Guk and Freewheeling (500929)
Date: 29 September 1950
Speaker: L. Ron Hubbard
Good evening.
Before I start, here, I’d like to make a little clarification on these demonstrations. They are just demonstrations of technique. I’m not trying to push these people very hard; I’m trying to give you what you should do when you’re running a patient. I seldom do anything beyond what I was doing right there. Last night it probably would have required another hour to have reduced that particular engram down. So, these are just demonstrations. Only on Monday nights at 9:25 do I do miracles for people. Last night was Thursday night, that was why.
Well, tonight we have a very interesting subject; it’s been very interesting to me, anyway. A subject which took, probably, three-quarters of the time off a complete Dianetic processing. Now that, at one fell swoop, was a considerable amount of time. Mind you now, I haven’t put this to a complete test, so that I can say it’s exactly three-quarters of the time has been lopped off but it just appears, from what I’ve seen so far, that this is the case. It’s somewhere around there. Furthermore, this technique about which I’m going to tell you tonight proofs the preclear against many mistakes.
I read a paper circulating around here about chemical assist which said that chemical assist was more dangerous to work. I don’t know who was the author of this paper but it doesn’t happen to be true. So tonight I’m going to tell you about chemical assist. Now this has a Dianetically technical name; it’s called “Guk.” It’s named “Guk” after the material that the marines used to clean out their rifles. It promotes—somebody suggested that it was called “Guk” because it promoted garrulity and achieved personal unity, and it got knowledge of the preclear. But however bad a gag this was, it is “G-u-k.” I’ve heard this variously mispronounced. I must call to your attention that this is a technical name.
The history of Guk should be known to you. Along about, I think it was July 15, we had a chemical engineer, the ex-director of research at the Block Chemical Company. We whistled him away from Block Chemical and he told us about an atropine derivative that might be used. For a long time we’d been scouting for the one-shot Clear. Thought one of these fine days we may be able to—person walks in, you know, and you take a hypodermic syringe and you shoot it in his arm, and he goes up against the ceiling and comes down again and he’s Clear. And we’ve been talking about this for some time as something that was possibly feasible. So, anyway, whether it’s feasible or not is beyond the point. Certainly it can be approached. And in this search he had this atropine derivative.
Well, up to that time I wasn’t sure that the reactive mind and the analytical mind could be influenced independent of each other. That is to say, could you influence an engram without influencing the analytical mind? Or could you influence the analytical mind without influencing engrams? If this could be done then it would demonstrate that they were in two different compartments—that they were two different things, or at least along that level they could be considered so, as far as operation was concerned. That it wasn’t just the analytical mind all balled up that we also call the reactive mind, and that the reactive mind was one bin— and could we empty that bin?
Now, I knew that the reactive mind had one perceptic that the analytical mind does not have, and that perceptic is pain. Therefore that’s one perceptic there. The biochemical manifestation of the reactive mind is that it contains physical pain, it contains unconsciousness and it contains highly charged emotion, that is, negative emotion. It has these three things. As far as perceptics is concerned, it just contains pain— more than the analytical mind has. So, what’s the biochemistry of pain?
Along about 1931, 32, I was sitting around wondering what life force was and whether or not we couldn’t conduit it, you know, and run it through electric wires and maybe pump up a dead person—wild thoughts, but perhaps life force was really a force. Well, I’ve found out since that you can enormously influence life force in the field of biochemistry, bioelectrical fields and so on. What these things are, nobody knows. But the point is, the biochemistry of pain has been of great, great interest to me.
Now it so happens that none of the soporifics are of any use to you in Dianetics. These things come from plants. We thought, perhaps, well, if they’re from plants, maybe plants don’t agree with animal organisms. Maybe there is some essential difference between these two things. All right, I thought along that line for a while and finally decided that maybe you could take bacteria and process it in such a way that it would develop some chemical or something that you could give to a human being and you’d get rid of engrams—a lot of thought on that line. And then one fine day this doctor showed up from Block Chemical with this idea about one of these atropine derivatives. Of course, that’s plant, an herb, you might say, I think. And, nevertheless, he insisted that we make a test of this stuff because it banished psychosomatic ills and it did all sorts of things, a long catalog of panaceas good for man and beast and so on. Actually, it doesn’t do any of these things but it read awfully good when we looked it over. And we shot it into three people and I ran these three people and lo and behold their analytical minds hadn’t been altered; that is to say, they still thought the way they thought, and they felt pretty good, and so on. But the engram bank—the second you took them down the track, the engram bank was found to be glued down tight. It was really glued down. You could take any one of these cases, each one of which was in the progress of an erasure, take him down into the basic area and run a basic area engram. And you could go over it and over it and over it and over it and no unconsciousness came off, nothing came off of it. Somatic would turn on; wouldn’t go away, wouldn’t restimulate. You could bring him up to another engram, run it, wouldn’t matter what you ran on the case. I went up, all the way up and down their time tracks, trying to get something to reduce or erase or behave. This atropine had fastened down the engrams.
