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'''Series:''' 3rd Advanced Clinical Course (3ACC)

'''Date:''' 2 February 1954

'''Speaker:''' L. Ron Hubbard

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A lecture given by L. Ron Hubbard on the 2 February 1954

February the 2nd, 1954, first morning lecture. This morning we're going to talk about havingness, its remedies.

As we have gone over countless times before, havingness consists of accepting and rejecting. It is the mass end of reach and withdraw.

At least 80 percent of the cases you run, you will have no difficulty, in at least 80 percent of these, you'll have no difficulty in starting an avalanche. In the other 20, you'll probably have a difficulty. That's a very rough guess, but that's been more or less my experience in cases.

The difficulties of a preclear are the difficulties of havingness. In Issue 24-G, which is SOP 8-C, there is an error under Step IV, last line, the first column. It said, "In life experience, matter becomes havingness." I guess the girl who typed it just couldn't wrap herself around "In life experience, time becomes havingness."

Let's not skid on that one. Time becomes havingness – time, havingness. These people who are not up to present time are stuck somewhere and it's a problem of havingness. They are trying violently to reject something or violently to accept something someplace on the time track, plus the 8,654 heavy engrams which are tied in to the same incident. And when I say heavy engrams, I mean those that had enough power in them to have destroyed a few cities. Let's not patty-cake around with an automobile accident when we can always find in a preclear an atomic-bomb explosion.

The individual who is stuck on the time track has two things confused. Those particles which he has mocked-up to control MEST particles, he confuses for MEST particles. He has mocked-up some particles to control MEST particles. In other words, a shower of MEST particles came in on him, he mocked-up something to resist those MEST particles and so he made a ridge. And this ridge is composed exclusively of his own particles and it's actually only a knowingness pattern which he keeps putting back in, continually and consistently. It's a different, slightly different, type of energy and it does not have in it anywhere near the force of the original incident. As a matter of fact, it has almost zero force in it, compared to the original incident, but this doesn't mean that it won't pack fifteen or twenty pounds of actual pressure on the preclear.

Let's take the Assumption – as you run the Assumption out of a preclear: that incident wherein the individual, the preclear, as a thetan, takes over the baby just after birth. Now that Assumption, when run on a preclear, will deliver to the preclear's face quite ordinarily fifteen or twenty pounds of pressure, I mean actually that. If you were to put him on the floor and put a twenty-pound suitcase on his face, you'd get about the same pressure that you would get in running the Assumption. Well, the actual force of the Assumption is much greater than twenty pounds.

Similarly, an enormous city, let us say, has been destroyed and the individual watching the bomb start to explode has tried to arrest it with his own particles. Well, at one time or another he could have done this, but this time he loses and his failure to arrest this with particles leaves him holding in suspense an atom bomb.

Now, the funny part of it is that the particles he has mocked-up to take care of the atom bomb do not now in the incident even vaguely approximate the explosive characteristics of the atom bomb, not even vaguely, but he thinks it does.

All right. Your individual then is locked up in an incident which makes him resist and reject.

Now, you as an auditor come along and you try to audit him or a doctor comes along and tries to do something to this preclear. His modus operandi is reject. The pattern of his life has been this pattern of resist. Now, you start to run Havingness Processing on this individual and you get into an immediate squirrel cage, because the individual is much more concentrated upon the rejection of something than he is upon the acceptance of something. So we enter this case with Rejection Processing, not Acceptance Level Processing.

What is his rejection level? And we let him reject. And we finally find something he can kick out. And we kick things out and you can probably start an avalanche of "kick out." And because this is an inverted point on the scale, we have to find something, then, that will "kick in." Just any preclear, you sooner or later have to run Rejection Level. In this case, you run it first.

But, I'll tell you an oddity about this individual. His modus operandi has to do mainly with how does he protect himself or his body? How does he protect himself? That is his entire modus operandi in existence.

Therefore, as he has gone through this life, he has considered – or in earlier lives – he has considered that any winning valence was one which gave him sufficient armor plate. And the 80 percent that you have trouble with, with this processing – since most people, even though they're on a rejection level can run the other side of it and you can run the acceptance level first – I mean, it doesn't require much judgment. On this remaining 20 percent, you are running a MEST object, in terms of protection.

The person does have an acceptance level. You could start out right on acceptance level, but it is a little more difficult. This person is armor-plated and patterned after some MEST object, which he is in the middle of the mock-up of.

