Valences and Demon Circuits - Part II (501129)
Date: 29 November 1950
Speaker: L. Ron Hubbard
VALENCES AND DEMON CIRCUITS-PART II . . . a precision definition for a demon circuit, one for a valence, and I want to give you a picture of how you can go about Straightwire and get the maximum amount of material without straining your imagination too much.
With regard to a demon circuit, we have as its basic definition: a demon circuit is that mental mechanism set up by an engram command, which, becoming restimulated and supercharged with secondary engrams, takes over a portion of the analyzer and acts as an individual being. That’s a demon circuit. It’s a specific thing. An engram command which takes over a part of the analyzer and becomes an individual being. The missing words there was “becoming supercharged.” It becomes supercharged with the occurrence of the key-in of the engram command, the engram itself, and then by receiving secondary engrams on top of it. This makes a nice, real, live demon.
There are many, many such commands in a case. There are literally thousands of them in the ordinary case, by the crude definition. That is to say, this isn’t a complete demon circuit, but you could say there are potentially thousands of them on a case, A crude definition would be: any command containing “you,” and seeking to dominate or nullify the individual. Any command addressed to the “I,” which seeks to dominate or nullify the individual, is potentially a demon circuit. It doesn’t become a real, live demon circuit until it becomes keyed in and supercharged with secondary engrams of the grief and communication breaks and reality invalidations. Now, when that occurs, you have a demon circuit. As I said, there are thousands of these things in a case, potentially. This doesn’t mean that all these thousands have become supercharged. Usually a demon circuit will be a whole chain of practically the same command restimulated. There’ll just be somebody’s dramatization there. And command after command after command of the same nature, this whole chain of commands, more or less the same command.
You take the mechanism, “You’ve got to think of the other fellow,” which is a sort of a valence shifter and a demon circuit all by itself. And you get this thing all mixed together. That’s a sort of a borderline thing, “You got to think of the other fellow.” You start thinking of the other fellow and then some other command is liable to come along and boost the person. A real valence shifter will come along and keep the person boosted into another valence. You see, that’s not a circuit—the valence shifter. All right, “You’ve got to think of the other fellow,” and this thing occurs in the case many times. This was some aberree’s dramatization and it got into this person’s engram bank. And then life came along and took this thing and began to restimulate it. And after it became very thoroughly restimulated then he would have what he considered a stream of consciousness about the other fellow. “I” would be talked to and persuaded and so forth about the other fellow.
You’ll get some of these things up to a point where they have such a high power of supercharge and so on, “I” is so robbed by all this and the charge is over there and part of the analyzer is over there in the demon circuit, that the individual will talk to himself. Of course I know nobody in this room ever talked to himself but . . . All right. That’s what basically, this mechanism is.
In order to get rid of a demon circuit, one has to reach the phrase or phrases which created it and reduce that phrase or phrases in the basic on its chain—in the basic on its chain. That’s the way you get rid of one. You take the tension off of this basic and the whole chain will have a tendency to collapse up the line. But if this is a real, live circuit, your chances of getting the basic off of that chain are reduced by the fact that the individual has received many secondary engrams on top of this and therefore, there is a charge there. Well now, the charge fights against the “I” and the auditor. This charge, you know—the place it comes from is from the “I” of the individual. It is borrowed off the “I” of the individual and is reversed in polarity, you might say, and is roped off. And here we have the problem and this is your tough case right here; the problem of getting off charge off of a demon circuit so that it can be reached and reduced or erased. And the problem in getting the charge off is very often the problem of reaching the demon circuit and reducing and erasing it. Now, you see how that would be? The demon circuit got that way by becoming supercharged, and in order to get rid of this demon circuit you have to reduce and erase the thing.
It’s very interesting. You’re actually sawing against two things. Let’s say a demon circuit says, “You’ve got to protect yourself.” And oh, it just has enormous amounts of charge on the thing. There’s lots of charge there. “I” is pretty well reduced. And you try to get this “You’ve got to protect yourself” out of the case. Well, you can’t reach that because the preclear’s sense of reality is very poor, his sense of affinity is very poor and his ability to communicate is very poor. Well of course, in a large measure, these things are very poor because there is that circuit there and because charge has been encysted in that circuit.
