2ND ACC 19B OF 9 DEC 53 "BODIES" 1/2

Transcript of Taped Lecture by L. Ron Hubbard
2 ACC 19B    -    5312 C09
Date of Lecture - December 9, 1953

                           BODIES

This is the afternoon of December the ninth and we're going
to take up some specific examples of patter on SOP-8C. In
the process of running SOP-8C, there are many things which
you can do right. There are few which you can do wrong. In
view of the fact that almost any preclear, when you first
lay your hands on him, is in a "I mustn't be hit" or
inverted  "I must be hit"  frame of mind, you see, I
mustn't be hit or I can be hit. It is very easy to
invalidate a preclear.

Now let's get this one ..just get this one down real good.
Let's get this down real good. Invalidation by words is the
symbolical level of being struck. You got that?
Invalidation by words is the symbolical level of being
struck. If a person is afraid of being hit, he is afraid of
being, quote, "invalidated", unquote. You see that? All
right!

Now let's, let's take a look at inversion. You know things
.. DEI, desire, enforce, inhibit ... you get things
inverted. A fellow can run just so long on, I have to have
something, until he gets into, I can't have it. Now, he'll
run I can't have it just so long until it all of a sudden
it is a terrific desire. He's got it down to a lower one,
you see. Now, if he desires it, something is going to see
to it that enforced havingness takes place and as soon as
enforced havingness takes place, he's going to be inhibited
in having and so he can't have it again.. And after he
can't have it on this lower inversion, then after a while
he realizes, I can't have that, he gets a terrific desire
for it. He gets curious about why he can't have that and so
he gets a desire for it. As soon as he gets a desire for
it, it gets enforced, that he must have it, and then, this
is obsessive and he doesn't like that. So, he decides that
he better not have it, so he can't have it, again. All the
time he's getting down on a lower grade of "it" - whatever
"it" is. 

In terms of sensation, it starts at the top with a complete
serenity and at the bottom winds up, goes through sexual
sensation, and winds up at the bottom on an utter sort of
a gooey degradedness. Sexual sensation too greatly
condensed is degradation. And force, any type of force of
this character is given a symptom of degradation.

All right! Now let's look at this inverting thing. Realize
then that a preclear is in a body, being protected by the
body, after a while, so that he won't get hit. He gets the
idea, he's in there, he mustn't be hit. Well, that's the
antithesis to perception because in order to perceive, he
has to be hit. He has to be hit by the wavelengths of the
things he's trying to perceive, so if he can't be hit, you
see, he can't perceive. (An aside)..No answer my dear
Watson ..

The next point in the line is DEI, you see. He mustn't be
hit, he mustn't be hit, he's gotta be, see. That's the next
thing. He desires to be hit. So, he sits around waiting for
you to invalidate him. You see how it goes on the far shoot
line? He says for a long time, I mustn't be criticized, I
mustn't be invalidated, I mustn't be criticized, and he's
gotta be. One day, he suddenly wakes up and says, "I must
be hit". You'll find this preclear going sslup to every
electronic they can lay their hands on. Bong - bang -
somatics. They gotta have somatics, they gotta come in on
them. They have to be insulted. They will work with you
until you finally insult them in some way or another
because they call an insult on this basis, invalidation,
see. Now, they get on a "I mustn't be invalidated", see. In
other words, I mustn't be hit is the force level on this.
Now, the symbolical level is, I mustn't be invalidated and
then that goes, eventually, into I must be invalidated.

Now there's, what we call, a motivator hunger. Now, when
you surfeit a motivator hunger, you have satisfied an
appetite which bumps them up one small gradient on the tone
scale. And, you'll find some preclears that you have going
through this motivator hunger, or overt hunger, and that's
just this, "I must be hit", and so forth. Now, it goes this
way too, "I must hit", "I must not hit", see, "I desire to
hit", then, "I must not hit".. I beg your pardon.. "I
desire to hit", then "I have to hit", and then, "I must not
hit". And some people will run this cycle in one fight.
Often they'll slug somebody
- crash - boom- down somebody goes, and the next moment they're being very
sympathetic about the whole thing. You get that? See, I
must not hit, I must protect now.

