 I want to talk to you. Here today is December the second, I believe,
 in the afternoon. I want to talk to you about locks, secondaries, engrams,
 how to handle. Now isn't that old? I mean that.. that.. that's.. that's 
 really antique isn't it? That's just terrible to think of going over these
 things again. Uh.. just.. just how grim it is. 
 
 But we have to know something about this because.. just because we're
 doing something else with these is no reason they've ceased to exist 
 suddenly. 
 
 Now you see there's always two sides to a problem. One of the sides
 has to do.. one of the sides has to do with the entity, the.. the gimmick,
 the uh.. object and so forth; and the other side has to do with how you 
 handle it, or what it does, or what its purpose is. Well, we divide, we can
 divide uh.. into, a.. that's a completely false division by the way but it's
 a good analagous division, and we can divide the field of medicine into two
 halves. We can say there's structure, and there's function and where the 
 field of medicine got off was in failing to say that there would be two 
 halves and differentiating so that they hit the structure all the time - 
 structure, structure, structure. 
 
 Chap listened to a series of lectures up in Kansas City, a doctor. He
 came around one day and uh.. he listened to this series and he said, "For 
 twenty years," he says, "I've been studying structure. And I have worked from
 the standpoint of structure." And he says, "Now I've listened to you for 
 three days and I have to throw this overboard." He says, "I want you to know
 that this is no small sacrifice on my part." 
 
 'Cause function monitors structure and actually function in the level
 we're now studying can at any moment become structure. And by having a 
 function, you can at will obtain or procure or remodel or destroy a 
 structure. So the structure from being part of this dichotomy - oh that's a
 beautiful word. I picked it out of the dictionary, it has something to do 
 with flowers or something and it didn't mean anything else that anybody could
 get confused with. It's just a lovely word. And I.. I like to get a few of
 these words around so the professional auditors can stun people. So you can
 say learnedly, "Oh, uh.. the de.. dichotomy" and the poor fellow will say,
 "The what?" "Well, that's a technical term." 
 
 Now when we have, where we treat these two things as data of 
 comparable magnitude, we make a mistake. And that's a very common mistake.
 And it's a mistake so common that we've been making it for a couple of years.
 We have treated structure as comparable with function. That was because we
 didn't know enough about function. Now true enough, that which we did know
 about function, the strata that we did know about function was comparable to
 structure. What we knew about structure and what we knew about function did
 form this dichotomy. 
 
 Now actually, however, we've moved upstairs now being.. being how we
 don't have structure to match up with what we now know about function. So 
 structure stayed over here, this little tiny thing, this microscopic thing
 called the MEST universe and we've moved up into this bracket of 
 function. So we don't any longer have those two things. I.. I.. I want to
 make that clear right at the beginning here to 
 show you the shift of importance on locks, secondaries, and engrams 
 because although those are functional in their activity, they are themselves
 structure. They are structure. 
 
 And when we've moved up far enough here in the field of function, we
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 handle a deck of cards and a derringer. There's nothing to it. Uh.. you sort 
 of slide them around to the back side and flip them over and take a look at 
 the front and deal all the hands out and everybody picks up their hands and 
 they've all got full houses, but you've got four aces. I mean this sort of 
 thing. 
 
 Now, when you know enough about function, you can start ignoring 
 structure, but boy, don't start ignoring structure till you know about its 
 function. Your engineer has this as an integral part of his thinking. Uh.. 
 when he knows enough about structure to make one at will, why he's very happy
 about it and he gets rather careless about it. He knows the stress of 
 importance on it. But uh.. up to that point, he's very, very careful that 
 when he puts the railroad train through the mountain that it goes through a 
 tunnel. He gets structural, he puts a.. a structural hole in the mountain for
 the train to go through. 
 
 And it has been known to happen that trains which did not have holes 
 and tracks to travel on, became remarkably second hand in a very short space 
 of time. And so it is when you wouldn't know enough about structure to know 
 completely that structure was makeable, creatable, and destructable by 
 function. But you'd have to know an awful lot about function over here, 
 wouldn't you? Tremendous amount. 
 
 Now, it is no criticism of the field of medicine that it had to 
 stress so heavily the whole idea of structure. Why did they think that 
 surgery is the only cure for an ulcer, whereas their records tell them that 
 surgery is not a cure for an ulcer? You operate on a fellow once, maybe he's 
 all right for a while, you operate on him again , maybe he is all right for a
 while longer, you operate on him again and he dies under the knife. I mean 
 it's just uh.. one of these things. 
 
 But every once in a while you get a case you operate on him for 
 ulcers, he's all right. He just goes right on from there. So the doctor says,
 "Well, okay, we got this chance and this fellow is probably going to go all 
 to pieces and hemorrhage and so on and die anyway, so we might as well 
 operate. lie really doesn't have any choice. It isn't a matter of.. then a 
 condemnation, criticism, praise or anything else, it's just let's look at the
 practical aspect of it. He does what he can do within his own frame of 
 reference, ability, and knowledge. Practically everybody you know is doing 
 just that. 
 
 Now, it is a very very bad thing for me actually to choose out for 
 randomity uh.. various fields and so forth, but it's fun. And it's.. it's 
 completely uh.. on my part I can get quite serious about this, get very 
 serious about this. And the more serious I get about it, the less happens. 
 That's odd, isn't it? That's two things would be comparable there. 
 
 Now, the funny part of it is, is the less serious one gets, the more 
 he can do with. Here's this fellow, he goes into the cage; here's a 
 man-eating tiger. He knows this is a man-eating tiger. It doesn't 
 necessarily.. It isn't necessarily a man-eating tiger - he just KNOWS it's a 
 man-eating tiger. And there sits this man-eating tiger, and he's supposed to 
 train this man-eating tiger. All right, he knows that tiger is a man-eating 
 tiger so he gets eaten up. It's very simple. 
 
 Uh.. you'd.. I'd had a type of ignition switch went on a little 
 racing car. It was very interesting. It was a secret switch. The thing had no
 ignition key at all, and to keep somebody from fooling around with it and so 
 on, we put a secret switch under its panel. You had to throw this switch and 
 the front switch on it was just a dummy. Well, now because we had called that
 
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 a secret switch, it, of course, became a secret. And it was badly wired so
 that no current was getting through to the distributor and the ignition 
 system after it was installed. So you would turn on the front switch and you,
 of course, turn on the secret switch because you knew about that, the car 
 wouldn't start. 
 
