And this is the afternoon lecture of the twenty-fifth of January, 1954. Now you have taken a little step into SOP 8-0. The elements which we're using are the elements of livingness as before. We hae not changed these elements just because we've changed the process. What we've done essentially is move over from processes which will audit the thetan plus body without damage to either and with good advance, to processes which could kill a body and would boost the thetan right on up the line. So, you get the essential difference here? The essential difference between what we have been doing and 8-0. It's a step from being perfectly willing to judge, to,"To hell with it." It's the step from being part and parcel to homo sapien and dependent upon him and so on, with a large mass of attention units which get picked up off the MEST universe and recongealed by a bunch of cells, and reworked by some other cells that ate the first cells, and reworked by some other cells that ate those cells, and reworked again and eaten at the steak house by you, and as a body, and then you as a thetan rework the bo - it's a very interesting, it's a very interesting merry-go-round. But that's essentially what it is, and you're on the blue horse. When you're a homo sapiens it's blue.

You know, you try to do anything with homo sapiens, you get your teeth kicked out. That's about the best that can be said. The excellent reason is, he has only one crime. Communication. There's only one crime, communication. You have a society utterly imbalanced, and therefore going down spiral constantly, until a new society raises and grows itself upon the dung heaps of the old society, which is about what happens, because there's only one sin. The sin of commission. The sin of omission never enters. It's an existing theory, but it never exists in fact. And if it does, it's some very peculiar thing.

Police officer is out here on the street, criminal dashes out of a building, having just robbed it. For about oh, thirty seconds the police officer has a perfect shot at the criminal. Perfect shot. He could drop him. He doesn't. The criminal goes on, gets into a car, careens on through the town, breaks all the speed laws and finally hits a car with a family in it and kills everybody in it. Bing! This is rather routine in this society. I'm not talking about anything now that would even make front pages. The police officer has actually committed a crime by omitting to shoot a criminal, and that is a sin of omission. These are not punishable.

The criminal comes out of the building, for thirty seconds the police officer has a fleeting opportunity to fire, although many other peopple are around. He draws his pistol, he shoots, he shoots inaccurately, he hits a pedestrian. Regardless of what happens to the criminal, that police officer's going to pay. He's at least going to lose his badge. There, you see? Two different crimes. The only crime is to communicate, in this society. It takes actually, more than you will ever know to communicate anything in this society, over a broad level.

Alright, the only crime as a thetan is quite the reverse. If he's going to enter into action, liveness, beingness, or any part of the game, he dies in ratio that he fails to communicate. His are only sins of omission, but as he teams and gets into conflict with other beingnesses, sins of commission begin to creep in, little by little, little by little, until at last sins of commission are everything. But by that time the thetan has become a body.

So you have a gradient scale of crime. In the upper scale it's of a thetan, it's a scale of omission. He didn't emit, he didn't communicate. In some of your very, very high operating societies, at their very earliest, it's remarkable the amount of force and vindictiveness leveled at an individual guilty of a sin of omission. And yet Marshall and King, Nimitz and F.D.R. himself, could omit the message which would have saved the lives of a great many men and an entire fleet, were all at a party. And nobody rose up in this society to lynch them. "Well, it's just one of them things." That's a symptom of apathy. A sin of omission when not punished, when a society passes by a sin of omission on a large scale, it goes there afterwards into its own swan song.

I'm not just rolling up the wheels of doom here. They well knew that Pearl Harbor was going to be attacked. Japanese submarines had been sunk outside the entrance, Russian Intelligence had already told them the exact moment that the attack would take place. They knew their admiral there and their general were completely disarmed and all their men were on liberty. They knew all these conditions existed, and they did nothing about it, and yet Frankie kept on being president, and Marshall rose to the highest ranks that we have ever given any general. Fascinating, isn't it? Sin of omission.

Well, on a much lower scale, this thetan decided he wouldn't broadcast. He decided he wouldn't do this, and he wouldn't do that. He'd hold up his communication and so that, at that level, caused him to deny himself. See, he held up, he restrained his own communication. The restraint of one's own communication is the first step into being bombarded by the MEST universe. One has to restrain one's outgoing communication to make the first ridge that can be hit by incoming particles. And so it begins with the sin of omission, not with the sin of comission.

Now as we go down scale, we find out at length that he is only punished when he can be targeted. He can only be targeted when he communicates. He gets way, that far down. Of course these two things go hand in glove all the way down the line, because where you have outflow you have inflow. But in a society such as this an individual who communicates broadly is going to be punished, that's all there is to it. I mean, there's no ifs, ands or buts about it, no question about it. He's going to meet with ridicule, rebuff, if not more serious punishment.

