DIANETICS: FIRST LECTURE OF SATURDAY COURSE

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Returning the patient then to pleasurable incidents involves a little bit more than it says in the Handbook. The case is usually opened this way by taking the patient to times when he was a particular valence, which can take you into the prenatal area.

So you can run it out as Mama, for instance, but because it appears to run out as Mama and apparently deintensifies is not good reason to leave it. There is usually somebody else there and certainly he himself is there. You can run him into the basic area by hook or by crook, and very accurately run him out of Mother’s valence, and get him into his own valence and feeling his own somatics. Work him on this. Get him to pick up the tactile, persuade him to pick up the various perceptics, and more and more he will come onto the track. Eventually he will again run his own somatics. But realize, too, that a patient can suddenly stop running his own somatics and start having somebody else’s somatics, likely enough; or if he is getting no somatics at all, according to current practice on this, the case had better be carefully moved out of the engram in which the person is and back onto the track again before it bundles. If carefully resolved there is no great danger in this, but at the same time it had better be done right.

Today I was running someone who had nothing but Mother’s valence. There was even painful emotion on Mother’s death, but it was unrecoverable. However, by running some very violent somatics of Mama’s out of him, I deintensified the case in several spots. The holder in this case was birth.

By shaking the birth just a little bit loose, I was able to take him into the basic area, and suddenly had him shaken out of his Mama’s valence by finding the first time he went into it, and then shaking him out of it right there. He came out this afternoon, and now he is on the track and (with the tactile of amniotic fluid and so on) is running things off very quietly, where he had not been before.

This was done by coaxing him out of it by telling him, "Now let’s go through it again, now what does Papa say?" and so on.

How one gets someone out of another’s valence is a simple procedure which right now is in the status of, if it works on the case, hurrah. If it doesn’t work, work the case. It works like repeater.

The demonstration run which follows is current technique. If there isn’t a faster technique than that within two or three weeks I’m going to be very disappointed in Dianetics. I measure the value of this business with the ease and speed with which it can be started and executed, its liveness and approximation in actual laws, and by the way it predicts new, better techniques for itself.

This is the science of thought, about which one thinks. Therefore the basic principles of what we are trying to do are what are important. Any student should be able to, with a little experience, build up and improve any of these principles of how one gets someone moving on the time track. In this demonstration I am going to get the patient, if possible, to have some sonic. This is the mechanism of how it is done.

One does this procedure on a case time after time until he has the case moving nicely. If he doesn’t have the case moving, and if he can’t get the person to pick up material, he has the next recourse of blowing painful emotion if it can be reached.

Your chances of entering a psychotic case and getting away with any smooth procedure is almost zero. A psychotic can sometimes be so disturbed that you will have to do something desperate like narcosynthesis or using mirrors to attract or fix his attention on something, but this would be Institutional Dianetics.

However, a lot of psychotics will cooperate and those who will, very often bleed quickly. Then you just take anything you can get on them. In any case that starts to give you information the moment you put your hands on it, and starts to run, for heaven’s sake don’t fall back on rote. Just run.

Very often you enter the case and it falls down the line with you and starts running painful emotion engrams, and this and that. But try to get a pleasurable moment, and the first thing you know the case is in full swing and is open. The majority of cases that you will have diffculty with are those who don’t seem to have anything to run, and who maintain a rather apathetic point of view, and can’t see, can’t feel, can’t hear, can’t move, and are not alive.

This is the demonstration.

