

ORGANIZATION SERIES - PART 14 OF 20

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



THE SCALE OF HAVINGNESS

A lecture given on 29 November 1956

[Start of Lecture]

Okay. Well, now just on the off chance that you were restimulated
in any degree about a discussion of radiation... You see,
radiation is quite restimulative. People don't understand it.
Heh-heh. It consists of invisible particles. It is a hidden
influence. Naturally, this says you can't understand it.

It consists of filling in space. And there's the space and yet
there's something of menace in it and one can't quite tell what
it is. Well, if you recognize a thetan in that, why, you've
gotten awfully close to it. Many people can't stand to conceive a
static. That consists of looking at nothing. They have to
conceive a nothingness, and their concept of a nothingness, of
course, makes them nervous. Just the idea of having to view a
nothingness or look at a nothingness -- they get very, very
nervous.

Well, all right, if they get nervous looking at a little
nothingness, a nothingness that can do something to them is
practically totally unviewable. Well, this of course accounts for
the fact that nobody becomes aware of it, because by definition
it is not something of which somebody becomes aware, except by
diverse means such as a Geiger counter or something of the sort.
You see?

By the way, this material I'm giving you is not really a very
complete preview of the congress which will be held in December,
but it's an inch up on it. And I want to tell you tonight that we
have this problem pretty well licked. It's not even a very
difficult problem now.

We have it licked in the first place from a stopgap point of
view. We have something which does some strange things with
radiative engrams. An individual who's been in a radioactive area
for quite a while reacts very weirdly to a potion which we have
concocted and called Dianazene.

Now, I won't try to tell you that the administration of a drug or
a vitamin or something of this sort will cure somebody absolutely
of having any slightest effect of radiation, but I will tell you
that in the absence of processing it would definitely have a
beneficial effect.

If you didn't have anything else at all, you could at least run a
fellow a little bit flat on this sort of thing. And if somebody
had descended, because of cumulative radiation, down to a point
of where he was continually nauseated, you could give him some of
this Dianazene and he'd at least change to merely being
continually sunburned. If you gave him some more, he would even
run that out and maybe only continually have a little headache.
And then you'd give him some more and he would get back another
type of nausea or maybe a feeling of exhaustion for a while, and
then that would run away. You could change these symptoms around
and, to a marked degree, eradicate them in their severity. In
other words, you could make him functional. You got that. You
could make him functional.

Now, I'm not saying you would do his personality curve any
benefit; I'm not saying that you would raise his IQ one iota,
because the contrary has rather proven to be the fact. You get
rid of rather nagging, upsetting manifestations and you inherit a
slightly lower profile. Got that? I mean you pay in terms of some
personality factor for the loss of a headache.

Now, here is what's peculiar. After, however, you have given
somebody some Dianazene, you can give him some processing of a
particular kind and repair his havingness. And when you repair
his havingness, his IQ goes up above where it was. In other
words, the potion, compound -- or however else the Food and Drug
Administration wishes to classify it, because that it is involved
in doing this very moment -- regardless of how this is
classified, the truth of the matter is it could not do otherwise
than reduce havingness.

If you've got five hundred very beautiful sunburns, if you take
Dianazene, you'll lose them. Anything is better than nothing
according to a thetan, so one sunburn is better than no sunburns
and five hundred is five hundred times as good. But a body, of
course, doesn't function with five hundred sunburns. When you
remedy his havingness, however, he is perfectly willing to take
some other mass in exchange for sunburn. See that? He's perfectly
willing to give up a significant or painful engram in return for
some nonpainful mass.

You watch a little kid playing on the floor, you get the same
manifestation. Little kid pulls your .45 out of a drawer, and
he's busy cocking it and snapping it and so forth. And there's no
bullet under the chamber, they're just in the clip. No bullet in
the chamber, they're just in the clip. And it's not a safe thing
to watch, so you take a toy pistol and you hand him the toy
pistol, and you take the .45 away from him, and you're all right.
He's then happy, cheerful. He goes on snapping the toy pistol.
He's perfectly all right. He's set here, he's not upset at all.

Now supposing, however, you simply took the .45 away from him and
you didn't give him anything back at all. He'd be unhappy. He'd
mope. He's liable to say, "Look what you did." He would assign
cause, in other words. So, what's the right answer? Of course,
it's to give him another kind of mass.

Well, you give somebody Dianazene, it takes away the loaded .45
that could kill him. But only processing would return to him --
because Dianazene burns up these old engrams, that's all -- and
you then have to give him some other kind of mass. You have to
let him possess other mass before he is happy about the whole
thing again. But because he's not in pain he can work and he can
function -- because he's not in pain.

All right. Where we look over the human scene, we find that if
people could not understand what was happening to them, you could
give them something that would get them out of the apathy,
exhaustion, vomiting or inertia of a physical condition and get
them to functioning again. So on a broad, mass-administration
basis, we do have something. But having handed it out, remember,
we will have dropped the profile on people, and then they'd have
to have auditing. Inevitable.

