suppose it's too horrible for them to confront, even though they have carefully recorded the physical manifestations of everybody exposed to radiation in Japan and so on. They don't confront their own figures. They don't become aware of them.

"Oh, I didn't ever have the – oh, yes, I did too have the measles," the fellow said.

People get sick! That is what happens. It isn't that their second dynamic goes adrift and they start producing rats or psychologists or something. That hasn't anything to do with it. That's somebody's morbid... I don't know where they got the boys that made these tests, but I have my suspicions – Hollywood, probably. But the main thing about it is, people become ill. But before they become observably ill, a malaise sets in which is very detractive of their energies. Their ambition goes to pieces, their ability to concentrate goes to pieces, long before the medico would begin to detect it.

"Well, do you remember when they pull the blinds down?"

If they were giving a series of tests of one kind or another to populace that has been closely subjected to atomic radiation they would have found this to be the case. They wouldn't have left it up to us to discover this. They would have been honest enough to say so.

And you go right on through it, see? And don't bother to take him up to the moment he came out the door and he felt good and he was all happy and well again. Just skip that. Just take him through to the moment when the blinds were down and he was feeling like hell. Three days later, he's liable to come up with a case of measles which is nonvirulent. This has actually happened.

But we have to believe that there are some honest men in the government. We have to believe this – I mean, in spite of all the evidence to the contrary. We have to believe that they actually do present you with what they find. We have to believe that the papers which they write on the subject are factual from their standpoint. It's just that they haven't observed it, because they say these things all the time.

Very often somebody in reading Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health will give it a cursory glance, find an engram in the wife, run her halfway through the engram just to see if there is such a thing as engrams, be very surprised and say, "Well, whattaya know? There is something to this book after all," put it down and go to bed. Couple of days later, the wife has a case of measles. Take the wife to the doctor. The doctor says, "This is a very strange case of measles. It has everything connected with it except measles." This has happened many times. We've had that happen.

They describe radiation sickness. Very cute. They describe radiation sickness. It says, "The onset is a lethargy. And this drifts on to an apathetic feeling, and this goes on to nausea, which is followed by colitis or internal gastric upsets, which is followed by vomiting, which is followed by flushing or prickly sensations throughout the body..." They describe all these things, and this is what radiation does to people – one, two, three, four – and yet at no time do they say in their medical reports that it does anything in the sphere of sex. It's just that people get sick. That's what the medical reports say, but all of the preventive measures which they take are totally aimed at sexual activity or results.

Well now, what happens here? What happens here on radiation? You could make people aware of the existence of radiation. In the first place, there is very little known about it. Most people think it's carried by the winds or dust or something of the sort. Actually, invisible particles couldn't care less. When they put an atom bomb nine feet under the ground and blew it up – or an H-bomb – out in Nevada, of course it blew radioactive dust all over the Southwest. And this was very uncomfortable for a while, but nevertheless it doesn't require much of a carrier.

Now, scientists usually aren't this bad off. We can only suppose that these boys have themselves been subjected to a bit of that lethargy and apathy. It must be, because they usually are not that inexact or unrealistic.

In the first place, probably some action like this occurs: The bomb goes off in Australia, and a 360-degree sphere of ionosphere (which is up there not too high above your heads, not too many miles) flashes. In other words, the flash in Australia, this ionosphere flashes. People get a secondary kickback from the ionosphere just as though they were standing next to the bomb, don't you see? Something like this may happen.

For instance, the U.S. government's answer to the widespread radioactivity in the world today is to give everybody a tag which shows how many roentgen he has been exposed to.

Another thing is you may get an earth wave of some sort or another, a surface wave. The studies of Nikolai Tesla, whose works were once in my hands – his family tried to give them to me. They said they didn't know any better place to put them, and I convinced them that I was not a worthy recipient of all of the pursed and original manuscripts of Nikolai Tesla. I have no place to put them. They're to me, you know, like handing me great big chunks of gold and saying, "Well, put it in your old Mackinaw," you know? If I remember rightly, they went to a museum where they belong.

And this would add up all of his X-rays and other radioactive exposures, and exposure from the atmosphere or by reason of bombs or manufactures. And this would all be added up in terms of roentgen. How many roentgen – this unit of... radiative unit – how many roentgen has he been exposed to in his lifetime? And he'd then wear that tag.

But anyway, Nikolai Tesla did certain ground wave experiments that demonstrate that radio waves, FM waves, any other type of waves that he could isolate at that time, will travel just as easily along the surface of the ground as they will travel through the air. In fact, air is a pretty good conductor.