LRH:
Now, I’m not going to do anything very dramatic. I’m sure that your partner will get to your case and really open it formally. Right now it’s just a little bit of a run here just for show. Okay? This is more of an act than actual therapy.
All right, then, just close your eyes. (Scratch out counting. No counting on it.) Close your eyes. Now, let’s return to dinner last night. Let’s return to last night’s dinner.
Dinner last night. Dinner last night.
PC:
(sort of grunts) I’ve got a somatic in my chest.
LRH:
Okay. What are the words that go with it?
PC:
I don’t know, but this is an engram I’ve been running for some time now.
LRH:
Are you still running on one engram?
PC:
Well, no. It left for a couple of weeks, but now it’s back.
LRH:
It just came back?
PC:
Yes.
LRH:
All right. How old are you?
PC:
I think it ‘s 4.
LRH:
Okay. Give me a holder. When I count to five, one will flash into your mind. One- two- three- four- five (snap!).
PC:
(clears throat) The holder is now.
LRH:
Now. All right, let’s see if we can get what it is. What sounds valid to you? Stay here? Hold on? I’ll hold you? Can’t move? Wait? What is it? (pause) Wait. Wait?
PC:
(coughs) I think it’s can’t move.
LRH:
Can’t move? Can’t move. Can’t move. Wait. Wait. Wait. Wait.
PC:
Shall I say it?
LRH:
No. It doesn’t matter whether the auditor repeats it or the patient. Let’s see if we can pick up this holder now. Let’s move to the exact moment now, the exact moment of the holder. Now let’s give me the sonic on the exact moment of the holder. Now what do you hear? (pause) What do you find? What do you think? (brief pause) Okay. Now give me a yes on any one of the following: Hospital. Hospital? Is that a no or a yes? Yes or no on any one of the following: Hospital. (brief pause) Hospital. Tonsillectomy. Tonsillectomy. Tonsillectomy?
PC:
Um.
LRH:
Tonsillectomy?
PC:
(murmur)
LRH:
Hm?
PC:
It doesn’t come out.
LRH:
All right. Give me that line. It doesn’t come out.
PC:
It doesn’t come out. It doesn’t come out.
LRH:
Now, contact the incident. It doesn’t come out. (pause) Go over it. Go over the line. Contact it, somebody who’d say it. Don’t use repeater technique back. You destroy it.
PC:
It doesn’t come out. It doesn’t come out. It doesn’t come out. (voice down to a whisper)
LRH:
Go over it.
PC:
It doesn’t come out. It doesn’t come out. It doesn’t come out.
LRH:
All right.
PC:
(coughs) I thought I was whispering.
LRH:
Hm?
PC:
I thought I was whispering.
LRH:
All right. Go over the line. It doesn’t come out.
PC:
It doesn’t come out. It doesn’t come out. It doesn’t come out.
LRH:
Contact any sonic there might be with this. Go over it again.
PC:
(very low voice) It doesn’t come out. It doesn’t come out. It doesn’t come out. It doesn’t come out. It doesn’t come out.
LRH:
Next consecutive line.
PC:
Pardon?
LRH:
Next line. It doesn’t come out.
PC:
It doesn’t come out.
LRH:
Next line. (pause) Any next line. Any one.
PC:
(clears throat) I’m trying to get something. It doesn’t come out.
LRH:
When I count to five it will flash into your mind. One- two- three- four- five.
PC:
If it doesn’t come out, it’s out.
LRH:
Go over it again.
PC:
The whole thing?
LRH:
Yah.
PC:
It doesn’t come out. It’s out. It doesn’t come out. It’s out.
LRH:
Go over it again now.
PC:
It doesn’t come out. It’s out.
LRH:
All right. Give me a doctor’s voice. Would you rather be a doctor or a nurse at this moment?
PC:
Doctor.
LRH:
You’d rather be a doctor. Now what would you be saying at this moment? (pause) What would you be saying at this moment?
PC:
I don’t know.
LRH:
Well, let’s just use your imagination, what would you be doing? If you were going to play being a doctor at this moment, how would you set it up? Would there be a boy on an operating table?
PC:
Hm- hm. I guess.
LRH:
All right, and what would you be saying to this boy on the operating table? Or what would you be saying to somebody else? Would there be somebody else involved in it?
PC:
(pause) Yeah.
LRH:
All right. What would you be saying to somebody else? (pause) Let’s just be the doctor for a moment, what are you saying to this other person?
PC:
(pause) I’d say, He’s unconscious.
LRH:
Okay. Let’s go over that.
PC:
(brief pause; clears throat) He’s unconscious.
LRH:
What else now? What else would you say to this person? (pause) He’s unconscious. What else? (pause) It doesn’t matter.
PC:
He s ready— he’s ready, and so on.
LRH:
Look, you’re the doctor, how would you be saying it? (brief pause) Deep voice or just anything. How’s he saying it?
PC:
(pause)
LRH:
Go ahead. Just roll. What is he saying?
PC:
(murmur; pause)
LRH:
He’s unconscious. What else?
PC:
Well, there’s something about stop.
LRH:
All right. Continue.
PC:
It never works.
LRH:
Well, that’s fine! Go ahead.
PC:
And he starts an operation.
LRH:
Continue.
PC:
You got everything?
LRH:
Continue. Have you got everything?
PC:
What time is it?
LRH:
Continue. (pause) Continue. (pause) What time is it? Continue.
PC:
(murmur)
LRH:
Good, fine!
PC:
(murmur)
LRH:
Continue. (pause) Now come on, be the doctor and tell this character off. Who are you talking to? (pause) The nurse?
PC:
It wasn’t the nurse.
LRH:
How about the janitor? Was it the janitor or the nurse? Come on here.
PC:
I think he’s there.
LRH:
Hm?
PC:
I think he’s there.
LRH:
All right. What would you be saying?
PC:
(pause; muttering)
LRH:
Oh. Well, be the doctor. You know what a doctor does.
PC:
He’s not saying anything.
LRH:
Okay. Go over that again.
PC:
He’s not saying anything.
LRH:
Is that what you’d be saying as the doctor?
PC:
He can have his medicine.
LRH:
Okay. Go on, what else would the doctor be saying? Just chatter it off. Now, doctors talk faster than that, I know that.
PC:
He is, but he wouldn’t have to talk about anything, really.
LRH:
Okay. And then he would have gotten to work?
PC:
Yes.
LRH:
And then what would he have said the next time he- said anything? (pause) What would he have said the next time he said anything?
PC:
Well, I’m afraid to (voice fades into mutter)
LRH:
Go on. What are they saying? It doesn’t matter. Give the nurse a lecture on the Hippocratic oath. Would you be jocular as the doctor?
PC:
. don’t think so, my guess is not.
LRH:
Maybe impatient. What would you be impatient about?
PC:
(small pause; cough) Maybe the nurse wasn’t doing it right.
LRH:
Okay. (pause) Continue.
PC:
Keep him still.
LRH:
Continue. (pause) All right. Keep him still. Go over that.
PC:
Keep him still. Keep him still.
LRH:
Go over it again. Contact somebody saying it. Keep him still.
PC:
Keep him still.
LRH:
Hold him.
PC:
Hold him. Hold him. Hold him.
LRH:
Contact somebody saying it. Hold him. Hold him.
PC:
Hold him.
LRH:
Hold him.
PC:
Hold him.
LRH:
Hold him.
PC:
Hold him. Hold him.
LRH:
Hold him.
PC:
Hold him.
LRH:
Hold him. Hold him. Hold him. Hold him.
PC:
Hold him.
LRH:
Contact it. Hold him.
PC:
I think it’s gone right now, you know.
LRH:
Hold him.
PC:
Hold him. Hold him. Hold him. Hold him. Hold him. Hold him.
LRH:
Hold him.
PC:
Hold him. Hold him.
LRH:
Hold him still.
PC:
Hold him still. Hold him still. Hold him still. Hold him still. Hold him.
LRH:
Hold him still.
PC:
Hold him still. Hold him still.
LRH:
Hold him still.
PC:
Hold him still. Hold him still. Hold him still. Hold him still.
LRH:
Okay. Come up to present time. All the way up. How old are you?
PC:
I think I’m 20.
LRH:
Okay. Well, thanks for the demonstration. We’ll rip that out later if it’s all right with you.
PC:
Okay with me. (laughter)

Although that was a demonstration of about lecture No. 5 of this series, the interesting angle on it is that the patient was getting an impression that maybe there was a slight sonic there. But diagnostically this is also demonstrative of a person who is afraid of making something up. If someone is afraid of making something up, that holds a person down the time track.

For instance, "beat it" means thump, thump, not "run away" to the reactive mind." I can’t make it out " does not mean "I am unable to understand it," but "I can’t get out of here." So "I’m afraid to make it up," or "I’m afraid I’m making it up," will have an automatic suppression on a case.

The above demonstrated a patient who is stuck on the track, and anybody trying to work him up and down the track is, of course, trying to work him in and out of a doctor’s and nurse’s valence.

Perhaps you don’t have to have a computation of a hospital although it certainly looked like it. But he is off to the side of the track. We can work him up and down the track, but in doing so we are just working parallel with the track. Therefore we are getting an impression of something which is completely aside from the fact that there is a computation around that says, "I feel beside myself," or "I’m just beside myself," which is a wonderful way to make a schizophrenic.

Another interesting thing that occurred in the above demonstration with which you should be acquainted is the agitation of an individual when he is in an engram. His feet will wiggle. I usually ask the person to take their shoes off so I can watch their toes (they think it’s because they want to be comfortable), but they will scrunch up their toes and so forth. The toes can be lying there perfectly quietly and all of a sudden there is repeater technique that says, "Run." So the patient says, "Run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run." He’s perfectly happy about it, except that he is not concentrating on the engram bank.

One doesn’t then say, "Now, let’s pay attention to it." That’s the wrong way to run repeater. One says, "Now let’s see if we can’t pick up ‘run. ’ The somatic strip will return to the moment the word ‘run’ is uttered. Now repeat it. "

"Run, run, run. RUN." And the toes start to wiggle. That is a clue.

There is another type of clue. There was something in the engram about his chest sinking in, and there was also some computation to the effect that one must have the proper words that are in that engram, or at least one of those words and usually the whole phrase in the engram.

The engram was displaying itself on the chest but not in his speech. So it must have said, "Hold him still." So we get this patient lying there in this beautiful orderly pattern. He is demonstrating a somatic, but he is getting no emotional reaction worth a hoot.

As one goes down the line, the blackness and heaviness of the engrams toward conception do not mean that they are less aberrative, since they grow more aberrative the closer you get to conception. But, it would mean that these can be reached and these can be erased, and will respond. Certainly those things immediately above it can be reduced to a point where you get yawns instead of the words, but they are no longer aberrative. If you are getting an agitation further up the track, you can go earlier if you haven’t stirred that engram up too much; and if the somatic isn’t turning on too strongly in that engram, you should definitely go earlier.

But in the above case how can you go earlier? He is there at 4 years of age. So, come hell or high water, we have got to slug this one out, which has to do with stripping an engram phrase by phrase, and which will be covered in a separate lecture.