Well, we're more honest than other people because we don't have
to be dishonest. That's the only reason I really can think of for
being honest, is if you don't have to be dishonest you can be
honest and you're all set, you see? I don't know of any real
difference between honesty and dishonesty than this: that people
who cannot confront honesty have to be dishonest.

So here we have this problem and here we have this compound that
we're calling Dianazene. Well, actually, it's composed of several
old-time compounds that themselves were sold freely across drug
counters, and it doesn't contain anything very dangerous. But one
of these compounds was mis-described. The description of that
item in there was wrong. You look up in a pharmacopoeia and it
tells you that nicotinic acid is toxic, and if taken in excess,
will turn on flushes.

Well, whoever wrote this wrote a masterpiece of understatement.
That's a masterpiece! Only a biochemist in the last stages would
have ever written this particular description of nicotinic acid,
because what kind of a toxicity is it that only turns on the
patterns of bathing suits? That seems like an awfully strange
toxicity, doesn't it?

That was where I connected with this particular item. I found out
that nicotinic acid turned on the pattern of bathing suits and I
thought wasn't it interesting that this very toxic drug which
turned on flushes, and so forth, would leave white on the body
where the straps and trunks of bathing suits were customarily
worn. So therefore, I adjudicated that it didn't have anything
whatsoever to do with the toxicity of the drug, but the drug was
reacting very solidly against sunburn engrams and had an affinity
for them and ran them out. And that proved to be the case.

Well, we dropped it in 1950. Didn't pay too much attention to
that because nobody is much bothered with sunburn, and didn't pay
too much attention to it. But as the years rolled on and when
recently we needed some other answer, I all of a sudden cognited
with a long blue flash that there was something which affected
one type of radiation, namely sunlight; something that affected
the radiation of sunlight on the body. Something caused an effect
there, and that was nicotinic acid.

Well, there it was. So an experiment was run, and it was found
that nicotinic acid today, after six years of public exposure to
fallout and other things, reacted differently. It had a different
action. Now, what sort of a drug is this that in six years
changes its toxicity? See, I mean it isn't quite straight.

The observation here was that first it ran out, with some
prickliness (which possibly was radiation at the time, since
there'd been many years of radiation or radiative atmosphere up
to 1950, so some of it would have run out), but that dominantly
concentrated on sunburn; six years later concentrated a bit on
sunburn but with such things as sunburned livers, sunburned
kidneys, sunburned lungs. Oh, no. No, no. There's something wrong
here.

So we looked it over a little bit further and we found that many
people came up with stuck views of areas that were known to be
radioactive. They were blowing bombs off down in Nevada when we
were in Phoenix two hundred and fifty miles away, like kids
firing firecrackers on the fourth of July, with just about the
same amount of responsibility. They were just blowing these bombs
off. And the atmosphere used to get so hot around there that you
couldn't put a Geiger counter away. It'd bother you all night.
It'd just sit there and whir.

Some chap invented a Geiger counter that only "geigered" when it
was actually confronted by radiation. In other words, it turned
itself on and began to tick, and these became very embarrassing
items because they just ran all the time and ran themselves down.
You could find a uranium mine in any piano. People were filing on
orange groves, filing on the courthouse, and filing on everything
down there -- filing for uranium claims because everything was
hot, everything counted. Radioactive materials had impregnated
into almost the totality of the atmosphere.

Now, this is a very, very curious thing -- very curious -- that
these people got a different reaction than people who had not
been in that area. Very peculiar, isn't it? And that four of
these people transplanted to London, England, after the Russian
H-bomb explosion, became violently ill and continued to be ill
right down to the moment that they began to take Dianazene, when
they started to get better and be able to function.

In other words, some of our people who had gone to work in the
London office were working amongst people who had not been so
intimately exposed, and only the people who had been exposed in
Phoenix became ill of a strange virus infection, and that strange
"virus infection" (quote, unquote) turned off only when they
started to take Dianazene.

Now, another case. It runs out X-ray contamination. A little
baby, X-rayed before it was born, was discovered to run out, on
administration of Dianazene, the X-ray. And it ran out and ran
flat, and that was the end of it -- very curious mechanism. X-
ray, you see, and gamma and so on, these are more or less the
same breed of cat.

Now, all America sits in front of television sets and these
television sets exude, I am sorry to say, a considerable amount
of radioactive material. It's not huge, you know, but it's enough
so that people who have made a habit of watching TV, on taking
Dianazene, get the TV radiation. In other words, it picks out all
kinds of radiation, and of course that includes sunburn. The
reason I put this together was quite interesting. I found out
that the sun burned people. And what do you know? The sun happens
to be fission. That is why the sun keeps lighted. It's a fission
item. And if it's a fission item, then we're getting some
byproduct of fission as that, and that does cause sunburn. We get
ultraviolet burns and other types of burns, but these things are
basically radiation burns.

