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FIRST POSTULATE TAPES 24/35 (20th American Advanced Clinical Course)

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Contents

20th ACC - First Postulate Cassettes [clearsound]

New #    Old #   Date     Title

20ACC-1  (1)   14 Jul 58 OPENING LECTURE
20ACC-2  (1A)  14 Jul 58 OPENING LECTURE - Q AND A PERIOD
20ACC-3  (2)   15 Jul 58 ACC PROCEDURE OUTLINED E-METER TRS
20ACC-4  (2A)  15 Jul 58 ACC PROC OUTLINED - E-METER TRS - Q AND A PERIOD
20ACC-5  (3)   16 Jul 58 COURSE PROCEDURE OUTLINED
20ACC-6  (3A)  16 Jul 58 COURSE PROCEDURE OUTLINED - Q AND A PERIOD
20ACC-7  (4)   17 Jul 58 BEGINNING AND ENDING SESSION
20ACC-8  (4A)  17 Jul 58 BEGINNING AND ENDING SESSION - Q AND A PERIOD
20ACC-9  (5)   18 Jul 58 ACC TRAINING PROCEDURE
20ACC-10 (5A)  18 Jul 58 ACC TRAINING PROCEDURE - Q & A PERIOD
20ACC-11 (6)   21 Jul 58 THE KEY WORDS (BUTTONS) OF SCIENTOLOGY CLEARING
20ACC-12 (6A)  21 Jul 58 THE KEY WORDS (BUTTONS) OF SCN - Q & A PERIOD
20ACC-13 (7)   22 Jul 58 THE ROCK
20ACC-14 (7A)  22 Jul 58 THE ROCK - Q & A PERIOD
20ACC-15 (8)   23 Jul 58 SPECIAL EFFECT CASES,  ANATOMY OF
20ACC-16 (8A)  23 Jul 58 SPECIAL EFFECT CASES, ANATOMY - Q&A PERIOD
20ACC-17 (9)   24 Jul 58 ANATOMY OF NEEDLES - DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE
20ACC-18 (9A)  24 Jul 58 ANATOMY OF NEEDLES - DIAG. PROC - Q&A PERIOD
20ACC-19 (10)  25 Jul 58 THE ROCK: PUTTING THE PC AT CAUSE
20ACC-20 (10A) 25 Jul 58 Q&A PERIOD - CLEARING THE COMMAND
20ACC-21 (11)  28 Jul 58 ACC COMMAND SHEET - GOALS OF AUDITING
20ACC-22 (12)  29 Jul 58 ACC COMMAND SHEET (cont.)
20ACC-23 (13)  30 Jul 58 ACC COMMAND SHEET (cont. 2)
20ACC-24 (14)  31 Jul 58 RUNNING THE CASE AND THE ROCK
20ACC-25 (15)   1 Aug 58 CASE ANALYSIS - ROCK HUNTING
20ACC-26 (15A)  1 Aug 58 CASE ANALYSIS - ROCK HUNTING (cont.)
20ACC-27 (16)   4 Aug 58 CASE ANALYSIS - ROCK HUNTING (cont. 2)
20ACC-28 (16A)  4 Aug 58 CASE ANALYSIS - ROCK HUNTING - Q&A PERIOD
20ACC-29 (17)   5 Aug 58 ARC
20ACC-30 (18)   6 Aug 58 THE ROCK - ITS ANATOMY
20ACC-31 (19)   7 Aug 58 THE MOST BASIC ROCK OF ALL
20ACC-32 (19A)  7 Aug 58 THE MOST BASIC ROCK OF ALL - Q&A PERIOD
20ACC-33 (20)   8 Aug 58 AUDITOR INTEREST
20ACC-34 (20A)  8 Aug 58 REQUISITES AND FUNDAMENTALS OF A SESSION
20ACC-35 (21)  15 Aug 58 SUMMARY OF 20TH ACC

The clearsound set includes an Appendix containing two HCOBs.  This
has been included with the first lecture above.

Note that old 15B "Q & A PERIOD" of 2 Aug 58 was marked as missing in
the Flag Master List and was later found by Gold.  Its absense here
probably means that they found it to be the same as old 16A (20ACC-28
in the above list).

Old number 19B "Q & A Period" of 8 Aug in the Flag Master List
is also omitted but 20ACC-32 (old 19A) is extremely long and probably
contains both old 19A and 19B.

Note 20ACC-2 (1A) does not appear on the Flag Master List but
appears to be genuine.

We were able to check ten of these against the old reels and
found minor omissions [marked ">" in the transcripts.]

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20ACC-24 (14)  31 Jul 58 RUNNING THE CASE AND THE ROCK

RUNNING THE CASE AND THE ROCK

A lecture given on 31 July 1958

[Clearsound, checked against the old reel.  Omissions marked ">"]

Thank you.

How are you, today?

Audience: Fine.

What's left of you.

> What? It's all running?

This is the fourteenth lecture of the 20th ACC, July 3 1st,
1958. Title of this lecture is "Auditor Be Damned." I -
excuse me, I - reactive answer.

The lecture tomorrow is Case Analysis, Case Diagnosis, Rock
Hounding, so forth.

The lecture right now has to do with running one. We are
going to assume that you can run it before you find it.

Now, I won't mention any names; I'll make a highly
generalized statement here. Some people are gun-shy; others
get Rock-shy. Pcs go for the Rock with the greatest ease,
but auditors sometimes run like scared Rockhounds - very,
very scared.

It's part of auditing commands to know how to run an
E-Meter and use one. If you do not know the basic mechanics
of an E-Meter, or if an E-Meter is still something that
just sits in front of you so that you can confront it, not
the pc, if you do not know that your pc is registering on
your meter, and if you do not know what the various things
on the meter mean, you have no business giving a pc any
auditing commands at all. It's just as flat as that.

In the first place, it would mean that you had a short
knowledge on the subject of the bank, the reactive mind and
what you are looking for. The four manifestations of an
E-Meter, which are the reactive manifestations, you should
have down before you try to find out what a free needle is.

