I want to give you a talk and indoctrination on the use of a psychogalvanometer.

Anyone who pretends to a knowledge of auditing should also at least pretend to a knowledge of how to use one of these machines. This machine is a small edition of those machines employed by police departments and which they call "lie detectors," The difference between this machine and a police department machine is elementary: a police department machine is just more of it.

A police department machine measures respiration, blood pressure, normally electronic impulse. They measure maybe as many as four or five factors. The point is, this machine measures solely the electrical resistance of the body.

The electrical resistance of the body rises and falls in direct ratio to the amount of resistance a person is giving to his facsimiles. In other words, here is the individual. [marking on blackboard] The mind is acting upon a physical organism. This physical organism can have piped through it a very thin current of electricity.

Now, the mind does not have any such current running through it. This is merely the brain structure, the switchboard. This would be like measuring what is said over a telephone by measuring the current going across a telephone line. You see that an operator would not have the machine on him - the actual operator would not have the machine on him. What the operator would be doing would be talking into, or giving forth speech into a switchboard system.

Now, you could measure this switchboard system and get some vague approximation of how this person felt about what he was talking about because he might talk with heavy stress, with anger; might talk apathetically and might, in short, produce various electrical impulses on the speaker of the telephone,

In such a way, the mind is monitoring the switchboard system of the body. And by piping a small current through the switchboard system of the body, you can find out what facsimiles are being impressed upon the body and how much emotional charge or stress there is on these facsimiles. At no time does this electrical current go through the mind. It does not pass through the facsimiles. It passes through the neurons, which are being monitored by the facsimiles, just as the machine is not attached to the operator talking through the switchboard, but is attached to the switchboard. In other words, this is an electrical-response mechanism for the measurement of the physical body's reaction to its thoughts.

Now, oddly enough, a person's thoughts alter and shift below the level of his consciousness because a person has so constituted his facsimiles or his mind as to produce in them barriers. There are things which he does not think he wants to know, things of which he does not want to be guilty, things of which he wishes no concourse with these items at all, and so he drops a barrier between what he has constituted his analytical mind and this bank of data.

Now, actually, every death a person dies is such a barrier. Death is not unlike an electric shock of great magnitude. The physical body goes into a convulsion on death - death is quite a shock and has a tendency to put a barrier in front of that bank of data and so walls it off. The person believes that if he remembers anything about the life, he will get the pain of the death. It's not so. And where it is so, it's only because of Facsimile One.

Actually, it's no reason why you couldn't remember all the way back down through all the years that you have ever lived, And as a matter of fact, with a relatively small amount of auditing, you will be able to do so.

This machine, however, and the facsimiles themselves do not happen to care about the barriers. These facsimiles will shift and rearrange and influence the body without the awareness of the individual, in his mind - without that awareness knowing what is shifting.

The mind plays a little game with itself. It says, "I'm not going to let my little right hand know what my left hand is doing," Well, this machine will tell you, when he has his right hand out in plain sight, what he's doing with his left.

The value and virtue of this machine is that it actually and accurately locates the incidents on a case through all the spans of generations of the individual by demonstrating to you which incident is charged and which one is not charged.

As an auditor, you don't have at this moment the electrical sensitivity necessary to look at the other organism or touch the other organism and feel accurately what is going on back of the barrier. As minds at this time, you do not have under good usage, most of you - in fact, all of you here unless you've been very well swamped up - the potential of suddenly taking ahold of the other person's mind and examining the facsimiles like you'd sort through a deck of cards.

Lacking these two abilities, dependence upon an electronic bit of machinery is definitely indicated. You could actually audit and audit and audit and audit a preclear without contacting the item necessary to resolve his case. You could waste a factor of five to one hours of auditing if you did not use this machine.

And the reason why is contained in some of the researches of Mathison, who built this machine. Mathison hooked up several series of auditor/co-auditor - as co-auditing teams - hooked each member of the team to one machine. That's two machines: there's the auditor and there's the preclear; each one is hooked to a different machine, He selected, particularly, cases which had bogged down and which had left Dianetics, and got them back with their auditor and then tested them to find out why these cases had stopped therapy. And he found in each and every case it was because the auditor was trying to audit out of the preclear what should have been audited out of the auditor. He would watch these two machines and he would ask the preclear what had been audited on him, and then turn around and ask the auditor what should be audited on him.

[footnote in R&D 10 - Mathison: Volney Mathison, an early Dianeticist who, after listening to a lecture by L. Ron Hubbard outlining the equipment and circuits necessary to detect mental charge, built the first E-Meter, the Model B, in 1951. There were various other models of E-Meters built by Mathison which were used by auditors. The E-Series in 1954 was his last model as his meters had become too complex to be workable.]

And the auditor every time had been laboriously beating away at the preclear trying to make the preclear recover and reduce incidents which should have been reduced in the auditor. And so these cases left processing. These cases failed.

Now, that is a mechanism which, in an individual who is not yet Clear, is certain to take place - certain to take place. This machine makes it impossible for it to take place. If you put your preclear on this psychometer and ask him what should be audited and ask him various questions as contained on a galvanometric test sheet - as is composed here at Hubbard College - you will discover what should be audited.

Now, you will find quite often that you cannot get Facsimile One for the simple reason that there are too many overt acts. You'll find out you can't get - even get into the lock chain of Facsimile One because of present time situations. And the machine will tell you this quickly, and it will also tell you the moment that the earliest engram that you can run will show up.