All right. Now, we look over this Dianazene in a very critical
eye, very critical (you should be very critical of anything like
a drug because it's something else doing it), and we find out
that it does something new and strange. It turns on and magnifies
all of the effects of having received too much radiation, and a
person discovers that he can confront them. And discovering that
he can confront them, he becomes less afraid of them, and you get
a mental side effect on this which is quite interesting. People
begin to feel contemptuous to some degree of radiation. They have
done something to themselves which caused the radiation reaction
to be more severe than it was. In other words, they've done a
process, haven't they?

By the mere act of taking a handful of pills and throwing it into
their mouth and throwing it down the throat -- knowing very well
that this was going to turn on flush, flash and all the rest of
it, and still confronting that and saying, "Well, we'll have to
go through it," -- their morale on the subject of radiation
picked up quite markedly. And this is quite interesting to note
that this is the case.

Here and there amongst us somebody has flinched. It got too much
for him, and he stopped halfway through a course of it because
that was all, brother. He didn't want to go through that again.
Well, the joke is the next dose he took would probably turn on
practically nothing because, again, this is a strange drug, this
Dianazene. It doesn't turn on the same toxicity a second time. It
runs another one. And they're all slightly different and they're
all burns, and drugs don't act like that, see? You take arsenic,
you get arsenic poisoning. Well, not Dianazene.

So, you get these different reactions. And actually one never
quite knows -- it's quite adventurous -- one never quite knows
just what reaction he's going to get.

After somebody has been on it for a couple of weeks, it is quite
amusing, very amusing, that he says, "Well, I've got that all
flat, you know? I've got that one flat. I ran that out and I'm in
good shape now, and maybe I've just got to run a little
exhaustion off or something." (You know, you feel exhausted or
something. You have to take some more of it and then you don't
feel exhausted.) And he'll say, "Well, I've got to take some more
of it," and he turns on a brilliant lobster flush, you see, that
was twice as bad as the first one, and then that runs flat and
there he is.

Well, where do all these burns come from? Well, that is a subject
which I think you will find the answer to in What to Audit or The
History of Man -- same book. Radiation has been with man and with
man's genetic line for a very, very long time, and you run them
out way on down the track.

Now, how much radiation you can run out of anybody, I wouldn't
even guess. But I know that after a while you take the stuff and
it doesn't jolt you anymore. Well, that's a funny thing, isn't
it? You take the same amount of something every day and after a
while it gets without jolt. That doesn't work that way with
alcohol. You take a pint of alcohol every day, you will
eventually get twice as drunk. You also get hobnailed livers.

I went to a W.C.T.U. lecture one time and the principal speaker
there discussed only hobnail livers. I thought this was one of
the more interesting things. She had pictures of hobnail livers.
She had great big ones! I mean they were that big. And then the
lantern slides came on. These were just prints, you see? And then
the lantern slides came on, and these were hobnail livers, too.
And boy I certainly saw enough hobnail liver, and it would have
made a complete teetotaler out of me except for one thing: I saw
her out back after she left the stage and she opened her handbag
and took a drink.

Well, here's this peculiar, peculiar reaction. Only a Dianeticist
accustomed to running lots of engrams would actually realize how
many engrams there can be and somebody can still be alive. But
when a person is being confronted continuously with an engramic
situation, such as roentgen count in the atmosphere, he could
expect every few months to get, not the same violent reaction,
but some reaction from something like Dianazene. He could expect
to get it.

If they stopped exploding H-bombs and so on, why, obviously this
would wipe out and there would come a time when there wasn't any
further need for such a thing. In other words, the fallout would
be so slight in the air that nobody would pay any attention to it
again.

But here's the essence of such a thing: It reduces the actual
amount of energy mass in the body. It isn't that it causes
anybody to reduce, it simply reduces the mental image pictures.
And a thetan likes these, and they get burned up. Now, if you
were to process somebody up above and beyond needing anything
like this -- which today I think is possible -- he of course
wouldn't have to take any such assists at all. There wouldn't be
anything to this. It would be an easy, calm attitude toward all
of this radiation in the air, and he wouldn't really be bothered
with it at all. In other words, he could handle it.

Now, evidently this is the case. In other words, somebody could
be processed up above being affected by it. Because it seems to
be the case that the body experiences these particles going
through it. And the body is capable of experiencing these
particles going through it, and in that experiencing, it suffers
a sense of loss and tries to hold on to them and puts up an
active resistance then to radiation particles -- and only then
stacks them up.

Now, I'll tell you why this is fascinating. It takes the
cooperation of a thetan to get radiation poisoning. He has to
cooperate by resisting it. He does. He has to cooperate madly.

