Thank you.

Now tell me something now. Did anybody get restimulated in that last lecture?

I either have an awfully efficient claque or you're very glad to see me.

Audience: Oh.

How are you?

Look, I'm terribly sorry. I'm very, very sorry. I didn't really mean for you to. The kindest thing - the kindest thing to do would just be to leave the subject alone after that, wouldn't it? Huh?

Audience: Fine.

Audience: No.

Female voice: How are you?

Male voice: Keep your process going.

Oh, I'm jet happy. Actually, during the last thirty days I have covered more space - during the last sixty days I have out - Columbused Columbus and out - Magellaned Magellan. Except I didn't discover very much terrestrially, that is.

I've just been accused here of a breach of the Auditor's Code unless I continue to talk about this. Want to hear some more about this?

Well, I'm awfully glad you're here for this congress. I'm very glad to have the opportunity to talk to you, because, believe me, this is going to be a congress. I'm sorry to have to tell you that, but postulates are working lately, so I might as well postulate that one, huh?

Audience: Sure. Yes.

Well, you never saw quite so much happen since has happened last July. There's been a tremendous jump forward, and if you think there's ever been a technological breakthrough, you ought to look at this one. Now, you'll be glad you came to this congress, just as I'm glad you're here so that I could tell you about this, because we got it licked.

All right. You're for it. You're for it - overts and withholds. How does a thetan get less space? It is a very simple mechanism. He does something which he thereafter can't do again because he mustn't, so he withholds it. And once upon a time he could reach clear out to infinity, couldn't he? And then he reached clear out to infinity and decided he had done something that he shouldn't ought to do again. You know, reach for the jam pot - „Better not do that again.“ So after that he withholds reaching for the jam pot. Right?

Every once in a while I tell you, „This is it.“ Well, that's - and always before it's applied to a few of you. But you know something? I am getting so much fun out of auditing lately I can hardly keep my hands off cases. That's a fact. I mean, I can just hardly keep my cotton-picking hands off of them. It's - requires self-control.

Well now, he continues to withhold reaching for the jam pot from there on out. So then he does something else that he shouldn't have „overted,“ and when he did that he then realized that he should not have done that so he doesn't reach in that direction anymore, does he? He withholds! He not only does not reach - that's what we kind of thought, you see, that he just really didn't reach anymore in that direction. Oh no, that isn't what he does. He withholds from reaching in that direction. So then he does something else that he says, „I shouldn't have done that,“ and he withholds from reaching.

I see somebody limping along, you know, saying, „I'm Clear, I'm Clear,“ you know? And I say, „Rurfff! Sit down in that chair. Ha-ha, ha-ha. Ha, ha, ha. Hhhh. Pick up those cans. Ha-ha, ha-ha, ha. Now! Oh! 6.5 on the tone arm. Ha-ha-ha, ha-ha.“

„I'm blind! Oh well, let's see, now, if I get some auditing - if I get some auditing, well, I don't necessarily have to give up any of these withholds because I'm dangerous. But I will just sit there and the auditor will audit me. And if he audits me, why, somehow or other, mysteriously... Let's see, without my ever reaching again in any of these directions, and if I continue to withhold real hard, so as not to damage the auditor, I'll get Clear. Ouch!“

„Well,“ he says, „I am this way in the morning.“ „Usually,“ he says, „I go down throughout the day.“ And then I restrain myself, keep my blast gun in its holster and make myself agreeable and ask the proper questions. And that's one more case chalked off.

Now, that's the state he's in. That is a pc. And we can laugh because we have the solution. But until this time it was „Don't cheer, boys, the poor devils are dying.“ Get the idea? Well, we can laugh because it's ridiculous.

Well now, I'm not going to do it two and a half billion times. That's where you come in. Now, I know that there are some good people have come here who have never looked at Scientology before. I'm always told with some horror by an auditor who has just brought some people to a congress that he had two people with him who had never heard of it before and would I please be just a little less technical. And I'm always happy to be just a little bit less technical. But what was the matter with him that he didn't get them in?

Some of the things which people are withholding are incredibly stupid.

But you good people that are here, who have never really taken much of a look at Scientology before, why, we'll try to keep you filled in and we'll try to take it easy on you. But that doesn't mean you don't have to do the Group Processing I'm going to give in these next three days. Because I'm going to group process you a couple of hours the next three days, if that's all right with you. So don't feel exonerated. Just because you don't know anything about Scientology doesn't mean your case is untouchable.

Now, when I made the last lecture there were several people present - some of those in the back were saved because the PA system was down slightly and they didn't hear too well. But, most of the things that went through your mind that you were withholding appeared to be pretty darned big with a kind of a reservation on the tail end of it, „Well, it's really not so big. I could probably tell an auditor. But of course, I won't have to but I've got to, but I won't have to because, of course - no, I ... There was a fellow I knew once down in Tucson that was very sympathetic. I might be able to tell him. Um, he couldn't hear good. Now, let's see, just how would I go about doing this so as not to injure my reputation?“

I've just been out with the untouchables and they can be processed, too. I almost said „processed,“ you know? You know, that's probably the biggest problem we have in Scientology, is keeping this word „process“ straight. I get into the sterling areas you know and it's „processed,“ and I get over to the US and it's „processed,“ you know? And I get confused about the whole thing, so I'm not going to talk American or English; I'm just going to speak language, if it's all right with you.

Well, this is how we have failed to have as much third dynamic in Scientology as we could have. Because it's that reservation of „Who could I tell?“ which withholds one's total participation. That reservation of „I mustn't tell anybody ever anything,“ of course, just eventually separated one out. That just took him out, not only of Scientology but took him out of the human race.

Male voice: Okay.

Now, this is not a comment upon your particular overt or withhold. I say that seriously; it's not. But the same mechanism that you looked at with regard to who you could tell what to - that same mechanism, blown up Lord knows how large - is the criminal. I'm not trying to link you on the same chain in any way, but I'm just trying to show you, you can get a subjective reality on what this boy is all about when you realize that he has totally withheld to such a degree that he isn't at all. And he has assumed a total uncontrolled valence, or a false beingness over which nobody or anything has any control of any kind whatsoever and has moved out into this, and it just fires off automatically. See? He isn't there; he's withheld himself right out of the human race, you see? But he has this valence, or this false beingness, which he says is a self - that's not your little thing of being in Mama's valence or Papa's valence or - this is really out - outside of any livingness. He's dead! But there's this animated structure that kind of fires off on a stimulus-response. See, he's withheld himself right straight out of the human race.

Well sir, we turned on some beautiful weather for you here. Took a little doing - took a little doing, took a little pull, but we made it. Understand you even had a white Christmas in Washington, and you certainly had one up to the north, didn't you?

He has no responsibility on any dynamic for anything. Therefore it doesn't matter what he does, and any stimuli gets any response. And there's a gold fountain pen lying there and it just leaps of its own accord into his pocket. And there's a car there with a key in the ignition and obviously key in the ignition means drive the car; he just drives it.

Audience: Yeah. Oh.

Now look, this fellow got there from punishment. And you in Scientology have been absolutely right: Punishment never got anybody anyplace. He got there because of enforced withholds, and these enforced withholds wound up eventually into putting every action he did on total automatic, and putting every action on total automatic, then there is no such thing as right or wrong or criminal or good or anything else. He becomes an automatic mechanism which just robots through life doing criminal actions. And you're going to punish this man? You're going to punish him into being good?

Well, we try to oblige. Try to oblige.

Oh no. There's only one way that that could work, and there isn't a police force in the world capable of enough violence or overts to make it workable and it's not workable anyhow because we just keep picking him up in the next life. And that's „Wherever he's found, kill him!“ You see, but that's just more of this, isn't it? And that was a stopgap.

