Class VIII Course, Lecture #10
[The following is an excerpt of a lecture given by L. Ron Hubbard to the students of the first Class VIII course on the ship Apollo, October 3, 1968. About 3/4 of the tape is composed of instructions on how to run "standard tech". About halfway through the tape Hubbard begins his explanation which was, as he states, the primary important incident for people on "this planet".
Some verbal pauses, consisting of 'ahs' have been omitted in this transcription. Square brackets are used for clarifying statements with regard to Hubbard's comments. Definitions of the terminology are given at the end of this transcripted portion of the tape.
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[Hubbard speaking]
You are going to run into this character starts going round and round and round and they say "the helicopter's going to cra-ash, it's going to cra-ash" and you're looking for a helicopter action. What the hell it's R6 boy and nothin' else. And I don't know, I think for about a day or two it takes this helicopter to crash in R6. Err, there's no helicopter there, the guy's frozen in alcohol and glycol, and sitting in a block, being given a big 3D Cecil B. De Milles special motion picture.
Now, the constituency of these you should understand. Incident One is simply Incident One. A person can have himself more than Incident One, more than one Incident One. A person himself can have administered some Incident Ones. There can be an overt Incident One. It's a relatively simple implant but it is quite, was quite effective - in lousing people up because it interupted them from creating what they would have creating. And took away what mock-ups they did have. And it stopped their cycle and it put something there that was unwanted so when then they tried to create, they created it! Becuase it fixed their attention by process.. well by protest.
Alright, for this planet - and for this confederacy of the 21 adjacent stars and its 76 planets - ahhm, the Incident II - err - it is a very long, involved and complex incident. It's about 36 days. It starts out normally with a capture. Some kind or another. Ahh, capture and don't think of yourself.. I'm trying to run a capture of having been aerie-fairying around in the air and somebody and something-or-the-other got you down with a net and all that balderdash. Because people at that particular time and space [about 75 million years ago] were walking around in clothes which looked very remarkably like the clothes they wear this very minute. And the cars they drove looked exactly the same and the trains they ran looked the same and the boats they had looked the same. Circa 1950, 1960.
This civilization had simply copied R6 one hundred percent because they were told to. And they walked down streets that looked like these streets and lived in houses that looked like these houses and so on. And such, what the hell!
And there was quite a bit of 'huffle ruffle' and then upset and so on before R6 took place. What it was was the Loyal Officers were the body, the elective body, and they called them the Loyal Officers. They were there to protect the populations and so forth. And they had elected a fellow by the name of Xemu, could be spelled X-E-M-U, to the supreme 'rulah'. And they were about to unelect him. And he took the last moments he had in office to really 'goof the floof'.
[Sound of pencil dropping]
Yes, I don't blame you for dropping something. [laughter].
He took these last moments to really upset it. He, of course, had several key Birds who were close to him. He was a Suppressive, they involved Suppressives, he got these administrators and so on and Heads of planets in various positions and places. He picked out all the cowboys in the white hat and he got rid of them first, fast and then troops not knowing what the hell they were doing but fed all kinds of false orders were fed in against the population to pick them up one after the other Rat-a-tat-tat-a-tat-tat. One of the mechanisms they used was to tell them to come in for an income tax investigation. The United States just copies income taxes - it is just R6. They're just a bunch of dramatizing psychotics, these guys.
So in they went and the troops started slaughtering them and then the troops, of course, were ordered out to get a hold of certain bodies of renegade troops which were ordered to get certain bodies of mad troops. Then they shot each other up and then Implanted each other and wiped it out. They were making billiard balls out of these places.
They were imported. They were actually .. the trick was to shoot somebody, disable somebody, very often a needle into a lung and at the same time to hit him with frozen alcohol and glycol which preparation is guaranteed to pick up a Thetan. All they had to do was pick him up and put him in a refrigerator and they had him, boy. If he tried to exteriorize from the body, there he was, frozen.
And they threw 'em into collection points, boxed 'em up in boxes, threw 'em into space planes which were the exact copies of DC8's, the DC8 airplane is the exact copy of the space plane of that day. And, no difference, except the DC8 had fans, propellers on it and the space plane didn't. And they threw them into refrigerated units and so on. In view of the fact that Einstein was absolutely right, no man can go faster than the speed of sound, what a lot of . . er speed of light, which is a bunch of balderdash. For the length of time from the planet Coltice to the planet Teegeeack, which is the name of this planet, was nine weeks, and you will see that it is many light years.
Coltice is one of the planets and is to this day, one of the planets of the North Star - Polaris.
