Well. Well, thank – thank you very much. Thank – thank you very much. You see – you see – I just came in from South Africa and I was wearing the wrong mock-up. I'm very sorry I have – if it occasioned any difficulties in the audience, why, let me know and I'll process it out. Now for those few who didn't understand it was a gag, let me introduce the lion.

Thank you!

Thank you, thank you.

Well this is just about the most gimmick first day I think you’ve ever seen isn’t it? Now well that’s because I’m getting my havingness up you know. And, ah, you’re about to see ah, some various, ah, oddities again. And then there will be nothing tomorrow, you’re going to do nothing tomorrow.

How are you?

First before going much further, I had better tend to business here a little bit. And I’d better read some greeting-grams here of one kind or another. And the first one of course just by accident is on top. But ah, it’s to Scientology Washington D.C. “Hello and greetings to all. Have a wonderful congress. And to my favourite lecturer all my love, Mary Sue”.

Audience: Fine!

Ah, dear Susie, she walked into it head on you know. She was going to go down to South Africa and have a very nice ah, vacation. She thought it’d be a very nice to have a vacation. And when she arrived they didn’t have much of an HGC so I put her on as D of P. She got that all straightened out got some people trained up along the line for HGC Admin and was taking care of about 30 PCs a week and everything was going along fine and then I made her Assoc Sec. Put her in charge of the organization. This was mean you know. But she had looked forward to a nice time, visiting you know all the wild animals and enjoying herself you know and just having a time. And that was what happened to poor Mary Sue. But she really does hope you have a wonderful congress and she does give you all her greetings.

Well, I guess we've got a congress.

And here is ah, “Have a good congress. I find that people really know and apply your development in Scientology to be the best for my hat is off to you. Glen Vance, president of the Advance RD.”

Audience: Yes, yes.

And, “Here is our very best wishes for a very successful congress and may “61 be even more successful for us. Pam and San Diego staff.” That’s Pam Kemp.

Have we?

Here’s one from Johannesburg, they don’t know how appropriate this is. Oh yes, I guess they do. “Have a roaringly successful congress, love from HCO, HASI and The Lions Johannesburg.”

Audience: Yes!

And, “Here’s best wishes to Ron, staff and all congress attenders for a fine congress followed by a stupendous ACC from all staff HCO, St. Hill.”

Well, by golly, I'm real glad to see you people. I didn't think I was going to get here. I didn't think I was going to get here at all.

And here is, “Ron, our very best wishes for a marvellous congress. Love Jack and Alison, HASI Ltd. Cape Town.”

I took off from Rome. That's a small area that still thinks it's in charge of the world. You know they haven't changed a thing in Rome, by the way. You know, they still give you bath towels you can't lift. You know. Still overcharge you for everything. Same rackets.

And here’s one from the director of security Johannesburg he says, “We miss you in God’s Country. Stop. Ron come home. Come home Yank!”

Anyway. We were… I took off from Rome after waiting in the station there for six hours. And we flew all over the North Atlantic, and we flew all over the North Atlantic to such a degree, we couldn't get into New York - sleet and snow, you see, so they took off and went back to Newfoundland. By this time, any fish in the North Atlantic that sees me again will say "Hello, Ron!"

And here’s. “Best wished for greatest success of congress in the new year. May it be the best yet. HCO and Church of Scientology Los Angeles.”

But after spending a night with an Eskimo… you know, but he always lands on his feet. Anyway, I managed to get here and I'm awful glad to see you. So, hello!

Well… there’s are lot of good people in this world. That is for sure, for sure, for sure.

Audience: Hello!

Well, you know, getting down to business here. I have some ah, data that you might be interested in which is not basically Scientological but which has quite a bit to do with Scientological data. I have been down in the most controversial country on earth today which is South Africa. Would you like to hear a little something about South Africa?

Now, factually this here congress, we have so much to talk about this congress that we're going to have to give a four-day congress here in these next two days. Hope that's all right with you.

Ok. The ah, most controversial spot on earth today probably is South Africa. And the only reason I would like to talk to you about South Africa is because it points out something that you yourself should be tremendously aware of in The United States and England. You should be tremendously aware of the dangers involved in propaganda. The entire Communist campaign is being conducted with propaganda. The campaign in it’s entirety is propaganda.

Audience: Sure, yeah.

And the only shocking thing about the South African situation is just this: That not one word of truth has been written in the northern press about South Africa from the first days of the beginning of this campaign. Now you don’t have to take my word for it, actually if you went there yourselves, and if you had nerve enough and energy enough to go around and look at all of the areas and all of the plots in South Africa that have been talked about and talk to all the people without reserve in this situation you would then begin be able to appreciate the extreme truth of what I’ve just told you. That not one word of truth has been published in the northern press concerning South Africa. Not one word!

It's very difficult, you know, giving a four-day congress in two days, because you live the time track twice. And you have to keep your eye on it because as the time track goes up, you see, and back to go up again, you're liable to get stuck on this go-back, you know, and find yourself in 1960, and God forbid!

Name anything, anything that has been said about South Africa. Anything! I can give you prima facie evidence that it is not factual. What is fantastic about this whole picture is that these statements occur uniformly and regularly on a planned order throughout the press of the northern hemisphere. I’m pointing this fact out to you for just one reason only. That if you can believe this and believe these things about South Africa, then you must also be getting fed a tremendous amount of publicity and propaganda about America and England which is also false and which is planned exclusively and completely in the Propaganda Ministry of Moscow. And is fired off on schedule through some of the most unlikely and unsuspected voices.

Well, I can't see much of you there at the moment. We've put out the houselights, but you feel good. You feel very good. And personally, if I have many more 1960s, why, you won't be bothered by any more of these lectures. This has been a rough year. It's been a rough year. This was the year of the great – well, I would say the great change. This was the year when we stopped retreating and started attacking. This was the year when we decided we had been backward long enough and when we reversed the flow.

I’ll give you an example: A minister in England said, he wasn’t very high in the government, but he said, “There is one thing you can be certain of about South Africa, that there is going to be a great explosion.” And simultaneously this same statement was being made by a man by the name of Moss who is a senator from Utah in The United States. And it was also being made in four or five other quarters, always the same statement occurred in many places and is then replaced by a new statement which is made in many places and is then replaced by a new statement that is made. Who plans these statements?

Want to talk to you a little bit about the history of Clearing. May I?

And you can’t watch this thing without becoming aware of the fact that there is an orderly, organized propaganda campaign going on against the free governments of earth. And because certain things can be blown into being as quote “great truths” amongst the population of the northern hemisphere actions are taken which are favourable to the people who are inflating earth at this particular time, the communists.

Audience: Sure. Yeah.

I am not particularly against the communists. I am only against the slave maker. I am only against the liar, the cheat and the thief. I don’t like these people, it’s a peculiarity on my part. Now maybe you don’t like some of the things I’m going to tell you in this lecture. But may I preface them by a letter I received immediately before my departure from the Minister of Defence of South Africa in Pretoria: “Dear Doctor Hubbard. As a South African I can only express my appreciation for the stand you are taking, not on the side of white South Africa but on the side of truth. Thank you. J. Fouché.

That has a lot to do with this. Dianetics and Scientology now are really about thirty years old. Only ten years of this have we been together – besides those times on the backtrack. Yeah. Occasionally we do meet each other on the backtrack, you know. I mean, we have. I've run into a few instances. For instance, I remember being just a little bit late relieving a garrison in Numidia or someplace, and Suzie has never forgiven me. She keeps saying every once in a while, muttering to herself, "There you were, stopping at every tavern." But even these things can be processed out.

