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9th ACC - THE SOLUTION TO ENTRAPMENT CASSETTES 2/35

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9TH ACC CONTENTS

December 1954 to January 1955 in Phoenix, Arizona.

Based on the solution to entrappment cassette version.

F# = File number (** = not available)
O# = Original Number (according to the master list posted by Pilot)
REN = As renumbered in the Solution to Entrappment cassettes

F# O#  REN  DATE  TITLE

01  1   1  Dec  6 Introduction to 9th ACC: Havingness
02  2   2  Dec  7 The Essence of Auditing, Know to Mystery Scale
03  3   3  Dec  8 Rundown on Six Basics
04  4   4  Dec  9 Communication Formula
05  5   5  Dec 10 The Practice of Dianetics and Scientology
06  6   6  Dec 13 Conduct of the Auditor
07  7   7  Dec 14 Mechanics of Communication
08  8   8  Dec 15 Havingness
09  9   9  Dec 16 Pan-determinism and One-way Flows
10  9A 10  Dec 17 Hist. & Dev. of Processes: Games & Limitations in Games
11  9B 10A Dec 17 History and Development of Processes: Q&A Period
12 10  11  Dec 20 Games (Fighting)
13 11  12  Dec 21 Anatomy of Games -- Part I
14 11A 12A Dec 21 Anatomy of Games -- Part II
15 12  13  Dec 22 One-way Flows in Processing
16 12A 13A Dec 22 One-way Flows in Processing: Question and Answer Period
17 13  14  Dec 23 Havingness and Communication Formulas
** 13A --  Dec 23 After Lecture Comments   
18 14  15  Dec 24 Pan-determinism
19 14A 15A Dec 24 Pan-determinism: Question and Answer Period
20 15  16  Dec 27 Training New People
** 15A --  Dec 27 Curiosa from Dianetics 55!
21 16  17  Jan  3 Auditing Requirements, Differences
22 16A 18  Jan  4 Time
** 16AA -  Jan  4 Q&A Period
23 17  19  Jan  5 Auditing at Optimum
24 18  20  Jan  6 Exteriorization
25 19  21  Jan  7 Elementary Material: Know to Mystery Scale
26 20  22  Jan 10 Education: Goals in Society -- Adult Education
27 21  23  Jan 11 Fundamentals of Auditing
** 21A --  Jan 11 Auditors' Conference
28 22  24  Jan 12 Definitions: Glossary of Terms -- Part I
29 23  25  Jan 13 Definitions: Glossary of Terms -- Part II
30 24  26  Jan 14 Definitions: Glossary of Terms -- Part III
31 25  27  Jan 17 Auditing Demonstration: Six Basics in Action
** 25A --  Jan 17 Auditors' Conference
32 26  28  Jan 18 Auditing Demonstration: Spotting Spots
** 26A --  Jan 18 Auditors' Conference
33 27  29  Jan 19 Auditing Demonstration: Exteriorization
34 28  30  Jan 20 Background Music to Living
35 29  31  Jan 21 Axioms: Laws of Consideration -- What an Axiom Is

Note that 6 of the 9 discussion periods (Q&A periods, Auditors'
Conferences, etc.) were omitted from the cassettes, leaving us
with only 35 files instead of the 41 that were recorded.  It is
also possible that material was edited out of the lectures which
are available.  If anyone has a set of the original reels, please
post any missing material.

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9ACC file 2/35

9th ACC - 2: ESSENCE OF AUDITING, KNOW TO MYSTERY SCALE

Transcript of Lecture by L. Ron Hubbard 9ACC02    -   
5412C07 2nd of 35 talks to students of 9th Advanced
Clinical Course

ESSENCE OF AUDITING, KNOW TO MYSTERY SCALE

A lecture given on 7 December 1954


Now, would you give me some account of what - what you 
did yesterday?

Male voice: Did yesterday?

Mmm.

Male voice: Well, about all we did yesterday was get things
all assigned and straightened up and ready to go for this
morning, which we did auditing this morning.

Did auditing this morning. You got teams, auditing teams
all straightened out? I suppose probably everybody's
unhappy with these teams.

Male voice: Oh, sure.

Everybody's probably very miserable with the whole thing.

Now, with team assignment you did run "Something you
wouldn't mind remembering. Something you wouldn't mind
forgetting?"

Male voice: Oh, yes.

If I had a simpler and yet slightly therapeutic process
believe me we would be using that right at this moment.

Okay. Now, we got this far. What we are learning here is
auditing. Let me make that a very, very clear thing; we're
learning auditing.

Now, in the old-time, training pilots, you know, they used
to learn to fly by the seat of their pants. And very often
years afterwards, why, you'd get one of these pilots on the
airmail or something and the errors he had learned to fly
with, he was still busily flying with. He would fly with
his left wing a little bit low and he would land a little
unbalanced the other way. And this was routine, this was
the way he flew. Well now, that is all right; there's
nothing wrong with a pilot flying with his left wing a
little bit low. But it's our job here to get straightened
out whatever bugs one may have picked up along the line.
The essence of auditing today is an ability on the part of
an auditor to carry through with a process no matter how
much it is changing the pc. Now, this - this is a weird
thing. This is real weird. You will discover that an
auditor in the old days doing a duplication back and forth
with the preclear, would get into the most interesting type
of setup you ever saw. The preclear would change so the
auditor would change the process. In other words, he'd
duplicate the preclear. Preclear would start to change, you
see, so the auditor would change the process. This happened
all too many times, but remember this horrible thing
happens to have some truth in it - that the process which
turned on a somatic will turn it off That's a gruesome fact.

So we have a situation where an auditor has - may have picked
up this - not this one but he may have picked up certain
observational points. See, he may have picked up certain
things in observing preclears and so forth. And he may
be - all unknownst to himself, after he's done an awful lot
of auditing - inclining in some direction of a process shift
or some favorite activity that he would engage on at a
certain moment when the preclear was doing this and that,
which are not necessarily bad, but they may not necessarily
be good.

Now, the essence of communication lag is the first thing
we've got to get very, very thoroughly. Now, although Peggy
is a good auditor and I love her very, very dearly, she
told me yesterday noon - and didn't realize she had told me
and so therefore I shouldn't tell on her in front of all
these people - she pulled a boo-boo of considerable
magnitude without realizing she had done it. She let a
preclear talk to her day and night on an obsessive comm lag
without recognizing that this preclear really had no need
to talk or anything else.

