CHAPTER B2 - GOALS OF PROCESSING
STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURE
With Standard Operating Procedure,
and about fifty per cent of the people you would process with it, in the
first fifteen minutes of play, you've got a thetan exterior. And probably
it's twenty-five or thirty hours for the toughest of the cases.
Standard Operating Procedure
of Scientology was originated the end of September in England, in 1952.
And that was Issue 1. It's been changed to this degree: It has been shifted
to take out of it anything except Postulate Processing, Creative Processing
and Spaçation. It has those three processes as its basic, plus exercising
the thetan perceptics. This procedure makes a theta clear. Extended and
continued, it makes a Cleared Theta Clear. You can use the various steps
of this procedure, one after the other, and get a thetan exterior. That
is, the guy is outside and knows it. He'll get up to a point where he'll
wonder if he ever was in that damn thing, the body.
The first issue had DED-DEDEX
running for Step Five. They'll really get a guy there. But, my gosh! Enormous
expenditure of time. In the interest of time we've brought all of these
cases, now, down to a pretty low number of hours.
Standard Operating Procedure
Issue 3 is what we had at the beginning of the lectures. Standard Operating
Procedure Issue 4 sort of went by while I was standing here talking to
you.
Now, SOP Issue 5 is the
direct and immediate result of two and a half years of application of various
principles, aligned and organized, as they are found to operate in the
society and in the hands of auditors. Naturally I couldn't go for a few
weeks without embellishing something or changing something or other. It's
almost impossible to refrain from doing so.
We're going to have Standard
Operating Procedure Short Form and Standard Operating Procedure Long Form.
This is possible along this line: You will very often use SOP Short Form,
solely and only, and it will produce the results necessary. And this merely
consists of the number of steps that you take to spring somebody and to
get the thetan oriented properly. Now, every one of the Steps of SOP No.
V is actually a broad subject in itself.
And with this London Series
(the complementary lectures) I'm amplifying this into the longer form showing
where Creative Processing fits with each one and showing you specifically
what it covers with each one.
You could then take SOP
5 in its long form and take that step which applies to any individual,
and do that step completely and utterly, and you would do such things as
knocking out chronic somatics or aberrations. You would resolve what is
wrong with his case, in other words. So it gives you an office technique
that doesn't have anything to do with Theta Clearing (except for Step One).
In Step Two it does mock-ups
of being outside. That's preparatory to Step One. We can do Step Four,
Five, Six and Seven without even mentioning being outside the body.
How would you run an intensive
on somebody you weren't trying to theta clear? Well, they could do Step
III, IV or V. If you were running a psychotic, you could do VI or VII.
Step Four goes a little
bit further and tears up anchor points as objects. It's addressed to energy
and space, which form up into objects.
Step Three Long Form has
to do with straighten up and square around any aberration he has about
space. How do you do this? You do this with mock-ups. There isn't any space
but there's a aconcept of space, and space is used in various ways by people
and space can be manufactured by a thetan.
Just as there can be a scarcity
of food, as taken up very definitely in Step Four, there can be a scarcity
of space.
Q1 tells us the location
of energy and matter in space. That's a mission of a thetan. But a lot
of the thetan's time is taken up in the rather aberrated clawing around
of trying to find something in space.
The reason Creative Processing
works so hot sometimes is he stops trying to find something in space and
he starts putting something in space. Because there isn't anything in space
because there isn't any space there. So how can there be anybody finding
anything in space?
STATES OF CASE
A sudden change in your case, a sudden difference, will do more for you than any amount of study. The case of an auditor above a certain level does not need refurbishing continually. He'll keep it squared away. But the case of an auditor below that level requires constant attention, so it's better to get up above that level - that'd be the level of stability, the level of tolerance. And it's in the tolerance level that he can get into action or he doesn't have to, at will.
Your preclear gets into a situation where he's starting to plant perception into everything and he starts to do it very consciously. But he's surrounded with the idea that it ought to be automatic and he'll start to fight straight out of this and back into it again and out of it again. He'll fluctuate around because he's in contact with the idea of agreement on every hand. And he's afraid he'll just take off from here. Well, he can, but he can also come back, so show him he can do that.
UP THE POLE
There is the phenomenon known
as "going up the pole." That's when somebody doesn't even begin to handle
energy, but he just suddenly, somehow or other, latches on to about 40.0
and goes out the top but still holds on to the MEST body at the bottom.
Listening or talking to the guy, you couldn't really tell whether he's
ecstatically alive or fatally dead.