If you get a very large charge on an overt act, you're not going to get much charge on an earlier incident such as Facsimile One. After you've gotten that overt act off the case, you will then get charge on Facsimile One. That's because too many barriers have been erected and the machine is not reading back to the earliest barrier; neither will the person's mind read back to that earliest barrier or back of it.

So we get this mechanism: We have a chain of twelve similar incidents containing heavy effort and counter-effort, And the first time we look at the case, we only find one incident, number twelve, unsuspecting that there are eleven earlier incidents.

We audit out the twelfth, which we think is the only, and we audit it out thoroughly. And the preclear doesn't experience any recovery and the incident was very hard to audit. In the absence of a machine, why, we might never suspect that there were eleven earlier incidents just like it.

All you should have done with that incident you first recovered was to run it through a couple of times so you could find the eleventh, and find the eleventh and handle it just long enough to get the eighth, and handle the eighth just long enough so that you could get the fifth, and handle the fifth and run it long enough so you can get back to the second, and run the second enough so that he drops into the first. And then you audit out the first thoroughly, and the eleven incidents above the first incident blow.

Now, that, in short, is an ordinary procedure in auditing, And this machine tells you what incident is on top at the moment - at the moment.

And if you get a large charge on an incident that seems to be relatively irrelevant, believe me, that incident is borrowing its charge from earlier incidents. And yet those earlier incidents may not be clearly exposed to view yet. So you audit off this heavily charged incident and in such a wise, bare to view the earlier incidents. And so go right on through the case. This machine will pilot the case for you. And the piloting of the case is the only reason in the past why auditors consistently failed.

Many auditors failed consistently and the only reason they failed was because they were not piloting, assessing, inventorying properly.

In the medical field this is called diagnosis. Any medical doctor can tell you that there are many practitioners, but very, very few diagnosticians. A good diagnostician is worth all the jewels of the Indies in the medical profession. And yet a diagnostician has to depend, to a large degree, upon something like - well, maybe even his psychic sense.

Old Doc Pottenger, the greatest tuberculosis expert in the United States, diagnoses by laying on his hands. This man never fails to locate a case. He doesn't use x-rays, he doesn't use anything. Somebody walks into his office and says, "Do I have TB?" And he pats him on the chest, "Hm?" he says, "No, you've got a long time yet." How does he do it?

Well, a large assembly of doctors one time had old Doc Pottenger up on the stage in front of them. And they lined up twenty-seven patients, I think it was, and these twenty-seven patients were supposed to be diagnosed by old Doc Pottenger. And some of them had TB in advanced stages, and some of them had TB in arrested stages, and some of them had it in just beginning stages and some of them didn't have it at all. And an audience of many hundred doctors sat there and watched old Doc Pottenger go straight down the line, tap them on the chest, lay on his hands and say, "This is the condition of this patient," And he was right, X-ray machines, laborious diagnosis afterwards, said that he was right.

But you understand that other doctors treating tuberculosis do not have this facility. Somehow or other they don't have it. Now, you would not expect a doctor, without this facility lying to hand, never to use an x-ray machine so long as x-ray machines were in existence. You wouldn't expect him to just take a hit-or-miss shot into the blue and say, "This person has tuberculosis, this person doesn't have tuberculosis" No. No, he'd send them down to the x-ray lab - he'd make sure. That x-ray machine in the majority of cases will show up tuberculosis in its various stages.

Well, this will show you incidents in its various stages. And as long as you guess, you are liable to this: that you will diagnose the preclear as you ought to be diagnosed. I know doctors, by the way, who are treating all of their patients for their own disease. Don't do that!

This takes it out of the category of guess. Even though it does, however, a certain expertness - a mechanical expertness - has to be learned about this machine. This machine does not automatically and immediately tell you or tell an operator who knows nothing about it, what's wrong with a case. You have to know how to run it. And this machine has peculiarities.

From machine to machine, as in any electronic equipment, you have individualities. And for various reasons, when you get your machine, take very, very good care of it and don't let other people use it. And use just that machine, and learn its characteristics and learn to operate it by experience. There's lots you can do with it. You can bring in your wife and say, "Dear, I'd like to diagnose your case. We're going back into earlier lives," and so forth. And then suddenly say to her, "Uh, were you out with a man last night?" The machine bops - there you are. (audience laughter)

This machine is also a "lie detector," completely in addition to being a diagnostic instrument, But oddly enough, in spite of the good work that Mathison put in on this machine to adapt it to Dianetic and Scientological use, in spite of that, the machine had relatively little use in comparison to its use now, because huge-charge incidents were unknown in Scientology and Dianetics. In Dianetics particularly, there were no hugely charged incidents.

So this machine, set up very sensitively, would fall maybe two, three points. A preclear can make it fall two or three points by breathing fast. He can take a deep breath and alter the machine to that degree. But with present incidents and the machine properly set, this machine will drop dials' worth on the incidents which we are looking for and which we are running. It will drop the width of the dial and drop the width of the dial again, and drop the width of the dial yet again and again and again if an incident is really there and ready to be run and the incident you ought to be running.

There are various incidents which show up this way. What we call the Helper, which is the mitosis at the beginning of an evolutionary track. Now, this mitosis is a splitting of the body and is quite ordinarily heavily charged. There's the Boohoo: a little animal which when it came out of the sea was having a hard time adjusting itself to an environment or making the environment adjust to it, and it had to pump out salt water and so all of your grief blocks and sobbings and so on of the human being are traced back to this Boohoo, as you might call it.