I know this preclear. I know this preclear vividly well and
in two hours of auditing I was able to get in three
auditing commands. Talk about an obsessive communication
flow, see? Obsessive. It's not particularly sequitur; it's
not particularly related to anything. And to let this
preclear get away with this for three days and nights is a
very, very poor auditing show - it really is.

One should not go to the lengths of strangling the preclear
if this preclear keeps on talking obsessively, but let's
look at it, let's face up to the fact that a communication
lag means the length of time intervening. You see, there's
distance on communication. Well, there's also time between
cause and effect, you see. And the more time, the less
A - the less affinity, you see. The more time, the less
reality. The more time, the less communication.

So when we get that factor of time in there - time being
the single aberrative factor - the definition is: The length
of time from the moment that the auditor, or you as a
person in conversation, ask a question or request some data
and when that exact question and the exact answer to that
data is forth coming from the preclear. Now, it's the
length of time between those two incidents - question,
answer. And it doesn't mean an answer off to the side.
That's not an answer, see. It doesn't mean a lot of cross
backflow to find out what you meant by the question. See?
That's all time. It doesn't matter what goes on between the
moment the question is asked and the moment it is
answered. It just does not matter what goes on. If the
preclear goes out and climbs the Alps in the interim that's
still comm lag.

You walked up to this taxi driver in 1930 and you said
"Where is the city hall?" Now, this taxi driver may since
have driven all around the town, have been fired, have gone
into other employ, may have become a streetcar conductor,
may have become a cop, may have become president and so
forth. The truth of the matter is he never told you and has
not told you to this date where the city hall is, so that
is all comm lag. We've got fourteen years here, let us say
or twenty-four years or thirty-four years or forty-four
years. It just would not matter, if the question hasn't
been answered, it's all comm lag. We don't care who this
taxi driver has talked to, if he has written you letters in
the meantime, if he's given evidence before the grand jury
or McCarthy - it just doesn't matter. It is still comm lag.
That the question never gets answered still doesn't alter
the basic definition. This fellow is then comm-lagging.

All right. Now, let's get an example of it. Here - here's
an accident victim on the street. You walk up to this
accident victim you say, "How do you feel?" The accident
victim is unconscious, lying there bleeding, all pushed in
from all corners. Never answers your question. Kind of
obvious, isn't it? Never answers your question. Yet you
asked it.

So from that moment, from there on to the end of this
universe that is still a comm lag in progress, isn't it?
And that is why a phrase gets hung up in a reactive bank.
There are no phrases that simply miss the reactive bank
entirely, see. It's never resolved, it's never answered.

Now, do you see what the content of an engram is? It's
total comm lag. Everything there is in the engram bank is a
comm lag. So you ask this person, "How do you feel?" Do
you know that question will go on from now till the end of
this universe as part of some engram?

Now, therefore there's some responsibility on the person
asking the question. Isn't there? Then we go out and we
ask this bright young girl who is selling soda pop or
something of the sort, we say, "Where is the city hall?"
And she says, "Well, it's two blocks down the street and
turn to your right and it's one block and that's the city
hall." No comm lag there. It isn't aberrative, either, to
you or to her. No aberrative factor involved in it
whatsoever. See, it cleared the computer.

All right. Now, we say to this bright young girl, "How do
you feel?" She says, "Oh, I feel okay today. I know I've
felt a lot better sometimes. I had a big party last night
but I feel okay." No aberrative quality whatsoever. None.
You follow me?

Now, supposing we said to this young girl, "How do you feel
today?" And she says "Well, I don't know, I - aahhh - I think
it over, stand here selling soda pop. Sat here - . You know my
family - my family uh - objected to me selling soda pop. I know
when I was at Vassar, I know my father wrote me a letter
and he said, 'Grace,' he says, 'soda pop - soda pop and you
just won't ever mix.' That's what he said. Aahhhhh"

What happened to your question "How do you feel?" What
happened to your question?

All right. You walk up to this adding machine and you punch
some buttons - bong, bong, bong, see? You don't pull the
handle. You go off and leave it. Leave the whole thing
alone, see? And this poor accountant who is stupid enough
not to pull the handle before he starts accounting, he
walks over and he's got the company vouchers for that month
and he goes ping-a-de-ping-a-de-ping,
ping-a-de-ping-a-de-ping, bang-a-de-bang-a-de bang,
bang-a-de-bang-a-de-bang, bang-a-de-bang-a-de-bang, cronk,
cronk, bang - wrong answer.

And he says, "Hey, wait a minute. Here, now what's this all about?"

Okay. Tell you what it's all about. You asked this person
who is lying there unconscious after the street accident
you say, "How do you feel?" You've walked up to an adding
machine, bing-a-de-bing-a-de-bing, bing, and not pulled the
answer. See, you've not pulled the totaller.

And she's selling soda pop on the street some years later
and somebody walks up to her and says, "How do you feel?"
And she says, "Duh-duh-duh - aahhhhh - uh-da-da-dum -. Pop
said to me when I was at Vassar - . I remember it very well,
he wrote me a letter and he said, 'Grace, soda pop and you
will just never mix.'"

Well, years go by and somebody walks up to her in the
sanitarium - because you see you're totally responsible -
walks up to her in a sanitarium and says to her, "Grace,
how do you feel?" They're still adding figures into this
column of figures, see. They're still trying to get this
thing to multiply everything by five or do something, you
see. And it just - the computer doesn't work that way.
Understand this a little better now?

What is this thing called an engramic phrase? Why is it
aberrative? Well, we get this fact. Life is a peculiar
thing. The one thing that cannot as-is in life - . Now, you
listen. You guys remember this because I'm never going to
tell you again, I'm sure, because it's so damned obvious.
This is one of those horrible obvious things, you know,
that just sort of flies by and you never pay much attention
to it. But do you know what - there's only one thing that
cannot as-is. When we say as-is we mean erase or disappear
or have nothing made of it. What is that?

Male voice: Pleasure.

Nothing. That's very close to it because that's one of the
factors involved with it - nothing, see. Freedom won't erase.
Now, we can look all we want to at this dwindling spiral
and say aren't these people awfully bad off and
everybody's going to the dogs and they'll all wind up in
the dregs. But the funny part of it is that the only thing
it'll erase there is the entheta. The freedom will not
erase. I almost went into convulsions one day - freedom. Now,
let's take this and we say - all these good qualities,
actually good qualities: freedom, presence, demonstrated
abilities - actually the - what happens is, is they don't
erase at all. An individual simply turns away from them and
starts looking at mass and entheta. And as long as he's
over here looking at entheta, any freedom or courage or
anything else that he has that he considers to be a good
quality, is simply going begging, because it is not a
quantitative quality. It is simply qualitative. It's not
quantitative. Freedom is not quantitative. Mass is
quantitative but freedom isn't.