Sometimes you will get an
idea, and this idea will give you a little surge up the pole. And you feel
real good and you're happy and carrying on. If you get it while encumbered
with all this MEST, you can count on it that this MEST is going to reach
out and in three hours, or three days or three months, pull you back right
down into the grind. And you say, "Well, I found out what that ecstasy
was once, but that was quite a while ago, and then I learned that one had
to be more practical about things," and there you go. There was a mathematician
who went up the pole, and ran away with a married girl he knew for maybe
24 hours. They've been very happy. The MEST universe would tell you anything
that starts like that will wind in disaster. Uh-uh. Anything which starts
the other way is what winds up in disaster.
THE THETA CLEAR
Your process to make a Thetan
Exterior is fast. Only it's not a Theta Clear. He comes around for another
session the next day and is back in his head and can't move out. But the
only thing that's snapping him back in is his lack of force, and fear of
things which are forceful. If he's got enough force, nothing in his bank
can disturb him. His ability to control energy controls all that.
He's inside because he can't
control it unless he's inside. You're going to fix him up so he can control
anything he wants to, particularly the body, from outside without any lines,
flows or anything. That's Theta Clear. The person's just stable outside
the body, and he's handling it.
A Theta Clear is able to
operate his body from outside, he's so thoroughly outside that there isn't
anything possible under the sun that would snap him back in except his
own complete election to do so, and actually there'd be no need to go back
into the body. Otherwise he's a Thetan Exterior. A Theta Clear has his
memory rehabilitated - and that, by the way, is the other point - his memory
has to be rehabilitated. Otherwise he's really a walking zombie. He's forgotten
everything.
So a Step One completion
isn't likely to have psychosomatics. Why? That body won't disobey him.
It wouldn't occur to any body part or anything. If you're on a level that's
just making a postulate in their direction, why, they don't think in any
way beyond attending to duty.
Theta clearing side-steps
the whole problem of Homo sapiens by deintensification of havingness, and
by almost completely eradicating the penalty of not having or of having.
It is not a retirement from the lists, or an abandonment of anything. It
is an ability to come into the control and ownership of things, and therefore
a person's stability as a theta clear would depend upon, yet, their interest
and evaluation as pertained to their body and all the other possessions
of the body, like the family, and the car, and all that. If you make a
Theta Clear, it's a cruelty not to permit this individual to go up there
to Operating Thetan. An Operating Thetan is a guy who can handle MEST without
beams and travel without energy.
A Theta Clear is stable
outside of his body, even though the body is hurt. He can't be trapped
by a body, and he can still operate in conjunction with or in control of
bodies. In other words, you have made a thetan trap-proof. But you have
not made him an Operating Thetan yet.
THE OPERATING THETAN
In order to be an Operating
Thetan, he has to be able:
- to communicate, with other
thetans and with bodies,
- to travel, and
- to handle MEST.
remark: it would also include
full outside perceptions.
The state of Operating Thetan
is really only this: you make darn sure that he can do everything from
One to Five with thoroughness, neatness and dispatch - One contains all
the lifting exercises. Make space, do terrific mock-ups, so on. He has
to be able to create space in 'Bap!' and he's got the space created. And
it's all empty and there's nothing in it. So it's just drill from Theta
Clear to Operating Thetan.
Your Step One Case should
be put through a complete Spacation before you consider him an Operating
Thetan. The techniques leading to an Operating Thetan - it's just more
of the same type of processing above the level of stability. To get an
Operating Thetan requires also something of an aesthetic. No state really
can survive from the moment that it begins to employ broadly, and without
much direction, force. The use of force as the sole method of accomplishment
of an end, ends in death. Because it brings about a dependency upon force.
There doesn't seem to be a shortcut on force. The road out is the road
through (force). The Operating Thetan is well above the breakpoint.
THE CLEARED THETA CLEAR
The first thing that should be sorted out on any operation is the intention or the goal. Going against this practice of the ancient magician, he would become an effect if he had not stated what he was trying to cause. If he'd just cause at random, he'd be heading toward chaos.
It's very important for the
auditor to know what he is trying to do in processing and for what he is
aiming. He doesn't have to make a terribly full statement of this, but
a round statement of his overall, unlimited goal.
"I'm trying to get the preclear
up to a point where he can be cause". That's kind of nebulous. It's part
of the ingredients of the intention, but it wouldn't be all of the intention.
To give you here a goal,
we're going to make a Theta Clear. A person who is going to be stable outside
of his body, and who does not have to come back in because the body is
injured. In the process of doing this an awful lot of a guy's upsets and
viewpoints and educational malfunctions and all kinds of things will spring.
The individual exists and is without a body, and has no dependence on one,
beyond his contact and communication lines, as long as he wants to stay
in contact with bodies. But the body doesn't command him. He commands it.