Tried to run a fellow, one time, who was in a tank. He wasn't in a tank because war experience was horrible, he never saw any combat service, but he was in a tank. And we tried to run a little Acceptance Level on this character and we immediately ran up against the armor plate of the tank.

What was acceptable to him? You'd say "tanks." No, I'm afraid not. Because the tank was sitting on top of a heavy stove, which was in his childhood home, and he'd been in the stove up to the time he was in the tank. And his acceptance level was coal. Person was perfectly sane, by the way. There was nothing wrong with his sanity, he just couldn't run a process, couldn't exteriorize, couldn't reinteriorize and he was latched up most remarkably.

Now, if you were to put a preclear that after five, ten minutes you still had difficulty running Acceptance Level, Havingness Processing on this preclear, if you were to put this preclear on an E-Meter and start scouting down "protective objects" of one kind or another, you'd find the exact object for this lifetime, the exact location of the object And you would find out that his acceptance level was the acceptance level of that object. Some of these things are very mysterious in that they are completely non sequitur. The GE has picked up something which is quite remarkable. There isn't any sense to it. He'll try to tie it in and rationalize and so forth, as to why.

Now, a great many significant things came off of this stove that I am telling you about. His father used to spit in the stove all the time and the GE had spit and semen all mixed up. See, real logical. And wombs and stoves were all mixed up and, however, the certain and convincing thing about it all was that the stove and the spit was where little boys came from and he evidently had gone around as a little kid in a fog and so forth, permitting himself to be in a fog, and he'd come up with this remarkable conclusion.

But he had been injured by the stove, which, of course, made it the winning valence. And his father and the family used to sit grouped around this stove, which of course made it the center of attention. So we just work it all ways from the middle and we had a stove and, believe me, it was a wonderful stove.

The solidity of that stove, when we tried to run it, exceeded, according to the preclear, any steel or metal. This was his occlusion and this, of course, was blackness. Now, I'll tell you how we found this one. We asked the individual to reach and withdraw with flitter. See, just get the idea of putting some gold sparks out in front and reaching with them and then bringing them back in and then seeing what he had. We did that about three times and he had a stove with a door open and his father's face looking in and spitting. You can say, "Boy, how Freudian do we get?"

Well, its total significance was not very significant. This was merely a lock question that had come up on top of it. The stove was the winning valence, it was the armor-plated thing and so on. This individual was then armor-plated.

Well, this particular case worked out not by running Acceptance Level on the stove. We merely found the stove and then we got the individual to reject something. Yeah, we got him to reject more and more and we started an avalanche of rejection. And we found more bric-a-brac this individual was trying to get rid of that he didn't want to have. Because his whole family had what you might call the "crusher complex": "You must have it!"

Didn't matter how bad or how nasty it was: "must have it." And this was compounded by the family school complex: "must be in a school," morning, noon and night for years, "must be in a school." Now, most families will merely send a kid to school but this family drove the kid to school with shotguns. You might say terrific duress, enormous duress. And all other things in the vicinity of this preclear had been on the "crusher" basis.

Let's take food. People would sit there at the table and do nothing but nag the child concerning how he had to eat what was in front of him, nag-nag-nag-nag-nag.

Now, the kid didn't like meat and, as an adult, this individual had gotten into a condition where the taste of beef made him ill, quite ill. And probably, left to his own devices, he probably never would have eaten any meat further along than maybe fowl-fish, fowl, but did not like meat. The family habitually cooked meat-hamburger – considerably on the side of the rare. And in the kid's last life he was lying there and standing back and looking at himself without much left of him, having stopped the muzzle blast of a naval cannon in World War I.

Hamburger, which is to say a black crust with the red showing underneath, was not quite the thing to have. And yet this psychotic family sees a kid break down into tears at the idea of eating a piece of hamburger and they could think of nothing then, you see, terrific concentration – "here is something now that he won't do, we must make him do it" – think of nothing then but crushing the meat down his throat one way or the other. He'd gotten to the point of where eating, to him, was just slavery and drudgery. He didn't want to eat, he had stomach trouble and so forth.

The characteristic of his existence, then, was anytime anybody tried to give him anything, his immediate reflex was, "I'd better reject it." Didn't matter what happened, anybody tried to be nice to him, anybody tried to give him a Christmas present, didn't matter what: reject it, get rid of it. All the individual's possessions followed this same pattern: reject them!

