Thank you.

Thank you.

Now, I'd like to talk to you a little bit about

& You're going to ruin me, you know. I like you, too.

& something sensible. Might I? I've not talked about anything very sensible the whole distance of this congress, you know. I - but I would like to say something sensible now about the future of Scientology and the future of Western civilization.

& We need about 10,000 auditors and if you haven't entertained a professional study of the thing why, go ahead and do so. It's wide open. That isn't, you know, just a correspondence course, that is an HPA course. HPA, HCA course, and you get your lessons right away and away you go. And even I could afford that, poor as I am.

Seems, perhaps, a little bit presumptuous of me to say these two things in the same breath, but let me ask you this burning question: Do you know of anything else that is working in the direction of salvage of Western civilization? Do you?

Well, the handiest thing I could pick out of the hat to talk to you about today is a thing with which you may or may not have any familiarity but about which there has been a considerable amount of discussion. I have no notes on the subject and practically nothing to say on the subject, but it's a good thing to offer you this little bit and piece here because you might, sooner or later, collide with it while you're being audited or while you're auditing somebody. And if you were to collide with this thing, there would - without any knowledge of it at all - why, there's liable to be a dull scrunch.

Audience: No.

Now, the funny part of it is, is many of you have already collided with it and didn't know what it was - both as auditor and preclear. You've collided with this thing and you didn't really know what its extent was, and so on. Because preclear after preclear hand this thing up, you know, to auditors and say, „Here, take it.“ And the auditor says, „Yes. Good. Fine. Thank you. Good. Fine. Yes. Thank you. Good. Fine.“

Working effectively in that direction, actually doing something that is effective day after day? Yes, we know of organizations that are hopeful. We know of organizations that are enthusiastic. We know of organizations that are pressing their point home with what rigor.

So there are probably some people present who have their hands out in an offering gesture, you see, with this thing sitting in it right this minute. So, maybe we'd better talk about it and as-is it a little bit Shall we? Because I wouldn't restimulate you. Not for worlds.

We even know of organizations which are detesting and resenting war like mad. There's nothing wrong with this because who wouldn't? Wars are a bore. You sit and wait for something to fall on your head or blow up, and it's the waiting that gets you. Wars are dull. That's what I have against war. But, of course, war is simply a government method of more rapidly destroying private property. You realize that. They fail to do it with taxation, so they do it with war. And it's a government symptom of failure in this direction. Anybody hearing that, that's just a sarcastic remark. That's a wisecrack. Is it?

In view of the fact that this lecture is being given on a Sunday, we can approach this matter with due reverence. It's a very good thing, a very good thing, to have reverence. I won't say for what but it's a good thing. I know it's in the Scout oath - I used to read it over in the Scout oath and say, „Reverence. Have reverence. Is that the same as having a certificate as a reverend?“ It used to puzzle me. But the point is this is Sunday and this item has to be regarded with reverence by most people since they jolly well can't do anything else with it but regard it with reverence!

Now, the point - the point is, however, that's the only point I can find in war. But let me assure you, that fighting war, as such, involves one in war. There's no surer guarantee of getting into a confusion than resisting one

Now, to look at you bluntly and to accuse you of harboring such a thing is impolite on Sunday. So we will just consider you the victim, shall we? We'll say you've been a victim of this thing for a very long time - but an unknowing and unsuspecting victim. We'll say it wasn't your fault and you have no responsibility for it. (audience laughter) Let's see, what else can I do to key this thing in? Of course, what I am talking about is the Rock. The Rock. Now, you've heard something about the Rock, haven’t you?

& and saying, „Oh, that confusion is terribly bad!“

Audience: Yes. Now, this thing called the Rock has been known to be found in cases; its habitat - its habitat is in the genus preclearus. It is usually the thing that makes the preclear's bank more solid.

Now, I talked a little bit earlier today about confusion, and I said you keep putting order into it and it works out.

Now, it's called the Rock, not because it is a Rock in every case, but simply because it's called the Rock. And that's all the information I can give you on it because I think that's all that is known concerning the genus of its name. It's simply the Rock. Not even that it's hard to carry around - because you're seldom aware of it.

[Here the Personal Achievement version has pieces of LCC-5 spliced in.]

But where it came from and why it came and what it is and what it does, is unfortunately, the concern of all of us. Back in Dianetics - which we have to study all over again if we're going to go up the lines of the certificates and going to do a good job of auditing - we had a thing called basic-basic. Ever heard of basic-basic?

The only reason existing Western civilization police systems today do not bring about law and order consistent with public safety - why criminals still go adrift - is because they introduce confusion as well as order. In the United States, for instance, they permit these chaps to pack guns, which is interesting. It's a very interesting fact.

Audience; Yes

You give somebody a gun - after a while he gets the idea he ought to fire it. Guns have nothing to do with law and order. They create explosions and chaos. A far better system is that employed by the metropolitan police of London. These boys are the best, I just wish a few of them would go over and teach some US force what to do about law and order. I wish they'd do that. That's not just because I'm standing here,. at this moment, in England, talking to you. Because I tell them the same thing in the US, „Why don't you get a couple of bobbies over here, hm?“ They'd bring more law and order in a minute in New York City than all the cops they got. Policing something with violence is not to police it. Processing a preclear with a club is not to process him. Isn't that right?

Well, after all these years, we finally found what basic-basic was. Basic-basic is an object people used to please people, an object. Basic-basic was a simple geometric object. They started to reach people with this object and the first time they ever tried to reach people with this object, instead of themselves reaching people, they began the formulation of what became a reactive mind. In other words, it's reachingness on a via. And that is a Rock. Fascinating thing, fascinating thing.

Audience. Yep. Yes.

If after all these ages this bit of residue, this mock-up, is still around without you knowing about it, I'd say you were awful clever! You've got enough vias reaching into enough vias that form enough vias, you see, so that you don't know what the first or last via was on the subject and you've got this thing called a Rock.

Well, then, bow could you think that anybody could process a society into law and order by threat and violence? There are better methods. There are more effective methods. And if you fight war, you are fighting violence. You are not bringing order into the world. That's quite something else, you see?

Now, I don't say you have to have it. You-you-you personally probably don't have one. You're probably the exception. I mustn't evaluate for you. And here we have, however, this object: a mass of some sort or another, a mass to which people could communicate thinking they were communicating to you.

& Now I don't say we're „only ones.“ I say there are an awful lot of good people around who are trying to get a show on the road.

Well, it kept you from being reached and it kept you from reaching directly. And the next thing you know, you had all sorts of vias going. And maybe it was a lot of fun for a while, but after a while you forgot you had it and then you wondered what all of these engrams and facsimiles were sticking to. What were these mental image pictures sticking to? What made the basis of them all? And evident[y that thing is this thing called the Rock.

But the thing that stands in man's road today is individual aberration. You have to take a society one by one. There is no such thing as a mass. I don't care what laws have been passed lately in the Kremlin, there still is no such thing as a mass - a mass of people, the masses. There really aren't such things as groups; there are collections of individuals.

So, what we're describing, really, is basic-basic and we're simply giving it a new name because we know it better. And that is: It is this thing which a person used to reach people and this thing which a person expected other people to reach, thinking they were reaching him. It's a communication via is all it is. But it happens to be a solid object and it happens to be a simple geometric form.

And these collections of individuals then seem to cooperate or not cooperate but - or act as an entity. But you try to process that entity, as such, without any attention to the individual and the whole thing becomes defeated. Doesn't it? This idea of saying, „Well, we work for the benefit of the many and, therefore, we're kicking you in the teeth.“ That doesn't work because what is „the many“ but a collection of „you“?

Now, here and there people are saying, „Everybody has the same type of Rock,“ Well, this is all very well, but to make such a statement as „Everybody has the same Rock“ would say that one had examined every case. Now, it may be the cases that one examines - but maybe one examines twenty cases and they all have practically the same Rock, you see, it's the same thing. Well, that's all very well, but that does not prove that everyone has the same Rock. You see?

