And this is January the 21st of 1954, first morning lecture.

Material which you got yesterday afternoon and this morning is shooting with both barrels. We are taking apart livingness in these two lectures, not only in its component parts, but we are (and this is the first time I’ve ever said that) really radically altering processing.

Now, you’ve done enough processing now to have these elements down pretty well-to have 8-C down pretty well. You at least know what to expect from a preclear and you know how these elements work, more or less.

We have known for a very long time that the validation of anything caused its materialization. Validation in itself would be postulating or granting beingness to an existence. If you validate something, it exists. If you do not validate it, it does not exist. If you resist it, it exists because you are refusing to validate it. If you ignore something, it rarely materializes.

Now, if you’ll recall the data which I gave you yesterday afternoon concerning, well, not just the granting of beingness but actually the granting of life to things, you will 165 see that we are on a slightly new track for you. And this is a sort of a behind-the-scenes rendition and sufficient trial balloons have been put up and this has been used sufficiently in auditing to validate its existence as a process.

Something very peculiar goes on with regard to processing. A preclear comes up the line and does wipe out a lot of his past and then gets up to a certain point, as in Dianetics, and begins to take a slump. That is predicated on this basis: an individual will grant just so much beingness to entheta and then it materializes.

Now, there have been efforts in the past to utilize this knowledge and data, but it has been sidetracked by various things. The anxiety of the auditor to audit painful incidents would permit the auditor to be sidetracked into the painful incident when it showed up.

Another manifestation takes place as one begins to validate pleasant incidents-the amount of life granted slides over into unpleasant areas. You can ask a preclear to recall something pleasant and, immediately after this preclear has recalled something pleasant, he begins to recall something unpleasant. That is a very routine manifestation. If you don’t understand that manifestation, if you don’t hold with that manifestation, then I prefer that you would run a preclear on that order. Just say, “Now, let’s recall something pleasant and list a time when you were really having a good time” and so forth and we will find after a little while that the preclear is getting swamped with other material. So there was something else at work there.

We, in 1950, in one of the few contributions that came in at that time, worked with this process and, however, found it relatively unworkable after a long period of use. And the process was abandoned simply because an insufficient number of mechanics were known at that time to do anything with the process.

You see, the trick there was that a granting of liveness was being given to the past to the exclusion of the present. And as one validated the past, all of the fixed attentions of the preclear in the past began to materialize automatically. One started to fix attention oil the past, in other words, in such a way as to go past the guards of the preclear and then his attention would overpoweringly switch to the painful incidents in the past. Therefore, the process was booby-trapped and was not a useful process. All right.

Now, what has happened here that changes this? Well, a great deal happens that changes this. As a matter of fact, running of pleasure moments was not this broad a technique and was not exploited to any great degree. When we’re talking about validation, we’re not talking about pleasure moments-different thing. Because we step out of the emotional or energy band, really, when we grant beingness.

Beingness is not granted by passing some energy into something. Beingness is granted by having some energy, if energy at all, materialize in the thing. Different process. This is the same difference as in granting energy to something-as passing a wire from a dynamo over to a machine. And the materialization process-the granting of beingness or validation-is on the order of having a machine run without a wire going to it-no dynamo.

So as soon as we ran pleasure moments we were in flows. And the moment we got into flows we got into trouble. Because all flows are in agreement with the MEST universe and the MEST universe is a “must communicate-stop communications” universe. So therefore, necessarily, when you began to use the pattern of flow dictated by the MEST universe, an agreement with it interrupted a person’s communications. That might not be immediately obvious, but just the simple agreement with this universe will, to some degree, interrupt communications.

Why do you have that wall there? Well, that’s to interrupt communication. You see that? The universe is designed to stop communication rather than further communication. If any communication exists at all it is a compulsive communication, such as, for instance, cosmic rays. They are coming through this room and through people’s bodies at a tremendous rate. And these cosmic rays or waves or particles pass straight through walls unless they are tremendously shielded; they have to be a very specialized kind of wall.

All right. So we have a “stop communication” universe really, in the essence, which is a compulsive communication universe, which is why it has to be designed to stop communication.

So a thetan begins to specialize in stopping communication because the universe is designed to compulsively communicate.