And you could actually talk to a population on the subject of
radiation and its dangers to a point where you would have
everybody awfully sick, even if there was no radiation in the
present-time environment at all. They would resist it on the
backtrack. They would resist the X-ray machines and the
television sets, and so on, to such a degree that they would stop
the stuff.

Because here is the spooky thing about it. I gave this a lot of
study last year, and the first thing I came up with is this
imponderable: gamma rays can go through anything. That's right.
They can go through anything. Concrete doesn't slow them down
much. Well, isn't this peculiar? If a concrete wall a couple of
feet thick won't stop a gamma ray, then what are you doing, less
than two-feet thick and merely flesh, stopping a gamma ray? Uh-
huh. And that was the first significant fact that fell out of the
hamper of this research.

What the dickens is this all about? How come the human body stops
one of these invisible particles? You can't see them. It can't
see them. But it can experience a secondary reaction. And gamma,
not resisted, would never harm anybody.

But if a person has a fear of the unknown, of a hidden influence,
he then, every time he experiences one of these rays going
through the body, the body then, on a secondary reaction, braces
itself and makes a picture of the ray passing through. And the
ray never stops. But the picture does. And Dianazene then does
not burn up gamma rays or X-rays or any other kind of rays,
because there aren't any in the body. And the joker -- excuse me,
I mean the honored, revered, scientific personnel of the Atomic
Energy... Some joker down here on some low salary has dreamed up
the fact that strontium 90 supplants calcium in the body. This is
a very cute theory, but I suspect it thoroughly.

The body, in the first place, does strange things with calcium.
The ringing of the ear is actually a symptom caused by a calcium
deposit underneath the little hammer that is in the ear there,
that regulates in the ear -- continuous ear ringing is just a
little deposit of calcium. The parathyroid gland, I believe, is
the gland that regulates the amount of calcium in the
bloodstream. And when the parathyroid gland goes out, then you
get such things as ringing in the ears, and you get arthritis,
which is a calcium deposit, and so on. Strange things happen with
calcium when the glandular system cuts out.

Cancer is not caused -- never has been and never will be. It is
not a caused mechanism by the external environment or some
physiological activity. But certain cells of the body individuate
and try to build a body when the second-dynamic genetic line is
blocked. They say, "We cannot go on from here. We cannot have any
babies. There cannot be any more of this. And therefore we,
completely independent of the body and its activities, must
create a cellular entity." And they proceed to do so. And that is
cancer.

It always requires a second-dynamic or sexual upset, such as the
loss of children or some other mechanism to bring about a
condition known as cancer. This is cancer at the outset. I have
examined too many cases not to have recognized this, because it
is present in every single case that had cancer that I've ever
examined -- real wild curve on the second dynamic. And where we
have helped a case with cancer we have processed such things as
wasting babies and accepting babies, and mocking up babies and
throwing them away, and doing suchlike and so on, and we have had
a considerable change in the condition of the case. However, a
person can get so far gone that he can hardly be processed or not
processed at all, and when this is the case, why, the cancer gets
him.

Well now, strontium 90 may or may not do anything except inform
the bone cells "This is the end of track, brother, because
somebody has invented and is using radiation on this planet."
Extent of message to the body, then: "Radiation has been
invented. It does exist. This is the end of the genetic line. Get
off the streetcar, or try to continue on in some wild or peculiar
form that we will experiment with in order to make it possible to
go on, which is impossible."

Now, that's what cancer is all about. It isn't a strange
sickness. It is the effort on the part of a few cells to not
surrender, and to go off and make a pattern of their own in any
way, shape or form they can. Therefore, you must demonstrate to
somebody that it is not the end of track. And if you can
demonstrate to somebody that radiation does not mean end of
track, if you can break up that identification, you evidently can
break up the total effect of radiation upon the human body. If
you can break up that identification, you've done it. Now, it's
quite interesting to be aware of this. That is a triumph in
itself.

Of course, then, radiation is a "causative" (quote, unquote)
factor in cancer and such illnesses. Of course strontium 90, or
any other byproduct, coming along and hitting the body and
jolting the body is telling the body that this is end of track,
there will be no more genetic line from here. Second-dynamic
mutations, births of peculiar animals instead of babies, is, of
course, merely the total effort of the body itself to create
something that can survive in spite of radiation. And that is
evidently what mutation is all about, and that is all it is
about.

It says, "We can't survive the way we are. The way we are has
proven to us that we are so dopey, so stupid and so incapable of
thought, planning or organization, that we have permitted
ourselves as a race to come into the hands of a bunch of bums who
are using radiation. And therefore we cannot survive in this
form. Let's all be gophers," or something of the sort. Don't you
see?

