Further Uses of Opening Procedure (7ACC 540623)
Series: 7th Advanced Clinical Course (7ACC)
Date: 23 June 1954
Speaker: L. Ron Hubbard
Thank you. Further uses of Opening Procedures, since you are using it right along.
Again, let me tell you, there are three kinds of Opening Procedure. These Opening Procedures are: 8-C—that's a very precise Opening Procedure, you see. I mean, Opening Procedure isn't anything very sloppy. It's terrifically codified. 8-C, its steps (a), (b) and (c), Opening Procedure. And then there's 8-D Opening Procedure. And then there's Opening Procedure by Duplication. And if you were going to list them in order of workability, you would list them this way, just like I listed them. See? 8-C, 8-D, by Duplication. You could hit various levels of case, then, which would be very fascinating to you.
Now, it's actually a tossup. It's not too important whether you'd run Opening Procedure by Duplication as the third kind you'd run or the second kind you'd run. You could run, probably, 8-C's Opening Procedure out very thoroughly and then, if you wanted to, go into Opening Procedure by Duplication or you could go into 8-D's Opening Procedure.
But to be absolutely on the safe side, a completely safe side, you'd throw 8-D in the center just like I listed them. I mean, there's an argument here. Nobody is laying this down as a rote, but it'd just be just a little bit safer to do it this other way.
After a person finds out that he can walk around the place, he can take orders a little bit, you generally have to do something on the order of Spotting Some Spots in Space and Remedying Havingness. And that is 8-D's Opening Procedure. Only it's done as Opening Procedure. Most people don't recognize that little quirk which we say, "It's just Scientology, that's what you do," as a specific technique. And it is a specific technique. That's 8-D's Opening Procedure. That's right where it fits in the processes.
Well now, how would you do this one, that 8-D? Let's take them all up. We've talked a lot now about the 8-C. Well, what about this 8-D Opening Procedure: Spot Some Spots in Space.
"Well, all right," the fellow says, "Well, let's see. There's Keokuk and that's only two thousand miles away. And there's a spot up there in space alongside of the Moon and so on. And there's a spot in space," so on.
You want to ask him first whether or not there's energy masses in those spots in space. That's the first thing you want to clear up. You don't want any energy. Some people have blue spots in space and some have red spots in space. You just want a spot in space. It doesn't have any mass. It is simply a location. And that is the essence of the technique. Get the guy to a point where he can have just a location with no mass there at all. That's the essence of the technique.
Of course, that's terrifically beneficial because a thetan is closer to being nothing than being something, although he can handle both. So you get a direct duplication of a thetan: it'd be a spot in space.
Well, of course, the body will rebel like the dickens the second you try to communicate with a spot in space. Make people awful sick. It makes people terribly ill to communicate with nothingness. If you don't believe this, go up in an airplane sometime (and before you've been processed in Scientology) and step out at ten thousand feet and see whether or not you get a slight feeling in your gastric area. It's not exactly a pleasant feeling, although some don't object to it after they've hit. [laughter]
Anyway, where your spot in space is spotted, you will discover, then, that the mass of the individual starts to disintegrate. You see, he isn't making new energy to make new dimension points or anything like that. He's communicating. He, a mass—you know, thetan plus body, a mass—is communicating with a nothingness. And to make that a complete duplication, what's communicating with the nothingness would of course have to be a nothingness.
And the effort of the individual to communicate with this nothingness tends to reduce him to nothingness—which is to say, it wastes his havingness. It just tears it up like mad. It just rips it up and throws it away. If you don't believe that, you get somebody who is deeply, darkly, completely occluded, smeared in, smashed in—a banker, something on that order—and you ask him to spot one spot in space.
And after you've argued with him for a half an hour as to whether or not there were spots in space (you should have been into Opening Procedure 8-C, you see, before you sprung that one on him anyhow), you spot this spot in space and, loo-bbll-bbll, you've got a sick banker on your hands!