But note the presence of engrams when you get wriggles. Painful emotion generally appears in breathing. It might not be very marked, but it will show up as such. Some people when regressed even ten minutes start to wiggle their feet.

The best way to begin a case is to talk to the patient for a moment and then start him in on his therapy.

LRH:
Whatever you get into when you first start off, I’m not going to try to exercise control over you. You know what is in the engram bank.
PC:
Yes.
LRH:
How old are you?
PC:
The first thing that flashed into my mind was 12, my God!
LRH:
Okay. Shut your eyes. Give me a holder. (pause) When I count tofive, one will flash in. One- two- three- four- five (snap!) .
PC:
Stay.
LRH:
What?
PC:
Stay.
LRH:
Go over that line.
PC:
Stay.
LRH:
Go over the line.
PC:
Stay.
LRH:
Stay what?
PC:
Stay still.
LRH:
Go over it again.
PC:
Stay still.
LRH:
Okay. Go over it again.
PC:
Stay still.
LRH:
Go over it again.
PC:
Don t move.
LRH:
Go on over the line.
PC:
Stay still. Don’t move.
LRH:
Go over it again.
PC:
Stay still. Don’t move too much.
LRH:
Go over it again. Stay still.
PC:
Stay still. Don’t move too much. Stay still.
LRH:
(loudly and suddenly) One- two- three- four- five (snap!). What is it?
PC:
Uh— Stay still, he— he’s....
LRH:
Go on over it again. (pause) It doesn’t matter.
PC:
(mutters a few sentences)
LRH:
How about listening to it?
PC:
It was Stay still.
LRH:
Let’s get a sonic on that.
PC:
(pause; mutter) Go to sleep.
LRH:
Go over the word sleep.
PC:
Stay still, go to sleep. I know, I have the feeling that I know what it was. There’s the word stick. That was the first thing that flashed into my mind.
LRH:
And what is it? What is he saying?
PC:
The doctor was turning around and saying something as he walked out the door.
LRH:
Does he say, Don’t move about ?
PC:
(murmurs)
LRH:
What else does the doctor say?
PC:
(mutter)
LRH:
Go over it again.
PC:
(mutter)
LRH:
I don’t care what you give me.
PC:
No, you stay in bed.
LRH:
All right. Go over it again.
PC:
No, you stay in bed.
LRH:
Okay. Go over it again. Pick up this doctor. What does he look like when he is saying this?
PC:
I don’t get anything.
LRH:
Well, let’s look at him.
PC:
No, you stay in bed. I’ll tell you when you can get up.
LRH:
He got whiskers?
PC:
No.
LRH:
What has he got?
PC:
He has a doctor’s black bag.
LRH:
What’s the color of his hat like?
PC:
It’s blue.
LRH:
Take a look at him.
PC:
I don’t know, I can’t actually see this guy but I imagine what he looked like.
LRH:
Okay. Come up to present time. (pause) How old are you?
PC:
(murmuring)
LRH:
All right. Now the somatic strip will go to the exact moment when the holder is uttered. The somatic strip will go to the exact moment when the holder is uttered. When I count from one to five, you’ll give me the holder. One, two, three, four, five.
PC:
I don’t get anything. (pause)
LRH:
Well.... Don’t move. Don’t move. How long were you sick?
PC:
I don’t remember.
LRH:
How long were you sick? Give me a flash answer. How long?
PC:
A week.
LRH:
Give me a flash answer. Disease? (pause) What kind of disease?
PC:
Strep. Strep throat maybe.
LRH:
Okay. Were you unconscious?
PC:
I’ve got some disease.
LRH:
You’re in some disease?
PC:
Yes.
LRH:
Who is in attendance, your mother?
PC:
Yes.
LRH:
Nurse?
PC:
No.
LRH:
Father?
PC:
No.
LRH:
Doctor?
PC:
No, it wasn’t a serious disease.
LRH:
Doctor?
PC:
No.
LRH:
He was in attendance?
PC:
Oh, yeah, he was there.
LRH:
All right. Who said this? Who said the holder? Mother? Doctor? Father? Grandma? (lowers voice) Was Grandma there?
PC:
No.
LRH:
(low voice) Well, all right.
PC:
(murmur)
LRH:
(low voice) Okay. (louder) Okay. How unconscious were you when this holder was said, if you were unconscious?
PC:
Probably wasn’t.
LRH:
You probably weren’t.
PC:
I was probably just asleep.
LRH:
And what’s he saying?
PC:
All right, you stay in bed.
LRH:
Well, let’s go over that again.
PC:
He was probably saying it.
LRH:
Okay. Let’s go over the words.
PC:
All right, you stay in bed until I tell you you can get out.
LRH:
All right. Go over it again.
PC:
Don t move. Don’t....
LRH:
Go over it again.
PC:
Don’t— don’t move until I tell you you can. I don’t want you to get up.
LRH:
Thataboy. Let’s roll’ it now. I don’t want you to get up.
PC:
I don’t want you to get up until your throat is better.
LRH:
Go on over it again.
PC:
I don’t want you to get up until your throat is better.
LRH:
Go over it again.
PC:
I don’t want you to——.
LRH:
Take a look at him.
PC:
I don’t want you to get up until your throat is better.
LRH:
Take a look at him.
PC:
I don’t want you to get up until your throat is better.
LRH:
Mean? Kind? How is he?
PC:
I——.
LRH:
Give me his voice tones as you go through it this next time. Go over it again.
PC:
I don’t want you to get up until your throat is better.
LRH:
Run over it again.
PC:
I don’t want you to get up until your throat is better.
LRH:
Go over it again.
PC:
(coughs) I don’t want you to get up until your throat is better.
LRH:
Come up to present time.
PC:
Okay.
LRH:
How old are you?
PC:
(mutter)
LRH:
That’s okay, that’s okay. Come up to present time now. How old are you?
PC:
19.
LRH:
Come up to present time. How old are you really?
PC:
19.
LRH:
Oh! Well, I wouldn’t want to put you in 1965. (laughs) Okay. How do you feel here?
PC:
Okay.
LRH:
You feel pretty good? All right. Let’s go back to last.... Now wait a minute, are you at present time?
PC:
(sneezes)
LRH:
How old are you?
PC:
(pause) 19.
LRH:
(He’s being agreeable.)
PC:
Uh— like I’m trying to get through— ah— the first——.
LRH:
That’s a boy, that’s a boy. That’s all I want. All right. Get a sonic. Contact the sonic there, the holder. Contact the sonic.
PC:
I can’t get quite what you mean.
LRH:
Huh? Hear something?
PC:
I hear the noises in the room.
LRH:
All right. See if you can give us the noises in your head. (pause) What do you hear? (pause) Are you getting an airplane outside— the car?
PC:
Cars some distance away.
LRH:
Yeah?
PC:
Yeah.
LRH:
All right. Give me a holder.
PC:
Go, stay.
LRH:
All right. Go on over it. Go, stay.
PC:
Go. Stay.
LRH:
Go over it again.
PC:
Go. Stay.
LRH:
Go over it again.
PC:
Go——.
LRH:
Go what?
PC:
It ‘s Go back.
LRH:
Go over it again.
PC:
Go back. Stay.
LRH:
Go on over it again.
PC:
Go back. (chuckle)
LRH:
Go over it again.
PC:
Go back there.
LRH:
Go over it again.
PC:
Go back there.
LRH:
Go over it - - .
PC:
I think a teacher once said that to me. She said, That’s up to you. She said, Go back there.
LRH:
Okay - - .
PC:
It was a teacher.
LRH:
What does the teacher look like?
PC:
I don’t know, but her name is Greene.
LRH:
Let’s take a look at the teacher.
PC:
Fifth grade.
LRH:
Go over it again.
PC:
Her name.... (pause)
LRH:
Go over it again.
PC:
I keep thinking of my third grade teacher.
LRH:
All right. Go over it again.
PC:
(laughing quietly)
LRH:
You’re thinking of your what grade teacher?
PC:
I’ve got them all occluded.
LRH:
When did she say, Go back ?
PC:
(pause) Oh, I remember that she said go back to my seat. I remember the whole incident now. I wasn’t unconscious or anything.
LRH:
All right. What does she say?
PC:
She said, Go back, go back, you’ll get over it when you’re over it, go back and you’ll change, or you’ll get over it when you’re older.
LRH:
What’s the incident about?
PC:
This is an incident which has always stuck in my mind. I don’t remember exactly where or everything that happened, but I mean it’s pure memory, it’s not buried anywhere. I wasn’t at all unconscious.
LRH:
Go over it again. (pause) Go over it again.
PC:
Well, she said, Go back and take your seat. You’ll get over all this. One of my classmates said that I suggested that there wasn’t any God and the teacher was very shocked at this. This was in fourth grade and the teacher’s name was Delaney in PS. 26.
LRH:
Hm- hm.
PC:
I can remember everything. I can see the corridor I was walking down.
LRH:
All right. Come up to present time.
PC:
Come up to present time?
LRH:
Yes.
PC:
Okay.
LRH:
How old are you?
PC:
(pause) 19.
LRH:
Come on, what was the flash?
PC:
19. (laughter)
LRH:
Okay, well, I’ll take you on the track when we have a little more time. Now if your teammates take a note of this, we’re not trying to charge you around into a thousand incidents. Come up to present time. (snaps fingers)

