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'''Date:''' 25 November 1950

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

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This chart is the Accessibility Chart which complements the Standard Procedure Chart. This chart gives you a measure by which you can tell what to do with the case from an estimate that you make of the accessibility of the case. Now, in the Standard Procedure Chart you will find that it starts out “For Accessible Cases.” And it sort of starts out, you might say, fully mounted and at a gallop. We never bothered to go back and point out how you got on the horse. It s awfully important, if you are going to ride, to be on the horse. Most any cowboy can tell you that. And this is how you get on the horse so that you can run Standard Procedure.

Now, don’t think that we have for a moment thrown Standard Procedure overboard or that there is anything vastly changed about it. Regarded in this light, however, it is much broader. Your entrance points are seen to be much broader than they were before. I want you people to be able to break the toughest cases, even unto the psychotic case.

Now, we point out immediately that accessibility is a relative matter. The only fully accessible person would be a Clear.

The word accessible, by the way, is very well taken. The accessibility that “I” has to the rest of the organism, the accessibility that the world has to “I,” “I”s” accessibility to the world, is at its optimum in a Clear. But we begin to drop curtains between “I” and the standard banks, between “I” and the universe and “I” and his fellows and so forth, and the first thing you know, “I” gets pretty inaccessible.

Actually, this is a study of the submergence of “I.” The “I,” for instance, in an optimum state would be very much on top and running his own show in cooperation with other people and so forth. That’s the natural way for this to be but the organism has gone into collision with the material universe here and there, and what we have been calling MEST (which is matter, energy, space and time) have won here and there and have driven thought back a bit and every time they did, that’s pain, A very complicated example of this would be a small boy knocking his shins on a rock. He has at that moment broken affinity with MEST. His shin broke affinity with it and he, to some degree, not only broke affinity with MEST but also broke affinity with his shin. You see, the shin hurt him. So this gets submerged on a totally mechanical line.

Now, when I have used this word mechanical and mechanistic, by the way, I talk about thought function, the mechanical aspects of thought function. I have not been talking about—and somebody mistook this a while ago—I have not been talking about the structural aspects. I haven’t been talking about broken arms as a structural inability. I haven’t been talking about a cleft palate as a structural impediment to communication. I have been talking exclusively about function, and all the way through Dianetics talked only about function. So when I talk about the functional aspects of the engram, I’m talking about the way the pain is encysted, the way the thing is cut off from “I,” the way various other breakdowns have occurred. That’s functional mechanics. All by itself, pain and any of the perceptics create, themselves, functional disorders in the engram, you see? The function of thought is interrupted.

The function of thought gets interrupted by pain whereby thought, by an impact or shock from the material universe, impinges itself upon the matter which thought has already captured. You see, you consider thought as in the progress—a raid, you might say, on the material universe. It’s taking it over more and more, and it’s making the natural laws of the material universe turn around on the material universe and conquer and take over more and more of your material universe. And it’s using the material universe pretty well against itself in this fashion.

All right. All of a sudden there’s a disruption of this. Thought has captured this sector and suddenly the impingement of the two is very sudden and sharp. The reaction there is pain. That’s pain, and it’s registered as a turbulence between thought and MEST, the material universe. And that turbulence resides there and it’s an area which goes, you might say, out of communication because it’s something that thought shouldn’t have done and the material universe to that degree has won. And what you are doing in Dianetics is pulling apart and straightening up all these areas of turbulence so that thought again can take over that area. Thought has been debarred out by the turbulence caused by MEST in an area and when you start to erase engrams—physical pain engrams and so on—you’re straightening out thought in those areas and removing these areas of turbulence, so you get a free flow and a free play of thought through its own organism and through all the organisms of the society and so on. Now, that’s a basic definition of processing.

Now, when you get too much turbulence in an individual, “I” is pretty well submerged. “I” becomes rather out of contact with the body, with memory, with the past and so forth. You get, actually, occlusions. And on functional mechanics these occlusions take place. “I” is not going to penetrate into an area which has been very severely hurt. Because that was dangerous once, it’s dangerous again; therefore, “I” doesn’t go back into that area again, and that area therefore goes out of communication to some degree.

You get a psychosomatic illness, by the way, because an area has gone thoroughly out of communication. “I” is unable to tell what’s going on in that area, and the functional mechanisms of the body can’t heal that area properly and so on, and we get trouble in that. We get psychosomatic illnesses and so on.

