You know, I have an idea. I probably ought to tell you something about Central Organizations, the organizations of Scientology around the world. You're probably in total darkness about most of it.

Thank you. Thank you.

Oh, you don't think you are. Well, I thought I knew something, for instance, about Melbourne, and when I got down there, I found I hadn't known a thing about Melbourne.

Most of you think you know Shakespeare, don't you? "Alas, poor Yorick. I knew him, Horatio. A man of infinite jest." That's the correct version.

No, you're entitled to know. After all, it started in America, and has gone out across the world. You ought to see how far you've gone. Okay?

I know, Bill was sitting there one night in the restaurant, and he dreamed it up. I told him I'd get his skull someday.

Male voice: Okay.

Actually, speaking of the human mind – we've been gypped. There's no thetan in here.

Well now, this is particularly important because we're about to make a fundamental shift. A great many people have been working as franchise people; that is to say, franchised auditors, they get regular bulletins, and so forth.

Well, fortunately, I forgot my notes so I won't have to bore you with any technical material. Look, the guy's had a trepan and he's had psychiatric treatment, you know. Got holes through everything. Skull goes on very nicely.

And because of tax structure and other things, this is becoming a very difficult system to maintain. Very easily, the best thing that can be done both for their own activities, their income, for the accuracy of dissemination, and so forth, wherever there's been a successful franchise, there actually ought to be a Central Organization with those people running that franchise in charge of that Central Organization.

But I think – don't you? Well, I guess it's pretty all right. He's a ventriloquist skull.

This sounds rather odd, but all it means basically: it's taken us years and years and years to find out how to run a Central Organization.

We used to have drills. We used to take a couple of skulls and put them at opposite ends of a table and have a thetan we were drilling be in one and then be in the other and then be in the first one and be in the second one and be in the first one, be in the second one. It was very interesting.

One is built like a watch. It's not possible for this many services to be given by this few people without a pattern like a Central Organization. It's built like a watch. Central Organization has six departments.

And those of you who don't think that you're a detachable type had better watch out. There are tremendous uses for enormous quantities of the data which we have dug up along the line. The best rendition of all of this anatomy of a thetan and all that sort of thing was in the Philadelphia lectures. Sixty-four hours of lecture at the end of 1952. That long ago.

They have been shifted here and there and emphasis has been changed. And now, with this new reach and a new emphasis on taking care of the raw public, you might say, a tremendous importance has been handed over to the Personal Efficiency Foundation, which is only one of the departments of a Central Organization.

But it makes you pretty dizzy to realize you're a detachable type. But it also makes you realize that you must have an awfully bad memory to have forgotten that you are.

You write to people in Central Organizations and you wonder why you don't land or connect up quite right or why somebody else answers the letter. The truth of the matter is, if you had a good, sharp idea of what the Central Organization is all about, you would always get your communications promptly and immediately handled.

The reason you really shouldn't worry about H-bombs and the reason only liberals, English type, worry too much about H-bombs is they can't get out of their ruddy 'eads. So they know they'll sit there and fry. And they don't want to experience it. And this is peculiar of them because I am sure that if they are that scared of an H-bomb, they've thrown them someplace on the track. That's a foregone conclusion.

Educating the public is much harder than educating staff members. This means, however, that in a Central Organization a great deal of know-how exists administratively that exists nowhere else on Earth.

But I want to call to your attention one of the reasons I am very interested in developing the southern hemisphere. If one of these days the bomb goes boom and you find you're a detachable type but don't like to run around in charred meat, there'll be a part of the world you can pick up a body in. I'll make a slight charge, but the total fee is for heaven's sakes when you get old enough to talk, come and report in to the Central Organization, so we can scratch you off the list of missing.

Now, you wouldn't think, perhaps – sometimes you've had ball-ups with Central Organizations and this, that and that. Well, that's nothing compared to the ball-ups you would have if the organization pattern wasn't what it is. You get the idea?

If you have a place to go, you don't have to worry too much about H-bomb, and the smart thing is to have a place to go. Actually, what happens to a nation or a culture – what happens to a culture is not really that the culture is bereft of bodies. It's just that the whole technology of the civilization disappears and there is no reservoir of that technology and so everything goes back into the Dark Ages. If an area can preserve its technology or if a planet can preserve its technology, it can come back fairly rapidly.

Well, as you begin to expand across the world, you have to have functional servicing organizations which can really do their job and really render the service necessary.

I've been making that my business for a number of years as my best answers to the playful antics of my classmates of 1934.

I am not content to let any auditor continue to function unless he is able to clear people. The only way I can guarantee that he clears people is that if his administrative lines are such as to be able to handle his traffic. Otherwise, he won't have a chance clearing people.

They're very playful fellows. They didn't even have a sense of humor in 1934. But they built themselves up more than they can experience and then in some weird way don't think they'll ever have to experience it and take no responsibility for their creation, which is what's wrong with you. You haven't taken any responsibility for your creations for so long you have a reactive bank. Did you ever look at it that way? That's where a reactive bank comes from. Failure to take responsibility for your creations. When you no longer take responsibility for your creations you get a reactive bank. Your creations can victimize you.

This sounds very startling, but administration and the handling of despatches and so forth has been made a discreditable creation by governments. It's an art and skill we had to regain, recapture and pull all together again all over again.

When the first fellow that dreamed up atomic fission on this planet this time failed to then continue to dictate its use, the whole country got in trouble because the fellow who created it didn't continue to take responsibility for it.

Actually, I'm very proud of what we have done in the last eleven years in this particular respect. And we're now taking a big step forward with Central Organizations right now. Because we're expanding them to take heavy traffic.

This has been a difficulty in organizations in Dianetics and Scientology. I knew better than to create my share of Dianetics and Scientology and then take no further responsibility for it.

It is true that any organization can run all right at a low volume. A field auditor can run all right if he doesn't have too many pcs. That puts a limit on dissemination and recovery the whole day – the whole distance. It runs all right as long as he doesn't have too many customers.

And every once in a while you'll find somebody sitting around the world who said, "Well, after all, everybody knows a genius is crazy. He must be a genius to have to dream it up. So therefore he's crazy. So therefore why should he continue to rim this thing? You know? Why should he start telling us what to do with it?" I know better than to stop telling you what to do with it.

And a badly organized Central Organization is all right unless it gets some business. And let me guarantee you, the moment it gets more traffic than it is designed to handle or more traffic than its accuracy permits it to have, it shatters, and it goes completely to pieces and it ceases to exist.

Think it over. I don't want to get hung with it. Oh, I have a pretty good record along this line. And we're about to put it to a very severe test on a very international broad scale. Because we're going to grow up, and I'm going to talk about that a bit in the next hour.

This happened in 1950. The first organizations of Dianetics were not controlled by myself, except as I could bring some power of personality, rage and red hair against some of the mishmashes which were taking place. But nobody knew how to run one.

Right now I'm still interested in your case. I'm interested in you as a person who has up and created an awful lot of things you didn't take responsibility for, so there they are as an irresponsibility kicking your head – teeth in.

We thought it was a business. I don't mean to sneer at businessmen, but I don't know how they live. My attitude toward a businessman when I see this – what he calls a communication system and how he handles his accounts and that sort of thing, is the same attitude that a first or upper-classman has toward a plebe.

Now what did you do that for? Shame on you. Let's see, what other methods can I use to make you guilty?

He comes in, he looks all through the plebe's room, he does an inspection, you know, and he looks over, and he finally gets under here, and he finds one little tiny particle of dirt, and he says, "Sir, how can you live in such filth?"

Now, everybody knows you're a victim of circumstances. But you will find out that failure to take responsibility brings about the thing we call aberration. When one did take – one did do something and then said he didn't do it, he of course failed to as-is one of its conditions which is that he did it.

Because we can do what we can do, our tricks on the communication lines, the handling of traffic and that sort of thing makes it possible for us to expand just to the degree that we're accurate. Remember, I have seen, I think it was five, Central Organizations – Foundations – shatter under too much traffic. Not too little business; that isn't what knocks them apart. It's too much. Their staff overloads, their communication lines are not adequate, and the next thing you know, they all give up.

If you want to shoot people, be sure you are willing to experience your creation of a shot body. And be sure that you are able to take responsibility for having shot the body. And if you follow those conditions, you can shoot all the people you want to; providing you're willing to be shot and so on.

The only reason I am alive today is because I can handle my traffic. Berner here was over at Saint Hill. He was quite surprised looking in the files to find out that I'd seen most everything in the files, that I did handle the administrative lines as they came through.