Well, an individual has, then, two classes of things he is doing. He generally does them both: he accepts and he rejects, which is to say, he "reaches" or "withdraws" or he "pulls in" and "pushes out" and those are his actions and motions.

Now, you have to get a case that is having trouble with Havingness Processing on the road by either letting him get rid of something with fair certainty or get him to accept something with fair certainty. Now there's something he can accept. If you want to go into the case with deep significance, you can probably find the stove, just as I found with this case.

This was, by the way, a terrifically resistive case – never been able to run an engram, locks, nothing. He'd just sort of frozen up about everything. And the solution on this was after I had developed Acceptance Level Processing, the solution on the case only required about twelve minutes. I remember sitting there looking at the clock.

At the end of this time, why, we had the stove and we already had him accepting coal – just as a little test – and then the next thing you know, accepting some spit and immediately, then, we went out on to something he could reject. He could reject a diamond-plated Cadillac, that's what he could reject. It flew away from him with the greatest of speed. He could actually get a sort of a semi mock-up of it and when it departed, it departed – with velocity. He couldn't have that. All right.

Told you that the nineteenth-century psychotherapists – the Freudians, the James' school, psychology, psychiatry-nineteenth-century psychotherapy specialized in trying to get somebody to reject something. Now, we could consider that it's probably wrong because they were doing it. I mean, that's a good safe premise. But they had already found out that an individual had this problem: that he couldn't give up a memory, he just keeps squirrel – caging on some memory or another. And this they called "an obsession" and they were mainly interested in this.

Of course, they never paid any attention to the fellow who never worried people. The fellow who can't reject, but is trying to reject, worries people. He's a real worry. He's difficult in many respects, because you come around and try to be nice to this person and this person rejects your being nice and so forth and it's commotional in the society and psychotherapy specialized only in making everybody be tame. So let's get the people who are causing everybody else a little trouble or upset in the society and let's define "insanity" this way: "insanity is that state of mind which bothers me." And then, of course, nobody would ever bother, unless one was communicating.

Now, the individual who is trying to reject will also probably go on a compulsive communication. He's trying to reject, so he does it with words, gestures and so forth. Compulsive communication is always punished and so what did we find? We found, then, psychotherapy specializing in about the tough 20 percent. These are the people that they became interested in, merely because those are the people who called themselves to attention, not because they were insane, but merely because "the damn dirty dogs insisted on being alive and communicating and we've got to stop this!" Psychotherapy never communicated.

You just imagine now, it's been considerably better than half a century since James and the rest of the boys were in there pitching, since Freud was in there pitching and so forth and the only reason anybody knows anything about it is because writers keep mentioning the words and that's about it. That doesn't show much progress.

Well, but these rejection people try to reject and they communicate one way or another and they are a trouble and a bother and therefore in a group they will show up quicker than anyone else. And the Tone Scale of the group is quite often erroneously measured by the people who are trying to reject and who can't, but who are communicating and so forth.

Now, these people cannot accept what is being done or what the group is doing and they can't reject what's happening and they get locked up on it and they have a rough time. You should be able to understand this manifestation, then, fairly well. Understand it for what it is, because it gives – you an excellent and immediate diagnosis of your case. Well, there's something going wrong here, because this person, normally, will tell you that things are going wrong. They're trying to reject, see? This is no personal comment on anybody here – your case will be busted up in a very short space of time, it doesn't matter anyway.

But you look around in groups and you will find that the enturbulation spots consist of this 80 percent who are trying to reject and can't, but they're making an effort to. It's quite interesting that the truth of the matter is, to live in this universe, acceptance of the universe is quite necessary. An individual who resists, consistently and continually all the inflows of the universe is going to pile up all the ridges there are. You see this then as a "how not to succeed in the MEST universe" – resist. "That which one resists, one becomes." So one finds this fantastic pattern, in such cases, of becoming MEST objects. They become MEST objects, they become this, they become that. They are battering around madly.

Now in their past existences, they have shunted so thoroughly from one beingness to another beingness, because of this consistent and continuous resistance, that their memory on any really former occasion, such as childhood even, is fabulously occluded. And this is just because of a shift, a continuous shift through winning valences.

