

ORGANIZATION SERIES - PART 13 OF 20

[New name: How To Present Scientology To The World]



HOPE

A lecture given on 29 November 1956

[Start of Lecture]

Thank you. Thank you.

Well, it does seem that another Thursday night has come around
and again, unfortunately, I don't have anything to talk to you
about. But I'll try to think of something as we go along. And I
think it'd be very good if I gave you one talk about nothing much
-- sort of a third-dynamic sort of talk -- and then I talk to you
about the latest developments in processing in the last hour. You
might like to hear about that. So I'll talk now about nothing
much.

And speaking of Eisenhower...

The facts of the case today in the world give us a very new
perspective on Scientology. Scientology has taken a very new
role. It was the role it always had previously, but many people
did not see enough emergency or need for anything to take that
role and so perhaps they did not view this role to the degree
that they might have. But as I say, the role has always been
there.

In Science of Survival you read of a world without war, without
crime, without insanity. That's very interesting. Huh! That was
our hope, but something new has been added, and that is a
governmental atomic program which has as its end product a world
without people. And this is something which then changes our view
and changes our perspective. I don't like to back up the hearse
-- I leave that to the insurance business. They do very, very
well at that.

I recommended to an insurance man one time... You know he comes
in and he says to the widow, "Now supposing" -- the to-be widow,
you see -- "supposing your husband died. There you would be with
the house payments, all of the children to support and no job,
and so on. Well now, here's a policy. Sign on the dotted line."
This was his favorite method of selling, you see. And he'd go
around to some fellow and, "Supposing your wife died. There you'd
have all these children left in your hands and all the expenses
of the funeral and so forth, and sign on the dotted line."

So, I was in his office one day, and I heard him back up the
hearse to one customer too many as far as I was concerned. So I
said, "Say, you know, why don't you hire one of these old horse-
drawn hearses and just drive around town with your insurance
address painted on the side of it?"

And he sat there for a long time and finally he said, "No," he
said, "I don't think I'll do that." He said, "It would be too
flashy."

So that almost anything I say now, no matter how dreary, would,
in essence, be much too flashy compared to the possible future of
the human race.

One has to be willing to confront a great many things in life in
order to live it, and as he is willing to confront so he is then
willing to cope. If he can confront something, he can cope with
it. If he's unwilling, or if he finds it impossible to confront
something, why, then he will not cope with it.

And man today is in a state of having developed something it
cannot confront: atomic fission. It can't confront it. You go
into a theater, they show the motion pictures of Bikini or
something of the sort, and you will find people toward the rear
will sneak out of their seats and will walk out into the lobby.
You find other people will duck their heads. Interesting
phenomenon.

I had to study this phenomenon because I wanted to know whether
or not it'd do any good to release a manual on civil defense. And
we found out that there was no point in it. Nobody would have
read it. In other words, at that time we were interested mainly
in the dissemination of Scientology, and we wished civil defense
to front for us a little bit on some of the things we could do.
(That was only two or three years ago.) But we did not publish
the manual.

The manual was a very factual manual of material taken out of the
technologies used by military governments in war-torn areas. A
very realistic view of the situation. It isn't all going to be
the way they say it's going to be in the civil-defense (quote)
"manuals" (unquote) which are issued by the government. These
civil-defense manuals of today start this way, "You will have to
get used to the idea that after the dropping of an atomic bomb,
you will be on your own. There will be nobody to help you."

Well then, who's -- what they sitting there for? What is this
thing? Oh, I get it. It's some sort of a racket by which you can
collect some salary from the government before the bombs go off.
Must be, because their manuals are...

Now, you think I'm just kidding you now, drawing a longbow. I've
had people tell me many times that they thought I was drawing a
longbow and being very exaggerated or something of the sort.

One chap who went over to Ireland told me this. And he said, "You
know... you know, all through my HCA Course I thought you were
exaggerating things a little bit. But you know the other day I
looked up this fellow Wundt." And he said, "That's impossible,
but it's true!" He said, "I didn't think such a man existed. I
just thought that was one of your jokes." Mr. Wundt did invent
animal physical psychology in 1879 in Leipzig, Germany, and threw
away all earlier psychologies. And this HCA student thought this
was just my way of saying that it was kind of bad and we ought to
do something about it.

So when I'm saying that we laid aside the civil-defense program
or when I say the civil-defense program of the United States is
not realistic, I'm actually not telling you a joke. And when I
tell you that they start their civil-defense manuals by saying
"This is all very well up to the moment a bomb is dropped, but
after that you're on your own, 'cause nobody's going to help
you." And if this is the basic, primary statement of civil
defense, it says at once that there isn't any. Because civil
defense would be the prevention of ultimate disaster to a civil
populace by reason of a bomb having dropped. This would be the
only reason you'd have civil defense, you see? So if they say
there's nobody going to help you, they say they aren't even
there.

