
REPAIR AND REMEDY OF HAVINGNESS

A lecture given on 16 January 1956

I want to talk to you now about the first level of SLP Issue 8. And I'm 
going to talk to you in a very high generality - very, very high 
generality on the level. I'm not going to give you specific steps. I'm 
going to tell you what happened and how it all came about and the 
general subject matter of it.

Now, you will at first believe that the only reason why SLP Issue 8 is 
arranged as it is, is to give us a nice, easy way to train students so 
they won't make upsets in the HCA/HPA Course. I mean, I think you'll 
look it over and say, "Well, it's logically the first thing the guy 
would have to know is how to do this, you know?" Well, the funny part of 
it is that it not only belongs first in training, but it belongs first 
in processing.

And I want to go back a little bit and give you an historical rundown on 
this situation, so that you will see that we've had this for a long 
time. And I also want to make some comments on the fact that we have 
been up against a roadblock which inhibited the dissemination of 
Scientology a great deal. And we have now located the roadblock and can 
sweep it out of the way. And this is a wonderful piece of news, 
actually, all in itself.

But let's go back historically and discover that up at 30 Marlborough 
Place - three years ago - discovered a principle known as havingness. 
It's covered in Scientology 8-8008. It was right in there along with 
Creative Processes, and out of this principle, Creative Processing 
derived.

Therefore, the process about which I am talking is an old process; it is 
a very, very old process. And being an old process, it is the most 
neglected of all processes. And it is so neglected that we have now 
given it a new name. We call it "Repair and Remedy of Havingness."

Now, this material has, in other words, been doing a sleeper on us. 
You've heard me many times in lectures say, "When in doubt, remedy 
havingness." I'm sure you've heard me say that. And a great many 
auditors have done this and have kept very close to this principle.

But actually, a codification of the materials which operate as a 
background to a Repair and Remedy of Havingness are quite complicated. 
It is not a simple subject; it is a complicated subject. It's one which 
is easily understood, if it is looked at, but it should be looked at in 
the light that - in view of the fact that Scientology itself is 
basically simple, it is very strange to have sitting right at the 
beginning of a case a thing as complicated as the Repair and Remedy of 
Havingness.

So don't walk into this with the idea that all we do is throw the 
electric light switch and the lights go on. This is not the way it 
works. We are at the crossroads here of a preclear when we are at the 
crossroads of havingness. He is either going to go up or down. He is 
going to go up if he can repair or remedy havingness; he's going to go 
down if he cannot. And that's the long and the short of it. That simple 
statement can be made concerning preclears in general.

Becomes very, very important to you, then, because the progress a case 
makes is not the significances he finds out. The actual process is on 
cognition, of course. But how on earth is he ever going to make a 
cognition if his havingness goes down?

An odd test is in progress right at this moment to ask a preclear some 
very arduous, extremely complicated question that leads toward an 
obvious significance, an obvious cognition. He just can't help but make 
this cognition, you see? And we ask that question without repairing or 
remedying havingness for an hour, without the cognition occurring. We 
ask it six times, remedy the fellow's havingness, ask it twice more and 
he gets the cognition.

Now, that is what has been happening so far in this series. Of course, 
I'm always prepared to have a series break down, and I'm simply telling 
you the series is under test at this moment. But this is evidently what 
we've been looking for: How do you make them get cognitions? The 
cognition is important, but the cognition does not occur unless you 
repair and remedy the preclear's havingness.

Now, there's some misunderstandings along this line. People use these 
terms interchangeably, so we have had to specify this much more 
particularly. People have been talking about Remedy of Havingness and 
have been giving the preclear havingness. Remedy of Havingness is not 
giving the preclear havingness; it's making it so he doesn't have to 
have. That is a Remedy of Havingness.

Now, just giving the preclear havingness, however, has its role and 
position in auditing; and so we have given it a new name, and that is 
called "Repair of Havingness." That just simply means give him some 
havingness. Have him mock it up and somehow or other get it shoved in. 
That's repair.

Now, "Remedy of Havingness" means mock it up, shove it in, mock it up, 
throw it away. You got the idea? There's two different actions here, so 
therefore we talk about Repair and Remedy of Havingness.

When you can conceive that a preclear, in trying to communicate, is 
reaching; and that a preclear is a thetan, and he is reaching; and that 
when this reachingness is done, it cuts down the body's havingness, you 
understand at once why people stop communicating. They reach - in other 
words, they try to get that communication out there, and when they fail 
to get that communication out there, it's because they don't have enough 
havingness.

In other words, it cuts down the havingness. Therefore, what tiny little 
bit of energy they are sending out in front of them are reabsorbed back 
into the body, and they have a feeling like they can't reach. It's an 
automatic process that goes on. It's a fascinating process.

The individual wants to say "Hello, Joe," you see, and he sort of has a 
stream of energy going out there with "Hello, Joe," you see. Good 
fellowship, good ARC. You know, he feels this sort of way, "Hello, Joe."

And the second he thinks of "Hello, Joe," he goes clamp. Now, how's that 
happen? He thinks "Hello, Joe," it makes an actual reduction of 
havingness in the middle of his body, if he's interiorized.

Now, if you could conceive a body as a rather interesting thing which 
sits in the middle of an electronic structure - not as something that 
has blood and brains and limbs, but that it sits in the middle of this 
electronic block of something. And the anchor points themselves are 
quite visible. A preclear can see these. Very often a preclear is quite 
surprised, saying, "I wonder what all these golden balls are around 
here," you know, or "What are these black balls?" They're anchor points.

Well, that's the body's electronic structure. It's a very interesting 
pattern. The illusion of the body's presence, which is the blood and 
bones and all the rest of it, is actually held in place by this 
electronic structure which is on a higher wavelength. All right.

There's something else there. There is a mass of energy which might be 
compared in an electrical way, to gelatin on a solid MEST sort of thing. 
It's a clear, invisible, electronic standing wave. That's what it is. 
And it's a block. You might say he's sitting there not only with his 
anchor points, but in a block of electrical gelatin. That's what it 
looks like. That isn't what it is, of course. Well, we don't care what 
it is; it's basically a consideration. But that's the body's 
consideration, and we as auditors are stuck with it. All right.

