Thank you. All right.

Today we're going to talk, again, on a highly simple, fundamental thing in the field of auditing. We're going to talk about the basic approach to clearing, the most basic basics that we can talk about. And some fine day, you too will learn that it is twice as hard to be simple as it is to be complicated. And that these basic approaches are the thing which brings home the large angel food cakes — don't bring home bacon, we're not making pigs (bad joke)!

Now, I talked yesterday about finding a preclear, right? And today, at least I'm going to begin with talking about finding the auditor. In the American Personality Analysis and its British counterpart, the Oxford Capacity Analysis, you will find a graph that will probably be standard for the next few hundred years, so you might as well get acquainted with it. It was carefully culled from all mental testing equipment, and it is the one which is found to tell not the best story (we ourselves invented one that — tell a better story, for limited purposes) but certainly one which best tells the state of case or gain or lack of it or retardation, by reason of auditing.

When I say we have a better test, we have a better test that says what shape a person is in when you first give it to him and the length of time he takes it and so on. And it's actually the old accident-prone test, and it's a killer. So if you must find out what a person is really like, this old accident-prone test, one-sheet affair, both sides, gives you a good index point with which to analyze one of these APAs or OCAs.

Now, one of these tests, of course, any of these tests, can become null. An individual takes them time after time after time after time, he grades them as the boys do around here, time after time after time. And then we look at the test to find out if he has any change. It's very amusing. One fellow was found to have an IQ of two or three thousand or something of the sort, and suddenly it was called to attention that he had spent the better part of a year and a half doing nothing but correcting the intelligence tests which had given him such a wonderful intelligence. Of course, he knew all of the answers by heart. So a test has a limitation.

But giving this test once a week, week after week after week, you would think would null it. Not somebody who's studying it or is memorizing it, but just giving it week after week after week, every Saturday, every Saturday, every Saturday. Well, I have never found the test go null. And it even works on some of the people who sometimes correct them, which is quite a remarkable tribute.

Now, this test has certain characteristics. And one of these characteristics that you should be very interested in: In one end of it, it says "Critical" on the below side — it says "Critical." And I don't care what it says on the upper side, but it ought to say "Havingness." See? As this critical point — the person becomes more and more critical on this graph, result of the test — he actually is simply running out of havingness. And the test of it is that if you start feeding him Trio and he can do it, that you push, almost singly and all by itself, the Critical button on up across the top of the line. Of course that's hard to do without influencing some other buttons, but the main one that moves is Critical.

You see, there are certain processes today which more or less selectively move each one of these points. You could just set out to move one point, and you'd move one in a major fashion and the remainder in a minor fashion.

Now, Havingness and Critical — it's quite remarkable. A person becomes critical when he can't strike. I'll give you an example: I remember one time in prep school there were three boys on the football team and they decided that, because I'd just come out to football team, that I ought to be properly chastised. So, they slammed me from all three sides, and we got into an argument. That was an easy thing to do with a redhead. And we got back to the locker room and we had a very surprising thing happen. One of them jumped me, and the other two grabbed me. And this one that jumped me wasn't wearing any clothes, therefore he was fairly easy to handle, and I simply, accidentally, threw him over my shoulder. You know, it's one of these things that you say, "Well, why can't all fights end this way, instead of sitting here with two black eyes and a loose tooth?" But he hit the concrete floor on his side with a terrible crash, and he gave the typical response to a final blow, which is, "You shouldn't have done that!" And all three, in chorus, started telling me, "You shouldn't have done that!" You see this? This is always the response.

By the way, if you want to know whether or not somebody is licked at any time — I'm only telling you about a fight I won, the other hundred and ninety-nine thousand that I lost I omit. But if you want to — if you want to find out whether or not somebody has received something he conceives to be a deathblow, why, listen for this "You shouldn't have done that." They don't come back and fight you; they don't say what they're going to do to you. They merely tell you, you shouldn't have done that. And that is really the entering wedge of Critical. "You shouldn't have done that" becomes "It shouldn't be that way." In other words, the person is flinching.

Flinching from what? He's flinching from mass which has been used ferociously against him. And as long as he flinches from mass, he will not have. And so as he is invited again into the fray, he has to get used to mass. And if he gets used to mass and becomes so he isn't afraid of it anymore, his Critical moves up. And therefore, we have this factor of Havingness versus Critical on this particular chart. You see how that works out?