Obsessive communication is generally the demarcation of such a case-obsessive. Now, an individual who writes for a living or who talks for a living can work himself over into a temporary shadow of this case computation, merely because he – you see, it's reversed: he has to outflow to live and that's his professional requisite. Similarly, an actor has to outflow to live or a beautiful woman has to outflow to live and so they move over slightly into rejection. Now, why does she have to outflow to live? She has to let the sunlight reflect on her and go out from her and that in itself is actually an outflow, MEST universe style.

Well, the running of this case is neither arduous nor long or so forth. You get somebody who is obsessively outflowing or who has computed that his best escape from existence is to outflow, you're getting an individual who is trying to reject something and he's unable to do so. And that's about all there is to that. You don't even have to find the specific thing which he's trying to reject if you don't want to, because it's just a matter of masses and the less significance there is in your answer to the problem, the better your answer is.

So you let this individual reject and you'll find out that he'll probably do an outwards avalanche, if you get the proper rejection level.

Rejection level is not necessarily high or low. You find some people's acceptance level is high, most people's acceptance level is low. Similarly, most people's rejection level is high and lots of them, however, have low rejection levels.

And you see how to work this case now? And you see how to diagnose the case. Any type of obsessive communication or any method of – whereby we find something wrong here and wrong there. This case, by the way, it doesn't necessarily, but quite uniformly is found to, when it gets pretty bad, fall into the "it's bad over there." It falls into a bad news computation because it is trying to drive people away. It also will fall into an ugliness computation to drive something away. Reject something see. Let's get. something to move away.

Now, how do we get something to move away? Well, we can be ugly or we can be insulting or we can give bad news or we can say, "Look at all that over there that you should go to." And there's various things about it. But what you're getting there is an effort to reject.

Most people have an effort to accept, but the cases that are difficult to work are making an effort to reject.

Of course, everybody is to some degree making an effort to reject and an effort to accept, with criteria. They are trying to be selective about what they accept and what they reject. And the business of living and the game called the MEST universe is, in itself, a contest of trying to reject some things and accept some things – trying to be selective, in other words, about what one rejects and accepts.

Now, in view of the fact that the thetan is in best condition who is best able to outflow, that person who cannot outflow is going directly counter to a thetan's best ability, which is to outflow – an energy production unit. So you get an enturbulence here which is quite remarkable, you see? And this is the case, almost uniformly, which will not exteriorize. The case that won't exteriorize is a rejection case. This doesn't mean chat that's the most of the cases, you see. It's simply, here is a case that won't exteriorize easily.

And you're pretty well off when you say, if you just judged it this way: "Be three feet back of your head."

The fellow says, "Oh, I couldn't do that under any circumstances." Just write him down in the book as a rejection case – not that he's been rejected, the hell with that – the psychotherapist back in the nineteenth century got off on that and got in a rut on it. Little boy, little girl, "they were rejected when a child" and yap-yap-yap. That isn't the mechanic that goes on. They're trying to reject something. It's not a secondary stage of somebody rejecting them. Oh, that operates as a key-in, of course, but it's minor.

Now, we find, then, that we could put any case that didn't exteriorize rather easily into the category of needing Rejection Level run before Acceptance Level is run.

And then there's the case, of course, almost obsessive exteriorization – and I dare say sometime you will be talking to somebody and they will remember out of some ancient text or another about people being outside of their heads and unable to get in. Because every once in a while, old-time psychotherapy had somebody show up who was outside and couldn't get inside and this worried him.

As a matter of fact, down in Santa Ana somebody gave a girl two hundred and fifty electric shocks because she couldn't get into her head. I mean, let's all just go quietly scream up the walls. There's no place as nutty as the place where people take nuttiness.

Well, they think, then, that an exteriorization is a bad thing-old-time psychotherapy has got that nailed down. That's merely because of these cases that are outside and can't get back inside. The individual has tried so hard to pull something in, and has failed so often, that he can't even get the body in. See, that's a different kind of case. But you'll run into that case once in a while and don't consider the fellow is particularly well-off. He's probably riding a ridge between himself and the body and trying to communicate to the body through a ridge in some fashion or another, that's a glorious situation.

And the way you'd run such a case, of course, is find something that the individual could accept. You've got to get him up to the point where he can interiorize before he exteriorizes.

The case on which Rejection Level Processing must be run, the case on which it must be run, will almost uniformly fail to see anything in Rejection Processing. The case that is trying to reject, oddly enough, doesn't dramatize it in auditing. Now, you see why that is? They're trying to make an inflow occur on somebody else, so they will run on other people Acceptance Level inflow, rather than Rejection Level, and they themselves will overlook this process.