Now, this block of gel, these anchor points themselves, have a tendency 
to become disarranged. Now, what is the function of this electronic gel?

I know it sounds to you like I'm being terribly complicated, but if you 
can just get the idea of the preclear sitting in the middle of a bunch 
of gelatin, clear gelatin - you know, a big bowl of clear gelatin, and 
he's sitting in the middle of it. And that's the body, you see, is 
sitting in the middle of it, but this other stuff exists. And then 
scattered through the gelatin are a bunch of marbles, those are his 
anchor points. You've got a pretty good picture of what the full picture 
of this preclear is. All right.

Now, this individual has to have a certain amount of energy to make up 
any energy transferences and losses in order to be this complete 
picture. So he gives away a little energy, and right away, the second he 
does this - nothing mocks it up, let's say, nothing adds to it again, 
nothing puts it back in placehe's just that much less on energy.

And if he keeps going downhill and losing energy, he begins to eat up 
this gelatin. He begins to eat up these anchor points. And the next 
thing you know, the wing anchor points, that ought to be out there about 
seventy-five feet up and to the right and seventy-five feet up and to 
the left - they ought to be at least that far - are sitting in the 
preclear's stomach.

Well, how did they get in his stomach? How did they get in his head? 
What's he doing wearing one of these anchor points, that ought to be out 
there seventy-five feet, under his chin? It's just the fact that he 
didn't have enough electrical energy to replace the electrical energy 
which he was exhausting in some fashion or another, and in came the 
anchor points and in came the gelatin.

Now, here's a very - something very funny about this gelatin: if there's 
enough gelatin there, it's clear and if there isn't enough there, it 
begins to hold on to pictures, it forms into pictures. This should be 
quite revelatory to you, because this is another kind of engram. The 
actual engram, which is a sheet of energy or the mock-up itself, exist. 
They exist, you see.

But a long time ago - just still speaking historically - I isolated this 
gel and said, "This is a funny thing. This stuff holds pictures, too." 
Its mission is to do (it begins to conceive) an obsessive duplication of 
what it sees. This is quite remarkable. So we have the preclear look at 
a pine tree, and the next thing you know, he has a pine tree sitting in 
front of his face.

Well, it could be one of two things, it really doesn't matter which - 
Remedy and Repair of Havingness does for each - but he's got a pine tree 
sitting in front of his face. The pine tree isn't there anymore, he's 
moved away; but he's still got this pine tree.

Well, this is a curious thing. What happened is, is the gel itself has 
compulsively duplicated the pine tree. No new energy has been used. No 
new energy has been used to make this picture of a pine tree. The gel 
itself has simply combined itself mechanically into the picture of a 
pine tree.

And a little bit later he looks at a stove, and the gel - same gel that 
made the pine tree - combines itself into a stove. And a little while 
later he looks at his wife, and the same gel that was the stove 
recombines itself into the picture of a wife. This is an obsessive 
duplication and a little trick the body uses so that it can make 
pictures (real cute), without expending any energy. And it only does 
this, of course, when it assumes that it is short on energy. You follow 
me?

If it begins to assume it's short on energy, it begins to put all of its 
pictures in the form of gel and then retranslate them again and 
retranslate them. It doesn't have a bank of pictures; it has a gel here 
which is doing an obsessive duplication.

Now, in addition to this gel, it has engrams, which are kind of like 
sheets; facsimiles, copies of things, which are actual pictures, just 
like we'd deal a deck of playing cards. They're actual pictures. They're 
not this gel.

Now, maybe you didn't suspect that there were these two things sitting 
there in the body, both of which apparently were doing the same thing. 
But you will not be surprised, and you will see it at once when I tell 
you that this gel can become so scarce that it turns black. It becomes 
so burned down that it turns black.

And it not only, then, no longer duplicates what the individual's eyes 
look at (this duplicates what the eyes look at, by the way, not what the 
thetan looks at); not only does it no longer duplicate that, but it 
prevents the thetan from seeing the body's pictures. So we at once wipe 
out his picture bank and his duplicator bank, you see - at once. As soon 
as this gel turns black, this is the condition he's in. And that 
condition is not a mysterious condition.

It, of course, and everything else depends upon considerations and these 
considerations can change. But the body is so sold on this structure, it 
is so fixed, it is so convinced that this structure exists, that a 
thetan just doesn't say, "Well, I've changed my mind about that" and 
have all the black turn nice and clear and everything is - naaah.

It's not going to happen, because it wasn't his consideration that did 
it. He is simply agreeing to a consideration which he found in the body. 
The body is a structure of very complex considerations. Thetan comes 
along, gets into agreement with the body and agrees to these 
considerations.

Now, if the thetan changes his mind about these considerations, very 
little is going to happen to the body; very little is going to happen to 
the body, but something might happen to the thetan. He has merely gone 
out of agreement with the body, just to that degree. He says, "I don't 
have to obsessively agree with the body to this extent. Therefore, I 
simply will disagree along these certain lines and change my mind about 
that consideration." That doesn't necessarily, though, fix the body up 
at all, does it?

Now, do you see this structure? Now over the last three years I've 
managed to isolate various parts of this structure, and it's with great 
surprise that preclears run into this structure rather uniformly without 
having consulted any textbooks or anything. The structures are actually 
there. But it may be a little bit of news to some of you - those who 
were not in the ACC this last time, particularly - that this gel exists 
which makes pictures in addition to regular pictures, see?

So here's the body. It has this gel. It also has a bank of pictures. And 
in the middle of the body, what do you know, there's a thetan. And he 
has pictures, and he has machines that make pictures. And boy, if that 
isn't a hideous mess, you just never saw one.

If the thetan did not have machine and pictures, he would never have any 
trouble with the body, and the body would never have any trouble with a 
thetan. A thetan would just come along and pick up the body's pictures 
and electronic gel and all the rest - pick up its gel, its two types of 
pictures, its anchor points, go on and work with them, and that'd be 
that.