The one thing of the body that can't do with nothing is the stomach. It is the most sold thing on something you ever saw in your life. It has bought a package of goods. It has been had, you might say, on the subject of somethingness.
A stomach must always have something. It must never have nothing. That is why doctors prescribe diets. That's trying to get the preclear's stomach down to a point of where it doesn't exist either. And this, by the way, makes for a very, very lucrative profession.
The person will develop ulcers after a while and if dieted sufficiently, the ulcers will become worse. What is an ulcer but a stomach trying to make enough of a hole to communicate with something: a nothingness in space. And that's all an ulcer is.
A stomach actually tries to be accommodating and will develop it. Generally, you ask the individual, very intimately, who has ulcers—when he did try to communicate with a spot in space. And he's liable not to tell you for a while, very probably, but eventually he will tell you, well, he met somebody, Madame Zaza or something back in his youth, who told him about this guardian angel who hovers around him and he should get advice from. And of course, a few years later, he really had ulcers. See? He's trying to communicate with a nothingness. The stomach, of course, can't tolerate this. But it will try to comply after a while by getting a hole in it.
It will use a facsimile to do this, see? It will take an AA or a time you were in a duel and somebody slipped a rapier through your gizzard. It'll take almost any facsimile it can lay its hands on and put it in there to drill the hole for it. But the point is, why has it got to have a hole? It's because it's communicating with a spot in space. See, there's an emptiness and a nothingness it's trying to communicate with. That's elementary.
All right. We get on beyond the mechanics of this thing, we'll find out (whatever the mechanics) this is very obvious. But you ask a preclear who's terribly occluded and having havingness trouble to "spot a few spots in space" and you've got a sick boy on your hands.
Now, how do you spot a spot in space? Is there anything odd or strange or peculiar about it? Well, yes. It is a location in space. Does it have mass? No.
"Well, if it doesn't have mass, then well, how could it be—you'd have to locate it by the environment, of course. That's how you'd find it as a spot in space."
"No. You just find a spot in space."
"I know, but I have to locate it," the preclear will tell you, "by the environment. I have to locate it by the objects which are around it. Otherwise I wouldn't know whether or not it was there."
"Well, why don't you just locate a spot in space?"
"Well, I know, but I have to locate it by the environment."
"I haven't told you that you're not supposed to locate it by the environment. Locate it any way you please but find a spot in space."
He finally does. You say, "Has it got any mass in it? Is there any energy in it? What color is it?" is the trick question.
After he's located the spot in space, you say innocently, "What color is it?" "Oh, blue," he'll say or something like this.
And you'll say, "Have you got mass in that spot? Well, I told you just a location in space. No mass. Just a location, that's all we want."
So he will eventually find a location for you. And about the time a real dug-in case does this, phew. It shouldn't happen. Have your Tums handy or go on auditing him properly, one way or the other. You could take the medical approach or the effective approach.
Now, where do you remedy havingness? When he gets sick at his stomach. Of course, you want to make sure that if you're going to get somebody that you're the least bit leery of, that you've really run 8-C's Opening Procedure.
This right away will tell you or not whether this boy is goofy, loopy, spin-binny or other mental states which are cataloged by the American Psychiatric Association. They have very precise classifications. They all add up to "We don't know." But whatever these "We…," see, it isn't important to you at all to know psychiatric classifications. Let me put that down.
If the individual cannot perform these various procedures, he's got something which is stopping him from performing them. The performance of these procedures is a compliance with the agreements he has made on the track and undoes them—or it could do them again, you see. I mean, it could duplicate them. You'd just reverse the procedure. You could duplicate these agreements. You could make him make his agreements again, his considerations on the track. All right.
You don't have to know about this, but if you were to be foolish enough to start to run 8-D's Opening Procedure of Spot Some Spots in Space on somebody whose havingness was shot, who couldn't follow your orders anyhow, who didn't know what he was doing and was going to rebel, you're going to have somebody who is sick at his stomach on your hands right away quick, who may not then be able to remedy his own havingness. Ooh, that's real bad.