All right. So “I” can get pretty well submerged by these impacts. And after it gets just so many of these impacts, “I,” looking for the danger, can’t see into these areas which it must not approach, mechanically. It can’t see into those and begins to scatter its attention and look for the trouble in the vicinity. And in looking for that trouble, various things happen which restimulate this functional mechanical thing, this engram; and the restimulation of that— moments of this sudden and severe restimulation—become locks on that engram. So that “I” on a conscious level is looking at what has happened to him in his analytical life, has avoided what has happened to him in the functional pain areas, and so has attributed all of “I’s” trouble to this analytical sphere. And having made that fundamental error, errors multiply very rapidly from there. “I” can get so thoroughly submerged that a person becomes psychotic. In other words, “I” is not in contact at all. At this moment, personality is inaccessible. This is your psychotic, either your computational psychotic or your engram psychotic. The engram psychotic —of course, they’re both engram psychotics; I should change that terminology—the “dramatizing psychotic”: he is dramatizing just one engram and he’s going through, probably, just one valence of one engram and he goes through it over and over and over and over again. Then there is the psychotic whose mind has been taken over, you might say, by another entity, another “I” of super-control on it, and he is computing. And it is a strange kind of computation he does but he’s computing on one or more circuits. And he is an animated circuit. But “I,” the actual “I” of the individual, is submerged. And it is your task in processing to rehabilitate this “I” that has become submerged, the real “I” of the individual, to a point where it can again command the organism. That is a basic definition of the treatment of psychotics.

You can do this by establishing some affinity, some communication and some reality between you, as an auditor, and the “I”—not with the demon circuit, with the actual “I” of the individual.

It’s a strange thing, but in a psychotic person, if you insist on talking to “I” and just keep on talking to “I” as though the person is rational and so forth, first thing you know, “I” begins to build up in strength. Another area of little theta, you might say. You, as an auditor, can move in on the individual and rehabilitate the actual entity. Then you can build that entity back up again and his personality should become accessible. Now, that is the lowest level of it.

People are generally considered psychotic in this society only when they are violent, dangerous to themselves or dangerous to the society. There are many other people in the society who are actually equally psychotic but who are apparently tractable. They are no more inaccessible than the raving maniac. They will sit in a living room and they will tell you (meanwhile nursing a terrific case of arthritis), “I’m fine, I’m fine, there’s nothing wrong with me” and so on, and they’ll go on about how this and that and other things, and that nothing should be done for them and they’re okay and yak, yak, yak, yak, yak. They’re also inaccessible people, and you establish communication with them, build up some affinity, build up some reality and you’re contacting the actual “I” and you’ll get some processing done on this person. A person’s refusal of auditing when they obviously need it is an inaccessible personality—you understand that. And you’ve got to build up the accessibility of that personality. You don’t do it by disagreeing with them. You do it by agreeing with them. In other words, you establish affinity, communication and reality with this person, and you establish the reality of what you’re trying to do.

This little validation booklet that we are getting out is highly therapeutic to the society because it demonstrates the reality of Dianetic processing.  And to a lot of people who are just, on an educational basis, inaccessible to you and so on, will immediately become accessible to you on the presentation of such evidence. That builds up the reality so they’ll build up a little affinity with you and you’re in communication with them and you can get some processing done. So that’s another stage of inaccessibility. And finally we get this person up to a point where we can give them straight memory. We are actually at this point in Step Three of the Standard Procedure Chart. This is about the best we can do, you see; we get a little straight memory on this person.

We can hit them with Step Three if we can’t get an inventory out of them. Sometimes you’ll be able to work one against the other and you may get an inventory out of them and get some Straightwire done.

This inventory, all by itself, puts you into communication with the person and puts “I” in communication with his own past and is therapeutic, so that you can start your accessibility with that inventory. A person has to be able to answer your questions. He has to be able to remember something of his past life, however, before you can get an inventory out of him. So your Step Three can be gone into at this point with the inventory, actually. “When were you sick?” And, “Who was your father and mother?” and so on. So Step One and Step Three can be done simultaneously off the Standard Procedure Chart. You see why that is? And it builds up the accessibility of the person. So if this person can’t be put into reverie and can’t be put back down the track again, you certainly can get some Straightwire on this person. You can get him to remembering. You can build up your affinity, communication and reality with this person to a point where he’ll remember. Then we get into this. You see, “I” could be postulated as consisting of a number of attention units and these attention units can get very badly distributed down the person’s time track so that “I” has less and less attention units. If you could bring a person 100 percent to present time he would be sane. That’s just what happens, you see. These physical pain enturbulence areas capture thought, capture his life force, one by one, and if you could just pull these things up out of there—be in good shape.