But the thetan is an energy production unit. He can produce space. He 
can produce energy. He can produce mass. And he already, to keep himself 
amused, is fully equipped with a full MGM studio full of pictures and 
he's all set. He's got gorgeous complications. And the body does not 
agree with the thetan's type of machinery. They're two different types 
of setup.

The thetan has machines that make his pictures, on consideration, rather 
than a pocketful of pictures. Got it? Looks to me now we have three 
methods of making pictures, don't we? We have machines that make 
pictures, that belongs to the thetan; we have this gel which obsessively 
duplicates what the body looks at; and then we have the picture bank of 
the body itself.

Well, there's a fourth method. If there were no fourth method, the whole 
thing would be hopeless. And the fourth method is the solution, and that 
is: the thetan can mock up or copy any of these items previously named. 
He can mock up or copy machinery, he can mock up or copy this gel, he 
can mock up or copy any of the body's pictures. And if he can do these 
things, then he can get himself out of - not the soup, but the gelatin. 
All right.

Now, in view of the fact - in view of the fact there are three different 
types - actually, it requires several different kinds of action in order 
to care for these things, and this could get to be a very complicated 
thing; but oddly enough, one complements another. And each time you use 
mock-ups done by the thetan, you tend to remedy all three of the basic 
things.

When a thetan or the body is down on havingness, the thetan's machinery 
goes into more furious action. Therefore, automaticities on the part of 
the thetan's machinery occur when the thetan is low on havingness or 
when the body is low on havingness or when the gel won't duplicate or 
when the body's pictures are all Worn out. Now, you got it?

Anytime the body is low on havingness, the thetan's automatic machinery 
goes into action, the gel has a tendency to obsessively seize on 
pictures, and the body starts locking its own picture gallery in against 
the body. Anytime there's a scarcity of gel and it can't do a nice, 
quiet duplication without the use of energy - it's a very tricky 
mechanism, you know, and - don't need any energy, you just use the same 
energy, recombine it and you've got a picture. By that consideration, 
why, of course, it can have pictures without the expenditure of energy. 
Some genius figured this out down the line someplace and all bodies have 
it. All right.

Now, if the havingness of this gel - that is, if the quantity of gel 
goes down, we get the thetan's machinery going into automatic action, 
the anchor points and pictures of the body slamming in tight. It's 
interesting, isn't it?

Now, when the anchor points of the body get reduced on havingness, they 
have a tendency to come in and get stuck in the gel and stuck inside the 
body and actually confront the thetan, and the thetan's machinery goes 
into action. You get how this is? And each time any of these things 
occur, the body's engram bank comes up and gets stuck and jams.

This kind of looks like one of these horrible toys that some chap in a 
delirious moment figured out to give to his little boy that he wanted to 
drive mad.

Now, there is a remedy to the situation. I'll just note in passing that 
some little time ago I discovered that you could ask your preclear to 
operate this gel by making the gel assume the same pattern that it's 
assuming, only he makes it assume it in a different place.

Let's say he has a tree in front of him, and it's obsessively in front 
of him. It's been there for years. He keeps looking at this tree. You 
know, every once in a while he looks up and there's this tree. You 
assume that it's a picture and remedy havingness of trees by having him 
mock up trees and shove them in, you'll come to more or less the same 
thing. So this is merely interesting bric-a-brac that I'm giving you.

You can actually have the thetan recompose the gel into a tree alongside 
of the tree and then recompose the gel at another place into another 
tree and recompose the gel into another tree and recompose the gel into 
another tree, and all of a sudden the gel - a consideration therein - 
seems to have this change of consideration: "Shucks, there are enough 
trees," (snap) and it lets go of the tree.

Now, we have an individual who is in a continual state of confusion. We 
have him do various things with confusions, and nothing much seems to 
happen. We assume that the gel is what is in confusion. It's in a 
pattern of confusion and is frozen that way. See, it's just stuck - big 
confusion. All right.

You just have him - not mock up energies, it's a different operation 
than making mock-ups - you have him get the idea that the gel is formed 
in a confusion. And he puts a confusion here and a confusion - let's say 
the confusion was here - you have him put the confusion out there a 
foot, and out and to the right a foot, and below it and around it and 
all of a sudden something strange happens and the gel disentangles, and 
he no longer feels confused.

The gel, the pictures, the machinery of the thetan and even the anchor 
points can, each one, foist off some kind of an aberration on the thetan 
- each one.

Now, just plain mock-ups take care of this gel accidentally, which was 
why it went undetected so long. It's just accidental. You have him keep 
making up mock-ups and shove them in - and maybe it was a fixed picture 
in this gel; it wasn't a facsimile at all - and it disentangled. But you 
can make it work a lot faster if you knew it were fixed in the gel and 
you merely had him re-form the gel a few times. Quite curious. All 
right.

Now, these discoveries which I have just detailed are scattered out over 
a period of about three years. And they have formed up all of a sudden - 
not into a new, tricky process, but into an absolute necessity. An 
examination over the period of the last three months, by myself, and 
during that three months, of the graphs made by Scientometric testing on 
various preclears coming into the clinics and individual auditors, 
before and after they were given intensives, has brought me the news 
continually that somewhere or other we were falling down. Just for the 
last three months, we've been falling down.

Why? Yes, we've been making gains. Yes, these gains are fine. Only 
they're not the kind of gains I'm interested in. Guy merely became sane. 
So what? We got all kinds of sane people. What happened that the chap 
was not going out through the roof, hm? What happened that he was not 
being able to assume' 100 percent serenity and so forth? Where was this 
maximum gain which existed for a while?

Well, the moment that staff auditors came off a lot of Creative 
Processes, the gains dropped out. Interesting. I knew the gains had 
dropped out, but I didn't know that Creative Processes and Remedy and 
Repair of Havingness had dropped out to that degree. Believe me, they 
hadn't just dropped out; they've disappeared. And that applies not just 
to staff auditors, that applies to practically every Scientologist in 
the business.

