LRH lecture 16 April 1952 HCL-22 How To Audit A Theta Line, Part I

“I'd like to talk to you now about how to audit an entity or a theta line.

The exploration of the theta lines has been underway for a very long time. It has been underway, certainly, thousands of years and, with myself, has been underway now, oh, better than fifteen years intensively.”

“So that’s the first thing this machine does for you…”

“Now, the next thing that it does is tell you if you’ve slipped off of an entity and into another entity - if you slipped off of one theta line and into the other theta line that’s the next thing it tells you.”

“What happened was, is you slid off the entity that you were auditing and you went in over on another entity. His beingness became somebody else at that moment, and when his beingness became somebody else, what you're trying to clear up on the case isn't clearing up. And in such a wise, you can audit an engram half out of a theta line, and then go over to another theta line and audit the engram half out of it. And then jump into a completely disrelated theta line and a completely disrelated incident and go auditing merrily on that, and what have you accomplished? You've accomplished a complete confusion on the part of two or three theta lines, and you haven't cleaned up any one of them. And so you will do this just so long and you'll get a perceptic shut-off on your preclear.

This prevents it from happening. Why? You see how the entity is operating that you are auditing; you see how the machine is moving and how the entity is going through the incident, and you see that this incident is getting about a ten-point drop. He goes over certain points of it: it's a ten-point drop and it's an eight-point drop and it's a fifteen-point drop and it's a ten-point drop, and all of a sudden you're only getting a half-point drop and a half-point drop and a half-point drop. Well, he might have hit a sticker; he might have hit a holder in that entity, but the chances are he didn't.

So you say, "Well, let's roll through that again," and then if you keep getting your drops characteristic, you're still on that entity. But supposing you just all of a sudden just suddenly start to get a little surge up, and it sort of idles around and so forth. Well, instead of auditing the right outboard theta line, you're suddenly auditing the left side. The machine characteristic will shift very markedly.

Therefore, the preclear can't lie to you, and he can't sit there and audit something else. And very often any preclear has an entity sufficiently neurotic to start lying to the auditor. He'll say, "Oh, yes, I'm running it. Yeah, ha. Yeah, I'm going right through it. I'm just doing a fine job of it. Yes, yes. Mm-hm. Mm-hm." What he's actually doing is scanning out yesterday. He will lie there on the couch and scan out yesterday, and he'll scan out something else. And what he's doing is just - one of his theta lines is just holding you off and the other one is running through inconsequentials. And you can just spend hours and hours and hours doing this.”

“This is in the interests of cleaning up a case sometime between now and Judgment Day. You understand that many entities will get the sudden idea that they are about to be handed their discharge papers and cut loose and sent hither to and forevermore. And they will suddenly start saying, "Hmm! Let's see, this is Dianetics, huh? Tsk! Well, let's see. Now, this guy is pretty easy to fool." And so they start to work on you.

That's a fact. And by the way, that may be the history of a great number of preclears who have an awful lot of auditing and who don't seem to get well. You've got an entity in there that says, "No! No! No! No!"

And the rest of the preclear is saying, "Oh, yes. Yes, sure, sure. Mm-hm."

But this entity is saying, "No, no, no, no, no. Hm-mm! Not on a bet!" And so every time the preclear starts into something, the entity will knock him to sleep, and you get what is known as a very phony boil-off; the entity just puts him to sleep, that's all. It objects and it hits the sleep centers, and out he goes - swish.

Well, this machine will detect it, and this will tell you why a preclear is balking.”

“ "A thousand A.D.?" Zing! You've got the thing spotted. Now you know what you're auditing, very rapidly. There's a theta line which is stuck on the track, and it's going to be stuck on the track and it's going to keep every other theta line there from operating until it's released and brought up into present time. And so you just take the blocks off the case, one right after the other, until you've got all the case up in present time.

And by the way, a lot of these, when they get up to present time, say, "What the devil am I doing here?" and leave - just like that. "Well, I've gotten out of that one." ”

“But there are two or three entities present and they'll cross over, and you’ll start to audit one and you'll find yourself auditing another one, and then you'll be auditing another one. And about the time that you're really getting in there someplace, all of a sudden you're auditing another one. And the result is that some of these have the "I can't know, I won't know" and "I won't tell" - some of these entities have these in such strong restimulation that a person has this strange idea that he could tell if he could tell, but he can't tell, because every time he starts to tell he sort of forgets. Or every time he starts to come up with any part of an incident, it all of a sudden blanks out on him. Or he tries to get the perceptic that matches the incident, and somehow or other something just moves in across it. Well, this is just entanglements of these theta lines. They're just cagey.

