The majority of the BTs and clusters being handled on Excalibur
are psychotic, meaning they are very down tone, are stuck on the
track, and are often unconscious. Auditing them requires a certain
amount of theta from the auditor, so he should know the following
data.
Theta
Tech dictionary -
Theta - Greek for thought or life or the spirit
LRH Book Science of Survival -
Glossary
Theta – Thought, potentially independent of a material vessel or
medium. Life force.
Theta Universe – Thought matter (ideas), thought energy, thought
space, and thought time, combining in an independent universe
analogous to the material universe.
Book II Chapter 19
“By theta is meant, of course, thought energy, possibly existing
as thought matter in thought space.”
Book II Chapter 1
“Theta is many things. Theta is reason, serenity, stability,
happiness, cheerful emotion, persistence, and the other factors
which man ordinarily considers desirable.”
Book I Chapter 6
“Theta itself could be called reason; entheta could be called
unreason.”
“When we speak of affinity, reality and communication we are
talking about the three component parts of theta.”
MEST
LRH Book Science of Survival –
Glossary
MEST – Matter, Energy, Space, and Time. The physical
universe.
Theta + MEST = Life
Tech dictionary -
Theta- Greek for thought or life or the spirit
LRH Book Science of Survival –
Book II Chapter 19
“By MEST is meant the physical universe of matter, energy, space,
and time as we know them in the physical sciences. It is postulated
that these two energies combine, and that through the harmonious
control of MEST by theta a life organism is formed. Theta plus MEST
could be said, then, to compose life.”
Book I Chapter 6
“It changes MEST by constructing it into mobile units we know as
life organisms and, through those, making MEST into various forms
and objects or destroying those forms and objects.”
Book I Chapter 1
“Theta, we could say, comes from the universe of theta, which is
different from the MEST universe. Theta has its own matter – ideas;
it has its own energy and the characteristics of that energy; it has
its own space of operation, as distinct from MEST space; and it has
its own time. Considering theta one finds that it… motivates and
activates MEST matter and energy through space and time.”
“Consider that theta in its native state is pure reason or pure
potential reason. Consider that MEST in its native state is simply
the chaotic physical universe, its chemicals and energies active in
space and time.”
“…Theta could be considered to have as one of its missions, and
its only mission where MEST is concerned, the conquest of the
physical universe. Theta survives by conquering MEST and retaining
the conquest. The survival of theta depends, as it applies to this
universe, on changing MEST and organizing MEST.”
“Life is a manifestation of theta-conquered MEST.”
“In Dianetics we are dealing then with theta and MEST.”
The Analytical Mind
Tech Dictionary Definition–
Analytical Mind –
We say the analytical mind is kind of a misnomer because most
people think it’s some kind of computing machine, and it’s not. It’s
just the pc. It was a mistake made in early Dianetics in research.
There was something there doing a lot of thinking and computing and
so I called it the analytical mind, to differentiate this, because
at the time we didn’t know anything much about thetans. We mean the
thetan.
LRH Book Science of Survival –
Book I Chapter 1
“Consider that theta in its native state is pure reason or at
least pure potential reason.”
“The analytical mind operates by reason.”
Book II Chapter 1
“Theta is reason.”
Book I Chapter 21
“Ethics are reason.”
Book II Chapter 18
“The analytical mind would be the sum of reasoning theta.”
“The analytical mind comes more and more into command of the
organism as the tone scale is ascended. Of course, it occurs in all
human beings, even those below 2.0, that some analytical activity
remains.”
Entheta and EnMEST
LRH Book Science of Survival –
Glossary
Entheta – Theta which is enturbulated with MEST (enMEST) in an
inharmonious combination.
EnMEST – MEST which has been enturbulated by entheta or crushed
too hard into theta and rendered less useable.
Book I Chapter 1
“Theta crushed too hard into MEST becomes entheta. MEST crushed
too hard into theta becomes enMEST.”
“Now all a student of Dianetics needs to know and understand
about all this is that theta plus MEST equals life; that theta and
MEST have a natural affinity for each other and combine, linking the
two universes, so to speak; that theta and MEST coming together too
hard get into a turmoil which we call pain; and that the turbulence
of theta and MEST under the duress of too much impact gives us a
tone scale.”
Book I Chapter 6
“The physical universe and what we have called the theta universe
are each based upon the principle of survive and succumb. So far as
life is concerned, everything above the 2.0 level is survive, and
everything below the 2.0 level is succumb. Above the 2.0 level, the
organism tends toward life; below the 2.0 level, the organism tends
only toward death.”
“The sudden impact of theta and MEST together could be considered
a turbulence which creates dissonance in theta. This is registered
and recorded as pain. Theta and MEST so impacted together, the
characteristics of the theta are changed, according to theory and
observation, and theta below 2.0 on the tone scale can be considered
enturbulated theta.”
