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

Self-auditing is a tremendously dangerous, highly aberrative, depressing practice which many preclears fall into, and out of which they do not easily walk.

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

A man can go around auditing himself on phrases, and his sense of reality gets lower and lower; sometimes his sonic will turn off and his visio shut down, and his track becomes nothing but entheta from one end of it to the other. I wouldn’t make anyone start self-auditing; I wouldn’t really do that to anybody.

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

The funny part of it is that the fellow who is built out of solid granite, after he has been at it for about a year and a half, has some slight possibility of getting enough anaten and enough phrases off his case to knock out some of his chronic somatics. But he will have put himself lower on the tone scale.

LRH: Where is this somatic?

I know of a case which self-audited for one year; at the end of that time he was able to force himself to repeat the phrase as many times as necessary in order to reduce it, but he was worse off mentally and physically than at the beginning of that year. A whole year is a long time for anybody to self-audit. In a month of self-auditing your preclear can so thoroughly louse himself up that you as an auditor may take two months to straighten him out. It is very serious.

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

You don’t stop people from self-auditing simply by saying to them educationally “It’s very bad. You must not do it.” That won’t stop them. They have triggered into some kind of a phrase that tells them they have to do it themselves and so on. There are all kinds of phrases which can cause self-auditing. These phrases get triggered and the next thing you know, the stuff starts piling up; they are up and down the time track and then one day they strike a grouper or something like that, the track collapses and then they audit phrases at random. The phrases are always available in present time.

LRH: Have you been doing self-auditing?

When people start this there is only one reason for it. I am talking about the mechanical aspects of it when I say there is only one reason for it.

PC: Yes, I have.

A person has a reactive and an analytical mind. There are two ways his attention can go. There is the interior world — the world of the time track, the world of memory, the world of perceptics — and there is the exterior world, the world of the environment and of present time. Which way is the person going to go?

LRH: Who started self-auditing with you?

The analyzer is mainly dedicated to resolving problems in present time out of collected data to solve the future or present environment. That is what the analyzer does.

PC: I started myself with it.

The reactive mind is solely concerned with the prevention of pain, bluntly, and past pain is supposed to keep an individual away from certain present time environmental things. Left in balance to some degree, a person can pack around a lot of engrams and still be successful. The second we begin to really restimulate this interior world, though, something happens.

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

Here we have a matter of where the attention is focused. Are this person’s attention units devoted to the exterior world or are they devoted to the interior world? In order to be devoted to the exterior world, they have to be in present time. In order to be devoted to the interior world, they have to be back on the track. Obviously, a person is back on the track in the environments of yesterday when he is interiorizing, or introverting. He is back on the track. He can latch up more and more and more attention units back on the track, and he can really fix himself up; or an auditor can do that by running him halfway through this engram and halfway through that engram. This is the corny idea of “getting him restimulated so that you can find an engram to run.”

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

The person will be back there looking at an interior world; his attention units are back on the track, so they will be devoted to yesterday. They are not remembering into yesterday; they start running into yesterday. And the exterior world gets neglected. The analyzer is then not up high but is operating very, very sub-optimumly.

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

You want your preclears extroverted. Don’t get them worrying about what happened to them just so you can do a job of processing on them. In other words, don’t stir them up and introvert them just so you can find more engrams. If you could pull the trick of keeping your preclears extroverted continually, you would have well preclears.

PC: Yes.

A somatic turns on when attention units are fixed upon an old injury which causes that somatic, and they are fixed upon the time that injury took place. We are right there in fundamentals, basic fundamentals. The attention unit is back at the time he was two years old getting his leg broken, so he has a pain in his leg. Also, the aberrative content, the phrases, the perceptics and so forth are being viewed by the very attention units, evidently, which are viewing the pain in the leg.

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

Now, it so happens there are two sides to this. There is the one concerned with aberrative content as far as thought is concerned, and the one concerned with aberrative content as far as MEST is concerned — the two sides of the organism, theta and MEST. The theta can be aberrated or the MEST can be aberrated. When the MEST is aberrated you have physiological upsets, you have physiological somatics. When the theta is being looked at — viewed interiorly — of course you have mental aberration taking place. These are two sides of the organism — theta and MEST.

