6309C18 SHSpec-308 Saint Hill Service Fac Handling

     It is adventurous to go in to handle something, like the mind, without
knowing what you are doing.  Every case and every practitioner in the field of
the mind has been concentrated on one aspect of existence and dedicated to
observing existence only through that aspect.  So no wonder little has been
discovered, and less applied.  Knowledge about the mind means freedom for life
and beings in this universe.  Therefore, anyone who is after enslavement is
also in favor of ignorance about the mind.  There are two ways to make people
ignorant:

     1. Deny any information at all.

     2. Substitute false data.  This is an easier and more effective way.

Add to this the fact that:

     3. Everyone is mired in his own favorite data

and you've got a good trap.

     The way to overcome ignorance is to find the precise mechanics that apply
to all minds, because this will be a broader truth that overrides all the
minor data on which people are fixated.  False relay of the basic truth,
dropping out bits, could again make a slavery, because it would deviate enough
from the generally recognized broad truth and degenerate into opinion and
fixed data.  This is the difficulty that scientology has had to deal with over
the years.  The solution is results, because once the technology is producing
results, you get no arguments.  So the whole contest has not been for the
achievement of certain truths.  We have had these for years.  Rather, the
contest has been for workability, so that we can get an application of those
truths, so that we can get a rapid release of attention from "favorite data"
and so that there is a demonstration that by using the truth, a greater
freedom is attained.

     The one reason why you can't get a PC to see that he can get a release of
attention by virtue of applying general truths is because of his favorite
data, his fixed idea.  He considers that any other truths have to agree with
this favorite idea in order to be true.  He is sure that all horses sleep in
beds.  This is not only his fixed data; it is his total data.  Any data that
doesn't contribute to it, he will discard.  To a person with a service fac,
his idea of truth is whether something fits his idee fixe.  A person may have
his attention fixed to a varying extent.  So a person whose attention is not
totally fixed may obtain fringe benefits from studying scientology.  To the
degree that a person's attention is fixed, he is not able to explore the
perimeter of his ideas and therefore cannot see a greater truth.  So he is
more entrapped than someone who is less fixed.  The greater the fixation, the
closer to psychosis.  Psychosis is the state in which the individual has only
the idee fixe.  The degree of enslavement is the degree to which the
individual is fixated on the fixed idea.

     If you try to communicate a datum to someone with a very fixed idea, the
datum will be received as false, unless you indicate the fixed idea.  If you
communicate some idea that fits with the fixed idea, it will be accepted as
true.  It could be that any other datum you then communicate will be taken as
true.  But these data will not be inspected.

     False data is worse than none, as far as entrapment is concerned.  It is
like putting up a sign pointing over a cliff and saying, "This way lies
freedom." One can only get fixated on falsehood, never on truth.  Truth is an
all-freeing mechanism.  If freedom is not obtained, the truth in question must
be to some degree limited, either in conception, reception, or application.
Therefore, anything you are worried about must have a falsehood connected with
it.  There is always a lie connected to anything that you are having trouble
with.

     A session goes well if and only if you get TA action.  The discovery that
a PC's case gain can be measured directly by TA action seems simple, but it is
an advance in technology beyond anything in the past fifty thousand years,
since it takes judgement of improvement out of the realm of opinion and
possible inability to observe, on the part of the auditor or the PC.

     All confusions and masses must be there because they are held in
abeyance, so far as observation is concerned, and will not as-is, because of a
stable datum.  A stable datum prevents observation of the environment or these
masses, and therefore accumulates masses.  What is wrong with a mind is that a
stable datum is a substitute for observation.  A person:

     1. Ceased to inspect.

     2. Fell back from living.

     3. Let everything go to pieces.

     4. Chose a stable datum instead of inspecting.

     5. Got an accumulation of mass and confusion.

When you shake up the stable datum by taking apart some of its ramifications,
confusion can start to flow off.

     The amount of TA determines whether or not the PC had a good session, no
matter what the PC says.  There is no opinion about it at all.  Good TA means
that the PC will feel better.  Bad TA means almost invariably that the PC
won't feel good.

     "A stable datum is held in place by the confusion it's supposed to
confront and doesn't." Instead of remedying the confusion, as it was supposed
to do, and as inspection would have done, it collects more confusion.  Like a
dam, the more confusion it is supposed to hold in place, the more confusion
batters at it, so the more confusion accumulates around it, like twisting a
fork in a bowl of taffy.  Modern science and other mental technologies have
taken a stable datum that Man is an animal and that the mind is a brain.  The
idea that Man is mass is a stable datum in a confusion, that is persistently
dramatized.  Try to tell the modern scientist about stuck flows, and he will
think that you are giving him a lecture on blood and the causes of coronary
thrombosis.  They can't be taught until you get them to inspect some thoughts
that they have had about brains.  Modern science has "Man equals the brain" as
a stable datum.

     What can you do for someone who is totally bound in and fixated, to the
point where he is being a stable datum?  You could take a datum of enormous
magnitude and hold a gun on this person and say, "Believe it, or we shoot
you!" That substitutes a force-datum for inspection.  Ultimately, it fails,
because it is just another stable datum with an associated confusion.  That is
why I.Q. usually deteriorates with years of schooling, since "modern
education" is usually just laying in more and more uninspected stable data.
You would have a whole new area of education if you said, "Look over this data
and sort out what is true in it." You should have the student inspect data and
find what is right or wrong about it.