And the people were buried in here by the billions and the billions and the billions. And they were ferried in here with boxes. And they were put in boxes and stacked around. And the people who were on this planet already, just caught it in the teeth. They weren't bothered, nobody bothered to pick them up. They just shot their administrators from guns and shot their control points out.
And they took these people in boxes and so forth and they dumped them and then they set off hydrogen bombs on the top of each primary volcano there is on this particular planet. And when they blew up, it blew the Thetans into the air. And after the bomb, an electronic ribbon, which also was a type of standing wave, was erected over the area.
The tremendous winds of the planet blew every Thetan there was straight in to those particular vacuum zones which had been created. These were brought down, packed up and put in front of projection machines which with sound and color pictures first gave them the Implant which you know as Clearing Course. And then a Whole Track implanted which you know as OT II.
After this, however, about the remainder of the 36 days which is the bulk of them, is taken up with a 3-D supercolossal motion picture which has to do with God, the devil, space opera, etc. They go five pictures to five words and we have the full record of what it is. It goes on about 36 days and then these poor bastards were let wander out, pardon me! They were then boxed up again and the boxes were mixed so that there were two assembly areas - one was Las Palmas and the other was Hawaii. And in these two assembly areas, they took samples from each volcano area and put it in little boxes and they had an assembly line. And at Las Palmas it runs down the main street of Las Palmas.
Ah, we've had more damned accidents on that main street than you can shake a stick at. One of our captains [reference to a Sea Org officer] was feeling rather queasy until I told her, "Well the old assembly line of R6 is just 25 feet from you as you lie here on this slipway". That blew the charge [laughter].
The entirety of Roman Catholicism - the devil, all of this sort of thing - that is all part of R6. Practically anything you think of. All modern theaters, in actual fact, are built with the exact symbols shown for them in R6. They even have the symbol on the boxes on the side of the theater. They have preserved those to this day and so they are indelible. They're not quite right. But they still know that there's supposed to be a design on those boxes at the side of the audience to the left and right and so on. There's supposed to be a certain gold, gilt design over there. And they still put it there.
And in the thing there are about four or five assignments of who did it. There are about four or five different things that might have done it. Its blamed on one of these things this time and another thing that time and so on so as to get people very confused as to what was the true cause - the empire thing. After they were packaged up they were blown off into space and let 'em go to hell.
These planets averaged 1-7-8 billion human beings per planet. 178 billion. There were 250 billion on this planet. The name of this planet was Teegeeack and this is known as the 'Bomb Place' and this is the 'Evil Place'. This is the place where they all got smashed. You wonder today where you see large areas of where there is alleged volcanic action has been. Those are R6 explosions - the remains of them. If you go down through many layers of civilizations archaeologically, you come to green glass.
Now to get rid of the whole damn thing it is only necessary to run Incident One really, in most cases. Which runs out the Whole Track, because the fellow realizes he's mocking it up. And he knocks it off and that is that.
But, Incident Two has a volcanic explosion which follows the actual explosion as its picture. And its very tricked, very tricked up so that you actually . . bunch of Thetans and they get bombed. That is one . . that is one of the . . it's wild .. that is one of the explosions that is shown and there are several explosions shown in sequence. So actually what happened was there's the real explosion which is the guy's boxed up in a box or he is walking around or some of the Loyal Officers that were caught here and so on were chained on the top of buildings and so on so when the bomb hit, why, they would be flicked off into the fantastic hundreds of mile-an-hour, thousands of mile-an-hour winds of a gross complete atomic explosion all over the planet. And they were whirled in these terrific winds and so on. Everybody on the planet was killed. And about three days afterwards was actually when the implanters started operating. They had it all rigged to operate.
And then, to make a long story short, you can easily get into one of the false explosions. There was the Faerie Queen, the Faerie Palace and so on there was supposed to be a Fairie Palace and dive down to save somebody because there has been an explosion and so on that's all phoney. So there's false start after false start after false start to the incident. What is this really designed to do, is to make the individual cease and desist from creation and to knock out overpopulation. This was one of the big ideas they had that if they just did all of this, then they'd get rid of all overpopulation.
The target of it is the Second Dynamic, so it is full of Second Dynamic suppressions. For instance you find people who are totally obsessed with sex with children. Well, that is taught in R6. They were nice guys. Anyway, to make a long story short, there is even a motion picture studio in it. They even give the writers and so forth of the thing. They had several tricks that they used. They can make a full figure appear in the room which looks totally solid and totally 3D to the person. They're just tricks. Just nothing. We know so much more about the mind than the R6er, that there's no comparison.