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

When theta gets enturbulated it drives against the computational devices of the mind that such- and-such has got to take place. This is the anatomy of an engram. If it can’t do that anymore, if it can’t drive out, then, theoretically, the somatic is there to force it. If the entheta side of an engram cannot be expressed on the thought level, then the enMEST side of the engram tries to force it to be.

LRH: How about a scientific book?

When a person is a little bit interiorized it means that the entheta side of the engram is operative. But suppose the environment drives harder, forming up a lot more locks and so forth about the interior environ — in other words, refuses to let this person dramatize the engram, refuses to let that entheta thought pattern take place. The environment says no. The engram says, “You can’t eat.” Obviously, in the environment, he has got to eat, so he keeps on eating and the entheta side of the engram keeps getting kicked back. If it gets kicked back thoroughly enough, it comes right on over into the enMEST area and turns on the somatic. That is basic theory on it.

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

In other words, in order to get this chronic somatic off, you have to get the attention units first off the enMEST side of the engram and then off the entheta side of the engram and into present time.

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

Now, there would be more ways of doing this, more ways of skinning an engram than one.

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

We have the entheta side of the engram. There is merely enturbulated theta over on that side. The guy comes down the tone scale to a point where he is resonating at the level of the engram, so he starts thinking in its level, and then the environment won’t let him think that way and the enMEST turns on — in other words, the somatic turns on — and he has a chronic somatic.

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

Bad auditing will do the same as the environment. He is trying to express the thought, he can’t express the thought, it gets all snarled up computationally and the somatic gets turned on. You as an auditor are sitting there and the next thing you know, you have a chronic somatic turned on by auditing. You can do this. Or you get an engram that isn’t ready to reduce — it is too overcharged and nothing can be done about it — so you go away and leave it. If this happens to the preclear too often, he will get a whole series of somatics.

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

Certainly, if we use this postulate of introversion and extroversion, we start to get results. What you want to validate on this case is present time and the analyzer — reality, affinity, communication. This not only picks the person up the tone scale but extroverts him, and extroversion of the preclear is tremendously desirable. Introversion of the preclear occurs at those times when the interior world has so much threat and enturbulence and menace in it that when the attention units go back to take a look at what is happening they then don’t leave.

LRH: Sure. Necessary to do what, though?

This is a self-auditing case. But a self-auditing case has introverted to an exaggerated degree, even more exaggerated than the usual introvert. It is a tremendous exaggeration of introversion.

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

How do you cure this person of self-auditing and cure him quickly? Validation Processing will do it. All you do is start picking up analytical moments on the chains presented by the file clerk or analytical moments on the chains of his chronic somatics, and keep running those analytical moments and keep him from going into the entheta and the somatics which turn up. In other words, don’t start re-auditing him on an entheta-enMEsT basis; keep auditing him on a theta- MEST basis, and the next thing you know, he will extrovert. It is something that happens almost suddenly. He will extrovert and he will stop this self-auditing! You just get the chains and scan or Straightwire the theta moments of those chains. You want the analytical moments on those chains.

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

As an auditor you are going to have a hard time with this person at first. You will pull up a little tiny erg of theta and it is going to go right into that enMEST, and you are going to have to pull up another one and another one and another one, and all of a sudden you will start to get this chain in some kind of shape.

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

The chain itself has been turned inside out by the breaking of dramatizations of engrams. You turn it around, outside in, again.

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

That is what you are doing. You are turning on the analytical side of the chain and you are turning off the reactive side of the chain. When the reactive side of the chain is on, the person is introverted. When the analytical side of the chain is on, he is extroverted.

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

Now, I have been asked whether a person could do this on himself — self audit this Validation Processing. It won’t work, because if all the theta this fellow has is being attracted into his enMEST continually, think how much less chance he has of keeping that theta out of the enMEST if he does not have an auditor and the group theta body which is present between the two. If he doesn’t have that, then every tiny little bit of theta that he gets up just goes right back into the entheta.

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

This is why your preclear can’t remember happy moments. Actually, he can remember happy moments, but he may remember them only for a millisecond — not long enough to record the fact that he remembered them. He can remember a happy moment, but then it is gone.

LRH: Did you enjoy it?

The more minute the quantity of theta is and the more massive the quantity of entheta, the quicker that theta will dive into the entheta. Or vice versa: the more massive the body of theta and the more minute the body of entheta, the quicker that entheta will try to dive into the theta. Of course, that is a fatal dive; the other is also a fatal dive.