The way the world works is on a basis of discreditable creations won't as-is, and you get a persistence of all discreditable creations.

He didn't see how this was possible. Isn't that right, Chuck?

People make certain things discreditable. You know, like newspaper reporters making newspapers discreditable.

Yeah, I see these student reports and everything else as they come through, but it's only because they come through in a regular fashion, because they come through with accuracy and because they can be stacked up and reviewed when I have time to review them – the lines can be start, changed and stopped – that the flow takes place.

Now, you didn't take me very seriously on that and it's a good thing you didn't. But basically all a newspaper is trying to do to you is worry you. That is the total dramatization of the press: Worry.

When you write me letters, I see your letters. You don't think so sometimes because you don't see how it's possible. I see your letters. I sometimes, when I read your letter, turn around and say to somebody, "Ack." Or I write "ack" across the corner of the letter. That's because you haven't said anything in the letter that I have to comment on or give you a decision or an opinion on, and usually an acknowledgement simply consists of "Thank you very much for your letter."

We've taped something else here in the not too distant past, which is anxiety and fear. These have been the stock in trade of the hypnotist, the Messiah, the hocus pocus, the prestidigitosis, the medical doctor; they've all been talking for a long time about anxiety and fear. Hmm.

So therefore, you say Ron couldn't possibly have seen the letter. No, Ron hasn't got fingers enough to write you a despatch because mail traffic through HCO offices has long since exceeded five thousand pieces of paper a day

"And if you can get anxious enough, we can collect our fee." No, I don't say that that's their motto. It isn't written on their doors. I exaggerated if I've given that. It's hidden.

We handle a volume that would probably make General Motors pale. We had to redesign Accounts. We found out all the whole subject of accounting was parked back in the nineteenth century. Was parked back with the quill pens and ledgers, and there weren't that many accountants. There aren't that many accountants. Have you tried to get your income tax file recently? You had anything to do with accounting recently? Oh, most of these systems are either put on a superautomatic IBM God-'elp-us…

Did you ever have a medico come in and back up the hearse on you? If you don't lie quiet and do nothing, why, you're going to get much worse. What's he doing? All he's trying to do is worry you.

But anybody can fool an executive with the accounts department. An executive goes down to the accounts department, he says, "How much do we owe Ramseys and Company." Ha-ha. Everybody says, "Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha. We'll send you a report. We'll look it up in the general ledger." All in the tone of "What are you doing down here?" Well, all he's doing is trying to manage the firm; that's all he's doing.

Now, we have nothing against the medical doctor. We think plumbers are necessary.

And the accounts departments long since have been run exclusively for the government. No, we have to have an accounts system where a department head or an executive can go down and look up how much Ramseys and Company is owed and makes sure the thing gets paid, gets the total summary of bills, find out everything that's there, add it all up. We've got a complicated accounting system! All it consists of is filing.

As long as humanoids have bones, they're going to get broken. And as long as girls continue to be as pretty as they are, they are going to have babies.

If you can file and add and subtract, you can do accounts now in a Central Organization.

And these are anatomical necessities – medical doctors – when it comes to fixing up the busted limb and delivering the child and all that sort of thing, they have a very definite reason for existence. But when they go over and try to treat psychosomatics with antibiotics, they run into the fact that an antibiotic collapses the bank. And if it's a psychosomatic illness, it'll make it worse. And an antibiotic gets a bad reputation. You give them an antibiotic and they get worse. But it's supposed to cure.

There weren't accountants and there weren't a system, so we had to invent accounting. You think I'm kidding, but we did. And it works. The one last Central Organization that doesn't use this type of accounting is still bogged down in accounts.

Well, actually, an antibiotic will knock off bacteria that is running through the system, but if that bacteria is being held in place by a psychosomatic difficulty or a traumatic experience of the past, that antibiotic is liable to backfire, and right now they have to have new antibiotics all the time because all the old antibiotics are backfiring.

We just reformed it. It doesn't sound like very much. What's this got to do with Dianetics and Scientology? It's just that the communication design lines of the world were not up to handling Dianetics and Scientology traffic. We run the equivalent of a hospital, a college, a mail service, letter services, we have to keep track of you and what you are and what you're doing, and all of this has to be done with a minimum strain. Otherwise, it totally confuses.

That's because they've used them on too many psychosomatic illnesses.

We're in a pattern right now where you probably handle, oh, I don't know, five hundred new people a day in any one Central Organization without expanding its staff more than ten or twelve people.

But a medical doctor – which is why I brought out this skull – has his reason for existence. It happens to do with bone plumbing, the delivery of babies, other mechanical things that he well understands.

Sounds fantastic, but I've been working up to a point where as soon as we turned on the – the juice, we wouldn't get a shatter. And I don't intend to let any franchise holder out someplace get the juice turned on and shatter. He'd be running for the next year.

Patching up bodies is a mechanical activity. He can – understands these things. When he goes overboard and beyond that, he exceeds his field and has no business in our field of any kind whatsoever.

You have no idea what it means. These bodies keep coming in, and they keep demanding things, and if you haven't got places to send them and ways to handle them, and ways to service them, and something to do about it, you get into more beefs, kicks, screams and yowls than you know what to do with.

We have no quarrel with him, but why should he enter our field or pretend to anybody that he knows anything about our field – because he doesn't.

You just go out through the top of your head and skip the whole thing, that's all.

You ask a medico or a psychiatrist what the parts of the anatomy of the human mind are, he's going to say a skull, brain tissue, nerves, and psychosis. And the rest of it from there on out is a total figure-figure and nothing but a figure-figure.

You get thirty-five, forty bodies lying on top of you, all of them demanding different types of service, if you can't handle them, you're going to – you're going to blow, that's all.

He doesn't know the parts of the human mind.

Central Organizations which are badly organized will increase their traffic and then overtly decrease it just to get out from underneath the traffic if their lines are wrong. You realize that?

Now, thee and me cannot call off all of the bones of the body just brrrrrrrrrr in Latin, which is a very necessary knowledge, I assure you, but then, he can't call off the parts of the mind. So we're going to have a bargain with him as we carry forward here. We'll leave Latin terminology of bones and body parts alone if he will leave the anatomy of the human mind alone. Because we admit we don't know anything about the body in terms of Latin terminology and he should admit that he knows nothing about the human mind in a similar wise. Right?

They cut themselves back. Well, what's this got to do with good dissemination?

Audience: Yes.

Now look, if you're going to handle the mental therapy of Earth, and if you're going to handle the traffic of Earth, if you're going to handle any parts of these civilizations, you're going to have to handle it in some sort of an orderly fashion. Otherwise, you won't be able to handle it. You'll just shatter.

I'm tired of these men who pretend they are all wise. There's a tremendous number of things I don't know, and I am perfectly happily willing to admit it. It's no shame on my part at all. I could give you a long list. It begins first with women.

All of its confusions can be pushed in upon you. Basically, the public is there to worry you. Actually, that's the best description of a service facsimile: is that mechanism which is utilized to worry people.

But it's part of wisdom to know what you don't know. And a man is only wise who also knows what he doesn't know. But he's stupid to say that he can't know about something or that something is unknowable.

If you wonder what this has got to do, you're not terribly interested in it. But I tell you, you'd get interested if you got in the middle of one of these maelstroms. And remember, I've seen five large organizations shatter just on too much traffic and too little order.

Our old friend, Spencer, in the field of philosophy with his great unknowable, actually installed everything pretty well down. He said there were certain things that were unknowable.

So we're not going to let it happen again. And you'll see us continue to grow and see people perfectly willing to let an organization expand as long as it's expanding properly.

Kant, with his transcendental etherealism, couldn't. Immanuel Kant: the last of the great philosophers who couldn't. And he said there were many things, so high and beyond, that nobody would ever know anything about them. Well, then how the hell did he know they were there?

If anybody's going to have anything to do with the Central Organization pattern, the best thing for him to do is take a few weeks off, come into the Central Organization and work as a staff member. Not stand around and observe. Get your hands dirty. Central Organizations are perfectly well equipped to take care of you doing that. You're perfectly welcome to do so. They'll even pay you money.

I'm afraid man won't ever know anything about things he can't experience in some way or perceive because they don't exist for him. But if they don't exist for him, he can never be the effect of them. So why should he know anything about them if they exist? Now, there's probably a seventh dimension and eighteen dozen universes that you haven't skidded through to yet. But if you can't experience them any way and can't get through to them in any way, looks to me like knowledge of them is a bunch of guesswork, right?