There are five manifestations on an E-Meter and they are
very simple manifestations. First and foremost of these, of
course, is a free needle. Now, the free needle can fool you
very, very much because the meter might not be operating or
you might have a preclear that no matter what you say to
him, he does not register on the meter. Tomorrow we will
take this up at the fourth class of case and I will tell
you how to handle it.

But right now, there is such a thing as a meter going
through a cyclic action without the pc registering on it
because the pc is incapable, by thought alone, of
registering a meter, which is an interesting standpoint. So
that is not a free needle.

It's very distinguishable, very, very distinguishable. You
have to ask a couple of more questions than you would have
to, to establish a free needle, but it might look like one,
and it just means that your pc can't.

Now, one of the foremost manifestations of a free needle is
that it is free. It floats around in airy curves and it's
in motion and it isn't doing, in any part of its motion, a
little stick. And everybody who is not registering properly
on a meter - the fourth grade, you might say the mimicry or
the harmonic down from a free needle - is sticking on some
part of the meter action. It's going up, up, up, up, up and
it sticks, and then it goes down; and then it goes up, up,
up, up, up and it sticks and then it goes down; and it goes
up, up, up, up, up and it sticks and then it goes down.
That is not a free needle. That is pc incapable of register
on needle.

You say, "death, kings, cats, coal heavers"; kick him in
the shins - no needle registry - and your meter might be
in perfectly good condition. So be aware of this case.

Now, when you have asked somebody for a Rock, and you've
gotten one, and a Rock's been found on the case, you're
liable to get one of these actions because it practically
paralyzed the preclear. And it goes up, up, up, up, up and
it sticks and it goes back, and it goes up, up, up, up and
it sticks and sometimes it only moves one of those little
tiny slots, quarter of an inch wide. It goes up and it
sticks and goes back, and you say, "How's your mother?
How's your grandfather?" "What price glory?" And doesn't
matter at all. It goes up a little bit and it sticks and it
goes back, and it goes up a little bit and it sticks and
goes back. In other words, it's acting but nothing you're
doing has any influence on it. Do you see that? Now, you go
on looking for other Rocks, happily, which we will take up
at greater, sarcastic length tomorrow. You go on looking
for other Rocks, saying, "We didn't find anything." And you
find one of these inactive meters. Well, it means the
Rock's been found.

Now, the pc who doesn't act on the meter at all is simply
stuck in his Rock but good, and he came to the session that
way in the first place.

Now, a needle can go up the whole dial and stick and fall
back, and go up the whole dial and stick and fall back as
one of these manifestations. It isn't necessarily tiny,
it's gross. It's a sort of a goofball kind of theta trap.
He sort of walks up to the Rock and he sticks and he goes
back from the Rock, and he walks up to the Rock and he
sticks and he goes back from the Rock. He walks up, takes a
little chip off of it, goes back from it, puts the chip
back on and walks up to it again. Now, that cyclic action
is not a free needle.

A free needle floats airily in the breeze, it sticks
nowhere. It does not halt its motion anyhow, anywhere,
anyway. It is smooth. It floats up and it floats back, and
it floats a little way up and then goes a long way up, and
then it goes back and so forth. That is a free needle. And
if you ever find one, if by accident you should ever get up
to one, you will now know what it is.

The next manifestation of the five is, most importantly to
you, the rising needle which rises and rises and rises and
rises and rises and finally goes up, up, up on the tone
arm, and up, up, up on the tone arm. And it rises and rises
and you say, "cats" to him and it rises; and you say,
"dogs" to him, it rises; and you say, "spit" to him and it
rises; and you say, "mother" to him and it rises and it
rises and it rises. And then pretty soon he goes home and
goes to sleep and falls back off the meter again far enough
to come back into session the next day and rise and rise
and rise.

Now, to you that's the most important manifestation because
it means that something is being added to the case in every
split instant of time. This case is having an additive,
it's an additive case. You'll find, in characteristic, that
this person normally believes that the whole universe is
caving him in. It's sure enough adding onto his needle.

All right, the next manifestation is a fall, equally
important to you, almost, because a fall means that a lock
blew off.

Now, the constant rise-fall, rise-fall, which is another
specialized case of a combination of two of these things, a
rise and a fall, actually has the following two
manifestations that could be added into it: the "theta bop"
and the "stuck." Now, it could rise and theta bop, you
know - theoretically a very complicated, the most complicated
pattern it could go through - and then fall, and then rise
and theta bop and fall. It could also rise and stick and
then fall, and rise and stick and then fall, but these are
just combinations of these four things, you see? So this
next one's a fall. It means that something blew off;
whatever happened, it means something blew off. Either
because the pc came close to it or because it was a lock on
the chain or something, but something came off of the case.
Now, that it went on immediately causing a rising needle
does not argue with the fact that it came off on this
specialized case of rise, rise, rise, stick, fall, fall,
fall, fall, fall, rise, rise, rise, rise, stick, fall,
fall, fall, fall, fall. Do you see that? Something's going
off, coming on. Back and forth, back and forth. But we
still have just these four classes of things.

All right. That thing that falls says something came off.
It always says that and it doesn't say anything else
unless, of course, it means the pc took his fingers off the
can. He might have lifted a finger off the can and put it
back on and you'd get a rise - fall thing too. You can
approximate this thing just with one finger going on and
off the can.

Now, he isn't doing that, so don't worry about it. If he
is, why, clobber him. Just reach over and clamp his hands
around the can and say, "Well," in a conversational tone of
voice, never breaking ARC, "you shift your finger off the
can and back on again, I'll kick you in the shins, you
know." Keep ARC at all times, so long as it doesn't
interfere with control. That's always the modifying factor.

Now, ARC must never be permitted to interfere with control.
A lot of you got this absolutely backwards. You think
control must never be permitted to interfere with ARC and
you wonder why pcs don't get well. Well, ARC must never be
permitted to interfere with control if it gets to that
point. It's - control comes first and ARC second. Got it?

