6609C08 SHSpec-80 States of Identity Apparently, there is a boundary, beyond which you don't have thetans; you have endowment of a form with life: the little things that wiggle. For instance the amoeba or the cell is endowed. An OT comes along and says, "Let there be chicken!" He leaves a puddle of theta to animate it. this is the concept of how bodies are built. There is some truth in the idea that talking to flowers makes them grow better. 'Way back someplace, the thetan probably did something like this. The "green thumb" phenomenon is perhaps a lower-scale harmonic of this. There do seem to be people with a green thetan. Other natural abilities of thetans sometimes get preserved in or by individuals in an out-of-control state. So you get telekinesis, telepathy, child geniuses, etc. Jung had trouble with "poltergeists". Actually, he was subject to a form of below-awareness telekinesis. Some skills that are on automatic will temporarily vanish in the course of clearing. Suddenly you find that you can't do it anymore. But when it comes back, it is you doing it, instead of a machine or something. Jung went into only one past life -- that of the English Druids. Anything wrong with a thetan is a lower harmonic of that he can do, higher up on the scale. When that goes wrong, his ability on it goes into an inversion or goes out of his control and still happens in his vicinity, as with Jung, and puzzles him. It is just a little facet of his ability that has been brought down with him and not yet eaten up. Boy wonders tend to fold up because they don't know that they are doing it. It is not under their control. The musical child prodigy has probably been a good musician in the near past. As you go upscale, you tend to lose circuits. If we exempt endowed states of wiggle, we can find out how far down [in the fifth dynamic] a thetan can go. The answer is: someplace in the insect or animal kingdom. Above that, you get thetans; below that, wiggle. Sometimes you run into a horse who is a thetan, and sometimes you run into one that isn't. Or a bee who was and a bee who wasn't. When nothing much is required of an animal or insect, you can get survival as just a piece of automatic machinery, unchanging in habit pattern, etc. It is a shadow of a thetan because a thetan made it. You occasionally find vegetables in the human race: [bodies without thetans]. Maybe sometimes some thetan picks up the body and it changes spectacularly. A body can survive, although not well, without a thetan. When it has been totally guided by a thetan and the thetan leaves, the body isn't on any automatic functioning, and it won't do well. Also, if a thetan caves a body in, the body won't do well. A body will only get as good as you take away what is caving the body in. Most mammalian bodies live six times as long as it takes them to grow up. Thus Man's lifespan should go to 110-120 years. The reason why it doesn't is that the human body is driven by a thetan. An aberrated thetan causes a sick body. A thetan with a service fac is quite capable of keeping a body from getting well. As a society becomes more aberrated, it becomes more sick. One form of endowed life may destroy another form. So it shouldn't upset you that you can cure up the thetan and the body doesn't get well. There are a variety of illnesses that a body suffers from because it is being messed up by a thetan who, with his intention and aberration, is influencing his physical body. That body will get as well as you relieve the aberration of the thetan in those sectors where the thetan is causing the body to get sick. Therefore, don't assume that all that is wrong with the body is the mind. But, in addition to the effects of the thetan on the body, there is also a different seement of illness, caused by endowed life units that are designedly contrary to the body's life units, e.g. disease germs, [parasites, worms, etc.]. Then there is physical injury. If you hit a body with a battering ram, it doesn't matter what state the thetan is in. The body is going to go, "Splash!" If a body is badly Guided, it is smashed often. So you can reduce this category of bodily ills by fixing up the thetan so that he has fewer accidents. However, some accident is pretty inevitable in an uncleared environment. Another factor is the repairing ability of the being. If one were really upscale as a thetan, he could patch up or repair the body directly, or he could mock up a new one: Lower Scale Manifestation: The thetan stops knocking the body about. Upper Scale Manifestation: The thetan can put the body back together again. So there are three sectors of attack on a body: 1. Endowed life attacking the endowed life of the body. 2. Aberration of the thetan influencing the body. 3. [Mechanical damage to the body. This would include chemical damage (poisons, lack of air, etc.).] And there are three basic means of cure: 1. The thetan can repair the body directly. 