 So you went around, of course, and took the distributor apart, took
 the spark plugs out, took the valves out and took the bearings out and took
 the gas tank off and took the drive shaft out and took the fan off to find
 out why this car wouldn't start. Well, we put all these things back in again
 and tried to start the car again and it still wouldn't start. And they gave
 up, they gave up, the mechanics working on it. And they brought the car back
 and put it down in the driveway and tried to tell me that it would start now.
 And I went out and it wouldn't start. They towed it over. And uh.. it 
 wouldn't start. 
 
 And I went over this and I said, "Let's see what have we done to this
 car since the last time it did start? Oh, we put in a secret switch." And I
 reached under the panel to see if the secret switch.. and the thing bit me.
 You know, I mean good, solid short here - you know zziinngg! And so I reached
 back in there and tore out the wiring just wham, you see. And wound it 
 together and just let it hang there for a moment. Turned on the switch and
 the car started. I thought for heaven's sakes, this is very, very peculiar.
 There was nothing wrong with this car. 
 
 Of course, by this time, the car was completely out of adjustment 
 Uh.. the carburators were out, the spark plugs were out, the distributor was
 off set, the timer was off, oh, the timing chain was all slack. Well, this
 wasn't because I was bright. It was because I hadn't carefully installed the
 secret switch in it. See, I hadn't done that to the car, but they had 
 installed a secret switch and so thereafter, it had had to, of course, remain
 secret. That was the purpose of the switch. And uh.. nobody else, then, could
 start the car so of course, the car.. the purpose of it was to fix it so the
 car wouldn't start. And so they did just that. This is a very true example.
 It sounds completely idiotic. But.. that took three weeks of work for a bunch
 of mechanics in a garage. 
 
 Now, there, they postulated something about structure in the MEST 
 universe according to the most completely understandable terms, they 
 postulated something about this structure. And they said this structure works
 this way. And of course, they.. they made a good postulate about it. They 
 said this is a switch which is not going to let the car be started; it's 
 going to let the car uh.. be safe and then of course, because it's secret,
 they couldn't even investigate to find out whether or not the switch was well
 connected. Well, this.. this is a long drawn-out affair. But what do you know
 that.. that's a part and parcel of every piece of research anybody does. He
 starts investigating structure and he says this structure does so - and - so
 observably, observably does this. Sure enough it does; you can go on and pick
 people off the street and so on and you can take them one after another and
 examine them all. And then.. then - structure's doing just that all the time.
 
 Fine, now let's take that serious, let's take that real serious and
 let's work with what their doing and undo it underneath and below the level
 of the postulate which does it. Oh, we can have a good time. We find 
 everybody out there walking up and down the street has made an agreement on
 experience, that experience is a good thing and you have to hide some 
 experience and some of it has to become automatic. And how do they do that?
 Engrams, secondaries, and locks - it's a system. Everything becomes 
 automatic, it works this way and that way. They've got.. got all kinds of..
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 about. And although this whole system is just as haywire as anything could 
 be, it's as haywire as a Chinese idea of car repair, uh.. they get the thing
 overworked all the time. They install it at one tone level and then they sink
 down the tone scale and they start using it at another tone level and of 
 course this thing becomes the master. That thing begins to master. Then they
 have an awful time. Then they don't know what.. what.. what is happening here
 and what's the system they're operating on. They've made something over here
 automatic they didn't want to know about this, this is supposed to work over
 here in some peculiar fashion. And then once upon a time they knew all about
 that. 
 
 They.. they walked in and they put their hand on a hot stove and it 
 burned and they looked at their hand, and their hand was damaged. And they 
 said, "You know, I will have to do something so the next time I come near a 
 hot stove, I will remember I burned my hand because I'm liable to forget 
 that." "Well, all right, we will pretend then that we have forgotten that but
 any time my hand comes near a hot stove, I will jerk it back from that hot 
 stove." Automaticity, you see. 
 
 We're going to get near something, it has a certain stimulus and
 we're going to respond in a certain way. And we want that as fast as possible
 so - and this is the error, this is a big error. So we'll make it automatic.
 
 Well, now to make something automatic, you hide it from yourself. 
 Now, you find this fellow way up the track a few million years, billion 
 years, trillion years later. What's he doing? He's walking around in an utter
 fog, he's in a body, he doesn't know how he got there and so on. And you say,
 "Hey." It would be very simple if you could do this. You just say, "Do you 
 remember the time you wanted something to be automatic" "Yah." 
 
 "All right, do you remember an earlier time when you wanted something
 to be automatic?" 
 
 "How do you mean automatic?" 
 
 "Well, it's something that would operate by itself and do something 
 for you." 
 
 "Oh, yes, yes. Got an earlier time, got an earlier time, got an 
 earlier time." 
 
 Bing! There goes his engram bank, 'cause it's held by this little 
 tiny functional thing that says: "Let's make it automatic, so we're safe." 
 You see how that would be? 
 
 Now I'll go over that again in just slightly different terms so that 
 you can see what these locks, secondaries and engrams are. We know what they
 are in terms of structure - they're old energy with pictures on them, which 
 when restimulated have the power to enforce pain and command upon the body.
 
 We.. we know.. we know there.. that. We've examined that anatomy. 
 We found these things sitting here as a heavy engram. It'd be in the prenatal
 bank, or it's an electronic incident or it's anyone of these dozen of things,
 many of them in controversy. Many of them not in controversy. Uh.. we know 
 that big bank sitting there and it's got these secondaries that's emotional 
 charge, incidents, and then it's got all little locks and so on. Boy, you 
 start undoing one of those things -- zing zang the other way. And you find it
 all wound up and tangled up and you find the preclear going down the street.
 And he sees a fire plug, and uh.. everytime he sees a fire plug, why, he uh..
 sort of stiffens, and tenses and.. you say, "What's.. what's making you stiff
 and tense?" 
 
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 "Why, nothing, must be the streetcars." Well, you.. you put him on an
 E-meter.. you put him on an E-meter and find out that it was fire plugs. 
 