All right, this next one is a little hunt thing. When you
see a classic one, you will never forget it. There are
many varieties of a classic theta bop. But it goes up
dit-dit-dit and it goes down dit-dit, and it goes up
dit-dit, just a little swing. It can be that wide on your
meter, you know? It can run three inches on your meter and
still be a theta bop, but it'd have to be doing the same
thing at both ends of the swing to be a theta bop. A theta
bop doesn't go up and stick and fall, and then go up and
stick and fall. It sort of goes up a little bit and dithit;
it-hu-hunt. And then it goes down and hun-hunt, and it goes
up and hun-hunt and it's equal.

You get a picture of a pc yo-yoing, withdrawing. And at
both his extreme out and his extreme in on the yo-yo, he
gets uncertain. And you see that little uncertainty. See,
it's not a stick-up, up and up and dit-dit, and down
dit-dit, up-dit-dit.

Now, it can be so microscopic that you have to crank your
needle all the way up to the top to see one but it very
often, in its commonest variety, is simply observable right
there in the first low stages of the meter; and its
commonest variety swings from about half an inch wide to
about a third of an inch wide. Theta bops are standard
within that category with your needle riding there
somewhere around 2.0 with the sensitivity knob.

All right, and now the last one - the last one which you
consider the most important but which is merely diagnostic,
is "stuck." Stuck. Stuck is a relative term. A needle which
is going through the same evolution endlessly is repetitive,
if it's free - if it's simply a repetitive needle -there's
no sticks in it anywhere. There are no final stops. At no
place does it stop. Well, a stuck is a stop; someplace it
stops.

Now, if you use "stuck" as an absolute term, you are going
to miss some Rocks - if you use it as an absolute term. It
isn't an absolute term. You found something on this case.
You found a "decayed horse," which would never be a Rock,
so I can speak freely and not restimulate you this morning.

A "decayed horse" would register with a little upsweep and
stick. Then it falls off of it for a quarter of an inch
down, and it goes back up again and it sticks and it falls
off of a quarter of an inch down.

Now, what's interesting about this is that you may come
back to this needle an hour later and it's going up a
quarter of an inch and sticking. And then it's falling down
a quarter of an inch and then it's going up a quarter of an
inch and sticking, sweep, sweep, sweep, sweep, see? Now,
that is a stuck. It isn't surging. It isn't rising, you
see, it's just stuck on this same pattern.

Don't get fooled on one of these stuck points because it's
stuck somewhere, but it can also stick and do something
else, don't you see?

Female voice: Mm-hm.

Now, oddly enough, it never sticks (that I have ever seen)
and rises and falls. The stick is never on the bottom; it's
always on the top. That is to say, it's over on the left
side of the meter as you face the dial. It is never on the
right side of the meter. It's not rising, in other words,
from the stick, but as far as I have ever seen, it is
falling from the stick.

Now, a "stuck," theoretically, means this on most cases:
the needle's constant rise or idle behavior is arrested.
Now, a stuck does not stick and rise, something for you to
understand clearly. We never include a rising needle in the
phrase "stuck." Anything that rises is additive and they
don't stick and rise. These things are contradictory. The
red light didn't go on when the green light went on, you
get the idea? It's a red light or it's a green light. See?
But a fall can combine with stuck, so you can get a stick
and a little fall, and a stick and a little fall, and a
stick and a little fall. And the needle seems to act this
way regardless of what you do. No matter what you do, this
needle is behaving this way.

Now, if you crank an E-Meter up to total sensitivity on any
stuck, you will find it going through usually this same
behavior. It's quite seldom that you get a totally arrested
needle - it's quite seldom - but it looks awfully stuck if
your sensitivity is low. But a stuck needle is never
progressively rising, you see? Stuck, rise - these things
are different things.

Now, when you find a Rock, you have a needle which is not
going higher than it goes. It goes to a certain point on
the E-Meter arc and that is all the higher it goes. Now, it
may fall off a dial from that point and come back again,
but you have now entered in upon the last condition of the
meter which is a combination of all other things. And so,
when we say, "stuck needle," we do mean the theoretical,
totally arrested needle which freezes and goes nowhere,
because you will see one. If all brackets are jammed on a
Rock, then there is no flow and a stuck needle measures no
flow. But a stuck needle combines with the falling needle
to make your usual manifestation - does not combine with
a rising needle; oddly enough, sometimes combines with a
theta bop. So it sticks and then goes into a bop, and
sticks and goes into a bop, and sticks and then it kind of
frees up and goes into a bop, and it sticks and frees into
a bop. Those are all stuck needles, awfully indicative.

Anything which makes the needle cease to rise constantly,
changes its pattern and causes that needle to momentarily
halt in any sort of its pattern, can be considered, from
your viewpoint, a stuck. There's been a lot of question
about what is a stuck needle. You can consider this a
stuck. But the stick that you are looking for does not have
to be fixed, fixed, fixed, fixed for every continuous
microsecond, you understand? It can stick and then go down
a little bit and then it'll stick, and then it'll go down a
little bit. Or it'll stick and then it'll theta bop and
it'll stick and it'll theta bop and so forth. But it's a
consistent behavior and you, by your questions, do not
alter it any further. You've got a Rock. It's not rising,
not doing anything else.

Now, this next condition occurs when a Rock is either in
total restimulation - the guy just walks in off the street,
never heard of Scientology, never heard of you, me or
anything else. He walks in off the street and we put him on
the meter and we get this next combination, which is really
this combination of a Rock.

But this one you must understand because it is the biggest
case fooler there is. As I will take up tomorrow, it's the
fourth grade of case. The guy could be a very high-toned
guy, but he'd still be classified momentarily as a fourth
grade of case, because a Rock is stuck. And you just put
him on the meter and the thing, maybe, just totally sticks,
classic, almost never seen, totally fixed, stuck, no matter
how high you crank the meter.

