How are you today?

& Well, here we begin the last lecture of the congress, and if it's alright with you it'll be a totally technical lecture. Alright.

Audience: Fine.

& We've had so many things to jam in along the line. There are many things which staff has asked me to explain and announce and so forth, and I'm going to have to forego them. But I will say one or two things. And that is, anybody present is eligible to be a member of the NAAP. Anybody. It is expected that its membership will include non-Scientologists.

Did you survive?

& And another thing I will say just very briefly is, there is a Washington evacuation operation. We own two hundred acres of land, or are procuring it, and another sixth of an acre with a big house on it, and phones and lights and all that sort of thing. We have three boats, and we have the ways and means of evacuating Scientology Washington in event of any national disaster, not that we expect one particularly, but it would be foolhardy at this time not to have some means of safeguarding some of the principle materials of and the skills of Scientology. So that lies about thirty-five miles down the Potomac, and is on a place called Equia Creek. And is well up a small arm from the Potomac. And if all of the highways were closed here, we still have three boats, fast ones, that can very easily evacuate staff, their families, preclears and students who are here at that time. So if you feel like you shouldn't stay in Washington very long because the place is liable to get sort of hot and radioactive and so forth, don't worry. You'll be in good hands.

Audience: Yes.

& It has been; I will be frank; a little strain on the operation, getting together this equipment, this land, and going ahead and trying to put it into a decent form. But some time in the future I expect an academy to go up on those two hundred acres we have down there in Virginia, where somebody can come and his price of training would include his subsistence and so forth. That will not be for a long time, a year or two. But it is coming. It is coming.

You survived your morning's auditing?

& So we have the situation pretty well in hand here. In view of the fact that nearly all of the principle tapes and materials of Scientology, all of its records, all of its test reports and this tremendous stuff; I suppose if the Ford Foundation had them they'd evaluate them at somewhere around a couple of billion bucks. But that's no exaggeration, that's what it would have cost them to acquire it, had they ever been able to do so. And we have seen to it that you will not be left high and dry.

Audience: Yes.

& The point is that we do have ways and means of de-radio-activating people. And we are writing all the government officials and telling them they will be welcome if they are not properly cared for. We may wind up, we may wind up with a radioactive set of government officials on our hands, you know?

Well good. Now I hope that – I hope you are all in very good shape. However, if you aren't we have a 12 ½ -hour intensive just for those who collapsed or did something here in this Group Processing.

& It's odd but you know the medical facilities required under medicine to treat one person for radiation amount to about one hospital full of facilities? You know that? And that under any wide spread disaster it would be possible to treat maybe six or seven hundred people in the whole country. It's such a tiny thing because so much is required to do so little. Anyway, we can do one auditor and some group process, and get you over the worst of it.

& And if you see Mary Sue why I'm sure she'd do something for you.

& Completely aside from that, the operation is embarking as I have invited you to embark on a nullification of radiation. Almost like a prayer, you know? Another thing is, I don't want anybody to get the; well with that, with that, the evacuation centers, this is, you might say, your center. You would still have ways and means then, if your own area was pretty flat and so forth, why you can always come down there. You get the idea? You'll all be welcome.

But the point is that you were using very mild processes but they are quite effective – quite effective.

& Now the, another half a dozen things have been requested of me to say to you one way or the other, but you will find them out by osmosis or some such process. I actually ought to get along with this particular lecture. But before I do, let me congratulate such people as Charles Burner out in California, and John McCormick, for their activities. They are acquiring property and facilities. I think Dr. Burner has a fifty thousand dollar child's school going up totally devoted to Scientology.

The trouble with Scientology today is the mildest we have makes an atom bomb look like a faint Chinese ladyfinger firecracker, you know go pfsst. That's for true. A lot of people think their case needs dynamite, you know, they think their case should be exploded or something of the sort. They have that feeling. They say "In order to get into good shape, why I'd practically have to blow up!" That's right.

& Many other such projects are going on. They are all very worthwhile, and I want to thank you for them. This is probably the livest operation in the United States, maybe it's the only one that is alive at all. Thank you.

& As the first thing that I'd like to do today, I'd like to introduce to you the staff of the Central Organization in Washington, D.C. And first of course, your congress manager and the Organization Secretary, Dr. Vic Dean. And this young lady you know, this is Mary Sue Hubbard. And this is HCO Secretary, Millie Dean. She's going to play the organ to get you out of here when the congress is over. You have to be versatile to be an HCO Secretary, she says. And this is Jackie St. Ann, Comm Course instructor. How are you Jackie? And this is Smokey Bland. Smokey here is a staff auditor, and he's the boy that built this with some help from some others, but he built this crook neck that you saw the first day. And he had to come out and pilot it himself, so's you better not be building rockets. Thank you. And this is Judy Breeding. And this is Dick Halpern. And this is Dr. Jan Halpern.

All right, now let's get on with it, huh. We started this congress talking about a thing called a Clear. On your congress program there is a misprint. It says definition of a Clear: "One who can be knowingly and willingly at cause over life, matter, energy, space and time." That's not a Clear. Clear is a Book One definition: It's a person without an engram bank. Don't get mixed up. That program definition is Operating Thetan; that's an Operating Thetan.

& Now any of you that are smart enough or luckless enough to be part of the nineteenth ACC will be totally mislead. You think this little, white hand here is little and white. Wait 'til you feel it on the back of your neck when you do wrong. Thank you.

It's obvious that a person who had total control over life, matter, energy, space and time could mock up an army that everybody could see. But we're talking about a Clear and that was our goal in Book One and I think it's enough at this congress that I announce its attainment – a small thing, by lots of auditors. See, it's being attained now.

& And this is Dr. Glen Elliot. And this is Bonnie Turner, HCO. And this is Gordon Bell. Thank you Gordon. And this is Jack Horner. Hi Jack.

And I want to very hastily go over Clear Procedure with you and supplement its material just a little bit particularly with regard to Step Six and maybe I can give you a little clearer understanding of what this is all about.

& From Audience: Hi!

The earlier steps are devoted to keeping a session in progress and in devoting – are devoted to keeping a preclear under control enough so that he will run the processes. Do you see that?

& This is Phil Talent. And he's the reason you've been getting all of your books on time lately. Thank you. And this is Eleanor Eddy. Thank you. There's Mr. Slaughter, who does a good job for us. And this is Al Cozak.

Now, the 19th ACC will be devoted to these processes and they will all be used and thoroughly supervised. If you don't make that – at the same time don't feel – don't feel discouraged and say, "Well, I'm not supposed to use Clear Procedure because I didn't attend the 19th ACC." I expect most of you to be in the 19th ACC so that's a safe remark to make. I would actually like to have the privilege of teaching you personally about this sort of thing, but nevertheless – you got smart brains and – that's a subtle Scientology insult.

& Now those of you that are lucky enough at this season of the year to be living in Florida will probably be seeing a lot of Al. Is that right, that you're taking over that territory?

Well, we have here – we have here the earlier part of this devoted to how to keep a session in progress and how to keep the participation of a person rolling and how to get him enough under control so that we can do the crux of the situation which is one of the briefer steps outlined. And it's only half a page here; it's on page 24 of Clear Procedure and it says "Chapter 8, Step Six, Creative Processing."

& From Audience: That's possible, yes.

Well, you all know about Creative Processing, and if you don't you should get Scientology 8-8008 and get as garbled as I did. But you ought to read its basic and background theory because it's given in there quite succinctly.

& Yeah, well he's taken over that territory, so you've got it made. OK.

But this is – this is simply the most condensed statement of the mechanics involved in the creation of a Clear that I could make. I might be able to get a few words out of here the way you do out of telegrams. You know erase some articles and prepositions and so forth but it couldn't be condensed much more than it is there and if anything you may find it a little too condensed. So much so that I have along with every other writing job I have waiting for me – my – the whole – people come in to see me, at the desk and the whole front of the desk is stacked up with papers and manuscripts and notes, you see, on my hat, writing, and then back over here alongside of a big bank of tape recorders is a box and it is totally stacked up with blue folders and each one of them is a book. Otherwise I'm not much behind.

& And this Larry Michele, staff auditor. And this is Kathy Talent, who does a good job on staff auditing. And this is Gene Townley on staff as auditor. And this is Dr. John Galusha, who has been around. He's very suspicious. He doesn't know quite what I'm going to say now. He's been around probably longest of any staff, and he came back to us. He's now Director of Training, and doing a terrific job. Thank you John.

And Creative Processing will be scheduled as a book, but you'll see it sometime this year, probably toward the end of the year however – length of time it takes to get something out.

& And this is Rosina Mann, formerly; used to be on London staff, and she was so good that we borrowed her and got her over here. And this is May Garringer. And this is Barney Bossick. Bill Lawrence. I'll show you how big this organization is. This boy's been on staff and working hard, organizing Washington here for weeks, and I can't tell the difference between him and Gordon Bell. They've gotten in each other's valence on this one project. Thank you.

But the whole thing, the whole story of Creative Processing is one of the more fabulous things you can do with somebody's mind.