Interesting, isn't it? Because you're trying to give them something that would help them, they will overlook the process, because that will help them. And so you as an auditor are very often confounded by having some preclear come in who (quote) "doesn't want to get well" (unquote). This is not a correct diagnosis at all. It is entirely specious. The individual docs want to get well. What's wrong with the individual is he is compulsively trying to reject and knows that to get well, he's got to get so he can accept something, but he's compulsively trying to reject, so he rejects your help, all the while asking for it. And then you audit him for a while and you don't use this process on him and he goes away and you feel very sad and confused about the whole thing.

Now, what's the significance of this? "The individual came in, he said he wanted help and I tried to help him and then the second that I tried to help him, he got real upset with me." Well, you were trying to give him something.

The other very marked case is the person who is just – well, they let anything inflow and anything outflow. See, they just let anything go in and out. At first, as you start to run them, they're like something that's very flabby and so on, mentally and otherwise. This is a failure of reject, a failure of accept. They've failed on all computations in all directions and if you want to move something in on them, you can.

You'll find this case comes to you in an hypnotic state more or less. Quite ordinarily their eyelids flutter and you're actually putting the mock-ups there for them, so beware of this case. And you say, "All right. Now get a man out in front of you" and they merely see a man out of front of them. Yon put the man out in front of them.

Now, you'll find one of these cases every twenty, thirty human beings, there will be one of these cases around. This Unit doesn't have one, fortunately.

But you say, "All right, now get a dog out in front of you." And a dog appears out in front of them. If you ask this case very searchingly, "Did you put the dog out in front of you?" And they'd say, "No, you did." And they'd be very happy about it, they're very cheerful, they're very calm and they're very apathetic – no push.

Now, it's very easy for you, as an auditor, to get this case confused with a case that is putting something out there with difficulty. The case who is putting something out there and the case that is actually putting the things there and running them and so forth, is unmistakable – I mean, a person just is doing it and that's all.

This other case is very unmistakable. If you were to say, "There is a lion sitting on your right hand," the person would see, with three-dimensional mass, the lion on his right hand, he would see that. This is what's known as a "suggestible case." Anything goes in and comes out, but the case never puts it there. The operator or the auditor – "operator" because this case is an hypnotic case – is the one who puts it there.

Now, out of this very simple classification – which amount to just about five classes H of case – you can get all of the diagnosis which you need for anything. The first case is: anything will go out and in on the operator or the auditor's brief suggestion that it's there and it will move. And you see what this case is, he's in an hypnotic state. He's unmistakable. His eyelids generally flutter a very rapid flutter or the mouth is very slack and so forth. This person is in a trance, already in a trance.

Sometimes a case – that's a borderline of one of these cases who has studied Scientology, audits out the tape. You know, they have listened to the lecture and so on and you audit them and they will give the exact manifestations called for in the lecture. They'll just go on and on. They are being a tape at the moment, they're being a lecture and so on.

This person, out of your, perhaps, lack of charity, you will too often find this case. You'll find this case much more often than it exists, because it's unmistakable. I repeat, if you were to say to this case (and this would be the test) "The fingers of your right hand will now lift," the individual would find the fingers of his right hand lifting and he wouldn't be able to do a thing about it. He's in a trance – permanent trance.

The next class would be those people who are trying to reject but cannot and into that you would just throw "people who are trying to reject" and omit the "cannot" to make a total classification – the "rejection personality," people who are trying to reject.

And then above that would be people who are trying to accept and having difficulty with acceptance. And immediately above that, class number (numbering these from one down), it would be Class Number Two, would be people who could put up, themselves, mock-ups and accept them and reject them pretty much at will and who would get an avalanche effect on certain things, but could get an avalanche, really, either way, rather easily. And that, by the way, would be the saner Homo sapiens, all the people who are fairly easy to get along with and so on.

And above that level, of course, there would be the general classification of thetans – you'd get above Man immediately – and they would be, oddly enough, not necessarily accepting. They would probably outflow more than they inflowed, but they'd have no difficulty in outflowing and have no difficulty in inflowing. And that is the state which you're trying to reach with the individual.