Oh, please. Please recognize what you're looking at. It's
just a Rock, that's all. It's not a peculiar state of case.
It's not a sign that he does backflips all night long. It
doesn't mean anything except that he's stuck in the Rock.
That's all it means. And you say, "How is your mother?" and
he's stuck in the Rock. And you say, "How is your father?"
and he's stuck in the Rock. And you say, "Have you died
lately?" and he's stuck in the Rock. You understand? And
you say to him, "Have you lost your job?" "Have you got a
PT problem?" "What is the price of eggs in Denmark?"
Anything, and he's stuck. You get the idea? There he is.

Well, boy, you've had it, because you didn't have the
benefit of sticking him. And because you didn't stick him,
you don't know what did! You got that? So you swap pcs and
the other auditor is a good, disorderly, standard issue
grrrr and lost all the papers of everything that ever stuck
on the pc and forgot what Rock he'd located. Irresponsibility,
irresponsibility, and you got this pc, and he's got one of
these needles, and you got no list.

Listen, get used to it! You think I'm mad at auditors today
because I'm talking very discourteously and very growlish
and so forth. Well, I am, because you been flinching. Just
the auditors present - 50 percent can stay in ARC with me.

It's just the same as the guy that walked in off the street
with an unaffectable needle, apparently unaffectable
needle, see? You got the pc, you say, "What did you run on
this guy? What did you find? What were you running as a
Rock?" And the fellow says, "I don't know. I've been
audited myself lately and I - kind of forgotten what all
the Rocks was, but I remember yesterday we asked him
something - something about pottery. Pottery, yes, I think
it was pottery, or was it cars? I forget. Anyway, he wasn't
running well, and so I just forgot it - the whole thing."
Well, don't consider you're in a peculiar state of affairs.
And it certainly doesn't depend upon his memory, the past
auditor's memory, see, because it's just the same as a lot
of people. I don't know what percentage, possibly 2, 3
percent. This is an awful huge guess based on, by the way,
what I've already seen here in Rock hounding, and I have
not been in any shape to scatter up much in the way of
statistics.

In three days I've gone over sixty cases, assessed them,
analyzed them; in the most part of them, found the Rock and
did thirty of them in eight hours. And for the first
time - for the first time I can't quite recall in all cases
exactly what engrams the pc was sitting in. That's the
first time that ever happened to me. That was taking too
many, too quick, finding Rocks in ten, twelve minutes, you
know. Bang! It's too quick. And I'll have to scan it down
and get it because my file card memory system put it out
there, and look back at it again, is in an awful state of
confusion this morning.

I'm always upsetting somebody who walks up to me and I
haven't seen him since Elizabeth and he says, "How are
you?" And I say, "Fine." And I say, "Hey, how'd you ever
come out auditing that harem?" And he says, "The harem? The
harem? The harem? The harem? The harem?" I say, "Yeah, you
know, a whole - that engram we hit there back in Elizabeth,"
and so forth. He says, "God, that was eight years ago. I -
the engram over there. Oh, as a matter of fact it's still
stuck," he says.

Anyway...

Where you find this silly behavior of a stuck needle that
you weren't the author of, don't throw in the sponge, hang
yourself or ask an Instructor to pass the strychnine,
because it's very remediable if you care to take the time
to do it.

The reason these needles that were stuck, when I saw them,
remained stuck was because I was not auditing, I was doing
case analysis.

What I would have done is run Connectedness, just as you
have it here on your Command Sheet, long enough to free
that needle, and I'd start in all over again. You got it?

Audience: Mm-hm.

Well, that's one of the reasons Connectedness is in here
and one of the reasons you sure better know how to use
it - the only thing known that will totally free, with
great reliability, this.

Now, responsibility. "What have you been responsible for?"
or "What have you been responsible for in auditing?" or
something of the sort, can also free up the dial and
actually find what it was stuck on. But it's more - it's
more analytical and temporary than the other. It'll get it
out of the road probably long enough for you to do a new
analysis.

But Connectedness definitely will straighten out a meter if
run long enough, providing your pc is conscious enough to
get an idea of making something connect with him.

Other things will also unstick a meter: CCH 1, CCH 2, CCH
3, CCH 4 will also unstick meters. Old-time Trio will also
unstick a meter. So your initial step in any case, where
you have a mysterious, idle needle is to get the thing as
free as you can, then go Rock hunting and look for it once
more. And you will stick it newly.

Oddly enough you will probably find the identical stick
that you first found on the meter but now you will have a
label for it. Do you see how that's done? You free up the
thing, you go Rock hunting all over again. Watch the
behavior of the meter now, closely, and you see that you
were affecting the meter. You ask him about his mother, he
gets a fall. You ask him about his wife and he gets a rise.
Aha! Ha-ha-ha-hah! Wouldn't Freud have loved something that
was as easy as that? "It's 'women'! 'Women' is on it
someplace!" Mother came off as a lock. He'd never thought
of his wife being like Mother or something of the sort
until you associate it in a session. He promptly added it
on top of the chain as a lock and he got a rise.

And so you take off and you add in, and you take off and
you add in, and pretty soon you've got a pretty darned good
idea of what you're doing.

All right. Let's take a very fast summary of this, hm?
There's a free needle which has no sticks or hops on it.
The reason it is free is because the body breathes, and so
forth. A free needle is free and is swinging if your meter
is set to fall one-third of a dial when the pc gives an
even squeeze to the cans.

Listen to me, don't you ever again jack up a meter so it'll
he free! Three people here have jacked up a meter so that
it would be free and have gone off the Rock.

A free needle registers with one-third of a fall of the
dial and a free needle is usually about a third of the
dial. It just wanders around over a third of a dial. And
you talk to the person - there's no sticks in it anywhere,
there's no abrupt change of direction in it anywhere - you
talk to the person and you say, "How's tricks? and "How's
your last death?" and "How's this and how's that?" And the
next doggone - and you try to get a lie reaction on the
thing and so forth. You get nothing on it.