& I read something one time, I think it was The Case of Sergeant Grischa, a novel which started out with the interesting premise that when a government wrongs one individual, it is then doomed to fail. All it has to do is wrong one individual and it's had it. And I don't know how much philosophy was in that novel to back it up, but that thought struck me as peculiarly apt - to wrong one person is to wrong one too many. Right?

Now we know by experience that everyone has a reactive mind. That we can tell pretty well. If somebody didn't have a reactive mind, he's out - he's out there doing things the like of which nobody else is doing. And he'd be quite spectacular as a human being or he wouldn't be here at all. And it doesn't say then that everybody has a reactive mind. It just says those people we are interested in and those cases which are run do have reactive minds.

& Audience: Um-hm.

Well, if they have reactive minds, they've evidently got some kind of a Rock to hold it together because these reactive minds, by our experience with thousands and thousands and thousands of cases, are hung together on some basic idea or object. And that basic idea or object is that thing which holds together the remaining facsimiles, engrams, chains, secondaries, locks, machines and the rest of it which we know as the reactive mind in Dianetics, which Freud knew as the Subconscious mind.

& Well, where are you going to find anybody in the world today that can take this one individual and discharge from him the violence and the confusion that he has been subjected to over all his many, many, infinitely many millennia?

And we have very broad agreement that this mind exists and we have lots of experience that there is a fundamental basic in this mind that holds it together. But we don't yet have wide enough experience to say that in every case it is a - you see - a something,

& It isn't that psychoanalysis and other nineteenth-century practices are bad; they are not bad. The people practicing those things are quite sincere. Their effort to understand their fellow man is a dedicated thing. But after seven years, what do you have? You still have a patient. It's the effectiveness that we're talking about now. We're not being critical of somebody because he's trying and not winning. That wouldn't be very cricket, would it? Hm?

Tell you why we enter this with some caution: Even if everybody did have the same geometric object as the basic Rock, he wouldn't be stuck in the basic Rock and his case wouldn't resolve just because you knew what his basic Rock would be.

& Now, once in a while - once In a while somebody runs across this in - in the HASI or this - these broadly flung Scientology organizations. They run across this in me and they think I'm being quite unreasonable, but I stick by this point. I utterly refuse to discount the willingness of people. And they say, „This fellow fouled up here and wrecked this and ruined that and he's chopping everything to bits. And he has everybody, including ITV or somebody, on the back of our neck, you know. Everybody is chopping us to pieces from his quarter and he's a very bad fellow, and here, Ron, is a machine gun. Start firing!“

Let me give you a - let me give you an example of this. This fellow walks in - he's got a bad leg - he's on crutches and yet he walks in, you know, and he sits down in the auditing chair. All right, that's fine. And you, the auditor, say, „Well now, what's wrong with you?“

& And it isn't that I won't fight. As a matter of fact, engaged solely as sport, I think fighting is fun. Just as a sport. But as a dedicated effort, it's silly! It's just silly. It never solves anything. Meeting violence with violence to solve a problem never solves anything. And I tell these people, I say, „Look, that person is trying! That person is willing! That person is trying to get a show on the road and you're going to knock his head off! No! Take the machine gun out, melt it down and make some mimeograph machines out of it.“

And he says, „Aaaaahhhh. Bad chest. Ahh, ahh. Bad chest.“ You may audit him for a very long time before he gives you a new type of answer. He says, “What's wrong with me is - leg won't walk!“

& Because as far, as police work is concerned, you cannot follow this extraordinary medical idea, that the removal by surgery of a rebellious cell solves forevermore the patient's problems, that the removal of an arm or a leg solves the problem of the difficulty. It doesn't. This society is totally hepped - if you'll pardon the colloquialism - on somebody surviving. I try to tell auditors every now and then, „So your preclear’s trying to die. So what? Who are you, God? That you insist he survive? The only thing you're supposed to do is return to him his power of choice, and after you've returned to him his power of choice as to whether or not he's going to abandon that mock-up or not, I'm afraid you have nothing to do with it. Unless, of course, you're sitting on a little pink cloud being God. And if I refuse to sit on the cloud, you'd better not!“

Have you ever noticed people around who had something wrong with them that they didn't know about, and yet everybody else knew about it?

Now, the handling of the individual has been the problem which has confronted man now for so many eons that he's forgotten it's the problem. And he takes refuge in the handling of broad masses of people because he knows that it's no good to confront one man. „Let's confront many.“

Audience: Yes.

Every now and then you hear a lecturer who is interesting, and every now and then you hear a lecturer who is dull. What's the difference between these two people? He's interesting to the degree that he is capable of confronting one person in his audience and talking to him. But if he is talking to a mass because he cannot confront one, you will find him very dull. That's merely the secret of being a lecturer. It isn't your glibness. It isn't really what you have to say. Its no mystic aura that you throw over an audience. It is simply: Are you capable of confronting one individual in that group? Are you capable of confronting a person in that audience? Well, if you are, then you can lecture to an audience But if you can't, boy, you better not be talking to anybody because you will wind up talking to nobody. Do you see? It's a simple thing? Well, I can use that - whether I do it well or not, that's beside the point.

Well, I am afraid the Rock comes under the same category.

The point I'm making here is that when we try to address the vast multitude with arbitrary laws and restrictions, in an effort to heal their social ills, we do it because man has forgotten how to confront one man. And in his avoidance of confronting that one man, he then misses everybody. It's quite an interesting thing.

Now; I've seen cases resolve and the Rock chain vanish by running a cockroach as the Rock. Well, that's a complex form and it certainly must be awfully late on the track of what you use to communicate with. And I hadn't - I hadn't noticed anybody using cockroaches lately. I've seen them use various types of governments to communicate with, and so forth, but not cockroaches. And yet we have at least one case on record where the Rock chain blew apart by running a cockroach. We ran the cockroach off the case, the fellow went immediately back to the bottom of the Rock chain and it went boom! And the whole Rock chain blew up. But it couldn't get back to the most basic thing on the case until this stuckness on a cockroach went out.

You'll see a ship sometime - I speak of ships a great deal because I've had experience with them - or an organization. You'll see this - a rule go up on the board: „No time at any time will anybody ever leave open the front door and if he doth leave open the front door he shalt suffer being fired from guns!“

Now, let's take a look at the anatomy of the mind, shall we, for a moment. There's a thing called a time track: A person makes a recording of those things which go around - go on around him. And these recordings we call facsimiles. And if they contain pain and unconsciousness, we call them engrams, If they contain misemotion, why, we call them secondaries. And if they don't contain any pain or unconsciousness but yet are stuck to painful and unconscious incidents, so forth, we call them locks. And if they don't contain any of these things, why - and they are copies of the physical universe - we call them facsimiles. And if the person knowingly made this mental image picture when you asked him to, we call it a mock-up. That's the whole nomenclature of this particular thing. Well, a time track is composed of an orderly arrangement by time of the experiences a person has recorded.

They address this to the whole organization? Well, who found the door open? Some executive. Who left the door open? One person or two people or three people. So, now we're going to punish the whole staff! And I'm afraid this is how the - the king's regulations and the United States Navy regulations and any other set of regulations that punish, punish, punish, chop, chop, chop are born. Instead of going and finding who left the door open, and saying. „Son, thou hast sinned,“ we can confront this nebulous thing called „crew“ and threaten dire stress if the door is ever left open again. And it doesn't work!

You can send a person, wide awake - you don't have to hypnotize him - as a matter of fact, you had better not because he probably won't remember it after you bring him back to present time - but you can take a person, run him back on the time track to, let's just take a random date, January 3rd, 1941 - just a random date. Now he doesn't remember this, but we can run him with Dianetic auditing from, let us say, 8 o'clock in the morning until 10:15 on January the 3rd, 1941. And we put him through that time period - put him through that time period We take him back to 8 o'clock in the morning and we run him through till 10:30. See, we tell him to go back to - and just do this by just telling him to go there, you see, and go to 8 o'clock in the morning and run through until 10:30.