Now, I asked you one day to “Get the idea that everything could communicate with you.” There was only one objection present to this and the preclear in that case had simply stated, “Well, all right, well just skip what was asked for and we’ll get the fact that there is something somewhere with which everything could communicate.”

That wasn’t what was asked. What was asked was “the condition in which everything could communicate with you”

And if we take that thetan plus body, we find the condition is dead. A thetan, then, who cannot stop communication, selectively, can be in any of his ownerships or possessions wafted around and pounded around and shoved around like a leaf in a hurricane. All right.

The thetan gets the idea that it is necessary for a communication line to proceed from him to something in order to pass some energy into it or to have any energy appear in it. This is not the case, as you will test on that E-AR-400. This is not the case. All you have to do is have some energy materialize in the preclear in order to connect the probe. See that?

You didn’t pass a communication line from you to the preclear. But it registered on something which is solidly plugged in. Wires going all around to that meter and wires and wires and wires and wires. And yet, you stood back there at some distance and by getting a sort of a picture of the probe going white-the point of it going white into the individual’s head-it went beep.

And additionally, there was somebody on the machine there yesterday and all that was necessary to do to turn on the machine . .. Two auditors were experimenting and one of them placing the probe against the other auditor and back and forth and back and forth. But, I was standing over there and having a great deal of difficulty because there was a dead area in this auditor’s neck that was being tested and all it did was materialize some energy in this auditor’s neck. But of course, the machine went bop-bop-bop-bop-bop. All right.

As you touch an individual with your thumb, you can bring about a condition of aliveness which then registers on the meter. Here’s a condition of aliveness which occurs: if you are an “electric eel,” you just touch the preclear with your thumb and then test it with the probe. You don’t have to push them hard or anything like that, just touch them. Well, isn’t it peculiar that you can do that without a probe? Well, you’re as well off as you can do it without a probe. And as bad off as you have to have a conduit line to do it.

It isn’t desirable to have a conduit line. Not only is it not necessary, it is not desirable to have conduit lines. Because that is in itself an admission that one isn’t sure where the energy is going, so he’s going to build a road for particles to travel across. He’s got a sort of a police system built up there whereby he’s going to make coils of wire police a course of energy. This is not necessary.

A man is unsure, isn’t he, when he has all of his grounds and possessions under constant and heavy armed guard? You wouldn’t say that man felt very secure, would you? You wouldn’t say he was very well off if you went out here and you found a house with special police patrolling up and down the front of it and special police sitting on the back porch-you’d wonder if the fellow wasn’t under arrest or something.

Well, here is the same thing with a wire. It’s a police force. This is a police force universe if anything. And an individual gets into it, he has to make sure that everything is supervised so it will happen exactly like he says. He’s making sure that his postulate will occur. His postulate will occur to the exact degree that he is comfortable that it’s going to occur. He will materialize as much energy as he is not in the effort or energy band. Because he is as much cause as he is not part of the communication line. This becomes obvious in terms of communication: The fellow who is on the line itself isn’t going to be able to do much. But the fellow who is up there ahead of source or at source, why, he can, of course, effect a communication.

If you were to find the prime cause-point in the communications systems of the world, if you could trace them down very carefully and find the prime emanation point-if one existed-you could put even a simple message across that line and either collapse or electrify or blow up or validate and bring into existence, even more so, all the communications systems of the world. That’s an interesting reductio adabsurdum of the thing, but you see how this could take place. This presupposes these communications start someplace and are starting someplace at any given instant. Not that they started someplace in the past, because cause is not in the past; it’s in the future, if anywhere. All right.

We have here a very, very neat problem. And we needn’t go into this very deeply. You just be satisfied with the fact that you’re as well off as you can say, “That thing will now go white” and it will go white. You didn’t have to reach over with a beam or a mocked-up hand or something and a mocked-up tin can and pour some whiteness into it. That would be mocking-up a communication line in order to effect the materialization of some energy somewhere.

Now, anything that you turn white, you might say-put some energy into or grant some liveness to-will itself be, to that degree, alive. Now, theoretically you could, if you were in good condition, take a wall or a space and put enough energy in that wall or that space in order to have that machine register where no machine could possibly register. It would register as thoroughly as it would on a live human being.