This is the official answer. He would then wear the tag and anytime he was given another X-ray somebody would mark it on the tag and change his roentgen rating. And they've picked this number out of the air. They don't know where it came from, but it's ten roentgen. When he's been given ten roentgen, after that his state of case becomes questionable. And his right to marry would thereafter be regulated by the government. Honest.

So Nikolai Tesla was out there in Colorado one time. He was an old scientist way back when. I think he died not more than ten or twelve years deep into this century. He's the fellow that invented alternating current. He mocked up an alternating current machine in his head and let it run for two years to see what parts of it were weak, and then he replaced those and built it in actuality – and that is alternating current. The guy is a wonder.

No, that is not a despatch from Pravda. That is a despatch from "Vashington," DC. Now there...

Anyway, he put a generator into one side of a valley and started it running with its electrode shoved into the ground. (This is a very crude description of this.) And he put an electric-light bulb in a spot a long distance from there, and the electric light bulb lit up. See, instead of using wires to conduit, he just used the surface of earth.

That is the government solution: that after people are exposed to ten roentgen... This isn't a gag, by the way. This was on AP not very long ago. After people had been exposed to ten roentgen, why, you'd have to be careful in permitting them to marry, and the government would have to take cognizance over their rights to marry. And after somebody had been exposed to so many, why, he was liable to have two-headed babies or psychologists or something, and so you'd have to forbid his marriage. That's the tack they're taking. It's totally unrealistic.

So you could say maybe a bomb burst down there in Australia and you get a momentary flash over the entirety of earth, don't you see? Something like that could act as a conductor. This has not been studied.

Listen, if it gets that bad there won't be anybody in the government physically well enough to sit still long enough to administer any kind of a test.

If you were to go up to Columbia or MIT or someplace, and you just in an off moment go up and see prexy, you know, in charge of electronics or something, and you'd say, "Say, uh... tell me what you know about ground waves."

They just discount this other factor: It makes people sick. That's what happens.

And he would say, "Well, ground waves, you mean earthquakes, don't you?"

Now, it's a very funny thing. As people become ill with atomic radiation they become flighty. They become dispersive. They become a bit frantic. There's a period of franticness which is hit along the line which is quite interesting. They will discard their possessions. I'm reading now out of the Japanese observation records following the dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. They become dispersive. They throw away their belongings. They abandon things. They neglect their duties and actions, and their level of responsibility drops to nothing. They avoid and desert their own families.

You say, "No, no, no. Electronic ground waves. The ground as a carrier of electronic and radio waves."

It's quite interesting that the greatest civil-defense regulations ever written on the face of earth appear in the Bible. If you care to read the Bible over carefully, you will find what I am talking about. There are certain civil-defense regulations carefully listed in the Bible.

And he would say, "Oh, let's see, uh... that's... Oh, you're talking about some of Tesla's work."

There's another full set of physical preventatives, civil-defense regulations, listed in another religion: the Brahmans. If you know anything about the Brahmans, each Brahman sits by himself, cooks his own food, nobody else must touch his food, he mustn't touch anybody else's food. And we've got all sorts of regulations that would apply at once only to a populace that had been knocked soggy with radiation. This is quite a curious, curious thing.

"Well, where are your textbooks on it?"

I'm not trying to be specific here at all in these. I'll look them up for you sometime and tell you chapter and verse. But it's one of the more amusing things to look back into the past; to look back, by the way, at recent discoveries whereby they found seven levels of civilization in the back of a cave – went straight back through and then the last level had, underlying it, green glass. It's very possible... You see, an atomic bomb, in exploding, creates green glass.

"Well, I'm afraid we don't have any textbooks on it," he'd say. "Very little known about it." And boy, would he get you out of there in a hurry, because it violates everything he knows about electronics. It invalidates the whole works.

Now, it's very possible that all of this has happened before, that maybe there have been other scourges on earth as great as radiation, so that we have such things as plagues and things which are of sufficiently overpowering magnitude so that they would put out a religion – that they'd never explained to anybody – they'd just put out this religion to keep people alive. And the people who followed that religion lived through it.

So there are a lot of possibilities as to what happens when an H- bomb goes off, but there's no reason why these can't be studied and looked at directly. But it doesn't much matter to you how it hits the body if you know that when it hits the body, you stop it and then it does something. You got that? If you stop it, it will then do something.

Now, let's say that Brahmanism wasn't caused by atomic fission, but maybe some plague of one kind or another that hit. And those that followed these directions with religious ferocity and stuck to them all the way through, they lived through it. And those who didn't, didn't. And so we would have the rise of Brahmanism.

Well, it isn't even a problem of you getting yourself out of the way to let it go through. See? You'd have to be in a state of mind of "I couldn't care less" or "Whee! Look at that, another mega-megavolt charge. Ha-ha!" You know? "Whee." You have to have some sort of a frame of mind which, we might say, matches up to the situation.

