This is the fourth evening lecture, the first hour.

The first little bit I would like to give you here is very much to the point. It belongs at the end of this series, but I'll give it to you now. It's sort of a surprise, out-of-position few remarks which possibly, for that reason, might sink in as deeply as they should sink in.

This has to do with how and when to audit. And I'm not going to talk very long about this, but I'm going to talk very directly to the point.

The auditor has as his goal bringing the preclear to present time and stabilizing him there. That definition for auditing, you see, would apply to auditing a person who was never going to be a Theta Clear, or would apply to a Theta Clear. So it would apply to somebody who was merely getting four or five sessions to get rid of his sciatica or something, and it would also apply to somebody you were theta clearing.

It does not take very long to eradicate a psychosomatic ill, not with techniques such as Matched Terminals. The fastest techniques, however, for momentary processing — eradication, few minutes — was Creative Processing in Scientology 8-8008, which is simply giving the person mock-ups which is vaguely — any mock-up which is vaguely similar to the condition. You'll find immediately, for instance, they can't touch their father or they can't touch their father-in-law. Or they can't — there's somebody in their immediate vicinity in which you will find most of the enturbulation, and it will be a communications difficulty with that person.

So you can put that down as a definition of what's wrong with a preclear from whom you wish to eradicate a psychosomatic illness. It is a present time communication difficulty with some individual. And the easiest way to solve it is simply to do mock-ups on a gradient scale, until you have that individual in full view in front of them and they can create or destroy that individual at will, as a mock-up. And then they will find that they will be able to turn on enough sweetness and light for this individual to straighten out their difficulties.

If you were just doing counseling, just old-time counseling, marriage counseling, how would you go about it then? You would treat it as a present time problem. You would not worry about the past; you would not worry about the future; you would just treat it as a present time problem on the immediate assumption that there was a communications difficulty in present time with another individual. That does not get to the basic root of the case. That does not make a Theta Clear out of them. That doesn't make a Clear out of them or anything of the sort. That just does what the boys wished they could do for the last few centuries in terms of human behavior. That's all that does.

But that, as what you might call an office technique is, on this highly generalized basis, the technique which you would find it most profitable to employ.

When you have a person who cannot get a mock-up just on this very short process — you're going to see them maybe an hour a day for a few days or you're going to see them for a two-hour session or something of this sort — what would you use? Without any further survey into the situation, I'll tell you what to use: It's the next-to-the-last list in Self Analysis — "Something really real," and so forth.

Get them into communication with the fact that they've lived before and they'll be much happier. That's all. Because if they can't get a mock-up, the chances are pretty good that they're out of communication with themselves. And the fast way to put them into communication with themselves is to demonstrate to them that they have lived. It sounds idiotically simple but it is nevertheless very, very pertinent here — they have lived. Now, that would be your patch-up techniques.

Now, what would you do with this person if you didn't have too much time and he couldn't get mock-ups? He can't get any mock-ups, so you give him the next-to-the-last list in Self Analysis. That's that.

You can memorize that list — very easy. You could just ask him those questions in that sequence. And then you go back to the beginning of the list, and you ask him those questions in that sequence. And then you go back to the beginning of the list and you ask him those questions in that sequence. And the first thing you know, their life stretches out, and they have a time track. And they say, "What do you know! What do you know! I have lived before!" In other words, "I am surviving." That's all it tells them. "I am surviving." Now they're convinced they're surviving and they're much happier.

As a matter of fact, they'd be sufficiently enough happier to go around and tell all their friends they were now cured — whatever that means. You see? Because you have done what? In each case, whether you use a built-up mock-up or whether or not you use this next-to-the-last list, you have done essentially the same thing: You have changed the communication status of the individual. You have made it possible with the first technique for him to communicate, now, with somebody in his present time with whom he has had communications difficulties — pam! You just pick the main person — the most difficulty he has in present time — you just process that out and you've got it.

And on the other one, you're saying, "Look it, you're in communication with yourself for the first time. The way you got in communication with your-self is you've got a past. What do you know! You just are sitting there assuming that you have a past; you didn't know you had a past, and now you are certain you have a past and now you're all set." You don't tell them that but that's — you might as well be saying that, because that's what they'd be saying if they really knew what was happening to them.

Those are two techniques, then, aren't they? They take in both kinds of cases that you will get, unless you get a real, roaring, full-blown psychotic. And the way to handle a full-blown psychotic, to straighten him out, is to kill him or cure him. Psychiatrist chooses the former; I hope you'll choose the latter.

A full-blown psychotic is something that I wouldn't take on. I have processed my last psychotic, and I did so, actually, many years ago. And since that time I've paid no further attention to them. I have a case file on psychotics that's very large. It's probably in — somewhere in the vicinity of about, oh, I'd say four or five hundred psychotics. That's a big practice, by the way. A psychiatrist doesn't get that much in years — four or five hundred psychotics.

One series of cases of eighty-five psychotics — I broke the psychosis on eighty of them; the other five, long-term duration sort of a thing. There were environmental difficulties in processing them, rather than the severity of the psychosis.