The reason it is easy to do with a live human being is predicated upon this fact: you already have an energy conduit system in existence which can be easily reenergized. The body is already a conduit system and, of course, the energy has its own pattern lines and can be activated easily. Well, there’s no difference between this and putting it into a wall, except to put it into a wall, you would have to overcome the resistances inherent in that wall in order to have a flow there. Now, you see this?

How does this change things for an auditor? That’s quite important. How does it? Well, it changes things with this realization: that that thing he’s granting liveness to will materialize as an alive thing. And if he really grants life to it, it will be a good thing. So we say granting aliveness to something-an unlimited amount of liveness to something-would be basically and essentially good.

Refusing to grant aliveness to something, while at the same time validating it, establishes a randomity. It gives it enough aliveness so that it can kick back against the protective screens which are put up against it. A protective screen when erected against anything will eventually attract the thing, because it’ll invert the second it’s neglected.

So we put up a protective screen to resist eggs and its one mania is to resist eggs. No eggs must come near here. Of course, it totally fixes its attention then, secondarily, because only the thetan’s attention is being fixed-fixes its attention upon every egg that materializes. And so as every egg comes up, why, the machine must shove hard against it. Well, in order to shove hard against it, he has to put his attention thoroughly on it, which is to say, stop his lookingness on an egg.

Arid eventually the end-all of that entire area will be the appearance of an egg. And as eggs will continue to appear, eventually there is not attention for anything else. And the machine is built on the basis “there must be no eggs” and it will run as long as that dichotomy does not turn into a “there must be eggs.” The dichotomy “there must be no eggs” is violated every time an egg shows up to be resisted. And eventually, we get out of the plus and minus bracket “there must be no” and get over into the actual appearance of eggs. And so the machine acts as a vacuum cleaner, you might say, for eggs, and eggs will come from far and wide just to jump into the machine.

Now, Validation Processing is the demonstration of this. As you mock-up various hideous and unacceptable objects, according to you, you eventually get down to a level where you have the preclear’s screens which are supposed to resist these very objects. And these screens will start soaking up the most hideous material the preclear can mock-up. They won’t soak up good material, those screens aren’t rigged to resist good material. They go down to a point of where they will actually soak up all those things which are supposed to be bad.

And so it’s very easy to dispose of these screens: One just simply mocks-up enough of the material they were supposed to resist so that the potential of the screen changes, not just from “minus eggs” to “maybe eggs” to “plus eggs” to “eggs” to “eggs so what.” And that is the way one climbs out of the hole. He gets up to a frame of mind of “eggs so what” and he’s out of the hole.

Well, one doesn’t get out of the hole by mocking-up a screen and then granting liveness to a resistance and then mocking-up madly a whole bunch of material that’s supposed to be resisted and then breaking down the resistance so as to turn the screen into a suction pump of that thing which it was set up to resist, so that he will eventually come to the “eggs so what” level of the screen.

You follow this about this screen? Actually you’d have to run Validation Processing on somebody to get a completely clear view of it. It seems incomprehensible to you that some nice young fellow-his acceptance level of women is, perhaps, a syphilitic prostitute and yet this is the only thing that will close with his screens. That’s his acceptance level. The only thing that could get near him is the one or two things he’s been set up to resist. And he’s resisted these so hard that they eventually become the only acceptable thing-that’s because his total attention will go to them. This is a lack of validation, then, of good women. See? There’s no validation of good women, so all that finally exist are bad women. Now, you have him mock-up some syphilitic prostitutes and these screens just act like vacuum cleaners. And a sensation of hunger will come over your preclear. How very interesting.

This fellow was having trouble with marriage, he was having trouble this way and that way and, the next thing we know, why, we examine the case and we find out that he can’t accept a wife. Mock one up, he can’t have her move near him. We say, “Well now, let’s see, let’s figure out that what he-really acceptable to him is some gay young blade of a girl, you see,” you know? That’s what’s acceptable to him, so we have him mock-up that. No, that’s not acceptable. Your mistake would be in going north.

And the only reason why this has never been discovered before is because nobody knew how to go that far south. It never occurred to anybody to go south on this problem, they always went north.

Well, he wants a better woman, he wants a prettier woman, he wants a woman with more polish or a woman who is more worldly, he wants a woman with better attributes. And they keep working and worrying and philosophizing around the drawing room until they had worn the subject out without ever solving it and they simply forgot about the subject as to why this fellow was never getting along. It never occurred to them to go south on the matter.