There's a new kind of human being - a body being monitored by a trap-proof
thetan. The bird's immortal. You've just made a god. Since time immemorial
in this language, the gods are immortal. The immortals are gods. His body
can be bashed in, all he's got to do is pick up another one. Knowingly,
full knowingly. You've given him his own identification inside himself
and stepped him sideways off the track of having to flick back through
between-lives areas, and be this effect of God-knows-what-all.
A Cleared Theta Clear -
that's the postulated outer line unattainable absolute. Probably anything
we understand it to be is already attainable, but what is the outermost
limit of it, Lord knows! Haven't got any idea and you haven't either. We
have got Cleared Theta Clear - a theoretical absolute sitting up there.
Your upper level on the thing is to get him to disagree up to a point where
he can operate in the MEST universe with complete freedom. It's much easier
than you think. But he has to be able to operate wholly without energy.
GOALS OF PROCESSING
The first thing you've got to do is become a good, solid Theta Clear. Scientology 8-8008 is a road map. When you reduce the MEST universe's infinity toward zero, you do it by reversing a cycle of action. Death, alteration, creation. Identification, association, differentiation. Inhibit, enforce, desire.
You have to be able to want
and experience the sensations of this universe. You have to take, at a
high level of tolerance, its speed. You've got to reverse the cycle.
You'll never got out of
the universe by wanting to get out, because of the reversal factors. The
most important thing to learn about a flow, I think, is that this universe
goes backwards. In order to get out of the universe, you have to desire
it.
We process postulates out
of people. The trick in processing would be to keep your preclear here
in this universe and yet let him slide sideways into the creation of his
own. That's quite a trick because he's insisting on a continued havingness
in the MEST universe and you're trying to knock out postulates which agree
with the MEST universe and make postulates which are contrary to the MEST
universe. You can do that with mock-up processing, but you're not likely
to do it with much else.
Therapy, then, consists
of the restoration of two rights and two abilities: Creation of space and
energy, which makes for objects and time, and the right to continue in
possession of space and energy. As far as objects are concerned, you've
got to restore his right to create the energy with which to make objects.
In processing, the goal for
the body as a body is none. Bodies have most successfully been treated
by raising the self-respect and ability of the individual. Many of the
ills of the body are caused simply because the thetan is maltreating the
body. Don't think the body is just being forgotten, but for the purposes
of processing there is no real sense in processing the body. That is something
that will work out by processing a much higher level of action. Restore
the equilibrium of the body, rehabilitate its balances, simply by having
himself sufficient balance. You'll find out that the characteristics of
your preclear are quite markedly those of the thetan. The thetan was in
command all the time and he had deserted the responsibility to the degree
that he pretends he isn't even there.
Our overall goals are best
answered then by remedying along all dynamics the thetan. And when you've
done this, he has had restored to him two rights: the right to his own
sanity,
and his right to leave the game. Things get simpler and more beautiful
and more interesting and more intense and more concentrated and more able,
the higher he goes toward operating thetan, and he's led by interest and
the keynote of that interest is sensation. When your preclear first starts
into it, he's pretty blind about it. He has just drawn back from it.
But he gets up into a level
of interest that makes a little kid's most intense moment look very pale.
REHABILITATING THE THETAN
On the dwindling spiral of
the thetan's existence, you've found out all there is to know about energy.
Actually, you've come to the last port of call on the subject of energy.
Now you've got to track back. It's like a game. What we're trying to do
with processing is to give the preclear back a choice. We're giving him
back his power of choice on whether or not he has to experience this. And
we're giving him back that by one route only, and that's rehabilitating
his power to create and experience a universe.
So all the way up the tone
scale you're just curing people of their abilities to have, alternately,
and not have, with mock-ups. Your preclear isn't energy. He has a capability
of producing energy and a space to put it in. As long as you work with
this material on the mock-up side, he goes right on up tone scale. Why?
You're changing his ideas.
Know what you're looking
at when you look at somebody who doesn't, the first instant, step out of
the back of his head. Don't immediately suppose this person is mad - he's
not. He may be in much better shape than most homo sapiens you've run across.
But he's not in a collected and orderly condition with regard to his environment,
and he's out of orientation on these two points only: Space and Energy.
And being out of orientation on them that orientation must be remedied
before you find him capable of becoming a Step One and working accordingly.
Your job from Two down is to create a Step One and then follow the rules
back of running a Step One. Very simple, isn't it.