“We could consider that theta gradually reverses polarity as it
descends the tone scale toward 0.0.”
“Theta below 2.0 we call entheta.”
“Entheta will tend and act in the direction of death.”
Book II Chapter 1
“Theta and MEST in a disorderly collision bring about
enturbulation in both the theta and the MEST which actually changes
or reverses the polarity of the theta and the MEST.”
Book II Chapter 19
“The first moment of impact is a collision in which a
considerable portion of the theta becomes entangled with the MEST,
leaving some free theta and some useful MEST. The remainder changes
wave length or polarity and becomes what we call enturbulated theta
and enturbulated MEST, which in Dianetics we shorten to entheta and
enMEST.”
The Reactive Mind
LRH Book Science of Survival –
Book I Chapter 1
“The enMEST-entheta turbulence is called in Dianetics an engram.
An engram is an area in time when theta and MEST have come
forcefully together and have intermingled “permanently.””
“Here, then, is a piece of entheta-enMEST – the engram. MEST and
theta, coming together too forcefully, as in an impact or injury, or
getting enturbulated through illness, are stored in the reactive
mind and from there mechanically enturbulate the theta of the
analytical mind into compulsive or obsessive action or enturbulate
the MEST of the body into pain, deformity or psychosomatic
illness.”
“Engrams, these moments of pain and unconsciousness stored in the
reactive mind, act like hidden command posts in the mind, forcing
the individual into patterns of thinking and behavior which are not
called for by a reasonable appraisal of the situation. For the
engram is not reasonable.”
“The reactive mind, having a different polarity than the
analytical mind, has the capacity of compelling or inhibiting the
organism in regard to certain of its actions.”
Book I Chapter 6
“Theta itself could be called reason; entheta could be called
unreason.”
Book I Chapter 17
“There are two sides to an engram: entheta and enMEST. So long as
the thought can be dramatized, the enMEST remains quiet; but when
the dramatization is broken, the enMEST, or physical pain, turns on
in an effort to force the individual to do what the engram
says.”
Book II Chapter 13
“The total content of the reactive mind, then, is entheta held
down by physical pain engrams which form the basis that causes later
enturbulated theta to be “permanently” trapped. Into the reactive
mind, in the course of a lifetime, because of physical pain engrams,
the bulk of a person’s free theta disappears from conscious view and
is no longer available for computation but reacts against the
analyzer and “I” to disturb and enter hidden and arbitrary data and
values into thinking.”
Book II Chapter 19
“The larger deposits of entheta and enMEST exist in secondaries,
not in physical pain engrams. A physical pain engram acts as a sort
of trap. It is the basic enturbulator.”
“A great deal of entheta, but not as much as can be trapped in
secondaries, is contained in lock chains. Here gradually, day by
day, little by little, theta is caught and converted to
entheta…”
Book II Chapter 18
“The reactive mind is the composite of entheta on the
case.”
Tone Scale = Theta to Entheta Ratio
LRH Book Science of Survival –
Book I Chapter 6
“One must also consider in a discussion of theta that theta is
measured on a gradient tone scale from 0.0 upwards to 40.0.
At the highest range, theta could be considered to be in a pure
state. It would be reason at its highest. It would be complete
reality. It could accomplish complete communication in its own
level. And it would be purely affinity.”
“We could consider that theta gradually reverses polarity as it
descends the tone scale toward 0.0.”
Book II Chapter 19
“The tone scale does not represent the idea that everything above
2.0 is theta in pure form and everything below 2.0 is entheta in
pure form…”
Book II Chapter 1
“The tone scale is actually a chart of the ratio of free theta
and entheta in the individual. Above the 2.0 line, the individual
could be said to have more theta than entheta. Below the point 2.0,
the individual could be said to have more entheta than theta.”
Book I Chapter 2
“The whole intent of processing is to raise the individual from
lower to higher strata on this scale.”
Converting Entheta to Theta
LRH Book Science of Survival –
Book II Chapter 3
“There could be said to be three divisions of entheta.”
“To make this plainer, first there is the engram. When this
engram becomes restimulated it makes much of the existing free theta
in the organism turbulent. Some of this turbulence remains as
additional frozen entheta, some of it un-enturbulates and becomes
free theta again.
The engram, a moment of physical pain, forms the basis for
entheta, and having formed it, little by little, by contagion steals
free theta from the individual and makes it into entheta
“permanently” in the form of secondary engrams and locks.”
“Thus one can see that as life progresses, more and more theta
becomes fixed as entheta in locks and secondary engrams, and less
and less theta is available to the organism for purposes of reason.