There's the weirdest things go on. You've got no idea how many motions it takes to handle one membership, and what happens if you don't handle it. You know, you people can scream. You got any idea how high you can scream? Boy, get one "Q" wrong in your name, and you'd think you'd been executed.

Now, just as we are interested in our own last and our own field, so we are and continue to be interested in this one single factor: That we do know what we can do now. And knowing it, we expect it to be respected and don't expect it to be argued with.

But it's much more important that when a person comes in to a Scientology organization to have his case gotten off the launching pad, that this happens now! You understand? Not big excuses: "Well, I'm going to… You came to us a little bit too late." The old psychoanalytic gag.

As a matter of fact, we have our own defense mechanisms of keeping it from being argued with. You can always say, "The somatic strip will now go back to birth when I snap my fingers," and snap your fingers. That stops almost any argument. The guy starts coughing and looks up in the doctor's face back on the track somewhere. Oh, you don't think you can put somebody back in birth, huh? About 30 percent of the first class that took the Anatomy of the Human Mind Course, when they were finding engrams on each other, were staring at the doctor as he leaned over and said, "Well, it – he can't come out very easily now. He'll have to stay there for a few minutes. Now get back in there now. All right. Now you can come a little further. Now stop.

Psychoanalysts, by the way, lose one-third of their patients in the first three months from suicide. Do you know that? That's an accurate datum. "They came to us too late" is what they tell them.

Now start pushing, will you? Now push down. Down. Now stay down. St push down now. That, push down. Push down hard. No, no. Don't do that. No, no, no, no."

No, we've got to have this guy, we've got to have this guy away now. Well now, what does it take? If you've got auditors there, what administration does it take to get the pc in their hands, get the thing straightened out, and get the reports proper, and connect everything up with a room in the proper order, and then make awfully sure that the processes get run that the individual paid to have run. Not a bunch of figure-figure or didge or dodge, which will happen too.

I'd say that a medical doctor was entering a field he knew nothing about, which is traumatic experience, and he was just salting an incident down with holds, returns, down bouncers, everything else, and making it very rough to run, right?

You can only then guarantee Scientology works. Then you can guarantee it works. Because it's what's being used. And this is why you've got to have a high level of technical result. When you bring a student in, maybe he's half dead at the end of the course, but he knows how to audit. This you've got to be able to guarantee. You got it?

Audience: Right.

If you've got the technology to improve somebody, then when they come into a Central Organization, for heaven's sakes, we've got to improve them! That's what we're selling!

So if he insists on setting up problems for him – for us, we can always set up problems for him.

Well, it takes a tremendous amount of administration to get that happening. And if it doesn't happen in any kind of volume of traffic, the technical result doesn't occur if the administrative channels don't exist. You'd be amazed.

But beyond this fact, we have no quarrel with anybody anyplace. The only quarrel that we have are people who for their own reasons try to tell us we don't know what we're doing or that we are frauds or bums or stupes or they have total ownership of the field of the mind.

Well, there's such a thing as a case assessment. We used it ten or eleven years ago. We've revived it recently, and we make the auditor run it. And we make him fill out a full case assessment form. Not on the E-Meter. It's just page after page of "Why did your grandfather have to marry the girl."

The Germans, by the way, have an interesting theory on this that I ran into in an old textbook one day. They say, "Authority in a field belongs to the person who knows the field and can demonstrate his ability in that field. And that is the only test of the authority in any field." Right?

And somewhere down the line, we find out why this fellow wants to be audited. And it's usually some reason like he thinks he ought to be a girl, really.

Audience: Yes.

Well, just in the case assessment we find this out, and we can audit in that direction, straighten up, match up a goal and get him off the launching pad because otherwise he's sitting there with a continuous present time problem that he's a man.

Well, we can demonstrate that. Therefore, we don't believe that we should go on feeling hangdog about doing what we know or doing what we're doing. We should have a very forward look at the whole thing. We should be very forward and very abrupt on the subject of what we know. Because we can do things with the human mind and with human beings that assist them and help them for the first time on this planet. And that is accomplishment enough not to have to apologize thereafter. Right?

And you can dodge all over the place trying to cure this fellow of asthmatics, psychoanalysis, and everything else. We, by the way, have to cure people of psychoanalysis. Takes hours.

Audience: Right.

I remember the first fellow I ever had who was a psychoanalytic patient, and he kept saying, "Well, I – if I'm very careful, my ulcers don't hurt me anymore because I've had three years of psychoanalysis three hours a week. And if I'm very careful, I don't have ulcers. But if I breathe a little bit wrong, I'm afraid I might, so I don't want you to audit me."

Now I have a feeling, I have a definite feeling – children can close their ears at this point – I have a definite feeling all hell's going to break loose here shortly. I do.

And I says, "All right. I won't audit you. What we'll do is lock-scan you."

We are about to take out of the mouths of vested interest in the field of the human mind – ha! they didn't have a field; they had a back pasture – we're about to take out of their mouths the bread on which they sharpen their teeth because they support themselves totally and only in one direction. They support themselves with diagnosis, not with cure. Ever think of that?

And he said, "All right."

So the doctor comes in and he tells this fellow he has lumbosis. He dies from it, but he still sends his bill. Families are always receiving these bills. So it must be that the family is paying for the diagnosis because there was no cure.

So I said, "All right." I said, "Pick up your first appointment with a psychoanalyst, and scan forward to present time through all appointments." He did. Ooooooo! There went his ulcers. They turned right back on again. The only thing that was holding them off was a thin layer of psychoanalysis.

In the field of psychiatry and psychology, testing is practically the sole support, particularly in psychology. Telling somebody what's wrong with him is what you pay for.

Scanned him three more times, audited the engram necessary to resolve the case, and he didn't have any ulcers anymore. Probably had something else because he was an editor.

Psychoanalysis gets somebody to talk for five years so they can suddenly tell him what's wrong with them. So what's that? That's charge for diagnosis, isn't it. It's not a charge for a cure, is it?

Now, we have to cure people of things like that, but if you don't make out long case assessment forms on pcs, you don't learn it.

Well, we're just going to reverse that. For the first time we can reverse that. We can charge for – and I don't use this word advisedly or legally – we could charge for the cure. And then if it didn't cure him, we can say, well, here's your 50 bucks. Get lost. And still be way ahead of the game. But we'd cure him. So we can charge for the cure because we can do it. Because we know our business.

And this guy is trying to heal his libido by getting the square root of his id. And it has nothing to do with his case. It's something somebody told him. And if you get – don't get the person that told him that this was his goal under heavy duress and get this out of the road, you never audit the pc. Got it?

Why should we charge for the diagnosis? Oh, we could make quite accurate diagnoses. Why should we charge for it. But look, if we do perfectly accurate diagnoses, perfectly accurate, more accurate than anybody else has ever done on the subject of the mind and more rapidly and do it free and do it with no charge at all, what's going to happen to fields that only charge for diagnosis?

No, you have to find out things like this. Well, who guarantees that there is a case assessment form, that it is made out, and that somebody looks it over and reanalyzes the case and makes sure that this is the case we are auditing, and this is what we have to do to this case in order to get it off the launching pad? You got it?

Somebody should have told them I was a dangerous man years ago.

Well, it's partially administration, partially technical. Technical fails when the administration fails. And you can handle large numbers of people if your administration is good, but I don't know how the average businessman lives.

Now, a lot of you here are not interested in Dianetics and Scientology professionally, and so you'll think you've walked into a professional lecture amongst a bunch of practitioners who are plotting.

Every once in awhile we get a businessman in an organization and he always has a hard time because he thinks we're in business. And we're not in business. We're in service. It has very little to do with business.

No, if you are a member of the human race, you have your share of this because I think it's about time that expensive diagnosis and damaging "cure" (unquote) were dispensed with. And we can, for the first time, reverse it, and that is why we are taking this planet right this minute, and that is the total formula of how we are going forward.

We don't ever have any accountants in the organization, for instance. We seldom have any real executives in organizations. We have Scientologists in organizations. We find out they function better.

We can charge only for the cure; and we don't have to charge for the diagnosis. Do you realize that a psychologist is supporting himself today mainly because of his ability to (quote) "test" (unquote). Big industries, governments, government departments and other organizations today are working in the field of psychology with trained psychologists solely to get people tested.

It's very tough for a non-Scientologist to stay in a Central Organization, let me – let me tell you. It doesn't matter how good he thinks he is. He's being passed on all sides.