All right. Now, it says, “You’ve got to protect yourself,” so every time the auditor goes into the case, first he is faced with this mechanical proposition of the charge on the thing. The thing is very highly charged. The person may be off of his track and pushed away from his reality. He’s rather badly out of contact with his own past. And the auditor is repulsed, you might say, just like the “I” is repulsed every time it tries to approach this circuit. And yet the auditor can’t get any of the charge off of this circuit, appreciably, because it says “You’ve got to protect yourself.” So every time he tries to come into this circuit—of course probably the full text of the circuit: “You’ve got to protect yourself, you’ve got to help yourself. Now, I’m going to tell you how to do this,” and so on. I mean, there’s probably lots more to this circuit. I’m just giving you “You’ve got to protect yourself.” And the auditor comes into the circuit and naturally he isn’t going to be able to find out what is the core of this circuit.
Now, the whole trick is trying to find out what’s the computation. What is the phrase or what are the phrases which compose the bottom of this circuit? Once he gets those phrases, he will be able to take some tension off of the circuit even by hitting an engram two or three from the bottom on the chain. But if he can get this phrase and go back on the phrase, get the basic on its chain, that demon circuit will be very shaky. And the next time the auditor tries to go into the case, why, this circuit isn’t protecting itself too much and the charge which it has picked up can be bled off the case.
This is your contest and this is why you look at some of these cases and you say, “Oh my, this is a very tough case, a very tough case.” Well, if you put it in the phrase “It’s a very tough case,” then one is sort of left staring at this thing as an unsolvable something. Well, let’s not call them very tough cases; let’s just call them supercharged circuitry cases.
Nothing should ever be named—in any field of skill—named a name which does not in itself lead to the solution of the problem. That is to say, if you can possibly name something in such a way that it indicates the solution of the problem, that is a good name. That’s good classification, that’s good labeling. This, by the way, argues against this tremendous program of Latin/Greek nonsense that many of the old branches of the sciences, natural philosophy and so forth, used to engage in, because they would call phenomena by a fancy name just to have a label on it and then say, “Having named it, we now know about it.” Only they didn’t, and it barred knowledge of this thing.
Now, we could very well call “the supercharged circuitry case”—we could very well call this case the “lingo turn case.” And you see, that leaves everybody blank. But it’d probably be a very, very nice name from the derivation of words and so forth. We could go and pick up this, and justify this, and we could all be very learned, and we wouldn’t be three seconds closer to the solution of this case. Now, we start calling it “a tough case,” and that is equally a useless name. But let’s call them something on the order of a “charged circuitry case” or a “supercharged circuitry case.” If you want to be very, you might say, conservative, call it a “charged case.” Superchargers are something you put in automobiles.
All right. Now, the second you recognize that the reason this person can’t reach his reality and he can’t develop affinity and he has a hard time communicating is because “I” has been robbed by a circuit—now, that having happened, you get this interplay. You try to get the charge and the circuit goes into action. You try to get the circuit and the charge goes into action. You try to get these two apart. You start robbing the circuit, in the solution of it. You can start robbing this circuit of an attention unit here and an attention unit there, and you can start to rehabilitate “I” with straight memory, Straightwire. And then as you go a little bit further, you can get recalls on who used to say what. And if you get enough attention units back, all of a sudden, the person is going to run into this computation—if you as an auditor have the patience to look for this. And having run into it as a computation, then you slam it with repeater technique, walk it right on down the bank, find it at the bottom, earliest time that you can find it. Get earlier and earlier on this same phrase, even if you have to run it a few times every time you find it, and you finally get down to the bottom of it. Chances are, his sense of reality on it is not going to be too high because you’re still fighting against charge. He may be way out of valence, but he can still run this thing. He can still take some tension off of it.
Well, you upset this circuit and you deintensified it, and now you can start rescuing from it the attention units which secondary engrams captured from “I” and you can go and try to get a little charge off this case.