This was the first clue that these two minds might be two minds instead of just one mind. All right. We promulgated this information and a lady, Mrs. Hulswit, who does cancer research got an ambitious project together. And she took three or four people and she started to fill them full of everything of which she knew that influenced in any slightest degree the nervous system.
Well, this is the way Edison, you know, fixed up his storage batteries. And this is the way he found a (quote) cure (unquote) for uremia. He took ninety-seven pans full of uric acid crystals and finally filled them with all the fluids in his laboratory until one was found to dissolve them. As a matter of fact, I think he found two or three and those are the ones that are used by medicine today. So this is sort of shotgun type of research.
Well, this is the way she was going about it. Only she didn’t feel that she had time to be selective so she just took all of these pills and started—honest—and started shoving them down peoples throats in the most alarming doses. Well, certainly something happened to engrams. It was very, very strange.
She found out something else, too. She found out you could tell the file clerk to give you somatics, and the somatic strip to erase them, and the man would go on running engrams, automatically, while he is walking around.
Well, these were considerable discoveries. And I had the strange job of going back and trying to find out, then, what it was in all of this mass of pills that eased up the engram bank. Now the way she was doing it, it didn’t ease up the engram bank very much, but it did produce an effect.
Incidentally, the technique had to do—also her technique had to do with a prayer to the file clerk. And two preclears that were run with this particular technique demonstrated definite psychotic tendencies afterwards. So you see, the technique had to be modified a little bit. But she had made a very fine and definite contribution. And in selecting these things out I found that there were several suppressors in this dose. In other words, there were several of these ingredients that actively suppressed engrams, which were working against those which loosened them up. So this was quite a separation job. You had to take this vast array of chemicals . . . And I found out that the first premise, that perhaps you had to get living—something of an animal tissue to affect the human body was evidently correct. Because what worked out as the effective ingredient, two effective ingredients, was glutamic acid and Bl·, as the most effective. Then, of course, there was B12, and then B6 puts B1 into action further. And then, of course, you should have some C and some niacin. This doesn’t do anybody any harm. And it started building back up again to two handfuls of pills.
Well, that is the current state of the technique. A research man has been given a paper now, which—he’s got a long list of amino acids and things on this paper. And he’s busily taking poor, unsuspecting preclears and feeding them what they will imagine to be a standard Guk dose, and which is at the same time quite wildly different. He is looking for several other things.
Glutamic acid and Bi given in sufficient quantity seem to be able to counteract the biochemistry of pain—dissolve pain. The dosage to do that is called, in the Foundation packet right now, “Dose C.” Dose C, if you care to write it down, is 30 grains of glutamic acid, (this is one dose)—30 grains of glutamic acid (they run 7½-grain tablets and they look like horse pills).
And—I’m not prescribing for you, in case the state medical board is present; I’m just telling you about a piece of research. Then there’s B1 in the “C” dose, it’s 200 milligrams. And then there’s B12 which, I think it’s 0.5 or something like that when you put that down. That dosage hasn’t been established. It’s somewhere around there. So, this you can consider dose “C.” Now this works, this works fine.
In using this, there is an additional thing that can be added to it with no danger whatsoever, and that additional thing would be the, what you might call the minerals; ever hear of nutrilite? I only mention nutrilite because it happens to contain one of these tablets. Actually, there are lots of these tablets; what they call a plant base. It contains— they’re raised out of—alfalfa is raised out of soil which is heavily impregnated with minerals, and so you get quite a mineral bomb out of this. You get calcium and all sorts of things. I suspect, I don’t know this positively, but I suspect that overdosage of glutamic acid and Bl. upsets the calcium balance so you need more calcium in the system. I just suspect that; I don’t know that to be a fact. Now that was what really came down. You use a couple of these plant food tablets along with each one of these bomb doses on “C” if you want to be on the safe side on that so you don’t lose the calcium out of your teeth or something. Now, I don’t even say that can happen, but—possibility.