So, in all these respects, if you confront a full-blown psychotic, there's one thing you should do — is you want to find out where you're going to put this psychotic, and who's going to take care of this psychotic? That's the first question you ask. That psychotic is not your responsibility. And the reason he's not your responsibility is because a psychotic can take up, of an auditor's time, weeks and months of constant, nerve-racking upset. It might be that you ought to go out and find a psychotic, just to learn this thing at firsthand. It might do you a great deal of good as an auditor to just simply go out and find somebody who's really raving, and get in there and pitch. Allocate two months of your life to it, because you won't be satisfied until you've got this person all the way out of the woods. This person has so many present time difficulties with communication that they include you. And that's what I call psychosis.

That makes an awful lot of psychotics walking the streets out here, doesn't it? You walk up to some fellow, and you say, "How are you today? It's a nice day, isn't it?"

And he says to you, "I was just down to the bookmaker's."

And you say, "Well, what have you been doing, going to the races or something like that?"

And he says, "My wife hasn't been back for days."

You're not there as far as he's concerned. He's inaccessible.

In families where you're processing a preclear, and they all of a sudden tell you that some member of the family objects to their continuation of processing, if you were to go find that member of the family, you would be looking at a psychotic, not a full-blown psychotic but, by definition, a psychotic — one who is not in communication, even vaguely, with present time. They do not know what's confronting them in present time. That's a psychotic, that's all.

You — this person, you find out, is probably — well, let's say it's the mother-in-law, and the mother-in-law says, "Ah, he's just — John is the son — and he shouldn't — just shouldn't be part of this — something like this mm-mm-mm . . . There's always been insanity in his family anyway and mmmm-mmmm . . ." And she's making all this trouble.

If you were to go over and talk to this lady, you would go in and you would say, "How are you today?"

And she would say, "Frying pans," if she said anything. Or she would maintain a communication lag which was a set lag.

You got — or if you tried to talk to her, even vaguely, something dreadful or drastic would happen. In the course of conversation, you'd find yourself fighting. You'd go back over the conversation, you'd try to find out where you got into a fight. You can't find out. No, they just decided to fight, that's why you got into a fight. They were, all of a sudden, were confronted with a leopard with purple spots, and they started to fight this leopard.

Till you've looked into these people's heads, you don't appreciate that because they're accepted and tolerated in the home, and they go around and pat the kids on the head and trip them up, and tell them fancy stories and scare them to death at night when they go to bed. And Mama and Papa or somebody, they don't know what's wrong with their kids. Well, they just haven't got the full time track on the kid, that's all.

Now, that could happen to old Uncle Joe who's a harmless old coot who sits around and never says anything. Never says a thing, never says a thing. Yeah, he's very easy to have around the house. He never says a thing up to the time when he burns the house down.

You'd be surprised how many forms this takes. But your definition of the thing is a definition which is going to hold good: What's his communication value in present time? That's all. If his communication value with present time is such that he is not talking to the person who's standing in front of him, or who won't talk to the person he's — who's standing in front of him, or if he is shut off and inaccessible in general, you have a psychotic because he's not communicating with present time. And on that person's time track you will find a history of psychotic breaks which the family wouldn't let you in on the first time. And on the future track you'll find burned-down houses and wrecked cars. There's your — there's the picture.

So when I say leave psychotics alone, I say just that. Leave them alone. Never going to do you any good, never going to do society any good to amount to anything unless you stand there prepared to invest a great deal of processing time — because a communications break of that sort is very difficult to repair because it takes you and your personality to repair it.

Here's this situation, they say, "We've always had psychotherapy for children." (They haven't.) But they say, "We've always had psychotherapy for children. If we could give individually, to each child, fifty hours of attention and so forth, why, we'd have all these children straightened out. But nobody's got that much time, and so therefore we can't straighten out these children and that's why there is no child psychotherapy." That's the way they put it.

There's truth in that, if you had a process. You couldn't anymore start in from here and give fifty hours of Dianetic processing to every child in England — you just start adding it up. They're getting born faster than that.

Did you ever read Robert Ripley's Believe It or Not? Robert Ripley proves to you conclusively that Chinese walking four abreast past a given point in review would never finish passing that point. You could be standing there watching a parade of Chinese walking four abreast in front of you, and there'd be new Chinese all the time, and they — you'd never get the Chinese race past that point. They multiply faster than that; there are just more being born than that. And he never explains just how they're going to do this while they're walking. But anyway — the point is .. .

So you couldn't tackle this problem in the form of the individual child. Well, there are more adults around to be processed than there are children, or at least as many. Well, what's this make? This tells you, you're either going for broke, or you're trying to make a few bucks. And there isn't any intermediate point. We're not going to make a pretty good thing out of Scientology by processing a few people. It's never going to go over the top by processing a few people. Nunca. Never. But it can go over the top by processing a whole lot of people.

Well, just how we solve that problem, just — we'll be thinking it over one of these days and we'll have the solution to that, because what have we got right here? We have a Group Processing process. We can process groups--poom.

We could process as many people as are in this room tonight. They all walk out of here and they feel fine. They go to work tomorrow morning and say, "Where's my lumbago?" They just wonder about that. There'd be five or six of them that'd say, "I never knew I had lumbago before." But they could always come back. But they could always come back for the next evening's processing.