& And this gentleman is one of our newer staff members. He's been into more mischief lately. There are more people, there are more people in the opposition who wishes he weren't around, but we're glad he's around. This is Dr. Ken Barrett.

Well, actually, what process could there be except Creative Processing if you addressed the mind? What else is there in the mind but mental image pictures and the automaticities one assumes to handle them. Well, now if that's all there is in the mind, then Creative Processing does cover this field called the mind. Do you see that? It possibly is almost a closer cousin to Dianetics than to Scientology. Do you see that?

& And this is my daughter, Kay Hubbard. And this is a gentleman who takes care of press, Paul Twitchell. And this is Johann Templehouse. Most of those PAB books back there were edited by Johann, and there's several other books and a couple of new ones there. They've all seen his light touch, and also a lot of your PABs are edited by him. So if you can read what I say, Johann is to blame. Thank you.

But in Scientology we consider it this way, and therefore Creative Processing handled from a Scientology viewpoint would be increasing the confidence of a thetan in his ability to handle mental image pictures, not erase or straighten out mental image pictures; that was the goal in Dianetics.

& And this is Marilyn Rootsong.

See, in Dianetics we were straightening out these pictures, and in Scientology, we're getting the person, the being himself to straighten out these pictures. You see? Now, therefore the total emphasis of this step (and get this very well) is to increase confidence, increase ability.

& Do you know who he is?

& Now the final goal of the step is bringing to the person the realization that he himself, without any further question in his mind, is actually the one who is creating the pictures, and who has created all of the pictures, and with that full realization he doesn't create any more pictures unless he himself thinks of doing so. He has to create the picture. You get the idea? It's no longer the picture is created and he looks at it. He creates the picture and knows that he creates the picture, and hasn't any other pictures than those he creates. And that is a clear. And that is the goal of Creative Processing.

& Audience: No.

And all the goals in Clear Procedure step by step are simply added up to making it possible to run this Step Six, Creative Processing, and its goal is to bring a person into the full and complete realization that he himself creates his own mind. Do you understand that?

& No. Burt Belnap. And right now the tape recorders are probably grinding, grinding, grinding into dust without any attention, 'cause this is Don Breeding. Now Don is not our electronic man, he's a staff auditor. He's just a volunteer on electronics now.

& Anything then which doesn't serve that particular goal or activity is not desired or required. So quantitative running; you know, if we just make eight or nine thousand more, why the mechanics of it will take care of it. You get the idea? If we just have him do it for eighteen hundred more hours, the grind of it alone will come out the top somehow. That's not indicated in this step. There's no grind about this step.

& We actually got him out of electronics. Thank you.

& It's goal is to increase his awareness and willingness, and to bring about the realization that he creates his own mental image pictures. His mind, these mental images. And this includes the totality of the reactive mind. You understand that?

& And last, and very far from least, this is Nibs, my son. Thank you. Thank you very much. Got quite a staff, haven't we? That's quite a staff.

So that in Book One you read all about the reactive mind which was below the level of consciousness. Now this individual has to be – got to become so conscious that he knows he's even creating his reactive mind. In other words these reactivities which are the total study of older psychologies: reactivity, interaction of pictures, stimulus-response, these were totally the subject of Pavlov's studies, Wundt's studies, only they didn't even know what they were studying. They hadn't even noticed the picture.

& And this organization, for all the things it's doing, is understaffed. Enormously understaffed. Nearly every one of those people is wearing two or three hats. Any one of their hats would be considered a full time job by anybody else. We have found, oddly enough, that only a very good auditor and good Scientologist can survive in most of the staff posts. That's an interesting fact. And when we have to put somebody in an executive position we look at his auditing skill, because that is a direct index of what he can do. That's a little less than you should take in throwing organizations together. If he can't audit, watch out. Something we have learned over the years.

Now, Dianetics noticed the picture and said you could do something about it. Scientology has come along and taken the person and placed him in a position where he can create these pictures when he wants them.

& Ordinary business would go slightly mad trying to handle the volume and the variety of things that we handle, number of projects we get into, and the things we do. And it's, homo sapiens couldn't do it. So we've had to do something rather extra. I'm not exaggerating it, this is actually the truth.

Now, fortunately for us, as a man improves in his awareness and ability, he improves in ethical sense. As you remove the limitations on his action, he actually does improve in his social ability to act. How fortunate that is – it could be quite another way.

& The complexity of a Scientology organization is almost the complexity of a civilization. The only thing we do not have at the moment is somebody in charge of the galley. We just don't have that particular post covered, but we will have very shortly.

It could be the way the psychologist said it was, "Man was basically a beast, and that he needed more and more punishment, and more and more barriers to make him better and better."

Like to talk to you today about numerous things and somehow or other I have got to get four or five hours of lecture into the next two hours and forty-five minutes. So if I speed up and the words sort of start jamming, why start frowning at me.

There was even a book published some years ago Be Glad You're Neurotic. Well, that is so far from the truth that as a writer – as a writer I can tell you quite vividly that my speed of writing and ability to cope with writing and artistry in the field of writing went downhill to the degree that it went on automatic and toward the end of the thirties my production was nowhere near as high as it had been in the early part of the thirties because I had set up a whole bunch of mental bric-a-brac to do the job for me and I had reactively begun to write. Do you get the idea?

Probably every nationality has a weak spot. The British undoubtedly have a weak spot, undoubtedly. The Spanish have a weak spot; the Italians have a weak spot. But Americans don't have any weak spots, do they?

In other words, my writing had been – come if anything "neurotic." Do you get the idea? "Be glad you're neurotic," indeed! In other words, the more reactive bank I got, the less speed and accuracy there was in my writing, do you see that? And it wasn't until Dianetics came along and took a scoop shovel to an awful lot of this stuff and I got a clear view of things again, that I started to write with any speed. Do you see that?

I'll tell you what the biggest weak spot is in America. Would you like to know about that?

I used to have a feeling all the time that "I ought to be writing" regardless of what I was doing "I ought to be writing." You know? It had finally seeped in to a point where I knew I ought to be writing. And the more I got that the less I wrote. Do you see that? And after a while when I didn't give a darn whether I wrote or not and I had no compulsion to do so I was doing much, much better, speed was up, lots of things came up.

Audience: Sure, yeah.

Fortunately man is better off sane than crazy. I know that sounds like a remarkably sort of stupid remark, but it would sound like an incorrect one "if neurosis makes us do all the good things." You see if it was right to be neurotic, then of course it's righter to be psychotic, isn't it? So obviously the more insane a person is the more benefit he is to the society if you follow out this same line of logic. That doesn't sound right to you, does it?

First we have to look at an interesting principle: That anything you put on automatic, you then become irresponsible for. Anything which is put into a category where you can no longer control it and have nothing further to do with it, goes out of your reach, out of your attention and becomes a disability.

Well, believe me it would sound right to the old schools of psychology, it sounds right to the psychoanalyst. "Be glad you're neurotic." "All artists write to sublimate their deadlier passions."

Now, I said the other day that a thetan was putting up his own mental image pictures and didn't know he was doing it. Well, the way he manages that is to put up an automaticity out here someplace; he mocks up something called Joe that he still feeds but doesn't control and this thing keeps feeding him his own pictures. Of course, he himself is making his own pictures but it is via this and he says, "I have no further responsibility for this over here." Do you understand that? We call that an "automaticity" in Scientology.

& Well what do we mean by these things? We mean the fellow is doing things he doesn't know he's doing. And if a fellow's doing things he doesn't know he's doing, he becomes the unknowing and unwilling effect of what he's doing. Do you see that? He becomes the effect of his own cause and doesn't even know it. And when a fellow has a mental image picture bank and a reactive mind, and all these stimulus response mechanisms going on, and doesn't know that he is putting them there, he of course is the victim of himself. And then he compounds the felony by blaming everybody else. He blames everybody for what he's doing. But he's still putting the pictures there. Sure, maybe they put content into the pictures, but he's still putting the pictures there. Fascinating, fascinating thing here. To catch a thetan off guard to this extent.

For instance, an automobile will probably be a thing of curiosity in another thirty or forty or fifty years. Certainly it will probably be something that nobody ever sees and possibly nobody knows anything about.

& We used to think there were G.E. facsimiles. There aren't. This is quite remarkable. We used to think there were whole track facsimiles that maybe got put up there by the cells. There aren't. This is pretty fabulous when you get right down to it. The person who puts them there is the thetan.

Why? Because the automobile is being set up as an automatic transportation device which takes the driver and the passengers places. The accident rate increases to the degree that automobiles become automatic. Now, this I'm not talking through my hat, mainly because I am not wearing one. I'm not stretching this – it – what I tell you is true.

& There are very few people in this room are aware of this fact at this moment, subjectively, but I think you could agree with it intellectually, but it may sound like I am accusing you of something. I am not at all. I am simply talking technically. I'm not accusing you of a thing. It's just a technical statement. A statement which, by the way, we have to accept if we're going to remedy it.