There is another way to get a person up to present time I would hate to use and that is to take a policeman’s nightstick and hit the person across the soles of their feet as hard as you can slam them. It generally produces a nerve shock.

If you get somebody stuck in a prenatal area; particularly a psychotic, and he is all curled up asleep, doing the above would throw him up to present time. Because he has a call- back in it he would go right back to the incident again, but you would at least have him in present time for a minute.

It is a very funny thing when people come up to present time, they always expect to be greeted.

In a non- sonic, non- visio case, if that case were to become shut off by computational commands, the person would get stuck on the time track. It is certain that the person would have confusion in that area, and that there would be valences which would probably be present because of earlier unconscious incidents as well as being stuck by locks. The trick is to get him free and bring him on up to present time if you possibly can and then work on him. But don’t try to chase him around on the track when he is regressed at any place, because a man who hasn’t got sonic and visio and so forth is stuck on the time track and in a valence. That is well worth knowing.

It isn’t any use talking to or worrying about somebody who is stuck on the track. You can’t deliver any positive suggestions to a person when he is regressed and have it stick very hard. The person is regressed, he is wide awake, he is as wide awake as he can possibly be. There is a misprint in the Handbook which says that the cancelers is delivered to a patient before he is brought up to present time. I don’t know how that got into the book, because it is always done in present time, always. Fortunately it’s later in the Handbook stated correctly.

So, when a person is stuck on the track, one does not work him formally. All one tries to do is get that person unstuck.

He is wide awake. We have merely told him to close his eyes. We are not going to give him a lot of positive suggestions. We never give positive suggestions. This doesn’t mean that we don’t have the right to tell a person to go places and do things. You could say most anything to a patient that you want to, as long as you don’t start using denyers, holders, bouncers and so on.

Using the word continue is better than go on, and using the word return is superior to go back. Try not to use material in your patter which is engramic. But don’t strain your brains, because if you feel at the moment it is necessary to quote to the patient to improve his therapy, by all means do so.

There has been a lot of upset on the question of positive suggestion. That is because the positive suggestion definition is very technical. It was overlooked by Reich that positive suggestion means in hypnosis a suggestion which is given to a hypnotized subject which will result in some change in the manifestations and actions of that patient. That is a positive suggestion. The wording of a positive suggestion has the intention of producing an effect upon the patient by telling him something, and is not used in Dianetics.

But chatter doesn’t do very much harm unless the patient is hypnotized. The canceler very neatly scoops up the material as you say it to a patient, even if he is hypnotized.

Narcosynthesis and sodium amytal analysis and so on are complicated by the fact that no canceler is given to the patient, and too much idle chatter has gone on around him. So when you have a patient who has been treated with these things, if you go back there you will find everything that was said in place.

A psychotic, for example, can often look just the same as a normal person, and he will often start to talk quite rationally. The person treating him may be deluded at that moment into thinking, "Ah, this man has returned to rationality, I want to talk to him," realizing that he is talking to basic personality, but unfortunately aberrated personality will close in over the top of it. But as long as he is lying there he will go right on talking to you, and he seems to be quite rational. He looks so rational and so reasonable sometimes that one engages in conversation with him.

If you ever have to use drugs, this is something to remember, because you may find yourself having to go back and run out all the items in the conversation with the patient, which is an ungodly proceeding. Hypnotists practically faint the first time they take some patient on whom they have worked with hypnosis and go back to their hypnosis, and then they have to sit there and listen to "Go to sleep," and so on. Here is another demonstration.