I could tell you, similarly, other things about other buttons, but this is one of the most positive buttons to move around. It's a very easy button to move around.

And if you want to experiment with it sometime, why, you might take an APA graph. And you should be, whether you're auditing here at a Central Organization, in a Field Office or on a private practice or anything else, you should not be auditing without graphs because, believe me, you can sure fool yourself. With what happy optimism some auditor will come in and tell me, "Well, he feels much better!" The graph is still hanging at an average of seventy points below the line all the way across, and it was the same way before the intensive.

I can tell you what's going to happen. This individual that "feels so much better" is going to propitiate only in the direction of the auditor and is going out somewhere else and say he feels much worse. Both are a lie. He feels exactly the same.

Now, I have tried to excuse these charts for their vagaries at one time or another, but the better and more positive our auditing gets, the more reliance we can place on a chart or graph. And today — I have studied this very carefully, and the latest dope on it that I can give you is that if a graph drops, you've fumbled.

Now, there is the condition whereby the person is apparently very, very high-toned clear across the top of the graph, and not-here, not-anyplace, nowhere-is-everywhere sort of case — wide-open case. And you audit him for a little while and all of a sudden you find the graph falls out the bottom. It goes down before it goes up. But, listen, it does it so rapidly in the twenty-five hours that the person is audited, if he's audited well, that you won't see it from Saturday to Saturday.

See, when they fall off of that artificial high tone, they either blow out of your vicinity entirely — because you figured they were high-toned and you could do anything, you nut. They said, "You think I will get any better through auditing?"

And you say to them playfully, "Well, I don't know, you might die of heart failure." Or "It might kill you dead." Or "It might make you much worse." And the next thing you know, they blow session.

Well, that's not the way a high profile operates, you see? Because a person who is totally sold on sweetness and light is probably quite sick and will answer it at the top of the graph. And the moment they start to get well, they'll fall clear to the bottom of the graph. So you might say the graph is a cylinder, not a two-plane graph. It goes off the top and onto the bottom on these very artificial cases.

Now, a Clear on this graph shows up along the top, about a quarter of an inch from the top, as the minimum response. After he settles out for two or three weeks, he usually moves the rest of the way to the top of the graph, and he almost exactly parallels the upper line of the graph. Interesting, isn't it? It makes one speculative about the tremendous genius of putting these graphs together. Actually at optimum conduct — as evidently been recognized by man to be optimum conduct — and when you clear somebody, he can attain optimum conduct, and it is optimum conduct. That's the surprise. I'd be totally prepared to find it's something else.

Now, I'm talking about graphs, here, and the APA for one reason only: I merely — to show you the positiveness of the material. Because I've been sneaking up on you this whole time. Up here as you hold one of these graphs, up here in the upper left-hand corner there are the first three down buttons. I don't care what those buttons say — the third one from the top is "Nervous and Dispersed." If those buttons remain low and on the bottom, the preclear has not found the auditor. Boy, that sticks out with the sorest thumb you ever saw bandaged up.

I won't give you a lot of words to memorize, I'll just give you a spatial relationship to remember. As you face the graph, on its right side up, and you look up there at the upper left-hand three buttons, the third one is the most important and hangs up the worst — "Nervous and Dispersed" — and is the one which gives us the clue to all this. But when those things continue low, any or all of them, the preclear has not found the auditor. I don't care how many auditing hours were invested. I don't care how smart the logic was behind the auditing. I don't care how cleverly the preclear was inveigled into or pushed out of session. There is no rationale sweeps aside this point.

Now, I'm telling you what I use in handling staff auditors. You know, I have to look at an awful lot of these graphs every Saturday. They come in from England. They're here. I get them from California. There are lots of them — tons and tons of preclears. And whenever we get somebody who was recently on HCA, and the Director of Processing in an incautious moment pulled him in and put him on a paying preclear — happens now and then — without first breaking him in, some other way (because sometimes emergencies overwhelmp the Director of Processing), and this person is quite weak; you get a preclear who is lying on the bottom up here on these upper left three buttons, still lying on the bottom at the end of twenty-five hours, at the end of fifty hours, at the end of seventy-five hours, at the end of a hundred and twenty-five hours — he's still lying on the bottom.