This is called the dwindling spiral. It is so called because the
more entheta there is on the case, the more theta will be turned
into entheta at each new restimulation. It is a three-dimensional
vicious circle which carries the individual down the tone
scale.”
“An engram which is too highly charged not only cannot be run but
ordinarily cannot even be contacted, until secondaries and locks are
reduced. Thus in most cases the first address of the auditor is to
locks and then secondaries and then engrams, with the treatment of
more locks and secondaries to make available more engrams.
The whole purpose of the auditor is to change entheta to theta as
rapidly and as efficiently as possible. Where he gets the entheta,
whether out of engrams, secondaries, or locks, is of no basic
concern. Theta is theta.”
Book II Chapter 1
“Simply by converting entheta to theta the auditor can cause the
individual to rise on the tone scale.”
“…there are three valid processes.”
“The first and simplest of these processes consists of changing
the environment of the preclear.”
“The second process which is valid in producing results is
education.”
“The third process which can be considered valid in raising the
individual on the tone scale is individual processing, by which is
meant any method which will turn his entheta into theta by
addressing him as an individual.”
Book I Chapter 1
“Anything which raises a person’s tone can be considered
legitimate processing. This includes, of course, nutrition,
environment, and education, as well as processing. Simply taking the
person to see a movie he wants to see may raise his tone. Processing
achieves permanent rises in tone.”
“The task is to make a human being happier, more effective,
better able to accept responsibility and aid his fellow man. If it
is illegal anywhere to process people, then it must also, sequitur,
be illegal to make people happy.”
Raising Tone by Converting Entheta to Theta
LRH Book Science of Survival –
Book I Chapter 1
“An auditor is not trying to cure anything, he is simply raising
tone.”
“To raise a person on this tone scale it is only necessary to
recover or convert theta from entheta.”
“The person undertaking to process another individual
dianetically is seeking only to raise the “tone” of that individual
…”
“In order to do this, the processor simply regains for the other
the theta involved in the reactive mind as entheta. Theta is
restored to the analytical mind, the reactive mind is left without
its destructive store of turbulence…”
Book I Chapter 2
“The whole intent of processing is to raise the individual from
lower to higher strata on this scale.”
Book II Chapter 1
“Simply by converting entheta to theta the auditor can cause the
individual to rise on the tone scale.”
Book II Chapter 2
”It must be remembered that the mission of the auditor is not to
reduce engrams, not to run out secondaries, not to eradicate
psyhcosomatic illnesses, psychosis or neurosis, but to raise the
preclear on the tone scale. If he does not give this his first
attention, he is not freeing theta and converting entheta, and if he
does not do this he cannot efficiently accomplish the other goals.
The index of how well he progresses with the preclear’s case is the
tone scale.”
“Simply by addressing processing from the viewpoint that one is
changing entheta to theta and freeing up all available theta in the
case one will make the most rapid progress with the preclear.”
Book II Chapter 13
“The task of the auditor, it is repeated here, is to exhaust from
the reactive mind the accumulated entheta by whatever means are
indicated or possible and to convert that entheta into theta, by the
simple expedient of bringing the entheta into memory or separating
it from the physical pain which traps it.”
“Thus, the auditor can understand his point of concentration on
the case. The progress of any preclear is measured by the preclear’s
rise on the tone scale, not by the number of engrams which are
reduced or erased in the preclear.”
Book II Chapter 19
“The goal in any case is the freeing of theta, and by this the
auditor should be guided.”
Reinvesting Recovered Theta
LRH Book Science of Survival –
Book II Chapter 19
“But each time, the auditor should be achieving some result. And
each time he gains more theta for the preclear he should reinvest in
a further and perhaps heavier attack upon entheta and enMEST. If he
does this his case will continue on up the tone scale, not in a
steady rise along an even line but along an uneven course in which
the highs become always a little higher and lows not quite so
low.”
Physical Manifestations of Conversion
LRH Book Science of Survival –
Book II Chapter 19
“… when entheta is being converted to theta, the organism
manifests certain signs. These can be divided into the four general
classifications of gasses, liquids, solids, and physical energy. One
should understand that the enMEST portion of charge is the physical
suppressor of aberration and chronic somatics.”
“One of the main manifestations in the organism, on the release
of entheta and its conversion to theta as in the running of locks,
secondaries or engrams, or occasionally even during straight wire,
is gas…”
“…When one erases an engram, for instance, the erasure is
accompanied by yawns. This is a gaseous and energy manifestation.
Something is coming off the case. In running locks the pre-clear
occasionally yawns. Flatulence also occasionally accompanies the
release of entheta.
Liquids are released by the body in several forms during the
release of enMEST. The most obvious form is tears. When a secondary
engram is reduced, on the grief level, it is reduced in tears.”