Well, I read in this morning's paper about a multibillion-dollar
program. It was the most beautiful headline I ever saw. It
just... boy, was it meaningful! I said, "Man, somebody's got on
the ball here. Somebody's going to get in and pitch. Somebody's
right there." A multibillion-dollar program proposed by Icky...
Ike, pardon me. I gave him the Russian pronunciation. And he says
he's going to have shelters. They're going to have civil-defense
shelters built all over the country, and they've lately been
taking all sorts of surveys amongst industrialists to find out if
they had enough concrete and iron and reinforcing materials, and
so on, to build these shelters. And Icky -- Ike is going to ask
the Congress for a multibillion-dollar bill or appropriation in
order to start this air-raid program.

And I thought it was the most wonderful thing. And I read down
the line: "Next year," it said, "only a few million dollars would
be expended, more or less piloting the project. Just how long it
would take this project to get under way, of course, is a matter
for future decision. But many government experts believe this,
and many government experts believe that..." An expert in what?
What are these experts?

Well, they must be experts in being unaware, because if anybody
is going to start on a civil-defense-shelter program that is only
going to spend a few million dollars next year to find out how to
build them, these boys aren't living in the world of today.

I'm not saying the atomic war is going to happen at all. But I'm
saying that from a government viewpoint to leave a target wide
open is to invite an attack. At no time when you're boxing do you
ever -- particularly in championship fights  -- drop your gloves
to your sides and say, "You see, I can't hit back. Got a broken
arm," you know? At that moment your opponent says, "No kidding?"
Pow! See?

So, to leave a country wide open with no planning, no adequate
status for the populace if there is an enemy attack, is to ask
the enemy to make an attack. The least they could do is to
advertise the selection of another city as a second capital, a
second command post. Instead of that they're burrowing into the
West Virginia hills. There's a government department here and a
government department there.

I was out on a long trail one day, and I came to a, you know,
sort of dead end. And beyond that there were a couple of foxholes
and so forth. And it said, "Defense Area." I thought this is an
interesting place to be until I realized that I was probably
looking at a new government department. They're being scattered
down the length and breadth of the Appalachians and probably up
and down the Rockies. You will see, undoubtedly, within a few
months, some senator present a bill to get an emergency Senate,
possibly in the Senate and House of Representatives. And he will
propose that it be stashed away in Vermont or someplace.

This government is not acting to provide itself with a second
command post. It is dispersing. And we have enough trouble in
Scientology trying to keep communication up between downtown and
the Distribution Center out in Silver Spring to realize quite
adequately that if you were to put the White House someplace
around West Virginia... There's two or three towns down there
that are very, very good places for the White House. One of them
is Harlan County. Harlan County. That's a very good place -- they
shoot everybody.

And you have the White House there and the State Department is
stashed up around Pittsburgh someplace, and then the
communications office of the War Department is down in Georgia,
and so on.

This will then be a government? Huh-huh! No, indeed. Couldn't
possibly. There isn't enough communication centralization there
in order to maintain its command of any given situation.

Give you an example: Right this moment, a secretary of state is
in Key West. His second-in-command is in New York. There is an
assistant to the assistant to the assistant down here, Herbert
Hoover, Jr., who is holding the fort in Washington. And British
and French representatives have for some days been trying to get
in touch with the State Department in order to discuss some
solution to the strained relations. And they can't find anybody
anyplace.

The ambassador goes up to New York, but that fellow up there
doesn't have any real authority. So... The ambassador hasn't got
time to go to Key West so he comes into Washington thinking he'll
talk to the president himself, but the president is in Georgia.

This situation just occurred. The premier of Australia was just,
within the last twenty-four hours, very grossly insulted by not
being able to talk to the president and was forced to talk to a
couple of clerks down here. And he went off in a huff, believe
me.

Now, there is an example of trying to do business on a dispersed
basis. It's very difficult to do so -- extremely difficult.

Now, it would be difficult enough if you were doing business on a
dispersed basis in some fairly, only-half-caved-in organization
such as our own. See, we're eight times as good as any other
human organization, and we're just shot to hell. And you get
downstairs to a no-organization thing like the government and how
is it going to even vaguely govern if it's dispersed all over the
country?

In the first place, an atomic attack would then invite the
government to do a dispersal and cease to be the government,
instead of having a centralized command post somewhere else in
the country, or two or three of such.

In other words, that's an invitation to attack.

They say, "Well look, all we have to do is knock out Washington
and we will then be in, because the government will be so
dispersed from that point there on that they will not be able to
marshal adequate defense." That's an interesting invitation.

But there's no city in the United States equipped with air-raid
shelters. There's no city in the United States with food or
medical supplies outside its city boundaries. There's no city in
the United States which has sufficient hospital supplies to care
for one-tenth of its population if they were all hit at the same
time.

And if the United States were to be hit in the dead of winter, 50
percent of its populace would die, not of radiation but exposure.
This is a fascinating view.