So I took my finger off my number by not beating the drum hard and 
saying, "Get that havingness repaired and remedied, yak, yak, yak," you 
know? I didn't - I wasn't in there pitching.

My first real comm lag in research and development; it's three months 
long. Auditors stopped doing something - I didn't notice till three 
months later. But it was an interesting thing that it caused me to go 
into a flurry of investigation over the last three months and discover a 
lot of very useful things, such as body motivators and all kinds of the 
considerations of what is good and what's bad and the interrelationship 
between the thetan and the body and, most importantly, the real truth 
about exteriorization.

So it was not without some gain, but it was also not without some worry. 
I have a file drawer in the other room full of my bit-off and spat-out 
fingernails.

Now, where did we leave the rails? We left the rails simply by getting 
so close to the center pin of all the basic considerations with our more 
recent processes over the last six months. We've come so close to the 
gong, you see, on a preclear that we relaxed on the subject of the 
preclear's body. We came so close.

The processes which we have today, if you assemble them and look them 
over on the significant side of the thing, are so hot. Till we got 
careless with a little old factor like the Repair or Remedy of 
Havingness. "Shucks, that doesn't require any going over. That's 
unimportant, you know. That's just the body. We can skip that."

Only we couldn't. There was the body, sitting there, saying, "Did I 
detect a very small erg of energy going out at that moment? Slurp. My 
family - is there some intimation here that my family has been mean to 
me? Slurp." Get the idea?

Our processes were so good that they would shake loose so much material 
in the case that we got too proud. We could see the clockwork in the 
preclear so well as far as his thinkingness and his considerations were 
concerned that we didn't think we had to pay very much attention to the 
mechanics, and unfortunately, the body is still sold 100 percent upon 
the mechanics.

The body is sold on mechanics. It's sold on space, energy, terminals, 
standing waves like this gelatin. Sold on the absolute necessity of 
having anchor points in the right place. Sold on agreement. It's sold on 
motivators. It's sold on what's bad for it is what it needs, you know. 
It's sold on the wildest category of ideas, and these ideas are 
mechanically represented. They are represented in mass.

It's as though somebody went out and took all the ideas it took to make 
a body and then carved them in granite, you know, and there they are. 
And unfortunately, they have to be handled in granite. Get the idea? 
You're not going to blow up a marble statue with a consideration. Maybe, 
maybe, maybe after you've had a lot of auditing you'll be able to do it, 
but not just now.

More likely, you'll blow it up with some dynamite. It's perfectly 
legitimate to use dynamite.

Now let's say you're trying to take a marble statue - let's get an 
allegory going here with the body. The body is a colonial aggregation of 
cells. And let's say you're trying to take a marble statue away from a 
city which just has one marble statue. You go in and you got a big 
Caterpillar tractor and you got a big truck that you're going to put it 
in and a derrick to lift it with, and you've got no authorization from 
the mayor or anybody and you're going to pick up this marble statue and 
cart it off.

Riots! Not only will the police force be on the back of your neck, but 
the whole population will too. People will not like this. They've just 
got one statue.

Well, one of the ways to get that statue - it's quite interesting - all 
you'd have to do is put a statue at every corner in the city, and then 
pick up this one statue and cart it off. And then the population 
discovers that the statues you put up were made out of cornstarch and 
melted in the next rain. But the funny part of it is, they probably 
would have forgotten completely they had a marble statue in the first 
place. It's kind of a dumb population. And that is the way processing 
works. Got it?

Only it's kind of more like this with the body: There is only one sewer 
system in the city, and they know that this sewer system is very 
valuable. Has to do with sweating all night, you know. Very valuable. So 
you have to go in and build, very rapidly, very great number of sewer 
systems, and you can pick up the sewer system and carry it away. Get the 
idea?

The body does not surrender until it is convinced of abundance. It 
convinces rather easily. Our opponent in this case, oddly enough, is 
actually not a thetan. Our opponent in this case is a body. A body is a 
theta trap, and being such, to change it around requires skill in a 
mechanical way. It is an artisan-type skill.

If you're going to straighten out the havingness of a body, you might as 
well just get the idea that you're going to go at it in a mechanical 
way, because the havingness of a body is straightened out by mechanics.

Now, if you got a thetan to fix up his havingness all the time 
mechanically and got him sold on his dependence on space and energy and 
all the rest of it, you'd have a different picture entirely. He'd start 
going by the boards; because he basically is a thought-production 
machine, before he is an energy- and space-production machine.

So this thetan, of course, if you kept insisting to him all the time 
that he had to have space and he had to have energy and that sort of 
thing, he'd probably decide to build a body like that, too, you know? 
He'd get groggy on the subject.

So, in all this Repair and Remedy of Havingness, we isolate this 
interesting principle: That you must detail all of your instructions on 
havingness to the body until you get your preclear exteriorized, at 
which time you start designating yourself. Got it? But until you have 
him exteriorized, skip that end of it pretty well, and you designate 
your havingnesses to the body and you'll win.

Well, that is Level One of SLP Issue 8. It takes up, not every 
conceivable way, but the major ways of repairing havingness and the 
major Of remedying havingness, taking into account such things as body 
motivators - thirst of the body for motivators. It takes into account 
the fact that the body desires things which are bad; its thirst for 
various oddities. It straightens the body screens out, which are so 
hungry for energy that they collapse the various particles of energy 
contained in facsimiles upon them.

In other words, you're straightening out a mechanical structure. And 
oddly enough, until you straighten it out with a thetan who is dead in 
his head, if you exteriorize him, he'll be back in. Because the body is 
so disarranged that he cannot think a thought without disrupting the 
body's havingness.

Now, let's take another look at this gel. Let's realize that a thetan 
can asis energy like mad. He can not only create energy, he can destroy 
it. All he has to do is think a thought and bong, there goes the energy. 
Got the idea? He can as-is energy, zoom!