It means that there must be a violent change of line. And, of
course, the genetic line doesn't confront; it simply says, "End
of track," you see? It goes into a wild dispersal down here
someplace, and then finally admits that's the end of track and
just quits. So you get this wild dispersal. And the wild
dispersal area on the part of nations, individuals or groups, as
they individuate themselves and separate themselves from others
under the impact of radiation; and the effort of the cell to
separate itself from other cells and do something different than
they're doing, is in itself an individuation. That's all cancer
is, malignant growths, other such things.

All right. As we look over this, it's interesting that we know
this much about it. That's how much has already fallen to our lot
in examining various radiation cases and materials and so on. So
there is some hope. So there is some hope.

Well, if there was just that much hope and we had Dianazene we'd
still be all right. But we've gone on from there. Wow! Right on
upstairs.

And we have found how you go about taking any case -- I won't
tell you how many hours, because this is a long look now -- you
take any case and you walk it upstairs along a certain new scale.
And walked upstairs on this scale, you bring him into a condition
where he can confront space or invisible particles in it. And
when he can confront space and the invisible particles in it,
radiation neither bothers himself or his body. Neither one is
bothered now by radiation. He couldn't care less when a couple of
cosmic rays go whizzing through.

So what? So it's just a cosmic ray. He is not stopping this stuff
anymore; he is not worried about it; he is not trying to avoid
it, and as a result, it simply passes on its way. There is no
stopping of it and so no consequences because of it.

Well, then it becomes this contest for the auditor: How do you
put somebody in a frame of mind that he can look at space,
invisible particles, hidden influences, and say, "So what? I
could confront it if it's there. I am aware that it exists. I
don't have to be at all." How do you put somebody in this frame
of mind?

Well, you possibly could put somebody in this frame of mind by
educating him into what happens. That is a method of giving him
awareness, isn't it? You don't cut somebody to pieces because you
teach them something. Never get the idea that you do.

Never worry about telling somebody about birth and
tonsillectomies and so forth. So they come down with measles
three days after you've talked to them about measles engrams. You
said, "Do you know when you were a little kid and you got the
measles? Do you remember that?"

"Oh, I didn't ever have the -- oh, yes, I did too have the
measles," the fellow said.

"Well, do you remember when they pull the blinds down?"

And you go right on through it, see? And don't bother to take him
up to the moment he came out the door and he felt good and he was
all happy and well again. Just skip that. Just take him through
to the moment when the blinds were down and he was feeling like
hell. Three days later, he's liable to come up with a case of
measles which is nonvirulent. This has actually happened.

Very often somebody in reading Dianetics: The Modern Science of
Mental Health will give it a cursory glance, find an engram in
the wife, run her halfway through the engram just to see if there
is such a thing as engrams, be very surprised and say, "Well,
whattaya know? There is something to this book after all," put it
down and go to bed. Couple of days later, the wife has a case of
measles. Take the wife to the doctor. The doctor says, "This is a
very strange case of measles. It has everything connected with it
except measles." This has happened many times. We've had that
happen.

Well now, what happens here? What happens here on radiation? You
could make people aware of the existence of radiation. In the
first place, there is very little known about it. Most people
think it's carried by the winds or dust or something of the sort.
Actually, invisible particles couldn't care less. When they put
an atom bomb nine feet under the ground and blew it up -- or an
H-bomb -- out in Nevada, of course it blew radioactive dust all
over the Southwest. And this was very uncomfortable for a while,
but nevertheless it doesn't require much of a carrier.

In the first place, probably some action like this occurs: The
bomb goes off in Australia, and a 360-degree sphere of ionosphere
(which is up there not too high above your heads, not too many
miles) flashes. In other words, the flash in Australia, this
ionosphere flashes. People get a secondary kickback from the
ionosphere just as though they were standing next to the bomb,
don't you see? Something like this may happen.

Another thing is you may get an earth wave of some sort or
another, a surface wave. The studies of Nikolai Tesla, whose
works were once in my hands -- his family tried to give them to
me. They said they didn't know any better place to put them, and
I convinced them that I was not a worthy recipient of all of the
pursed and original manuscripts of Nikolai Tesla. I have no place
to put them. They're to me, you know, like handing me great big
chunks of gold and saying, "Well, put it in your old Mackinaw,"
you know? If I remember rightly, they went to a museum where they
belong.

But anyway, Nikolai Tesla did certain ground wave experiments
that demonstrate that radio waves, FM waves, any other type of
waves that he could isolate at that time, will travel just as
easily along the surface of the ground as they will travel
through the air. In fact, air is a pretty good conductor.

So Nikolai Tesla was out there in Colorado one time. He was an
old scientist way back when. I think he died not more than ten or
twelve years deep into this century. He's the fellow that
invented alternating current. He mocked up an alternating current
machine in his head and let it run for two years to see what
parts of it were weak, and then he replaced those and built it in
actuality -- and that is alternating current. The guy is a
wonder.