The more a thing handles somebody, the less he handles it. You got that? So this automobile that changes people's position in space eventually will become uncontrollable, the accident rate goes up, up, up. Now, the way to cut an accident rate is not to tell people they are going to have accidents. That is simply a postulate to kill them. It would be to make people take an automobile from point A to point B and never be taken by an automobile from point A to point B.

& Now you start processing quantitatively you get in trouble, because it's the fact that he is making it that is your target, not the amount he makes. You get the difference? Look, after a thetan has been around, after a being has been around in this universe as long as he has been around, he gets an awful lot of experiences. And he can make any and all of them. He can mock them all up, to be technical. He can make pictures of them, and with great accuracy. So he thinks that the pictures are a thing. And he thinks he files them someplace, and after a while he finds that it's difficult for him to get rid of his pictures. Now just a minute. He couldn't possibly get rid of a picture he continued to create. So all you have to do is give him the control of his creation of the stimulus response mechanisms of the mind, the pictures in other words, to give him the total control of his mind. It's elementary, my dear Watson. Why didn't we know this years ago? What grief it would have saved so many of us, if some of us had known this years and years ago. What grief it would have saved man if he had known this two or three thousand years ago. What grief it would have saved all of you if you hadn't forgotten it seventy-three trillion years ago!

It was very interesting. I had a Jaguar. It's gone now; it is over in Ceylon. And Mary Sue didn't like it. She didn't like it; it had a gearshift. She'd never seen a car in her whole life or driven one that had a gearshift. That's right. She had no cognizance of gearshifts. And this thing was a right-hand drive and you had to fool with the gearshift over here. And as a result – as a result she didn't like this car. Until one fine day I told her, "You have to take a Jaguar down the road. You have to take it around corners. You have to take it up to higher speeds and drop it down to lower speeds." So she says, "What do you know?" And she took the car out at once, and took it down the road, and took it around corners and took it higher and took it lower and so forth, and all of a sudden, why she could handle and control a Jaguar; it was no longer handling and controlling her. I don't think she has ever gotten back into the sloppy habit of being taken places by an automobile.

& So here we go all the way along the time track up 'til now, and all of a sudden why, this datum suddenly falls out of the hopper, and we discover ourselves exposed. Now this is the least acceptable datum there is to a human being. The least acceptable there is. There is no less acceptable datum than that he is the cause of all of his own misfortunes. Because everybody has told him this from the last grave to present time. You are the author of your own misfortune. Well you see, that doesn't totally follow. If everybody else has got a bank that he is creating, and you've got a bank that you're creating, the interlocking reactions that you will get means that you can live in an aberrated society. And I am not now saying that you are responsible for the whole society and its craziness. You understand? I'm merely saying that you could have better control of your reaction to the society around you. You get the slight difference here? Nobody's accusing you of being responsible for everything that's ever happened. It just says you could have better control of it. Got the idea? And it says the place it starts is your own mind. Got it?

But if somebody didn't know that, eventually he would be sitting there and something would be steering, but it wouldn't be him. Got this? And that's the way you get more accidents. Something has been put on automatic and disaster follows, because an irresponsibility sets in.

Therefore this whole of Creating Processing on page 24 of Scientology Clear Procedure, Issue One is devoted to the exact technical steps that should be taken by the auditor after he has a preclear in session in pretty good shape, has him able to control facsimiles and obey the auditor's commands. When he's got him up to that state he can run this step. He can't run this step unless he has got the thing under control. Do you see that? Control is a necessary part of all of this.

All those things then that are put on automatic in this fashion – one becomes irresponsible for. And in America we have become irresponsible for those things which are built into our national life on automatic. The Constitution, the Bill of Rights, democracy. That's it – it's an automaticity.

Therefore, we have here the first step on this in some cases is conquering black field and invisible field. Well, now, in the 19th ACC (Instructors take note) we're going to divide the unit up into three broad groups. One, with good mental pictures easily attained, mental pictures questionably attained and "What pictures?" Three groups. Got that? So that we don't get co-auditing between somebody with brilliant pictures and somebody with an invisible field because the fellow with the invisible field will not be able to believe that the other fellow has pictures, and the fellow with pictures won't be able to believe that the other fellow has an invisible field. There's a -...

It was set up by a fellow by the name of George Washington; Ben Franklin helped him. Tom Jefferson, the rest of these boys, they did a good job. And as long as any of that crew was alive, there were – some life in this machinery. Right?

Now a fellow who is auditing somebody with questionable or misbehaving pictures of course will understand this if his own pictures are questionable and misbehaving.

And here and there up the line somebody has injected some life in the machinery. But listen, in America we have all the laws for freedom, and we don't have the freedom. And in Europe they don't have any of the laws for freedom, and they have freedom. You get this?

Now, when we have an invisible field or a black field it is necessary to remedy that thing before you go on to the rest of it. Now, one of these days I will probably discover some even more positive method of doing this but the method we have right now is positive enough and that method is as follows: You mock up what the field is and push it into the body until the field clears. You got that? It's a very elementary step.

Now, this is an interesting condemnation of national life, and I am not going out on the line to tell you that America is all bad. It is not. A country is neither good nor bad; it is able or unable.

A person has a black field, it's all black, if he will just mock up blacknesses, you have him "Mock up blacknesses and shove them into the body, mock up blacknesses and shove them into the body, mock up blacknesses and shove them into the body," he will then have a cleared field, in that he'll be able to get a picture.

And a disability sets in when you no longer have responsibility for national functions – you become unable as a democracy. This is the greatest danger that faces the United States, not an A-bomb.

Now the first things he does with a picture after you've cleaned up a black field is usually very amusing in this day and age. He dramatizes motion picture screens and television sets, and puts the picture against something so that he can get the picture against blackness. You got this? He can get the picture against blackness as long as he has the blackness.

Hardly any American – this is his weak spot – will – but will tell you this utter asininity, "Somebody's taking care of it."

But if you ask him this one question this rather changes the whole thing. "What is the blackness?" And he will find out that he's mocking up pictures against the underside of his eyelids.

You say "Civilian defense; there is no civilian defense. You say what the devil is the idea of courting war with Russia without organizing a civilian defense?" And most of the people you talk to about that, you go right down the line and one right after the other they'll tell you, "Somebody's taking care of it.”

He can just as easily, if you take him up a gradient scale in size – they're little tiny pictures, they are just microscopic pictures mocked up against the backside of his eyelids. And if you ask him to get them bigger and bigger in size, you can get them against a book held here or against a door or a wall, and he can get pictures. But what's he dramatizing? He's dramatizing projection.

I talked to a couple of engineers not long ago, and these two fellows were very interested in rocketry and they were doing work in rocketry. And I said, "Do you boys have an orifice pressure table yet?" I knew they didn't have one fifteen years ago, and I wondered if they had gotten one since. And these two fellows looked at me and fatuously said "Oh, I am sure somebody is taking care of it."

See, pictures aren't given by projection, but you can get him over this. As soon as you get him to remedy havingness to a point of where he's got a cleared field then, it is necessary for you to coach him on a gradient scale, until he can mock up a picture, any kind of a picture, and you have him mock that picture up. And when he is pretty good at just that, just mocking it up, you remedy his havingness with it.

Do you know what they use for a rocketry orifice pressure table that sends off their Vanguards and Snarks and Corporals? Do you know what they use? They use the hose-kick table of the Chicago Fire Department! That's still in use; I saw a copy of it the other day. Only now they pretend it is a rocketry-kick table, foot-pounds of thrust. How big does the hole in the end of the rocket have to be, and how fast should the velocity of reaction be in order to get an optimum take-off. That is what I mean by "orifice pressure," and they still use the Chicago Fire Department hose table.

Which is to say you have him "Mock up the picture and push it into the body. And mock up the picture and throw it away." Well, the steps that you have to go to to get him to throw it away, and some of the cleverness that you have to assume in order to do this is often quite amusing; right there it requires some inventiveness.

The hose table goes in reverse. The firemen don't want a hose to kick, so they've worked it out so as to get the minimum kick for the size of the nozzle and the velocity of the water. And we wonder why Vanguard wouldn't take off.

How do you get somebody to throw away a picture? Oh, ha – that's pretty wild on some cases. Most of you wouldn't believe it, but they can't do it.

Well, it's not quite as simple as this and maybe it isn't quite as bad as this; maybe there is somebody or another who has gotten an appropriation for figuring out the orifice pressure table.

I had one case mock up an elephant and have the elephant walk out the door. It was perfectly all right.

But this feeling that "Somebody else is taking care of it" will someday find this country lying under a large gravestone. It's built into the national life of the country.

But the person has got to be able to pull in a picture and throw a picture away in order to have any control of a picture at all.

The rights are guaranteed: freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom of religion. They're guaranteed utterly, you don't have to do a thing about them.

Now, if a person mocks up one picture and then he can't throw that picture away, have him mock up another picture, a duplicate of it, and a duplicate, and a duplicate and a duplicate, and finally after he's done it five or six times, he can throw the fifth or sixth one away. And then if he mocks up two or three more he can throw the eighth one away. Do you get the idea? And eventually he will be able to mock up a picture and throw it away; mock up a picture and put it in.