When an auditor starts south with Acceptance Level Processing, he can be, if he is rather easily startled, extremely amazed. These things are not acceptable to anybody! Oh, no? Well, then why is it that this tremendous starvation feeling turns on in the individual when we run the syphilitic prostitute on him?

“Oh dear. You say that this nice young fellow-he couldn’t possibly!”

“Nonsense, Hortense.”

Validation Processing. Now, people are staying away from the movies in mad flocks and actually in spite of propaganda to the contrary, leaving their television sets off, because they’re not very entertained. They will spend for instance, today, twenty-five, thirty-five cents for a novel, but they won’t spend three dollars for one. Oh, no.

And this is very strange. Here’s Hollywood slaving away to produce a gaudier picture, more beautiful women, more beautiful men, more dramatic plots, better acting. And the theater: much, much better seating and oh my, oh my, higher reality in forms of this horrible failure called 3-D. And they’re trying to produce these things, you see. And the harder they work at it, the more the public stays away. This would never occur to them to go south. Fortunately, maybe, it never occurs to them to go south.

But you could take Validation Processing, which is a rather simple process, just mock-ups in brackets to find out what is acceptable. We find what is acceptable will go in to the thing which is mocking it up. It will move in at a hurricane rate.

If the mock-up simply stays stationary, nothing is happening, it isn’t acceptable. He just is staying there. And if we’re blowing screens we have to mock-up the truly acceptable item. And when we get the truly acceptable item, it’ll be that thing on which the fellow’s screens are inverted.

And as long as we’re talking about screens, it’s as easy as to talk about Hollywood. So what would be acceptable to Hollywood? Well, I would hate to have to be the fellow who ran enough processing on enough of the public to try to find out what is acceptable today to the general public. But we have level one. Level one is a simple level: it’s what everybody thinks everybody ought to accept and nobody wants it. Nobody-nobody wants this, but everybody thinks everybody wants this, so we’ve got to have it.

Then there’s level two, is what the individuals really want. And this is under cover and is completely hidden. It was those things which their grandfathers heavily erected screens against. It isn’t that it went down the genetic line, it’s just traveled in the culture.

And we would find out, probably, that (as I have already discovered in testing some of the better level of the public) our problem is not even vaguely complicated. Men eating women, rape in its more sordid aspects, you see, not the fun of the rape but way over into the horrible consequences and the final suicide with regard to this rape which, of course, was done with implements of some sort which had claws on them or, you know-1 mean, that’s probably not bad enough, but it’s over in that direction. The acceptable film. It would make your hair stand on end if you drew the curve of where a society like this was going on the dropping of its number two acceptance level. That second personal acceptance level-if you could predict, and you can predict with a few tests, exactly where that’s going and that gets very remarkable.

Well now, as an individual you can recognize this and you can look at it and you can regard it as social phenomena, not to be liked or disliked or even to be terribly concerned about or you can regard it as a personal affront and decide to do something drastic in the way of campaigning or something. In other words, let’s resist it some more. And here we go, out from under again!

Why? Refusing life to something necessitates putting up a sheet of life to do the resisting. And the thing which is resisted will then imbibe of life (which is of course its own, then, and otherwise determined). It’s terribly mechanical. You put up a sheet of energy to resist eggs and, of course, the eggs will be in contact with that energy and eventually the eggs will have the energy and the eggs will be alive and the eggs will then be able to attack. And the only reason they could attack is because you gave them some energy. How’d you give them some energy? By saying, “There must be no eggs.”

Well, it isn’t that this is dangerous, this is just one of these silly things that can only happen in terms of stringing communication lines and putting up big force screens. And when an individual starts this sort of thing, he starts into the dwindling spiral. All right.

Let’s look at something a little more factual concerning this. Here we have a problem Ц of materialization where life is granted. It follows, then, that a wide process must exist which simply ignores-does not resist, does not wipe out, does not validate or take large concern about the ills and misfortunes of Man. And such a process does exist and I’m now going to tell you about it.

The process that we had better call Direct Livingness or Direct Liveness-we had better differentiate between that and an earlier process known as Validation Processing, because this isn’t the same thing.