So it could go about this way, you know? You could make a Theta Clear and you could polish him up and get him to the level of Operating Thetan so good and so high he could just simply go out and solve all the problems of the world. Would he solve the problems of the world if you did that? No. No. He'd just fix it up so people were cared for and were dependent now upon a thetan, a thetan named Bill or something, graduated from the school a few months before. Yeah, you see that? That isn't a workable thing.

Man has got to walk out of the hole he's in as man — not as a couple of guys. You'll find that will work out that way eventually. He's not going to get out of the hole he's in plastering himself and his neighbors with atom bombs and electric shocks and super-welfare-statism and fascism and all kinds of weird isms. He's not going to do that.

So an auditor, by the way, has just as much responsibility for this as anybody else, you know? Interesting, isn't it? He has just as much responsibility for this as anybody else.

The main difference between myself as an investigator and others is I think I took more responsibility for what I was doing. That's just about it. And it becomes a problem to me why somebody else doesn't take this much responsibility. I've sort of got blinders on on the subject or something of the sort.

I think about it. Gee-whiz, it's — here's all these school kids and these school kids have been having a rough time and all of these kids packed into rooms, lousy curriculum, master just in horrible shape. Why? He's got too many students, he's got too many bosses. He — these kids come from homes that are all upset and backwards and so forth. It's a big problem. Big problem.

Well, one of the solutions to this has to do with the fact that if you were to take the present time age bracket between six and twelve and straighten it out, Scientology would have won, hands down, in about fifteen years. You see, that's — it all becomes a very easy thing, doesn't it?

Well, the auditor's level of responsibility is not a small one. It gets bigger. And the reason it gets bigger is he has the data. And when he has the data, now he's got some responsibility in the matter. It isn't a responsibility to find out how many pounds he might be able to make. (You know, I was making more money in Hollywood in a month than I think I've made in three years in Dianetics. That's no kidding. So money hasn't got too much to do with it. After all, you — what do you do with this money? You go out and you buy some MEST and it gets you into more trouble.)

But here you have the information and you should know how to use that information. And we're trying to keep some sort of a show on the road here, but each one of you has got a show — truth of the matter. And you go around processing a psychotic whose papa happens to own the — Vickers or ... I'm not saying that's the case, but I mean some big guy and he gives you five Rolls-Royces for bringing little Dorothea out of her eighty-ninth spin. You can do that. Well, sure you can. Sure you can.

One of the "solutions" that was put forward to me a long time ago was put forward to me very interestingly by a couple of boys — wouldn't you know it — in Hollywood. They said, "Well, why don't we get four or five millionaires and process them all up to Clear. All of us auditors pitch in on it, and then we'd have plenty of money, and that would be the end of the problem." And I said, "Be the end of what problem?"

And he said, "Well, the problem about money."

Yeah? There isn't any problem about money. Truth be told, any good printer can make more money than the government can. Anyway, when you get yourself a nice — you confront this thing called security, very often it kind of digs you in behind the ramparts, you know? And you say, "I've kind of got to hold the fort here somehow or other, because, let's see, I need to make two pounds, because two pounds is two pounds and if I don't make two pounds ..." — so on.

I tell you something very funny: Money is an attention unit. A crown, a dollar, a mark, a franc is simply an attention unit. And do you know that money can be regarded as attention? And it follows exactly the laws of attention. Isn't that peculiar!

There is the lucky fluke of the guy who all of a sudden opens up a safe or something and finds he has eight billion dollars or something and he says, "Now, I'm going to take this out one dollar after another, and I'm going to keep myself the rest of my life."

Every once in a while the police tear up some old home and they find some guy died of starvation, and he had eight hundred thousand dollars parked up in paper sacks, or something of this sort.

Well, you as an individual will make as much money as you attract pro-survival attention. You can just absolutely — you can plot how much money any man is going to make just with that. You can plot them as they walk into a processing session. This fellow is going to make so much; his life potential, from here on, in terms of currency is going to be just this much. It'll be your communication lag index, because he can get as much attention, prosurvival, as he's in present time.

Nobody ever got any attention out of present time that was prosurvival. It was contrasurvival attention; the police arrested him, or something of the sort. You get the difference of this?

Money flows toward points which attract prosurvival attention. All you've got to do is stand up there and keep on being prosurvival, and be prosurvival in a widening communicating sphere and you will just have to start throwing this stuff away! You just turn your back on it. It gets a little bit tough after a while. You just have to turn your back on it because money gets you in trouble faster than anything I know. More people start jumping you the second that you — they think you've got a few bucks. It's wonderful. I mean, insurance brokers — all your time's taken up with trying to fight off securities salesmen, if you've got money.

But this is something you kind of ought to put down. You make money as much as you get attention, and you get as much attention in a society, as far as you put your communication lines out. And if you don't put your communication points out in a society, there isn't any flow-in in terms of money. That answers the buck, but it answers something else at the same time. It tells you to put out those communication lines. Put them way out.

You take the data which you have and try, just try and work for ten hours a day giving it away. You'd be in trouble. You won't be able to handle that much money — that's all, in terms of attention. Just try ten hours a day to give it away.