I know many of the cabinet ministers of South Africa. These men are some of the hardest working government officials you ever cared to meet. They are very sincere. The only weakness they have – they have two weaknesses. One is security. They do not push security home, they are too decent. And two information. They do not conduct a comparable propaganda campaign to the communist campaign which has been launched against them. These are their two weaknesses. They have no other weaknesses. Just as you are prepared to forgive people you consider friendly and decent some of their sins, so was I prepared to forgive the government of South Africa some of it’s upset when I went down there.

Probably the genus of Dianetics and Scientology lies in the late twenties, really, when I was a young kid in the Orient. Strange place for a young American to be, watching all sorts of oddities, seeing nonsense such as little boys jump up to the top of ropes that weren't there, and people worrying and wondering about what the soul and mind were all about.

I knew they had a hard time, I knew they only had about three million whites and they had fifteen million Bantu. I knew they were trying to handle themselves particularly. I’m not against the Bantu, I’m not against the black man. As a matter of fact I’m probably more friendly toward the black man than any person in this audience. I don’t want him thrown in over his head as he’s been thrown in in the Congo by the propagandists of state department of The United States and Moscow.

And the more they seemed to know about it, the more impoverished they seemed to be. So I decided they didn't know much about it. But I thought, well, the Western civilizations have it all taped. America has it all taped. America knows everything.

Two hundred Balubas a day are dying of starvation at this instant. Three hundred thousand of them will die. Why? They didn’t even know what a vote was. They didn’t even know what self-determinism was. But all of a sudden they were told, we now abandon you. I don’t care how you talk about this thing called freedom. There is freedom and there is abandonment and the United States and other counties is following the policy today of abandonment of the black man. They don’t care to put out the money by which he can develop himself, train himself and go forward. Subsidize himself until he can stand on his own two feet. So they abandon him by telling him he’s free! And that’s the source of all this talk of freedom.

So, while I was going to George Washington University, I conducted a series of tests. Which – actually they were tests of poetry of all things. I found out that poetry gives off the same wavelength in any language, and I was testing it out on Koenig photometers. And I said, "What's this all about?"

Now there are other ways to do this. Right now you tell me, “Well, the government of South Africa does not permit the black man a vote.” Ha ha – he doesn’t even know what a vote is. What do you want, another Congo? But the untruth of that situation lies in this: The Bantu administration of South Africa is working as hard and fast as it can in the direction of getting the Bantu a vote in spite of the fact that most white South Africans are upset by the fact that they’re going to be outvoted someday if this program is permitted to go all the way through. Now does this sound like a bad government that is denying people the vote? How far do your kids have to walk to school? Well a Bantu child only has to walk a maximum of a half a mile to school. How do you like that? In the locations and townships there is a school every half mile.

So I went over to the psychology department, and there was a fellow over in the psychology department – I believe he's still alive here in Washington – and he said, "Where are you from?"

We’re told that they will not permit the Bantu to be educated. I walked into a high school, a Bantu high school. And I though well, what are they teaching them? I didn’t even know they permitted them to go to high school. What are they teaching them? I was rather suspicious as a matter of fact. But I was much luckier that a great journalist.

I said, "I'm from over in the engineering school."

One of the things that gets on the government’s nerves down there is that every American goes down there and spends ten days and writes a book or an article. Alsop of The Saturday Evening Post only had to spent nine days, he’s brighter than most. But do you know that in South Africa he did not go near one government official to write the article he just published in The Saturday Evening Post. He didn’t talk to any person or inspect any situation that would have anything to do with it, yet he was very knowledgeable, wasn’t he? This is very interesting isn’t it?

He said, "Why don't you stay there?"

Now look, I’m just a Yank. I’m not expected to be an authority on South Africa, and yet I’ve become one in Johannesburg to white South Africans because they themselves haven’t bothered to inform themselves of what’s going on with the government. Doesn’t that sound wild? Now there’s where – why I say the government falls down in the field of information.

And I said, "Well, I would happily, but I just want to know some of the stuff that you chaps have already got taped, you know. You know, some of the stuff you've already got figured out, and so forth. And, do all minds react the same to poetry? You know. Is there a repetitive wavelength that goes through all minds, and are all minds the same?"

Now I went into this high school and I say they couldn’t possibly be teaching them standard high school subjects because I’ve heard there are even laws in this country against educating the Bantu. I’ve read this in the press. And what do I find? Euclidian geometry all over the blackboard. Biology. Then the high school principal, a black Bantu, his main interest in life had to do with whether or not Mercedes Benz cars were better engined with diesel or with petrol. He himself favoured diesel and so his Mercedes Benz had a diesel engine.

He said, "You say you were from the engineering school?"

This boy took me secretly into a closet and showed me that controversial evolution chart. He said, “There it is Dr. Hubbard”. It’s the same Darwinian chart that is taught in England and the United States. I looked at it and laughed at him. It’s the same chart, there’s no difference. It’s out of the same text book. His main concern was his library wasn’t big enough.

And I said, "Yes."

Later when I went through a Bantu university where they are specially teaching Bantu doctors and other such chaps and teaching the forward lines of agriculture the same curriculum used in agricultural colleges here in The United States. I was tagged for an even bigger bid for a library. And one of these days I’ll be calling on you to help me give them a library. But the point is not even the white South African, who doesn’t stir much out of his city, is well acquainted with what’s going on in South Africa. And that’s what’s fantastic because lying over the country itself is a network of propaganda, and people read the propaganda.

He said, "Well, poetry belongs in the arts college."

The main anxiety of the white South African however is not to give the black his freedom but the fact that he might suddenly be given his freedom because they live with him. And they know very well what he’ll do.

So you know me, I got right down to cases, and I says, "Do you know anything about this or don't you?"

The communist message to the world is all you have to do is get the European out of Africa and there will be total peace and it will be OK in Africa. What happened when the Belgians left the Congo? Well that is what will happen throughout Africa. All development and advance whatsoever will be stopped if the European is driven out of Africa. You can count on it.

And I made the horrifying discovery in 1931 that nobody had the mind taped. That was it. It was a totally wide-open field.

Now what I’m telling you probably doesn’t make too much sense. What’s this Bantu being educated and Bantu being this and Bantu being that. I myself have handled about four street fights amongst the Bantu. They don’t attack Europeans. The Europeans sometimes have to handle them. But the only riots I’ve been a part of or near riots were occasioned by a government administrator who said to a bunch of Bantu in a little village, “What’s this I hear about all you people wanting the national government out?” And he meant it as a joke so I would get a back flash or get a kick out of it.

There was philosophy, but there was nothing that had anything to do with the mind. Not really. There were a bunch of suppositions back in the fifteen, sixteen hundreds. There was something called faculty psychology that was taught by the Catholic church. Had to do with the examination of perception.

And all the Bantu said, “What? What? Who? Who? Who want’s to drive the government out? Who, who?” And they were very upset people. Because the Bantu knows very well what will happen to him if he is turned over to total exploitation. The people who want that government knocked in the head are people who wish to exploit the Bantu. The government will not permit the exploitation of the Bantu.

Then I found out, in 1870 a fellow by the name of Wundt had decided we were all animals. He didn't have any evidence. He wasn't there. And he had established a modern school known as psychology. But psychology is defined this way: psyche-ology; spirit, study of.

The Bantu today, on the average, working in the cities, make more money than the equivalent British worker in England. His payroll is fantastic. He’s divided into two classes. He’s the city Bantu and he is the aboriginal tribesman. And the aboriginal tribesman is being brought up as fast as he can be brought up to some semblance of order. But he hates other tribes to such a degree that it is always a worry and an upset trying to keep them from killing each other off. That has been the history of South Africa, the blacks kill off the blacks. And all you’ve got to do is pull a stable government off the top of them and they promptly start killing each other off.