You want it to be absolutely free, you turn around and use
Connectedness to see if you change the pattern of the
needle. And if you used Connectedness and tried to change
the pattern of the needle and got no shift on it either,
boy, that's sure a free needle. And after that, after
you've checked out a free needle or two, you'll never again
ask the question, "What is a free needle?" The guy doesn't
react on it, that's all. He's Clear.

Now, the funny part of it is, you can ask a Clear to act on
the needle and he will. You can say, "Mock up a man; make
him more solid." You got an action on the meter.

You ask a person who is just doing one of these Rock
swings, you know (he's anchored), and you say, "Mock up a
man; make him more solid." And it just goes right on
swinging and it doesn't do a thing to it. Got it? A Clear
can add in enough mass to make a needle read differently
and a person who has an apparently unaffected needle - an
apparently unaffected needle, can't do this. The unaffected
needle just goes on being unaffected, not only now by the
auditor but also the preclear, which makes it unanimous.
And this boy is stuck in a Rock. Entirely different things,
you see? You have to learn how to look.

Now, I know I'm being cross with you, and so forth, with
regard to something like this. We're going to take up
auditing, and we're taking up auditing and auditing commands.

Now, what I've said to you about the meter in the first
half-hour of this lecture applies to auditing, not to Rock
hunting, because as you audit, all five of these
manifestations will come into view as well as this
combination at the end which is a combination between a
stuck and a fall, or a stuck and a theta bop. You will see
all five of them, and you've got to know what these things
are to know whether your auditing commands are doing
anything to the case or not, and to know when a process
is flat.

A process is flat when the meter is set to fall one-third
of the dial, when the cans are steadily squeezed and then
let go of - not a sudden punch squeeze, just a steady
pressure in and a let go. When that meter is set there, and
the needle is up in the middle of the dial with the tone
arm, and you get an idle and uninterrupted flow of the
needle, it's up and it's down and it's back and it's forth,
and it's around, it's around. And maybe if you had a
stethoscope and listened to the fellow's heart or something
of the sort, you would see that one of these beats on the
meter was actually the heartbeat.

Now, nobody is asking you to get the first stage lock of a
Rock that you're running off so free that it's that free.
But come as close to it as you can with that first stage of
the Rock. Don't let a needle go over to the side of the
dial and hit a pin and stick there without adjusting your
tone arm and say, "That's free." I know that sounds like a
silly thing to have to tell you, but actually it was
observed here, yesterday. Person let the needle go all the
way over and stick at the side of the dial and says, "Well,
it's free because the needle isn't moving anymore." Spoils
one's faith to do things like that.

Now, here is your clue - here's the whole clue to the whole
thing. The thing was a stuck needle. Now, what's a stuck
needle? We use that term - we use that term carelessly. Go
on and use it carelessly. Who cares? But understand that
when somebody is saying "stuck needle" he's also meaning a
repetitive needle with a stuck in it. It isn't motionless;
it's just a repetitive swing with a stuck in it and the
stick is usually at the top.

By the way, I've seen a free needle come over and the
heartbeat conflict with the lungs for an instant and the
needle sort of halt in the middle of the swing, and
occasionally do a kind of a hesitation in the middle of the
swing, when at one time it's registering heartbeat, another
time it's registering breathing, and the two conflict and
the needle doesn't know which way to go.

Your stuck needle is always at the top of the swing, the
upper rise side of the meter, see? I know somebody will run
into that point and be boggled with it. I just happened to
remember, I've seen one kind of halt, it didn't stick, and
I've actually felt a guy's pulse and watched him breathe at
the same time and watched this stuck, apparent halt, come
in on a sort of a figure-eight swing. The tide was going in
and the tide was coming out and the needle didn't know
which way to go. But that's down in the middle of the swing
and that - occasionally you'll view that. It isn't consistent
and it occurs once in a while on a free needle. It's this
top end that gets stuck.

So we can talk about a needle that is swinging through as
much as a quarter of an inch or an inch of arc as a stuck
needle, and I have seen some Rocks register on
two-and-a-half-inch swings. They go up and they stick, and
the pc yo-yos out off of it again and it frees; it falls
two and a half inches. This is one of the most extreme
cases I have ever had on a meter but you should know it
because there is such a case. And then he came back up
again. Now, he didn't rise another - he didn't rise another
micro-millimeter. See? Always came back up to that same
point on the dial. It wasn't increasing at all. Stuck. And
he says, "Oh, to hell with this," and he backed out again
and fell two and a half inches. Came back up again and
stuck, said, "Oh, here I am in the Rock again. Oh, the
devil with this," and he goes out, see? Now, you get a
meter doing something terribly consistent like this and not
increasing, with a stuck on the upper end of it, you
probably got a Rock.

By auditing it you certainly do change the characteristic
of that needle. By auditing the wrong thing, you louse up
the preclear. So you better remember what stuck it, and if
you can't remember what stuck it, don't take a wild guess.
"Look at that wall. You get the idea of making that wall
connect with you." And free the whole thing up and go over
the list again. Got it? Better to be sure, better to be
sure. You see how you handle this now? Auditing is done in
conjunction with a meter and with an understanding of the
situation.

Now, I cannot tell you whether a Woolworth or Abercrombie
Fitch, or any dime store meter... You can buy meters, you
know, at Abercrombie Fitch. They cost $14.95; they're lie
detectors for parties. They do work on auditing. FDA,
talking about a diagnostic meter, you can buy them all over
the country and all kinds of manufactures that work somehow.

Actually, all an E-Meter is, is a Wheatstone bridge with
some modification, which balances a circuit. It puts
somewhere between 150 microamps (isn't it?) and 500,000
microamps - isn't that what the Mathison registers - 110
volts straight through the cans?

Male voice: Something like that.