Now, I'm not saying that man's laws are unworkable or that society should be turned to ribbons. Just as you should always improve a preclear and not tear him down, so you should be able to improve a society and not tear it down. You cannot remove from this society its existing structure of laws and shove another one in place, just like that. And that's what a great many reformers would love to do. They say, „All the laws there are are bad; therefore, we will throw all these laws away and we will put in these ideal laws like the Code of Hammurabi.“

After we’ve done this a great many times he'll start to pick up tiny details: what he had for breakfast; there was some mail there; who sent the mail. And, gradually, the more times we go over the thing, why, the more detail opens up about this. It is quite a remarkable experiment, by the way. It's just an experiment. It has no therapeutic value beyond demonstrating to you and to the preclear that this process of returning can reveal memories that are obviously buried.

That was one time the - the thing used by reformers. They said, „We're going to make the society a good society and the way we're going to do that is to extract an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. That'll learn 'em.“

He has retained the facility of mocking this up. As a matter of fact, he mocks up all of his facsimiles, engrams and secondaries, but he'd never believe it until he himself has some reality on it.

Now these broad things, these broad, sweeping arbitraries and mandates, do not carry with them an eventual goal of peace. They don't carry with them greater decency because they have the liability of injuring the one (quote) for the benefit of the many (unquote).

And you send him back with this return mechanism and run him from 8 o'clock till 10:30 enough times, he will recover his ability to put that whole sequence together. And you could check it quite accurately against the actual time and you would find out that he had simply revealed to himself the same memories, only he revealed them to himself in material form - he's revealed them to himself by these pictures. He must have some agreement that if he doesn't make a picture of it, he can't remember it, don't you see? Something like that. Well, this time track is a rather thorough going affair, only you have to be a pretty smooth auditor in order to develop any part of the track you want to develop.

And all of us sense this and so, to some degree, all of us become outlaws. Why is it that the public at large is always so willing to deify Robin Hood? Why does he always get a big hand whenever he walks on world stage? That's because he personifies the rebel in all of us.

What a wonderful thing this would be - or what a horrible thing this would be in the hands of an examining magistrate, for instance. He wants the - to be colloquial - the hot dope on the case, and all he'd have to do is get the criminal returned to the case and run him through it and run him through it and run him through it and all these little odds and ends of evidence would fall out in his lap.

But just as a bird dog or a rabbit dog that won't kill chickens is no good - you know, that's the test of a good bird dog or rabbit dog: if he'll still kill chickens, he's some good - so a citizen who will not rebel against the unjust is no good. He's just no good anymore. He's not good to anybody and that doesn't necessarily deify the rebel. All of us have within us the germs of rebellion. Against what? Against the arbitrary, the unreal. Against forces which seek by oppression to accomplish some goal they know not what of.

Now, here's this thing called a time track and it merely consists of the consecutive mental image pictures a person has made of his environment since the beginning of his time in this universe till now. And that's an awful lot of pictures - awful lot of pictures. Boy, you sure are a walking movie!

& And now, in setting up organizations of Scientology, we're going to go on this same pattern? Oh, no! No.

& Fortunately, fortunately you don't have to handle all of the pictures. All you have to do is bring about the awareness, the subjective reality on the fact, of the fact the fellow is making them himself. And if he gets a good subjective reality on this fact, then he makes them or not makes them, as the case may be, but he does it aware, awarely, analytically, and you have a clear on your hands. It's a person who knows he's making these things, and can make them, but doesn't have to. In other words, he's clear of all of this machinery.

& It's a very funny thing. My main job is research and writing but I also have to do a great deal of administration, and part of that administration has to do with justice. And boy, if you don't think its tough to administer justice. It's not administrable. Processing is!

Well, unless you get the obsessive points of the bank cleared up - where he's got to make pictures, you see. It's absolutely horrible vitally rhurr-rhburr necessary that he makes pictures of that and then it's necessary that he repress the fact from himself - hide the fact from himself, that he is making pictures of that. Now, you see how he gets in a box? And unless you clean up these points, why then he goes on obsessively making pictures here and there, you know?

& So, when somebody goes wrong, only thing we can do is condemn him to getting well. And when we do that, we mustn't forget to consult his power of choice. Is he trying to go up the spout or down the drain or is he trying to do better? Fortunately, a person whose goals are straightened out usually elects to survive. There's nothing sillier, however, than a preclear sitting there trying to die in the preclear's chair and an auditor sitting there trying to make him well, trying to make him well, trying to make him well.

One of the oldest tricks that can be played on a thetan is „make a picture.“ „All right, we've got you in a trap now and all you've got to do is make a few pictures and we'll let you out. Okay?“ You know, some sort of trick device.

& „Now, how do you feel now?“

Now, this has nothing to do with our present economic system! „You produce automobile tires or speedometers or hubcaps or something of the sort or - or we stop the paycheck, son.“ Get the idea?

& „I feel worse.“

„You've got to produce.“ The society pulls this on the firm as a whole. The firm pulls this on the individual worker as a whole. The individual worker pulls it on his wife. „Woman, if you don't get me breakfast this morning...“ Get the idea? Produce a breakfast, see. Here it goes.

& Why does he feel worse? Well, the auditor and the preclear are not in agreement with each other, that's all. They just haven't any agreement with one another at all. One's trying to die, the other's trying to get him to live. Well, I've never given people processes to sort this thing out so they never hit it head-on, but the 5th London ACC has a process that knocks this apart. Just knocks it apart with a process so that it doesn't require any delicate insight to find out if a PC is really one-oneing his way through to a quick demise at your expense.

We tell some student in his earliest grades of school, we say. „Produce lessons,“ see. The judge says, „Produce ten quid, or ten days.“ You know, that sort of thing.

& Only a very few times have I received a broken-hearted letter from an auditor saying, „Well, I processed her and I made her much better and she was much happier and about three days after I finished the intensive, she told all her family goodbye and they didn't know what she was talking about and she went to bed that night and she never woke up. She's gone and she's dead. Now, Ron, what did I do wrong?“

You get the idea? Here we have - here we have an obsessive demand on the part of the society and the economic system to produce.

& Well, if you were trying to make her live, I will say in such a case - these are very rare - you did wrong in processing somebody whose mock-up was so far gone, they recognized it was at a point of no return and who, unfortunately, had an - the address of the nearest maternity ward.

Well, much earlier on the track this obsessive double-barreled shotgun was pointed straight at the thetan and it said, „You produce or else.“ After a while he got around the thing and he solved the problem by producing so he didn't find out about it and he could go off and dream about something else.

& There is a mechanism. After a person is trying to die, after he's had so much force and violence and duress thrown at him that he no longer finds it possible to go on living - he cannot conceive that there is any worthwhileness in life - when he's trying to back right straight on out, he does some interesting things and amongst them is: elect an executioner. There is no such thing as described by Schopenhauer as the death wish in 'The Will and an Idea'. There isn't a death wish. That's a sort of an apathetic effort to die or something of the sort. Man doesn't always have this thing called a death wish, but man can try to die! And one of the things he will do is elect an executioner. And if his auditor refuses to occupy the role and if an Association Secretary or somebody in authority in a Scientology organization refuses to occupy the role, guess who he elects as an executioner? He starts cuffing at you about that point.

Have you ever known a workman that would only take a job that he could sit and dream on? Hm? Well. he puts the job on total automatic and he just goes on through these automatic motions, automatic motions, automatic motions, automatic motions and he can think about what he pleases. (He thinks!) Of course, he stops thinking, He's not in present time. lie. slides out of present time rather rapidly, not paying any attention to his environment. This protest against creation brings about a condition known as obsessive creation.

& Understood this so well - the last time it happened not too long ago - some person had not had unsuccessful auditing - it wasn't a problem in auditing, it was the fact this person had decided that if he could be exteriorized, why, he was to be exteriorized, but being exteriorized was doing a bunk and going to the nearest maternity ward and carrying on from there, you see?

This whole mechanism of the time track - copying the environment, recording everything that's happened to you, taking pictures of your dental operations and your marriage and other cataclysms - this whole activity is born out of this obsessive creation. Unknowing creation. And clearing a person simply requires that one resolves this.