First line of any textbook in psychology is likely to run as follows: "Of course, we know nothing about the spirit or whether it even exists." Just psyche-ology, and, "we don't know if the spirit exists," and yet, this is the study of the spirit. Psyche: spirit.

It’s very funny in an old location Father Huddleston, whatever his insanities by the way, made too much money selling beer to the Bantu to forgive the government from moving them from huts which he charged them a pound a month for, which were made out of tin cans, into decent homes in the location. He was the source of this current bang and it would cost him a lot of money when the government entered into the picture. But the Father Huddlestons had their own exploitive efforts. They wish to exploit the Bantu, they want to hire him for nothing, they want to sell him at high prices. The present administration does not permit an Indian or a white tradesman in a Bantu area. Does that sound like oppression?

Well, what is this thing called psychology? What is this thing called the mind? What is this all about?

Now you can be right down there in the middle of all this and you listen to all of the press and you hear all of this sort of thing. But look. I’ve dragged through the mountains with the government. I’ve been in the Rain Queens country and I’ve been through the locations and they didn’t keep me from seeing anything. As a matter of fact they kept pushing me in deeper. You know, take a look, take a look, take a look.

I tried to find the smallest particle of energy, was what I was looking for, and I concluded it must be in the human mind. I put out a theory at that time, which, by the way, got currency in Austria.

Here is probably the greatest resettlement project on earth is going on in South Africa right now. They won’t permit these Bantu to live in slums they are resettling them and they’re giving them decent homes. Well if you saw it on TV, there’s a picture of it by the way. One of these resettlement areas is hanging up back there with me looking at it. Ah… as far as you can see in all directions from a watch tower they’ve built homes. They go to them at high express urban electrical lines that go out to these things and they give them most anything you can think of.

And it ran this way. It said… I figured out how many perceptions there were (I didn't know there were fifty-three at that time, I thought there were some fifteen, or something like that), and figuring that the eye ran at the rate of a twenty-fifth of a second. They now claim it runs at a tenth, but mine runs at a thirty-fifth, so some argument there.

But you can live right in South Africa and not find out what the government is doing. So that’s their frailty, it’s the frailty of information. You can be right there, you can hear all sorts of lies. But’s that’s basically because they don’t trust any people any more. They have had more journalists come down there and look at all these things and then suddenly go back and write the wildest lies anybody ever heard of.

Man, taking mental image pictures and recording them, must be storing them someplace. All right, that's fine. But the calculation was that protein molecules, if they have holes in them, might require the storage – I've forgotten these actual figures – a hundred memories per hole and twenty holes to a molecule or something like this. And it comes out to the matter of twenty-of ten to the twenty-first power binary digits of neurons, and if everything a man experienced in three months was so recorded and so stored, he had exhausted his entire memory supply and nobody could possibly remember longer than three months ago.

They got used to me after a little while and they got very happy about the thing and they saw I wasn’t looking for a pitch. They saw I was perfectly willing to look at the situation and see it for what it was and after that they opened up every door they had.

Something wrong with this, but I put it out as a theory to demonstrate that man couldn't possibly remember mechanically. And in Austria they put out the theory again from that original paper saying that this was how man remembered. I thought, "Somebody's alter-ising around here."

Probably the most modern prison on earth is Leopold. There the Bantu is rehabilitated and it’s return is only forty five percent. It has been cut, these figures are approximate, the return has been cut by forty five percent. This is fantastic. There isn’t another prison on earth that doesn’t have a much higher return. The return in prison life is usually eighty percent. We have to go to a quote “police state” called South Africa to find a prison where the return is only forty five percent. Social reform is everywhere.

But going forward from that time, it was not until 1938 that I had a common denominator of all livingness. I had studied amongst very primitive cultures – and at the Explorers Club, by the way, am known for that field, the field of ethnology, not archaeology as they call it in the colleges. It's ethnology. An ethnical field. Primitive cultures.

But beating these people up… People are kind of mad in South Africa at the government but that madness normally generates from anxiety, they don’t trust the government to hold the Bantu back. But if you can think of the wild west in it’s old days and let’s say there are about three million whites out there and about fifteen million Indians and then the press saying all the whites should be killed, what would you think? Wouldn’t you think that’s an odd picture?

And I knew I had evidence that survival was a common denominator to all these races – this is apparently what they were trying to do – and possibly would work out as a common denominator to all life.

Actually the Bantu is not like the American black man and you can’t understand anything about the Bantu by understanding about the American black man. The American black man in the first place has been mixed with Indian and white blood over a period of a couple of centuries or less. But has actually been in close proximity to the white man and white man civilization for a century or two you see. At the least the last ones that came have been in contact a century or two. And for almost a century he has had, on paper at least, the vote. Of course, the southerner didn’t give him the total run of things and it’s only recently they’ve had decent or fair legislation with regard to the vote. But this is a different breed of cat.

And going along in that wise, did quite a bit of research, which actually culminated theoretically in 1938. I was up at the Explorers Club and ran head-on to our first international complications, which is why we fight on an international front.

Do you know the Bantu peoples were not conquered by the South Africans until the slaying of Dingin in about 1879 or there abouts. And only then a few of them became associated to any great degree with the whites. The Bantu was the wild man down there. The early associate of the South African was the Hottentots and the bushman, not the Bantu. The Bantu is not indigenous to the area but comes down from central Africa. It isn’t his home, he was moving into the area the same time the whites were moving into the area from below.

I better tell you about this because you will wonder and think I am opinionated and against people unless I tell you about this. This is old news to a lot of you. I'm trying to tell it the same way, too.

The history of South Africa is quite similar to the history of the United States, except we fought our revolution in 1776 and won it. And they fought their revolution somewhere in the vicinity of the turn of the century and lost it. And they're trying to make headway now in spite of losing their revolution.

The – works this way: Any government these days is terribly interested in how the mind works, but dead against anybody that knows more about it than they do. Figure that one out.

But these are good people, they are mostly comparable to American frontier people. They have a high culture of their own. As far from being a police state, they're not even half as tough as the American cop. And you could just go all over the place without seeing cops. They don't have enough cops, they don't give the Bantu, actually, enough police protection. They haven't got enough cops. That's the facts of the case.

I was at the Explorers Club for tea and there was a fellow there whose name was Commissar Galinsky. He was from Amtorg, the American-Russian Trading Organization, which at that time served as the – well, we had no diplomatic relations with Russia and they served actually as the diplomatic channel: Amtorg, New York.

But these sentiments are not particularly welcome to people. But I only call to your attention, that I'm only telling you what I myself have observed, having been given ample opportunity to observe it, and I'm giving you nothing but what I myself have observed, and not anything anybody has told me. It's what I myself have seen.

And this Russian smiled at me and he said, "I've been hearing about your researches from some of your friends. I understand that you know something about what makes man work and how you can select men who will work and men who won't work."

But I have also seen an American newspaper photographer take a playground barbed wire area, and take a little Bantu boy and make him go in back of the barbed wire, which was to keep the little Bantu children from getting run over on the street and was wide open, and have him pose there; so he could show a concentration camp for children.

I said, "Well, that might or might not be," rather defensively.

The great Margaret Bourke-White, whose emblem is the garbage can, and are you aquatinted with that life photographer's badge of office? Goes out and shoots the garbage cans in the slums. She had a ball shooting pictures down there, but she couldn't get enough bad pictures so she sort of gave it up. They won't photograph anything that is happening in South Africa and they won't really talk about anything that's happening. I'm only telling you what I have seen, I have also seen people in South Africa who themselves had not had energy enough to go out and look at anything, and who themselves had totally erroneous opinions concerning what was going on in the country. I listened to some of the wildest tales from South Africans you ever wanted to hear about what was going on, they themselves didn't know. And I myself had in the odd position, that's when director's security down there said "Come home yank!". He's just mirroring the fact that in any gathering of South Africans, when they wanna know what's going on in the government they ask me. [Applause]

And he says, "Well," he said, " I'll tell you," he said, "we'd be very happy to make you an offer. As a matter of fact, I can have you talking to Stalin in about three weeks. We'll just fly over and talk to him." They were hiring lots of engineers for various things in those days.