Thus you get races of man always going forward toward
higher levels of freedom. Thus you get all kinds of
activity on the part of man to be better, to make things
better. You get activity in general on the part of life to
go on, coming on up the line, making things squared around
a little bit better. There's only one thing that functions
anywhere and that is life. The only thing that can happen
to life - even though the individual is actually totally
free, even at the moment he's telling you this he is
actually totally free, he has courage, he is able to do a
tremendous number of things - the only thing that he can do
is in that freedom turn around and fixate his attention on
something that is not free, that is not courageous, that is
not many other things.

See, he fixes his attention on some kind of a mass. You
understand? And then he can say, "I am part of that mass."
But why does he do this? Because he wants it to be free
too. And that is the pathetic part of existence. The only
traps that can possibly exist, exist because of a desire to
further free or further help things that are in trouble,
things that are in mass.

Now, if you actually do have a key that opens traps and
locks you are perfectly at liberty to go over and open all
kinds of traps and locks. But as anybody knows, to rescue
his liege lord from the castle while armed - while
beautifully armed with a skewer taken out of the cooking
fire and while faced with a moat, bastions, Greek fire and
very well accoutered and plated archers is folly. Like
love's folly. And if you want to - if you want to define
folly, it is - it is somebody coming up to set you free.

Now, a little child sees another little child that's had
polio. And this little child says, "Well, it's too bad.
That person shouldn't have polio," see, and goes over and - .
You see little kids do this. And one day you're processing
a cripple and you want to know when this person first got
crippled. And you say to him, "Som-mm-mm." All of a sudden
sympathy, feeling of rapport with, effort to help this
other little child. Well, they didn't have the clue did
they? They didn't have the information - they did not have
the data. They - there is a gimmick involved in entrapment.
You have to know how to as-is a problem. You have to know
how to as-is mass and space, too. In other words, when I
say as-is it I mean - hhhwt! - make a perfect duplicate of it.
You have to know how to do that.

All right. So we look over this business of life, this game
called life, and we find an individual if he were totally
free would have no game. So he actually has to actually
consciously step down from a higher activity of freedom in
order to have a game or have any mass around at all. You
see, the existence of the smallest piece of mass would be
a barrier, see. Just to that degree a pebble out here in
the street here is a barrier, but you wouldn't think of it
much as a barrier. The next thing you know the pebble is the
size of the castle wall. See, it's a real barrier. The next
thing it's the size of the universe.

Being trapped in this universe is something on the order of
being caught in a matchbox. You know, here's this huge,
powerful individual and he's standing there outside the
matchbox looking at the matchbox saying, "Boy, I wonder how
I'll ever get out of that matchbox." This is the silly
aspect which life presents to individuals.

All right. We cannot erase or as-is, make a perfect
duplicate of freedom. You make a perfect duplicate of
nothing and you will of course still have the same thing
you started out with, nothing.

You make a perfect duplicate of no barriers and of course
you have still no barriers. So the only thing you can as-is
are barriers, actual barriers. You can see a wall, you can
make a perfect duplicate of it and therefore you can
vanquish it as a wall. What do you mean by having a wall
around there? You've got a wall around there in the first
place because you wanted a game.

All right. Let's take a look at this whole problem of
communication lag and we discover an enormous drive on the
face of life, everywhere it's seen - to free. And of course
that includes computers, doesn't it? That includes
computers. Free a computer. This thing has got a datum
jammed in it. Somebody walked over to it and punched on it
while it was unconscious - "How do you feel?" You get the idea?

Now, the person to whom it was asked will suddenly notice
the existence of a former computation, a former figure on
the machine. You as an auditor would notice this former
figure on the machine. And you would say, "Hey! Let's free
that computer."

It is a handy, jim-dandy little mechanism built into every
computer, that life has to be present somewhere in its
vicinity for any mass or computer to exist. If life to any
degree is present then it will try to free the caught data,
the untabulated, unsolved (you get it) datum - the unanswered
datum, unsolved datum, same thing - in that computer. See?

And so up it comes through the engram bank. So we ask this
person, "How do you feel?" They tell you about soda pop and
Vassar. What's happening here? This person started in to
free the computer and suddenly hit too many points that had
never been tallied. See? And they just stopped right there.

Shortening a communication lag is the manifestation of
actually freeing out of the computer all the jammed data in
it on that subject. And that is what is shortening a
communication lag. That's why a short communication lag is
something an auditor works for and watches for He sees this
communication lag, goes in, gets shorter and shorter and
shorter and shorter and all of a sudden, ping! What's
happened here? The individual has simply as-ised out of the
computer, one way or the other, all the data that was
jamming the computer. And so in Straightwire you are
unjamming computers. Don't think you're doing anything else
in Straightwire. That's all you're doing. Unless you give
it some very fancy wrinkles, it's a very simple process.

You can give Straightwire some very fancy wrinkles, still
legitimately. You can ask a fellow, "Tell some lies about
your past." You can ask him to mock up an action in the
present, then put it into the past and then recall it. He
will be deluged instantly with data that he has long
forgotten. You can do all kinds of things. I mean,
computers can be handled in the most remarkable ways.

Talk about human memory - phooey. I mean, there's no worry
about this at all. The only reason a person cannot remember
is because he is facing a computer that he expects to
remember. He will know the computer is fixed when it
remembers. You see? And then he'll say, "See, I fixed a
computer. Ha-ha. Pretty good." He never gets it through his
skull that what you're asking him to do is actually to
know the answer. Because, you see, he doesn't have to have
the answer out of that computer at all. He doesn't have to
have the computer tell him a thing. It's just a gimmick, a
gadget.

It has no more importance than the vending machines down at
the Greyhound bus station. I mean, are you terribly
concerned at this moment over the vending machines at the
Greyhound bus station?

I'm sure you're not but believe me if you had a job filling
them and keeping them running and so forth, why, boy,
you'd sure be happy every time somebody called up and told
you - . You'd be real sad if they called to tell you your
vending machine number sixty-two is just not working today.
You'd go rushing down there and you'd fix the gimmicks and
take out the old slugs and coins from some bygone age and
the chewing gum that people had jammed in the slot, you
know. And you'd free up the levers that were jimmied by
the kids trying to get a second bar out when the first was
delivered. And you just fix it up and you drop in your
nickel and it gives you a candy bar, bang! just like that.
Nothing to it. Put in another nickel, give you a candy bar,
nickel, candy bar, nickel, candy bar, fine, fixed. Oh,
we're all set and you feel real good about the whole
situation. So would the person who called you up.