We treat present time and future actuality, as it is desired by the individual, with minimal validation of symbols and minimal validation of abstracts. This process has almost existed many times, but has been booby-trapped by running abstracts into it. And we find that things are bad and things are good and things are going to be beautiful or they’re going to be ugly or they’re going to be alive in some lovely and abstract fashion. And all we’re interested in is simply granting of aliveness to actual things. We don’t want this abstract. We don’t want this process to go into abstracts of any kind.

This process is very simply done. You’ve already seen part of this in “Give me three places where the condition is not.” You would add to that, to do this process, “All right. What’s there?”

Now “Give me a place where your headache is not.”

“Well, it’s not over there in the corner of the room.”

“Okay. What is in the corner of the room?”

The fellow would say, “Well, some plaster and some air and a little space.”

“All right. Give me another place where the condition is not.”

“Well, it’s not down there underneath the floor.”

“What is there?”

“Oooh, I-I don’t know. Maybe spiders and-and, uh, so on.”

“Well, in the first place, are you sure the condition is not there?”

“No, I’m not sure the condition is not there.”

“Well, let’s find a place where you’re really sure it isn’t.”

“Well, all right. Um-all right. Well, it’s not in your pocket.”

“Well, what is in my pocket?”

“Well, heavens knows what is in your pocket.”

“What do you think it might consist of?”

“Well, let’s see, it could be uh-well, some cloth.”

“Yeah.”

“Probably a little air.”

“Oh, come on, what else?”

“Oh and it might be-you might have all kinds of things, you see. You might have membership cards and you might have-have ... Oh, you know ...” Significance, significance, significance, significance.

You work with him until he tells you that-he’d be pretty sure that you had some cloth in your pocket and he’s sure you’ve got some air in your pocket. And if there’s anything else in your pocket besides cloth and air, it probably is made out of paper or metal. No significance. What is there? Well, you don’t want any significance there at all. “The hell with the significance” could be the motto of the auditor running this process. Because we’ve tested significance long enough to know that the more significant everything got, why, the less workable it was.

All right. So our preclear is unable to exteriorize. Well, it’s demonstrated that a preclear who cannot exteriorize is usually under the duress of some physical pain which is being held in abeyance in some fashion that he himself is not aware of. Therefore his effort is to tty not to grant life. That’s his effort. And you’re asking him to exteriorize from something which he is resisting, which is to say, something in the body somewhere. And because he resists this, he has collapsed lines on it.

So we get the most elementary problem imaginable. But because it’s elementary, please don’t forget its elements, because this is a very tightrope walk across Niagara Falls as a process. It must be well audited. To work, it must be well audited. It can’t be audited with a bunch of sloppy introduction of irrelevance. It can’t be audited with a great deal of attention to significances. It can’t be audited with an enormous and immediate thirst for the exact pains the preclear just now starts to recount to you, because if it’s audited with those dilutions it doesn’t work. Because those are the direct contradiction to his exteriorization. He’s not exteriorizing, because everything has too deep a significance. Because everything reminds him of everything, and everything is associated with everything, in this particular sphere that you’re trying to operate in, according to his first glance. And until you take this association and significance out of the problem, he will continue to resist something. And if he continues to resist it, he won’t exteriorize.

We’re trying to get him to neglect it. It’s obvious to you that if you could get the preclear just to completely neglect the body, he could go up on the molding and cross his legs, theta-wise, and skip the whole thing. See? I mean, he’d be able to exteriorize with great ease. But he isn’t going to exteriorize as long as he is fighting the body to get out, which is to say, using energy to combat energy. And as long as he is trying to use energy to combat energy he will remain in and he will remain occluded. Because there’s things he doesn’t dare look at and he doesn’t dare look at them because they’re so significant.

An occlusion itself is simply this: “What is the significance of that explosion which just happened where it is now black?” And that is actually occlusion. It’s the fellow asking perpetually this question: What is the significance of that blackness? Of course, blackness is a terrible “maybe” he can explain to you-you see, there might be something there in it and there might not be something in it. It might be there and it might not be there, there’s no telling what is in blackness. One does know, however, that there must have been some sort of an activity before the blackness took place, otherwise one wouldn’t be looking at the blackness.

To get some idea of this, take a flashbulb and flash it in your face sometime in a dark room. And, believe me, that’s a beautiful key-in. Beautiful. Flashbulb in a dark room, bang! And boy, is it black afterwards.