Now, the net result of all of this was to make a 75 million year vacuum as far as this part of the universe is concerned. You wonder why, "if there are saucers around, why don't they land on this planet" This planet traditionally, traditionally over the various zones and areas has an evil reputation. Mutineers and deserters and that sort of thing are often dumped on this planet. They often come here in refuge. Because they know nobody is going to come after 'em.
This planet is the planet of the evil repute. And this sector of the universe has a very evil repute.
Now, all the data which you have that was 74 plus, plus, plus million years ago or so, almost 75. And this catastrophe overcame this confederation. And it has made a very unsavory part of the universe. To say the least.
About, well relatively, almost modern times, 20 million years ago, something like that, somebody started up a body line on the planet. It's gradually worked through various areas of barbarism and once more, R6 tailor-made it to be nothing but a caveman civilization. But nevertheless they moved up the line and they moved up toward the dramatization of R6. And that is what man calls progress.
They have managed to make things this way and that way and the technology is rather pathetic. But they moved up the line until they .. until there is some possibility of establishing communication with regard to the activity.
The bate of the R6'er, you will have many a PC who will say to you, you know, "oh my god, they're after me!". They sure fixed up an area, they fixed up an implant that they're, people are taught carefully that any man who tries to save the world must be killed. He must be mobbed and hanged. Any man who tries to save the world. So I of course shifted our valence over to a more optimum R6 valence.
The whole population of the planet responds like a clock to R6 symbols. They respond to nothing else. They do not respond to reason, they only respond to R6 symbols. So you occupy the wrong symbol and people begin to think of you as a person who is going to save the planet then one and all are more or less under orders to slaughter you.
Well they booby-trapped it, they booby trapped it very badly. The Roman Catholic church, somewhere along the line, through watching the dramatizations of people, picked up some little fragments of R6. And they make it look like it's continued forward into present time.
But the truth of the matter is that the Loyal Officers were not all killed. Xemu missed. And they were not all killed, not by a long way. Although the civilization was battered, it still had weapons, it still had transport, it still had some semblance of organization. And the Loyal Officers who worked at remote bases, who were airborne at the time who somehow or another on other planets, were not affected. Suddenly turned around right after this great catastrophe and the administrators and renegades which Xemu had bought in were not very effective and a firefight ensued which put the finishing touches on the Galactic Confederation.
The towns that were left and so on were just battered into ruins where you had the renegades that had been hired and so on and the administrators that had been loyal to Xemu were still trying to hold out. Within a year he was in .. in ah .. under arrest and within six years the lot had been wiped out. The Loyal Officer was triumphant. Xemu was put, with several of his co-horts, in the center of a mountain which is still on one of these planets. And in a wire cage which is charged with an eternal battery. He's not likely, ever, to get out.
And .. the Loyal Officers looked around, and there wasn't anything left! And of course, nobody could manufacture this or that or the other thing and what people there were left they couldn't obtain any supplies. And they couldn't maintain the civilization. And what little was left that wasn't battered to pieces simply went by the boards and vanished from history.
There's a base on this planet and it is so shredded away as to be hardly recognizable. Wherever, then, anybody tries to do anything about this he's apt to get a flashback. So you mustn't go around talking about being the people who are going to save the planet. You are "the people the planet obeys". You are the people who own the planet. You are not the people who are going to save the planet. And, thereby, you will save it.
Now, I could give you much of the symbolism and so on which goes along with this but you find it recorded. This, of course, man responds to. Which is an exploding volcano he expands to that. He understands that. It doesn't restimulate him because he is not up to being restimulated. He just knows that that's alright.
In R6 Everyman is shown crucified, so is the psychiatrist shown crucified, although the psychiatrist is a dominant character and that is how he gets away with what he gets away with. He electric shocks people. The medical doctor is not really represented in R6. It is only the surgeon. The surgeon is shown cutting bodies to pieces. That's the right thing to do. Actually he shreds a body down to just raw meat, down to a skeleton and the skeleton is in agony and then it too is chopped up.
Anyway, Everyman is then shown to have been crucified so don't think that it's an accident that this crucifixion, they found out that this applied. Somebody somewhere on this planet, back about 600 BC ,found some pieces of R6, and I don't know how they found it, either by watching madmen or something. But since that time they have used it and it became what is known as Christianity.
The man on the Cross. There was no Christ. But the man on the cross is shown as Everyman. So of course each person seeing a crucified man, has an immediate feeling of sympathy for this man. Therefore you get many PCs who says they are Christ. Now, there's two reasons for that, one is the Roman Empire was prone to crucify people, so a person can have been crucified, but in R6 he is shown as crucified.