PC: Yes, right much.

So there is your modus operandi. I want you to fix that well in your minds because there are too many preclears walking around who are self auditing, and I imagine there are even some auditors who do self-auditing.

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

Now, the case of the chronic somatic is really no different. The chronic somatic means that some chain of aberration on the case has been turned inside out, or introverted. A single chain has been introverted so thoroughly that not only is the entheta flattened down but the somatic itself is on. This means that it must be a pretty thoroughly turned-on chain. It is up to you as the auditor to find out what chain the chronic somatic lies on.

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

You may find that the chronic somatic has four, five or ten chains, each one furnishing a portion of it, the somatic itself having restimulated some other chain. So what you do as an auditor is take these chains and by Straightwire or Lock Scanning run them one by one on theta analytical moments until you get each piece of them extroverted.

LRH: How could you do it?

Each chain has two sides. Every chain has two sides. It is an unlucky chain indeed which has minimal analytical and maximal entheta, maximal reactive. That would be a rough deal, and that is a rough deal to turn inside out. But in a case like that what you do is work other things on the case and other related material until you finally do get up enough theta to knock the whole chain out of restimulation.

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

Knocking things out of restimulation is a very, very important step. Here at last, with Validation Processing, we may have a very good technique for that. I hope it will hold consistently and I certainly want your data on this from the field so that we have a greater volume of data than we have now, because the data is not as great as it should be. We have only checked it on about fifteen cases. It is keeping up with a kind of consistency, though, so that you can just extrapolate it on out.

LRH: Hm-hm.

I know this technique turns off self-auditing and I know additionally that it will sure pick up tone, and I know you can pick up tone high enough with it for the whole case to collapse. You can watch a preclear go clear on up the tone scale — and he is really up the tone scale — then all of a sudden he dives back down.

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

By the way, with this technique you are doing black-and-white, Aristotelian two-valued logic. For instance, if you have a chain of rejections, you run all the times the person was accepted. You accentuate the positive.

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

Now, the chronic somatic lies on a chain. What you do is just pattern Lock Scanning — except you take the reverse, analytical side of the chain. Let’s say the chronic somatic is in his left foot; you want to know where this left-foot somatic is. Maybe it is on the birth chain, maybe it is on the broken-glass chain. Where did the broken glass lie? It lay in roads and it was in green grass. So you pick up, and keep consistently to the analytical level, times when green grass was around and was very agreeable. Pick up all the times when green grass was pleasant.

PC: Yeah.

Or maybe you take the birth chain. A birth is a composite chain; it has to do with sex, it has to do with doctors, it has to do with nurses, it has to do with water, it has to do with a lot of factors. You can take any one of these chains, or maybe take every one of them that you can possibly think of that was contained in birth, and turn each part of that wrong side out. Ask the preclear for all the times the doctor was a good guy and all the times the nurses in this fellow’s life were nice and all the times when water felt good, and so on — all on the analytical side of it.

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

You are not interested in pleasure. You can badger the devil out of a preclear asking him to get pleasure, and there he is at 1.1, and he finally confesses to you that he had a little puppy dog one time and it got run over, but it was still alive and he was able to pick its eyes out! That isn’t going to get results.

PC: Yes.

Now, you may run into grief on the chain of the chronic somatic. For instance, a woman may have a chronic somatic that prevents her from carrying children through a whole pregnancy; she has miscarriages.

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

If that is the type of case you are running, you simply have to keep jockeying the case on its miscarriage chain. There are obviously pleasure moments during pregnancy, there are obviously pleasure moments around and about sex and so on, and this will be all on the same chain. You just start picking up all the analytical side of the chain and keep her on it. She will probably still try to dive in, and she will probably try to cry, and if this case is not too low on the tone scale you may find yourself suddenly saddled with a secondary that you didn’t know existed. Of course, at that moment you would run the secondary if the case was able to run a secondary.

PC: Birth.

Let me give you that caution again. When a case is at a level on the tone scale chronically — by behavior and so forth — which makes it impossible for him to run an engram or a secondary, don’t suddenly essay to run engrams and secondaries when you are doing Validation Processing. Keep your processing where it belongs according to the tone scale; don’t change that just because you are using Validation Processing.

LRH: Do you have any children?