Now I've driven an awful lot of weary miles, because South Africa is a big country, looking at the country and looking at the people, that sort of thing. And I'd say they got about 50 years to go before they get the South African Bantu up to the same status and level of civilization of the American Black. But I will add this, we started a security program, just to help the peace of the area, we don't take sides politically, we're humanitarians not politicians. And the Bantu doesn't register the same on an E-meter as a White. And I've had to start a whole program of research, in addition to everything else I've been doing, trying to find out how to read a Bantu on an E-meter. Because he doesn't operate like an American Negro, or like a European. And that's an interesting level of study. As I've told you, I myself have no trouble with the Bantu, I wish him well. As a matter of fact, they called me "Ezimhlophe Sangoma". And there at least one person here who I think knows what that means. It means "The White Witch-doctor". [laughter]

And I said, "Well," I said, "I'm awfully, awfully engaged." I said, "As a matter of fact, I know a blonde up on Amsterdam Avenue…" No, that's another story. "And I have commitments in the United States, and I won't be able to go to Russia, thank you."

And I've learned some things about the Bantu, his nervous system and reaction, which are of considerable assistance trying to get along with the Bantu, and the things they blame him for happen to be native in the Bantu. And his nervous system is not the same as us, so he gets tremendously blamed and knocked around for things he does differently than we do, it isn't that he does them better or worse, he does them differently, he's built differently. There's certain things you have to do, so I've had to make considerable study of the Bantu, that study is not completed, and the only thing I can say about it at this time is that it's arduously in progress.

Next time I saw him at tea at the Explorers Club – which is quite international, by the way. It still carried Nazi officers as members clear to the end of World War II. Famous explorers in Germany, famous explorers in Russia. All sorts of the allies and the enemy and everything else still held memberships in the Explorers Club, and the Explorers Club was being very, very careful not to cancel out their memberships before they knew whether or not they were missing or had forgotten to pay or were unable to pay.

As far as my getting along with the Bantu is concerned I say I get along with him wonderfully. It's very difficult for me not to build up a practice. One of the first things one of the boys, we have tremendous numbers of Natives working in the central organization, and we have lots of Coloureds working in the central organization, and lots of Europeans. And of course, the people we have at home, we have four Bantu there. And these people in the central organization made me a sign, and it has feathers, and knucklebones, and Dr. L. Ron Hubbard, and then it says Scientologist, and below that it says "Ezimhlophe Sangoma". I didn't even have to hang out my shingle, practically any of the yard boys, or servants, or brothers, sisters, aunts, or cousins, anywhere in our neighbourhood, or anywhere in the central organization's neighbourhood, were liable to turn up with a sore fist, or a limping foot, or a hernia, or something of the sort, and ask me to do something for it. My reputation had gone along way ahead of me, see. And just on the basis of the reputation I'd say, "Well, who did you think an evil thought about?" They'd tell me, and their sore foot gets well. [laughter]

So he says to me, he says, "We've taken this up with Russia – with our government – and we're willing to offer you Pavlov's old quarters and two hundred thousand dollars and all your expenses for further researches."

The only thing I'm trying to point out to you, I'm not actually trying to sell you the South African government. I could easily do so because I consider these men very able, from what I've seen, they're nice guys. I know them personally. And they're not as advertised, just the only thing I'm trying to tell you is there's these tremendous reports in the northern press, concerning a country on Earth, and none of these reports are factual.

Well, of course, I didn't have very much money in those days, and I thought, "Two hundred thousand dollars. Only trouble is it'll probably be paid in shinplasters or something of the sort."

But South Africa has gold, and it has diamonds. And I think we're looking at a new type of imperialism. Now the same thing goes on against America, the same thing goes against England in various areas, and the same thing goes on against Scientology.

And I said, "No, thank you, no, thank you." I said, "I don't think – I don't think I'd like to go."

The press has ceased to be factual, has ceased to be a reporting medium, and has become a propaganda media throughout the world. Therefore before you believe anything wild, whether about Scientology, South Africa or anything else, there's only one thing I ask you to do. And that's to, well, the advice of Minister Fouché, not necessarily a stand on the side of South Africa, but certainly a stand on the side of truth.

"Well, come over and have dinner with us. Come over and have dinner with us and talk it over."

"Just because you hear it, it isn't true. Even just because I told you, it isn't true." Remember, that what you see, what you experience is factual, whether in Scientology or world affairs. And I believe that America can win across the world the moment it recognizes that the sole weapons of the communist are propaganda. And his sole stock and trade are lies, and his sole aim and goal is slavery. We don't hear any more of these countries they have overrun, they have disappeared. What of their talks of freedom of the press, when there is no press that isn't government press left in the countries that have been overrun by Communism.

Well, I had dinner with them, and talked it over, and said no. And they said yes, and I said no, and they said yes. Well, that was the end of a beautiful friendship. And that end has lasted to this day.

So let's take a look at the status of things, recognize that the war that we are fighting is a war of information, a war of propaganda, and that the enemy wishes us to believe many things which are not true, so he can achieve his end-goal of slavery. That's the only thing I'm trying to tell you.

The commie doesn't like us, not because they wouldn't be happy to use the information, not because they wouldn't be happy to use these organizations, not because they're against anything we believe in at all, but I said no.

What is true for you is what you have observed yourself. And when you lose that, you have lost everything. What is personal integrity? Personal integrity is knowing what you know. What you know, is what you know. And to have the courage to know and say what you have observed, and that is integrity. And there is no other integrity. Of course, we can talk about honour, truth, nobility, all of these things, these esoteric terms. But I think they'd all be covered very well if what we really observed was what we observed. That we took care to observe what we were observing. That we always observed to observe. And not necessarily maintaining a sceptical attitude, a critical attitude, or an open mind. Not necessarily maintaining these things at all, but certainly maintaining sufficient personal integrity, and sufficient personal belief and confidence in self, and courage that we can observe what we observe and say what we have observed. Nothing in Scientology is true for you unless you have observed it and it is true according to your observation. That is all. [Applause]

About two years later they broke into my quarters, or some unknown people did, something on that order, two or three years later, and stole the original manuscripts of this. I have a flimsy copy of the first manuscript of this subject which has never been published. It's not, however, complete. I've got – had withholds on you. The Russians have got the original.

Now, whether or not the MP regiments will be reconvened, across the length and breadth of South Africa, with total right to kill all other black men. Or whether or not they won't be, and will continue to be governed with restrain, educated, and brought up to a properly domesticated level before they are let loose. That is a problem which has to do with the men who are on the ground, and what they stand up to, and what they surrender to. These various factors.

Well, all went along very well and we got into a war. Do you remember there was a war? The war that ended nothing, except some of our healths and finances. World War II they called it. Well, this silly mess came along, and a lot of us went over and did various things. And after that – I had done quite a bit of study in the last year of that war of the endocrine systems and a bunch of things – and I did an enormous amount of work in 46 and 47 which finally culminated in the writing of the book Dianetics: Modern Science of Mental Health, published in very early 1950 – May, actually.

But let me tell you right now, that if the fondest hopes of many great powers were realized, and total determinism was granted to every Black in Africa, the Black population of Africa would be reduced to 50% within a year.

Well, just about the time it hit the stands, I was in Washington, DC. This very same city. And a very high ranking officer, a very, very, very high ranking officer you know, Brass! You know, Brass! Scrambled eggs, you know. Gilt on the cape edge, you know. Wow, you know. Just look at him – blinding.