Now, it's important to know why that preclear is now getting into a state of decay. Very important to know that. He just hasn't found the auditor. That's all. I mean, it's so stupidly simple.

Here's the clue, here's the rationale: A preclear who is nervous and dispersed has no stable data. And Scientology is not going to operate to him as a stable datum in an auditing session — an auditor is. I keep trying to tell auditors this, that it's the auditor who operates as the stable datum not the process. You can be very brilliant about the whole thing, the processes can be fantastically wonderful, and we know that it would not be possible to clear anybody without them. But, believe me, something else comes before the processes, and that's the auditor. And where an individual continues to be nervous and dispersed, he is simply saying that he has not found a stable datum. And the first stable datum which he must find to get benefit out of auditing is, of course, the auditor, because otherwise he won't know he's in session. This is one of these horrible stupidities, and yet everybody overlooks it.

We could say, "There is no car in the driveway because there is no car in the driveway." Simple. And all the auditors in the business could look at me and say, "Yes, that's so true. There's no car in the driveway if there's no car in the driveway, tra-la, tra-la, tra-la," and go off and do something else. But I mean it! The preclear has got a car in the driveway with no car in the driveway. Well, admittedly he's crazy, but your business is to get him over it. And the first little hump you cross — please believe me — the first little hump you cross is not impressing him with whether or not he can get well or get sick or anything else. The first thing that you cross has nothing to do at all with the cleverness of the process or what is wrong with the preclear. We don't care, until we get this point over: Has he found the auditor?

I'll tell you how important the process is. That gives 22 percent cure, broadly, and that is all. That is it. That is the process which gives this mysterious 22 percent cure.

Josie Anne has a swelling on her epiglottis. Somebody says, "You ought to see a doctor." She goes down, place full of iodoform, human skulls — very impressive. Full of prescription blanks and Abbott, Parke-Davis, Lilly preparations. There's a nurse there, looks all very shiny and orderly. Just like TV has applause and laughter machines going so as to beef up the program, why, doctors have scream machines going, you know, to impress the patients. Josie Anne walks in, she says, "I've got a swelling on my epiglottis."

Epiglottis: The doctor knows what the epiglottis is, for heaven's sakes, he learned it — it's a Latin word that — there are five books have been written about it. He knows all about it; he's never looked at one. But he certainly has got nomenclature. He's syllable-happy. He jumps from syllables to knives. He probably ought to leave them both alone. The point is Josie Anne says, "There's a swelling on my epiglottis."

Doctor says, "Take this three times a day. Tastes terrible, make you sweat, you're liable to get nauseated. And it'll all go away."

So she goes home and she does it, and the swelling goes away. She found a doctor — stable datum.

Bill Zilch walks in, he says, "I've got a swelling on my epiglottis." Doctor gives him penicillin, microcillin, aureocillin, AMAcillin, Abbottcillin, Parke-Davis-cillin; he gives him rubs, massages, diathermy, pyothermy; warns him not to go to chiropractors, warns him not to go to anybody else; says Dianetics is now a province of the medical profession.

By the way, I've gotten that report from five doctors in the last few months. They told their patients that they mustn't get anything but medical doctors practicing Dianetics on them because Dianetics was part of the medical profession. It's evidently "true," it's come from too many quarters.

They don't know what they're wrapped up with. Someday a Dianeticist will walk in and say, "Can you say, ' It's a boy'?"

The doctor says, "Yes, I can say that."

And the Dianeticist will say, "Well, start saying it." Doctor won't ever know what's hit him. Yeah, he belongs to Dianetics, all right! Anyhow.

Zilch gets operated on, so on. And it just never happens. Nothing ever happens to the swelling on his epiglottis except run down his bank account and run up his anxiety. This guy's stable datum was a swelling in the epiglottis, and he never got a stable datum out of "The doctor is there." Got it?