Validation Processing can be used on any case. If you can attract that case’s attention and get him a little bit in present time, or even if the case is way up the line, you can do Validation Processing. Where it is evidently most efficacious and most effective is up to about 1.5, because that is an area where you can’t run much; you can’t produce spectacular results.

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

This whole subject lays to view an enormous experimental potential. There is a tremendous amount here which can be discovered. We know in Validation Processing that, used as I have outlined it, we have produced certain results. We know we can extrovert people, and we certainly can knock chronic somatics out of prominence so they will just dive out of sight; we can do these various things. I have a hunch that it leads a lot further. I think that as we go on and investigate it further we will find more and more angles; there will be more and more procedures, and certain ways of handling certain chains will turn up. We might smoke out a way of turning on grief quickly and easily or turning on the somatics you want so you can run them. There are various things that you could do with this procedure, and we are looking at a pretty wide scope when we look at this. The principal reason I am giving it to you is that it has potentialities.

LRH: When was birth run?

Standard Procedure turned up last July, the theta-MEST theory turned up about October, and Validation Processing turned up about two months ago. Those are three major advances along the line. There was one more when Chain Scanning of engrams was developed. That was a definite advance. And the fact that people could be run and run on boil-off turned up out of another research project as being of some use. Evidently, you can keep a preclear boiling off, but let me caution you that after you keep that preclear boiling off for a short space of time — maybe three or four months — he will boil himself down to the bottom of the tone scale, unless you extrovert him.

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

Boil-off is beautiful stuff. You are going to get all kinds of boil-off. Actually, as you advance on a case with this Validation Processing, you can get more boil-off than I have seen with anything else. You can really put him on the back of the stove and let him stew!

LRH: How long has the headache been with you?

For example, in one two-hour session, a preclear was twice started at the beginning of a chain. The first time he got two incidents, two happy moments on this particular chain, and went out. When he came to, he was given the same chain to scan again and found three happy moments and went out — just conked out colder than ice — and that was the end of two hours. There was that much boil-off sitting around on this case!

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

You are going to get some cases which you will start this type of processing on, with scanning and Straightwire, and you will be able to go along for quite a while before you suddenly begin to get entheta manifestations or anaten. Evidently, what you are doing is you are not tackling the right chain, but there is nothing wrong with this. You can take some cases and scan pleasure and continue to scan pleasure; I don’t know what the case is doing, but you are certainly not on the aberrative line. If you were on the aberrative line it wouldn’t work that way, so you shift the line that you are scanning. It is very important to do so.

LRH: The last several days, huh?

In all these techniques there is something you should keep in mind: The validation of a technique is whether or not it steadily increases the efficiency of your preclear and his position on the tone scale. That is important. It might not seem important to some preclears but it is really important to keep them coming on up the line. Your preclear may have the idea that the only thing he could possibly do is run engrams and secondaries, secondaries and engrams, engrams and secondaries. That is all he is going to run for you, and that is the end of that — although you know very well he is not doing well on this. That is just tough.

PC: Yeah.

He has heard of running pleasure moments. Now, there are various ways of running these pleasure moments. Running a pleasure moment is another technique where you start in at the beginning of a pleasure moment and take the preclear through it perceptic by perceptic in an effort to try to do something with his perceptics — just through one pleasure moment — and then you take him back to the beginning and run him through it again just like it was an engram. That is running pleasure incidents and that is not what I am talking about when I say the analytical side of a chain.

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

The analytical side of the chain includes any time he was analytical about something, and you straightwire that or you scan it. You don’t run these as incidents. You could if you wanted to, but if you are going to do that with him he probably isn’t able to move that well on the time track anyhow.

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

There is no limiter on this that I know of beyond the fact that if you find your preclear diving too quickly into entheta while you are scanning a chain you leave Chain Scanning and Lock Scanning alone. You just leave Lock Scanning alone on that case and straightwire him through the incidents, and you will get the same effects. This is slower but you will get the same effects. In other words, don’t treat the case more heavily than you should be able to treat it.

LRH: Sure.

All of the emphasis on processing now, as I told you earlier, is bringing them on up the tone scale. That is important to you as auditors — very important.

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

If you could work only the manifestation of 4.0 you would really be living the life of Reilly. That would be gorgeous. You would never be diving into a lot of restimulative and aberrative material; you would just be bringing the preclear up along the line and so on. It was to this hope — that you could do this — that Validation Technique was originated. An auditor can sit there just so long running entheta out of people before he himself starts to get pretty enturbulated, unless he is getting plenty of processing himself.