So he's sitting in the middle - the stupid fool; I don't know how he did 
this, but he's sitting in the middle of all this - I do know and will 
tell you in a moment. He's sitting in the middle of this mass of gel; 
whether it be black, purple, pink or full of rockets.

You know, I've seen some of this gel recently which had a pattern of a 
duplication of a rocket which was going round and round the head. That 
was all that was happening in the gel, a rocket was coming by every now 
and then. Real cute.

So you, the auditor, say to him, you say to this thetan sitting in the 
middle of this - and remember, he can as-is energy like mad, every time 
he thinks something, he as-ises some energy - and you say to him, "How 
are you?"

And he thinks, see, "How am I? I'm fine." He thinks before he speaks, 
you see. And the gel goes dit-dit-dit. It filled up the hole he left 
when he thought the thought that he was fine. You got the idea?

So you say, "Well, now, how are your somatics today?"

And he kind of looks around. Fine. And he says, "Oh, they're not so 
bad." And the gel goes duh-uh-uh-uh-uh-uh-uh-uh.

And now let's just speed up what happens over - on the overall of ten 
hours of auditing which contains no Repair or Remedy of Havingness. And 
you say, "How does your case seem to you now?"

And he says, "Well, it's not so ..." Uh-uh-uh-uh-uh-uh-uh. He's being 
trained not to think, isn't he? Every time he thinks a thought, he feels 
the circumference of his sphere of beingness collapse upon him. Got the 
idea? In other words, he's thinking holes in his head. And as he thinks 
these holes in his head - see, he gets energy coming in. You got it?

Now, one school of thought along this line evidently felt this rather 
than knew it and began to use electric shock. Actually, that is - on 
basic rationale, there's nothing wrong with using an electric shock. 
What's wrong with him? Well, they never articulated this, but what he 
was doing - he's thinking a hole in his head, so you give him some 
energy. You got the idea?

Now, if it did anything or if it didn't do anything, this is completely 
aside from the point. Here we had a low-level effort to remedy 
somebody's havingness who had a hole in his head. You get the idea? We 
even have the public out here thinking in terms of "That guy's got holes 
in his head." Did you ever hear the expression?

Audience: Yeah.

Yeah. Now, the figure-figure case does this interesting thing. You 
understand that, then, life itself has been trying to remedy this 
situation one way or the other without much thought on the subject. 
Well, we give him some energy, see?

Now, mothers think this way too. Johnny comes in and he's got a 
headache. "Johnny, sit down. Eat your cereal." She's trying to fill up 
the hole in his head. Get the idea?

And I told you, I think, two and a half years ago, one of the primary 
actions being undertaken - and we might say the primary mission a person 
thought he had in this universe - was filling up holes. Now, I told you 
that about two and a half years ago; it seems to be true, because you as 
an auditor, now understanding that this fellow is thinking holes in his 
head, have no other recourse but to fill the hole up. Get the idea?

He thinks a thought, he as-ises energy, as-ises energy, as-ises energy, 
as-ises energy. He's all right. He's on a good margin now. As-ises 
energy. He's still got lots of it. As-ises energy. And just about the 
time he's all ready to cognite, he thinks, "Gee, you know that..."

Now, the thought was, "Gee, that's a funny thing. My mother wasn't mean 
to me after all." Got it? All right. So you've driven him right up, and 
all of a sudden, just at the moment he's cogniting, he's on this 
havingness margin. See, he's on the threshold of no havingness. And he 
starts to think this thought, "Gee, that's a funny thing. My mother 
wasn't bad to me after all.' And he thinks, "Gee, that's a funny - what 
was I thinking about?" Got it?

Male voice: Yes.

He just got it in to a point of where it went squash. Got the idea now? 
And he didn't cognite. He's actually burning up energy with his 
thinkingness. Just why he's doing this is another consideration, which 
you'll hit sooner or later in a case. But until you've hit the 
consideration, he continues to do it. So it's all very well to say 
grandly, "Well, it's all just a consideration. All you have to do is 
change the fellow's mind." The only trouble is, until you change his 
mind, that's his consideration. You got the idea?

Fellow is jumping along the street, hopping, holding his hands up in 
front of him with paws. You say, "Hey. Hey, bud. You're not a kangaroo. 
You're not a kangaroo."

And he goes hopping away from you. He didn't change his mind about it at 
all. Maybe he got scared by a kangaroo. Maybe the gel is all stuck in 
the shape of a kangaroo. Who knows? But the way to have made him walk 
away from you, not hop away from you, would have been to remedy his 
havingness on the subject of kangaroos.

The course of existence is: we've got lots of it, then we've got less of 
it, and then it becomes valuable, and then we can't have it. Got it? We 
got lots of it, we've got less of it, then it becomes valuable, and then 
we can't have it.

One of the tests of that, if you - little Johnny comes in, and he asks 
for a quarter - he asks for a sixpence. All right. He comes in to ask 
for a sixpence. And you say, "Oh, what do - you don't know - dickens 
with it."

And he says, "Oh, please," he says, "come on, now." And he'll give you a 
reason. He'll say, "I have to do so-and-so." He just asked for a 
sixpence in the first place, but now he's got a reason that goes along 
with it.

And, "I got to do so-and-so, and all the boys are going down to the 
cinema," and so forth.

And you still say, "No sixpence," see.

And he suddenly throws himself down on the floor and begins to beat his 
fists against the boards, and he says, "Everybody is cruel to me. 
Everybody is mean to me. I wish I could go out and die," you know, 
something% rational.

And this doesn't work. So he says, (sniff), (sniff), (sniff), "You won't 
give me a sixpence."

Now, if you pushed him down that low on the Tone Scale, there's a very 
interesting phenomenon immediately occurs thereafter. He cries, you let 
him cry without giving him the sixpence at all and then you offer him a 
sixpence. You know what happens? He walks away and leaves you. He won't 
take the sixpence.

Now, that is the exact course of havingness and one - something that you 
should know. That's an awfully homely, plain little example, but it 
follows out; it doesn't matter whether the guy's ninety-nine or six, 
see? And that is: lots of it, less of it, valuable, can't have it. And 
that's the rough points as you go down the scale.

