LRH lecture 6 November 1952 Methods of Research – The Thetan as an Energy Unit

“Now, what would be your arbitrary with every preclear? Because when we look at a preclear, we are looking at the whole universe of Scientology.

What arbitrary do we have to postulate the moment we look at a preclear?

We follow the same course, actually, as the investigation itself. We have to postulate his case can be resolved. And, by George, you'd better postulate it.

The next one is, is "Do I want to resolve his case?" And if you don't want to resolve his case, don't! But don't say to yourself, "I ought to be able to want to resolve his case." You won't travel on it. Just ask yourself. This would scare into view this fact: "Heck no. I think that women ought to be aberrated," or "Heck no, I think men really ought to be (something or other)," or "I think old men ought to be under the thumb. They're dangerous." If you fail to ask yourself - fail to make such a postulate or find out why
you can't make such a postulate about a case - you'll do the darnedest things sometimes, quite to your own surprise, your own amazement.

Why, every time you start to audit this preclear you keep changing your mind and giving him the wrong signals. You're operating on a postulate. Your postulates are only as valuable as you value them or as they are workable.”

“You actually have to be able and willing to handle force. But how do you handle force? With force? No! You can't handle force with force because that gives you ridges and more force. You see how that is? You can't handle force with force.”

“Now, let's put this very practically - very practically: The cat Tom is eating the little mouse... about to eat the little mouse Jerry in the comic cartoon. And Tom is sitting there and he's about to stuff Jerry into his mouth when all of a sudden - Jerry is sitting on his hand - and Jerry looks in this palm and then, and he won't let Tom see what's in his hand. The big, stupid cat says, "What you got?" And Jerry says, "Pshew!" and is gone.

Yeah, what you got? It doesn't take any idea at all... The only reason why you ever have trouble - if you ever do have trouble - defeating force is because you just don't think of the idea, and usually because you overreach with your idea. You haven't any concept of how simple the idea has to be! You want to get complicated because you know it's lots of force, so you think you want to have lots of idea.

This is not order of magnitude; they don't follow the same order of magnitude. Actually, they go quite in reverse. They go quite in reverse: is the more force there is, the less idea it takes to handle that force. Because an idea is awful powerful. And you can get an idea so powerful that it'll just shoot above, around and over and through this mass and this force, and it just never hits it.

So remember that in processing a preclear. Your idea can be way, way, way too good to defeat this thing which is practically... which is nothing to handle this force. All you are trying to get him to do is handle force, create and destroy force, which includes create and destroy matter, energy, space and time.

Well, now, if you try to use these big, complex ideas, and you erect these treadmills, and then you have to have the weathercock so the weather is in the northwest section, and then you've got to have this and you've got to have that, and you do this and you do that, and something or other, and then you make long lists of this, and then you have him running around the living room, and then we'll put up a wire cage around him while he's processing so none of his force escapes or something, so no other force can hit him and...”

“You're handling something which is so much more powerful than the atom bomb and so much more changeable than a woman's mind that there's just no comparison. You're handling this thing of terrific capability and it handles so easy. And all you're asking it to do is to do the easiest thing there is to do - that's handle force.”

“Now, all of these things - all of these things are actually the gilt around Standard Operating Procedure. What's an engram? Boom with force. What's it do? It makes the guy meet it with force. How do you solve it? You stop the guy from meeting it with force. It's awful simple, isn't it?”

 

LRH lecture 6 March 1952 HCL-8 Attack on the Preclear

“Well, a preclear is making himself very, very vulnerable indeed when he permits himself to be audited. And he is expecting you to validate him and his self-determinism as much as possible and fight against his aberrations. Your constant hammering and insistence that he is succumbing to his aberrations will cause him to succumb to them. Because what you're doing is telling him, "Now, the reason you can't run these is because you can't run them because they're too strong for you, and you actually are them, and how do you know that these aren't you, and where are you anyway?"

He would become in very, very bad condition.”

“Now, there are three levels of doing something for a preclear. One is to do something for him and get him over his aberration, and the next is to make him comfortable, keep him up along the line, keep his tone from dropping any; and if you can't do that, you can give him sympathy. Because if you can't do steps one and two for him, he must be almost dead. He is so close to the bottom and so close to being on his way out that of course, if you gave him sympathy, it would bring him up to 0.5 or something.

Sympathy is a two-edged sword. It is a weapon used by the overtly vicious to kill. And it is used also by individuals upon the almost dead to get them up enough so they'll live. It depends where a preclear is whether you really can give him any sympathy at all or not.

But I have never found sympathy to pay off.”