 And he doesn't even know this, see. He's that bad off. He.. he sees a
 fire plug. It makes him tense and he doesn't even know that it's the fire 
 plug which he sees that makes him tense. But he knows something is making him
 tense. He's not that far gone. He knows it's streetcars. Only he doesn't know
 it's streetcars. If he could know completely it was streetcars, he wouldn't 
 anymore get tense. If he would just say to himself, "Well, it's streetcars,"
 he wouldn't be tense anymore about fire plugs. Now that's.. see, if he can 
 KNOW that it was streetcars, what he's done is make a new postulate. He says,
 "Streetcars make me tense. Now that I know that streetcars make me tense, 
 they're not going to make me tense anymore." He.. he could play this quote 
 "trick" on himself unless he has to agree too heavily with the MEST universe.
 
 All right, now what is this system then he's set up? Well, it's a 
 system which starts in with an agreement. And one agrees more and more 
 heavily and more and more heavily and the first thing you know, he is 
 convinced of the solidity and existence of the structure which he himself 
 constructed. 
 
 Let's look at that in another bracket. Let's look at that in the 
 field of hypnotism. Here is, here's real phenomena, here's something you can
 go and investigate. If you want to investigate this, go get yourself a little
 book Now to Hypnotise Somebody in Five Easy Lessons or something of this 
 sort, as it's very easy to do. Set up a candle in front of them, tell them to
 stare at the candle. There's a certain percentage of people that hypnotize 
 just like that. And a certain percentage of them are running so hard that 
 anytime you say, "Go into a hypnotic trance," they run madly the opposite 
 direction. They'll hypnotize in opposites. There's awfully interesting 
 business, hypnotism. 
 
 All right, uh.. all you're asking him to do is concentrate a sense 
 channel on something, a communication line on something and then fix it 
 there. Well, he agreed to do that the second he puts his eyes on the candle.
 Now your trick is to make him agree to something else. There's nothing every
 very weird about hypnotism. It is the easiest thing in the world. I.. it.. 
 now you got.. got.. got his eye on the candle. "All right, now you stare at
 the candle, stare at the candle. Now uh.. you know that concentration of that
 sort can make you for.. sort of sleepy and so on. You stare at the candle 
 until you feel that." And he'll say, "All right." See he's agreed that 
 concentration on that can make him sleep. 
 
 All right, uh.. you got that one. Now, uh.. let's go in a sort of a, 
 of.. uh.. let's look at this candle a little.. a little closer and now let's
 feel.. let's feel the.. the.. the body becoming more and more relaxed. And, 
 he agrees to feel that the body is becoming more and more relaxed. That's all
 there is to that. He.. he just agrees little by little, the next thing you 
 know the hypnotist says, "Now your eyes will close." And his eyes go bonk. Of
 course, he agreed to that. 
 
 Now, the hypnotist says, "Now your right hand will rise." And with
 some slight amazement, this fellow watches his right hand come up. 
 
 And he says, "Wooo, I'm hypnotized." So he just gives it up then, and
 the hypnotist now says, "Now you see that kangaroo on your right knee?" 
 
 "Yes." He sees the kangaroo on his right knee. Now take it on your 
 right knee. 
 
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 "Now let's see it jump over to the left knee. Now you got that? All 
 right, now let's put.. let's put a.. uh.. a bonnet on this kangaroo. Got the
 bonnet on it? Now have the kangaroo sing a song." And the hypnotized person
 is very happy to sit there and watch this. 
 
 The trouble is he's seeing it; he's seeing it completely. This is 
 frightening to people that this can happen to them. Well, that's just a nice
 MEST universe trick, that it could be frightening to them. And it's very 
 weird that they think they have to go along through all this mumbo-jumbo and
 ritual of hypnotism and be in a state of sound asleep and be out of control
 of themselves and can only see this when they're taking orders from a 
 hypnotist. That's the silliest thing in the world. 
 
 I mean, here we've got a long chain of laws and agreements and what 
 do you know. They operate on more people out here. And they're there as 
 agreements - that if you agree to this, then you'll get that. And if you 
 agree to that, and you agree to that and agree to that, the next thing you 
 know the fellow is unaware of his surroundings. A hypnotized person can see a
 whole room on fire and uh.. he can. He can hear the flames crackle and 
 everything else. He's just in wonderful shape on the thing. You see he 
 doesn't have to take responsibility for it. He can do it all the time and the
 whole trick is, is he's saying, "Now look, that hypnotist can be responsible
 for my really seeing this and building universe around here, and it's up to
 him to get me out of it again, and so forth, and so I'll just make him 
 responsible and therefore I'll be able to handle illusions." 
 
 That's one of the reasons people respond better to being audited than
 auditing themselves. They don't audit themselves, they just, well they kinda
 dodge around because they're asking themselves to take full responsibility 
 for everything they do. Well, it's much better to have an auditor there and
 say, "Well it's what he's doing. I'm not doing it. Another fellow can do it
 with great ease." In other words that having an auditor is a gradient scale
 on automaticity which is also the scale of responsibility. 
 
 One wants things to be automatic for which he does not want to be 
 responsible. Now, we find nearly all Homo sapiens audit far far better than
 they will self-audit. It's almost dangerous to start them in self- auditing
 'cause they're not going to take responsibility for doing a good job of it.
 Then another thing is.. is when they self-audit, they have to set up to some
 slight degree, a circuit auditing themselves or themselves auditing a 
 circuit. And it becomes a little more complicated and.. uh.. it isn't so 
 good. So about the best point you can pick Homo sapiens up on the gradient 
 scale and so forth, uh.. the best point you can pick him up is a doggone good
 auditor. Now.. that.. that right away he's able then to shove enough 
 experience over. 
 
 Now because the auditor isn't interested in putting this person to 
 sleep this auditor is interested in waking him up, you get a completely 
 reversed idea from hypnotism. You take this preclear, let's take the preclear
 here and the hypnotizable subject here. Neither one are hypnotized or.. or 
 they're just in, like they walked down the street. All right here are these
 two people, they're in the same state of wakefulness. Now the person who is
 agreeing to be hypnotized goes down from this state of self-determinism and
 awareness to the direct degree that he is worked by a hypnotist. Now let's 
 take the preclear over here. Now the auditor is trying to return to this 
 fellow some self- determinism and ability on his own so he takes off at this
 level. He makes an agreement that he will try to do the things for his own 
 good that the auditor wants him to do. That's his first agreement. He is 
 agreeing to be self-determined. 
 