LRH: All right, when do they mention birth?

We could work it out on the basis of the auditor getting plenty of processing, but very few auditors do get plenty of processing. As a result, there has been a considerable amount of research on my part in order to see what we could do with types of techniques which were not auditor restimulative.

PC: I don’t recall them mentioning it.

That is one of the reasons for Lock Scanning. That is a very definite benefit from Lock Scanning. The auditor can sit there and he doesn’t get fed this entheta hour after hour; he is better off when he lock-scans than when he runs engrams.

LRH: Do they mention it at all?

It is the same way with Validation Processing. The auditor very much has to be on the ball; he has to be very alert when running Validation Processing on a low-toned person. He has to keep that person communicating with him, because the person may just start on up the analytical moments and then be off into the entheta, and the auditor wouldn’t know it. So vocalization is required from the preclear on a lot of this stuff. On Straightwire particularly the auditor has to be continually alert and informed as to what the preclear is doing. But if the auditor is running analytical moments he is handling theta, and an auditor who handles theta could handle it for eight or ten hours a day without showing much wear. As a matter of fact, the auditor himself would probably come up on the tone scale.

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

I know pretty well what this type of processing will do this far. I hope in your hands that it will increase greatly in efficiency, because I would like to see all of my friends in Dianetics at no lower level on the tone scale than 4.0, chronically.

LRH: Was it interesting?

Now, extroversion has something more that I should say about it. Evidently, from 2.0 down you could say is introversion, and from 2.0 up is extroversion to some degree. You can just compartment that like you can compartment theta and entheta.

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

There has to be a certain amount of theta available before the individual will attack his own environment. It is sometimes much easier to attack the interior environment than the exterior environment. Have you ever heard of somebody saying “Wait till I get to be a good release, and then I’ll do it”? It is easier to attack the interior environment — after all, one lived through that already — than to attack the exterior environment. So, above 2.0 is where you get attacks on the exterior environment.

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

It is a funny thing, but theta will change, mingle with and conquer MEST. Theta will automatically do so. You get enough of a theta unit and MEST will move under it; you get enough of a theta unit and it will be attracted over the top of MEST. You can watch this happen. If there is not very much of a theta unit, it is liable to get attracted into enMEST. It will get enturbulated by the existing entheta and it will go into the enMEST. That is not very complicated.

PC: No, they’re in Hagerstown.

Entheta will turn into enMEST any MEST which it touches; it will, very definitely. You watch what happens to the possessions of somebody below 2.0. In the same way, theta will tend to maintain MEST as MEST and even make MEST out of enMEST.

LRH: They are?

So there is a correlation between extroversion and handling and bringing order to one’s environment, and between introversion and bringing destruction and upset to one’s environment.

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

I hope you don’t think I am throwing you a curve there, because that is really true. You get too much introversion and the environment will really break down around the person’s vicinity. His interpersonal relationships, his possessions and all of these other things will start to go to pot almost mechanically. You hardly see any line of reason here at all. All of a sudden this fellow finds himself with this upset and that upset and some other upset — he has become too introverted.

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

If he is very extroverted, he will collect to himself MEST. He will throw nine tenths of it away, too, if he has any good sense, like the seasoned campaigner who always carries about a ten- pound pack while the rookie always has a ninety-pound one. Theta will attack too much MEST. It has to be checked in its activity.

PC: All right.

I am giving you this for a very good reason. Introversion, self-auditing, reactive mind, entheta — these are synonyms, and along with them go enMEST, confusion and the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.

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

If you want to be nicely successful and so forth in your profession of auditing, keep up above 2.0 and keep well extroverted. Also, take your preclears and bring them up that tone scale and extrovert them just as fast as you possibly can. Then you will get your bills paid.

PC: Yes.

Now, this should alert you to something else, too: All you have to do to boot a person up the tone scale is extrovert him. You have gained half the band of the scale right there. That is a pretty big jump. So you extrovert him; you bring him up into the theta bracket.

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

But if you want to wreck your preclear real well and fix up his environment so that it will really deteriorate, and fix up your own perimeter so it will too, just let him stay introverted and let him keep on being introverted.