Now, it would be relatively an incorrect statement to say that there is one central computation on a case, that there is just one circuitry computation on a case. As a matter of fact that would be completely erroneous. There are many. But there is one circuitry computation on a case which you have to reach first. This is a needle-in-a-haystack proposition right at first with one of these cases. You want to find out what’s wrong with this person, and you have to punch around for a while until you finally discover what is. And that consists of the dramatizations of the persons who surrounded this person’s prenatal period and childhood. You get these dramatizations into sight. You get some recall on these dramatizations and the first thing you know, you will have the data you need to spot circuits. You take the dramatization and you look it over carefully and you see there what part of this dramatization most closely approximates the behavior of your preclear, while you have him under process, and shoot it out of the case.
Now, to tackle one of these tough cases on the basis of just “Let’s go into the basic area and see if we can find an engram. Yes, I know he’s all out of valence and he can’t be reached and when he does reach one, why, he doesn’t know whether it’s an engram or not anyhow. But we’ll just keep working on this basis . . .” That would be very foolish. That would be very foolish, because you’re just restimulating the case more and more. The stuff you’re reaching is not really reducing and you are laying new locks onto the case and you are stealing units off of “I” by doing this if you happen to slip on this and leave a couple in very bad restimulation. The odd part of it is that you can slug away at a case like this without hurting, and even sometimes improving, the mental health of the individual. But the point is that your progress is on an upward curve of about that. You see, this is measured by hundreds of hours per inch. We want a technique that goes like this. And this one will do it for you.
Now, just as there are supercharged circuits, so are there charged valence cases. This gives you another point of entrance into a case. A valence is a commanded mimicry of another person or thing or imagined entity—would be your technical definition of a valence. It’s the commanded mimicry—commanded by engrams, of course—of a person or an object or an imagined entity. Now, a person can have all sorts of these valences, you see; here we run into the same problem that we have with a circuit. The valence is not the circuit, as I made very clear to you yesterday. The valence and the circuit are two different things. The valence is a whole person, a whole thing, or a large number of persons or things. It doesn’t say in the engram. “You have to smoke cigars,” but if a person is fixed in the valence of somebody who smokes cigars, that person will smoke cigars. The circuit is a sort of an identity all to itself that doesn’t have anything to do with a human being, you see. I mean, it’s sort of come in and taken over as a parasitic circuit, a parasitic identity in the individual But not a valence. A valence is the whole thing.
You could have a valence there—you could have a multiple valence shifter that would shift somebody into the valence of the whole human race. This would be very interesting; cause some complications. But where your interest lies, normally, is a person is in one, two, three, four, five people and you’re trying to get this person out of a series of valences, or you’re trying to get this person out of the valence of a dog. Or you’re trying to get this person out of the valence of mon petit chou. Anything there that has changed his whole identity.
Now, this valence is interesting. The circuit robs “I” of attention units, and the valence transplants “I.” Now, does that make more sense to you? It transplants “I.” It takes “I” and puts him over someplace else. “I” now becomes Grandpa or Grandma.
Now, the valence or valences, when they are human valences or animal valences, can be charged. The valence can be charged. It’s like an engram. I had this picture of these three cylinders, here. I showed you that valences—“I” you know, is moving over into other identities and so forth and “I” can be bounced out of these identities or fixed in them, so on. You can even have a valence shifter misdirector. “You don’t know who you are. You’re just, from person to person, day to day, you’re just like everybody you talk to.” Something like this, and “But you can’t be anybody.” Of course, that’s a valence shifter type of command that just bounces a person out of any valence he tries to get into—“You can’t be anybody,” and it also bounces him out of his own, so he’s sort of in the never-never land. This is not good for reality. Now, you see there that valence shifters transplant “I,” and these valences can be charged.
Now, let’s say that little Lulu’s grandma died; little Lulu was five, Grandma died. Up to that time, people used to come around and say to little Lulu, “You’re a nasty tempered little brat. You’re just exactly like your grandmother,” and so on. I mean people used to say something like that, because they said to little Lulu’s mother, “That temper you have, it’s just like your mother’s. You get more and more like her every day.” And this gets down into the early engrams. And then it comes along and they tell little Lulu this, and this swings it in and charges it up. But in spite of all this, little Lulu likes Grandma very much. You see, a sympathy engram is very tough, and a sympathy valence, then, is very tough.