Now, their overt acts in particular show up on this machine. "Did you ever kill a woman?" "Did you ever kill a man?" "Did you ever kill a child?" "Did you ever kill an animal?" "Did you ever sin against a group?" "Did you ever do this?" "Did you ever do that?" - long series of questions will demonstrate an overt act on this machine. Finally you'll hit the act that ought to be run and you'll get dials' worth of turn on the machine. So that's what you're looking for.

The expertness of asking questions demanded is not very high. But the care of this machine is something in which you should interest yourselves. Just as you would not go out, jump in an automobile, put the gear shift into high, step off the clutch suddenly with the motor roaring and expect to leave a clutch in the car and have the car do anything, so you would never turn on this machine until you had the preclear with his hands on the cans and settled down. In other words, leave the machine off until you have your preclear set up, and then turn the machine on and then let it warm up and then adjust it. Because your preclear's liable to knock those cans together. He's liable to knock two things together and short-circuit the machine and drive this needle over against a pin. And it's a wonder that these machines don't blow out more often than they do. And all of a sudden you'll have a dead machine on your hands, completely aside from the fact that you will have hurt the accuracy of the machine thereafter.

So, what you do is fix up your preclear with everything off here - leave it off. Put the two holders in the preclear's hands and then turn the machine on slowly from the bottom. This saves you from shorting the machine out. Just as you would not put your hand into an electric fan, and about that order of importance, don't put the cans in a preclear's hands with the machine on or lighted.

Now, most preclears are fairly calm on this machine, but you will get a few who are nervous. Instead of getting machine reaction, when you ask them a question that is particularly warm they will start to throw their hands around and scratch their nose and change their position in the chair - this is almost as good as the machine reading, because this - they know this machine will tell on them. That's why they're so nervous.

And so Mathison developed something brand-new with these machines: he developed a rubber glove. It's a big mitt and you put the terminals in the preclear's hands and then put a rubber mitt on one hand. It's a big mitt and it goes over the electrode and it goes over the wire and everything else, and you just put this on.

Now he can play patty-cake with the cans and he can wipe his nose and he can squirm and wave at somebody going by and reach for cigarettes and do all sorts of things without changing the needle to such an extent the needle will be damaged.

By the way, the needle will still change if he keeps waving around and giving you a semaphore code with these cans instead of just letting you read it on the needle.

Therefore, you should interest yourself in this mitt, Because, believe me, about one out of four preclears will constantly bang these cans together - constantly bang the electrodes together - and any preclear you put on the machine, at one time or another, will actually put the terminals together. He will do it. Anyone will do it. He picks up the cans, the machine is on. Bang! Over goes your needle. He tries to pick up the cans with one hand, a perfectly natural reaction.

So instead of going through these agonies, when your machine is out of use, have it off. And when he picks up the terminals and has them apart, and you put on the rubber mitt, turn the machine on. Then he can't hurt the machine. And before he lays down the cans, or the terminals, turn the machine off. Even if it's a pause for a cigarette. Just turn your machine off, that's all. After all, it's going to save the tubes, too. Now, this machine is the latest machine out. I'm going to ask him to put this machine in a gray case.

I was working with the machine this afternoon - it has an increased scale. The old machine unfortunately did not have the capability of reading people who had been shot up the Tone Scale. As a matter of fact, the old machine read a "normal" very, very well, and the second that he started to go up to 0.5 - above normal - of course, the machine went off the scale. That's exaggerating, but it was a fairly narrow band.

That machine, by the way, to anybody who has one, can be adapted rather simply by any electronics man. You just put a second stage in it - and he'll know what you're talking about - so the machine will read with even less resistance.

Now, this machine may or may not tell you by numbers the actual tone of the individual. It'll tell you fairly close if it's properly set. You, as an auditor, in operating this machine though, are going to find that you're - will know pretty well after you've run a few people over it - you'll know pretty well what you're measuring. You don't have to read these numbers to find out because an awful lot of preclears will have the range expander over here way down to there, and this is way down here, and in order to get him on the thing at all, you will have the sensitivity increase barely on, and then you can get him on the meter. They're off the bottom side that low. That person is in apathy. From apathy up to about 1.0 - very, very low.

All right. The whole assembly inside there is actually nothing more than a Wheatstone bridge. It is calibrated to measure the relative resistances, or lack of resistances, of a very small current of electricity which is passing through the body.

Now, actually, a current of electricity - very faint current of electricity - comes out and goes into one hand of the preclear, travels through his body, comes out the other hand of the preclear and comes back to the machine. And that trickle of electricity is shut off or unimpeded, relatively, by what the person is thinking about. In other words, the facsimile cuts in, affects the physical organism, that monitors that stream of electricity and here you read it on a dial - you read this on a dial.

Now, as that dial moves, it will tell you whether a person enjoys the thought of something or dislikes the thought of something. And if something gives him a very good feeling, if he feels very good about something that you ask him, you will see that you get an increase on the scale. And if he doesn't feel very good about something, you will get a decrease on this dial.

Now, it is marked in terms of falling and rising. Some of the old machines are in reverse to this dial, but you can see very readily which way it's going, And, furthermore, you actually don't care too much because nobody gets remarkable upward surges the way they get downward surges, particularly for the incidents you're asking for.