Now, an engram has to be restimulated before it’ll capture any of these life units. In other words, an engram could be a sleeper, unrestimulated, would have no great effect upon the individual at all; and having no great effect upon him—it wouldn’t have any effect, actually. A person could live for seventy years with a serious chain, let’s say, of AAs and not one phrase of the AAs ever be restimulated. Nothing would get keyed in. This is practically unthinkable that this should happen, but theoretically it can be postulated.

As you’re processing people you will find all kinds of engrams which were never in restimulation. You just knock them out as a matter of course, because as you go into the bank it’s necessary for you to knock them out because they’re in the road as you come up the line. You are actually restimulating them for the first time, some of these engrams, in the process of getting rid of them.

Some artist, for instance, that you are working on has an engram that says, “I can’t paint, I can’t draw, I can’t do anything,” and it’s never been active. Now, you put this one into restimulation on him for a couple of days, in the process of getting out a chain of criticism and so forth, this poor guy’s not going to be able to do any work. But it was temporary.

Now, that’s why, by the way, every session should be ended by running some pleasure moments and by straight memory. Every session should be ended with that. That’s part of Standard Procedure but it isn’t written down.

So, we get some straight memory on this person, then we start heading for locks, minor incidents, minor incidents where he has suffered breaks of communication, invalidations of his reality and breaks of affinity with life. So, these are little locks. We’re going into this very mildly. Let’s go into this case mildly and look it over and we’ll find out that these locks exist. Every time that engram was restimulated it took another couple of attention units, you see, off of “I,” and “I” got just that much weaker because this engram was restimulated.

Now, you can pick up these restimulations of these engrams by straight memory and you can return a certain amount of “I” to itself. Every time “I” gets stronger the . . . [gap] . . . to coax into the spot of pleasure, as many attention units as you can pull back. You may have distributed some down the track yourself in the process of processing. So you run a pleasure moment and this has a tendency to centralize those attention units, and then you bring him up to present time and you’ve got more “I” there. Then you run him straight memory on the session of processing, and you rescue what attention units additionally that you’ve laid back down on the track and you get all this up into present time and “I” is pretty stable  then.   And your preclear feels a lot better if you do this.

All right. You’re looking for just minor locks. “I’ll describe these and draw you a little chart here in a moment, showing you what you look for in terms of those locks. But it could be you’re trying to rehabilitate communication with this person. So you try to get back communication, his perception, so we just go back down the track just with straight memory and say, “Do you remember anybody who used to say ‘You can’t see it’?” The person will think for a moment and he’ll say, “Well, yes, my father used to say that.” “Well, let’s remember a moment when he said it.” “Ha-ha, yes, I remember when he said it.” You’ve broken a little lock right at that point which is on the communication line.

Or, “Who in your family used to talk about eyesight?” You look at your preclear, see he’s wearing glasses, you know very well somebody was talking about eyesight or “couldn’t see it” or something of the sort. Somebody broke off communication in that channel someplace. By straight memory we start recovering it. We start recovering this and the first thing you know we’ve got quite a bit of attention unit up there with “I.” Now we can take him back down the track and we can run these locks as engrams, actually.

You see the difference between a lock and an engram is that there is no physical pain, actually, in the lock—no physical pain in it—but it is a restimulation of a time when there was physical pain. So we just knock out the restimulation time and the engram has a tendency to go back and be a sleeper. If you could recover all the attention units off all the locks in a case you would have a Clear. He’d be very temporary a Clear, because his engrams would restimulate again. But he would give the aspects of a Clear, briefly. So you get those locks with straight memory and then you can come in down the line here and you look over this person and actually you can go from here to here. We’re trying to find out where to enter this case, you see? And you try to get some grief off of this case.

Now, I’m going to change the name of these things here and I’m going to call them “secondary engrams” and give you a definition for the secondary engram. A primary engram, or an actual engram, is one which contains physical pain and unconsciousness . . . [gap] . . . great big lock! Big, sudden impact—a terrific restimulation of that basic engram. The death of a person causes a grief charge. Now, therefore a grief engram or an apathy engram, you see, or a very tough anger engram and so on, would be a secondary engram, because all these things have in them is charge. “I” has received an impact from his environ. He has received this impact from his environ and it has restimulated physical pain back here in the background, and the two of them come together—crunch.