There is something horribly frantic about a machine not
doing what it's supposed to do. You see? It's not free to
that extent. It is enslaved in some fashion. All right.
Now, let's look at this communication lag and look at the
engram bank and so forth and just add this up. You know a
tremendous amount of data about this. Let's think it over
for a moment.

Whatcha thinking it over with? I asked you to think it over
for a moment and you did. Now, what are you thinking it
over with? What are you thinking it over with, Mary?

Female voice: I'm not certain.

Well, we'd say the first thing you were thinking it over
with was an uncertainty.

Female voice: Mm-hm.

Is that right?

Female voice: As a matter of fact that was exactly what I
was working on as I thought it over saying - well, in some
banks the uncertainties are much bigger than in others.
Groupers are more powerfill and cover more space and time.
Right. Mm-hm.

Female voice: So that was partly it.

Sure.

What did you do?

Male voice: I sort of - . "Hey, I know something about this
and uh if I fiddle around with it I'll start - I'll start
some - . Something messed up here so I'll just uh - let it go
at knowingness," and things started to come in.

You just let it go at knowingness.

Male voice: - and uh - things started - .

Well, I want you to look over something: That the power of
interest, the ability to compel interest by one of these
circuits, is a fabulous and wonderful thing. One of these
computers is set up basically to be interesting. So when a
person starts to think with one, it's a very interesting
operation. It is actually - a computer itself places a
communication lag into knowingness. Do you see that?

All right. Now, let's say that you were a Japanese
mathematician (I've known some of these boys; they're
fantastic) and you could look at a column of figures and
write down the answer. You know, you look at the column;
you write down the answer. Just fascinating. They're
actually trained to do that in that they've been told that
this is possible and then they stand around and work on it
and look at columns of figures and finally they develop the
facility. Or do they simply become free enough as people to
simply look at a column of figures and know the answer. You
get the idea?

There isn't any reason why time has to intervene at all.
What's mystifying about looking at this column of figures
and writing down the answers is the fact that no time has
intervened, you see. Bang! - he's got the answer.

Well, we think the nice thing to do, the pleasant thing to
do, the polite thing to do and the time-tracky thing to
do - and therefore we can get mixed up so it's the survival
thing to do - is simply to look at a column of figures, you
see, and then take some time and go through some sort of
rote process, you see, by which you will arrive at an
answer at the bottom of the column. All right. We arrive at
this answer very nicely at the bottom of the column. Now,
what are we using to arrive at that answer? We are using
something which isn't really made out of machinery. It's
called mathematics. It is a system of vias by which you can
derive the answer without having to know it. Something by
which you can derive an answer without having to know the
answer. You don't have to burden yourself or make your game
liable to your total knowingness.

See, if you got up toward total knowingness you'd know what
the enemy was doing and what you were doing and what all of
the - . You could know all these things, you see.

But you also have to figure out that there's something to
know. That's the other gimmick. People go around - go around
working harder to get something to know, you see. A fellow
builds up this tremendous structure, a pyramid, and has
labyrinths inside of it and sliding stones and all that
sort of thing. Just for what? Let's add it up this way:
It's something that somebody's going to know eventually - in
other words, a secret. So people will actually manufacture
secrets so as to invest knowingness in them, you see?

I was quite struck by this one time. Bacon is supposed to
have left some cryptograms of one kind or another, and I
had an officer one time who spent all of his time trying to
figure out one of these cryptograms. And I asked him one
day, I said, "Well, you're figuring out this cryptogram," I
said, "How do you know there's really an answer to it?"
This assaulted his whole game, you see; it uttelly dismayed
him - the idea "How do you know there's an answer to this
cryptogram?"	

So, actually we had some machines there. We were doing some
cryptography, one kind or another. And I added it up. It
was ornery of me but I was feeling overt, and we added it
up and any message has certain repetitive indexes,
regardless - you see? The symbols are going to represent
something in terms of meaning but if you write a message it
will have so many articles and so many pronouns and so many
this and that in it if you've got much of a message. 
Demonstrated quite completely that this cryptogram could 
not possibly have had any message in it. The reason why 
it couldn't have had any message in it was very easy:
There was insufficient repetitive quality to the symbols.
Utterly insufficient.

Now, here's another example. Somebody - Adams and somebody or
other wrote a book on space, visitors from space or
something like that. It's around in the bookstores right
now. And on the back page of this thing, on the back of the
cover, it has a message from space and this is a diagram of
the workings of an engine that was left by these
scientists from outer space with this fellow and scientists
are now busy trying to figure this out. So I was interested
enough in figuring this thing out to take a look at this
and recognized something quite cute about it. It has no
repetitive cycles.			   

Let's look at a mathematical formula and realize that if
you're doing it in calculus you're going to have a
summation sign. It's going to repeat itself. An equal sign
will repeat itself. In order to have any kind of
mathematics at all, you've got to have repetition of some
sort or another, otherwise, there's no R in it at all. See,
no duplication. And if there's no R in it whatsoever, it's
just not real. It's just made up. There is no secret there
to be learned.	

So here is this vast number of cockeyed symbols none of
which repeat. As a result, the thing is simply a cooked up
message. It has no secret in it.

Now, much more significantly in life at large, actually
life at large really has no secret in it. However it has a
system it is operating with. Let's look at that. It has a
system with which it's operating. Why does it have an
operating system? Well, it has a game. There's a game
quality involved in the thing.

All right. In order to have a tree, there have to be
certain secrets that aren't secrets. So we get the big
secret that there are no secrets. See, that's the biggest
secret of all: there are no secrets. So we have to
manufacture enough secrets into this computer so that it
will run in the proper vias and go on being a tree.

Now, we get the secret of osmosis, the secret of seed
regeneration, the secret of this, the secret of that.
Something will go on compulsively and obsessively setting
this thing up and making it go through its paces. It's
quite interesting that it does this. Very interesting that
it does this. But the secret involved with it - the secret
involved with it - is that there's no secret involved with it.