Now, a Thetan early on the track ran this with bodies very
rapidly. I mustn't, I just gotta knock 'em off, and then,
poor bodies. And he's run back and forth on this about
bodies and you'll find a preclear doing this under
processing. "Bodies - I don't want anything to do with
bodies - mest universe (mumbling ...) .." and the next thing you
know, what do you know, "bodies are just lovely -
wonderful, wonderful". So, you've bumped him up the tone
scale. You're running the DEI cycle backwards. "I can't
have bodies" into "I must have a body", into "I want a
body", again into, "aw I can't have one", but milder, you
see. And then, "well I better have one", "well it's kind of
nice to have a body", and then up we go a little bit higher
on the thing and that ...  "well there are a lot of people,
sometimes I don't want a body and a lot of people, they
don't want bodies either", and then he goes up a little
higher, and "yeah I could have a body if I wanted one". You
see, you're running the DEI cycle backwards, it's IED,
upscale. 

So, that you'll find a preclear suffering consistently and
continually from this invalidation trouble - invalidation
and evaluation. Now as we go down scale with a preclear, we
find that evaluation becomes more and more harmful because
it impinges upon his knowingness. Invalidation, is actually
. goes straight up against motion and knowingness goes
into space and above that knowingness itself. You see? So,
we've got the two things. We've got motion and impact under
the heading of invalidation and we have cut down
knowingness under the heading of evaluation. So, we've got
these two categories sitting side by side. Now, these two
categories are in the symbolical level too. So, there's
evaluation by telling a person what his words actually
signify. This would be the same thing as cutting his
knowingness down because you're telling him something he
doesn't know. The only thing wrong with instructing in
anything is that it informs people of things they don't
know. Well, there is a time when you have to tell anybody
some sort of a scale of knowingness so that they can go
back up grade. At any class unit under instruction in
Scientology has to fight back up through this one because
they're being told that they don't know when they're being
told techniques, when they're being told what these things
are. But this is a fast route and the only excuse for it
is, it's far less harmful to do this because it puts them
on a route to being able to know for themselves.

So, what they don't know turns into in Scientological
instruction, turns into what you can know, and what I'm
giving you is headed that way. It's what you can know. It's
what you can do, it's what you can know. But if we cut this
down, on some preclears it comes under the heading ... they
hit pretty low, and it comes under the heading of
evaluation, so that they shudder back from... sometimes an
auditor will shudder back from being told a workable way to
do something simply because he's trying to protect his own
knowingness. And now, what's the remedy is for that, is not
to refrain from telling him how to do something, but to
tell him how to do that which corrects the fact that he's
shuddering back from being told something. See, his
knowingness.

How does he, how does he get out of the state of mind
whereby he thinks his knowingness is being cut down by
learning how to know, see. How does he get out of that.
That would be the way to handle that problem in the same
way evaluation. We can cut right straight through the whole
problem of invalidation same way as evaluation. We cut
through the whole problem of invalidation, now very simply
by curing people of fear of being hit. Now, people are
actually afraid of being hit by words.

You can take somebody who's terribly bad off and you can
make him utter a word and then reach out and catch it. Now,
you wouldn't think this technique, this technique would
actually find anybody serious at all. You say, now say cat.
Now say, look at the word cat and say, gee, that'll be
training and reach out and grab it and put it in your
pocket. Hide it. You know, I have seen somebody keep this
up for an hour. I just sat there wondering how long they
could go on with this. They just went right on because it
doesn't, it doesn't point out what they're doing
immediately, you see. Why, it's just not going to. What
they'd have to do is move the postulate around for a while
until it stopped evaluating for them.

Now the other thing a preclear doesn't know is the
difference between a postulate and a word with meaning. A
big difference. I could throw all of you people in your ear
with this, but I'm gonna try not to (laughing). It'll leave
you utterly baffled (laughing), it's a horrible thing to do
anyway. A statement is sym... a consecutive meaning in
symbolic terms. You see, it's a symbolized meaning. A
postulate has nothing to do with meaning. A postulate has
to do with straight command and determination by, and it's
not made, a horrible thing  (laughing), and it's not made
with symbols. The place where, the place where people over
in India, go appetite over tin cup a lot of times is that
their rituals are perfectly valid but they use them in
words with people who can use only words. So, the things
which they start stacking up as mechanisms and so forth,
are word mechanisms. They're not postulate mechanisms. Now,
actually, if you want to know what I'm talking about right
then - 'til you all of a sudden see a postulate. Anytime
you're moving an idea around, you ordinarily are not moving
a postulate around, you're ordinarily moving a symbol
around, but by that process you eventually come out through
the top and say, what the hell am I doing with these
symbols. Of course, this is about the same time that the
lightning will crash, as far as that's concerned. It's
pretty high. But a postulate is above force and a symbol is
subject to force.