Actually, the engram has been charged up. It has been recharged, you might say, by this experience. You get analytical attenuation and so on, and that charge — the loss, a great loss of something or a moment of enormous terror or something like that, that restimulated an earlier engram—has a tendency there to charge up the engram. Your engram stops being mildly restimulated and stops being just a sleeper at that time and becomes a supercharged piece of pain, and it’s created a big lock. Now, you call that a secondary engram.

The reason it’s called an engram at all is just this: People don’t run them unless you call them engrams. They don’t run them like engrams. They will put somebody through them once, and the person is exteriorized and he can’t get into it, so they say, “Well, that’s not important, there was no physical pain there anyhow.” Actually, these secondary locks are run through and through and through again, with all perceptics, in reverie, and at that time they are knocked out just like engrams are. They’re desensitized.

The person gets into his own valence, you see. They run just like an engram. The person, for instance, won’t get a grief charge off unless he’s in his own valence. Well, a person can’t get his own pain in an engram unless he’s in his own valence. [gap] . . . and we call these things secondary engrams because there are the points when an impact from the environ which did not contain physical pain, yet contained such threat and menace to the individual, impinged upon a physical pain engram and restimulated it so thoroughly that it charged it up.

If you could get all of the grief and all of this charge off of a case you would have on your hands a Release. Actually, if you could just get all the grief off of a case you would have a Release, because you would have bled the charge out of the engrams and the engrams would go back and be sleepers.

It takes a terrific impact to make one of these secondary engrams, like the death of an ally—a terrific loss would all of a sudden charge this thing up on the affinity line. An enormous slam into a person’s communication line and so forth would dam up the communication line, you see, in one of these secondary locks. And you run these things out just like engrams.

All right. Actually, these really become secondary engrams when they break down affinity, communication and reality simultaneously— they become their worst things.

This is one of the reasons why two lovers parting and so on can cause such a terrific psychic reaction in one of them or both. See, you’re breaking down two types of affinity. You are breaking down a very strong, probably sexual affinity, and group affinity and personal affinity, and they’re going out of communication with each other and, boy, do they go out of communication! For instance, think of the words they use. Not, “I’m not going to write to you anymore,” but “I’m not going to see you again.” You see, they’re talking about perceptics. And they disagree, and afterwards you’ll find them saying about each other that the other person was not true or trustworthy and so forth. In other words, the reality has been broken down.

You want to find these partings, deaths, sudden shut-offs in various lines and here’s what you’d get.

Now, we estimate a case in terms of where you can enter the case. You’d look at this chart, you see, and you find out where your case plots on this chart and that tells you what part of Standard Procedure to start on. This is a guide, you might say.

We’ve got this person exteriorized all the way down the track. He’s watching himself. He has, evidently, a low sense of reality. Maybe he has a little trouble talking to you and so on, these various things. You get an estimate on that case: how serious is it? Well, this person is in a fairly serious state. Actually, you’d probably enter the case clear up here. You find out whether or not his memory is accessible. Sure, you find out his memory is accessible but he certainly stumbles around about it. And we find out that by Straightwire we have to break quite a few locks on this case before we can even start into it. In other words, get Straightwire on it for a while and get some of these locks up. And we are going to be able to run really nothing but a few locks and minor things that he can reach. And he’s so exteriorized. He’s exteriorized all the way down the track.

Now let’s take a person who is only exteriorized at moments of great stress.  He moves on the track but he’s only exteriorized in moments of great stress; otherwise he is interior to himself This person isn’t nearly as tough a case. All you have to do is find that moment of that secondary engram which is supercharging him, you might say, supercharging some of these engrams, and you’ll knock out some grief and so forth off the case. Normally you’d be able to do this. So he’s exteriorized only in these moments. You would go into this area here and you’d start the case here. It says “secondary engrams are accessible,” so on—run some. Get some grief off the case and so forth, and you’ll get him into his own valence in the basic area and there you go.

Now, what you actually are hoping for in cases is that you can start them all there. That would be very nice if you could start every case you had there. Book Auditors have no trouble resolving a case from here on down, really, because a case which is entered at that point doesn’t pose any great difficulty. You as not too good an auditor could be considered to be able to resolve cases from here on down. Or, if you were a really good auditor and so forth, you might be able to consider cases from here on down, and you go on up the line. If you are really a crackerjack you can resolve them from here on down. See how that would be? In other words, this is also a measure of your auditing skill. Okay?