All right, Grandma dies and little Lulu becomes Grandma. It’s a supercharged valence. It’s very mechanical the way it happens; there’s nothing very mystical about this. But over goes little Lulu into the valence and down comes the charge.
Now, to get little Lulu out of that valence while you are processing her, it’s necessary to knock out this computation off the thing. But you can’t reach the computation which makes her Grandma, because the computation is protected by the charge. So you have to get the charge off the valence in order to get the computation engram.
Now, there’s the two other points working against each other. So you start robbing the valence a little bit and get “I” moved over just a shade by breaking some locks and some minor secondary engrams, not necessarily on this valence. You toughen up “I” a little bit, you bring up the individuality of the person, and you work away at the circuitry and you hit this charge finally, and you get the charge off of this valence and you get the person over into his own valence.
Those are the two things. First and foremost, of course, of these is circuits. The circuits are actually more important than the valences merely because the circuits are a little bit harder to work with and there are more of them. And then there’s the valences.
Now, if you can’t get a circuit off of a case, try to get the case in valence—trying to get a valence charge off of this case and get the case moved over into his own valence. Work at it that way. But recognize that you are working on a specific variety of charge.
A girl I ran into one time was in the valence of a collie dog. She was a psychotic and she was in the valence of this collie dog. And in order to get her out of the valence of the collie dog, one had to get the charge off the death of this collie dog and several other incidents off the collie dog. Well now, trying to get the death of the collie dog was very difficult because the thing was very occluded and the circuits were pretty well stirred up and there was a lot of control on the case and so forth; and fishing in there, until one discovered that the collie dog had been sick for some time and that the little girl had been quite afraid that the collie dog was going to die. Well, we got up this chain of stuff and we were able to get, then, at the charge of the collie dog’s death. In other words, we unburdened this collie dog valence enough to get to “I.” This poor girl would run yapping and barking and it would just about cave in your eardrums. This also, by the way (she was a real screamer), would get mixed up with birth where Mama screamed, evidently, for about forty-eight hours. And between the two of them she would get into birth and start screaming like Mama, in Mama’s valence, and then she would get into a little bit later life and she would get into the collie dog’s valence, and she would bark and scream and howl. And we finally found out that the dog had been run over and she was dramatizing the dog’s dying. So she was dramatizing a woman giving birth and then a dog dying, and then a woman giving birth, and the dog dying; and all in all it was a very noisy case.
Well, here we have . . . Come up to present time. I see there are some dead dogs around here. (laughter) Now, being afraid for the valence—that is to say, let’s say its Grandpas valence—being afraid for something that would happen to Grandpa or something that happened to him and so on, that’s legitimate bait for the auditor on this valence. He shouldn’t just go charging for the death, if he can’t get it easily. He tries to get the death, you know, and he gets this grief suppression reaction.
Incidentally, you might say the first death ready to come off of a case is that one which makes the person breathe hardest. You know, you’ll see the chest agitated. The first death ready to come off will usually cause the greatest agitation. That’s just a comment on the side; I’ve observed a few cases that acted like that. But fear for the valence. Fear for Grandpa. Let’s say your preclear is in Grandpa’s valence and therefore this valence has to be unburdened and it is unburdened by Grandpa being afraid about various things, by the preclear’s being afraid for Grandpa. And you can get enough, actually regain enough attention units on this valence to finally get it up to a point where it’ll blow the death. I wish somebody would engage in a little project on that one of these days.
I get so interested in cases and never have time to do a refined piece, sometimes—I do quite often—but this is a little refined piece of research whereby you just take a case that is badly out of valence, easily spotted out of valence. Still has quite a bit of charged circuitry. And you don’t pay any attention whatsoever to the circuitry, but you just shoot away at the fear and apathy and sorrow, grief and so forth on this valence. Just shoot at the valence and see if you can finally blow the grief charge without . . . [gap] . . . circuits. I think you could. I’ve never tried it.
Usually the way an auditor works is he regains some material off of the valence. And then “I” is a little bit stronger so he comes over here into circuitry, you see. And he works with circuitry for a while and he gets some locks out of this and he gets maybe some charge off of circuitry, secondary engram over here, off of something else that’s happened to the person. And then he goes back over here to the valence and he works for a while. And he goes back over to the circuit and he shoots down to the bottom of the bank and blows out the chain on the circuits. And he unburdens the valence and gets the person out of valence into his own valence and then he goes back and runs some more out of the circuits. You see how it’s done? You play one against the other, back and forth, back and forth, back and forth.