A military-government officer trained in World War II looks at
this, and he says, "What children are playing here? They must be
kids!" But it isn't a matter of that at all. It's a matter of an
inability to confront the magnitude of disaster posed by an
atomic weapon. They can't confront that magnitude of disaster, so
they are not aware of it, and they don't do anything about it at
all.

I'll tell you a juicy little item that just appeared in the
papers here about three days ago. The Strategic Air Command --
about which we have seen great, colossal, technicolor pictures;
which has been played up as this terrific thing that is going to
drop bombs on the enemy -- is right there: "Boy, we'll retaliate!
We'll show them if they drop bombs on us! That's the way we're
defending the country. We'll threaten to blow them up." Of
course, they're dealing with a suicidal enemy, and his entire
intention would be to get blown up. But they disregard that.

Do you know that the Strategic Air Command has just within the
last three days flown its first mission? It was in the papers the
other day. B-52s can now fly sixteen thousand miles. Two B-52
planes have just flown sixteen thousand miles. It is not said how
often they were refueled in the air, but they have just flown
these missions.

Oh, no! I don't know what censor let this get through, but some
War Department censor was certainly -- or air-force censor -- was
certainly sitting there with black goggles on. He's just said
that although we have all these B-52s, we have no guarantee at
all that they can take off from the United States and land in
Russia without refueling.

During an atomic war, I can imagine... I can imagine how easy
this is, you see: You just send one of the B-52s out to the
middle of the Atlantic with a cargo of fuel; and then you send
another one three-quarters of the way to Russia with another
cargo of fuel, and it waits there, you see. And then another B-52
gets over Moscow with a cargo of fuel, and it waits there. And
then the B-52 carrying the bomb flies to the first one, refuels;
second one, refuels; third one, refuels... And I'm sure they
would consider this a practical plan, although they haven't
considered how those three first B-52s ever get home.

Now, that is the most marvelous view you ever saw. And yet that
is in a calm air-force despatch. It reads very nicely, and
they're so proud that a B-52 has finally flown the Atlantic and
come home again only being refueled -- well, it didn't want to
say how many times. It was at least twice. Now, there is defense.

And I don't know who is supposed to be aware of these things, but
has it ever occurred to you that maybe there's nobody supposed to
be aware of them? Maybe this level of awareness is at a level
that nobody notices it except people who are well schooled into
being aware. And that would only leave us guys. Well, that's a
dismal view! I'm no hero. I expended all my heroism in the last
war. Expended all of it -- trying to confront paymasters, and so
forth. I mean...

Look-a-here, this is an interesting thing. We people in Dianetics
and Scientology are aware of being aware and aware of the
component parts of awareness. Well, this follows -- it follows
both ways: if you make somebody aware, then you can also make him
confront. Although he might be very unhappy as he runs halfway
through the engram, do you know that he's smarter and better off
run halfway through birth and left, than he was not to run it at
all? Now, that is a fantastic fact but is a matter of the most
solemn and careful tests -- that these vicious things called
engrams, as hard as they can bite...

You run a fellow halfway through an automobile accident. He got
through this automobile accident three months ago, and he's still
gimping around, sort of crippled up. And you say, "Well, it's
quite obvious that he's still stuck in that automobile accident.
He has a mental image picture of it, and he's gotten into it, and
somehow or other it's restimulated." But he's not aware of it, is
he? Well, the funny part of it is, he gets better if an auditor
sits down and says, "All right, start at the beginning of the
accident," and runs him halfway through, up to the moment of the
crash, pats him on the head and walks off.

Now, that is the subject of the most exacting testing I ever want
to supervise. I hate to sit down and test and test and test, and
find that a fact I won't believe persists in confronting me. You
see, originally I misunderstood this. I thought that the fellow
had to dive into an engram and go on through the engram and would
be worse for a little while that he was going through the
engramic experience, and would then get better. But this did not
prove to be the case on these tests.

The way these tests were given might amuse you. See, I had to
find in the first place some auditors that were sadistic enough
and some preclears that were masochistic enough in order to
conduct this series of experiments. An auditor's impulses are to
make somebody better, and these auditors were being told and
coached to make somebody much worse. And they firmly believed
that they would be making somebody much worse if they conducted
this experiment.

The preclear was to be given -- he was to be seated at a desk,
and he was to be given one of these short-form Otis tests. And he
was to finish this test. And then the auditor was to run him
halfway through any rough, vicious engram that the auditor could
find and park him -- break the Auditor's Code -- and shove the
second test under his nose and make him do it. Now, that was the
procedure. And that was done very, very arduously.

I finally found auditors that were sadistic enough and preclears
that were masochistic enough in order to conduct this experiment.
And having done so, I could not believe the results, and had to
run the experiment all over again. And I wouldn't believe those
results, and ran the experiment all over again. Because it said
that somebody, plunged into an engram and abandoned, was better
off than somebody who wasn't plunged into one. But it also said
that somebody who was plunged into one, and it was run out,
became much, much, much better. Don't you see? But the bettering
process began at the moment I didn't think it would: halfway
through the roughest part of the engram and dropped. And people
got better.