Now, supposing he’s exteriorized all up and down the track and we try to get into an engram, one of these secondary engrams, and run it out. No tears. We try secondary engram after secondary engram. He lies there and his chest heaves and we see that there’s terrific emotional suppression, and that, by the way, is the sign of it; twitching toes demonstrate the presence of physical pain which he is not feeling; the heaving chest demonstrates the presence of emotion which he is not getting rid of, and we notice that this person just can’t get that stuff off. What have we got here? We got a circuitry case. So we have to go right in for breaking circuits. It tells you in the Standard Procedure Charts how to go about the business of breaking circuits. You search for them with straight memory and so forth and you get them sorted out so that you can run them. And you run the engrams which contain these circuits. You can get to them. And you try to run these engrams off the case enough so as to knock the circuits out of this case.

Now, I’ll talk more about circuits.

This becomes the most skilled operation in Dianetics. There is where you ought to have a lot of concentration—on circuits. There isn’t a case around the Foundation which is running poorly that is not running poorly because of one of two things: either somebody got hold of this case and really ruined it, from a standpoint of just thoroughly lousy auditing which can be patched up easily or—you just run out the auditing, and you drop into the engrams the auditor let him bounce out of and you reduce the thing and keep on going that way and the case will resolve. Or you have got a circuitry case and you just break it up on terms of circuitry. Break up this circuitry and the circuits, after a while, broken out of the case sufficiently, will permit the person to get off your secondary engrams. You get the secondary engrams off the case and you’ll be able to get into the basic area and get the person into his own valence consistently—that’s own valence consistently—and then you run out primary engrams, pain engrams, the basic area—you start the erasure. Somewhere along the line another circuit’s going to pop up someplace and you’re going to have to go back into circuitry again and you’re going to knock that circuit out. And then you’re going to get some more secondary engrams off the case. And you get those off the case and you’re going to go back and run at basic area again.

Cases cycle in this fashion: you have to get off secondary engrams in order to get basic area engrams, and you have just so many basic engrams available and you suddenly start running out of those and you have a hard time getting into them and the person’s sonic isn’t too good and he’s not doing too well in his own valence. You have to go back here and get the secondary engrams which are all set and ready to go. You follow this now? But this is then a measure of where you enter a case. For instance, a person is terrifically exteriorized all the way down the track, you know there’s an enormous amount of charge on this engram bank, enormous amount of charge. You’ve got to get some of that charge off. And you start getting the charge off just by breaking locks with straight memory. You get some of the charge off by running the locks themselves, but if you can’t get to secondary engrams, even then, to run off grief charges and the rest of it, you’re up against circuitry so you have to go into circuitry. You see how this works? All right, so you know where to enter the case, in other words. And when you really start an erasure of the case from the bottom to the top and you’re getting a complete erasure, you’re erasing twenty-six perceptics. You don’t have to ask for them one by one. The person will be in his own valence and he’ll actually to some degree be reexperiencing the moment. Its reality will be absolutely unquestioned to him, and he’ll run these things off and hell erase them and you’re going. But a case should be worked with until it’s in that shape before you settle down to running what you call an erasure.

Now, this does not mean that you must not run out engrams which contain circuits. You’ve got to run out basic area engrams out of a circuitry case. You’ve got to run out engrams which contain circuits. You’ve got to run them out sometimes on the basis of a person being out of his own valence; getting no unconsciousness off them, just getting reductions; getting into a chain of engrams which have to do with circuits and going on down the chain till you find the bottom one and run out the bottom one completely, although he’s out of valence. You see? You’ve got to take the tension off of it. There’ll be tension on that circuitry if it is the circuitry which is causing the case to be loused up. So you get down to the bottom on the thing and you run it out.

You get your clue as to what kind of a circuit to look for, usually by Straightwire and by running locks. And you find out the wording of the circuit and you get the person to jump down the track to the first engram in which this appears; you coax him down, sometimes you sort of have to go down on a ladder basis into the basic area and eventually you’ll run out one of these basic engrams; the tension will go out of that circuit, you’ll be able to go up here and knock out some secondary engrams. When you get the secondary engrams out then you test to find out if you can get into the basic area and so forth, and start running an erasure. You find out he’s not able to do this, you go on and take out more circuits, you take out more secondary engrams, you take out more charge off of this case. And you keep getting charge off of the case until eventually the person will go into his own valence, stay in his own valence, and run engrams. It should be very clear to you.