2. You can use beneficial endowed life units (as in antibiotics) to help the body. 3. You can repair the body mechanically, as with surgery. Here, you can repair damage [or misplaced parts -- e.g. from faulty construction of the body] or cut out endowed life forms [infected tissue or cancerous tissue] that attack the endowed life of the body. [Chemical repair could be in this category also, e.g. antidotes, oxygen, water, etc.] Therefore, to assume that you can cure everything with auditing is as silly as to assume that you can cure fear of spiders by means of neurosurgery. Beings do tend to an "allness", a cure-all propensity. "As long as you are not able to endow matter with life, you have to settle for what you've got." You have to live with the body you've got, or do without one. So you have to decade whether you are looking at: 1. Endowed life forms countering each other. 2. Pure mechanical injury. 3. Something the thetan is doing to the body. You are better off in the last sphere. The first two need to be handled in an emergency, but the thetan is quite capable of preventing a body from recovering, e.g. with a service fac. So auditing can act as a before or after adjunct to the handling of (1) or (2), above. You could make a thetan less susceptible to (1) or (2), and you could come along after the fact and speed up healing, to the degree that the thetan was preventing it from happening. Your only mistake is to run the incident while it is still going on. Treat it first. And don't get into an allness about auditing and its healing effects. The mechanism of miracles, using religious relics or tokens, e.g. a saint's knuckle bone, is a restimulation of the curative abilities of a thetan, if they existed. That is, the thetan's idea of his own power is restimulated by demonstrating that there is power somewhere. nut this is a mental Intervention. Faith healing restores, momentarily, a thetan's OT ability to do something with the body. It has drawbacks, since every now and then, when a body was endowed by thetan A, when thetan B comes along and puts some life into it, it will get sicker. Some faith healers have not lost the ability to endow life or change the life endowment of a body. You can look around the eyes and get the stars that you can see surrounding them. These are little gold balls. Throw them away and put in your own, and you can get sicker. Bodies don't like having their anchor points messed around with or exchanged. To complete the experiment, throw your gold balls away and get the other ones back. There are many things that Man didn't know about beingness or life. Therefore he made fantastic mistakes. Don't make these mistakes. Recognize Man's limitations relative to this. Recognize also that they are not your limitations, but that they are Man's. Therefore, you need an understanding of states of beingness. A caved-in thetan is on a reverse. He is totally the unknowing effect of his own cause. Anything he can do is being done, but he is not doing it. He has lost some of his ability to have even that happen. He is totally gone. So estimate how far down he can go. He can go down to being the effect of the effect of the effect, etc. of himself. But this is 'way beyond his reality, so don't expect him to got any reality on how he is doing it. When you get a body animated by a thetan, as opposed to having a body that is merely endowed, you go into a fringe that is well below being oneself or being conscious. One is sort of automatically awake, automatically existing, with no responsibility for being alive, awake, or existing. Just below that, you get unconsciousness. Below where he has a clue that he is conscious, you are getting down to the lower dregs [of thetanhood] and the upper strata of the human race. The thetan conceives that he is a body: endowed life and no more. He is a removed something. He is an identity, a body. He can be picked up rapidly from there to the state of Grade 0 release: quite a distance. A Grade 0 release is less the effect of causes, but he is not up to causative alertness. He is awake or groggy on an effect basis. As he improves, he gets to be less the effect. both of his own cause and of others' cause. A guy who is really low down on cause is the effect of anything that occurs anywhere. He worries about "train wrecks 8000 miles away." He could go downscale from that point, so that he doesn't worry anymore, because he doesn't exist and isn't worth anything, so it doesn't matter what he is the effect of. He can go down below that into faith: "I have an automatic regulator of my destiny, so I don't have to be alert or be concerned about anything, because something somewhere is taking care of me." This isn't necessarily connected with a religion. People will mock this state up for themselves, without even knowing that they are doing it. At this point, the thetan is totally irresponsible. Going downscale from