And these regulations which you find Moses giving forth with, and so forth – such regulations as those are perhaps directed at prevention of some other human catastrophe. Like, oh, I don't know, his prevention against pork and so on. Quite interestingly, it's merely leveled at trichinosis (a rather common disease). Maybe so many people got so sick from this that somebody had to put it into a religious code, when it was actually hygiene.

Now, how does a fellow get in that frame of mind? Well, it's all right to say, "What's the matter with you? Can't you change your mind to say, 'Electronic energy?'"

And maybe there have been, before, atomic attacks on earth. Maybe. Who knows? But the facts of the case are these: That it requires a certain education of a populace if that populace is going to survive, regardless of whether or not you have a cure. You've got to educate people into something or other that will let them get through. You have to say, "Drinking water will be contaminated." You have to say, "Certain types of canned food will be edible and certain types will not be. Frozen food kept in such and such a way will be edible." They'd have to be educated into seeing the difference between radiation contamination and the usual ordinary scourge of disease that sweeps through a populace on the heels of any disaster.

"Ah, that's all right. That's acceptable. It lights the place."

But that's an awful lot of educating. They can't even teach them the Bill of Rights, much less some of these measures which would have to be taken if a populace, at this time and place, would survive an atomic age.

"All right. Nuclear energy?"

There are a lot of lessons that would have to be learned. What are these lessons? Well, we'd have to work them out somehow or another. How would you teach them? Well, that is not too difficult. Who should teach them? Well, who should teach them? Civil defense should teach them, that's who! But you keep handing them the hat – you say, "Look at this nice hat, nice brim, nice label inside it. Now, you put on that hat. That says 'civil defense,' and that means the defense of the individual or collective public against public menaces such as atomic war. Now, go on, you wear that hat and you do this and you do that."

"Uhhhh, yeah, that's all right. Nothing wrong with nuclear energy."

And they say, "It's not my hat. In event of an atomic war, you're on your own. You'll just have to get used to the idea that nobody's going to do anything for you."

But in order to change his mind, he'd have to know more about it, wouldn't he? He'd have to know what he was changing his mind about.

You say, "Hey, you just threw that hat down here in the dust. Put that hat on!"

Well, the funny part of it is you know all about it. That's what's fabulous about anything in Scientology. You know all there is to know about life. I couldn't teach you anything about life unless you knew all about it.

"Nope." They say, "It's not my size." Or they say, "What hat?" And that's really the case at this time: "What hat? Is there anything going on? Is anything happening that has anything to do with radiation? You mean you're getting hysterical about the fact there may be a few two-headed babies in the world in the near future? Why, that's nonsense. Who cares? I mean, look at Eisenhower. No head."

But you know about it as a shadow somewhere in your consciousness. And when I tell you something about life – direct observation of some kind or another – the only way I could really relay it to you at all is by you, in some tiny fashion, remembering it. You get it back again, and then as you become aware of it, you look it over and it begins to have less ferocity where you're concerned.

You could explain to them in vain. You could explain to them and say, "People get sick. People become incapable of performing their routine duties when there's too much radiation in an atmosphere. And they get frantic. And they individuate. They fall away from one another. They will no longer work in groups."

We tested a whole ACC once. I did nothing but lecture to them. Didn't group process them, didn't do anything. And they did very little auditing amongst themselves, and their IQs came up beautifully. That's a wild thing, isn't it? It just shouldn't happen, but it did happen.

Now, I'm not here to tell you that the difficulties in the Middle East and in Hungary, and so forth, are incited or caused by the too-high a roentgen count in the atmosphere of the Middle East and Europe, but I will tell you that the count is there. It is already too high. I won't say that these nations and their alliances are falling apart simply along the traditional lines which follow exposure to radiation. I won't say that this spirit of war, this "Let's all fight. No, let's don't fight. We're at war with Syria and South Africa tod – Oh, no, no, that's wrong. Let's go to war with France and, uh... no, uh..."

One has to become aware of something, to some degree, before he knows what to change his mind about. You can ask somebody, "All right, now change your mind about the democratic system as used in Poland."

You know, the Hungarian troops are the ones today who are shooting down the Hungarians. Silly! But this is a fact. We don't care who ordered them to do it. They are Hungarian troops, not Soviet troops. Soviet troops are also doing it, but Hungarian troops are also shooting Hungarians. See, this is sort of a wild mix-up.

Fellow says, "What am I supposed to change my mind about?"

There couldn't possibly be a war at this time, I figure, because nobody would be able to concentrate long enough on who he was mad at to fight him. By the time they'd called up the arms and ammunition – and had informed the generals, which always takes some time – the war would have passed, on that particular crisis, and they'd be mad at somebody else. You see how this could be?