Yeah. It varies in potential, the flow through the
preclear, the juice flow through the preclear. People who
can't face preclears, or something of the sort, say that it
simply gets onto his skin and then flows off and drips on
the floor and you have to use a rag. But it really does go
through the preclear in some fashion and we've had meters
as light as about 50,000 microamps. Isn't that right? Or is
it fif- hm? Is it fifty microamps? Yes, all right, I was
trying to give you amps.

Boy, that would be real charge. That's a Mathison meter,
50,000 amps. That's about right. I'm not being hard on
Mathison, he's simply being hard on us occasionally. He
says the electrometer we're building is built simply
because we want a cheap meter. No, it's built because we
wanted - had to have a consistent one. We didn't want one
that, on the assembly line, one came out as registering
Clear at the top of the dial with the tone arm cranked all
the way over to the right, and the next one came out at the
bottom of the dial with the sensitivity off. We didn't want
that. And that's why Bob Wingate's - and earlier, Joe Wallace
and the guy who designed it, really, Don Breeding - worked
so hard on this meter - was trying to get a standardized
meter that would behave consistently. And they did a fine
job. And Bob Wingate's still doing a fine job on it.

All right, now, these meters shouldn't be classified as a
very mysterious piece of manufacture. They don't do
anything very peculiar - not being any electronics man I
don't have to stand in much awe of the situation.

I can tell you bluntly that I have seen people actually
register on an ordinary meter, you know, the kind of a
meter you measure tubes and ohms and stuff like that. You
understand? There's no amplifier on the line. There was no
battery, there was nothing, a guy just registers. You
can - you can conduct this experiment if you like. I
personally have tried to conduct it since and haven't made
much out of it, but we don't know how much juice transfers
from the left to the right side of a human being.

I asked an electronics engineer to measure this for me
once. He worked for, I think, some ordinary outfit or
another - I don't know what outfit it was- some small outfit
up around New York. I asked him to measure this for me and
he says, "Well," he says, "I could do that very easily." He
says, "You'll have to get me a patient so that we could put
the electrodes into his brain." I said, "When were you to a
psychiatrist last?" He says, "Oh, I have my engagements
every Thursday." Nothing to do with anybody in Scientology.
I mean I actually asked this guy that and that was the
response he gave me. So I haven't been thorough - he didn't
think I was being thorough because I hadn't done this - in
actually measuring the currents generated by the human body
one way or the other. We don't have a table of these things.

But we can conduct an experiment with an ordinary ohmmeter;
you can conduct an experiment with an ordinary
oscilloscope. You can do quite remarkable things with
oscilloscope. You're working with flows now. There's
nothing so convincing as to put a pc on an oscilloscope,
properly set up, and watch him actually flow from left to
right. And then when you change the auditing command, and
at no other time, flow from left to right, right to left,
left to right, right to left, left to right. You flip the
command, you say, "How could I help you?" and he flows from
right to left. You know? And then, "Well, how could you
help me?" and it goes flip and it flows the opposite
direction. And you actually see this flow go back and forth
on an oscilloscope, which is quite remarkable.

But don't build up any priesthood around one of these
things. The virtue of the E-Meter we are using, the Hubbard
Electrometer, is consistency and durability. We knocked one
off the table the other day and - came up, there was nothing
wrong with it. And one has actually fallen two and a half
floors out here through the stairwell and was picked up and
went right on being used in session. Durability - durability,
consistency and economy.

And you don't want one hooked into the mains, you know -
into the main light system - for a good reason. You get
static through a main light system, you know, and you've got
a problem of static. And then you also have - as you possibly
wouldn't realize unless you stood there with a voltmeter
testing the light company and checking them out - you've got
a problem in voltage; it goes up and it goes down. Somebody
next door turns on the lights and it goes down and a cloudy
day comes along and it hits bottom and your electric motors
burn out, and it's all quite remarkable. So you want a
constant power source and the only real answer to this is
a battery.

Now, the old battery meters had a horrible comm lag in them
and were a terrible piece of junk, and battery meters got a
bad reputation. But there can he such a thing as a good
battery meter.

Now, all I'm telling you is, is the same manifestations,
however, I have just described, are present in an
Abercrombie Fitch, $14.95 lie detector. I think it's the
Keeler. I think it's the Keeley institute that cures people
of drunkenness and the Keeler institute that manufactures
lie detectors. Whichever it is - whichever it is, you can
take one of their (quote) skin galvanometers (unquote) and
do the same tricks with them.

You can go down and if you really know your E-Meters, go
down to your local hometown detective bureau and ask to
talk to the lie detector expert and talk to him for a few
minutes and he starts giving you some wise, professional
chitterchat. Why, you just tell him you're a psychologist -
he understands that, the man has a limited vocabulary,
usually - and tell him you're a psychologist and you use
these things all the time in your practice and so forth,
and you'd just like to look over his setup.

Well, these guys are all bugs and they will show you their
setup with their blood pressure gauge and their respirators
and their - and the little meter with the cans, you know,
except they don't put them on properly and they don't
register quite right.

Now, you can - that's right, you can take the same - same
rig and you can so baffle and astound this man, so he just
practically blows his brains out. He says, "What - I've been
doing all this time!" and so on. You can show him a murder
reaction on every cop in the place. You don't say, "Have
you committed the murder?" You say, "Have you ever killed
anyone?" And promptly, you get duhduh and the respirator
goes bluh, the blood pressure indicator goes blah. You
could be very cruel and simply say to the lie detector
operator, "Obviously, your machine is out of order." That's
what he'll think. He'll have a letter off right away to
the manufacturers.

Now, those machines cost sometimes several thousand
dollars. They're quite complicated. They're very proud of
them, but you can do more with a little E-Meter than they
can do with those big machines. They have - 9 to 15 percent
of the people they get there don't register; they're
already evidently stuck in a Rock.

So you're not doing anything that's peculiar and special.
Do you understand? I mean - there's somebody's been doing
this for a very long time and there're an awful lot of
people know damn little about this, but they are experts.
An expert is somebody, of course, who knows the least with
the most authority.