Anyway, he put a generator into one side of a valley and started
it running with its electrode shoved into the ground. (This is a
very crude description of this.) And he put an electric-light
bulb in a spot a long distance from there, and the electric light
bulb lit up. See, instead of using wires to conduit, he just used
the surface of earth.

So you could say maybe a bomb burst down there in Australia and
you get a momentary flash over the entirety of earth, don't you
see? Something like that could act as a conductor. This has not
been studied.

If you were to go up to Columbia or MIT or someplace, and you
just in an off moment go up and see prexy, you know, in charge of
electronics or something, and you'd say, "Say, uh... tell me what
you know about ground waves."

And he would say, "Well, ground waves, you mean earthquakes,
don't you?"

You say, "No, no, no. Electronic ground waves. The ground as a
carrier of electronic and radio waves."

And he would say, "Oh, let's see, uh... that's... Oh, you're
talking about some of Tesla's work."

"Well, where are your textbooks on it?"

"Well, I'm afraid we don't have any textbooks on it," he'd say.
"Very little known about it." And boy, would he get you out of
there in a hurry, because it violates everything he knows about
electronics. It invalidates the whole works.

So there are a lot of possibilities as to what happens when an H-
bomb goes off, but there's no reason why these can't be studied
and looked at directly. But it doesn't much matter to you how it
hits the body if you know that when it hits the body, you stop it
and then it does something. You got that? If you stop it, it will
then do something.

Well, it isn't even a problem of you getting yourself out of the
way to let it go through. See? You'd have to be in a state of
mind of "I couldn't care less" or "Whee! Look at that, another
mega-megavolt charge. Ha-ha!" You know? "Whee." You have to have
some sort of a frame of mind which, we might say, matches up to
the situation.

Now, how does a fellow get in that frame of mind? Well, it's all
right to say, "What's the matter with you? Can't you change your
mind to say, 'Electronic energy?'"

"Ah, that's all right. That's acceptable. It lights the place."

"All right. Nuclear energy?"

"Uhhhh, yeah, that's all right. Nothing wrong with nuclear
energy."

But in order to change his mind, he'd have to know more about it,
wouldn't he? He'd have to know what he was changing his mind
about.

Well, the funny part of it is you know all about it. That's
what's fabulous about anything in Scientology. You know all there
is to know about life. I couldn't teach you anything about life
unless you knew all about it.

But you know about it as a shadow somewhere in your
consciousness. And when I tell you something about life -- direct
observation of some kind or another -- the only way I could
really relay it to you at all is by you, in some tiny fashion,
remembering it. You get it back again, and then as you become
aware of it, you look it over and it begins to have less ferocity
where you're concerned.

We tested a whole ACC once. I did nothing but lecture to them.
Didn't group process them, didn't do anything. And they did very
little auditing amongst themselves, and their IQs came up
beautifully. That's a wild thing, isn't it? It just shouldn't
happen, but it did happen.

One has to become aware of something, to some degree, before he
knows what to change his mind about. You can ask somebody, "All
right, now change your mind about the democratic system as used
in Poland."

Fellow says, "What am I supposed to change my mind about?"

"Well, change your mind to believing it's all right."

"Well, I couldn't do that."

"Why can't you do that?"

"Because I don't know anything about it."

Well, after he knew something about it, if he remembered, he
could then change his mind about it. Don't you see?

In order to change one's mind a certain amount of awareness is
requisite. So you'd say the first condition of changing one's
mind is being willing to be aware of many things. So what would
you change somebody's mind about to make him H-bomb proof? Well,
you'd have to show him the component parts of the menace. And
then he could change his mind about it, and only then could he
change his mind about it.

Right now most people are afraid of space. To give you an extreme
example, a lunatic becomes terrified of space quite ordinarily.
You put him out in too much space and, man, he's had it. Some
other lunatic might be crazy on the subject of closed spaces, and
you put him in closed spaces and he's had it. Don't you see? They
cannot confront, really, either one or they wouldn't be crazy.

All right. Now, we look over these problems of awareness and we
find that somebody, to be aware of an invisible particle in
space, would first have to be aware of space. But in order to be
aware of space he'd have to be aware of mass. He'd have to be
willing to confront mass. And, to be willing to confront mass,
one must be willing as well to confront the various vagaries of
mass. It does things. Automobiles rush down streets and do all
sorts of things. They're very frightening items to some people.

All right. So we would have to have a review of what one is
willing to be aware of Well, how would one possibly do that? By
processing. How long? I don't know. But I can give you something
that we have today that we didn't have a few days ago. And it's a
very valuable acquisition because this material puts into place
some things that we knew but didn't find ourselves able to
totally fit.

Why is it that a thetan has to have something? That is utterly
insane! Why should he have to have something? You know, he's an
invisibility which is looking at a mass. Now, he is not mass and
he's looking at a mass. Well, this is wild. He can't look at
mass, because he'd have to totally duplicate mass in order to see
mass, wouldn't he? Well, he'd actually have to be willing to be
mass in order to see mass. But if you could coax him to see mass,
then you would also coax him to be it -- be willing to be it. And
if you did that, he could see the walls. You've got 8-C. That's
the workability behind 8-C.