Anyone who has tried, tries to help a decadent race, normally gets into very serious trouble. It is so anipathetic to an operating thetan to help broadly, since he himself does not see whe people can't fish themselves out of it, it becomes rather silly to him, that I am afraid the goal which we first set out upon has been exceeded. You have to get a man to take trouble seriously before he will assist with trouble. And one of your first definitions of an operating thetan is, he doesn't take trouble seriously. Remarkable, isn't it? So we have to hit it in this sort of a twilight band. We get up a certain line and we have to hit it at a certain level, we have to make certain teachings available at certain levels, otherwise nothing will happen.

Well now, what's our problem? Our problem as I sit here with the salvation of the human race, I'm afraid that it would have to be undertaken a little bit differently. Maybe more or less the same way. But it would certainly be in terms of groups of people fishing themselves out and getting the upper echelon. Group by group, level by level. Wouldn't be possible on a crusade of thee or me going out and holding up a bright torch and sweeping everybody into a big stampede and a rah-rah. No, you can enter the problem that way so as to attract and shock enough attention into beings so as to get your first entrance point, but you can't continue the campaign in that fashion. It just doesn't campaign that way.

So you find yourself to a large degree exceeding your own goals, every time you try to save the whole human race at one fell swoop. You can make slaves out of things which punish communication, or you can rescue them piecemeal. And the second that you threw signs and wonders before homo sapiens who've existed today, his terror would be so great; you don't maybe believe this, but his terror would actually be so great that he would drop automatically into a bracket of slavery from which it would be almost impossible to dig him. It would be a ridge that would be an awful big ridge.

You'd have to be able to monitor every television set in the country, I mean, every television broadcast station in the United States. You'd have to be able to muzzle every news agency. You'd have to be in a position to take over the church at Rome, instantly and immediately, as well as the Baptists, the Methodists and all the rest of them, because everybody would be on that bandwagon, they'd be on it quick. There've been signs and wonders the beginning of the world is now the end of the world, and "Drop a nickel on the pot and you can get saved, get saved, fella. You're a slave, repent, repent. The kingdom of heaven is going to cave in on you at any moment." And that wasn't the message that was given to them at all. See that?

Think well of your preclear. You start working him at first, and he doesn't feel he's going to very much about it. He sort of waits for you to do something about it. Why? He can't communicate, he'll be punished for communicating, he knows that. First thing he knows is that if he puts out a particle he'll get slapped, so here he goes. You tell him to "Be three feet back of your head." That's putting out a particle, he's putting out his whole body as a particle. So he does so with some misgivings. From there on up it's actually coaxing him to communicate, coaxing him into a willingness to give beingness and life to anything around him. He's educated as he goes down toward death into not giving life. As a society goes down toward death it's more and more educated into not giving life, more and more educated into believing that it's corn and game will come from somebody else, just as your preclear is educated into believing that anythign that's going to happen to him is going to happen because you're going to wave a magic cross in the air or something of the sort.

Fortunately we have process such as 8-C, which tend to wave a magic cross in the air. It's utterly mysterious to some of these people. You say to them, "Alright, give me three people you are not," they all of a sudden line charge and feel better. You say, "Now be three places where the condition is not," and they immediately feel a great deal better. You could watch this work in an emergency ward of a hospital. Well, it's kind of like waving a magic cross in the air. They don't really know what's happening to them.

Well, all of our problem is a problem of communication, until it gets into a problem of pure, pervasive knowingness. And an individual knows that he knows, simply because all of the things he knows are wrapped up in symbols. So he's got to unwrap what he knows.

Now across the boards, you as an auditor are confronted at all times with a communication lag. The lag should continue to decrease. If the lag does not decrease, the preclear is not going upscale swiftly. Where is the communication lag decreasing to? It's decreasing to operating thetan. It's decreasing to zero MEST universe time intervals.

OK, just to tell you exactly where to start in processing a person who has been exteriorized, well it's just a little bit difficult. But you can take 8-C, and you can go right straight on through 8-C, and you can do an awful lot with 8-C, but it won't get the individual up, however, to operating thetan. I gave you the various factors that come in with that. Until he can endow with life you're not liable to get an individual disendowing things with life, therefore he's committed to every course of action he has ever taken. Until he ceases to be committed to every course of action he's ever taken, he's not entirely free. Of course, it's not desirable on your part as an auditor to disassociate him and get him to disendow every course of action which he ever undertook. And it's a frightening thing to ask a man to do, but certainly his skills are manifest in that direction.