Of course, things don't run always perfectly in this universe - not always perfectly. There are occasional little slips. You hear the grate of the cog-wheels, you know, and the - sort of an arcing spark over here in one of the capacitors once in a while, but just ignore it, just ignore it. Because I assure you it's all for the best in this best of all possible universes. It's all been planned.

So it was either total savagery and remove it all to the next generation, or it was be effective. And as far as criminality is concerned we're in the position right today to be effective. And it's the first time anybody has been effective.

And it was my great pleasure to process the fellow who drew up the plan for the Ice Cube and Fac One. Did that recently. I'm having lots of adventures. He felt bad about it. The same fellow was on duty at Jerusalem when Rome decided to lay aside its policies and persecute the Christians. How's that for fate? These guys just seem to get themselves in the right spot at the right time.

There's - nothing is going to work of any kind whatsoever with regard to this particular personality but rehabilitation as a human being and put him back in the human race because a human race can't run with a lot of nonhuman robots roving around in its midst!

Well - also have had some other adventures - found Karl Marx, for instance.

Now, that is the extreme - that and of course the insane and of course the official that goes to war because his diplomacy has stunk for ages. These criminals, these insane, cannot be handled by any mechanism the society has available except what we know. And we have just gotten to a point where we can handle this.

Female voice: You did?

That gives you some sort of an idea of how far man was into the dark ages with regard to justice. But it tells you that somewhere along the line, a halt has to be halted on this subject of the automatic, self-firing personality that has no responsibility or [of] any kind on any dynamic. It makes one's flesh crawl to realize that such a person might wander in toward the automatic push button which sets off all of the guided missiles. Because basically when he's gone down into a personality of this character, the only thing he can do is confuse and destroy. Those are the last abilities of a person; the last abilities are confusion and destruction. When you see a criminal, that's what's going to happen in his vicinity: confusion and destruction.

Yeah. He's sorry, too! As a matter of fact, Karl Marx gave me a signed confession; runs briefly to the effect: „To L. Ron Hubbard: I shouldn't have done it. I will do everything possible to undo it. Give me a break. Signed, Karl Marx.“ It's quite remarkably Karl Marx's signature, too.

There's all kinds of interesting automatic-firing mechanisms in a criminal intelligence. Something like this: „Oh, I will be good. I have now learned my lesson. I will now be better and I will go straight.“ That's just an automatic-firing mechanism; it has nothing to do with it. See? You just push the proper button and it says, „I will now be good. I will now go straight. Oh, please do not punish me anymore because I am now going good and going straight.“ You see?

But anyway, there's lots been doing lately and there's lots of road ahead. If there's ever been a point where we jumped off this is it. You know, we jumped off in 1950 - something on the order of the Christians going into the Roman arena. And those psychiatrists were very hungry lions; they were very hungry, very hungry - very proud, very proud lions, beating their paws against their somewhat mangy chests, saying, „We are the bosses of this here arena.“ That's what they thought.

So we all say, „Well, let's give him another chance. After all, he has admitted his guilt.“

And today I hope that you will get information which will permit, in another year, a Scientologist to say, „Scientology processes more psychiatrists in any given year than any other psychotherapy.“ That'd be fun, wouldn't it? Nice ad in The Saturday Evening Post.

What's admitted his guilt? What has? What little robot-gimmick machinery fired off and admitted guilt? It's just another gimmick.

Male voice: They said it couldn't be done.

Now, the person, of course, will put up some kind of a semblance of being auditable. And you've run into such a case. It evidently is auditable, goes through some sort of a propitiation, gets no better; is auditable, goes through a propitiation, gets no better. Of course, it was never auditable in the first place.

Yes, that's right.

Why? Because there was nothing there to be causative. You had to find that tiny entering point of the individual where the person could be cause and increase that point up to a point where you had a person there. That's a long road.

But with all of the stumbling around that we have done together, we've made a lot of progress even so, even so, Actually, if we hadn't done all the stumbling around that we did, we wouldn't be able to kick off now onto a resolution of cases 1, 2, 3, 4. Tremendous amount of technology had to be known. A tremendous amount of this, that and the other thing had to be dug up, exhumed, laid out. Fortunately, it didn't stay laid out, it came to life. And wherever we have erred and strayed away from the levels of perfect effectiveness we have at least erred in good faith. And similarly, why, I've been the first to correct the errors. As soon as I found one come up, why, I'd correct it in an awful hurry.

Now, you compare the things you thought about when I was giving the last lecture to that extreme case and you see you haven't gone very far down the line. Just look it over. You know what you're doing. You know right from wrong. You can still feel. You do make some progress in auditing, great or small, so you're not even in an extreme extremis of cases. All anybody here would be hanging up on would be some little gimmick like making a pass in the wrong direction at the wrong time. Seemed like a good idea at the time, but... Or maybe signing more checks than one had money in the bank. Something stupid, something minor.

Now, some of you are under the delusion that 1960 has arrived. And I imagine some of you were traitorous enough in the last twenty-four hours to wish people „Happy New Year“ to take place at midnight last night. And you shouldn't have done that. You shouldn't have done that for this reason: is New Year's begins at the end of the congress. And it always has and always will.

But minor, mind you, out in the broad perimeter of life. And don't think for a moment that I think you think it's minor. You don't think its minor. See, you say, „Oh, I don't know. Looks pretty big to me.“ Yeah, well, that's right.

Well, we've had ten years here, and we've kicked off the decade of 1950 and I think perhaps when history rolls around and they begin to write down all the lies, they won't be able to avoid something. They can talk about lutniks and sputniks and all that sort of thing as having happened in this last decade but there was something else happened a little more important than that: is man got his first toehold on the path to freedom, and I think that was important to man. I think it was a lot more important to man, by the way - not blowing our own horn or anything like that - it was a lot more important than having a piece of iron go gallygagging around the moon, because there's pieces of iron been going around the moon for a long time.

You know, man is basically good. And you know that's his difficulty. That's what's wrong with him.

Well, we've had quite a decade here, haven't we? We've been over the jumps and around the tight curves and so on, and some of us look a little bit older, but not much. Some of us may look a little older but we feel a lot younger I think that's definitely the case. Some of us wish we'd had more processing in this last decade, but this is a time to wipe out all the regrets. Why regret the 50s? We can find what there is to applaud in them and let the rest go by the boards.

I followed this thing down - I followed this thing down a long distance, and almost wept when I finally discovered that the fellow was withholding himself because he didn't want to do harm to others.

It was a rather dull decade actually as far as the world at large was concerned. Nothing much happened. Except us - we happened. And for ten years, why, we've been holding the fort, driving people into apathy because we were still here. It's a very, very bad thing, I realize, to drive people down as deeply into apathy as we have driven people into apathy about this fact, but I think it's a matter of annual congratulations on the part of a great many people throughout the world that they have finally finished off Dianetics or Scientology. And they congratulate themselves to this effect, and then they wake up to a new year and we're still here.

Society has believed that man withheld himself because he was afraid he would be punished. But when we examine that a man can only be cause - you'll have to examine that one in your spare time. It is too incredible to be - embrace in a single gasp. Nothing can be done to you. Honest. And when we examine it in that light, we must then realize that a man is withholding himself not because of fear of what will be done to him - that he is just excusing things with. He's just paying a breath to this, he's just saying, „Well, that's the way it is. That's why I am doing this. If I steal a car I'll be punished, and therefore I won't steal any more cars.”

And lately it's been dawning - it's been dawning upon people - that we're not only just here but we're apparently multiplying at a greater rate than we should be multiplying. And that, of course, is the point that drives them into utter apathy.

And the cops go on the basis that if they catch a kid early enough, why; he ceases to be a criminal and, you know, and he won't steal any more cars if he has been scared. And even some of you have gone for this philosophy. I found the kid later on, you see, and it hasn't done anything. It just made him be more vocal on the subject, you see?