there, he goes into a sort of numbness -- a further release from responsibility. Below this, he is subject to any number of automaticities, which, if triggered, would produce a total, certifiable insanity. The majority of the human face is about a quarter of an inch above that. That is why many people don't listen to you. Their state of beingness isn't up to it. You must keep the above in mind when asking a wog to look at responsibility. An individual, asked to look at his mind as a cause or an effect, can get into such anxiety, instead of looking into himself, that he goes frenziedly mad. Say that we were in an arena. Someone let in a tiger, and you said to Joe, "Jump over the railing and deal with the tiger." He would think that you were joking at first, but if you tried to force him over the railing, you would have a fighting, screaming person on your hands, who would be liable to say most anything. So it is with the SP, when you get him to look at his mind, e.g. to look at breakfast. SP's aren't trying to disprove scientology. There is no doubt in their minds that you could make them do things, and the thought terrifies them. The SP thinks that you are likely to drive him mad. SP's think that they are public benefactors who are discrediting scientology so that people won't have to look at their minds. An SP is below being able to be the effect of anything, even an automaticity. So when you bring him upscale, the first thing he has to confront, that he might possibly be the effect of, is the mind, and he goes, "Sting!" He goes a bit insane. SP's are below the level of Insanity. [So they have to come up through a band of insanity. Cf. R.D. Laing's idea that the path to sanity is through insanity.] They are below the level of being the effect of anything, good or bad. Any effect is bad, so they have to be an automatic thing [cause] that has an automatic effect. Actually, they are a and A'ing with an endowed self. Your presence, however, can bring them upscale. You can be up to the point where your ability to endow is on automatic, and you get guys twitching around you. When you get to OT, that comes under control. There has [always] been a way up and a road out, but it hasn't been pursued, because philosophers are thoughtful types. They are noted for being reasonable and getting themselves martyred. But few stand up strongly when the firing squad marches down the street. Voltaire got reasonable. A breakthrough like this isn't a scholarly affair. It has to be done with a "Here goes nothing!" attitude. To follow up on scientology, a person would either have to be very reassured in a very quiet environment for a considerable period of time, if the person was pretty bad off, i.e." normal". He would have to be calmed down before he could confront something. The percent of people who can confront is the upper one percent of the planet. When you have the ability to confront, it is possible that you could exert enough influence on the environment ("possible" is a horrible understatement) to calm it down to a point where he could confront and disenturbulate it enough to make gains. To handle the insane, you go down to what he can confront: being still in a still environment, with no one worrying him, with one solid, stable object. You could let him disenturbulate in this environment. The psychotic "doesn't have engrams that make him insane.... He is insane because his ability to confront the environment in his immediate vicinity is so low that he could never possibly take his mind off [his environment] long enough [to look at his mind. It is] too dangerous. Just as your super [SP] screams when you tell him to confront his mind, the psychotic screams when you tell him to confront the environment." Hence, a quiet environment is the only "cure" for insanity. "Insanity is a study of environments. It's not a study of the mind." There is no reason to audit the insane at all. When the environment is very safe and the individual is no longer actively insane, then, on a very light gradient, you could get him to confront the mind. Scientology's problem is not the problem of making one OT. If clears have trouble communicating with wogs, OT's have even more trouble. You could endow a crippled boy's leg with life and heal it. This would be OK, unless you tried to explain what happened. Possibly, he would come upscale to faith, but he would be more likely to go into terror than into faith. Your main line is the improvement of the being who is willing to be improved. Doing this, you will get enough improved beings to handle the problems in society that must be handled to snap the society out of being insane. You don't want to lift people up by faith, though, but by hope: the hope that maybe some day they could do something about it. First, you give him the hope that you can do something for him or about it, then that he can do something about himself and "it". Then the small hopes