Listen, if they are only in print, and nobody is making sure those rights exist, they cease to exist; and they are ceasing to exist right now.

When he gets into that state only then are you in the running. Now you have begun; you have got his field clear and you have some control over these pictures so they don't go into vast automaticities. Do you see that?

When you say that "the people of the United States shall choose the president of the United States," how long has it been since anybody came around and asked you who you wanted for president? They give you a couple of lunks neither one of which you'd have as office boy, and say "Which one of these do you want to vote for?" Oh, no. This is government by representation.

Now, supposing the black field was more resistive than any I have ever encountered? Ever since 1950 I've been totally prepared to have something like that happen – that cases come up in your view that don't come up in mine. That cases occur which are different or vary in some respect.

Yes, I know, I am picking on the United States mighty hard. But the United States just yesterday was the light of the world; and just today is talking about becoming a second-class power! What would make her this second-class power?

Now, I haven't seen a new type of case that we didn't know about for many years. But I would just as soon one came up that wouldn't solve on this black – "Mock up a black object in the blackness and shove it into your body." Supposing it didn't solve on that? I actually would go out and get a piece of – a couple of pieces of coal or something like that and I'd simply have the person "Keep that piece of coal from going away" with his hands over here and then got the black field until it was less resistive because of this hand drill, and then I would have him "Mock up blackness and shove it into the body." You get the idea?

Just one thing – the political life of the country is on automatic. The third dynamic here is on automatic and there is a tremendous unwillingness on the part of individual Americans to take responsibility for any other person than himself, because it's all by law guaranteed that everybody will take care of everybody else; but one doesn't have to take care of anybody. Do you got it?

In other words, I'd undercut it with a material object. Similarly with invisible objects, if the invisible field didn't clear up rather rapidly this way, then I would get a couple of pieces of glass, or several pieces of glass and have the person keep these pieces of glass from going away, and have him run drills with these objects until at last the invisible field could surrender to a point where he could "Mock up invisibilities and shove them into the body; invisibilities and throw them away." I would get him to do that. And I'd be very sure that this took place before I went any further with the person's processing. Do you understand that?

Now, that sounds awfully harsh, and you may back up and say "Well, Ron is really taking his finger off of his number these days."

All right, now what would be the next step? Well, the next step is a very cute one. This whole thing is faster with an E-Meter. I actually am trying to get some E-Meters manufactured that would sell for – good ones, transistor meters that would sell for maybe $62.50 less discount – less member discount. Transistor meters that would work out.

But it is a little disheartening to go out and swap lead with a bunch of stupid jerks like John Foster Dulles losing the war before it is ever fought. One can get bitter about things like this. Good men lay down their lives to keep an enemy off our shores and then somebody works all day and all night to lose the peace. How could anybody permit him to? Just one thing: "Somebody else will take care of it."

Not because you don't have meters available here and there but because there is certainly new Scientologists coming up and they'll need them.

Now, it works this way: "Me and my little vote, me and my little vote couldn't possibly influence the course of the federal government. Me and my little vote are insignificant in the face of this overwhelming something or other."

It isn't absolutely necessary to run this stuff against a meter, but a meter can make it faster, you can run faster so that you never do the step unnecessarily. When it's flat, it's flat; the meter is no longer reacting. You just flatten the reaction on the meter on each one of these steps. All right.

They used to tell us that "The United States Navy was too big; it couldn't be efficient anymore." It couldn't be efficient because it was too big. The US government can't be controlled because it is too big.

Let's say that you've cleared up his invisible field or cleared up his black field. And you've done it with pieces of coal or mock-ups as I have described. What's your next step? Nah, nothing could be more simple, my dear Watson.

There is only one thing that enfranchises the federal government and that is the United States people. And when those people are no longer able to take responsibility for others than themselves, then there is no further a democracy here. There will be a totalitarianism, or a socialism or some new -ism, but there won't any longer be a United States of America, a democratic nation.

You find six nonsignificant things which graduate in size and mass here, see? Get the idea? Six of them. Now, that could go from an apple, to a building, to a planet, to a sun, to a black sun, to a universe or something like that on an extremity. You get the idea?

What is this all about? Well, this is backing up the hearse, isn't it? But don't you think the hearse has been backed up rather rapidly here in the last few weeks or months? We actually have been skirting on the edge of war ever since Eisenhower was reelected. We have somebody who is probably the worst hated American abroad kept thoroughly in office, who the other day said, "No, I will not help the Dutch in Indonesia." And the communists came right on along and picked it up.

Or it could come something like a particle or maybe a grain of rice or something, or a particle, tiny particle up to a walnut or something like this, up to let us say a nonsignificant object, up to a jar of some sort you know, up to a chair, up to a house, up to a building; they've got to be a gradient scale of size, don't you see? And they mustn't be significant.

Do you know what the communists do with a country? Do you know what sort of an economy communism is? It is such a bad economy, such a bad slave economy that inflation undreamed of in any other land, such as ours, demands that nation after nation has to be gobbled up so that it can be gutted! They can not produce in Russia enough food, enough clothing, enough shoes. A slave economy never can produce these things.

In other words, as you call them off and try to arrange them with a preclear, an E-Meter is invaluable here, because an E-Meter will kick every time you get a significant object, and you come off of it quick. You want six of them – you spend time picking them out. The time you spend picking them out and making sure that they are not significant or upsetting to the preclear in anyway will pay you a thousand times over in getting the processing on the road. You got the idea?

How do they keep living? By eating Red China! By starving the satellites more than they themselves are starved – and that is how they keep going. An interesting thing.

So you got six items now. Regardless of what they were the fellow has some confidence in being able to mock these things up and they don't knock his head off because he does. All right.

If you could see Russia as sort of a vacuum that must have new conquests continually in order to go on living, you will then understand more about the international political situation, I am afraid, than Dr. Dulles.

We have him take this first one; we have him "Mock it up and keep it from going away." We have him "Mock it up and keep it from going away." We have him "Mock it up and keep it from going away." "Did you?" we ask. "Good." "Mock it up...," whatever it was, "Mock up the grain of rice and keep it from going away. Did you do that? Thank you. Mock up the grain of rice and keep it from going away. Did you do that? Thank you." And when we have no further kick on the meter or no reaction in the preclear of any kind because of doing this one little first thing, we graduate to the next nonsignificant object on our list, and we do the same thing.

A lawyer always has an odd idea of property. Property is something that is in the lap of the Gods and at the issuance of the court. A lawyer, when he sees property, normally sees it in transit, in litigation and so forth. The property of the Dutch in Indonesia was the property of the Dutch. And lawyer Dulles said, "Well, we'll keep our hands off of Indonesia" and now you will see in the next few weeks the communists again bolstering their tottering inflationary economy by taking everything there is in Indonesia and shipping it back home to Russia. Just like Franklin Delano let them take everything in Manchuria and ship it back to Russia. Just as they let them take everything in East Germany and ship it back to Russia.

And let us say that this was a walnut. And we say, "All right." We bridge it very nicely, and then we say, "Mock up a walnut and keep it from going away. Did you?" "Yes." "All right." We flatten that.

You talk about locusts. Since the days of Ghengis Khan or before, these people have never acted differently than as a vacuum of goods. The campaigns of Ghengis Khan and these campaigns against Indonesia and so forth, differ only as a political conquest differs from a military conquest.

Now, it may take you anywhere from five minutes to five hours to flatten it, and you'll find oddly enough that they vary. You may flatten three of these objects in ten minutes apiece and then spend three and a half hours on the next one. Get the idea? It's not a certain length of time then; it's "Mocking it up and keeping it from going away" until it is fiat. In other words there is no further reaction or restimulation or upset or comm lag in the preclear. You can always tell these things also by comm lags.

All right here's this tremendous amount of goods that sat in Indonesia; they have now been appropriated to the Indonesian government. But where do they go now? The little people of Indonesia, one of these fine days, will wake up and somebody will be coming by with a truck taking away their hoes and shovels. Oh, you say, that's kind of weird. What do you mean? Well, if they don't leave them hoes and shovels to work with how will they get any other produce. That's a problem the Russians have never solved and that is their national weakness; that you have got to let somebody else breathe in order to get production!

And we don't care whether this fellow is getting any cognitions or not, not at this stage of the game.

And the Russian thinks that if you just sit on somebody else's head hard enough and don't let him breathe then you get production!

Now, we bridge it up here to the next object and we have him "Mock that up and keep it from going away" until that's flat. Then we bridge into the next higher object, "Mock it up and keep it from going away" until it's flat. Next object bigger, "Mock it up and keep it from going away" until that's flat, and now the final object "Mock it up and keep it from going away" until that's flat. You got that? See? And then we just run that whole thing, each one flat.

This is a war of production that is going on right now, and every piece of goods that is permitted to fall into Russian hands, from whatever source, simply bolsters an economy which very well might collapse in the next few months! It is a day-to-day proposition.