But what is this crazy thing that he has to have it? You mean a
thetan who consists of nothing -- a spirit -- you mean, goes
chomp, chomp, chomp on walls and ceilings and floors and things,
eats them up? Well, it's the wildest thing you ever heard of, and
yet he does. If you've ever seen a high-school boy, you'll know
doggone well that he'll eat an automobile. You lend him yours,
there'll be nothing left of it. Big bites in the fenders.

Well, why does he have to have anything? Well, he only has to
have those things which he can't look at.

I'll read you the basic law back of this. Would you like me to do
that? This is really a brainstorm. This you'll say, "I should
have known this all the time. This is too easy."

I looked at it in another way than you will look at it. I looked
at it as our first proof of the truth of the definition of space.
The definition of space we know is true, but it has never had a
correlative datum. It has stood all by itself. We say space is
the viewpoint of dimension. Well, if you haven't got anything
looking, then there isn't any space; if you don't look, there is
none. Space is the viewpoint of dimension.

Well, there's another crazy phenomenon. When you ask somebody to
solve a problem -- have him dream up a problem, mock up a problem
out here and then solve it and solve it and solve it and solve it
and solve it -- it marches right straight in on him. It gets
closer and closer to him. Every time you ask him to solve it, if
he's aberrated at all, he feels that you are asking him to avoid
confronting it. And if you ask him to avoid confronting it, ah-
ha! there's less space.

We knew this phenomenon existed. I've observed this phenomenon
here for a year or more and have been very intrigued with it. I
got very intrigued with it for an entirely different reason. The
reason I got intrigued with it was because it was the first --
well not the first, but a major error I had made in research. It
was a major error. I even published it in a bulletin -- that you
mocked up a problem and then had the preclear solve it a lot of
times, and you gave him some practice in solutions and he'd get
fine.

That's about the only time I've ever used my own case as a basis
for a conclusion. And that's the way it worked on me. Mock up
this problem and solve it a few times, and I felt fine. There's
nothing wrong, but the problem stayed right there. It didn't go
anywhere. That's because I don't mind problems. I don't have to
solve them, you get the idea? I don't solve them because I can't
confront them. There's a game called solving problems. Entirely
different motive.

Well, I found a tremendous number of people were doing something
entirely different, after I'd made this publication. I'd gotten
some auditing. I'd observed this phenomenon. It seemed so usual,
so standard, that I just knew it was true. And for the first time
really, I suppose, used my own case observation as a basis for
some of the data of Scientology. And boy, was I wrong!

Because you have the usual preclear mock up a problem out here
and solve and solve it and solve it, and it hits him in the face.
He finally goes completely by the boards. He gets sicker than a
pup. Why? Because every time he solves something, he thinks it's
because he can't confront it. He has to get rid of the problem
because it's not something he can view. So he's on an obsessive
solution.

Well, you don't have to be on an obsessive solution to solve
things. You can solve anything you like. But if you have to solve
them because they are so dreadfully diabolical, they'll kick your
teeth out.

Now, Confrontingness as a process works because space is the
viewpoint of dimension, and that which is not confronted tends to
contain no space. Hence, it collapses upon the person. And that's
valences; that's what a valence is. You couldn't get something to
confront anything else, and so you got less and less space
between you and it. You couldn't get it to confront anything. You
couldn't get yourself to confront it. Eventually you were it,
which is no space. Because you weren't looking from you to it, it
then was where you were. You couldn't confront it. Space is the
viewpoint of dimension. Therefore, there was no space, so
therefore you occupied the same spot. See that?

Mother was always chopping you up one way or the other and you
couldn't look her in the eye. And one day you wake up and find
yourself chopping everybody up in Mother's tone of voice. And you
say, "What's happened to me?" Well, you couldn't confront Mother,
and she's where you are, and you act like her. That's all there
is to it. See that? Just no space. This horrible simplicity is a
fabulous simplicity. It's one of these that's just too simple to
be true, but it happens to be true, this one. Space is a
viewpoint of dimension.

Now, the other thing is, those things which you can't confront,
you're unwilling to be aware of. In other words, awareness is the
action of confronting something. To be aware of something you
have to be willing -- in some way or another -- to confront it.
Just to be frightened to death of something, you have to be
willing to some degree to look in that direction. You have to be
willing to know about it to be afraid of it. How many things are
people frightened to death of (or way below being frightened to
death of) which they aren't even aware that they're frightened to
death of? But one day you'll come along and you'll say, "Look at
that over there. Isn't that dreadful?"

They'll say, "What?"

And you'll say, "That!"