Now, how do you handle these cases? Let's take Class Five, which is that hypnotic case, and start him on up the line. Well, do you know that you could merely command masses, such as Earths and Suns and things to appear around this boy and close in on him and, out of your command alone, cause him to pass through many of the significances which are keeping him hypnotized. And he will wake up into a Class Four or Three. And maybe, if you're very good and so on, he might wake up into a Class Two.

You see what you'd do there? You'd just say, "Well, now there are numbers, numbers, there are great numbers" – this is experimental by the way – "there are numerous Earths around you and now they're closing down upon you and now the great mass of them is sitting upon you. Now more Earths are outside of you there and huge and dense and they're closing down upon you" and so forth. In other words, you would give the individual enough mass. That's a theoretical, highly experimental method of running.

Actually, probably a much more reliable method of processing would just be to ask him to remember something real and crack him up through an hypnotized or neurotic state, make him aware of his environment.

Now, the Class Four, which is obsessive rejection – you just get rejection avalanching on him one way or the other or you find out what he's trying to be.

And Number Three, you run inflows on him, get an inflow of havingness avalanching in upon him and that is the bulk of your cases.

And Class One, well, you just fix him up so he can mock-up anything and throw it away or keep it.

Female voice: Yon skipped Two – Class Two.

Well, as far as Class Two is concerned you – there is your individual who is in fairly good shape, anything works on him, didn't bother to list it. You run any of these processes on him, he'll get well. As a matter of fact, a lot of Twos, if you would just ask them to go through any kind of a little routine, they would get well. If they have a momentary discomfort or disability or something like that, you just put it into their possession and their ability to straighten it up. All right?

An E-Meter is desirable in running a Four, but you can get too darned significant about it, believe me. So all we're trying to do is put up a barricade, one way or the other, and obsessively outflow through that barricade one way or another. They, of course, get down to a stop so they're just – have a barricade after a while. They're preventing themselves from accepting. Okay?

How many cases do we have here that this inflow didn't run on? Let's see, we had about five-one, two, three, four, five, six, seven. We had about seven out of twenty-two, that's a fairly high percentage. That's not your normal percentage, that's a much higher percentage. Normal percentage is less than that.

Now where do you start with this case?

[to student] How about you telling me?

Female voice: Outflow.

How do you get them to outflow?

Female voice: See if you can find something that will fly from them.

That's right, something that will fly away from them.

Remember that. When they really run an outflow, it will be something that flies away, not something that they move away from them. You know this "move away from them" is a super self-control mechanism. They are going to control the activity of the bank, they've got to. And it's control because they're afraid of what the bank will do if they suddenly cut it loose, see? You go on auditing this case who is carefully controlling all of these manifestations and you've not struck at the source of difficulty in the case, which is a matter of taking direction and giving direction. The case is having difficulty taking and giving direction.

Well now, what remedy do we have if this process fails on this individual? Supposing you, for some reason or other, you don't – this process doesn't work on this individual – by the way, the fault would lie with the auditor. Well, he has lots of choices. He can do a great many things, a great many things.

One of the things that he can do is to run a reach and withdraw on various things for the individual. Have him reach and withdraw for his childhood home, various things of that character. He has numerous processes in the Straightwire 8-C bracket for this individual. This is slow freight, but it will get there sooner or later, get him up slowly and so on. But you understand why the case is running slowly? Because the case is being careful. The case has got a lot of factors under control and is keeping the factors suppressed and under control.

And we get nineteenth-century suppression mechanisms which, oh boy, have those been overdone. The individual is hiding something, he's suppressing something, he has guilt complexes and, oh, there's all that sort of thing.

But this individual has all these things strenuously under control. This individual (quote) "can't let himself go" (unquote) and so is a walking control case. And this we ran into in Dianetics – we know all about this case in Dianetics – "control case."

He won't let any of his own automatic machinery operate. He's afraid of his own automatic machinery. He isn't going to let anything happen unless he can predict it, because he knows what happens when things happen that don't get predicted by him – they're all bad. He also runs off rather rapidly into the "only one" computation, because obviously if something else predicts something, he knows it will go bad. He's been taught this by experience. Why, then it boils down to he's the only one, by dog, that better predict anything. And he also runs into the computation that "he's the only one that can do any work" and he'll work himself to death. He also runs into this reversal of responsibility: "He did it, he's to blame." He did it and so on.

Any Straightwire Process which tends to alleviate these conditions is therefore valuable with the individual.