The only crimes that you can commit in this universe, as you know, is being there and communicating. Those are the two crimes of the universe. Did you realize that? There are only two crimes: being there and communicating.

Now, if he's brought to a position where he himself on his own volunteering cannot withhold anymore - you see, he - when he himself can no longer withhold, he's out of control.

Look it over for a moment, you'll find out that the only thing the police want to know is, „Were you there?“ If you weren't there, you weren't guilty. And the other one is communicating. If you think of all the numbers of people that are guilty of crimes of omission - the tremendous numbers of people that are guilty of crimes of omission who get by with it, you know? They just go right on along the line, you know, guilty as can be, and nobody ever says a word. But if they actually said something or fired something or threw something or something like that, why, then they were guilty. So that is the crime of communicating.

Now, we get this very interesting regimen here: It's the ability to selectively and knowingly withhold that we are rehabilitating. We're not trying to shake everybody down for all of his secrets. Different look, isn't it?

So being there and communicating was probably all you were ever punished for when you were a little kid. Didn't much matter what you communicated. You probably found out that if you didn't communicate anything, people overlooked it. Haven't you noticed that? That's practically the total training of a US general. He's not supposed to be there and he's not supposed to communicate, and if he does nothing, why, he'll make it. That isn't said bitterly; it's just said as a comment on a passé, decadent civilization that has fallen away from us.

When a person is no longer able to withhold he is no longer able to be good, so he just abandons himself into a total degradation, and says, „Well, I'm - I'm just no good. I'm...”

But wherever - wherever you see - wherever you see a piece of land on a map these days, you find Scientology. That's a rather interesting fact. I'll give you a demonstration of that a little bit later in this congress, because it's worth demonstrating - very, very well worth demonstrating.

I ran into a criminal one time - I think it was in Wichita (I was processing him; he had a paralyzed left side) - he was no longer able to withhold his primary dramatization which was to beat up fellows in alleys and take their money. He'd find a fellow near an alley or in a room, he'd beat him up and take his money. He couldn't do anything else. He had even gone to a point of paralyzing one whole side of his body to keep from doing it, and it still hadn't worked! So, he'd just abandoned the whole thing, and he'd just given it all up and gone over into synthetic valences and wasn't there anymore, wasn't accountable, couldn't be responsible for it, anything of the sort; he was a criminal.

We're doing very, very well.

All right. So, man is basically good.

Now, of course, the United States has a slight insularity. It's an isolationism that it should have maintained perhaps - 1914 and other times - perhaps it should have maintained this isolationism. But not having maintained it, now is not the time to maintain it. Do you follow me? I mean, having communicated, the US has to follow through.

Now, somebody comes along and teaches him what being good is. That's quite a trick. The only moral codes you have in Scientology have to do with auditing, and that's a technically moral code if you want to put it that way. If you don't audit that way, auditing doesn't occur.

The United States today has international obligations greater than that of any other nation on Earth and someday will find out about them. From the Sunday-Monday line to the Sunday-Monday line, all the way around the world, you see the American civilization going out as a vanguard to American activity.

But please call to my attention my own words if I ever, in some lapse of God-'elp-us, write a moral code of what being good consists of: step A, B, C, D. Get the idea?

Last time I was in Australia it was an English colony, an English possession. It's not now! Buicks, ice-cream cones, so forth - it's an American possession. It is! Frankly, it's an American area. And the Australian is not unaware of this fact.

People really start skidding when they go up mounts and get the hot dope out of the lightning zoks. Because whenever you run into a moral code you run into violations of it as a code. „Honor thy father and thy mother.“ Well, that's all right. That's a nice thought. That's sweet. But unless it's accompanied with „Honor thy children,“ it's a stuck flow. Doesn't work! It's not something that can be broadly applied. That's the frailty of a moral code.

Now, the last time I had correspondence with Australians was just after the last war and they were still very resentful of all the Yanks that had been down there. So this time when I was in Australia I said, „Well, you know, I - I'm an American and...“

For instance, somebody says, „Thou shalt not kill.“ Great, You like steak? Well? Do you like steak?

„Oh, you are?“

Audience: Yes.

And I said, „Well, I know you boys were pretty well beaten in by all the troops that were here, you know, and - during the war“

All right, thou shalt kill then. Oh, but they say, „Well, they didn't mean that.“ Oh yeah, that's the trouble. with these moral codes: They just didn't mean that. They didn't mean it, you know? There's differences. There's variations.

„Yeah, we sure needed them! We sure needed them.“ Well, this was a different tone of voice than I had been hearing before. „Yeah, a great people, the Americans.“

You say, „Well, thy - thou shalt not kill thy feller human beings.“

And then I started looking around and I found American methodology operating their airlines and Buick cars on the roads, and American architecture - which, by the way, I didn't realize was American architecture till I got back here. You keep changing it, you know? They're right up to date.

„Oh, that's what you mean? Oh, 'You shalt not kill thy fellow human beings.' All right,“

And everywhere you look in Australia, why, you see American merchandising, American stores, American the rest of it. And just recently they lifted all of their trade barriers for America and left them in for England. Mm! And cut out - within the last thirty days - cut out American currency-exchange restrictions making it probably the only area in the sterling area that is now - will inevitably go totally dollar.

„Attention! Squads east! Squads west! To the rear hup! To the rear hup! To the rear hup! Here's a gun. Ready on the right. Ready on the left. Ready on the firing line. Fire! It's patriotic, son.“

No, America is conquering the world and hasn't found out about it yet. It's quite remarkable Quite remarkable There's so much to do here in America and there's so much doing and there's so much activity and so on that nobody looks around and finds out that Gregory Peck and some others have been plowing a pioneer trail.

„Yeah, but how about this thing 'Thou shalt not kill'?“

For instance, I was a judge in ... It's very interesting but East Grinstead, Sussex, doesn't quite understand why I can't vote in England. They're having a hard time understanding that. They don't believe it, you know? They think I'm kidding them or something of the sort. And I had not yet been elected as chairman of the county council - not yet But if I'm not careful I will be.

„Well, they were Japs.“

There are two reasons for this: one is the HCQ WW's headquarters, of course, is a very beautiful old manor house, and has to a large degree dominated the politics and so forth of the area for centuries. So it's a grooved communication line.

„Oh, Japs? They're not human beings then?“

But much more interesting is the fact that an American is supposed to know all about everything. So I get drafted for the Road Safety Council. They really didn't know what they were letting themselves in for. And as soon as they drafted me for the Road Safety Council, what was the next thing they did? They made me road safety organizer. Well, he's the fellow who dreams up and executes all the programs while the rest of the committee sits there, you see? That's pretty dangerous.

„No, Yes. No. Yes.“

Old Burke Belknap, years ago, developed a test which you have today as the Aptitude Test. Well, that's a total swindle, that title. I'm not responsible for the swindle, Belknap is. No responsibility for that.

Now look, every time you lay down one of these broad ones whereby you have a code that says, „Thou shalt not“ and „Thou shalt“ and „Thou shalt not“ and „Thou shalt“ and „Thou shalt not“ then the shalts become shalt-nots and the shalt-nots become shalts until all of a sudden everybody goes adrift, and „being good“ is the equivalent of being, oh, I don't know, a Turk pirate, or an archbishop, or almost any pursuit of lower activities.

[Burke Belknap: An early Dianeticist and auditor. He was on the first professional course for auditors given in 1950. - From the glossary included with the transcript.]

Now, you have a problem just in this one fact: the interpretation of what being good is. And I think it was Dianetics that first laid this down. Now, this happens to be a fairly workable one, providing you don't work at it so hard day and night that it wears your wits out. And that is: Good would be the greatest benefit for the greatest number of dynamics involved in any given situation, in other words, the optimum solution. The greatest good for the greatest number of dynamics. Now, we've known that for a very long time.