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 Now he agrees a little bit more that he can be a little bit more 
 self-determined and he agrees that he can be just a little bit more 
 self-determined and what do you know. He gets more and more alert, and more
 and more awake and more and more awake and more and more awake and more and
 more awake. Now you see that.. the going opposite directions from the average
 Homo sapiens with these two processes. 
 
 The hypnotist is only interested in one thing, really. The hypnotist
 is interested in taking the control of this individual. If you ever want to
 process somebody and have a bad time of it, get a hypnotist - a fellow who is
 a professional hypnotist - and start processing him. And a large percentage
 of these boys are practically crawling the walls. 
 
 I've had them come around and say, "Please, Ron, do something for me,
 I'm just hung." And you say, "Well, all right.. let's pick up the last person
 you hypnotized. Okay, get shoving your control center sort of thing over the
 top of him, now pull it back, now give it to him again, now pull it back, now
 give it to him again, now pull it back." And the fellow all of a sudden gets
 the feeling that he gets when he hypnotizes people. He'll take over control
 of somebody by simply sort of moving himself all over the top of this person
 and after .hat monitoring him. And what do you know - that was twenty years
 ago and this person is now in Istanbul and this hypnotist still has a ghostly
 feeling that he's still controlling the motions and thoughts of that person.
 And by the time this poor hypnotist has hypnotized five or six thousand 
 people or something in some profession, he is all in a spin on two things. 
 One, control of others - it's an overt act and.. two, he's all fouled up on
 spacation. 
 
 He has lost his own location, he's put his control of beings over 
 the top of so many beings and they are now in so many places, he has done a
 sort of a valence shift into them so many times, and they are now so far away
 that he thinks he's scattered all over God's creation, he is no longer in 
 control of himself anymore and so he gets to a point where he is crawling the
 walls. Furthermore, he has made people agree and agree and agree and agree to
 this and in order to make them agree to this, he had to agree to make them 
 agree to that. And so he's gone down scale little by little by little by 
 little. He's been agreeing himself 'til he gets the idea that he walk out on
 the street anything will hypnotize him. Oh, he.. he's in terrible shape. 
 
 It's just like a salesman; there's nobody under God's green earth 
 easier to sell something to than a salesman. He's agreed so often on the fact
 that things can be sold to people that.. that he's agreed that this is 
 possible. 
 
 And you come along and you say, "Now you see this old dead rat? It's
 only two weeks old and what do you know, the price is only 85 dollars," and
 so on. And he'll look at you sort of helplessly and bite. Now the trouble is,
 people haven't realized that too much about salesman and so they're still 
 alive and they still can function. But knowing.. knowing that about a 
 salesman, it.. it becomes horrible. 
 
 Another thing, a salesman is trying to give away MEST, he's trying
 to give away MEST, and give away MEST and give away MEST, so that he's 
 disagreeing all the time. Well, this is fine, but when he fails to make a 
 sale, he's been unable to give away MEST. Well, by the time he's failed to 
 make enough sales, he doesn't think he can give MEST away anymore and he 
 knows that he has engrams although he pretends he doesn't know he has engrams
 and a bank and so forth. So he can't give this away either and he becomes 
 jammed on the time track. He.. he isn't able to give away MEST. 
 
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 Now all of that.. all of that is very related, extremely related. 
 Here we have somebody who by gradient scale of agreement, we agree a little
 bit and then we agree a little bit more and then we agree a little bit more
 on some subject, why, it becomes true. 
 
 Now automaticity comes about, we'll have a lot more on this 
 automaticity but.. lovely word, but I mean you can count on that flooring 
 people. 
 
 Well, that's the principle of automaticity, I would say he's about 
 uh.. about.. uh.. 2.2 on the tone scale, automaticity uh.. and so forth. Has
 a very, very uh.. bad uh.. compulsion toward uh.. wishing tiredness on 
 people, and uh.. that demonstrates he's about down there on the tone scale
 and so forth. His reactive bank is at about such and such a state of affairs,
 uh.. he.. uh.. locks.. he probably can't get rid of those very easily, and so
 forth. He's probably having an awful lot of trouble with MEST. I'd say his
 finances were in bad shape. Let's say his finances are in bad shape. I'm an
 auditor. That's what I'm interested in at the moment. Uh.. 
 
 Anyway, well, all this comes out.. all this comes out as uh.. one of
 these little center pins on cases that is very easy to pull out and examine.
 All right, what happened to give this fellow the idea that he ought to have
 an engram? What happened? Well, one day he found out he'd been wrong, that's
 all it took. He found astonishingly enough that he'd been wrong. 
 
 Now, he had to make a postulate to be wrong. I mean he had to make a
 postulate that he was now found out to be wrong. This depended upon a 
 postulate that there's such a thing as rightness and wrongness of action. So
 he must have agreed to those things before. He had to make postulates 
 concerning good and bad conduct, and good and bad effect, and good and bad
 cause before he ever got to a point where he could get an engram. 
 
 So gee, where did these engrams start cutting in? Well, they start 
 cutting in way down there - about 3.5 on the tone scale, way down. A fellow
 doesn't never bother with them below that. But he agrees that there's bad 
 cause possible and there's bad effect possible and that good cause is 
 desirable, and good effect is desirable. He's agreed to that so far. 
 
 Now he's agreed to the fact that there is such a thing as wrong 
 conduct and right conduct. He's agreed to that many times. And then he's 
 agreed to the fact of something else. He's agreed that there is such a thing,
 there is such a thing as pain. He's.. he's had to agree with that. Pain 
 doesn't exist, but he's agreed to it. And boy, is he anxious to have it - 
 that pain is precious stuff. The fellow that thought that up deserves a big
 leather medal. 
 