Now, we take the same objects and run "Hold it still." And we run that in this fashion, "Mock up a grain of rice and hold it still." "Did you? Thank you." "Mock up a grain of rice and hold it still. Did you? Thank you." Got that? Simple.

A bellhop in Russia gets no more money than a bellhop here; but eggs are two and three dollars apiece, and you might be able to get two a week. If you got a new pair of shoes a year you are in a capitalistic class. These people are starving to death.

Now, when that is flat he may have some difficulty; but the difficulty damps out and he gets better and better at it.

When any worker gets home, the kids always ask, "Did you bring anything to eat this time?" These people work hard. The Russian says, "Oh, well, you should have economies that everybody – everybody can come along, you know, and they all pool the goods and we'll all be rich and wealthy." Well, they've never gotten rich and wealthy on this theory.

By the way, we've never asked him "Did you mock that up? Are you sure that you mocked that up?" See, we don't do that to him.

Europe has long since learned that only private enterprise and the freeing of individuals can bring about a successful economy; and Europe long since let go of its slaves, but Russia hasn't yet; she is still operating on this economy.

Why? Not at this stage of the game. It's a triumph for him just to have it appear from somewhere. Don't rattle him. This all goes on a gradient. You're asking him to discover at once what he'll discover sooner or later for himself.

That whole state would collapse if she could get no further goods from conquered satellites. This maybe is to you a brand-new view of Russian economy.

So we come up the line. "Mock up a walnut. Hold it still. Did you? Thank you." All right.

Well, are we going any such route? Yes, we're going such a route, but we're going the route of "I couldn't do anything. Poor little me with my insignificant vote against this huge automaticity. I can't do anything."

And then we get that flat and we come up here to the next object. "Mock up the next object. Hold it still. Did you? Thank you." Got the idea? Till we get all six of these objects flat. He can mock each one of them up and hold it still. Nothing to it.

Well, look, if you don't do anything, nothing is going to get done. There is nobody else to do it.

All right, now we've got that flat, we bridge over to the next one which is "Make it a little more solid." And we have him "Mock up the grain of rice and make it a little more solid. Did you? Thank you. Mock up the grain of rice and make it a little more solid. Did you? Thank you." All right, here we go then. Right on up the line, each one of these six objects we flatten in turn until he can make all of them solid.

It has been built into this society that it is a bad thing to take responsibility for any other person than yourself; that's built into this American state just by this dependency for freedom on this automaticity. Automaticities die out, remember, they don't serve you forever.

Now, you say we're all set. Now, we've gone somewhere. Yes sir, this is where we have gone. It's a very, very difficult process. You get six more objects not necessarily bigger or different, but just six more objects that are apparently relatively nonsignificant, and you have him "Keep the first one from going away" until that's flat. And the next one "from going away" until that's flat, and the next one "from going away" till that's flat. And the next one "from going away," get the idea? Six new objects.

"Willingness to take responsibility from some other but than myself." And boy does this process on an American. Now, the Englishman is not quite this way; he's different, just a little bit different than the American. Fascinatingly so, because you say, "Is there anyone you don't have to take responsibility for." And he'll respond better. The darned fool has taken responsibility for everybody to such a degree that you can't get him out of group sessions. You just – it's rough.

And then – and then when we have finally gotten that done, we have him "Hold each one still" until he can do it. And then we have him "Make it more solid" same way we did the first time, don't you see, but with six new objects. And when we got that all flat, we dream up six new objects! And by this time, we don't care whether they are significant or not.

Just let a bunch of Britishers get together and discuss an issue. Oh, no! You will be there until two or three o'clock in the morning trying to get this thing thrashed out, because everybody takes responsibility for the issue.

We could have him mock up mothers, or cats or kangaroos; it wouldn't matter whether they banged on the needle or not, because his confidence is sufficient now that he could ladle in to a bit of the reactive kick that he's going to get in the bank.

Well, there is nothing bad about this at all, and it is probably the only reason they are still afloat.

So we choose these next ones rather carelessly. We've been so far successful and we have another set of six. We don't get them because they are significant, don't read that, we just – don't care whether they are or not. And we have – we get these from the preclear, we don't dream them up as much as we ask the preclear for them, but we are liable to change them.

They don't have democracy on automatic. Somebody put a short dirk into the throat of King John while Old Yea and Nay was off to the Crusades. And he says, "Johnny, sign here. Sign here." And they've had to fight for it ever since. I think they got it in the first place as a Roman tradition. I think it's probably the only place in the world where Roman ethics and political philosophy still exist without much alteration. The Anglo-Saxons tried to knock it over, the Jutes, the rest of the people that came in there have tried to squash this down. The Normans have come in, everybody has tried to make a slave out of the Englishman, and he is the least slavish fellow you ever ran into in your life. It's quite interesting, quite interesting.

You say, "What's a small object you think you could mock up?" "Oh," he says, "I think I could mock up a needle" and the thing goes wham! and drops five dials, and you say, "Well, that's fine. How about a pin?" "Well," he says "a pin's all right," and there is nothing happens with a pin, and you say, "All right, we will take the first one for a pin." You get the way you decide these things?

A fellow who carries coal up the steps, the guy that waits on you in the restaurant – none of these people consider themselves slaves. But one of these days an American is going to consider himself a slave, one of these days, because his freedom is on automatic; and because he has been carefully taught that he should take care of number one.

All right, so we have these but-we-this next time as we go up the line, we don't care whether they're significant or not, and we suddenly select out all of these objects one after the other, and we just run the same scale, "Keep it from going away." "Hold it still." And "make it a little more solid." See? We don't run all three on the same object; we run the object flat, the next object flat, and all the whole series flat on "Keep it from going away," then we graduate the whole series to "Hold it still." Then we graduate the whole series to "Make it a little more solid."

America holds in question anyone who would help her. And if you look over her history, you will find out that she has a national habit of killing off anyone who would come to her assistance. She owes an A-bomb to oh, several hundred scientists, but some of the key scientists who built that A-bomb have today been kicked out of the government – for subversion? No, no, it's not subversion to open your mouth. They have been kicked out for one reason only. I am afraid it's because they helped.

All right. If that is the case, where does this finally wind up and what new startling thing do we do? Nothin'. Nothin'. Because those steps all by themselves will finally wind up making a Clear. There isn't anything more you have to do.

You look over America's history along this line, you'll find out that it is a bad one. This is a stupidity.

Now, one of these fine days I may get smarter or you may get smart and we might dream up a little shorter cut or something we say after that has to be done. Or we decide we had better clean up the dynamics. But wait a minute, you're working on OT! Got it? And I'm not describing to you the techniques for Operating Thetan, I'm describing to you the techniques for a Clear.

Now, we can talk straight from the shoulder here with no thought of real criticism for this reason: We can do something about it. The willingness to take responsibility for somebody other than yourself is at the root of every successful marriage. Why do we have all of these divorces in the United States? Why is this level of divorce so high?

Now, you got that pretty well? Seems pretty simple doesn't it?

And why, by the way, for another reason other than automaticity, is the level of auto accidents so high? Hmm? Maybe all of these things have got the same root: "Don't take responsibility for the other guy." It's just low pan-determinism, that's all.

Well, I'll recommend an E-Meter to you, and you can build them or beg them or borrow 'em or steal 'em or not use them or anything else. We don't care, the only reason the organization would fool around with E-Meters is just if there is a demand. Somebody shouldn't be left without a meter. We wouldn't try to make any money off of one. The main thing of it is, is they just – if they're in demand – they should be in supply. We are not trying to go into business. The – we've already had trouble with somebody commercializing E-Meters; we had a pretty good meter. It was the HIR-52, that was a good meter, and it's quite reliable. It had a range expander; you didn't find cases that were off the bottom, or too many cases didn't go off the top.

I usually drive five cars at once: My own car, the car behind, the car ahead, the car coming in from the right and the car coming in from the left. If you don't drive all five of 'em – it's very easy to do in this country, it's not hard – it's not so easy to do in France. But it is rather easy to do in this country; there is seldom anybody else at the wheel.

But we did find this: we found that the manufacturer of that meter got more and more complicated and added more and more dials, and more and more things, and there were less and less constants and finally auditors couldn't use them at all and it all but destroyed the idea of E-Meters.

Ah, yes, I am undoubtedly being very critical, but I'm being critical for a reason. Do you want to know why somebody is failing consistently in his marriage. It's because he is unwilling to take responsibility for others than himself. You want to know why somebody is failing consistently on the job. It's because he is unwilling to take responsibility for anybody in the office or any other jobs in the office but himself

What is an E-Meter after all? It's to register the reaction existing in a preclear. We don't even care how it registers it, or what theory we go by in registering it. All it does is register it. It tells you something is happening in this person's bank. In other words, it tells you about energy displacements.

You want to know why somebody is a bit antisocial, he can't get along with people. It's because he will not take responsibility for others than himself You want to know why somebody doesn't organize a group or carry it along? It is because he is unwilling to take responsibility for others than himself

And there're three reactions that an E-Meter gets or that we consider common. And these three reactions are very – they're nothing very important. There may be other reactions than this. But the main ones I can tell you.