And Belknap (with some tiny assistance from around about the place) dreamed up something that demonstrated an auto accident-prone in order to turn this over to the Arizona Highway Patrol and make them test everybody in the - in the place that came in for a driver's license. And it would show up at once the fellow that was going to have an accident. And that's your Aptitude Test. And the whole thing is based on just that. If you notice, it speaks of cars right in the beginning of it.

Well, you can work your way through on this sometimes and you can kind of make yourself come out right when you shouldn't occasionally, but the greatest good for the greatest number of dynamics.

Well, that Aptitude Test has been - just been sitting there waiting to fire for years. And all of a sudden a safety committee says, „Wouldn't you like to be a member?“

I remember vividly hanging whirling dervishes just as fast as I could get my hands on whirling dervishes. Any time in the Middle East that you were trying to get going on some kind of a military expedition, out of the desert would come the whirling dervishes, and they would say to your troops, „Lie down. Go away. Skip it. After all you are now attacking the bloodline ruler of the prophet Buluhya,“ and so forth. And - in other words, you were just dealing with a bunch of lousy spies or something of the sort, so you'd just hang the whirling dervishes.

And I said, „Well, ahem, upon my soul, ahem, ahem, ahem, ahem, well, ahem, rather, ahem, civic duty, ahem,“ and accepted, you see?

Well, that's an overt act, basically, unless you realize that if you let the whirling dervishes come in and disrupt your troops, then the order and discipline of the entire area and district that you were associated with would just go by the boards and some king, satrap, sultan, Lord knows what, that had usurped some power and he was busy killing people as fast as he could exercise his eunuchs and so forth, you know, just execute, execute, execute, execute, execute, you know, tax, tax, tax, tax, disrupt all the trade. Those boys used to have a wonderful idea: They thought government consisted of taxing everybody all the time of everything they had. I don't know. I don't think any governments since that time have had that idea. But they totally lost the idea of what a government was. And a government was - is simply and totally a body of men working for the public good, and serving the public. And they kind of miss that one, you know? They get elected, you know, and they think somebody elected them to be somebody. No, they elected them to serve the rest of them. They don't get that idea very well, and it kind of drops out of sight every now and then and you have to punch it back up and put it back in line again.

And for the next few months, I can tell you in confidence, why, we'll just run a standard American safety program. Now, they put me in there, because as an American I, of course, know everything to know about road safety because America has more accidents - no, that's ...

But all right, if you didn't kill the whirling dervishes, you didn't have any troops and the whole district was upset, and all of a sudden the men, women, children were all starving to death and the trade was stopped and everything had gone boom. So, did you kill whirling dervishes or didn't you? See, was it an overt act, or it wasn't.

So what they did was buy Americanism. But they're going to get Scientology in six or eight months, because I'll start persuading the traffic division to administer this Aptitude Test. And as soon as we've collected some statistics, we will demonstrate conclusively, you see, that if you test them before you license them, you pick out the people that are going to have an accident and then you don't have accidents. And when we get all the figures compiled, then we will see that it gets to have the force of law in England and then we can point out to the United States that England, the pioneer of all such things... And one fine day, why, you'll have the Aptitude Test being administered in the United States before anybody grants a license.

Well, obviously it couldn't have been an overt act but at the same time it was an overt act. Get the idea?

These things are rather devious, but they're - we're straighter than most deviousnesses.

But you had to figure it out on the optimum solution. Was it more harmful to the greater number of dynamics to get rid of this particular set of whirling dervishes than not to get rid of them? And you acted accordingly.

But anyway, you would be utterly amazed at how American civilization is spreading out across the Earth - and it is American civilization - and how it is less and less resented, less and less resisted.

Now, every time you have done that, you've come out all right. See, you haven't had anything to worry about when you did that. So, you said, „Well, that was in the line of duty and that was the way I was supposed to do it. And I did it!“ Ah, it's the things that you did and then you said, „Oh, I didn't do that. I'm - does bad. I regret it. Wish I hadn't done that. Don't know what was the matter with me. Didn't have anything to do with the dynamics.“ Get the idea? Those things are the overt acts.

There was a time when people were saying, „Well, that's - that's the way it ought to be done, you know, because that's the way we've done it here in Northern Ireland for the last begorra and begods, so that's the way it should be done.“ No, they wouldn't say that now. They'd say, „Well, unless there's an American system that has improved on this, we will do it our way.“ That's kind of the way it goes.

And, boy, they are so hidden! They are so hidden! A person absolutely buries some of these things so deep that although he knew about them all the time - he's walking along the street and he says, „Well, got a clean conscience. I've told all. I told my auditor about Ruth. Henry. I told the auditor about that bank thing. I told the auditor about what I did to that cat when I was a little boy. I told the auditor about, yes, stealing the apples from the old lady. You know? Yeah, should feel a lot better than I do feel but... Let's see, and I told the auditor about - oh, yes, told the auditor about being nasty to my mother, and putting the bucket of soapsuds all over the back steps so that she'd slip and fall.”

Now, in this country, why, we're educated to some degree to believe that Russia is doing something or is reaching someone or is - has something to do with the world at large. And they do have a certain philosophy that appeals to the have-nots, and are quite popular in Asia, but the only reason Americanism isn't spreading into Asia is somebody dropped an iron curtain. I don't know who dropped the iron curtain, but it wasn't the Russki. He didn't have strength enough to even drop a flatiron.

„Yeah, I'm pretty cleaned up. Scientology doesn't work very good; I just don't feel very good. Something wrong here. But I've told him everything anyhow. I've done what Ron said had to be done. And there's nothing else.”

But it's rather a shame that there are certain parts of Earth that aren't getting a treat of this tremendous bath of popcorn, Coca-Cola and so forth. But it's only those areas that our State Department has determined shouldn't have it. We're cause with regard to this.

„Oh, no! No. Oh well, that - that was just one of those things, and there wasn't anything you could do about it and... Well, I just wasn't myself. Just wasn't myself. That's what that was. No need to tell him about it because - just upset him.”

Now, the Russian - the Russian can only confuse things, and that's his specialty, and he doesn't really have any other specialty. I hate to have to be that blunt about it, but he can go in and deprave, confuse, upset and mess up something. And on a higher technical level, where he devotes a tremendous amount of slave labor and dedication, all mixed up together and confused, to some project, he can get rid of some technological wonderworld thing. But his civilization is so starved today that he has to take new countries in order to feed his own country.

„Just upset him. That's right. Just upset him. Well, I'll just tell myself about it.”

The poor Russian is more to be pitied than censured, because you make anybody hungry enough and he's liable to do almost anything. Did you see that after his visit to the United States that Khrushchev said, bluntly and flatly, that he would even go to the devil to arrange dollar credits, and therefore had been to the United States. Did you see that?

„I'm - funny, like I - I kind of knew about that all the time, but I just never seemed to call it to mind. You know, and I wonder why I didn't call it to mind. It seems to be very peculiar.”

You almost never get any European news in America because your outflow from America is so great abroad that there's hardly anything can get back over the lines.

„Well, it's probably something that was done to me way back in the past, and therefore I did it then and it probably is so far out of my perimeter of behavior that I don't have to worry about it. God, I've got a headache!”

But Khrushchev wanted credit. He wanted food, and he wanted various things to try to straighten out the mishmash that communism has made out of their own civilization. And if - unless somebody gets knuckleheaded and keeps on talking about war and the necessities of war and how if you don't have war you don't promote enough generals, or whatever other reason they have wars for. I've studied this very carefully, and I find out that it's normally a matter of numerical order of promotion that causes war. I think that's probably the most fundamental, reasonable, logical reason why we have wars. Because, you see, they get their orders of seniority mixed up, you know? And in a war they can expand their promotion lists, and it permits them to straighten it all out. You get the idea? I think that's about it. I looked into it - looked into it.