Now, dose “A” is a very interesting thing. It’s only called “A”-“A,” “B,” “C”; the “A,” “B” and “C” have nothing to do with vitamins; they’re just designations. And in dose “A” there happened to be a large slug of vitamin A, one of 25 thousand units of vitamin A, 200 milligrams of vitamin B1, a tablet (standard tablet size, it doesn’t matter what it is) of B6, another tablet of B12 (it doesn’t matter what their strength is, we haven’t established what it is). Then there’s another slug, a standard slug of vitamin E, just one of the tablets you get there of vitamin E; it doesn’t matter how much; you evidently can’t overdose too much in it. I think this is “A,” and it’s not given very often. Then you have your 30 grains of glutamic acid and you have 100 milligrams of niacin. This is very important. The sunburn somatics do not erase unless you have niacin in the “A” dose.
It’s rather a joke on chemical research that before they knew about engrams they assigned to niacin the capability of setting the skin on fire, you know, and having some kind of a reaction. What they were doing was turning on sunburn somatics. And they thought if you overdosed with niacin this would happen. Well, what happened was that when you overdosed with niacin, why, the file clerk would hand out a sunburn somatic, and it would reduce. And if you hand out enough niacin, evidently, enough times, a person eventually gets rid of all of his sunburns, and then niacin won’t do it anymore. So niacin was very badly libeled. It’s a funny flush. They say it will cause a flush on an overdose. Well, it’s a very funny flush that comes from here and stops exactly here; starts here and comes in here; that’s a typical somatic off of niacin. And then there’d be the back of the legs; all of a sudden will start to feel like they’re on fire. So don’t be startled if you, after an “A” dose, you feel like somebody’s turned a blowtorch on you. And then there is, of course, vitamin C, 50 milligrams. That’s “A” dose.
Now, there is a triple “A” dose. I don’t know what happened to the double “A” dose, but there is a triple “A” dose of this stuff and it contains 80 grains of glutamic acid, and it contains 20 milligrams of Benzedrine. You know, by this time, you’re really getting a double handful of pills.
Now the use of this is usually, down at the Foundation—all of this stuff is handed out under prescription by the medical director of the Foundation. So if you want this material, you can—this material, by the way, in single packages, sells across the drugstore counter, except the Benzedrine. But if you are going to mix it together in compounds, something like that, and particularly if you are going to administer it to anybody, why, you want to get a medical doctor, and you check with him to make sure it’s all right. Professional courtesy.
One of these “A”—one of these triple “A” doses administered to a person who is relatively inaccessible produces a considerable effect upon him. He’s liable to straighten up and sail right for a short time so that you can work him. Of course, all of these things could be much better but right now it looks like miracles to somebody that’s been slugging away at people who don’t run easily.
All right. Your triple “A” dose is an emergency dose. That’s when the person is so badly stuck on the track, and you can’t do anything about it, and he’s resisting the rest of the material. You start hitting him with these triple “A” doses. But the ordinary course of Dianetic Guk procedure is to hand out an “A” dose, that’s just before the session. You can expect this to be a long session, too; that’s intensive Guk processing. You see, intensive Guk processing and Guk processing are both the same except in intensive Guk processing you process a fellow for six, eight, ten, twelve hours. It’s just duration of time, that “intensive,” that’s all that means.
Now, you give a person an “A” dose just before you start to run him (a few minutes before you start to run him); after you have been running him a half an hour give him another “A” dose; after you run him another half an hour give him another “A” dose; after you run another half an hour give him another “A” dose; let him run two hours, give him a “C” dose; two hours, “C” dose; two hours, “C” dose; four hours, “C” dose; and from there on out, four hours, “C” doses. I don’t care whether you give it to him for ten days or ten months. Actually, it starts to wear, I mean, most of the somatics get worn out on anybody that will do one of these freewheels, which I’m going to tell you about. They will generally wear out in a few weeks. So he doesn’t have enough left that are shining up to really warrant much more of this freewheeling under Guk. But the point is, that as long as he’s on Guk he should be taking one of these “C” doses every four hours, day and night. And first thing in the morning, on each successive day after you start the processing, give him an “A” dose. So he starts out with an “A” dose, in addition to—pardon me, the “A” dose is given instead of the “C” dose that should be given at that time. Now you got it straight? Very simple. Right now, that will pretty well take care of physical pain.