Who is it [that] wants this many men to die? And that's the question you ask.

I was teaching some of the psychiatrists here in Washington how to run engrams, or trying to. The last effort we made, I think. We did make a sincere effort, by the way, to give Dianetics to psychiatry, to the medical profession, to teach them how to use it, and so forth, and we found out they didn't know what they were doing and we skipped it. That is – that happened clear back then. So don't think it's anything new when we claw up psychiatrists, or something of the sort. They started it. They kept asking me too many stupid questions in lectures I was giving and I never forgave them.

Before the coming of the White man, the population of the Bantu peoples was very small, because he kept himself killed off. One tribe would go running over the heads of the other tribe with these very weapons which I'm holding in my hand here. They'd wipe out whole tribes, whole villages, they were like armies of ants, they just swarmed and swooped down upon everything and slaughtered every man, woman, and child in their path. Millions of Blacks died this way! And the White man came along and kept them from fighting. Started civilizing them. The last time the Bantu did this was 1879. Not even a hundred years ago!

Anyway, this bunch of scrambled eggs comes walking up the steps, and it was on a Monday, and he said to me, "Well, well, Hubbard, how are you?" you know, "Hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo. How are you, Hubbard?"

Now that is something for you to understand. Because it hasn't been but yesterday.

And I said, "What – what's this guy want?"

Who wants all these Black men to die? Who are the evil people of this world? Same question. We understand that the world right now is being given a great deal of propaganda on the subject of overpopulation, we're told that we're going to get all overpopulated. Now, is this freedom kick a bid to prevent overpopulation? What is this?

He said, "How would you like to work for the Office of Naval Research?"

But on the subject of overpopulation I have asked myself several times "Who will be the overpopulation?". You? Me? The fellow who doesn't agree? Who is the overpopulation? What is this idea that we mustn't have overpopulation? What is this? Where did this come from?

I said, "Doing what?"

I personally, in dealing with plant experiments in England, demonstrated that it would be rather easy to grow about 5 times the amount of foodstuff in England as is grown there right this minute. It'd be perfectly easy to do this by erecting dams in South Africa, only 15% of their land is arable, by preserving their rains and using all their subterranean sources, and building up various reactor power units, and so on. The country could, well, it could raise, I don't know, 20, 30, 40 times the produce that it's raising right now and it's very productive. The whole of Central Africa was not at all until a few Whites went in there and were subsidized by England in order to open up a plateau and grow some things and so forth. And they made progress, agriculturally.

"Oh, using what you know about the mind, you know, ha-ha-ha-ha-ha, ha-ha-ha-ha-ha. Uh – to make people more suggestible." I won't announce this man's rank or name, not in public.

The Sahara could be recovered again, I remember when it was wiped out, if you pardon me for harroping(???) on the Whole Track. A fellow the name of Belisarius and Justinian wiped them out. It could all be put back together again. As far as that's concerned, all you'd have to undo is some of these silly customs that are used in India and China under the heading of, ha, agriculture and get them to grow something and they wouldn't even feel they're overpopulated.

But I said, "Well, sir" – it was in underscore and sir was in italics. "Sir," I said, "I'm not interested." After all, the book had just been published, the first Foundation was just forming, we were just kicking off and this guy wants to drag me into the Navy. He says, "Well," he said, "you'd better watch out, ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha ha-ha, you'd better watch out, ha-ha-ha-ha-ha! Because I can pull you back into service at your old rank."

What is this talk about it? It hasn't anything to do with food! Why, we're throwing food in the oceans! Here? Isn't real, is it? If we're at an over-surplus, and we aren't even exploiting the United States to the degree of raising food.

"Oh," I said, "here we go." See?

So what is this kick called overpopulation? Is it an attempt to keep you from getting another body? Or is it because there are areas of man that just hate man? And can't to see him around so they decide that the best thing to do is to put out a lot of propaganda that permits him to wipe him out.

So he left feeling very complacent; and I immediately got on telephones. I had to find some place in the United States, a naval district, that was stupid enough to let me resign. And I found them, God bless them, right down here at the end of Pennsylvania Avenue, the Potomac River Naval Command, which was set up during the Civil War to patrol the Confederate states, and was still a full naval district. Isn't that marvelous! It had admirals and everything, and I went in going, "Oohoo, oohoo, ahh, ahh, ahh." I had a service record and I had my health record, had my resignation all written out. And, factually, up until 1947, I was unable to walk without a cane, I couldn't see, I was blind. I got processing about that time, however, and ruined my naval record.

What is this kick "overpopulation"? As far as South Africa is concerned, the final thing I will say, which is probably very shocking to you, is there isn't any trouble in South Africa. There isn't any trouble. The only problems they've got in South Africa is the idea that they have problems. There isn't as much crime in South Africa as there is in Washington D.C. This becomes fascinating, because it's probably the most peaceful country on Earth. It is peaceful. And the Bantu is working, and the Government is working, and everybody's happy, but there are a lot of people around saying "Yow yow yow yow yow! Look at all the Trouble! Look at all the upsets! [Unintelligible]"

And I showed the old admiral down there how I could never be of any use again to the Navy, showing him all the casualties, you know, and sheets of paper, and…"Oh," he says, "you poor fellow!"

I'm not necessarily approving or disproving of South African policies, as a matter of sober fact, I believe their policy is slightly dangerous. I believe if they bring the Bantu up to a level of civilization and give him a total vote, I believe they will fall short of bringing him up to that level that they desire and will yet him the vote. And will yet wipe out White civilization in South Africa. I believe that this is a high probability that will occur. But it will occur because the Nationalist people are too kind and too decent, not because they are too rough.

And I said, "Huu, huu, huu, yes, that's right, that's right!"

The picture is an entirely different picture than one would expect, and it's very amusing to be an American, in the midst of South Africa, very very amusing.

And he says, "You poor fellow. Yes, I'll accept your resignation."

I am making good success with learning Zulu. As a matter of fact while I was at that high school, the English teacher, a Black Bantu looked at me and he said to me "Ah, hmm. How do you do Doctor?" and then he said to his class instantly, you know, about 40 persons, teenage class, "Here is an American! And I'm going to ask him to say something to you in American! Now, Doctor Hubbard would you say something to him in American? Say something to the class!". And you know me. [laughter] In Zulu, in perfectly good Zulu, I said to them "Well thank you very much! I am very glad to be here! Good day!". These Bantu sat there, you know, round-eyed. They weren't expecting to hear Zulu, and they heard Zulu, and then you never saw a joke fall flatter. [laughter] They were reading The Hound of the Baskervilles by A. Conan Doyle, which was their lesson of the day. So, I gave them a talk on The Hound of the Baskervilles by A. Conan Doyle, in English, even in American. And they were all very erudited, but to this day I don't any of them realized that I said something to them in Zulu. [Laughs]

They rushed it up, got a special assistant to the Secretary of the Navy to okay it, and on Thursday, when the high brass came back to see me again, he says, "Well, have you decided?"

But oh, kidding aside on this, the White South African, deserves my greatest admiration as of course the Scientologist there. The country is full of Scientologists. There are lots of them. And, from the Government, because it doesn't have any Communist infiltration or propaganda hitting it in the teeth all the time, Scientology doesn't get knocked in the head. After I was persona grata with most of the Government the head of the South African Psychological Association decided that we were going too far, and got very angry about it, and told some people in authority that he was now going to write letters to the Prime Minister and all the Cabinet Ministers, telling them what a bad person I was, and what a terrible subject Scientology is. The only trouble is, I had been talking to them, via central organizations for years, and for months I had been fast friends with Cabinet Ministers in South Africa. He didn't get very far. And I think they consider he's a little odd and he now probably is on the suspects list.