You try to sell it, you're in the position of a guy trying to sell gold pieces for pennies. Nobody will buy gold pieces for pennies — they just don't do that. A gold piece is a gold piece; and nobody sells them, and so forth.

An orderly practice actually is not indicated for a Scientologist. It's dull.

In the British Isles, America, and so forth, there are knitting societies, ladies' aid societies, Holy Rollers, anything you want to mention. They're just groups of people and they get together and sometimes they even plan to do something. (They never do anything.) But you have these tremendous resources in terms of all these mobs of people out here, just all this raw material running around. But if you're — you have a tendency to be out of communication with Homo sapiens, you're never going to reach them. So don't have a tendency. Get in present time and put those anchor points out. Because the next thing you know, you'll find yourself doing this and doing that.

Now, another thing, right under the heading of "How to Audit," how to audit is your job; explaining what Scientology is all about isn't. You will bog yourself down faster!

Now, supposing you were an electrical engineer and you had a fixation on this idea: that you had to go out and everybody you talked to, you explained the whole subject of thermodynamics. And everybody you talked to, you started in at the beginning, and you explained thermodynamics to them. You're not in communication. You're not even vaguely in communication. You start telling people what Scientology's all about and you're going to go out of communication. You might as well start in on thermodynamics. They know they haven't got a mind, and if they had one it would be too complex to solve. They know all that.

In order to bring them up at all, all you have to do is demonstrate results. For God's sakes, be an expert. Now, I've told you about a navigator — navigator, the mystery of the bridge and all that sort of thing. Practice that all you want to; it's perfectly healthy. Because you're at a level now where your basic tenets — the basic tenets of Dianetics are extremely acceptable. We'll try to get out a little pamphlet so you can kind of give this to somebody — quick, you know — and he can read it over if he wants to know about it. But you're the fellow who makes it work.

And there's lots more of this, you understand? And you go around, you know, and you try to explain to everybody about gradient scales, and you try to explain to them about state of MEST and well, you're not in communication. And all you demonstrate to them is that you just — there's no communication level possible here. So you don't get attention.

How do you get attention? Well, it takes a fairly overt fellow, which you ought to make out of yourself, a fellow who is slightly gregarious. And just for the sake of your own therapy you ought to learn to walk up to a person in the street and say, "How are you? What is the matter with your left eye? Oh, is that so? That's very interesting." And give them your card, or have them sit down on the park bench and fix up his left eye.

That takes brass, doesn't it? That means that every third or fourth fellow that you meet might be willing to get his eye fixed up. But that means there's going to be two or three there that you run into that are going to say, "Who the hell is this nut?" Well, you have to be able to take that. Until you're able to take that, you're not in good shape. It's actually a test of where a guy is on the Tone Scale.

You should be able to walk down into the ward of the fanciest hospital we've got around here, walk down into the front office, and say, "Well where is the doctor on watch? I'm a Scientologist and, ah, I want your last accident case. What's the name — what's the name of the last accident case? Jones, yes, Jones — yes, I want Jones." Simply go up and run out the incident out of Jones. You'd be surprised how many times you would find yourself somewhat dazedly sitting there running the incident out of Jones. You would be amazed. Takes brass.

You have to be willing to accept any of God's quantity of kicks in the teeth. And you can accept them very easily, because anybody that'll kick you in the teeth on a mission like that is so far out of communication he hasn't got enough horsepower even to ridicule you. What are you afraid of him for? That's all.

Actor always figures, you know, that an audience that won't applaud for him, and so forth, is just stupid. Well, you can figure the same way, only you'll figure right. Any fellow that's saying, "Now, let's see, these are my patients . . ." — he's having a bad time for himself.

I walked into a health center once — a great big county health center and everything, and I said, "Where's your resident doctor, man in charge, and so forth?" I went up to see him, I said, "How do I get your charity list of patients here? Psychosis, neurosis, things like that — charity patients and so forth."

And he said, "Well, you have to see so-and-so down the hall."

And I went down the hall and I said, "They just sent me down here from the front office. How many people do you have on charity here?"

The fellow says, "Why, we've got so many people and so forth." I said, "You got their names? Got their names?"

"Well, they have their names down in the office down there."

I went down to the office and I said — down there, I said, "This guy just said to give me the names of all the people you've got on charity." So they did. And I went back up to the top office then and I said, "I'm going to take these people and straighten them out and so forth. And my name and address and telephone number is so-and-so. If you get any more in, let me know, won't you?" Shook him by the hand and walked out. Processed about twenty people; they all got well.

About six weeks later I received a telephone call. "You didn't say you were a doctor and something very mysterious has happened — is you cleaned up our charity list. There isn't anybody on our charity list now."

I said, "I know."

"Well, what did you do?" This is what's known as communication lag.

And you'll find yourself, as an auditor, fighting the hidden influence. The state has laws, this outfit has laws, that outfit has laws. This — if you're worried about this, you're fighting the hidden influence. You really are. We have to know what our legal position is, where we stand. But actually, you can't possibly get into any trouble, particularly if you leave psychotics alone. And it's just good sense for Scientology to do so; it's just good sense to do so.

