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'''Series:''' Saint Hill Special Briefing Course (SHSBC)

'''Date:''' 16 March 1965

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

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Thank you. Thank you. What’s the date?

Audience: 16 March. Sixteen March. Sixteen March AD 15, Saint Hill Special Briefing Course.

Well, didn’t bring my notes. Guess I’ve got to get another gag than that one—nobody laughs at it anymore. This has been a mad, mad sprint.

This is a mad sprint. Back in 1950 people used to yammer at me and yammer at me. Of course I knew how to administer and administration in general.

They used to yammer at me, “Why don’t you do something about the organization? Yap, yap, yap, yap,” you know ARC break, ARC break. “Well, why don’t you just drop everything you’re doing and go in there and push a desk?” Very important! You push a desk.

And all of this—all of this added up to a big bunch of nonsense. In the first place, I got caught absolutely flat—footed in 1950, completely flat—footed. Wrote a book.

Published on March the 9th. Anniversary of it has just gone by. Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health.

I was even contracting at the time to go on and do some stories and novels and so forth. And I had for a number of years paid for all research and so forth out of my own money or my products—the products of writing. And there I was minding me own business and the book hit.

Nobody ever expected this book to be a bestseller. And it went instantly and immediately to the top of the bestseller list and it just stayed there and stayed there and stayed there and stayed there. Had a lousy publisher, he was caught flat—footed, too.

He was an ex—commie. He’s still alive over in New York. He tries occasionally to put out a timid paw in my direction and when I don’t instantly answer up he ARC breaks like crazy.

Finally, HCO Sec NY was able to get in touch with him the other day and it’s all good roads and good weather now. But it actually blew him off of his post. It blew him out of his own publishing firm.

Because nobody expected it. And his publishing firm was rigged to publish books and make a little money and all of a sudden it found itself with too much money to deal with and there  THE PROGRESS 2  AND FUTURE OF SCIENTOLOGY were just these thousands and tens of thousands of dollars rolling in the front door of that place and they had one of the biggest book publishers in the country and yet they still couldn’t turn out enough books. Everybody was short of books, short of books, short of books, short of books.

And it was just too much confusion. Whatever the political allegiances and other things of the people concerned, and so forth, it was just too much. Nobody was braced for this at all.

Next thing I knew, right after the book was published, and so forth, a bunch of chaps came down to see me and told me they’d fixed up a foundation for me and all was going to be well and they would run all this. That was in essence what it was. That moment I took my finger off my number and I said, “All right.

It’s all right with me.” And oddly enough at those very first meetings some actions were proposed by me which we just now are getting the completed cycle of action on and for lack of which—and for lack of which everything has been appetite over tin cup. But I had one vote amongst eight or nine or—I’ve forgotten how many it was. And it was just by dint of personality I tried to hold the thing together.

You never heard so much squirreling and mess—up and so forth in your life. And I didn’t have any management control—nothing. As a matter of fact at that time—you may find it hard to credit perhaps—but I was totally anonymous as far as anything but the author of the book was concerned.

I had a number of US Senators interested in this. As a matter of fact I had the senate dining room one day—I had lots of friends down there in those days, still would have if I went down and stuck my nose in. Every time I do, why they all say, “Hey, Ron!

Where the hell have you been?” you know. “What’s the matter, you mad at me?” Something like that. I’d say, “Oh, I’ve been busy.” And I had the senate dining room down there one noon, I remember, along about this period. And you could have heard a toothpick fall from one end of it to the other.

I was simply telling people about—a group of scientists had found—you see, your effort to leave it anonymous and that sort of thing is well borne. Occasionally, why, you don’t want to use the word or something like this or you’re being timid. And yet I was telling them somebody had found the dynamic principle of existence and I was telling people what it was and so forth.

And that place was jammed from one corner to the other with senators and so forth. The next thing you know the table outside of the perimeter of the table I was sitting at with three or four old senators and the table outside that went silent and the table outside that went silent and the table outside that went silent and the next thing you know there was—wasn’t anything happening in that dining room. The waiters were standing there, see.

Darnedest thing you ever wanted to see, you know! And I said, “Gee!” I said, “I’ve got a bear by the tail here, you know.” That was actually before anything much had occurred. They had never heard of this book or anything.

But I said, “Well I just write the stuff up,” you know. And actually that was my attitude until about July of 1950. “Oh, I just—just wrote it.” And I wasn’t making any commotion, I wasn’t promoting my writing name. Actually a writer seldom promotes his own writing name anyhow.

THE PROGRESS 3  AND FUTURE OF SCIENTOLOGY Names—names of course to me are very, very indifferent things. After all, I’m very well known under about six pen names, you see, so names don’t mean much. It’s the guy that was important.

But this name, this name, this one name started to move up and hit me in the face, don’t you see. I’ve worn it very pleasantly and so forth, since it isn’t that L. Ron Hubbard is a pen name, it happens to be my own name.

But this name, this name was strictly exclamation points, you see, around the place. And I was trying not to wear that hat. And finally, the fellow who was serving as general manager at that time—I was having to do fantastic things; I was putting the place together with my bare hands—everybody else was running around being important.

I’m a working stiff myself I wouldn’t quite know what it is to be a sedentarytype desk flyer, you know. Just flying a desk as an executive you see, sitting there—sitting there at zero mph, going madly down the carpet, you know, and I wouldn’t quite know what that was. And I was all over the place and I think I was delivering eight hours of lecture a day or something of that sort; I was teaching about three or four courses.

I was buying all the furniture, putting everything together, I’d had to go out and find the building myself because I’d found out the reason they couldn’t find a building is they went around and told everybody with a poor mouth, “Well, we’re just a charity organization, we can’t pay very much.” I kept saying, “Gee, but man, we’re expanding, we’ve got to get out of here, you know.” “Oh, I’ve been trying everywhere!” And so I said to Parker, “You come along with me!” I said, “I’m certain that there are buildings in this city.” And that was what he was telling people, “We’re just a charity organization and we can’t pay very much. We don’t have very much money.” Money? My God!

The doors were falling in with money! And I just Cut him off and just scolded him right in fro—right in front of the building owner of the building we were standing in, you know. “What do you mean telling people lies like that? You’ve got to conquer that hab—habit of yours, Parker, telling people lies like that!” Turned around to the fellow, and said, “We’ve got plenty of money,” I said, “Give me the keys to the place, how much did you say it was?

Oh, yes, well give me the keys to the place, because we’re moving in this afternoon.” And the fellow says, “Well, the lease and so on . . .” Well, I said, “That’s your lookout.” I took the keys out of his hand and we were into—into our original headquarters. And there were three mainline railroad trains which went one on each corner of the building in a triangle. And that’s why you—that’s why you see to this day the Dianetic symbol in our shield.

You can just imagine it, you can just imagine. Well, anyway, I remember, I had been sweating it out, working away, tearing around, giving the lectures, and also ran the HGC to the degree that any time an auditor had any difficulty with a ease he brought the case into my office and I banged him down on the couch and got the case started, handed him back to the auditor and roll ‘em. I used to crack cases pangety—pangety—pangety—pangety—pang, you see.

And then run off and give another lecture and so forth. And gave a night course. And the original, the original HAS course mock—up which you have now is the original Elizabeth mock—up.

PE came much later. And  THE PROGRESS 4  AND FUTURE OF SCIENTOLOGY that was simply that for a certain fee, a number of people could take a rather long, elementary, indefinite course, but they were definitely, definitely taught exact data. And they were taught exact data out of Book One—Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health.

They were just taught this book. It wasn’t somebody lecturing about how nice life was—they were just told this data, you see. And engrams and locks and that sort of thing were described to them, and so forth.

And those people all moved over a hundred percent onto the original HCA Course. Well, it was fantastic. I’d give this about—I think it ran about three nights a week, and so forth.

It’s what you’d see now as an equivalent of the HAS course. See, it was an Academy course, it wasn’t a PE. These students were given full student responsibility, don’t you see.

They weren’t given very much auditing but they were given some. And so on. Now the first real blow along this sort of thing came when I got ahold of the Elizabeth auditors and I called them together in a staff meeting.