The old witch doctor was pretty smart. He knew his thereness. He knew it much better than the modern medico — gourd rattles, shark's teeth, puffs of smoke that flashed up in the fire; down in Africa, horsetail switches full of fleas, horrible masks. The mask — you know, the witch doctor mask with the horns and so forth has degenerated, these days, down to a white gauze. Same purpose. Same purpose. The old witch doctor worked on a high-velocity thereness. Brother, when you called the witch doctor over to your hut, you knew when he arrived!

It's interesting that the American Indian in handling witch-doctory, shamanism — he is, by the way — the American Indian shaman was a direct descendant, of course, from the Mongolian shaman. And you still see shamanism, practiced exactly as the American Indian practiced it, along the Amur River. The Goldi peoples at this moment are practicing exactly the same shamanism as was imported into America by the Indians when they came across the Bering. And those boys are very good at just this one point — excellent, excellent.

They train themselves in acrobatics, amongst other things. For a white man to sit around and watch this sort of thing, it becomes incredible to him and he says, finally says, "I'm not looking at what I am looking at." And he goes off someplace and writes some book about it, saying it didn't happen. It's very — easiest thing he can do, you know? He makes nothing out of the whole works, because, boy, did it make nothing out of him!

I've seen one of these guys do a front flip across a fire. And a back flip up on top of the lodge poles of the tent. They disappear from where they are alongside of the fire and appear on top of the tent. I don't know how they do it. You just don't believe it. All of a sudden he's on top of the tent, and furthermore, he's wearing a thunderbird mask — what they began to call any kind of a beaked, crow head, or something of this sort — with a message from the gods, you see, about all the hot dope concerning this particular illness. You see? It's the same man. He was standing alongside the fire a moment ago, and you're not quite sure where he went or how he did it, but he's up there.

He chatters out in some insane jargon. The next thing you know, why, this crow-headed beast disappears, and the same guy appears alongside of the fire where he was originally. And he says, "I heard that."

The patient sure knows he's got an auditor.

Now, I don't advocate Japanese acrobatics, shamanism or horrible masks. Although if we did wear masks we could go into a boil-off less detectably. People, sooner or later, will start wearing the E-Meter as a sort of a mask, you wait and see. Yeah. And then, eventually, somebody will paint a face on the other side of it. I can just see all this happening. Maybe that's how the medicine man got there, and after a while he forgot what the meter was for — thought the mask was the thing.

Well, "let's find the auditor" actually accounts for all of the basic healing that has been done up to this time. Medical doctor is a little worse off than some of these more civilized tribes such as the aborigine of Australia, the Igoroti of the Philippines and other more cultured peoples, because none of these peoples stick knives into their victims to convince them they're there. They have more respect for their clientele.

But if a medico gets too anxious — he becomes very, very anxious about his presence, becomes very, very anxious in production of an effect, doubting very much that he can produce an effect, gets very low on the Cause and Effect Scale — why, he actually will put on white gowns and a mask and dance around, I think it's a white table, isn't it, with a sacrificial maiden lying upon the table? And impress her that he's there with a knife. I don't know what other use there would be for surgery, unless, of course, it'd be removing foreign bodies from the body. I can see that particular use for surgery.

But there is a whole school of surgery called bloodless surgery which does that anyhow, exists right here in the US. It has never gotten anyplace because the surgery in itself is not a thing, the surgery in itself is simply another method of convincing the patient and the patient's relatives he's there.

A doctor used to tell about one of his fellow practitioners. And the fellow specialized in appendectomies. And he'd go down and he'd do an appendectomy just about as fast as you'd snap your fingers. You know? He'd go down and he'd do his appendectomy. He'd take the appendix out, you see, bang! And then, he'd smear blood all over his cap and gown, and he'd take a syringe and fill the appendices that he had removed, you see, up with air and bloody water, and then in this horrible guise rush in to where the relatives were waiting, saying, "See, I got there in the nick of time! Would have broken in another minute."

Well, anyway, if we have this much background — and I think if you study it up yourself, you will find there's this much background. If we have this much background to find the auditor, I think that — you might be well advised to use some of it yourself. Not that you have to put on much of a show, not that you have to distract the preclear or create a terrible effect upon the preclear. But you could sometime in the future get so anxious about producing an effect on the preclear and getting him to find an auditor, that you would do silly things like appearing on the lodge pole of the tent with a crow's mask on, you know? See?

