Definition from the World Book Dictionary:

Determine – to decide, to come to a decision.

Definition from the Tech Dictionary:

Self-Determinism – a condition of determining the actions of self.

Definition from the Scientology Abridged Dictionary:

Case – the way a person responds to the world around him by reason of his aberrations.

 

LRH lecture 4 March 1952 HCL-4 Thought, Emotion and Effort

"Now, the second we recognize this we have the Tone Scale - the Tone Scale extrapolated out of effort. And what is the Tone Scale, but the range of emotion. The Tone Scale goes in harmonics of movement, and that is all. It's a very simple device by which a person's ability to estimate effort is measured. That's his reason. That's a direct measurement of his reason. His ability to handle effort, of course, is an index to his emotion. So quite commonly we assign emotion to this Tone Scale, and it's a gradient scale of emotion. But that is the derivation of the Tone Scale. And you've had this happen to you and you've seen other people do this, and so we get the ranges of the Tone Scale."

"Now, up above this, what is it? It's the intention to exert effort. The intention to exert effort bridges into the body by emotion. In other words, the physical-mental bridge is emotion. Motion is actually motion. Emotion is motion. You see, your intention in the handling of MEST objects produces - and also MEST situations - produces an emotion. Your ability to control motion is a direct index of your emotion. "

But above this we have intention. And when we get down to who are you, you are you. And your state of beingness is what establishes and guides you, and so we have self-determinism. It goes to the extent that if you make a postulate, you will be held by that postulate. You will hold yourself to this postulate. You cause you. But after you've caused you, at any moment you are then an effect of your own cause."

 

LRH lecture 4 March 1952 HCL-3 The Axioms and How They Apply to Auditing

"He intends to go out and see a movie and have fun; that's the intention. He intends to go see a movie and not have fun; that's intention.

This facsimile column is laid down but the evaluation is from the intention side, the beingness side. And all intention is, is degree of relative beingness which an individual desires to assume, as plotted on the Tone Scale. [tapping on blackboard] "I'm going to be dead" to "I'm going to be alive forever" is the intention span, but it's an actual input into incidents and is what you commonly refer to as "conclusions."

You say, "My conclusions regarding this and this and this." Well, the conclusions are colors given to the facsimiles, and these conclusions are twice as important as the facsimiles. Twice... Impossible to give a numerical evaluation, but relatively maybe thousands and thousands and thousands of times more important."

"What did he want to do with this facsimile, is more important than the facsimile. That's why Postulate Processing came into existence."

"But this is decision as to beingness, state of and condition of."

 

LRH lecture – The Role of Earth
Dated Nov 1952 in R&D Volumes and 30 Oct 52 priorly

“Theta traps are trapped ordinarily with aesthetics. The other type of trap is a mechanical trap which has a matching wavelength in its construction. It's a post or something, and the thetan throws a beam - he's just passing through the area and all of a sudden something echos at his wavelength. And the next thing you know, he thinks somebody he knows is over there and he goes over to look. And then the second he tries to get off of it, the more energy he puts out, the more active the trap becomes. There's no energy in the trap but the energy the thetan himself is putting into it. And he'll stay on these things for God knows how long. Those are types of traps.

As far as a thetan being very badly implanted is concerned, how can you implant an energy unit! That's an interesting question: How can you implant an energy unit! It's a question in which you should be awfully interested. Because you can't! You can give it some ridges, but it can always move out from amongst these ridges.

You have to get it to agree and change its mind about something. And once it's agreed on something of the sort, why then it's possible for it to be in a state which keeps on holding on to ridges.”

 

LRH lecture 16 April 1952 HCL-21 Anatomy of the Theta Body

“Let's call the theta being - let's say theta being would be the central senior person, the one that your preclear would be if he were entirely cleared up on his way to a Theta Clear and this would be the last entity you would be addressing. That's the top senior entity and the one which will preserve as the preclear. Let's call that a theta being, or his theta being.

Now, let's call the remaining theta bodies, souls. And not call this - you don't like that word? Alright, what do you want for words? Let's call them, then, entities - let's call them entities. Hm? Alright.”

 

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

"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

"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."

 

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. They have data banks. Every one of them has data banks."

"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."

 

Self-Determined Aberrations

A thetan has caused the condition he finds himself in today, with his own thoughts, such as his considerations, postulates, opinions, decisions, conclusions, intentions, agreements and the like. Call the accumulation of that, over time, his self-determined aberrations or self-determined case.

The composite case is also called the other-determined case. The self-determined case and the other-determined case are related to each other but the other-determined case is not the source of the self-determined case. The main Being himself, and all by himself, is responsible for creating his self-determined aberrations. Also, the self-determined case is senior to the composite case.

Some people think that all of their aberrations are due to the composite case and when they complete Excalibur they will no longer be aberrated. That is not true. You will still have the majority of your self-determined aberrations left to handle. As Ron said in his tape lecture entitled Anatomy Of The Theta Body – “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.”