Now, an unknown datum can produce too much randomity - too, too much - and that is the case here. Not one of these theta lines was actively aware that a personality existed except itself. They were not aware, one theta line to the next, that there were other personalities or theta lines present. And you simply start identifying them, one after the other to each other, and they come way up in tone, one after the other, because they know what's going on. They know that somebody else was there, and somebody else and somebody else and somebody else. And the preclear gets much cleverer.

Well, you might leave a couple of them that were the bad psychos in him - you might leave these way stuck on the track, and therefore he has somatics and so forth. But the usual thing is that he just becomes a lot more cheerful. This point alone, in other words, produces a marked advance in the case: the identification of the theta lines, one to the other.

The best way to identify them, of course, is show them to him. And he'll start thinking about the thing and so on, and he'll all of sudden recognize this and that.

These theta lines can be neurotic enough to hold on a somatic and to throw the somatic on violently every time the preclear starts to get rid of an incident. He starts to get rid of an incident; this line says, "He's starting to get rid of his 'soul' and that's me. We will show him - crunch!" and picks up pain out of its own memory bank and turns it on. Just like you might spank a small child that was causing you trouble. You want to administer pain. So this theta line will think, "Pain, pain," and turn on a somatic. And here you get a chronic somatic that just rides there and rides there. And you run this on the case and you run that on the case, and you run something else on the case, and somehow or another this chronic somatic just won't go away. Well, that's because every time you start to get in close to this theta line it gets very cagey and turns on this somatic. But it's not going to be located.

Now, it's your job on a chronic somatic to locate what being it is that's turning it on - what theta line it is that's turning it on, which is to say - and getting that thing unstuck out of the incident so it's rational enough to find out whether or not somebody else is present and find out what it's doing. And you will find out in each case that it is stuck somewhere on the track in something very violent. And it's rather easy to audit out and at that time the chronic somatic will cease.”

“And the technique which is available to you and most useful to you now, is simply identify the thing - preferably on an electropsychometer - identify which entity it is and what it's stuck in and then just audit it through what it's stuck in, regardless of how silly or how strange it seems. Whatever the incident is - audit it through, audit it through, and get this entity at least out of that somatic, if not into present time. And your chronic somatic will go away.

That means that a psychosomatic illness can be treated selectively by an auditor - very selectively.”

“When it comes to auditing a theta line, you are playing tag with a will-o'-the-wisp, because one of these - if you can't see them yet, one of these theta lines can be very, very cagey, and they can cross over and cross you up and so on. Most rapid job you can do there, therefore, is a machine job, and you just start hitting them one after the other until you have all of these entities up in present time and particularly until you have the center one up in present time. And this is the one you take in preference to any other.”

 

LRH lecture 16 April 1952 HCL-22 How To Audit A Theta Line, Part II

“What can be done with a theta body? The first answer to this is - What can be done with a human being? Anything that can be done mechanically with a human mind can be done to the theta mind - to a theta being - except these strange complexities of cross theta lines. That is to say, one theta line being cleared and another theta line coming across and stopping it from being cleared. All right.

Let me tell you some of the things that can be done to a human being, and understand that I'm still talking about theta bodies because there's not any difference except a human being and his mind as he exists today - Homo sapiens - it's just more of them.”

“A person is operated on. All theta bodies are asleep except one; this one observes everything there and then you run the person through the operation. What you've done is wake up six bodies if you run him through it thoroughly. See how that would work?

Now, awareness means awareness of what? What's awareness? There are a minimum of seven awarenesses. Which one of these awarenesses are you reducing when you give a person anesthetic? And how many of them are you sending away? How many of them are you holding on to?

Now, get valence. There are two valences. There is a command valence which shifts from one theta body to the other. It isn't the words that do it; it's the fact that a person is shifted on theta bodies because somebody told it to shift. Running back through incidents, you will find preclears out of valence. Well, that is to say, you're running a theta body which wasn't the theta body to which this happened, but the theta body which observed it happening to the other theta body. Get the idea?

It happened to theta body A, and as you run him through the incident, you're running theta body B through the incident, so theta body B goes through the incident. And where was it where the incident took place? Well, oddly enough, time and space have very little to do with this, and so theta body B thought nothing of standing out in the middle of the room and watching it, particularly if there was charge on it.