I used to have lots of staff meetings. And it was a query on my part, “What do you want to call yourselves? All right with me to call yourselves anything.

What do you want to call yourselves?” And they said, well, so—and—so, and they’d get a lot of suggestions, they didn’t discuss it there, they were going to have a meeting so that they could decide on this, you see. And they had to get the Los Angeles auditors a little bit later. This was not decided for some time, by the way.

And they got the Los Angeles auditors to have a staff meeting to decide what they were going to call themselves, don’t you see? And they came back with “Hubbard Dianetic Auditor.” And I said, “Hubbard Dianetic Auditor? All right.

Hubbard Dianetic Auditor. Okay.” I could see myself walking into something here, you see. “It’s all right with me, you boys want to call yourselves that, all right.” And Los Angeles flicker—flacked back and forth on the telegraphs, and so forth, and they—”Hubbard Dianetic Auditor.” That was passed. I didn’t have anything to do with it.

Oddly enough, many years later we tried to drop this name and it was very peculiar but all of a sudden we had a completely empty school and nobody wanted the other certificate and there were no students of any kind and eventually when the certificate was reoffered again in Scientology, I think it was “Hubbard Scientology Auditor” and so forth, we instantly had a full Academy. So these boys had a good instinct on this and they knew what they were doing. But they didn’t want to be known as anything else.

Now, the point is that I at that time was trying to—well I after all had a body to run and—this is back in 1950—and I had a body to run and it was a bad show because I wasn’t getting any sleep and I wasn’t getting very much to eat and that sort of thing. And I had a ... Very amusing story goes in connection with this, because just before the 9th of March I had been—run into a chap by the name of Palmer, over at the Explorers Club, who had just had to drop an expedition.

And it was an expedition to the Dodecanese, some islands which are just south of Greece, to dig up a ship which lies in thirty fathoms of water down there which is full of statuary from Greece. And it’s a Roman ship of Roman times and there might be something in there by some boy like Praxiteles or something like that, don’t you see. So he  THE PROGRESS 5  AND FUTURE OF SCIENTOLOGY had run into me at the club and “Oh, hiya, Ron, I haven’t got much time to talk to you, do you want an expedition?” I said, “Do I want an expedition?

What’s the matter with you?” And he said, “Well, you know that—that thing I’ve been talking about of going over to the Dodecanese and so forth, well that’s all off. The Ecuadorian government—the Ecuadorian government has got an exploration that they want me to conduct down there and as a matter of fact I’ve got to go right now and—oh, by the way, here’s all the pack of materials and all the appointments and the visas and everything that goes along with this, and so forth, and it’s all yours, Ron!” Well, oddly enough, interestingly enough, it was really an even swap. Because right at the middle of the beginning of World War II, why, the Ecuadorian government had, in connection with the Explorers Club up there, had gotten in touch with a fellow by the name of James Robert Gresham.

And Jimmy Gresham couldn’t think of anybody to take to Ecuador but me. The Ecuadorian government offered him fifty thousand square miles of Ecuador if he could go in and find out who was in that territory. And we were going to go down there but I unfortunately had a commission in the navy and there was a war on.

Anyway, this all sounds very involved but here the thing came back to me again. Palmer walks into the Explorer’s Club, he’s all excited, he’s going down to Ecuador, see. They’re still looking for somebody to go in and get his head lost. “So there’s the—there’s the packet,” he says, “there’s the packet.” It was just before the publication of the first book.

I said, “This is pretty interesting! Go on down there and do some deep—sea diving, only thirty fathoms of water—what do you know! Nice, warm Dodecanese and so on.” So I started writing around to people and connected them as the heir apparent to this expedition and started to whip it up and there was money available and there was everything else.

Those lines are still hanging there, not quite connected! But actually, if you could imagine it, I was thinking still in the middle of 1950 of occasionally nibbling around about this expedition, you know? It sounded awful good.

And the deeper we got into 1950 the better it looked! And one day the general manager, after a big board meeting and so forth, got in touch with me and he says, “Ron,” he says, “you’ve got to front up here. You’ve got to front up to these people.” He says, “They’re depending on you,” and so forth.

Well, I wasn’t doing anything that’s not fronting up, I was just working like mad and wasn’t paying much attention to the—to the figurehead on something. I was still telling people this sort of thing. And he said, “You must do that!” and I—bah!

Well, there goes your—any liberty or freedom of motion you have, don’t you see, on something like this. And I shook my head and in the interim—between the times, seeing they’re just about two hours apart, these times are—I found out that Joe Winter was using the fact of my agg—attributing the development of the subject to a nebulous group of nonexistent scientists to squirrel the whole cockeyed lot. And we had some kind of a wild cross going—mind you this was a working subject.

This was not an unworking subject at all. And we had—we had cases snapping out of it and we had people coming in and going out shouting three cheers and that sort of thing—it was just good straight Dianetics. THE PROGRESS 6  AND FUTURE OF SCIENTOLOGY And it wasn’t very soon, there, I’m starting to get—starting to get difficulties with cases.

Starting to run into cases which were being audited in some peculiar way. I was getting somebody there who was telling people that “Auditing is an art. There is nothing scientific about it.” You can imagine somebody telling that.

You can imagine somebody telling students that. A wide—open invitation to walk around and do Gestalt therapy while they eat candy or something and not do anything for anybody. Well, that was the state that mental health was in at the time of the emergence of Dianetics.

Nobody had anything done for them. It was everybody had some kind of weird opinion. I remember they had something running called psychodrama in those days.

And it sure is! But these subjects were all pretense subjects, don’t you see? You listen to them, they read awful good in the books, but I have the last textbook that was published by psychology which was uninfluenced by Dianetics.

And I took it off the line with me own little pink hand down at the American Book Bindery. Because it came off the line—it was the basic textbook of psychology for this University of Chicago. And it rolled off the line and the last copy of that binding went off the line as the first copy of Dianetics came on.

So I just turned around to the girl who was in charge and I said, “Do you mind?” and picked up the copy, right off the binder rollers. I said, “Do you mind if I take this book?” “No, go ahead.” She was after all making her fortune off of me, so, perfectly all right. And I have that book to this day.

Actually it was insufficiently dried so its cover is warped. But so is its contents. And I picked up that book—I picked up that book for evidence, for evidence because I knew that the book following, just behind it was never going to afterwards have a straight picture of what psychology was.

I knew that. And it’s got “man’s IQ cannot be changed, he’s an unchanging animal, he’s—we don’t know anything about what the psyche is and therefore we can’t give you a proper Definition for a psyche.” You see, it’s got all that stuff in it, don’t you see. Well, I didn’t want this—I didn’t want Dianetics being influenced to that degree and it occurred to me then and there that there was some truth in what the general manager of the Elizabeth Foundation was saying to me.

And I was still a bit queasy about this though it seemed to me like, you know, saying all right, positively and completely owning up to the truth of it is, I wrote it all, I did it all, it’s been in the works since 1938, don’t you see? That—that was a brave statement. So he backed me up against the wall about two hours after the first meeting and he says, “Well,” he says, “have you decided?” he says, “Because this is probably going to be a very crucial point.” And I said, “Yes, I’ve decided, all right, you can tell them I did it all.” And so I talked from that viewpoint thereon, which is of course the truthful viewpoint.

And it was very reluctant that I took over these—this type of hat and responsibility because I knew that all hell was going to break loose and boy did it! There was some gal who had left me forever, for instance, down in Savannah, Georgia, the year before. And somewhere toward the beginning of that—of the year just previously, hearing things were in the wind, she had turned up and I couldn’t get rid of her.

I hadn’t anything to do with her, I wasn’t anything, you see. Navy—naval officers being naval officers  THE PROGRESS 7  AND FUTURE OF SCIENTOLOGY accumulate baggage. My life was not prepared to be a wide—open book; I had been a writer all my life!