“All right. Your attitude toward the preclear is differentiated by whether or not you're willing or unwilling to do anything for the preclear, and then whether you're going to validate the preclear or validate his aberrations.

Now, your willingness or unwillingness to help him will be dependent upon whether or not you have any sneaking idea in the back of your head as to whether or not you're going to use any of his aberrations or not for your own control of him. Just ask yourself that.”

“So it's a very good thing to ask yourself, "Let's see. Is there any reason why I don't want this preclear to get well?" And you're liable to straightwire out of a very startled you, the fact that you don't want this preclear to get well.”

“So you want to ask yourself that question. And you’ll blow out these similarities of earlier persons to the preclear or difficulties which you are having in present time – financial, social, familial – any difficulty you’re having in present time that might make it desirable for this preclear to stay on his present plane instead of rise.

Be fair with yourself. You very often discover that in spite of you being you and being fully, actually determined to do your level best in this one particular case, there's a little bug there that if you got it out and recognized it, all of a sudden, you'd find the preclear very easy to run.”

“Instead of stopping the session at that moment and saying to myself, "Somehow or other this person restimulates me; there is some reason why I can't make this person well" and going outside and getting a cup of coffee and let the preclear sit there on the couch and contemplate the sins of the world or something of the sort, this auditor goes on plowing along, plows the preclear into more somatics, more somatics.

What’s this auditor trying to do to this preclear? She’s trying to cripple the preclear so the preclear can’t attack her!”

“An auditor, after he's audited preclears for a while gets - when he's not had his early incidents run - gets into a state whereby he is strong enough to carry on forward and try and try and try, and he thinks he's fighting preclears, and he's not fighting preclears at all. He's fighting the sum total of all the times he didn't clean up preclears before he audited them - on himself.”

 

LRH tape 7 March 1952 HCL-9 Facsimiles: How To Handle Recordings

“As a good auditor you should be able to see a change in the preclear's facial structure after every session. It should be that marked. It should be marked enough so that you can detect it.”

 

Summary of Important Concepts

In that the Pre-OT is the top holder for the plugs and stacks within the Excalibur case, this constitutes an aberrated relationship between the BTs and clusters and the auditor. Holding is defined as "suppression carried on through time" or "constant suppression."

For the auditor to be acting suppressive to the preclear, is an incorrect auditor beingness.

Yet, this is exactly what is going on, the Pre-OT is holding the plugs and stacks in place for whatever aberrated reason he has for doing that.

When a BT or cluster can’t blow the Excalibur auditor asks them if they are being held. They will sometimes answer that they are being held by you, the Pre-OT who is being their auditor. And that is the truth too, when you take a look at that, you will see you are holding them. And in doing that, you are acting like an implanter and suppressing those Beings from attaining sanity and freedom.

So, the Excalibur auditor must change this somehow in order to free the BTs and clusters that he is holding on to. You now must get your ethics in and change your fixed attitude towards the pc (BT or cluster) and also change your often hidden-from-yourself desire to hang on to the BT or cluster.

In the above LRH lecture Attack on the Preclear, Ron recommends that the auditor stop the session at that point and do the following:

"Now, your willingness or unwillingness to help him will be dependent upon whether or not you have any sneaking idea in the back of your head as to whether or not you're going to use any of his aberrations or not for your own control of him. Just ask yourself that.

So it's a very good thing to ask yourself, "Let's see. Is there any reason why I don't want this preclear to get well!" And you're liable to straightwire out of a very startled you, the fact that you don't want this preclear to get well."

In doing the above you will discover various fixed attitudes you have, some possible examples:

"who in the hell would want to help THAT?"
"he has too much pain, I don’t want to have to experience that with him"
"Screw you, I hate you"
"I like my sexual aberrations and don’t want to get rid of them"

 

LRH lecture 6 November 1952 Methods of Research – The Thetan as an Energy Unit

“What arbitrary do we have to postulate the moment we look at a preclear?

We follow the same course, actually, as the investigation itself. We have to postulate his case can be resolved. And, by George, you'd better postulate it.

The next one is, is "Do I want to resolve his case?" And if you don't want to resolve his case, don't! But don't say to yourself, "I ought to be able to want to resolve his case." You won't travel on it. Just ask yourself. This would scare into view this fact: "Heck no. I think that women ought to be aberrated," or "Heck no, I think men really ought to be (something or other)," or "I think old men ought to be under the thumb. They're dangerous." If you fail to ask yourself - fail to make such a postulate or find out why
you can't make such a postulate about a case - you'll do the darnedest things sometimes, quite to your own surprise, your own amazement.”

Why, every time you start to audit this preclear you keep changing your mind and giving him the wrong signals. You're operating on a postulate.”