& So the person was still a little bit queasy as to whether or not somebody would nicely exteriorize him and let him go through this cycle, so he decided to elect an executioner, and guess who? And he walked in my office - for some reason, other people are nice to me. I don't know why. Even people when they're mad at me are nice to me. That's - I thank them for it because I have a lot to do, you know. But he walked in and he said very nicely - said very nicely that he had to have another auditor and he wished I would tell him some auditor in the field and so on. He was going through all this sort of thing and I said, „Well, why should I do this?“

Now, that's a pretty slippy job actually. It requires very, very careful auditing. You can make a slight miscalculation as an auditor and it will be something on the order of dropping nothing bigger nor more offensive than a cotter key or something into a dynamo going at seventeen thousand rpm or something like that, see? Clank. To understate the case.

& Well, he wasn't making much progress, and so on, and be went along the line and this sort of thing. And I eventually said to him, „Well, if you want to kick the bucket that bad, sit down in the chair. I'll exteriorize you.“

The auditor at first is interpreted by the preclear as somebody who demands creation. The preclear goes on and creates and creates and creates so that it's very easy to get him to return to make the copies that he has already made all over again. He'll go through the whole parade for the auditor, you see, just as he would for the economic system. In clearing people, you're getting them over this obsession.

& And he said, „What?“ And he thought it over and he says, „By George, Ron, you're right.“

Well, what's the one that he creates all the time, every second, every day, you see? Well, it would be something that was tremendously successful in reaching people and in permitting himself to be reached on a via. It's this tremendously successful object. Well, we don't much care what the object is; it's just the fact that some object was tremendously successful. Now it's not necessarily the first object that he's stuck in. It's the most successful object that he is stuck in.

& I said, „I'm not trying to evaluate your case, I just have a lot of work to do and I don't have very much time. Sit down.“

Let's look over the history of the fellow who gets bored with his job, with his hobby and so forth. He gets too many wins! You see, he just wins and wins and wins and wins and he wins and wins and he finally decides, „You know, I ought to put this thing on automatic and get off of this thing one way or the other so it will go on being done, but I won't have to do it anymore.“ Ah, he gets interested in something else.

& He went back to his original auditor and they got it all straightened out and he's in good shape today But he saw at once, I wasn't in the confusion of trying to get him to live while he was trying to die, We were in perfect, immediate agreement.

Well, he generally gets into this frame of mind because somebody blunts it or invalidates it and it's not as much fun as it was. He's fallen out of PT on the thing, he's no longer getting a kick out of it. People have taken him - taken him for a ride on the subject, you see.

& A few days later he made the rather cryptic remark to me - he said, „Ron, I wish I could attain your levels of reality.“ I don't know why - what this was all about, but it must have been that he sensed that this was the truth and that was the way it was. And he was haunted by the very strong belief that if he had sat down in the chair, he'd be on his way.

They - he was a painter, you see, and he painted and he painted and he painted and he painted and he was just having a fine time. He was painting, painting and painting nude women and all this sort of thing - landscapes, Picassos, you know, Minotaurs and paint blobs. Of course, I consider modern art as that mechanism which makes it possible for the artist not to concentrate on his work. So, here he is, he's painting away and having a fine old time of it and one by one his friends are coming in saying, „Nyah, why didn't you do her skirt in blue?“

Now, here's - here's our problem as a society. Individuals in this society are being subjected to violence of great magnitude in terms of great humanity, and every individual that's pushed a little bit further off the line with violence, degrades the society just that much more. People's willingness to help and to live is cut down - it's reduced. And what is a society's will to survive but the collective or aggregate will of the individual to live? That's all it is. It's as simple as that.

„We'd hang this in the gallery,“ his distributor says, you see, “We'd hang this in the gallery but I think you must have been tired lately“ you know, and „besides we can only give you ten shillings for it.“ You know, little ARC breaks.

Oh yes, there is such a thing as a „collective will.“ There is such a thing a „group spirit.“ These things are quite easily manifested and quite easily seen but the component parts of the society and the component parts of the group are individuals - thee and thou and me. And when we get together, we hit a new agreement level which is more or less a composite of our own agreement levels, and we're liable to put together a strong enough reality that we sort of leave a new artificial thetan hanging in the air, which is quite an interesting thing to observe.

These things add up after a while to the fact this fellow was still dependent on painting in order to get along. He's still dependent on painting and yet it isn't any fun. There's too many ARC breaks on the painting line. So, he just doesn't any, really, longer, you know, like to paint, but he's still got to paint. And he's now caught in an obsessive creation bracket. See? Now he's got to paint, he'd got to paint, he's got to paint, he's got to paint in order to eat, he's got to paint in order to eat, he's got to paint! And he's - horrible: reach-withdraw, reach-withdraw, reach-withdraw.

It's quite interesting that you can straighten up a group by taking one of its members and bringing about such an improvement in that member and such an ability to tolerate the problems of that group, that the whole group tends to clear. There's this phenomenon too, and that isn't because everybody's got a telephone in everybody else's ear and that isn't because we're all one.

Puts it on automatic. Well, that means he takes his attention off of it rather much, you know, and he's not as sharp on the subject as he was. And now he can be given a big ARC break, you see?

& I don't know that we aren't all one. I just know that's improbable because the more I process people, the more „them“ they become, you see, but not the more „other people“ they become.

He's picked up by the police accidentally one day and he's run before a magistrate, for instance, that hates painters. Wife does nothing - magistrate's wife does nothing, you see, but have young painters around the house all the time. And the magistrate says to him - says to this painter - he says, „You're a what?“

& This is one of the great unsolved questions, by the way, in Scientology. Are we all bits of one? Everybody's got an incident that says we are, but all of the data you collect points quite the other way. That has never been totally resolved. I'll tackle that someday when I have a weekend I'm not giving a congress. Okay.

And the painter says, „I'm a painter,“ you know.

& You can do this strange thing. You can take a husband and run persons of comparable magnitude to his wife and then run problems of comparable magnitude to his wife and get him to confront this thing thoroughly and get it all unraveled and squared around. And even though his wife was the one who was causing the trouble in the group, it is not unusual to have his wife suddenly start walking the straight and narrow. Very interesting, very interesting. We've observed it many times.

„Whew! Phst, knck, ahem.“ The magistrate licks his chops and eats up one painter. You get the idea?

& We have a project that is still running on atomic bombs - problems of comparable magnitude to atomic bombs. The first time it was run was when the first „no test“ things came out and we were working on it then. We haven't completed this project yet. We got to get it good and flat. We estimate that it'll take about 100 people to have this one run flat for atomic bombs to cease to go boom. Wouldn't it be very funny if they no longer exploded?

Now, he's made a victim because he is a painter. Ah yes, he's been taught carefully now that the dangerous thing to do is paint but he has to paint but he mustn't paint. See, here's miscomputations. If - to reach people, you paint. If you paint, they reach you, with great thoroughness! You get the idea? Now this thing doesn't add up anymore at all. If you paint you're betrayed; if you paint you eat; if you paint you starve to death. You see, all the answers are all wrong. If you don't paint you're safe, you see; if you paint, why, you're safe. If you paint it's very dangerous; if you don't paint it's very dangerous. There's nothing adds up anywhere. Everything seems to add up to the same thing and that is a puzzle.

Yet, the apparency of this group, you see, the apparency of the group is the actuality of the individuals. And although you can enormously influence and observe and look at groups and group tone and all the rest of it, the individual still influences this group. The individual is the living thing, not the group And if you never address an individual and always address the group, of course you fail totally! You've had it.

Well, do you know that he makes all sorts of statements to himself like, „I will never paint again. I will never create another picture.“ Duuhh. Well, of course, he's obsessively creating pictures. About the only thing he can do about that time is to stretch a black, gauze curtain across the front of his face or something so he won't notice that he is doing what he is doing. You get your occluded case and that sort of thing - comes out of this mechanism. You see, he's got to but he mustn't but there's no solving it anyhow. And he's had it.

And that’s why I say the future of Scientology and, perhaps the survival of Western civilization, may be more synonymous than we think. I don't claim they are synonyms mostly because that would be cheeky of us to assume that much. But I do say that I know of no other group that is successfully or effectively confronting the individual. No other group is doing it with sweeping success.