And these boys - these boys would find you, if you knew your
E-Meter well, and you were a good auditor and you had a
good command of the track and so forth, one of the most
baffling people he ever talked to. You obviously knew more
about it than he did because you could make his machine do
tricks that he never heard of.

You could take the "lie" people, the people that a - no
lie reaction ever occurs on - run them for a few minutes
on Connectedness (which he would consider the most mysterious
incantation he had ever heard); he'd think it was all
right. You say, "Well, it's just this mental exercise to
get in communication with the preclear, get him under
control a little bit so he'll do what I ask, so he'll
listen to me." You know, explain it any way you want.

And here's his 9 to 15 percent that never register, that
never register at all and, heh-heh, they'd be telling lies
with the best of them, see? You'd get a lie reaction off of
them one right after the other. You'd also get a change of
character in the guy. So if you want some fun sometime, you
feel very, very brave, something of the sort, why, pull
this gag in your local area. You'll be surprised how
hospitable most of these guys are, once they know that
you're interested in one of these things and that you
aren't just a casual observer. You don't represent yourself
as an expert; just say, "We use it for other purposes."
There are only about two or three hundred of these men in
the country who consider themselves any good and I have
talked to two or three of these men and absolutely
stiffened them into bafflement. They didn't know whether
they were coming or going or whether the machine was any
good or not.

I put one of them on a machine and I said, "Have you ever
lived before?" Of course, he got a theta bop. I said, "How
long have you been a detective? How many lives have you
been a detective?" And he said, "I don't know. The number
comes three to me," and so forth. I said, "Well, have you
ever been a criminal? Have you ever committed any robberies
or any crimes or anything like that?" And the fellow says,
"No" and got a huge, slamming lie detector. And he says,
"My golly that's the first lie reaction anybody ever got on
me, Doctor." Very respectful man, thereafter.

Now, I'm telling you all this to tell you that in auditing
and on all human beings, people react, and none of their
reactions fall outside of the - of the reactions I've been
talking to you about. They don't react in new and different
ways.

There are some other meter manifestations. We located one
right here in this course. We had seen it a few times and
hadn't even bothered to give it a name and then you, more
or less, or your Instructors named it - they called it a
slam. But it's a rapid rise and a rapid fall, a rapid rise
and a rapid fall. It's not a theta bop, and you get
somewhere around the Rock someplace, something gets
frantic! And it's the most frantic up and down you ever
saw, and it's an erratic slam and it's going almost the
whole width of the dial.

Now, that is a new manifestation. It is used in diagnosing
whether or not you're still close to the Rock. You get a
slam - you can be auditing and get a slam - don't turn
around and say, "I've got a free needle." It's unimportant
relatively, because it can't be turned on and off
consistently at this time. It might become important later.

There may be other manifestations on an E-Meter that we
know nothing about whatsoever, but we've been working with
them for years and when they turn up, we're the ones
that'll find them, I'm sure. That you - "we're" includes you.
And you'll say, "You know, I've got a meter that does the
funniest thing. It goes up two dials and falls back one. If
the meter was wider, you could see this manifestation.
Whenever you say, "It's a boy, it's a boy, it's a boy," the
thing turns on.

You know? You might find some new things on a meter, but
don't expect that they will violate to any wide degree the
things I've told you. I'm trying to tell you that auditing
commands, when used in conjunction with an E-Meter, produce
standard responses and that your commands have to be
coordinated with the responses. Your responses are
coordinated with the commands. They are interdependent; one
affects the other. They are intercausal. Now, when I tell
you they are, please believe me, because you're not going
to get a funny manifestation on a meter that falls outside
these brackets while auditing a preclear and giving him
these auditing commands.

Now, some of you have been so luckless as to have had to do
with some people (there were - there were three or four in
the course) who were already stuck in a Rock, and anything
they asked the person, why, nothing happened. The meter
just kept on doing what it was doing. Such a person is
liable to develop the idea that an E-Meter is a kind of a
fraud.

Now, I know one luckless fellow who bought an E-Meter. It
was-I think it was an issue 400. I think he paid $400 for
it; I think that was why it was called 400. And he got the
meter and it came in through the mails and so forth, and he
finally one day told me that he had become upset about me.
And that's not unusual at all, not unusual, so I said,
"Why?" And he said, "Well, E-Meters," he said, "don't do
any of the things you say." And I said, "On what meter
don't they?" "Oh, my, I've had this meter for a month and
a half. It's a 'Nastyson' E-Meter, and just shipped in
through the mails, perfect condition, beautiful, shiny
instrument, doesn't do any of the things, doesn't help me
audit, doesn't do anything," and so forth.

I had him send for the meter. The thing wasn't hooked up
internally. It was registering itself, and we've had
several offbeat meters that simply did that. They
registered themselves or registered the mains. They didn't
register anything off the cans, probably by being shaken up
through the mails, or not being tested at the end of the
assembly line, or something of the sort. You could then say
they weren't E-Meters.

I got this thing hooked back up. I think it had about eight
or nine dials. The devil himself couldn't have piloted his
way through the thing and actually set it up with any
constant from session to session, see? And he said, "Well,
is there any way we can make it work?" And "Yes," I said,
"there's a way to make it work. There's an old one in the
closet which was built originally to my specifications,
also a Mathison. Go in and take it and go your way in
peace." He left us this other meter and it's a big joke to
me. I occasionally watch somebody in our electronics - boys
take ahold of these meters to make them work or to patch
them up or do something with them. That meter is still
riding in with the lot of them, and it doesn't register
anything except itself. It's very baffling; it's all hooked
up but it doesn't register anything and I just have a first
dynamic E-Meter, that's all.

All right.

The E-Meter drill that coordinates with these commands,
these auditing commands, the E-Meter drill, is supposed to
turn on these various manifestations. Connectedness or
Havingness will usually turn them off. Connectedness nearly
always does; I've never failed to have Connectedness turn
them off if I ran it with the pc's attention.