„Well, anyhow I've - that didn't have very much to do with me so we don't have to do anything about that one. Now, I've done everything Ron said, so now I should get Clear pretty soon. Well, maybe I'll feel better about it next session!”

Of course, I'm no student of international affairs. If I were a student of international affairs I would have been locked up a long time ago.

„Now, how the devil did I ever get into such a thing anyhow, you know? Could that have been I? Could that have been me that did that? No, that couldn't have been me. You know, I think I'm dreaming the whole thing up! Oh, I'll tell him, Ah, that makes me feel - oh, Christ! I can't tell him!“

But American - the American civilization today is taking Earth. And you'd never find out about it reading your newspapers in this country. You just never would find out about it. It's - you have to scatter around the world to take a look at this oddity. Once upon a time, why, there were various manners and customs. And about the only thing that has remained are certain things that are unmistakably French. These French things have remained. But otherwise, hardly anything else is stable.

That's the one! That's the one that's going to get you. But just go on and ruin your reputation. Throw yourself on the pikes and skip it!

The French do certain things, you know? They set tables in a certain way. Did you know that? You know, they set tables in an exact way, and they're the people that are responsible for your getting that number of spoons, knives, forks and plates and glasses in front of your plate - See, I don't know if you realized that. It's a great contribution.

Now, what's the keynote - what's the keynote - we'll talk about this later in the congress but what's actually the keynote of such an experience?

I remember when we first trained them to do it in Paris I remember when we first trained them to do it there in Paris, and they said, „This will be a great contribution.“ They've been contributing it ever since.

This is badly stated because we have too many connotations for the word responsibility, and the only reason we can do this trick flow is because I finally have found out the exact anatomy of what responsibility is and we can run it in other terms, much better terms that preclears respond to very rapidly and come up the line. Because you've run responsibility on a lot of preclears and they didn't go anyplace. Well, that's just because they thought responsibility was something else. Well, I've had to be able to get exactly what definition of responsibility works as a process. That was the trick.

But aside from little oddities of that character which Americanisms have. imbibed, and aside from the fact that all the food in Amenca is really Spanish ... That's right, American cuisine is Spanish cooking, did you know that? Great oddity Just like all American cowboy gear is Spanish. We've borrowed from various civilizations here or there, but when it all gets put together and they really want to get the show on the road, it's an Americanism. You see the difference?

But it's a matter, shall we say, basically of responsibility. And the things a person couldn't take responsibility for are, of course, the things that are most alien to him. And he does something, he can't take responsibility for it and he doesn't know what the devil got into him, lie can't take responsibility for it but he did it, but he didn't do it, but he did it, but he didn't do it but he couldn't have done it! And that's inevitably an overt act. And one of the things he can't tell you is what it's an overt act against.

Once it's all put together, packaged, a going concern, and somebody is doing something about it, it's an Americanism.

You say, „All right. Which one of the dynamics or which person is this thing you've done, an overt act against?“

Now, you wonder why I'd spend so much time abroad. Well, you could censure me for that. You could if you wished, because it's a little bit reprehensible of my - on my part to put in as much time outside the borders of the United States as I have put in in the last ten years. But there's a good reason for it, as you should realize. And that is, with as much arms and ammunition drifting around, as much atomic fission and other things in the offing, the ability to govern must be supported and must be spread around. And you cannot govern people unless people are governable.

„Oh, well, nobody really. Myself possibly. Nobody else. I'm the one that suffered for it. Nobody else.“

They've been trying to give people down in the Cameroons here for some time some independence. Have you noticed that? Every time they say „independence,“ the people in the Cameroons, they kill off another thirty or forty natives. There are some five thousand people have been killed in the Cameroons just trying to establish civilization in the Cameroons, because nobody ever started at a basic, which is to have somebody there to give civilization to. That's been neglected. They took people who were totally dedicated to certain tribal procedures, took those people and said, „You're free.“

And that's just the whole thing. He just can't even fit these things to the dynamics. It's a missingness of responsibility. There has to be a certain amount of responsibility present to have memory.

And they said, „Free. Free? Free. Ah! You mean there's no police anymore.“ Boom! Boom!

Now, identity is one of the big clues to all of this. Responsibilities on identity is a tremendous process. This is - this is a - this is one of the great processes, if run right. But when you no longer feel responsibility for a person you have been and now are not, you of course forget him or her That person is no longer extant, even in memory, because one is no longer responsible.

America - America actually has - aside from ourselves - has very little cultural message to offer the world. And we're grooving that down.

The unreality one runs into on the whole track. And these people that just say, „Live before? No, I've never lived before. I can't get the slightest idea of any past lives. I never lived before. I have no reality on it. I'll tell you intellectually I have had people and even preclears that have told me that they have lived before. And for the benefit of the auditing and the case, why, I will take it for granted that they have lived before. But not for me. I mean, after all, I've just...“

Now we can spend some time on America. We're going to look around the country now and see if we can't find a proper place for a central headquarters. I haven't much hope that we will find one immediately and exactly, but that is one of the things which I have got to do here before the middle of summer Got to find a little better locale and straighten the thing up and so forth where - that can handle a little traffic. Washington can handle quite a bit of traffic, but not nearly as much as the traffic you're going to get on the back of your neck.

You're just looking at a terrific lack of responsibility on identities. That's all. And the second you improve responsibility for identity this person's whole track memory turns on. That's what's got us into whole track in the first place, you know?

Now, therefore, it's necessary that we arrange our own communication lines. You possibly think that one nation can live alone. Well, it can't. Or that one race can live alone, but it can't. Or that one person can live alone, but he can't.

Just as a side note, I was getting - I was getting amnesia. I couldn't remember some places. You know, I'd say, „What was my house address in 1610? I'm going crazy, losing my mind. Let's see. Yeah, it was 22 Athenian Road, Athens. Yeah, that was my address in - that was my address in 351 B.C. Yeah, that's right. And my address then was so-and-so and then we moved to so-and-so and so forth. And then the next life it was so-and-so and so-and-so. I can't remember my address in 1610! I'm going mad.“

This sort of thing is best explained by the eight dynamics. And we look over those eight dynamics and we start finding some things out with what we know now, not only that demonstrates the accuracy of the original plotting of the dynamics (which is only a matter of pride), but which demonstrates a very, very great workability in terms of clearing people. We've been trying to clear people on the first dynamic, and we can clear people on the first dynamic, but they're not clear on the second and third, let me tell you.

That's - I've had one goal, by the way, in processing and so forth. Just to get these amnesia spots cleaned up, you know? I know I'm nuts!

And what I've arrived at this congress with was how to clear them on the first, second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth dynamics. A small contribution.

Then I run into somebody that says, „Past lives“ Or somebody that says, „I've got a pretty good reality on having lived before. I've run into a facsimile.“

Yes, it is very interesting to hit a jackpot. Did you ever walk up - you've been in Las Vegas, I'm sure, or Maryland or some of these other gambling hells, and you have a quarter that you don't quite know what to do with and you just feel in the mood to waste quarters, you know? And you walk over to a machine and you say, „Well, that machine looks like the most losing machine in the place. I'll put my quarter in it,“ you know? And you throw your quarter in it, you know and you pull the one-armed bandit's arm, and it goes all over the floor.

You see, we just get - all we're looking at is degrees of responsibility, that's all, for identity, for beingness, for life, for time and so forth. Just degree of responsibility; that's all it amounts to. One is unwilling to take responsibility in certain zones and areas, one forgets.

Of course you say, well, you're the one who expected to win. But you didn't expect to win, not if you were playing a one-armed bandit. Therefore the surprise is very great.

A person with a bad memory has a bad level of responsibility, and that's one for you to put down in your book. Their responsibilities are poor. In other words, responsibility and memory, responsibility and identity, so forth: these things go right straight together. Irresponsibility and amnesia and so forth; these things go together. And that's what, basically, a lot of this is about.

