6305C16 SHSpec-265 The Time Track [Some of the data in this tape is contained in HCOB 15May63 "The Time Track and Engram Rum ing by Chains: Bulletin I" and HCOB 8Jun63" ... Bulletin II -- Handling the Time Track".] One basic tenet has never changed: you have never successfully audited anything but the time track. There is nothing to audit but the time track. There is no grand key to the release of things but the time track. Locks, valences, machinery, etc., are all phenomena of the time track. The time track is the continuous record of time of the individual, from the first moment he began to experience, on through until now, an interrupted three-D fifty-two perception movie. Things happen to that movie. It gets grouped and becomes unavailable to the PC for various reasons, e.g. his inability to confront the fact that it can get grouped, etc. All that auditing ever does is to straighten out the time track, make it available, and as-is it. The track gets collapsed and looped by chains, which consist of related incidents, until you get a solid wad of experience which is unavailable to the PC and thus has command value over him. There are only two classes of things involved in the time track: 1. The mechanical things. The matter, energy, space, and time that is the time track. 2. The significance of it. People who can't confront the track at all, e.g. psychologists and psychiatrists, conceive it to consist of thought only. The time track is not imaginary and shouldn't be treated as imaginary. It has mass. In the physical universe, a brick wall is the product of various people and forces. Where it all come from needn't be investigated, for practical purposes. The time track has remained undiscovered and undescribed by mental health practitioners, because they have lacked the confront to get past certain mechanisms that make it unavailable. Nothing is holy, to a scientologist. There is nothing that should not be investigated. Nothing is unavailable, although psychiatrists think so. They don't know that the time track is real. They have fallen for the first trick that the time track employs to make itself unavailable: the idea that there is "nothing in the mind but thought". That is a trick of debarment. The consideration is, "Anybody who says that he is looking at a brick building in the mind ... isn't looking as a brick building, and it must therefore be imaginary, so therefore he is living in the field of illusion or delusion, so therefore he must be slightly mad...." "Insane people must be mad because they are seeing things," says the psychiatrist. Then he compounds the insanity by saying, "No, you are not seeing these things." He makes the time track less available. "The direction of sanity lies in the capability of confronting the time track and the PT environment." For any individual, "existence consists of the physical universe, PT and everything that is in it at this exact, precise PT instant, and the time track, which consists of everything that has been, and that is the total isness, as far as this thing called 'reality' is concerned." Archeology studies "a suppositional reality", but it is not outlawed for that reason. You can take some ruin and say, "What has it been?" But that is not the isness. It is a suppositional reality, subject to error. However, archeology is not outlawed as a science for that reason. Furthermore, all futures are suppositional. If they are suppositional enough, they come true. LRH used to tell fortunes by looking at a person's facsimiles and mocking something up. The future is always enforceable with altitude and authority. This is just a trick method of making a postulate stick. It is still a suppositional reality. There is isness, and there is suppositional isness. "The time track often gives people the feeling that the 'was' can return." It can be quite solid, when there is extra awareness jammed into a particular moment. You also have to look at a borderline phenomenon: creating. Someone says he will build a building, and he does. His saying he will nearly puts it there. But a creation is a suppositional reality until it is actually created, at which point it becomes an isness, and remains an isness for whatever period of time it endures. Part of the thought of reality is the adjudication of whether it is good, bad, or whatever. Thought is not separate from reality. It is woven solidly into reality and is part of the isness of reality. One can establish the isness of a reality at time by asking about it. Some people can't even confront that. [Here, LRH recounts an anecdote about the CIA or the police following students and PCs around for weeks, as they ran "Union Station", an outdoor objective process. (Command was, "You invent a way of destroying that (indicated person)." See HCOB 6Feb58 "HGC Clear Procedure Outline of February 6". The process was done to take over destructive automaticities.) They were trying to find out what the scientologists were doing without ever taking the trouble to ask.] "It never occurred to them to establish an isness.... They couldn't even view the thought in the isness." This is even worse than only being able to view the thought in the isness. So there is a descending gradient of ability to confront an isness: 1. Able to confront or view an isness. 2. Able to confront or view only the thought in an isness. 