All the other-determined case does, is it compliments and compounds the main Being’s self-determined aberrations. The main Being also uses it to obscure his self-determined aberrations from himself, and to shift responsibility onto the entities and off of himself. The main Being brought in or accepted the composite case to align with and compliment his self-created aberrations. And the BTs and clusters do that too, they add in their charge and case in relation to the main Being’s self-determined aberrations and thereby make the matter worse.

The main Being has been self-determining his aberrations continuously for quite some time. And through some pretty amazing sleight-of-hand in the form of not-ising it as fast as he “is’s” it, the main Being is often “unaware” of his large role in why he has such a collection of Beings that magically seem to follow him wherever he goes.

It becomes important, as an Excalibur solo auditor, that the main Being has sufficient understanding that he does have an active role in all this. Of course, asking the main Being to instantly know everything he is creating and not-ising, while possible, is not likely to happen very often. He will discover more and more what his role is during the course of the level.

The main Being and the Beings in the composite case have an existing intimate aberrated relationship between them. It is a co-created aberrated relationship. Take the fact that the main Being is holding on to them. But he can’t do that without their agreement to be held. That is just one example of their co-created aberrated relationship.

The main Being has an inverted ARC relationship with the BTs and clusters in the plugs. They both have entheta that intends to succumb. Entheta can have ARC with entheta. The extant agreement and affinity is towards succumbing.

The BTs and clusters are psychotic and bent on succumbing. This aligns with the entheta of the main Being and so there is an intention on the part of the main Being to keep the BTs and clusters in a psychotic state to fulfill the purposes of their mutual entheta and aberrations. Thus the entheta or aberrations of the main Being does not intend to bring the BTs and clusters to sanity and freedom. It intends the opposite.

Thus the main Being is a holder and continually suppresses them through time, keeping them in a psychotic condition and trapped. And the BTs and clusters agree to this and that describes an aberrated suppressive relationship between the main Being and the Beings in his composite case.

The solution to this problem is ethics and auditor beingness.

On the ethics side the auditor needs to have his enemy formula in well enough that he is well aware of both his entheta and aberrations, and his theta and sanity. All of which are who he really IS.

Most thetans are busy not-ising the good within themselves or the evil within themselves or both. But it is all you. You determine you, in any given moment. The entheta is also you, it is simply your theta that you have determined into a reversed direction, from an intention to survive to an intention to succumb.

It simply will not do for the Excalibur auditor to not know himself fully, what his theta is and what his entheta is. The auditor needs to see both sides in any preclear he audits, the Free Theta that exists in the preclear as well the aberrations or case that exists within the preclear. But the Excalibur auditor cannot do that if he cannot see both things in himself.

A mutual out rudiment situation will develop because the auditor will not handle certain aberrations in any other Being, that he either cannot confront within himself, or when he has his own aberrations that he is in agreement with and so he does not want to change it. In other words, when the auditor has his own aberrations that he cannot confront or agrees with, he will not be able to handle other Beings who have that same aberration.

The Excalibur auditor cannot sit there and not-is his own theta and entheta.

The Excalibur auditor cannot sit there and not-is the theta and entheta of other Beings.

The auditor must lead the way by first recognizing and then changing his end of the aberrated relationship first. The auditor needs to assume the beingness of an auditor and that means a lot of things. One thing it means is TR 0. TR 0 is to confront the pc with auditing only, or with nothing. Another thing it means is that he has to be reason. He cannot be irrational and handle the BT’s case.

Entheta cannot handle entheta. Only theta can convert entheta back to theta.

Irrationality cannot handle irrationality. Only reason can handle unreason. Part of the auditor’s hat is to serve as the pc’s analytical mind in areas where the pc is being reactive and thus assist the pc to think correctly in that area. The auditor cannot do that if he is also thinking reactively in the same area that he is attempting to audit the pc in.

The Excalibur solo auditor, at a minimum, should be willing to realize that in any situation involving Beings that he hates, who produce “somatics he hates” and so on, ad infinitum, that he has something to do with it. The Excalibur auditor needs to be aware of what his “own reactions” are, when he starts to audit a given entity. For instance, his emotions and his attitudes, like “who in their right mind would want to be like that” and the auditor’s so-called “logical thinking” about the “poor BT in such a terrible state” and “I would never be or act like that” etc. - all of these can and do happen.

LRH quote that appeared in a Solo Nots newsletter (exact reference unknown):

“Every once in a while as an auditor you feel apathetic, and feel you’re not getting on with it. Well, don’t think it’s so unnatural, because you’re walking a ladder that goes up the eight dynamics, all the way. And as your perimeter broadens, and as your idea of reality broadens, each level-somewhere- you’re going to hit the degradation of the moment when you decided you couldn’t do anything about it, in the past.