There are so many points you can hit in a case, that for anybody to sit idle and look at a preclear and say, “Well, I just don’t know what to do next on it” is an auditor dramatizing an apathy. It is not based in fact. A skilled auditor should be able to take one of these cases and start knocking out enough locks and enough secondary engrams and run some of this and some of that; open up memory and get “I” rehabilitated to the point where he can just run the devil out of the circuits and the valence commands and so forth.
Don’t expect one of these cases to start fast. You could be fully prepared to spend twenty, thirty hours auditing Straightwire. [gap] A case which is very, very thoroughly out of contact with reality and poorly in communication with the world, and with a rather low affinity, is not going to resolve ordinarily in two minutes. After all, it took some of these cases twenty, thirty years to get that way. And if you can resolve this case to where he’s feeling pretty fine and running very well in twenty or thirty hours, you’re doing all right. You don’t want to get up to a point where you want any miracles on this. Just twenty or thirty hours working this stuff out. That I would consider a pretty good line of advance.
Working a gentleman recently who—case not terribly complicated but stuck in a measles engram. Been there so long that his eyesight has very badly deteriorated. A matter of fact, practically blind in the right eye. Of course, you know about measles engrams. Carcinoma and so forth generally generate there. They restimulate birth and so forth. Somebody comes in and said, “Well, if you don’t keep all the blinds down, if you don’t keep this room awfully dark and if you don’t keep him very quiet now,” and so on, “he’s going to go blind” Yap, yap, yap. So this person gets along and naturally there’s holders and all sorts of things. And people used to worry very terribly about children when they had measles, because measles were pretty bad. Also works with scarlet fever. And you get into the incident, of course, and the person is blacked out, naturally.
Well, this person was stuck on the track and there wasn’t anything one could do about that measles engram at this time, except to unburden the case with Straightwire. And merely proceed to start unburdening the case with Straightwire by a system which I’m going to show you here this morning, which puts no great strain on the auditor’s imagination. He sort of sits there, and like the Tibetan who does all his praying by spinning the prayer wheel—sure, why, that’s a very efficient way of praying, too. You get a thousand prayers to heaven, just like that.
I got the case unburdened a little bit but I got—this was interesting— this fellow was stuck in the measles engram and would develop the fever. Oh, he’d become very hot and so forth, the second that you got him to touch any part of this. He’d been there for years. There wasn’t any use in trying to budge him out of it or put him back into it, he was stuck there. But you could get him more thoroughly there. You could put more attention units there than there were there previously, and the second you did this, why, his fever would turn on and he’d feel the fever and the hot flush and so on. And I tried to get him up to the end, just by running the somatic strip out of the engram.
Say, “Well, the somatic strip will go to the time you got well.” I did that a couple of times and—uh-uh. I sent the somatic strip earlier and the fever turned off, just like that! Try to bring him up to present time—wouldn’t turn off. Send him earlier—turned off. This gives you some kind of an idea of what’s happening there. This measles engram is oh, I don’t know, five or ten engrams up the chain. So, of course it isn’t going to reduce. It’s on a chain of illnesses.
Come to find out this person was born with a very serious skin disorder. Isn’t that interesting? Measles, you know, of course, he’d have an irritated skin and so forth, and it was a restimulation of birth—skin disorder, and that undoubtedly goes on down the bank. He had a skin disorder when he was born. There was something wrong here. Don’t know what Mama was up to, but I suspect!