Another thing that happens to this individual: this individual gets something wrong with him, it doesn't get unwrong. This individual is persisting and you get this dogged, horrible persistence, you know, that will just go on grind-grind-grind-grind-grind. He gets something wrong with him and won't let it go. He'll get a lock, it won't go. He'll get a symptom, it won't go. He gets persistence in terms of his difficulties.

Well, now he is pretty able. Ordinarily, he can control these various things, but sooner or later these things fly out of control on him one way or the other and he gets sick or something of the sort.

A thetan is always holding two sides of the aberration. He's holding it in on him and so he's holding the inside of it and the outside of it, you might say. Your task is to make him let go of the outside of it. Well, when his automatic machinery has been selected out by him for his randomity and it's all crowding things in upon him and he's fighting back at it, then all energy becomes his enemy and he finally gets rather unenergetic, so on. A long span of very hard work and he'll finally dwindle down to where he isn't doing very much.

All right. In your auditing today, use these various factors: find something that will fly away from the individual and find something that will fly in, then, on the individual. But if you find something that will fly away, then you just run things flying away and get things going away until you get avalanches of things departing and run just like Acceptance Level.

Now, just as you have to deteriorate a mock-up or something of the sort to get it acceptable, so you have to improve it or deteriorate it to get it rejectable.

Now, this individual's certainty is generally poor, in particular Case Four level, certainty very poor. And this certainty is, of course, remediable by mass. It isn't remedied easily by other means. It doesn't happen to matter near as much, in acceptance and rejection, whether he's certain that these masses are going away or not. He will get action without the certainty and he will go through periods of slight boil-off as things leave him.

It wasn't too bad to get hit by the bullet, but when the surgeon took it out, that was something else. See, he doesn't dare let it go. It was okay to get hit by the fist, but when the fist came away, then it hurt. He's on that side of the cycle-of-action in the MEST universe.

Now, as you've plotted these cases. One, Two, Three, Four, Five – the reason I have numbered them with the thetan out there at One and the hypnotic case at Five, is a very, very good reason why. It parallels the cycle-of-action of the MEST universe. So that your Four is over there on the dwindling spiral of not arriving, almost arriving and so forth. He's over there on the decay side of the curve: not creating, trying to create, unable to do so.

Now, we get up to the Five and we find out the individual can only accept a certainty and exterior statement – total. He cannot accept any interior creation at all, it has to be totally exterior and this, in itself, is hypnotism. Now, you can put people into that state artificially, who are generally in fairly good condition, but a person goes into this compulsively. It's how far has the person slid along this spiral?

Well, I don't wish to hang any crepe, but any inability to cause this type of manifestation, on the part of an auditor, would be a fantastic inability. I mean, it's just fantastic. I mean, it would be whether or not you could set a milk bottle out on the front porch or not. It's a comparable skill level.

Now, where does Courage Processing, enjoyment, so forth, fit in there, hm? Serenity. Well, you can occasionally get this individual to accept something with certainty simply by putting up a little courage about accepting it. You know, you just give it a little booster. You have him put a little courage up there too.

You can occasionally catalyze the case by wasting courage in brackets and sometimes by wasting enjoyment in brackets, because they've got these things shut down pretty tight.

I remember one case that couldn't accept anything and I didn't run any Rejection Level on him at all, I simply got baseballs flying at his face. Got him to put up a little particle of courage there every time that a baseball came in. The first thing you know, baseballs were hitting this fellow in the face, splat, splat, splat – wonderful. Gee! He never saw anything come in so fast as these baseballs. And we just had a baseball come in, then he had to put up a little bit of courage. It'd stop about a foot out in front of his face and he'd put up a little bit of courage about accepting it and splat! And it hit him right in the face. We were blowing the ridge that was arresting the inflow of the object.

If you want to get real good, then, at this sort of thing, it becomes very easy to run. If you want to get real good, you can just start out and run Acceptance Level, you don't have to run a Rejection Level.

Similarly, rejection – you can put up a little bit of enjoyment about rejecting or a little bit of courage about rejecting. Also you can put up a little bit of enjoyment about accepting and it will sometimes blow the arresting ridges.

You say, "All right. Now let's get the idea of a piece of coal in your hand and now let's get the idea of throwing it away,"

And the individual says, "Ohhh, it gets out there about a foot, that's about all it gets."

And you say, "Well, get the idea of enjoying throwing it away."