We're not interested in what will make the preclear's tone go up so much as we're interested in what will make it go down markedly so we can audit that out, because it's pinning down his whole tone. We use this machine, then, to measure (I) the tone of the preclear - relative - not accurately too much on the Tone Scale, but as a check; and (2) we use it to find out what incident we should audit next; (3) we can use the machine to straightwire the preclear - that is, ask him questions and actually break locks. And you'll see the hot subjects on the case on the dial, and you'll see the locks break as the needle flashes. Very simple. And (4) you can use the machine to find out whether or not he's telling you the truth. Because you'll get remarkable jumps on the machine when he lies to you. It takes quite a lot of effort to lie, and as a result the lie gives you much the same appearance as an emotional charge.

You will notice as a preclear touches the terminals that the machine can be made to vary. If you were to use flexible terminals, cans, something of that character, you'll find out that squeezing them will cause a change in the needle - a sudden squeeze. If the preclear moves his thumbs over the surface of the can, you get a sudden squeeze. Good terminals are to a large degree the solution of this. There's evidently more conductivity in the fingers than there is in the palm, so that the machine will vary more on the variation of fingers than the palm.

The way this machine is turned on is very simple. You reach over here to the sensitivity increase knob and it should be pointing to "off," The preclear at this time has the terminals in his hands and they have been adjusted and arranged on him before you turn the machine on. Now you turn the machine on till it clicks - just a click. Now the machine is on, that is to say, it is warming. It takes a moment or two for it to warm.

By the way, there is no real saving of time in having the machine on and then giving it to the preclear - giving the terminals to the preclear - because the preclear has to warm the terminals, and the machine reading will change either by having the machine warmed up or by having the terminals warmed up. So you could warm up the terminals first or you could warm up the machine first. Either way is going to take you the same amount of time, so don't think that you're saving any time by leaving the machine on, because the terminals always have to warm up to his body temperature,

Now, this sensitivity increase knob should be carried about a quarter of a turn up, so you bring it about a quarter of a turn up. Now just for experimental sake, because this machine has to be set different for every preclear you have, turn that sensitivity increase knob up to horizontal with - as you face the machine - the needle pointing to the left. That is to say the pointer on this sensitivity increase knob pointing to the left.

Now, you look just to the left of the sensitivity increase knob and you see another knob on the modern machine - this knob is absent on the earlier machines - and this knob reads "CORTICAL BLOCKAGE INDICATOR: Use.only when other controls are fully advanced." Now, you leave that knob off. You just leave it as it is. I'I1 turn it on for you just to show you what happens. You just turn it on and you get a red light there. That puts the machine up on an upper range of sensitivity.

Now you get over here to the range expander. The range expander is designed to be carried straight up at neutral. So you come over here to this range expander and you move it up to neutral. Now we find out that your range expander has been moved up and the machine has moved all the way across the dial. Now you want this needle to carry between ten and forty on this machine. Set it somewhere between ten and forty And here it is with your range expander setting it clear over here to a hundred.

Commentator: As the range expander moved into the neutral position the needle moved completely to the right.

LRH: Well, that just means that the preclear who is now holding these cans is good, high Tone Scale. He's well up the Tone Scale.

So what do you do about this?

We look up here and we find that this tone lever on the face of the machine up here says tone rising, falling - the one which has 2,0 at its top, 2,5 all the way over to the right, 1.5 all the way over to the left. We bring this thing all the way back to 1.5 and we find that it still doesn't come off a hundred. The machine, then, is reading clear up on the top of the dial. Now, what do we do to get this preclear on the machine? He's above the machine at this point. Well, there's two or three things that we can do, but the right thing to do is to reach over here and pull this tone all the way back to 1.5. He's not on the top of the dial, the next thing to do is pull back the range expander, regardless of what it says.

Commentator: The needle is now moving to the left as Mr. Hubbard moves the range expander to the left.

LRH: Pull back this range expander back here to its medium point between minus 2.5 and neutral.

Commentator: Needle is now centered.

LRH: Now this machine, by the way, is not telling anybody at this moment what his tone is. But you, by experience and by operation, know that when you've done this you simply have a preclear who is above scale. Preclear is above scale. All right. Now, it's necessary, then, somehow or other, to get him on the Tone Scale. All right, let's take this cortical blockage indicator and let's swing it on. Now let's see if we can get him up here.

Commentator: The needle has gone clear to the right.

LRH: Nope, we can't. So let's bring back here, range expander, neutral. Lets bring it back well over to here and set the machine lower with the range expander.

Commentator: With the upper range now on, needle is now positioned just to the left of center.

LRH: But we still have no latitude here with this upper-tone indicator so that we bring it over toward center, the machine goes down again. So we have to bring this range expander lower to bring this up higher. Range expander lower, this up higher - we're centering the machine.

Commentator: The needle is now just to the right of center.

LRH: You will operate this machine by alternating between the range expander and the tone handle. These three lower things we call knobs. The upper one, let's call it a handle. And that makes it rather easy to understand.

Now, let's ask this preclear a question. "Do you beat your wife?"

PC: Not much.

LRH: Not much.

Commentator: Needle is rising.

LRH: Now, what are we getting a tone rise on there for? Are you married?

PC: No.

LRH: Have you ever been married?

PC: Twice.

LRH: Oh, you've been twice married.

PC: Yeah.

LRH: Did you ever beat either wife, by the way?

Commentator: Needle is full against the right side of the dial.

PC: Very little.

LRH: Very little, huh? Machine is back up here too high again, so, as an operator, I have to bring the machine back on. Now I'm taking this handle up here and I'm bringing it back. Hereafter, I will locate the point of the needle with this handle. Now, something might be wrong here, something might be wrong here. This needle might be fluctuating too greatly. So I ask him a question like, "Are you a man?"