That experiment was run five years ago. And it's only been
recently that I've been able to patch together what happened.
Well, what happened was that if you get somebody to confront
something, he becomes aware of it. And a person who is aware of
it is better off than the person who had it but wasn't aware of
it. Don't you see? It is strictly a problem in awareness.

And intelligence itself is a problem of awareness, and that's all
there is to it.

This isn't necessarily true that a person gets smarter because
he's given a dreadful experience, don't you see? That's
different. He's smarter if he's given a dreadful experience and
then it is attacked by Dianetic or Scientology techniques. Then
he gets better. But because he finds out that he can confront
such an experience secondhand through an engram, he discovers, at
the same time, he needn't be quite so afraid of such experiences
and so he is willing to be more aware. And that is his IQ. That,
to a large extent, is his profile, although other factors enter
into a profile.

All right. Here, then, we are confronted ourselves with this
oddity that nobody is willing to look at the state of the world
today. And it would be a very different thing for me in 1850 --
if this were 1850 right now here in Washington -- and I were
telling you, "The world is going to the dogs. It is going to the
devil. Ladies and gentlemen, it cannot possibly survive."

Well, you could listen to that. You say, "The man is an
alarmist," see. "Nothing to that." It's easy.

But in 1950 it was not yet even visible to me that the cycle had
already been entered. I already knew something was a bit awry and
probably should be readjusted, but what else was discoverable?

Well, in 1956, we take a look around and we find that there was a
side effect going on all during these years resulting from the
explosion (test explosion only, as well as the wartime explosion)
of atomic-fission weapons which was putting into the atmosphere
unknown concentrations of deadly radiation.

Now, they are guessing when they say how much radiation a person
can stand. They do not know this fact. They haven't any clue.
They do not know this.

Modern science, as rough as it sometimes is, does not have the
liberty of properly exposing people to this sort of thing and
then observing them before and after. They are looking for...
Now, this is the -- this will... I could say about the whole
subject, "This will kill you." But this is an amazing fact.

The medicos (the pill boys) and the nuclear physicist (those
people that are now drawing pay as nuclear physicists but
graduated from English courses) believe alike that the upset is
mainly due to, and effective upon, sexual activities and results.
In other words, it's the sexual sector of life that they think
atomic fission attacks. I think they've been reading too much
Freud. They're afraid of mutation. Mutation has practically
nothing to do with it. We don't care anything about this
mutational angle. Good heavens! A man has to be shot to pieces
with, I don't know, fifteen, twenty, thirty roentgen up close in
order to have any mutational effect, and then it only lasts five
or six days. Get that. It's one of these little mild effects. For
only five or six days after exposure do they get two-headed
babies.

No! The effect is quite different! And they have not studied it
at all, and yet it's right in their textbooks staring them right
in the face. And I suppose it's too horrible for them to
confront, even though they have carefully recorded the physical
manifestations of everybody exposed to radiation in Japan and so
on. They don't confront their own figures. They don't become
aware of them.

People get sick! That is what happens. It isn't that their second
dynamic goes adrift and they start producing rats or
psychologists or something. That hasn't anything to do with it.
That's somebody's morbid... I don't know where they got the boys
that made these tests, but I have my suspicions -- Hollywood,
probably. But the main thing about it is, people become ill. But
before they become observably ill, a malaise sets in which is
very detractive of their energies. Their ambition goes to pieces,
their ability to concentrate goes to pieces, long before the
medico would begin to detect it.

If they were giving a series of tests of one kind or another to
populace that has been closely subjected to atomic radiation they
would have found this to be the case. They wouldn't have left it
up to us to discover this. They would have been honest enough to
say so.

But we have to believe that there are some honest men in the
government. We have to believe this -- I mean, in spite of all
the evidence to the contrary. We have to believe that they
actually do present you with what they find. We have to believe
that the papers which they write on the subject are factual from
their standpoint. It's just that they haven't observed it,
because they say these things all the time.

They describe radiation sickness. Very cute. They describe
radiation sickness. It says, "The onset is a lethargy. And this
drifts on to an apathetic feeling, and this goes on to nausea,
which is followed by colitis or internal gastric upsets, which is
followed by vomiting, which is followed by flushing or prickly
sensations throughout the body..." They describe all these
things, and this is what radiation does to people -- one, two,
three, four -- and yet at no time do they say in their medical
reports that it does anything in the sphere of sex. It's just
that people get sick. That's what the medical reports say, but
all of the preventive measures which they take are totally aimed
at sexual activity or results.

Now, scientists usually aren't this bad off. We can only suppose
that these boys have themselves been subjected to a bit of that
lethargy and apathy. It must be, because they usually are not
that inexact or unrealistic.

For instance, the U.S. government's answer to the widespread
radioactivity in the world today is to give everybody a tag which
shows how many roentgen he has been exposed to.