Now, there's a position with regard to havingness for every position on 
the Tone Scale. There's a consideration about havingness for every lower 
position on the Tone Scale as you go down - the idea of havingness 
changes.

When they hit apathy they can't have. So any subject in the preclear 
that's on apathy, he can't have the thing that it requires - that is 
required to remedy his havingness. You got it? And that's the only place 
where an auditor comes up against it.

But there's a very, very, very simple remedy. If you just ask him what 
his body can have, he's liable to think it over. He's liable to tell 
you, if he's telling you honestly, some of the darnedest things.

"Well, it could have an old whiskey bottle, empty. Oh well, that's what 
it could have. No, no, no. Couldn't have that, that's all. It could have 
some dregs in a whiskey - no, uh-uh. No, no, that's - it's - uh - it 
could have - hey, what do you know? It might have some excreta. No, 
that's too good. Let's see."

That's actually the way it goes, see? And unless he actually gets in 
there and answers you actually, not superficially - "Oh, my body? My 
body can have food. It can have clothing. It can have shelter." 
Out-of-the-textbook social response. "My body can have (social 
response). My body can have (social response), you see. And my body 
could have a new hat, my body could have a new..."

Here sits this person completely caved in, dead in his head, see? And 
this person tells you his body could have all that? He's living in a 
dream world, son. He's just living in a dream.

He hasn't found bottom, and it will be up to you to find bottom. And 
here's the rule that you must recall: He can mock up what his body can 
have, because it will then be permitted to become visible by the body 
and the gel. Get the mechanic here? He can mock up what the body can 
have, because the body will tend to pull it in toward it slowly enough 
so that it isn't blocked by the gel; it isn't blocked by facsimiles or 
ridges. He'll be able to see it.

If you really find something he knows his body can have, he will be able 
to see it, and therefore, he'll be able to mock it up, even if it's 
blackness or invisibleness. His body could have invisibleness, all 
right. He can mock up invisibleness and see it. Body, can't - 
satisfactory invisibleness, to the body. Got the idea?

Now that we know overt acts and motivators and we know about mocking up 
motivators, if you can get a lowdown, dog-eared enough motivator and get 
the fellow to mock it up, he won't be able to see it at first. He'll 
mock it up, (snap) and it'll go in so fast,,, swish, (snap), swish, 
(snap), swish, (snap) - it isn't visible to him. And then all of a 
sudden it starts to become visible, and then all of a sudden he sees it 
move in.

And after a while, the hunger for that motivator is assuaged, and the 
person will see it standing there in front of him. And if he keeps on 
mocking it up, it either goes in a couple of more times or starts to 
move away from him. It starts automatically to complete the remaining 
part of the cycle of a remedy, not a repair, of havingness.

If you do motivators well, and the body is not too messed up one way or 
the other, you will see that phenomenon work out perfectly. The thing 
moves in so fast he can't see it. And then, finally he can see it. And 
then it's moving in. And then it stays there and then starts to move 
away.

One very amusing thing happened the other day in testing this principle. 
I was running a preclear, and he was mocking up his wife on the basis of 
threats to kill him, see? And she was coming in, swish, swish, swish, 
swish, swish. This is fine, you know. Swish, swish. And all of a sudden 
slowed down.

I says, "Going to stop in a minute." And it did; stopped right out 
there, see? And I knew in the next couple of seconds that it was going 
to start to move away. So I had him mock up his wife two or three more 
times with the threat to kill him - see, just the idea in the mock-up 
that it was there to kill the body and (see, very technically correct), 
and had him mock it up two more times, and I said, "Is it moving away 
yet?" You know, just coaching him, you know, a little bit.

He says, "That's a funny thing you're asking that."

I said, "What's the matter?"

He says, "Well, you know, she just got down on her hands and knees and 
is crawling over toward the door. Can you see my mock-ups?"

Well, this is the acceptance  -  rejection mechanism covered in 
creativeCreation of Human Ability. We have there a combination of 
commands which don't work on every case. See, that doesn't work on every 
case. It doesn't solve an awful lot of things.

Why doesn't it solve an awful lot of things? Because there's one thing 
missing about it: We didn't have the guy mock it up and accept it and 
mock it up and reject it. You got the idea? The solid masses are not in 
that process. So it becomes an as-ising process, Accept and Reject.

Now, it is the world's most simple thing to do to remedy a body's 
havingness if you go about it in anywhere near the right way. You ask 
the fellow what the body could have, he finally gets something the body 
could have and he tells you with great certainty that the body could 
have this. He can mock it up, as a general rule.

Have him mock it up, have him mock it up, have him mock it up, and it'll 
fly into the body. Assist this; have him mock it up and push it into the 
body, mock it up and push it - never pull into the body. Don't ever have 
a thetan pull anything into the body; have him push it into the body. 
He'll be outside after a while. All right.

Have him mock it up and push it in and mock it up and push it in. After 
a while, it - he doesn't - it - still stand there.

Well now, by some tricky gradient, have him mock up enough of those 
things right out there so that he can get one to go away. And we don't 
care how this thing goes away. We don't care if it goes away by - he 
mocks up a Caterpillar tractor and drags it down the hall and throws it 
into the sewer, see? We don't care how he got it away. He's liable to be 
awfully mechanical in getting rid of it. We don't care.

The final way he'll get rid of it is to have it just fly over the 
horizon. He'll say, "Leave," and it's gone to an infinite distance.

All right. That is a remedy of havingness. In it comes; out it goes. You 
have him do this so that he can bring them in or throw them away. Well, 
the body can have that item. And in each case, it's merely remedying his 
havingness.

The significance of the mock-up is secondary to the mass of the mock-up. 
You can repair or remedy havingness on mock-ups which are so thin, the 
preclear just gets a chimerical idea that they might be there, and 
they'll still repair his havingness. Got that?