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

If there is anything that drives an auditor mad it is the preclear who comes in with 995 words written at the beginning of every session of the things he has thought up since the auditor saw him last. He was just sure while he was sitting at dinner last night that he has a phrase that says . . . And he made a note of it, but when he got home he dreamed this and that and he wonders whether or not . . . And it goes on and on and on — notes.

LRH: Hm-hm.

I kept a series of notes from a preclear one time just out of sheer curiosity, wondering what the volume would grow to. It was tremendous! I just kept throwing them into a drawer and thanking him. That was before I found out that the reason a preclear writes you notes is you haven’t got the computation on the case! So I looked back into the drawer and said, “That was a heck of a comment on my auditing on that preclear!”

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

If a fellow does not have a computation, that means that he must not be very analytical. If he is really analytical he will have a computation on his case. If he extroverts enough he doesn’t care whether he has a computation on his case or not! He will go on being audited. You may get the cycle-and collapse sort of thing where he is feeling so fine for a week that you might not see him, but he will be back.

LRH: Hm-hm.

You don’t have to sell anybody on a long-term basis. If you can just work this well and work it well enough, you will find out that you are turning out pretty satisfied-per-session preclears. You are also doing a job of work, and don’t think you are not. Now, a lot of you may back off from this Validation Processing even after you have worked with it for a short time for the good reason that it does not have enough blood and thunders in it. That was why I talked to you earlier about the difference between stage demonstrations and actual demonstrations .

PC: Earlier times with them.

This is merely an estimate and is not based on any data of any kind, but I think you could probably produce a good release faster by never touching any entheta. That would really be a stunt.

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

I haven’t processed anybody through the whole run on this process, so I can just extrapolate. But if I started in to process somebody right now on this level I would simply boot him on through, all the way up to the top of the scale.

PC: (pause) All right, I’m up now.

I would watch those engrams fold up by themselves. I would fill him full of protein hydrolysate and vitamin B1 and watch those engrams fold up.

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

By the way, there is another little point here. Once upon a time there was this stuff called Guk, and a bunch of south ends of horses going north didn’t bother to study this stuff or find out what it could do; they listened to a certain well-known medico who said “Oh, it’s no good! I saw a bottle of it once.”

PC: (pause) All right.

Last fall, freewheeling suddenly died. You can put somebody through freewheeling and maybe it does him some good. But a Guk freewheel got the Guk in trouble because the freewheeling wasn’t as good as it should have been and because freewheeling introverts the devil out of the preclear. Of course, he is paying attention to stuff all over his body, so it isn’t doing him the good that it should. But this has got nothing to do with Guk.

LRH: Present time?

Last fall I wrapped my paws around protein and vitamins again to find out what they could do, and I found out that they would collapse circuit walls that couldn’t be collapsed without them. I had to go all the way through this again because of the amount of enturbulence that was thrown at it.

PC: Yes.

Now we find out in Validation Processing, evidently, that the somatics will clip off, boil off or go out faster when the preclear is on heavy protein and vitamins than when he is not. So we may have found at last and at long length the slot for Guk. There is no long series of cases on this, but I have noticed consistently that you could bring a preclear up to a point without Guk and the somatic would hang up and would stay hung up and you couldn’t do anything more about it. But if you then fed him some Guk that somatic would feed and boil on through.

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

On Validation Processing sometimes you can hardly keep your mind off this doggone somatic. It is somebody who was chewing off your left ear when you were three and you are going through all the happy times little boys smiled at you. You don’t identify this thing, and the somatic is going through just as slow as molasses and you can’t do anything about it. Then throw about 30 grains of glutamic acids down your throat and about 100 milligrams of B1, go over this chain again and this somatic just blows out, and anaten comes off when it wouldn’t before.

PC: Yes.

I don’t mean to overestimate Guk to you. I am merely saying that it seems to develop and disperse somatics faster, and certainly it gives your preclear enough energy to run. But there is also a caution on it: Anybody who thinks that taking a little bit of B1 and a lot of glutamic acid is the thing to do is asking for a nice case of D.T.’s. The data at hand seems to indicate that lots of glutamic acid and not quite enough B1 will produce nightmares and upsets far in excess of merely taking no B1 and no glutamic acid, and theoretically you could throw a person into D.T.’s by feeding him nothing but glutamic acid. A ratio which is apparently safe on this — and I am not prescribing this, I am merely mentioning it — seems to be about 25 grains of glutamic acid and about 100 milligrams of B1 — a good heavy slug of B1. But 10 or 20 milligrams of Bs and 20 to 30 grains of glutamic acid will produce hallucination; it will cut down reality. With enough B. content you heighten reality.