LRH:
Okay. Close your eyes. How old are you?
PC:
I’m 29.
LRH:
Okay. Any time in the future that I utter to you the word canceled, it will cancel what I have said to you while you were lying here with your eyes closed and render it nonaberrative. Okay?
PC:
Yes.
LRH:
Now I want you to go back to dinner last night. (pause) Let’s return to dinner last night. (pause) Take a taste of the food that’s being served to you.
PC:
Dinner for all the rest of them.
LRH:
What?
PC:
Dinner for all the rest of them.
LRH:
Oh, well, now who was there?
PC:
(murmurs)
LRH:
What’s she got on?
PC:
Huh ?
LRH:
Let’s take a look at her. (pause) What are you eating? (pause) All right. Now let’s go back to a time when someone was mean to you.
PC:
I can’t think of one.
LRH:
Aw, come on, you’ve had somebody in your life.
PC:
(mutter)
LRH:
Oh, dear. (pause) All right. What do you do when he beats you up?
PC:
(murmur)
LRH:
Go on, what’s he doing to you?
PC:
Pushes me underwater.
LRH:
Okay. And what do you feel about this? What’s he saying to you as he’s pushing you underwater?
PC:
(mutter)
LRH:
How do you feel when you’re going underwater?
PC:
(murmur)
LRH:
How does it sound?
PC:
(murmur)
LRH:
Okay. How does his hand feel pushing you?
PC:
(mutter)
LRH:
Hm- hm. And how does the water taste?
PC:
Fresh water.
LRH:
How’s it in your nose?
PC:
(mutter)
LRH:
Well, when he pulls you up again, what does he say to you?
PC:
He doesn’t pull me up. (coughs)
LRH:
What does he say to you as soon as you’re up?
PC:
(murmur)
LRH:
Now let us go to a moment immediately after this, let’s go to a moment immediately after this when you feel very calm and cheerful. (pause) A subsequent moment. (pause) Find a moment right after that when you feel calm and cheerful.
PC:
I’m in a boat without any oars.
LRH:
Hm- hm.
PC:
(laughs)
LRH:
Okay. How’s the boat look?
PC:
(croaks) Rowboat.
LRH:
How’s the light?
PC:
It’s night. (coughing)
LRH:
It’s night, huh? How are the stars?
PC:
I don’t know.
LRH:
Come on. You’re right there in the rowboat, let’s go over it. Go on, paddle it. How’s the water feel on your hands?
PC:
Cool.
LRH:
Hm? You cool? Let’s feel the water on your hand. Are there any noises around there?
PC:
Sure. I hear some.
LRH:
Uh- huh. And now, how about the boat. Is it making any noise?
PC:
Yeah.
LRH:
Yeah? Okay. And do you feel cheerful about this? What’s your emotion?
PC:
Good. But I’m worried about swimming ashore.
LRH:
Hm?
PC:
I’m worried about getting a ride to the shore.
LRH:
Can you feel that worry now?
PC:
Can’t remember how I went in in the boat.
LRH:
Well, let’s go to the moment when it’s in the dock. What do you do with the boat?
PC:
I’m pulling it in to the shore.
LRH:
Well, let’s pull it in. What kind of sound does it make?
PC:
I’m not sure I hear this.
LRH:
That’s okay, that’s okay. So what occurs. (crashing sound in room, PC lets out a startled grunt) That’s all right. Let’s go back over the sound you just heard.
PC:
(mutter)
LRH:
Let’s hear the sound you just heard this moment.
PC:
What? That thing dropping?
LRH:
Uh- huh. Let’s go over that.
PC:
That’s all right.
LRH:
Okay. Let’s go over it again.
PC:
No. (seems to sob)
LRH:
Let’s go over it again. Let’s go over it again.
PC:
(grunt)
LRH:
Go on, once more. Let’s hear that thing dropping again. Okay. Let’s hear it dropping again. Let’s hear it dropping again.
PC:
(protestingly) I’ve been through the damn war.
LRH:
Uh- huh. Let’s hear it dropping again. (brief pause) Hey, what makes you jump over that? Are you listening to it drop? Can you hear it drop?
PC:
No.
LRH:
Let’s go over it again.
PC:
(mutter)
LRH:
Okay.
PC:
(coughs; pause) I don’t get anything on it.
LRH:
Okay. Let’s go back to the moment when you hear the drop.
PC:
(laughing)
LRH:
Okay. Now let’s come to the time when you really bawled this guy out.
PC:
Okay.
LRH:
Hm- hm. PC: (murmur)
LRH:
Okay. You like your mother?
PC:
Like her?
LRH:
Hm- hm.
PC:
She’s okay.
LRH:
Did you?
PC:
(mutter)
LRH:
How old are you?
PC:
21.
LRH:
Like your mother? (pause) Like your father?
PC:
(murmur)
LRH:
Hm?
PC:
I should like him, I suppose.
LRH:
Let’s go to basic- basic.
PC:
(coughs, then suddenly is crying and howling like a baby)
LRH:
Continue.
PC:
(more howling)
LRH:
Continue.
PC:
(howling)
LRH:
What’s being said?
PC:
(howling)
LRH:
What’s being said?
PC:
(howling stops)
LRH:
What’s being said? When I count from one to five the words will flash into your mind. One- two- three- four- five.
PC:
Ugh. (grunt, murmur)
LRH:
What?
PC:
Ugh.
LRH:
All right. Go over that again. Ugh.
PC:
Ugh.
LRH:
Now what else do you get?
PC:
(coughs)
LRH:
Ugh and what else?
PC:
(blowing sound)
LRH:
Let’s go back over it again.
PC:
I (coughs loudly)
LRH:
Who’s coughing?
PC:
(short howled sounds) Must be Mother.
LRH:
All right. Let’s go back to the moment the cough turns on.
PC:
(coughs)
LRH:
Okay. Then what occurs?
PC:
(chokes)
LRH:
Then what does she say?
PC:
(breathes)
LRH:
What are the words that follow that?
PC:
(sob, howl)
LRH:
All right. Let’s go back over the cough again.
PC:
(pants)
LRH:
Let’s go back over the cough again.
PC:
(coughs)
LRH:
All right.
PC:
(sob)
LRH:
Contact the cough again. Let’s go through it once more.
PC:
(coughs, sob, whimper)
LRH:
Contact the cough again.
PC:
(cough, sigh)
LRH:
Any words follow this cough? Yes or no?
PC:
No.
LRH:
Okay. What does follow?
PC:
(racking sobs)
LRH:
Is she crying?
PC:
(weep) I think so.
LRH:
Okay. What else occurs?
PC:
(howls loudly)
LRH:
What is occurring?
PC:
(howls, cough, howls and weeps)
LRH:
Okay. Let’s go back to the beginning of it.
PC:
(brief exclamation)
LRH:
Let’s go back to the beginning of the cough.
PC:
(howls out a sentence)
LRH:
Let’s go to the beginning of the cough.
PC:
(howl stops)
LRH:
All right. Let’s run it.
PC:
Don t want to come. Don’t want to come. Doesn’t want to come.
LRH:
Go over that again.
PC:
Doesn t want to come.
LRH:
Go over that again.
PC:
(howling, vague words)
LRH:
Doesn’t want to come. What’s next?
PC:
I don’t know. Doesn’t want to come.
LRH:
Go over that again.
PC:
(lets out a loud howl then stops abruptly)
LRH:
Okay. Let’s go over it, let’s run it from the very start of it.
PC:
(howls, sobs)
LRH:
Continue.
PC:
(coughs)
LRH:
Contact the cough there.
PC:
(starts to cough, sighs)
LRH:
Contact it.
PC:
(breathlessly) Yeah. (pants, coughs)
LRH:
Thataboy. Now what does she say?
PC:
Doesn t want to come. (sobs)
LRH:
Continue.
PC:
(more words and sobs)
LRH:
All right. Let’s shift into our own valence and go through this. (PC starts to cough) Come on, let’s listen to her. Let’s listen to her coughing.
PC:
(pants)
LRH:
Let’s listen to her coughing.
PC:
Can’t hear her.
LRH:
All right. Let’s listen to her coughing through that.
PC:
(seems to be trying not to cough)
LRH:
Okay.
PC:
(coughing, panting)
LRH:
Continue.
PC:
(howls, vague words)
LRH:
Continue.
PC:
Yes. (sobs, sobs out words) . . . I can’t do the first thing.
LRH:
What?
PC:
(sobs out words) . . . I can’t do the first thing.
LRH:
Okay. Let’s roll it through again.
PC:
(coughs)
LRH:
Now shift into your mother’s valence and do what she’s doing.
PC:
(panting)
LRH:
What’s she doing?
PC:
(sigh)
LRH:
What’s she saying?
PC:
(exhales, sigh)
LRH:
Now let’s pretend you’re Mama for the moment here. And what’s Mama doing and saying?
PC:
I can’t find it. (exhales)
LRH:
I can’t find it.
PC:
Can’t find it.
LRH:
Go over it again.
PC:
worse.
LRH:
Go over it again.
PC:
Can’t find it.
LRH:
Go over it again.
PC:
can’t find it. (starts crying) Can’t find it. (sobbing out words) I don’t know where I am.
LRH:
Evidently she doesn’t either.
PC:
(loud sobs)
LRH:
What’s she saying?
PC:
(panting)
LRH:
Let’s go over it again.
PC:
(coughs) I can’t find it.
LRH:
Continue.
PC:
I can’t find it. I can’t find it.
LRH:
Continue. Next line.
PC:
I can’t find it.
LRH:
Next line.
PC:
Don t know where.
LRH:
What?
PC:
Don t know where.
LRH:
Go over it again.
PC:
Don t know where it is.
LRH:
Go on.
PC:
Keep through it ?
LRH:
Okay.
PC:
(starts to sob loudly)
LRH:
All right. Let’s run it through from the beginning.
PC:
(loud sobs turning to howls) LRH: Okay. Okay. Let’s turn into your own valence there. Let’s roll into your own valence. The somatic strip.
PC:
(high frantic voice) I don’t like this. (mild scream and sobs)
LRH:
All right. Now let’s turn into your mother’s valence.
PC:
(gasping, loud sobs, vague words)
LRH:
What? What did you say?
PC:
(gasping out words, pants)
LRH:
Now, what did you——.
PC:
(tearfully) How can I see what she feels? (pants, then despairingly in high voice) I don’t know.
LRH:
What’s she saying?
PC:
I don’t know.
LRH:
Come on, you do too.
PC:
I don’t know. (sobs)
LRH:
Is she upset?
PC:
(sob) Yes.
LRH:
Okay.
PC:
(exhales)
LRH:
Now let’s contact the beginning of the incident. Now let’s feel all that pressure you’re running. Let’s get a tactile on it. How does it feel there?
PC:
(sobs) It hurts here.
LRH:
Aw, come on. That’s not her space. How does it feel on her skin?
PC:
(grunts) I’m cold. (yells) I’m cold.
LRH:
Hm? You’re what? Cold?
PC:
Cool.
LRH:
Cool?
PC:
Cool.
LRH:
Cool. Good. How does it feel on your skin, now? (pause) Are there any sounds around there? Just give me the impression of any sounds you might hear.
PC:
(pause) Put on the music.
LRH:
Okay. Continue.
PC:
I don’t hear it.
LRH:
That’s all right.
PC:
Just that. (sob)
LRH:
Now what else happens there?
PC:
Please let’s get rid of this thing.
LRH:
Okay.
PC:
(tearfully) Let’s get rid of this thing tomorrow.
LRH:
All right. Let’s roll that line.
PC:
(sobs words, weeps loudly) Get rid of this thing.
LRH:
Let’s go over this thing.
PC:
(continues to weep loudly)
LRH:
Go on over Let’s get rid of this thing.
PC:
(continues to weep)
LRH:
Go on over that line.
PC:
(high voice) No
LRH:
Go on over the line Let’s get rid of this thing. (pause) Go on over it——.
PC:
(coughs)
LRH:
Let’s go into your own valence.
PC:
(more normal voice) Oh, that’s all there is there.
LRH:
Okay. Now let’s go into your mother’s valence.
PC:
(coughs)
LRH:
All right. Now let’s return to your own valence.
PC:
All right.
LRH:
All right. Now what happens there at the beginning with your own valence?
PC:
(more normal voice) This is what happened, I don’t want to do it anymore.
LRH:
Well, continue.
PC:
(panting) It hurts.
LRH:
Have you got the word hurts in there?
PC:
I don’t think so.
LRH:
All right. Continue.
PC:
(whispers)
LRH:
What’s she saying? (pause) Go on, you can contact it.
PC:
(starts to weep)
LRH:
Continue.
PC:
This can’t be all one.
LRH:
Continue.
PC:
(sigh)
LRH:
What’s she saying?
PC:
(crying or laughing sound)
LRH:
Is she crying or laughing?
PC:
(mutters)
LRH:
Crying?
PC:
Moaning, maybe.
LRH:
Moaning. What happens to her?
PC:
(coughs, loud noises to howls)
LRH:
Is she moaning?
PC:
(higher voice again) Yes.
LRH:
Okay. (brief pause) Okay.
PC:
(cough)
LRH:
Then what occurs?
PC:
(starts gushing words tearfully)
LRH:
Now what’s she doing?
PC:
(brief cry)
LRH:
Return to the beginning of this thing and shift into your own valence.
PC:
(high voice) Oh.
LRH:
Go to the beginning, thataboy.
PC:
(high voice) Oh.
LRH:
All right. What’s she doing?
PC:
(cough)
LRH:
Now you know what she’s doing.
PC:
(words in high voice) She must be vomiting, I guess.
LRH:
Okay.
PC:
Whoosh! Ooh.
LRH:
Continue.
PC:
Whoosh! Ooh.
LRH:
Continue.
PC:
(murmuring)
LRH:
What noise does she make when she’s vomiting?
PC:
(makes loud whoosh noise, laughs)
LRH:
Okay. Continue. Now what kind of noise is she making?
PC:
(howls a whoosh noise)
LRH:
What’s she complaining about?
PC:
(with difficulty) Damn kid.
LRH:
Okay. Continue.
PC:
Ah, he’s just a kid. Take it easy. (panting)
LRH:
What’s she saying? Does she say anything about him coming out or getting out or anything?
PC:
I don’t know.
LRH:
Come on. Let’s return to the beginning.
PC:
(sob becoming a laugh)
LRH:
Come on, roll it. What’s she doing?
PC:
(wailing) No.
LRH:
What’s she doing?
PC:
Oh, I don ‘t know.
LRH:
How does it sound?
PC:
(makes loud sound)
LRH:
Okay. Continue. Continue.
PC:
(sobbing words, shivering)
LRH:
Run over it again.
PC:
Damn joke. (sob)
LRH:
Go over it again.
PC:
A damn joke.
LRH:
Go over it again.
PC:
(glee)
LRH:
Go over that line.
PC:
(sob) A damn joke, it is.
LRH:
Okay. Go over it again.
PC:
Damn joke.
LRH:
But what?
PC:
I didn’t say but.
LRH:
I know. But is there a but ?
PC:
No.
LRH:
All right. Go to this thing. (pause) Get rid of it.
PC:
(more normal voice) Get rid of this thing.
LRH:
Get rid of it.
PC:
Get rid of it. (mutter)
LRH:
Get rid of it.
PC:
(small sound)
LRH:
Go on, go over that line. Get rid of it.
PC:
(gasping) I can’t.
LRH:
I can’t what?
PC:
can’t get rid of it.
LRH:
Okay.
PC:
(laughs) That isn’t really worth it enough.
LRH:
Okay. Go on, what’s she saying?
PC:
I don’t know. I don’t hear anything.
LRH:
Okay. Just make a guess at what she might be saying.
PC:
Oh. (high voice gushing words)
LRH:
Continue.
PC:
(more gushing words)
LRH:
What have we got?
PC:
It continues all the time too. (sigh)
LRH:
Yeah? Now is your sister present?
PC:
No, no, no, I don’t know where she is.
LRH:
Oh, I see.
PC:
(pants)
LRH:
All right. Let’s go through it again.
PC:
(voice rises) Why do you do this to me? (voice rises to wail and falls slowly, vague words)
LRH:
Roll it.
PC:
(more wailing)
LRH:
Roll it.
PC:
(wails some more)
LRH:
All right. Let’s shift into your own valence.
PC:
(grunt)
LRH:
Now, how does it feel when somebody tries to vomit on you?
PC:
(low voice) Oh, no!
LRH:
Let’s roll it.
PC:
(pants)
LRH:
Continue.
PC:
(pants)
LRH:
What would they be saying at that time?
PC:
What?
LRH:
What would they be saying?
PC:
Uh....
LRH:
How would it sound, the vomiting?
PC:
(imitates noise)
LRH:
All right. Let’s shift into your own valence, and pick it up from the beginning again. (pause) Now what do you get?
PC:
(pants)
LRH:
Continue on through with it.
PC:
(sigh)
LRH:
Continue on through with it. (pause) Continue on through with it.
PC:
(silently then noisily weeping some words)
LRH:
Then what does she say?
PC:
(mutters) I don’t know.
LRH:
How do you feel now?
PC:
(sigh, then laughs)
LRH:
Okay. Let’s pick it up from the beginning and roll it through.
PC:
(sneezes then yells in high voice) It’s so damn bad, get rid of it.
LRH:
All right, let’s contact it.
PC:
(cough)
LRH:
Continue. Shift into your own valence on this.
PC:
(hiccup)
LRH:
Okay. Continue.
PC:
(hiccup)
LRH:
Continue.
PC:
(hiccup)
LRH:
Okay. Go on through.
PC:
(cough)
LRH:
In your own valence.
PC:
(muffled noises, hiccups)
LRH:
Continue. Let’s sail on through.
PC:
(sigh, murmur)
LRH:
Okay.
PC:
(breathes, coughs)
LRH:
Continue on down.
PC:
(muffled noises, sigh) Okay.
LRH:
Okay. How you feel about this?
PC:
(mutters)
LRH:
Feeling better about this?
PC:
(muttering)
LRH:
Okay. Do you think this one can safely be parked on the time track?
PC:
(gasping noise) No.
LRH:
Huh?
PC:
No.
LRH:
Be left on the time track?
PC:
No.
LRH:
Huh?
PC:
No.
LRH:
What do you think is going to happen?
PC:
(agonized voice) Do it again.
LRH:
Let’s roll it from the beginning.
PC:
(coughing, inarticulate words)
LRH:
Continue. Right straight on through with it. Right straight on through with it.
PC:
(coughs)
LRH:
Okay. Straight on through with it.
PC:
(sighs out a word)
LRH:
All right. Let’s get back to the beginning of it. Go on through it again. Are there any words in this incident, yes or no?
PC:
(breathily with relief) No.
LRH:
Oh, good. Let’s contact the beginning of it.
PC:
(normal tone) Oh, sure, why not.
LRH:
Well, all right. Let’s contact the beginning of it.
PC:
(murmurs)
LRH:
Now, do you think this could be left on the time track?
PC:
(inhales)
LRH:
Could be now, couldn’t it?
PC:
(whispers) I suppose.
LRH:
All right. You can leave this incident on the time track. Come up to the time you were a little baby and——.
PC:
(babyish noise)
LRH:
All right, little baby and somebody’s admiring you.
PC:
(baby noises)
LRH:
Okay. What do they look like?
PC:
(more noise)
LRH:
What does the person look like?
PC:
My daddy.
LRH:
Okay. What’s he doing?
PC:
He’s cooing. (more noise, sobs, laughs)
LRH:
Come up to present time. All the way up.
PC:
(grunt, sigh)
LRH:
Present time.
PC:
I’m there.
LRH:
Open your eyes.
PC:
(exhales sharply) Okay.
LRH:
Okay. Canceled, five- four- three- two- one (snap! snap!).
PC:
What happened?
LRH:
All right. Let’s take a little breather here.
PC:
Is there any possibility that what you were telling me to do there was suggestive and I did what I thought should have been done there instead of actually recounting an engram?
LRH:
My poor boy, may I feel your pulse?
PC:
Yah.
LRH:
If you’ll come back and lie down on the couch, I’ll demonstrate something.
PC:
Okay.
LRH:
Close your eyes. Any time in the future that I say the word canceled to you while you’re lying here with your eyes closed in the auditing room, anything I have said to you will be canceled and become nonaberrative.
PC:
(grunt)
LRH:
Okay?
PC:
Yes.
LRH:
All right. Jump up and down on the couch and go into a convulsion.
PC:
(pause; laughs a little)
LRH:
Scream. (pause) You will now scream. You can’t help but scream. It’s absolutely impossible to keep you from screaming. (pause; PC is silent) Come up to present time. Canceled. Open your eyes. (snaps fingers four times)
PC:
(laughs)