Now that is to say, it makes engrams a lot easier to run, it brings unconsciousness off the case much faster, and quite in addition to that, sometimes you can run an engram well up the bank (a physical pain engram) and get a reduction on the thing that you wouldn’t ever get it on before. Sometimes you start running a preclear under this Guk and engrams will start coming up in chains. It really does tricks. It is not in itself an automatic clearing mechanism; and that’s what I want to stress to you tonight. People get confused about this Guk. They think this Guk is something like a medicine show bottle of snakeroot oil. It’s not. It doesn’t banish all the ills of man and beast in twenty-four hours. It is a chemical assist, and you should let that word, all by itself, be the clue as to how you use it: assist.
You give it to a person when you’re auditing that person, and your auditing is more effective and you can audit him more safely, but don’t depart one iota from Standard Procedure. You reduce every engram you contact. It’s Standard Procedure and it’s so much so now that in the Foundation they don’t standard process without Guk. In other words, Standard Procedure includes Guk. That’s because it’s so much faster, and you’re burning up the time of a professional auditor. For instance, a couple of these cases I’ve had up here since you’ve been here, would have resolved (snap, snap, snap) very much faster if they’d been on Guk.
Now, there is the way you use it: just exactly like Standard Procedure. If you want to audit a person for hours and hours and hours and hours and hours, that’s intensive Guk processing. It has nothing to do with it except in time duration. If you start a person on Guk, you should prepare to run him at least a Standard Procedure period of two hours. After that time you put him on freewheeling. You run him consecutive days. Each time you run him a couple of hours. That’s what’s important. Keep up your processing on this person. Just put him in Standard Procedure and run the process.
Now what else is going to happen here is that between these periods of processing you’re going to put him on freewheeling. This is a new process. This doesn’t knock out Standard Procedure. Freewheeling is another one of these technical names that comes up with the fact that we wanted to call it “automatic running” but “automatic running” is so close to “auto running,” which is terrible, that we changed the name of it. And we were casting around, and one morning I came in and sat down at the desk down in LA and here sat a little sign, there, and it says “Call it ‘freewheeling.’” So I kind of shook my head about this and they hadn’t bothered to consult me evidently, because in the next four or five days all I heard it called was freewheeling. So that was that. So its nomenclature there seems to be fairly well established.
A person who is stuck on the time track cannot be expected to do this freewheeling. If a person doesn’t do this freewheeling, he is stuck on the time track. He should be freed on the time track by Standard Procedure, and only by Standard Procedure. In other words, you put him in reverie, you run him back down the track, you go through the full dress-parade processing. And you get him free on the track, get him moving on the track, then bring him up to present time, cancel him, and put him on freewheeling again. That’s very important. And don’t start shotgunning this case just because he’s on freewheeling, and start to make him repeat all sorts of phrases in present time. The first thing you know, you’re going to drag him back down the track and he’s going to go walking off someplace, and he’s actually caught in an engram somewhere, and that Guk isn’t going to knock out the engram for him. “I” is kept in present time on freewheeling. “I” is in present time, the file clerk is handing out somatics, and the somatic strip is sweeping them.
In standard process, the bulk of “I” is down the track with the somatic strip, working with things handed out by the file clerk. Now you get the two different things there.
The difference between freewheeling and Standard Procedure is that “I” is kept in present time on freewheeling. And don’t do anything to knock “I” out of present time when a person is freewheeling. In other words, don’t walk up to him and start making him run engrams over and over and over, because you’re going to drag “I” out of present time. So we have freewheeling. And the way you start a person freewheeling is—a lot of you, if you haven’t started anybody or haven’t had this done to you, as I don’t think very many of you have, you’re going to be enormously surprised. I guinea-pigged on this. I walked in late one night into a very mysterious atmosphere of big secrets, something that we were going to keep hush-hush and you must sign your name in blood on the dotted line and promise never to tell anybody and cross your heart and hope to die. And I had to talk for some time to wipe away this idea that such a thing should be kept secret. And then, the next thing I knew, I was having these pills shoveled into my throat. For a long time now I’ve had somewhere in the neighborhood of, probably three quarters of my engram bank has been out, and I didn’t think there was very much left on the track. But golly, there were sunburns and there were all sorts of things, and I started to freewheel. And all of a sudden there’s a pain here, and I no more than started to wonder what could have hit me between the eyes when there was an awful pain here, and then there was a pain down here, and then my teeth hurt, and then I got red all over and felt awful about the whole thing, and then that was gone. And I wondered what on earth was happening to me. I wasn’t worried. These engrams weren’t restimulating so as to worry me; what was happening was the somatics were running off, one right after the other (snap, snap, snap, snap, snap) and they were actually erasing. It’s an amazing thing but you don’t get the same somatic twice.