Now, when we get up to a national disaster such as an atom bomb and this thing is posed to us, it tends to make "only ones" out of any population. So at this particular moment in American history, this trait which might have ridden along all right, is not being tremendously accentuated, because the atom bomb tends to make "only ones" out of all of us. We say "How could I possibly even vaguely influence any sensible course of action?" And it is accentuated that you have no control over the international policy of your country. Because if it was left up to you, any one of you in this audience, you would say, "Scrap the damn things!" You'd say, "Well, let's get ahold of Russia, let's get ahold of the other countries, and let's take them all out and find a deep part of the ocean and drop them in; and then utterly forbid any further manufacture of fission for any reason whatsoever." I am sure you would propose something like this if it was left up to you! But you know what you would propose; and you see this huge automaticity that nobody is in charge of called the government, doing quite the opposite; and you therefore consider yourself powerless on the third dynamic and you drop back into even more of an only one characteristic.

One, a stuck needle, that is one of the more – one of the better tests. Or a theta bop – what we call a theta bop – it's a little hunt, that is always an exteriorization or a death registering. That's just without – there's no exception – it's the only thing that explains it or clears it. See?

But listen, if somebody doesn't say it, and if you don't say it, it will never be done!

And the other one is a surge, it drops, the meter drops, it falls part of a dial. And that is the one that most auditors think is the only one there. You see? They think that's the only one present, this surge. Actually, there is a stuck needle that tells you even more than a surge if anything. The needle just goes whap! And you say, "Kings, cats, coal heavers, your mother-in-law, are you telling a lie?" or anything else? You got your needle frozen, it isn't going anyplace. Well, you must have frozen it with a question. If you don't know that that stuck needle is significant, or that you can tell something from a stuck needle, you are liable not to pay attention the first time it sticks, and that's the one you want, because you are liable to have to go back and hunt for it all over again. Only the needle now isn't telling you anything.

Now, you say, if each one rose up en masse and said this and expressed it as a "will of the people," it would go across. Oh, no, there is nobody cares anything about the will of the people. It's you! The will of the people isn't a live breathing thing, it can't eat or sleep. It breaks down to you.

Those three main reactions. But I'll tell you the virtue of an E-Meter. Now, a lot of people say, "I don't know why you use an E-Meter because it invalidates the auditor, invalidates the preclear and so forth." No, on Creative Processing or present time problem when you are running by mock-up, there is something here which is rather poor. And that is that an individual, an individual here doesn't see ordinarily the preclear's mock-ups. And he feels like he's sitting there doing nothing; there's nothing for the auditor to look at. Don't you see? The auditor is not facing up to any mass, so he doesn't see what is going on, and he begins to feel a little bit lost as though he's reaching into nothingness. Do you get the idea?

And therefore the solution of our national problems, I'm afraid, is not possible outside the realm of Scientology. Man doesn't know enough about it.

Well, if you can translate that onto a meter dial and keep your eye on a meter dial, you are looking at the mock-ups. Do you get the idea? So the meter simply translates the mock-ups into a physical reaction. Do you see that? And actually an auditor is sometimes much more willing to run Creative Processing if he has a meter to look at.

When you have an atom bomb making everybody an only one, the threat of total destruction, and then you tend to say "I couldn't." But supposing you could say – any one of you, and every one of you – could say, "I can do something about this."

In the 19th, we are going to use meters as they are available, we hope to do all auditing on meters, just because most of the auditing will be Creative Processes. Now, the goal of this particular thing is of course to get the individual up to a point where he recognizes subjectively and with good reality that he's putting up all these pictures himself.

Well, I'll tell you something very esoteric and very magical about the whole thing. If you thoroughly ran out the idea that an atom bomb could affect you, and if you established the idea that you could affect the atom bomb, you could probably stand (this is the reductio ad absurdum of this) in the middle of an atomic blast and never even get your hair parted.

Well, this one cognition isn't enough. See, that's – that's not enough. You have got to give him practice in doing it, and after a while he will become totally cognizant that he never does anything else. That's the cognition that you want. That's every – all the pictures. That's pictures.

A living thing has to make up its mind that it can be harmed by something before it can be harmed by it. You have to carry with you the seeds of your own destruction before you can be hurt by anything. You have to make up your mind that you can be hurt by an automobile before you can be hurt by an automobile. You have to give your consent to be destroyed, even to get a cut finger.

Now, it may be necessary for you somewhere along the line to run some havingness or invent some problems, or to do something like that. The fellow starts falling downstairs or something in order to have a new game. Well, that's for you to recognize when it occurs, but so far it has not occurred doing this particular step. So there must be more value to mocking this sort of thing up and doing this particular step than immediately appears.

I'll show you an interesting little experiment. Sometime take the hair of your arm, ladies don't have any hairs in their arm – and take a pair of clippers or a scissors and just run it over those hairs and watch them. It's very magical, the clippers cut the hair. "Oh," you say, "this is the most routine thing, I mean, of course, the hardness of the shears and the hardness of the hair when compared to-." You figure it all out by energy and mathematics and a whole bunch of goof buffoonery; but the truth of the matter is if there is nothing there but knowingness, the hair has to know it can be cut by the shears before it parts; and there are all sorts of things that can't be cut by things. There are all sorts of substances that cannot be cut by substances. Well, none of these substances know that the other substance can harm it, and that's why it can't happen.

The final result of this is the destruction of the bank. Now, the ability to create a bank and the ability to mock things up was recognized years ago, but I had not gotten together the exact progressive steps necessary to accomplish this particular result in all preclears. And this apparently is the road that does that.

Why is it that almost unlimited tonnage of TNT can be dropped upon a city and still find people alive in it? It's very probable they made up their minds they couldn't be hurt by bombs. How is it that they could pull people out of the rubble in Tokyo – this tremendous shattering blast that destroyed the whole center of the city – and how is it that they found so many people alive in the middle of that city? Obviously an atomic bomb with its heat, fury, fragmentation, fire blast and everything else – the fire storm – naturally would let no living thing live.

Now, the use of this particular step should not be adventured upon without running the earlier steps – that's why they are there and that's why Creative Processing flops is because it is attempted without flattening any of the earlier steps.

Well, this is very peculiar and one of the things that I've always been amazed about in areas of destruction and I know something about areas of destruction, is the fact that there are a lot of guys standing right there in the path of the thing and they're still alive! You say well, this is the way we have figured it: If the disaster had been worse, they would have been dead. We have no proof of that at all, they're not dead. That would be only thing that proved it, don't you see?

Well what are some of these early steps?

Well, let's take this thing of responsibility further. In order to handle an atom bomb and not have it handle you, you would have to take responsibility for it; you'd have to flatten it as a problem. You'd have to take responsibility for that atom bomb. And if you say, "That is that horrible automaticity over there, and this is poor, little, old weak me way back here." Boy, can it eat you up – chomp, chomp.

Well, one of them here is you have got to keep the pc participating in session – he has to continue to participate – he has to go on believing as I told you an earlier day in this congress, he has to go on believing in your ability to help him, and his belief in his ability to help somebody.

If you were in a state of mind where you said, "Me here and that poor little old atom bomb there," why it would go Boom! And you would pat it on the top of its burst and say, "Nice little atom bomb. A cute toy for the kids."

And when help falls out the window, participation goes and not only that, ARC drops by the boards. ARC therefore has to be maintained during a session – anytime that drops out this won't work. The process won't work! It's the auditor doing it, it's just the things the auditor does and also how he does them that brings about this state. You got that? All right.

Now, I'll tell you there is some interesting proofs of all this. A problem of comparable magnitude; the willingness to take responsibility for – same thing.

We look over here and we find the second step. We have to place the preclear at cause. Well, we can't totally take a preclear who is totally at effect with regard to the physical universe and expect him to wind up miraculously at cause because we've simply run some Creative Processing. Don't you see? If he can never be cause of anything anywhere at any time, he's not going to come up on top with this step alone. Don't you see? He has to be prepared for that step and that's covered in Chapter IV.

We take a married couple, they've always been fighting, fighting, fighting, fighting, fighting. Well, the fighting seems to be mostly from the wife, and she is just chewing the husband up something fierce. And we take the husband, not the wife, we don't influence her national life at all; and we would process the husband on problems of comparable magnitude to the wife, and finish it off with "What about the wife could he be responsible for?" That is a hot process! And she stops raising hell with him.

Then in Chapter V, "Establish the Control of Pc's Body by Pc," is old SCS, and we have a full book back there that Johann just edited off some tapes and we got published for you just so you'd have these mechanics in even a fuller state than they are in this Clear Procedure.

But wait a minute, we didn't process the wife, we processed the husband. Well, you could say, "Well, in view of his – in view of his changed behavior, he was probably courteous to her, probably didn't fight with her, probably didn't invite it any more, he probably – actions and so forth." Oh, I swear we can trace this in vain and we still can't find a real reason why; he is doing mostly the same things or worse!