“…tears seem to be the primary manifestation of the exhaustion of
the most harmful secondaries, those of grief.”
“…Fear seems to be released with accompanying sweat, sometimes of
a peculiar odour.”
“Apathy commonly discharges itself as panting or urine…”
“Solids are discharged on the level of fear as vomiting, and
there also, and on lower levels, as excreta.”
“There is a peculiar manifestation in Dianetics known as
boil-off. Boil-off has assumed tremendous important proportions in
processing, since the case that is very heavily entheta’d has its
charge held down by such quantities of anaten that the induction of
boil-off seems to be the most efficacious way to unburden the case.
In a boil-off, a pre-clear will go into an apparent sleep. This is
not sleep, no matter how much it may appear to be, but is actually a
release of unconsciousness which is extremely concentrated and
heavy. The release of this permits the case to go forward much more
rapidly, because under it will lie quantities of specific incidents
which otherwise are masked by this heavy layer.”
“The boil-off has certain strange manifestations. The pre-clear
may, when running an incident, suddenly begin to maunder and trail
off, giving muttered accounts of strange pictures and unrelated
events. This is a mirage effect, through boil-off, and peculiarly
disconnected things will clutter up his attention at this time, but
he does all this in a very sleepy, dazed condition and shortly after
may go into an even deeper boil-off.
Early in Dianetics it was thought necessary to keep the preclear
more or less alert in a boil-off. This was an error. The preclear
should never be disturbed in a boil-off, but should be permitted to
continue in this state until the boil-off is exhausted.”
“The efficacy of boil-off is demonstrated by the fact that when
one is finished the pre-clear is alert and can run other forms of
entheta, but that when one is interrupted the pre-clear will be in
an unsatisfactory condition.”
Psychotics and Psychosis
HCOB 28 November 1970 Psychosis
“Insanity can now be precisely defined. The definition is:
Insanity is the overt or covert but always complex and continuous
determination to harm or destroy.”
“All characteristics classified as those of the “suppressive
person” are in fact those of an insane person.”
HCOB 9 May 1977 Psychosis, More About
“Below all psychotic conduct lies an evil purpose.”
“Famous psychotics like Napoleon, Ivan the Terrible, Stalin and
Hitler were all quite brilliant yet wound up destroying everything
in sight, including their own people.
They had a destructive basic purpose. Every psychotic has
one.”
“Everyone has a basic purpose. The psychotic has a destructive
one.”
“The progress of psychosis then begins with a belief something is
evil. This is followed with an effort to stop it. This stop becomes
general. A basic purpose is then formed which contains an evil
intent.
The being then goes from disaster to disaster, seeking overtly or
covertly to destroy everything around him.”
LRH Book Science of Survival –
Book I Chapter 4
“Psychotic: A person who is physically or mentally harmful to
those about him out of proportion to the amount of use he is to
them.”
“None but a qualified auditor has any business working with a
psychotic. The danger in handling psychotics is very great.”
“When a person drops below the 2.0 level he has so much entheta
compared to his theta that a sudden shock may simply enturbulate the
remaining theta and send him into a psychotic break.”
“People below the 2.0 level, no matter their avowed intention,
will bring death or injury to persons, things and organizations
around them, if in the anger bracket, or death to themselves, if in
the apathy bracket.”
“A psychotic is a threat of death for somebody or something, if
not for himself.”
“In treating psychotics, always remember that one is working with
minimal theta present and maximal entheta. Thus a sudden shock may
so restimulate an engram that the remaining theta enturbulates and
vanishes, leaving a lock composed of entheta. There goes sanity.
Approach the lock gently and turn it back into theta with great care
and caution.”
“Handle the psychotic gently. Don’t try to punish your patient
because he “refuses to get well.” His engrams and general turbulence
make your preclear hard to reach. His basic personality is in there
trying to help you out. Smooth out entheta and make theta out of it
and do it as gently as you can.”
“Don’t lose your temper or resort to drastic methods. Man can be
handled only with reason, not by Hitlerianistic force. You can’t
beat a man into sanity.”
“Any effort made to hammer a patient or scold a patient into
sanity will meet with failure.
If you feel so exasperated by a preclear that you would like to
scold him or hit him, stop the session and go cool down. By being as
gracious and serene as you possibly can be, you will greatly
increase your success in treating your fellow man. And you have to
be first cousin to a saint to get the best results with
psychotics.”
Accessibility
LRH Book Science of Survival –
Glossary
Accessibility – The desire of the preclear to be raised on the
tone scale by processing. A case is considered accessible when it
will work willingly with the auditor, no matter how occluded the
case may be.
Book II Chapter 13
“Case accessibility is measured by the tone scale and is very
important to the auditor. A case may be very low on the tone scale
apparently and still may be accessible, which is to say, the
preclear wants to get better.