Somebody comes along and hits the little kid in the jaw. Theta body B said, "No!" saw the blow coming and stepped out. Theta body A stood there and took it. Bow! You run the person back - they don't have any somatics, they tell you quite happily. "I don't have any somatics. No, I see myself." ”

“When you run this preclear back through again, you're running the wrong theta body back through. Now, you tell the right theta body to go through the incident and you get the somatics and so forth. But this right theta body may be so frightened by this time of existence and so on, that it takes a lot of persuading.

Now, how do you get a person to run through an incident in valence? Find the theta body that the thing happened to - the theta body in control, the theta body which has the memory bank containing the incident and all of its somatics - if you want to run the incident. Find it, run the preclear through enough data until the incident unburdens on the theta line that the incident happened to.

Now, you try to run childhood out of somebody and they've shifted into five consecutive different theta bodies since - the fifth body over there didn't even know the person had ever been a child. It was just out, it had nothing to do with the childhood, it was just there, and it was going around saying, "Hm-hm-hm-hm-hm-hm." He wasn't even aware of time passing or something of the sort. And one day have the entire load and control of the human body dumped on it; one day it suddenly found itself in control of everything.

You know, dental operation, a couple of theta bodies got something in restimulation and so got a toothache, and so the thing to do is to go down to the dentist and have the dentist - anesthesia, pry, squeeze, yank, stamp, knee in the guts, you know, with lots of words. And the theta body which is in operation up to that moment says, "This is too thick. Another life, and it's still happening! I quit." And so it does. It says, "Well, here I am asleep." And it stays asleep.

Now this person teeters around after the operation and says, "Well, I feel different somehow." You try to put this person back through the operation and they're out of valence. Now, if you will notice closely, they can call themselves the dentist as they go through the operation; they can go into the dentist, and so on. This is another manifestation of which theta lines are completely capable - of stepping into other people. And they do. They just simply step into somebody else.

If a theta body, a theta line, is very mixed up and can't get control of the person in any other way, it will step into person B and activate some theta line in person B so as to do something to person A. You get that?

Here's a theta line that's in person A, and person A is not under the control of this theta line; this theta line is quite psycho and very possessive, or something of the sort. This theta body will step around into another person and motivate them into getting angry at A. And then yap-yap-yap-yap-yap- Somebody will say, "I wonder why I am so angry at him. That was silly," but go right on saying, "What's the idea?" and so on.

And person A all of a sudden says, "Hm! Somebody is angry at me. Why are they angry at me?" And gets good and mad, and so you get a fight started. Because theta bodies are just people and they will start fights and they will argue, but sometimes they go about it circuitously. You find a mention of this in the first book, by the way.

Now, the manifestation, then, is that a theta body is not locatable in time and space except as it thinks it is. It believes it's here and therefore acts on MEST here. Or believes it's there and therefore acts on MEST there. Believes it's supposed to stay inside (and by the way, that's a big aberration to have to stay inside the body, they're not supposed to leave, and so forth - most of them have this aberration) and so stays inside or goes into another body and stays in there. A person can lose his theta lines.

The only one that seems to have any constancy at all is a very old stable line, which is the center line. And that's quite stable, and when de-aberrated that line is very active original line. All right.”

 

LRH lecture 16 April 1952 HCL-21 Anatomy Of The Theta Body

“Now, when you start to audit this person, the first thing which you ought to know is how many psychos do you have on your hands? That's the first thing you want to know. Who's stuck on the track? What is psychosis?

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.

Now, you can just throw away what you know about circuits, because I'll show you what circuits are in a moment. But there is your basis on psychosis, and also on neurosis - there's your basis on it.

What's our goal, then? If you have a psychotic entity on your hands, your problem is a very simple problem all of a sudden. You don't have to worry much about a circuit. What you have to worry about is how do we get the preclear moving on the track? Because for all intents and purposes, and for the moment of your auditing, that entity that you're trying to audit is the preclear. Now, you have to audit this entity, usually, through the preclear, or you can audit this entity direct. It all depends on how high you are on the Tone Scale.

Now, here you have, then, a simple problem of finding out where he is stuck in the track, and in what kind of an incident he's stuck.

First, what entity is stuck, when is he stuck, and run it out - you run it out with thought, emotion, effort. Routine procedure.

Now, if you can't contact him very well, you can do such tricks as make him remember something absolutely real. Or you can ask the preclear's higher levels to simply move in over this entity, possess the entity and boom him through the incident. Entity doesn't like that, but you can actually move in over the top of one of these entities and just grind him through the incident.

He can't do anything about it; he won't even protest. But when they're very soundly out of communication and quite asleep, quite unconscious and so on, you quite often have to do this, because they think this is happening just now. There's the big mistake they make in time. It seems to them that this point they're stuck and the incident which they're running, is now.