Now, running a full erasure, then, is what you’re striving to do. You shouldn’t start to try to run a full, consecutive, chronological erasure on a case until you can really run that in valence and get a real erasure out of each one. Otherwise these engrams will have a tendency to come back on you. You’ll do all sorts of weird things. And the fellow’s sense of reality, by the way, will apparently rather deteriorate. Oh, he’ll get better in some fashion or other, very slowly. But here you’re working against this enormous mass of charge contained in these secondary engrams and you may be just ignoring the fact that there’s charge in those engrams. You try to run one in the basic area and he can’t run it in his own valence and he’s all out of contact on it and everything else—there’s charge on this case. Sometimes, by the way, you just start running out a basic area engram; the fellow’s badly out of valence, the thing starts reducing, you’ve got one phrase left on it or something like that you can’t do anything with. Sometimes this one phrase is so stuck—you try to find the phrase earlier and it just won’t be found earlier and you just send him—say, “Go to the engram which contains the charge that represses this phrase,” and he’s liable to go clear up into late life and you get a live secondary engram there. And you’ll run that thing all the way out and you go back down and you’ll find out you can erase that thing. That’s one for you to remember. It works. It shouldn’t be major standard practice to go north every time you do, because usually it’s an earlier phrase that’s suppressing it. So you got your secondary engrams—takes the charge off of the case. If the person can’t get in his own valence and so on, (has difficulty staying there), the case may well have on it lots of charge. But it doesn’t have to have very many valence shifters; it has to have some.

If a person is running an engram along and he’s just doing fine and all of a sudden he’s out of valence and isn’t running the engram fine at all, you know that you’ve hit a valence shifter. No more than that. You knock out the valence shifter, you get back at his own valence and run it through. But if you can only occasionally get a person into his own valence and he’s out of it and he’s wandering around and he’s in this valence and he’s that valence and he starts running the thing as though it has lots of charge on it and so on, you know that this basic engram has been charged up by a secondary engram which was an analytical environment shock of some sort. You see?

If these secondary engrams won’t bleed off the case, won’t come off the case, you know there’s deaths: there’s Grandpa’s dead and Papa’s dead and Mama’s dead and everybody’s dead on the case, and you keep trying to run these deaths and nothing happens—there’s circuitry suppressing it. So you have to knock out the circuitry.

Sure, you’ve got to run engrams to get out the circuitry, but you will be much amazed to find out that those engrams will normally just reduce. Sometimes they will even appear to erase. Person rather out of valence and having a hard time with them but you slug him through the thing somehow and you get the tension off of them, you get the charge off of them—that is, the basic area engrams or prenatal engrams, you get the charge off of the things. When you start your erasure again you’re going to find pieces of these engrams; there wasn’t a complete erasure on that. You can’t run an engram out of valence and so forth and expect it to be gone, because there’s pieces of that engram left.

Pat-a-cake auditing would probably be best defined as that kind of auditing which ignores secondary engrams and circuitry and merely permits the preclear to run anything out of the case which he can get his hands on, and run it out of valence or any way, without even being pushed into it and so forth. That would really be dumb auditing. I’m pointing up this fact to you.

Now, this doesn’t mean, for instance, that you don’t ask the file clerk for the engram necessary to resolve the case. You can find out that fast whether or not there’s lots of circuitry on this case and whether or not there’s lots of secondary engrams charging this case. That fast! It’s the simplest test in the world. You start trying to work with the file clerk and you find the file clerk won’t work with you? Circuitry, secondary engrams! Right there. I mean, that’s what it means. Just like that—one, two. Or suddenly the fellow says, “Yes, my file clerk’s working,” and you say, “Well, what did you just get?” And he says, “This model train just turned around the curve and the engineer just leaned out and handed me the sign, so my file clerk’s working.” No, he’s not. This guy has a terrific amount of control circuitry on the case. And you can shoot this out in terms of locks, you can shoot it out in terms of engrams but it’s what you should head for: circuitry.

