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== Chapter 15: ARC Processing ==
If we examine communication we will discover that all communication lag is the introduction of Matter, Energy, Space and Time into communication. The more time has been introduced into communication, the less communication there is.

As an example of this let us say that a star in some other galaxy explodes, and then let us trace the length of time necessary for a small amount of that explosion’s particles to reach earth across great space. Almost countless light-years elapse before this communication line has been completed. This is a very, very long communication. Not necessarily a communication lag since the progress of the particles is not interrupted. There are no VIAs. Actually, MEST itself does not have a communication lag, it is totally a communication lag.

The more of this sort of thing enters into communication, the worse off is the preclear. Thus we can see that the subject of MEST itself is the aberrative factor.

As we examine barriers, we find that they are Matter, Energy, Space and Time. We discover that we can overcome the barriers of Matter, we can climb walls or go through them. We can somehow or other brave or get on the other side of energy barriers. We discover that even space has its limitations even when it appears as limitless as the space of this universe (and the space of this universe appears as big as a person supposes it is big, whereas actually it is, to a thetan who can get outside of it, about the size of a matchbox to a child). The one barrier which we discover difficult to get around is Time.

The basic definition and understanding of Matter, Energy, Space and Time are not particularly germane in this place. They are taken up on a much higher theoretical level in Scientology, but the essence of time is that it is measured or marked by the motion of particles in space. Space and energy particles are necessary to have mechanical time, but what is time, basically? Time is actually a consideration. There is time because one considers there is time.

You must examine the physical universe very closely to discover that the reason it is always here is because it is, each particle of it, each cubic inch of space of it, in forever. The physical universe is not moving through time, it is stuck in time. Each and every part of it is fixed in a now which lasts forever. The only real changes which take place in the physical universe are those introduced into it by Life. We can argue about this if we want to but we are interested there in a concept which leads towards a workable process.

We discover that time exists for the individual to the degree that the individual makes time. Time is an other-determined thing to nearly everyone alive. He depends on clocks, he depends on the rising and setting of the sun, he depends on all manner of mechanisms to tell him what is the time. Actually the more a person is told what the time is, the more he gets into a dependency upon some other consideration, and so he drops into forever. When he stops considering that he is making time, when he stops making time by considerations, he is dropping himself into a foreverness. He has less and less motion, he has less and less determinism. Time is a very insidious barrier because its apparency would tell an individual that time is created by the movement of things. Actually it is not, it is created by a consideration that things are moving.

The remedy of the barrier of time produces an astonishing effect upon a preclear. When the auditor is auditing one of these two „One- Shot Clear“ commands (the one given in the last chapter and the one given in this chapter) he will stumble across quite a bit of complication on the subject of time. An individual told to have some complications by decisions will eventually move out into the fact that the most complicated thing he can get into is time, and so this is a very satisfactory game. We can process this factor directly.

This process is the essence of simplicity. It has one command. The command is „Make some time.“ This is all the command there is. One does not advise or teach the preclear how to make some time. One accepts whatever the preclear decides makes time as the answer. One maintains the two-way communication with the preclear, and answers comments which the preclear has on it. One carefully does not evaluate for the preclear and tell him how to make some time. One does not set an example in making time. One simply has the preclear make some time.

This process on some cases has to be run many hours before the preclear comes into partial control of the barrier of time. When he does this he of course comes into some control of his engram bank and his considerations.

The making of time naturally puts into motion all those silent or motionless masses which are hanging to the preclear and which actually pin together his reactive bank.

This is an enormous joke upon the preclear by himself and the universe that he makes all the time he will ever perceive. He cannot possibly get out of phase with „forever“ if he is in contact with the foreverness of the space and energy mass of which this universe is composed. When he starts to protest against the universe at large he starts to protest against the foreverness which includes all time, and so he withdraws into earlier times when he was making time in order to have some time himself.

“Make some time,“ is a process of astonishing ramifications.

But remember, time is a barrier. One could also say, „Make some space,“ „Make some energy,“ „Make some objects,“ „Make some terminals,“ and have gains in a preclear. But these are barriers. Although a game requires barriers, the preclear already has too many in the past, too few in the present.

Barriers are not life.

We must use three cardinal rules in processing: (1) Process towards truth; (2) Process towards ability; (3) Process towards life.

Auditing commands must emphasize truth, ability, life.

Don’t process towards entheta, chronic somatics, difficulties. Ignore them.

The only thing wrong with the preclear is that his attention is fixed on barriers– MEST. His freedom depends upon putting his attention on freedom or present time. Here are two auditing commands. Which is correct? (1) „Find some things you can’t do.“ (2) „Find some things you can do.“

The second is correct. The first will almost spin a preclear. Why? Because it concentrates on a lie. A preclear can do anything!

A preclear has a bad leg. Which is the right process? (1) „Touch the back of your chair.“ (2) „Recall a time when somebody hurt his leg.“

The first is correct. It is faster. Why? Because it processes towards ability.

We have a preclear who is apathetic. Which process is the right one? (1) „Who used to have headaches?“ or (2) „Feel the floor beneath your feet.“ The second is correct because it processes towards life, not illness.

That which the auditor concentrates upon in auditing comes true. Hence, the processing of MEST gives us new barriers. The processing of life gives new life.

Processing barriers gives us limited processes. Processing life gives us unlimited processes. Life is composed of Affinity, Reality, Communication. These make understanding. Modern ARC processing processes communication as given earlier in this volume. ARC processing includes the following powerful processes: (1) „Tell me something you might communicate with.“ „Tell me something that would communicate with you.“ (2) „What might you agree with?“ „What might agree with you?“ (3) „Tell me something you could like.“ „Tell me something that might like you.“ These are present time, not past or future processes. They produce very strong reactions. They solve very rough cases. They are summed up in a simple process which does not dispense with them: „Tell me something (someone) you could understand.“ „Tell me something (someone) who could understand you.“