Well, are you a man?

PC: Well, naturally.

LRH: Naturally. We're getting a little bit of fluctuation there and the machine is going up a little bit.

Now let me show you something. Let's set this sensitivity increase up higher - set the sensitivity increase up higher until it is center, and now let me ask you: Are you a man?

PC: Naturally.

LRH: Now you notice that sensitivity increase is sitting at what would be, according to a pilot's rating, 10 o'clock on a dial.

Commentator: Needle event home against the right, almost against the right side of the dial and then flipped back and now falling.

LRH: If this was a clock face, this is sitting at about - sensitivity increase is sitting at about 10 o'clock.

And notice the needle is swinging on this business, "Are you a man?" It's swinging very widely. Now, there's obviously very little charge on that. That means that our sensitivity increase was probably properly set. Now, this sensitivity increase button is very sensitive. It is very critical. A little, tiny bit of change on it will make a very wide and marked change on the scale. So let's pull it back down here a little bit and let's ask you, "Did you ever know somebody who wasn't a man?"

Commentator: Needle is now against the left edge of the dial, rising.

PC: Yeah, I reckon.

LRH: Now, we're getting a little tiny bit of change on that. Okay? You evidently never lived in Hollywood. Well…

PC: (laugh)

Commentator: Tone has risen, now rising.

LRH: Now, let's - this machine is set. Did I amuse you?

PC: Yes.

LRH: That remark?

Commentator: It is now centered. The tone control is at about 9 o'clock.

LRH: Pass over the moment you laughed. Pass over the moment I said it. Now watch this machine dial. Go over the moment I said it.

Commentator: The range control is full to the left. Center knob or cortical blockage knob is on.

LRH: Get the moment of surprise when I said it.

Commentator: Sensitivity is at 9 o'clock. The preclear is scanning, needle fluctuating, tone falling and then rising about four points on the dial.

LRH: Go over it again.

PC: Still funny.

LRH: Yeah?

PC: Yeah.

LRH: Still funny. Okay. You finally contacted it. It took you a moment or two to contact it, didn't it, huh?

PC: (laughing) Yeah, I guess so.

LRH: Yeah. You notice this machine is now rising. That means his tone is up on his contact with it. If I had said something which was a shock to him, which shocked him, and he went over it, it'd go down.

Commentator: As Mr. Hubbard talks the needle is centered.

LRH: Now I'll demonstrate. That's all right with you if I …

PC: Oh, anything.

LRH: … if I demonstrate it? Okay?

Commentator: Preclear is not fluctuating.

PC: All for science.

Commentator: Needle is now rising.

LRH: All right. Now, let's get a - let's get a good, solid pinch on here-good, solid pinch.

Commentator: As he is pinched, the needle is now rising.

LRH: What's the machine doing?

Audience: Down. Down.

LRH: Now it's going down?

PC: Mm-hm.

LRH: In other words, he wasn't quite sure what I was doing there, up and down. Now, you felt that effort I was putting in as I pinched your arm? All right, let's run it out. Go back to the moment I pinched it.

Commentator: As the preclear runs out the pinch, the needle is dropping and then rising, fluctuating about three points on the dial.

LRH: Going through it? (pause) Can you feel the pinch? (pause) Get your effort not to be pinched. (pause)

Commentator: As the preclear contacts the effort, the needle fluctuates about two points.

LRH: Get it again: not to be pinched.

Commentator: Needle is now droping as much as five full points on the dial.

LRH: What did you hit at that moment?

PC: Passed me by, if I hit something.

LRH: Well, you got it - the pinch there?

PC: Mm-hm.

LRH: All right, let's run it - through it again.

Commentator: Immediate fluctuation of about three Points falling, falling more. Needle remaining stationary at the bottom of the drop.. Now it's rising.

LRH: You feel a pinch? Get the fingernail dig I did to you. There should be a little somatic on that. Is there?

PC: A little worried, now - there it goes.

Commentator: As the preclear contacts the fingernail dig the needle again drops about four goints.

LRH: Have you got it?

PC: (laughing)

LRH: Okay.

Commentator: And is now giving a full rise to the top band that it rested at at the beginning of this run.

LRH: Let's go over it again.

Commentator: Again a drop of about three points on the dial. This fluctuation of the needle is occurring immediately in the center band - the center band between the two numbers on the center of the dial.

LRH: I don't figure you mind being pinched too much. Here's an example of a facsimile. And by the way, this is a very excellent method of demonstrating to people the reality of these things called facsimiles. Set up this machine and put the terminals in the hands of the preclear, have the machine set up the way it's supposed to be set up and then paste him one.

Commentator: As Mr. Hubbard said, "paste him one" the needle dropped about ten points, and is now rising pretty rapidly.

LRH: People to whom you're demonstrating this machine will see it immediately - I'm not going to.

PC: I don't care. Go ahead.

LRH: They will see immediately that the machine does a dive. It changes. As a matter of fact, if you were to strike him suddenly - let's say in the pit of the stomach with a couple of fingers or something like that - you'd see the machine do quite a change. People have seen the machine change once, so now the next time you ask the preclear to run through the moment he was hit and then finally make him contact the moment he was hit, contact his own thought when he was hit, contact his emotion the moment he was being hit, and in short, run it out. And they will see that he has pulled back the facsimile and is actually running it through. Of course, they may believe it's still contained in the cells or some such thing, but when you ask him this question, "Have you ever lived before?"