All right, now, the basic on that measles holder is way down at the bottom of the case someplace but you couldn’t get him down to the bottom of the case because his file clerk wasn’t working. This whole chain has “Keep still, keep quiet and don’t say anything” and this is acting as a suppressor against the file clerk, so you get no flash answers. And instead of just giving it up and calling up the humane society and having him shot, took him down the track and then brought him back up by skipping measles, you see? And ran a lot of pleasure incidents, got him into pleasure incidents in spite of the fact that he evidently has a suppressor on pleasure; but managed to find moments there. Pleasure incidents could be borderlines: you could get near them by going to a point where somebody gave him a good, solid push and shoved him into the swimming pool, and he was sort of mad about it but he could get this close to pleasure. Anyway, got a lot of attention units up there, got him up to present time. Interesting, the number of call-backs on the case, though. Age flashes at various intervals. First a “six” age flash. Then bring him up to present time and get a present time age flash; and then a couple of minutes later get an “eleven” for an age flash and so on. And then I finally brought him up to present time and patted him on the back hurriedly and went out and had a cup of coffee. Because you could have kept this up all night.
You see, it’s legitimate if a person was there anyway, to leave him in that state. That’s the way you found him, after all. And you try not to worsen the case any by leaving him this way but there isn’t any reason why, and as a matter of fact, an auditor couldn’t invest—why he should sit there for maybe twenty-four hours of auditing trying to resolve this case right now, because that’s what he’d have to do to get the person up to present time. So it’s legitimate.
As a matter of fact, I don’t think he’d been that far out of measles for a long, long while. But as I say, I just patted him and walked away.
All right. Now, when you get a case that is stuck in an engram, don’t blow out your brains or call for the humane society if a few hours of auditing don’t resolve this thing. Try these other things. Just bring him up into a few pleasure moments and if you can’t do that, why, you put in some Straightwire. And then try to run him very early and come back up the track by skipping the engram and chain in which he is stuck, and some of his attention units will go over it and come on up to present time. In other words, you try to work him out of it. But the way you’re working him out of it is restoring attention units to “I,” not by addressing the engram in which he is stuck. Because being stuck on the track is just another symptom of a robbed “I.” That’s just another symptom of it. It means that “I” doesn’t have the force, the pressure, the power to overcome the charges on the bank or to move ably on the track. And I repeat that “I” is not necessarily held in an engram just because the engram has a holder. It’s true if this engram has a holder but in order to get the person out of this engram it is sometimes necessary to pull units out of other parts of the track and restore them to “I,” and then you’ll finally get him out of the engram. [At this point there is a gap in the original recording.] . . . that you knew all about deintensifying the holders and the callbacks and so forth, in which the person was stuck, that’s a standard method of getting a person unstuck. But actually, one shouldn’t labor this too hard. For instance, you take this case — that technique is a standard technique. I mean, if you can get these things readily, deintensify them rather easily, you get the person out of the engram. But we’re talking about a rough deal, now, whereby the file clerk won’t give you any of these things and where you can’t get any visio on these things. The person just blanked out on it and you can’t get moving and you can’t get any data off the thing. Well, you start to employ at that moment these other techniques which, by the way, are the basic techniques of getting the case resolved anyway. And you don’t employ much different techniques in getting a case moving on the track, actually, than you do in breaking up charge, restoring “I.” But you can, by being too insistent and by dreaming up holders and call-backs for this fellow to repeat, you can repeat him into four or five other engrams and you can drop out of “I” a few more attention units. And “I” can’t afford to lose them. You are just working against yourself when you do this to a case.
Now, I hope you have these two things clear in your mind now. The demon circuit and the valence. There is no reason to confuse them, at all. The reason I have stressed them as separate entities is because you have to know their anatomy in order to do something about them. Both of them require that “I” has to have restored to it, attention units.
You know, the theory of the attention unit is that “I” might be considered to be potentially composed or was initially or genetically composed, let us say, of a thousand units. And every key-in and lock and secondary engram on the case has robbed “I” of a few of these attention units, until “I” is less and less potential. Now, the system of resolving a case can be looked at on the basis of restoring attention units to “I.” And when you have restored to “I” all of the attention units which are on the bank, you can consider that your case is Clean This is another definition for Clean You could actually go ahead and knock out all the restimulation off of a case, knock out the key-ins and take the grief off of a case and leave a complete bank full of engrams which weren’t restimulated, which were no longer keyed in, and you would have a person who would pass for a Clear, Of course, unfortunately, next week or the week after, why, an attention unit or two will be robbed off of “I” by these engrams. They’re the villains of the piece but they have to have the rest of the mechanical setup in order to act. That is to say, they have to have key-in and they have to have locks and secondary engrams in order to be charged up.