There are certain things which make people ill and that is when they get into certain zones and areas or positions which approximate the R6 position such as a body lying in the rain with a rat below the Cross. Guaranteed to give people colds and so forth. So they have colds from rain, yet, they take baths and get wet and don't get colds. When they get cold, it restimulates frozen alcohol and glycol, as a mix. And therefore they get into a dramatization, so that sickness is very closely tied in with R6.
Quite in addition to that, that one of the volcanoes, Japan, on its explosion gave a certain definite implant that tells people when and how to be sick. They're supposed to be sick at five, they're supposed to be sick at ten, they're supposed to be sick and so on up to 50, the change of life that men get and woman get and so on, it's all dictated in this sickness implant.
People are supposed to be sick. Also a body was only supposed to live 70 years which is a bunch of balderdash. Before R6 and so forth, they lived on and on and on and on and on! There was no such thing as this. They taught people death, they taught them amnesia. These various things they all come from this zone and area.
Now, that is peculiar and lonely to this planet and to this confederation. There have been other implants of various kinds and sizes, but this is probably one of the longest, most violent and wildest implants in this sector of the universe.
Now, to get an edge in in this particular area and blow this up as a mass engram and so forth is quite a trick and we're involved in doing just that. No universe is safe where people are smashed that badly. It becomes the business of any Thetan, because the universe in which he lives as long as it contains a cancerous area such as this old confederation and so on is not a universe in which one can really freely move. Simple! So, the project is open and shut and as I point out to you once again the truth of the matter is that it is more the business of the inhabitants of this planet than it is mine.
Now, where we're making headway, we are making headway and we must go right on making headway, 'cos we might not ever get another chance. The dramatization of exploding a bomb is contained in R6, so sooner or later somebody is going to smock this planet into a 'cocked hat'. That's why I've talked occasionally about having to get there with the mostest.
Now, realize that when you auditing a PC, for god's sakes, that you are auditing against this background. You are auditing against a background of tailor-made sickness. Auditing against a background of this and that and the other thing. Now, the grades take one very smooothly up this line. But you are auditing, basically, a sick PC. Why? He's an Earthman.
So, what do you do? Standard tech, follow the line, go right on up the groove. Because these are the things which stand in the road of any Thetan, not just the people of this planet. But III [a reference to OT III] happens in other zones and places. Something blows up and five or six Thetans who were in the railroad car together or the space wagon thereafter that think of themselves as just one Thetan and get all smashed together and stay that way for a while. Somebody kills another body in a dual and the owner of the second body is so revengeful that he promptly jumps on the first guy. And this guy is now a dual being who sort of hates himself [laughter].
A Thetan goes mad at exactly that point in his career when he begins to stop things. So you can always find the point where somebody has gone around the bend. So therefore, the button "stop" is very important to remember in running Incident One and Incident Two. Very important because it will be the point which makes and breaks his sanity. If you get the button "stop" in, the incident starts to run. Well why are stops so important because it stops the incident. Any incident.
Now don't think that's all there is to the track, of Incident One and Incident Two. But these, oddly enough, take the puzzle apart. There are certain other things and I forebear actually to tell you too much about these things because you will at once go out and try find them on PCs if you don't watch it.
But there's the incident called "The Obscene Dog" with it's just a little bit later than Incident One. And sometimes actually by running it, why you can get the PC into Incident One. The Obscene Dog was a sort of a brass dog in a sitting position and anybody who got around to the front of the dog got caught in some electronic current and passed through the dog to the dogs rear end and spat out. Thetans didn't like this. [laughter].
So that very often trick incidents of one kind or another and they can vary from being to being, but not everybody has an Obscene Dog and Incident One lies ahead of it anyhow. But there are these, these incidents.
Now, I have given you the length and breadth of what you are working with with regards to this planet and when I tell you that an individual is liable to have an Assist, I am talking against what he is liable to be manifesting when he needs one.
He's most likely to be in two. The odds are way in favor of his being two or he's most likely to be the victim of a Cluster. But these are merely most likely. You still go through the whole process. You don't just immediately hang this round his head because it might be in that odd case that is wrong.
Do you see? Now if your PC were to suddenly start to spin when he was doing [OT] III he has audited an Incident One on one Thetan and started an Incident Two on another one who hasn't had his Incident One run! If you can get to him in time, you have the second Thetan run back to the Incident One and run it. In other words the PC made a mistake. The PC's idea from Solo Auditing, and so on, their ideas running Body Thetans are some of the damndest things I have ever heard of. I beg your pardon, may I amend the statement, they're some of the Goddamndest statements I have ever heard of. They're weird, weird! How the hell can they dream up these things?