Well, I didn't have that much surprise in just the last few months in sorting this thing out - not that much surprise - but it's sort of like that. There was one thing - one pair of things which unlocked a lot of gates and doors, and let a lot of theta flow around. The main thing in letting it flow around is not to be caught in the whirlpool. That's why you have to be a good auditor.

Now, I - I have had that as an auditing goal to get a lot of these things patched up and so on. And when I get audited and so on, why, it's generally to put together things of this character and a half a dozen other things, because I'm going for OT and getting not enough auditing to get there. I'm mad, mad about it.

But we're now not in a position where we are dependent on a national government, and that's why I've been abroad. The original plot was a very simple one. And that was to say that if people antipathetic to us as well as the best interests of the United States, and vice versa - if people who were so dedicated to vested interests of keeping everything down and keeping everything under their heels - if these people continued to be the sole source of regulation of our affairs and activities (as they would if we were only under one government), then we were limited to a marked degree in that there were certain things we could not do and certain experiments we could not engage upon because they were illegal from a standpoint of; let us say - well, the laws of the United States.

You're mad - you're mad because you're not getting enough processing. You ought to hear me sometimes. I frankly don't know what my address was in 1610, see? Maybe it was the county jail. Probably was.

They tell you that you mustn't heal anybody. That it's against the law to heal any... Take California. I hate to bring it up, but take California. There are twenty-five diseases that you go to jail for curing in California. And I saw the original law on it and, although I read it carelessly, of course, and could be wrong, it appeared that even if a medical doctor cured them he would be sent to jail at once. They're cancer, tuberculosis, other serious illnesses. And the curing of these things was definitely against the law.

We fool ourselves all the time. We fool ourselves continually about these things. We fool ourselves about life and fool ourselves about our motives and so forth. But every time and everywhere that we fool ourselves, we are simply being irresponsible for the dynamics one way or the other. And of course, the first dynamic is one of the dynamics.

Now, I'm possibly exaggerating it. It probably said that you mustn't say you had cured them. If you cured them you must keep it quiet, or something like that. There are probably some ramifications to it, and undoubtedly the law has been modified today to read that only the members of the I Will Arise Communist Association of Northern Sacramento is permitted to cure them, or something like that... But the point is that it was illegal to do certain things in certain areas of the world.

Now, the fellow who embroiders you a fancy fabric of romanticism he isn't doing you any harm. But the fellow that says to you, „I don't have to do anything about you because I am not responsible for you. You live your life and I'll live mine“ - that fellow's doing harm. Because, basically, individuals do not live alone. They can't live alone. That's it.

We didn't have a prayer in certain research lines if we continued to be governed totally by a hidebound idea of certain things should be cured and certain things mustn't be cured and certain things must be looked in - mustn't be looked into, and other things mustn't he looked into and so forth. And we - we were in a situation in 1952 whereby our communication lines and everything we were doing could have been cut off by the vested interests in sickness in the United States. We were in that position in 1952.

You were never unhappier than the last time you flew out into the firmament and went past cloud nine and met no friends on it. Or a few hundred years ago when you, swallowed up by various propaganda systems, decided to go look for heaven and meet Saint Peter or something like that, see? You got an idea after a while you'd had it, because you didn't find him. I bet there's more thetans going around even now, you know, saying, „Gee-whiz. No gates, you know?“ I don't know what theta trap that was that had gates. And of course, the trick on - I'm sorry if I abuse your religious sensibilities. Actually, I'm not at all, but I will say that just to be polite.

Now, you can discount it. You can say, „Well, it wasn’t as serious as Ron makes out, it didn't kill me.“ Something of that sort, but nevertheless there was that danger. And the only solution which I could make workable at that time was put a communication into the United States from abroad.

If there's anything that gets my goat, it's somebody that will foul people up to such a degree that they can't find their way around. Or who put out a philosophy saying that „You can do what you want to do in this life and mess up what you want to in this life. It doesn't matter, because you will never have to pay for it. You're not ever going to live again.“

I knew that this itself would have an apathizing effect. That even though every single auditor in the country was thrown in the ditch, even though every publication were burned, even though everything were done to end it all in one country, it could still come in from another country. And that was a preventive measure which would inhibit the inhibition of the research, investigation and application of the principles of the mind which we at that time were engaged upon.

And then, by golly, you who didn't straighten out - you were - you were the head of the whole school system in the whole district, and you could have straightened out the various abuses amongst the teachers, and you had this philosophy, you know, and, „I've never lived, never going to live again. Never lived before. I'm just here, and I'm head of this. And when I die I'm dead. And when I'm gone, I go to heaven or hell or some place to my just reward, and that's all there is to it and ...“

Now you can rate me, if you want to, for undue caution. But remember, I was the guy in the middle of the arena. And every time lions jumped, somehow or other a claw hit me. Get the idea? Every time somebody started getting careless with javelins, I felt the wind of them. So whereas the individual Dianeticist might not have - have thought too much of this, he perhaps wasn't carrying the accumulated burden.

You were head of the school system. You step under a truck or something like that, or eat some of these best-advertised products on TV, go by the hoards, pick up a body and Miss Gooch and all the Miss Gooches that you had ample opportunity to straighten up are now teaching you.

Well, to lessen that burden, I mixed up our comm lines and made it a very, very upsetting thing to anybody attacking us - to fix it up so that no agency could operate totally against us in one country and wipe us out. And that was the strategy. And I went to England and put in communication lines in England.

Now, that’s a very narrow, superpersonalized attitude about it. But I had a very, very well educated, apparently very learned professor of physics of Columbia University tell me that he had never worried about atomic fission particularly, because it - he'd be dead before anything happened to Earth. And didn't matter whether he was killed by the atom bomb or by some other means didn't matter because he wasn't long for this world. And he died a short time afterwards. And I imagine now here he is a kid in New York or something like that pushing up along the line and believe me somewhere back in his consciousness is some little, tickle, tickle, whir-click, you know? Every time he reads in - the bomb, „Disarmament Proposed,“ you know? Its right on his track he's just not taking responsibility for it - was his conversation with me about the subject of teaching some of his students some responsibility for their mechanical advantages and for their machinations on the subject of atomic fission. I told him he ought to teach them some responsibility in the field of the humanities if they were going to fool around in the field of the sciences. And he said, oh, pooh-pooh-pooh, he was going to be dead, you see, and all this rigmarole. And here he is. He must have some inkling of this, see?

Now, at the same time, a great deal of interest had been generated in England. The first book had been published there, even if indifferently, by a publisher and a tremendous amount of enthusiasm was generated there.

That's all very well to sail along up the track with no responsibilities whatsoever expecting to land someplace, but nobody's going to be very happy doing it. Their responsibilities and their memory are actually not adequate to the situation - to the situation of their own livingness. That's all that it amounts to.

Now, all of this activity in England had gotten to a point where several organizations were at each other's throats. There were several organizations, and several groups, and they were all in disagreement with one another. And it was very easy for me to get an invitation to straighten this out. And having put in an organization there, we were able then, by making it totally self-supporting, to make it a cross-action with the United States.

Now, what is an overt act? An overt act - you could classify it in various ways. You could say an overt act is something that was not for the greatest good on all of the dynamics. Something of this sort. Or something which inhibited the future survival of; or you could say an overt act was giving something an experience which it couldn't experience. There are various ways of doing this, but there's no reason to define it, because you know all about it! Now, that's the trick, that's what it's all about.

Now, don't think that the United States interests did not at that moment get very busy. As a matter of fact, they got extremely busy. They had the tag end of the socialist government to operate with. The last dregs of socialism and so forth were just at that moment dripping out of the veins of Great Britain, and they promptly labeled practically everybody and everything that had anything to do with Dianetics and Scientology as very evil and very bad. And we were practically blacklisted for three or four years. Eventually cleaned it up with two members of the House of Lords, several people in Commons, and just recently, why, the British government said, „Hubbard? Hubbard? Why, yes, he can have a visa as long as he likes. Yes. Fine chap, fine chap, you know.“ So we even lived that one down.