"Yeah. Yeah, I could throw it at my second-grade teacher, that would be good." Yeah, boom! It'll go away.

In other words, by using these little catalysts along with the auditing, why, you can get the individual to reject something and so work up on a gradient scale until you can get his automatic machinery back in operation again in order to knock it out of operation.

Now, there's another funny thing about this case: the case is getting packed in pretty tight and so we have his future as a big problem.

What's the person trying to do in his future? Fame is quite often the computation that goes with this case. A person is trying to mock himself up into the future and the future is one foot to the right or something of that sort. He's trying to put himself into the future. His total effort, actually, is to perpetuate in this fashion, because he's failed sexually to perpetuate or something on that order.

It doesn't matter what the computation is, the point is that the future, in a case that's running hard and running difficult, has a direction. And you can find out which direction is the future and you can have him put things into the future which have a tendency to resolve the case. What's he trying to do? In other words, finish his future goal. What's his future intention? Well, finish it up by mock-up.

Now, this case quite ordinarily is occluded and this presents the auditor a slight difficulty. But if he will put up on the outside of the walls of the room, in which he is auditing the preclear, masses of blackness, the preclear can quite ordinarily get these masses of blackness and tremendous pressure on them. He can mock-up blackness, in other words.

Well, if he can't mock-up blackness and if he doesn't change particularly and he has a black case, why, then you waste machines which make blackness. And get him certain he's wasting them, in brackets, waste this type of machine. And this works too.

As far as this case is concerned, we're long overdue on an understanding that cases are resolvable. They are very easy to resolve and you'd better put it into that bracket. Because a lot of your sweat and strain over a case simply communicates to the case, so the case sweats and strains. You're endowing the sweat and strain on the thing, not the ease with which it can be done. You make it seem very difficult to the preclear by being very careful about how you tell him to do something and so forth. And he says, "Gee, what do you know, it might be difficult after all."

I took one of these black cases one time and had him exteriorize and interiorize from a room and a very funny thing happened: he finally kicked his body out into the street and stayed in the room. I worked on him for about two and a half hours, had him moving his body out of the room.

"Now take your body out and put it outside, now pull it back inside. Now push it outside and pull it back inside and push it outside." And had about two and a half hours of messing around where the fellow had gone half unconscious and three-quarters unconscious and had boiled-off and had almost fallen down and was staggering around and having a terrible time in general. He all of a sudden found himself inside, pushing his body outside and he stayed inside. That was a good place for him and he'd just as soon push his body out. It was kind of an apathetic solution where he was concerned, but he woke up to it after a moment and he said, "Hey, you know, I can get out and I can see when I'm out."

You get the idea that inability to perceive is, in itself, an inability to accept. A person, to perceive, must be able to have photons come in. And a person who is trying to reject and can't reject, of course, is stopping the photons before they arrive at any focus point, so he's getting a blurry sort of a vision or he's getting blackness. Blurry vision is on the gradient scale toward blackness, because after a while the individual will let all the photons hit a ridge way out from him someplace and, of course, he isn't looking at the picture that occurs on the ridge.

Now, do we have a good grip on this? We've been over this in fundamentals and one thing or another. An example of auditing patter on this possibly would be, "Well, let's get some kind of an idea of something that you can reject." And the individual fishes around and he thinks maybe he might be able to and then he can't think of that one and he can't think of another one and then all of a sudden he says, "Well, I might be able to reject a palace."

And you say, "Well, fix up the palace now, so that you could really reject it." And he'll try to make it worse and that's no good and he'll try to make it better – and he'll not think of making it better maybe, unless you mention it. So you say, "Well, make it a little bit better."

And he'll dude it all up and all of a sudden, wham! It'll leave him. And he'll say, "For heaven's sakes."

"Well, let's reject some more palaces."

Now, you find out that he could only reject one palace. So have him accept a palace, fix it up so that it comes in on him. And that comes in, wham! And then you find out that was only one – he could only get one palace coming in.

Well, we get one other mass going out and one other mass coming in, because we're not to run the phrase, you know, "it can only happen once" and that sort of thing. It mustn't duplicate. And we get him, then, accepting and rejecting single masses until enough mass has accumulated and been moved around on the case so that a lot of the significance is off the case.

But you would do better, even with this rejection case, to get something to move in at first, then to move out. Because you get them to move him out and so on. But you'd work with that case until he could reject something and until he could accept something.

Okay.

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