The difference between a postulate and a symbol is the
position on the tone scale. We have to go up through force
and be able to handle force before we really recognize a
postulate for what a postulate is, otherwise it is all, a
hundred percent, meaning, significance, whereas a postulate
is a direct command. You could make a preclear run a
postulate out. But a postulate is not a feeling, it's not
force, it's not a symbol. You might say it's an intention,
and very high. It's an intention which will not be brooked
but that again brings about the idea of effort,
determination, see. Heavy effort, determination, well that
isn't what a postulate is either.

The mountains will now collapse, dealt with the most serene
hand imaginable, would simply be in terms of a whole flock
of mountains collapsing, see. It wouldn't be a big
symbolized thing. It's just the fellow's self-determined
intention that something happens and it happens. Now, a
preclear becomes very frightened of this as long as he
can't use and isn't accustomed to handling force. So again
we have the problem of perception. Perception is a problem
of force.

He doesn't want to think on something for two reasons: one,
if he thinks where he is, they'll know too. You know, he's
afraid he'll let it out. He's afraid his mind will be read.
Somebody can find him. He's been told this often enough.
It's one of the biggest electronic tricks on the track -
was to tell somebody that he had to think right thoughts.
That he had to think thoughts which were properly
protective to the State, and if he thought thoughts which
were not properly protective to the State, he could be
arrested and things done to him. And if he thought thoughts
which were not properly protective and which yak, yak, yak,
and so forth, to the State, he would be located by the fact
that he was thinking them. So, a person gets afraid to
think for fear he will be located, and people who are
difficult to locate, are afraid of being located. And here
we have a single problem in fear to be handled as a
postulate - afraid to be located. Some version of that,
symbolically placed and put. And we handle that around
until all of a sudden he realizes it's nonsense. He can
think a thought without being located up in the sci-galaxy
where they're still looking for him and have big posters
all over the place, he thinks. Where they still have his
records and he thought the wrong thought up there. Well,
that's just another method of making a Thetan wrong.

So, very often, your preclear will become very disturbed
and he's unaccountably disturbed. Well now, it will lie in
three spheres only - evaluation - invalidation - and
location. He's afraid to be located, he's afraid to be hit,
and he's afraid to have his knowingness cut down. The
evaluation, he's afraid to have his knowingness cut down
because that's less space in his terminology. He's afraid
to be hit, so he naturally is afraid of any symbol which
goes counter to his motion. A symbol which is counter to
his motion is very upsetting to him and he is afraid he
will be located. Just that. Basically he was made afraid of
his own power. He destroyed things which he desired to
persist or he built a Frankenstein's monster, and this we
call the Frankenstein effect.

The fellow is sure that if he builds something and gets it
all beautifully created and it actually would walk and talk
and do something or other. It would go off down the street
and while down the street would do something very
destructive but just before it did something destructive,
he would say, Stop, and the thing won't stop. Well, we've
run immediately into resist all effects. See. He built it
to resist all effects and then because he desired
randomity, didn't put in, except his own. So he built
something to resist all effects. Well then, pray tell, why
is he upset that it resists all effects. Yet he is, because
it does a lot of effects which are elected as bad cause.

So in auditing an individual one does deal immediately and
intimately with these factors, continually deals with these
factors of evaluation, invalidation and location. And he
deals with another factor - automaticity. He has set
himself up, the auditor, as an automatic machine which
directs the preclear. Therefore he's liable to throw into
restimulation that machinery which the preclear has which
sends him places. Almost any preclear has got a machine
which sends him places.

So we run into a condition where the auditor says, "Are you
here?" and points to something, and that puts the preclear
there. The auditor isn't doing it. The auditor has
triggered the machine which sends the preclear to any place
the preclear thinks of. The preclear's got that kind of a
mechanism. So, let's not overlook this. You can ask a
preclear only about four times, are you in the corner of
the room, or something like that, and if he's got one of
these machines, he'll trigger. That's why we say "not". He
hasn't got any machine that tells him where he's not, and
that's why we stress "not" as a postulate.

Now, you can set up some preclear this way, you can say,
"Are you on the desk?", "Are you in the chair?", "Are you
here and there?". You're, you're offering him places to be
which keys in the automatic machine that starts sending him
places. Almost any preclear has one of these things. What
do you do with the machine? Well, it's ... it comes under
the heading of Step four. You've wasted and so forth. Well,
what if it turns up, up here by location. Well, it won't
turn up here in Step one, if you ask him where he's not,
and that's why you ask where he's NOT, in Step one, so you
don't key off this machine. He's got it. It's all set,
ready to go.