"Well, change your mind to believing it's all right."

And we have actually six or seven factions now developing in the United Nations. It's so bad that I haven't heard it on the radio. First flashes came through and that was all. When last heard from, the United Nations were breaking up into about sixteen different factions and parts, and then the morning newspapers carried nothing. I haven't seen the United Nations in the news since.

"Well, I couldn't do that."

This is a fascinating thing. We're not operating under censorship. Don't get that idea. It's just that the government won't let them print certain things. It's different.

"Why can't you do that?"

So anyhow, here we have this fantastic picture that maybe – and I only say maybe – maybe the world at this moment is sufficiently souped up with roentgen, with radiation, strontium 90 and the rest of it, that people are walking already at this first level of non compos mentis. Maybe they're walking in small circles. I wouldn't tell you for a moment that the United States State Department's apathy at this day and age is anything different than it used to be. But it might be worse. They used to put up an act, and today they're not even putting up an act.

"Because I don't know anything about it."

Silliest program I ever saw was a TV program of the colleges of the northern coast of the United States questioning the assistant secretary of state concerning his policies. And man, I never heard a fellow let so many questions go by in my life! He didn't just let them go by; he stopped other questions. He just was not in the same conference. I don't know what conference he was attending, but I think it had something to do with whether or not they shouldn't get Dulles's Cadillac repaired. It certainly had nothing to do with the Middle East.

Well, after he knew something about it, if he remembered, he could then change his mind about it. Don't you see?

I watched this, and watched this state of not-thereness, of "avoid, avoid, avoid; don't make any direct statement." And that's what I see these days, is "Don't stop it. Don't stop the question. Don't confront the situation." And it all boils down to "don't confront."

In order to change one's mind a certain amount of awareness is requisite. So you'd say the first condition of changing one's mind is being willing to be aware of many things. So what would you change somebody's mind about to make him H-bomb proof? Well, you'd have to show him the component parts of the menace. And then he could change his mind about it, and only then could he change his mind about it.

"Go to Atlanta. Go to Key West. Don't stay in. If anybody comes to see you, send him to an underclerk. That's the thing to do. Don't speak to him. That's dangerous."

Right now most people are afraid of space. To give you an extreme example, a lunatic becomes terrified of space quite ordinarily. You put him out in too much space and, man, he's had it. Some other lunatic might be crazy on the subject of closed spaces, and you put him in closed spaces and he's had it. Don't you see? They cannot confront, really, either one or they wouldn't be crazy.

You get this funny manifestation that might be occurring. I don't say it's occurring at all. I make no claims on this. It's just a coincidence that all of a sudden we have a world situation which is different than any I have observed in my own current lifetime. And that is, we have people who are very anxious to go to war, but they can't find out with whom. And they're having an awful time here. And they can't even be consistent enough with their allies to count on having a good war, so they just keep quitting all the time.

All right. Now, we look over these problems of awareness and we find that somebody, to be aware of an invisible particle in space, would first have to be aware of space. But in order to be aware of space he'd have to be aware of mass. He'd have to be willing to confront mass. And, to be willing to confront mass, one must be willing as well to confront the various vagaries of mass. It does things. Automobiles rush down streets and do all sorts of things. They're very frightening items to some people.

Now, what kind of an international situation is this, but a very confused one? We can't make head or tails out of this international situation. So I have decided, as my stable datum in that confusion, that unless two fellows find out that they're mad at each other they won't fight each other. See, they have to find who they're mad at in order to get a fight going.

All right. So we would have to have a review of what one is willing to be aware of Well, how would one possibly do that? By processing. How long? I don't know. But I can give you something that we have today that we didn't have a few days ago. And it's a very valuable acquisition because this material puts into place some things that we knew but didn't find ourselves able to totally fit.

Now, it's true that if you get a fellow who is about to fight somebody and grab him suddenly by the arm, he's liable to swing at you. That's true. But he does it sort of half halfheartedly and he really doesn't put his whole heart into it. In order for there to be an international conflict, a couple of sides would have to line up. I don't think a war can exist with more than three sides fighting each other.

Why is it that a thetan has to have something? That is utterly insane! Why should he have to have something? You know, he's an invisibility which is looking at a mass. Now, he is not mass and he's looking at a mass. Well, this is wild. He can't look at mass, because he'd have to totally duplicate mass in order to see mass, wouldn't he? Well, he'd actually have to be willing to be mass in order to see mass. But if you could coax him to see mass, then you would also coax him to be it – be willing to be it. And if you did that, he could see the walls. You've got 8-C. That's the workability behind 8-C.