And this would add up all of his X-rays and other radioactive
exposures, and exposure from the atmosphere or by reason of bombs
or manufactures. And this would all be added up in terms of
roentgen. How many roentgen -- this unit of... radiative unit --
how many roentgen has he been exposed to in his lifetime? And
he'd then wear that tag.

This is the official answer. He would then wear the tag and
anytime he was given another X-ray somebody would mark it on the
tag and change his roentgen rating. And they've picked this
number out of the air. They don't know where it came from, but
it's ten roentgen. When he's been given ten roentgen, after that
his state of case becomes questionable. And his right to marry
would thereafter be regulated by the government. Honest.

No, that is not a despatch from Pravda. That is a despatch from
"Vashington," DC. Now there...

That is the government solution: that after people are exposed to
ten roentgen... This isn't a gag, by the way. This was on AP not
very long ago. After people had been exposed to ten roentgen,
why, you'd have to be careful in permitting them to marry, and
the government would have to take cognizance over their rights to
marry. And after somebody had been exposed to so many, why, he
was liable to have two-headed babies or psychologists or
something, and so you'd have to forbid his marriage. That's the
tack they're taking. It's totally unrealistic.

Listen, if it gets that bad there won't be anybody in the
government physically well enough to sit still long enough to
administer any kind of a test.

They just discount this other factor: It makes people sick.
That's what happens.

Now, it's a very funny thing. As people become ill with atomic
radiation they become flighty. They become dispersive. They
become a bit frantic. There's a period of franticness which is
hit along the line which is quite interesting. They will discard
their possessions. I'm reading now out of the Japanese
observation records following the dropping of atomic bombs on
Hiroshima and Nagasaki. They become dispersive. They throw away
their belongings. They abandon things. They neglect their duties
and actions, and their level of responsibility drops to nothing.
They avoid and desert their own families.

It's quite interesting that the greatest civil-defense
regulations ever written on the face of earth appear in the
Bible. If you care to read the Bible over carefully, you will
find what I am talking about. There are certain civil-defense
regulations carefully listed in the Bible.

There's another full set of physical preventatives, civil-defense
regulations, listed in another religion: the Brahmans. If you
know anything about the Brahmans, each Brahman sits by himself,
cooks his own food, nobody else must touch his food, he mustn't
touch anybody else's food. And we've got all sorts of regulations
that would apply at once only to a populace that had been knocked
soggy with radiation. This is quite a curious, curious thing.

I'm not trying to be specific here at all in these. I'll look
them up for you sometime and tell you chapter and verse. But it's
one of the more amusing things to look back into the past; to
look back, by the way, at recent discoveries whereby they found
seven levels of civilization in the back of a cave -- went
straight back through and then the last level had, underlying it,
green glass. It's very possible... You see, an atomic bomb, in
exploding, creates green glass.

Now, it's very possible that all of this has happened before,
that maybe there have been other scourges on earth as great as
radiation, so that we have such things as plagues and things
which are of sufficiently overpowering magnitude so that they
would put out a religion -- that they'd never explained to
anybody -- they'd just put out this religion to keep people
alive. And the people who followed that religion lived through
it.

Now, let's say that Brahmanism wasn't caused by atomic fission,
but maybe some plague of one kind or another that hit. And those
that followed these directions with religious ferocity and stuck
to them all the way through, they lived through it. And those who
didn't, didn't. And so we would have the rise of Brahmanism.

And these regulations which you find Moses giving forth with, and
so forth -- such regulations as those are perhaps directed at
prevention of some other human catastrophe. Like, oh, I don't
know, his prevention against pork and so on. Quite interestingly,
it's merely leveled at trichinosis (a rather common disease).
Maybe so many people got so sick from this that somebody had to
put it into a religious code, when it was actually hygiene.

And maybe there have been, before, atomic attacks on earth.
Maybe. Who knows? But the facts of the case are these: That it
requires a certain education of a populace if that populace is
going to survive, regardless of whether or not you have a cure.
You've got to educate people into something or other that will
let them get through. You have to say, "Drinking water will be
contaminated." You have to say, "Certain types of canned food
will be edible and certain types will not be. Frozen food kept in
such and such a way will be edible." They'd have to be educated
into seeing the difference between radiation contamination and
the usual ordinary scourge of disease that sweeps through a
populace on the heels of any disaster.

But that's an awful lot of educating. They can't even teach them
the Bill of Rights, much less some of these measures which would
have to be taken if a populace, at this time and place, would
survive an atomic age.

There are a lot of lessons that would have to be learned. What
are these lessons? Well, we'd have to work them out somehow or
another. How would you teach them? Well, that is not too
difficult. Who should teach them? Well, who should teach them?
Civil defense should teach them, that's who! But you keep handing
them the hat -- you say, "Look at this nice hat, nice brim, nice
label inside it. Now, you put on that hat. That says 'civil
defense,' and that means the defense of the individual or
collective public against public menaces such as atomic war. Now,
go on, you wear that hat and you do this and you do that."