Now, the circuitry will go into such an obtuse line—somebody was telling me the other day a remarkable piece of circuitry. Practically all the circuitry on this case was just along one line: “I’ve got to protect you from yourself.” And the case was just sodden with this stuff. And this person couldn’t run any engrams, he couldn’t get in contact with anything, just having an awful time. And somebody hit this word protect, started to run it on repeater technique or got it by Straightwire (I don’t remember which) but all of a sudden found this word protect in the case, ran down the chain of engrams way into the prenatal area; found it appearing there; started knocking out these engrams, getting actual reductions on them and reduced a whale of a lot of them; came up into them and found a couple of big secondary engrams where the darned circuit appeared too; knocked those things out, and the case started running. But this case had resisted therapy for about 120 hours, mainly because the people working this case didn’t work circuitry. They were trying to work an engram and they couldn’t get the person moving on the track, and they couldn’t do this, and they couldn’t do that, so they just said, “Well . . . ” They said, “It must be the words ‘not moving.’ Repeat the words ‘not moving.’ ” “Not moving, not moving, not moving.” “Well, let’s see. She can’t move on the track. Maybe it’s a holder. Repeat the words ‘stay here.’” “Stay here, stay here, stay here.” You get the idea?

They are paying complete and whole attention to statements! They say, “Well, run the phrase ‘I’m not going back there.’” And the poor preclear says, “Well, I can’t get into it.” And the auditor says, “Ha! Repeat that phrase.” And for some reason or other, for a hundred and some hours this case didn’t resolve. And all of a sudden somebody came along and said, “Look, it must have functional mechanics over here. Something’s wrong here.” Sure! The case was terrifically overcharged with everything and yet no emotion could come off of the case. So it must be circuits. Let’s see who in the family was laying in the circuits into this case. They found that person, got the key words of it, ran that phrase, got it right on down the bank, hit it in the bottom of the bank and brought it up to the top and the case started to run. If the auditors had known that, they would have saved this preclear about a hundred and some hours of lying on a couch getting back sores, and would have saved themselves a lot of time.

Circuits will give all of these appearances. There hasn’t been enough emphasis on circuits.

Now you see how you go into a case, then. If you find out there’s circuits on the case, you can’t get off this, the person doesn’t move on the track worth a nickel and so forth, they’re inaccessible. Sure, they may be stuck on the track. Sure, you can try to find out if they’re stuck on the track and you can try to shake them loose off the track. Do everything you can do to shake them loose and get them moving on the track, just on a purely mechanical basis. And you very often find out somebody is latched up in some incident when they’re twelve years old and you blast it a couple of times and get an earlier incident out of it, and they’ll start moving on the track. That’s all right, that’s normal. A normal procedure. But you can’t get this incident.

Most auditors, when they find a guy who won’t move on the track, who doesn’t seem to be going anyplace and they have found incident after incident in their twelfth year (which is the number flash they’re getting), they finally say, “Well, we just can’t do any more about it.” And they haven’t even touched circuits. And that’s what’s wrong with this case!

Probably “I” is so drained out by all this charge and circuitry that he’s probably only got a half a dozen attention units left to move on the track and probably the engram in which he’s stuck is somebody that says, “Well, I think you ought to wait for a moment,” while he is sitting in the sun. In other words, it’s enough to have held the person at this point on the track. And the funny part of it is that we can overlook (if it gets to the point where you can’t just easily get him moving on the track) and we can overlook the fact that he is stuck on the track. And we can start shooting him Straightwire and we can start looking for circuits and we can start treating the thing as it is and we can try to get some charge off of the thing. First thing you know, you’ll find out that wherever a person is stuck on the track that solidly, there’s a lot of charge on it. So you start knocking out the circuits that’s suppressing the charge and then you start picking up the charge which is charging up the circuits, and then you start knocking out more circuits which suppress more charge and get the charge out of the thing and the first thing you know, he’s moving on the track in his own valence and he’s got sonic.

You want to know how to turn sonic on! You turn sonic on, when it’s thoroughly off, by picking up the affinity, communication and reality of a person—not running “I can’t hear.” Now, am I making sense to you? So this is the way we go. We find out where to enter this case by looking over what this case can do. And we find out there aren’t very many things wrong with a case, ordinarily, taken in this lowest common denominator of every case: can he move on the track? All right, if he can’t move on the track . . . Oh, let’s take it earlier than that. Can we talk to him? That’s right. Does he know where he is? Let’s see if we can establish a little bit of affinity by communicating with him and so . . . You just get him to communicating with you, you’ll build him up—actually communicating with him.