What do you think of an organization that suddenly sweeps in and says we'll do it for nothing. Send the guy down. It won't cost you a cent. We do it much better. We do it much faster and you can depend on the results completely. They shouldn't have got mad at us.

Some Scientologist that study – saw – last saw arithmetic in the eighth grade, can usually ac count rings around the average accountant in the Central Organization. We learn these things the hard way.

Now, we are perfectly happy to employ psychologists, and we don't mean to sweep them out of their livelihood. Only out of that field of pretense. Soon as they get a little bit hungry, why, they'll come around to asking for a job.

So, part of a Central Organization means that everybody's case level has got to be in pretty good shape. Otherwise, they'd bog down on all sides. A Central Organization should be Clear.

And they'll say, "Well, I was always on your side, but the association wouldn't let me come out and say so." We'll dust him off, too.

Therefore, we have to have programs which clear everybody in the Central Organization. Got the idea? We can't let staff auditors go on and knock their brains out forever on pcs without making sure they get audited, so we have to have special auditing programs.

We'll always give him a job as janitor or something. You've always got work like that.

We've got to keep them in there pitching. We make the grade, but the tight, inner core of Scientology is Central Organization personnel. And there's a lot of know-how to be known about it. And that know-how is wide open and free for your study and your use. Go persuade the Association Secretary or something like that to let you work for a while in a Central Organization. Keep your eyes open and you'll see what's going on.

But we have solved the field of testing. Testing, testing. We fooled around with tests. We know what tests are stable. We've probably done more tests in recent years than the whole field of psychology. We know what these things are all about and we can monitor them electronically, which they never have. Not correct them electronically – monitor them. We know whether a test is correct or not by putting somebody on an E-Meter and monitoring the test with the E-Meter. By backing up all testing with the E-Meters, we've got it taped.

You might be able to get the American Management Association bulletins for the last 250 years, study eighty-nine years under hard duress in all the business colleges on Earth, and you might learn one one-thousandth of what you'd learn in three weeks in a Central Organization. Got it? That's not an exaggeration.

Furthermore, by backing up all tests with an E-Meter, we've got the future taped. We can read people's future. Do you know that that is the genus of psychometric testing? Early psychometric testing was fortunetelling. Did you know that the psychologist had that as his lowly origin? Did you know that? That's where he came from.

You should see what happens to some businesses when they suddenly hire a Scientologist. For a little while, they don't quite know what's happening. The next thing you know, they have communication systems, and the next thing you know, they're blowing themselves up because the communications are wide open.

Cross the gypsy's palm with silver, and you will be a psychologist. That's his genus. Fortunetelling. But then he found out he couldn't tell fortunes with his tests, so he got "scientific" (quote, unquote).

They say, "What's going on around here?" You know?

Well, we found out weirdly and wildly enough that we can tell fortunes with tests. You only have to ask a fellow three questions on an E-Meter and get his reaction and definition on an E-Meter. You have to ask him about family, health and money. Boy, can you read his future!

Something horrible happens. All kinds of weird things occur. Scientology gets up against business, why, things happen. Usually, the first thing that happens is the executive starts to resist. He's always been perfectly able to snarl to his secretary. Now he starts snarling down wide-open communication lines, and everybody knows what a dog he is. The only answer to that is get him audited so he doesn't bark.

So we've wound the thing on the whole circle, and that is one of the major breakthroughs, is the case with which we can do this type of testing. We've got testing solved as a technical fact. And I've had a lot of help in that.

Oh, here's your basic Central Organization on the United States right where you're sitting right now. Washington, DC. This organization runs about a half a hundred people. They handle a considerable volume of business. They are mainly concerned with broad administration training in the United States. It's quite a watch. Unfortunately, we don't have as many quarters, we don't have as much activity local as we should have. These things are going to be cured very suddenly.

This is good news for you because it means you can tell the sheep from the goats and the politicians from the citizens. This is good news. I'll give it a decade. I'll give it a decade before it is general practice to deny a person public office if he can't pass the test.

Assoc Sec and I haven't had a chance to talk about it yet, but we will.

What's that do to politics? What's that do to crime? What's that do to civilization? You're watching the turn of the wheel as we turn into this decade of the sixties because we've solved some things. But we're not in an ivory tower. We mean to do something about it.

And out here in Los Angeles is the West Coast Central Organization, and that organization is about to be cut loose as far as its activity is concerned.

I don't think that a man who has tremendous overts on the subject of Russia, for instance, would be a safe man to have around the atomic defense sector. He'd just pull the H-bombs in on top of him, man. Do you realize that? He'd get what he did, as I was showing you with the red and yellow ball.* So there's a change coming. It's not an idle threat. We're going to roll it up.

Now, right here in this particular vicinity there are probably two or three Central Organizations could go in. And the immediate plans on Central Organizations, as far as that's concerned, is to put a larger Central Organization in New York. We have a sort of a holding action there right now.

[Editor's note: The two balls used by Ron to demonstrate Newton's law of interaction in the lecture, "The Whole Answer to the Problems of the Human Mind," the third lecture of this series.]

Put a real Central Organization in there, put another one in Chicago, take the Seattle holding organization, groove it in, gun it up, and let it roar. There's probably another one down here in Denver. There's been a holding action consistently down here in Houston, Texas and we'll make something out of that.

You've been expecting me to say this for years and years and years or listening to me threaten it. You knew that this was inherent in the material that we were cooking up. And yet I never came forward and said so flat-footedly.

We don't mean to take away anybody's front yard or back yard. We're not interested in taking anything away from them. We're interested in giving them something. They make a lot more than they did before and actually have more authority in their area than they'll have.

You expected me to say this was it as far as processing is concerned. No, I'm not saying this as far as processing is concerned. I'm saying this is it as far as this civilization is concerned; because if we don't make it, nobody will.

They'll also have me on the back of their neck if they're not clearing people, which I think they, oddly enough, would happily pay for. Nobody's even going to ask them to pay for it.

Scientology is the only game where everybody wins. That is the sole license we actually have to go forward on. It's the only game where everybody wins.

This is one country we don't have any Central Organization in. This is a country which has to be helped. It's a country called "Inja." It was invented by Kipling. And ever since it has had to be helped.

Therefore, we aren't beating the drum on any political platform except that of the humanitarian. We're not politicians. We're humanitarians. Somebody says we're beating the drum for one kind of politics or another, no, we just hope that some type of politics doesn't move in on the human race with such violence that it enslaves everybody before we can get him in the pre-clear's chair. That's our only beef with communism.

And listen, there has been a dicker going on between the London Central Organization and "Inja" now for, I think, about four years, about putting an official Central Organization under the government of India. And they almost connect about twice a year. It's really weird, but they won't help us put in a Central Organization to help them. And every time we turn around, we come a cropper on it.

Of course, there are a lot of us who are pretty good with machine guns, and I suppose we'd go ahead and man the barricades if we had to, but I would much rather man the auditing chairs. I will say that just manning auditing chairs is considerable sacrifice because on the whole track it used to be a lot of fun, this revolutionary activity, the ins and the outs and you shot everybody down and everybody lost and…

Now, next to Washington, DC, here is the Commonwealth center of Scientology. It's located here in London. It's down on Fitzroy Street right in West 1, which is the center of London. Now, that organization is actually older than the Washington organization by several years. And it's a mighty fine Central Organization. In their own muck along British way, they do wonderfully. Every time I go over into the Central Organization I say, "What are you people doing now?" You know? After we've exchanged the amenities and been glad to see each other, which is perfectly true, and they say, "Well, we thought Address had better go in the basement, and Training had better go on the roof, and so forth."

It was a game. It's stylish and fashionable now to say that war is evil and no good. Well, I don't know. Maybe war is evil and no good. It's stylish and fashionable for everybody in war to be afraid. You read it in all the novels, so it must be true in spite of the fact that few of those writers were there.

And we talk it over, and they've got something, so we compromise and do what I say.

The truth of the matter is that people who have fought wars had the mass of the war. Not a description of them on a printed page or Brady's photographs of them. Dead bodies are still havingness. I know. I've looked very proudly at the piles of dead bodies and say, "Well, they won't go – be going much of any place anymore."

But over here I have to be very careful. I have to pronounce processing, processing, but beyond that I surrender no American accent these days. As a matter of fact, my American accent gets worse in England now instead of less. It's passé for an American to speak with an Oxford accent.

