6308C21 SHSpec-297 The Itsa Line (Continued)

     Things look more complex than they actually are.  Sitting somewhere in
back of every thetan's bank is a tremendous insecurity, in which the thetan
believes implicitly that the universe is dangerous, or that he is in danger,
or that he cannot live or survive as a powerful being.  The itsa line could
look to you like a simple communication line on which, if you let anyone talk
enough, he will get better.  This is not so.  If you understand the itsa line,
you will see the PC go through a cycle of fishing for an itsa.  If the auditor
tells the PC what is there by putting in the itsa with the meter, it leaves
the PC in a zone or area of insecurity, as will any interruption of the PC's
itsa.  The PC has to be responsible for putting in the itsa line.  If the
auditor does it too much, e.g. saying, "The meter reads that it is before
1850," etc., you have created a psychiatric, potentially hypnotic, evaluative
set-up.  It is OK to give a little help, but not to put in the whole itsa line
for the PC.  When you tell a person that there is hope for his case, you are
putting in an itsa line, the "Hope Factor".

     But what about the line plot, for instance?  This puts in an itsa line
for the PC, to some degree.  The line plot for the GPM is the lesser of two
evils.  It allows the PC to identify it to his own reality, and it is less
undesirable than letting the PC wrap himself around a telephone pole.  It was
an other-determined thing in the first place, and the most important thing is
to get the charge off of it.  Similarly, if the PC is trying to date something
and bogs utterly, you should help him with the meter, enough to increase his
ability to see what he is after by narrowing his search.  Even if you get down
to the hour and minute and the PC never spotted it, at least you've got it
dated.  But it is still a bit of a lose.  The only time you totally lose is
when you have to put the whole itsa line in.

     Aberration is a means of perverting the itsa line.  Pure evil is denial
of the itsa line and aberration of it.  Perversion of the itsa line has to be
very direct in order to be very aberrative.  Given the slightest chance, the
PC will put in his itsa line.  But the question is: will he put it in on
anything aberrative?  He won't, unless directed to it.  Psychoanalysis directs
the itsa line to something non-aberrative, lets him itsa, and then evaluates,
putting the itsa line in totally, analyzing it for him.

     Putting in a hope factor by saying that something can be done to change
conditions puts in the itsa line, to a small degree.  Even, "Start of session"
puts in an itsa line, with the intent of putting the PC in a position to
itsa.  The intention makes the difference, where one puts in the itsa line for
another.  An evil intention, [in this respect] is one that is devoted to
decreasing the person's ability to itsa.  That is the way to make slaves.  A
good intention is an intention to improve someone's itsa.  Get the person to
identify, spot, and point out, and he will be in better shape than he is.

     This corner of the universe is suffering from a surplus of lousy
civilization.  It was recently conquered, but it was set up to be conquered by
the use of degrading mental technology.  The civilization in this area
implanted their own soldiers "to be loyal" "to be brave", etc.  Such a
civilization has no power, because for an implant to stick, it has to have two
items: one positive and one negative, e.g. "to be a loyal soldier" and "to be a disloyal soldier".  So fifty percent of the implant is in the negative.  Also, the fact that the implant was done at all destroys loyalty.  The Galactic Confederacy, with no implanting, lasted eighty trillion years.  The Espinol Confederacy, with implants, lasted a few hundred thousand years.  Rome died at the hands of her slaves, not at those of barbarians.  Being a free man didn't pay, so who wanted to fight for Rome?  Slavery produced a civil war.  The first families of Boston made their money from slaves [and so we got a civil war, too.] It is not just a matter of sentiment.  Statistically, slavery never pays off.  It is dangerous.  Russia is having trouble because of the slave economy, which is a hang-over from pre-revolutionary Russia.  Probably the white Russian nobility came back from the between-lives area as communists.

     Slavery always produces a backlash because a thetan never really gives
up.  He can hold the postulate that he was right all the way down to the
bottom of unconsciousness.  The effort to dominate and to deny power of choice
to others is the road that this universe walked towards the Hell it became.
Fear stands ahead of that.  The nonsense behind it is that a thetan can't do
anything but survive, so for him to fear non-survival is foolish.  How to kill
a thetan is the biggest problem in this universe.

     How can a being who cannot cease to survive get into a state of mind
where he is afraid that he won't?  It takes a lot of trickery.  Usually it is
on an extension of self into a possession, like making a minion: mocking up a
mock-up, endowing it with life, and protecting it when someone attacks it.  It
can be a body, a state, etc.  The thetan must have confused himself with it to
the point where he thinks his survival can be affected.  That is the first
step into aberration.

     The next step is elementary.  One is worried about survival, so one
solves the problem of survival by domination.  This solution is not successful
in the long run.  That which is not admired tends to persist.  That is one
reason why domination stays around:  domination is not admired.  Thetan A, to
protect something, dominates thetan B.  In so doing, he sets himself up to be
dominated in turn.  Having set up a cause-effect line, the line can reverse.
It is a comm line, with duplication, which makes it easy to reverse.  Any
custom on this planet has this reverse duplication element.  You can count on
its having been the reverse at some time.  The duplication factor easily makes
cause look like effect on this comm line, and it leads to the overt-motivator
sequence.  One commits overts.  Then, one day, one slips into effect and gets
what one caused.  Running O/W frees up a vicious comm line and cures some
mis-identifications, thus undoing aberration.  For instance, waiters wear
black tuxedos.  Any custom was a reverse custom at an earlier date.