You bet it's bad. He's sick at his stomach and he can't make mock-ups. That's the only thing that'll cure that stomach sickness, is just give him some havingness.
And so let's not slip on this any oftener than we have to. We don't run 8-D until we know our preclear by running 8-C.
How do we know our preclear? By talking with him? Nah, he's an awful liar. He wouldn't know how to tell the truth if you took a club to him.
That's what's wrong with him. He keeps saying, "I am telling the truth," and talking about what's happened to him in the physical universe. You get that? I mean, he says, "I was down at Grand Central Station yesterday and I was here and I was there and I was everyplace," and agree, agree, agree, agree, agree, agree, agree with the physical universe, see, its past and so on.
Of course, he's going to have a bad time eventually and he knows he'd better not tell a lie. A lie is to cook up his own reality under his own self-direction. That's what a lie is. It really becomes a lie, you see, when somebody challenges the statement. It isn't a lie until it is challenged or disagreed with.
Reality is agreed-upon considerations and lies are disagreed-upon considerations and imagination itself is just what the preclear is able to do under his own control. Hallucination is imagination under somebody else's control. All right. Just sliding those in fast. You'll hear them again.
Let's look at this situation. And let's say that we did run 8-C fairly properly and we did very nice things with it and so on. And we found this fellow could spot a spot, too, in space now and he didn't get very sick. All right. He starts to make up a mock-up, however, and he is unable to make one up.
Then remedy some havingness. Well, you just have to work with him on acceptance level mock-ups until he actually can get a mock-up. Now, one of the ways you coax him into getting a mock-up is to have him look at, examine and find real, or not, an object. And then have him shut his eyes and mock-up an object similar to it. This is a duplication of sorts, you see.
And he will generally make a much better object or something of the sort. And then have him throw that away and examine this object again, very, very thoroughly—oh, real thoroughly—very convinced that that's real. And then have him make a mock-up of it.
And what do you know? This will be a better mock-up. All right.
Now, have him examine this again—this object. This is remedying havingness—what I'm talking to you about. This is the entrance of remedying havingness. And you get this real, real gadget here, this thing. And you say, "How do you know it's real?" And we go into a big discussion about that.
"Well, because I can feel it, because I can smell it, because I can see it."
"Fine. Fine, fine. That's fine. Now shut your eyes. Now make up a mock-up of it or like it. Now experience that mock-up. Does it have mass? Does it have weight? Does it have density? What color is it?" so forth.
We keep this up and all of a sudden your case that couldn't get any mock-ups quite often gets perfect mock-ups, which are quite different, by the way, than the physical universe. They're much better. This glass, for instance, has been turned into a piece of Czech glass which is iridescent and it has a very pretty flower design worked in it in rubies. And various things you can't do in the physical universe show up in these mock-ups.
Then if you kept on a lot longer, you would find the individual was simply able to duplicate the physical universe. All of that remedies havingness, particularly if you tell him to put those mock-ups, after he makes them, into his head or something. Ask him to do something, you know. Push them into himself. Follow that?
That would be, if you had been incautious enough to run some spots in space (you know, that's not spots on a wall or anything, that's spots in space—no mass in them) on somebody who couldn't get mock-ups, you can make him get mock-ups by having him examine a real object and then mock it up and examine the mock-up. And then examine the real object, you know, and he pushes that mock-up in.
He says, "It's all black," that first mock-up.
You say, "Well, push it in anyhow." He says, "It's just an idea."
"Push it in anyhow."
"All right. Now, examine the real object again"—anything that's lying around: a belt, a lampshade, an ashtray, a toy horse, anything that's lying around. Now, have him make a mock-up of it. And you'll find out that his mock-up will have improved.
And have him examine the object and make a mock-up and then get him to experience the object and experience the mock-up and so on. In other words, get these two things balanced, one against the other, and the next thing you know he'll be able to make up all kinds of mock-ups, quite ordinarily.