And if a fellow didn’t know it was a flashbulb and didn’t know anybody else was in the room, he would sit there and say, “I wonder what the significance of that was!” And then this, associatively, starts to go into all departments of life.

You say, “What’s under the floor?”

“Oooh, I don’t know. There might be some bugs in it. It’s real black and it’s horrible and I don’t Want to take a look at it because aah-zaza-oohh”.

What’s the significance of it? What’s under the floor? So there’s a scorpion under the floor. So there are beetles under the floor. So there are termites under the floor. So what! How can they eat a thetan? How can they sting him?

So you see how far this fellow has strayed from truth. And I’ve told you often recently, a processes as good as it processes toward truth. Well, nothing can hurt a thetan and we’d better process in that direction.

So we say to this thetan, “Find three places in your body that don’t have anything wrong with them.”

And he’d say, “Well, it would be pretty hard to do. You see, I have this ringing in my ears all the time and it rings rather constantly and I’ve been processed now for eighty-two years and I’ve had two hundred billion hours of processing and I’m still crazy.” (Which was, in essence, quoting a book that was written by an ex-army MD, some time ago, on Dianetics.)

Anyway, he says, “I’ve had all this processing and my ears just keep ringing and ringing and we just can’t find out what it is. I think it might have been my father saying to my mother, You’ve always got ringing in your ears,’ but we’ve run that phrase on Repeater Technique and, immediately afterwards, we ran another phrase on Repeater Technique and another phrase and another phrase and another phrase and another phrase and I just can’t seem to get down to this ringing in my ears, because the ringing in my ears is ringing in my ears.”

Where the hell is his attention? His attention is all wound up on the ringing in his ears. So you say, “Find something in your body which is all right.” You don’t even say, “Find something in your body which isn’t ringing.” That wouldn’t be bad auditing, but it would be too close in. You simply ask him to find something in his body that is all right.

“Well, let’s see. Um-mmmmm-I don’t know for sure, but I think-um-no, no, that isn’t. .. Oh, let’s see, there must be something all right someplace here in my body” and so forth.

You’re liable to see a preclear who’s kind of bad off going that way for some time. You know, you will, yourself, the first time it’s really audited on you with certainty. Until you finally find out that there’s really nothing at all wrong with your right-hand little fingernail. What do you know, there’s nothing wrong with it!

Now, a thetan is engaged, when he gets dim on perception, in guarding and protecting the body against enormous numbers of imagined dangers which are all part of the past and which don’t exist in the present. So his protection screens are all erected around what’s going to be or has been wrong. So we don’t even cross them on a dichotomy. We simply ask him for three things which are right with his body. Going to be a funny thing happen: there’s going to be a somatic show up and he’s going to ask you about it. And you could hold his hand and say, “That’s too bad.” You could sympathize with him. You could do most anything, but that’s not very efficient.

In a not unkindly voice you say, “Well, all right.” Don’t get unkind about it, because that will really cross him up. You know, if an auditor sits there and kept telling the thetan, “Well, you did it all to yourself anyway. You got yourself into this mess. Well, go ahead.

Yeah, you know you’re to blame and you might as well take on the responsibility of it and run it.”

This guy will just go, gradually, nyaow, plunk!

Well, similarly, if we became too cruel while we were running this, an individual is liable to cave a little bit.

So you ask this fellow next, “All right, your right-hand little fingernail. All right. What’s some other portion of the body, preferably some other place in the body, that’s all right?”

Now, if you were to ask him, right after you found the second place, “How does your right-hand little fingernail feel now?”

He’d say, “That’s very funny, but it feels alive.” Yeah, he’d say, “It feels alive. That’s very peculiar.”

Now, if any of you have located that, just feel your fingernail right at the moment and you’ll probably tell me it feels alive. It feels more alive than the rest of your fingernails. It’s real cute, huh? That’s because you let it be alive. You were keeping everything from not being alive, because if you let anything come to life it’d hurt.

So you take three things inside the body and three things outside the body and three things inside the body and three things outside the body and three things inside the body and three things outside the body, until you’ve got the environment repaired and its actuality sorted out. And the body itself alive enough and its lines with enough energy in them to permit a relaxed exteriorization on the part of the preclear.