But something around there thinks there's a secret involved
with it and is trying to solve that secret. The effort to
solve it is the entrapping mechanism. To look into the
workings of a machine in order to erase or vanquish the
machine is about the silliest thing you can do. The answer
to the machine is the machine. Q and A. An ultimate
solution is the perfect duplication of the problem. Is it
or isn't it?

So a partial duplication of the problem will simply cause a
lot of the problem to keep on surviving, won't it? But if
you made a perfect duplicate of the problem, you would then
have its solution. It would disappear. It certainly
wouldn't be a problem anymore. Isn't that right? You
wouldn't have any mass either would you? You get the idea?

All right. If we're trying to solve problems, then, it must
be that we are trying to bring about a vanishment of the
complications of the problem. And the only way a total
vanishment, an ultimate vanishment of all of the odds and
ends of the problem, so there'd be no further answers
necessary. You know, ultimate solution, crunch! See there'd
be no further problems out of this automobile. Well now,
you know very well that if you fix the ignition, you fix
the spark plugs and so forth, you know you're going to have
future problems with that automobile - you know very well
you're going to have. You run it at the reductio ad absurdum; 
run it a hundred thousand miles and if you don't at
least have a tire problem with that car it would be a very
silly thing, you see.

Now, therefore, if you were trying to solve all the
problems connected with this car, the funny part of it is
the answer is no car. You see that?

Now, oddly enough, here you are in a body. Now, let's just
go into this very sharply here. Here you are in a body, at
first walking from place to place and wishing you had a car
so that you wouldn't have to walk. So you get a car, you
see, and then that pulls your body around so that you don't
have to walk, and you say, "I have solved a problem." Have
you? No, a great many other problems will immediately come
up, not the least of which is the finance company. There's
the finance company and then there's - there'll be the slight
problem of the fact that you won't feel so good because
you're not getting any exercise. You see, your legs now
are dependent upon a car, so they aren't getting used, so
they don't feel important. And you pay - put less
communication to your legs, so the next thing you know
you've got arch trouble or something. Nobody ever got arch
trouble through walking, by the way. They only got arch
trouble through not walking.

You'll find the only engram that is aberrative is the
engram which didn't include any action but included energy.
You had the machine and you didn't use it. That kind of
thing. So you really put up against it this way: you
either - you either solve it or you use it. There's no other
compromise with any gimmick that you have. Either solve it
completely or use it. And if you have something you're not
using, why, throw it away for heaven's sakes. Run it in the
ditch. Give it to somebody else so he'll have a problem.

But if you're not using a body - such as some catatonic or
somebody in a fit someplace in a hospital; you're not using
this body. What are they doing there? What are they doing?
Well, they've got something, they didn't use it, and now
they can't. See, decrease of ability. Not using one's legs
brings about difficulties with one's legs. In other words,
not handling it, not managing it, not keeping it running.
What it does is hang up in the track in a - in an
approximation of nothingness again.

"No-ness," see. Only in this case no doingness is the only
no-ness about it. So there is - there is a gradient scale
here, descending into heavier and heavier mass of nothing.
See, this gradient scale descending into heavier and
heavier mass? Well, it starts - the very top lines of it that
we would be most acquainted with, and before you get into
actual mass, you have the Know to Mystery Scale or the Know
to Secret Scale. That is the top crust of this gradient
scale. Actually repeats itself as itself as you go on down.
Mass - heavier and heavier. Now, all this is - looking, you
might say, is a condensed knowing-ness. You put out
something there to look at so that you can, by looking at
it, know about it.

Now, we go into emotion. We are beginning to use particles
- you are knowing with emotion. Now effort - you know with
effort. Now thinking - then you're figuring with computers.
You're not knowing any longer. You're using computers, a
brain, something like this. And then in order to give it
energy - this is the silliest thing of all, to feed something
energy - you eat. And then to get further on the track and so
forth, why, you get into sex. And then, of course, sooner
or later everything is going to get to be a secret. This is
the most obvious conclusion you can reach.

But here's the commonest manifestation: Let's say you have
a big car and you set it in the garage and you didn't use
it and it sat there for a couple of years. You go out and
you step on its starter. You know very well it won't start.
So you go out and get a new battery and you put in it, and
then you start to start it again and of course it won't
start. The rubber is pretty shot. And so this and that, and
you practically rebuild this car that's been sitting in the
garage for a couple of years but it still won't start and
that's the secret. That's the ultimate secret. We don't
know why this car won't start. It's a secret. Well, the
solution to the car was an as-ising of the car, of course.

Now, let's see how far down a guy goes. He goes down this
scale from know down through secrets, you see, just in a
very heavy plunge. He gets down into the - into the secrets
band. And then it's - his identity's a secret and everybody
else's identity is a secret but everything is a secret, a
secret, a secret. This guy is stupid. He at last can't find
anything anyplace. You know? The whenness and whereness of
everything is lost. And that's the definition of stupidity.
The only real thing about stupidity is that the whenness
and whereness has disappeared.

Did you ever lose something? Makes you feel good and stupid
doesn't it? "Where the devil did I put that?" Big comm lag.
"Where did I put that?" "When - when did I have it last?"
Where, when, where, when, where, when. Well, maybe you have
just - maybe you do not have much money; maybe you are in a
strange area and you don't have much money and it was all
in your wallet and your wallet disappeared. It just
disappeared. You reached into your pocket to pay for your
breakfast or something and your wallet was gone. And you go
back and you look in your room and it's not there. And you
haven't talked to anybody recently. You'd feel sort of
disturbed and stupid wouldn't you? You'd feel sort of
disturbed, upset. You'd have an anxiety about something.
You'd want to know where that wallet was. You would have
problems right away wouldn't you? Hm? Right away you'd have
problems. But you'd feel kind of stupid.

Do you realize there are people around that have that as
their common feeling about life? I mean, they got that all
the time, see. It's all lost. When and whereness of
everything is really gone. You're standing right in front
of them and you say to them, "How are you?" or something of
this sort. They don't know you're there. They give you some
long comm lag. They're way off the beat, way off. "How do
you feel?" And they say "Pop bottles." They hardly know
you're standing in front of them.

All right. You're lost too. And if they had to consider
people, they would say, "You really ought to be very
suspicious of people because they have a tremendous number
of secrets and they - you don't quite know their intentions
and you get - "you know, you have to be very careful of people
because of uh - ." This all comes out of whenness and
whereness - something you should remember in auditing people.