And they say, "It's not my hat. In event of an atomic war, you're
on your own. You'll just have to get used to the idea that
nobody's going to do anything for you."

You say, "Hey, you just threw that hat down here in the dust. Put
that hat on!"

"Nope." They say, "It's not my size." Or they say, "What hat?"
And that's really the case at this time: "What hat? Is there
anything going on? Is anything happening that has anything to do
with radiation? You mean you're getting hysterical about the fact
there may be a few two-headed babies in the world in the near
future? Why, that's nonsense. Who cares? I mean, look at
Eisenhower. No head."

You could explain to them in vain. You could explain to them and
say, "People get sick. People become incapable of performing
their routine duties when there's too much radiation in an
atmosphere. And they get frantic. And they individuate. They fall
away from one another. They will no longer work in groups."

Now, I'm not here to tell you that the difficulties in the Middle
East and in Hungary, and so forth, are incited or caused by the
too-high a roentgen count in the atmosphere of the Middle East
and Europe, but I will tell you that the count is there. It is
already too high. I won't say that these nations and their
alliances are falling apart simply along the traditional lines
which follow exposure to radiation. I won't say that this spirit
of war, this "Let's all fight. No, let's don't fight. We're at
war with Syria and South Africa tod -- Oh, no, no, that's wrong.
Let's go to war with France and, uh... no, uh..."

You know, the Hungarian troops are the ones today who are
shooting down the Hungarians. Silly! But this is a fact. We don't
care who ordered them to do it. They are Hungarian troops, not
Soviet troops. Soviet troops are also doing it, but Hungarian
troops are also shooting Hungarians. See, this is sort of a wild
mix-up.

There couldn't possibly be a war at this time, I figure, because
nobody would be able to concentrate long enough on who he was mad
at to fight him. By the time they'd called up the arms and
ammunition -- and had informed the generals, which always takes
some time -- the war would have passed, on that particular
crisis, and they'd be mad at somebody else. You see how this
could be?

And we have actually six or seven factions now developing in the
United Nations. It's so bad that I haven't heard it on the radio.
First flashes came through and that was all. When last heard
from, the United Nations were breaking up into about sixteen
different factions and parts, and then the morning newspapers
carried nothing. I haven't seen the United Nations in the news
since.

This is a fascinating thing. We're not operating under
censorship. Don't get that idea. It's just that the government
won't let them print certain things. It's different.

So anyhow, here we have this fantastic picture that maybe -- and
I only say maybe -- maybe the world at this moment is
sufficiently souped up with roentgen, with radiation, strontium
90 and the rest of it, that people are walking already at this
first level of non compos mentis. Maybe they're walking in small
circles. I wouldn't tell you for a moment that the United States
State Department's apathy at this day and age is anything
different than it used to be. But it might be worse. They used to
put up an act, and today they're not even putting up an act.

Silliest program I ever saw was a TV program of the colleges of
the northern coast of the United States questioning the assistant
secretary of state concerning his policies. And man, I never
heard a fellow let so many questions go by in my life! He didn't
just let them go by; he stopped other questions. He just was not
in the same conference. I don't know what conference he was
attending, but I think it had something to do with whether or not
they shouldn't get Dulles's Cadillac repaired. It certainly had
nothing to do with the Middle East.

I watched this, and watched this state of not-thereness, of
"avoid, avoid, avoid; don't make any direct statement." And
that's what I see these days, is "Don't stop it. Don't stop the
question. Don't confront the situation." And it all boils down to
"don't confront."

"Go to Atlanta. Go to Key West. Don't stay in. If anybody comes
to see you, send him to an underclerk. That's the thing to do.
Don't speak to him. That's dangerous."

You get this funny manifestation that might be occurring. I don't
say it's occurring at all. I make no claims on this. It's just a
coincidence that all of a sudden we have a world situation which
is different than any I have observed in my own current lifetime.
And that is, we have people who are very anxious to go to war,
but they can't find out with whom. And they're having an awful
time here. And they can't even be consistent enough with their
allies to count on having a good war, so they just keep quitting
all the time.

Now, what kind of an international situation is this, but a very
confused one? We can't make head or tails out of this
international situation. So I have decided, as my stable datum in
that confusion, that unless two fellows find out that they're mad
at each other they won't fight each other. See, they have to find
who they're mad at in order to get a fight going.

Now, it's true that if you get a fellow who is about to fight
somebody and grab him suddenly by the arm, he's liable to swing
at you. That's true. But he does it sort of half halfheartedly
and he really doesn't put his whole heart into it. In order for
there to be an international conflict, a couple of sides would
have to line up. I don't think a war can exist with more than
three sides fighting each other.

There was such a war one time. We had one in this country. It was
a triangular war. If you've ever read Midshipman Easy, you've
read of the great triangular dual where the three midshipmen
couldn't decide which one should have the shot at whom, and so
on, so they stood in a triangle, and each one in turn shot at the
other one, and it came out wonderfully successful. Everybody's
honor was... They had to argue one fellow into it, you see,
because nobody was mad at him. He was just mad at other people.