Now, we get over here to Step IV, we of course – it would be a good thing for him to know who was auditing him, because if he gets involved and subjective with his Creative Processing, he's liable to think his mother's there or something to kick your shins in and we shouldn't have that happen.

So in one such test case, he was always in trouble if he got home five minutes late. So I made sure that he not only got home five minutes late, but every once in a while, four or five hours late! And you know what happened, the wife went on being kind, sweet and considerate about the whole thing. But we hadn't processed her!

Now, we have this next step, and we have the preclear versus MEST. To give him some idea of being cause over MEST. And then we finally only then get to Creative Processing.

I'll give you another example. There was a fellow that the cops picked up down in Union Station, and he was always being picked up by cops. He was a well dressed young man, but the cops would come along and they'd pick him up. This was his fate. And we processed him on problems of comparable magnitude to cops and "What about cops he could take responsibility for," and you know what happened? He hasn't been picked up since.

Now, whether we do Step VII or Step VIII is totally beside the point; it has nothing to do with a Clear, because we are already moving with those steps into the field of Operating Thetan.

Now, that's an interesting state of affairs; how to influence something without doing anything to it? Hmm. So this lecture I gave you about knowingness and so forth was not necessarily off the groove here. How to do something to it? Well, the funny part of it is you've always felt that if you knew about something it couldn't do anything to you. You've had an idea that there's some knowingness entered into this cause and effect on things, right? You just kind of knew it, why it wouldn't, you know?

It might interest you these days the way I'm auditing, my auditing styles normally don't shift around too much. The only time it shifted is when we got Comm Course and Upper Indoc and I got a lot of this myself and smoothed out some rough spots of just being able to duplicate and so forth to the preclear's viewpoint and benefit. The steps that we got there did help me; it was quite an interesting thing for me to dream up something and then drill on it and then – and then have something – have some improvement take place. I was quite amused by this.

Well, it's a very special kind of knowingness that you actually are looking for. It is a knowingness that you can survive in spite of it. But higher than that, knowing that you do not have to be killed, maimed or injured or thrown off course by it. Do you understand that? The knowingness is that you're okay where it is concerned.

Ordinarily this sort of thing wouldn't occur, but it was fabulous. I found myself sitting there pitching in session. I told the auditors that I was going to give this thing a whirl; and I held myself in as thorough a discipline as I was teaching auditors, see, just thorough discipline, just iron-barred sort of auditing, you know. Getting the intention across, being very sure of the accuracy of every piece of the auditing and the step and so on. And boy, auditing speed, which has never been terribly slow with me, just speeded up just like this. You know? I mean, the results started to get across to the degree that I was running a discipline on it.

Now, in some weird and peculiar way you can influence the behavior of such things as governments, atomic bombs and other things with regard to you on the first dynamic. But that's just you.

Well, since that time using an E-Meter, I've relaxed a little bit and haven't worried too much about – about a discipline, that's still there. But I have worried about this: the block on the dynamics.

What would happen if you were willing to take responsibility on a much broader sphere? If you were willing to take responsibility for others than yourself And you had no conquering fear of atomic bombs; you had no great fear of other things, of political upsets, of inflation or something of the sort. And you were taking responsibility for other people.

I conceive that in auditing a preclear it is necessary to get a preclear off some dispersal, so that he feels like he's going out of session, and wants to leave, and he thinks there are other things to be done. And I just sit down and improve his communication with me as one of the first things I do. And I do that by – I do – I do this with an E-Meter, by the way, just to save wear and tear and eyestrain on my thetan.

Well, if you were willing to do that, I am afraid that you would spread a mantle over these people which would protect them too. And that's a third dynamic.

I try to improve his ability to communicate by knocking out some comm blocks. Well, one of these comm blocks could be a present time problem, so I scout down a present time problem and I get rid of it by, "Inventing something worse than the problem." 'A problem of comparable magnitude to the problem." And, "What he could do to that particular thing in one way or another." And I really clean this thing up pretty good so it won't be driving him out of session.

One of the manifestations of the third dynamic is just that. Do you understand that? Quite weird – the mechanics of this sort of thing. It actually defies a reasonable explanation. Only in Dianetics and Scientology would we be able to even have language enough to talk about these things.

Very often a preclear will sit there, you know, and say, "No, there is nothing worrying me." But if you had him on an E-Meter the needle would drop off the pin. This is why we started using E-Meters again. A whole intensive can be wasted if a preclear has a present time problem the auditor doesn't flatten. A whole intensive – it can just – there is no change on the APA at all.

It used to be if you had a charm or an amulet given to you by the witch doctor then the ghosts couldn't get you. Do you get that sort of thing? Well, that was a deterioration for you having direct responsibility for the object yourself. Something that is nine times better than a witch doctor's charm or a political vote is a confidence that you can be an effect to it, that you can affect it, and that it can't harm you. Now that is the only efficacy of a charm, an amulet, a luck piece.

Now, we go back, clean up the present time problem, audit him for another week and get a terrific change. Audit him on the same processes that didn't work on him before. You got the idea?

I did an interesting experiment here a few days on the subject of luck. Could you vary luck? I am sure that we can vary luck these days. I said, "You know, I haven't had any breaks lately. I haven't had any good breaks." We used to talk about "breaks" in the writing business all the time, you know. And I just haven't had any good breaks lately.

These null changes after you've audited for a while are due to this PT problem, the present time problem. The preclear feels that he ought to be out of session, out somewhere doing something or other, or he ought to be running like the devil for Mexico or someplace and getting out of the road of the juggernauts of fate, and you insist on auditing him. See? And he doesn't improve at all. His mind isn't in his work at all, and certainly his mind isn't under your control. It's under control of this other factor. So to knock out this other factor as a control factor – you knock out the PT problem. You got it?

So I said, "Well, that's just a matter of making up your mind to have some good breaks." So I made up my mind to have some good breaks. In the ensuing week I sold a movie and had a heck of a lot of other things happen, all of which were unexpected. Then I forgot about it. But I just made up my mind that I was going to have good luck for a few days – breaks.

All right. Then I'd locate the comm block, a contrasurvival postulate is what I'm looking for and it's usually a communication postulate. And I trace this thing down – I don't care. You know there are a lot of people that would have you believe that because past lives aren't generally believed in, you should avoid them. Well, I tell you, I've tried to avoid them, but I have yet to find a comm block in the person's present life! Isn't this horrible? In other words, when I'm working them with an E-Meter, I have to clean them out of lord knows when. See? It's always way back down the track someplace.

Responsibility, the willingness to take responsibility for things – how do you achieve that as an auditor? It isn't something you just have to make up your mind about.

And I just say, "Well, what would be the penalty for talking or something of this sort?" I would try to run it down, or I sort out the dynamics.

Poor old Gautama Buddha actually had a rough time with this. He said all you have to do is conceive mind essence and you got it made; but if you start conceiving a static you get sick as a pup. So the answer lies someplace shallower than that deep dive.

Now, you can use the direct formula of Operating Thetan, the preclear at cause – or thetan at cause, rather, over life, matter, energy, space and time. Willing and knowing cause.

Let's look at this. Is there a process which immediately takes over this sort of thing? Yes, there are several processes; we are rich in such processes. We would run a process that more or less ran as follows if we wanted to totally exhaust a particular subject. Now, remember that you run all such processes against terminals. You run all such processes against terminals.

So you ask him, "What he could do to God?" Just as an opening question. "What he could say to God?" would be a lighter version.

First, you have the preclear invent a problem. If he can do that you have him invent a problem worse than the terminal you've selected out. It has to be a terminal, not an idea or a condition. "Invent something worse than Mama. Invent something worse than an atomic bomb." Anything you care to, see, but it has to be a terminal.

And by the way, I want to straighten that out with you. You know I'm not – I'm not upset in any way about the eighth dynamic. I just maintain that people who can't get to the first don't know a thing about the eighth, it's my only contention. It's why I get sarcastic about it every once in a while. I get some – I get some guy that doesn't know his own life trying to tell me about God, I get very interested.

Your next step when you've got that sort of flat is, "Invent a problem of comparable magnitude to the terminal." And then finally, "Something about the terminal for which you could be responsible." And if you run those, you've run the whole cycle.

Anyway, I just peel off the dynamics right on down, no matter what the guise of the question is. I come right on down the dynamics: eight-seven-six-five-four-three-two. And I find those things where the preclear conceives himself to be a total effect on these dynamics, only I'm looking for a comm block; I'm looking for a communication block. I'm looking for a time when he considered he couldn't do anything to that dynamic. And when I find one of these I clean it up.

You first run "Prevent it from getting worse" you see. The dwindling spiral you have run out with "Invent something worse than." There goes your dwindling spiral. That's actually, by the way, all there is to a dwindling spiral is: individuals are dreading something worse than! If there wasn't a "Something worse than" there, there would be no dwindling spiral. Do you get the idea?

With what?

They are always being cautioned about "Well, I know that your lot is pretty bad, but it could be much worse!!" And then the individual after that goes around preventing it from getting much worse. Well, in order to prevent it from getting much worse he has to hold on to the thing. Right?