This denotes the existence of considerable endowment of free
theta in the first place and of enough free theta, regardless of its
low percentage in ratio to the amount of entheta on the case, for
the preclear to desire a return in the direction of survival. Of
course, the entheta on this case is descending in the direction of
succumbing.
This case could be considered an accessible case even though it
lies below 2.0 on the tone scale. In processing it, the auditor
should particularly respect the survival ambition of the remaining
free theta and should be gentle with the case, removing entheta and
converting it to free theta as lightly as possible. Such a case
should never be run into engrams, since the restimulated engram will
form a new lock and absorb some of the existing free theta.”
“Accessibility, then, could be considered, generally, the desire
of the individual to attain new and higher levels of survival and
the betterment of mind and body.”
“Of course, by accessibility is meant the willingness of the
preclear to accept auditing and the ability of the auditor and the
preclear to work as a team to increase the position of the preclear
on the tone scale.”
“The next type of case which will give trouble to the auditor is
the obviously inaccessible psychotic. A psychotic is that person,
according to Dianetic definition, whose theta has become entheta
completely, and who is entirely locked up in an engram or chain of
engrams and does nothing but dramatize them, and who is under the
command of a control circuit and does some computation, if limited
and unreasonable.”
“… with the psychotic who is caught in some engram, the auditor
should give his whole effort to establishing contact, even by
mimicking the psychotic or by discovering some small interest the
psychotic may have in his environ and directing his attention to the
details of that thing.”
Psychotic BTs
LRH lecture 16 April 1952 HCL-21 Anatomy of the Theta
Body
“Now, get this about circuits: A circuit is quite real, but a
circuit happens to be a being - an entity, or an idle one,
mimicking.”
“What's a circuit? A circuit is a psychotic stuck somewhere
on the track who keeps mimicking somebody; mimicking Mama or
mimicking Papa or doing a mimic job and so on, but quite
psychotic.”
“You can reduce psychosis to this definition: Psychosis is the
condition of an entity or “idle spirit,” you might say, moving in to
control, but being stuck on the track. Now, that's psychosis: trying
to control; stuck on the track.”
LRH Book Science of Survival –
Book II Chapter 13
“Theoretically, one could strip a case of locks and secondaries
without touching any engrams; however, there are such things as
circuits, as will be covered later, and sometimes it might be
necessary to run engrams on a heavily charged case in order to
attack a circuit, but this would be an extra-ordinary proceeding,
and it should only be done by a skilled auditor, as trained at the
Foundation.”
Book II Chapter 6
“One of the primary concerns of the auditor is present time.”
“The value of present time has already been illustrated by the
fact that if one went through a sanatorium and told patients one
after the other “Come up to present time” a certain low percentage
of the inmates would thereupon become sane. The simple fact of being
in present time is in itself a factor of sanity.”
“There are, according to Dianetic classification, two types of
insane.
The first type is the dramatizing psychotic. The second type is
the computational one.
The dramatizing psychotic goes through an engram in which he
stuck, over and over and over. He is generally imprisoned in two or
three engrams and goes from one to another of them ceaselessly. Such
a case, of course, is heavily charged, and it does not do much good
to try to run out the engrams. It is necessary to take charge off
the case and bring the case to present time. This is not very
difficult if one can gain the psychotic’s attention.
The other type of insanity is computational. Here, the engram has
walled up a certain portion of the analyzer as captured territory,
and a circuit causes this portion of the analyzer to be the whole of
the being. The remainder of the analyzer is shut off, and the “I” of
the individual is not in evidence. The paranoiac is usually
computationally insane, which is to say he does not dramatize like a
phonograph, but actually appears to think up things.
The schizophrenic is an individual who has several portions of
the analyzer segmented off by different circuits, which are actually
valences, and who goes from one to another of these portions of the
analyzer, only occasionally, if ever, becoming himself.
Both the dramatizing psychotic and the computational psychotic
have the bulk of the analyzer completely shut off by anaten and by
being out of present time. Probably the crux of the treatment of all
psychotics is getting them into present time and stabilizing them
there.
All psychotics have heavily charged cases, and it is necessary
one way or the other to reduce this charge. The most difficult thing
in the treatment of the psychotic is establishing enough affinity,
reality and communication between the psychotic and the auditor to
persuade the psychotic to do something to help himself. This can be
done by mimicking the psychotic, which is a form of establishing
affinity, or by bringing the psychotic into some contact with the
present world.”
“This rule can be applied to every case: the conversion of any
amount of entheta to theta will increase the preclear’s ability to
come to present time and stabilize there. The auditor should work to
convert entheta into theta until he can get his preclear into
present time. He can do this by straight memory, by scanning locks,
by running pleasure moments, or even by running an engram, on cases
which are high on the scale.