Well, what does he do after he fails at that? You see, he considers this a failure of some kind or another. He decides to do something else. He thinks, „Farming, farming, now, that's the thing - down to earth.“ You know, lots of havingness. That's the thing. So he goes out and in one lifetime he's a farmer. And the next lifetime he's a more successful farmer. And the next lifetime he's even better at it. Boy, is he getting to be a good farmer! And the next lifetime, boy, is he a fine farmer - just owns acres in all directions. And the next lifetime, he runs into a socialist government!

The nearest - the nearest run to it is a project that is going on in the Middle East, which is very fascinating. They are trying to civilize wild tribesmen by putting them into disciplined units. It's evidently being successful in its own way, but it's limited because they're putting them into military units.

The trouble of it is he's got all of these wins which demonstrate to him conclusively that the right thing to create is farmingness. See, here's all these wins. See? And then all these loses. And the wins are desirable and the loses aren't desirable. And he must be a farmer but he mustn't be a farmer. You get The idea? And if he's a farmer, that's very safe; and if he isn't a farmer, why, that's very safe. And if, you see - and if he - if he isn't a farmer, why, he'll die, and if he is a farmer he will die. And we get into the same rat race that he was in before on the subject of painting.

& Therefore - therefore, there is this possibility: that if we never collected another member, if only those amongst us were those that were processed, we alone, in directly confronting individuals and in directly confronting problems as individuals, might sweepingly „as-is“ many of the ills which beset the group at large. Do you see this interesting equation?

So here he is now: he's a failed farmer who still obsessively, kind of, at the left corner of the reactive bank still grows potatoes. Well, that's very fine. So now he decides, „Well, it's the - was the government that did it! They took it all away!“ After the soldiers had overrun the fields and the government had taken it all away and they had done this and they had done that and so on. Obviously the right thing to be was the winning person there - the winning person. Well, the most winning person he can think of; you know, is possibly a captain of infantry or something like that, you know. Boy that guy really won! The number of carrots he ate up, you know. Ran off with his daughter and everything else. Very winning valence!

& It probably is not necessary to clear every living soul on Earth or to hold up and interrupt the degradation of every person who is being beaten at this moment in this society. Maybe you don't have to be that far out, but I can tell you how you'll get that far out whether you like it or not - is just address the individual you have your hands on at this moment and straighten out those problems there and, sweepingly, you'll get that further out.

So, in the next lifetime we find him specializing in the military. And in one lifetime he starts out as a private soldier, you see, and he's successful. It's an easy life. And then he finally, in another lifetime, why he's a better private soldier - you see, he's a good professional by this time. And next life-time, why, he's kind of hardening into - to being a lance corporal. You know? And he goes on up and he lives lifetime after lifetime. He's all successful, successful, successful, you know, and he gets up and he's captain of infantry. You know, he's just fine, you see?

Very few people understand very well what we mean by organization and so forth. Even people in the organization often are hazy about it. But all an organization is is a collection of individuals associated with a common purpose. And all the pattern of organization is is that pattern or communication lines which permits them to accomplish their purposes. That's all there is to an organization. But it sure requires people.

But by that time they've invented atomic fission or something of the sort, and they don't need captains of infantry anymore. People keep asking him, „Why do you want to be a captain of infantry?“ He doesn't know why he wants to be a captain of infantry. He hasn't a clue, don't you see? But, here are all these wins as a soldier and then to those are added all these ARC breaks of „Well, the wrong thing to be is a soldier,“ and so forth. And they're based on the fact that he thought soldiers were pretty crummy once himself many, many lifetimes ago, don't you see? And this gets all involved so that still down here in the lower left corner of the reactive mind he is still creating a book on military tactics and strategy. But he's got that covered up.

& And the more people you handle, the more people you have to have. And one of the indexes which is watched in the HASI is the financial index, not so much because money is vital or something of the sort.

Well, this is the composition, you might say, of the reactive mind: Successes and failures, their mixtures and admixtures, their confusions and their contradictions. And all of these things add up to the fact that a guy is pretty nuts. And he's forgotten all of these things. He'd be the first one to tell you, „A soldier? I've never been a soldier!“ The lying thief. You might even have had him in your own company once, you know. People are pretty slippery this way.

& As a matter of fact, I think our research is done for a figure that nobody would believe. Ford Foundation over in the US spends more for ashtrays and does nothing, than we do - than we spend. They do, they spend more for ashtrays; I looked up the item. Of course, there's - they have to replace their desks every now and then because of the wear and tear of heels on them. Of course, they have to replace their desks in the War Department more frequently than at the Ford foundation because everybody wears spurs - well, anyhow.

Thetans begin to believe they have no identity of their own. They don't think they can be spotted - they hope! That's their, well, saving grace, they say, „Well, I cannot be identified. As a thetan, I cannot be identified but as a body I can be identified and if I adopt other identities, why then, I will have an identity because I have no identity of my own.“ Actually people have simply invalidated him as a thetan to a point where he believes he has no identity unless he adopts something to give him identity. And what are we back to now? We're back to the first basic-basic: Rock.

& A non sequitur introduction - that's to wake a couple people up back there.

Now, this identity of a painter, this identity as a farmer, this identity as a soldier are simply locks on the Rock. See? He's assuming other identities all the time thinking that his own identity will not be very successful. He's even forgotten that he has one!

& Anyway, here's our - here's our scheme of things. People in the HASI, increase of, increase of income and disbursement in the HASI, give us an accurate index of how much we are doing. Because, believe me, if we stop doing it, we need less people and there's less income. So we must be doing a job, because that's about the steepest curve I would care to look at.

Well, when did he first get the idea that he himself, privately and personally, had totally failed? Well, when he got that idea he then picked up the first successful object that was an identity, that would serve him in any circumstances, would answer up any problems that he might possibly have and that's the Rock. And he keeps that part at the upper right-hand corner of the reactive mind, nicely occluded over with total invisibility. And it's still there and still being created.

Now, production has been numbed in the society very badly. Production has been stepped all over, obviously, because we have an inflationary spiral going on at this particular period of 1958. And all inflation is is too much money and too little produce. That's all it is. All a depression is is too much produce and too little money to buy it. I mean these are the elementary looks, and it's really all you need to know about economics, but the government never seems to find it out. Production - when production drops, when there isn't enough being produced that is desired by the people - you know, there's that, too.

Until you get that one handled, the rest of them are sticky because they all depend for their force upon the success - not the failure - the success he had with that first object.

You know, the garment industry can always cut its own throat and although it's producing lots of sack dresses, you see, can lay a terrific egg on the market because they're not producing a desirable. But that desirable comes after the fact of production. If all that was available was sack dresses, women would wear them. That's fairly certain. The ministers would certainly make sure of that. And if people produced ugly enough dresses, you'd have a government regulation out that only those would be worn. I can assure you of that, too. Cynical remark.

But, maybe he didn't really think he had a great success. Maybe the big, overwhelming success was that time he was a farmer. Now, that's just a lock on this chain of time. It's just an incident way after the fact on this chain of time. And here he is with this tremendous success as a farmer and that's the one he's stuck in! Even though there is a basic-basic, he's stuck in that one. That big win with its correspondingly large loss is so charged in the bank that it restimulates every time he sits down and eats dinner; he realizes somebody grew this food. If you talk to him, his figure - figure on this subject. Just all around this Rock, you see? Somebody grew the food. Somebody had to buy the food. He bet the commission merchants made more money out of it than the fellow that grew it, you see. Somebody had to pay taxes on the thing. It's a shame what the government is doing to the farmer. And, on the other side of the thing, he will say, „Well, it's a good thing we don't have more farmers. Of all the rotten boobs we have ever ran into, why, the farmers are it!“ See And he's got miscomputations going on the subject.

Now, what - what is this thing that while business is getting worse all over the world, all over the world the activity and solvency of Scientology organizations is getting better? Well, this is a silly looking picture, isn't it? It isn't necessarily related, saying that when things get worse people get worried and they turn around to people like us. That is not true, necessarily, but it happens that we're going on this tremendously steep curve of an advance, month by month, while the general business curve of the world is on a decline. What's this all about? Well, it means that if the general business world was all on the increase too, our speed of advance and curve would probably be like that - much steeper!