Now, it could be defined as people learning how to use and
handle a life unit, and a life unit at this stage of
Scientology, advanced as we are, could be characterized
like a watch and you could actually put it down in terms of
learning how to keep a watch running. You don't have to be
able to build a watch to keep a watch running or repaired,
but the main difference is, the potentialities of the
preclear are so enormous that this fact over shadows many
other factors when you're working with him. You say, "Gee,
he is capable of so much". Well, in SOP-8C we're telling
you how much of him has to be handled. You get that?
That's, how much of him has to be handled, that's all, and
to this degree he is like a watch. You, to some degree are
like, if you're doing something for a Thetan, you're doing
something right - watch repairing. I mean, it's very
predictable. The facts that are going to be wrong in this
case, and they're not going to be something horrible and
huge and unimagined that hasn't ever been encountered
before. You'll never run into it. I guarantee it. You just
won't ever run into it.

You can run into a very imaginative Thetan. Though
unfortunately, in this universe, for the purposes of
auditing, his imagination, when he tries to throw you for a
loop with his imagination will boil down to these seven
steps. Why? Because this is modus operandi of a Thetan in
the MEST universe and the MEST universe has got him pretty
tame and there's only certain factors there that the MEST
universe is leaning against him on. So you don't have to
handle all this vast array of potentiality that an
individual has - enormous talents, imagination, and so
forth -, mostly because they can't be effective in this
universe. You're only trying to free him up to a point
where he can recognize that he can have freedom and after
that all the freedom he gets will be given to him by
himself. You get him up to a security where he knows he can
have freedom and he's on his own. You can't go any further
with the thing.

Now, his individuality sets in, actually, way above the
level when you suppose it does. The stimulus response
mechanisms of the body and of the Thetan himself are very
predictable. You are working with a predictable organism.
Duplication - creation - survival - destruction - eight
dynamics - automaticity - location in the MEST universe -
creation of space - handling of postulates - his fight with
barriers, being able to go through 'em and not go through
'em. He just about said it, right there. I mean, this is
all you're handling.

What we've done is take this enormous problem, this problem
that was bigger than universes and it had just so much data
in it and we keep boiling the data down and throwing out
the irrelevance. There's nothing irrelevant in SOP-8C. The
only thing that isn't remarked on the brief form for
student use, which is issued at this time, is acceptance
level, processing acceptance level. And acceptance level ,
of course, should come in down there under perception, and
doesn't quite belong, but does belong in Step seven.

Acceptance level: An acceptable state of blindness, an
acceptable state of illness, and so on, this is an
acceptable state of being afraid. During World War II, all
the young officers had an acceptable state of being afraid.
Older officers, who weren't this indoctrinated and didn't
see you had to have an acceptable rate of being afraid or
officers, who actually were officers instead of college
boys in cute clothes, they were, they were utterly ... I
mean, they almost vomit listening to these young fellows.
These kids who stand around and they'd say how they ducked
and how they got out of this and how they got out of that
and how scared they would be if they'd been in that fight.
And boy, were they running a big agreement on fear and you
of course, would assume immediately that if young officers
in groups, young men at the age when young men are athletic
and adventurous and so forth, you would assume that these
people were, were you know, just kidding. Well, they might
have just been kidding at first but they weren't as the war
went on. A lot of them did many, many brave and heroic
things. They got startled out by an acceptance level,
startled out of acceptance level into necessity level in
many places and, very fortunately, not all the young
fellows were like that. Very far from it, but they actually
had themselves talked into it so that, so that about two
years, three years deep into the war, these boys were green
around the gills at the thought of danger, couldn't
tolerate the thought of danger.

I used to, I used to heckle this sort of thing. Very wicked
of me, I know, but something like sound the GQ in officer's
quarters only, and fire such a flock of blanks out of a
victory model or stern gun, very effective. It got them
out of ... it eventually broke their fear neurosis on
coming up to the bridge. I did start doing things like that
after I found out that they couldn't find the General
Quarters stations 'til a half an hour after the alarm was
over. Credible - oh yes, that's very credible. One fellow,
who really got green, he went down the ladder and decided
he would hide in the magazine and then found out it was his
own magazine. He should have known better than that and
(laugh) the shells were rolling around loosely in it.
(laughing) It was upsetting to him.