There is no cause for panic because the individual is out of
present time. Most of the society is out of present time.”
“The auditor’s first and primary concern in any case which he
finds out of present time is to return that case to present time. He
should work with light methods, session after session, concentrating
on only one thing: getting the preclear back to present time. Trying
to work somebody who will not come to present time or who cannot
stay in present time once he is there should not be a trial to the
auditor. The auditor should not run engrams on such a case since,
obviously, any person who cannot stay in present time does not have
enough free theta to work engrams.”
“This indicates a rather heavily charged case, and it is the
charge itself which should be addressed, which is to say simply
converting entheta to theta rather than attacking the specific
engram…”
“Getting the preclear to recall by straight memory the incident
where he is stuck on the track is sometimes sufficient to get him to
return to present time.”
“In getting people to present time it is a necessity to
understand the principle that the earlier the engram is the easier
it is to reduce. Later engrams on the case contain their own force
plus the force of all similar previous engrams on the case. Engrams
exist in chains… The preclear is quite ordinarily stuck, not in the
first engram on the chain, but in some later engram. Thus, the
identification of the point on the track where he is stuck is
ordinarily insufficient to free him. An earlier moment of a similar
nature must be discovered before he is able to return to present
time. The use of straight memory to discover such an earlier moment
is a simple operation.”
“The whole question of returning the individual to present time
is the question of converting entheta to theta. It would be a very
simple thing if all one had to do was to run the engram in which the
preclear was stuck and so get him to present time. This usually
doesn’t happen. The engram in which the preclear is stuck is quite
ordinarily unreducible, in the existing state of the case.
Thus, getting the preclear to present time necessitates running
pleasure moments, scanning locks, running secondaries or simply
making present time so thoroughly attractive that the preclear’s
attention units return there.”
“As a summary, then, the more entheta in ratio to theta there is
on the case the less likely the preclear is to move on the track and
to be in present time. The more entheta there is in present time the
less likely the preclear is to enter it – and this includes the fact
that a cross or bossy auditor will make present time unpalatable to
the preclear.
A primary mission of the auditor is to get his preclear into
present time. The fundamental principle of getting the preclear to
present time lies in improving the theta-entheta ratio of the case
by straightwire, running or scanning locks, and in cases which are
well up the tone scale, running secondaries or engrams.”
The Quantity Law of Theta and Entheta
LRH Book Science of Survival –
Book I Chapter 6
“It is an axiom in Dianetics that a sufficient quantity of theta
brought into proximity with entheta will disenturbulate the entheta
and convert it into theta. This is important enough to form the
basic axiom of processing. It explains to the auditor why he cannot
take a psychotic who has practically no remaining theta and
successfully send that psychotic into the entheta of an engram. The
remaining theta of the psychotic would itself merely become
enturbulated, not being sufficient in quantity, and the psychotic
could theoretically become worse.
Thus the second axiom: Entheta in sufficient quantity brought
into proximity with theta will enturbulate that theta.
Here we have a matter of quantity. When there is a great deal of
theta present a lesser amount of entheta will disenturbulate and
become theta. But when we have more entheta than theta, the theta is
likely to become entheta.”
Book II Chapter 3
“It should be thoroughly understood by the auditor that according
to theory, confirmed by observation in practice, no entheta exists
unless it has as its basic cause physical pain.
It should be no less well understood that theta contacting
smaller quantities of entheta converts the entheta into theta. This
is a two-way conversion. Entheta, in proximity to theta, makes
entheta out of it. From this we have contagion of aberration.”
“Fortunately, the conversion works in both directions. Sanity is
also contagious. Thus, by observing the auditor’s code and providing
a sane environ for his preclear, the auditor can bring some of the
entheta in the preclear’s case back into the state of theta without
any processing. This is particularly valuable in the treatment of
psychotics.”
Book II Chapter 19
“The mere proximity of a considerable quantity of theta,
apparently, to an area of entheta causes the entheta to change wave
length, vibration rate, or polarity and either to become theta or to
discharge and leave an area into which fresh theta can
penetrate.”
Book II Chapter 20
“The auditor should be aware of the fact that the engrams of the
preclear, his secondaries and locks, respond only in the presence of
all available free theta. The theta of the auditor plus the
remaining theta of the preclear are a sum which is directed at the
entheta in the reactive mind of the preclear. It is a strange fact
that the mere presence of an auditor makes it possible for the
preclear to run incidents which he could not touch if no auditor
were present…”
“Auditors who are below 2.0 on the tone scale tend unconsciously,
and even consciously, in the direction of succumbing. They have a
ratio in themselves of more entheta than theta.”
“3.0 would be the lowest level of the auditor, for any truly
successful auditing.”