Now, an auditor wrote me the other day, quite some little distance from 
London here, and said, "I have a terribly hard case. There's a fellow 
who is twitching all over. He twitches all the time. And I'm not able to 
do anything for him. Now, I know what I ..." And later in the letter she 
says, "I know what you will tell me to run on her - run on him, is 
communication, but I don't think this is the answer."

This is very presumptuous of this auditor, because I would - what's the 
auditor writing me for if she's going to tell me what I'm going to 
recommend to this guy, hm?

The letter goes on and says, "This young man has been a machinist all 
his life." Uh-huh. He's been facing a heavy mass in a static position. 
It's a lead-pipe cinch that the only thing that's wrong with him is - 
have him mock up some machines and shove them in and mock up some 
machines and shove them in until he can mock up some machines and throw 
them away. And we don't care how thin the mock-up is. Got that?

That's the answer; that's the answer. But this auditor has been around 
long enough to know old SOP 8, possibly even heard this, because this 
happens to be an example given in the Phoenix ACC courses. It's given in 
two or three lectures. It's a motor machinist who is twitching. You get 
this?

Now, she could forget the doggonedest amount of axioms and everything 
else. She could forget whole columns of techniques. She could forget all 
kinds of theory and the right way to hold your mouth when you're asking 
the question. But how did she ever manage to forget the one thing that'd 
solve that case? Well, same thing: How did any auditor forget it? See, 
that was the one thing that we know would set that case straight.

Now, I'll tell you the only bug there ever was in the Repair and Remedy 
of Havingness and why we went away from it a trifle. Havingness is a low 
order of problem. Got that? You go below the consideration level of 
problem, and you get havingness as a problem. See, it's a very low-order 
problem. Thetan can't duplicate a mass, so therefore he loves this 
problem. So it's a basic problem, and that is the basic problem of it. 
All right.

Now, as he begins to mock up and remedy his havingness, problems to him 
become solved. Things start flying off of his case. You got the idea? He 
starts cogniting. He starts getting good solutions.

And if you don't watch it, he's all of a sudden going to arrive at a 
point where the only problem to him is an articulated-thinkingness 
problem and havingness is no longer a problem to him. And therefore, you 
will have run him out of the basic problem of havingness.

In other words - this is not as serious as it sounds. Sounds like a 
complete dead-end cul-de-sac, that's the end of that; but it's not. 
Somewhere along the line, for heaven's sakes, ask the fellow for 
problems of comparable magnitude. Ask him to invent some problems and 
remedy havingness in terms of problems in mass. You got the idea?

Now, that's very simple. You say - he's start - he's remedied havingness 
and he's having a good time, body motivators, and all of a sudden, you 
got some real tough problems solved with this boy. Watch it, because 
you're liable to have him too low. Havingness itself is a problem, you 
understand, but you have havingness in the process of solution. You've 
got to have some problems to stand in there in lieu of havingness. So 
therefore, he's got to be able to invent some problems.

No matter how much havingness you run and no matter how far you're going 
to get this havingness straightened out, you won't do the whole job the 
moment that you move out of mechanics into the field of thought, because 
mass doesn't think. You'll have run out one of the basic problems a 
thetan has, which is havingness. See, just as such it's a havingness. He 
cannot duplicate a mass, so that's his basic problem, isn't it?

Well, if you destroy this problem, he's one down on problem - let me 
tell you a little experiment. Individual has a present time problem. His 
mother's just kicked him out of the house or something. His wife has 
just gone home to her other husband or something has happened. And you 
say, "Well, now, give me a problem of comparable magnitude."

And he does. That's fine.

You say, "Where is that problem of your wife going home to her other 
husband?"

And he says, "It's right here. It's about two feet out in front of me." 
He's lucky; it's not completely closed with him. Sometimes he says, "It 
isn't anywhere, you know, huh." No, he's sitting right in the middle of 
it, that's why it isn't anywhere. You got the idea? All right.

Now, you say, "Give me another problem of comparable magnitude to this." 
"Invent one," is the proper auditing command. "Invent a problem of 
comparable magnitude to your wife going home to her other husband." And 
he does.

And you say, "Where is that problem now?"

"Oh, it's out there about ten feet."

"Good. Now, invent another problem of comparable magnitude to your wife 
going home to her other husband," and so on. "Where is that problem 
now?" He does and ...

"Where is it?"

"Oh, it's out there about forty feet."

If you ask him about two more times and he invents two more - and I mean 
really invents, doesn't just pull them off the track or something of the 
sort - that present time problem will just evaporate. It'll just 
disappear. It's gone. It really is gone. He has not entered into the 
middle of it so he can't see it anymore - it's just gone, if you ask him 
two more times.

But let's take it at the point where it's forty feet out there. Now I'll 
give you the little trick test. You ought to run this sometime just to 
tell yourself exactly what havingness and problems have to do with each 
other. It's quite amusing.

It's forty feet out, and you say to him not, "Invent a problem of 
comparable magnitude to your wife going home to her other husband," but 
you say, "Solve something."

And he says, "Well, solve something - uh - wooo - uh .. You understand, 
he's not worried. It's out there forty feet now. You talk about the 
tension being off. He is zuhh, you know. If you ask him two more times, 
he'll never worry about it again the rest of his life. So we catch it at 
forty feet.

And we say, "Now, just solve something."

So he says, "Well," he says, "the way to boil water is to put it on the 
stove."

You say, "Where is the problem now of your wife going home to her other 
husband?"

"It's out there about ten feet."

Got it? And you say, "Solve something."

He says, "Two plus two equals four."

"Where is that problem of your wife going home to her other husband?"

"It's out there about a yard."

What's happening? He solves them, (snap) they move in; he poses them, 
(snap) they move out. You got it? Do you see the interrelationship 
between problems and havingness?

Female voice: Yes.

Well, this takes a little study on your part, and I would just recommend 
that you did this to somebody to look at this goofy phenomenon.

All right. Now, as we look this over, we discover then, that an 
individual who has solved none of his problems ever, will be 
interiorized into the middle of them; but they will constitute 
havingness. They'll be mass, and he'll be in the middle of them, right?