After a few things like this happened, we took the only
type of processing there was, which was just experience.
You know, I mean, it's all you could do to some fellow -
it's experience. Made enough uproar around 'til we
conditioned them. I think the U.S. Army was doing something
of conditioning at the end of the war, but they never got
the idea, mostly because the officers in charge of the
organizations never would have credited this new level of
agreement on: - let's all be scared - that's the way to be
acceptable to everybody in the troops and everybody and
just be scared stiff all the time. You see 'em say, "Gee,
I'm not brave, I wouldn't know what to do if I had to do
something" and "Gee, I was way back of the lines when that
happened" and patter, patter, patter, patter, patter, see.
It just gradually eats in, eats in, eats in.

You run across a preclear almost anywhere, anytime, he has
had certain patterns of agreement on fear. Now, you don't
have to know. I'm just giving you an example of how big it
can be and how little of it you have to handle. Now, you
see, it's a big subject - the war and morale and cowardice
and agreement and what would Thetans do under that
circumstance. Well, you don't have to be able to predict
their behavior because almost anybody has been in some kind
of a situation back up on the track where it was
fashionable to be frightened.

In Greece, the days when Greece was really caved in, it had
become very fashionable to be very effeminate about
everything, war, male, and one dusted his finger tips
daintily with a silk lace handkerchief, and put a perfumed
apple to his nose and said, hmhm. That was in the days when
they'd send over one squad of legionnaires from the tenth
cohort of Rome, or something, to take garrison at the
northern end of Greece and all would remain calm through
out Greece. Greece was a slave at that time.
We are far too prone to fall for the idea of organization.
Now, I talked to you twice about organizations. Another
facet about organizations here is very interesting, and
that is,  that an organization is composed of individuals,
where we are concerned. An organization never buys
anything, whether that organization is General Motors or
the public or anybody else. It is not the organization that
ever buys anything, it is an individual in the
organization. Organizations are groups of individuals. They
respond individually. You can, of course, erect a facade
called an organization, you can erect a designating canopy
that spreads over the head of a number of individuals. You
can do this but these people are still individuals, they're
still individuals, and by and large the individuals of the
world are too poorly united under their organizations for
the organizations to even be called organizations.

We have this loose word, communism, which is spreading
across Asia at a mad rate and yet, I imagine if I got a
hold of one of my old friends in Peking whose son, or
somebody, has since turned to the ranks of the communist
and I ask him rather closely, "now Pu Yi", or somebody,
"what is your boy doing?" "well, it's pretty bad", "well, I
know, but what is he doing, what is he doing precisely?",
"he's with a gang", "well, what's this gang", "oh, it's
just like war lords all the time, you know, same thing, I
mean, it always happens, and there's not enough excitement
for the youth and so they get to be a member of this gang",
"so, what's the name of the gang?", "I don't know,
communism spreading across". Get a hold of the boy and he
would tell you that he is a communist, but one right next
to him would not know he's anything but a member of a gang,
or something. In other words, they don't communicate at
all.

Now that is, essentially, a very weak push, actually,
communism is. It says let's all be brothers and share the
wealth, particularly share the wealth, and we will divide
this up with great equality, ten of you will be workers and
one will be a commissar. And we will forget about the
commissar when we talk to other workers. A world for the
commissar. But this communistic push is so diversely and
differently understood, even by the communists themselves,
that their arguments in Moscow are now beginning to resound
throughout the rest of the world.

I  had the gen on this several days ago, by the way, and I
noticed it finally made the papers. I was wondering when
our, when our bright-eyed young reporters would get around
to noticing that the anti-Stalinists and the Stalinists had
suddenly decided to part company. Now, of course, later
events will demonstrate the decay and collapse of the
Russian Empire of communism, and that's because, very few
of those people were ever communists.

They did however, belong to an organization. They expected
the organization to take all the responsibility for
everything and man is so willing to do this that, of
course, it has some success, even that can have some
success. In order to succeed in any thrust across the face
of mankind it is necessary first to have a program that
doesn't push man's face in the mud. That's quite necessary.
Wide success attends picking man up and disaster always
succeeds pushing him down. Therefore, communism, it's
emphasis on organization, it's emphasis on pushing his face
in the mud eventually, getting some more work out of him,
and so on, is of course, doomed to failure, and there are
many of us here that know that communism really rose and
fell in our own lifetimes.

One doesn't have to be too old to have seen its rise and
it's decline. The communist didn't have the direction which
would win eventually. He can talk to the workers of the
world, have a wonderful time talking to them, talk to the
longshoremen, get them to tie up everything, talk to this
one, talk to that one, and then behind his back the world
for the commissar, which was the real thing that was
happening, suddenly gobbles up a country called Hungary.
And they are not smart enough to realize that force of arms
will never conquer anyone's mind in the final analysis.