Now, you get them going around and you at least find where
and when the walls are and the spots in the room. You would
just be utterly amazed how this will snap somebody up
scale. What you're getting there with 8-C is the whenness
and whereness. Now, you ask somebody Straightwire; you want
to know the whenness and the whereness. Even though you're
asking him to tell you lies - you know, you've asked him
overtly to tell you lies - you want to know the whenness
and the whereness, the whenness and the whereness.

He says, "Oh," he says, "I uh - the reason I got a broken leg
is because an elephant trampled on me."

And you say, "When?"

And "Well," he says, "it was last night. Last night about
ten o'clock."

"Where?"

"Aahhh. At the uh - down on the corner."

It's upsetting to him. You're asking him to be responsible
for the positioning in time and space of an incident. He
has comm lags because he can't place the missing lines, he
can't place the missing things. Now, the solution to the
problem is the problem. That's the total solution. Let's
see if this works out.

All right. A fellow has an automobile, it's giving him a
lot of trouble, he's got a lot of problems with the
automobile. Let's say he simply throws away the automobile.
Let's say he as-ises it, just as-ises it where it was
created, and the automobile simply disappears in every last
particle right where it is, boom! There's going to be no
further problem from this automobile. You have given an
ultimate solution to this automobile. But you say, "Now I
have to walk every place."

Okay, now let's take a look at this. This, then, is a
problem. It's a problem and it would not have been a
solvable problem if we didn't have a little more
knowingness on this.

We know an individual is an awareness of awareness unit,
and as an awareness of awareness unit, an individual, then,
really doesn't need a computer. All right. He doesn't need
a body to move around unless he wants a game, you see, and
so on. Actually he can manufacture enough sensation, he can
manufacture enough of anything if he wants this, but he
wants a game. But he's got a body there. We're trying to
solve the problem of having gotten rid of the automobile.
Got rid of the automobile - made a problem right away because
you had to move your body around. Let's as-is the body - just
make it disappear right where it is. And what would you
discover?

You'd find the individual, probably his perceptions cut
down one way or the other. He would be being asked to move
his machines around. What you're doing is looking for him.
Let's as-is all these machines, bang! You know, they're a
thetan's machinery. Let's as-is all those machines, bing!

Do you realize that you have a completely free-moving,
freely-perceiving, can-be-anyplace-it-wants-to-be
individual. Do you see this? Well, you can work it out by
test. Processing demonstrates that.

Anytime you have mass, you have a problem. Anytime you have
any mass of any kind whatsoever for any purpose whatsoever,
you've got a problem. Mass is a problem because mass is a
barrier. The only real problems are those which barrier
against freedom. Freedom won't erase. See, the basic
problem is a matter of barriers. Any mass can be a problem.
Why does a thetan want these problems? Whee! That's an
interesting thing, isn't it? Well, he wants a game. He
wants to have somebody else. He wants to have a playing
field. He wants mass. Gives him something to be interested
in, things to be active about. He can build things. He can
do all sorts of things.

A tremendous - the entire array of life lies out in front of
you. What can a thetan do? How many problems can be - he
have? Well, how many spaces are there in all the universes
there are? Lots of spaces? How many objects are there in
all the universes there are? Lots of objects? How many
particles are there in all the universes there are? That's
a lot of particles. Well, add to it how many considerations
can a thetan make? And how many considerations could all
the - all of the awareness of awareness units in all
universes - how many considerations could they make? Well,
add all those figures together that I've been telling you
and you'll have the answer as to how many problems there are.

Any descent from freedom will bring about problems. As long
as the individual is competent of his ability to handle
problems and to resolve them in finer parts of them - you
see, take a big problem and resolve some fine part of this
problem - as long as the individual can do this, he can go on
looking forward to other problems and stay interested in
life and a lot of other things. He can communicate, he can
have masses and he thinks this is fine, you see.

If we were to take everything away from him, he would be a
very unhappy thetan. Now, he'd be totally free but he'd be
very unhappy. Why would he be so unhappy? Wouldn't have any
problems, wouldn't have anything to solve. And this is what
we run up against in every preclear we process. The first
and foremost thing we run up against is no matter how bad
trouble - .

Once in a while, by the way, I have seen an individual who
considered himself to be in a sufficient amount of trouble.
Ran into a fellow in a jail one day and he was really
convinced that he had enough problems for the moment. He
was totally convinced. I know because I tried to run
problems on him. "I got enough," he says.

"Well, that's an automatic answer," I says. So "Well,
let's - come on, let's get some more problems."

"Well, no kidding. I've got enough. Enough problems."

"Well, what are some of these problems?" He did, too. He
had enough problems.

First place, he was there because of a crime he didn't
commit, but the moment that he confessed to not having
committed this crime he would have been jailed for a worse
crime which he really had done.

Furthermore, his mother was quite upset and quite ill, and
his wife didn't have any money, and he had a couple of
kids - they didn't have any food. He had no bond he could
post of any kind at all. He was not very healthy himself.
He had enough problems. Funny. Do you know that was a very
immediate affair. Do you realize he wouldn't have been
sitting there in jail if he hadn't been trying to make
problems for himself? See?

One time I was at a court martial. I was a summary court's
counsel for an enlisted man while I was in the hospital.
And this summary court's - was meeting and convening upon - in
fact, I think he'd been found without an ID card or
something of the sort. But he had really messed himself up.
He'd started to fight the Shore Patrol. And he'd - oh, mopery
and dopery on the high seas, strictly. They had him. They
had practically thrown the book at him and I was his counsel.

In looking this situation over - because I was tremendously
interested in human reaction and how this all worked out
and so on. I was - this was very early observation of this,
very early, in 1945 this observation was made. This fellow
had been brought out of a war zone and had been placed in
the hospital. He had argued with the doctors about being
placed in the hospital but they had merely assumed that he
must be nuts not to want to be in a nice hospital. And so
they had given him a bad time, but he had lain there for
days and days and days before all this occurred, realizing
that there was nothing for him to do, nothing for him to
think about, there was nothing on the future track, there
was absolutely nothing for him to worry about and he had
entered into the state known as 2.5, boredom. And he was
very solidly bored.

He was actually achingly desperate because nothing was
going to occur. And then without letting his right hand
know what his left one was doing, he left his ID card - for
being a very punctual sailor and so forth - left his ID card
in his locker, very carefully, went into an out-of-bounds
area, managed to make enough noise and confusion so the
Shore Patrol would come up and then beat up the Shore
Patrol and then had quite a few problems right away.

I got him off on the basis that he'd been returned from a
combat zone and probably was not quite right in the head.

Actually, he was quite right in the head. It is just what
you can expect an awareness of awareness unit to do - given
minus problems to find plus problems quick.