Now, for instance, you go down the bank and you run an engram out of a person. This engram has never been hit before. Let’s say you run this engram through once and you’ve got a pretty live somatic on this engram, and then you bring the person up to present time. What you’ve done, effectively, is artificially key in this engram—not a terribly serious key-in, but you’ve keyed it in all right. This engram is now active where it wasn’t active before. Now, you can lay this in its grave rather readily and easily by running a pleasure moment. Because those attention units were just then put into the engram. Let’s pull them back out again a little bit by pleasure, with the person in present time now. Let’s make him remember the processing and this thing will blow out as a lock. But you’re in trouble with a case if you just run an engram here and an engram there and you don’t do anything to ease this case. You just run the engram once or twice and you guess maybe this is a good idea; let’s get this case all stirred up as one auditor used to think one had to do—let’s stir up this case. Well, what the devil is he doing? He’s just pulling attention units off of “I” and he’s making the preclear very uncomfortable and he is accomplishing no processing whatsoever.
There are lots of engrams in restimulation all the time, and an auditor does not have to stir restimulation in an engram before he can erase it. That is one that people have sort of picked up along the line and thought might exist: that if an engram were not in any way restimulated, it couldn’t be located. This isn’t true. The technique of sending somebody back down the track and asking for a flash of the first words and so forth will pull what you might call a sleeper right straight through, and you can run out this engram. In other words, it doesn’t matter whether the engram is restimulated or not, the auditor can reach it. But if the engram is too thoroughly restimulated—in other words, is pretty badly charged up, then it gets very difficult to locate, very difficult to pull up, unless one unburdens some of the charge off of it.
I hope you understand the mechanics of how this is done now You will understand them better if you keep your notes, and as you tackle a case, look at the case in the mechanical terms of a valence or a series of valences, possibly, and circuits as something else. “I” is being told things continually by other circuits, or being guarded—(quote) guarded (unquote)—by these other circuits and he’s being shifted around into these various valences.
Now, on this subject you could say that your case is easy to resolve in some ratio to the fewness of circuits and general valences. Fewness of circuits and valences: case is easier to resolve. There is an actual curve that follows, one after the other. But when you’re going into a case, pay very thorough attention, very close attention to the sense of reality, the persons ability to communicate, and to the persons ability to develop affinity.
The trouble with affinity, by the way, is that engrams and the society force a person to display it very often. So a person might appear to be relatively friendly and it’s just a sort o{ a dramatization. He isn’t friendly at all. It’s a covert hostility at work.
The psychiatrist is very, very bedeviled by this covert hostility. Evidently most neurotic people hang below the anger tone band. They hang below that, so they go between fear, anxiety, you see, and up into covert hostility. They oscillate on those two points; that’s on the reactive level. And estimating, then, the reality of the individual by his ability to actually accept what’s in these engrams—that’s a test—that is not a very fair test, looking at it bluntly, because this is something you could hang on an individual. He’s got a very poor sense of reality because he doesn’t believe so-and-so. This rather invites the auditor to enter a computation upon this case, to say, “Well, you ran that engram, the reason why you ran that engram; you don’t realize it, just got a bad sense of reality, that’s all,” and yap, yap, yap. I can see it happening now. That would be very, very bad manners. As a matter of fact, if I ever heard of anybody doing that, I would have them up before the Board of Ethics and Standards that fast! That would be laying a serious lock onto the case.
Now, you estimate the sense of reality, ability to communicate and affinity; and estimating these things, you get immediately an estimate of the valence and circuitry and charge difficulties of this case. If these three things of the triangle are poor, you know immediately that there’s lots of charge on the valences and the circuits. And you know that you had better pull back some of the charge out of the valences and the circuits and get rid of some of the valences if you can, and some of the circuits if you can, as your first order of business in this case. Restore “I” to its proper position, which is the valence proposition. Resolve the valence. Deintensify a valence—you don’t even have to find the valence shifter—if you could deintensify the valence, “I” could come over to his proper position.