And they lo-o-o-ok at it, and all of a sudden they go scre-e-e-e-
eam. They're much better off screaming than they were before.
That I guarantee. I'll give you that as a complete guarantee.
It's truthful. They're better off screaming than they were
standing there calm. Because they weren't calm, they were being
totally apathetic on the subject. They knew it was there all the
time and they were below terror, and you at least got them up to
a point where they'd scream. People who are screaming are more
alive than people that are not screaming.

Where you have an unwillingness to confront, you have a
nonawareness of If a person has been in too many automobile
accidents, one fine day he walks out, there's two lanes of cars
parked in the street, one on each side of the street, and he
can't see any automobiles in the street. And this actually
happens. People look straight through things.

Ambrose Bierce wrote a thing one time called The Thing of No
Color. It was a monster which wasn't any color but which was
awfully deadly, and it went around eating everybody up. But
nobody could see it because it wasn't any color.

Well, people believe at last that the world is full of monsters,
but they don't even dare be aware that it's full of monsters. If
they brightened up their perception, they would someday see one
of these monsters and that would kill them. Only the monster
they're scared of died 150 thousand years ago and is now in a tar
pit down on La Brea Avenue. You see what all this is about and
what it leads to.

Now, if people have been attacked too many times by atomic
fission, if they've been wiped out on too many planets and in too
many places, if they've been knocked off, if their genetic line
in coming up the track from amoeba to maybe... too many times by
radiation or something of the sort, they no longer are willing to
confront it at all, but they suspect something horrible is going
to happen to them if they scent any tiniest particle of it. Don't
you see?

The horrible things that are going to happen to them because of
radiation have already happened, Lord knows how long ago, and
aren't in progress at the moment. But they smell a little bit of
radiation and they say, "Uh-uh." One wandering gamma with about
enough horsepower in it to propel itself comes limping on small
crutches across the room in this direction, and the fellow says,
"My God the whole city has blown up!" You get it? But he isn't
sufficiently capable of looking at a blown-up city to see whether
or not the city is blown up. You get it? So he says, "Well, we're
all through, boys. Let's quit. We're done."

It presents a rather silly picture of a fellow who has had an
experience of dying of thirst on a desert. He died of thirst on
the desert. And when he died of thirst, why, there was bones
lying there and horns, and so on, of an old cow that kicked off
first. And one day he's walking down the street, and he looks in
the window of a shop, and he sees a skull and some horns in the
shop. And he lies down on the sidewalk before the public fountain
and dies of thirst. And that is his exact action in radiation.

These little ingredients themselves do nothing, but they sure
upset a guy's backtrack. He can't look at any of that. So you
have to bring up somebody in terms of lookingness. Now, in order
to bring them up in terms of confronting such a thing as that,
you have to get them to be able to confront things in general,
and you have to make practically the whole sweeping job of Clear
a fact. It's that big a look, just now.

Now, my task is to find out how fast to do it. But I can tell you
the exact scale he has to come up. The first of this scale, at
the bottom of it, is Waste. The next up the line is Have. The
next is Substitute. The next is Confront. And the next is
Contribute To. And the next is Create. And that is the Scale of
Havingness.

And there are some little interlocking points on that scale which
turn up while you're processing him. And you run all these things
objectively and you really boost him on up through the top. When
he can confront space, he's in pretty good shape. When he can
confront space and invisible particles and anything else, and
masses and so forth, he's in terrific shape.

Now, a person who is in a body, of course, is in that thing he is
least willing to confront. That is the law: People occupy that
thing they are least willing to confront. Well, a person is not
stuck in a wall. If you notice carefully, you're not stuck in a
wall. You got that? You're not stuck in a dog. And if you look
quick in a mirror, you're not stuck in Mother. You're stuck in
you. You're stuck in the body you're occupying, you see? Or you
at least got hold of this body if you're exteriorized, don't you
see?

That tells us at once what you're least willing to confront.
Awful comment. A person has closed terminals most thoroughly,
then, with those things he is least willing to confront. The
least space exists between him and what he is unwilling to
confront, what he's most unwilling to confront. Don't you see? So
that is interiorization. And what a horrible beast a fellow must
think he looks like who is dead in his head. That fellow who is
dead in his head must have an idea that Lon Chaney could have
used him with profit as a model.

All right. So there is our profit here. We get the person all the
way up and on his way. If you did this and ran this whole scale
with objective processes, you would wind up at least with a
thorough exterior. And then of course as an individual, he
couldn't be worried less about the civilization. And then because
he's worried less about it, anything that happens to it won't
affect him, and it's the first time he will be effective in
handling it and doing something about it.

So we Scientologists have several missions on our hands. Some of
those consist of educating people, and some of them consist of
processing people. And, by and large, the first of them consists
of getting ourselves in good shape, and we'll all live through
it, and this talk won't have been in vain.

Thank you.

[End of Lecture]