     If communication is so dangerous, why does a thetan communicate at all?
It is because he wants to be oriented.  Once oriented, a thetan uses his best
tool: communication, to dominate, to do people in and to mess up things that
he tries to identify with.  He mis-uses his comm line.  It is there because he
is lost and feels the need of orientation, hence his desire for
communication.  There is insecurity behind this desire, the reason for which
we don't know yet.  In using the itsa line, "we're using the obsession to
identify, which lies back of the communication line.  We are using a principle
higher than communication, coupled with communication, in order to orient and
rehabilitate the thetan."

     All we are missing is what lies behind the insecurity that caused him to
start the whole cycle.  Originally, the thetan was not insecure, was not
reaching, not protecting anything, and he was not communicating!  How and why
did anyone get to him, originally, to the point where he felt that he needed
to be oriented to be comfortable?  It is hard to figure this out because there
was no communication at the time.  But "you show me the problem, and very
shortly later, I'll show you the answer."

     Just as it took only one step to start down that road, so it takes only a
step at the other end to go back up.  The PC gradiently comes up to OT, then
breaks through with a shock that may scare him.  Processing is the cure for
having to be familiarized with things to itsa.  We are undoing the tendency to
itsa by using it.  Once a thetan is free of those things, he will snap back to
his original lost power, at least until he rights some wrongs and slips,
briefly.

     Self-determinism, pan-determinism, and personal power is restored to the
individual along the line of minimal help and maximal recovery of
self-determinism, of self-ability to itsa, on the part of the PC.  As the case
goes along, its progress is measured directly by the degree to which
self-determinism is returned into the PC's hands.  Thus you could get a
fantastic number of engrams and GPM's run and have a foggy PC, by dating
everything in the bank for him or by invalidating some datum of the PC's, no
matter how slightly.

     An auditor has the same problem a mother has:  to give enough help, but
not too much.  The amount of help required is not constant from one PC to the
next, because PCs are at such different levels of independence and
aberration.  Both could be high!  The problem is to determine how much help
the PC needs in order to know.  What you want to do is to take whatever
ability you find and reduce any dependency you find.  Give the PC all the help
he needs to get along, and then reduce it.

     Added into all this is your flubs.  You will never reduce them to zero,
so don't try.  You will get caught in cross-currents of communication and
purposes.  Since the PC's comm line is so often fogged up in session, the
auditor's ability to handle it perfectly is nil.  So the auditor shouldn't be
afraid of mishandling the PC, because an occasional mishandling is
inevitable.  So, when this happens, you have to get slippy and handle the
intention line, if possible.

     Don't put the PC's attention on the auditor.  This can happen by mistake,
but watch out!  E.g., don't say, "Do you want to tell me about it?"  This
inadvertently diverts attention to the auditor.

     The PC's itsa line will get better to the degree that it is permitted to
exist.  Don't just let the PC talk, but direct his attention to things in the
bank that he can identify.  Don't tell him what he is looking at, if you can
avoid it, but if you do have to tell him, let him itsa it.  If you don't, his
ability to identify will deteriorate, and his ability to know whether he is
right will decrease.  That is the effect of confirming his itsa line with the
meter.  If you look on what you are doing as improving the PC's ability to
know that he is right, to be positive, you will make minimal mistakes.  That
is the chief ability that is there to be improved on a case.  If you look on a
case as something from which significances have to be removed, regardless of
the PC's ability to be certain, the PC will still make it, but it will take
much longer.  The PC's case improves by removal of charge but is impeded by
the auditor cutting back his ability to itsa.

     An "ARC breaky PC" is probably one with a high degree of independence,
perhaps swamped by charge.  You can create dependency by telling him
everything.  There is also the point to be considered, that if you don't tell
the PC when an item is finally discharged, early in running GPM's, the PC will
leave items charged, and the mechanism of the bank will cause him to bounce
and ARC break.  So you put in the itsa line: itsa discharged.  Sooner or
later, the PC will start to tell you that it is.  At that point, stop telling
him that it is clean.  Don't stop if he still can't tell.  To do so would
leave him with live RI's and postulates.  Wean him off from the meter slowly,
validating his knowingness as it develops.  Give the PC all the help he
needs.  If a PC can't tell what is in his bank, he can't live with it.  There
is a certain minimal help that a PC needs to get started.  He can't do it all
on his own.

     On the other hand, you could get a PC who hasn't been here long, who
cognites on the Axioms, knocks out the bank, does change of space processing
between the auditing room and the next building [See The Creation of Human
Ability, pp. 37-39; 171-173.  This is the "Grand Tour" process, the object of
which is to get all areas into present time by directing the PC to be in a
variety of places.], and says goodby and thank you.  Fine.  You audited him.

     ARC breaky PCs sometimes get into the situation of having their concept
of their own independence cut up by people putting in itsa lines for them.
They dramatize.  A PC who is routinely ARC breaky undoubtedly has something
wrong with the itsa line, and not from auditing.  He could benefit from an
18-button prepcheck on the itsa line.  Those eighteen buttons are the most
powerful itsas there are or ever have been in the universe.  Another approach
would be to handle the fact that the PC is using the ARC break to solve a
problem.  But the prepcheck normally gets it cleaned up.

     A cut itsa line is the most colossal PTP there is.  A person's itsa line
to the rest of the universe is cut just by the fact of his being on earth.  If
he tries to leave earth, he goes to the between-lives area.

     The only missing piece is: why does a thetan have a compulsion to itsa?