By the way, one of the reasons why you have such a hard time with psychotics is the society picks them up and kind of manhandles them and pushes them off as dangerous, and they are saying to “I,” “Look, you don’t belong to us anymore.” And they’ve cut communication with “I”; down goes the affinity and (descending whistle) there goes the person into a rather permanent type of psychosis, see? I mean, you can worsen it. Restraints, particularly, are very bad in this. Now you’ve broken the essentials. “I” might have had one-half of one attention unit left and somebody puts a straitjacket on him and says, “You go in there now”; they have immediately put him out of communication with the material universe. They can’t move. They have denied them space. Broken communication with space, you can say. Wham! There goes that half of one. Boom!

Now, you as an auditor are expected to go in there and work against all of these things and produce some sanity in this person. And the funny part of it is, is you can.

All right, the personality is accessible. We finally are able to talk to this guy a little bit. Finally we’re able to get him to remember something and the more we can get him to remember, the more that “I” will build up. And it doesn’t matter how long it takes. You know what you are trying to make him remember. You’re trying to make him remember moments when affinity was broken, when communications were broken and when his reality was impinged. And the more of these things you get up, the stronger “I” will get, up to a point where you can finally put this person into actual processing in reverie. You get him into actual processing in reverie, you find out that you can’t approach any major charges, you approach minor ones, little ones. Sneak up on these big ones. Get “I” built up to a point where “I” is bigger than the charged-up engram bank.

The reason “I” can’t do anything about these engrams is “I” has been drained down to a point where it is smaller than the charges. There is less charge on “I” than there is on the engram, so “I” can’t get into the engrams. You want to rescue, from any quarter that you can, power for “I.” You do that by knocking out secondary engrams, by even knocking out locks by Straightwire — anything that you can do to increase the power and voltage on “I.” And you’ll finally get “I” built up so “I” is that big and the engram bank is that big, and you as the auditor make the differential difference, and wham! Into it he can go. See? And you produce processing.

Now, I want to make sure that you know this chart. I’ll have this chart published with some annotations and show how it coordinates with Standard Procedure Chart, but you understand what this chart is telling you. This chart is telling you what part of Standard Procedure to use on this case. It isn’t left sort of up in the air so that you don’t quite know. This chart’s telling you.

Yes?

Female voice: Are you going to use that whole chart on every person you . . .

Yes, sin Female voice: . . . because it might not take so long to get down to the . . .

Well, I’ll tell you. Cases are running just fine in their own valence, as I said before, and then something happens in the environment—big invalidation of data or a death or something happens out in the environment—and all of a sudden, your case that’s been running here is all of a sudden found to be running here. There isn’t any reason to blow your brains out. All you do is go back on this chart again and look it over.

Every time a case bogs down, the case has actually just changed positions from a lower point on the chart to a higher point on the chart, and you have to address the case in this new wise, that’s all. Because something in that case has gone into restimulation which has worsened the case momentarily, and you want to pick it up and make it better again. And this is the chart that you have recourse to. This measures a case from time to time . . .

Yes?

Female voice: I was thinking we had to do at least the first inventory, to go right down this} to then call it . . .

Not on an inventory, you don’t check these things. You check these things at Step Two. You start checking, for instance, this on the second step and so on. You see how it compares, one to the other.

The first thing you try for on Step Two is secondary engrams. “Painful emotion” it says on the Standard Procedure Chart. You mark it down “secondary engrams” instead. Grief, so forth—you try to get this stuff off of the case. If you can’t get this off, then the case has got circuits suppressing it. Well, in spite of the circuits you can normally get some minor locks off of the case and so you just adjust it one end and the other.

I’m going to go into this further, so don’t be dismayed.

This is awfully, awfully easy. You see, I’m talking to you on the standards that you know what an engram is. And maybe there’s some doubt about that around here, but the reason why people have a hard time, sometimes, spotting an engram or getting an engram out of somebody, is that they have violated some portion of this, which is the complementary Standard Procedure Chart. They’re trying to run engrams out of somebody that wouldn’t know a thing was real if somebody hit him in the head with a baseball bat. And they’d certainly better pick up his sense of reality; otherwise he isn’t going to know if he’s running an engram or not. You see, that’s his sense of reality—so he doesn’t even know if the engram is real. It’s interesting to test people who don’t know if the engram is real. You ask them how much else in their life is real and you’ll find damn little.

All right.

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