So just don’t worry about it. For heaven’s sake, understand it. And realize that the skill of an auditor also contains the skill of handling his own reactions. And when he even knows what his own reactions will be in trying to tackle something that “couldn’t possibly be handled”, why he can handle that too!”

 

It would be impossible to state all the possibilities of automatic views or responses that the main Being has self-determined into place, and that could go into effect when he starts to take apart what he is actively determining and holding there. Be the Auditor, means that the main Being must learn to control, and not allow as part of his actions, anything but the basics of auditing when handling an entity.

The contract between a pc and an auditor is that it is a given that the auditor will function as the analytical mind for the pc when the pc cannot. You can see at once how this contract would be broken, and auditing get a “bad name” if the main Being functions out of his self-determined aberrations, instead of analytically. The main Being can be analytical, but he often is so used to not being analytical in certain areas, that he doesn’t even think he isn’t being analytical.

How can you ask and get someone else to be analytical, rational etc., when you yourself won’t do it, even in a session, that by very definition is supposed to be doing exactly that, with you being the one responsible for bringing about the better ability to reason. The auditor needs to use his available Free Theta to be analytical and demonstrate reason. It is a new thing to do with the entities in the composite case and it will not come naturally.

What will come naturally is all of his continuously created self-determined aberrations which always relate to his Excalibur case one way or another, Being to Being.

We have defined out ethics as agreeing with case. A person can be so much in agreement with portions of his case that he never questions some of his old fixed ideas or he refuses to handle it because he wants to have that aberration. He likes having that aberration. So, he doesn’t want to get rid of it, he wants to keep it. Thus comes about a refusal to change.

Thus he will not audit, or properly audit, the BTs, clusters, plugs and stacks related to an aberrated area that he agrees with. Thus he remains in the valence of an implanter by continuing to hold on to these Beings, thereby keeping them in a suppressed, trapped and insane state, instead of doing the right thing – properly audit them to sanity and freedom.

So, the first action to case gain is getting in ethics - stop agreeing with your case. And that means stop “doing what comes naturally” ie: using your free theta in present time to make the same old conclusions based on your self-determined case, and/or the other-determined case. The next action is to assume the beingness of an auditor – Be the Auditor.

In other words, the Excalibur auditor needs to run ethics on himself by beginning to think in present time versus off old fixed ideas and solutions etc.

What you are doing with Excalibur is taking responsibility for your role in trapping and keeping other thetans insane, and assisting them to rehabilitate themselves, go free, and begin making their own decisions as to their actions, games etc. versus what they were being and doing as part of a composite.

Excalibur completion opens the door to much more selectively auditing the main Being only and assisting him to learn about, confront and handle his self-determined case, and thereby walk him back up the way he walked down.

And what is self-determined case? You determining you. You made the conclusions, postulates, considerations, opinions, intentions, agreements and the like – and you still ARE making those same conclusions, which results in the condition you find yourself in, right now in present time.

Thus you made yourself this way, it is a self-created beingness.

 

Be the Auditor

Success in Excalibur sessions and completion of the level is based upon having a correct auditor beingness. The main Being’s old fixed ideas and solutions resulting in his current overall beingness, have to first be noticed, and then decided to no longer be used analytically, in favor of creating a new beingness, founded out of axioms, auditing basics etc. from LRH tech. Basically, when it comes to auditing, or auditing technology, these basics should now be put into use as the only ideas and solutions acceptable in a session.

The main Being has free theta and enturbulated theta.

The free theta is analytical and the entheta is non-analytical or faulty analytical.

The continuing alignment of his free theta analytically with his enturbulated non-analytical theta will cause the same solutions ideas etc already extant to be put in use even in a session. The main Being must train himself to begin using his Free, analytical theta in hitherto untried ways, found in Scientology. In other words, the main Being leads the way of essentially what he will then get the other Beings to do.

Become Theta the solver rather than Theta the Problem.

Only when the main Being begins to do this, and assume with his free theta the correct auditor beingness, will he truly be able to take apart and handle the mass of collected and suppressed-over-time Beings in the composite case. This action also forms the grooving in period that he will very much need, when he begins on handling his self-determined case, with Ron’s assistance, after Excalibur. Call it an Ethics action and a training period.

So, this is a game of creating newly, the beingness of an on-source auditor, despite one’s own self-determined aberrations. This is a decision you make before each session and then you go in session with the beingness of an on-source auditor and handle the case.

So in a sense, in auditing Excalibur, besides auditing and helping thetans to restore their faith in themselves, the main Being is practicing putting in his own ethics.

And what do you know! He earns back faith in himself, and then he becomes willing to confront more fully and in depth, how he postulated himself down into this state. And that faith in himself, rehabilitates, and is certainly coincident with completing Excalibur.

Now he has “run himself through the mill” and put his own ethics in, and he has begun reasoning again, and that helps to prepare him for the “long haul” of handling his self-determined aberrations on his route to OT.