The CCHs give us the answer to this, by the way. CCH 3 and CCH 4, which are Hand Space Mimicry and Book Mimicry, are directly find-the-auditor mechanisms. There's a great deal of technology associated with this. There's the Reality Scale which begins with nothing, opens up a little higher into a communication line, communication line begins to have terminals, then the terminals become more real than the communication line, the communication line drops out. We go upstairs a little higher — upscale a little higher and the terminals drop out, and we get an agreement. And we go upstairs above agreement, and we get into the realm of postulates. And that is the Reality Scale.

So, of course, if we open up on the preclear with a communication line, not terminals, we're more successful. And he watches our arms, our hands. And we push him upscale by making less and less of a line and calling more and more attention to the terminal. And we simply approximate this exact pattern, and the next thing you know, why, he has found an auditor. You approximate that Reality Scale.

It's quite an interesting mechanism. This has been gone over considerably in an earlier ACC. We have a lot of tapes and technology on this. It's quite important even though it's not mentioned very often. The Reality Scale is quite amusing. The line, for instance, becomes much more important than the terminal.

In government, let us say, the paper chain itself: The messengers can eventually be expected to inherit the empire — they're the particles traveling on the line. And people will watch these lines, and they'll become more and more important. The people who are occupying the posts and terminals at the end of the line will become less and less important and will disappear. It's quite amazing. In other words, the paperwork can be more important than the action or the ship or the company, don't you see? You get more and more emphasis on the line, and pretty soon the line, too, disappears and then you've lost the works.

Well, what's happened to the preclear? The preclear cannot face mass. Remember I told you about this critical case. The preclear can't face mass.

What is mass? Mass is "something that knocks hell out of him" — definition, from his viewpoint.

If he cannot face mass then, of course, he cannot have. If he cannot have then, of course, he is critical. Highly critical. As unpalatable as we find that particular definition of critical, it's merely a working definition of critical, but it does follow through. And as he becomes more critical, that is to say, as he gets down the line and is unable to have, of course he finds it more and more difficult to find a stable datum. Because, at length, even thoughts apparently have mass. As the Russian is in that position right now: "Thoughts are mass" sort of thing, you know?

The medical profession is in that position — the word is the object. He has deified structure to a point where he says structure exceeds function. I don't know. If I had a piece of metal out here on the end of a boat that wasn't there for anything, well, so what? You see, that just doesn't go anyplace. But if I had an outboard motor on the end of a boat which had the function of pushing the boat, I'd take some care of it. But this piece of metal I'm liable to just totally neglect. In other words, function does monitor structure, even visibly here, in the society.

The function of a car is to run. A car that doesn't run winds up in the junk heap. We don't have any more to do with it. See? Its function monitored its continuance.

And yet they think in a human being this whole thing is flipped, and that the human being's mind or thought or functioningness is monitored by his body. The human — the laws that apply to automobiles do not apply to human beings, in other words. The laws that apply everywhere in the world to everything and all of man's works as we observe them, no longer applies to man. That doesn't seem to me reasonable.

In a man, function monitors structure and thought monitors function. We just go up a little higher, and then we enter into a games condition — purposes, various things of this character. Well, now as the individual sits there and faces the auditor, he is actually being asked to face a function rather than a mass, at first. It's quite interesting, but because the auditor has planted some mass there, he cannot face the mass — the preclear cannot face the mass — and therefore does not face the auditor's function.

Now, there are probably ten thousand, eight hundred and sixty-two and a half ways of getting over this point. But if you don't know that it's there and don't know that it's a point, you won't bother to dispose of it. And yet it is what holds up the whole of processing.

I only know two things that suspend processing utterly. I only know two things which, if omitted, will totally wreck the works. Other things, one by one, can be omitted, skimped, forgotten about, and we still get something done. But these two things must never be omitted. And one of these things is, of course, "find the auditor."

The other one is the PT problem. If we omit to clear a present time problem, the auditor has a preclear who thinks he should be elsewhere doing something else, which is, of course, impulsive and dispersed. Right? So running a PT problem is in the interest of getting the preclear back into the session. Isn't it?

Well, similarly, finding the auditor is a function in the direction of getting the pc into session, too. But the PT problem, cleared, may or may not be therapeutic. But the auditor, found, at once becomes therapeutic, sweepingly and overwhelmingly because it's the beginning of a third dynamic for the preclear. It's a big gain.