I have lived—I had lived in Greenwich Village, and so forth. As a matter of fact, my life was sufficiently incredible that I seldom wrote stories about it because they were too unbelievable. And I used to actually have to lie about my life because I was accustomed to boys of my own age, or young people or writers of my own age, and so forth sitting there, you know, and just calling me a bloody liar.

I’d tell them the truth, you see. Well it didn’t pay—it didn’t pay. So what you did is water it all down, don’t you see.

The truth of the matter was pretty—pretty exclamatory sort of point existence. My adventures did not take place in my own textbooks—in my own, that is to say, my own fiction stories. They took place in the raw.

And this sort of thing is very easy to catch up with. If you’re preparing for the seminary and so forth, why, don’t live the life of the pirate! If you’re going to go before a committee of evidence, make sure you have a clean nose for a number of years or at least since the last amnesty!

Well, nobody issued me any amnesties. This girl—this girl, she was hammering and pounding around the place and so forth and there were psychologists all over the place. The commies decided they were going to take us out of the running and at—at that time the Definition of a psychotic person was one who thought the communists were after him.

They had carefully planted this in the mores of the society which is a very interesting Definition. I don’t know, we may do the same thing someday, it’s very successful. When we want to get somebody why we just spread it around you see, the Definition of a psychotic is somebody who thinks the Scientologists are after him, you know.

And then we promptly go after him. No, I’m afraid we wouldn’t do anything that bold, we don’t have to. But when things were really blowing up—it was quite interesting that when I approached the Justice Department concerning the state of our organizations and so forth and gave them a list of two hundred and some names and asked them to please tell me which of these people were known as subversive agents, they countered—J.

Edgar Hoover’s boy there—countered and he said, “No,” he said, “I’ll give you back the names who are not communists. And therefore I myself won’t be hung with the fact of having given any state information to anybody.” People like to weave the idea that I’m in bad here or there or people think badly of me and that sort of thing and that is not—definitely not the ease. See, if I were in Washington in 1955, if I cared to work at it, I probably could have wangled Legislation protecting Scientology.

It’s quite the reverse picture, don’t you see. These guys, I go in to see them, even—well, today, I’d go in Washington, see the guys that—”Oh, yes! Gosh, how are you?” you know. “Gee!” you know.

And the letters I receive on my business lines and that sort of thing, “Oh, thank you, thank you for writing us,” don’t you see. Very courteous and so on. The atmosphere which has been built up in some people’s minds, you see, is there’s something not quite nice or there’s something not quite right about being a Scientologist.

Oh, that’s just an operation, that’s nonsense. Right at the top, right at the top I hear nothing but the snap of the right index finger touching the cap brim, wherever I go. It’s very interesting.

THE PROGRESS 8  AND FUTURE OF SCIENTOLOGY The situation is very good where we are. But in those days it was equally good. And the FBI was very nice about this and out of two hundred and some names they turned me back thirty.

My press relations man during that period of time was not just a communist, he was actually wanted by the FBI and they actually put their hands on him and put him away a very short time afterwards. Revenge was taken against these people that we were never told about. Actually, the FBI rounded the worst of them up.

Some of them fled to Mexico, some of them did this. But these were people who were really kicking our heads in. They were robbing offices—oh, it’s very incredible.

There were a couple of murders. This is a wild and lurid time I’m talking about. Well, of course everybody says, “Well, you couldn’t. ..” you know, the everybody says, “He—oh well, they must’ve had something very wrong,” and so forth.

Yes, there was something very wrong. The most forward philosophy of the world that’s making the most progress is communism. And it met its—it met its match.

And it recognized that it had met its match. Democracy as a philosophy had gone completely flat and stale. There wasn’t any religious backwash, you see, against any expansion.

They didn’t have any opponent anywhere on the line. And they were under orders at that particular time to infiltrate all social and domestic groups, don’t you see, to do this, that and the other thing and subvert things. They had everything running their own way.

It was all fine. All of a sudden somebody stands up and he says, “There’s another philosophy in the world.” And they went to work on that fast. Now you think, all right, after this length of time it’s very hard to believe it.

But I was the guy who’s—was hearing the bullets go snap past his ear. Murder, sudden death. Reads like—reads like—well I don’t know, James Bond in the tamer pages.

I rescued a woman who had been electric shocked half to death and was so drugged she couldn’t even open up her eyes; they had tried to get her to swear out a warrant to get me committed. An airplane was ticking over at an airport—this is incredible stuff—an airplane was ticking over at an airport to pick me up and fly me to St. Louis, put me in a spinbin where I would never be heard of again.

Interesting! The two boys who were sent to pick me up and so forth unfortunately had not been as well trained in the science of combat as myself That’s right! They speak once in a while of pistol—whipping.

Well, there is where the pistol—whipping occurred. I wasn’t pistol—whipped. I said this is just too confounded thick.

I don’t know who my friends are, I don’t know who my enemies are, I don’t know anything about anything, all I know is I want to get the book I’m writing on finished, so I just withdrew from the whole scene. I know I’ve left you with a definite impression that there were a lot of things going on that you have not been informed of, but I can assure you that there were a lot of things going on that I was never fully informed of! All I know is that I had taken over my hat rightly and the second I stood in to the run wearing me own hat, hard and heavy, that is to say, “I am me,” all hell broke loose and I was trying to hold the fort.

It’s taken the better part of fifteen years to where a foothold could be put in to a point where that hat can be worn in this society. Because it’s a hat, of course, that speaks about freedom. And it speaks about the betterment of man.

And it speaks about this sort of thing that you don’t have to be a slave. It assaults the very foundations, you see, of your economic systems. It assaults the very guts of the foundation we live in.

This is another philosophy. Entirely different philosophy. A  THE PROGRESS 9  AND FUTURE OF SCIENTOLOGY philosophy that you can’t be—people can’t be lied to.

They—we can see through the magic spells, don’t you see, the black magic spells being woven. This is a civilization where some entheta kid sitting in a government chair telling everybody how bad it all is over there, and so forth, can all of a sudden get thirty million people killed as one fellow named Hitler did. This is an interesting civilization.

And that’s because people don’t know who they are or what they are, where they’re going or what they’re doing. All right, you start laying the truth on the line. And it’s liable to blow off a bit of confusion.

All you got to do is put in a stable datum and the confusion starts to blow off. In the early days of Dianetics and this is the early beginnings of Scientology, of course, as it was the same exact moment, well this didn’t violate that rule a bit. And you hear a lot about things going on this way and ‘ things going on that way, and what happened there and wasn’t it all terrible and so forth.

No, we got through just because of one thing. As I finally, in July of that year, in spite of the turbulence and everything, listened to people’s pleas along this line and I wore my hat of being me and nobody has ever been able to throw me off of that line since. And there’s been a lot of tries—a lot of tries and it’s very, very, very turbulent.

But being able to stand up and say you’re yourself and you did it, and yes, I’m the fellow who wrote the book, yes I’m the fellow who dreamed it up, yes I’m the fellow who leads this group. And don’t qualify any way, shape or form. Don’t go putting your—don’t go backing up and saying, “Well, as a matter of fact I am God’s anointed child on Earth.” And “God, you see, God appeared to me in a dream and all of his lightning bolts, you see, are going to hit if you don’t accept this fact.” This is perfectly all right to be somebody’s deputy if he exists.

But how about dreaming one up? How about dreaming up a source to be a deputy of? Perfectly all right to be a deputy.

I myself found out to my—greatly to my relief many, many years before Dianetics and so on—that I was a very good subordinate. I found out I was excellent. And I took a great deal of pride in this.

Because most of my life up to that time I had been solely and entirely in command. And I began to wonder if there was something wrong with me, if I was the kind of fellow who only had to be in command. Was I the kind of fellow that couldn’t be anyplace else but in charge, you see.

Because I had these chaps around, you know. Fellows who couldn’t be anything else. And one day I was appointed to a very subordinate post.

And I had several officers in echelon immediately above me. I wasn’t even really in charge of a section, don’t you see. I was just subordinate with a capital “S.” And you know after a—after quite a while on that post and so forth I suddenly looked at it and wondered why I was so pleased with myself I was just grinning at myself—I’d look at myself in the mirror and find myself grinning, you know?