"Yes," I said, "I've decided not to go in."

But my hat particularly is off to the White South African because he's been pretty scared from time to time. He's been jarred by lying press in his own country and so forth. He's been holding the fork any way he can, and these chaps realize that in Scientology they have an answer to ability, that a person who can ring control and quietness to his own area is very desirable to have in South Africa and they recognize that Scientology does this. Scientology, right now, has in two cognates a contest going on. Australia claims it is going to be Scientology country on Earth, and South Africa claims that it is going to be. So they can fight about between them. But these are great people, and that's a wonderful part of the world. You ought to know these people, you would find that of all the peoples of worth you would be able to talk to them the easiest.

He said, "Well," he said, "I guess I have no other choice but to draft you in at your old rank."

But here, we have, a very serious lecture to close this particular day on. Probably you're not particularly interested in this particular subject, beyond the fact that there could be this many lies told and believed this firmly about a country which weren't based in fact.

And I said, "I'm very sorry," omitting the sir (italicized), "I'm very sorry, but I'm no longer a member of the Armed Services."

But more importantly, more importantly, I tried to give you some sort of an idea about what I've been up to. I haven't been doing anything, I've just been observing and making friends. And that's one of the better things to do in the world.

He said, "What's this?"

Of course, I've been very busy technically, and I've been very busy central organization-wise, and I have a few hats that I wear. But of course one of these hats isn't trying to pat South Africa on the back one way or the other. It is just telling you what I have observed about them. These sentiments may not be popular but ask yourself why they aren't popular. Because I've simply told you that there is a country on Earth which has a lot of decent people that are doing their best. And if these words be treason, make the best of them.

I said, "Yes, as a matter of fact here it is. Here's the Secretary of the Navy's okay. He accepted my…"

But you've had a very gimmicked up day, haven't you? Lots of gimmick created today, you don't get any tomorrow. In the evening seminar however, I'm about to have sprung upon you, if the seminar leaders will assemble, up here in the dressing room, I will tell them what to spring on you. Because there's a brand-new process, brand new one, and I think you might have a lot of fun, one and all, running it, on a couple seminars tonight. It's a process that does everything. Doesn't necessarily clear anybody, it isn't necessarily an undercut or anything, but it's HAS Co-Audit Process No. 1, and I think you ought to get used to it because we no longer use un-co-audits, the processes which we will be using on HCC Clearing Courses. We've got a brand-new series of processes which are used, only and entirely on Co-Audits, I think you might be interested in it so we're going to use some of them on you in the seminar.

And that was an end of a beautiful friendship with the American government. And I have to tell you all this, because it's not that it's terribly important, but it's very interesting from a standpoint of we have kicked in the teeth and have overts against the Russian government and the American government. And you wonder sometimes why the American government or something like that doesn't in a great burst of enthusiasm set up a hundred-billion-dollar project to fix up all of their pilots so they can fly airplanes, and their radar operations so they can watch radar, and their scientists so they can think.

While I hope that I haven't bored you totally stiff with all the matters of politics and other things, and I hope that tomorrow you will have survived the seminar tonight. Because you are the guinea pigs, if you can't run this we'll abandon the whole project.

And it goes right back to that engram. Office of Naval Research. "Hubbard said, 'No.' To hell with him."

Thank you very much for coming to the congress and for being here today. Be sure to appear at the seminar, I will see you at one o'clock tomorrow afternoon, thank you.

Well, remember they didn't make up their minds that we were no good, and we were gyps and clips and stiffs and McGees, until we had said no. That's an important point. That's a very important point. We have not made friends or influenced people in those departments. But it has left us free. And we probably today are the only free organization on the face of Earth, and that is saying something. Because we are the only organization on the face of Earth which is winning flat out right this minute.

The things I have to tell you in this congress, you will at first perhaps temper a little bit by saying, "Ron has been optimistic before."

I'm not being optimistic now. It's been my lot for eleven years to keep you from losing heart. To keep the show on the road and keep the gains and advances which you could obtain being gained and being advanced. And that's been my role for eleven years, so that I could do the research and train people with enough background so that we could keep it rolling.

I knew that we couldn't clear everybody who walked up to us. I knew that. Now, if I never made that succinctly plain, although I believe I have told you that from time to time, it's because I didn't want to dampen your ardor, or upset you. But let me tell you this: it's been a mighty hard job keeping the show on the road, and if you hadn't been with me on it, it would have been a long time dead. So thank you very much for the part you have played in it. Thank you.

Now, as we look over our accomplishments, we find they are many. And I have several things that I could announce to you and then explain to you later, and I think I'd better announce these things.

Looking over the political background, it is not odd to find that we today float free of political commitments. We are not owned. This is the one organization on Earth that isn't owned and owes no favors. If we're for something, we simply think it's a good thing to be for. If we're against something we just think they're no good.

I'm afraid there is no college professor in America could make this statement. I've had very many vivid illustrations of that fact. They have to think of their jobs, they have to think of the party line of the Republican Party or the something of the sort, you know. They have to think about what they're doing. They have to be consistently and continually alert to what they say. They can never be totally honest.

We can be honest, and it sometimes steps all over people's toes. But for that very reason we have enough verve to win.

A few months ago, we licked communism in Australia. Just like that. The biggest communist publication in Australia devoted the entirety of an article to an apology to us for all the dirty, nasty, vicious things they've been saying about Scientology. Magazine's name is The Nation.

The British Medical Association unfortunately went into collusion with the Communist Party in Australia. Don't ask me why. They have no part of the British Medical Association of England, by the way; they're Australian. But all of the statements being made by one of their fellows – the top man – I don't know, you had a fellow over here that was kind of this kind of a louse. Let's see, what was his name? Morris Fishcake. I think that was his name.

He got sued, by the way, for pretending to be a doctor in Texas. And they awarded ten million dollars damages to the person who sued him. Did you know that was what happened to Morris Fishcake over here? That's right. Yeah, he pretended to be a doctor. He was in charge of the American Medical Association at one time. Oh, you don't know these things. They never get publicity somehow. Somehow we never read them on the front page. We read "Khrushchev says," "Khrushchev does." But we don't read things like that. I wonder why. Well, anyhow, we'll take that up in the last lecture.

The point I'm making here is they thought they could clean up on Scientology in Australia. They thought they could do it. They got a practitioner in Scientology who was somewhat squirrelly, who was operating up in Perth, and who had already gotten out of England because the organization was on his heels. And they tagged him with an arrest for practicing medicine without a license. This made them very brave.

They waited for months. They carefully prepared a campaign. And evidently, using all communist outlets, the British Medical Association spread a fantastic campaign against Scientology in the country of Australia. Awfully coincidental, isn't it? – the British Medical Association using communist outlets. And they tried to put us under the Health Department of Australia so that we could not practice or operate, so that we would be regulated.

And every Scientologist in Australia united arm-to-arm, took their pens in hand, and under a heavily directed campaign, fought back hard! They wrote every government official in Australia. Everybody was being inundated by mail saying, "How is it that the British Medical Association uses communist outlets in Australia?"

And then we wrote a petition. And Scientologists in Australia took it around to all of the medical doctors. Individual medical doctors, who are good Joes, and don't have anything to do with their own associations. And they're the kind of slaves – that's right. We wrote a petition that said, "We do not feel that we are such expert healers that we should block all fields of healing, and we don't feel that we know all there is to know about healing. And that we are not presumptuous asses after all. And therefore we hereby do petition the Legislature and Parliament to soften their medical legislation and abolish the monopolistic appearance of the British Medical Association in Australia."

And these medicos, you know – Scientologists would walk up and say, "Would you please sign this petition?"

This medico, "What the-what – what the devil is this? What's this? Have we lost?" It's the kind of a document that you'd only sign if you had lost a war the hard way. Total surrender, see?