“When one is handling pre-clears from 1.5 down, one will normally
discover that the pre-clear is very highly restimulative to the
auditor, is apt to become angry or recalcitrant or insulting, has a
great deal of trouble contacting some of the entheta, and is in
general so highly charged that great patience and tolerance is
required of the auditor. This means, simply, that the auditor must
not be easily restimulated by his pre-clear.
Those cases from 1.5 down are highly restimulative, on the
average. Cases from this level down, which are chronically psychotic
or psychotic at the time of processing, which is to say cases which
have all of their free theta enturbulated, particularly require
auditors on a high tone level, for auditors at lower levels are apt
to consider the psychotic too critically, and a critical or
restrictive attitude toward the psychotic denies him his
recovery.
Further, the psychotic demands of the auditor a high courage
level, a level certainly not found below 3.0, and guaranteed only at
the 3.5 level.”
“In short, it takes life and energy in an individual to bring
into being life and energy in others.”
Quantity of Auditor Theta to Handle Psychotic BTs
LRH Book Science of Survival –
Book II Chapter 1
“The most pertinent factor which has come to light is the evident
requirement that the auditor must be higher on the tone scale than
his preclear in order to produce good results. Just as we have the
ratio of theta to entheta establishing the sanity or insanity of the
individual, so we have the ratio of free theta in the auditor to the
free theta-entheta ratio in the preclear establishing the swiftness
with which entheta can be unenturbulated in the preclear.”
“It seems to be one of the characteristics of theta that when the
theta present exceeds to a very high degree the entheta present, the
entheta will tend to dis-enturbulate and become theta. When a very
large amount of entheta is placed in the vicinity of a lesser amount
of theta, the theta will rapidly become entheta.”
“It can thus be seen… that the auditor must have a higher ratio
of theta to his entheta than has the preclear. A condition must
exist where much more theta is available than entheta. An auditor
whose theta-entheta ratio is around 2.5 could, with skill, handle
individuals lower on the tone scale by not more than one point. A
2.5 auditor attempting to handle an apathy case would find his
already badly enturbulated condition worsened so much by the case
that the case, having very little free theta, would not get much
better.
A 2.5 attempting to create a Clear begins to work uphill as soon
as his preclear reaches 2.5, and the hill very rapidly becomes too
steep to climb. The ideal auditor is the one who has a very high
endowment of theta and who is at 4.0 on the tone scale.”
“Where the preclear has a small amount of theta and a large
amount of entheta, the auditor must be particularly careful not to
enturbulate the existing theta, since it is in the proximity of so
much entheta that it enturbulates rapidly.”
“To avoid this danger, one should mark the preclear well on the
chart and be guided accordingly. This gives the auditor an estimate
of the amount of free theta he has with which to un-enturbulate the
existing entheta in the case. It may happen that so little theta
exists in the case that the auditor must use the lightest and most
pleasant methods of which he is capable in order to make enough
theta available even to start down the time track.”
The Basic Cause of Aberration
LRH Book Science of Survival –
Book II Chapter 13
“The basic cause of human aberration, however, is a deeper one
than a physical pain engram. It is, by Dianetic theory, an
enturbulence and entrapment of theta. Free the theta.”
Summary of Key Concepts
The Excalibur solo auditor is handling BTs and clusters primarily
in the below-death range of the tone scale. That means they have
practically no theta left. All, or almost all, of their theta has
become entheta.
The majority of them are psychotic and the holders in the plugs
are particularly liable to being suppressive and dramatizing one or
more evil intentions.
Thus the Excalibur auditor must be an expert on handling
psychotics.
LRH Book Science of Survival, Book II Chapter 1 -
“Just as we have the ratio of theta to entheta establishing the
sanity or insanity of the individual, so we have the ratio of free
theta in the auditor to the free theta-entheta ratio in the preclear
establishing the swiftness with which the entheta can be
unenturbulated in the preclear.”
The successful auditor sees the value and benefit of free
theta and acts to protect it by avoiding any practices that decrease
the free theta of the auditor and the preclear.
The successful auditor understands that any newly received lock,
secondary or engram will convert free theta into entheta. Some of
the entheta will be temporary entheta and will convert back to free
theta after the present time incident is over. However, some of the
entheta will remain “permanently” trapped in the lock, secondary or
engram and will not convert back to free theta after the present
time incident is over.
Thus, after the occurrence of a newly received lock, secondary or
engram – the amount of free theta available will be less than there
was before the incident.
As LRH has covered in Level II tech, an overt is a high order of
lock.
One thing the auditor does to prevent the loss of any more theta
is to keep his ethics in.