 I'll find him around the universe someday when we're bailing people
 out and so forth and some fellow will be walking along the line. He will look
 more hangdog than the others and so on. That'll be the fellow that invented
 pain. So we'll just take him over and we'll run this out of him - Standard
 Operating Procedure 1950. And we'll give him a slow auditor. All right. Now,
 he had to agree that there was pain there, well actually he agreed to things
 even earlier than all this, lot of things earlier than this, but within just
 our frame of reference, he's had to agree to bad and good and right and wrong
 and so on. And one day he's had to agree to this fact that he monitors 
 himself. Yeah, he's had to agree to the fact that I tell myself what to do.
 
 Why that's the most wonderful one of all. That one is so apparently
 right in this universe that.. it has an existence. Everybody on the street
 out there think.. thinks they got that. They.. they think they.. they tell
 
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 themselves what to do. They.. they matter of fact spend a lot of time saying,
 "Well now, got up to the.. the corner and get a cigar. All right, I'll go up
 to the corner and get a cigar." And back and forth they go and around and 
 around, "Now let me think, let's see what I know about this. What do you know
 about this? Why, I don't know about what I know about this, what do you know
 about this?" Stream of consciousness and so on, a lot of people around there
 are eight or nine or twelve people holding conferences on all this. 
 
 They go into a big conference and the majority vote. I.. I don't know
 that anybody's ever gone to the point - I suppose you could find somebody in
 the spinbin that has instituted parliamentary procedure amongst circuits. 
 
 But he had to agree.. he had to agree that in order to be aware.. in
 order to be aware he was something that couldn't be aware, and there is the
 bottom of the barrel on unconciousness. He had in order to be aware, you see,
 he.. he's told himself, "Let's see now, how do I know I'm aware. I'll have to
 prove that I'm aware. Well, the best way to prove that I'm aware is to have a
 period when I'm not aware and then if I'm not aware then I can go back, and
 by golly this thing of awareness is true. Yes sir, I'm aware because there I
 was not aware." Well, who was that person that was not aware. Hmm. "That 
 couldn't have been me because I'm in charge of me all the time so I wasn't
 there. Well, that's being not aware. Well, that means not there that means
 something.. something else must be aware because look, I was still there. 
 Well, let's see, therefore when I was asleep something else was aware because
 I would wake up if anything happened in the vicinity or something like that.
 So that demonstrates that something was sitting there keeping watch or 
 something. Well, that couldn't have been myself but the best way to prove 
 that I'm aware is to show that I can be not aware and then I'm sure that I'm
 aware." He's talking about that down pat. 
 
 This.. this business of awareness is a squirrel cage. I mean it has
 no business in reality at all. A fellow is, that's all. He isn't aware, 
 that's just putting.. putting another condition on that's a completely 
 unnecesary condition. He is. Now to be aware of himself, is a secondary 
 condition. Now see, he can be aware of himse1f. 
 
 Well, actually, if he's real good at it, he can be aware of this dog
 out here, he can be aware of horses, he can be aware of buildings, he'll say
 that this would preclude his ability to be anything he wanted to be anytime
 he wanted to be it. Well, this awareness is not that agreement. He's just 
 being aware of being himself. And so if he's very aware of being himself, why
 then he feels he's in good shape. Oh, that's terrible. Do you know what 
 self-consciousness is? That is just that thing I just spoke of on a gradient
 scale. We just magnify and multiply that feeling of being aware over and over
 and more and more and more and you get this shaking horrors of 
 self-consciousness that most people go around in. 
 
 That starts out with the agreement "I am aware." A fellow IS, he 
 isn't aware. He IS high on the tone scale and all he has to do is make a 
 postulate as to what he is. And if he wants to be something else, he simply
 has to make another postulate, not change a postulate. He just makes another
 postulate that he is and he can also make a postulate, he is aware. 
 
 Well, that.. that would be something that a guy couldn't quite grasp,
 and I can just see it now. A bunch of ghouls sitting around explaining to a
 new recruit saying, "Now, well this.. this.. this being aware is very good,
 that.. that gives you a lot of sensation and so forth and how do you know you
 really get this sensation unless you know you're you. Now that's obvious so
 if you know you're you, why then sensation comes through very strongly and
 then you're aware of who's getting the sensation, don't you see? But if 
 
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 you're not aware of who's getting the sensation then how could you possibly
 know that you're getting the sensation, obvious isn't it? Well, now you've 
 agreed now that.. that's a good state of affairs and we'll show you we'll 
 give you a good sensation right now." So they give him some sort of a 
 sensation and then they give him a bad sensation. You say, "You see, now you
 feel that more strongly, don't you?" and the fellow says, "Yes, I guess I 
 do." And uh.. he has agreed.. he has agreed at that point, that he can be 
 aware.
 
 Gee, the second you agree I can.. I can be aware, you set this up as
 a temporary condition, as a momentary condition or as a desirable condition
 or as a bad condition, or anything you want. This has been set up now you can
 have a whole flock of conditions. Instead of just being and acting very 
 wholeheartedly and feeling and so forth, a fellow was first aware and then he
 does this. 
 
 You put it on a bypass circuit, you see, so he has to agree that he's
 not aware at times. See he says, "I'm not aware at times. I go to sleep." 
 That's the backbone on sleep. "I can agree not to be aware." lie's found this
 out. Oh, that's an interesting one. He cannot be aware. Then he can agree to
 be hypnotized as far as that goes. Then he can agree to be unconscious and 
 when you can deliver enough pain to an individual to make him dislike it, he
 would always rather have some kind of a mechanism by which he didn't have to
 feel it. So he invents this mechanism of, "Ow, I'm not aware in that period."
 That's all. So that solves it. "I just didn't feel it. Didn't feel a thing."
 There he is. 
 
 Well, that's an automaticity sort of thing. Yet I didn't feel it but
 my.. my beingness kept on being so therefore I can.. suspend beingness. And
 that is the.. the big lesson.. I can suspend beingness. 
 
 Now, he gets caught a few times too fast to make a good postulate, 
 something hits him so quick that he can't suspend beingness, he thinks, fast
 enough. So he says "Let's make this automatic, when anything hits me that 
 fast I have a not-beingness right then and there and to make sure that I have
 a not-beingness right then and there I will go two or three seconds before 
 the time I was hit by it and start not being at that point and that wipes out
 everything. 
 