Actually, a preclear probably goes right on through to the end of his intensive finding the auditor. But some edge has to begin it. There must be some start for this, and without a start it never gets anywhere. It is not something that takes place automatically. And if you put it on automatic every time you audit a preclear, every session, you're sooner or later going to come to grief with the preclear. That's all.

So as we look up the line we find, amazingly enough, that everything aside and theory aside and everything else aside, we find the ages support us, we find tremendous material here for confirmation of this fact, and we discover that the auditor conies first as a discovery point for the preclear.

Now, it isn't for just this reason that an auditor is always senior to a preclear — not for just this reason. He's actually data-senior and he's capability-senior, too. But the session can't even go on without an auditor. I mean, why — why sit there for eight hundred and ninety-five hours? If you don't start this thing happening, it'll never happen.

Now, the communication formula supports many things. It supports ARC and it supports all sorts of things. Your drills, TR 0 to 10 — all of these drills — Comm Course and Upper Indoc drills, simply smooth out the communication. And all of these things are supportive to the existence of an auditor. Aren't they? And they make a session continue to run smoothly; and they continue it in a third dynamic activity. They do a lot of other things, but they for sure keep the auditor found. Don't they?

And don't think you aren't actually entered a little bit into the days of the witch doctor with a gourd rattle. Because a lot of preclears will not be able to figure out how you can go on being so nice, polite; keeping a comfortable easy posture; keeping yourself in a cheerful state of mind with regard to them and going on being efficient, being effective, and they're screaming and howling and being critical, and all this sort of thing. And even old preclears or old auditors being audited will sometimes be rather amazed. They were chopping hell out of you during the session sometime or another, and they wind up the session being a little bit overwhelmed by the idea that you took it so calmly. And they wonder, "Well, I'm very sorry. Didn't I upset you?" They're trying to upset this, see? No, they didn't upset a good auditor; a good auditor knows his business. It is a rather awe-inspiring discipline to a preclear. He couldn't do it, unless he's another professional auditor being audited. He could not do it. That is all.

Although we can, with these drills — they're so carefully developed and isolated and so on — we can take these on a gradient scale, and aided and abetted with auditing, why, an auditor can get there. And he can do these things, and it doesn't tear his head off. As a matter of fact, he usually eventually finds it easier to do than to run a sloppy session. That's kind of rough. That's something he'd say, "Well, now how would you go about running a sloppy session?" Because it's too easy to do it simply. But it's impressive, is all I'm getting around to. And you probably have never looked at it before as very impressive. It is.

Any time you start to slop around and say, "Well, you sure it's all right with me if we end the session? I mean, you — you sure — you sure it's all right with you if we do this? I mean, it's all right, isn't it? Isn't it, huh?" Exercising good control, you know? You can do something like that, and you can cost the preclear his stable datum in the session, which is the auditor, and he'll come downscale again. You watch him, watch that tone handle go down after you've pulled a blunder.

You know the fastest reducer of tone in a session? You watch the E-Meter: Lose the auditor. The auditor says, "In front of that body mock up an allihippodile and keep it from going away. Did you? Thank you. In front of that body mock up an allihippodile and keep it from going away. Did you? Thank you. In front — I mean — huh, I'm sorry — I mean, in back of that body, huh. I — I made a little mistake, you don't mind, do you?" and so on. Well, watch that needle, watch that tone arm — made a mistake.

Preclear had him all set up as being somebody seated on the left hand of god and totally impervious and able to barge through even the preclear's engrams, and the preclear is impressed at the fact that his engrams are really beefy. And all of a sudden the auditor made a mistake. He said the same command twice, and then, only then found out about it. See, he's in the same position with regard to the body, he upset the whole routine and so forth. You watch that tone handle come down.

Or the auditor turns around and attacks the preclear rather than the preclear's aberration. Then you really see that thing drop.

Man, I've seen a tone arm go from straight up to eight o'clock — twelve o'clock down to eight o'clock just on one fancied invalidation. Fancied! Didn't even exist.