And it was just because I was perfectly well qualified to be a subordinate and everybody was happy with me as a subordinate and they knew that things got done. My commanding officer in that particular instance would wave his hand in my direction, and say, “Hubbard so—and—so and so—and—so,” you know, and Hubbard would go, do so—and—so fix it up, just like he said, you know, no embellishments. Took all the privileges of subordinates, you know.

Privilege—privileges of a subordinate is to goof You know, to goof on occasion. You don’t have anything to do, why, don’t do anything, you know. THE PROGRESS 10  AND FUTURE OF SCIENTOLOGY I remember the CO of this particular instance used to leave at ten o’clock in the morning.

We were lying in dock. And there was no particular reason under the sun, moon and stars to be around the ship and I think I had about sixty ensigns. And he used to come in in the morning, I’d be there about eight o’clock and straighten everything out, and he used to come in about nine o’clock, something like that, and then he’d hit the beach—nautical term—he’d hit the beach, you see, with his cap and his raincoat on and so forth and go home and read his—read his pipe or something.

And so when he walked in he’d give me a whole string of orders, rat—a—tat, tat—a—tat, tat—a—tat, tat. As a matter of fact he was dead wrong; it was the lousiest sort of subordinat—izing, See, whereby the top man is skipping his second—in—command because you are effective and efficient and the second—in—command is not effective and efficient and this is being made plain to the second—in—command by the top man, you know. I mean, one of these unbearable situations, you know.

So the old man would walk in, he’d give me a whole string of orders and I’d go around and give all the ensigns their hot—water bottles to rush from here to there or whatever it was. Turn out the men, running in the divisions, having an inspection and that sort of thing, the old man hit the beach I think about ten o’clock. And ten fifteen, I’d look around, see everybody was working, so forth, put two or three of my chiefs alert on the situation, pat everybody on the back, get on my white cap—white topped cap and my raincoat, pick up my briefcase, hit the beach!

One day—everything was running like apple pie order, you see. The men knew if they got me in trouble, why, they’d be in trouble so nobody ever got me in trouble, and so forth, and probably there were dozens of them beneath me in these hundreds and hundreds of men and so forth that also probably hit the beach at ten thirty, don’t you see? And one day, at ten fifteen, I was clattering down the steps ready to go ashore, it was in a big administration building, what we were doing was putting a ship in commission.

And all of a sudden, why—that man’s name by the way was Roger Edison Perry, Captain USN, see, old line. And Perry, you know, that is the Perry. And he was a—he was a descendent along these lines.

And he was really, he was really all Navy. But actually a prince of a guy. And my God, he’s forgotten something.

And there I am, almost to the bottom of the steps, dressed for shore and there he is, coming back to get his briefcase or something of the sort. So he says, “Well, Hubbard—um,” he said, are you going over to the ship, uh . . . I said, “No, sir.” He said, “Are you hitting—are you—you got a conference over with the—um—building constructor or something” I said, “No, sir.” And so, “Well, what are you doing” He says, “Dressed up and so forth and...” I said, “I’m going ashore, Captain.” And he said, “Well, this is uh—this is just a rare occasion?” Christ, he didn’t want to offend me—I’ve been running his whole ship for him.

He says, “This—this—this is just a rare occasion?” He said, “You’re just—you have some errand of your own?”  THE PROGRESS 11  AND FUTURE OF SCIENTOLOGY I said, “No sir, Captain, I do this every day.” And he squirmed! And he said, “Well.. .” he said, “well, all right,” he said, “but you shouldn’t make it so obvious!” Very funny! Anyway—anyway, the business of becoming a subordinate or being able to occupy a subordinate role was something that I was very happy to be able to do.

But to occupy a top—dog role, which is all the way up, you know, there’s no government or God or something of the sort or any mystic vision back of you and not even galactic empire status, don’t you see—couldn’t even reassume one of your old identities on the whole track and saying, “Well, we once owned this, you know, we once owned this empire and so forth.” And just to be able to stand up in the howling winds of space, you know, that sort of thing and confront everything simultaneously and stand there regardless of the dead cats, the alarm clocks, the bricks and everything else which are coming your way, that took some doing. And that’s all you look at when you look at this early history and so forth; it is simply a stable datum going into a very, very aberrated world. The truth of the matter is, although events of the world are moving ahead at a very giddy pace and although there appear to be a lot of risky things going on in the world, the world is really a better place because we are in it, you see.

Things have changed. We’ve changed the whole face of psychology for instance. We changed the—there are people around who know that we exist.

Now, at no time, of course, could anybody have done this all by himself It would take a ... Once in a while early staffs and that sort of thing took—took a real beating. I’m well aware of one incident where they held off the—I think eighteen or twenty Philadelphia policemen, and so forth, who had come to arrest me as a witness in a bankruptcy.

Nobody could ever get anything on me, I never did anything. But they can arrest and put in jail the witness in a bankruptcy suit, which is Federal, don’t you see. And the staff at that time in Philadelphia and so forth, when they first saw these cops starting to load up and load into the place, and a couple of Federal marshals and that sort of thing, simply held them off, barehanded, insisted that they should show their cards and should do this and should do that and these guys started to get cross with them, and the next thing you know there was a battle royal, man!

And gave me an opportunity to catch my breath and I finally—I don’t know what would have happened ... And by the time the Federal marshals came up to where I was, they were shaking so badly and they were so upset and demoralized, you know, they’d had an awful time getting through that outer perimeter, that I took the gun out of one of them’s hand and put it in his holster, “Because,” I said, “you’re nervous.” They were completely demoralized. They took me downtown, and I had to stand around for a while and get finger printed, and so forth, and they didn’t dare do anything because I hadn’t done anything.

And then they found out there’d been a “dreadful mistake.” You never saw Federal judges and marshals and that sort of thing quite as embarrassed because they’d been told an awful lot of lies from the Wichita Foundation, which of course was a squirrel outfit, which had continued on. Bad old days! The bad old days!

Well I was out of there in no time at all, I mean, I had people this way and this way, in other words people were standing up for me  THE PROGRESS 12  AND FUTURE OF SCIENTOLOGY here, there and everyplace, don’t you see. And anybody trying to do anything to me was wading in through death. But from where I looked it looked awful lonesome occasionally.

It takes some doing. It takes some doing. And we operated very well and have ever since, in a sort of a ragged sort of way, as a fairly compact group.

And it’s only been that, that it’s been possible to go ahead and make the progress we’ve made in society. Well, you may not think we’re making too much progress in this society, and so forth—well, to get back to what I was going to tell you in the first place, is we never started! All we’ve been doing is standing still, waiting for the flatirons and dead cats to sort of clear out of the air.

Because just putting in a stable datum of Dianetics, just putting in a stable datum of this particular character, blew off enough Confusion in this society so that it’d make it possible after a while for us to move. For a long time it was impossible to hold a position very fixedly or straight. Very, very impossible.

And there’s where you see the early foundations moving. This is just standard phenomena. They moved from here to there to the other place, don’t you see.

We used to have an axiom that it took about two years for the flatirons to catch up with us, you see. And after about two years, why there wasn’t anything more you could do in that locale and sure enough, that was about the time lag. It was—it was tough.

But we were in actual fact as an organization—I was standing there as a being—but as an organization, and so forth, we couldn’t stand up to everything that came our way. Don’t you see? Now, I may have given you the impression that we’ve made no progress and so forth.

My whole idea throughout this entire time was to go on and do my researches, finish it up and deliver. Deliver the goods in spite of every interruption and so forth, to eventually come out the other end with a ease progress for every ease that came under anybody’s nose, that it could be done easily and so forth. And I devoted my time exclusively to research.

And I paid no attention at all to the brickbats and the dead cats. Let them fly! See?

Well, maybe that was rough on people. But actually the group has constantly more or less been asking me to stand up like the general manager did, so that he could save his board, don’t you see? Back in 1950 the group has been asking me to stand up and actually direct an advance line into the society.