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

By the way, it seems to be indicated that people can do better Straightwire — it is clearer and the reality level is greater — with enough B1 and glutamic acid. We have it down along the level of about where it belongs. You can do without it quite well and you can do with it quite well, and it is better to have it than not to. But it is not going to, with one shot, produce a clear.

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

Now, we can use protein hydrolysate in the same way as glutamic acid; glutamic acid is only one of the amino acids, and protein hydrolysate is several of the amino acids compounded.

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

There is quite a bit of data on this subject of nutrition and so forth during processing. Of course, one of the sure and certain ways to spin a preclear is to reverse the nutrition factor. Just feed him on a little bit of coffee and a little bit of sandwiches kind of irregularly, and go on and process him hour in and hour out through lots of entheta — and then carry him off to the sanitarium. Or keep him up all night long. Or when the guy is so tired he can’t even move, and he has a terrific somatic in his elbow and keeps begging you to do something about this somatic because he is disturbed, go into the case and start to do something about it. They will cart him off to the spin bin.

PC: Yes.

Auditing when a preclear is too tired, auditing when a preclear is too hungry, auditing when a preclear is suffering from any part of malnutrition, is dangerous.

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

As a matter of fact, your preclear will go around and start getting hungry for things like ascorbic acid and so forth. You should have him take a balanced vitamin ration. There ought to be in it not only B complex, but vitamins A and D in limited, non-toxic doses. There is a whole array of those things that are put together in tablets. These are not important in tremendous quantities, but they are still important. B1 has got to be there, though, by super-super quantity.

PC: Yes.

LRH: Can we pick up an early one?

PC: Yes.

LRH: Tell me when you’ve contacted it.

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

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

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

PC: (pause) All right.

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

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

LRH: Hm-hm.

PC: (pause) I’m in present time now.

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

PC: Yes.

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

PC: (pause) All right.

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

PC: All right.

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

PC: (pause) A moment just then.

LRH: Hm?

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

LRH: All right. Just through analytical moments now.

PC: Yeah.

LRH: Better name each one that you come to.

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

LRH: Give him a lot of pleasure?

PC: Yes. Pretty good kid.

LRH: Okay. Continue on.

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

LRH: Hm-hm.

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

LRH: Present time?

PC: Yeah.

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

PC: I feel pretty good.

LRH: How is your head?

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

LRH: Is it fainter or is it stronger?

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

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

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

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

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

PC: Yeah.

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

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

LRH: Uh-huh.

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

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

PC: All right. I’m in present time.

LRH: Open your eyes.

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

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

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

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

PC: Says Headache.

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

PC: Yes.

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

PC: No.

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

PC: Yes.

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

PC: All right.

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

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

LRH: Hm-hm.

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

LRH: Hm-hm.

PC: Now I’m up to present time.

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

PC: No.

LRH: How’s your head?

PC: It’s lighter.

LRH: All right. Has it changed position any?

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

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

PC: It says Headache.

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

PC: Yes.

LRH: Tell me when you’re there.

PC: I’m there.

LRH: Now, who has the headache?

PC: Says I have it.

LRH: All right.

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

LRH: Feel good?

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

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

PC: Yeah.

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

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

LRH: Hm-hm.

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

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

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

LRH: Okay. How’s your head now?

PC: It’s still kind of . . .

LRH: Where is it?

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

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

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

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

PC: Headache, it says.

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

PC: No.

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

PC: Yes.

LRH: Can the name of that flash?

PC: No.

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

PC: Yes.

LRH: Can you contact those?

PC: Yes.

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

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

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

PC: Yeah.

LRH: Where is it? What does it do?

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

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

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

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

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

LRH: Very good.

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

LRH: Does he have a car?

PC: Yeah.

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

PC: Okay. (PC and

LRH: chuckle)

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

PC: I’m in present time.

LRH: How is your headache?

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

LRH: Well, where is the ache particularly now?

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

LRH: Hm?

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

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

PC: (pause) No.

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

PC: Yes.

LRH: Who is it?

PC: Sister, Wendy.

LRH: What is she doing?