There's no reason to tie up . . . You know, you're valuable. You really are. You have information. There's no sense in tying up all the information and all that you can do for weeks and weeks and weeks alongside of some raving madman that when you get him all well will be able to sit still for a change. That's right. Five months later you find out you were processing the GE all the time. Wasn't any thetan there.

All right. I hope this gives you a little thought — a little thought about practice. It's very amusing, I made a remark like this from a platform some weeks ago, months ago, years ago — time tracks being what they are — and a couple of the boys listened, and out of the whole audience they were the only two that did anything about it. They promptly went out in the street, turned around and went in opposite directions, and everybody they found who was lame, halt or blind, they gave them their name and address, talked to them about it. And they came back — one of them came back to see me and he says, "You know something?" he says, "Nobody turned me down. Everybody's very happy to see me. And I talked to everybody. And I got an appointment to audit one of them about right now and I've got to be going! Bye."

Nearly everybody works on this theory: "There are two entities with which I am confronted. One is me, and the other is the rest of the world. And the rest of the world is collected all together, and they are a group, and they know. And then there's just me, and I'm pretending I am part of that group, but I know I don't know. And therefore, it's sort of me here and them there." You see? That's sort of a theory. And what do you know, everybody feels like that. Isn't that a hell of a joke?

So that you go into any group, if you take aside any individual by him-self, you can produce very fantastic effects. You just say, "Well, there's that group over there and you." (You don't say who you are.)

You can do this to the head of a hospital. He, fortunately or unfortunately, is simply human. You say, "People are all wondering why you don't ..." And he'll say, "Gee, are they?"

In other words, everybody is running on a one terminal basis to a large degree. And if he has a second terminal, he's using that horrible word "they." "They think. They do." Who's they? It's just another bunch of "these."

All right. Enough of that. Your case level is best demonstrated to your-self on the amount of brass, pure brass, that you can find in yourself. In other words, in other phrases: poise, self-confidence, presence. Being in present time and getting to be a Theta Clear actually does give you an awful lot of personal presence.

If it doesn't give you personal presence, then there's an awful lot of bugs there that haven't been worked out, that's all. And what kind of bugs are they? Communication. You became a Theta Clear, but your communication level didn't change. So you aren't really a good Theta Clear at all. So let's take a look at that, and when you find yourself feeling like you're perfectly capable of going up to the nearest bobby and saying, "I say, old man, I've always wanted to tell a cop off. Why don't you jump under that truck," and if you could do that without batting an eye and simply walk on down the street, you're in good shape, you're in real good shape. And if you're in that condition, he won't say a word. As a matter of fact, he's liable to dive under the truck.

Well now, let's get on to a little more of this "how to audit." We could cover that last section under the basis of "who you are." And if you're just going to be a guy that sits at a desk and processes somebody when he shows up, you're not going to get anyplace. Circulate!

This next is — has to do with how you audit various people. What do you have to do to get good results with a preclear and to stay in good condition yourself? An interesting one, isn't it? Every auditor that's done any auditing has been up against two terminals, and if he will just take his past auditing — if he is sort of paled a little bit on the idea of auditing people — if he'll just take his last few sessions and if he'll mock up another person in the room and run those sessions over again with another person mocked up in the room observing it, what do you know? Any effect he might have had from that auditing will blow. Why? Most of the time when you're auditing some-body who's lying down, what's going to keep you in present time? You're interested in this person's past, aren't you? And at best you're looking at something that is simulating a corpse — it's lying down, isn't it?

Here we have the condition: Those moments are most aberrative where attention is not being given, not being received or is unnoticed. The most aberrative moments are concerned with that. Attention is not being given, not being received or is going unnoticed. What happens in that case is you actually will draw out of your bank any reserve of sympathy or admiration which you have as an energy, and you just burn it up. Fascinating!

The GE is just a machine, and he'll burn up the past so hard that he'll bring the past right up with him, slurp. And all of a sudden he's sitting out of present time; the past is here and he's back there, and all of his communication lines are little black twists of licorice, and he wonders what in the name of common sense happened to him.

Well, I'll tell you what happened to him. He sat there and audited some-body who was lying down. His whole attention is on the past, and he is observing a form which is in the posture of death. The only way he could sympathize with that form would be to be dead, or audit himself. And after a while, an auditor will drift out of present time when a preclear is being over-long at something and start to audit himself.

Well, you know just exactly what's happening there? He's trying to be the same as. He's trying hard to be the same as and he's out of present time; and he has the preclear there. So, to be sympathetic with the preclear and get any possible, anything possible with that preclear in the lines of communication, he sort of has to be the same as the preclear. So what's he do? He starts kicking in engrams to audit while the preclear is running his, and the auditor will audit himself straight out of present time.

Why does he do this? It's very simple, it's just one of those moments where attention isn't being given or received or is going unnoticed. The pre-clear has his eyes closed; he really isn't paying much attention to the auditor.