And instead of that, I have been sitting back, fixing up the general situation of technology and so forth so that it could be delivered. I’ve somehow or other kept the organizations running and functioning, in spite of all these other things, that I’ve not concentrated on that at all. I’ve put—taken lots of time and lots of energy—lots of time, lots of energy—in pushing around communication lines and writing things for organizations, working for and working in organizations, but the bulk of my time was spent on research.

Now, you have to have something to hold up there. You have to have accomplishment and you have to be able to deliver. Now, we could deliver to some limited degree.

In the early days—in the early days, the reason we didn’t deliver—now, now, get—please, get this very  THE PROGRESS 13  AND FUTURE OF SCIENTOLOGY straight, and that’s why I was telling you about early enturbulences—the reason we didn’t deliver is because there wasn’t any way to enforce the way to do it. Do you understand? You could give somebody some directions, but he did them wrong and that kept the whole of Scientology—Dianetics rather, that days, that kept the whole of them enturbulated.

Now, how’d it keep them enturbulated? That’s because by unstraight technology improperly administered, their cases did not make an advance. Do you follow?

There’d been enough very bad auditing here, there and so forth, to upset people here, there and so on. And there wasn’t any way you could discipline the administration of the technology. Now, you have to have two things in order to discipline the administration of a technology.

Three things actually. First, you have to have the technology. You cant be pushing hidden standards off on somebody.

He doesn’t know what the technology is and you’re raising hell with him for not using it, you see. You can’t do that. So you have to have the technology—And you have to be able to make that technology known.

In other words, your instructional materials and that sort of thing and the publication of the technology has to be very good. And the third step is, you have to be able to police its use. In other words, make sure that it’s that technology that’s being applied.

Now there is the one, two, three of an organization, whether it is in administration, whether it is in technology or in any other way. We put a stable datum into the world ... lt. was, of course, completely impossible to have finished off all the technology and so forth by 1949, published it in an orderly fashion in 19—well you could do this, maybe, if you were talking about a new design for kiddiecars, you see. But not for God’s sakes something that required the entire experience of a group and it required its entire contact and so forth with society.

You couldn’t just say, “Well, here it is in all orderly fashion, now go ahead and do it.” I mean, that’s the ideal, the unthinking ideal. But no, we live in a very real world! And I upset some of you when I talk to you about getting arrested and fighting and all this sort of thing.

But the truth of the matter is, is we aren’t just an idea. See? You have to differentiate between a nice philosophy, lying in a book, disturbing nothing on a shelf—not even reading itself—and bringing individuals, live, human beings, up to a point of recognition of their own beingness.

Now, that is a live action! That’s totally live as an action. Now, we don’t look at it because it’s much easier to face a concept or an idea than it is to face a living, breathing entity.

And from 1950 forward, we were a living, breathing entity. From about July when I took over, to the degree of saying, “All right, I’ll stand up to it.” “All right, we will push it through.” Up to that time, we could be a very nice excitement that people would leave alone or not leave alone or something like that and we didn’t have to be very serious about it. But a lot of people were being serious about it, don’t you see.

No matter how it was stated, a lot of people were being serious about it. And we then were a live, breathing thing. And we weren’t just an idea.

THE PROGRESS 14  AND FUTURE OF SCIENTOLOGY And if you get an idea, if you think that 1950 was just somebody who, well, he just wrote a book and people took exception to the ideas, or there was some trouble about the ideas, or this guy was not well braced to take over such a standard horribly prominent point in the spotlight of existence, and that was all that happened, you have an entirely wrong concept of the situation. We were live, breathing things, me amongst you, see. And the point is, we were not at any time along the line anything else.

We weren’t a philosophy going through the society. We were beings. And when we first started up the line, it was the enturbulation of the trillions which began to blow.

And it was pretty much! Just asking people to confront their banks. It was pretty much—pretty tough.

And nobody was in a really steady state, while being better than the man on the street alongside of him, nobody was in any very steady stable state. And when people processed each other, there wasn’t any way to really get the straight information for this and therefore they didn’t—weren’t able as you are able today, to run out your overts and PTPs and feel a lot better, bang! You see?

Oh, no, they didn’t have this technology. We had to fight our way up in a very aberrated state. We had more ways to knock out the whole track than we did to knock out, or even know about, our little overt in the last hour.

Didn’t even know about it. No, we didn’t have—we didn’t have weapons at that particular time. We had a lot of technology.

We had more than man ever dreamed of But that wasn’t very damn much! And we had started at that time to make a hole, you might say, in the conglomerate and collective aberration of mankind. Remember, it was a livingness that was making that hole, we were live beings.

It wasn’t the principles making the hole, you see, it was we applying them and pulling ourselves up somehow or another, off the rug, or lower. Rough. Having to stand in there—not really the good tools, yet, don’t you see?

And not the communication and administration lines necessary to enforce those tools we had. The squirrel processes that were run, the guys that were half—spun by them, and so forth, it’s a fantastic back chapter. But remember you’re looking at a living being.

Now, it’s a good way to say, “Well, it’s all Ron’s fault that it didn’t all go smoothly.” That’s right! You’re perfectly, absolutely right! I should have been an OT, who came to Earth and got ahold of somebody named Moses.

And said, “Hey Moses, here’s some rules. Now you go back off and front for me.” There, is anything wrong with that story? Can you imagine somebody doing that, if he was capable of all that power? “Hey—hey Moses!” “Here’s your ten commandments, Moses.

Don’t let your people sell bad pig to each other—only sell it to strangers.” No, no. No, this guy, this didn’t happen. It just required more raw nerve to stand up by yourself No, it’d have been best if I’d come in here from Arcturus, you see, as an OT and simply said, “Men!” That isn’t the way it happened.

That isn’t the way it happened. It was up out of the ditch and by the bootstraps. And I should not go around saying, “Well, of course I’m just very ordinary and very common and so forth.” I’m probably very extraordinary, who knows!

I recall pieces of my own backtrack that certainly look extraordinary! No reason to invalidate myself along the line. But the truth of it is, we were living beings and we moved up into the teeth of every aberration in the society, almost  THE PROGRESS 15  AND FUTURE OF SCIENTOLOGY simultaneous at one fell swoop and the confusion that blew off was so fantastic that as—it’s taken fifteen years just to stabilize our position organizationally, where we could stand still and resist the brickbats which came our way.

Now that is an evolutionary step which is vital to the growth of any organization. And we are through it. Very rough.

We won. At any time we could have gone appetite over tin cup. We could have finished.

We have been within an ace of it, time and time and time again. Philadelphia—look at the frailty of it. Crazy fool wants to seize all of Dianetics.

Can you imagine some dumb fool trying to seize all of Dianetics? Well, look it over. What was Dianetics?

You say, well, Dianetics was a book or a copyright. Oh, no, Dianetics was a bunch of living beings. He wanted to seize all this.

Oh, he couldn’t seize all that! It was not possible to hold. So he goes and tells the Federal marshals, and so forth, that there’s a bankruptcy suit in which this man is a vital witness.

And he’s about to leave the United States, so you’d better arrest him so that he can testify in court. Crazy things, don’t you see? The man’s dead!

He’s very dead! Nobody could survive the overts which he pulled—not just that overt, but the many overts. He’s very dead.

I don’t think that it was accidental. Because his first love was money, and Suzie was talking to inland revenue that were trying to get her to pay some—or internal revenue, was trying to get her to pay some wild taxes of some kind or another, a hundred and twenty—five thousand dollars’ worth of owed taxes on the old Foundation. And she just looked him straight into the eye and says, “Well, we don’t owe you this and as matter of fact . . .” and gave this man’s name and said he was the fellow who made the money off of it and if he’s claiming this as taxes, “You’re never going to get it off him, he’s clever!” She just put the finger right straight on him.

She’s a very sweet girl! And internal revenue said the hundred and twenty—five thousand dollars he was claiming off his taxes for his expenses in trying to wreck Dianetics, they declared that his activity in Dianetics was a hobby. All the money he lost, trying to run this squirrel foundation, that Dianetics was a hobby with him.

And therefore he had to pay all the taxes. He paid! He had to!