This is of limited usefulness as long as everyone has his own fixed idea by
which to tell rightness from wrongness.  Another way to go about it would be
to free up people's ideas, so that their perimeter of inspection increases, so
that they can inspect the data that lies before them.  You lead them up with a
disciplined action that leads them to their fixed idea.  When they have
spotted and disposed of that, they are free to inspect and move up to higher
levels of truth.

     Therefore it is important to find the PC's central fixed idea as soon as
possible, thus freeing him to inspect more broadly.  You free a being by
freeing him, not by making him wiser.  Exteriorization and even the state of
OT depends on getting greater freedom, not more wisdom, because with the
freedom, wisdom will be attainable and will take place anyway.  By
concentrating on the wisdom, you are all too likely to fall into the idea of
the implanted stable datum.  Freeing attention leads to freeing the being,
since all that can trap a being is his attention.  A thetan can only trap
himself by:

     1. Being unwilling to confront things that are not interesting to
        him.

     2. Being unwilling to back out of situations in which he has lost
        interest.

     3. Being unwilling to move off and go his way but still, somehow, be
        responsible for where he was.

Various combinations of the above lead to the individual trapping himself by
leaving some inanimate postulate in his place, to confront confusions for
him.  E.g. "I have an unconscious mind that does all that." The unconscious
mind is that totality of stable data that is holding back that totality of
confusion that the individual is no longer aware of but is still doing.

     So when you are looking for the PC's service fac, you will be looking for
that on which his attention is most fixated in PT.  Fetish objects are just
things associated in some way with a person's service fac.  Any cousin to the
service fac that you find will give you TA, as the confusion can flow.  The
service fac is the last pair of RI's, formed at the top of the last
(truncated) GPM postulated.  It has a lot of locks and "cousins" which you
will be able to pick up first.  It is actually impossible to find the exact
pair of items as the service fac.  The PC has to know that they are part of
that GPM before he will recognize them.  They must be seen as part of the
bank, before they are recognizable to the PC.  They have to be related to the
last goal and to the last two RI's.  You need these three data in addition.
You won't find the service fac, but try anyway, because that is where you will
find the last actual GPM.  It is those two top RI's that have the PC so
restimulated that PT is restimulative and his TA won't move.  So you have no
choice but to find the PT goal of the PC.

     Having found the goal, find the top oppterm of its GPM by asking, "Who or
what would be the latest idea formed, concerning this goal, 'to catch
catfish'?" Make a reasonable-sized list.  List it to clean needle and null to
a reading item.  Prepcheck it after the PC has cognited for awhile.  Then you
might see it rocket read.  The difficulty in finding PCs' goals has always
been in getting them to rocket read.  You can do this whole operation with
only ticks and no RR, until you have prepchecked the top oppterm.

     Here is how to do it:

     1. Find what you hope is his service fac.  This gives you enough TA so
        some charge is off.  Hunt and punch around until you know you've got
        something that will get good TA action, either on "right/wrong",
        prepcheck, or something.  Don't do anything with it.  It is not the
        real service fac.  This keeps the PC's tone and morale up, by virtue
        of getting some TA off it, or by having the promise of getting TA off
        it.

     2. Start looking for the GPM.  If things bog down while looking for his
        goal, you can still run the item from (1) for awhile and give him some
        TA.

     3. This could go on for a couple of sessions, until you get a goal that
        ticks and that keeps going, "Tick!", which reads as an actual goal,
        probably from the past track.  It is not likely to be the PT goal.
        So:

     4. Use goal-oppose to get up to PT.  So you oppose the goal, do the same
        check on it, then oppose that goal and get another one.  Check each
        new goal found as being for sure an actual goal.  Check if it is the
        PT goal.  The PC will be very interested in what you find, since they
        are his actual goals.  Keep doing this until, eventually, you will
        reach his PT goal.

     5. When you reach his PT goal and you oppose it, the list goes nowhere.
        It keeps developing more and more TA.  The PC won't ARC break, because
        you are listing towards his future postulates, and unburdening the PT
        goal.  By the above phenomena, you know that you have the PT goal.

     6. You check this; make sure it is the PT goal.

     7. List for the top oppterm, which may or may not be opposed yet.  You
        could find out where the PC is on the GPM by asking him if he has
        started to oppose the goal yet.  List to a clean needle, null it.
        Don't have two RR's on the list, etc.  Don't be too concerned with
        whether or not it is really the top oppterm.  The top oppterm will
        most likely give lots of needle action.  When you hit the top oppterm,
        the needle goes mad.

     8. After you have given the PC his item, you sit still and let him
        cognite.

     9. Put in big-mid-ruds on the item, as far as you can.

    10. Call the item; you will probably see it rocket read.

That is a fast, slippy way to get into the PC's current actual GPM, starting
with R3SC.  When you are on the goals finding step, check over any goals that
the PC may have mentioned earlier, that were seen to fire then.

     Having found the PT goal, you are ready to take the bank apart.  That
first RI accounts for all PT restimulation.  The reason why we haven't been
able to find goals on PCs is the overburden of the top terminal and oppterm
accumulating all the debris of PT and masking the top GPM, or any GPM, for
that matter.  Because of this masking action, we used to have to find goals
with ticks, instead of rocket reads.  When the top RI's and their accumulated
mass are gone, you are ready to roll right down the bank and back up again.
The PC gets TA, TA, TA:  Now he's got a new problem:  We are in a new GPM and
can go get it in the same way.