 How many preclears have you run that couldn't spot the point of 
 unconsciousness but kept putting it earlier? And then would start putting it
 later? And then would unfold it and bring it into view; they would do this 
 with great caution. You know a fellow starts going unconscious minutes be..
 under anesthesia before he goes unconscious - no anesthesias anywhere near 
 him and he doesn't go unconscious 'tel the moment he goes unconscious, that
 is saying, 'tel the moment the anesthesia is applied. But the second this is
 applied, he back postulates that he has been unconscious for a little while
 in order to make it very easy to take the anesthesia. And the anesthesia has
 nothing to do with the reduction of his awareness except that he has agreed
 that it does. 
 
 And there.. there are people around, a good demonstration of this, 
 the people around you can slap chloroform on him, you could have slapped 
 ether on him, you could fill him full of sodium pentothal, sodium nitrate, 
 anything you wanted to fill him full of and.. and what do you know - they 
 don't go out. This is a despair on the part of some people in hospitals. They
 say, "Well he must be unconscious." No. Another bucket of ether, pour it over
 his head and so on. Nothing's happening. They say, "Well nobody can possibly
 be alert all through all of this, so, he must be unconscious so we'll go 
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 he's.. he's already had two and a half gallons of chlorobutanol or something,
 and Nembutal and we filled him up. 
 
 Yah, very great confusion on what is this thing unconsciousness. And
 that's the reason.. the reason why is it's just a postulated unawareness but 
 it's been made automatic, it's been made completely automatic. And this 
 fellow out here on the street made it so completely automatic that if you 
 went along and tried to tell him it was just a postulate - he'd laugh at you.
 
 That's reality, that's good reality, that's useful, that's workable.
 When anybody delivers too much pain to you, you become unaware. That's the 
 thing to do. So you go out here and you try and undo that as.. undoing it as 
 a postulate. You're not going to get to first base. There are periods when he
 did. Now he said, "I'm not responsible for that period," don't you see? This 
 is a direct application of full responsibility as a theory. I'm not 
 responsible for this period when I was aware. 
 
 However, the first book forward we were trying to bring around and we
 succeeded in actually bringing the person up to the responsibility for the 
 moments when he was unaware. We ran them out and brought them back into 
 being. And whenever we ran one out and brought it back into being we made him
 responsible for that section of his life and it ceased to have a heavy 
 command value on him. Because anything for which a person is not responsible 
 can effect, make an effect of that person. Anytime he's not responsible for 
 something, it can affect him.
 
 He says, "Well, I'm not responsible." Supposing we're driving down 
 the street in a car and he says, "Well, I'm not responsible for what this 
 car's doing." And he's took his hands off the wheel. Boy, it can sure have an
 effect on him, right then and there. If, uh.. somebody's talking along and 
 they're talking about this and that and so on and he doesn't stand up for a 
 friend of his, he says, "Well has no.. no effect upon me. I mean I'm not 
 responsible for that. That fellow's just talking. I'm not responsible for it.
 It isn't any responsibility of mine what that fellow's saying about that 
 friend of mine. I'm just standing here." Oh boy, his friend hears about that 
 one of these fine days, and it has an effect upon him. But its - 
 
 Whenever he abandons control of space, energy or objects, whenever he
 abandons control of these three things, he's asked them to command him. He 
 says, "I can't control them." And what do they say.. they say, "Hmmm, raw 
 meat. We can control him." 
 
 Now, how do you get a person under control? You.. you can say, "Give
 them anesthesia." Let's say the same thing exactly. You get him to abandon
 control of space, energy, and objects. 
 
 How do you get a fellow under control? You.. you give him anesthesia.
 That takes away space of action and beingness. He.. he'll abandon the space 
 he's in right there at the moment. Most of these things actually give a man 
 anesthesia and he actually goes and stands on the other side of the room 
 someplace. He just moves out. He says, "I am unaware, I don't have anything 
 to do with it." And then he moves out. The thetan does, GE stays there and 
 takes it.. the GE's rough, also not very aware. 
 
 But did you ever run these operations where the preclear insists that
 he's on the other side of the room? We used to insist that he get in valence.
 Tough, I mean that's rough. Well, it worked. We.. we made.. we made advances 
 in spite of that. 
 
 Anyway, here we have - we've asked this fellow to abandon energy, 
 
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 he's not to move around while he's being sawed up. And we've asked him to
 abandon control of an object, namely his body. We've asked him to abandon
 space. Asked him to abandon energy and asked him to abandon an object and
 boy! He's unaware. 
 
 Now actually you could just ask a person to vacate just.. just move
 them out so that.. they've abandoned control of space, energy and an object,
 I mean abandoned control of it, really abandoned control of it by saying, 
 "Well, I can't control that." That person is under control; that person 
 becomes an effect. That's the way people go down tone scale. The gradient 
 scale of going down tone scale is the degree that one abandons space, energy,
 and objects. This could go on. I could tell you a lot more just right along
 the line of theta clearing. 
 
 A lot of auditors go at it on this basis. They say, "Now let's 
 abandon the space of a body." I mean this is the kind of feeling they put 
 out. "Let's abandon the space of the body, let's abandon all that energy and
 let's get out of that object and move back - now! Now are you all in control
 of the physical universe you and feel better?" 
 
 "No, no." The guy is practically unconscious. He doesn't know whether
 he's going or coming. He's in terrible state instantly. And the reason he's
 in terrible state is you've reduced him in consciousness. You've told him to
 abandon space, abandon energy, and abandon an object. No, no, the proper 
 slant on theta clearing is to ask him to assume control of more space, to 
 develop more energy and to demonstrate to him he can have an unlimited number
 of objects. You know most preclears haven't got any space to move into. That
 space three feet in front of them is non-occupiable. That belongs to somebody
 else. That space one inch in front of their noses is unoccupiable. It belongs
 to somebody else. And what do you know, that space one inch behind the nose
 is not occupiable. It belongs to somebody else. This gets so bad that the 
 fellow doesn't even own the space the body's in. 
 