No, it's – as far as experience is concerned, there's nothing much wrong with war. So you get holes in you. So you put holes in people. So you bust up tanks. That's what they were built for.

Actually, I haven't had much practice with an Oxford accent. I went to Cambridge myself back about 1840, but the Oxfordian approach is passé. And we have – we have Americanized it to a point where you get better service in England if you say, "Hey, waiter! Gimme a Coke."

The manufacturers are half scared that you won't crash your airplane. The last thing they'd do would be to build an uncrashable war airplane. The moral values of war are quite something else. If you want to fight wars, I don't see anything wrong with fighting wars, providing everybody present wants to fight a war. Power of choice. They want to experience a war, let them go ahead and experience a war.

He says, "Ah," he says, "an American. I'll have to put ice in the ghloss. I mean, glass."

But how about the guys that are driven into the war with whips? How about the guys that are drafted in? How about the guys that are driven in that didn't want to be there? How about the guys that don't care about the political issues at all? How about birds that are terribly allergic to gun grease? They have problems. They shouldn't have to be there. They don't want to experience it, why should they experience it? Got the idea?

That's a great crew, though, this London crew. They're great people. The funny part of it is that Scientologists in these Central Organizations get totally interchangeable and totally mixed up. They lose their nationality with great rapidity. The size of the unit is about the only contest that they run between themselves. Their unit pay system and so forth is different than businesses.

The only thing wrong with war is that it enslaves many individuals who don't want to be there. And basically what's wrong with war politically is today it is usually waged to enslave somebody.

And you'll have Melbourne busily arguing with London about "Well, I don't know why you should talk to us. We have had a larger unit than you have for some time." Well, it's about as nationalistic as they get. Or "We've made more Clears than you have." It has nothing to do about we're Australians, and you're Henglish.

As a matter of fact, it usually is waged to enslave somebody in modern times. But it's usually waged to destroy the self-determinism of a people. The diplomats ran out of logical plans and arguments that people could accept, so they had to call on the soldiers.

But this Central Organization was established early in 1952 when it became quite obvious that we were being shot out of the skies. We didn't really turn the tables in the United States till about 1956, 57, and we flipped the tables hard by that time. But in those days, we were just being shot out of the saddle every time we tried to mount – cut to ribbons.

Though – but nobody ever looks at it this way – but all wars are diplomatic failures. Boy, we've sure had a lot of stupid diplomats lately, haven't we?

If it wasn't Internal Revenue, it was the American Medical or somebody else. We were having a rough time.

Well, that the communist is trying to push his philosophy across the world, it's the philosophy of no speech. Not, not antifreedom of speech; it's philosophy of no speech, you know? No speech, no press, no food; very negative philosophy this communism is.

So I started this enfilade fire proposition. I went over to London and started a Central Organization so as to discourage anybody shooting at the American organizations. They found out there wasn't much use shooting at the American organizations. Everything would come in from London. There was no sense in shooting at the London organization. Everything would come in from America. It drove them into apathy. It actually worked. So there is the center of control of the Commonwealth. And all Scientology in the Commonwealth is really controlled from London. That's because it has good, old-fashioned communication lines that still work.

I never have any trouble with communists personally. I've known an awful lot of communists personally, by the way. And we have a lot of fun arguing. They're always trying to argue me into having a government because I think they're too far to the Right. I don't like these Rightist conservative movements like communism.

Now, down here below London, almost on the map… Let's see if it's on this globe. Yes, by George, Saint Hill. London – yeah, that's right, Saint Hill, what do you know. They – it's not there.

Yeah, it always stops a communist. He's trying to tell you how you should destroy your government, you see, and you come along, and say, "I don't like your government."

It's a very beautiful, old English estate, the one-time luxury estate of the Maharajah of Jaipur. And it has enormous grounds. I suppose you probably couldn't landscape a place in the United States for a million dollars that would look like Saint Hill.

"What's wrong?" And he'll give you all of the things about, "You capitalists shouldn't do that."

It's a gorgeous old manor house. It's very roomy, very modern. The – just before the Maharajah, the wife of the American Ambassador Biddle had the place, and she installed eight or ten bathrooms complete, and installed good central heating, so it had already been Americanized when we acquired it.

"Oh, you wait a minute now. Don't say – use dirty words to me. I'm not ever going to buy communism because you boys are too far to the Right. You're too conservative. You believe in government. You believe in big governments and so forth. I don't like that."

You can always tell when an American has taken over an English castle. It has bathrooms and central heating. The two things that are the badges of this civilization.

And, boy, do they have to – they have to grab the other textbook. They really dive for that other textbook. That's the textbook with which you handle anarchists. Of course, this fools them, too, because I'm not an anarchist. And they run out of textbooks with me in an awful hurry.

The – but – that is totally HCO, which we just got the badge for. That is the center of HCO. And HCO has an office in every Central Organization and has a lot of other offices besides, and they require their own center and that's why we have Saint Hill.

Because I'm not serious about it except for one thing: is I don't believe any political philosophy has the right to impress itself upon a people and deny the whole people their own determinism and freedom. That's that. That's the only type of politics that I'm against. And I think it's fairly decent to be against it.

It's about thirty-two miles from London in the quiet, quiet countryside, and it's pretty gorgeous – private fishing lakes and all that sort of thing. But it tries not to get too much involved in the London organization. But most of these offices now are connected by telex or teletypewriter, so that you put a message into a typewriter at one end, and it comes out in the actual HCO office at the other end. It's the only way we can control this much area.

Now, I'm against a type of politics that's trying to set everybody free who doesn't want to be free, too. Did you ever see that happen? They say, "Well, all you people are free." What's the difference between that and say, "You guys are fired."

Now, here in Paris, Scientology has been learning to speak French for a number of years and has got an interesting foothold. It's a tiny organization run by an American who is very French and a very swell fellow. And he's coming on up these days. He's doing all right, and we're real happy with him.

When you look over the planet today and you find a lot of points where you could start and a lot of things you could do, but it's my idea if we just went ahead and did our job and applied what we knew, a lot of things would happen as a result of it.

Now, in the down-under category, the next large Central Organization that occurred was down here, down here in Melbourne. Melbourne, Australia. And it's a nice, big Central Organization.

What would happen if every person in this audience was able to control and make harmonious the entirety of his own environment? What would happen to this country if each and every one of you could harmoniously, decently control, handle and square around the totality of your own environment. Well, think of it.

This Central Organization is immediately across the street from Parliament House. And it has two large buildings which go very deep, and the staff, every time it passes in and out and isn't thinking about something else, looks longingly over at Parliament House and wonders when it is going to occupy that house. You think I'm just joking, but the Australian staff fully intends to take over that Parliament House.

Is there any part of your environment that you are not at this moment not handling? Is there some part of your environment that you feel a little diffident about?

It's no longer the Parliament of Australia since that's moved to Canberra, so they don't see any reason why anybody else should have it, and they don't see anybody – reason anybody else should govern Australia. They're cocky.

And what if you didn't feel diffident about it anymore? Hmm?

But these are terrific people. These are terrific people here. This is – it's one of the older Central Organizations, a terrific crew. They have, oh, I don't know, half a hundred or so. It's just fabulous. They are a great team.

Are you the kind of person when they tell you that you're a technician 3rd class that you go on and be a technician 3rd class, you knucklehead?

And they have now opened up another Central Organization in Sydney, and another Central Organization over here in Perth. And all of those are booming.

Well, if you are, now is the time to change.

This country and South Africa have a war between them. And their war is totally which one is going to become the first Scientology country on Earth. And they actually have a big contest going that they've originated all by themselves.

No, we don't believe that we should visit war upon a nation or upon the world. We're not interested in declaring war on humanity. That's the trouble with humanity.

Here's the next big Central Organization. It's a rather new one. There have been numerous HASIs down here, but no real big one. And here we have Johannesburg, South Africa. And in Johannesburg, right in… There's Joburg. And Johannesburg has three buildings and a tremendous – a lot of activity, and is now the busiest Central Organization on Earth.

In the past people have always been declaring war on humanity in order to save humanity, and as I said in Book One, I don't think it'd stand being saved just one more time.

Suzie and I have been down there, and I have been kicking it forward, taking in thirty brand-new people a day off the street and servicing them with processing and training. And it's quite a… It doesn't sound like many at first glance, but brother, that sure clutters up your halls. And that organization would have blown apart about six times if we hadn't held it together with sticky plaster and glue.