There was such a war one time. We had one in this country. It was a triangular war. If you've ever read Midshipman Easy, you've read of the great triangular dual where the three midshipmen couldn't decide which one should have the shot at whom, and so on, so they stood in a triangle, and each one in turn shot at the other one, and it came out wonderfully successful. Everybody's honor was... They had to argue one fellow into it, you see, because nobody was mad at him. He was just mad at other people.

But what is this crazy thing that he has to have it? You mean a thetan who consists of nothing – a spirit – you mean, goes chomp, chomp, chomp on walls and ceilings and floors and things, eats them up? Well, it's the wildest thing you ever heard of, and yet he does. If you've ever seen a high-school boy, you'll know doggone well that he'll eat an automobile. You lend him yours, there'll be nothing left of it. Big bites in the fenders.

Now, there was a triangular war here in the United States one time. It's quite an amusing one. It had to do with the Gadsden's Purchase. You know the Gadsden strip down there in Arizona that... After we stole California, Texas (Texans had already stolen Texas) and other large chunks of continent, somebody got very moral and they bought something from Mexico. I think that's... They paid cash for it. And that was the Gadsden Purchase. They wanted a railroad to go through there.

Well, why does he have to have anything? Well, he only has to have those things which he can't look at.

But while that thing was going on, why, the Americans were fighting the Mexicans, and the Indians down there were fighting both of them, and both of them were fighting the Indians. And you had a triangular war going on there for some little time. It was very funny. And finally the motto got to be that if anybody put up his head you shot at it. That was the way they got that war fought. It was quite an amazing war.

I'll read you the basic law back of this. Would you like me to do that? This is really a brainstorm. This you'll say, "I should have known this all the time. This is too easy."

Well now, you could envision something developing out of this international situation whereby somebody would drop a bomb on the United States and the United States would drop a bomb on South Africa and South Africa would bomb India. But we haven't got any planes that'll fly that far, they say now, and South Africa and India don't have any bombs, so it sort of falls apart on logic. I think everybody would get tired and quit. That's the way it sums up to me. I think the amount of activity they enter upon will be less and less. That is at least my look at the situation.

I looked at it in another way than you will look at it. I looked at it as our first proof of the truth of the definition of space. The definition of space we know is true, but it has never had a correlative datum. It has stood all by itself. We say space is the viewpoint of dimension. Well, if you haven't got anything looking, then there isn't any space; if you don't look, there is none. Space is the viewpoint of dimension.

I haven't any idea what will happen to the radiation. If they laid off, if they stopped dropping bombs at this moment, no more test bombs, perhaps in many years you would get a settle-out. It'd go into seawater, or it'd get embedded in the hills and that would be the end of the fallout. I'd say perhaps within the rest of our lifetime, something like that.

Well, there's another crazy phenomenon. When you ask somebody to solve a problem – have him dream up a problem, mock up a problem out here and then solve it and solve it and solve it and solve it and solve it – it marches right straight in on him. It gets closer and closer to him. Every time you ask him to solve it, if he's aberrated at all, he feels that you are asking him to avoid confronting it. And if you ask him to avoid confronting it, ah- ha! there's less space.

But the U.S., on its last few bombs, has rather blasted that one because they've now invented one that blows everything straight up into the superstratosphere where it won't come down for ten years. They say that's the best thing to do. That's their new bomb. It blows all of its waste products straight up into the superstratosphere – and takes it ten years to come down, they tell you. So my calculations on that went all to pieces. I went into apathy on that myself. I couldn't see any end to the fallout.

We knew this phenomenon existed. I've observed this phenomenon here for a year or more and have been very intrigued with it. I got very intrigued with it for an entirely different reason. The reason I got intrigued with it was because it was the first – well not the first, but a major error I had made in research. It was a major error. I even published it in a bulletin – that you mocked up a problem and then had the preclear solve it a lot of times, and you gave him some practice in solutions and he'd get fine.

But I say, perhaps in many years, why, if they stop dropping bombs, why, the fallout would fall out and that would be the end of that. But it doesn't seem like they're going to stop. In spite of all the hue and cry and protest, Russia put up a big peace proposal and blew off a bomb the same day. I thought that was an interesting thing to do. They don't rattle sabers anymore; they rattle Geiger counters.

That's about the only time I've ever used my own case as a basis for a conclusion. And that's the way it worked on me. Mock up this problem and solve it a few times, and I felt fine. There's nothing wrong, but the problem stayed right there. It didn't go anywhere. That's because I don't mind problems. I don't have to solve them, you get the idea? I don't solve them because I can't confront them. There's a game called solving problems. Entirely different motive.