That is the manifestation of psychosis: the timelessness of an incident, and the conviction that the incident is happening now.

Alright, with thought, emotion and effort then - either by making the preclear move over the top of the entity and push it on through, or directly to the entity making it go on through, or if you're high enough on the level, just moving in and going on through it yourself - you then bring this entity out of its era, and you bring it into present time, in other words.

And one after another, you spot and straighten up these entities.

Now you're going to find out because of this little trick which I say might possibly be going on at this time on another planet, you may find out that you pick up each one of these sub-entities and you'll have to kick them over and run out a death on a simultaneous time track. You run out this death on them if it's there, because they're very ordinarily stuck in it if it's in restimulation at all. But if it's not, don't bother with it; just make sure they're in present time. And get the theta being of the individual alive, awake and alert as soon as possible.

Get that being audited, then, because that's what you're trying to address your auditing to. And the only reason you're trying to take these entities and other things present out of the way is that you just want them out of the way so that you can audit this theta being.

That is what you are doing, and it's a very simple job. It becomes much simpler - much, much simpler - as a concept than any we have had before.

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.

And, you know, a preclear who goes low enough on the Tone Scale will get into a physiological rapport or a mental rapport with somebody and will mimic, mimic, mimic. That's hypnotism, and these entities will actually copy other people. They'll copy other people so thoroughly that they'll get their identity confused with those people - thoroughly confused with them so that you get this kind of a manifestation. You start running this entity back, and you find this entity is somebody that the person knew one time or another, and it isn't at all. You can shake this loose rather rapidly by just blowing a few locks.

This entity will make an effort to control your preclear by imitating the people who have controlled your preclear. That's the goal. All their compulsion was laid in by people who wanted to control them. And so their efforts to control will be efforts to punish. So one of the first things they'll do is try to influence thought. If that fails, they'll influence emotion; if that fails, they will turn on somatics and hold them on. Or they will simply imitate some person who has been able to control the preclear, such as papa, mama, teachers, something like that. They'll imitate the mannerisms and activities of this and so control the preclear.

Actually, the recognition of their existence, and that they do have an identity which is distinct and separate from the people they are imitating, and the recognition on the part of the theta being that that entity is there, practically kills their power.

The case of the chronic somatic is something that you'll often find yourself resolving in fifteen or twenty minutes, simply by building up a recognition on the part of the theta being.

Now, when we've talked about communicating with your hands, communicating with your liver, communicating with somebody else, what you were doing was taking one of these entities, or the theta being, and pushing them, as a control, into an area which they had not hitherto controlled.

Now, you can do this with any of the entities. You can coax any entity there to take over control of any area. Well, you'd better ask yourself, “What is the basic purpose of this entity toward the theta being? What is the thirst to control of this entity?”

Because after you've done a good ARC job and you've said, "Now, you want to get in control of this one, you want to get in control of that one,” and “You want to move in on this,” and “Let's get some affinity with your hand and let's get this and that,” why, you find out that you've put a schnook in there. And the next thing you know, the fellow only had a mild ache and arthritis in one finger, and now his whole hand has arthritis!

What do you want to put? Because you, as an auditor, actually can assist them to establish this thing.

An E-Meter will prevent you from making this mistake, but you should be able to prevent yourself from making this mistake anyway. Because an entity that will hurt a preclear or harm him is pretty bad.

The theta being of an entity is usually very well-intentioned toward him, very well-intentioned, and would not hurt him, would not hold a somatic, would not hold an aberration up. All a theta being will do is more or less doze off and go to sleep.

Now, that's fortunate for us.

That's not true of the entities. They don't just doze off and go to sleep. If you wake them up suddenly, they hardly knew where they were or why they were there or anything else - all of a sudden they say, "Ah! Somebody to control. Flesh!" And zing! they go right into standard operation. You've seen human beings do this. A 1.5 comes along, walks into a classroom of little kids and so forth and says, "Which one can I control first?" just that. Little Johnny over there happens to be sucking his thumb or something of the sort and they - whap! whap! It's nothing to them that Johnny's sucking his thumb; it's not going to hurt them any. But it's just that they got to control; they got to control.