But I think enlightenment could do a great deal for humanity. Not enlightening them with some new, strange philosophy but enlightening them with their own identity and their own existence and letting them find out for themselves which way they are going and then making up their minds without just enslaving them and telling them which way they're going.

Now, in addition to that, we have down here at Durban another Central Organization, which is the Central Organization of Natal. Right here at Durban, that's under Peter. He's doing fine, and he's making a good show of it. As a matter of fact, the other day he put in a twenty-four-foot vertical sign that is white with red letters which says Scientology – in order to light up the neighborhood, he told the town council, so they let him put it in.

That is the way to set men free.

Now, Jack and Allison have just gone down here to Cape Town to open up another Central Organization in Cape Town. That'll be booming along very shortly.

Oddly enough, men don't want to be free. What is this thing called freedom?

Now, when you look at this planet here, you are very struck by the fact that here in Berlin we have a contact office, and in London we have an office, and in Paris we have an office. And now, look-a-here. Now look, that's totally dark all the way. The whole Soviet Socialist God-'elp-us Republic, and every one of its slave countries. And there isn't a single Central Organization or HCO office anywhere in that area.

The total freedom right now – well, what would it be? Total freedom. Total freedom would be freedom of your body, freedom from the universe, freedom from all of your friends, freedom from all of your possessions – out. In other words, the best way to set men free is to take a.45 and fire it. The guy's free. Boy, is he free. He has no further responsibilities because he has no body to take care of the responsibilities with. He's free. Death and freedom are synonymous in this regard.

Well, I'm not quite sure what we're going to do about it, but we're going to do something. I'm not kidding, because in there is over half the population of Earth blocked out totally.

No, you haven't got a body because you are trapped in a body. You must have a body because you somehow or another want to be here. Maybe some amongst us consider that you're a knucklehead for wanting to be here on this planet. Maybe we figure you weren't very smart for picking out the particular sphere of beingness that you decided to be this time.

Now, speaking of contact offices, however, we have one down here in San Juan, Puerto Rico, and we have another one down here in Brazil.

But nevertheless we have to decide that you must have had some part in being here. I don't think anybody had a gun on you, a thetan, when you picked up that body. I don't. I think you picked it up because you wanted to be here.

We've had organizations in Hawaii, and we're going to straighten that out soon, now that it's a state.

Well, if that's the case, then, what's wrong with being here? You still must find something a little bit wrong with being here, otherwise you wouldn't kind of protest about being here while on your own determinism being here.

When you look this over, we cover an awful lot of this globe, but there's a great missing portion of that globe right there I don't like to have missing. Because it doesn't seem to me like it belongs to other people. We might as well own it. Well, somebody ought to own it. The communists can't own anything. Maybe if we just kept saying we are the real owners of Russia, maybe they'd give it to us, you know?

Well, now supposing that all the benefits of being here which you have already decided upon, because by being here, by having a body, you have havingness, you have streets and airplanes and Cadillac's and ice cream sodas and fights with your wife. All kinds of enjoyable things.

We also have offices in some of the other African states, contacts and that sort of thing, but it's quite remarkable how long these communication lines are and how accurately they function and how quickly they work.

No, it's havingness. You have friends, you have companions, you have somebody to talk to, you have something to do, something to fool with. You're not sitting off in some vacuum someplace waiting for a million years to go by. There are benefits to being here. There are benefits of interest and doing-ness. But yet you must feel there's something wrong with being here. There must be slightly something wrong with being here.

Now, there are several empires of the past that we could inherit. We could inherit the Roman Empire, the British Empire, the various empires. These things are not being hung together very well these days. Their communication lines are still there, and to some degree we use these communication lines, which is quite interesting.

Well, now how would you feel really if you were here and didn't feel anything wrong with being here and felt that you had every right to be here, and felt that you had every right to adjust your environment so it was happy to be here too? What kind of a society would this make? Boy, that'd sure look like a different society, wouldn't it? Wouldn't it?

But I'm quite, actually, quite proud of what Scientologists have done over the years, very proud.

Audience: Yes.

Most of these fellows have just gone out into the middle of nowhere, you know, and sat down and started things up, and then pretty soon said, "Hey, Ron, give me a hand," and I've tried to do what I could for them.

That's what we're doing. That's all we're doing. I had a pc – I won't mention her name – I had a pc the other day tell me, "In my first 50 hours of processing I was resisting the auditor like mad because I was absolutely certain that the auditor was trying to make me be good. And after about 50 hours, I found out the auditor didn't care whether I was good or not. And as soon as I decided it didn't matter whether I was good or not, I found I was able to be good. She said, "You sure got around me."

A lot of people have been through Central Organizations, gone out into private practice, eddy around one way or the other. There's a whole crew down in Tucson has an HCO office down there, and so on. I imagine one of these days it'll cohese into an actual Central Organization down there in Tucson. That's what they intended to do the last time I was talking to them.

And nobody's even trying to make people good. How can you make anybody good when he's good already anyhow?

But my effort is not to make these people a ruled people. My effort is quite the opposite. I wish these people to be as autonomous as possible. And some Assoc Sec starts screaming at me too hard for too much help, I begin to look at him and find out what's happened to his determinism.

No, you look this whole, this whole silly equation over, and you'll find out that there must be a certain unwillingness to be here for a person to be upset at all. And for a person to be trying to knock himself off when he's already trying to stay there and be here is contradictory. Illness is simply a covert method of committing suicide. That's what – all that illness is.

An effort to make all these people function as they'll function and stand on their own two feet and so forth is probably a very strange effort on this Earth, but it's nevertheless being very thoroughly made.

You see a man sick. That's a 1.1 suicide. That's all.

The Scientology population of Earth is at this moment beyond calculation. I couldn't even give you a guess what it is. In the first place, many field auditors hold out on us the exact count of their groups, so we can never tell you how many there are. But it is quite large. And I saw something the other day – somebody said that there were 350 auditors in one country. And I thought, "Where the devil did he get his figures?" Ha-ha, we trained that many in that country in a matter of eighteen months. What happened to them? This is kind of goofy, the figures that we have on this. We don't know what the Scientology population of Earth is. It is heavy. We don't know how many practitioners there are on Earth. They are considerable.

You say, "When did you decide to commit suicide?" It may take him an hour or two to remember, but he can actually find the exact moment when he decided to commit suicide in this exact fashion. Interesting, isn't it? So much for psychosomatic illness.

Every once in a while we hear from somebody new that is operating some place or another. Some guy just read a book and joined us, and we didn't even know about him.

Now, when you look over the goals of Dianetics and Scientology, they are actually not very vicious goals or very far reaching or very complicated or very incomprehensible.

Well, I'm awfully proud of these people, the way they stick to it, and so forth. They form a tremendous lot of awfully good people. Probably, undoubtedly the freest people on Earth. We probably are the free people of Earth.

If you just added them up to "We can fix you up so you're happy to be here and have what you've got." Supposing we just said that, see? That would be very comprehensible, wouldn't it? But it'd seem awfully impossible to the bulk of the people you said it to.

But whenever I think about these guys and how hard they work and how much they give up for all this, why, I feel mighty proud of them – mighty proud.

They'd say, "What? Be happy to be here? Oh, I don't know. I have headaches all the time. I mean I'm not happy to be here."

The Scientologists of the world consider themselves Scientologists and less and less Americans, Australians, Rhodesians, and so forth. We may not only be a free people, we may be the new people of Earth.

And of course, it's cruel of you to say to him, "Well, why have you still got a head then?"

Certainly we part company rather rapidly with the humanoid band. And something new is happening which we ourselves don't have too much control of. Something is occurring.

But you'd find that people at large would look this over and they'd walk around it very carefully and very suspiciously, and they would look at it from all sides. "What do you mean be happy to be here? I don't know. I don't know. Here? Oh, no. Nobody could be happy to be here."

Some people complain and say we have too many new words. Well, we have new words for the number of unknowns there were because there weren't any words for them. So it's inevitable. If they say we have too many words, say, "Well, that shows you how many new things we've discovered."

Well, think of just one thing that you would be happy about if you were here.

When I think of these people, though, across the face of Earth, all of them dedicated, doing their jobs as best they know how, making a tremendous inroad here and there, well, I see there's some definite hope for this planet.

There's been an awful lot of talk about people dreaming up systems of thought by which you had magnetic personalities and scintillance. While there's been a lot of thought about becoming powerful and becoming this, you'll find the end product of most of these is they want to become sufficiently powerful so that they can overwhelm everybody. These are very low order types of advances.