So, where we have these bombs being continually tested, if they continue with these tests... And Icky says they have to. I'm not quite sure why.

Well, I found a tremendous number of people were doing something entirely different, after I'd made this publication. I'd gotten some auditing. I'd observed this phenomenon. It seemed so usual, so standard, that I just knew it was true. And for the first time really, I suppose, used my own case observation as a basis for some of the data of Scientology. And boy, was I wrong!

I've been reading the newspapers, and I know they explode. I've been on the verge of writing him a letter and saying, "Dear Ike: Just for your information, several clippings are enclosed. The bomb does explode. It does explode. People set them off and they do explode." And that's obviously the only thing you'd want to know, is do they explode? And they found that out, but of course his briefing secretaries haven't given him the word. He wasn't in the Oriental theater, you know. He was over in Europe, and so on. He didn't find out.

Because you have the usual preclear mock up a problem out here and solve and solve it and solve it, and it hits him in the face. He finally goes completely by the boards. He gets sicker than a pup. Why? Because every time he solves something, he thinks it's because he can't confront it. He has to get rid of the problem because it's not something he can view. So he's on an obsessive solution.

Anyway, here's the crux of the situation. Somehow or another somebody must put a curve on the communication lines to say "Stop!" somebody saying "You shouldn't go on testing bombs. That at least cuts out the increasing amount of count in the atmosphere."

Well, you don't have to be on an obsessive solution to solve things. You can solve anything you like. But if you have to solve them because they are so dreadfully diabolical, they'll kick your teeth out.

Now, who's going to do it? Well, who knows it? You got that? I mean, that has a lot to do with it. Who knows it? Well, Scientologists know it. But they're aware enough to be aware. And other people aren't aware enough to know that. So, who you going to tell it to? Well, the Scientologists of course.

Now, Confrontingness as a process works because space is the viewpoint of dimension, and that which is not confronted tends to contain no space. Hence, it collapses upon the person. And that's valences; that's what a valence is. You couldn't get something to confront anything else, and so you got less and less space between you and it. You couldn't get it to confront anything. You couldn't get yourself to confront it. Eventually you were it, which is no space. Because you weren't looking from you to it, it then was where you were. You couldn't confront it. Space is the viewpoint of dimension. Therefore, there was no space, so therefore you occupied the same spot. See that?

There's an amazing problem, you see? That's an amazing situation. We could look this thing over... And actually what I'm telling you now, I've heard you say here and there. You've said, "Gee, you know, there's certainly an awful lot of bombs going off. Sooner or later somebody's going to get hurt." And all the time we were in Phoenix, why, the kids kept watching the reports on fallout, and they would be convulsed. Not because of anything I said, or anything else, but they were just convulsed at the government bulletins.

Mother was always chopping you up one way or the other and you couldn't look her in the eye. And one day you wake up and find yourself chopping everybody up in Mother's tone of voice. And you say, "What's happened to me?" Well, you couldn't confront Mother, and she's where you are, and you act like her. That's all there is to it. See that? Just no space. This horrible simplicity is a fabulous simplicity. It's one of these that's just too simple to be true, but it happens to be true, this one. Space is a viewpoint of dimension.

The government bulletins read this way: "There's no need to worry about the fallout. It is being carefully observed." And nobody in the government could see that this was a nonsensical statement. Who cares who's watching it? "This lion that's running down the street, we're observing him carefully. What's the matter? Why are you worried?"

Now, the other thing is, those things which you can't confront, you're unwilling to be aware of. In other words, awareness is the action of confronting something. To be aware of something you have to be willing – in some way or another – to confront it. Just to be frightened to death of something, you have to be willing to some degree to look in that direction. You have to be willing to know about it to be afraid of it. How many things are people frightened to death of (or way below being frightened to death of) which they aren't even aware that they're frightened to death of? But one day you'll come along and you'll say, "Look at that over there. Isn't that dreadful?"

So anyway, we have some inkling that something is going on in the world that's just a little bit different than it was before. We have in our graphs, in the effectiveness of processes and so forth, certain records to this effect. We notice world behavior has altered to a marked degree.

They'll say, "What?"

But our role has changed. It has changed definitely from a role of "Well, let's just try to make people better and cut down the crime and, you know, help people out and pat them on the back." Our role has changed to something else. Our role might even have – it hasn't, but it might even have changed to simply a role of self-preservation as a group. See? It hasn't changed to that, but that would be the least to which it has changed. It certainly is true that a Scientologist has 5000 percent better chance of surviving it than anybody else. See? That's true.

And you'll say, "That!"