And you can talk to a fellow, maybe over a period of weeks, and find that he is unknowingly hipped on some subject. He doesn't know he's nutty on this subject. He has some irrational viewpoint, you see, and it goes round and round.

You have a right to know things like that. It sounds very dull talking about balance sheets and that sort of thing. They are very dull except as an index of effectiveness, and by golly, some of us must be being awfully effective here and there. Thank you.

Only he never suspects that it's irrational. The first thing he'd tell you is that everybody has this wrong with him. „Everybody has got that wrong with him, of course. Everybody feels this way about farmers.“ Total puzzle. You see how it would be? Round and round.

Now, very often in the world which measures its futures in terms of immediate, present time collisions, which measures its effect by the amount of debris lying around in the streets and the blood on the sidewalk, an orderly, advancing pressure into the society does not seem to be progress. And yet what is our progress? It is a progress of orderliness.

He'll go along and he never sees a field, he sees a potential plowing. But then he mustn't remember the potential plowing so he tries not to see the field. And if you examined him carefully you would find that hedges were real maybe, airplanes were real, policemen were real, roads were real, trains were real, trees were real but a blade of grass was never real. All blades of grass are totally invisible! He never has any havingness in a field; it's missing. Fields - people discover this every once in a while - fields are a sort of emptiness boundaried on all sides by fences. The fences are real - there's no field, you see?

& In any six months, such an organization as HASI London is internally more orderly than it was six months before. Oh yes, you who've been around can tell that. And you at large, corresponding with such an organization, I think you will tell me that the service is a little bit better. You can remember times when you sent in a bit of money and waited in vain for your book and forever you waited, and then you wrote in and you said, „Where is either the money or the book,“ and you got a reply, „What money?“ Well, do you know that was an advance over no reply at all. There's no doubt about it, we're making progress.

He must keep himself out of contact with that great success-great loss, and his response to it is have a total unreality.

Very funny part of it is: we had to know more about organization - we had to know more about organization than anybody else in the world just to handle the traffic flow because we could not afford to handle the amount of traffic that we handle if we didn't have it organized as well as we have it organized. And it's a very interesting tribute to people in Scientology that it gets handled. The dickens with how. It does get handled. But internally in these organizations it is being handled more and more orderly. There is less and less an emergency complexion to every step and move you have to take. There are times during the day when a staff member can breathe, actually. There's at least one day a week now when a staff member can drink a cup of tea here and have time to swallow it.

There are chaps for instance stuck in, lets say, being a painter. They go to a painting gallery and they just never really see a painting. They just sort of look through paintings. Or they could live next door to galleries that would have the most gorgeous paintings in the world and they'd never even walk in the front door even though admission was free. See, they just walk by all the time.

If you were in the middle of this, as staff members are, you would really know what I was talking about. And you talk about the amount of traffic handled, the amount of processing given, the number of hours of administered therapy, the number of hours of instruction of students, the numbers of pieces of mail handled by my HCO and compare it to some vast, important organization that requires field glasses to see across the desk to see if anybody has come to work, you know, and you'll find out that we've got them whipped. It's pretty hard to believe it because we're always trying to make it better, We're a bunch of perfection-happy people. But you see I've got a long memory, very long memory.

You say to them one day, „By the way, have you ever been in that gallery that's next door to you?“

& I remember vividly, six years ago, when Mary Sue and I landed over here as guests of some British Dianeticists. I had my first class of about twenty people and I taught it all by myself. And this was after the boom and crash and smash of things going on in the US and the tremendous zooms and booms and collapses and so forth.

And the fellow says, „What gallery?“ He's got it wiped out. But it's certainly there and he's got it wiped out because it's there. And he's trying to make the physical universe conform to his own reactive, subconscious mind. That's what he's trying to do.

& That was not a time track we were running in Dianetics in the United States. That was not a time track. That was a stock market graph.

Now, a fellow could be accused of all sorts of odds and ends but generally what he knows about isn't the answer. Well therefore, if you, as an auditor know all about his case, the last thing you can do - it has nothing to do with what you should do - the last thing you can do is say, „Heh-a-ha. I know what's wrong with you You've been a-you're a successful farmer and farming is totally unreal to you.“

& When I came over here, Mary Sue had little Diana about a week after her arrival. And little Diana was - became thereby British and still tells people so. She says, „I am an American girl and a British citizen.“ And we were down at 30 Marlborough Place. The original offices of the organization occupied somebody else's flat and our front room. The original HCO was laid out on a dining room table. And the traffic we were handling at that time was fantastic.

The guy will say, „Huh?“ and feel kind of sick, maybe, you know, and be upset and get upset with you, because there's nothing else visible around to get upset with. And he'll react in this peculiar way.

& First book published over here was run by Mary Sue working all night, every night, on a big Gestetner machine. She did it herself - the original copies of Scientology 8-8008. She had them strewn all over the living room and the dining room and nobody dared breath or walk, and what little domestic staff we had thought everything had gone totally potty by that time. They couldn't - weren't permitted to touch anything because they might get pages out of sequence. And the warmness and the amount of help of the British people at that time, their enthusiasm, working toward the things they worked toward, putting things together and building it up... And for a while it was simply in a holding action one way or the other just trying to hold it still while we kept the United States from kicking it over from afar. The United States was still going up and down. Finally we had the United States pretty well smoothed out and we could come back to what we considered a major job. That was right here in London. It never could have been done without you. That is for sure. You made it possible. You also did most of the work

Well, we're talking now on a supposition that you can go along with the idea that a fellow has lived a couple of times. And we're going along with the idea that you could obtain a reality on the reactive mind - mental image pictures and so forth. But, even if we try to foist this off as a reality on somebody who has a total unreality on it, we get a - so, they get sort of dizzy - they get to feeling strange, you know, and they say, „Well, that's a lot of hogwash. That's a lot of balderdash. That isn't true. It isn't true. You understand, it isn't true! Just isn't true, I've only lived once! I'm a good boy, I'm trying to get along.“ Big holes appearing in his chest and holes in his head and so forth, and he gets mad at you! He gets mad at me - he says, „Damn that Hubbard, anyway. Telling horrible lies like this about the fact that we've lived more than once and we make mental image pictures and when we have accidents we take pictures of them and victimize ourselves with them. What - aaggh, aagghh-ahem - what - aaggh-a-hm, aaggh-a-hm- nonsense! Arrrrm.“

& But there was a time in the HASI when one frantic typist and one harassed Instructor and one ink-smudged wife and one rather tired American comprised the entirety of the HASI. It doesn't look like that now, does it? This country has been not just very kind. Actually, I'd rather be here than in America.

So, it doesn't do you any good at all to try to foist somebody's Rock off on him. Not a bit of good. The only thing you can do with it is to fish around until he gets an edge up on some reality with regard to it. And if you hit it right with auditing and if you run the exactly correct procedures and if you handle him perfectly, he all of a sudden says, „Hey, do you know...?“ And boy does he get interested. Every interest he ever felt in that beingness and identity is absorbed at once into this subject of his Rock! He sits there in the auditing chair: „Boy! You know, slurrrp, cockroach, you know. Boy, being a cockroach, boy, that's the most, you know. You know how you get up kitchen drains?“

& I have gotten more research done with the cooperation of British Scientologists than I have in America. I get more books written here than there. If anybody thinks Scientology is imported, they just don't know its time track. It's not imported. It's native, strictly. Strictly native, thanks to you.

But, if he's sitting there with a total unreality; bored, you know, and saying, „Well, cockroach. Cockroach, huh, cockroach,“ you haven't got it. You may be on the chain and it may be wrong with him, but you haven't got his Rock. You're just trying to wish something off on him.

& Now, it's all right to look over that vista, perhaps. There's hardly anyone here who hasn't to some degree contributed to the organization known as the HASI. As hard as you curse it sometimes, you still support it. Thank you. I know it requires, on occasion, a lot of forbearance to go on supporting it, doesn't it?