You ask him to solve a few, at once he feels better about life - and 
feels terrible. He's liable to feel himself very cheerful about life and 
get shipped to the hospital as a body. You see, you could go in these 
two extremes: make him feel wonderful and make the body feel horrible. 
But unfortunately, nobody ever reaches these two extremes. They both 
feel lousy.

Now you solve a person's problems, solve his problems, solve his 
problems, one way or the other; and if you solve totally the problem of 
havingness, you have solved one major problem. Understand, it isn't the 
most horrific problem in the world, the problem of havingness. It is, 
when you first look at it. You say, "The problem of havingness, thetan 
can't duplicate - gee-whiz, that is a problem. Wow! Big one!" It's not 
that big. There are other problems just as complicated.

So we have to get him to pose more problems on a thought level to get 
him to let go of some of this mass. He has to rehabilitate his ideas on 
the subject of getting ideas, you got it? He has to know that he can 
invent ideas before he starts letting go of havingnesses. He has to know 
that he can mock up masses before he lets go of masses. You got it?

So havingness is just one problem amongst many problems. So we have to 
take up the two subjects in conjunction, one with another. Problems are 
run, invention of, along with havingness, remedy and repair of. You got 
it?

Audience: Yeah.

And if you do that, he passes this boundary and wins all the way 
through.

Now, it's not going to take me very long to tell you the last little 
item that I had to tell you. I know I sort of leave you adrift with all 
of this, but you know a great deal about the repair and remedy of 
havingness.

If you run an as-ising technique without repairing somebody's 
havingness, he's had it. When he twitches or goes anaten, his havingness 
is down. Repair it. That's all. If you repair too much of it, you get 
him to thinking he is being collapsed. You've got to remedy it in favor 
of repairing it. If you can remedy it, always do so. If you can't remedy 
it easily, repair it. You got it?

Lot of other trick commands: "Get the idea the room's full of 
valuables," that remedies the body's havingness. Lord knows what he'll 
consider a valuable. Freud has made a lot of notes on what some people 
consider valuable.

All right.

Now, here we have another problem which is intimately associated with 
this - and I'm just going to give this about two minutes, wham, wham - 
and that's exteriorization and interiorization. The world at large does 
not like the idea of exteriorization. That has kept Scientology from 
advancing.

Just as the roadblock of auditors not repairing or remedy of havingness 
has kept their preclears from advancing here and there - oh, we've made 
lots of successes. We haven't stopped the show just because we stopped 
doing this, but we've had some oddities that crept in that we shouldn't 
have had.

Now, just as sometimes an auditor, without repairing or remedy of 
havingness, has slowed down the progress of a preclear, so has making 
people conceive a static slowed down Scientology. The whole idea of 
exteriorization is antipathetic to most people. Well, how Christianity 
got where it got I don't know unless it was the fact that they gave them 
a lot of fire after they died. Must have been something about they gave 
them heaven and hell and another universe or something, remedied their 
havingness right away.

Now we just say, "Get out of your head." Very unpopular. It's a loss of 
havingness. It is so terrific that every loss a person has experienced, 
of an ally, of his car keys, of his textbooks, of a halfpenny that went 
down the grate ...

These things, you know, worry people something terrible. I've seen a 
fellow spending an hour's good time looking for a penny that's gone 
through a grate. You see, he's spent about two dollars' worth of time 
right there; and also, go in and buy a dime's worth of fishhooks and 
chewing gums and so forth to get the penny back. It was real wild. It's 
the idea of losing something. This is very upsetting for people to lose 
something, see? All right.

Every loss is only a lock. Losses are locks on exteriorization. He's 
exteriorized suddenly and without his consent, and therefore, he doesn't 
like the idea. So therefore, he's trying to stay places, and that's very 
unhealthy for a thetan. He's trying to connect or associate with, you 
get the idea, when he should be able to associate with or not at his own 
will or leisure.

And so the individual who has exteriorized too suddenly, too many times 
- too many deaths, you might say, too many losses of country and 
planets, and a bunch of nuclear physicists came along and blew the whole 
joint up, you know, and exteriorized from the planet - too many of 
these, and the mere loss of car keys or the slight reduction of 
havingness, or he thinks a thought and he gets his havingness dropping a 
hair, see, is a key-in or a mere lock on past exteriorizations. You got 
it?

And people that you're having trouble with in this life - has 
exteriorized in this life and kept on living, during an operation or 
during an automobile accident, and they've forgotten about it. And 
there's a great oddity, if you want to get somebody over this fast, 
repairing and remedying havingness the while, you run something on this 
order; you say, "Can you recall a time when you were not exteriorized?"

And they do, and they do, and they do, and they do. And they say all of 
a sudden, "Dz-zz-zuzz. In a tonsillectomy, I went out of my head. I'd 
forgotten all about this," you know. He's liable to blow a grief charge.

Repair and Remedy of Havingness won't do it, exactly or directly. You've 
got to address the subject of exteriorization to get that particular 
phenomena. You get him to remember times when he was not, and he'll tell 
you some hidden times when he did suddenly exteriorize, much to his 
consternation, right here in this lifetime. And if you can find one of 
these things, this is a big case solver when you run into it. You got 
it?

The whole subject of Repair and Remedy of Havingness is simply based 
upon the fact that thinking as-ises energy. It is up to the auditor to 
repair and restore and remedy the idea that that energy is absolutely 
necessary with the preclear. And if he does this, his cases are 
tremendously successful. And if he fails to do this, why, some of his 
cases are going to be mighty rough flops.

When do you remedy havingness? When you see the preclear agitate 
slightly. He gets a little more nervous than he was, no matter how 
slightyou'll notice it before he does - or he starts dropping off in his 
attention. In either case, repair or remedy his havingness. Got it?

Audience: Yes.

Well, that's the roadblock that has faced Scientology, and we've got it 
attacked and out of the way. And we're really on the high road now.

Thank you.

Thank you very much.