 The body doesn't even own the space the body is in, it belongs to the
 Administration or somebody. Now, you.. you get these two directions then you
 can go from this by asking him to abandon space, energy, and objects, abandon
 them. He will go down tone scale and will go into an.. a state of 
 unawareness. Now as he gradually goes into a state of unawareness, he is 
 taking less and less responsibility of course because that's.. responsibility
 simply means control of, admission of control of space, energy, and objects.
 So he goes down tone scale and he's easier and easier to control so somebody
 else can now control him. Somebody else.. he.. somebody else has to give him
 space and energy and objects. 
 
 That's a welfare state. They give all their citizens space. Well, 
 now, the state is giving you a place to live. Yeh, and the state gives you
 work. And the state is going to give you food and cars and one pair of shoes
 per citizen. And the state is also going to give you a medal if you're a good
 boy. The state has assumed complete control of the individual and what 
 happens to these individuals? They go into an hypnotic trance. The state says
 the moon is made of green cheese. It says right here that uh.. Rosaline 
 Kokabum uh.. in the year 1821 flew to the moon and made a complete survey and
 inspection of this in order to throw at the capitalistic system. And here..
 here is the moon and it's all been discovered and nailed down and it's now
 under our banner. And the citizenry says, "Gong, yeh the moon is made out of
 green cheese." 
 
 See what a wonderful system. 
 
 The capitalistic system does different than that. It says, "If you 
 
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 don't do exactly what we tell you to do, we're going to take your space away 
 from you, and we're <going to take your energy away from you, and boy, are we
 gonna take objects away from you." It is.. so you see it's higher toned. It 
 just says it's going to do this. Occasionally makes an example of somebody. 
 
 Well, so you see now what we're.. we're talking about. We're talking
 about engrams. Uh.. comes around to an engram. An engram is a moment of pain
 and unconsciousness by old definition. Let's.. let's redefine it. 
 
 An engram is a period of no responsibility. An engram is a period 
 where the individual has abandoned control of and ownership of space, energy,
 and objects. An engram is a period of where the individual has abandoned 
 space, energy, and objects. 
 
 Now, if you put that definition down, it becomes much more 
 understandable when we start to define space, energy and objects and find out
 what they are in terms of experience. But you can see that right now, you can
 connect that up. Now to run an engram, running an engram is a method of 
 Standard Operating Procedure 1950 or 1951. It is a method of making the 
 individual reassume control of a period where he has abandoned control of 
 space, energy, and objects. You make him reassume control of, by going 
 through it again and running through it again and demonstrating to him that 
 he had a better control of it than he supposed. And so you run it and you run
 it and you run it. 
 
 Now, sane individuals, you put them down on the couch and the 
 individual lies down there and he grimly folds his hands on his chest. And 
 you say, "All right, now let's go to the beginning of the incident, now what 
 is the first phrase?" 
 
 "What incident?" 
 
 You say, "Well, now looking for this incident, has to do with this 
 somatic in your foot." 
 
 "Well, I can't see anything. I can't feel anything. You know my 
 feeling of reality's such I don't even know that foot's there. Now you ask me
 to run an incident about this and you know I couldn't run any incident about 
 this and there is no incident connected with this. And you say this has to do
 with the mother.. you say it shows up on this.. this meter thing here, that 
 shows up that this is because I'm trying to get even with my mother or my 
 mother's trying to get even with me or I've done an overt act or whatever 
 that is. I don't know what these things are but I just.. I just don't see 
 anything and this is a lot of bunk." And this guy can get pretty excited 
 after a while. 
 
 You're just.. you've done just this.. this trick actually. Finally we
 know. What.. what have you done when you failed to get an occluded case 
 running? You just failed to use a gradient scale. That's all. You started 
 diving to make this guy take over responsibility for lots of space and lots 
 of energy and lots of objects all at once. You said, "Okay." Now without even
 giving him a pep talk you just suddenly said, "All right, now let's take over
 control of space, energy, and objects. Let's go, Bud. You're on your own." 
 
 "Oh." This guy just - he's got no engram bank - he's got no mind. 
 He's gone, he's been gone for a long time. When you start theta clearing, 
 you'll recognize this fellow instantly. You'll recognize what his trouble is.
 He isn't occupying the space you're trying to get him out of. 
 
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 he.. he can just break his heart over some of these cases, he says, "Move 
 them out.. move them out? Hell, they're not in!" They're negatively out. 
 Not.. not only are they not in their heads, but they have to be collected 
 from a lot of places they have run to and put in their head so that they can
 then be moved out of their heads. Now, you ask him and if you ask on a 
 gradient scale, the funny part of it is if you use this principle we're using
 right now you can actually run on the people you haven't been able to run 
 them on before, locks, secondaries, and engrams. 
 
 Now, how do you do this? You just uh.. run him through a little 
 moment of his life - doesn't matter whether it's a pleasure moment or a bad
 moment or a good moment or anything else. Just.. just run him through a 
 little section of his life whereby he did own something. You make him 
 remember something really real to him when he was in communication with 
 something. See ARC Straightwire. And what did we find out empirically - found
 out that ARC Straightwire would do an awful lot for the psychotic and 
 neurotic. And the break point of the psychotic was the moment when he could
 remenber something absolutely real. He'd really experienced quite a surge the
 second he did that. Why? Uh.. you've given him ownership of one one hundredth
 billionths to the umpety-umpth power of uh.. space and energy. You've just
 given him this tiny little thing. It's almost immeasurable. But he's all of a
 sudden said, "Hey, I can own something. I can control something. What do you
 know, there was a moment.. there's a moment in my past that I can control."
 He says, "Sigh." 
 
 Now if you went on from there and just built that as a gradient scale
 using reality of all things. I mean.. mean.. trying to process reality, so
 called laughingly, is, actually, it turns out,.a low scale method of looking
 at things. Why should you process reality when you can make it? Now your 
 preclear all of a sudden gets the idea he can make it. And whether that 
 idea's right or wrong or bad or good that's.. that doesn't matter, he.. he
 just gets awfully.. an awful lot better. What's the idea of processing this
 when you can nake it. But we'll go on and talk about these anyway. 
 