That is something that is very interesting about engrams discovered after an examination of a long Dianetic series of patients, not a medical profession’s series of two. In physics and engineering and so on, these things are done by each person who is the least bit qualified to be able to repeat the experiment. I was amazed in researching a lot of work done at Johns Hopkins; 2 I would read the reports assiduously about "beyond doubt and absolutely " and so forth and I would look up at the top and there would be two cases! So when I say a long series in Dianetics, I am not referring to the medical profession’s idea of a series. (This is nothing against the medical profession. I was interested in some of the work being done at Johns Hopkins, particularly the work with histamine.) But, on checking patients, I discovered that a person’s imagination is all the perceptics minus one: pain. The person can’t imagine how a pain might feel, unless they have got an engramic command level pain, and even the engramic command level pain has to have an actual pain to sit on.

You don’t find Mama’s somatics being manifested unless the person himself has some somatics. For instance, I have recently been running one patient with terrible stomach pains. He has been going around doubled up all the time. In this case we find Mama is talking continually about," My stomach hurts, my tummy hurts, it hurts so terribly, I can’t stand it, I can’t stand it, I have to hold it. I even have to hold it all the time."

But it hurt him. Everything was just fine on this case except that the more of Mama’s somatics we cleared up, the more his stomach seemed to hurt him. Until we finally closed in on it and ran out the end of the incident where he was actually hit in the stomach during delivery when Mama was trying to calm her delivery pain by pounding herself on the abdomen.

Now there we have an actual injury to the child. He has command somatics, l but those command somatics are sitting on an actual injury. The injury, evidently, has to be actual before it can be imaginary or an engramic command.

In a severe case the production of convulsions and so forth can be accomplished if the convulsions are present. It is very simple to do so.

I was talking to a psychiatrist about it and he said," As a matter of fact, there’s nothing to producing one, particularly." He wanted to go into therapy, and take a run up and down the track. So I took him back into the basic area. Nothing was happening, but as he came back up the line again, a phrase flashed into his mind. So I told him to repeat it to see if he had contacted anything, and he went into an epileptiform seizure. He really stood on his heels and the back of his neck. Every time he repeated this phrase he would go right straight back into the seizure. When I brought him up to present time he said," Yes, that’s the sort of thing I mean." And he said it was a strange fact that just repeating any word like that would put one into a convulsion.

So I said, "All right. Repeat ‘bananas." ’ So he repeated "bananas " and lay there quietly.

"All right, repeat ‘I hate you." ’ So he repeated it several times and lay there quietly. Finally I said," Now say, ‘My poor little boy." ’ Wham! He went right into the convulsion again. That phrase was the key to the button. There was an incident in his case of a time when he was 4 years of age when he went over to the stove and pulled a whole pot of scalding water down onto himself that went all over his head and so on, and he evidently developed a convulsion at that moment.