PC: No.

Commentator: Needle did a drop of about two points and now coming up very rapidly, approaching the right side of the dial.

LRH: See? You get a shift on it. Obviously the cells couldn't contain charge across life spans, which is, by the way, one of the proofs on the non-wavelength, non-energy content of theta. All right.

& [Ed note: non-wavelength is on the tape but edited out of the R&D transcript]

Be sure you get what I mean when I tell you about this sensitivity increase button. That button can be set so low that the machine doesn't even wobble. The needle doesn't even wobble. It can be set so low. Now, it can be set so high that anything will make the needle wobble. It's up to you to establish for the preclear the point on the machine where you get optimum needle reaction. In other words, where you only get a big show of charge where there is charge. You don't want a whole-dial drop on the machine when you say, "Do you remember the last time you lost your wallet?"

PC: Hm. Been quite a spell.

LRH: Been quite a spell.

PC: Didn't have much money in it anyway.

LRH: Didn't, huh?

Commentator: There's a rise in tone here, approaching twenty points.

LRH: Well now, you see, that's quite a drop. So obviously setting this needle at this sensitivity level, is set just a little bit too high. So I ought to trim it off just a hair, maybe half an hour if that were a clock face.

PC: One thing.

LRH: What?

PC: One thing. When you started asking me if I remembered something, it wasn't a wallet I remembered, but I don't know what it was.

LRH: What was it?

PC: Ah-ha, that's it - what was it?

LRH: What was it that you didn't remember? Is this Facsimile One?

PC: Doubt it.

LRH: You're not supposed to remember?

PC: Well, it's different than that. I'm not afraid of Facsimile One. At least I don't think I am.

LRH: Are you afraid of Facsimile One?

PC: No.

LRH: Were you afraid at the time?

PC: Yes.

LRH: Mm-hm. Have you run the fear out of it?

PC: I run some terror out of something.

LRH: Yeah?

PC: Buckets full.

LRH: Buckets full?

PC: Yeah. Buckets full.

LRH: Feel good since?

PC: Yeah.

LRH: I notice you're pretty well up on this dial here. Well, that's good - that's good. Have you ever used Facsimile One on anyone?

Commentator: The needle reads tension, and not tone.

PC: I wouldn't use it…

LRH: Have you ever used it on anyone? Would you shut off the information from yourself if you've used it on someone?

PC: If I used it on someone, I did shut off the information from myself.

LRH: Yeah. How many times did you use it? Order of magnitude. Tens? Hundreds?

PC: I got fifteen the first time you said anything.

LRH: Fifteen, huh? Used it about fifteen times on people?

PC: Uh-huh.

LRH: Who died? Did anybody die when you used Facsimile One on them?

PC: I almost said everyone I used it on died.

LRH: Everyone. Oh, eventually.

PC: Yeah, eventually (laugh).

LRH: They all died. All right.

[to audience] I notice this needle here, by the way, is swinging just a little bit too little, So I'11 bring back the sensitivity indicator to 9 o'clock, horizontal. Now, you'll sometimes find preclears very anxious to invalidate this machine. They come up and they take a look at the machine, and they say, "Mmmmm-mmm, that thing can tell on me!" And so they go away and they say all sorts of things: "Well, it didn't register." And I had somebody up at the house the other night that was working with this machine, and his wife promptly took the cans away from him and said, "Look dear, the machine varies every time you move your thumbs." So she moved her thumbs all over the surface of the machine. He was not moving his thumbs. But what he was doing was crossing and uncrossing his hands and arms, and every time he did this you'd get a quiver on the machine.

She was very anxious that this machine would not show up something about him, or something about her with regard to him. And she was very anxious for the machine to be wrong. What she overlooked was this fact: A good operator on this machine knows very well whether his preclear is moving his thumbs, moving his fingers, shifting his feet, yawning and so on. And when the preclear does these things, it makes a certain kind of a motion on the machine, an agitated quiver of one sort or another, which he reads as such. He doesn't pay any attention to these shifted thumbs and that sort of thing. They register on the machine. So they register. He doesn't say anything about them, except it tells him every time he asks a question and gets a sudden shift, it says this preclear is agitated about that subject, or is agitated about some related subject. All right, now let's go into this a little more deeply.

[to pc] Did you ever eat any women?

PC: No.

LRH: No?

PC: No.

LRH: Never, huh?

PC: Never.

LRH: Thought doesn't even make you quiver?

Commentator: Preclear's tone is now falling.

PC: Sure it does.

LRH: It does?

PC: Sure.

LRH: Well then, did you ever eat any?

PC: Well, I don't think so.

LRH: Well, did you ever see one eaten?

PC: Yeah.

LRH: Yeah?

Commentator: Falling more rapidly.

LRH: Yeah, so you did.

Commentator: Needle is now about four points from the right side of the dial.

LRH: Okay. How long ago was this?

PC: Quite a spell.

LRH: Million years? (pause) Two million years? Million and a half?

PC: I got "yes".

LRH: On what?

A million and a half.

LRH: Million and a half

PC: Mm-hm.

LRH: Well, the reason I said million and a half is because you quivered both on a million and two million.

PC: Mm-hm.

LRH: And changed on a million and a half.

PC: Changed?

LRH: I mean, the needle …

PC: Oh.

LRH: … that's the needle action.

PC: Oh.

LRH: All right. Now, that sounds like a silly question, but I wonder why everyone has this feeling about cannibalism.