This isn't so bad when you're running phrases; it isn't so bad when you're in constant communication with the preclear. But I am giving this to you now, at this time, because you are embarking upon Matching Terminal Processing, which takes a lot of silence. You'll find yourself sitting there an awful lot of the time with nothing going on, so this problem becomes crucial. It isn't just one of these problems that we had better do. But now that we enter in on the Matching Terminals, I can tell you what will happen, because I know what happened after we introduced Lock Scanning. Invented this Lock Scanning technique and didn't change auditing procedure, and the first thing you know, we have half the auditors in the place doped off and out of present time and self-auditing.

Why is this? It's because the preclear was lying there for an hour at a stretch running a chain of locks without the auditor saying anything to him, and the auditor had no choice but to start auditing chains of locks.

The next thing you know the auditor, then, is out of present time. An auditor winds himself up in this fashion in deaths. How still do you get? Dead. How do you sympathize with a dead body? Dead. That's why life continuum's too rough, you see, you just wanted to sympathize with this body and bring this person to life again, and so you start to sympathize with him to give him life. And where do they go? They go on and die. That leaves you where? Some people park at grief; some people park at apathy and they don't go on from there. Why? They can't be dead.

Well, you can go on from there, and so can your preclear. All you do is just mock up the fellow on a double terminal basis. You go ahead and sympathize with him being dead, and that's the end of the engram.

All right. So you don't have to worry about grief charge in running this kind of life continuum out — in other words, running loss, engrams of loss.

All right. Let's go back to this other problem. There's your preclear and your preclear starts to cry. That kind of has a tendency to latch you up in grief. Your preclear starts to get mad. In other words, you're at the mercy of what? The two terminal system. You can argue all you want to about it, it's a rough deal.

Now, a Theta Clear can audit successfully simply by going off to the other side of the room and watching his body and the preclear's body. There he has two terminals and he's not part of them — except his body is getting a counter-discharge, unprotected, and so forth. He isn't doing his body any good when he's doing that.

The funny part of it is, is this becomes negligible — the amount of inter-change and charge passed back and forth becomes negligible when an auditor is auditing two terminals.

Now, there's two solutions for this — three solutions. The first solution is to use two auditors and audit very intensively on some preclear. The solution's been tried quite often; it's found to be very successful. In doing Mock-up Processing — intensive Mock-up Processing — two auditors, then, could expect not only to stay in present time, but could expect to be well advanced on the case of the preclear. In other words, the preclear is going to get well a lot faster. This has been tested, and it's been found to be the case. That's because you've got two minds working on the same subject, but it's also, in addition to that, it keeps the auditor completely in present time, because each one of the two auditors is looking at two terminals. And he's very happy about it, see. And he's never part of the two terminal system; he's the third party. All right. That's one solution.

Another one is to have some office help. You have a girl or a janitor or something of the sort, and every time you give a session, just have them come in and sit down. That's all.

And the other one is to make the preclear furnish the other terminal. Say, "Okay, I'll give you a session," so forth, "who are you going to bring over?"

"Well, just me. You see I have a lot of private things I'd like to sort out. When I was in boys' school, you see ..."

And you say, "Well, who are you going to bring over?" I mean, you're really impressed.

Now, do you want, if this fellow's a man, do you want him to bring over with him a man or a woman? Gee, it's obvious — a man. You're auditing a man, you want a man. And if you're auditing a girl, you want a girl.

Let me tell you something: You go in for auditing very many girls, you'd be very, very smart — and if you, as a girl auditor, go in for auditing very many men, you'd be very smart — always to have another one of the same sex as the preclear on the premises, right in front of you, right there. The reason for this is very simple. About the only way doctors ever get in trouble is some girl goes flying off the handle all of a sudden, and says, "Well, you know, we really — we're awfully good friends, you know," and innuendo. More doctors have ruined their reputations this way than I could count. This is very practical — this whole thing — and it's something you don't want to get involved with.

All right. You'll find yourself occasionally, God help you, in a session where the preclear has nothing on his or her mind but sex. And you're liable to get bogged down in such a deal — you try to run engrams and so forth. Because you start running people below the level of grief and in apathy, and there's satyrism and nymphomania present. And you key that in and, pam, they're terrifically excited in that direction. Have somebody else on the premises. Because if you say, "No. No, no, no. Bye. I mean, sorry . . ." they go out and they say, "You know what that auditor did? He tried to rape me." That's right.

I'm sorry to have to get so down-to-earth on something like that, but we're living in — well, most of us, I hope — 1953. And the society moving out there in 1890 doesn't understand these various things.

All right. Therefore, if you want to stay in present time, continue to be interested in auditing and be very alert and never have auditing bother you, have another terminal there — even though it's trouble, even though it's upsetting and so forth. That is not just optimum condition. You're all of a sudden moving into the technique of Matching Terminals. That means your preclear's going to sit there for a long time and be doped off and so on, is going to be holding two terminals, and they'll be holding two terminals for a half an hour without anything happening as far as you can see. Lots happening with them!

But you've just told them, "All right. Have this — have these two men now — each one cuts his throat and lies down and dies and goes into rigor mortis." And that can go on for a long time because here they've got one and they — he just cuts his throat, see, and they have to put up a second one in here cutting his throat too. And they finally get that. They've got two guys cutting their throat simultaneously. Now we go — have to go on to the next step, and so forth. And they understand this. You're asking, every once in a while, "What are you doing? How's it getting along?" and all that sort of thing. But at the same time there's just these long silences and you as an auditor shouldn't have to occupy those by auditing yourself — no dice.