And I myself feel tremendously repaid for the amount of work which I have put in on this, because my work on this in the last thirty years has not been slight. During the last ten years it's been full of hard, rough spots and heartbreaks. It's been a rough road, but the toll is well paid by the people that work in this subject. Because I'm very, very proud of them. Let's give them a hand, huh?

I'd like to be so powerful I didn't ever have to overwhelm anybody. Be a new kind of power.

Now, you wonder maybe why I've taken all this time to tell you something about these branch offices. I wanted to show them to you on this globe. I wanted to give you some idea of what they were. These are not businesses. These are not organizations. It's a misnomer. This is a new movement on the face of Earth and I just wanted to show you that it's circling this globe. And it is going faster and faster, and more and more effectively, and particularly now when we can do what we're going to do, which is we're going to run testing and types of courses and units and – of activity that the planet's never seen before. We'll win along this line.

Matter of fact, I've handled about three major – minor riots in the last two or three months on a Tone 40 basis. It was very disappointing because I don't mind a fight. You might like – not like fights, but I don't mind a fight, see? It's perfectly all right providing there isn't a bunch of unwillingness about fighting, I'd just as soon fight. And golly, there was – the last one was four gangsters from Alexandria Township. I had to Tone 40 that one. They came down into the servants' quarters and they were going to stab the servant girl and one of them had a gun, and one of them had a knife.

Now, before, I was fighting rather defensively, I was trying to keep our skirts clean in order to get the research done and not get stopped in mid-track.

It was pretty wild. Almost as bad as Washington. And it was the makings of a wonderful fight. They're perfectly legitimate targets, you see. They wouldn't be the kind of persons they were if they didn't like to fight all the time. I was perfectly willing to fight with them. But the children were asleep.

Well, from here on, they better watch out, because I'm not going to put on any brakes. There's no point in doing so. I can get involved in as many fights as can be started.

So I had to Tone 40 them out of the yard and down the street, and that was the end of that fight.

The point is, the point is that we have made our technical goals, and that is very important. I'm very happy that we have made our technical goals because I… If anybody had told me that you could wrap this whole thing up in thirty-one years, I would have said, "Oh, no. Obviously, a dozen, dozen lifetimes. Get all the common denominators and fundamentals of the human mind and life and livingness and growth and basics and so on, and the history of man and where he's been and what he's done, and how you cure him and handle him and straighten it all out. And then how you administrate it and how you disseminate it, and so forth. Thirty years? Who's crazy, man? Nobody could do that! Couldn't be done. It's impossible."

Yeah, cut my havingness down. Haven't had a chance to practice any judo since 1945. Now, you think I'm just being wild and talking through my hat or something like that, but I did have that exact feeling. It'd be a big withhold from you if I were to say otherwise.

So we've done it – a third of a century. And for more than a decade, I've had lots of help, and I'm real proud of that help. And I want to thank you very much.

Here's a wonderful opportunity to have a wonderful fight. Here I live this calm opportunity type of existence of cheering everybody up and being wise and giving everybody lots of advice and so forth, and actually I'm not entirely like that at all.

I want to thank you particularly for coming to this congress. It's a good show. It made it worthwhile. You know, I'm flying twenty thousand miles just to give you this congress.

I almost regretted my ability to Tone 40 people at 40 paces. It was getting in my road, you know. So I walked four gangsters down the street.

I return – I'm going on back down to Joburg as soon as I give the first week's orientation to this ACC. What I'm confronting at once is finishing up the – what we call the hats of the Central Organization in Joburg so that patterns of Central Organizations can be repatterned elsewhere on this present expansion.

First time we had any trouble down there, Mary Sue was a little bit worried. Then she got to thinking it over. What was she worried about? She hasn't worried since. Very disappointing. In a tough moment your wife is supposed to be standing there, you know, saying, "Now, dear, be careful, you know." That's part of – supposed to be part of the scenery.

I'm also confronting another very interesting project when I get back there. I haven't taken it up fully with one and all, but I'll let you in on it.

Mary Sue goes on reading the magazine. "Well, Ron will take care of it." I'm getting a scarcity on crime. People don't even steal my things anymore.

We're taking over, as much as we can, the juvenile delinquency, white juvenile delinquency program of South Africa. We can handle this breed of cat, and we're the only ones on Earth who can, and it's a good place to take off.

So there are problems as you come up into the control of your environment.

Now, we've got very good connections in this and we can undoubtedly pull it off. We have the technology necessary to resolve the case. We haven't got to worry about that. The basic thing we've got to do is – not even settle the administrative pattern of how we handle it – what I've got to do is find a piece of land which is very close to one of the large prison farms down there in order to take over the fellows, the juveniles, when they come in there, and take them over and process them. And it's mostly a problem of where do I – I've got to find the quarters. That's a big problem in view of the fact that every fifth real estate man in South Africa now is a Scientologist.

But of course, those problems I'm just enunciating are based on the fact that I probably still believe I ought to have excitement in order to get along and be interested in life, see. Maybe I'll get over that, too.

The one thing that is heartening about South Africa is you – they booted the communists out a few years ago. They really booted them out on their ear. They closed the Russian Embassy and everything else. They just threw them out bodily.

No, the freedom as it is normally expressed is synonymous with being killed or fired, basically. People don't want to be free. People want to be able to participate. They don't want to be a flock of spectators.

Maybe this was a very violent action, but it is a funny thing that the atmosphere is rather easy to work in. If you want to know how much resistance there is to any social activity and so forth, you ought to just suddenly start moving in an area that doesn't have that resistance. And it feels all of a sudden like you've been – lost your weight, you know. You've gone antigravity or something. It's kind of interesting.

But it'd be a very interesting thing if people got up to a point where they could be free to do, free to act, and free to be, free to have, these things would be terrific. Just think of all of the things you'd own if you didn't have to have the title to everything that you own in your pocket.

There's a tremendous amount – or has been here in the past – internal pressure inside the United States. And it's very odd that we go so easily forward in a country that doesn't have that same internal pressure, which is the communist pressure.

I had a wonderful experience. I just owned the entirety of Idlewild the other day. Nobody ever gave me any title to it, but I sure owned it. I hadn't seen it totally finished. You seen Idlewild Airport recently? Boy, shades of Marcab. That's quite an airport. Really done a beautiful piece of architecture up there. Very nice. Next time you go through, why, take a tour of the place. It's several of many buildings. Shades of spaceports. Very nice.

The only reason we fight communism is because they get in our roads. It's like you fight flies, you know? And it's very easy to operate down in South Africa. That's because you seldom run into it.

I was looking it over, and I said, "I sure appreciate this country. I wish I could spend more time in it," and suddenly realized that between the last time I'd seen that particular area and this time that I'd seen the particular area, I had come up on my ability to own. It had just risen. I can tell because it was the same point I'd been at twice. It wasn't finished before, but I should have been able to have owned it then. I thoroughly owned it the last time. I really appreciated it. People wonder why I spend so much time out of America.

You run into it on the newspapers once in a while. You run into a newspaper reporter who's sitting there waving his little hammer and sickle. But press is very free down there. The newspaper, however, gives the outsider, who is there temporarily, an odd opinion of the country, but what he should do is look at the idea that it's a police state, you know, and then realize what's being printed in the newspapers. It's kind of odd, you know. No police state permits that sort of thing to be published in the newspapers. There's no censorship.

I don't have to worry too much about America: I own most of it. But it's been my feeling that if America was left standing totally alone in the world and without any allies, as she would be if these diplomats were left – I mean, pardon me! I didn't mean to use a word like that. These – what are these guys down at the State Department. They're not diplomats.

There was a short censorship during the emergency. You couldn't advocate revolt or something. But the operating climate is very easy. But that's not why I'm there.

Male voice: Jokers.

Why I'm there, basically, is I need – much more important than an escape from an H-bomb, which I think we'll tape anyhow one of these days shortly. A couple of the guys just tell me the other night they were working on it. The fact is that we need a training area. That's what I'm trying to provide.

Yeah, that's a good word for it. These characters, if world peace stayed totally in their paws, I think they'd probably have a bad time. We'd all have a bad time.

Well, look. Let's take this one. I set up a juvenile delinquency program, and we're running through juvenile delinquents like mad, you see – more and more juvenile delinquents and straighten them all out and making them good citizens, and sending them out the other end, and so on. We can get them paroled if we straighten them out, see? And that's very easy, and we're running through this, and we're taking care of this social program and that social program, and of course we'll accumulate quarters, and we'll accumulate training areas.