Well, if that is the most potent way to reduce somebody's tone, don't you suppose there's a possibility that it's the most potent way to improve somebody's tone? Only, of course, you were all raised in America, and you have to wipe yourself out and be socially polite in order to live in this country. Let's not stand up and say, "I am" at any time — not done.

England, you can stand up any time you want to and say you are, if you use the proper social forms for doing so. You could say, "I'm awfully sorry, fellows, but you know, I am, you know." And they'll say, "Quite!" You can do it. You can get away with it.

You can't over here. You raise your little finger and whop! Off goes your head. It's a country which isn't very far out of a frontier state, and its manners sometimes reflect it. No great criticism of America, it happens to be factual — sudden and savage with regard to the individual. America is just hand in glove with this cult of the personality thing. I don't think America has ever had a hero she didn't kill. I don't care who it was, they killed him sooner or later. You know they teach little kids in school about this horrible beast, Benedict Arnold. You should see what one of his contemporaries wrote about him — not in defense of Benedict Arnold, it happens to be the only real authentic life of George Washington we have — it was written by Washington Irving. And you ought to see in those four volumes what he says about Benedict Arnold. Boy, we would have been a gone dog if Benedict Arnold hadn't been a general in some of the earlier battles that were fought in the American Revolution.

It's interesting, by the way, in looking that over, that you can see in that history an engram: He was wounded. This man was wounded and was pursued all during a battle he was attempting to fight in order to court-martial him. And as soon as he had won the battle a court-martial was convened. All of this under the duress of wounds and exhaustion. It's very, very fascinating. I mean, Washington Irving's history, there, gives us the total engram.

Oh, I'm not saying this gives anybody an opportunity to do so. I'm not condoning any action Benedict Arnold ever made. But I will say that it's rather interesting: The career the man led, the brilliance of his career, and he is met at every turn with more confounded nonsense than you could shake a stick at. He was just fascinatingly nagged. When he got out of this battle, which was the battle which kept the British forces from joining and so overwhelmping New England and so on — Saratoga — when he finally won this battle, he was, as I say, court-martialed. He came down to Philadelphia and tried to collect his accounts. Generals in those days paid their troops and then got paid back. And nobody would pass on his accounts. He was being dogged by creditors, he was still sick, he couldn't walk. You get the idea?

And all of this chain of engrams finally resulted in him going back to the British, to whom he had been a turncoat. (Everybody forgets that one, see?) And he sold out. He didn't even make the grade. He wasn't even a good traitor. He was a good general but a very bad traitor. All right.

Now, here is a case of somebody losing a stable datum. He evidently thought he was fighting for something, but this something was not well established or long continued. And when it wiped out, why, he simply reverted to the earlier stable datum, which was the British Crown — which is quite interesting. All right.

Now, an auditor in handling a preclear actually finds the preclear terrifically eager to give him cooperation and loyalty. The preclear, you understand — not the aberrated bank and so forth. This is a new hope. And if he then is led directly to finding that hope, and if that hope, the auditor, by his conduct and actions then continues to sustain that gain, you get a very fast run. Rapid. As long as "find the auditor" has been successfully accomplished and is increased and improved all the way through the intensive.

But if we get it up here just so high, and we build the person's hopes very high and then we drop the ashtray and let the E-Meter fall on top of it, the preclear conceives out of this we're striking at him or something. If we start to invalidate his data, disobey the Auditor's Code one way or the other, chop him up, all of a sudden his gain is slowed down.

As far as I could tell, this is the basic monitoring factor on boil-off. Preclears only boil off as long as something has dimmed down on an auditor. I've tested this, by the way, and I found out I could keep a preclear awake by making him find the auditor. I could keep him alert and keep him rising in tone without boiling off as long as I kept the auditor in sight. "Did I do something wrong?" is simply one trick of a thousand. Preclear starts to dope off, well, there's something — breakdown in ARC, something has happened there. "Did I do something wrong? You sure I didn't do something wrong four or five minutes ago?" Get him to search the track around there. And all of a sudden, he says, "Oh," he says, "yeah, well, I — you just haven't said 'thank you' for the last twenty commands." You have, but he didn't hear them, and you didn't punch the acknowledgment in.