PC: Mm-hm.

LRH: There must have been something in the racial line sometime or other that gives them this jolt about cannibalism. All right. You ever been up in an airplane?

PC: Yeah.

LRH: Scare you?

PC: Yeah.

LRH: So it did.

PC: Still does.

LRH: Still does, huh?

PC: Yeah.

LRH: Okay.

Commentator: Needle is rising almost to the pin on the right side of the dial.

LRH: You don't like these airplanes.

PC: I like them, but I - and I'd like to …

LRH: Well, is this falling sensation fixed on an earlier incident?

PC: It's not the falling.

LRH: What is it? Fear of falling? What is it?

PC: No, it seems like the engine is going to explode.

LRH: Oh, the engine is going to explode!

PC: Yeah.

LRH: Uh-huh. Would you say the motor - the motor noise?

Commentator: Mr. Hubbard has now moved the needle into the center of the dial by adjusting the tone control, and it is now at about 8 o'clock.

PC: Well, it seems like the engine is laboring too hard.

LRH: Laboring too hard…

PC: Yeah.

LRH: … and it's liable to explode?

PC: Mm-hm.

LRH: Is this in Facsimile One?

PC: I've wondered about that. Is it? I don't know.

LRH: You don't know.

PC: Probably is.

LRH: Is it in Facsimile One?

PC: Well, there's noise in Facsimile One.

Commentator: Preclear's tone is dropping. Moving - needle moving to the right as this gentleman discusses Facsimile One.

LRH: That's right. Is it like an engine noise?

PC: Well, I figure there's some kind …

LRH: Did you ever have an engine explode on you?

PC: Not lately.

LRH: Some past life, did an engine explode on you?

PC: Well, maybe. Yeah, I guess so.

LRH: Some kind of a steam engine, maybe?

PC: Nah. Steam? About have to be, wouldn't it?

LRH: Oh, I don't know. Might have been a rocket engine.

PC: Yeah, it might have been.

LRH: Might have been.

Commentator: Needle is moving to the left, indicating a rising tone.

LRH: Okay. I don't think you're very worried about it, though, are you?

PC: Well, I'd like to solve it, that's all …

LRH: You would?

PC: … so I wouldn't be afraid up in an airplane.

LRH: Mm-hm. That's very bad. Has the fear of falling got anything to do with it?

PC: Oh, slightly I wouldn't - if the engines exploded that's what would happen - l'd fall.

LRH: Mm-hm.

PC: Wouldn't like that.

LRH: Did you ever run the Boohoo?

PC: Some, yeah.

LRH: This little gimmick that comes out of the waves. Was there any charge on it?

PC: Well, I got quite a line charge on it.

LRH: Got a line charge on it, did you?

PC: Yeah.

LRH: How about the Helper?

PC: Well, I didn't get through it somehow or other.

Commentator: The needle moved towards the left, a rising tone on the discussion of Boohoo.

LRH: Didn't get through it? What's the matter with this splitting?

PC: Well, it wouldn't resolve for some reason or other.

Commentator: Dropped about two points on the discussion of Helper.

LRH: By the way, were you ever rejected from some society or other and sent down to earth?

PC: I expect so. Weren't we all?

Commentator: Needle is waving and starting to move towards the right as they talk about rejection.

LRH: Yeah, but do you recall anything about this?

PC: Offhand, no.

LRH: Offhand, no. How do you feel about being rejected from groups?

PC: Well, I - up until I got in Dianetics, I never cared.

LRH: Never cared.

PC: At least, I thought I didn't.

LRH: How about being rejected by mankind?

PC: Oh, I wouldn't like that, I wouldn't like that.

LRH: Wouldn't like that at all.

Commentator: Needle has now moved towards the right, and dropped in tone, approximately four points on the dial.

LRH: Did you ever get court-martialed for anything?

PC: Well, I got in the jug, all right.

LRH: Yeah? And you didn't like that?

PC: No sir!

Commentator: A very rapid drop in tone.

PC: I didn't like that.

LRH: Has this got anything to do with Facsimile One?

Commentator: The needle has moved past the center of the dial towards the right.

PC: No.

LRH: No?

PC: No. It couldn't have.

Commentator: A couple toeuards the left, about five points.

LRH: It just - it had something to do with just it.

PC: Yeah.

LRH: Have you ever been in jail in any past life?

PC: Don't know.

LRH: You don't know. Have you been?

Commentator: Needle rising.

PC: No.

LRH: No?

PC: No.

LRH: Never have been?

PC: No.

LRH: Did you ever put anybody in jail?

Commentator: Moving towards the left or rising in tone.

PC: No.

LRH: You ever put anybody in jail and have them die?

PC: No.

LRH: A little needle quiver here. Did you ever put anybody in jail? Who did you lock in a dark closet? Did you ever get locked in a dark closet?

PC: I don't like to be locked in a dark closet.

LRH: You don't, huh?

PC: No.

LRH: You don't not like it too much, though.

PC: Well, I can get out, Probably.

LRH: All right. What about - is there a particular incident ought to be hit next in your case?

PC: I reckon.

LRH: What is it?

PC: Overt act.

LRH: Overt act against what?

Commentator: The needle has now moved rapidly towards the right.

PC: Another guy.

LRH: Another man?

PC: I think.

LRH: What'd you do to him?

Commentator: Still dropping.

PC: Well, that's it, what'd I do to him?

LRH: Hit him?

PC: Maybe.

LRH: Kick him?

PC: Maybe.

LRH: Bite him?