But there are various kinds of seizures. The seizure may be well up the bank around 1 month old, and it won’t release at that point because it is a dramatization of something earlier. And a patient can be put into it and out of it, and into it and out of it, and into it and out of it, and it seems to push- button forever. Whereas if you get the earlier manifestation of convulsion, and put him into it a few times, you will get an erasure.

There are times when we have found a manifestation even though someone thought very sincerely that he was lying to us. I have asked a patient," What did you used to tell your parents to keep from going to school? "

"Well, I used to tell them I had a sore throat."

"Is that all you ever told them? "

"Oh, I used to say I had a sore throat and a headache."

"And what did they do with you? "

"Pushed me into school. But of course I was lying."

And I said," Let’s go back to the time when you had a sore throat and a headache." We started running it and tapped the central sympathy engram of his case. His case was very sticky because with it was a manic.

He went back into the engram with both parents feeling terribly sorry for him, because he is just a little baby, and they are afraid they are going to lose him, and he might grow up to be a strong, handsome man. (He wouldn’t admit that, although he was demonstrating it continually.)

You will sometimes find some person who has been through the war and who has come home with a dishonorable discharge with a fancy tale to tell the folks about how he was "wounded in the head, right there; that’s all healed up now," but for that reason they had to discharge him.

He will tell the folks all about this. In therapy he is very reluctant, but finally says," If I tell you something about this, it won’t get back to my wife, will it? See, I can’t audit with my wife because she doesn’t know about it."

You say," Well, what’s the matter? " and he will tell you about this wound that he faked. Send him back down the time track and get it, because it is there. You will very often find that it is a simple computation in a sympathy engram, l and those are the most vicious ones to hold up the case, but those are the ones you want.

He doesn’t feel any pain there, he knows he’s lying, but he is dramatizing an injury he has. And you have got to get him prior to this period. Children’s lies and so forth are not necessarily all based on fact, but an enormous amount of truth is scattered through them together with odd engramic computations.

For instance, in my own case, when I was 5 years of age, I ran down the street one day and told the grocer that my mother never fed me, and that I was left home abandoned all alone and so on. And he gave me some bananas.

I never dramatized it again, but during therapy we stumbled across this incident. I was feeling very bad about it because of course I had lied. Then we discovered that exactly two years before that time, completely out of recall, an older boy of about 7 or 8 had taken a hockey stick which was cut down so he could roll hoops with it, and he had beaten me to a point it had cracked the skull and given me brain concussion.

I had then been laid out on a couch about three- quarters unconscious for about two weeks.

The only thing left of it was just this odd dramatization later, but the earlier one was down the track completely closed. The first time we ticked it, it seemed like I had tripped the boy with the hoopstick and I was very sorry that I had hurt him (propitiation). But then we ran it a little further and found that my dear mother, in trying to amuse me, read me Oliver Twist from cover to cover during that period. So I accumulated it as an engram! And later when I was running down the street looking very, very pathetic, I was Oliver Twist running after carriages and so forth. Once we had the initial moment of concussion out of the thing and had gotten the rest of it into recall, the general words and maybe a page or so of the book, the rest of it erased easily. But it must have made the case very perplexing for a couple of weeks. A manifestation of the last case demonstrated in this lecture showed someone who was apparently out of control, but who was actually in the auditor’s control.

That is something that you will see many times in Dianetics, although in the usual run, a patient does not do this. But you find one every once in a while that does, particularly if there are AAs in the case. You find this enormous emotion being manifested. The person seems irrational.

That is why in the Auditor’s Code it says the auditor must be brave. He has to sit there quietly and run the patient on through the incident, and not try to match up any hysteria with his own. If at the moment the patient went into the incident one suddenly said," Come up to present time," he would have a picnic on his hands. Just as one would if he suddenly lost his nerve when the patient was in an engram.

So no matter what the patient is doing, or how horrible it may seem, or how he begs you to take him out of it, or how he writhes and weeps and cries and thrashes around and crashes from the couch onto the floor (which seldom happens) with these horrible convulsions and so on, he isn’t going to hurt himself.

So just ride it like the Chinese who got on the tiger, and had a good fast ride, but had quite a time getting off. Keep running it through. Any case which has that much tension on it generally will deintensifyl if you keep running it through and will continue to deintensify all the way down. It is charged all the way up and down the bank. It isn’t charged up just out of that one engram. So deintensifying a few of these things will quiet down the whole manifestation, and no matter how frightening they may seem to an auditor when he first faces them, there is no reason for it whatsoever. Nobody is going to hurt himself.

One is going for basic- basic in a case. Either dope- off2 or yawns will appear in basic- basic. That is what you want to get off the case.

A boil- off is quite variable. When you see your first boil- off it is unmistakable. It is not a person going to sleep; it’s a person muttering, dreaming, who is rather restless, rather dopey and so on. Then gradually a somatic may appear and you will run the engram and get off some yawns. It is a supercovering of the whole incident.

If you return a person bluntly to present time from a painful engram, even though you have apparently erased3 the incident, you are actually unstabilizing the time track to some slight degree. And it should be avoided, if possible, by returning the patient to an interesting intermediate moment earlier in his life, then if any somatic starts up the line, it cuts out at that moment. It’s just a point of comfort for the patient.

In the last demonstration I didn’t get much of a chance to demonstrate this valence proposition. But notice that in the beginning we weren’t getting much of a visio, and when we got down into the basic area we could turn him from one valence into the other and take him back and forth.

Notice, too, he was coughing. I call it to your attention that a zygote doesn’t cough, and as a result we had to flip him over into his own valence, at which moment we got the crushed effect. Now that is in the basic area probably. A zygote is unimaginably small, and any somatic which it gets in the basic area is an all- over somatic.

Any time somebody tells you that he is in the basic area, with a pain in his stomach, you can be sure that he is either in his mother’s valence running mother’s somatic, which you can check by trying to drop him over into his own, or let him run out mother’s comments instead of going into his own valence. If he has a pain in his stomach when he is in his own valence, and obviously so, you are well up the bank, you are not in basic area.

Any AA is very far from the basic area. There is a couple of weeks of life before Mama discovers it. Then she usually waits a few days in an AA case to find out if she is going to get sick, and then she decides," I’m caught." So, if it’s going to be an AA, it takes place very late in the bank. Those first three weeks are highly aberrative, because there is usually lots of material in them, the child is very tender, and so forth.

If anybody is getting visio in the interuterine life, the auditor has been working a patient with dub- in.

One patient was enormously excited to find, for instance, this strange phenomenon of being able to see out of the womb. This was very interesting, but it blew up on clearing because the patient, when he was taken right up the track on the final clearing, having lost the lie factory, and now being firmly established in his own valence, found it to be all black.

Sometimes there will be a flash of light at a blow in the prenatal area. But when you really run out a basic engram, it should start appearing in squares of white, because the visio (his sense of blackness) is real visio and that blackness is going out as part of the engram, leaving a blank. The person who sees colors in the lower part of the prenatal area is doing a certain amount of dub- in, but it is not serious. However, that color is definitely illusion. Then you will very often discover somebody saying," You know, I see a red light between my feet." At this moment you sit there quietly and say," Continue." And POW! the patient is into an AA.

In this lecture I have covered the initial study of cases and some methods of case opening. A lot more case analysis will be done in this series of lectures.