Now, there was a triangular war here in the United States one
time. It's quite an amusing one. It had to do with the Gadsden's
Purchase. You know the Gadsden strip down there in Arizona
that... After we stole California, Texas (Texans had already
stolen Texas) and other large chunks of continent, somebody got
very moral and they bought something from Mexico. I think
that's... They paid cash for it. And that was the Gadsden
Purchase. They wanted a railroad to go through there.

But while that thing was going on, why, the Americans were
fighting the Mexicans, and the Indians down there were fighting
both of them, and both of them were fighting the Indians. And you
had a triangular war going on there for some little time. It was
very funny. And finally the motto got to be that if anybody put
up his head you shot at it. That was the way they got that war
fought. It was quite an amazing war.

Well now, you could envision something developing out of this
international situation whereby somebody would drop a bomb on the
United States and the United States would drop a bomb on South
Africa and South Africa would bomb India. But we haven't got any
planes that'll fly that far, they say now, and South Africa and
India don't have any bombs, so it sort of falls apart on logic. I
think everybody would get tired and quit. That's the way it sums
up to me. I think the amount of activity they enter upon will be
less and less. That is at least my look at the situation.

I haven't any idea what will happen to the radiation. If they
laid off, if they stopped dropping bombs at this moment, no more
test bombs, perhaps in many years you would get a settle-out.
It'd go into seawater, or it'd get embedded in the hills and that
would be the end of the fallout. I'd say perhaps within the rest
of our lifetime, something like that.

But the U.S., on its last few bombs, has rather blasted that one
because they've now invented one that blows everything straight
up into the superstratosphere where it won't come down for ten
years. They say that's the best thing to do. That's their new
bomb. It blows all of its waste products straight up into the
superstratosphere -- and takes it ten years to come down, they
tell you. So my calculations on that went all to pieces. I went
into apathy on that myself. I couldn't see any end to the
fallout.

But I say, perhaps in many years, why, if they stop dropping
bombs, why, the fallout would fall out and that would be the end
of that. But it doesn't seem like they're going to stop. In spite
of all the hue and cry and protest, Russia put up a big peace
proposal and blew off a bomb the same day. I thought that was an
interesting thing to do. They don't rattle sabers anymore; they
rattle Geiger counters.

So, where we have these bombs being continually tested, if they
continue with these tests... And Icky says they have to. I'm not
quite sure why.

I've been reading the newspapers, and I know they explode. I've
been on the verge of writing him a letter and saying, "Dear Ike:
Just for your information, several clippings are enclosed. The
bomb does explode. It does explode. People set them off and they
do explode." And that's obviously the only thing you'd want to
know, is do they explode? And they found that out, but of course
his briefing secretaries haven't given him the word. He wasn't in
the Oriental theater, you know. He was over in Europe, and so on.
He didn't find out.

Anyway, here's the crux of the situation. Somehow or another
somebody must put a curve on the communication lines to say
"Stop!" somebody saying "You shouldn't go on testing bombs. That
at least cuts out the increasing amount of count in the
atmosphere."

Now, who's going to do it? Well, who knows it? You got that? I
mean, that has a lot to do with it. Who knows it? Well,
Scientologists know it. But they're aware enough to be aware. And
other people aren't aware enough to know that. So, who you going
to tell it to? Well, the Scientologists of course.

There's an amazing problem, you see? That's an amazing situation.
We could look this thing over... And actually what I'm telling
you now, I've heard you say here and there. You've said, "Gee,
you know, there's certainly an awful lot of bombs going off.
Sooner or later somebody's going to get hurt." And all the time
we were in Phoenix, why, the kids kept watching the reports on
fallout, and they would be convulsed. Not because of anything I
said, or anything else, but they were just convulsed at the
government bulletins.

The government bulletins read this way: "There's no need to worry
about the fallout. It is being carefully observed." And nobody in
the government could see that this was a nonsensical statement.
Who cares who's watching it? "This lion that's running down the
street, we're observing him carefully. What's the matter? Why are
you worried?"

So anyway, we have some inkling that something is going on in the
world that's just a little bit different than it was before. We
have in our graphs, in the effectiveness of processes and so
forth, certain records to this effect. We notice world behavior
has altered to a marked degree.

But our role has changed. It has changed definitely from a role
of "Well, let's just try to make people better and cut down the
crime and, you know, help people out and pat them on the back."
Our role has changed to something else. Our role might even have
-- it hasn't, but it might even have changed to simply a role of
self-preservation as a group. See? It hasn't changed to that, but
that would be the least to which it has changed. It certainly is
true that a Scientologist has 5000 percent better chance of
surviving it than anybody else. See? That's true.