materialize. States of beingness that Man will recognize do include saints, gods, miracle men, and messiahs -- all sorts of beings. Because Man is familiar with Superman, Batman, etc., he tends to attribute these characteristics to anything that is a step forward for Man. In the past, they would have attributed the characteristics of saints to scientologists. In Greek society, it would have been the characteristics of gods. Man is capable of conceiving of such beings, as long as they are unreal and exterior. They are OK if looked at through a holy book or something. "What Man can conceive and what Man can confront are two different things." A Catholic priest professes a belief in supernatural phenomena, but what would he do it Christ's hand suddenly appeared, disembodied, and started turning the pages of his breviary? "Similarly, what a being can conceive he can become and what he can confront being" -- there is a gap between these two things. We need further definition to distinguish clears and OT's. A clear has lost the matter, energy, space, and time connected with a thing called "the mind". He is not an all-knowing being. He moves up through becoming cause over the matter, energy, space, and time of his mind. An OT is a being who is knowing and willing cause over life, thought, matter, energy, space, and time. That definition doesn't say, "a mind". "Life" includes endowed cells, not only or necessarily other thetans. The OT may or may not be able to handle another thetan, but he can handle this commodity called "life". So there is a big gap between clear and OT. A clear makes a not-too-aberrated human being almost fly into pieces. This happens to a minority of people, but it does give an element of fear connected with clears. You are making people confront something that is somehow a little bit within their ken. You will not find them tracing the source of it. It isn't bad for them. If they sat around long enough, they would run out all the pictures. A clear puts "normal people at effect, without trying to do a thing. He just has a sufficient zone of beingness, that what falls into that zone ... is liable to be ... as-ised ... or go into some sort of action." Sometimes people fear clears a little and don't quite know why they feel that way. They don't necessarily associate the feeling with the clear. Even a Grade IV release can be so much calmer and more at cause than the environment, that his presence can be therapeutic. So, as you come downscale to a Grade IV release, they stand out rather remarkably, and they are still a little bit out of reach. As you go downscale from there, you get [a person who is] more able to disseminate, because he more closely matches the reality level of the rest of the environment. As you go down the release stages, you get closer and closer to an ability to influence another without causing a mess, directly, immediately, understandably, and without restimulation. The bridge stays in, as a gradient for dissemination. Even the Book One clear was looked upon with considerable awe. A Bodhi is probably below a dianetic release. It is stable for from two seconds to two years. But Buddhism's promise to make a Bodhi was enough to civilize three fourths of Asia. Having moved out of the reality of wogs, the scientologist tends to compare himself with other scientologists. He is unaware of his state of beingness until he is surrounded by wogs. That makes him somewhat unhappy in the company of wogs. As you go up towards clear, this is less true. If you go out in the wog world as a clear, they don't spot you as source. You tend to produce certain phenomena. You give the impression of being in command even when you don't do anything to command. People will say, "I have to concentrate to talk to you," or "You have such a command of the situation," when nothing is being commanded. You don't bother to use this. Mainly, life becomes easier. The pity of these states of beingness is that there is a limit to what one being can do for another. You can do a lot, but you can't live another's life for him. What you can do is: 1. Provide a safe environment. 2. Show a way, a methodology. 3. Provide for the ethical application or administration of methodology. 4. Give advice. 5. Pervade the environment with calmness. 6. Mock up a new leg for a crippled boy. But that is the limit. The rest is up to the other guy. Unless you lead the person to increase his own beingness, he will never arrive. This is the point that has been missed in all prior attempts to better Man. The only "miraculous intervention" there is or ever will be, comes from the person himself. He must overcome the terror of becoming the effect. He must be led upwards by an unenturbulated environment to destimulate enough so that he can put his own feet on the road out and walk. You can help him only with those first steps. Helping the individual is the only way to help humanity out.