Well, if the case is in pretty good shape, I clean it up with two-way comm; if the case is only mediumly in good shape, I clean it up with some process more or less tailor-made to the occasion. You see?

In order to keep his legs or his arms from getting worse, he has to have them in the condition they're in. Right? And that freezes them; they start then on a dwindling spiral because he sort of thinks about this "worseness" and it is like a postulate, and he sort of pulls himself into the worseness. You get the idea? So "Invent something worse than that leg," actually knocks the dwindling spiral and deterioration of the leg out.

Somebody came in the other day with a bad stomach and I had them hit the stomach, you know, mentally, hit the stomach with a feather which caused great bruises. And we went up a gradient scale (I haven't even finished it yet) but went up a gradient scale of tapping the stomach with various things. This would have, of course led to a willingness to be at cause over the stomach. But we didn't say, "Hit it and brutalize it." We said, "What are you willing to hit that stomach with?" Do you get the idea? Just using the Operating Thetan formula and processing by it; finding out where the preclear considered himself to be a total effect and asking him in some fashion or another, "What he could do about it?"

Now, a problem of comparable magnitude actually brings it up to a sort of a parity, so that you are taking responsibility really by inventing-taking-being cause over the problem the terminal can be, and then you finally get up to the point of just what part of it directly could you be responsible for. Of course, incidentally, you remedy games with "Problems of comparable magnitude." And "Something worse than." That's a very interesting thing to do.

Well, you'll find that most cases have a very few major communication blocks. In the year 1262 the fellow suddenly decided that "prayer was no good, that one had just better obey and trust it to fate and skip the rest of it." Now you don't even find him believing in a supreme being but being the subject of luck or being the effect of something he can't tell what. You find out that he conceived there was still a God but he couldn't talk to him. You get the idea? He couldn't do anything to him. So therefore he is now, generations later, hundreds of years later, why the fellow is still walking around being totally the subject of something or other.

I wonder what would happen if many of you invented something worse than another person, and invented a problem of comparable magnitude to another person. And then went out on the street and had the auditor say to you – the auditor would say, "Find something about that girl you could be responsible for." You got this as a spotting process? I wonder what would happen to you on the third? And I wonder what would happen if only the few hundred people here made this a little project? I wonder what would happen to the life of the United States? I wonder what would happen?

Well, remember we didn't always have a Christian Yahweh; there's Molech, Baal, and other less pleasant characters. And sometimes when you clean this up on a preclear you have really done a job. It goes kind of swoosh! you know.

It's an interesting thing, we're running a test project right now on the atom bomb. We haven't finished the thing off, but there is no reason why you shouldn't run it. Of course that's a pretty rugged thing to start out with on a new process, so you'd better take something that is a present time problem, and "Invent something worse than..” and "Problems of comparable magnitude to ..." And then, something – "Part of it that you could be responsible for," don't you see. And then you get that level – I wonder if you graduated up to "Invent something worse than an atom bomb?" "A problem of comparable magnitude to the atom bomb," and "Some part of the atom bomb you could be responsible for?" – I wonder if it could touch any of you?

Sometimes when you get the early postulate on this sort of thing, you don't bury him into the facsimile which he is mocking up himself, but he nevertheless can get buried in it; you don't bury him in the facsimile, you just hit lightly and if he comes to a cognition on it or something like that, believe me he'll arrive. Now, don't try to run it out of him or something of the sort, just let him hit it, and get a recognition on the thing.

And then if you flattened "people," I wonder if any people you organized together could be touched by it either. Interesting speculation, isn't it? Hmm?

You sometimes have to scan lightly from there up to present time, you know, zuuuuup! and get all the rest of the nutty postulates out that he's made on the same subject and boy, some of those things are really insane. And yet he'll sit there and tell 'em to you as the most reasonable things. But now that you have gotten the pin postulate out, the first one, the main one, the big one out of the line, the rest of them at – only for a moment seem reasonable to him and then they go flick! and out they go.

But the one thing the American doesn't take much pleasure in doing is taking responsibility for somebody other than himself This he has a hard time doing.

Well, once you have cleaned up these communication breaks you can talk to your preclear, and after you can talk to him you can do these other control steps and so forth with great rapidity and you can swing into Creative Processes and get him to patch up the bank with speed that you would hardly believe.

For a country that once had the reputation for joining anything and everything, and at the drop of a hat, which is kind of natural to man, we have a condition where nobody is willing to join anything. It's an interesting state of affairs nationally.

Now, I'm just giving you an idea. That's the way I handle it. It isn't necessary for you to handle it this way at all. In fact, this isn't really the sort of thing that is talked about here in Clear Procedure. I'm processing by definition, when I'm first trying to clean up the case – I'm processing by definition.

Now, America is realizing at this time, perhaps a little late, that it should do something to or about or with the national government. People who never thought about the national government, are now talking about it and thinking about it and worrying about it.

I figure out what the preclear is up against and just tend to knock it out. What am I handling there? I'm handling the psychosis and the neurosis that are resident in the bank, the nutty postulates. You get the idea? Which takes care of that.

Businessmen have to take it into their computations in order to pilot their businesses, which is quite interesting. You have to figure out which way this cat is going to jump in order to plot the steps of your near future. Well, nobody ever really had to do that before. Well, that says that the determinism of the government is greater than the determinism of the people, and certainly greater than the determinism of an individual.

Now, if you don't do that, and if you don't discuss life with it, don't worry about it, 'cause after you have done this step, even though those nuttinesses made the auditing sort of rough, he'll sometimes go along for several weeks before he run into one of these old postulates himself and falls through on it.

The best thing to do is just to have a higher determinism than the government. And you yourself can do it all by yourself – you!

So when you have finished auditing the person do not then believe that the auditing is over! You've audited maybe for thirty or forty or fifty hours on this procedure. Everything I made happen early in the session will happen anyway if you use Clear Procedure and he'll go on with livingness perhaps for months before he himself suddenly fishes up one of these old postulates and sees that it doesn't agree with the environment. He is no longer forcing himself into a set of barriers, and therefore his postulates are free. You get the idea? So what I've just talked to you about freeing the track and so forth with a meter happens inevitably, but you can give it a boost very definitely that way.

It's an awful hard job to hold thetans down; they are pretty powerful critters. You have to give them lots of barriers. You have to keep convincing them they are tiny and frail. You have to keep putting your heel on their necks, and to do that you have to give them necks, in order to hold them down.

Well, here we are. I hope very much that this will help you. It's quite a step forward, although apparently with old materials, remember it is very newly done. And some of you old-timers better listen to what I said there. Because this is the sequence. It took me seven years to find it out. All right.

Because anyone amongst you has the power of licking this whole problem if you felt you could raise your head sufficiently to do so. Rather interesting thought isn't it?

I'm not saying you have to do what I'm doing just because I'm doing it. I'm saying you better if you want the results.

Perhaps you quail before the responsibility of taking that much responsibility.

Anyway! All right.

The Asian has already invented a mechanism to keep anybody from taking any responsibility. If you save a Chinaman's life out of the Hwang Pu River, you are now responsible for everything else he does. And this is wrong to the Chinese! And they are a nation of slaves. I don't know what is wrong with being responsible for everything else the guy did.

Well, this brings us right on down here to the end of this particular congress except for the party tonight. And it has been a very great pleasure talking to you. I hope some of the things that we have done here and some of the things that have been said will prove beneficial to you.

Karma – what's wrong with karma? A Dianeticist can erase it. What's wrong with being responsible for things other than yourself? Well, you have to decide that that is wrong before anything can be wrong with it.

I do not think it has been a wasted period of time and I hope – I hope that some of these processes and some of the theory will be of interest to you, and more important, I hope that you have (if you are new in this) now have some confidence on auditing.

If you want a third dynamic to occur in the country, I think it'd have its best chance – I think it would easily have its best chance if the people right here in this room right now, made up their mind to, or decided to get processed up to an area of responsibility. That is to say: "Responsible for self and others," or "What could you be responsible for?" "What are you willing to be responsible for?" And get this solved in terms of national government, your willingness to participate, your willingness to create a third dynamic.

And I want to thank the seminar leaders for the very fine job they've done. I want to thank the hostess and the congress manager for the fine job they've done, and I want to thank all the people who have been sitting behind the desks and taking care of the books and things. And I want to particularly thank you for being here. You have been a very wonderful audience.

Maybe it's the first time since Paul Revere went screaming up and down the highways saying, "The British are coming," and thus united, at least in poetry, the American idea of gung-ho – working together.

Thank you, I'll see you this summer.

Well, they worked together enough to knock out George III, but it couldn't have been very tough because George was crazy at the time. By the way, yesterday on my tiepin I was wearing his head – a little guinea with George the III's head on it. I found in England. I thought it was time somebody brought his head home. But we could unite at this high level of emergency and get something done.

I actually see no reason why we cannot unite just because it's good sense. I see no reason why you couldn't take responsibility not only for yourself, but for others. And I see no reason why starting right from here it would not be possible to build a third dynamic in America.

I hope it can be done.

Thank you.