It’s hard to realize that one’s been hurt as many times as he has. Now, what was happening was, in the processing through which I’d gone, little scraps and bits of engrams had been left in. In other words, the somatic strip hadn’t been moved up on this or that engram all the way to the front of it, or something of the sort and there’d be that little somatic left. And that thing would click! It’d be on and out, just almost immediately. Walking down the street and all of a sudden you’ve got a black eye but you haven’t got a black eye and you sort of flinch, and the fellow who is with you—I was running on this, by the way, I was giving a lecture back East, and I stopped a moment at the desk and flinched most horribly. Everybody looked at me and wondered what was happening because I hadn’t let anything out about Guk, yet. The fact of the matter is, somebody had just kicked me in the stomach. I was so curious about this that afterwards I tried to remember sometime somebody had kicked me in the stomach, and all of a sudden I had it. It was a little boy and we were having a fight. And you start to add up the number of times a fellow has been hit, kicked, that he’s fallen, that he’s hit his shins and all that sort of thing; all this material runs out under Guk—if it will run, if the person will freewheel. If he won’t freewheel, he’s stuck on the track. And you start him on the track by putting him into Standard Procedure and running out engrams, getting him on the track, up to present time and you start him on freewheeling again. That is the safest way I know to do it.
There is another method which is much less safe, but which can be practiced, I suppose, of walking up to the person and you say, “Are you moving?” (snap) and he gives you a flash answer, “Yes” or “No.” And if he says “No,” you say, “Holder?” (snap) He says, “No.” You say, “Denyer?” (snap) “No.” “Bouncer?” (snap) “Yes.” “When I count from one to five, give me a bouncer.” He says— standing right up there, eyes wide open and you say, “Give me a bouncer, one-two-three-four-five. (snap)” [At this point there is a gap in the original recording.] Well, there is plenty in store for him under freewheeling. Because the somatics that he is furnishing, the out-of-valence character he is being (these, of course, are his own somatics but they’re sort of dubbed in), these things will go on and on and tomorrow they’ll be just a little bit stronger. He’s working into his own valence somewhat. And the next day, they’re just a little bit stronger. And then maybe three, four, five days, he’s worked thoroughly enough back into his own valence so he’s running his own somatics and he’ll start running them with a vengeance and then he won’t consider anything as a somatic unless he (snap)—it hits him like that. Now, that difference you should recognize, that a person who is out of valence will run these—they are very faint, but that they will grow a little stronger.
I have not yet found anyone getting in trouble because he was freewheeling and going about through the society. I have seen people very amused sometimes by it, but I haven’t heard of anyone—and there have been plenty of people do this—falling out from underneath an automobile wheel or something of this sort. Old man necessity level will take care of it.
I have seen fellows, when they were perfectly safe sitting in a living room all of a sudden fold up and go off of a chain It looks silly and it’s something that I wouldn’t advise to do in good company—to roll up in a fetal position and fall off of a chair—but it will happen once every few cases when they are running in freewheeling.
Now what happens is, evidently, that the somatic is being pulled out from underneath the engrams. The perceptics, the unconsciousness, the emotion are still on this engram but the somatic is being pulled out. Now this doesn’t make the engram hard to locate, nothing like that, it can still—very locatable. Some people will protest to you sometime or other that they use their somatics to know whether or not they are really in the engram. Well, this sort of thing shouldn’t be, and you can—they use the somatic as a validating material. You’ll find out that once they don’t have the pain there to knock them out of valence—because pain all by itself can knock a person out of valence as he’s trying to run an engram—as long as they don’t have this pain there they’ll still have unconsciousness and so on and this thing will go away rather rapidly.