3. Unable to confront or view the thought in an isness, or even to ask about it. Opinions are. There are thoughts and opinions abroad in the world that we may not agree with, but which are part of the isness. A wrought iron fence is a thought woven into the physical universe, as, to some degree, is all else. When someone creates something in the physical universe, part of its isness is the expression of his thought. Thought is expressed by the formation of the MEST. So thought is, to some degree, part of the physical universe. Likewise, the time track is composed of matter, energy, space, time, and thought. So both the physical universe and the time track are composed of MEST and thought. Added onto these are many complexities such as suppositional isnesses, befores and afters, purposes, and aesthetics. "The degree that [an individual] is on a suppositional kick measures directly his confrontingness." How much suppositional isness is added to actual isness? A critic says, "The artist should have...." The "should have" measures the amount of non-confront the critic is doing. This is also true of PCs, who typically say, "Well, it looks as if there might have been... there could possibly have been ... a wreck of some kind here at one time or another. Maybe. I think it was an airplane." (It turns out that it was a building.) The PC is very suppositional. He doesn't give the isness of it. Someone who criticizes anything is doing a supposition about how something should be. They are not confronting the isness. "The time track straightens out and erases in direct ratio to the amount of isness confronted by the PC, and that is how sane and capable [he] gets. [It is] measured directly by the amount of isness the individual is [able to] confront." In view of the fact that he PC's track is in terrible condition, there are two factors at work: 1. The PC's own feelings of incompetence. 2. The unrecognizableness of the track. These combine to give you a cat's breakfast. An extreme form of this problem is seen in the PC who supposes all sorts of horrible things, who thinks it is so uncomfortable that he doesn't even show up for session. A thetan's state is not really pinned mechanically by anything. He is not made less of a thetan or more by MEST. But when you surround him as intimately as the time track does with a tremendous amount of suppositional unconfrontability, he is enforced into a state of low morale, where he doesn't think that he can do anything. And the isness, then, is that he can't. The PC supposes that the time track is not confrontable, that the auditor is not going to be able to do anything for it, that he won't be able to handle it, etc. "All the time he's supposing, he's not confronting." He knows what will happen. He has had all these unconfrontable experiences, and his attention is still fixed on something, and he knows he mustn't take his attention off of it. He also knows that if he doesn't take his attention off of it, he will go to pieces. Then he has forgotten that he has his attention on it. He feels degraded by all this. In addition, the state of his track is horrible. It is scrambled, shredded, snarled up. The thetan, in the middle of it all, is convinced that if he moves or looks at any of it, something horrible will happen. All of it has command value over him. Yet, at the same time, it is valuable to him. It has become his havingness. "It's all the old tin cans he's got. It's all his knowingness.... He's like somebody who has become totally dependent on the record department, and then the record department has been bombed. He can't even find out his own name, rank, and serial number without [it]." That dependency and the why of it is also in the record department. The great savants who have remained ignorant of the time track have just Q and A'd with its unconsciousness by remaining unconscious of it and unwilling to approach its pain. The time track is unavailable to the being, so the savant supposes that it is unavailable to him. But the auditor mustn't do this Q and A. "The only real tragedy of life, I suppose, is that absolute unconsciousness and absolute unknowingness are unobtainable." The fact that a thetan can't remember, at first, what happened in an engram doesn't mean that he was unconscious at the time. If absolute unconsciousness and unknowingness were possible, we would probably be all right. Don't underestimate the violence that is there on the time track, and don't force the PC into it. But if you get the earliest moment of the earliest GPM, it runs like hot butter, even though there's as much charge on it as there is on a later one. The difficulty you hit with the later one is that it has the charge of all the earlier ones, in addition to its own, so it is far harder for the PC to confront. It is important not to give the PC loses, early on. You should know the mechanics of engrams and the time track. Be sure your commands mean what you intend them to mean. "Through the incident" does not mean "through the incident to the end," and if you just say, "Move to the end," the PC won't go through the incident. The bank follows the "You think you are there, so you are there" mechanism of the thetan, so the difference between "to" and "through" is very important. Use "to" in scouting and "through" in running engrams, and don't mix them up. LRH found that some PCs can't run GPM's until they have run an early engram. Also, if you can run the overt engram that relates to these GPM's, as an engram, a fantastic amount of charge will come off the implants themselves, and they will run like hot butter. Here is a datum: That particular implanting outfit was located down towards the center of this galaxy and was founded 52,863,010, 654,079 years ago. It was destroyed 38,932,690,862,933 years ago by the 79th wing of the 43rd Battle Squadron of the Galactic Fleet. It was a wildcat activity. They used to drag Magellanic clouds out of the center hub of the galaxy, let them follow lines of force and come over a system, and then send planes in with speakers. The place would be caved in for thousands of years as a result of radioactive clouds. You are not likely to find any implant earlier then or even near 52 trillion years ago, or closer to PT than 35.9 trillion years ago. Any other kind of implant is a different kind or a dramatization of it someplace else. The Helatrobus implanter had the dream of everyone in the universe being good. They used the Ice Cube. [See A History of Man, pp. 64-5.] This is the implant that really keyed in the time track.