Now, here's this fellow, he exteriorizes - by the way, this
happened to me one time. Long time back on the track. Had
a - seemed to have had a penchant for bombs blowing up in my
face or something of that - happened in the last war, has
happened here and there. But in trying to look over all the
stacked facsimiles which were on this - . I found it's too
many; I got weary on the whole subject. I found out that in
a moment of upset I had a bomb pitched at me which caused
plus randomity - really plus randomity because there was
already a lot of excitement going on and there was no
intention at all to make the world rougher for the people
who tossed this nice little grenade. And it blinded me,
very perfectly. This was a long time ago. Blinded me.

So I went around playing the beautiful sadness for about
seven years of being very, very blind. And this was a very,
very interesting state, I'm sure, trying to carry out
campaigns and maps and draw fortifications and so forth
without any eyesight was about as many problems as you
could handle.

So I was having a good time doing this. And then some son
of a gun tossed another shell into the middle of the
command post and that was the end of that body. This body
got draped on an electric fence, a high-voltage electric
fence. And all of a sudden I was about, oh, I'd say
twenty-five feet behind it with complete, full, bright
visio. It was a beautiful, beautiful, sun-shiny, snowy day,
and there were green - small green trees growing on the other
side of this fence. And there I was. You never saw such
scenery; it was just beautiful. And the situation that I
had just departed from, however, was quite hectic but it
was utterly beyond me to do anything about it then because
this shelling of this command post was the finish of the
war. And that was the end of that.

And no problems left, all would be peace after that on that
planet - it's a cinch. And beautiful, clear, so on. I enjoyed
it for a while, went off and lived in the woods for a while
on my lonesome and finally got acquainted with some rabbits
and deer and - you know, it was just a nice sylvan existence.
No problems.

Thought it over for a couple of hundred years or something
like this but pretty soon got pretty bored, pretty bored.
And the next thing I did immediately after that is I found
a nice upset, sad, plus randomity individual and put a beam
in the center of his head - boom! See? In I went. Of course,
managed to forget all the rest of this very nicely, and,
boy, did I have lots of problems. Lots of problems right
away, plenty of problems.

Well now, in writing the history books we would think of
something as being "bad luck" or "He had a hard life."
Well, why do they write so many books about people who have
a hard life? And I dare say your interest in or your
ability to find a book about somebody who had a soft life
from one end to the other down at the local library would
be unattainable.

We look at a book with no action, no motion. This guy was
happy all of his life, he had a nice family and everything
was happy, enjoyed things, everything was fine. There's no
books like that down in the library. Not enough problems.

Well, what are we up against, then, when we start to work
with a preclear? What are we up against? This person is
causing more randomity or upset for others around him than
is necessary, and he has reduced his ability far below what
it would have to be to have problems. So his problems have
become petty and internal and to that degree the society at
large and its ability to progress and so forth is
interrupted to just this degree.

This fellow has deserted the upper dynamics. He's gotten
down to first dynamic problems. Then is about the time that
you and me ought to really get in there and pitch. Why?
Because this individual is going around offering himself as
a problem to everybody and they don't particularly need him
as a problem. Follow me?

Another thing, an individual can be so immersed in his
problems that he entirely loses, entirely loses, any fun in
having them. And about the only crime that you and I could
possibly object to, knowing what we do about problems, all
the rest of them - and that life is a problem and many piece
of mass is going to be, is or is composed as and was born
as a problem - knowing this, then the only thing we could
object to even vaguely is no fun. See. That's the one thing
we might object to. And as we look out in all directions
in life the one thing that an auditor legitimately, right
there according to his own feelings and according to his
own theory and his practice and everything else - the only
thing he'd really object to is the fact that no fun is
occurring. There is no sport, there is no joy, there is no
feeling of enlightenment or glee or anything else by the
reason of being alive.

When a whole society gets to the point where it's all a
working proposition and there's no fun to be found or
undertaken in it, well, somebody ought to take a hand.

As far as I could see in existence, as far as randomity is
concerned, it is a very bad thing to approach any trap if
you don't know anything about traps. See. You say we have
no know-how on the subject of how to unlock computers, how
to speed up comm lags, how to get these things out of the
machine, how to get the machines out of the guy. Let's say
we have no knowledge of this and then we start to fool
around with it. That's going to wind up in no fun, isn't
it? Very definitely going to wind up in no fun.

Ordinarily in the absence of know-how a person has a
tendency to become what he fights. For instance, if we
ever wanted - really wanted communism here, lock, stock and
barrel, the best way in the world to get it would be to
fight Russia. Even though we won the war, see, to some
degree - because you never win a war; they just make more
problems - why, you'd really see communism here.

Capitalism has fought communism until the US government now
uses as its textbook Das Kapital. I imag... - I don't imagine
anybody in the government knows that the principles
they're following are the - contained in Das Kapital. But
they are. The basic Marxian principles of taxation are
uniformly used now by the US Bureau of Internal Revenue,
Treasury Department, and so forth. They don't even know
whose they are.

They would be the most upset people you ever heard of if
they were to have Das Kapital shoved under their noses and
those lines pointed out to them that they were following
this. I don't say they should or they shouldn't. But the
main - the main thing about this is that here they are in an
unknowing sort of way fooling around with - and they're
trying to fight against communism, and yet here some of
the dearest principles of communism in full action right
here in these United States.

All right. If this is the case then a person can get into a
relatively stupid, unknowing, lost state about this whole
thing, and he can get down to a point where he doesn't even
know it's a game. And when he gets down to the point of
where he no longer knows it's a game, why, then he has no
fun. Well, if you know how to unlock traps, you can
successfully and safely fight the gloom and unhappiness of
Earth. How could you successfully fight it? Well, you can
successfully fight any trap that you can completely unlock.

Therefore, an auditor not winning in processing preclears,
you see, but failing in the processing of preclears could
lose and accept some of the philosophies of all the
preclears that caused him to lose, you see. See, he could
do this. But if he could unlock these things successfully,
he would be doing exactly what life is trying to do - bring
it up to a game level, keep it there if possible. And let's
not get so horribly dull about this that we believe that
this - it is gruesome and grim and we should all be glum
and so on about existence. 

All right. Another thing about this is an individual still
has enormous quantities of freedom, he still has enormous
quantities of courage. Courage itself is a very, very tiny
particle but it is so close up to the top of the band that
the idea of erasing a person's courage is an almost
impossible thing. What you can do is make him fight
something which is cowardly and then take its aspects, you
see, and get him to pretend he is not courageous in this
fashion. But you back him out of this and you'll find him
natively courageous just like that - boom!