There are goals and abilities
to which a thetan can ascend. There are futures with havingness worth having,
things worth doing and identities worth being. There are such things as
miracles. Who do you think was doing that? You've got to give this thetan
goals and better goals than he could have had as a MEST body, because he
won't accept a wicked or bad goal. And there's a level that's completely
outside of MEST bodies, working with more important beings, actually, than
you'll find in MEST bodies. The bridge must lead then across energy, and
the abyss is the abyss of force. We talked about a bridge, about a chasm
and the abyss; the mystics have talked about the abyss. And what is the
abyss? What are you trying to bridge? Well, very clearly, you're trying
to bridge the necessity of energy. And it's not by denying yourself sensation,
or sitting on spikes for 30 years.
You don't necessarily have
to partake of action or even engage in action, but you've certainly got
to be willing to handle action.
Any route that returns to the preclear that certainty of knowingness is a road to knowledge. If it contains data, it contains it solely to communicate. So that an individual can perceive, in these steps, the eradication of those barriers which intervene between himself and his actual capabilities. and if we have data, it is the data regarding those barriers and we know it to remove it.
DIFFICULTY OF PROCESSES
In every case, if you knew
exactly what to knock out to break his chain of agreement on the subject
of energy, bang! every case would snap up the line. But, boy, you'd really
have to be an expert. Every few Fives, if you just ran out some incidents,
you will get a sporadic result, you will get somebody who is suddenly in
wonderful condition. You cured him of using energy by shooting some sort
of an agreement out from under him. You didn't cure him because you ran
out an engram. This might be available in any case, only, by experience,
it doesn't seem to be.
Therefore, let's not deal
with one of these techniques which require such a level of 'judgment' on
the part of the auditor.
In Scientology we aren't
fighting that factor. But we're working with a technique which, if it's
relatively mechanically applied to a case, will break that case over the
barrier of living on energy and objects, into using postulates and living
on postulates.
There's several kinds of
processes then. One is simply a process that I can use. Then there's a
process that two or three guys can use, and with which they'll occasionally
get results. Then there's a process two or three guys can use and produce
results rather uniformly. Then there's a process that you can use, and
other people can use, and you know how to communicate it, and you can talk
about it and other people can use it and they can get results, and these
results are very uniform and that's a very desirable process. That's a
process you want. You don't want these other processes. Remark: This kind
of reasoning pervades the history of auditing - the search for processes
that would give results in the hands of any auditor standardly trained,
regardless of the auditor's case state and his (and the preclears) horsepower
as a thetan.
You may have, at this moment,
a little more idea of the level of precision demanded. It's sloppy, isn't
it? That's the level of precision - sloppy.
PRECLEAR INABILITIES
He doesn't want to take the
responsibility for destroying something. Therefore he can't handle the
force of destruction concerning it. You just get him to a point where he
can at least make it disappear. Remark: On a gradient scale, it's easier
to have the preclear just uncreate (as-is, which is a later concept) the
mock-ups, and not destroy them in the sense of not-isness; the creation
part, on the other hand, also doesn't ask for the manufacture or birth
of the item being mocked up.
If the preclear has got
a condition he can't handle because there's too much of it, make more of
it.
You're not interested in
hallucination. You're interested in mock-ups. Increase doing what he's
doing, get more and more of'em. And then you have just a few less. Now
you have more and more of'em. Now a few less ... He says, "To hell with
it!" It's that fast.
What the preclear is unable
to do, make him more able to handle it. Handling it consists of placing
it in time and space and making it follow a cycle of action - any one of
our many cycles of action. You take any item of any kind and make it follow
any cycle of action in such a way, on a gradient scale, that the preclear
is able to make it do it.
In theta clearing, you're
reversing track. And the best way to reverse track is to get away from
automaticity. Just drill him in the steps which comprise Standard Operating
Procedure until he becomes less and less automatic in mock-ups and in the
making of space. You don't try to weed the automaticity out. You just increase
the control of mock-ups in general, until he can do the darnedest things
with sensations and colors.
Any time he stagnates and
it isn't interesting, he has hit an automaticity which needs resolving.
And the way to resolve it is just make him drill much more arduously and
precisely with mock-ups. And particularly favor conserving mock-ups, making
them persist, making them more complex and putting more perceptions in
them.
RUNNING CREATIVE PROCESSING
Creative Processing works
with such fantastic superiority because it's just way up there. And location
of things in space doesn't work so well.
A process which orients
itself around handling space and possessions (which could be energy, and
creation of) will work. And a process which doesn't, will eventually make
slaves.
Leaving reality alone is
of the essence, and handling actuality only - meaning the preclear's universe.
You do mock-ups as senior
to all processes done to date, and then postulate changing as senior to
mock-ups. And make sure when you're changing postulates, you're changing
postulates.
This is action processing
if there ever was one. Keep things moving, if you possibly can.
When doing mock-ups and following
this material along, you find that, matching up people's interest in aesthetics,
and keeping them marching on up, that your cases will keep advancing.
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