So, while they're spreading their message of good will and
the brotherhood of man out through the rest of man, man has
set at large, this tremendous example, this very revolting
example of a country being smashed merely because it wanted
to vote. And that, of course, counter acts practically
every argument that any communist provocateur could make in
any country on earth. They were not sincere. They had
something else to do. They had other catfish to fry.
Something else was going on and man realizes that he has
looked once more at an activity which was calculated to put
people down. To push people's faces in the mud and so they
will turn away from that activity.

The last thing in the world I would want to be, at this
moment, would be a communist provocateur out in some
outpost, in let us say, Arabia, or some place, expecting my
funds from the Kremlin. Expecting my support, expecting
shipments of arms and tanks to back up the promises. Oh
wow! And would I be nervous. That would really be a nerve
wracking thing because  I would know for one thing, that
the mission which I was trying to accomplish was not the
mission my masters were trying to accomplish and there
would be that much argument in my own mind that I myself
could never give my full effort to my activities. I would
always have a reservation. Everytime I talked to a group, I
would know that I was giving them a pitch. You understand
that? Therefore, I could never be entirely outspoken.
Therefore, my strength could never be great enough to carry
over the real rough spots. Do you see that?

A man in such a position over there in Syria, right now,
undoubtedly is worrying about how he's going to get some of
the rubles appropriated for him under the pose of getting
them appropriated for the revolution, or something. He's
trying to feather his nest in some way so he can cut from
under. He can get, and gone. Some of them are probably
sliding casually out of sight, under John Smith, as a good
common name that would call no attention to them at all.
Achmet Abdullah I'm sure ... that's John Smith back in
those countries. Now, this man, then, couldn't have very
much,  he really couldn't have very much thrust because his
own level of trust, even if it were great, would be so
interrupted by his view of the Kremlin's action against
Hungary, that he would not any longer be able to
countenance all of his own actions.

Therefore, we get this beautiful view of twelve communist
divisions rushing to Hungary and they start shooting
Hungarians in all directions and then all of a sudden we
find the officers are tearing off their epaulets and so are
the soldiers and they're sliding over to the enemy. So, the
Kremlin reinforces this army that went into Hungary and
reinforces it very gorgeously, And twenty divisions,, lots
of troops and tanks and guns and money and everything,
pouring in there, and these divisions are now tearing off
their epaulets and joining the enemy. As they throw in more
troops, they get more enemy in the country.

Now, what explains a breakup of this character? It is the
fact that somebody does not feel that there is any
sincerity behind the promises or vows and actions of the
central government of Russia. There must be a feeling that
it is wanting in sincerity. Therefore, nobody is willing to
go at it whole hog. Do you see how that could be?

Well, there is currently, a man into mud campaign going
forward, following it's usual curve. Of course you know,
even a dying alligator is liable to knock your head off
with a last thrash of his tail. You know, these people are
not particularly tame. They don't die easily. They writhe.
A lot of people are liable to get hurt before this one is
over. But one more man in the mud campaign is fading into
history. Not finished completely but the highlights of that
activity are finished. They were finished because another
group, that first professed to do a great deal for people,
and then simply rocked them into the mud, didn't. They
didn't do anything for anybody in the long run. They hurt
people in the long run.

It could be said that a group is as great as it's ethic
remains high. But there's been no group on earth which was
capable of either understanding or maintaining an ethic.
It's an awfully broad statement, but it's true. It happens
to be true. One had to know that an ethic is there. A man
is ethical, a person is ethical and then becomes unethical
in order to change his ethical standards.

Doctor Upholstered is in charge of ... he's in charge of
the rest home for feeble minded government officials here
in Washington, Saint Elizabeth's. Doctor Upholstered has
just made a great speech which made the front pages. I was
very proud, very proud of our newspaper friends and allies
when they put it on the front page. He explained that a
child is born without any conscience and then is beaten
into acquiring one. This must have been great news because
it made the front pages of the papers.