The tide of that sort of thing, you see, one day he’s perfectly able to present suits, and so forth, and get you arrested and the next thing you know, all you have to do is tell the government, “Well, it actually—that’s the man that owes you the money.” And they go over and collect it off of him. Now that’s a symptom of the turning tide. That’s the only reason I’ve mentioned these two things.

At one moment it’s just the breath of a whisper, see—half the cops in Philadelphia are down and picking you up and fighting with the Foundation and ohhhh! You see, all kinds of things like this. Few years roll by, and you say, “That’s the man,” and they go over, say, “We’re going to arrest you unless you pay up.” See, the tide turns.

The tide turns. It’s been gradually turning, just to that degree. That’s a more dramatic thing.

The people that in 1950 were having such a ball wiping their feet on us and that sort of thing, well actually, you could sort of cry, to see some of those people today. Not that it was us particularly, it was just they—it was—they look in the same shape as somebody who had tackled a ten-thousand-volt power line. But it was a collective power line that they—see.

It  THE PROGRESS 16  AND FUTURE OF SCIENTOLOGY wasn’t just one power line. They look pretty bad! One of them is living as a beachcomber.

I hear rumors of this character now and then, so forth. I haven’t got the slightest bit of rancor, as far as these people are concerned. As a matter of fact I feel a little bit bad about it occasionally, and so forth.

But they just made a head—on collision. Going to stop us in our tracks, don’t you see. Ha—ha—ha!

They got holes in the back of their heads now they’re laughing out of, don’t you see. The society at large, in other words, has—first the people who attacked us, any of the people connected with those early days, those people are gone. They’re either dead or they’re in terrible condition, as the institutions which attacked us are weaker.

You see? This tide has turned. We can now hold our position.

We have for some time now been holding our location in space organizationally. We are able now to instruct in the right way to do something and it gets applied. And we do that, it gets a result.

We’re able to hold our own comm lines. We’re able to bring it up to a point where today I can calmly release a bulletin and say there’s a new set of comm lines, and they are so—and—so and so—and—so. And I know they will go in.

And we’re sufficiently this way in that that we can say in no uncertain terms that our organizational form takes this shape and it’s mostly—what shape do we want it to take, rather than what shape have we got to take. We’re dictating our form. Now, this is a big change.

This is a big change. So 1950 I said it will go as far as it works. And it wont go any further than it works.

And were going to hold the fort here and we’re just—this is a holding operation. And I well knew, that—instinctively—that the brickbats were going to come over hot, thick, fast and furious, you see? The stable datum going into an aberrated society and the Confusion is going to blow off.

I just did my work from that point on, working it out with the experience with people and things, holding the fort, getting gradually the lines in, getting gradually a greater security, getting gradually a little more forward motion. And all the time working on research. It will go as far as it works.

And actually it won’t go another inch further. So when people have said to me, “Why don’t you get in there and administer?” And people have said to me, “Why don’t you bang and hammer and pound away at—at despatches?” And why don’t you do this sort of thing. No, for fifteen years I have known it would go as far as it worked.

And it wouldn’t go another inch further than that. That’s all. And an organization will be as rich as they make it work.

And things will be as smooth as it is working. And the individual will be as good as it has worked on him. And he will be surrounded by those who as good as he has been able to make it work on them.

And that’s all! You’ve said it all. So it goes as far as it works.

So at this particular time I am in the rather interesting and fantastic position of being able to calmly put in the organizational structure and to work hammer and tongs which I am working right now—something on the order of maybe as much as eighteen hours a day—on putting in the administrative form and set up, which doesn’t alter what we have got in actual fact, but simply makes it firm, takes all the lessons we have learned over the last fifteen years, puts them in effect, smoothes it all out, found the final form of the organization that’ll work like a bang, and it’ll probably be that way five thousand years from now. And there it is, be  THE PROGRESS 17  AND FUTURE OF SCIENTOLOGY able to put those lines in and write those things up. With enough security, backed up thoroughly enough, backed up with enough enthusiasm, and so forth, those lines will go in and that’s the way it’ll be, and so forth.

All the lessons, all the things we’ve learned, can take effect. Because actually we got to a position where we were holding ourselves from expanding. It’ll go as far as it worked, had gotten up to a point where it was working faster than it was administered to handle.

We have suddenly done a breakthrough here, this is a very peculiar breakthrough, very odd, but we’re making Clears and these are a shock to people because they’ve been expecting them for fifteen years, never realized, of course, the best reason why you wouldn’t make a Clear was if the data wasn’t straight. See, if your organizational form and the discipline of it all, and the brickbats—if that wasn’t good enough, and the brickbats coming your way were so terrific, and the yipple—yap in the society against the individual staff member was so great, you couldn’t expect him to sit there and do any kind of a job. Even though he had the information in his hand, he would be so distracted he would hardly be able to duplicate the bulletin, don’t you see.

Well, you wouldn’t have expected that to happen. Well something funny has happened. It’s Class IV and Level IV is supposed to be the Clear level and Clears are emerging at I and II.

Very funny. And I won’t mention any names. One of your Instructors is—has just got through writing me an alarmed note on the subject of a Clear and I’m going to put it in the Auditor, “Crisis on Saint Hill Course.” What do you do with this person, see?

We can’t process this person on the rest of the processes between where she is and Level IV and to VI. In fact, I don’t think the person will now run on R6EW. I’ve got to break out the actual bank pattern, and so forth, and start posting it in the cabinets in there so she can run from the top down.

I don’t think she can find a dramatization on a bet. Clear, you see? Clearing too early.

We’ve got more problems, you see? “Well, life is pretty—pretty difficult; it’s pretty difficult to make a living these days, because you see they clear too fast.” Well, that’s a different look than, “We’re having awful trouble with this person, Ron,” drag him into my office in Elizabeth, throw him down on the couch and find the engram necessary to resolve the case by some means or another and not even an E—Meter. Turn him back over to the staff auditor and have him go run the engram and finish it up. Yeah, that looks a little bit different.

And the guy gradually, dozens and dozens or even hundreds of engrams later you see, making a progress up toward Clear. In the meantime the society is caving him in, the suppressive persons on the other side of him are telling him he didn’t make any gains, don’t you see? All these various wild things occurring.

A living enturbulence, not an enturbulence of data. Now, we move over into the other line as, “Ron, what do I do now? Hey, this person is supposed to go up through Grade II and Grade III and Grade IV and she can’t possibly get her auditing checksheet because she is Clear and it won’t run on anything.” How do we fit this in?

Crisis at Saint Hill. Well, what is that? That is actually a more cleared environment.

We aren’t getting lambasted every day in the press, don’t you see? We’re not getting this, we’re not getting that. The environment is getting clear so a person possibly could breathe and get  THE PROGRESS 18  AND FUTURE OF SCIENTOLOGY audited without a whole bunch of PTPs in the next five seconds, you see.

It looks better. It looks better. It’s very symptomatic that I come in today and I lecture to you—the last time I lectured to you before that you were all black in the face.

And last time you were. And I come in today and you look a great deal brighter and you look a great deal brighter than that. Well, that’s because a channel of order has been introduced into this particular course, which, of course, has its rough edges as they always do, but it’s smoothing out and I think by this time has smoothed out.

In other words, it’s—we’re in a position in this course now where an Instructor can take responsibility for a certain strata of the students of the course, the individual responsibility for those students. In other words, he can stand up now in the entheta of the environment and that sort of thing and wear his hat. Things are becoming more orderly, don’t you see?

Up to that time he had to sort of stand on the fringe of all of this commotion. Well, let’s put him in there and let him take it on the chin; it’ll smooth out. And I noticed just looking at you today that you’ve smoothed out remarkably.

So, the action of administration is simply smoothing out the enturbulence of the environment, and that’s all there is to it. We introduce a stable datum into the environment, it blows all over the place. It blows up, practically.

You’ll very often introduce somebody to Scientology and you see a tremendous amount of confusion ensue. He’s going through the same thing. He collides with the people of his immediate environment, they haven’t gone anyplace, he has.