All right. But that of course would not be the limit of it. What
our role becomes is not a role of going around and waving
invisible particles in people's faces which they can't see
anyhow, but our role would be in (1), trying to work out some
sort of a regimen, a hygiene or health conduct that people could
follow without being aware of anything. See, that's the least we
could do. And the next one would be to try to teach them some of
the fundamentals of existence and at least get them aware of the
fact that they're alive, and then maybe they will have some idea
that they might continue to be alive. See, this would give them
some impetus toward continuing to be alive. And at least we could
do those things. Now, those are two there.

Now, another thing that we could do that would be intensely
practical, and so on, is talk. That doesn't sound practical. I
mean, talk is just talk. But you see a lot of people. You see a
lot of people. Well, there's no reason to tell them things that
will simply worry them. About the only thing you could do is tell
them there's some hope. Now, that we can always tell them.

Somebody asked me one day, "What is para-Scientology?" Well,
para-Scientology is your reality on Scientology. To a fellow that
hears it for the first time, he now knows that there's a word
Scientology, and that is Scientology, and everything else we know
is para-Scientology. Got it? And then he knows that it offers
some hope. So Scientology to him and the reality of it, the
science itself, is just what he knows and no more, and that would
be that there is a word Scientology and that it does offer some
hope. See, now that's Scientology. Everything else we know is
para-Scientology to him.

And eventually he finds out that it'll turn off a toothache --
big reality on something like that. So para-Scientology, then, is
everything in Scientology except maybe the process that turned
off the toothache, that it offers some hope, and there is a word
called Scientology. Get the idea?

So somewhere or another we have to enter this wedge. Eventually a
tremendous amount of our knowledge will become Scientology to him
and a very little of it will remain para-Scientology. And that is
the way it works out.

But now, here's something very odd. Here's something very
peculiar. He doesn't start on that track at all, and his
awareness is zero, up to the moment when -- right up to the
instant -- when he hears this word Scientology and that it offers
some hope. See, it's about all you can really say to somebody.
You can explain to him a lot of things, but he'll miss all these
things.

He'll eventually walk away from almost anything you tell him the
first time, and he'll say, "You know, there's something called
'Scientology.' There must be, because this fellow's been talking
about it. And it seems to offer some hope. He said it would work
on my Aunt Agatha that I told him about. Yes, it might offer some
hope about Aunt Agatha. Probably won't do anything for her, but I
could hope it would."

Now, there's the entering wedge. Well now, there are numerous
ways you could give people hope. Numerous ways. And one of them,
you could say, "You know, you know this A-bomb thing..."

The fellow says, "What about the A-bomb thing?" and so on.

You say, "You know there's an outfit that's got this taped, got
it all squared?"

"Who's that?"

"Scientology." See?

He says, "Oh, there has?"

You get this as a very crude approach. He would then have the
idea that there was somebody someplace that had some answers
nailed down on this subject, you see? Now, that's very difficult
to do and isn't very feasible, because he doesn't know there's a
subject called radiation. He just thinks there's new H-bombs and
they're big TNT bombs. See? And that's all he knows about it.

Well-known scientists in the country today are not aware of these
things, which is quite amazing. A teacher at Columbia University
said, "Well, I needn't worry about it. When it comes," he said,
"it'll come with a big bang. And I'm all ready to get buried in a
few years anyway. It doesn't matter whether I'm buried in a hole
with the rest of the city or in a hole in a graveyard." He said,
"It's all the same to me. Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha." This guy was
teaching college students at Columbia University.

I said, "What's your subject?"

And he says, "Chemistry."

I said, "Chemistry. Oh, I see. And that's the way it is, huh?"

And he said, "Yeah." He says, "Doesn't matter really one way or
the other which happens. Now, does it?"

And I said, "Well, aside from the fact that you've got to come
back and live it all over again, it doesn't matter a bit."

And he said, "What are you talking about?"

And I said, "Well, it's like this," and I let him have it between
the eyes, and shook him up enough and was sufficiently convincing
enough so that he knew he'd been talking to somebody. And he
wasn't at all sure that a hole in the city or a hole in the
graveyard were comparable data. Now, that was a nasty thing for
me to do.

I did something I've told you time and again never to do. Don't
back up para-Scientology to them. But let me excuse myself. That
was in a period before people had a Messianic complex, before
people had the Messiah level. They're now only grabbing for crazy
answers.

One of the things you could do is pose as a crazy answer. You're
the only sane answer there is. You get that? People who are not
aware of something, yet are surrounded by it, only grab crazy
answers. So give it to them! I found out it works.

So tonight I would like to pull the wraps off whole track,
exteriorization and all the other bric-a-brac that you shouldn't
talk about, because the society has finally gotten into a state
of mind where it will only believe what it thinks is crazy. And
it thinks this is crazy and so it'll believe it.

Remember, the last full page I had in Time magazine was because I
was telling people they were seventy-six trillion years old. And
that's the last full page. There have been mentions since, but
not a full page. So I'm publishing in hard-covers now History of
Man, known better to you as What to Audit.

Thank you.

[End of Lecture]