All right. But that of course would not be the limit of it. What our role becomes is not a role of going around and waving invisible particles in people's faces which they can't see anyhow, but our role would be in (1), trying to work out some sort of a regimen, a hygiene or health conduct that people could follow without being aware of anything. See, that's the least we could do. And the next one would be to try to teach them some of the fundamentals of existence and at least get them aware of the fact that they're alive, and then maybe they will have some idea that they might continue to be alive. See, this would give them some impetus toward continuing to be alive. And at least we could do those things. Now, those are two there.

And they lo-o-o-ok at it, and all of a sudden they go scre-e-e-e- eam. They're much better off screaming than they were before. That I guarantee. I'll give you that as a complete guarantee. It's truthful. They're better off screaming than they were standing there calm. Because they weren't calm, they were being totally apathetic on the subject. They knew it was there all the time and they were below terror, and you at least got them up to a point where they'd scream. People who are screaming are more alive than people that are not screaming.

Now, another thing that we could do that would be intensely practical, and so on, is talk. That doesn't sound practical. I mean, talk is just talk. But you see a lot of people. You see a lot of people. Well, there's no reason to tell them things that will simply worry them. About the only thing you could do is tell them there's some hope. Now, that we can always tell them.

Where you have an unwillingness to confront, you have a nonawareness of If a person has been in too many automobile accidents, one fine day he walks out, there's two lanes of cars parked in the street, one on each side of the street, and he can't see any automobiles in the street. And this actually happens. People look straight through things.

Somebody asked me one day, "What is para-Scientology?" Well, para-Scientology is your reality on Scientology. To a fellow that hears it for the first time, he now knows that there's a word Scientology, and that is Scientology, and everything else we know is para-Scientology. Got it? And then he knows that it offers some hope. So Scientology to him and the reality of it, the science itself, is just what he knows and no more, and that would be that there is a word Scientology and that it does offer some hope. See, now that's Scientology. Everything else we know is para-Scientology to him.

Ambrose Bierce wrote a thing one time called The Thing of No Color. It was a monster which wasn't any color but which was awfully deadly, and it went around eating everybody up. But nobody could see it because it wasn't any color.

And eventually he finds out that it'll turn off a toothache – big reality on something like that. So para-Scientology, then, is everything in Scientology except maybe the process that turned off the toothache, that it offers some hope, and there is a word called Scientology. Get the idea?

Well, people believe at last that the world is full of monsters, but they don't even dare be aware that it's full of monsters. If they brightened up their perception, they would someday see one of these monsters and that would kill them. Only the monster they're scared of died 150 thousand years ago and is now in a tar pit down on La Brea Avenue. You see what all this is about and what it leads to.

So somewhere or another we have to enter this wedge. Eventually a tremendous amount of our knowledge will become Scientology to him and a very little of it will remain para-Scientology. And that is the way it works out.

Now, if people have been attacked too many times by atomic fission, if they've been wiped out on too many planets and in too many places, if they've been knocked off, if their genetic line in coming up the track from amoeba to maybe... too many times by radiation or something of the sort, they no longer are willing to confront it at all, but they suspect something horrible is going to happen to them if they scent any tiniest particle of it. Don't you see?

But now, here's something very odd. Here's something very peculiar. He doesn't start on that track at all, and his awareness is zero, up to the moment when – right up to the instant – when he hears this word Scientology and that it offers some hope. See, it's about all you can really say to somebody. You can explain to him a lot of things, but he'll miss all these things.

The horrible things that are going to happen to them because of radiation have already happened, Lord knows how long ago, and aren't in progress at the moment. But they smell a little bit of radiation and they say, "Uh-uh." One wandering gamma with about enough horsepower in it to propel itself comes limping on small crutches across the room in this direction, and the fellow says, "My God the whole city has blown up!" You get it? But he isn't sufficiently capable of looking at a blown-up city to see whether or not the city is blown up. You get it? So he says, "Well, we're all through, boys. Let's quit. We're done."

He'll eventually walk away from almost anything you tell him the first time, and he'll say, "You know, there's something called 'Scientology.' There must be, because this fellow's been talking about it. And it seems to offer some hope. He said it would work on my Aunt Agatha that I told him about. Yes, it might offer some hope about Aunt Agatha. Probably won't do anything for her, but I could hope it would."

It presents a rather silly picture of a fellow who has had an experience of dying of thirst on a desert. He died of thirst on the desert. And when he died of thirst, why, there was bones lying there and horns, and so on, of an old cow that kicked off first. And one day he's walking down the street, and he looks in the window of a shop, and he sees a skull and some horns in the shop. And he lies down on the sidewalk before the public fountain and dies of thirst. And that is his exact action in radiation.

Now, there's the entering wedge. Well now, there are numerous ways you could give people hope. Numerous ways. And one of them, you could say, "You know, you know this A-bomb thing..."