So he is to some degree getting his block knocked off in his environment, don’t you see? He’s going through, as an individual, the same horrible curve that any of the rest—that we went through as a group. And this individual very well could possibly get himself into a lot of trouble and that sort of thing.

Well, I’ll point something out to you: If he keeps at it—if he keeps at it, why, it won’t take him fifteen years, as it would a larger group, to get up to a point of where he can hold his position and his case gain, don’t you see? In the first place, he’s served by far better technology. He’s served upon communication lines that can be administered.

There’s a terrific relationship, you see, between the environment and the individual and the speed with which a process works. And you’ve got to be able to get a process working on somebody that will be sufficiently effective ... This is what I—these people who go out here and say, “Well, I’m going to audit R6 on the public,” you know.

They’ve missed the whole point. All they’re going to do is unstabilize the guy. They don’t dare unstabilize a man in his environment this much.

The environment’s going to knock his block off if they unstabilize him to that degree! This guy’s got to learn to walk his—in his environment. You don’t tell him to fly and then knock him down and laugh.

That’s a horrible thing. No, this guy’s got to go out there and he’s got to have something that he can understand and grasp and communicate to his environment and so forth, because he’s going to get plenty of randomity anyhow. And this result has to happen fast enough to take care of these things, you see, before the environment knocks his block off It’s a race between the  THE PROGRESS 19  AND FUTURE OF SCIENTOLOGY auditor and the environment—this man’s environment, see.

And it’s always that kind of a race. And that’s true of us as a group, don’t you see? There is a race between us and our environment.

We were living beings. You processed a living being. And his relationship is between himself and his environment.

You, therefore, have to be able to deliver technology to him that he can somehow or other stand up with. And you don’t dare unsettle him and throw him back into his environment. No, you’ve got to bring him up on a line where he can hold those gains stably and that they’re real gains to him, and so forth, and he can go back into the environment.

Furthermore, you’ve got to provide him with a certain amount of administrative protection. And today you’ve just been given weapons of administrative protection for your pc. And you’ve been given a method of forcing a pc to take action and not keep on messing up in his environment and knocking himself downhill.

This is all germane to the situation. Now we are more powerful. We are more powerful than we have ever been before; and things are more stable; and processes can go in; and administrative systems can be evolved and presented.

Hats can be checked out on and we can have a rather simple administrative system. We don’t have to have a very complex one as long as the thing is well followed, as long as its channels are delineated. As long as our mutual understanding of the existing situation and the lessons which we have learned up all these years, and so forth, continue to be applied, we’re perfectly fine.

We’re in a position of much greater ability in the society. Scientology is up the world around. It’s going up, up, up.

It doesn’t look like it sometimes in an organization that’s fighting for its life and so forth, until you look at the curve, and look where the state of the organization was a few years ago, or even last year. Why, you don’t get the kind of a picture it is. Now, you’ve got to bring up an organization on a gradient the same way.

Some of you will be putting organizations in or handling the putting of organizations into place in this society, because there’ll be hundreds of organizations tomorrow where there’s only one today. The ratio is going to go up at a great rate of speed by pulling the blocks. I’m pulling every point and barrier, and so forth, off the line that keeps us from expanding right now.

They at one time were protective barriers. We mustn’t do too much of a forward fly up the line because we would have gone too fast and we would have wrecked ourselves beyond that. So we had lines that were blocked, lines that were blocked, lines that were blocked.

My whole job right now is entirely devoted to administrative actions. I’m just putting the administration into effect, putting it into effect. Now, the whole action is spot the place where the jam was, spot the place which restricted expansion and pull the pins on it and then spot another place which restricted expansion and look back and pick up the policies that handle that sort of thing, you see.

Put in the communication line, pull the block out. And you can’t go at this very long as an auditing process on an organization which is already restricted in its ability to expand, without some fantastic things occurring. Now the trick is to do this without settl—unsettling the existing organization.

So you begin to see in  THE PROGRESS 20  AND FUTURE OF SCIENTOLOGY these bulletins now: “Do not disturb any line which is actually in and operating at this particular time. Leave all those lines in. Regardless of what they do to your org board, and so forth.

The lines which are working for you will still work.” Don’t you see? “Also put in this other set of lines which parallels that set of lines,” don’t you see? Well now, what I’m working for is an accelerating—an accelerating curve. And this will occur.

And you’ll see it in a relatively short time. We’ve gotten to the point where the—where the society itself can be bowled over. So we might as well just start knocking the aberration out at a very high rate of speed.

We’re past the critical point of case gain. Now it really doesn’t matter how fast the case gains. We have made our point of stability.

We are there, we’ve got our feet down, we can hold our position, we don’t have to back up because somebody whispers in our direction, we can hold our communication lines in. We have just gone through two governments trying to knock our blocks off and we have emerged at the other end thumbing our nose at them in a very impudent fashion. The United States government is so scared to bring that thing to trial, it’s pathetic.

I had the British government ask them the other day about it. Right! And they don’t know anything about it.

I imagine after a while they’ll get mad and bring some wild suit and try to finish this thing up or try to do something, and so forth, but it’s—it’s sort of like a boxer who’s gone down on one knee 15 or 20 times already in this fight, don’t you see? And he isn’t very enthusiastic about lifting his head, so if he does anything at all he sort of punches at the referee, because he hasn’t got any direction left because the attacks which we’re getting are directionless. Doesn’t look like that, maybe, to the poor guy down in Melbourne.

Why, I should imagine Melbourne feels pretty cocky it’s lived through it. I notice Melbourne is coming up they—for a while they were nattering at Saint Hill and nattering at people and so on as you could imagine, they had their heads knocked off down there. Well, they must have been very strong or they wouldn’t have stood up to that.

It actually doesn’t matter much what the press does say about us now. You could have screaming headlines come out in every newspaper in the world, “Scientology is no good,” and everybody’d say ho—hum. They have worn that out.

We have heard that all before, don’t you see? We’ve lived through these things. Now, what we’ve got to face up to now is the fact that our expansion will be an accelerating expansion.

What we’ve got to do now during this year is finish up getting our communication lines in and square things up. There is some really marvelous things in the works, fortunately. The whole basic administration technology, and so forth, is laying out before the eye.

These things are quite wonderful, some of them. I’m fascinated with them. They—they just—most fabulous operating keyboard you ever wanted to play on is an organization in this particular universe.

It isn’t play on it either—it’s if you want to strengthen up an organization, stabilize an organization and that sort of thing, just find the expansional blocks and pull them. And find the—the things that, you know, that block expansion, find those expansionblocking barriers, see, try and find those things, pull it. Find those things, pull it.

Open up your communication lines, put in your barriers, and so forth, on the edges of the communication line, not in the middle of it. So that you channel your action, and so forth. THE PROGRESS 21  AND FUTURE OF SCIENTOLOGY Just keep doing this.

Strengthening up the edges—letting the lines flow harder. Strengthening up the edges—letting the lines flow harder. Going at the formula of how to put life into a group, from the—in other words, we are very much causative in this.

How do we put life into our organizations? How do we get them rolling again? How do we get them to stand up straighter and that sort of thing.

Well, this year they will go through several flickers and flackels and they’ll go up and down and—and so forth. And they will restabilize. But I can assure you if they will go very stably, it won’t cost us any organizations to reorganize these things.

I already put it to test. I changed the whole org board suddenly to a more workable org board last summer. I just told them all to put it in and put it on the org board, but not do anything with it or move anybody’s chairs or anything, but just put that up.

It was immediately followed uniformly over the world by an increase in income, a decrease in upset. So reorganization can actually mean a smoother run for everybody. All right.

Now, we’re just about to put in the rest of that org board. And we’re about to put it in with a smash and a bash and a bang. Rather quickly but with the same orders.

Don’t change any lines you’ve got, even though the line is wrong, that you’re actually using, and so forth, why put the person’s name on the organization board the way the line is working. And also put this org board in too. And then gradually they’ll see where these lines actually snap, and a lot of duplicate functions—there are a lot of duplicate functions right now in the organization being carried on in two different places—and these duplicate functions one after the other are just being deleted so that you’ve got single functions for each one of them, you see?