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

LRH: Did you like that?

PC: Yeah.

LRH: Did she do it another time?

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

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

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

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

PC: Yeah. (laughs)

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

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

LRH: How’s your head feel?

PC: It feels better.

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

PC: A wee little bit, yeah.

LRH: Where is it located?

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

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

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

LRH: Hm-hm.

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

LRH: Was it fun?

PC: Yeah. I was pretty good at it.

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

PC: Yeah.

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

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

LRH: Felt good?

PC: Yeah.

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

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

LRH: Felt good?

PC: Yeah.

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

PC: I’m in present time.

LRH: How does your head feel now?

PC: It’s much fainter.

LRH: Where is the somatic?

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

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

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

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

PC: This is wrestling.

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

PC: Yes.

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

PC: Yes.

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

PC: Haven’t got that.

LRH: When you gave somebody else a fall?

PC: Yes, I remember pinning him.

LRH: Hm-hm.

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

LRH: Did you pin him?

PC: Yeah.

LRH: What were they doing when you pinned them?

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

LRH: How did you feel when you did this?

PC: Good!

LRH: Feel good?

PC: Yeah.

LRH: How is your headache?

PC: It’s better.

LRH: Has it shifted any?

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

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

PC: Wrestling.

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

PC: Yeah.

LRH: Remember how it smells?

PC: Yeah.

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

PC: Yeah.

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

PC: Yeah.

LRH: Hm?

PC: This same fellow.

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

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

LRH: Hm?

PC: Wrestling with Bosley.

LRH: Yeah?

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

LRH: Hm-hm.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

LRH: Hm?

PC: I have a piece of good communication.

LRH: You have a piece of good communication?

PC: Yeah.

LRH: All right. How’s your head?

PC: It’s very good, but . . .

LRH: Very good but what?

PC: Well, just a wee little bit here.

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

PC: Says Wrestling.

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

PC: Yes.

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

PC: I’m weighing in on scales.

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

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

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

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

LRH: Hm-hm.

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

LRH: Hm-hm.

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

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

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

LRH: Hm?

PC: Showing this bridging business again.

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

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

LRH: All right. Is there another chain?

PC: Yes.

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

PC: Headache, it said.

LRH: Hm?

PC: Headache, it said.

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

PC: Yes.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

You stand them up on their head.

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

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

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

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

LRH: What’s closing down on you?

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

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

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

LRH: Remember this guy that they know

PC: I keep trying to . . .

LRH: Trying to what?

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

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

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

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

PC: Yes.

LRH: Pleasant...

PC: Very clear.

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

PC: Yes.

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

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

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

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

LRH: What did they say?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

LRH: What did you do?

PC: No more hat!

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

PC: No.

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

PC: Don’t ever remember tearing one up.

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

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

LRH: Yeah?

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

LRH: Uh-huh.

PC: And it blew out the window once.

LRH: Who had to stop?

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

LRH: Hm-hm.

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

LRH: (chuckling with PC) Yeah.

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

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

PC: Yes.

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

PC: (short laugh) No.

LRH: Hm?

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

LRH: Remember when he bought you a new hat?

PC: No.

LRH: Hm?

PC: I never would wear hats.

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

PC: No.

LRH: Remember when he said you had good judgment?

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

LRH: Hm-hm.

PC: That made me feel good.

LRH: Was your father fond of you?

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

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

PC: Yes, I can.

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

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

LRH: What happened?

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

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

PC: (pause) Yeah.

LRH: Can you reexperience it?

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

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

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

LRH: Remember when she agreed with you.

PC: Yes.

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

PC: Yes.

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

PC: Yes.

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

PC: Yes.

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

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

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

PC: (brief pause) No.

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

PC: Just very mild.

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

PC: Yes.

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

PC: Yes.

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

PC: Well, sort of.

LRH: What was she saying?

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

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

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

LRH: Hm-hm. Okay.

PC: So I didn’t go. (laughs)

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

PC: Yes.

LRH: How is your head?

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

LRH: Where is this somatic now?

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

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

PC: Yeah.

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

PC: Oh, about six, I guess.

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

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

LRH: Hm-hm.

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

LRH: Hm-hm.

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

LRH: Hm-hm.

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

LRH: How many headaches were here?

PC: Six.

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

PC: Ten! (laughs)

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

PC: Okay.

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

PC: Okay.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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