Very often you will find somebody who is not able to do this. But you know what was happening when he's not able to do it? You didn't run 8-C on him. The individual cannot comply with orders. So you told him to make a mock-up like the glass and he sat there and ran out the earlier part of the auditing session, which he considered was aberrative, and said he did.
This is what people do when these processes don't work on them. You just check this up. This is not in defense of processes. I mean, this is a factual statement. When nothing happens after you've run the process, the only thing we've ever been able to find out on a cross-reference of this and a thorough check all across the boards is that the individual did not do the process. So it wasn't anything to do with the process. Didn't really have anything to do with whether or not he could or could not do the process. It's just a fact that he did something else.
So if you did this a few times in trying to remedy his havingness, you know—you had him feel the object and make a mock-up of it and experience the mock-up and then pull the mock-up in and have him experience the object, make a new mock-up and put that in his body. And you still found out he couldn't get any mock-ups and he couldn't get any idea of it or anything like that? Oh, boy! Your boy is sitting there getting away with it. So you just go back, you just turn the pages back quietly but brightly, taking it in the teeth that you have been a little bit forehand with this, and run him right straight back into Opening Procedure 8-C because he can't follow orders.
All right, we're still hanging around this Spotting Spots in Space. There's how you remedy havingness. If he can remedy havingness, of course, that's very easy. We don't care how thin the mock-up is. And here is one place where certainty does not count. We don't care how certain he is of the mock-up or anything else. Just so there's some mass, just so it is a mock-up or at least an idea of a mock-up. Have him shove it in. Mock it up and push it into the body. Mock it up and push it into the body. Mock it up and push it into the body.
Spot some spots in space. Mock-up something, anything. Get it acceptable as possible and have it snap in if you want to. But the essence is, we don't care how fancy you got or how accurately you got him to remedy that havingness. The point is, for God's sakes, just have him remedy the havingness.
Don't miss that point. That's all we're trying to do. No matter how many dozen ways we could figure out to remedy his havingness, that's all we're trying to do. We have him mock-up anything he can get a mock-up of and get it into his body. Get anything he can get a mock-up of and pull it into his body. Anything he can get a mock-up of and pull it into his body.
And I do mean that—anything. He was spotting the place he was born, maybe, as a spot in space. I don't know, have him mock-up Cadillac cars. It'll remedy the havingness of having been born. Mass is mass. That's all. Mass is mass.
And the only thing you're interested in, in remedying havingness, is just mass. The bigger, the better. Mass. That's all you're interested in. All right.
Spot spots in space, remedy havingness. Spot spots in space, remedy havingness. Well, what does he do on spotting spots in space? He walks around or he points or both. It is common for this error to occur in running 8-D, Opening Procedure: They let the individual sit in the chair and jerk his head in the direction of the spot that he has or not even jerk his head, see. He's spotted the spot in space.
Oh, no, he hasn't! No, he hasn't. No, no, no, he hasn't. If that individual hasn't enough energy to actively designate the spot he's picked out, he is too lazy to spot a spot in space. So this head jerking is all very well, but it doesn't get anything anyplace. You have to have him stand up at that moment and point to the spot, even though it's five thousand miles away, the one he picked up, see. You have him point to it. You have him indicate it. You have him get how much distance there is to it. You have him get whether or not he got a picture of it, whether or not he's pointing to it. You want the spot in the physical universe. You don't want a spot in the picture.
That's the other thing I found some auditors making a mistake on. They let people spot spots in pictures. I couldn't conceive why anybody would ever do this. The only spots we want spotted are the physical universe. So let's make that awful clean and clear right here at the beginning: spots that we want are the physical universe spots. That's all. And we want spots in space, we simply want a spot in space—no mass or anything else to it.
Physical universe, physical universe, not a spot in a picture. And the favorite thing that the preclear will do is to point to some vast distance, to this spot where he has the least possible idea of anything like a spot.
At that moment you'd say, "Now, I want a spot in this room." These people who point to these vast distances (the nearest spot they can get to them is Arcturus, other side of) get violently ill when you make them put their finger on a spot on the space of the room, you know? They just spot the spot and put their finger on it.