In other words, you’re actually reducing the amount of traffic in an organization. The traffic in an organization is being reduced now. Even though the potentiality is, why, I guess we’ve raised the traffic potentiality of an organization two or three hundred times.

I had just in the last day or two—stuff will really be flying on those communication lines. But there’s no barriers for it to hit, don’t you see? There’s people to catch it, you see, and there’s things that people can do about it if the lines are wrong.

Now, the only thing we’re asking a staff member to do organizationally, and so forth, is just discipline the communication line. That’s the only way he can get in trouble, is the fellow who fails to discipline the communication line. He doesn’t wear his hat with regarding the discipline of how the communication is supposed to be done and how the thing is supposed to be routed.

Or he enforces the discipline so savagely, and so forth, that he ARC breaks somebody on the other end of the line, see. He’s got to measure delicately between these two things. That’s all we’ve got to do.

Because the technology and so forth has got to have lines to flow on. There is no vast rush at this particular moment, oddly enough, of getting the final technology out. There is no vast rush about getting a public book out.

There is no vast rush about this sort of thing, because if we don’t get the organizational line in—we’re doing promotion, things are going up, it’s all right, don’t you see. But unless we’ve got those lines in, the same things will happen to us, we’ll enturbulate, we’ll have another peak where we’re  THE PROGRESS 22  AND FUTURE OF SCIENTOLOGY hitting the society with a great deal of new material, don’t you see, and we’re hitting the society with this material, and the society is reacting back against us. Well, we don’t want the society reacting back against us without our lines in good shape.

It’d be folly, don’t you see? So the thing to do is to set the lines up, get them very smooth, fix it up so that these things are all in form, and in a moment of stress and with an expansional action and increased traffic, that there are lines for that traffic to flow on. Then follow it right up behind that with the actual release out into the public of additional technology, the release of it into the organizations.

Frankly, everybody in these organizations is pretty well trained on the exact technology. It’s a tremendous joke, don’t you see. The newest and latest now, the newest and latest is about to be released into the organizations.

The newest and latest is about to be released into the public. It’s quite interesting. The newest and the latest is a subject called “Beginning Scientology.” That’s the newest and the latest.

I am being laggardly in giving you your level processes and your auditing checksheets for these levels. Because they’re just a little bit different than you think they are, they’re a little simpler than you think they are. The processes are a little bit simpler to do and I got that material—it’s all actually sitting on my desk.

I haven’t had time to write up this—the bulletin that delivers it to you rat—a—tat—at. Because you’ll recognize all the processes now—to do them, you’ll say, “How—how could it be that easy? “ I’m sure will be your first reaction to it. Not—not, “How—how do we learn all this terribly complicated . . .” and then you’ll all of a sudden cognite that yes, these are the processes that always have worked, don’t you see?

But your first—the first book of beginning Scientology is of course what book? It’s a book called “Beginning Scientology.” And it composites the identical track of Scientology. And it has the elements—the successful elements with none of the distractions, and the lead on in—of everything we have done.

That’s all. And you haven’t got to worry about the rest of it. But we can cover years of that area in practically the breath [blink] of an eye of the workable technology which exists today.

The philosophy, and so forth, that went along with it, and the other developmental things—is very interesting, that the Philadelphia lectures of 1953, is it? Or something like that, or 52, oh 52—those confounded things contain most of the technology for Level VII. They’re practically a textbook on Level VII.

So, there’s a lot of that technology, but it’s not come out even. Don’t you see, I mean, it hasn’t been released in exact chronological sequence. There’s been—some of the earlier technology was more advanced.

Don’t you see? Well, all we have to do is take up what was released, more or less, at that time, as it went forward, right on up to PT, which fits the levels, and then take the stuff that was—came out of sequence and add it on top of that. And we’ve got the whole subject.

Now, there’s nothing much to this. There have been some tremendous discoveries, and so forth, during the last twelve months, as you may or may not be aware of—Clay Table—there’s things of this particular character that are sweepingly important. The point is the first book that’ll be released into the public is already written.

Called “Beginning Scientology” and it has a small section out at the beginning of a book called “Excalibur” I wrote in 1938 and then it has the pertinent sections of The Original Thesis and  THE PROGRESS 23  AND FUTURE OF SCIENTOLOGY then it has the pertinent early sections of Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health. All written. It’s just a paste—up job.

And all the distractive materials taken out of it, and then it’s told—the person is told throughout, this book does not include the instructional drills—the instructional drills or the practical drills, and so forth, and doesn’t particularly include all of the processes. You’ll have to get those from an auditor from your local Academy, see. And this isn’t all there is to it.

It goes on for several levels after this, you see. It describes the conditions to be attained, but it tells the person exactly what to expect in attaining them, see. And we don’t make it a fifteen—minute wonder, don’t you see.

Get the idea? We say, “After you’ve gone through a few levels, man, you’ll be Clear.” And we keep putting down footnotes, of course, with “this material is not all of the material.” In other words, we can keep leading the people up along the line. And your next book up along the line is similar materials, and so forth.

It isn’t just cut—up old books, though, it goes off—it goes further into a more composited line. But we have to have that first entrance book because that was our first entrance into the society. And if we leave that as a gap, no student thereafter would ever be able to understand that he knew what the earlier beginnings were.

And he would have an unknown on his backtrack which would make him uncertain. So we must have that—we must have that there, fronting up the line. Well, this is the first entrance point to the society, so obviously it contains the elements which make it the first entrance point to the society.

The dynamic principle of existence is survive. That’s all! There are four dynamics.

You know—you know this stuff! And the processes that went along with it, that were very successful, had to do with very light PT processes that had to do with communication, and so forth. Doesn’t matter if some of the processes were developed far later, but fitted that particular level and that were much more effective.

We just get the guy so he can talk to the people around him, and we teach him about locks and we’d show him something about engrams. Very interesting, an old—time Dianeticist the other day recovered his sight, because somebody timed on an E—Meter two engrams. Guy recovered his sight because he just got the date of two engrams.

Didn’t improve at once and then began to improve very nicely. Just heard about it. Here’s the upshot of this, is this whole technology was workable.

But how could technology on lines that were scrambled and as upset ... Somebody would have to write somebody who knew somebody in the Elizabeth Foundation who had a rumor that the latest technique was—and even though a bulletin was released at that particular time the chances of it being received, followed or applicable were very remote. Well, bring it up to the point the guy is spotting spots in space and spotting spots in the room, or something like this, and he isn’t doing it right and the D of P walks in and says, “If you keep doing that wrong, son, you’re going to be talking to a Committee of Evidence.” That’s a little bit different, isn’t it?

A little different view. And you say, “That’s a rough one to live in!” No, that’s a smooth one to live in! The society is a smooth society in which you can have some law and order.

THE PROGRESS 24  AND FUTURE OF SCIENTOLOGY We’re moving ahead into this, we’re moving into a position of extreme maximum thrust, you might say, and we’ll be there very, very soon. I’m not just shooting the breeze, because the information that is pouring in here now and the data which is crisscrossing, and so forth, is—shows that everything I’m putting out to them is being perfectly well received and going into effect very rapidly. The bad old days—the bad old days are actually repeated by every human being who faces up to the society and tries to stand up as himself—and tries to stand up as part of a Scientology organization for the first time.

He’s hit with a Confusion, but fortunately due to the work we’ve done and the research we’ve done the period is over very soon, if we do our job well. But everybody goes through that same cycle. You get a new person, “Oh, it’s fine, it’s wonderful, it’s delirious!

It’s great, it’s great, it’s great!” You see him the next day he’s falling flat on his face—somebody’s invalidated the living pants off of him, don’t you see? Uh, bing—bang! This way, up and down and so forth, recognize what you’re looking at.

The guy has put a—he’s putting new data—it’s new stable data, into his environment, the confusion’s blowing off. There’s new—new stable data gone into him and the Confusion is going off. It’s a repeat track.

It can’t be otherwise because the road is up and out. And man was way below a level of Confusion. He was too far down to even know he was confused.

Thank you very much.

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