So we had a student in the Advanced Clinical Course who
came around to me after a session of auditing and he - we
were working with courage at the time - and he says, "All
that's happened to me is we have erased all the courage in
my bank." We were having him put courage in the walls. This
was very, very funny. We'd erased all the courage; he had
no courage left. Damn fool had been putting courage into
walls. Up to that time he'd sat in the back of the class.
He never said anything. He'd never said a word during the
whole class from beginning to end. He wouldn't object to an
auditor if the auditor had walked all over him while he was
on the couch with muddy feet. And he went up to the
Instructor, he bawled out the Instructor; he came up and
saw me, he bawled out me, telling us that we had erased all
of his courage. Ah, me, it was very funny, very amusing.

We seldom laugh along such lines because it gets so
desperate with people sometimes, but that is one of those
very funny ones. Lack of courage - that was his trouble now.

As we look over the field of auditing, we discover that the
only thing that might be wrong with auditing would be
failing in auditing, and we know this by experience. And
that is - that is the main reason why it's wrong. An
individual has failed to unlock the computer, has failed to
unlock the trap and so forth.

Now, an auditor can get so discouraged about life that
he'll stop flattening comm lags. You know, he'll get
desperate, you know? And the preclear will do this and it
doesn't seem to work in the next five minutes and so he
doesn't pay any attention to where the comm lag is and he
runs another question and he runs another computation. The
auditor actually is running a cycle of failure.

The first and foremost thing we've got to learn,
then - whatever else I've told you today - the first and
foremost thing, you've got to learn to repeat that command
and repeat it and repeat it and repeat it and repeat it and
repeat it and repeat it and repeat it, with perfect
equanimity whether it's getting any results or not. See,
completely aside from its application, just you as a person
in action, has to be able to tolerate the repetition of the
command, even though you know it isn't getting very far.
That's a tough thing to learn sometimes.

It'll keep you, sometime in the future - when a preclear is
jumping off the couch, is - needs to be excited by something
more than what you're giving them or needs this or needs
that, is in a very desperate state, when the whole family
is telling you what a desperate condition this preclear is
in, how it's all desperate, how it's all emergency and so
forth - keep you from sitting up all night long trying to
figure out this preclear.

You know that you will be able to sit there with perfect
equanimity and be able to utter an auditing command and
make it stick with this preclear and flatten that comm lag,
despite the family, despite his jumping up and down off the
couch, despite this, despite that, you'll go in there and
you'll flatten the comm lag. And you'll find out that no
matter what you did if you succeed in flattening just one
comm lag on the pre clear he'll get better.

Give you an example of that - interesting example of that. We
had a boy around here who was in the foulest shape you ever
saw a body in. He's not in bad shape mentally, he's in bad
shape physically. He's really beaten his body up most
terrifically.

We did an awful lot of processing on this boy, and you
know, we were never able to flatten a comm lag. Why weren't
we able to flatten a comm lag? Didn't matter how long a
question was run, the person still comm lagged on it. You
get the idea? Didn't matter much what question.

Well, this went on for an awful long time. We were giving
awful simple auditing commands. Believe me, they weren't
the kind of commands you'd think you would expect a comm
lag on but they were comm lag on everything. Comm lag on
8-C, comm lag on everything; you just couldn't flatten a
comm lag. And we weren't running process after process, you
understand. We were running some very basic processes and
we had to be satisfied with this kind of a flattening: one
minute. We would bring it out to an even lag of about one
minute. Can you imagine this? And we had to consider this flat.

Kept this up for eighty hours of auditing. Awful lot of
auditing. Remember this person was in bad shape, in a
wheel chair - was, by the way, whether he knew it or not,
dying of a very, very bad disease. You know, nothing left
there to work with, no circuits to patch up you might say.
Might as well have just as-ised the whole situation.

Now, to get him to flatten one comm lag - pretty rough. And
finally the auditor with great inspiration asked him this
question, after we'd - you know, of course, all this was
doing him good - with great inspiration - simplified Elementary
Straightwire. This is - takes some doing but he simplified
it. He asked the fellow to remember something. Then he
asked him again "Remember something." And he asked him
again to remember something, and the next thing you know,
by asking that question over many times he had a flat lag.
Completely flat. It was fantastic. And he asked him to
remember some men - flattened that lag. Asked him to
remember some women - they flattened that lag. Asked him to
remember some plant life and then flattened that lag.
Fabulous! I mean, this thing was going along at a terrific
rate. And that night, for the first time, both the preclear
and his attendant were witness to the fact that something
terrific had happened.

Something terrific had happened in this fellow's case. Up
to that time he was very frantic. He had to perform certain
body motions before he'd have the least idea that he had
been benefited. You know, walk around the room, wave his
arms, something like this. For a totally paralyzed case
this is quite a way - .

He'd completely changed his goals after that processing
session. In other words, with everything that was being
worked with right up to that point we were always
flattening, to some degree, existing comm lags - to some
degree.

But it took that sheer inspiration on Elementary
Straightwire to get, for the first time - . You talk about
physical comm lag - this person's physical comm lags were
such that we didn't dare run a physical command on him,
see. It would just have been comm lag from here to the end
of this universe. There wasn't anything you could adventure
on. So 8-C was out. This was in paralysis. But as I say
this other - this other "Remember something", "Let's see if
you can remember something. All right."

I think the first time he tried this, his comm lag on this
thing was probably something - manner - the manner of about
ten, fifteen minutes. Quite curious. And that shows you
that the fellow had a memory computer, that the computer
was completely dead.

But in order to get to this case required enormous patience
on the part of the auditor - enormous patience to just sit
there and ask as unsignificant, as meaningless, actually, a
question and yet snap this case out of the hobbles very easily.

You cannot underestimate the importance of being able to
sit there and keep cool in any case. Most of us can do this
with great ease. But I am sure even at this stage that some
of us present would feel a certain dragging, nagging
impatience if we had to repeat an auditing command that we
didn't think was getting anywhere, over and over for about
four hours - the same auditing command - and each time have
one's voice be just as interested as before, be just as
alert, be just as aware of the preclear's reactions, be
just as interested in his answer and carry forward the
session in such a fashion.

That's a little piece of skill, isn't it. All right. We're
just going to make sure right now before we get any further
with this that we've got this skill. Okay.

Thank you.

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