Well, there is another group that is fading into history.
We wouldn't have to do a thing to these people, not a
thing. We wouldn't have to push 'em around like we're
doing. We wouldn't have to drive them into the arms of
their local minister, like we're doing, by the way, to have
them expire and it is actually just our own, maybe even my
own like of playing a game, and so on, that causes us to be
at all overbearing in that direction. The things we have
done in the last year or two to these people hardly bear
repeating. But all we have done to them, in actuality, was
try to keep them from pushing their own faces in the mud
and it has slaughtered them. What are we doing? Originally,
we made anything we knew available to psychiatry,
psychology, anything we knew. They were just as happy, they
could come in, they could walk in. We let'em walk on our 
floors. We'd sweep 'em up afterwards. We'd let them observe
sessions. Hardly anybody here hasn't been pleasant, at one
time or other, to a psychologist, and so forth. This shows
you how far we'll go.

And these chaps are not in our frame of reference, and we
refuse to understand it. The awfullest time a psychiatrist
of my slight acquaintance ever had was about an hour I
spent giving him a session. Only he didn't know I was
giving him a session. I was trying to make him tell me what
his goals were in psychiatry and you don't believe me
sometimes when I tell you that our goals and their goals
aren't the same goals. Psychiatry is an organization that
heals people. You're stuck with this but psychiatry doesn't
know this.

For one hour I tried to make this psychiatrist break down
and find some reason beyond keeping them all quiet. He
finally came up with that and was fairly satisfied with it
but would not agree with me when I said, well don't you
intend to make them sane, don't you intend to heal them in
any way. He could not agree with me that that was a
desirable goal. The last part of the conversation went
something like this, "Well now doctor, don't you think it
might be desirable if you took the insane in your charge
and returned them to sanity and social awareness. Don't you
think this would be a good thing?" "Ohh, good god, no", I
said, "Why not?". "You want to turn all those insane people loose
on society?" I said, "No doctor, you didn't comprehend what
I said. I said, make them sane and return their social
awareness so that they could cooperate with their fellows."
He said, "Yeah, what's the matter with you? That's the
trouble with all you do-gooders", he says to me. He had me
classified, see, trouble with all you do-gooders, "Do you
realize what insane people do in a society?" He just never
could accomplish this one little quirk that they would
change, and then be turned loose. He couldn't envision them
changing in any way except getting a little more quiet.

I talked to a psychiatric patient one time who had been
given a series of treatments which were quite rigorous,
including a transorbal leucotomy, and so on, and I said,
"did you learn  anything from these things" and he answered
me very quietly out of the corner of his mouth, he said,
"I've  learned to keep my mouth shut."

Now, there is a group, there is a group that is busy
destroying itself. It comes out with a new drug cure and
presents in, it's ... I think it's official journal is now
..  Life magazine, isn't it. It used to be the Readers
Digest, now it's Life, and they come out with a series of
two cases, and that's usually two more that they ever have.
And they give this drug which is going to have tremendous
far-reaching effects. No drug, not even the drug that we
dream up, will have any far-reaching effect. It's effects
will decline, it will deteriorate.

It will run the DEI cycle because it is MEST. You couldn't,
I'm sure, dream up any kind of a cure for anything that
would stay a cure for any length of time at all. It just
won't. You'd have to patch it up with processing and of
course then you could maintain it as a cure but if you
added processing to it you could take tennis balls and make
them a cure for anything, see. You could just get the guy
up to a point where he could identify tennis balls with
things, and could Have tennis balls, and could ... you see
.. get the sequence and logic down that tennis balls cure
things and so forth. You could get him to toss tennis balls
against the wall a couple of times every morning and he
would be well of whatever he had. The only trouble is, he
would also be well of having to use tennis balls. There
isn't any way to really halt on this line upwards. One
starts going and there he is.

So, the drug cures, the arduousness of treatment and other
things of that character, going along with a tremendous
greed, which we ourselves don't see too much about because
we don't make a habit of studying the Congressional record,
but the amount of greed connected with that particular
organization, will itself defeat it. We don't have to do
anything about that at all. It is not even a team. It is
not even an opposing team. It is nothing that we should pay
any attention to but it is another example of a group
expiring who had as a goal man in the mud, if you please,
keep him quiet.

Therefore, one would say off hand, that in order to succeed
it would be absolutely necessary for a group to understand,
person by person, individual by individual, the ways and
means of patching up a broken ethic. An understanding of
ethics at large. An understanding of honesty and decency.
All people some time in their lives ask whether or not
honesty and decency are really in the price range they can
afford. Sooner or later somebody is going to ask, "Isn't it
true that honesty is a sort of an obsessive thing. Isn't it
pretty aberrated. Isn't it true that I'm being honest
simply because "I'm afraid to be dishonest". Well, if he's
being honest because he's afraid to be dishonest, he's
about four harmonics south. And it's a cinch that on his
road up in processing, he will experience the desire to go
out and murder and rape and burn the like of which you
never heard of, but because you turned it on in processing,
it doesn't turn on in life. That of which one becomes
aware, one can confront. A very important mechanism. 