 If you could run a lock, no matter how brief, that restored some 
 space to him, it was actually true. He did have the right to go into the 
 woodshed without getting spanked. Boy, why, that'd be a big game. You'd 
 restored to him some space in the past which had been denied to him 
 consistently. You would work on him entering rooms or entering boxes or 
 entering something until at last he could find a time when he had entered 
 something. And you could run the times when he didn't want to enter to the
 point where he now feels free to enter the woodshed. Of course, it's been 
 forty years ago since he was spanked in that woodshed, but you'd find today
 that if he were to go out toward the woodshed, he would get to feeling rather
 odd. Somebody was really taking space, energy, and objects away from him. 
 
 All right, so we've given him back a little piece of space. Now did
 he have the right to do something? We'll find out who said he didn't have the
 right to do something, we'll block that off, knock that off. 
 
 Now, did he have the right to control his own shoes? That might be 
 too tough. Did he have the right to comb his own hair? Did he have the right
 to.. to.. to own something? An object? And control something - did he? Yeh.
 What do you know he suddenly - humpf. And the next just go over it again, 
 some more space. See, energy is an action and an object. And you just - if
 you just kept going up the gradient scale of incidents and finding incidents
 that are just a little wider, just a little bigger, a little more space, a
 little more doingness, a little rare objects in them, you could run locks and
 secondaries and engrams. 
 
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 What's a secondary? A secondary's a very severe moment of loss. It's
 either anger against losing, uh.. fear of losing, or fear because one has
 lost, or the recognition that one has lost and apathy is not only has one
 lost but one will never be able to gain again. So we've got that. We've known
 thai for a long time so let's move in on a secondary just to that degree.
 
 In the first place, does he own anything in present time. Is anything 
 his? And the fellow will sort of fumble around and, "Let's see a tie, no, a 
 tie was given me by my Aunt Bertha and I always had to be careful of Aunt 
 Bertha's things and the shoes and so forth. I work for this company and this 
 company has.. gives me everything I own practically. And.. and.. uh.. gee, I 
 don't own.. own that really. The house belongs to my wife. Let's see, the 
 car.. that car belongs to the finance company. Uh.. let's see, uh.. umm. Hey 
 you know there's a toothpick in my top drawer that I think I own." "How do 
 you know you own that toothpick?" "Well, I carved it out myself." Go in on 
 that gradient scale and let him take possession of what is his and you'll 
 find that is a.. that is a very interesting process. 
 
 Well, what do you know, the fellow the first thing you know the 
 fellow will be able to run a secondary. He lost his pappa - you want to get 
 grief off him, there's no reason you have to get grief off him anymore. But 
 you want to get grief off this fellow, loss. What does he own? What could he 
 lose? What could he safely lose? What could he not get along without? First 
 thing you know, his sphere of ownership strats going up on objects. 
 
 What could he do and what can't he do - and his sphere of action 
 starts going up. What can he be, what can't he be - and his sphere of space 
 starts going up. Okay, you have to get him up so far until he can cry over 
 something because most guys are in apathy on this. 
 
 For seventy-six trillion years this MEST universe has been playing 
 the game, now look at yours. You got it now? You're thoroughly attached to 
 it, now you're sure you own it - you're sure now? YANK! I said, "Well, I 
 guess that one wasn't yours. Now here's something else for you." And this.. 
 this game has.. has the root of many evils. 
 
 All right, a lock is a light incident. Locks stand on top of.. and 
 multiply because of secondaries and engrams. A fellow loses Grandma, that's a
 secondary, grief charge. He loses Grandma and he goes on from there gathering
 locks about loss of people till he gets frantic, he's afraid to lose 
 anything. He's afraid to lose his watch of he feels he'll commit suicide if 
 he lost another thing in his life. 
 
 What's a secondary? Just that major loss. A lock that stands on a 
 physical pain engram of just moments when he is reminded that he has a big 
 moment of physical pain and unconsciousness. And so he goes a little bit 
 unconscious every time he thinks this thing is coming back in again. And he 
 wants that engram because he can't trust himself to act fast enough in an 
 emergency. He's learned he can't act fast enough in an emergency. He thinks 
 he's learned this so the way to do it is to set it up in such a way that he 
 gets an automatic machine that goes zip-bomp and does it for him. 
 
 Where do people go to pieces? They go to pieces at the moment where 
 they conceive that they can't trust themselves anymore. When they can't trust
 themselves, they have to trust something else. There's nobody else they can 
 trust, so they fix up an engram bank and trust it. 
 
 Or in the fear of action, they go out and build a temple and put an 
 idol on the altar and trust it. Or they go down to Las Vegas and say, "We'll 
 leave it in the hands of Lady Luck." They shed responsibility in the hopes 
 
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 that.. to which they had shed the responsibility will be theirs again. There 
 you get the interplay. 
 
 How do you run locks and secondaries and engrams then? Run them on a 
 gradient scale of restoring confidence in one's ability to control space, 
 energy and objects. And you can use SOP 50, you can use THE ORIGINAL THESIS. 
 As a matter of fact, there's a better technique in THE ORGINAL THESIS, I 
 think, than 1948. All these things run with it. 
 
 Uh.. you use that, you can run any engram in the bank. If you can't 
 run an engram, you have to run something like it. Okay, did that clear up a 
 few things? On.. you can always run an engram on a preclear providing you 
 don't insist on running an engram heavier than he can run. You sort of knew 
 that once upon a time, but how do you sneak in on it? Well sneak in on it by 
 running a lock, restoring him like that. 
 
 Now there's one more point I'd like to make with regard to that. 
 There's one more slight point, is that the over-all idea of locks, engrams 
 and secondaries and so on, is handled now by creative processing. You have 
 to know what locks, secondaries, and engrams are to be able to handle them as 
 such, otherwise you won't take the creative processings uh.. handily enough. 
 But you handle them getting the preclear to own his own space, his own 
 energy, and his own objects. And when he owns his own space, energy, and 
 objects - heck! - MEST universe stuff - phooey! 
 
 Not only, he hasn't just abandoned it, he can just take ownership of 
 it like mad. So handle these things in the far run of it with creative 
 processing; handling preclears, you know this fellow's got an engram, you 
 know he's got Fac One, you know he's got something else. Handle with creative 
 processing. But don't lose sight of the fact that you are handling something 
 he considers an.. an existing entity. 
 Let's take a break. 
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