Of course, none of them signed them, but they turned around and cut their own association to ribbons. And when they found out their own association chiefs were using communist channels, they turned around and cut communism to ribbons. They chopped everything up.

And all of a sudden a very contrite government wrote us a letter and said, "Please, please, please! We're not going to put you under the Health Department. We're not going to do anything to you. You have a perfect right to practice, go away!"

I think party line in Australia now is "Don't say anything about Scientology." But you know, we haven't even heard them talking in general. We have learned something. We have learned that they are very afraid people and that they run. And all you have to say is, "Boo!"

The United States will always have in it people who will reason that you shouldn't fight the enemy. As a matter of fact, that's all I have to find fault with with generals and admirals. They won't let you fight. You see, to be a general or admiral, one has to get promoted, and to be promoted one must never do anything bad or wrong, and to never do anything bad or wrong you have to have good training from your mother. And mothers don't like you to fight. So all the generals and admirals are usually trained not to fight and not to let other people fight. And we win wars in spite of them. I've said, "Well, so, so they've sold out to the enemy. That's all right. Go ahead and fight."

And we keep winning wars. We can win wars in spite of the fact that we have generals and admirals and politicians. They're not the fellows who do 8 any of the fighting anyhow. Have you ever noticed one out with a tommy gun?

Have you ever? You ever seen them out fighting in the trenches? I never have.

I remember I used to say, "Well, it's a good thing all the admirals that we have are very experienced in our particular branch of warfare because their experience has taught us an awful lot, taught us an awful lot here in World War II, taught us an awful lot. All you have to do is read their orders and know what you should do: do the opposite."

It's a bitter war. There are always people in a country who will tell you not to fight the enemy. There are always people who will tell you that it's not nice to fight. These people also think it's not nice to win. But today across the world we are winning and not because we're not fighting.

You see, we're in the wonderful position of being able to run out the consequences of having attacked somebody – before we get the motivator.

Now, there's one very signal victory. That's a very calm, beautifully affluent, nonattacked area of the world right now, Australia is. Of course, you have to keep fighting for liberty or the right to do.

South Africa: I'll tell you more about South Africa. There's a wonderful example of this sort of thing. We're winning there.

Nineteen fifty-four, fifty-five, fifty-six, all American activities and Scientology were bitterly fought in England. But that's all passed away. That's passed away. There isn't – there isn't any fight left in the opposition. They had actually fixed it up so I couldn't really enter the country. And all sorts of weird things were in the files. And I finally got some members of the British Parliament to go through the immigration files and clean out all this nonsense planted in it. And they cleaned it all out. And after that they say, "You want to stay a year, stay a year. If you want to stay ten years, stay ten years. You're all right with us."

You can win. That was all commie pressure. In the early days here in America, we had a tremendous amount of trouble with communism. It's either communists cause trouble, or they want to cause trouble, or people at a level that cause trouble become communists. Whatever the answer is, we had trouble with them. We're not having any trouble with them now. They'd think a long time before anybody'd launch an attack against a Scientology organization in the United States. We have hit back so hard. We hit back so out of proportion to the amount we're attacked that we win. I'm not joking.

Constant and continual alertness is the price of freedom. Constant willingness to fight back is the price of freedom. There is no other price, actually. And we have stayed across the world a free organization. There isn't anybody we have to take our hats off to. Nobody.

The psychiatrists of any country are captives of that country. Do you realize that? The government brings in somebody and says, "Electric shock this fellow. He's politically unacceptable to us." They electric shock him. Why? Because most of those institutional posts are government-paid posts. Everybody would lose his job. You get the idea?

We are a free people. And we may be the last free people on Earth. I don't wish to exaggerate, but we very well may be. And in that particular role, we are winning – beyond your imagination. There are more people in HPA/HCA classes today. There are more people being processed than there ever were in the early sunburst days of Dianetics. It is enormously bigger. We have administrative and organizational networks of considerable size, effectiveness and magnitude. We are there. We have an office on every major continent on Earth and sometimes two. We are people now who are united clear across and all the way around this planet. We're not just Americans. There's hardly any Scientologist holds very heavily with supernationalism. After all, they've seen too much nationalism cause too many wars.

Scientology is not basically American. Too much work has been developed in England for it to remain exclusively American. Too much work, and too much activity has occurred elsewhere in the world for it to remain exclusively American. But nevertheless, it has an American impetus and a certain American coloration because this is where it was generated. You'll find the countries of Earth today are becoming Americanized to an enormous extent, in spite of the government. The only opposition, by the way, we had in Australia was the American Consul in Melbourne who was saying we weren't an American organization. He's since been removed.

In spite of the government, Americanism goes abroad. Today, California had better look to its laurels. California had better watch out. California has been complacently sitting there getting a swivel-chair spread. California has been sitting there enjoying its smog and holding its suspenders out, you know, and saying, "Well, we're something on a stick." They better watch out, there's a country called South Africa, that's got them taped. Better climate, more Americanization.

You'd be amazed today. Nineteen fifty-two, the commies were still fighting America very hard abroad. You'd go to a stage play or something like that, and you'd hear a lot of anti-American sentiments. Well, they resisted themselves into becoming Americanized. That's about all it amounts to. You don't hear these things now. Instead, why, you see the Buicks and the Fords. Ice cream sodas and iced Coca-cola. You see all the things that appertain to an American civilization. That's natural because we have a better civilization.

The world had an old civilization called the Roman civilization. It was the last, large export civilization. It was exported to the known world. Now we have a civilization that we are exporting to the known world. The English had for a while. And we actually have taken over their industrialized attitude and then we have reexported it, we've added new ruffles, and so forth. And we're exporting a civilization today.

That makes Scientology have lines to travel along, but it peculiarly enough hasn't any real nationalization color. It isn't colored by this nationalization. You'd be surprised how many accents I have heard Scientology vocabularies pronounced in. And you'd be amazed right now how many languages a model session has been translated into. And how many nationalities have their own ideas on the subject of which axiom is most important.

We are the largest – and this is the first time I can say this with honesty – we are the largest mental health organization on Earth. We have the longest communication lines, the most practitioners, the most people under treatment on Earth. We are the world's largest mental health organization.

That's pretty hard to believe, particularly with some of you chaps that were – have been right with it from the beginning, but it's nevertheless entirely true. What makes it true, of course, is all other organizations are national. They are small, they are compact and they are enslaved and they don't grow.

You add up our communication lines in Scientology and I don't know many – how many times they would go round and round the moon. I haven't any idea, but they are long, our communication lines are.

We get complaints about it too. America has no direct telex connection with South Africa. And HCO Washington has been batting its brains out while I've been down in South Africa. Has to go in through London. And there's more lines.

We own a tremendous amount of property. We own a tremendous amount of material, and so forth. And it keeps growing. But that's not important. When buildings get important to us, for God's sake, some of you born revolutionists, will you please blow up central headquarters. If someone had put some HE under the Vatican long ago, Catholicism might still be going. Don't get interested in real estate. Don't get interested in the masses of buildings, because that's not important.

What is important is how much service you can give the world and how much you can get done and how much better you can make things. These are important things. These are all that are important. A bank account never measured the worth of a man. His ability to help measured his worth and that's all. A bank account can assist one to help but where it ceases to do that it becomes useless.

When you're not well fed and you aren't enjoying your favorite breed of cat or something like this, why, maybe you're not in the frame of mind that gives the best possible service. So these things add into it too. You don't have to be a pauper in order to service things.

But it's true that we have considerable wealth around the world, but we are growing bigger. On our own initiative we are growing bigger. We are doing better. Our people are doing better. They are better looking. They know more. They are more effective people. All of these things add up. And now all of a sudden all of this is taking place without any change. You understand: this is taking place as a natural consequence of the general growth which began unevenly in 1950 and became rather smooth and gradual from 1956 on.