Now, there's some other odds and ends show up on this, some other odds and ends which are quite curious. You'll find out that if you ask an individual to spot the same spot eight consecutive times, he is as bad off as he spots it inaccurately. It's a direct index to the level of his case.
It's too bad it can't be used as Scientometry. It can't be, of courses because it makes the preclear sick. We couldn't measure his sanity by doing this because if he's really bad off, by the time he'd spotted two of them, why, he would have to leave the room
[chuckling] if he was really bad off, so can't use it as Scientometry. But it is a direct index. We ask this individual to spot this spot in space out in front of him someplace. And he takes his attention off of it and then we ask him to spot the spot again for us, put his finger on it. Okay. And he takes his attention and his finger off of it. And you ask him to spot the spot again. We know very well that the spot was not on the level of the knees. The last time we saw it, it was opposite his nose.
"This is the same spot?" you say.
"Yes, sir."
"Okay. Now, get another spot." And he spots one over to the left side of his head. And another spot that's on top of his head. But you're asking him for the same spot every time and he's giving you these with perfect confidence that he's giving you the same spot.
Some people will only vary over an area of about a cubic foot. That’s pretty good. But you would be amazed.
Now, if your preclear can consecutively spot that spot in space (empty spot in space), spot it consecutively, accurately get the same spot many times over and over and over, and not get sick, it's a breeze. Your preclear is in good shape, that's all. You shouldn't hesitate to run anything on him. Do anything you want to him.
But what you're doing, running him in the body, is more than we know. You should have told him a long time ago to get out and stay out, because this case will exteriorize rather easily (with a little persuasion).
That letting-go technique, by the way, will exteriorize them. Spotting three spots in the body, three spots in the room, three spots in the body, three spots in the room and then run all of 8-D, and you've got him out and stabilized and certain. There's no trick to exteriorizing people these days.
You don't have to stay in your head, really. There isn't any reason. I was walking down the street with a preclear, long, long time ago, on Exteriorization, in England. And in England they have a rather brazen way of displaying meat. And there were some brains displayed there in the showcase, so I took him in. He was talking about why should he want to get out of his head anyhow? So I saw this meat shop and merely steered him over to it and showed him some calves' brains.
He was wondering all that time why he never let his visio turn on. That's exactly what he would have been looking at. A mass of brains! It didn't set well with him. We didn't have much trouble exteriorizing him the next time. We merely remedied his havingness on brains, got his visio on.
Well, all right. Not to wander too far afield with this: Opening Procedure of 8-C we've talked about. Opening Procedure of 8-D is spot the spot, remedy the havingness.
Now, how many thousand ways could this be run? Actually, it is Change of Space. When an individual is exteriorized, when he does this Spotting Spots in Space, he is actually running Spot Spots in Space. Change of Space is the process.
"Be at the entrance point of the MEST universe," "Be in the middle of the room." "Be at the entrance point," "Middle of the room." "Entrance point," "Middle of the room," "Entrance point," "Middle of the room." He just spots spots—bang, bang, bang, bang.
But if you were to ask somebody who was still in his head—hah! He can't get out, you see, and you ask him to be to the right of his body, to the left of his body, right of his body, the rest of his body. You might as well put your hand over on the telephone while you're in this because you can call for an ambulance or something. "Be to the right of your body, the left of your body, the right of your body, the left of your body, the right of your body, the left of your body." He'll work all right, for a few minutes. It's okay. It'll do all right. "Right of your body, left of your body, right"—he doesn't feel well.
He, by the way, will probably be sick the next day. He'll probably have pneumonia or have a violent headache or almost anything.
It's a curious thing. Never run that on a group, by the way. You'll lose half of your group. Now, Spotting Spots in Space: is the guy staying in one place and indicating these spots? That is, it's a variation on Change of Space Processing. Instead of being in spot A and being in spot B, we ask him to spot spot A and spot spot B from the location he happens to be in. See? That's that variation on Change of Space.