I’ll give you an example of this. I was running a fellow, he had never had birth touched before and for some reason or other, after we had run four or five in the basic area, the file clerk handed up birth. And we started to run birth, and he was a screamer. And he—I always get these tough cases—and he started through this engram, and boy, it was volume all the way up. My poor ears. And we run through this thing, and I think, “Oh my God! The somatic on this thing must be horrible,” and we start back through the beginning of it, and all of a sudden (snap) no engram! It’s gone! Well, I tried to find out if he’d bounced or if it was denied suddenly or something. No, it was right there. He was in his own valence all of a sudden. It was the first time he’d ever been in his own valence. He found it very strange. It was like he was living in a new house. So he lay there at the end of this birth engram, feeling very comfortable about the whole thing, was very hard to persuade to get out of there. He had never been this comfortable before in his life. I managed to get him back through it again and I got about two yawns off of it; that was all the anaten it had on it and that was the end of that birth somatic. I didn’t know it at the time I was running him but he had been doing a freewheel for about eight days, and then had been taken off of freewheeling and run in Standard Procedure and not put back on freewheeling. And during the freewheel, the birth somatic had been knocked out. And I went up and down the bank and found several of these engrams that didn’t have any somatic under them, again.
Now there is an example of what usually happens in freewheeling. Or the somatic will be much less intense; the tension will be taken out of it. This is of great help because when you hit a somatic that doesn’t—you hit an engram that’s got all its teeth pulled and that’s beautiful. You can run that in a hurry and go on to something else more important. So your Standard Procedure is shortened up by this freewheeling. But a person will not freewheel to Clear. There again, this is not panacea for all our ills. He won’t freewheel to Clear. He will freewheel out of existence scores, dozens, even hundreds of somatics, so that when he is going up the track on an erasure they don’t get much in his road. All he does is run out perceptics and anaten—unconsciousness, that is. So you see the point in freewheeling. The point in freewheeling is not to give a person—this is not Guk procedure. But let me plead with you. I have had an awful time trying to put this across in some of the schools. I’ll find people still doing this, and it is of no benefit. They give a person a lot of Guk, then they start them freewheeling, then they come around with this check process (snap)—that check process is all right, you can try it on somebody and find out if he is moving—keep him moving, that is to say, keep these somatics turning on and off and then go off and leave him. And they don’t give him any Standard Processing.
It’s useless, actually. The gain on it is so slight as to be negligible. What you are doing, again, is “chemical assist.” And freewheeling is an assist to Standard Procedure. It softens up the engram bank. So there is the proper way to do it.
Now I’m going to give you the exact formula, the exact magical incantation, for starting a person to freewheel. It goes as follows: The preclear is in present time, eyes open. Install the canceller. Then you say to him, “The file clerk will furnish somatics. The somatic strip will continue to erase these somatics, one after the other, until no somatics remain on the case.” That’s it. That’s all it is. And please don’t expand this.
This thing can get most beautifully confused, by the way. It’s “The file clerk will furnish somatics, the somatic strip will erase them.” That’s the whole sum and substance of it.
Now, when you want this person to go into Standard Procedure, be absolutely sure that you do this with this person: Say, “Come up to present time. Cancelled. (snap)” That’s before you start your Standard Procedure. You say, “Come up to present time. Cancelled, (snap)” The somatic strip will come up to present time, you see, and this freewheeling thing will turn off. Because a person can freewheel and run another engram. They can do two of these things at once. And he can also get a flash answer on another subject, by the way. Actually the mind will divide up, the attention units and so forth will divide up like that, so stop him from freewheeling. Don’t say, “Now stop freewheeling.” Say, “Come up to present time. Cancelled, (snap)” Now, you put him in Standard Procedure. You’ll put him in reverie. “Now lie down, shut your eyes. Anytime in the future that I say the word ‘cancelled,’ whatever I’ve said to you while you are lying here will be cancelled. The file clerk will now give us the engram necessary to resolve the case. The somatic strip will go to the beginning of the engram and when I count from one to five, the first words of the engram will flash into your mind. One-two-three-four-five. (snap)” And he will, if he is running like he ought to, pick up engrams and you can erase them.
Now you run him Standard Procedure, reduce everything you run into just like it says in the bulletin, (number one there) and then when you are finished with that process, you bring him up to present time, “Cancelled, (snap)” Have him sit up. Install a new canceller. And then you say to him, “The file clerk will . . .” and so on. That is the whole substance and sum total of this all-out process.
If a person stops freewheeling, you can try this experiment of asking if he is moving and whether it’s a holder or a bouncer and so forth. You can try it if you want to. You probably won’t get him into any trouble but be very careful of what I am going to tell you now. Be very careful of it in this respect. This is very interesting in this too. A case which is very heavy—this is warning, warning—if you are taking notes, draw one of these iodine symbols with the crossbones and the skull—this is warning! If you are running a heavy circuitry case, a case which has lots of “control yourself,” a case which is doing auto, or who can hypnotize himself—any one of these heavy circuitry cases: you can give him all the Guk you want to, but hit for that circuitry. That’s always the case, anyway, when you get these heavy circuitry cases that won’t run very well in Standard Procedure, you start heading toward knocking out the circuitry.