Anchor points are out of line in the body to the degree that the body is starved for energy. Somatics and communication lines are intimately connected and somatics are usually, solely, because of an overtight communication line or collapsed terminals, which would be the tightest line you could get. And a ridge, really, is composed of a couple of thoroughly collapsed terminals which, once upon a time, were a long way apart.

So your thetan starts to energize the body, directly, and the communication lines start to stretch in all directions. And if you start to identify them as past communication lines, you are done. Because you identify them as being alive and you try to stretch them alive and we get the alarming results of Admiration Processing. You simply start stretching all the past communication lines of the guy and the entire body is composed of past communication lines and so out they go.

There’s only one thing you can validate, is present time form and future form. And if you validate present time and future form, you’re all right.

All right. Now, we’ve got the body more alive. Did we get the mysterious and strange significant things about the body worked out? No, we didn’t. We just neglected the entire past of the preclear, at one fell swoop.

This announcement and material is significant because it marks, in the field of the mind and psychotherapy, a complete break with all past therapies. A complete and utter break. It is why they were relatively workable instead of completely workable. The explanation of that is contained herein.

Now, you’re going to run across pleasure moments as you do this and you’re going to run across a lot of things. And if you validate these pleasure moments, you’re validating past. Don’t fight the past, don’t worry about it-just skip it. And you’ll get this pleasure moment process phenomena and old Validation Processing phenomena will show up by you validating hard this big problem of the preclear, which was trying to be happy and trying to keep from being unhappy, even if he had to use bulldozers to do it. Even if he had to use fortress walls to hold back the unhappiness, even if he had to build mountains to barricade himself from all the tears and sorrow which insisted on pouring his way, he was going to be happy.

And of course, the dwindling sphere of his zone of protection got less and less happy. At one time it could have even been a protected area which really was happy. But after a while, even as the zone collapses, the quality o£ what is being protected collapses too, because we have surrounded a plus with a minus and so we got a flow. It’s as simple as that. Once you’ve barricaded happiness to prevent unhappiness, you have put a resistor, electronically, between a plus and a minus potential and you’re going to get a flow whether you like it or not. And don’t think you won’t get a flow in using this type of processing. You’re going to get lots of flows in using this type of processing, but they will get less and less and less and less. Sometimes, for a short period, they will become extremely severe and the somatics involved will become almost unbearable in some cases, at which time you merely continue the process. Sadistic sort of thing, isn’t it?

You could never do this adequately unless in Scientology there existed what amounts to the total mechanical knowledge available, in terms of the past, and energy manifestations with regard to the mind. But what a terrific ransacking we have given that field. And if you know that pretty well and if you know how you can run an engram, what a communication line is . .. Did you ever have a preclear, for instance, suddenly look up and say, “What’s this tremendous gold line which is running across my face that seems to go from way over there to way over there?” That is a communication line. We’re not joking when we say communication line, it is a line. It isn’t anything which is just ethereal; there is real energy masses involved.

Well, as we start this process with the preclear, we begin to get him to neglect his body. He won’t leave it until he can neglect it. Because leaving the body, by definition, is momentarily neglecting it. So exteriorization is accomplished by getting him to neglect his body, by just finding things that are right with it and things that are right with the world and things that are right with the environment.

Now, you can find things that are right, with certainty (I underscore) with all the dynamics. Not by saying what’s right, and this right, but varying your patter on it a little bit.

“Let’s get something about God that you’re quite sure of.”

“That he’s evil,” some fellow will say.

“Well, that’s fine. Well, is there anything that would recommend him to you that you’re sure of?”

“Well, ha! I-that I never met him personally.”

“You’re sure of that?”

“Yes sir!” He’s sure of that.

“Okay. Now, tell me something decent...” You know, just getting off of this good, good, good, good or right, right, right, right as a patter, get all the synonyms that go in there.

You know, “Tell me something very decent about thetans that you’re absolutely sure of.” “Ooh. You mean about spirits?”

“Yeah, all right.”

“How about ghosts?”

“Same thing.”

“[sigh] Let’s see, something good and decent. Well, let’s see. Well, they furnished the material for a ghost story once which I read and enjoyed. Ha-ha.”

“You sure of that?”

“Sure.”

Well, finally we found something good about them. You see where we go into this? We don’t prime the preclear very much. And he is the guy who will keep trying to ransack the past on you. You don’t want the past ransacked. You know this: the more he ransacks the past, the slower you’re going to pull him out of his head.