An overt is an unreasonable non-survival act of omission or
commission. You push a man who cannot swim into a pool and he
drowns, that is an overt of commission. You walk up to a pool and
see a man who cannot swim drowning in it and you do nothing to help
him, that is an overt of omission. Either way, the man is dead. Thus
you can cause just as much destruction with overts of omission as
you can with overts of commission.
Since an overt of omission or commission is a lock, there will
now be less free theta available than existed before the incident.
The Excalibur solo auditor and the Beings in the composite case who
are involved in this lock just “permanently” lost some of their
theta and that results in lessened free theta they each will have to
use in the conversion process in auditing sessions.
Now auditing time will be consumed handling the newly formed
lock. Or not, in which case the entheta trapped in the newly formed
lock will remain there and not be converted back to free theta
again. At best we have un-necessarily wasted auditing time and at
worst we have worsened the case. Either way, committing overts is a
loss.
The tone scale is the ratio of theta to entheta. The auditor’s
mission is to raise the preclear on the tone scale by converting
entheta back into theta.
Committing overts will slow the progress up the tone scale, at
best. Continue to commit enough overts and you and the Beings in the
composite case will start going down the tone scale. Now you are
going backwards on the Bridge. And that makes you a reverse auditor
because now you basically convert theta into entheta, resulting in
dropping tone.
The successful Excalibur solo auditor understands all the above
and he also knows the BTs and clusters are in the below-death band
of the tone scale – thus they are psychotic. This means they have an
abundance of entheta and a scarcity of theta. The last thing they
need is for you to come along and convert what little remaining
theta they have left into entheta. Both you and them need to have as
much free theta as possible to put to use in converting their
entheta back into theta, so as to bring them back up the tone
scale.
Another thing the Excalibur auditor does to prevent the loss
of any more theta, has to do with his attitude. There are several
things that comprise a proper auditor attitude that are especially
true when handling psychotics. The auditor must maintain his theta,
his ARC, and not allow himself to become angry or frustrated with
the preclear.
The entheta and EnMEST of the BT’s case impinges on the auditor
and his body. The auditor will personally feel the pain and
unconscious and emotions, sensations and attitudes of the BT or
cluster. All the while that is going on, even when the auditor is
sitting there with his head on the table from boil-off, he still
retains some portion of his theta that is a correct auditor
beingness.
That portion of his theta is observing all that is going on,
computes as the auditor, and maintains faith that he will get the BT
or cluster through this and turn it into a win - that converts the
entheta back into theta and brings sanity and freedom to the single
BT or the Beings in a cluster.
Part of proper auditor attitude is Tone 40. Tone 40 is
intention without reservation or limit. Tone 40 does not even assume
or recognize that there will be any counter intention to the
intention or that the intention will fail. Tone 40 only sees a win.
You audit BTs and clusters with Tone 40 – they will win, there is no
question about it.
Part of proper attitude is knowing this datum - a Being is as
insane as he considers his environment is dangerous to him and he is
as sane as he considers himself dangerous to his environment. Now,
even though you handle a psychotic so as not to rough him up, you
still don’t have an attitude that he is weak and you must walk on
eggshells around him or he will just shatter. Theta is pretty tough.
Even one theta unit left is pretty tough.
Ron handled a timid cat by withdrawing from it every time the cat
made a slight reach. The cat got the idea it was pretty dangerous
and lost its timidity and became ferocious. That which you validate
in the preclear becomes alive and working. If you validate the idea
that the environment is dangerous to the BT, he will get worse. If
you have the idea that the BT is pretty dangerous to his environment
and validate that in him, he will get well. Recognize the theta or
potential theta in the BT and validate it and work with it.
Another part of proper auditor attitude is that you and the
preclear are combining your theta to handle the case. You are a
team. To demonstrate this idea, imagine the auditor getting out of
his chair and walking over to where the preclear is sitting in his
chair. The auditor sits down beside the preclear, puts his arm
around the preclear’s shoulder, and says – “what are we looking
at?”
Finally, the Excalibur auditor knows that the resolution of any
case condition is to raise the Being up the tone scale by converting
entheta back to theta. He knows that if he just continues to do
that, that he can eventually resolve any case condition, no matter
how bad off, and the Being will eventually rise up the tone scale to
become sane and free. And that is a win for all.
We’ll end this with some quotes from the LRH Book Science of
Survival –
Book II Chapter 13
“The basic cause of human aberration, however, is a deeper one
than a physical pain engram. It is, by Dianetic theory, an
enturbulence and entrapment of theta. Free the theta.”
Book II Chapter 13
“Thus, the auditor can understand his point of concentration on
the case. The progress of any preclear is measured by the preclear’s
rise on the tone scale, not by the number of engrams which are
reduced or erased in the preclear.”
Book II Chapter 19
”The goal in any case is the freeing of theta, and by this the
auditor should be guided.”