I think that American civilization is going abroad at a vast rate. I'm trying to do my share. And also I believe that if dissident elements occurred in America to start throwing us appetite over tin cup, that these elements would most be embarrassed if they were in an enfilade fire. If there were four or five foreign countries that knew just as much about Scientology as they did.

And somebody who wants to handle a juvenile delinquency program for Detroit can do no better than to come down to South Africa and spend some time on that juvenile delinquency program line. Find out how it works and what it looks like.

Actually, the mechanism of protection which we use in Scientology is to have all of its information so broadly spread that it doesn't pay to knock off any of us. Doesn't pay to knock off any one country or any one organization because an enfilade fire would at once result. Any Scientologist in America, if the Central Organizations were knocked out, could receive all the literature that was issued on the subject of Scientology from other organizations. We put them on the English mailing list. It'd be simple. I don't know if you – maybe you franchise – some of you franchise holders don't realize that you're just on an English mailing list. All of your American franchise activity is handled by English people, English Scientologists. It's mishmashed.

You see why we want it. Why we need it. We need a basic training area.

We have an empire. Our method of protection of the thing is simply to have it everyplace. People really get discouraged about it, too. They don't attack us just for that reason. There's no point in it. They also realize that there's no reason… I don't know, for some reason or other, I don't think anybody can measure up to the overt of quite tackling me for the last eight or nine years. I haven't had a personal attack on myself for years. Worse luck.

One of the reasons I don't want you to be frightened about South Africa is some of you are going to come down there in the near future. There's nothing to be frightened about except what they say about it. And look who's there. The marines have long since landed and have the situation well in hand.

But I'm talking quite overtly on this one subject.

But we need some place where we can do experimental runs and do training. Training is an expensive sort of thing unless you have subsistence and that sort of thing. And I imagine somebody who was really being genned in on how to handle juvenile delinquents and juvenile delinquency program – the best thing to do would be to pick the best man for it on a trainee basis for some area and then let him stay down there for six, eight, ten months or a year; and it wouldn't cost him any money, don't you see? He'd really learn the program and be able to go and put the program in someplace else.

All right. We got it. What are we going to do with it? Well, we don't have to do anything very dramatic with it. We ourselves should know it well, and be able to bring calm to our environment of whatever that environment consists.

Unless we pick up a juvenile delinquency program around the world, man's going to lose anyhow. I don't say all juveniles are delinquents, but they sure have a lot of opportunity these days.

Well, if that environment consists of the entire State of Louisiana, all right, so let's straighten out all of Louisiana. You got the idea? You don't even have to work hard when you're in good shape to straighten something out. Order occurs. You don't even have to put it there, you know? It just occurs. This is maddening to people who are trying to louse it up.

But we have – we have big plans, we have a big future. I'm not pushing on it too hard because I don't have to push now.

But anyway, speaking at large, all right, we have certain differences in the world with various things that have gone on, but I think the time has ended when we should be apologetic for being something new. I don't think we're something new anymore. I think if we're something new, we've admitted that something else existed.

I was very glad to be able to come up here and be able to give you this congress and talk to you. If I've offended you in any way in befriending the South African government or if you think I've talked against the Bantu, you ought to talk to some of the Bantu and find out how they think about me. They think I'm pretty good.

We're not something new. We are.

The point I'm making here is I hope I haven't stepped on your toes. I have carefully, during this whole congress, not discussed the subject of Christianity. So say "thank you."

I think it's about time we held our heads up in Scientology. I think it's about time people stopped pestering Scientologists. "Well, well, is there really anything to this?" and that sort of thing, you know? Throw them in birth. It's all right. You can run out an overt-motivator sequence. Throw them in birth.

Audience: Thank you.

People come around pestering you, say, "Well, I didn't really get any benefit from the processing and it didn't do anything and I don't have any reality on this past track sort of thing and I don't agree with Hubbard because of this and that."

We have – well, I've tried to give you a lot of news. I haven't given you very much technical data. And in the last three minutes of play, I'm going to give you a few case tips, and send you home happy. Of course, I'll meet you at the party tonight, but that's beside the point.

You say, "Why don't you shut up?"

The first thing I want to call to your attention… Yeah, I fooled somebody. I brought some notes. Solid.

Why don't you say, "Well, if you've got that much disagreement with your environment, you need processing."

These are all HCO Bulletins. A lot of them are in circulation, but I wanted to call to your attention HCO Bulletin of December 15, 1960, Pre-Session 37.

I don't mean to be overt about it, particularly, but why permit yourself to be pestered, and certainly stop being defensive.

The auditor runs "What question shouldn't I ask you?" for a few times.

There's no point in being defensive anymore about knowing something new. Be proud of it, huh?

And then he runs "Think of something you've done." "Think of something you have withheld." Alternated for a short time (maximum five minutes).

Male voice: Yes.

Then he runs "What question shouldn't I ask you?" a few more times.

Now I'm going to do my best by laying it all out as well as I can so everybody knows all there is to know about it and you do your best in applying it and seeing what's true about it for you and let's kind of get some teamwork going here, and let's use this thing and let's straighten up this little old hunk of dirt called Earth, huh?

I want to illuminate that to you because I want some of you auditors that are fooling around with cases and getting them skidding, I want you to get off the launching pad and stop monkeying.

Audience: Yes.

You can't get any case gains that are stable and will continue while your pc has withholds he is not willing to tell you. And if you ask a pc if there is any question in the world that you ask him that would embarrass him and get a tremble on an E-Meter needle with sensitivity at 16, he is not in condition to be audited. Do you hear me?

How about it? Good.

Male voice: Yep.

Not a single soul is going to get a permanent case gain while he is sitting on a heavy withhold. I'm sorry, those of you who are sitting on heavy withholds, you're going to have to give them up.

Now, the only thing that – this is about the only thing that is holding up cases, and the only thing that is upsetting auditors. Auditors just don't want to reach that hard and inquire that privately into a pc.

Now, that's basically the only thing that's holding things up, and I want you to quit it!

There isn't any point in trying to get audited and get Clear while you're sitting there on a big social withhold that you don't dare tell the auditor. Why not condemn yourself to eternity and skip it?

Well, that's the alternate. It's that important to hand them out.

Now listen, auditors. Sensitivity 16, any variation of the question: "What question shouldn't I ask you," "Is there anything that if I asked you it would embarrass you?" That's an alteration of the question. "Is there something you don't want to tell me?" "Is there something you hope your mother won't find out?" "Is there something that the police would arrest you for if they walked in the room at this moment?"

I don't care how you phrase this "What question shouldn't I ask you." If any variation of it gets a response on the needle with sensitivity at 16, any quiver, that pc isn't in state to be audited. And you stop monkeying, will you? Because that's the only thing that slows them down. That's the only part of the buttons on the launching pad that aren't being hit heavy enough by auditors the world around. They don't want to invade privacy that deeply.

Now, there's some people in the audience that intended to get audited a few minutes ago that, before I made this remark, may have now decided – they may have now decided that they shouldn't be audited.

I'm reminded of this dear, dear, mystical mystic I was telling you about. We straightened her out. She was about seventy, she was dear and sweet with a bobbing flower on her hat. Dear, sweet lady, and had never gotten anyplace in auditing. "What question shouldn't I ask you?" And she'd think for a while, and the needle on the E-Meter would go fmmp. And then she'd say, "Well, you shouldn't ask me the definition of a thetan."

And pretty soon the auditor got very clever, after consultation with Mary Sue, and every time the needle went thoom, didn't wait for the pc to come out of it but said, "What was that? What was that right there? What did you just think of?"

She gave it up. This dear, sweet, old lady had had fifty separate affairs. And hadn't ever mentioned one of them to her husband. She'd been busy! And the second we got those off the run, she gave up all of her mystical mysticism, she straightened out, her neuroses went away, her nightmares went away, she looked about twenty-five years younger, and all of a sudden at the end of another forty or fifty hours, says, "You know, I'll have to take an HPA course now. All of the data about mysticism has blown away, and I need something to fill it up, so I'm…"

So, reach harder and pull smarter, and you'll get more rolls and more stability on the line. That isn't all there is to auditing. I'll tell you the rest of it in the 22nd American or in the HCA Course.

I want to thank you very much for coming to this congress. Every time I see you, you look better, you look younger, you look smarter.

I may not see you for a long time. Until I do again, why, take care of the country for me, will you?

Audience: Yes.

Thanks a lot for coming to this congress. Happy New Year, and God bless you.

Thank you.