Now, the thing that was difficult to do was to define responsibility so that it couldn't miss as a process. See, that was the trick. All right. Now, we got that. Now, the other one will come out.

But things were being booted into England to knock out Dianetics and Scientology from the United States. Well, we finally got that straightened out.

So, there's no sense in defining what an overt act is and therefore a moral code is just that much wasted lead pencil, stylus or wax tablet or stone or hammer or chisel or whatever it is they write them on. Because everybody knows what an overt act is or they wouldn't suffer from them. You know, an overt act is what you suffer from, and that's about as far as you could define the thing, you see?

But nobody could quite make the grade. If at any moment Scientology had been wiped out in the United States, it would have still come in from England. Furthermore, if it had been wiped out in England, it could still have come in from the United States. Interesting, huh?

The thing which you are suppressing and mustn't tell somebody must have been an overt act! See that? That's what an overt act is. An overt act is that thing which a person feels he'd better not do again. Simple as that.

Now how would you like to be some vested interest that didn't like us? That would be a tough spot to be in, wouldn't it? Well, they were outgeneraled. And gradually no funds could be procured anymore to squash us. Actual funds were being procured and solicited.

Now, wherever you try to define it further than that you get into trouble. Man is basically good. He restrains himself; restrains himself; down to the point where he loses himself. And after that, unfortunately, the only real evil takes place. Having lost himself; there's nobody there representing him but an automaton which is consciencelessly going through a series of motions, and you get criminality.

„What's this? Somebody trying to set man free? Ha-ha! Not while we're still alive and kicking,“ these fellows were saying. So, the same thing - if you don't think this isn't a repetitive cycle... We've gone on and on and on to other countries, and things are straightening out here and there, but what do you know, at this very moment this same thing is happening in Australia. And anybody who was with us in 1950 would do as I'm - I do every time I look at the Australian attacks on Dianetics and Scientology: you would start to laugh because it's now gotten funny. The same stories, the same lies, the same thing just as though somebody had taken it off of a big blueprint, see? They're publishing the same newspaper stories and they're telling the same lies about Hubbard, you see. They're telling the same lies about auditors, producing the same arguments. And it's all coming out of an area in Sydney - only, by this time we know what to do about that sort of thing.

So, a basic - a basic overt act could be said to be irresponsibility for identity. Now there - I'm afraid there isn't anybody in this room that's committed any real ones.

And we, of course, have Australia in a clamp. Not only is Australia now so connected with the United States that any time it got wiped out there it would just come in from the United States, but would also come in from England. And if England and the United States were wiped out, it would also come into Australia from South Africa. The South African organization is as large as the British organization - and other areas it could also come in on.

Female voice: I don't know about that.

Furthermore, we have all of a sudden dreamed up the technology to end all technologies, and it ends this sort of thing. But this type of internationalism was to pave the way against the time we would have the answers to these things. And we find ourselves now a very international organization. We are traveling along and actually aiding and abetting the American culture which is spreading out across the world. We are doing a great deal in this particular direction.

But I'll make you a bet that there's nobody in this room - there's nobody here would have that much confidence in himself. In other words, I don't think you'd have that much - as much confidence in your overt act record as I have in it. Do you get the idea? That's because I have an exterior view to it. I have a pretty good idea what's been done and what hasn't been done on the whole track line.

But we're in an interesting position, because abroad - abroad they have a tendency to believe, you see, that America is this smart. And that if this Scientology is part and parcel to American culture, then of course all of the mental healers and everybody in America who know anything about the mind, you see, they're naturally all Scientologists. And I never saw such a puzzled man in my life as an army major general - US Army major general in London, that I got full reports on - having to explain Scientology to a group of British medical doctors. Had he not done so, he would have been labeled a fraud.

There was probably nothing terribly wrong with somebody dreaming up the plan - the last plan that was dreamed up that had to do with ice cubes and removal of whole civilizations, and transplantations of whole peoples and handling of excess populations and so forth throughout the planets, and redistribution of skills, and body form and all of this sort of thing. One of these things that couldn't have been worked out on a UNIVAC or an ENIAC even if it was hooked up to a Remington electric shaver.

Now, it isn't that we're doing anything very slippery; it's just the way the world goes. It's just the way the world turns. These are the things that happen around the world. And in ten years, we've girdled the globe. And we've done it so well, it's about time we took our source point. It's about time we finished up taking America.

So anyhow, this plan - inevitably, men'll - and beings will work on plans - this plan happened to have the drawback that it was so good and required so much goodness and integrity on everybody's part that there weren't any people around good enough to carry out the plan so therefore the only way the plan could be carried out was with total viciousness, which made, of course, the whole plan into an overt act.

Because if anything were started now to finish off or stop our taking America - it's something like old infantry tactics. You had certain enfilade fire. Have you ever heard of enfilade fire? It comes in from all angles. Well, that's what would happen. I mean, we're not in any precarious position at all. Nothing could be done today to stamp out Dianetics and Scientology, nothing. I don't think anybody could even whip up a - a penny in the United States to support an attack against Dianetics or Scientology.

So, sometime somebody conceives something and it becomes - it becomes an overt act merely because he didn't foresee where it was going. That isn't true of all overt acts. But having done them out of regard for your fellow man, your fellow women, you busily withhold them.

I think the Los Angeles radio stations and so forth that occasionally break loose on it - I think they're going to get in line. If you notice, within the last twenty-four hours the attorney general of the United States started preaching about cleanup radio - he's hearing me just one year late - using radio licenses to clean up attacks of a scandalous nature upon worthy objects.

And one of the reasons you don't tell anybody is because you think it'll hurt them. That's an interesting thing, isn't it? Look it over. You say it would shock or harm the auditor, or it would shock or harm somebody else if this were to become known. Now, how much evil do you suppose that continues on the track, huh? Don't you think that's more harmful? Don't you think that's more harmful than the immediate thing?

We'll make it. There isn't any question now about making it. We can make it technologically, we can make it personally, we can make it on the various dynamics, we can make it internationally, we can make it around the world without any trouble and we can make it in America in Oshkosh and Pumpkin-Center and Washington, DC and New York City and other hick places.

And as far as that's concerned, you actually can't harm auditors - not possible - except in one way, and that's make no progress. An auditor will stand into buzz saws and baths of liquid air as long as he thinks he's making progress and getting wins. About the only way you can harm an auditor is give him loses, loses, loses, loses.

The only question is, is how fast. And that question depends to some degree on me, of how hard do I work - that's only to some degree. But to a very, very marked degree depends on you: How much work are you going to do about it? Now that's very important.

We found that out in training classes. We found - we usually have two or three old-time auditors around that have just had too many loses, and we snap them back by giving them a few wins, and it works fine. They come right back up!

Now, I'm not trying to hang you with a tremendous responsibility, I'm not trying to say that here at this congress the only thing I should do is to just pound it into you that you're responsible and that you ought to do it and that I don't have anything to do anymore because I've dreamed it all up, you see, and you should get out there and pitch and you should do this and you should do that. And you look at yourself and look at your small zones of influence and you say, „Well, I - what could I possibly do?“ you see, „I mean...“ And it makes you feel sort of frantic. I'm not trying to drive that home. All I'm trying to do is to invite a coordinated activity. All I'm trying to do is to help us feel our way through this immediate problem.

There's nothing more wonderful than watching an auditor who is absolutely convinced that he is tired to death of auditing and wants nothing more to do with auditing than to watch him get a nice, big win! And he says - he says, „Well,“ he says, „any more candidates? Any more candidates?“ promptly and immediately.