If we just left it at this, if we didn't do anything else at this level, and if we got no more results than we have gotten in the last few years, we would still make it in our lifetimes all the way around the world. Now, we've been aware of this for some time.

And look what I've gone and done. Look what I've done: in South Africa all of a sudden found a gimmick that turns a Central Organization on full blast; that puts thirty new people off the street a day into the reception room of the Central Organization. Add it up, thirty new people a day. Poor South Africa.

The organization down there had been running along like other Central Organizations. It'd been doing just fine in its own quiet way and had been solvent by working its Registrars to death, and so forth. Its technology was no better than it should have been. And then all of a sudden I throw the switch.

Now, look, I gave you warning. I gave you warning actually a year ago that I was going to throw the switch. I said the second we had it solved, that every case that walked in was processed perfectly by others than myself, everybody got gains, we had technical wins all the way and we're clearing right along the line – I said as soon as I was absolutely certain of that I was going to throw the switch.

All right, sometime in October of 1960, I became aware of the fact that we had it taped. The 1st Saint Hill ACC was moving cases up the line wholesale that had never moved before in years of processing. There were some of those cases that had never moved under processing. And we moved them. We had it taped right there.

And then I turned around and I went to that country on Earth which has been noted for its toughest cases: South Africa. And I went on an all-out research program, taking off from the data we had in the first Saint Hill, to fix it up so the HGC in South Africa would crack every case that came in, in the first few hours of processing. And I set it up, and in two-and-a-half months of research, obtained that goal, and it is now a fact!

So don't think – don't think you can upset me now with your case.

The eleven-year phase of building a better Bridge is ended. It is ended totally and for sure. More auditors have to be trained in this. But HGCs which have good 8-C from their Director of Processing are uniformly breaking every case that walks in the front door, regardless of the condition it's in and regardless of how close to Freud's totally failed case it is. We are cracking them all.

It is now, at this time, when we are capable of delivering a totality of service, that I am willing that that switch be thrown. And you wonder what's held us back all these eleven years. I have. That's right. You ask old Dick some time if I didn't tell him several years ago, "Well, Dick, when we can make it roll all the way across the boards with not a single technical slip, I'll be willing to let it roll. Until that time I have a very light foot on the accelerator." Because I can promote. I think you know that.

But look, it is not safe to let Registrars sell tremendous quantities of processing to people unless they are absolutely sure that they can get a result.

Now, sure, we've been getting results for years. We have been getting results, very worthwhile results. This is nothing to do – we're not kicking in the head the results you've been getting. But we also, here and there – and worse than here and there – we have been failing on certain cases. Let's admit it. After all, Freudian analysis never admitted it, and they failed on a 110 percent. They said there were certain cases they couldn't solve.

Let's be just as honest and say there are certain cases that we haven't been moving, that's all. They've just been too rough, and that's been going on for the last eleven years. There have been cases here and there that walk in – we got them all on the first Saint Hill. I never… I don't know if I ever told Dick and Jan this, but at the last moment on the first Saint Hill, I wanted every rough case I could get in England, so I said it required no down payment and no further payments to get in. And, of course, that brought in all the rough-rough cases. Now I tell you! We had all the tough ones, and we moved them all. That was heroic.

But it only takes a few failures to kill the impetus of any great forward drive. It only takes a few failures in an organization, or by an organization, or by its HGC, you see, to discourage it. Let's say it has a hundred wins and it has ten failures. Well, those ten failures still pile up.

You never saw anything as cocky right now as the Johannesburg HGC auditor. There are a tremendous number of auditors on that staff now, by the way. I've forgotten how many. I should have gotten some statistics of the last few weeks, how many pcs per week they're getting on there. I did it by the simple expedient of saying Mary Sue was going to run the HGC for a little while. And she did. And she did a terrific job as she always does. And she'd find mobs of pcs, you know – mobs of them! And it's up somewhere around thirty-four or thirty-nine pcs a week, something on this sort. You see, it's way up there.

And these auditors are getting insufferable. The HGC Assistant Admin came into my office the other day and said, "Well, Ron, when would you like some processing?" I never saw a man quite as cocky, you see. It was perfectly all right of him to offer me some processing but I took a look at him while he was doing this. A lot of auditors have offered me processing and I accept it. But I took a look at this boy and I thought, "My golly, there's what Freud would call a swollen id." They're insufferable.

Poor pc comes in and says, "I have worked for years to gather up these tremendous problems which are totally unsolvable."

And the auditor says, "Yes, yes. Okay. Now, let's see."

And the pc says, "And I have not been able to get along with my husband, and I'm a mystic, and I'll be able to sit here and worry you practically into your grave. Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha."

And the auditor says, "Well, that's good. Fine. Start!"

And there goes the case. There it goes! First few hours, it's on its road, that's it. These boys are doing it. Now, some of these fellows are field auditors who have just been pulled back on staff, have been briefed by the Training Officer of the HGC, and who have been sicked on to the pc, not even knowing what the tools could do, but knowing better than to shift that far off. They have in South Africa, what they call a sjambok. It's a little whip, rhinoceros hide, you know And they don't use a sjambok in the HGC, that's too mild. An auditor departs from routine, why, he's practically had it. They just hold these fellows right on routine, and all of a sudden the fellow gets this terrific certainty, see. Zoom! Here he goes! Well, we haven't worked with other Central Organizations, but they've been using these processes and they've been doing very, very well. But here's an example of a high concentration of it.

Now, it's safe to open that front door. Take them all, take them all. Because there are going to be no loses along the line. And if there are no loses along the line, what's that going to add up to? Look how much power we've won already on the fact that we could still have some loses.

It isn't clearing cases that has held us up. It's starting cases that has held us up. Getting cases started. If we get them started, we can clear them. Getting them started into stable gains, that's been our problem. And we can sweep them all up these days.

And I've turned on a new program down there that's bringing in thirty new people walking off the pavement a day into Scientology And that's an awful lot of people.

No, we've got dissemination solved. We have the administration end of it solved. We have, eleven years, have been digging our forward trenches and sinking in the concrete and getting ourselves ready to launch an assault. And even before we launch it, we find ourselves the largest mental health organization on Earth. I know, I've looked at the figures, and we are, right this minute. And we are a free organization, owing no allegiance to any government or financial or politically interested group. We're a totally free group.

Where do we go from here? If we've gone this far with occasionally broken weapons, with our own cases falling in, with various other things happening, without organizational know-how – if we've gone this far in this condition, how far are we going to go now? Well, I can tell you frankly, we're going to go all the way.

So here you are.

Some Scientologists don't like this. They don't like it because the old, exclusive club-tie atmosphere doesn't become the total atmosphere.

You also have this other atmosphere of the public storming up and saying, "I want some – what do you call it – processing. Um, when did Freud invent Scientology?" And some Scientologists, by the way, they look at this and they quail, because it's the raw public, you know, in droves, coming around for service; demanding it.

The old school tie, however, still obtains. I'll never forget the guys that have been with it for eleven years, because this is our show, isn't it? And I'm real happy to be able to announce to you that I decided to turn the switch, that we've got it licked technically, and we're over the hump, and we're away.

You can sit there complacently and be very comfortable and not have to believe it for the moment. It doesn't have to be real to you. I won't insist. But it's like the German soldier that was standing in a trench, and a Gurkha who had long knives during World War I came over and he swished at the German soldier's head and the German soldier said, "You missed me." And the Gurkha said, "Shake your head, Fritzie."

I'm afraid the reality of this will all too soon be upon us. You're just about to inherit this planet, whether you like it or not. I can only hope that you're in good enough shape to like it.

Thank you.