So there's another solution will offer itself to you, is throw a dummy in the office. Might have some degree of workability, but you'd be surprised how little attention a dummy can give anything.

All right. Now, when do you audit? Don't audit anybody during a period of severe physical pain! In other words, don't audit somebody that — right away quick while they're flying through the windshield in an automobile accident. That's the wrong time to audit somebody. Don't audit somebody when he has just lost eight quarts of blood or something of the sort. You're dealing with a machine to a large degree in the GE, and it follows and obeys certain rules, and you'll do very well to observe these.

Now don't audit somebody late at night. When that hour hits about 10:00, they're right in the middle of the engram, hand them their hats and send them home. I mean, you could do that and be on the safe side. They're right in the middle of something, and it's very hot and so forth, and it's 10 o'clock and you say, "Well that's fine. We'll finish it up the next session. Good night."

You'd think that would be very damaging and very harmful. That is less damaging and in the long run will prove to be — we're just talking about aver-ages now; the old man will tell you something out of his experience with this, observing other auditors at work — you're on the safe side if you do that. Knock it off about 10:00.

Your auditor judgment may tell you, "Well, we just couldn't possibly drop this preclear at this time." Well now, you — you're going to pick it up the following day. All right, you pick it up the following day, but you tell him you're going to pick it up the following day. Give him another appointment.

Because here's what could happen: You say, "That is red-hot, and I could tap it right now. And it will only take another forty-five minutes to run that whole thing out, and then we'll be finished with it" and so forth. And by the way, you just about 10:30 pass the average tolerance point of the body. You won't do anything of the sort; you won't audit that out. You've hit 10 o'clock and a red-hot engram in full restimulation. Drop it like a hot potato. Because it's really going to be flaming forty-five minutes later, and if it's 1 o'clock in the morning, you will find that that engram is getting worse; and if it's 2:00, it'll be much worse. So you could audit from 2:00 till — you could audit from 10 o'clock till 3 o'clock or 4 o'clock in the morning on this confounded thing and just have your preclear get worse. Whereas you could go till 4 o'clock the next afternoon, pick him up again and give him a session.

That sounds completely idiotic, doesn't it? Yet the body is built out of things which have a habit pattern. And that habit pattern is to be less energetic and less resistive at night than in the daytime. People die, on the average, at about 2 o'clock in the morning. At sunset, vitality of the body — real vitality — we're not talking now about late pub-crawling or something of this sort — starts to die out about sunset and dwindles down the line, and unless booted very heavily with alcohol or something of the sort, gets into pretty sorry condition, really, about 10 — 10:30 and then gets progressively worse. Until we hit at 2 o'clock — if you were to take a basal metabolism and all the rest of that sort of thing on a person, you would find that his general fluids and humors and so on were in horrible condition. And you start auditing somebody at 1 o'clock in the morning on the theory you'll be able to do him some good — no, you won't. You're going to have to do all the auditing over again if they're still alive at 2 o'clock the next afternoon.

So just write it down in your book. And break the rule once or twice, just to teach yourself a good lesson. You'll never do it again, I guarantee you. Every now and then some auditor will get away with it. He'll get away with it. That's the freak; that's the freak chance. That's not what will happen ordinarily. Human beings just don't survive well after 10 o'clock. And you get something hot into restimulation and you figure you should knock off the session — well, I said you could, and I said it very crudely, you could hand him his hat and say, "All right, I'll see you tomorrow afternoon." You could, with less damage. But that isn't, of course, what you do.

You just take that next-to-last list, no matter who he is — you get some kind of a hot engram something of the sort, take the next-to-the-last list in Self Analysis and just give it to him. "Remember something real? A time you were really in communication? A time you felt some affinity? A time some-body felt some affinity for you? A time when somebody felt . . . Got that? Got it? That's right. That's right. Good night, Mr. Jones."

That's all there is to it, you see? Or you could actually lock-scan him through the session. But you're getting perilously close to the deadline, and to lock-scan somebody through anything at that hour of the night is, on the average with preclears, bad.

Now, the next thing with regard to auditing: If you start auditing some-body who's very badly anaten, your auditing goes in as an engram. Now, that is justifiable, then, in terms of an assist. The person's pretty anaten, you go ahead and audit him. Remember always to go back then and audit the whole thing through again and audit the auditing out, because the auditing is in there just as solid as the engram material. Now, just because we have Matching Terminals and Theta Clearing and so forth does not mean that there isn't such a thing as pain and unconsciousness. Believe me, we haven't altered a darn thing.

It's quite amusing, at this stage, to realize that we can take Matching Terminals as a technique, and we can do successfully, practically with any individual, any technique we've had in the past on a double terminal basis. In other words, we lock-scan, well, we lock-scan two tracks, side by side. Try it sometime if you want to really snarl your wits up. But anyway, lock-scan two tracks side by side simultaneously. And Lock Scanning works like mad.

In other words, all these old techniques we can use. Well we don't have to use them. If you've spent time studying them and you're interested in them, you know what they are. Remember that you could apply them all on a double terminal basis with practically no liability whatsoever and with probably a great deal of success. With double terminals we've become about 150 times as good. It should have been twice as good — it's about 150 times as good.