Now the beauty of it is, that when a person is on Guk, engrams a little distance up the bank will occasionally erase or reduce when they really shouldn’t. I mean, you run him in Standard Procedure and you get up there to two and a half months after conception and you start to run this engram and it sticks; and you just have to start earlier on the case to find earlier engrams. Well, on the administration of Guk you will discover, often enough to make it very well worth your while to look, that when you hit one of these two-and-a-half-months-after-conception or some other engram in the—particularly in the prenatal area that isn’t supposed to erase—and you hit that engram and start running it, that it will reduce and it may erase and you may get unconsciousness off of it.
In fact, I’ve seen some people running under Guk who got unconsciousness off any part of the bank they touched. And that’s terribly important because that unconsciousness nails it down. The Guk does not erase the unconsciousness but it will knock out the pain and this permits the unconsciousness to come off. Unconsciousness seems to be a sort of a byproduct of pain, but it must be somewhat different because this particular brand of Guk doesn’t dissolve it.
Now you follow me, there, that when you go into a case which is very, very heavy with circuitry, which is doing auto-control, which will run out engrams, you be careful of this case where Guk is concerned. And when you start them to freewheeling, you be very careful of this case. And you make sure that you make it your business, your first order of business with this case if you start him on Guk and start him freewheeling to knock out that control circuitry if you can possibly find it, and knock it out. Get this person into a more stable state. By Straight-wire find the dramatizations. You got the dramatizations, get that dramatization as early as possible in the bank and erase it.
If you keep this person freewheeling, he’ll do this. He can’t resist it. There is a sort of an internal auditor over here that’s saying to him all the time, “Now you’ll have to control yourself. You’ll have to do it yourself. You’ll have to do it yourself. You have to do what you’re told,” you know, and so on. And the fellow will start freewheeling and he’ll feel this somatic and that somatic and in a little while it’ll be all right. And then all of a sudden he’ll say, “Hmmm . . . I wonder what that engram is all about? Mm-hm, mm-hm, let’s see, that’s a pain in the ear. Oh, yeah, yeah, I . . . I bet that’s . . . I bet that’s the time that boy hit me and said, ‘You darn fool.’ Yeah . . . yeah, I’m sure it is. ‘You darn fool. You darn fool. You darn fool. You darn fool.’” And down the track he goes, and right into the engram and there he is stuck up on the track. Well he isn’t satisfied with that, because the second his attention units go into this engram, (snap) they go off, they are absorbed. He is for a moment unconscious, and in that moment of unconsciousness he is liable to forget what he is running, and usually does. So he comes up out of this thing, and he doesn’t realize he is running “You darn fool” He says, “Let’s see, what else was I running around here?” And he says, “You talk too much.” Yeah, that was it. “You talk too much, you talk too much,” and he goes down into that engram. And then his attention units turn off and he’ll glance off of that thing and he’ll go into another engram and another one and another one and another one. He’ll go all over the track. You’ll see people do this occasionally anyway But the cause of it is circuitry. And you get the circuitry dramatizations and you work out the “control yourself” and “you have to do it yourself” and so forth in Standard Procedure. If you get anybody doing this you are going to have a case that’s going to stick himself up on the track and he is going to cause you trouble.
This is not fatal. I have seen people in the most remarkably snarled-up conditions because of this auto-running and they have managed to live through it. It isn’t fatal—but damn near. So when you start a person freewheeling, you check them over once in a while and find out if they are trying to run engrams all by themselves. Freewheeling is not running engrams by oneself. That is not what it’s supposed to do. The somatic strip and the file clerk will work there very handsomely and “I” doesn’t pay any attention to them at all. He can ignore them and they’ll still go on running out somatics for him. If you haven’t seen this and you haven’t done it, you’ve got some amazing experiences in store for you.
Now the next piece of work which we are trying to accomplish right now is finding out what will dissolve unconsciousness and what will knock out painful emotion. There may be somewhere in the amino acids, or maybe even something like choline or something (I doubt that, but it might be some product along in that line) which makes it possible for all of these engrams, the whole thing, to come out leaving only the perceptics which would of course automatically refile in the standard memory bank. If that is possible, then we will have a freewheeling Clear. Maybe he might have to run six months this way because it would be very slow, but theoretically, he could run himself Clear. But the standard formula as it exists now only knocks out pain. It does not touch unconsciousness and it does not touch the perceptics or emotion.