There was somebody the other day we found that was putting in an R-Factor and he was going through the entirety of model session and so forth. I suppose the guy who has trouble running another Thetan at that proximity probably not very horse-powered or something of the sort. Well all I ever did was a body Thetan was just think "go to the .. uh .. uh .. think Incident One zoooom! Go through it, get your stop off you know", "Rmmm", he says "Rmmmm. Zooooom! Hrrm. Hey that's mine!" he'd say. "I'm leaving!" I'd say "Good bye!" [laughter]
Now, people very grossly underestimate the number of Body Thetans there are to run. Tremendous underestimation. Many people are too frightened of Body Thetans. They all of the sudden say "accchhhh!, I'll go and attest". "Let's hope nobody finds o-out". Well they cut their own throats because the later OT Sections are booby-trapped.
[Continued discussion of various processes to handle Body Thetans and clusters.]
If a guy isn't all right, he's got Body Thetans. He's got pictures when he himself is Clear.
[Continued discussion of various processes to handle Body Thetans and clusters.]
R6 - This term comes from "Routine 6" which was devised by Hubbard as a process for use on the Clearing Course (see). Apparently Hubbard began to use the term "R6" as a shorthand to indicate the overall incident that is the subject of this tape.
THETAN - This is Scientology's name for the soul or spirit. Hubbard's definition differs from mainstream Christianity in that Hubbard claimed that the Thetan is the animating factor of life. "The unit that is aware of being aware."
IMPLANT(S) - Hubbard claimed that the Thetan was susceptible to being programmed by being force-fed sensory input like a post-hypnotic suggestion. A complete programming was called an Implant. It produces compulsive behavior in individuals.
BANK - A mental mechanism that captures and records painful experiences that continue to have a hidden negative effect on the individual after the experience(s) is over.
CLEARING COURSE - The course where Pre-Clears (PCs) undergo processes so that they undo from their minds the mechanisms that keep the Bank (see) operating. Upon completion of this course, the individual becomes a Pre-OT (Pre-Operating Thetan). (See "OT")
WHOLE TRACK - The mental recording of all of the experience of the Thetan (see). Hubbard said that the Whole Track was 4 quadrillion years long. Eventually Thetans became the victims of their recordings and became entrapped (via the mechanism of the "Bank"). Hubbard claimed that only through Scientology could this compulsive recording of incidents stop.
OT Level (I through VIII) - OT stands for Operating Thetan. This is the phase of Scientology processing where the Thetan (see) gets empowered with abilities that have been long lost. Each OT Level (or Section), I through VIII, gives the Thetan more and more powers and thus enables the Thetan's ability to operate as an unencumbered Thetan supposedly can.
SEA ORG - Short for the Sea Organization. This organization was created by Hubbard, when he fled England, to man and run the fleet of ships that he purchased and used for his base of operations. Eventually the ships were unloaded, but in the meantime the Sea Org became a permanent part of Scientology's organizational arsenal. Their motto is "We Come Back".
INCIDENT ONE - The first incident on the Whole Track (see) for each Thetan (see). It consisted of an Angel blowing a trumpet and some noises. Hubbard explained that this was so powerful that from then on the Thetan compulsively continued recording every incident that happened over 4 quadrillion years until now.
INCIDENT TWO - The second major incident on the Whole Track (see). This transcript is Hubbard's explanation of Incident Two.
SECOND DYNAMIC - The area of existence concerned with family and procreation. There were 8 Dynamics in total, starting with the survival of the individual (with a body) and ending with survival through eternity as a spirit which is the 8th Dynamic.
PC - Stands for Pre-Clear. A person who undergoes Scientology processing, but who has not yet taken and finished the Clearing Course (see).
VALENCE - Hubbard's term for personality. Thetans can shift personalities (or Valences).
BODY THETAN - As a result of the incident described in this transcript, many Thetans (see) became so confused that they were unable to find a body to inhabit. Their activities were to then attach themselves, apparently in great numbers, onto other bodies. The subject matter of most of the OT Levels (see) is to rid one's body of the unwanted Body Thetans. The processing of Body Thetans begins on OT III.
CLUSTER - Apparently Hubbard felt that as a result of some particularly devastating incidents, Thetans (see) that shared that particular incident sometimes became a single, almost indistinguishable, entity called a Cluster.
SOLO AUDITING - Auditing is the undergoing of Scientology processing. Clearing Course PCs and Pre-OTs do most of their auditing by themselves by asking themselves pre-arranged questions and noting the response. They were also auditing their Body Thetans.
R-FACTOR - Reality Factor. This is simply telling someone what the situation is.
ASSIST - A Scientology processing action that is directed toward an individual who is suffering an acute physical or emotional problem. Its intent is to reduce the suffering to a manageable level.