Now, you notice that all exteriorization processes-pardon me-all processes worked on an exteriorized thetan are pretty well present time processes. You take Change of Space Processing and other things, these just simply shake him right on out of the past without ever saying a word about it. So let’s exteriorize him the same way. Let’s just shake him right on out of his head without ever validating what is going on in it.

He can find some things right with his body. A cripple lying in bed who is an acre of pain will be able to find many, many, many things right with his body. He’ll discover suddenly, much to his amazement, that it’s breathing. Never thought about that before. Nothing seems to be wrong with his lungs at all, they breathe. He can move his eyeballs from right to left. There are things that are right.

It used to get me, by the way, as a little kid to look at some beautiful expanse of ranch or something up in Montana and, oh, everything was just swell. I mean, you know, cattle. And everything is fine. And fences. What there were in the branding corrals would be in good condition and the barn is pretty good and hay in and everything. And have somebody just so doggone unhappy about those gophers-all they seemed to be able to talk about were those gophers, those damn gophers!

“Well, has anybody fallen into one of the hole... any horse fallen in and broken its leg?”

“No. But they’re gonna!”

“You mean nobody ever has fallen into one of them gopher holes?”

“No. No, no horse has ever put his foot in one of those gopher holes. But that doesn’t say it won’t happen!” And they would get toweringly angry because you were apparently invalidating their pet hate.

You’re trying to argue them out of it. Well, by you trying to argue them out of it, you’re validating it too, which simply charges it up. See how cute that is?

So you start to say-you say to somebody, “Well, probably you haven’t led too bad a life.” “Led too bad a life .. .’’Completely aside from the point of addressing the past, you have done this stunt: you have validated and given life to-he thinks-an area and mass of energy of which he is mortally afraid and you’re taking and charging up his enemy by saying it’s nice.

Now, the Merchants of Fear, as they run around and give you this entheta and that entheta and this bad news and that bad news and tell you how bad it all is over there

21 January 1954 (reference Issue 16-G of the Journal)-how bad it is over there and so on-as they go on through this process, they’re trying to get you to put up some screens that will charge up a badness which doesn’t exist till you mock it up by putting it in front of the screen. Because whenever you mock-up the screen, you mock-up what goes in front of it. And then you sit there and resist it and then the more you resist it, the more you charge it up. Because, unfortunately, you’re not selective about what you give life to at this point. And if you give life to all this badness, it’ll be real bad, won’t it?

It is a sort of a curse you have, actually, that you really only give goodness. And that is actually the most horrible curse that any being could ever have: that everything he touched-really touched-became good. And individuals try to argue themselves out of this continually by refusing and resisting touching. And that in itself is badness.

That’s a horrible thing that if you go down the street to ruin somebody, you can deny him life by banking up all around a flock of screens, but if you work at it hard enough and long enough in denying him life, you’ll finally make him live, because the only energy you could put out in those screens was good energy. No energy is bad, in other words. And your actions can’t be bad, but they can be resistedly mocked-up in such a way as to materialize things which, by postulate, you have said are bad. See? It is impossible for you to give death. And that is the big “failure” on the track for a thetan: he cannot kill. He tries; he disposes of the form and the spirit lives on. Terrible, isn’t it? He cannot kill. There is no death. And this is a terrible “failure.”

By the way, you can run it as a failure on a preclear and he may at first tell you that it’s the police that are keeping him from killing. But it isn’t the police that are keeping him from killing, it’s just the mechanics of existence. He can destroy a form and that’s as far as he can go. It’s hideous when you think of it. All a thetan can do is bring sweetness and life and light. And what a horrible time he has being bad! So, of course, most of his energies are devoted in an impossible direction so as to furnish him with sufficient randomity to give him an interest in existence. They try to be bad and they wind up by doing quite the contrary.

A fellow trying to conquer all of his enemies is a very, very interesting picture: he winds up by making them all live, one way or the other.

Actually the dirtiest trick that a fellow could play on some enemy is to do this: to let him go on and on and on, striving in the role of being an enemy of the fellow. That’s great, isn’t it? They go on and on and on and they work and work and work. That’s a horrible existence. It would be a kindness to blow their brains out and let them go get another mock-up. That’s mercy. Which is why nobody will permit it-it’s too good.