Now, after we look all of this over and after we view this fact that in America, particularly, we mustn't assert ourselves — we get Indian arrows through the skull or Congressional bills in the hip pocket — something happens. We particularly, here, have a little bridge to cross that we'd sure as the devil better cross. You go on being socially effacive, effacing yourself as you do socially, in an auditing session and you'll be one of these two-hundred-and-seventy-five hour average clearing auditors. See?

That doesn't mean that you've got to jump down the preclear's throat, because that's just overemphasis in the other direction. Until you're willing to be an auditor and act as forcefully and directly as an auditor should, then there's no auditor there to find. And withdrawing from, flinching away from the session, not taking total responsibility for what's going on in that session, thinking we now have to talk quietly because we might disturb the preclear: We've just cost him an auditor. And I've already told you that's the deepest dive on the needle on an E-Meter.

If you don't believe me and you got a little time sometime — not in this Unit — but if you got a little time sometime along the line, try it. Try it. Preclear is getting along fine, tone is rising very nicely, just say to him, "You know, looking at this meter I realize that all of this junk you've been handing me is totally fraudulent. I've been sitting here laughing at you for hours."

Well, if you can get him back in the session, you might be able to get him on the bottom of the meter, providing it's a new meter and has a lower range.

Now, it's an odd thing that your skill actually includes a total patch-up of just that. Interesting, isn't it?

So we get down to this horrible fundamental, a horrible fundamental, the like of which one never heard of. The training drills won't do it for you. They only make it possible for you to familiarize yourself with doing it to a point where you can do it. And after that, you're doing it. Scientology didn't build a thetan that is auditing the preclear. It did not build you. You are, admittedly, considerably aided and abetted, and you possibly would not be able to do what you're doing without Scientology, but that does not wipe out you. You get the idea?

An auditor is always senior to a pattern or organization of thought; he better had continue to be. And he's always senior to a preclear, and he certainly better be. And he is always senior to a Clear. Of course you get a cleared auditor, you got somebody — you got a cross between a werewolf and a tiger. But that's beside the point.

You could take a dead-in-his-head black V auditor who could do a good job of auditing, he'd still be senior to a Clear. Don't think he wouldn't be.

So the importance of the auditor is something that mustn't particularly be pumped up with a bicycle pump or something of the sort. It requires a certain poise in you, a certain willingness to be; it requires a lot of things that you could blame it on, but the point is that if you're not there to be found, no auditing takes place.

And actually, I've — practically in its totality — have talked to you about control just now, in this last hour. And that's it. Control is only an assurance of the seniority of the auditor to the session. That's all it is. It has a lot of mechanics and there's lots of reasons and rationale and so forth, but the point is, it continues to make the preclear thoroughly aware of the fact that he has an auditor, which gives him a stable datum. And if he has a stable datum he will rise.

Now, you are aware of the fact, of course, that a stable datum and a confusion are the two anatomies of energy pattern. That is to say, there are these two things in an energy pattern — makes — a better statement on that, the total anatomy of any energy pattern is made up of stable data, stable particles, stable masses, or confused particles, confused masses or both. But when you have both, it takes — not only takes a stable datum to orient a confusion — funny part of it is, the stable datum and its very existence is necessary to see the confusion. Confusions only settle out as themselves in the presence of a stable datum.

This is so sweepingly important in the field of energy masses that an auditor, by going to the door and seeing who is there — doorbell rang during the session and he went to the door to see who was there — all of a sudden the preclear's field goes into motion the moment he goes over to the door. Why? He's a little bit too far away to be a stable datum. Preclear knows he isn't a stable datum — that's why he's there. He's trying to arrive at the point of stable datum. You see that? So after you've found the preclear, you've got to have an auditor there for him to find. And if that auditor doesn't continue to be an auditor, doesn't continue to control the session (which is just another method of being there), doesn't get the preclear totally apprised to the existence — those cases which lie on the upper left bottom of the graph, particularly "Nervous and Dispersed," will continue to lie there for the next five thousand hours of auditing until somebody comes along and says, "I'm the auditor." And immediately they say, "Well, what do you know!" and begin to improve. Do you understand me?

Male voice: Yes.

I'm not trying to glorify the auditor. All we're trying to do is get some auditing done. But you're my friends, and you'll forgive me if I glorify you a little.

Thank you.