We are facing a culture which is cultured in everything but the humanities. For instance, I was reading on a soda-water bottle last night, I - lying in bed and I had a - had a drink before I went to sleep, and I was looking there - sort of dazedly just before I turned out the light, you know - and it says, „This soda water is made by a special formula patented by the soda-water bottling company.“ And I thought, „Oh, my God, they've even now got a special formula for soda water!“ Yes, it's all taped, you see? It's all grooved. Everything is all patented. And we know what carburetors should do and what this should do and how all the technology goes together and how all of the formulas should work. And we know everything except how to be civilized.

I know I'd - always have had wins of one character or another, big ones, little ones and so forth. I didn't know my enthusiasm could go up in such a steep rising climb, because I'm on a diet of them now. I mean, I'm just on a diet of them. It's just a matter of what case - what case do you want a win on. You know? You want a win on such and such a case. Well, all right. Process it, that's all.

And that is our small section of this problem, and that is our small contribution to this particular culture. Because Americanism flowing around the world and back and forth across America (and it's come a long way - culturally and mechanically only) would come to nothing. We would not wind up with a cultured or civilized Earth just because the special formula for soda water got to South Africa. We wouldn't get anyplace.

Once in a while I find my moral purity getting in my road, even as you will, you see? You say, „Well, I don't know. I don't know. You know? She really fixed this guy up, you know? I don't know whether I ought to process her or not. You know, why should I do that?“ You know?

The only way that this planet can get anywhere now is for these communication lines, well plowed in along the mechanical lines on mechanical subjects and so forth - if these also carried - they do, you know, to some degree carry a message of freedom, of this, of that. Americans are supposed to believe certain things and all that. All these things are perfectly good. But they would have to carry a much more concrete message, a much more definite understanding of man, in order to be valuable to man at large. And in that way alone, we could avoid war We could definitely avoid war. War couldn't exist.

And inevitably, if you think it around just a little bit further, you'll find out that in 1302 when you were - when you were a ward of the court of such and such a place, you knew this guy, see? And you've got an overt act that absolutely parallels hers. And of course, you can't take responsibility for the preclear because you're not taking responsibility for the overt act that you have. You get the idea?

Now, I'm not saying that we would eventually become the government of Earth or anything stupid like this. I'm just saying that we should put on the communication lines of Earth the message that man can be civilized, can be free and can understand himself and can get along with his fellows. And if we put the technology of how to do that on these very same communication lines, then we'd win, you'd win, man at large would win and we would have for a change in this downgrading universe a win and a big win.

Well, it looks - a healthy view of this thing - that it's a fairly easy climb out of the rat hole. It is. All you've got to do is first, strip the case down of its overts and withholds, present lifetime, straighten it up, smooth it out from a standpoint of that, run Responsibility on every one of them that comes up (and I'll tell you more about how to do that later), but don't let this case come up with: „Well, lets see, I stole a car when I was twelve. Yes. Well, I'm glad to get that off my chest.“ Oh, yeah?

Now, we have an opportunity to make that win now. Actually, it's all set up. It's set up with almost great perfection right at this present moment.

Not this auditing command, but you would have to do something of this sort: „What part of that incident could you be responsible for?“ And run it flat. And where do we go from there?

Later lectures, I'm going to tell you how we are already knocking-off one of the principal goals of Scientology, and I'm going to show you how you're knocking it off. But right now, let me say that we've got a big opportunity here. And the reason I'm glad to be able to give you this congress is to be able to hand along to you what I have found out and what has been put together here in just the last few months that is highly advantageous in driving this thing home. We are tremendously rich in communication lines. We are actually - our ranks are a little thin, but we're really pretty rich in people, by quality not by numbers. And I think we can do the job. I don't think it's a very difficult job to do from here on out as long as we make up our mind to do this job.

Well, you pick up the next one he gives you and locate that and argue him out of it, and then flatten that one and get his responsibility in that zone and area fully restored and straightened out. Get the idea?

Now, we've had a decade of work along these lines. We've had a decade of training, of codification, of know-how. If there's any know-how left to pick up - which of course there is - but if there's any know-how that we absolutely, essentially have to have just to do this job, then I at this moment don't know about it. Because what we have right this minute and that I'm going to tell you about in this congress, is plenty good enough.

You just don't strip a guy down of overts and motivators and withholds and just let it all go, go, go, you see? You just don't keep stripping him down of all of his data and then not running anything on it and just skip the rest of it. You get what would be wrong with that? There'd be plenty wrong with that.

So thank you for being here, and I'll be back shortly.

Because all a confession is, is the first gradient step of taking responsibility for it. That's just the first edge in, and getting him to tell you about it is just to start the process! And you could practically kill somebody by getting him to tell you just overts and withholds endlessly, strip them all off the bank and then never run any Responsibility on it at all. You could practically kill somebody with this thing. It's the dirtiest trick that could be done to anybody - never to run any Responsibility of any character on these overts and withholds, see?

Thank you.

Now, I'm not saying any - any organization on Earth does that.

And the other thing you've got to rehabilitate - after you've rehabilitated responsibility, you've got to rehabilitate the ability to withhold! After you've broken him down you've got to put him back together again, see? Because it's only his ability to withhold that has kept him good. And that's very important.

If a person is still able to restrain himself from committing antisocial acts, he's in good condition. It's the person who no longer can that is the criminal.

So, it's very simple what you have to do to straighten out a case. Of course, this doesn't finish the case off; this doesn't clear the case. This merely sets the case up to be cleared.

But the steps are very simple: Break down an overt and a withhold that the individual has, run Responsibility on it; find another overt and withhold, present lifetime, run Responsibility on it; another overt-withhold, run Responsibility on it; another overt-withhold, run responsibility on it. When you've got that all set you've got him down to a point of where he's just obsessively confessing, you see - he wakes up in the middle of the night and wants you notes to confess some more - then it's time for you to get in and pitch, you see, and rehabilitate his whole ability to withhold. In other words, having poured the garbage into the ditch it's about time that you let him put up his own tailgates.

Now, that's the essence of getting a case on the road, and there's no case that can stand up against this. You've got them all now. If the case can talk, knock! you've got it. I don't even care if the case doesn't want auditing; you've still got him as a case.

Take any policeman, or take any anything anyplace and you've got him in-session before you know it. I'm taking my revenge out on all the bad press we have ever had by - I break down every newspaper reporter who comes into my hands these days and put him in-session instantly on his own overts and withholds against Dianetics and Scientology.

Now, that actually is the way you start a case. And I figure that you figured someday I'd possibly come up with some sort of a kickoff and that is the kickoff for a case. There's numerous tricks and ways and means of doing this, but actually they're just as crude as getting an overt and a withhold and running Responsibility on it, getting another overt-withhold, running Responsibility on it. You keep this up for a while, you'll have that case in-session, and the more you do it, why, the faster they move. Sooner or later you're going to have to rehabilitate their ability to withhold, even from you, and you've got it made.

Well, I have ruined you today, giving you all this data on the first day. We have nothing then for the second and third days. And I'm very sorry that your banks are so restimulated. (How insincere can a guy get, huh?)

And I'm very - I am very happy, however, to see you here. Basically I've given you now everything that I was going to give you at the congress here, and there's nothing much else to tell you, and so we needn't worry about it too much and you can go to sleep peacefully tonight and realize there are no shockers in store for you tomorrow at all.

Now, if you are too restimulated tonight to sleep, why, just be comforted by the thought that there are others in the same boat. And tomorrow, sometime tomorrow, I will try to run you a Group Process that won't take the edge off - it'll probably make it worse - but it'll make - it'll make things much clearer to you.

In the meanwhile, thank you for coming, and I think so far we've had a good first day, and I wish you a lot of luck in your seminars this evening.

Thank you very much.