It will do this, though: sometimes when he’s busily knocking out an engram, left and right, all of a sudden a person will start to yawn. The unconsciousness will start to come off in yawns and he’ll yawn and he’ll yawn. He’ll not be tired at all. People will stand around and think he is very impolite but he won’t be able to stop yawning. The whole point here is that unconsciousness is assisted off the case when the pain is taken out from underneath the case.
Well now, the future of chemical assist is very wide and very broad. Lacking a knowledge of engrams, chemical research in the past is, as far as our purposes is concerned, relatively invalid. The whole field of chemistry, pharmacology is wide open. So far, soporifics have been tested and rejected as being of any assistance in Dianetics. That whole block of sedatives, things like scopolamine, opium, that sort of thing, phenobarbital and so on—they are of no assistance in Dianetics. So that block of sedatives has been moved out. “Hypnotics” they are called. Actually they are not hypnotic, they are sort of analgesic. The true analgesics are really hypnotics, as I told you the other night. Now that block of material is out.
The next thing, atropine and all its derivatives are evidently out, although they haven’t been investigated thoroughly. Now we have everything left from common table salt down to the last complex molecule of whatever-it-is-edrine. So we have a vast array of material to investigate and right now the investigation is narrowed down to the known aminos, the known amino acids and perhaps, in these plant foods, the mineral base. There may be an assist in there. Maybe some heavy dosages of minerals may assist this. Evidently what you’re doing with this nutritional level is to furnish the cells with food they need in order to jettison the pain.
There is some relationship between food, nutrition and pain. I don’t know what it is. Once upon a time, man might have been a self-clearing organism, once upon a time. Now there’s one other caution on this chemical assist; a definite caution on it is don’t expect your preclear to live on sandwiches and coffee, and take all these relatively expensive foods in their pure state and still do a good freewheel and still handle himself well under Guk, because he won’t. This should be supplemented, any of this should be supplemented (and this is not positive, you understand, this is just cursory findings, I mean, this one data I’m giving you) by a high protein diet with minimal carbohydrate. That, at least, has been a finding. It’s one of these findings where it only has a series of ten or something like that behind it and it’s not definite. But we do know, from the observation of the series of ten, that when the person is on a bad diet the Guk doesn’t do him very much good. But it’s not one of these things you can measure easily. In other words, don’t expect a person to starve and live on Guk, because the Guk will just be absorbed in nutrition. And you don’t want it for nutrition, you evidently want it for super-feed stuff. It may be that this whole Guk program may boil down to the fact that we’re fooling the cells into believing that all is plenitude and sweetness and light in the world, and they need no further combat, no further combat usage exists for engrams. This is possible. But however it is, the cells do knock out the pain.
One of these days, we’re going to have time enough, I hope, to go back and find out what is the chemistry of pain. We don’t know yet, and until we do we can only hit at the problem, a la the Edison and the saucers. There is going to be an awful lot discovered on this in the next four or five months. But I am sure from the work I have already done and seen in this field that we’re —as far as the formula of its use, as far as what you do with this stuff, no matter how much the chemical formula of Guk changes, that the Standard Procedure, freewheel alternation, will be the Standard Procedure for these chemical assists. I’m sure of that. That’s all I am sure of. Guk may turn out to be baking soda and vinegar, the point being with the whole thing that the formula as you have it there now works. That formula is being worked upon steadily, is being improved constantly.
Dianetics was absolutely at a standstill for two and a half weeks on this Guk research, so of course the whole thing fell behind. That’s why I don’t have the latest information for you here. I could have advanced it a lot. But the program is now going forward. But the points that are important in what I was giving you tonight, the points, the very important ones are: that you standard procedure the person on Guk or off Guk; and that the Guk is merely an assist to Standard Procedure auditing. And the second point is, that in freewheeling, do not expect a person to just start freewheeling and then by some magic or other one of these fine days turn out to be Clear. He won’t. You can expect a person to hang up a couple of times a day in this freewheeling. They get stuck in holders someplace and all of a sudden have a bad pain and the pain doesn’t bother them much. Don’t be frightened when I have mentioned the word “pain” in connection with this, because actually I have found people very merry and cheerful about having their heads knocked in while they were running freewheeling in Guk.
All right. We’ll have the break now. And I will give you the demonstration. The person to be selected tonight will be here in the orchestra pit.
All right. Thank you.