These little ingredients themselves do nothing, but they sure upset a guy's backtrack. He can't look at any of that. So you have to bring up somebody in terms of lookingness. Now, in order to bring them up in terms of confronting such a thing as that, you have to get them to be able to confront things in general, and you have to make practically the whole sweeping job of Clear a fact. It's that big a look, just now.

The fellow says, "What about the A-bomb thing?" and so on.

Now, my task is to find out how fast to do it. But I can tell you the exact scale he has to come up. The first of this scale, at the bottom of it, is Waste. The next up the line is Have. The next is Substitute. The next is Confront. And the next is Contribute To. And the next is Create. And that is the Scale of Havingness.

You say, "You know there's an outfit that's got this taped, got it all squared?"

And there are some little interlocking points on that scale which turn up while you're processing him. And you run all these things objectively and you really boost him on up through the top. When he can confront space, he's in pretty good shape. When he can confront space and invisible particles and anything else, and masses and so forth, he's in terrific shape.

"Who's that?"

Now, a person who is in a body, of course, is in that thing he is least willing to confront. That is the law: People occupy that thing they are least willing to confront. Well, a person is not stuck in a wall. If you notice carefully, you're not stuck in a wall. You got that? You're not stuck in a dog. And if you look quick in a mirror, you're not stuck in Mother. You're stuck in you. You're stuck in the body you're occupying, you see? Or you at least got hold of this body if you're exteriorized, don't you see?

"Scientology." See?

That tells us at once what you're least willing to confront. Awful comment. A person has closed terminals most thoroughly, then, with those things he is least willing to confront. The least space exists between him and what he is unwilling to confront, what he's most unwilling to confront. Don't you see? So that is interiorization. And what a horrible beast a fellow must think he looks like who is dead in his head. That fellow who is dead in his head must have an idea that Lon Chaney could have used him with profit as a model.

He says, "Oh, there has?"

All right. So there is our profit here. We get the person all the way up and on his way. If you did this and ran this whole scale with objective processes, you would wind up at least with a thorough exterior. And then of course as an individual, he couldn't be worried less about the civilization. And then because he's worried less about it, anything that happens to it won't affect him, and it's the first time he will be effective in handling it and doing something about it.

You get this as a very crude approach. He would then have the idea that there was somebody someplace that had some answers nailed down on this subject, you see? Now, that's very difficult to do and isn't very feasible, because he doesn't know there's a subject called radiation. He just thinks there's new H-bombs and they're big TNT bombs. See? And that's all he knows about it.

So we Scientologists have several missions on our hands. Some of those consist of educating people, and some of them consist of processing people. And, by and large, the first of them consists of getting ourselves in good shape, and we'll all live through it, and this talk won't have been in vain.

Well-known scientists in the country today are not aware of these things, which is quite amazing. A teacher at Columbia University said, "Well, I needn't worry about it. When it comes," he said, "it'll come with a big bang. And I'm all ready to get buried in a few years anyway. It doesn't matter whether I'm buried in a hole with the rest of the city or in a hole in a graveyard." He said, "It's all the same to me. Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha." This guy was teaching college students at Columbia University.

Thank you.

I said, "What's your subject?"

And he says, "Chemistry."

I said, "Chemistry. Oh, I see. And that's the way it is, huh?"

And he said, "Yeah." He says, "Doesn't matter really one way or the other which happens. Now, does it?"

And I said, "Well, aside from the fact that you've got to come back and live it all over again, it doesn't matter a bit."

And he said, "What are you talking about?"

And I said, "Well, it's like this," and I let him have it between the eyes, and shook him up enough and was sufficiently convincing enough so that he knew he'd been talking to somebody. And he wasn't at all sure that a hole in the city or a hole in the graveyard were comparable data. Now, that was a nasty thing for me to do.

I did something I've told you time and again never to do. Don't back up para-Scientology to them. But let me excuse myself. That was in a period before people had a Messianic complex, before people had the Messiah level. They're now only grabbing for crazy answers.

One of the things you could do is pose as a crazy answer. You're the only sane answer there is. You get that? People who are not aware of something, yet are surrounded by it, only grab crazy answers. So give it to them! I found out it works.

So tonight I would like to pull the wraps off whole track, exteriorization and all the other bric-a-brac that you shouldn't talk about, because the society has finally gotten into a state of mind where it will only believe what it thinks is crazy. And it thinks this is crazy and so it'll believe it.

Remember, the last full page I had in Time magazine was because I was telling people they were seventy-six trillion years old. And that's the last full page. There have been mentions since, but not a full page. So I'm publishing in hard-covers now History of Man, known better to you as What to Audit.

Thank you.