PC: Maybe. I got a little somatic in my left arm.

Commentator: Needle moved back to the left on "Kick him?"

LRH: Bite him?

PC: I-I had …

LRH: Did you bite his arm off'

Commentator: Slight drop on "bite."

PC: Well, hardly.

LRH: Well, not "hardly." Did you ever look at any pictures of anybody on the anthropoid line? They're mostly teeth.

PC: Yeah, yeah.

LRH: You know, go get an Encyclopaedia Britannica sometime and just look at those teeth,

PC: Well, I read a couple of stories on evolution, too.

LRH: Mm-hm.

PC: Yes.

Commentator: Needle has now moved back towards its original position on the left before the discussion of overt acts started.

LRH: All right. Did you bite him?

PC: Aw…(laugh)

LRH: Come on. How did you bite him?

PC: You want me to show you, huh?

LRH: Yeah, just bite at him,

Commentator: Needle is moving to the right. Now moved past the center of the dial.

LRH: All right let's bite at him.

PC: What do you think I'm doing?

Commentator: Preclear is biting.

PC: Hold your arm out here. (laughter)

LRH: Oh, you want to do it again, huh? How does it feel biting him?

PC: Hard-hard to bite him and chew my gum, too.

Commentator: Preclear continues to bite.

LRH: What about biting him? Do you bite his arm off?

Commentator: Needle is slight …

LRH: Bite his throat out?

PC: That's more like it.

Commentator: … starting to move towards the left indicating rising tone.

LRH: Oh, bit his throat out?

PC: Mm-hm.

LRH: Well, you'd have to turn your head on the side to bite his throat out.

PC: Oh, okay. Whew!

LRH: Oh, you don't like to do that?

PC: Well, I got a little tiny twinge.

LRH: Oh, you did, didn't you? Well, go ahead and bite his throat out.

PC: Let's see … (pause)

LRH: Well, bite his throat out good now. Do esophaguses and jugular veins bleed much when you bite them out?

Commentator: Needle moves towards the right, tone falling.

PC: Pretty good tastin.

LRH: You got a twinge?

PC: Wait - l'll get it on the other side, maybe I bit him the other way.

LRH: Okay.

PC: Guess I didn't bite him.

LRH: Why?

PC: No somatics.

LRH: No somatics?

PC: No somatic.

LRH: Maybe you didn't regret it?

PC: I didn't.

Commentator: Needle fluctuated on that question.

LRH: Did you ever kick him?

PC: No.

LRH: Stab him?

PC: No. Probably - let's see, what could I have done to him?

LRH: Choke him? Claw his eyes out?

PC: Nah.

Commentator: Tone rise on "choke him" and on "clawing his eyes out"

LRH: You steal something from him, too?

Commentator: … about three points rise on the needle.

LRH: Was it in the cave period?

PC: You got me.

LRH: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. Hit him in the teeth with a stone ax?

PC: I'd - I don't like that. Nah, I don't like that.

LRH: Don't like that one, huh? Needle says you don't mind it.

PC: Well, I must be a big liar then. (laughs)

LRH: All right. What about stabbing him with a stone knife?

Commentator: Needle now moving toevards the right, tone falling.

PC: That'd be all right.

LRH: How about bashing his brains out with a rock?

Commentator: There's a rise on that question of about three points.

PC: That'd be all right.

LRH: Oh, you did that once, but that isn't it, huh?

PC: I just got a little tiny somatic on that.

LRH: Tiny somatic.

PC: Mm-hm.

LRH: Well, what about stamping on him with both feet?

PC: Well, I got another somatic in the arm.

Commentator: Little fluctuation.

LRH: Is this all the same incident?

PC: Is it?

LRH: Is it?

PC: I don't know.

LRH: Might be, but this isn't the principal overt-act incident. Did you ever duel with anybody?

PC: Well, don't recollect it.

LRH: You don't recollect it?

PC: No.

LRH: Did you - oh, you have, huh?

PC: (laughs)

LRH: Gun?

Commentator: Needle now moving to the right and getting a dropping tone.

LRH: Oh, a gun.

PC: Hard to believe.

LRH: Pistols at dawn? Or was it in back of him?

Commentator: Slight rise.

LRH: Or did you shoot him from ambush?

PC: Oh, I wouldn't do that.

LRH: Did you shoot him from ambush?

PC: No.

LRH: Did you duel with him?

PC: Sounds better.

Commentator: Needle now moving towards the left, about three points.

LRH: Did you back to back and walk off so many paces, and you turned first?

PC: I'd say that I turned first.

LRH: Oh, yes, so you did. You turned before you were supposed to turn, didn't you?

PC: Ah, I got him.

LRH: You got him.

Commentator: Tone now dropping very ragidly to the right.

LRH: So you did. What did your friends say?

Commentator: Remaining stationary about the center dial.

PC: Oh, they didn't like it.

LRH: They didn't like him?

PC: No, they didn't like that.

Commentator: Moving to the left now, three points, four points.

LRH: They didn't like that.

PC: Mm.

LRH: Said you weren't a gentlemen.

PC: Yeah, something like that. Said I was a stinker, and …

LRH: Uh-huh. Would they associate with you afterward?

PC: That - sure, sure.

LRH: Oh, they did, huh?

PC: Oh, yeah.

LRH: It all wore off in a …

PC: Oho!

LRH: … few gallons of - what? What country was this in?

PC: I don't know I got too many answers here all at once.

LRH: Well, what were the too many answers?