All right! Now here, here we find then that no group could
have succeeded anywhere on earth even if it had had the
knowledge of how to turn on an ethic, how to stay honest,
how to stay decent, unless it had also maintained the
widest possible communication. It had to be able to
communicate all of these things to it's individual members.
It must have been able to do so. If it didn't do that, and
if it couldn't do that, it's central knowledge of how to do
that would be as nothing. Maybe it would become classified,
maybe it would become secret, maybe it would become shut
off, or forbidden, or banned. Maybe they'd say, well only
at the seventy-first degree do we get that process.
Exteriorization processes would only be taught when one had
reached the tenth degree. Do you understand that?

This creates a difficulty to make all processes available
to all people. They do the damnedest things with them. They
do the wildest things with them. I've had Scientologist
look at me, come into the office and look at me, and
shudder at the thought of, I was going to tell them, well
I'm putting that in the next book and they'd say, oh no,
you're not going to release, you're not really going to
release over and under in a standard public textbook. Think
of what will happen to some preclears. Well my reply on it
is, sure something will happen to some preclears, even
though I know that no auditing is much worse than bad
auditing.

Some bad things are going to happen to preclears certainly
because we put this out in casual hands but remember this,
remember this. What will happen if we don't put it out.
What will happen to the auditor and that's the one we think
about. What would happen to the auditor if much of our
information became very restricted. What would happen to
our own people if we suddenly had categories of information
which were only available to boy scout first class, or
something. What would happen if we started to impose
censorship on what we know. Well even with what we know we
would then succeed in becoming a group that was pushing
man's face in the mud. You understand that?  There must be
openness of communication because sooner or later how to
turn on an ethic and keep it turned on would become
obscured.

A group containing scientific information is as good as
each of its people have that information available and can
use it. A group is as good as each member of it understands
well its modes, purposes, activities, and skills. It is
only in that way that a group can maintain a high level of
dominance amongst its own people. We don't care about a
group dominating other groups particularly because if they
dominate with complete honesty and complete communication
they never dominate. That is one of the wildest things.
It's sort of like the perfect way, the perfect way is to
have cake is to eat it, see.

The perfect way to dominate, of course, is to fully
communicate, to give one all the information one has, to
hide nothing, to pitch him no curves, to play on him no
stunts or tricks of any kind, and then of course, you don't
dominate at all because you've dominated totally, because
you've made something worth while to dominate but only a
person who is not interested in dominating would do it. So,
it wipes itself out cleanly.

Well therefore, in this day and time, we are having our
adventures. The main part of those adventures actually
consist of our errors. We make the errors of thinking we
are going to impress something called the public, we are
going to impress something called the city, we are going to
impress something called the radio stations, or something
of that sort, with what we are and what we know, and we
always fail. They know what we are, another group of bums,
that's what we are. Nobody could know that much and not
harm people, even if they did grant that we knew anything.

So, naturally it must follow, that if we made a strong
effort to convince people of these particular actions or
activities that they would wind up then very unconvinced.
That is not the way to go about it. Wide advertising is not
the way to go about it. We can put an ad in the paper and
ask somebody, are you looking for a better job call so and
so. Bring him in, give him some intelligence tests, put him
through a PE course and get him an appointment with an
employer. We'll, we put him through a PE course. Ten
percent of those people will stumble back and say, "now
wait a minute", do a little bit of a comm lag, and say,
"what was going on here, just what exactly what do you
people do?". Well you say, "There's a book", and then he's
on his way. You can help people then and as you help them,
some of them, the better ones, step sideways into your
ranks. You can always help people. There's nothing wrong
with that but you could not possibly take them over and eat
them all up. It's just not possible at all.

So, our activities against the society, against the
opposing team, and so forth, is an activity of pillage, of
theft, of kidnapping (laughing). We look at somebody who's
walking around in a fog, he's elected. And if we continue
this action piece by piece, we'll have done it but I'm
afraid if we continue it on a basis of merely trying to
broadly impress the public that there is such a thing as a
Scientologist, we won't have done anything. We are, whether
we like it or not, the organization three feet back of
society's head, and society at large is never going to
notice. When it gets down to two or three people,
(laughing) we ALL have done it.

Thank you.

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