All right. What then should we watch for in a preclear? The eyelids. Watch his eyelids. When he has his eyes closed, do his eyeballs wander from side to side? (You see mine working there? Can you see that?) Watch his eye-balls under his eyelids and see if they're doing that. He's hypnotized. All right, now watch my eyelids. You see that? See that flutter? See that little flutter? He's hypnotized; he's anaten.

Now, if you will listen to a preclear's breathing in the vicinity of an accident or something of this sort, you will be able to tell whether or not this preclear is pretty bad off. And you'll know how hard you could hit in giving him an assist.

If the breathing is slow and regular, even if shallow, it's all right. You don't have to worry too much about that. Slow, regular, shallow: that's not the critical point. When that breath gets to where it's irregular, it's deep and shallow, it's irregular in depth and it's irregular in timing — watch it. Breathing — people should breathe, oh, about sixteen times a minute, some-thing like that, twenty times a minute. That's normal breathing. But you can really tell when a person's breathing mechanisms start clipping out on him and his timing goes off. They — if they're breathing just monotonously, that'd be pretty much all right, you know?

But you will get an exception to that rule. Once in a while in a real bad-off case, they just let out a horrible gasp and then they wait for a while, and then they gasp again and so on. They sound like a fish you just landed somewhere. That's unmistakable.

The breathing of a psychotic is so unmistakable that you, as an auditor, will someday be able to recognize the state of sanity of the individual just by watching his breathing. (Everybody starts to breathe self-consciously.) And now, that's very much the case, though.

So, if a person appears to be fairly awake and that sort of thing when you're going to give an assist or do some auditing or they're in bad shape, something like that, just listen to that breath for a few minutes and you'll be able to tell. You'll say, "This person is not breathing normally. This person is breathing with catches and pants. Or this person is breathing . . ." There's — fear has a certain breathing level.

And sometimes people reassure you a great deal with this certain breath level. They'll be — uuh-hhh — sort of like that. You have to see somebody, really, with that one; it would be almost impossible to approximate. But they'll reasure you that they're all right, that everything is okay, that they're not going to do anything, that everything's going to be all right, and if you'll just let them get a little sleep or something of the sort — and you turn your back and they kick the bucket or jump out the window or something terrific happens.

When a person starts breathing in that fashion, you're right on the ball. Where are they on the Tone Scale? They're around 1.0, which is awful close to 1.1. These people who tell you, "I'm all right," and then you turn your back and they blow their brains out were breathing like that when they said, "I'm all right." And if the person who saw them just before that had any brains at all, he could have seen it from the flutter of the chest.

Well, there isn't anything very difficult about this. You can tell whether or not a person is conscious or unconscious. And you'll very often find that you think you're looking at a conscious person, and he's unconscious. His eyeballs wander, his eyelids flutter, his breathing is catchy and irregular, and he'll answer normal questions. You're dealing with a person that you have to wake up! Or that you have to let — if they've been under surgery or something of the sort, or in an accident — that you have to permit to recover before you can do any auditing on them. The body has to patch itself up a long way before you can do any auditing. You get the idea?

So what's your answer in such a case? How do you wake a person up who is that deeply entranced? The best way to wake them up is get them some sleep. Sounds strange, doesn't it? The best way to wake them up is to let them get some sleep.

People only go into an hypnotic trance when they're terribly tired. You'll notice in auditing a preclear late at night that he has a tendency to get his eyelids doing that and his eyeballs wandering. You've audited him into a trance. And if you were to go back over the auditing, he would probably say to you, "What auditing?" You want to audit people who are awake, not people who are asleep.

Now, on the subject of this, watch auditing people who are on a starvation ration. Some people don't realize it, but they are — they don't eat. And you get somebody who is on a real good solid starvation ration and try to audit him, and he'll spin. Everything you start doing for him, he starts to spin. What's wrong with him — he need auditing? No, he doesn't need auditing, he needs a hamburger. That's the end of that. You'll find people who are quite psycho, by the way, will start starving themselves.

Well, and then there's the person who starts to have dreams because of your auditing. Why does he have dreams? He's low on B1. You start giving a person a lot of heavy auditing and he's not taking any B1, he's in bad shape. Now I'm not telling you that I'm prescribing B1 for the patients. I'm merely quoting Abbott and Company's advertising. And that says unmistakably that if you don't slip some thiamine chloride to your preclear, he's going to start having nightmares. That's all there is to it.

A person can't stand too much auditing without getting dreams. And when your preclear starts having dreams, that's because he's too low on B1. So you slip him some B1. And that means what you've been doing to the GE was a little bit too tough for the GE. A person starts seeing spiders and snakes and everything else, what's the matter with him? Low on B1.

Something wrong with your auditing? The only thing wrong with your auditing was you didn't keep your eye peeled on this preclear. This preclear probably didn't eat too well. In the first place, doesn't eat too well and the next thing you know, why, he uses up all the thiamine chloride in his system and he's busy having nightmares.

Now, again, that is not prescribing for your preclear. And you must never prescribe for your preclear.