…entities have been so hammered and pounded and driven by the compulsive attitude of people who have tried to control us back through history, that what's their first shift? Each one can do valence shifts, by the way; they can be this or be that. They're very good mimics. And so they become people who have tried to control us and their only method of operation that they know or can follow, unless they're brought up to a point where they'll think again, is to force with pain, to force with threat, to force with aberration, a MEST-force operation on the preclear. So when a preclear has a chronic somatic, you know immediately that he has an entity that is trying to force something on to him and that this entity is not the theta being. It tells you that immediately.

This preclear is auditing himself continually, continually, continually, continually without any slightest gain. What's happening? One of his entities has decided this is a wonderful way to torture him. Of course, it's perfectly true that you could clear up one of these entities or clear up the theta being and say, "Okay, audit the rest of them." And he would! And do a good job of it. But the accident would be where one of the entities just learns how to audit. There we go. And they'll very carefully run the incident half out and leave it. They'll very carefully jam every theta being present somewhere on the track. And they'll work at it and work at it and work at it and work at it. It gets pretty grim after a while.

Now our task then is, as ever, a task of differentiation: learning to differentiate. Differentiate amongst the beingnesses of a person in an effort to recover into the power of the theta being the entire control of the individuality, and all the individuality there is in that theta being. To do this is not now very difficult. Imagine how it would be to run a preclear who didn't have any circuits. You just said to him, "Now where are you on the time track?"

And he says, "1861."

And you say, "All right. Go to the beginning of the incident and run it (snap) through to the end." No complications. He just goes to the beginning of the incident and with full perceptics, runs it through to the end.

You say, "Go over it again. Go over it again. Over it again. Where are you now?"

"Hmm. 1902."

"What's happening to you?"

"Oh. I just fell down a sewer pipe."

"Okay, roll it again. Go over it again. Where are you now?"

"Oh, 1938. Yeah."

"Well, roll it. Roll it through. Where are you now?"

"Present time. Gee, I feel wonderful!"

Wouldn't that be nice?

Well, that's the kind of auditing you're doing, and as long as you remember that that's the kind of auditing you're doing, you can't get into trouble. Because if you're not doing that kind of auditing, then you've got another theta being that's doing a cross-up on you. So you just get rid of that one first.

So you see, this thing has become very simple. A lot of questions that we had in the past can go. 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. They have data banks. Every one of them has data banks. What do you do about a perceptic shut-off case? Hm. Nothing easier than a perceptic shut-off case. You just find out who it happened to. If the perceptics are shut off, then you're auditing one of them that didn't have it happen to them, or auditing the one that did have it happen to him who's stuck on the track, and so he isn't perceiving. You have to get the being moving on the track, you see, before he can perceive. Well, it's relatively easy to get these beings moving on the track. Well, that's your perceptic shut-off.

Now, what is an out-of-valence case? An out-of-valence case is a person who has been one being at one time in his life, and has now shifted over and is another one - is an entity or something of the sort. And so, when you try to audit the first beingness he was, you're not auditing with its bank. You're trying to audit things that happened to it with the bank of things it didn't happen to, except as an observer. And you'll find out that maybe there's only one, or possibly two, of these entities observe what is happening to another entity or the theta being. That's very lucky; very fortunate. Cuts down the amount of observation. The others are completely blotto on the subject. They just don't know. They didn't know what happened at that period of time.

So you get somebody and you say, "Well now, what happened when you were eighteen?"

And he says, "I don't know. I've never been able to remember that period."

"All right, try hard. See if you can remember it. Now go on, try hard." You're just working an entity that doesn't have a bank on the year eighteen. So what do you do? If you really want to find out what happened to eighteen you just get him shifted around until you find the entity it did happen to, and it's in that bank. Very simple.

You must be able to differentiate amongst the entities and find out more or less when they were alive - when.”

 

LRH lecture HCL-21 Anatomy of the Theta Body

"You will find, as you run the case, that gradually you can bring such an incident - and this is the manifestation of running through an incident several times and then suddenly finding the person in valence.

What you do is audit out this observer, this observer, and then audit out one observer over here, and then audit out one observer over here, and then all of a sudden this central case here, you come onto that and it alerts. Because why? Because it's getting the incident restimulated. The theta being is getting the incident restimulated over and over by these observers. They go through the incident - observers go through the incident - and that restimulates your center one, so all of a sudden he's on to the incident, and he's awake in it.

Generally, when you see this manifestation, the being the preclear was at the time is getting so much charge during the incident that quite often, if it's a severe incident, that entity stops there and sort of passes out, goes to sleep, considers it's dead, considers it's finished, that it is no more, there's no use to carry on; it stops right there on the track. But with this other stuff going on around it, all of a sudden it will shake loose enough on the track so that you can audit it. It wakes up to that degree."