As a valence charges up and gets more and more charge, a person is more and more fixed in it. Or more and more repelled out of it, if it’s the kind of a valence that’s set up as a bouncer. “Your mother was a good woman, you never could be like your mother. You can’t be like your mother, you’re entirely different than she is. She was a good woman, she was honest, she took care of the family. She did all of these things. She worked hard. And you can’t be like your mother.” And then they wonder why this little girl is a juvenile delinquent. Because she can’t be like the one model she had of a good person.
The avowed purpose of the person who was saying all this to her, perhaps, was to make her a good woman, which of course had exactly the opposite effect. Now, that gives you some kind of an idea of a charged valence. Now, there would be a bounced-out valence, but if you start to discharge Mama’s valence, get the charge off of it, “I” can finally get into it a little bit, now and then, enough to mimic with it. And you would see an enormously changed pattern of conduct of this juvenile delinquent. Incidentally, this is an actual case.
The person would be able to be a good woman because the valence out of which she shifted—out of which she shifted—has been discharged and Mama can be imitated.
All right. Therefore, charges on valences are very important in a case, so you discharge them. Remember that each valence can be said to have its own time track. As a matter of fact, you can send the preclear back down his whole track as his father, if you want to, and discharge all of his father’s sorrows. You won’t get much charge on the things. But every time you can spring one attention unit up, you’ve gained.
Now, it’s usual—the way you measure the amount of good you have done the case or the number of attention units which you’ve sprung off of the case and gotten back to the case’s “I,” the number is estimated by the amount of relief displayed by the case. For instance, the case says, “Well, aw-chhhh!” That’s all right, hell remember these things and so forth and he remembers them and he brightens up once in a while when he remembers something. The case would be basically pretty apathetic but every time he brightened up a little tiny bit or you got a new memory on the thing, you’ve restored a unit. Just brightens up just a trifle, just for an instant.
If you restore fifteen or twenty units all at a crack, it will occur that the fellow will chuckle a little bit, “Ha-ha. Yeah, yeah.” And if you want an estimate, the fifty-unit release and restoration would be, “My God! What do you know! I—yeah!” Boom! “Ha-ha-ha!” Real line charge. And when you’ve got a whole case which is blowing locks from one end to the other, the person will laugh uproariously and unrestrainedly sometimes for as long as forty-eight hours. Anything you give this person to read, look at—he’ll read a little bit and all of a sudden hit a word which is contained in one of his locks—you see, he’s not blowing his engrams, he’s just blowing these locks; the whole case was just completely solid with locks. Why, he’ll see a word that’s contained in a lock and it’ll blow the whole lock, and he’ll see another word, blow that lock. He’ll just get going on this.
I’ve seen two or three auditors sit around and just practically torture a preclear to death when he was running one of these things, because the preclear would get into a situation—well, he’d be sitting there and he’d have run out of line charge at the moment. And then one of the auditors would say, “Now go over I’m dying.’” And the fellow would say, “I’m dying, I’m . . . Ha-ha-ha!” and he’d be off again. “I’m dying.” “Now let’s go over the phrase, ‘Your mother is dead.’ “ And “Ha-ha-ha!” See, he’s way off along the line. “Now let’s go over the phrase, ‘I hate you.’” “I hate you, I hate you. Ha-ha-ha!” This blowing line charge is a very interesting phenomena. It’s very hard on people’s nerves, sometimes. You get a couple of aberrees around who don’t know much about Dianetics and they watch somebody going through these convulsions, and I swear, if a psychiatrist saw somebody doing this he would probably want to lock him up immediately because it’s absolutely uncontrolled; the person can’t stop laughing about these things.
I saw one fellow who laughed and physiologically his stomach got so sore from all of this laughter and so forth that he had an awful hard time of it for about a week.
A case will do this if it is very, very, very heavily charged. You won’t get a lightly charged case to do this. But a very heavily charged case will reverse these polarities just madly.
Now, the amount of good this does the case is very marked, but I’ve never had psychometry on it. I would like to sometime have some psy-chometry on somebody just before he started to blow this type of line charge and get psychometry after he’d blown it. But the only trouble is, you can never quite tell what moment the person is going to start blowing it. So I’ve never gotten a psychometry.
All right, in the second half of this, I’m going to give you this chart of the “auditor imagination saver.” Take a break.