Well now; you begin to understand the complexities of modern auditing when you clear somebody and go for broke, you might say - as the people out in Honolulu would say. And you begin to understand it when you realize that the Rock went out of sight because of ARC breaks. Here was this tremendously successful beingness and then people blunted it and people said it was no good and bad things occurred because of it and it went on folding up one way or the other. And you had this long series of ARC breaks and they eventually wound up with the whole thing becoming so invalidated that it disappeared out of sight while still being mocked up. You see?

& Audience: Yes.

So, all 1ocks on the Rock are ARC breaks. And you sit there auditing this preclear and he can dream up more ARC breaks than you ever heard of. It isn't that they didn't have an effect on him, it isn't that they are imaginary; they're not imaginary to him; they're quite real. But you just try to out-guess what the next ARC break is going to be and you've had it!

& But thank you for doing so If you knew how the staff felt about it, you wouldn't get that „me“ and „them“ idea concerning it, because they try like the mischief. They try like everything to do all they can, and it's too big a job.

You have to be superbly trained in order to handle one of these things. And what self-discipline! „What did I do wrong?“ you say. You notice a twitch in his left eye, you know, and you say, „Come on, now, what did I do wrong?“

We're in the happy circumstance of having a job that is too big for me and too big for the staff and really too big for you. And how the hell did we ever get into this? It's because an awful lot of people must have been laying on their oars and not doing their jobs. And the optimum solution is, of course, the greatest good for the greatest number of dynamics. Isn't it?

And „Well, nothing.“

Audience: Yes.

„Well, can you think of anything I've done wrong in the last ten minutes?“

Well, if that's the case, we might as well go ahead and do the job whether it's boring or interesting or something that we do with enthusiasm or something we sort of drag ourselves through anyhow. Somebody's got to do this job and I can tell you, we'd better not turn our backs on it.

„Oh, no. no, no, no It's all right. It's all right.“

It never goes over very popularly to tell you that you're a red, thin line of blooming heroes. That's not a popular line because too many men got killed proving it in the Victorian period. But it's true! But it's true.

„Well, what's all right?“

[Here the Personal Achievement version has another segment of LCC-5 inserted]

„Well, aaaa-ha.“

& You're manning the ramparts and you don't realize it. I'd just as soon you didn't realize it, just go on manning the ramparts, but I hate to see people in a state of unknowingness about what they're doing! Look at yourself the next time you look yourself in the mirror „Me - manning ramparts? Boy, he sure keyed in a couple of past lives!“

„What did I do wrong?“

No, holding the fort for a civilization is never easy and building a new one when the old one is shattered is impossible! It's never been done before but it's got to be done now, if anything is going forward along this line. And I'm not being dramatic. I'm actually making the most fantastic understatements I think I have ever made on a platform. I'm not noted for understatements, and yet that is an understatement.

„Well, aaaa-ha.“

If you don't, who is? And when you've satisfactorily answered that question, let me hear from you again on the subject, will you?

„What did I do wrong?“

& Now, it's all very well to walk off the ramparts and go down and sit in the middle of the compound, but if you do, don't be surprised when somebody comes up and takes off your head, because that was what would happen.

„Well, all right, I'll tell you. You moved your foot.“ Now, this is real to the preclear. And if he doesn't express it and if you don't clean it up, you're done! You're not going to clear him. You put in another thousand hours and he'll go noplace.

This world is not in a civilized state. It only looks so. It's not in a good state of culture. It had a good culture, a pretty good culture. The culture of the nineteenth century was pretty good. Of course, a lot of people suffered in it, but there was some kind of a culture - you'd say; a pattern of action. Now that pattern of action may or may not be better or worse, but it is certainly more dispersed and less orderly.

Now, that isn't true if you're just monkeying around with ordinary facsimiles and trying to patch up the current life and patting him on the head and curing his arthritis. You get the idea. That doesn't happen, because you re not on that chain of incident which extends back through almost infinite time and which has as its principal incident an ARC break - big communication factor: a farmer, a painter, a soldier. You get the idea? A zap gun, a cat, a cockroach, some simple geometric form that went wow-wow occasionally. You'd be amazed what thetans think is valuable as a communication factor.

& There are other factors introduced into this thing and I'm not talking now about America particularly or even about England. Of course, I've had an idea that we had a culture over here ever since I left Oxford in 1814 - cut that off the tape.

And here's this thing and it was a tremendous communication factor and then it was tremendously blunted - it was driven against, it was smashed it was invalidated, you see? And here is this big win and here is this big lose and you're trying to drive him toward something that was very painful to him, that was very upsetting to him and, as he is driven toward it, he normally will conceive that there are breaks where there are no breaks because he's simply dramatizing the ARC breaks that you are driving him into. See how simple that is? He just dramatizes them. He can't help himself.

But what happens when this one's gone, huh? Do you realize there could be such a thing as being mechanically wonderful, mechanically perfect, of having machines that go whir and wheels that go whiz, and steam jackhammers that go clump, clump, clump and still not have a culture? Do you know that could be? That’s possible. Possible, isn't it?

And if you're not a tremendous Scientologist, if you - if you're not really good, you yourself will get upset and twisted sideways and you'll be so caught off guard with the unreasonableness of this thing - because, of course, the basis of all aberration is unreason. You'll be caught so off guard with the unreasonableness of this thing or, sometimes its humor, or your weariness or the fact that you should have ended the session an hour ago and you don't seem to be able to, that you start laying in ARC breaks. And auditing - particularly that session - simply becomes a lock on the Rock. You see how that would be?

& Did you ever see a preclear who had a complete set of machinery and yet wasn't there at all and couldn't get anything done and didn't contribute anything? And his machinery just went on whir, whir; whir, whir, whir and he never paid any attention to it and there was nobody to run it? And after a while there's nobody to appreciate it, and after a while there's nobody to oil it up. And all of a sudden there is a wheezing thud and this one closes down. And there's a sort of a moaning sigh of escaping steam as that one closes down and chimneys that were spouting smoke now spout an occasional bat. Everybody looks around and says, „What happened?“

And then a person starts to express himself physiologically by dramatizing the Rock. He gets sick. He does all sorts of things. It isn't dangerous to be audited in this direction. You'll get over whatever you've been pushed into, eventually, if you're audited poorly. But the point is you don't get Clear. See, that's where you want to go and you're not going in that direction and so it just gets all messed up. You see how that is? The goal toward which the preclear is straining is interrupted. And the interruption of that goal is fraught with considerable consequences for the auditor.

& Well, it's just there was nobody there anymore. Simple thing.

All of these mysterious factors of why did people get mad at auditors and why do people in the field of the mind have such unreasonable customers, you know, this sort of thing - all of these things fall out into plain view when you begin to study this betrayal.

& And the whole situation is something that is rather improbable and we don't have very much to do with, and we say, „Well, there's nobody around who is crazy enough to push a button and destroy the whole Western civilization with a thud.“

Now, any time you get a preclear who is absolutely berserk on the subject of betrayal, you know - you say, „Well, is it all right if we start this session?“

& Yet, what have they talked about in the UN lately except that? I think it's some kind of a contest - is who gets to push the button; I think it's gone that far.

They say, „You betrayed me.“

Yes, we are being very mechanically apt. Electricity we've put to many uses, such as electric chairs. Atomic fission that could light every light in every home in the whole world and light up homes that were never before lighted very nicely is being stored up to blow somebody's home to pieces. It doesn't get serious to you unless it gets to you sometimes, but I asked a fellow about what he thought of destruction of Earth.

„Well, why did I betray you?“

I asked a fellow what he thought about the destruction of Earth. He was a salesman. He unfortunately came to my door. And he said, „Well, somebody's got it under control and nothing like that ever happens. It's very silly, and nothing to it. It doesn't seem anything....“

„Well, you used the word all right and the last book I read said that you should merely say 'Start' at the beginning of session. And you said, 'Is it all right for me to start this session?' And you're obviously not up on the latest data because...“ See, betrayal, betrayal - he's been betrayed. He actually feels betrayed.