Now there's several pat processes. You notice that change of space processing has not been featured very greatly, and I spoke to you 8-C. That's because change of space processing can be very, very dangerous to a case five. It can make a case five very ill. You process somebody on change of space while he's still in his body, and the consequences of it can be much too great for him to stand up to. Now I'd like to underscore that. Don't use change of space processing on a group, unless you're willing to bail out individual members of the group, and don't use it on just a group of people that know nothing about auditing, because they won't be able to bail each other out. Change of space auditing is a very powerful technique because it in itself manufactures power. It is like letting the individual be two different terminals in two different places, if conducted properly, and it actually will generate energy. And if the case is very low down and he has a lot of terminals that can go into action, believe me, the second he starts to generate a little energy they go into action. They don't waste any time going into action either.

Now, all of our auditing up to this time has been more or less scheduled on just trying to stabilize somebody outside and turn his perception on. Well let's take up this problem of perception. We find the problem of perception is the willingness to perceive, which is the willingness to let particles come in on him. That's a problem of perception. It is a problem of resisting energy. You have to resist energy to have it stop someplace so that you can see it. See that? And that's the problem of perception. So outgoing and incoming energy lines make themselves perception and communication. Therefore, an individual has to be able to exteriorize from these piled up masses of perception. Difference between five and a one is the one isn't sitting back of piled up masses of perception, the five is. And it's such a simple difference when really brought down to cases. So, an individual has to be able to exteriorize readily from anything he gets into, and has to know that he can do it. So this becomes very important. Therefore and only then is he willing to perceive.

If he can't exteriorize from this mass of particles which keep piling up on him, then he gets very leery about looking. And he doesn't want to look. Lookingness to him is something he would not like to have anything to do with. So he uses facsimiles, he lets pieces of energy that he puts way out stop the particles as they come in, and then he selectively brings in particles toward him and inspects them. And he gets a covert lookingness.

Now many a thetan exteriorized hasn't even vaguely seen present time. That's very, very reasonable, why he hasn't. Do you see that? He just can't stand the particles hitting him, that's all, so he goes a little bit into the past and picks up some facsimiles, and substitutes those for the walls, and out of this mass of substitution and all that sort of thing you get the jumbled perception picture. Well that's one of the first things you have to clear up with the individual. And that's done curing him of resisting interiorization. He has to be able to interiorize at will. If he can, he can perceive. Do you see that? He, it's no, it's no accident that a thetan pops into a body and sees better or more accurately or with greater definition, see that's no accident. It's just the fact that he is interiorized, and so he's looking. He's willing to look if he's interiorized and he's not willing to look if he's not interiorized, and the body's made him be interiorized so he doesn't have any responsibility for that, so there he is so he can see.

Now a thetan, operating thetan can be made to construct a globe around himself and let all the photons hit the globe, and then look at the pictures on the globe. Cute. Or he can put out remote viewpoints, and he can let the particles hit these remote viewpoints, and then he can blow them up. There's nothing much to this problem, it's one of those elementary damn things that people flounder around and put deep significances in and so forth. If the guy is willing to be hit as a thetan, he is willing to see, because the seeing is actually based upon willingness to be hit by particles. So if he's defending and fending off from him all the time, he doesn't see.

Many a thetan exteriorized can't even vaguely see in present time. He goes into the past and picks up facsimilies. He's cured of this by learning to exteriorize at will. It's no accident that a thetan can see better interiorized in a body.

A guy unwilling to be out isn't willing to see as a thetan. He doesn't want to be hit by particles.

A preclear in a room thinks he's in a dangerous environment. He won't look at the room, but will look at facsimiles he's just made.

Imaginative power of the individual deteriorates to the degree he lends his imagery to symbols. Imagination is the ability to fix ideas rather than retain fixed ideas.

Get an operating thetan exteriorized by having him exteriorize and interiorize from and into the dog-gondest things until he has the ability of perception. It's just that simple.

Here's a process that slips up on you: Put you father's head on and change it around - make it better or worse - until it disappears.

Get the lowest level of certainty - have the preclear close his eyes and know what he has in his hand without the use of his eyes. Running Opening Procedure with the eyes CLOSED is more than an interesting process. Have him wander around the room and handle things with his eyes bandaged. Don't let him use the body to know. Let the auditor more around, too, so that the preclear can't orient himself by the auditor's voice.

We're fighting evaluation for the preclear on the part of the body.

Have him mock up his body until he finds one that goes away automatically. You'll find the ones that don't go away are the ones he's interiorized in.