You should be able to turn these various meter
manifestations, these needle manifestations I've been
discussing, on and off with auditing commands. And you
should be able to get used to that meter saying what it
says. It doesn't say something else.

Now, it used to be that a man had to get used to his own
E-Meter because every E-Meter acted differently than every
other E-Meter. You get some from Woolworth's or California
and you'll see. They act differently, meter to meter, see?
So you had to get used to your own meter and you already
had the hurdle of inconsistency; but you're working with
meters now, which is a dream of our electronics boys, that
all operate more or less the same.

Now, there is a difference between the first issue of
meters and the succeeding issues of meters in the
sensitivity button. One of the original E-Meters goes up in
actual multiples. In other words, two is two times, four is
four times and so forth. The more recent meters are
geometric in their progression, and as you turn them up,
you get them three-quarters the way around the dial and
it's only about times four, you see? You've only increased
the meter four ways.

There's no reason to worry about this particularly because
a meter behavior is a meter behavior, but you're so liable
to pick up an old meter and find out that its sensitivity
knob registers differently than a new meter. They'll both
register the same, providing their sensitivity is the same,
but it says differently on the little sensitivity knob.
Now, that's the only real inconsistency I know that has
come along the line on this at all. That occurred because a
more rugged sensitivity mechanism was necessary. The first
ones that came out were a little bit delicate and the later
ones are very rugged but they're in geometric progression
and the dials haven't been renumbered.

You get an action on this meter. You can put another meter
right in its place and another meter in its place on the
same pc, just making him still hold the same cans. And
you're just pushing the knob in on meter after meter after
meter and the reaction is still there, one right after the
other, unless he gets upset with the number of meters that
are being thrown in front of him and he's starting to get
another action.

Now, an action on a meter is an action on a meter and is
connected with commands. And all this boils down to is
this: when you audit a Rock, expect a little dynamite from
a preclear. Expect a tremendous absorbing interest
sandwiched with a horrible boredom. You get the idea? He
couldn't care less. He loves it. You get the idea? These
manifestations go from one to the other, back and forth and
back and forth. But as long as you run brackets, item
brackets, on the Rock, as long as you continue to do this,
you should get a change of position of the tone arm
handle - the tone arm handle, not necessarily the meter
behavior at all, but the tone arm, the big long lever up
there. That ought to be going down; it ought to be going up.

And if it just sits there at five and a half and it doesn't
do anything and it doesn't do anything and you audit for a
whole hour with the thing sitting there and the needle the
same, the sensitivity the same, and the tone arm stuck the
same, well now, you get no change. There's something wrong;
there's something wrong. You can kick it out numerous
ways - practically any process you have the commands for
here will kick it out, run one way or the other. Instead of
running Help on Rocks, run Help on auditors for a little
while and the auditing you've just given him will fall off.
The meter will free up. You can do all sorts of things with
this thing but you can get rid of that response.

Now, get rid of one fixed response before you grab another
one! That's the operating rule in all auditing and auditing
Rocks. You've got a fixed response, a fixed unchanging
response that goes on and on and on and on and on. Tone arm
same, needle action same. The whole thing, it isn't
shifting a bit and you're busily auditing that button Ron
gave you, or something of the sort, and there's just
nothing happening! It's just wedged! No motion up, no
motion down. Man, that's time to get out of there.

But you don't get out of there simply by changing your mind
and auditing something else. You get out of there in a very
orderly way. You retreat and this retreat is not on your
Command Sheet directly, but you retreat with a good comm
bridge to an end of process, Connectedness to key the thing
out, patch it up and scout all over again to find something
associated with it that you must have missed or that must
have been missed someplace, stick the needle all over again
and audit that. But you only do that when you get a no-change.

Now listen, it takes anywheres from five to fifteen hours
to audit out a Rock, and it is audited out - if it is the
Rock and you are getting change - to an eventual free needle.
And when your needle is free on that subject, shift gears
and not until.

I know it's rough: don't chicken. Just man to man and man
to girl, don't chicken on it, and don't wind up that
sensitivity knob so it looks freer. Don't try to get out
from under. The only road out is the way through. And we've
known that for a very long time.

So your pc is in writhing agony; he's having a horrible
time. He's just gotten a facsimile that took his head off.
He's not going to stay in-session a moment longer because
it's too agonizing. He's being very insulting. So what?
You're an auditor. Auditors can take it; it's your
business. Don't turn preclear in the auditor's chair. Push
him on through it! Now, you see some reason for the ardures
of your training when you start to audit a Rock. You see
some reason for the discipline to which you've been
subjected so you could confront one. Do you think a
psychoanalyst could confront one, or a psychiatrist, or an
old priest out of the Egyptian cults? He'd scream like a
spanked baby and go scooting down the temple steps and
high-tailing it back for the home village! Don't be
surprised if a preclear just starts one of these inhuman
screams and just keeps right on screaming. But conversely
and much more arduously from your viewpoint, don't be
surprised if he's just bored stiff! Tone arm s changing
and he's bored stiff! And hour after hour he's just bored
stiff! Tone arm's changing, getting reactions on the
needle; it's up to you to keep him in there and run it.

Tone arm unchanging, needle reaction unchanging, you go on
and on and on for an hour and he's bored stiff. Also the
bored stiff is simply incidental to your decision to go
look for something else. Don't Q-and-A with the pc.

When you get a Rock, make sure it's a Rock and then audit
it till it's "went." And if the case is not now free all
the way up and down the scale on practically everything
under the sun, moon and stars, find the next Rock that was
immediately under it. There's only one Rock, but it may
look like several because you keep pulling one off.

And every time you pull one off - if you had seven to run to
get the whole Rock, seven items - every time you pull one
off, your needle is freer, the case runs better and works
better, but only if you, an auditor, get in there and pitch
and carry through.

Right now more is being demanded of you in auditing than
has ever been demanded of an auditor before.

Thank you for your cooperation.

[End of lecture.]

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