And I finally combed it down and I named various parts of his possessions and so forth. Did he know that an atom bomb might...? Only I wasn't selling the dangers and horrors of atom bombs. I was trying just to see where this man's reality was. And the atom bomb would probably wipe away his car, and it'd do this and it'd do that and how about that and so forth.

Well now, because it isn't reasonable to you, you're liable to say, „Oh, the devil with it,“ and just override the whole thing, you know - skip it. Well, I guess that's one person you won't clear.

And he - „Oh well,“ he says, „yes, it's so. So what, so what, so what?“

Just - the brakes, even though smoking, are set. He says, „If I get into any further complications than I'm into right now, and this auditor doesn't know any more about his business than he obviously knows“ and this, by the way is the expression of the feeling of the man out in the street, you see. This isn't somebody being critical simply because he's studied some Scientology. This is the way they feel when you start driving them in the direction of their total ARC break upset with life. „And if this fellow doesn't know his business any better than this, why, I don't dare trust him with any more of my secrets, and so forth. And I'll just sit here and somehow suffer through it.“

And I said, „Do you realize that it will take that social security card you have in your wallet and finish it off so that it's just totally illegible?“

Now, a lot of preclears are driven into propitiation. And you ask them, you say, „Are you-are you getting any better?“

He said, „My social security card?“

„Yes. Yes. I'm doing fine.“ You drive them down to 1.1.

And he took it out and he looked at it. He says, „By golly, you know, I ought to buy some rations and store them up in the hills someplace.“

The Director of Processing - and we get this in the HGC every once in a while - and boy, the Director of Processing that's on the ball really grabs this one. HGC auditor supervision is pretty, pretty sharp, pretty tight. And the preclear comes in, the graph has not gone up as much as it should in that intensive, and the Director of Processing says, „Well now, how are you getting along?“

That's the first time this situation had gotten real to him at all, and I just laughed to myself about the whole thing.

Person says, „Oh, just fine. My auditor is just trying and everything is going along fine. And everything is going just along fine,“ You can't get anything else out of him.

It's always going along so nicely till you're the one that goes over the edge of the cliff and you say. „Why the ... didn't somebody put up a sign?“

Director of Processing then says something like, „Well, do you have an ARC break with your auditor?“ The E-Meter needle goes wham, wham, wham, wham, wham, you know.

Well, who was there but you? And it's hard to put them up as you go over the edge. It requires too much athletic prestidigitation. But, that's what people usually try to do.

And the pc says, „No, he's just doing just fine.“

No, I'm afraid that we have - I'm afraid whether we like it or not that we have a desperately close look at the whole thing, and if anybody's going to confront it, we are. And that's a sad thing to find out. I guess that army companies sometimes recognizes this when they look over on their flanks, you know, and they find out there's nobody come up in support of them. It's awfully lonely - awfully lonely when you realize this.

So, as soon as we started playing around dynamite we had to know more about dynamite caps. That's all it really amounts to.

Well, a lot of you have felt lonesome. You have said „Scientology“ - and you've talked to people about Scientology, and you're (quote) „out there“ and talking to people and so forth and then you don't talk to them so much and you feel sort of lonely and you wonder if there's something weird about you that you can't get more people into communication with you or something like this on the subject.

And this thing called the Rock hasn't - there are probably dozens of ways - I know of several dozen ways right now to get a Rock out of the road. I even know ways to get the case running and almost ignore the thing. Well, all that's happened here is that when we plunge a person in the direction of having to confront all of his ARC breaks, they're all these betrayals - the time he came in to the king and he said to the king, „Sire, I wish to report that your son is safe, but the rest of the army is wiped out.“

Actually, what you're experiencing is an army company out in the middle of an open field with both flanks uncovered. You feel lonesome. You wouldn't be talking about it if you didn't feel there was some reason to. If you didn't feel that you had a bit of a mission in pushing it on out. You see you wouldn't be saying a word about it if you didn't feel that. So you must feel that you are in some sort of an advanced state or you wouldn't feel lonesome about it. Well, you can stop feeling lonesome. You will pick up the very best around you. These you will pick up for sure. And later on, with a broom, we'll pick up the others. But I'm afraid the future of Scientology could have been a good, quiet, unemotional sort of game that didn't amount to very much but was a lot of fun and on which nothing depended if it had come up in any other age. Unfortunately, it came up in this one and, therefore, it finds itself embattled in the front ranks as the only organization which can effectively change the course of life of the individual. And if the individual can be changed, then this thing called Scientology, and you working with it can change the course of this civilization and, therefore, Earth. And I'm sure I haven't overstated the case. Do you think I have?

And the king said, „Off with his head!“

Audience: No.

Obviously you don't report to kings anymore. Obviously you have to report to kings if you wish to have a job as a courier, which is a nice, successful job. Obviously, if you don't report to kings, you'll have your head knocked off. If you report to kings you'll have your head knocked off. If you're not a courier you won't eat. Obviously if you're not a courier you have to go up in the front lines and face swords. Obviously you'll just lie around in camp and go into a state of dry rot as a private soldier if you're not a courier. But if you're a courier, you get your head knocked off. Get the idea? It just never adds up.

& All right, so much for a congress, so much for a congress. And right now, I'd like to thank you very much on the part of the staff and on my part for coming to this congress and for being patient and for laughing in the right places and for being decent and for being you.

And when you start plunging in this direction of unreason you get very unreasonable preclears, because you're handling the very stuff out of which aberration is made which is an ARC break: a breakdown of communication with one's environment and one's fellow man.

Thank you very much.

It could be said there's only one thing wrong in the whole world, in this whole universe, is that one, successfully communicating, can reach a state of affairs where the methods which successfully communicated no longer communicate, but quite the reverse. And trying to figure out after that how to communicate puts such a tremendous strain on somebody that he quits.

Good night.

And when. he stops communicating he's had it because life is made up out of affinity, reality and, primarily, communication. And when you drop these factors out of life and when you get these factors involved and reinvolved and betrayed and upset, a person's had it. He's no longer the person that he was. He can no longer be himself. He starts searching obsessively for other identities to be. He starts getting lost. After that he doesn't know where he is or what he is because he can't communicate to find out.

Male voice: Thank you.

What happens if he communicates about anything? Well, obviously he has his head knocked off. Obviously his paintings are rejected. Obviously nobody buys his potatoes. Obviously he can't run up any more drainpipes.

So, this is the drama of life that you are contacting in this subject called clearing. And although it's a technical subject, it's rather easily understood and explained to even a little kid. I've tried it lately. I got a little kid and explained it to him and asked him to look at some of the parts of his mind and so forth. And he caught on real quick.

One little boy that I explained it to said, „Oh, that's why I've been having trouble with Mommy lately.“

I said, „What?“

„Oh,“ he said, „when I was about four,“ he said, „I ran in the room to give her some good news and she slapped me.“

Now he didn't know whether Mommy was going to murder him or whether he should murder Mommy, you see, or how far this was going to go. Obviously you had to talk to Mother if you wanted to survive and if there is going to be any pleasure in life at all. But obviously, you'd better not talk to Mother.

If you had any good news, you were sure to get punished. So, you mustn't bring up any bad news because you got punished if you had bad news. So, what was the story about all this? And here went, probably as the years went on, a juvenile delinquent right up the spout, operating off one minor lock!

Now, by clearing up that one lock it wasn't sufficient to - I mean, clearing up the one lock wasn't sufficient to orient his whole case because he's been with us a long, long time. But it certainly would make him feet better about Mommy. As a matter of fact, I cleared it up and he went in and almost knocked his mother flat by simply saying, „Mommy, I've decided I love you.“ And Mommy went around worrying for days for fear that he hadn't been loving her.

I talked to the little boy and - said - he said, „She's fed me ice cream every afternoon since.“ He says, „Thank you, Ron.“

Well, so much for the Rock. It isn't as horrible a subject as it appears. It's merely the tears and sorrows and the joy of life all mixed up in one and nobody can figure out which way to go in order to get more. Now we know where to get more: Just get Clear!

Thank you.