Now, that can be run on anybody and it can be addressed to any specific item. But remember, it's an Opening Procedure. It is done in motion. It is done in action. Your preclear is mobile. He is not sitting still in a chair.
I know he has to sit still or stand still to remedy havingness. But when you have him spot spots you just have him spot spots, that's all. And there you go.
How many ways could you use this procedure? Oh, my golly! One of the basic uses you will have is every place the person has been treated or audited in this lifetime.
If you don't run that on a preclear who's been in Scientology or Dianetics for a while, expect a hung-up case. You spot all the places he's ever been audited, one right after the other. How does he spot them? He points to them. He says how far away they are. He actually indicates where they are. He points to them. He gets an exact location and an exact spot in the room where he was audited.
If he gets a picture of it, have him skip the picture and look for the place in the physical universe. He may go on getting pictures for a half an hour without being able to spot it in the physical universe. You still want the physical universe.
It's his hunger for energy that causes pictures of this place to cave in on him every time he thinks of it. So that's why you have to remedy havingness after you've spotted the spot. You just spot the consecutive spots where he's been audited, over and over and over and over, and all of his auditing will blow.
Let's spot all the places where he was dependent on Mother and remedy havingness. You know, spot the spots, remedy the havingness, spot the spots he's depended on Mother, remedy havingness on anything (Mother—he feels better, because that's the subject you're dealing with, but it's just mass you're looking for). Spot all the spots where he's depended on Mother, remedy his havingness, spot all the spots he's depended on Mother, remedy his havingness, spot all the spots he's depended on—there goes Mother's universe. This is the most elementary method of running the universe.
Now, this individual has had a fight that morning or he's had an accident or something of the sort. Present time problem use. Have him spot the spot it happened, remedy the havingness. Spot the spot it happened, spot the center of the room, remedy the havingness.
Either way. Just spot the accident and remedy the havingness. Spot the accident spot and remedy the havingness. Spot the accident spot and remedy the havingness. Or spot the accident spot, spot the center of the room, remedy the havingness. Two ways of running it, both of them very effective, the other one a little more effective.
That is the most useful darn process that you ever ran into. And that is Opening Procedure of 8-D. Spot the spot in space and remedy the havingness. Oh, there's lots of ways you could get into this and be very tricky about it. It's fascinating.
Now, Opening Procedure by Duplication is what you run when you go in for blood after the guy will take orders.
Or if you're real sadistic, you catch the guy before he can take orders and give it to him. It will work either way. Except it's how much do you want this preclear to hurt? [chuckles] If you ran Opening Procedure by Duplication without running 8-C Opening Procedure or 8-D Opening Procedure—well, you can, but you expect him to blow the session much more easily, to explode, to get upset and the process to be that much less workable on him.
Now, 8-D is remedying the coincident spots which are holding incidents in present time. His own universe and the physical universe are coincided at certain locations. And it's the spot in space which keeps two universes together. It isn't any mass. It's the spot in space which keeps two universes together.
When you drop and hit the pavement rather hard, you, in the physical universe—your universe and the physical universe have a spot in common. When you spot these spots out, the universes pull apart. And that's the basic mechanism in it.
What keeps an incident in present time? It's because the spot in space is in present time, that's why. It can't be anyplace else and the havingness is a picture of the past. So an individual is in the past—he's never in the past, he's in a spot in space where some impact occurred in the past.
You remedy the havingness because he's holding on to the impact because he likes the mass. It's delicious.
Now, you could run Opening Procedure by Duplication without running these other two, but it's not advisable to do so. But you can run Opening Procedure without running 8-D. And although I've covered 8-D rather extensively, we will cover it again and you don't have to worry about it. I'm just telling you that it can belong in there.
You're going straight from 8-C, its three first parts—they're the three parts of 8-C—you're going straight from there as a process into Opening Procedure by Duplication. That's because nobody here is bad off.
Okay.
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